950 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE ter, Carrie Jane, who is now the wife of Elmer M. Rice, of Elyria, Ohio, cashier of the Elyria Savings and Banking Company, and they have one son, Robert H., who graduated from Oberlin College in 1907, and is now attending Columbia law school, New York. GORDON S. MEEK.—One of the able representatives of the profession of civil engineering in the Western Reserve is Mr. Meek, who holds the responsible and important position of superintendent of the Pennsylvania & Lake Erie Dock Company, in which connection he has the supervision of the company's fine docks and other accessories at Fairport Harbor, Lake county, and who maintains his residence in the city of Painesville, which is three miles distant, on the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, as well as on an effective electric interurban line. The original docks at Fairport Harbor were erected by what was known as the Pittsburg, Painesville & Fairport Railroad Company, which maintained a narrow-gauge line and had its terminal at the mouth of the Grand river. The dock property later came into the possession of a corporation known as the Consumers' Forwarding & Storage Company, and still later a competing company constructed about an equal amount of dock, about one mile farther up the river, making a total of approximately one mile of docks of the ordinary type of construction. In 1895 the various interests were consolidated, under the corporate title of the Pennsylvania & Lake Erie Dock Company. On the river the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company also has a dock for the handling of coal, and this property is owned and operated by the Pittsburg Coal Company. The Pennsylvania & Lake Erie Dock Company instituted the building of one-half mile of dock of the best modern type of construction. Work was begun in February, 1906, and the dock, of concrete construction, is unexcelled by any on the Great Lake system. This new dock has six automatic, electrically operated ore unloaders, with a capacity of handling 3,000,000 tons of iron ore from lake vessels in one season. These are mounted on tracks of steel, laid in the concrete of the dock, and power is supplied from an electric plant capable of generating two thousand kilowatts and thoroughly modern in every detail. The company has here invested half a million dollars since 1906. The entrance to the harbor is protected by two' concrete piers built by the .gov ernment, and a fine breakwater has been constructed by the government to protect the harbor from drifting sand. The Pennsylvania & Lake Erie Dock Company give employment to a force of 350 men during the navigation season. In 1908 nearly one and a half million tons of ore were unloaded at its Fairport Harbor docks, and, based upon this record, the harbor now stands about fourth in the volume of ore handled at all ports on the Great Lakes. In loading the ore on the railway cars from dock storage piles the same devices are utilized as for unloading, as well as two steam shovels, and six revolving derricks with automatic grab-buckets. The general supervision of all mechanical appliances and all practical operations is given to Mr. Meek, who has proved himself fully equal to all emergencies, whether technical or in reference to volume of business handled. He came here as engineer of construction, to install the new plant, including both power and dock mechanisms, and in the spring of 1907 he was made superintendent, in which permanent office he succeeded William Truby, who had the position for twelve consecutive years and who resigned soon after the installation of the new equipment. The work during the navigation season demands an office force of six assistants to the chief clerk, and in the outside corps are demanded a master mechanic, an electrician, and a machine foreman, and in the operating organization a general foreman and from two to ten assistant foremen are employed. Gordon S. Meek was born at Walton, Delaware county, New York, on September 9, 1873, and is a son of Stafford W. and Adelaide E. Meek, who are now residents of Rootstown, Ohio. When he was five years of age his parents removed to Bellevue, Huron county, Ohio, and he has since been a resident of the Western Reserve. After duly availing himself of the advantages of the public schools, including the high school at Ravenna, Portage county, in which he was graduated in 1892, Mr. Meek entered the Case School of Applied Sciences, in the city of Cleveland, in which celebrated technical institution he completed the prescribed course in the department of civil engineering, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1896, with the de. gree of civil engineer. His success in hi chosen profession offers the most effectiv attest to his ability, and he has been connecte with work of important character from th inception of his professional career. In he became a civil engineer for the dock com- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 951 pany at Conneaut, Ohio, where he had charge of the construction and development work of the harbor, which is controlled by the Carnegie interests. This position he resigned to take no his work with the Pennsylvania & Lake Erie Dock Company, as already noted. He is an enthusiast in his profession, and is a progressive and alert young business man as well as a loyal and public-spirited citizen. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has passed all of the official chairs of the blue lodge. and he represented his lodge in Conneaut in the Ohio grand lodge in 1906. At Ashtabula, Ohio, on May 21, 1903, Mr. Meek was united in marriage to Miss Ella M. Fricker. who was born and reared in that city, a daughter of Thomas Fricker, a representative business man of Ashtabula. Mr. and Mrs. Meek have one son, Stafford Fricker Meek. HENRY WRIGHT has spent a long life of usefulness, sobriety and honor within the limits of Ashtabula county, having added to the prosperity of Saybrook township, both in the fields of agriculture and industry. At the present time he is operating the oldest and the largest basket factory in that section, his sales are averaging $10,000 annually. The family was from Vermont, the grandparents, Jesse N. and Laura (Dunning) Wright, migrating from that state to the Western Reserve in 1814. The grandfather was born in 1793 and died March 4, 1879, while the grandmother, who was less than a year her husband's senior, passed away February 7, 1881. Jesse N. Wright, like other pioneers of the region, was engaged in a variety of occupations in order to "make both ends meet." his chief avocations being farming the clearing of land for others and the making of pot-ash. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse N. Wright, as follows : Olive; Moses (father of Henry), who was born in 1816 and died in October, 1902 ; Solomon, Martin, Marshall, Elenor, Angeline and Josephus. All those children were born in the Western Reserve except Olive. Moses, the father, was a native of Saybrook township, as is the son, and both faithful assistants in their boyhood and early manhood, until family responsibilities of their own necessarily drew them away from the old ties. The father was a house carpenter and built many of the early homes in this part of the country. In a small way he was also a farmer, but later became a wagon-maker and had a little shop about one and a half miles from the home of the son, where he worked very often at night. Vol. II-16 He was trustee of township one or two terms. In his latter year he made farming his business exclusively. In 1842 Moses Wright married Caroline Sweet, and the children born to them are : Adelaide, who was born in 1844 and died in 1873 ; Henry, of whom a sketch follows ; Marshall, born in 1849 ; Edward, born in 1851 ; Ruth, born in 1853 ; Charles, born in 1855, and Jesse, born in 1863. Henry Wright is a native of Saybrook township, born on February 27, 1847, and besides working on the home farm in his earlier years followed the trade of a carpenter for some time. In 1880 he also established a basket factory which he now operates, and is therefore the founder of one of the most useful industries of the township. He has also served as treasurer of the township for four years and is a Republican of activity and influential standing. In his fraternal relations he is a Knight of Pythias, and evinces his patriotism by his identification with the Order of Home Guards, who are bound to act as state police if the necessity arises. On November 13, 1872, Mr. Wright married Miss Elizabeth York, a native of Pennsylvania, born March 27, 1853. His wife's parents were Amos York, who was born in 1813 and died in 1893, and Martha (Mathers) York, born in 1819 and died in 1902. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wright were as follows : Kate, who was born February 28, 1874, and is living at home ; Carl, who was born December 2, 1875, married Miss Louisa Hilkirk, and is associated in business with his father ; Ralph, born March 17, 1880, who married Miss Elizabeth Alcock and is also with his father ; and Tracy, born March 30, 1889, who resides at home. CHARLES W. TATTERSALL is the well-known proprietor of the Tattersall Dairy at Elyria. He was born at Sheffield, England, February 22, 1868, a son of William and Mary A. (Bailey) Tattersall, both of whom were also born in the city of Sheffield, the father in November of 1844 and the mother in 1846. In 1870 the family came to the United States, and for about three years their home was in Newark, New Jersey, moving from there to Easton, Pennsylvania, thence to Waterbury, Connecticut, and in 1880 they came to Elyria. William Tattersall was by trade a cutler, and he was employed at the shear works in Elyria for twenty years. In 1899 he moved to Toledo, where he and his wife yet reside. Charles W. Tattersall after a common 952 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE school training learned and .followed until twenty-one years of age the cutler's trade, and he then turned his attention to dairying, working first for others for three years and then embarking in the business independently. He began for himself on his farm in section 3, Carlisle township, and he yet owns that property, but in 1904 he moved to Elyria and built his home at 35o Fourth street. He erected his dairy plant on that property in 1905, and this manufactory is complete in every particular, provided with machinery for carrying on the business in the most improved manner, and he handles on an average of one hundred gallons of milk daily. In September of 1907 Mr. Tattersall also became identified with the Park Dairy Company of Elyria and was its vice president, but in March of 1909 he sold his interest in that company, and has since given his entire attention to the Tattersall Dairy. In 1907 Mr. Tattersall opened a tract of land in. the west part of Elyria, on West River street, within the corporation limits, known as the Tattersall sub-division No. 1, of lot 123, upon which he erected ten houses. A few lots remain unsold, upon which he intends to build in the near future. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Royal Arcanum, is a Republican voter, and he is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Tattersall married March 22, 1892, Nellie M. Langhton, a daughter of John Langhton, the trustee of Elyria township, and their children are George L., Ellen G. and Marguerite M. Tattersall. BIRNEY A. FRENCH.-The history of Ashtabula county records the name of Chauncy French among the first of its pioneer residents. This pioneer wended his way from Sanders-field, in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, to this community overland with an ox team, four yoke of oxen being used, in 1817. His brother Ira came first and bought the land, and brought the irons with which he constructed a saw mill, the first in Lenox township, as well as the first in this section of Ashtabula county. Chauncy French cleared a farm here, cultivated his land and became one of the substantial and well to do citizens of his community. He married Cynthia Fowler, and he died on the 9th of November, 1868, a few years after passing the Psalmist's span of three score years and ten, for he was born on the i8th of September, 1795. Nelson French, a son of Chauncy and Cynthia French, was born January 24, 1824, and he died in Lenox on the 21st of January, 1894, and was buried on the seventieth anniversary of his birth. He was a farmer and was prominent in township affairs, serving as a trustee, justice of the peace, and two terms as assessor. Nelson French married first, Sophia Royce, born January 25, 1826, and who died May 25, 1848, without issue. He married for his second wife Martha J. Bailey, who was born June 1825, and died June 8, 1894, and she too was buried on her birthday. The three children of this union are : Birney A., mentioned below ; Julia A., who was born March 24, 1857, and died September 12, 1879 ; and Dwight B., who was born December 2, 1865, and died November 23, 1879. Birney A. French, born on the 3d of July, 1855, attended the Grand River Institute in Austinburg, and taught school for four years during his earlier life. He also assisted his father on the farm, and he now operates a farm of 240 acres. He follows dairy farming extensively, and is a well known breeder of Durham cattle, which he ships to the Buffalo and Pittsburg markets. During a period of twenty years he was interested in a store at Ray's Corners ; during ten years was engaged in lumbering, is a director of the First National Bank of Jefferson, was for three years a trustee of Lenox township, for ten years its clerk, and is at the present time the president of its school board. During thirty years or more he has affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being one of the oldest members of Ensign Lodge, No. 400, at Jefferson. Mr. French married Nettie L. Watson, who was born February 15, 1860, a daughter of Harlow and Fannie (Curtis) Watson, and they have two daughters. The elder, Ethelind, born June 9, 1882, is a graduate of New Lyme Institute. Bernice A., the second daughter, was born April I, 1885, and is a graduate of the same educational institution as her sister. She married Bert Wolcott, and they live at Ashtabula. The name borne by Mr. French is prominently traced on the history of Ashtabula county from the days of its earliest settlement, and its members have enjoyed high honor and have proved themselves worthy citizens. HENRY TAFT CULVER, one of the substantial and highly respected citizens of Elyria, is a member of a family which was established in Lorain county in 1832 by his grandfather and HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 953 his father. Ashbel Culver, the father, was born at Westport, Essex county, New York, June 17, 1808, and on October 29, 1829, he married at Au Sable Forks in Essex county, Delana Downey, who was born at Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, May 20, 1813, a daughter of John Downey. The following children were born of this union : Henry T., born in Crown Point, Essex county, New York, September 20, 1831; Edwin, born in Elyria, Ohio, August 13, 1833, and he died March 28, 1836; Albert, born in Elyria October 20, 1836, and died August 13. 1838 ; Wilson S., born in Elyria November 16, 1838, and died March 3, 1844; and Edgar, born in Elyria October 15, 1840, and died April 4, 1890, at Denver, Colorado. He married Ella Elwood, from Cleveland. Ashbel Culver died in Cleveland January 3, 1873, and his wife diet at Twinsburg, Summit county, this state, January 10, 1898. In 1832 Asel Culver, grandfather of Henry T., and his wife and Ashbel Culver and his wife came to Ohio from New York and located in the city of Elyria. Both Asel and Ashbel Culver were iron workers in New York and in Ohio, and Ashbel Culver built a saw mill on Black river, on the site of the present steel plant, for Heman Ely. In 1855 he was elected the sheriff of Lorain county and after the expiration of his term of office he moved to Ridgeville and later to Cleveland, where he died. He lived retired at the latter place. Henry T. Culver was but one year old when the family came to Elyria, and he received a common school training in the Elyria schools. At the age of fifteen he went to work in the Argus newspaper office, Abraham Burrell publisher, and he learned the printer's trade there. When the Wellington Journal was established he engaged with that paper as general foreman, and continued in charge of the paper until failing eyesight caused his resignation. He then took up railroading on the Cleveland, Toledo & Norwalk railroad, now the Lake Shore road, as a passenger brakeman. He later assisted in the survey of the "Junction Road," now the northern division of the Lake Shore railroad and afterward was deputy sheriff for his father in 1855. He was for a time engaged in the drug business in Carey, Ohio, and from there moved to LaPorte, Indiana, and was engaged in the bookstore business there for eight or nine years or until 1872, when he was induced to go to Boston and work for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. He was employed as their Boston agent, and when the company took up the industrial insurance line he was sent to Philadelphia on August 14, 1879, to take charge of their interests there,- and he remained there two years. At that time the John Hancock Company had two superintendents of agents, one for each of the ordinary and industrial departments, and the company deciding to combine the two under one superintendent, Mr. Culver was invited to accept the position. He accepted the offer, and with headquarters at Boston he continued as superintendent of agents for the United States until his resignation on account of poor health, June 1, 1899. At the time Mr. Culver severed his connection with the John Hancock Company he was presented with a purse of $500 and an engraved testimonial of their affection and esteem by forty-three local agency superintendents under him in the industrial department and scattered over the United States. This he prizes very highly, a fac-simile of which hangs on the wall of his home. Returning then to North Ridgeville, in Lorain county, he took up his home on the old Horatio Tyrrell farm, which he had previously purchased from its heirs, but after nine years he sold the farm and came to Elyria, buying a home at 417 Middle avenue, where he has since lived a quiet, retired life. On July 8, 1857, at North Ridgeville, at the home of Horatio and Eliza (Lewis) Tyrrell, he was married to their daughter, Helen E., born October 29, 1832, in a log house on her father's farm, about one mile east from the center of North Ridgeville. Horatio Tyrrell was born November 14, 1805, at Waterbury, Connecticut, a son of Tillotson and Electa (Wilmot) Tyrrell, natives of Connecticut. In July of 18i0 Tillotson Tyrrell moved from that commonwealth to Ohio, and he was the first man to settle in Ridgeville township, and Electa Wilmot Tyrrell was the first white woman to cross the Cuyahoga river west. Bah Tillotson Tyrrell and his wife spent the remainder of their lives in Ridgeville township and died there. Horatio Tyrrell when a boy went to Portage county, Ohio, where he married, and returning to Ridgeville settled on the farm where he ever afterward lived, and where he died on the 25th of April, 1878. He married on the 13th of January, 1827, Eliza Lewis, born at Vernon, Oneida comity, New York, March 7, 1806, a daughter of Oliver Lewis, born January 25, 1758, at Farmington, Connecticut, and he died March 21, 1839, at Ridgeville, Ohio. He married on March 13, J783, Lucinda North, born July 16. 954 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE 1762, and she died January 13, 1838, at Ridgeville. She was a daughter of David and Sarah North, of Worthington, Vermont. Oliver Lewis was a member of Lieutenant Bidwell's Company, which was called out during the Revolutionary war, he having entered the service on the igth of August, 1776. He was by trade a miller, and he also gained a reputation as a bridge builder. On coming to the Western Reserve he settled at Mantua, in Portage . county, and coming from there to Ridgeville he lived here during old age with his second son, Oliver H. Lewis. He was buried at North Ridgeville. The children of Horatio .and Eliza (Lewis) Tyrrell are : Lucia A., the deceased wife of Nelson Salisbury ; Edgar H., who married Mrs. Arabelle (King) Terrell, was a resident of Ridgeville, and he served as a Civil war soldier ; Sarah died before marriage ; Helen E., who became Mrs. Culver ; Marion, born August 10, 1835, married Darius Chamberlain on December 29, 1870, and she died in Cleveland, September 6, 1906 ; S. Esther, born May 29, 1837, died September 13, 1850 ; Frances E., born February 28, 1841, married John M. Stich, September 12, 1872, and moving to Clinton, Iowa, died there May 14, 1905 ; Bert L., born March 19, 1843, married Lucinda Tyrrell on November 2, 1873, and resides in Cleveland ; and Chase W., born November 25, 1846, married Celia Gill on April 7, 1872, and he died in Cleveland, May 17, 1908. A daughter, Frances Helen, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Culver on the 22d of April, 1863, at LaPorte, Indiana. She married W. H. Snow on December 17, 1884, at Boston, Massachusetts, and Harold Culver Snow was born to them at Jamaica Plain, that state, January 7, 1886. He married Ena Mae Butler on October 6, 1909. She was born at Ridgeville, Ohio, November I I, 1882, a daughter of Theodore and Sarah Butler, of North Ridgeville. Henry T. Culver is a Knight Templar Mason, a director in the Savings Deposit Bank and Trust Company, a former director in one of the Lorain banks, and he is interested in two Lorain banks and in all of the banks of Elyria save one. He is a representative business man and a public-spirited citizen. HON. ISAAC GILLETT.-Of those rugged and enterprising pioneers, men of keen practical foresight and elevated sentiments, who came to the Western Reserve in the early years of the nineteenth century and commenced the development of its material resources and its in- tellectual and moral wealth, none sheds a brighter luster on its historic annals or stands forth as a more substantial figure than Hon. Isaac Gillett, one of the founders of Painesville, a merchant, an agriculturist, a state legislator and altogether a man of fine resources and noteworthy performances. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the year 1789, his family being of Huguenot descent and among the first to settle in Boston. In 1822 Mr. Gillett married Miss Julia Morley and in the same year located at Painesville. One of the first wise acts of the new settler was to prove his confidence in the progress of the community which had become his home, and in 1825 he purchased ninety rods of ground, at the astounding rate of $350 an acre, along what is now Washington street, Painesville. The following year he erected a substantial brick house, being obliged to bring workmen from Columbus to finish the interior, and paying them the almost unheard of price of one dollar per day. But the. residence proved a piece of good honest work and its owner lived in it the remainder of his twenty-four years. In partnership with Simon Healy, and later with his brother-in-law, Lewis Morley, he conducted a general exchange and mercantile business which proved profitable to its conductors and most beneficial to the community for miles around. His operations embraced the purchase of farm, live stock, dairy and horticultural products of the rapidly developing country, disposing of them in eastern markets and making available to the producer& the manufactures, household goods and articles of food with, which they could not economically provide themselves. The enterprise seemed to foreshadow the modern general merchant, produce dealer and commission merchant. In this connection it is interesting to note that one of Mr. Gillett's favorite articles of export was peppermint oil, for which there was a large and steady demand in the east. He was also prominent in the early attempts to develop the iron industry by the use of native bog ores, established one of the first brass foundries of Painesville, and strove in all ways to open new avenues 0f industry and prosperity. Mr. Gillett became the owner of a number of farms near the city, one of which remains in possession of his grandchildren. As the years went by the influence of this industrious, versatile and able New Englander became so strong and widespread that his friends insisted upon sending him to the legislature. At that time, the anti-Masonic senti- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 955 ment was very bitter in his section, and it was on that platform that he was elected. He was also chosen a delegate to the Universal Peace Congress to be held in Paris, France, but the movement then was further in advance of the times than it is now, the proposed congress never convened and Mr. Gillett failed to visit the French capital. It is well illustrative, however, of his standing and advanced thought Mr. Gillett was the father of six children. One of his sons died in infancy ; the other, Albert, was appointed paymaster of Admiral Foote's flagship, the "Benton," but died in 1862, on the hospital ship, before reaching his post. His eldest daughter, Juliet, died in 1842, after a brief illness, and the father never recovered from the shock and grief caused by her decease. Shortly afterward he himself suffered a stroke of paralysis, and, although he lived until 1850, he was never strong thereafter, and his end came as the result of a second stroke. The three daughters who survived him were Mrs. Wilkes, Mrs. Child and Mrs. Boalt. His granddaughter, Agnes Child, married Wilm Knox, a well known architect of Cleveland. HUGH COMSTOCK HARRIS.—One of the well kown business men of this section of the Western Reserve, ex-treasurer of Lorain countv and one of the honored and substantial ctizens of Elyria, Hugh Comstock Harris is a native of Massachusetts, born in Great Barrington, Berkshire county, December 18, 1857. His parents, Avery E. and Marilla (Comstock) Harris, were also born in the Old Bay state, and neither they nor the grandfathers (George Harris and Hugh Comstock) ever resided in Ohio. In April, 1879, after graduating from the high school of his native town, Hugh C. Harris moved to the Buckeye state, locating first at LaGrange, Lorain county, where he entered the employ of Crosier & Shelden, cheese manufacturers at that place. Six months with them gave him a thorough knowledge of the industry and, after spending the following winter in his Massachusetts home, he returned to that firm as an employe in their Wellington factory. Ten of the eleven years which he thus spent were passed as superintendent of the plant, but in 1890 he left that field of industry and engaged in the boot and shoe business at Wellington. Mr. Harris continued in that line successfully, conducting the leading establishment of the place, until his first election as treasurer of Lorain county, in 1900; was re-elected in 1902 and served for two terms with signal credit to himself and decided advantage to the county. He has ever been a stanch Republican, and for years prominent in the councils of the party. He was also prominent in educational affairs, being both director of the Elyria schools and clerk of the school board, resigning both offices after two years and a half. He is a member of Wellington Lodge, F. & A. M., a Knight Templar in Masonry, belonging to Elyria chapter and commandery, and a Congregationalist in religion. He is a citizen of social, fraternal and high moral character. He is a director and on the finance committee of the Elyria Savings & Banking Company, and director of the Home Savings Bank, of Wellington, Ohio, and also a director in Lorain County Savings & Loan Company, and director in the Wellington Telephone Company. In 1883 Mr. Harris married Miss Ada B. Bacon, who was born in Wellington, November 12, 1863, and is a daughter of the late Serano D. and Mary (Bailey) Bacon. The father was born In Grafton, Windham county, Vermont, on the 23d of January, 1825, a son of Joseph Bacon, who settled in Carlisle township in 1840. Serano D. Bacon was long one of the substantial citizens of Wellington township. The mother of Mrs. Harris was born at Lodi, Cattaraugus county, New York, on the 19th of April, 1827, and died January i 1, 1909; the father dying September 24, 1901, aged seventy-six. Both of Mr. Harris' parents are also deceased. The father, born May 19, 1825, died on the 29th of April, 1907, and the mother was born June 28, 1826, and passed away July 28, 1895. JOSEPH HENRY PADDACK was during many years a well known and influential citizen of Ridgeville township, Lorain county, Ohio, where he was born and where he spent the most of his life and died. He was a grandson of Joseph Henry Paddack, one of the pioneers of Ridgeville, but a native son of New England and a descendant of Revolutionary heroes. Joseph Henry Paddack came to the Western Reserve and settled at Cleveland during the commonwealth's early history, coming from there to Ridgeville township, in Lorain county, and after a number of years there moved to the city of Elyria. He was during many years a justice of the peace there, and he was a member of the time-honored order of Masons. He had two sons, Sheldon and Henry, and three daughters. 956 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Sheldon Paddack, the elder of the two sons, was born on the 29th of February, 1824, in Essex county, New York, and he died on the 8th of March, 1906. He was twice married, wedding first Jane Robinson, from. kidgeville, and one child was born to them, Jane, who died at the age of thirteen. He married for his second wife, Marietta Boon, who was born in Watertown, New York, July 16, 1826, a daughter of William Boon, and their three children were : Mary P., who married Chas. D. Paddack, Joseph H. and George A. Both of the sons are deceased, but the wife and mother is yet living in Ridgeville, having attained her eighty-fourth year. Joseph H. Paddack was born in Ridgeville - township on the 3d of May, 1858. He attended the district schools and the Elyria high, school, and he remained with his parents until his marriage. He then purchased his late farm, which is now the home of his family, formerly known as the Sheldon place, on the old stage road, and here he was successfully engaged at farming and dairying. This estate contains over ninety-seven acres, and in addition to this Mr. Paddack also owned the io0 acres formerly known as the Veits farm, which he rented as a tenant farmer. In 1891 he moved with his family to the state of Idaho, but he returned to his old home in 1894, and he died at Ridgeville on the i ith of Mav, 1908. He was a member of the Royal Arcanum and of the Grange, taking a deep interest in the latter order. In politics a Republican, he never desired or would accept public office. On the 3d of May, 1884, Mr. Paddack married Abbie H., a daughter of the late Hugh Mills, of Ridgeville township. He was born January 5, 1826, and died on the 18th of October, 1898, a son of Samuel Mills, born on the 5th of May, 1794, and died on the 24th of June, 1839. He married Sallie VanAtten, born July 15, 1802. Hugh Mills married on December 30, 1858, Charlotte Merrill Johnson, who was born May 8, 1834, and died on the 15th of October, 1897. Their children are : Alfred Lathrop, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work ; Abbie Huntington, who was born January 4, 1861, and she is now Mrs. Paddack ; Clara Merrill, born May 8, 1864, married M. G. Harwedel ; Millie Harvey, born March 16, 1866, married William Donaldson ; and Walter Hugh, born March 23, 1868, and he died on the 6th of August, 1870. Four children blessed the marriage union of Joseph H. and Abbie H. (Mills) Paddack. George Alfred Paddack, the eldest, was born July 31, 1885, and he is associated with the Morgan Engineering Works at Alliance, Ohio. He married Mabel Ensign, a daughter of the late Charles Ensign, a former sheriff of Lorain county. They have two children, Gladys M. and Donald G. Harvey Mills Paddack, the second son of Joseph H. and Abbie Paddack, was born on the 11th of September, 1886, and died on the l0th of May, 1901. Hugh Sheldon Paddack, born October 18, 1888, is with his mother on the farm. Charlotte M., the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paddack, was born on the 21st of July, 1893, during their residence in Payette, Idaho. Mr. Paddack was one of the representative and honored residents of Ridgeville township. ELBERT J. BELL.-A representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the Western Reserve, and recognized as a citizen of ability and enterprise, Elbert J. Bell is numbered among the successful farmers and stock-growers of Medina county, where he is the owner of a fine landed estate of 275 acres, eligibly located in Guilford township and near the thriving town of Seville. He is giving his attention to the great basic lines of industry upon which the stable prosperity of our nation rests, and his farm is one of the best improved and ably managed in this section of Medina county, being equipped. with substantial buildings and all the machinery and accessories required by a progressive agriculturist of the best class. Mr. Bell is a native son of the township in which he still maintains his home and his entire active career has here been one of consecutive and fruitful identification with agricultural pursuits and stock-growing. He was born on the old homestead of his father in Guilford township, Medina county, on the 9th of January, 1856, and is a son of Robert and Margaret (Gray) Bell. So far as authentic data indicate, the original progenitor of the Bell family in America was Deacon James Bell, who was a native of England. He came to America when about ten years old and remained at the Home for Orphans until a home was found for him. He established his home in Vermont, from whence he later removed to Cortland county, New York, where he remained until 1818 or 1819, when he came to the Western Reserve, where he passed the residue of his long and useful life, having been a man of great piety and of noble attributes of character. He died on the 8th of February, 1865, in Medina county, Ohio, HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 957 at the patriarchal age of ninety-six years, one of the most venerable of the . pioneer citizens of the Western Reserve. His wife, whose maiden name was Isabel Harkness, was summoned to the life eternal on the l0th of March, 1849. They became the parents of five sons and three daughters, namely : William, Nathaniel, John, James A., Jacob, Margaret, Mary Ann and Martha. Concerning William, the grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, further mention will be made in another paragraph. All of the family came to the Western Reserve and settled in Medina county in the second decade of the nineteenth century, and all of the children except William, James and Jacob later removed to Wisconsin. James was born at Rupert, Vermont, on the 20th of June, 1809, and he passed the closing days of his life in the city of Chicago, where lie died on the 30th of March, 1900, when nearly ninety-one years of age. Jacob A. was born in Vermont, on the 11th of October, 1811, and died at Delaware, Ohio, both he and his brother James having been laid to rest in the cemetery at Seville, Medina county, this state. Nathaniel and John, as well as the three daughters, died in Wisconsin. William Bell, grandfather of Elbert J. Bell, was born and reared in Vermont and as a young man he accompanied his parents on their removal to Cortland county, New York, where he remained until 1817, when he joined the tide of immigration to the west and became the first representative of the family in the Western Reserve: In company with his young wife he came to Medina county, where he secured a tract of heavily timbered land and set to himself the herculean task of reclaiming the same to cultivation. In course of time he developed a comfortable pioneer farm, but he lived little more than a decade after coming to Ohio, his death having occurred on the i3th of July, 1829. He was one of the first settlers in Guilford township and his name merits an enduring place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Medina county and the fine old Western Reserve. In the state of New York was solemnized his marriage to Miss Harriet Owen, who was born in Massachusetts, and they became the parents of five children, of whom four survived the father, all being now deceased. A number of years after the death of William Bell his widow married his brother John, and in 1844 they removed to Walworth county, Wisconsin, where they passed the residue of their lives. Robert Bell, father of him to whom this review is dedicated, was born on the old homestead farm in Guilford township, Medina county, on the 28th of September, 1827. Robert Bell gained his early education in the pioneer schools of his native township and was about seventeen years of age when he accompanied his mother and step-father on their removal to Walworth county, Wisconsin, in which state he remained until he had attained to his legal majority, when he returned to Medina county. In the winter following his arrival in his native county he found employment as clerk in a general store in Medina, and later he was similarly engaged at Seville for twelve or more years. In 1863 he purchased a farm in Guilford township, where he eventually developed one of the valuable farms of the county. He was a citizen of sterling character -and ever commanded the unqualified esteem of the people among whom he lived and labored. for so many years. He was influential in local affairs, though never a seeker of public office, was a stanch Republican in politics after the organization of that party, prior to which time he had supported the cause of the Whig party, having cast his first presidential vote for Honorable John P. Hale, of Maine. He became one of the leading sheep-growers and wool producers of Medina county, and was also a pioneer in the raising of tobacco in this section, having shipped his products of this order to the city of Cincinnati. He continued to reside on his homestead farm until his death, which occurred on April 30, 1903, and he left the priceless heritage of a good name. He was not a member of any church, but his wife was a member of the Congregational church. On April 17, 1854, was solemnized the marriage of Robert Bell to Miss Margaret Gray, who was born at Salem, New York, on March 20, 1828, being a daughter of Isaac and Mary L. (Russell) Gray, who came to Medina county, Ohio, when she was a child, here passing the remainder of their lives. Robert and Margaret (Gray) Bell became the parents of two children, of whom Elbert J. of this sketch is the elder ; Helen M., the younger, died on August 21, 1879, at the age of eighteen years, being in the very flower of gracious young womanhood when she was thus summoned to the life eternal. Mrs. Bell now resides in Seville, being eighty-two years of age at the time of this writing, 1910. Elbert J. Bell was reared to the sturdy and beneficent discipline of the home farm and he 958 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE has had the good judgment never to sever his allegiance to the great basic art of agriculture, through association with which he holds precedence as one of the essentially representative farmers and stock-raisers of his native county, where he is held in high esteem as a capable business man and as a loyal, progressive and upright citizen. His educational advantages included a course in the public schools of the village of Seville and he continued to be associated with his father in the work and management of the home farm until 1895, when he purchased i08 acres of land in Guilford township, one and one-half miles east of Seville, where he soon gained recognition as one of the enterprising and success fill agriculturists of this section, devoting his farms to diversified agriculture and to the raising of high-grade cattle, horses and sheep. With these effective lines of enterprise he has since continued to be actively and successfully identified. After the death of his honored father he purchased also the old homestead farm, so that he now owns 275 acres of most productive and finely improved land, a portion of which he rents. On his home farm he has a commodious and attractive residence, a large and well equipped barn, a large tobacco house and other substantial buildings required in connection with the various departments of farm work. Though not imbued with office-seeking proclivities Mr. Bell gives a stanch allegiance to the Republican party and takes a lively interest in all that concerns the general welfare of the community. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arcanum, and his wife holds membership in the Baptist church. On February 9, 1884, Mr. Bell was united in marriage to Miss Alta Foster, who was born in Milton township, Wayne county, this state, and who is a daughter of Buell G. Foster, now a prosperous farmer of Guilford township, Medina county. Mr. and Mrs. Bell have five children,—Helen, Hallie, Margaret, Luella and Cora Evangeline. Miss Helen is now a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of her native state and the other children remain at the parental home. ALBERT H. JOHNSON.—The late Albert H. Johnson, so long identified with the development of banking at Oberlin and for a time a prominent figure in the administration of railroad property in Arkansas, was an active and honored citizen of Lorain county for more than a quarter of a century. He was born in Elyria, Ohio, on the 19th of August, 1838, and was a son of Isaac M. and Cornelia (Mussey) Johnson, both of whom are also deceased. The father was well known for many years as a dry goods merchant of Oberlin. From private schools the son, Albert H., passed to Oberlin College, but before the conclusion of his junior year in the latter the First National Bank of that. city was organized and the youth left his' studies to enter a long financial training as cashier of the institution named. While a student he had been associated with the private bank of Mr/. Sam- uel Plum, organizer and first president of the First National, so that Mr. Johnson had already enjoyed considerable practical experience in his chosen field. His faithful and able work for the First National was so fully appreciated that he finally advanced to the presidency and to a place of pronounced leadership in local finances. In December, 1872, Mr. Johnson went to Helena, Arkansas, and some time afterward became interested in the Arkansas Central Railroad, which became the Arkansas Midland Railroad and went into the hands of a receiver. At this crisis Mr. Johnson and his interested friends bought the property at public sale, and the former was placed in his charge as president of the corporation. In that capacity he evinced his skill as a financier and executive by establishing the railroad on such a paying basis that it was sold at a decided advantage. In 1891 Mr. Johnson again became president of the First National Bank of Oberlin, and continued in that position for the remainder of his life. It should also be added that he served as president of the Oberlin Gas and Electric Company, was a trustee of Oberlin College, and a deacon in the Second Congregational church. It was the untimely and widely-mourned end of a useful and honorable life when Mr. Johnson met his death in an accident on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, December 4, 1899. Early in life Albert H. Johnson married Miss Rebecca Jenkins, of Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio, a member of a Pennsylvania Quaker family of long establishment in Jefferson county, Ohio. Her maternal. great-grandfather (Updegraff) was one of the framers of the Ohio Constitution, and therefore an acknowledged founder of the commonwealth. The offspring of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Johnson are as follows : Cliffe Updegraff, M. D., who is a graduate of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 959 College, and of the medical department of Wooster University, and in 1909 married Dr. Walter H. Merriam, of Cleveland ; and Albert Mussey Johnson, a graduate from the civil engineer'ng department of Cornell University, who is now president of the National Life Insurance Company of the United States of America, of Chicago. DECATUR HOEG.—The substantial and prosperous citizens of Ashtabula county have no more worthy representative than Decatur Hoeg, who, in partnership with his brother, Madison Hoeg, is successfully employed in farming on the homestead which his father, Madison Hoeg Sr., settled upon in pioneer days. He was born on the old home farm, August 22, 1847, and has here spent his life. Madison Hoeg Sr. came to Ohio when young and lived for a few years in Warren, Trumbull county. There he married Louisa Lovell, they being twenty-five and twenty-seven years old respectively, at the time of wedding, and immediately settled in Ashtabula county. Buying a tract of land from which never a tree had been felled, he and his bride here began housekeeping in a rude log cabin. He cleared a large part of his forty acres of timber, and in 1833 built the main part of the present dwelling house. Here he carried on farming, at the same time working as a mason by trade, keeping busily employed until his death in 1855, aged forty-four years, ere reaching manhood's prime. His widow was a woman of much force of character and of superior business ability, fully equal to cope with the responsibilities thrust upon her, and in addition to continuing the improvements already begun on the estate, she brought up her children to habits of industry and thrift, and gave them good common school educations. She subsequently married for her second husband, Heman Hickok, and continued her residence on the home farm until her death, at the age of eighty-six years. Mr. Hickok died before she did, passing away at the age of four-score years. She was strong and robust, and cared not only for her husband in his years of sickness, but kindly and cheerfully looked after his mother and sister, both of whom died of consumption. Madison and Louisa (Lovell) Hoeg became the parents of five children, namely : Emily, wife of George Atkin, of Harpersfield ; William R. ; Decatur Whittlesey, engaged in farming in Trumbull township ; and Madison. William R. Hoeg, the oldest son, born in June, 1844, attended Jericho Seminary when young, and under the instruction of Platt R. Spencer became an expert penman, receiving in 1863 a diploma for his proficiency in penmanship, the diploma now ornamenting the Hoeg home. He subsequently taught writing school winters, first in Ashtabula county, then in Erie, finally in Cincinnati. Serving in the Civil war, he was wounded in battle, and subsequently, through his good penmanship, secured a clerkship in .Washington, D. C. For a number of years thereafter he conducted William R. Hoeg's Business College, which he established in January, 1865, managing it until failing health compelled him to retire from active work. Returning then to Geneva township, he died in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, three years later, May 19, 1904. He married Adelaide M. King, of Painesville, Ohio, who survived him but three years. Both are buried in Lake View cemetery, Cleveland. Decatur Hoeg and his brother, Madison Hoeg, as above stated, have always resided on the parental homestead, and are carrying on mixed husbandry with satisfactory results, reaping a reasonable harvest each season. Madison Hoeg has never married. Decatur Hoeg married November 12, 1868, Susan Atkin, a daughter of Peter and Nancy (Davis) Atkin, natives of Harpersfield township. AUGA LETTA DAGGETT COE iS a member of the tenth generation in lineal descent from John Daggett, who came from Boxford, Suffolk, England, in the good ship "Primrose," Captain Mayhew, in the year of 162o. She was born at Stonington, Connecticut, August 14, 1868. Her mother, Frances Breed, of Titusville, Pennsylvania, was a daughter of Franklin and Augaletta (Daggett) Breed, formerly of that place. Mrs. Coe was educated at the public schools of Painesville and at Mrs. Matthews' school for girls (now discontinued), also of that city. She is a member of the First Congregational church of Painesville and also of the hospital board of that city, of which she was at one time secretary, and is an active worker along charitable lines, as well as in whatsoever cause she may enlist. On February 7, 1888, she married Harry Proctor Coe, son of the late veteran of the Civil war, musician and successful inventor, Henry Hayes Coe, and his wife, Lucy Proctor Coe. At the present they reside on Bank street, Painesville. They have no children. James Lyman Tabor. Mrs. H. P. Coe's father, was born in Herkimer county, New 960 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE York, and served as private in the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Volunteer Regiment of Pennsylvania throughout the entire four years of the war of the Rebellion. He was an active citizen of Painesville from 1876 to the date of his death, January 26, 1891, at the age of forty-eight years. He was the senior member of the Tabor & Ingrim Livery and Transfer Company of that city ; was the first agent of the County Humane Society, and for a number of years was connected with the local mail department. His parents were Methodists, but he never joined any church. In politics he was a Republican. Mrs. Coe's sister, Millicent Tabor Sawyer, also of Painesville, and their brother, Franklin Breed Tabor, of Cleveland, are the only representatives of the family in this locality, F. B. Tabor being secretary and auditor of the Telling Manufacturing Company of Cleveland. Harry P. Coe is president and active manager of the extensive works of the Coe Manufacturing Company, of Painesville. The output of this great factory may be found in almost every timber region in the United States and in many foreign countries. JOSEPH C. RODGERS, county commissioner and stave manufacturer at Colebrook, Ohio, was born at Bradys Bend, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1859, son of William. and Mary L. (Petit) Rodgers. William Rodgers was the fifth of a family of nine children, three sons and six daughters. His parents, Andrew and Martha (Rodgers) Rodgers, of Scotch-Irish descent, came from Ireland about 1827, when he was five years old. The father died not many years after coming to the United States, leaving the mother with, several small children, in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. The brothers of William Rodgers were : Samuel and Captain Joseph, the latter late of Armstrong county. Captain Rodgers raised a company in a Pennsylvania regiment, at the time of the Civil war. When sixteen years of age„ William Rodgers served an apprenticeship as blacksmith at Butler, Butler county, Pennsylvania, and later went to work at the Great Western Iron Works, at Bradys Bend, as puddler. Soon after he married Catherine Crow, who died, leaving two children, one having previously died. The two surviving were Martha and Andrew, the former now Mrs. Humphrey, of McKee's Rock, Pennsylvania. Andrew lived in Colebrook, Ohio, and died at the age of fifty-eight years. About 1850 William Rodgers married (second) Mary L. Petit, of Noblestown, Pennsylvania, where she was born March 26, 1830, and she now resides with her son, Joseph C. After spending twenty-four years. in front of a puddling furnace, Mr. Rodgers resumed his trade at Bradys Bend, and in 1855 he and his brother Joseph went to the gold fields of California, where for three years they prospected and carried on placer mining. He returned with sufficient money to purchase a farm of eighty acres in Fairview, Butler county, Pennsylvania, running a shop in the village near the farm. In 1872 he sold this farm to the Reno Oil Company, reserving the coal rights, and operated a -coal mine on the farm two, years. In 1872 Mr. Rodgers purchased land in Colebrook, Ashtabula county, Ohio, and in 1874 removed thereto. The farm consisted of 428 acres, about half of it cleared. He died on this farm, September 20, 1895. He had twelve children by his second wife, eight of whom survived him. They are : William H., of Cambridge, Pennsylvania ; Joseph C. ; Samuel E., of Middlefield, Ohio ; David E., of Blaine, Washington ; Daniel C., of Colebrook, Ohio ; Mollie Allen, of Blaine, Washington Maud Allen, of Deerlodge, Montana ; and Gay- land F.; of Colebrook. Joseph C. Rodgers received a common school education, and in December, 1885, started a stave and saw mill on his farm one east of Colebrook Center. His first year's output was one and one-third millions.of staves for nail kegs, and it reached a magnitude of three and one-half and even four millions annually. He employed at first fourteen to twenty, and later fortym0o mo men, directly and indirectly in the mill alone, and his expenses averaged about forty dollars a day for the year ; he also spent twelve to fifteen thousand dollars for timber and outside expenses.. He continued this business until 1898, and in April, 1899, engaged in general merchandise at Colebrook Center. In 1897 he had erected a limestone building at a cost of $3,000, and upon selling his mill he decided to occupy same instead of renting. He has successfully carried on his business since, and since 1906 the firm name has been Rodgers & Andrews, his partner being his stepson, W. F. Andrews. They have an annual trade of from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars. This is the only store in Colebrook township. Besides his mercantile interests, Mr. Rodgers still retains row acres of his farm, part of his father's original purchase, and he also has a home of fourteen acres at center of the township. HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 961 Since attaining his majority Mr. Rodgers has always taken an active interest in politics, and he has served in many township offices. At present he is justice of the peace and school director, and he has been constable and trustee. In 1904 he was elected a county commissioner, taking office in September, 1905 ; in 19c8 he was re-elected, and his second term began in September, 1909. During his term of office $5o,000 have been spent on public buildings, such as the county farm, court house, etc. He has served as delegate to local county conventions, senatorial and state conventions for twenty-five years, and has attended them at his own expense. When he received the office he now holds he was nominated by acclamation, and was solicited to accept the office, not being an office seeker. He takes a strong stand for what he believes to be right, and will not change his attitude until convinced of his mistake. He has used his influence to secure the macadamizing of the roads and for many other improvements. He has the confidence and fullest regard of his fellow-citizens, and is popular with all parties. For thirty years he has been a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and has taken the degrees of the chapter, commander), and shrine, and is also an Elk, belonging to Ashtabula Lodge. He served eight years and one month as postmaster, and resigned the position to take his present office. He was deputy state counsellor of the Junior. Order of United American Mechanics for five years, and counsellor of his home lodge six years. In November, 1881, Mr. Rodgers married Maggie, daughter of Samuel and Charlotte Kelly, of Colebrook, who died February 27, 1887, leaving one child, Martha Beryl, now the wife of A. H. Cook, of Colebrook. In 1889 Mr. Rodgers married Emma O. Andrews, nee Thurber, and they have four children, namely : Charlie, died in infancy ; Joseph C., attending school ; Mason Thurber ; and Carmen Emma. Mrs. Rodgers had four children by her former marriage as follows : Guy LeRoy, an engineer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Myra Mahala, married Eslie A. Webb, of Colebrook ; Lulu May, died in infancy ; and William F., partner with Mr. Rodgers. CHARLES H. THOMPSON.-In the county of his birth it was given Charles H. Thompson to attain to a position as a representative business man and to maintain a secure hold upon the confidence and esteem of its people. He was long numbered among the leading merchants of the village of Mantua, to whose upbuilding and civic progress he contributed in liberal measure, and he was a member of one of the well known and honored pioneer families of Portage county. His career was marked by impregnable integrity and he left the heritage of worthy thoughts and worthy deeds when he was called to his reward. His death occurred on May 16, 1902. Charles H. Thompson was born in Freedom township, Portage county, Ohio, on June 2, 1846, and was a son of William and Fannie (Pierce) Thompson.. William Thompson was a native of New Hampshire and a scion of a family founded in New England in the colonial days. He was a child at the time of his parents' immigration to the Western Reserve, in 1815, and his father, William Thompson, became one of the pioneer settlers of Shalersville, Portage county, where he passed the remainer of his life and where he became a successful farmer and influential citizen. When Charles H. Thompson was a boy his parents removed from the homestead farm in Freedom township to the village of Shalersville, where he gained his early education in the common schools, after which he continued his higher studies in Hiram College. He gained his early business experience in Shalersville, where he finally became a successful and popular hotelkeeper and where he continued to reside until 1873, when he removed to Mantua, where he established himself in the general merchandise business and where he built up a large and prosperous enterprise. His correct methods and fair and honorable dealing se' cured to him a substantial patronage of representative order, and no merchant in this section of the county enjoyed a higher degree of popular confidence and regard. He continued to be actively identified with the business interests of Mantua until 1901, covering a period of more than a quarter of a century, and at the time of his retirement he held prestige as one of the oldest, as well as one of the most honored, business men of Mantua. After his retirement, owing to impaired health, he removed to the city of Ashtabula, where he died in the following year, on May 16, 1902, as already noted in this context. He had varied capitalistic interests in Mantua, where he was the first president of the First National Bank, and he ever maintained a lively interest in all that concerned the welfare and progress of his home village and county. His political allegiance 962 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE was given to the Republican. party, and he was called upon to serve in various local offices, including that of land appraiser. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he was identified with the Oriental Commandery of Knights Templar. On July 19, 1871, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Thompson to Miss Delia Blair, who survives him and who still maintains her home in Mantua, where her circle of friends is limited only by that of her acquaintances and where she is prominent in social activities. Mrs. Thompson was one of the organizers of Mystic Chapter No. 42, Eastern Star, Mantua, and she was its first worthy matron. She was born in Mantua, on November 17, 1846, and is a daughter of Chauncey and Martha (Story) Blair, and granddaughter of John and Hattie (Smith) Blair. Mr. Blair was born in this village, February 7, 1819, and was here reared and educated. He was a son of John Blair, who was numbered among the sterling pioneers of Mantua township, where he took up his residence in 1806, and where he reclaimed a farm from the virgin forest. Chauncey Blair became one of the representative farmers of Portage county and was a citizen who wielded marked influence in his community, where he ever commanded unqualified esteem as a man of sterling character and as one who made his life count for good in all its relations. He was a Democrat in politics. His death occurred in 1895, and .his wife was summoned to eternal rest in w0r. They became the parents of one son and seven daughters, and the son died when about seven years of age. All of the daughters are still living and concerning them the following brief data are consistently entered : Harriet is the widow of Seth Andrews and resides in Rootstown, Portage county ; Delia, widow of the subject of this memoir, was the next in order of birth ; Jennie is unmarried and resides in Mantua township ; Addie is the wife of James B. Coit, of Mantua ; Nettie is the wife of Leroy Paine, of Mantua ; Frank is the wife of Dr. J. E. Beery, of Columbus, Ohio ; and Miss Cora maintains her home on the old farm. Mrs. Thompson was reared in Portage county, which has ever represented her home, and after availing herself of the advantages of the common schools of Mantua she entered Hiram College, in which institution she completed a , higher academic course. She put her scholastic attainments to the test, and for ten terms she was a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of her native county. She finds much of satisfaction in that her home is established in the village so endeared to her by the memories and associations of the past. and one in which she is surrounded by valued and loyal friends. She is a stockholder in the. First National Bank of Mantua and is owner of the old William Thompson farm, of 210 acres, in Shalersville township, besides an interest in the old Blair homestead farm, in Mantua township, upon which her paternal grandfather settled in the year 1806, when he numbered himself among the pioneers of the Western Reserve, to whose development and progress he contributed his quota: One child was born to Mr. Thompson and wife, Clyde, who died when four months old. CHARLES A. B. PRATT, deceased, late of Orwell, Ohio, was born in Connecticut, January 23, 1818, and was brought to Ohio by his parents when fourteen years of age. His father, Ezra Pratt, was one of the earliest pioneers of Orwell; he was born near Old Lyme, Connecticut, and married Fanny Marvin, of the same vicinity. They came to Ohio in 1832, via the canal. He was a farmer and merchant, and besides a store at Orwell also had one in New York City. His wife was afraid of the sea and of the great lakes, so he bought land in Orwell, although he could have purchased on the present site of Cleveland. He purchased about one-half of the township, which was owned by the original proprietors. The main part of the present house was built in 1828, by a Mr. Spaulding. This was the halfway house between Ashtabula and Warren, and Mr. Pratt kept a tavern until a hotel could be opened in the village, and also immediately started a store, the first in Orwell ; it stood on the opposite side of the house, and is still standing. The original house was a two-story brick. Besides taking care of the store, Mr. Pratt cleared up his farm ; he owned the four corners where his house was located. He erected a second store, which he later removed to Orwell village. He was one of the first members of the First Presbyterian church, and all his life took a prominent part in church work. He was active in all public matters, and used his influence for the establishment of schools. He was seventy years of age at his death. He had three sons and four daughters, namely : Frances P., married and died in middle life ; Julia L., married R. C. Newell, lived on an adjoining farm, and died at San Diego, California, at the age of ninety years; HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 963. Phebe Stirling, married John S. Dixon, of Charlevoix, Michigan, where she died ; Jane W., died when a young woman ; Charles A. B., referred to later ; E. Huntington, died unmarried, when a young man ; and Joseph, also died young, unmarried. Phebe (Pratt) Dixon's son Joseph returned to Orwell, although his mother and the remainder of the family did not. Charles A. B. Pratt received his early education in his native state, and after coming to Ohio helped his father in the store and studied at Steubenville, Ohio. He also made potash, buying ashes all over the surrounding country ; in this he kept fourteen men busy, and became very successful. His father made butter and cheese, and about 1872 he assisted in establishing a cheese factory, the first in Orwell, which became a great industry, and is still in operation. Mr. Pratt was active in starting and conducting the local agricultural fair, and until eleven years since the Orwell fair was an important event. Mr. Pratt carried on general farming, and became owner of three farms at the old home corner. He carried on the store in Orwell village, and managed his business affairs as long as he lived. He was a stockholder in the Pennsylvania railway line running through the town. Both he and his father served as postmaster for many years, also as justice of the peace. He was a Republican, an elder in the Presbyterian church, and served as clerk of the session for many years. He wrote a history of that particular church, from its organization until 1875, which was widely appreciated. Mr. Pratt died May 12, 1895, in Chicago, where two of his sons then resided. His loss was widely mourned in the community where most of his life had been spent. Mr. Pratt married, in 1850, Mary Elizabeth Ely, of Ripley, New York ; the family were from Connecticut, and distantly related to the Pratts. He met her in Connecticut when she was visiting. She was nine years his junior, and died in January, 1866, at the age of thirty-nine years. She was the mother of seven children. Mr. Pratt married (second) Helen A. Coggin, of Tewkesbury, Massachusetts, who survived him and died in Massachusetts, August 16. 1898. The only son by the second marriage was Jacob J. of Chicago, manager of the John . Crooke Company. The children of Mr. Pratt's first marriage were : Elizabeth Selden, died when a young woman ; E. Huntington. of Chicago, with Knox Automobile Company ; Mary Ely, unmarried, living in Pittsburg ; Joseph Marvin, died in infancy ; Charles Marvin, died in childhood ; Frances Marvin ; and Charles A. B., Jr., of New York. City. Charles A. B. Pratt is an attorney in New York City, where he is a prominent clubman, and a deacon in Dr. Parkhurst's church.. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School, and is meeting with pleasing success as a member of the firm of Pratt & McAlpin, corporation attorneys. Frances Marvin Pratt lives in New York City, although she and her brother, Charles A. B., supervise the management of the old homestead in Orwell, which is kept in the family. It is now devoted to general and stock farming, with splendid results. She is also a member of Dr. Parktfurst's church. Her summers are spent on the farm in Orwell. FRANK P. ROOD was born in Charlestown, Portage county, December 25, 1854, and is a son of Norman and Louisa (Tibbets) Rood,. natives of Connecticut and New York respectively. They came to Charlestown between. 1825 and 1830, and took up about 200 acres of land, then thickly wooded and surrounded by the forest. They had to clear a place in which to build the house, and later cleared up the farm as time went on. A frame house was erected later, and other buildings, which are now standing. Frank P. Rood received his education in the district school and Ravenna high school, after which he lived with his parents and assisted with the labors on the farm, residing there until the time of his marriage. In political views he is Democratic, and he has held the offices of trustee and supervisor. Mr. Rood married Leora Chapman, July 30, 1884, and she died in July, 1886. He married (second), August 17, 1901, Mrs. Ada L. Taylor, who, was born August 17, 1854, a, daughter of Justin and Amelia (Knapp) Watrous. By Mrs. Rood's first marriage she had one son, Fred W. Taylor, born in Elmira, New York, February 14, 1883, and now a resident of Ravenna. Mr. Rood is a public-spirited citizen, and takes an active interest in public affairs and improvements. ALEXANDER VAIR, a prominent farmer of Charlestown, was born October 11, 1835, and is a son of George and Mary (Lowrie) Vair, both natives of Scotland, who emigrated in 1837, and July 28 of that year settled in Cleveland, Ohio. George Vair worked at the carpenter trade for a time and then removed to Ravenna, where he continued at this avocation. 964 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE He spent four years on the Erie canal and later worked in Ravenna for the C. & P. Railroad, being thirty years in the employ of the latter company. Subsequently he retired and-bought a farm of 300 acres. At the time of his death he was ninety years of age. Of his three children, James, Christina and Alexander, only the last-named survives, and he has inherited his father's estate. Alexander Vair assisted his father in clearing the farm, and later in cultivating same. They were pioneers, knowing the hardships of such a life, and were unused to the luxuries now so common. In political views Mr. Vair is a Republican, and has held the office of town supervisor, as well as many other offices. He has a pleasant home, with modern improvements, and takes pleasure in his possessions. He has several photographs which are of interest, showing Scottish scenes, among them the Sir Walter Scott home, the birthplace of Burns, which was built of clay and thatched with straw, and the Burns monument at Alloway, as well as a picture of the burying ground near the Abbey of Melrose, where many of the Vair name are buried. The family are of considerable prominence in their native country, where Joan Vair, the sister of Alexander's father, still resides. The photos mentioned were taken in 1908 by Leonard Vair, a relative. Mr. Vair lived with his parents until the time of his marriage to Lucinda Petitt, by whom he had nine children, namely : Mary, Jennie and George, all deceased, James, Sydney, Robert, Orphy (deceased), Lina and Frank (deceased). Mr. Vair's wife died April 5, 1884, and he married, March 8, 1885, Laurie James, by whom he has one son, Charles, who resides at home with his parents. He married, November 25, 1908, Hattie M., daughter of Corbin and Eva (Hessom) Bradfield, born February 17, 1889. Louis P. GAGE, an investment broker of Painesville, is the son of Rensellaer Watson and Mary (McElwain) Gage. Rensellaer Gage was born in New Hampshire, and about 1820 his father settled in Madison county, New York ; he removed from Livingston county, New York, to Painesville in 1852, and there built the first residence of Doctor House, near the National Bank, where he lived until his death. He had operated a hardwood lumber yard at Boston, and sawmills in different parts of New York, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. After removing to Painesville, he bought hardwood lumber in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and shipped to his Boston yards, doing for years an extensive business. He died in 1856, having been located but a few vears at Painesville, at the age of fifty-three. His first wife, Mary McElwain, died in New York, and he married second, Eleanor Riker, who survived him several years, and died in Painesville. He had three daughters and two sons ; one son, Rollin, died in Leroy, New York, at the age of twenty-four. The two sons carried on their father's business until the death of Rollin, after which it was carried on by L. P. Gage. L. P. Gage also became a manufacturer of pine lumber, at Saginaw, Michigan, and also had a mill on the Alleghany river at Red House, New York, for both pine and hemlock; for several years he sent the lumber down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers to Cincinnati and sold out the business to advantage. He also operated hardwood mills in Ohio and Indiana, and at the same time bought and sold lumber; he purchased the timber, put in a portable mill, cut it out and prepared it for market, and in this employed thirty to i0o men. He shipped large quantities of walnut to San. Francisco and some to Europe. He operated the first hardwood lumber yard in Cleveland, which was wholesale and retail, and this business lie sold out ten years since ; he did a large business, $150,00o to $300,000 annually. In 1875 Mr. Gage embarked in the cattle business, purchasing a ranch in Indian Territory, keeping one to two thousand head of cattle. He continued in this business seventeen years, at which time the range was taken up, and this enterprise proved to be very profitable to him, although as time went on the margin of profit grew constantly smaller. Excepting for a few years spent at Baxter Springs, Kansas, where he still has a fine property, his home has been for many years in Painesville. For the past ten years Mr. Gage has devoted his energies to brokerage and investment securities, spending part. of his time in New York. His investments are mainly in the interests of his private business. He built the Gage Block in 1888, at Painesville, this accommodating seven stores, with 112 feet on the front, the second floors being offices and the third, lodge halls. The Knighted Order Tented Maccabees occupy one hall. The cost of the block was about $40,000. He is also the owner of the Cowles House, a hotel built by Mr. Cowles. He has bought and sold west- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 965 ern lands rather extensively.   His pleasant residence is on North State street. Mr, Gage has taken a keen interest in the development of the city and also the state, but has not taken any active part in political affairs. He is a sharp-sighted business man, and his judgment in matters of this kind is to be relied upon. Mr. Gage married Anna Van Dusen, who died leaving one daughter, Anna, the wife of Charles E. Booth, of Painesville. Mr. Gage married second, Mary Henderson, and they have four daughters, namely : Katherine Louise, Florence Elizabeth, Mary Evelyn and Helen Marie, all living at home. OTIS FULLER.—Prominent among the agricultural residents of Conneaut township is numbered Otis Fuller, a member of a family which was founded in this community many years ago by Wesley Fuller, who came from New York. He was the father of Asa, Maria and Wellington. Asa Fuller was probably born in the east, about the year of 1815, and he came with his parents to Ohio and located in North Ridge. He always lived on a farm, of which he owned several, and his death occurred in 1885, when he had reached the age of seventy years, while his wife, nee Mary Ann Haviland, from Ohio, died about three years later. Their family numbered the following children : Cornell G., mentioned below ; Omar, who died of typhoid fever just before his marriage was to take place ; John W., who married first Emma Abbott and afterward Julia Tinker Benton, and he lives in Ashtabula, Ohio ; Willis A. married Effie Hardie and is a lumberman in Pierpont township ; Vernon A., whose first wife was Mary Hayward, by whom he had one child, and his second wife, Celia Hanson, by whom he has six children; lives in Port Hope, Michigan ; Herbert E. married Ella Crosby, and died in Houston, Texas. Cornell G. Fuller was born in Monroe township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, July 12, 1842, and he lived with his grandparents until his marriage, January 9, 1864, to Lydia E. Farnham, who was born March 30, 1844, and the two children of this union are Otis A. and Jessie O., but the daughter died when very young. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Fuller moved to Sheffield township in Ashtabula county, where the husband embarked in the lumber business. Their home was afterward in Michigan for about three years, and there Mr. Fuller was drowned in Lake Huron while transporting lumber, this sad event occurring on September 20, 1875. He was a Republican in his political affiliations, and Mrs. Fuller is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church. Otis A. Fuller, of the above family, was born in Sheffield, Ohio, December 5, 1864, and his. district school training was supplemented by study in the high schools of Titusville, Pennsylvania, and Jefferson, Ohio. He lived with his grandparents in Kelloggsville before his marriage, and moved with them to Conneaut. He is now engaged in operating the mill which was built by his grandfather, Elisha Farnham, in 1841, and this is the only mill now on the Conneaut stream operated by water power, though years ago there were several water power mills on this stream. The mill contains four turbines, and was formerly operated by a tub or scroll wheel. Mr. Fuller married March 21, 1884, Lila E. Goldsmith, who was born in Conneaut September i9, 1866, and their childien are : Lelia E., who married Clarence Leffenwell, engaged in the wholesale fruit business in Cleveland ; Bessie W., a bookkeeper at the creamery in Conneaut ; Willis A., on the farm with his father ; Cornell G., attending the Conneaut high school ; Robert Lee, a student in the district schools ; and Otis Abbott. Mr. Fuller, a Republican, has served his community as a supervisor, and he is a member of the American Insurance Union, of the Odd Fellows fraternity and of the Lone Star order of the Grange. Mrs. Fuller is a member of the Baptist church. ORVILLE DUANE HOWE, who was born in Painesville, September 1, 1831, is of English descent, the family, which was established in Canada at the outbreak of the war of 1812, being forced to leave the Dominion after Dr. Samuel W. Howe, the paternal grandfather, had declared his allegiance to the United States. He and his two sons, Eber. D. and Asahel, as residents of New York, participated in various military movements against the British ; in 1817 the family settled in Cleveland, and about three years later in Painesville. In the years which followed, the. father, Eber D. Howe, became prominent as a newspaper man, an Abolitionist, an anti-Mormonist, and a citizen of brave, independent and able character, while Orville D. has largely contributed to the splendid record of his family by his active career as a progressive agriculturist and a public man. As a Republican he 966 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE has extended his father's work and influence to the present day, while as superintendent of public instruction, county surveyor and justice of the peace, he has been of invaluable assistance in furthering the causes of education, the security of property and the establishment of law and order—three forces which, more than all others, maintain the integrity of the typical American community. The first authentic and definite records of the Howe family relate to the stirring career of Samuel William Howe, already mentioned as the grandfather of Orville D. He was born in Longmeadow, Connecticut, in the year 1760 ; lost his father at an early age and was tenderly and thoughtfully reared by his stepfather. After receiving a common school education, at the age of nineteen he entered Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and during the ensuing year made some proficiency in the study of. medicine. Upon one of his visits to Boston, in 1780, he shipped as surgeon on an American privateer, then fitting for a cruise along the eastern coasts ; but, contrary to the understanding of the crew, when the ship was fairly out of the harbor it headed across the Atlantic direct for the English Channel. The privateer proved to be entirely unseaworthy, with an incompetent and intoxicated captain, and the voyage of forty days to the Irish coast was mostly occupied by the hands in bailing out the rotten hull. In that locality they fortunately found themselves alongside a British man-of-war, and surrendered after the firing of one shot. This is one of the dark spots in the usually bright record of American privateering. After being removed in safety to the British boat the American crew joyfully saw the dishonored craft disappear beneath the ocean waves, the ship not being worth the trouble of towing into port. The Americans were taken to Dublin as prisoners of war and there Mr. Howe was detailed to the medical department of the city prison, then filled with sick and maimed victims of the war. By bribing a prison keeper named Craft, he finally escaped from Dublin prison with two other physicians, and reached the coast of France, thence walking 300 miles to Havre, where he shipped for Boston as a hand before the mast. It may be added to this life chapter that Craft came to Painesville many years later, and that the recognition was mutual and cordial. After his return to the United States Dr. Howe completed his medical studies, and about 1785 married Miss Mabel Dudley, a native of Middletown, Connecticut, who was descended from an English family of Surrey county. The first of the Dudley family to come to America was William, who died in Guilford, that state, in 1683, after whom the line descends, through Joseph, (Captain) William and Asahel, to Mabel Dudley, who became the grandmother of Orville D. Dr. S. W. Howe and wife resided successively in Clifton Park and Ovid, New York, and in 1811, with their family, located near Queenstown, eight .miles from Niagara Falls, Canada. Through his practice and businesslike investments, the doctor had accumulated considerable property, and at the outbreak of the war of 1812 was, the prosperous owner' of 200 head of cattle and horses, 500 acres of fine land, a beautiful English mansion, and an iron box holding gold coin and good. securities to the value of $60,000—the latter a large fortune of itself in those days. In the midst of these handsome evidences of his industry and ability, he was summoned to appear before the royal authorities of the dominion and declare himself fot the king of England, on pain of banishment and confiscation of all his goods and property. With breakfast on the table, the head of the household was given one hour to decide, but within a minute pronounced for the Stars and Stripes and commenced to prepare for immediate departure. N4 sooner were his intentions known to the Indian allies of the British who were hovering outside the house than they secretly bored holes in the bottom of the scow which was to be used to convey the doctor, his family and valuables across the Niagara river to New York. His wife and daughter Harriet had packed the best bedding, silver and box of gold, and after loading his goods and family on the scow started on his perilous trip. Not far from shore the scow sank, the passengers barely escaping through the, assistance of a British officer who was affianced to the doctor's daughter. Dr. Howe himself returned to his residence, intending to throw his strong box into the river, but found his house in flames. Seizing a feather bed from the pile of household goods not yet consumed, he tied it to his horse Kate to protect her from the expected shower of bullets which he knew would greet him when the British discovered his attempted escape. Nor was his expectation amiss, as in his dash for the upper ferry he was obliged to pass through a storm of bullets which riddled the bed and put out one of his good horse's eyes ; and in crossing the ferry, where he was met by his sons, one HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 967 of the latter (William) had his hat pierced by a ball. The family formed a new home at Lewiston, New York, and when the British captured that place, December 13, 1813, the Howes escaped on an ox-sled to Batavia. Here was organized the Swift and Dobbins regiment of New York Volunteers, of which Dr. Howe was surgeon's mate, and his sons, Eber D. and Asahel, private soldiers. All participated in General Scott's campaign, including the battles of Lundys Lane and Fort Erie. In 1817 Dr. Howe settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and in 182o at Painesville, and successfully practiced his profession until his death at Concord, Ohio, in 1838. His wife died at the same plae in 1852, mother of William, Eunice, Laura, Harriet, Eber D. and Asahel. Eber Dudley Howe was born at Clifton Park, New York, on the 9th of June, 1798, his birth occurring near the battlefield made famous by the surrender of General Burgoyne. He served with his father throughout the Niagara campaign, from April 1 to November 8, 1814, and after the war became an apprentice in the printing office of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. In his autobiography, he remarks that, at this time, the paper had a circulation of about 1,000 copies and that two days were spent in striking off the edition. In 1819 Mr. Howe moved to Cleveland and, with Z. Willis, began the publication of the Herald. The first article in No. 1 was a strong anti-slavery paper by Benjamin Rush. In 1822, after publishing an interesting and stirring newspaper for two years, he came to Painesville and established the Telegraph, continuing it until 1835. In 1837 Mr. Howe located at Concord, in the Hollow, and engaged in the woolen business, and his vigorous crusade against slavery as an agent and patron of the Underground Railway to Canada. He was an ardent leader of the Liberty party and in 1842 declared he never again would vote for a slave-holder for any office. During these years of his residence at Concord he assisted so many colored fugitives to freedom, through his home ministrations, that the neighbors christened the locality Nigger Hollow ; that same Hollow, in which also for thirty years was heard the busy hum of machinery, is now silent and deserted. In common with other earnest characters of northern Ohio, Mr. Howe became much interested in the representations of Joseph Smith and his Mormon followers, who, with Kirtland as their headquarters, attempted to establish themselves and their religion in that part of Vol. II-17 the state. These fanatics made their appearance in 1830, and in 1834 Mr. Howe published his book entitled "Mormonism Unveiled," which conclusively fixed the real author of the Book of Mormon in the person of Solomon Spalding. Eight reliable witnesses testified that the original records purporting to have been found inscribed on gold plates buried in the ground were substantially the manuscripts written by Mr. Spalding twenty years before and intended by the author to be published as a romance. These witnesses stated that Spalding, who was a minister and graduate from Dartmouth College, had written several other manuscripts. Fifty years after the publication of Howe's book the Mormons came into possession of one of those other manuscripts, and published it in pamphlet form for general circulation, to show that it bore no resemblance to the "Book of Mormon," assuming that it was the only manuscript Spalding ever wrote, notwithstanding the testimony of his neighbors to the contrary. It is undeniable that Mr. Howe's book had much to do with the subsequent migration of the Mormons westward, and formed but one of the many evidences of his ability, determination and force of character. His death occurred November 10, 1885. His religious experience and belief are best told in his own words : "Up to the age of forty, like a large share of the human family, I was governed in my opinions on that subject (religion) by education and all the surrounding influences under which it was my fortune to be placed. I resolved to investigate the whole question of the hereafter, if any. The result was I became a skeptic. Thus, up to the advent of modern Spiritualism, which came in its own time and its own way. In this I believed and still believe." Eber D. Howe married Miss Sophia Hull, born in 1800, daughter of Warren Hull, of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, a Revolutionary soldier. She died in 1866, mother of six children, of whom three died in infancy. The only daughter, Minerva, was born July 8, 1827, and is the widow of Franklin Rogers, of Vermont, whom she married December 19, 1844. Her husband died in Painesville, June 13, 1884, and five children were born to their union : Helen M., August 4, 1846 ; Elvene, August 1, 1848, who died May 17, 1892 ; Lillie D., August 20, 1853 Frank Wilton, October 17, 1855 ; and Fred Howe, December 30, 1859. Mrs. Minerva H. Rogers, the mother of this family, is a bright lady of strong mem- 968 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE ory, fully alive to current happenings, whether in her own community or in the world at large, and presents a striking example of physical and mental vitality—albeit, she is in her eighty-third year and is the great-grandmother of three, and the grandmother of twelve (ten living). Edmund Dudley Howe, the eldest son, who was born in 1829 and died in 1849, was a young man of remarkable ability and promise. In 1847-8 he was a student at Oberlin College, but was obliged to leave school on account of declining health. Although he passed away before attaining his majority he had already become well known as a forcible opponent of slavery. Orville Duane Howe, the third born, obtained an academic education at Painesville and Oberlin ; taught school and farmed in his youth and early manhood ; became active in Republican politics and, as stated, served his constituents in various county offices of prominence, and in 1871, when forty years of age, settled on the Nebraska farm on which he still resides with the family of his son. In the early seventies he experienced successive and destructive' visitations of grasshoppers, scorching winds and droughts, but emerged from these visitations with credit and prosperity. He is now chiefly engaged in the raising of apples and has about forty acres in orchards. On December 20, 1861, Mr. Howe married, at Warren, Illinois, Miss Mary Elizabeth Pepoon, who was born at Painesville in 1831, daughter of :Silas and Mary (Benedict) Pepoon. Her parents were of a family of French Huguenots who were expelled from Corsica by the edict of Nantes. Mrs. Howe, who died in 194 was educated at Painesville Academy and was a lady Of great refinement and being the author of many poems and prose artitles. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs, Orville D. Howe. Edmund Dudley HoWe; the son, was born in Warren, Illinois, on, the 24th of September, 1862. In 1887. he graduated from the civil engineering department of the University of Nebraska, with degree of B. C: E., and has been engaged, inlfarming and professional Work. He is at present county surveyor and a resident of: Table. Rock; Pawnee cdunty, Nebraska: His wife, whom he married in 1896, was formerly Miss Mary. Viggers, a native of .London, England: The daughter of Mr: and Mrs. Orville D. Howe was Myrta Eunice, born in Painesville, December 6, 1868, and at the time of her death in Table Rock, October 8, 1904, was quite widely known as a talented musician. OSCAR P. GRIGGS, M. D.—Prominent among the medical practitioners of Ashtabula is numbered Dr. Oscar P. Griggs, who has practiced here for many years, and is both a representative citizen and physician. He has offices at 42 Center street, Ashtabula. Solomon Griggs, his paternal grandfather, after coming to the United States, located in Ohio, establishing his home in Denmark township, Ashtabula county, at what is now known as Griggs Corners, and by his wife-, nee Achsa Moulton, he had the following children : Benjamin, Jeanette, Rochsa, Mary, Philander, Hiram, Lavina, Albert and Olive. Philander Griggs, one of the above family, was born at the Griggs Corners mentioned above in 1821, and, beginning life for himself, he located on a farm of his own in Jefferson township. In 1861 he became a member of Company K, of the Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Army of the Potomac, and he died in the convalescent hospital at Camp Denison, Virginia, in 1862. He had married Malona Woodbury, a daughter of Wheeler Woodbury, and she ,had taught school for a number of years in her earlier life, being a graduate of the Kingsville Institute. She died in Collinwood, Ohio, in 1887. The five children of this union were : Homer J., Oscar P.. Deloss, Julia and Eva. Philander Griggs was allied with the Republican party, and both he and his wife were members of the Disciples church. Dr. Oscar P. Griggs, born in Jefferson township, Ashtabula county, September 13, 1850, attended the Grand River Institute at Austinburg and the Cleveland Homeopathic College, being a graduate of the latter institution with its Class of 188r. Previous to entering college he had worked as a carpenter, and was thus able to pursue his medical studies. He is a member of the Medical Institute of Homeopathy, of the State Medical Society, and is a physician of well known ability and high standing. He married, on the 5th of June, 1875, Martha Fardon, a daughter of John Fardon, and a son Clarence wps born to them. March 9, 1881, he married Louise Bancrofts. They had two children, Iota M. and Deloss B. Dr. Griggs married again, September 15, 1904, this time wedding Ella HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 969 Broughton, and they have one child, Oscar B. Dr. Griggs is a Republican, a Knight of Pythias and a Methodist. JOHN F. BABCOCK.—As a scion of one of the prominent and honored pioneer families of the Western Reserve, and as one of the representative citizens and business men of the city of Ravenna, Portage county, Mr. Babcock is well entitled to consideration in a work of this character. He is a member of the ninth generation of the family in America, a fact that bears its own significance, since it indicates that the name has been identified with the history of our great republic from the early colonial epoch. The names and deeds of those who have wrought nobly in the past should not he allowed to perish, and it is in making perpetual record concerning such persons that a publication of this order exercises its supreme function. Within this brief sketch will be found reference to sterling men and women who contributed materially to the civic and industrial upbuilding of the Western Reserve, and whose names merit an enduring place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Portage county. Preliminary to an outline of the career of John F. Babcock will be traced his genealogy in a direct line to the founder of the family on American soil. James Babcock, this worthy progenitor of a worthy line, was born in Essex county, England, in the year 1612, and he died, presumably in Rhode Island, on the 12th of June, 1679. The name of his first wife was Sarah and of his second Elizabeth. His son John was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1644, and died in 1685, at Westerly, Rhode Island. He married Mary Lawton, of Portsmouth, and their son George was born at Westerly in 1673 ; he died at South Kingston, that colony, May 1, 1756. He married Elizabeth Hall, of South Kingston, and of their children the next in line of descent to the subject of this sketch was David, who was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, December 22, 1700, and died at South Kingston in March, 1783. He married Dorcas Brown, of Westerly, and their son Jonathan was born at South Kingston November 19, 1735, and died in Granville, Massachusetts. He married Susanna Perry, of Charleston, Rhode Islarrd, and their. son, Perry H. Babcock, was born at South Kingston in 1766, and died at Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, November. 28, 1833. Perry H. Babcock was a man of large physique and great muscular strength, having been able to lift a barrel of salt with ease. He married Cynthia Hickox, who was born in Granville, Massachusetts, and their son Almon, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was born in Granville on the 19th of November, 1788. Almon Babcock was sent from Granville, Massachusetts, on the 21st of May, 1810, by the Connecticut Land Company, as a surveyor in the Western Reserve. He made Charlestown, Portage county, his destination, and he here commenced work on the 1st of July of that year, and surveyed lands at Charlestown Center, which at the time was commonly designated as Center Hill. He completed his work October 29, 1811, and then set forth on his return to Granville, Massachusetts. He made the trip on horseback, a distance of 571 miles, and arrived in Granville November 19. He returned to Portage county, Ohio, in 1812, and here he continued to reside until his death. He was a man of much ability and of sterling character, and he wielded great influence in local affairs of a public nature in the pioneer community. He was deputy sheriff of the county at the time of the execution of the man Aungst, who was the first man to be hanged in Portage county, and it developed upon Mr. Babcock, in his official capacity, to read the death warrant. He served for more than twenty years of justice of the peace, and his administration was marked by true judicial acumen and full appreciation of the equities involved. At that time the justice court handled much important business which now comes under the jurisdiction of the higher courts, and his long tenure of office indicates the estimate placed upon him in the community. For many years Almon Babcock conducted an old-time tavern in Ravenna, and the same was located on the site now occupied by the Beatty store. He also had a blacksmith shop and was a competent workman at the trade. He furnished the timbers for the first Congregational church in Ravenna and was essentially public-spirited in his attitude, doing all in his power to further the best interests of the community in which he so long maintained his home. He passed the closing years of his life in Rootstown township, this county, where he owned and developed a good farm and where his death occurred on May 4, 1850. He was commissioned a colonel of an Ohio regiment in the war of 1812, and he was a member of the Masonic fraternity. On Christmas day of the year 1814 Almbn 970 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Babcock was united in marriage to Miss Mary Johnson Collins, who was born in Hartford, Connecticut, August 15, 1789, and who died on the old homestead in Rootstown township, Portage county, Ohio, on May 28, 1859. She was a daughter of Robert and Chloe ( Johnson) Collins, who came from Connecticut and took up their residence . in Ravenna, Portage county, in 1812. She was a woman of great strength of character and showed herself fully equal to the vicissitudes and responsibilities of pioneer life. She was a granddaughter of Captain Wadsworth, the historic patriot who concealed the Connecticut charter in the famous old "Charter Oak." Albert Babcock, son of Almon and Mary J. (Collins) Babcock and father of John F. was born in Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, on September 12, 1824, and died in Rootstown township, this county, on April 26, 1905. As a boy and youth he received his early education in the common schools of the pioneer epoch, and his entire active career was one of conservative and fruitful identification with the great basic art of agriculture. He became the owner of 175 acres of valuable land in Rootstown township, and developed the same into one of the model farmsteads of this favored section of the Western Reserve. He made the best of permanent improvements on the place and was ever known as a man of unflagging energy and productive ambition. His was a superior type of mental endowment, and he was well fortified in his opinions and his convictions, the while his course was ever guided upon a lofty plane of integrity and honor, so that he commanded the unequivocal esteem and confidence of all with whom he came in contact in the various relations of life. In politics he gave a stanch allegiance to the Democratic party and he was an influential factor in public affairs of a local nature. He was naturally a leader in thought and action, and such was the maturity of his judgment and such the rectitude of his character that his advice and counsel were eagerly sought by his fellow citizens, in matters of both public and private concern. As a competent. surveyor, he assisted in running the original line of the Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad from Wellsville to Ravenna. He was a member of the Ravenna lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. April 26, 1854, was solemnized the marriage of Albert Babcock to Miss Betsey E. Avery, who was born at Aurora, Portage county, Ohio, on May 30, 1831, and who still resides on the old homestead farm, about two miles south of Ravenna. She is a daughter of Reuben and Corinna Avery, the former of whom lived to attain to the patriarchal age of ion years. He was a descendant of the well known Avery family of Groton, Massachusetts, and was numbered among the sterling pioneers of the Western Reserve. Albert and Betsey E. Avery became the parents of one son and five daughters, all of whom are living at the time of this writing, in 1909. John F. Babcock, the only son, was born on the old homestead farm, in Rootstown township, Portage county, Ohio, on April 30, 1855, and is the eldest of the six children. He was afforded the advantages of the public schools of the locality and period and early began to lend his aid in the work and management of the home farm. In April, 1874, at the age of nineteen years, Mr. Babcock became an apprentice in the machine shops of Stockwell, Griffin & Co., of Ravenna, and there he was employed for two and one-half years, at the expiration of which the shops were closed, on account of the unfavorable industrial conditions then existing throughout the country. On December 6, 1877, Mr. Babcock was united in marriage to Miss Celestine C. Coffman, who was born in Milton township, Ma-honing county, Ohio, whither her father, the late Tobias Coffman, came from Pennsylvania in the pioneer days. In the autumn preceding his marriage Mr. Babcock had erected a house on his father's farm, and in the spring of the following year he rented the old homestead from his father, where he continued to be actively engaged in agricultural pursuits until the autumn of 1903. In the autumn of 1905 he sold his farm and moved to the city of Ravenna. Prior to this, on August 5, 1903, Mr. Babcock became associated with his father and his sister, Mrs. Mary C. Hughes, in the purchase of the Ravenna City Mills, which he has since operated under the firm name of J. F. Babcock & Co. He assumed the active management of the business at the time of purchase, and under his able and progressive direction it has steadily expanded in scope and importance until it now constitutes one of the leading industrial enterprises of Portage county. The flour mill is equipped with full roller-process machinery of the best modern HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 971 type, and all other accessories and facilities are of the most approved order, making the mill one of the best in this section of the state. Mr. Babcock has been an active and influential factor in the industrial and commercial upbuilding of the city of Ravenna, where he is actively identified with several of its most important industrial concerns, and as a citizen he is essentially loyal, liberal and progressive. He was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Ravenna Furnace & Heating Company, of which he is now vice president. He is a member of the directorate of the Buckeye Chair Company, is president of the Doe Battery & Manufacturing Company, df Kent, Ohio, where he is also a stockholder in the Seneca Chain Company, and he is a stockholder in the John F. Byers Machine Company, of Ravenna, besides having other capitalistic interests of importance. He is a director of the Ravenna Board of Trade, and is a loyal supporter of this organization, which has high civic ideals and is doing efficient work in furthering the industrial and civic growth of Ravenna. In politics he is a stanch supporter of the generic principles for which the Democratic party stands sponsor, but he believes that it is the duty of every citizen to give support to worthy men and worthy measures, regardless of strict partisan lines. He is affiliated with Unity Lodge, No. 12, Free and Accepted Masons, of Ravenna. As a citizen he has a tenacious hold upon popular confidence and esteem, and is regarded as one of the representative business men of the thriving little capital city of Portage county. GEORGE SHILLIDAY, a well-to-do farmer and leading citizen of Edinburg township, was born in Ireland September 23, 1836, and is a son of Hugh and Ellen (Willson) Shilliday. His parents, who were also natives of the mother country, emigrated to the United States in the fall of 1854, bringing George and other members of the family with them. They landed first at New York, subsequently going to Philadelphia and to Canfield and Portage county, Ohio. George resided with his parents as long as they lived. He was first married to Miss Mary A. Trotter, who lived till about twenty years afterward ; his second wife was Mrs. Agnes Martin, (laughter of Henry and Jane Speers, both being natives of. Ireland. Mrs. Agnes Shilliday was born in the Emerald Isle, February 3, 1852, and emigrated to the United States in company with her sister and two cousins. She lived in New York state for a time, and in 1879 settled at Edinburg, Portage county. By her previous marriage she had one child, Minnie Martin. Her union with Mr. Shilliday occurred in April, 1878. Altogether, he has raised twelve children ; and what is more remarkable—they are all alive. He has also five grandchildren, and there is therefore no immediate prospect of the family name perishing from the earth. Its worthy representative of this sketch is a well known Republican official of Edinburg township, having been trustee for six years and also served as school director and supervisor. His religious belief is that of the Congregational church. ELMER F. COTTON.—Among the native born citizens of Lorain county, distinguished alike for their personal integrity and worth, and for the honored ancestry from which they trace their descent, is Elmer F. Cotton, one of the best known and most successful agriculturists of Sheffield township, now serving as president of the Lorain County Agricultural Society, a position to which he was elected in January, 1909. Born in Sheffield township, June 20, 1856, on the homestead of his father, Newton L. Cotton, he comes from pioneer stock, his grandfather George Washington Cotton, having settled in Lorain county while this section of the Western Reserve was yet in its primeval wildness. Benjamin Noyes Cotton, great-grandfather of Elmer F. Cotton, was born in New Hampshire, where for many years he was prominent in local and state affairs. He was a Revolutionary soldier, standing with General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and spending the winter at Valley Forge with Washington. He served until the close of the war, eight long years, and was present when Washington delivered his farewell address. Four times he represented his district in the New Hampshire legislature, and was familiarly known as "Old Seventy-Six." In 1836 he came with his wife to Lorain county, Ohio, and later removed with her to Wayne county, where both spent their remaining days, both attaining the age of eighty-nine years. George Washington Cotton was born in Warren, New Hampshire, and in 1814 left home in search of fortune. Journeying westward on foot, he first stopped in Truxton, New York, from there coming to Ohio, paying his way the entire distance by driving and caring for cattle. He lived for awhile in Sheffield 972 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE township, but after his marriage settled in Elyria township, Lorain county, where he reclaimed a fine farm from the wilderness, and there resided until his death, in 1865. He married, in Sheffield township, Rachel Smith, who was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and died in Lorain county, Ohio, in 1850. Rachel Smith's father, Joshua Smith, came to Lorain county in 1812, and his death the following year, was the first death of a white man in the county. Newton L. Cotton was born October 15, 1829, in Sheffield township, Lorain county, and became finely educated for his time, attending the district schools of Elyria township, and the old Elyria Academy. After teaching school for a time in .Avon township he removed to Illinois, for two years residing in Kendall county. Returning to Lorain county after his western experience, he enlisted, August 6, 1862, from Sheffield township, in Company F, One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three years or during the war, and was mustered in at Camp Mitchell, Kentucky, September 7, 1862. With his comrades he took part in many engagements, including among others those at Blue Springs, Tennessee, Armstrong Hill, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, Siege of Atlanta and Spring Hill, Georgia. After the Atlanta campaign the colonel of his regiment was made provost marshal general of the department, under General Schofield, and the regiment was assigned as headquarters guard for the Twenty-third Corps, which moved from Florence, Tennessee, to Cincinnati, thence to Washington, D. C. from there going by steamer to Fort Fisher, thence through Wilmington and Goldsboro to Raleigh, North Carolina. At Cleveland, Ohio, June 23, 1865, he was mustered out of service, and was soon actively engaged in farming once more in Sheffield township. From 1882 until 1905 he was a resident of Amherst township, but he afterwards made his home in Sheffield township until his death, September 11, 194 His funeral, under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic, was very large, among those attending having been the late General "Jack" Casement, of Painesville, Ohio, thirty members of his regiment and fifty members of the G. A. R. Newton L. Cotton was one of the organizers of the Lorain County. Farmers' Institute Association, of which he served at different times as president and secretary. On November 27, 1851, he married Caroline M. Hecock, who was born February 14, 1831, in Herkimer county, New York, a daughter of George W. and Sarah (Davis) Hecock, who located in Sheffield township, Lorain county, in 1834. George W. Hecock, who served in the war of 1812 as a drummer boy, died October 11, 1876, surviving his wife one year, she having died September 11, 1875. His father, Silas Hecock, a native of Connecticut, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, as was the father of his wife. Politically a Republican, Newton L. Cotton served as trustee of Sheffield township several terms, and for many years was justice of the peace. He belonged to the Grand Army of the. Republic, and was a member of the Baptist church at Elyria. Eight children were born to him and his wife, namely : Clara M., wife of C. Thomas Foote,. of Lorain ; Elmer F. ; Cora B., wife of William E. Hart, M. D., of Elyria ; Nellie B., wife of Stillman Cotton, of Cleveland ; Lillie D., twin sister of Nellie B., died at the age of nineteen years ; Martha R., wife of Charles Straw, of Elyria township; Ina S. married Frederick. Avery, of Akron, Ohio, and Minnie L. married Samuel Bawden, a missionary in India. Brought up on the home farm, Elmer F. Cotton obtained the rudiments of his education in the district schools of Sheffield township, completing it at the Elyria high school. A lifelong farmer, he is exceedingly skilful and systematic in his agricultural undertakings, and ranks high among the progressive and substantial men of his community. "Ridgeview Farm," the beautiful estate which he owns and occupies, contains thirty-six acres of choice land, which he cultivates with both profit and pleasure. For the past sixteen years Mr. Cotton has served ably and acceptably as trustee of Sheffield township, and for a long time has been a school director. He is an active member of the local grange, Patrons of Husbandry, with which he has been prominently identified in an official capacity for a full quarter of a century. For six years he was a director of the Lorain County Agricultural Society, which he is now serving as president. He is secretary of the Lorain County Farmers' Institute Association, and has been president of that organization. Mr. Cotton married Lydia M. Wilford, who was born in Juneau county, Wisconsin, a daughter of Joseph and Charlotte Wilford. Three children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Cotton, namely : Effie M., wife of Floyd P. Moulton, of Sheffield township ; Leon W., and Luella B. True to the religious faith HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 973 in which he was reared, Mr. Cotton is a con- of industry, care and practical knowledge, he sistent member of the Lorain First Baptist church, to which his family likewise belong and of which he is senior deacon. He is a member of the State Grange and in 1910 served as deputy master of the State Grange for Loftin cotmty. He is also a member of the State Horticultural Society. ALLEN M. 1iEANS.—:a substantial agriculturist of Randolph township, Portage county, Allen M. Beans is also a strong Republican and a well known public official of that section. He is a son of Allen and Rachel (Beans) Beans, born January 24, 1853, and his parents are natives of Scotland. His father came to the Western Reserve when a young man, and in October, 1862, joined the Union army as a member of Company A, First Ohio Light Artillery. Allen M., of this sketch, left home when only twelve years of age and located in Randolph township as a farm hand, working by the month. Tie was thus employed at his marriage to Miss Emma A. Johnson, October 8, 1877, but afterward continued his calling on a more independent basis, as befitted one in his new role. In 1887 he purchased the farm of seventy-nine acres in Randolph township which he still owns and operates and which is the main feature of his comfortable homestead. Both he and his wife were educated in Randolph township and are active in the work of the Methodist church. They have three childrenLeora G., who married Harvey J. Dibble, a resident of Randolph township and has one child, Chester H.; Charles M., who is married and resides in the township, father of Harlow St. Clair and Don D. Beans ; and Searl F. Mrs. Beans, who was born August 22, 1855, is a daughter of John Y. and Esther M. (Shewell) Johnson, both natives of Randolph township. Mr. Beans is not only a progressive farmer, but has long been influential in Republican politics and public affairs, having served both as assessor and supervisor of his township. WILLIAM G. SHILLIDAY.—One mile southeast of Edinburg, Portage county, situated on the Diagonal road, is the large and beautiful country place owned by William G. Shilliday, a prosperous and intelligent Irish-American farmer, who came to that locality with his parents when a boy. By the continuous exercise has attained a substantial position in the community, in which his independence is crowned by the general respect of his neighbors and all his associates. Mr. Shilliday was born in Ellsworth, Manoning county, April 11, 1852, and is a son of John and Martha J. (Wright) Shilliday, natives of Ireland. The family first located at Canfield, Trumbull county ; afterward moved to Lorain county, and thence to Edinburg, where a tract of 180 acres was selected for the homestead, the land being in Edinburg and Atwater townships on the line. In the district school of that.locality, William G. obtained his education, and. resided on the home farm until he was twenty-one years of age. He then learned the potter's trade, but returned to his father's farm and worked for some time prior to his marriage in 1881. For the succeeding eight years he was in the employ of. James Reed, at Deerfield, and then bought the 103 acres of land near Edinburgh, which the labors of himself and wife for the past twenty years have transformed into a valuable farm and a charming home. On June 25, 1881, Mr. Shilliday wedded Miss Jennie Baldwin, and their son, Clarence, born June 25 of the following. year, is taking a very thorough classical, course in the college at Athens, Ohio. Mrs. Shilliday was eduborn in that part of Portage county August 21, 1855. She is widely known as a lover and a successful grower of rare plants, her tastes in that direction going far in the creation of the attractions which attach to the Shilliday place. For the past thirty years her family (the Baldwins) have maintained most enjoyable and interesting reunions and Mrs. Shilliday has long been secretary of the organization which keeps them alive. Both she and her husband are members of the Congregational church and are active in its work, as well as the centers of open, unaffected and pleasing hospitality. WILLIAM G. BYERS, a prosperous farmer, an ex-soldier and a good citizen of Edinburg township, Portage county, is a native of Ohio, born at New Lisbon, Columbiana county, January 31, 1837. He is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stitzell) Byers, both natives of Pennsylvania. Something nice a century ago his paternal grandfather, Fred Byers, migrated from his home in that state and after making an overland journey through the forests of northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern 974 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE , Ohio, located on the present site of Fredericksburg, Ohio. Settling with his wife and family on a tract of 250 acres, he commenced a long career of useful industry, and around his household gathered other home-builders to found what was appropriately named Fredericksburg. The maternal grandparents (Stitzell) were both natives of Germany and located in Pennsylvania. After some years, the family moved to the western part of the state, and while on the road to Pittsburg Grandfather Stitzell expired at the age of one hundred years. William G. remained with his parents until he joined the army at the age of twenty-four years. The family homestead was near Palmyra and the boy received his education in the district school of that place. In May, 1861, he entered the Union ranks and, under his first enlistment, served until the fall of 1863, his second enlistment carrying him through the entire period of the Civil war. He was actively identified with two branches of the service, being with the Fourth Illinois Cavalry and the Sixtieth Ohio Infantry. Mr. Byers returned home at the conclusion of the war, and on September 12, 1866, wedded Miss Emeline Bacon, and from that time he solely followed agriculture. Three children, all living and married, were the fruits of this union. John W., George E. and Oscar A. Byers are also prospering in the paternal avocation and reside near their father. Mrs. Byers was born at Palmyra June 2, 1839, and is a daughter of Gustavus and Christina (Woodard) Bacon, natives of Vermont and Pennsylvania respectively. In 1800 the families became established at Palmyra and the old Bacon homestead, consisting of 160 acres, is still in the family. In politics, Mr. Byers is a Republican, and in his fraternal connections is identified with the Grand Army of the Republic. EDWARD E. LAWRENCE.-A leading businessman and popular citizen of Fairport, Lake county, where he is head of the Marine Supply Company, the largest concern of its kind on the Great Lakes, Edward E. Lawrence exemplifies in marked degree the progressive spirit so characteristic of America in this opening decade of the twentieth century, and he is thoroughly appreciative of and loyal to American institutions, though he is 'a native of "the right little, tight little isle," as Max O'Rell has been pleased to designate England. Mr. Lawrence was born at Weston-Super-Mare, Somersetshire, England, on February 14, 1865, and is a son of Edward and Mary Lawrence, who are now both deceased. Mr. Lawrence was afforded the advantages or Clarence school, a well ordered institution in his native town, and at the age of seventeen years he engaged in the meat business, in which he there continued for two years. He then, in 1884, came to America and soon after his arrival he located in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, where he was for two years manager for a large wholesale meat concern. He then returned to England, where he remained about one year, and upon coming again to America he took up his residence in Fairport, where he engaged in the meat business, in which he soon built up a large local trade, besides catering especially to the demands of the numerous vessels securing supplies at this port. He also conducted for some time a branch establishment at Conneaut Harbor. In 1903 he secured the controlling interest in the Marine Supply Company, which handles all kinds of merchandise for lake vessels, and in this connection, as already stated, he has built up the most extensive business of its kind on the lakes, even in opposition to the great metropolitan ports. He is a man of much initiative and administrative power, and his success represents the diametrical results of his well directed efforts. Mr. Lawrence takes a deep interest in all that touches the welfare of his attractive little home city, and here he has been called upon to serve in various public offices of trust. He is president of the Fairport board of education and also of the board of trustees of Painesville township. In politics he gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, and served as vice-president of the Painesville Chamber of Commerce and is now director of the same and he has various capitalistic interests aside from those represented in the enterprise mentioned, and is the owner of valuable realty in Fairport. Mr. Lawrence is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, in which last organization he was formerly incumbent of the office of major in the uniform rank. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church and his wife holds membership in the Congregational church, to the support of each of which he is a liberal contributor. In the year 1892 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lawrence to Miss Jennie Harder, and they have two children, namely : Edward and Ethel. He and his wife are prominent HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 975 in connection with the social activities of Fairport, where both enjoy the most unqualified popularity. He is now president of the Good Roads Society. CHARLES W. GENUNG.—This representative business man of Madison township, Lake county, is engaged in the manufacturing of a varied line of garden implements, in which industrial enterprise he succeeded his honored father, and lie resides upon the old homestead, one mile north of the village of Madison. His well equipped shop is located on this homestead place, which comprises five acres. He is a representative in the third generation of one of the well known pioneer families of Lake county, with whose annals the name has been identified for more than seventy-five years, and the family was founded in America in the early colonial days. Amos Genung, grandfather of him, whose name initiates this sketch, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, on October 18, 1786, and died in Madison township, Lake county, Ohio, on Christmas day of the year 1855. At the age of twenty-five years he took up his residence in Yates county, New York, becoming one of its pioneer settlers and serving as its first sheriff. He was a cripple from his boyhood days, as he lost a leg when eleven years of age, as the result of a fever sore. In 1836 he came from Penn Yan, Yates county, to Ohio, and located in Lake county, as a pioneer of Madison township. In 1836 he took up his residence in the vicinity of what was known as Arcola Furnace, this township, and he passed the residue of his life in this township. He was a tailor by trade, and was also a successful teacher when a young man. His wife, whose maiden name was Polly Belknap, was a native of Penn Yan, New York. Amos Genung was a son of Cornelius Genung, of Morris county, New Jersey, who was a son of Thomas Genung, born in Flushing, Long Island, where the family originally settled upon coming to America. Jeremiah, father of Thomas, was a son of John Genung, a French Huguenot, who, fleeing from his native land to escape the persecutions incidental to the revocation of the edict of Nantes, finally found hospice in America, where he was the founder of a family which now has representatives in the most diverse sections of the Union. Amos Genung, the founder of the family in the Western Reserve, removed in 1838 to what is known as Genung's Corners. At that time this was the center of the township, and the town house stood on the opposite side of the road from his house. Genung's Corners is one mile north of the village of Madison, and here his grandson now resides, and this constituted the home of Amos Genung until his death, the locality having received his name from colloquial usage. William Genung, son of Amos and Polly (Belknap) Genung, was born October 5, 1830, at Jemsetam Hill, Yates county, New York, and thus he was a child at the time of the family removal to Lake county, Ohio. From the age of eight years until his death he maintained his home on the little tract of land now owned and occupied by his son Charlie W. He gained his early educational discipline in the pioneer schools and in his youth learned the trade of machinist and foundryman. His elder brother, Almon, had here started a small foundry, and William, when but fifteen years of age, began work in this little establishment, where he developed and perfected his natural mechanical skill and ability. He eventually succeeded his brother in the ownership of the foundry, and for many years he was here engaged in the manufacturing of plows, as well as minor farm implements, besides conducting a general repair shop. Finally he invented and patented a garden-seed drill, and of this device he continued to be a successful manufacturer until his death. He had equipped his foundry with machinery and engaged in general shop work, and so the establishment was practically well equipped for the manufacturing of his drills, which are still manufactured by the son, Charlie W. Genung of this sketch, and which find a ready demand throughout a wide trade territory, the products being sold in the most widely separated countries of the world. William Genung took out several patents on his drill, having made improvements on the original design, and he was also the inventor of other mechanical devices of valuable order. He was a man of sterling integrity and ever commanded the unequivocal respect of the community in which virtually his entire life was passed and to whose interests he was ever loyal. In politics William Genung was a stanch adherent of the Republican party, and he served nearly twenty years in the office of justice of the peace, his administration being such •as to make the position justify its name. He was a lifelong and zealous member of the First Baptist church of Madison, whose church 976 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE building stands on the opposite side of the road from his old home. The frame for this building was raised the day he was six years old. He was affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which he completed the circle of the York Rite bodies, having been one of the charter members of Eagle Commandery, Knights Templar, in Painesville, the county seat. He was a man of genial presence and won to himself loyal and enduring friendships. He was long known as an expert shot, and was the inventor of a breech-loading gun, upon which he, unfortunately, ne.ver secured letters patent. On October 27, 1853, was solemnized the marriage of William Genung to Miss Martha Pancost, who was born in Madison township, on August 18, 1834, and who now resides in the home of her youngest daughter, in Hudson, Summit county, Ohio. Her father, Dr. Samuel G. Pancost, was born in New York City and was one of the foremost representatives of the dental profession in his day. He was for some time engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Savannah and practiced principally in Georgia. He became the owner of a valuable farm in Madison township, Lake county, Ohio, whence he eventually removed to Painesville, in which city he passed the remainder of his life. Following are brief data concerning the children of William and Martha (Pancost) Genung : Kate is the wife of L. C. Strock, a representative farmer of Madison township ; Charlie W., of this review, was the next in order of birth ; Caroline E. is the wife of Delos Bates, who is a farmer and saw-mill operator of Madison township ; Minnie is the wife of R. Stewart, of San Bernardino, California ; Mat-tie died at the age of seven years ; and Gertrude is the wife of Wallace J. Parmalee, a farmer of Hudson, Summit county, Ohio. Charlie W. Genung was born in the homestead in which he now resides, in Madison township, on May 11, 1857, and his early educational training was secured in the public schools of Madison and Madison Seminary. At the age of twenty-nine years, in 1886, he went to Arizona, where he continued to be identified with mining enterprises for the ensuing five years, at the expiration of which he returned to the parental home and assumed charge of his father's shop, of which he had supervision during the last year of the latter's life. Since the death of his honored father he has continued the business with success, manufactur ing the garden-seed drill invented by his father, together with a full line of other garden implements. The products are of the beet grade and the business shows a constantly cumulative tendency. He is a progressive business man and is a citizen who is held in high esteem in his native county. His political proclivities are indicated by the loyal support which he accords to the cause of the best men, but he has never sought or desired public office. He and his wife are members of the same Baptist church of which his paternal grandfather was one of the founders, as well as a trustee, and Mr. Genung himself is at the present time a member of the board of trustees of this church. On January 26, 1899, Mr. Genung was united in marriage to Miss Cornelia Fox, a daughter of Emory and Eliza Fox, of Troy township, Geauga county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Genung have two children,—William and Mattie. JAMES C. REYNOLDS, of Ravenna township and one of its native sons, born on July 14. 1861, is a son of James and Susan (Clarke) Reynolds, both natives of Ireland, the father born in County Leitrim and the mother in County Antrim. In 1849 James Reynolds came from his native land to the United States, and finally locating in Cleveland, Ohio, he was married there in 1859 to Susan Clarke. She had come from Ireland to Canada with her parents about the year of 1839, when she was but a year old. During many years of his life James Reynolds was employed as a railroad builder for the different railroad companies of the country, including the Chicago and Pacific road and the Atlantic and Great Western road, which later became known as the Erie railroad, During many years he was also the road master on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad between Wheeling and Cleveland, and was serving in that capacity at the time of his death, on June 12, 1891, covering a period of over twenty years of faithful and efficient service. In about the year of 1868 he had purchased land in Ravenna township, the nucleus of this estate being 116 acres, but with the passing years he added to his farm land until at the time of his death he owned 35o acres. He survived his wife for many years, for she died in July of 1876. They were the parents of five children : James C., who is mentioned below ; Robert E. and William, twins, the former of Helena, Montana, and the latter of Stockton, California ; Francis D., of Anis- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 977 ton, Alabama ; and Henry T., whose home is also in Helena. James C. Reynolds attended the comthon and high schools of his home community and the university at Notre Dame, Indiana, and when eighteen years of age he began work as a fireman on the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling railroad, and, after three years in that capacity he became an engineer for the Big Four Company and was located at Mattoon, Illinois. After seven years tnere he gave up railroad work, and returning to Ohio went into business with his father in conducting a stone quarry in Harrison county, Ohio. But in i9o4 they sold their interests there, and Mr. Reynolds then returned to the old home farm and has ever since remained here. In politics he supports the principles of the Democracy, and. he is a member of the Catholic church. ALBERT D. GREENLEE, prominent among the farmers of Cherry Valley township, is a son of Moses H. Greenlee and a grandson on the paternal side of Jacob D. Greenlee, born at Mosiertown in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1800. In the spring of 1834 Jacob D. Greenlee came to Ohio and located in the town of Amboy, then called Westville, and lived there on a farm for forty years, dying on July 12, 1883, aged eighty-three years and six months. His wife Rachel, nee Chamberlain, died at Amboy on April 16, 1893. They were married on February 23, 1826, and became the parents of the following children: Ira C., who was born October 10, 1828; Moses, the father of. Albert ; George W., born November 1, 1833 ; Elizabeth A., October To, 1835 ; John Chamberlain, February 24, 1837 ; Arline Blanche, February 22, 1844 ; PhilemOn and Philena, twins, born September 25, 1846; Elias, September 14, 1848 ; and four whose names are unattainable. Moses H: Greenlee, born September 14, 183o, in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, attended the high school at Kingsville, Ohio. He was brought by his parents to Ashtabula county when but four years of age, and in the latter part of the '60s he came to Cherry Valley township and bought the present Greenlee farm of 118 acres. He followed dairy farming principally, also raised stock for the market, and he died in Cherry Valley township on March 20, 1881, from illness contracted in the Civil war. He enlisted for service on March 22, 1865, entering Company D, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after spending some time in the hospital at. Camp Bradford, Maryland, he was discharged on account of illness on July 31, 1865. He had married on January 27, 1858, Helen Lindsley, from Andover township, and their children are : Eliza R., born March 30, 1860, who married Judson Yeoman, of Cherry Valley township, and they have three children, Millicent, Clyde and Ralph ; Albert, was the second born ; and Edward, born July 27, 1868, married Ida Pershing and died March 12, 1899. Moses H. Greenlee was a member of the Grange, of the Republican party and of the Baptist church. His widow now' resides with her son Albert. Albert D. Greenlee was born September 17, 1861, and received a district school education, and he remained on his father's farm and as sisted with its work until moving to a place of his own. He is a dairy farmer, and is also the present trustee of his township. He has also served as an assessor and as a school director, and his politics are Republican. He married on July I, 1892, Nellie Denslow, who was born at Cherry Valley. March 22, 1868, a daughter of Frank and Josie (Witter) Denslow, and a son, Boyd Greenlee, was born to them on July 18, 1900. Albert D. Greenlee is a member of the order of Maccabees, and he is truly one of the representative men of Cherry Valley township. JOHN W. STRICKLAND, a Ravenna township agriculturist, was born in the city of Ravenna June 29, 1871, and is a member of one of the earliest and most prominent of its pioneers. Willis Strickland, his paternal grandfather, was boin on June 10, 1801, in Sandisfield, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and in 1827 he married Lucy Hawley. In June of 1839 they came to Windham township of Portage county, Ohio, where this wife died in January, 1841, leaving three children, who are all now deceased. He then married in June of 1841 Mrs. Caroline Gardner, from New Lebanon, New York, and they became the parents of three children, who are also now deceased. This wife died in January, 1866, and in the following September Willis Strickland wedded Mrs. Sarah E. Richards,. who by her former marriage, had one daughter, Alice, now Mrs. Milton R. Furry. This daughter resides in Spokane, Washington. In April of 1855 Willis and Caroline Strickland came to Ravenna, and during the remainder of his life he was an active public worker, a farmer and a live stock dealer. Before leaving his native state of 978 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Massachusetts he served as a postmaster and also as a representative in the legislature, and after his identification with the interests of Ravenna he was twice elected a justice of the peace and was a stockholder and director in the First National Bank of Ravenna. In July, 1875, in company with N. D. Clark, he went to Dakota and exchanged $125,000 in Northern Pacific railroad bonds owned by themselves and other citizens of Portage county for land in Cass county, and that proved a. good investment. Mr. Strickland died in the faith of the Disciple church in April, 1890. George Strickland, one of the three children of Willis and Caroline (Gardner) Strickland, was born in Windham township, Portage county, Ohio, June 26, 1843, and in Ravenna in August of 1867, he was united in marriage with Lucretia Welton, a member of another of its pioneer families. She was born in this city on May 16, 1845, a daughter of Isaac and Eunice (Oviatt) Welton, born respectively in Watertown, Connecticut, and in Hudson, Portage county, Ohio, and they lived here when the Indians were among the community's most numerous residents. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Strickland took up their abode on his father's homestead just north of the city of Ravenna, and there they spent the remainder of their lives and died, the husband and father on March 22, 1903, and the wife on December 30, 1907. Their children were : John W., who is mentioned below ; George W., who was born on October 19, 1875, and he resides with his brother at the old home ; Eunice C., born on July 29, 1877, is a teacher in the public schools of Ravenna; and Charlotte Jenette, born June 3, 1879, is an accountant in the Loomis Sanitarium at Loomis, New York. John W. Strickland, the eldest son of George and Lucretia Strickland, supplemented his public and high school training in Ravenna by a one year's attendance at the Hudson Western Reserve Academy, and his home has always been on the old parental farm, a valuable tract of 125 acres, all of which is under cultivation or in pasture with the exception of twenty-five acres of timber. During three years, beginning in 1896, he was a fireman on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, but with the exception of this brief period his life's work has been on the farm. In company with his brother he conducts a dairy of twenty cows, and in January of 1907 they organized a milk route in Ravenna, and now have one of the largest trades in this line in the city. This business is carried on in connection with their general farming. George W. Strickland married on April io, 1907, Zora Dronberger, who was born in Rootstown township, Portage county, a daughter of William R. and Mattion (Warren) Dronberger, the father berm in Rootstown township and the mother in Chardon, Ohio, and she is now living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John W. Strickland is a member of Lodge No. 225, Knights of Pythias, in Ravenna, of Unity Lodge No. 12, F. & A. M., and of Tyrian Chapter No. 96, R. A. M. MAXWELL G. GARRISON.-A native. son of Portage county who has here attained to precedence as a representative business man and progressive citizen is the present cashier of the City Banking Company, of Kent, where his popularity is measured only by the roster of his acquaintances. Maxwell Graham Garrison was born in Franklin township, Portage county, on April 12, 185i, and is a son of James and Hannah (Walker) Garrison, the former of whom was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Summit county, Ohio. When James Garrison was a child the family removed from Pennsylvania to Portage county, Ohio, and settled in Deerfield township, where his father, Joseph Garrison, reclaimed and developed a good farm and passed the residue of his life, having been one of the sterling pioneers of that section of the county. In Deerfield township James Garrison was reared to manhood on the home farm and his educational advantages were those afforded in the pioneer schools. In that township his marriage was solemnized and about 1850 he removed to Franklin township, where he continued to be actively engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, at the age of fifty-nine years. He was a, man of integrity and honor in all the relations of life and held a secure place in the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. His widow long survived him and lived to attain the extremely venerable age of ninety-three years. They became the parents of four sons and two daughters, all of whom attained years of maturity and of whom three are now living, Maxwell G. of this review being the fifth child and third son. The parents were devout members of the Christian church and the father was a Democrat in his political proclivities. Maxwell G. Garrison passed his boyhood HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 979 and youth on the old homestead farm in Franklin township, and after completing the curriculum of the district schools he was matriculated in Hiram College, in which historic institution of the Western Reserve he was a student. After leaving school he began reading law under effective preceptorship and in 1876 he was admitted to the bar. He engaged in the practice of his profession in Kent, where he continued to devote his attention to this vocation until June, 1881, when he was elected cashier of the City Banking Company, of which office he has since continued incumbent. He is a capable and popular executive and it is in large measure due to his discriminating administration that the institution has gained so marked a prestige as one of the solid and successful banking concerns of the Western Reserve. He is virtually the executive head of the bank and gives his personal, supervision to all details of its management. The institution is incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000 and now maintains a surplus fund of $10,000. Mr. Garrison is also president of the Seneca Chair Company, which is incorporated with a capital stock of $300,000 and which has large and finely equipped factories both in Kent and at Mansfield, Ohio: The company gives employment to about 700 persons and the enterprise is one of the important industries of the state. Mr. Garrison is also one of the principal stockholders of the Kent Machine Company, of which he is president, and he is a director and vice president of the Portage Savings & Loan Company, of Ravenna. He is one of the aggressive and successful business men of this section of the state and his executive talent has done much to forward the interests of the various corporations with which he is identified and incidentally to further the progress and material prosperity of his home city, county and state. In politics Mr. Garrison accords an unwavering allegiance to the Republican party, and as a loyal and progressive citizen he manifests a lively interest in public affairs of a local order. He served a number of years as treasurer of the city of Kent and for four years was incumbent of the office of treasurer of Portage county,—preferments which well indicate the confidence and esteem in which he is held in the county which has ever represented his home. He is affiliated with the local lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity and also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the year 1873 was recorded the marriage of Mr. Garrison to Miss Sarah L. Peck, daughter of Rufus H. Peck, of Portage county, and concerning the five children of this union the following brief data are given : Ruth is the wife of Harry C. Callinan, a prosperous farmer of Franklin township, Portage county ; Bessie is the wife of J. F. Reed, who is en- gaged in the grocery business at Akron, Ohio ; Charles is chief engineer of the water-works plant in Ravenna ; Guy is a locomotive fireman on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, as is also Iliff, the youngest of the children. S. F. MACDONALD, president of the Ashtabula Hide and Leather Company and a leading. citizen of business, financial and public affairs, is an ardent representative of the policy of leaving nothing to chance. "Be prepared—then go ahead" means with his class not only a thorough practical training in whatever field is to be occupied, but a broad education from the scientific standpoint ; so that the man shall always be larger than his business, and lead it into new avenues of development, instead of being bound and cramped by it. After years of hard work and the mastery of the mechanical part of his business Mr. MacDonald pursued special courses both in the Case School of Applied Science and the Western Reserve University, so that he was fully prepared to seize the natural opportunities for advancement which especially offered themselves after his father's retirement in 1891 and the death in 1903 of J. R. McKay, these gentlemen being associated in the founding of the business. At the reorganization of the company, under its present title, in 1892, Mr. MacDonald bought stock in the new concern, and assumed a more responsible part in the development of the business. He gradually advanced to the presidency, succeeding J. R. McKay in 1903, and under his energetic and . enterprising management the capacity of the manufactory has been more than doubled and now represents one of the largest plants in 'the world devoted to the specialty of carriage furniture and automobile leather. A foreign office is maintained at Ely Place, Halborn, E. C., London, England, and the goods of the concern have a European as well as an American reputation second to none of their kind. The other officers of the Ashtabula Hide and Leather Company are Charles H. Albrecht, vice president ; E. M. McKay, secretary, and R. H. Pfaff, treasurer. Besides holding the presidency of this extensive industry and business, Mr. Mac- 980 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE , Donald is a director in the National Bank of Ashtabula, and virtually interested in all the industries which have developed the place locally and tended to make it one of the most prosperous harbors on the great lakes. He is a leading member of the American Leather Manufacturers' Association and Council of Industry, as well as of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Academy of Social and Political Science. A firm, working Republican, he wields a wholesome influence in political and public affairs, having served as president of the City Council for two years and is a candidate for re-election. He is also president of the Y. M. C. A. of Ashtabula, and is known in fraternal circles as a Mason and an Elk. Mr. MacDonald is still in his thirty-seventh year, having been born at Whitehall, Michigan, on April 12, 1873, son of J. R. MacDonald and wife. While he was an infant the parents moved upon a Nevada ranch, where they lived for a number of, years ; then located at Salem, Massachusetts, where S. F. obtained a public school education. There, also, his father embarked in the leather business, but in 1881 moved to Ashtabula and associated himself with J. R. McKay in the establishment of the house, which, in its vastly enlarged and its modern form, is now being conducted by the son. The latter completed his public school course at Ashtabula ; then went into his father's tannery and learned the trade ; after which he broadened his education by several years at the Case school and the Western Reserve University. The father continued as a vital force in the progress of the business until 1891, when he sold his interests and retired. How the enterprise which he assisted to found has been assumed and improved by his son has already been told. In 1898 S. F. MacDonald married Miss Maud Harrington, of Painesville, Ohio, and they have four children,—Dorothy, Hope, Jean and James. Both parents are members of the Presbyterian church of Ashtabula. HENRY E. YORK, M. D.—Among the able representatives of the medical profession in the Western Reserve is Dr. York, wh0 is engaged in practice in Fairport Harbor. The doctor is specially fortified in the scientific and other technical learning of his exacting profession, and the success which has attended his efforts as a practitioner offers the most effective voucher for his power of applying his knowledge to the practical issues involved in the work of the physician and surgeon. Henry Edward York comes of stanch north of Ireland lineage. He was born in Osgood, province of Ontario, Canada, on the 11th of September, 1867, and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Brown) York, natives of Belfast, Ireland. The parents are now both deceased. The father followed the vocation of farming during the major portion of his active career. He was a man of fine intellectuality and sterling character, and his name is honored in the community which long represented his home. Dr. York passed his boyhood days on the home farm, and his early educational training was secured in the public schools of his native province, after which he continued his studies in the Ottawa Collegiate Institute, in the city of, Ottawa, where he was a student for four years. He then was matriculated in the medical department of the celebrated McGill University, in the city of Montreal, in which he was graduated as a member of the Class of 1894, and from which he received his degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery. After this he came to Ohio and took up his residence in Fairport Harbor, in 1894, and here he has built up a large and representative professional business as a general practitioner of medicine and surgery. For eleven years he was division surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Northern Railroad ; he served six years as coroner of Lake county, and he is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical "Society, the Lake County Medical Society and other professional organizations. He is affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained to the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He is progressive and public-spirited as a citizen, and is held in unqualified esteem in his home city, in whose welfare he maintains' a deep interest. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, of whose principles he is a stanch advocate, and he is a member of the county committee of his party for Lake county. On the 29th of May, 1901, Dr. York was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth J. Merrill, daughter of Samuel Merrill, a representative farmer and honored citizen of Painesville township, Lake county. Mrs. York was born in the western part of the province of Ontario, Canada, but was a child at the time of her HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 981 parents' removal to Lake county, Ohio, where she was reared and educated. Dr. and Mrs. York have four children—Jimmie, Jack, Wallace and Florence Elizabeth. DANIEL NOBLE WEBSTER, whose death at Conneaut, January 20, 1892, closed a Fong career of nearly sixty years in that place, was one of the pioneer merchants of the town and was closely identified with the progress of Conneaut from its village era through its rise to importance as a commercial center. Many evidences of his energy and business ability are still to be seen in the city. His career was typical of the business virtues and strength of character which made the successful men of the middle west during the last century. Born at Swanton, Vermont, July 9, 1816, he became a citizen of Conneaut in his sixteenth year. In the fall of 1832 his parents, John and Charity Bennett Webster, were en route by steamer from Buffalo to the state of Michigan, when the son Daniel left the family at Erie and, walking the distance from there to Conneaut, arrived at the scene of his subsequent career with the modest sum of six-pence as working capital. His first employment during the winter was as farm hand on the Chester Sanford farm, west of the village. The following spring he found employment in the village as clerk in the little grocery store of Lester Johnson, on the southeast corner of Main and Harbor .streets. After four years his employer, Mr. Johnson, fell dead behind his counter, and Mr. Webster, then barely twenty-one, with the savings he had accumulated and his credit for the balance, bought from the widow the little stock of groceries. This was the beginning of a business which he continued throughout the rest of his active career, and which became one of the largest and most successful merchandise houses in Ashtabula county. During the prosperous years of the lake business at this port his trade was particularly large. At that time grain, wool, lumber and dairy products were brought from a region of many miles in extent surrounding Conneaut in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, and shipped by lake to eastern. and western markets. His enterprise was one of the large factors in this trade. As an interesting item of local history of Conneaut, may be given in this connection the named of the principal business men who were contemporary with Mr. Webster at Conneaut during the early fifties. They are : Robert Lyon, John Reid, Cyrus & J. B. Cleveland, P. W. Krick, Lake & Carpenter, Milo Osborne, Loren Gould, David Phillips, James L. Webster, Charles J. Fenton, Samuel Fenton, Charles Hall, while at the harbor John H. Hall and John B. Lyon were in the forwarding and commission business. At this period also Conneaut harbor was the scene of great activity in shipbuilding, some of the best vessels sailing the lakes having been built in the Conneaut ship yard. Conneaut was the home of many lake captains, whose names are familiar all along the lakes, among them being Captains C. W. Appleby, M. Capron, L. B. Goldsmith, Harrison Perry, Charles Howard, Cyrenus Blood, James Tubbs, Andrew Lent, Orange Capron, D. Wolf and many others. Mr. Webster's family was of old 'New England stock. It is believed that James Webster, his grandfather, whose home was at Winton-bury, Connecticut, was descended from the John Webster who settled in Connecticut about 1633 and was fifth governor of that colony. Anyhow, this branch of the family had resided in Connecticut from colonial times. James Webster, the grandfather, married Hannah Hubbard,. and their son, John Webster, who was born in Wintonbury, September 1, 1776, married Charity Bennett. Daniel Noble Webster married, at Conneaut,. March 4, 1841, Miss Emma Wallingford, and they had one son, Augustus L. His second wife, whom, he married March 5, 1851, was Miss Martha E. Wheeler, and she is still living. By this marriage there was one son, Elwyn P. Webster, a resident of Chicago. Augustus L. Webster, the son by the first marriage, was reared at Conneaut and has followed his father in business lines, being president of the Webster Grocer Company, wholesale grocers, of Danville, Illinois. He left Conneaut in 1866, at the age of twenty-four, was married in Conneaut, Ohio, September 30, 1862, to Miss Eliza E. Innis. GEORGE D. BARCLAY, one of the brave men who fought for the preservation of our union, was born November 19, 1844, and is a son of George W. and Hannah (Dawson) Barclay, natives of Mahoning county, Ohio. They came to Portage county about 1832 and became the owners of 112 acres of land. George D. Barclay resided with his parents until he reached the age of nineteen, when lie enlisted in Company I, under Captain Wells, 982 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE in the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served two years and ten months, going through Kentucky, taking part in an engagement at Knoxville, then on to Atlanta and through to the Coast. July I, 1864, Mr. Barclay was wounded and taken to the hospital, after which he received his discharge, three weeks before the rest of the regiment. Mr. Barclay married July 1, 1865, Martha C. Ellis, after which he engaged in farming on seventy-three acres of land. He has carried on his farm in an enterprising and skillful manner, and has met with the success his efforts deserve. Mr. and Mrs. Barclay have been the parents of four children, namely : Frank W., Walter T. (deceased), Robert J., and one who died in infancy. Frank lives in Ravenna and Robert is on the home farm. Mr. Barclay is a Democrat in political views, and earnestly interested in the progress and development of the country which he has done so much to serve. ARTHUR F. DICKINSON is one of the enterprising and respected citizens of Randolph township, Portage county, who is doing his full part in continuing the good name of the family which has been established in this section of the Reserve for more than a century. He was born on the fine old farm of which he is proprietor, October 20, 1853, and is a son of William Penn and Harriet (Gillett) Dickinson, both natives of Randolph township. Oliver Dickinson, the great-grandfather, came alone on horseback in 1804, selected and purchased 600 acres of land for a homestead, and then returned to New England in 1805 for his wife and five children—Oliver, Cromwell, Walter, Alpheus and Comfort. Arthur F. was educated in the Randolph district school and, on account of the death of his parents when he was quite young, lived with his grandfather until the founder of the family passed away. He has since continued to operate the old homestead, and also conducts a hotel at Randolph Center. Mr. Dickinson is a Republican in politics ; in his religion is connected with the Disciples church. Married November 26, 1880, to Miss Elizabeth Reed, Mr. Dickinson's first wife died January 2, 1892, and he wedded as his second wife, Miss Viola Gigger, the ceremony occurring November 26, 1897, the anniversary of his former union. Mrs. Viola Dickinson was born December 21, 1861, and is a .daughter of Solomon and Emeline (Kuntz) Gigger, her parents being natives of Pennsylvania, of German ancestry. George Weis Dickinson, the child of the first union, was born October 23, 1882, and resided at home until his marriage to Miss Jennie Jones, August 2, 1907. He is now a resident of Oregon. GEORGE L. WELLER, for twenty years superintendent of the Elyria Water Works, Elyria, Ohio, is a native son of the Western Reserve, he having been born in the town in which he lives on March 24, 1864, son of John and Mary (McCollum) Weller, for many years well known residents of Elyria. John Weller died here in 1890, at the age of fifty-seven years ; his widow is still living at the home place just north of the city, at this writing in her seventy-fourth year. George L. Weller had good opportunities for education. After completing his studies in the public schools of his native town he was sent to Oberlin College, and he afterward went to Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, where he took a commercial course. Of his father he learned the trade of stone mason, and followed it until 189o. In 1889 he was appointed superintendent of the Elyria Water Works, a position he has since filled, and during the twenty years of his connection with the company it has kept pace with the progress of the times. The plant has been rebuilt and its capacity more than doubled, and in this work of rebuilding, the superintendent was the civil engineer ; the filters now in use were built from the superintendent's designs, the filtering process being his own invention. At the time he became superintendent, the filtering alone cost the company nine dollars per million gallons ; the cost today is fifty cents per million gallons. And the cost of operation has been reduced at least one-half. In the meantime Mr. Weller has been interested in the manufacture of one of his inventions, a channeling machine, to be used in quarrying. From 1895 to 1903 the Weller Engineering Company manufactured these machines, and a number of them are now in use. Also Mr. Weller has invented and patented other quarry machinery. July 19, 1893, he married Miss Ida Alma Black, of Vermillion, Ohio, daughter of John and Mary Black, the former deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Weller have two children: Jay C., born August 17, 1894, and Vileda, August 17, 1898. Mr. Weller is a member of the Cham- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE983 her of Commerce, the Modern Woodmen and the National Union. Politically he is a Republican. BRAINARD F. RYDER has been identified with the life and interests of Ashtabula county throughout his entire life, and he is a son of Henry Ryder and a grandson of Samuel and Naomi H. (Hulbert) Ryder, early residents of the Buckeye state. Samuel and Naomi Ryder were born in Connecticut, the former at Torrington in 1765 and the latter at New Hartford, Connecticut, June 6, 1806, and died in the year of 1810, and locating in Austinburg township, Ashtabula county, they spent the remainder of their lives here, Samuel dying on March 25, 1834, and his wife Naomi on November 19, 1854. Henry G. Ryder, one of the sons born to these Ohio pioneers, was born in New Hartford, Connecticut, June 6, 1808, and died in Austinburg township, Ashtabula county, of this state, February 22, 1885. He came here with his parents in 181o, and became one of the substantial farmers of the county, first having to clear his land. He married Ann French, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, October 29, 18o5, but a resident of Lake county, Ohio, at the time of her marriage, and she died on November 25, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Ryder reared a large family of children, including : Henry Martin, who served as first lieutenant of Company C, Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteers in the Civil war, was born in Austinburg January 14, 1836, and died in Georgetown, Virginia, September 25, 1863 ; Annette, born March 3, 1837, married in October, 1870, C. C. Lukens, and lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee ; Cecil Samuel, born November 25, 1839, married, and died in 1906 ; Brainard F. was born November 25, 1839 ; Mary L., born March 12, 1841, married Rush King and died in 1907; Alfred B., born May 9, 1843, died September 7, 1864 ; Helen R., born May 9, 1844, married Theodore L. French, a farmer in Austinburg ; Emily C., born November 14, 1845, married Cyrus Green ; and Charlotte E., born April 14, 1847, married Henry Chaffee and died in August, 1888. Brainard F. Ryder attended first the district schools of Austinburg township, and completed his educational training in Grand River Institute in Austinburg. Farming haS been his life's occupation, and. he now owns fifty acres in Pierpont township, but he rents his land. He married Laura Dean on November 29, 1866, Vol. II-18 and a son, Ralph H. Ryder, was born to them on February 7, 1874, but he died on August 13, 1899. He, too, had attended the Grand River Institute, and was a musician, a member of the home band, and was a young man of the greatest promise and ability. He married Mattie Preston December 4, 1894, and she died four months "after the marriage. After his wife's death he went to Natick, Massachusetts and engaged in the music business. Brainard Ryder is a Republican in his political allegiance, and he is one of the representative citizens of his community. Mr. Ryder is the last one of thirty-five in this township that carried the name of Ryder. JOHN HARVEY THOMPSON, a leading plumber and steam and gas fitter of Elyria, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, June II, 1867. He is a son of John Peter and Elizabeth (Warriner) Thompson. John Peter Thompson was born in the northern part of Sweden in 1834, and came to the United States in 1845 ; his wife was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1843, and came to the United States when sixteen years of age. They were married in New York City. John Peter Thompson was a sailor and navigator, and was in the government service when but nineteen years of age ; he was in command of a vessel engaged in testing the cable in the Gulf of Mexico. At the beginning of the Civil war he enlisted in the One Hundred Forty-fifth New York Regiment, and was afterwards transferred to the navy, where he served four years and four months. He was at the bombardment of Charlestown, South Carolina, after Fort Sumter had been captured, and was the first Union. man to go ashore ; upon reaching the shore, in charge of a squad of men, he took down from the walls of the city building the ordinance of secession passed by the state of South Carolina, and turned it over to the commodore commanding the fleet. A copy of this paper is now. in the hands of his son, John Harvey. During the battle before Charlestown Mr. Thompson was for this act of bravery promoted from able seaman to gunner, and later became captain of the gunners, and finally ensign. He remained with the navy until the spring of 1866, when, having married February 4 of that year, he resigned. His rank was equal to that of Captains Ridley and Reed, who were so famous. After his resignation Captain Thompson removed to Erie, Pennsylvania, and for a time followed his old 984 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE occupation on the lakes. Later he took a position with Erie Ice Company, where he remained over seven years, and then engaged in hotel business, conducting what was known as the "Sailors' Home," and while in this business he died, in 1894. His widow died in Erie ten years later. John Harvey Thompson was educated in the public schools of Erie, and learned the trade of plumber with George E. Fry, in that city. He worked in Erie until the time of his marriage, and in 1889 removed to Springfield, Ohio. A year later, however, he returned to Erie, and in the fall of 1892 removed to Corrneaut, where he went into business on his own account, and remained there twelve years, and in the spring of 1904 came to Elyria. On first coming to Elyria he worked a year as journeyman, and then embarked in business on his own account, on the corner of West avenue and Broad street. About one year later Mr. Thompson bought property at No. 19 West avenue, and erected his present place of business. He has built up a large and lucrative trade, and his work is its own advertisement and recommendation. He is a man of good business acumen and enterprise, and well deserves the success he has attained. Fraternally Mr. Thompson is a member of the blue lodge, chapter and council of the A. F. & A. M., also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 465, and of the Maccabees. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and past president of the Builders' Exchange. He has been a delegate to the state convention of Master Plumbers of Ohio, and in 1909 was delegate-at-large to the national convention of Master Plumbers, held at Detroit, Michigan, in June of that year. Mr. Thompson married Ola, youngest daughter of Captain H. A. Sisson ; she is a descendant from Revolutionary soldier stock on the maternal side. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have children as follows : Elizabeth Isabel!, Harvey Elmer, Lillian Ednah Ola and Warriner Elwin. The oldest son, Harvey Elmer, is a bicycle rider of note, and holds numerous world's records, for all of which he has received medals. Among them are : Five-year record at Jefferson Fair in Ashtabula county, one-quarter mile in fifty-nine and one-quarter ; six-year record, the same distance, at Ashtabula County Fair at Jefferson, in forty-four and one-quarter seven-year record at Erie, Pennsylvania, one-half mile in one twenty-five and one-fifth, and his eight-year old record was one mile, unpaced, in three-ten, raced at Conneaut. His parents are justly proud of these world's records, as they have ample reason to be. ROBERT GEORGE ANDERSONI. M. D. Elyria, Ohio, was born in the province of D., Canada, May 25, 1868. His parents, Archibald and Mary (Burns) Anderson, both natives of the north of Ireland, and Protestants, came to America in their youth and became residents of Ontario, where subsequently they were married and became pioneers in a frontier settlement. There Archibald Anderson cleared away the primitive forest and developed a fine farm, and there he lived to the ripe old age of seventy-eight years, dying in July, 1895. On his father's farm Robert G. Anderson spent his boyhood days. He received a public and high school education, and subsequently took up the study of medicine at Trinity Medical College (now the Toronto Medical College), where he graduated with the Class of 1895. The same year he graduated he came to Elyria, and engaged in the practice of his profession on the West Side, where he soon won the confidence of the people among whom he lived, and found himself in the midst of a successful practice. He is a member of the medical staff of the Memorial Hospital of Elyria, and has membership in the Lorain County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Mrs. Anderson, like the doctor, is a native of Canada. She was formerly Miss Laura:E. Ferguson and was born in Toronto. They have two children, Eva Louise and George Bertram. For a number of years Dr. Anderson has been a member of the Masonic Order, having taken the degrees of both the blue lodge and chapter. FRANK R. FAUVER.-A wide-awake young man, Frank R. Fauver, who completed, January I, 1910, his second term as auditor of the city of Elyria, has started in life with brilliant prospects for a long and honorable career, his energy, ability and tact having already won him a substantial position among the younger citizens of prominence and influence. A son of the late Alonzo B. Fauver, he was born on the parental. homestead, in Eaton township, HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 985 Lorain county, coming from Revolutionary stock. A native of New York state, Alonzo B. Fauver came to the Western Reserve seventy-five years ago, a young boy. Purchasing land in Eaton township in early manhood, he was there prosperously employed in tilling the soil until his death, in 1889, at the age of sixty-six years. His. wife, whose maiden name was Martha Thayer, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1837, and died in Lorain county in 1903, aged sixty-six years. Her father, Ephraim Thayer, was born and reared in Coshocton county, Ohio, and served in the War of 1812, while his father, Ephraim Thayer, was lieutenant of a company in the Revolutionary war. After his graduation from the Elyria high school, in 1897, Frank R. Fauver entered the University of Michigan, where he took two years of the literary course. Returning then to Elyria, he accepted a position with the National Tube Company, at South Lorain, Ohio, with which he was associated until May, 1903. Mr. Fauver was at that time elected auditor of Elyria, and gave such satisfactory service that in 1907 he was re-elected to the same position. He is likewise a member of the board of road commissioners of Lorain county, having been appointed under the law recently enacted to represent District No. I. He is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, an organization which is doing much towards promoting the city's prosperity. Fraternally Mr. Fauver belongs to the An-dent Free and Accepted Masons, and to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Religiously he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. PATRICK H. FARNHAM has been a lifelong resident of Conneaut township, and he traces his descent to one of the patrons of thc! Revolution, Thomas Farnham, who fought with Moses Cleveland in the Second Connecticut Regiment. Thomas Farnham married Abigail Durkee, from Connecticut, and Elisha Farnham was numbered among their sons. He was born in Connecticut June 8, 1806, received a common school training, and taught school a number of terms before his marriage. After the completion of his education he entered a machine shop in Pittsburg, and coming to Ohio about the year of 1825, journeying by stage from Pittsburg, he with Thomas Gibson bought the mill which had been built years be fore by a Mr. Jones. In time Elisha Farnham bought his partner's interest in the enterprise, and also built in 1841 the mill now owned by Mr. O. Fuller. Before 1878 the dam for this mill was some distance further up the stream than at present, the overflow compelling a change of location, and the son Patrick erected two new dams in 1878, and these are still in use, as is also the mill, the only one now operated by water power on Conneaut creek. Elisha. Farnham gave his attention to his mills; consisting of grist, gaw and carding mills, and during a number of years he also filled the office of justice of the peace and was a supervisor and a member of the school board. His politics were Republican, and he had fraternal relations with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During the Civil war period he was connected with the "underground railroad," and was an intimate friend of Ben Wade and of J. R. Giddings. At the time of his marriage he lived across the road from the present home of his son Patrick, and later built the house in which this son now lives. Elisha Farnham wedded in 1830 Mary Ring, from Massachusetts, and a daughter of Joslin and Polly (Thayer) Ring. The children of this union are : Don A., who died during his Civil war service in 1862, a member of the Second Ohio Battery, Light Artillery ; Flora, who lives in Conneaut, is the widow of T. S. Young, who served as second lieutenant, of his company during the war ; Patrick H., mentioned below ; Mary, who married first Martin Reals and is now the widow of Steven Haviland and lives in Conneaut, the mother of one child ; Lydia, the widow of Cornell Fuller, and also the mother of one child ; Emma, widow of William Buss, of Conneaut, Ohio, who was a soldier for five years. Patrick H. Farnham was born November 14, 1838, in Conneaut township, just across the street from his present home, and after completing his educational training in the district schools and the academy at Springfield, Pennsylvania, he went west to Minnesota in 1856, but returned in the following year. During the opening period of the Civil war he enlisted for service at Conneaut, and was mustered into the ranks at St. Louis, Missouri, August 28, 1861, becoming a member of the Second Ohio Battery, Light Artillery. His first services were under General Fremont, and afterward he was with General Curtis. Just before the battle of Pea Ridge he was made 986 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE a prisoner of war, and later he served in the siege of Vicksburg and its accompanying battles, and was one of five men who bravely volunteered to run the blockade at Vicksburg to secure supplies for his company. In the fall of 1863, on account of sickness, he was sent home on a furlough, and was later discharged from the same cause. Mr. Farnham has served his community as a justice of the peace, and he is both a Republican and a Mason. On January 1, 1860, he was married to Mary A. Mallory, also from Conneaut township, born June 16, 1834, and she taught school a number of terms before her marriage. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Farnham are : Nina, who died at the age of three years ; Charles, who was born September 30, 1864, married Emma Kluff and lives in Wisconsin ; Emma lives in Conneaut, the wife of T. J. Dillon, and they have two children ; and Flora married Clyde Hamilton, who is connected with the street car company in Ashtabula. CHARLES WATSON SAWYER.—Prominent among the merchants of Elyria is numbered Charles Watson: ISawyer, a dealer in shoes and a well known and representative self-made citizen. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, December 14, 1863, a son of Levi M., who was born in Connecticut. He came out to the Western Reserve when a small boy, and he died in the city of Cleveland in 1865. Levi M. Sawyer wedded Clara Nichols, who was born in Grafton tocirnship, of Lorain county, Ohio, the daughter of a pioneer, and she died in the year of 1878. Two sons were born to them, William Spencer and Charles Watson.' William. S. is a ranch owner -at Albany, Oregon. Charles W. Sawyer was reared and educated in Grafton, to which village his mother had moved after the death of her husband, when Charles W. was twelve years of age,. Thrown upon his own resources, being left an orphan at the age of fifteen, when his mother died, he was engaged at farm labor until the age of twenty years. His first business experience was in the selling of machinery as an -agent, his territory covering six counties in Ohio. In 1887 he embarked in the shoe business in Grafton, and in 1898 he came to Elyria and engaged in the same vocation at 124 Cheapside, as senior member of the firm of Teasdale & Sawyer. He is very prominent in the business life of his city, and is also prominently identified with its social and fraternal interests, being a member of its orders of Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Elks and Maccabees, and for many years, as a stanch Republican, he has been active in local politics. Mr. Sawyer married, on January 4, 1888, Myra M. Haven, a daughter of Raymond Haven, of Eaton, Lorain county, and their two children are Benjamin H. and Maurice W. Sawyer. WALTER E. BROOKS.—Prominent among the foremost citizens of Elyria is Walter E. Brooks; a well known manufacturer and capitalist, who has been conspicuously identified for many years with the development and promotion of industrial enterprises of importance, not only in Ohio, but in neighboring states. A son of James E. Brooks, he was born August 13, 1846, in Avon, Lorain county, coming on both sides of the house of substantial English ancestry. His paternal grandparents, Joshua and Polly Brooks, came from their native state, Vermont, to Ohio in pioneer days, locating in Avon township. Born in Vermont, James E. Brooks came with his parents to Lorain county when young, and lived for a number of years thereafter in Avon, where he was actively engaged for some time in mercantile pursuits, having a typical country store, at the same time serving his fellow-townsmen as justice of the peace. Moving to Elyria in 1870, he was a resident of that city until his death. . He married Elizabeth Sweet, who was born and bred in Vermont, and came as a girl to Ohio with her parents, Waterman and Amy Sweet, who were among the very early settlers of Avon township. Acquiring his early education in the district schools, Walter E. Brooks remained in his native township until 1870, when he came to Elyria to establish the agricultural implement and hardware business which he subsequently managed with unquestioned success for eighteen years. In 1888 he became identified with the Topliff & Ely Manufacturing Company, a business which he eventually absorbed, and is now its president and active head. During the period between 1890 and 1895, Mr. Brooks drilled many oil wells in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was also financially interested in Ohio oil fields for a number of years. For the past two years Mr. Brooks has been especially active in the promotion of electric railways from Cleveland to Zanesville and Elyria, known as the Cleveland, Barberton, HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 987 Coschocton and Zanesville Railway, of which he is vice-president. Since 1905 he has served as president of the Elyria Telephone Company, and is likewise president of the Elyria Southern Telephone and Telegraph Company. Mr. Brooks has been very prominent, and is at the present time, in the promotion and building of telephone exchanges in villages and towns throughout New York state, and is a director of the Albany, New York, Telephone Company, and of the Home Telephone Company, Niagara Falls, New York. He is officially connected with other organizations of importance, being president of the American Construction and Trading Company, capitalized at $1,000,000, with headquarters in Albany, New York, and is.a director of the Elyria National Bank. He is an extensive owner of real estate, having property of value in Elyria, Lorain and Toledo. For four years he served as president of the City Council, and is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce and of the Country Club. Mr. Brooks is very prominent in all branches of Masonry, being a thirty-second degree Mason. He is also a member and past exalted ruler of Elyria Lodge, No. 456, B. P. 0. E. Mr. Brooks married, in 1877, Fannie, daughter of the late John A. and Caroline (Beers) Topliff. She passed to the higher life in 1893, leaving two children, namely : Margaret B., wife of Theodore E. Faxon, an attorney in Elyria, and now clerk of Lorain county ; and John Prentice, a member of the senior class at Cornell University. Mr. Brooks married second, in 1902, Marella, daughter of Professor Noah K. Davis, of the University of West Virginia. Mr. Brooks and family are attendants of the Congregational church. DAVID ELMORE HURLBURT, of Hartsgrove township, Ashtabula county, was born in Goshen, Connecticut, December 26, 1835, a son of Erastus and Clarissa (Goodwin) Hurlburt. Erastus G. Hurlburt was born in Winchester, Connecticut, March 21, 1787, and came to Ohio in 1844, from Goshen, Connecticut ; he died one year later. He came to Erie by way of the Erie canal, and thence by boat to Fairport, Ohio, and by wagon to Hartsgrove township, settling on a farm of fifty acres. He married, December 16, 1812, Clarissa Goodwin, who was born March 21, 1791, died December 15, 1858, and their children were : Clarissa, born February 19, 1814, married Benjamin Norris, and died December 30, 1879; Erastus B., born June 5, 1815, died March 14, 1818 ; Elizabeth, born February 4, 1817, died March 12, 1855 ; Louisa, born August 5, 1818, married Reverend S. C. Freer (deceased) and lives in Mount Union, Iowa ; Beldin G., born March 25, 1820, went to California with an ox team, in 1849, married Caroline Delano, and has served in California as state representative, and has been common pleas judge ; Edward G., born March 12, 1824, died in 1897 ; he was active in church work, was county commissioner twelve years, married Jane Babcock, 1851 ; Russell H., born April 21, 1826, died April 14, 1883, was a preacher and presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal church, and had been a delegate to the general conference, and chaplain of the Twenty-ninth Ohio during the war ; Jehiel B., born June 1, 1828, has been sheriff and county treasurer of Boone county, Iowa, and was a Union soldier during the war, now lives in Colorado ; married (first) Eliza Bushnell and (second) Elmira Lloyd ; Henry Clay, born August 19, 1830, died in 1905, married Laura Worthing ; Ruth M., born July 1, 1833, died in 1901, married B. F. Seaton, ex-sheriff of Marion county, Iowa ; and David Elmore. David Elmore Hurlburt came with his parents to Ohio when eight years of age. He enlisted in the Pennsylvania Thirty-eighth Regiment for three months, and re-enlisted September 28, 1861, as private, but with enough men to be a commissioned officer, and was at that time appointed first lieutenant, and he was promoted to rank of captain, April 13, 1862. He was wounded through the shoulder in the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, taken prisoner at Port Republic and held four months before exchanged on parole. He was in Salisbury, North Carolina, Belle Island and Libby prisons. Mr. Hurlburt received his discharge August 20, 1864. He is a Master Mason, of Hartsgrove Lodge, No. 397, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He belongs to Windsor Post Grand Army of the Republic, and is a member of the County Soldiers' Relief Commission, which office he has held several years. He has served many years as trustee and steward of the church. He is a prominent man in the community and takes. an active interest in the welfare and growth of the township and county. In 1866 Mr. Hurlburt married Lucy D. Babcock, born April 9, 1843, and their children are : David G., born November 20, 1868, is an attorney, 988 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE unmarried, and lives in Chicago, Illinois ; Ruth M., born November 2, 1872, married Dr. 0. C. Robinson, lives in Colorado and has three children, Russell H., Natalia R. and Howard F. Robinson ; Martha J., born September 2, 1874, married Robert Morgan and lives in Geneva, Ohio, has one child, Hugh F. Morgan; Lydia C., born August 15, 1877, married P. M. Hodgman, a traveling man, and lives in Cleveland ; and Russell H., born September 22, 1880, died in 1890. JOHN C. WARD, county surveyor of Lake county and long connected with railroad engineering in this section of the Western Reserve, is a native of Willoughby, Ohio, where he was born in the year 1856. He is a man of thorough and varied education, and has enjoyed an experience which also marks him as a man of decided practical ability. He concluded the first phase of his higher education by graduating from Ohio State University in its literary and scientific course. Mr. Ward's early ambitions were directed to the law and he made some progress in his studies, but afterward entered the educational field to such advantage that he was elected superintendent of schools at Willoughby, which office he retained for some four years. His Republicanism was also of such an active and pronounced type that he became clerk of the courts by favor of his party, and creditably served in that 0ffice for two terms of three years each. In the midst of these varied activities of an intellectual and official nature, Mr. Ward also was training himself as a practical surveyor, and in that capacity acted for the syndicate which built the C. P. and E. and the C. P. and A. electric lines. He has retained this connection with the construction company and is also serving as county surveyor, to which the Republicans elected him in 1899. Mr. Ward resides in a comfortable home on Washington street, Painesville, and is not only highly honored for his practical services to the county, but for his intellectual abilities. OZRO A. HOSKIN.—Long numbered among the representative business men and honored citizens of the village of Madison, Lake county, the subject of this memoir was a native son of this county and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was a man of marked mental vigor, of excellent business acumen and of sterling integrity .of character, and he ever Commanded the unqualified confidence and esteem of those with whom he came in contact in the various relations of life. He was a worthy representative of that sturdy line of intelligent pioneers who played so well their part in connection with the development of the natural resources and the upbuilding of the social structure of the Western Reserve, and he is eminently entitled to a tribute of honor in this work, whose province is the due consideration of the history of the Western Reserve and its people. Mr. Hoskin was born in Lake county, Ohio, on October 5, 1837, and was a son of William and Saphronia (Young) Hoskin. The father continued to be actively identified with agricultural pursuits until the outbreak of Civil war, when he tendered his services in defense of the Union, though then a man past the prime of life. His was the record of a valiant and loyal soldier of the republic, and he passed the closing years of his life in the national soldiers' home in the city of Washington, D. C. His widow followed some of her children to the west and died, either in Kansas or Nebraska, at an exceedingly venerable age. Of the children Ozro A., of this memoir, was the only one who remained in Lake county. Ozro A. Hoskin was reared to manhood on the home farm, and for his early educational advantages was indebted to the primitive schools of, the middle-pioneer epoch. He continued to be identified with the agricultural industry for some time after his school days were ended, and later was employed as clerk in a drug store in Madison. Thereafter he was engaged as a commercial traveling salesman for several years, and later he engaged in the grocery and bakery business in Madison, where he maintained a well equipped establishment and catered to a representative and appreciative patronage. He continued this enterprise until his death, which occurred on August 6, 1901. He was one of the representative business men of this village and as a citizen held a secure place in the confidence and regard of the people of the community. His course was ever guided on a plane of lofty integrity and honor, he was generous and tolerant in his association with his fellow men, and he left the heritage of a good name and of good deeds unostentatiously performed. In politics Mr. Hoskin gave an unfaltering allegiance to the Republican party, and he took an intelligent interest in the questions and issues of the hour. He served two terms as mayor of Madison, and had previously been the HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 989 capable incumbent of the responsible office of county treasurer, during his retention of which position he resided in Painesville, the c0unty seat. He was reared in the faith of the Baptist church, but later became a member of the Congregational church, with whose various departments of activity he was thereafter identified until his death ; his wife also was a devoted member of this church. In the Masonic fraternity he had attained the chivalric degrees and was affiliated with the commandery, Knights Templar, of Painesville, under whose auspices and ritual his funeral was held. His local affiliations were with the Free and Accepted Masons, and the Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. In the year 1875 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hoskin to Miss Ruby Flower, who was born in the northern part of Madison township, on February 20, 1849, and whose father was one of the representative farmers of that section. Mrs. Hoskin was summoned to the life eternal on July 17, 1904, secure in the affectionate regard of all who came within the sphere of her gracious influence. One child was born to this union, Marion, who still resides in the family homestead and who is bookkeeper for A. N. Benjamin, one of the leading business men of Madison. She is prominently identified with the local chapter is secretary at the time of this writing, in 1909. of the Order of the Eastern Star, of which she She is a devoted member of the Congregational church, and is most popular in the social circles of her native village. ALEXANDER SHILLIDAY, of Edinburg township, has a valuable farm of more than 100 acres, and has long been honored both for the integrity of his private character and for the faithful service he has rendered the township in his public capacity. He is in that substantial class of Irish-American citizens who have demOnstrated by the careful and wise management of their own affairs that they form the best material from which to create public servants. Mr. Shilliday was born in Ireland, December 18, 1830, and is a son of Hugh and Ellen (Willson) Shilliday, also natives of the mother land. They emigrated to the United States in 1854, landing at New York October 14, and soon afterward going to Philadelphia ; thence to Canfield and later to Portage county, Ohio. The son was then about twenty years of age and made his advent into that county on foot from Salem. His first purchase was forty acres of land in Atwater township. Alexander lived with his parents until he was twenty-six years of age and then entered the employ of Mr. Holcomb at Canfield, on a yearly contract. He married in 1856 and afterward, for several years, was connected with the Williams farm. Mr. Shilliday then rented that place for five years, and at the expiration of his contract bought forty acres of timber land. After clearing and improving this tract he sold the property and subsequently purchased his present homestead of 107 acres in Edinburg township. He erected a comfortable residence for his family, set out a fine orchard and is now enjoying not only the fruits of his trees but of the many years of his industrious and intelligently-directed career. He is one of the old-timers in the support of the Republican party ; has served as supervisor at various times, and is widely esteemed both as a hard worker and a sound adviser. The same may be said of his connection with the Congregational church, of which he is a trustee. On December 5, 1856, Mr. Shilliday married Miss Mary Bingham, who died seven years afterward. He took as his second wife, October 6, 1864, Miss Jane Crory—a native of Ireland, born September 21, 1842, who was brought by her parents to the United States in 1848. Mr. Shilliday has nine children—John, James, Robert, George, William C., Edward, Mary J. Corbett, Annie Russell and Elgie Shilliday, the first four named children being by the first marriage. FRED RIEDINGER, who is one of the leading stock raisers and dealers in Portage county and owns a well appointed farm of 200 acres in Randolph township, is the son of George P. and Susan (Markel) Riedinger, and he has certainly good reason to be proud of his industrious, faithful, sturdy and successful parents of the German fatherland. They landed on American shores in July, 1840, the young husband then possessing, as he often remarked in after years with a smile, "about fifty cents and a wife." When the couple located in Randolph township they settled on a ten-acre tract, which they shared with one of the husband's friends, and remained thereon for two years, obtaining a living and placing themselves in such shape that forty acres of land was then purchased. George P. Riedinger was a shoemaker as well as a farmer, and the neighbors patronized his little shop to such an extent 990 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE that, between his bench and his field, he placed himself and his family in comfortable circumstances within a decade from the time of his landing in New York with only fifty cents—but an invaluable wife. In 1855 he bought the farm of 325 acres on which he died October 28, 1864. Fred Riedinger, of this sketch, was born November 16, 1840, about four months after the arrival of his parents in the United States and their coming to the little farm in Randolph township. This locality was the scene of his education and rearing, his departure from home being delayed until his marriage to Miss Louisa Ackerman, on November 12, 1863. After that event, which has certainly proved a happy one in his life, he branched out as an independent farmer on a tract of seventy-two acre. With his father's pertinacity and good judgment, he steadily progressed in his live stock operations and in the amassing of land, until he is now recognized as a leader in the branch of agriculture which he has chosen. Mr. Riedinger is also influential in matters of wider scope and of greater concern to the community. In politics he has steadily adhered to Republicanism, ever since he cast his first presidential ballot for Abraham Lincoln, and has given the township much valuable public service. He is also an active Mason, belonging to Unity Lodge, No. 12, at Ravenna, and his religious affiliations are with the Reformed church. In his domestic relations, Mr. Riedinger has been not only happy but fortunate, since four of the five children born to him are living, Oscar A. being the lamented deceased. George T. is a resident of Alliance, Ohio ; Mary L. lives at Manistee, Michigan ; Henry W. is at home, and Hattie is of Newton Falls, Ohio. DAVID SIMISON, who has been connected with the agricultural interests. of Randolph township, Portage county, for nearly half a century, and is one of its most respected citizens, is a native of the Empire state. He was born June 15, 1830, and is a son of Robert and Sarah (Rogers) Simison, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Ohio. It was from the former state that the father served in the war of 1812, after which he moved to New York and followed his trade as a hatter. The son David resided with his parents until he was sixteen years of age, after which he was employed in various forms of agriculture until he was twenty-eight years of age. At the age of twenty he went to California and spent three years in prospecting and digging for gold. Upon Mr. Simison's return to civilization and the states, he decided to move into the fertile reserve of the "West," in Ohio, and to seek a surer method than the California way of wresting prosperity from the soil. The result was that in 1861 he located in Randolph township and has since been faithfully wedded to farming pursuits. After his marriage in 1868 his operations in that line were conducted on a fine farm of 320 acres. His success as an agriculturist has been accompanied by activity and useful service in the public affairs of the township, the entire list of whose offices he has filled with credit. In politics, as in most of the other concerns of life, he is independent. His fraternal connections are with Masonry, as a member of Unity Lodge, No. 12, of Ravenna. Mr. Simison's marriage to Miss Marriet Gorby occurred February 1, 1868, and two children were born to them—Gorby, who is now a farmer of Randolph township, and Belle, who is living at home. THOMAS C. PICKTON, a successful farmer of Hartsgrove township, Ashtabula county, was born June II, 1845, on the island of Jamaica, where his father was stationed as missionary. He is a son of Thomas B. and Martha W. ( Jones) Pickton. For fourteen years Mr. Pickton lived in Albion, Orleans county, New York, and then moved to Akron, Ohio, where he lived until 1873. He spent three years in North Carolina and Virginia, and then returning to Summit county, Ohio, spent seven years there. He worked three years in a machine shop and ran a dairy several years. He then located in New Lyme township, Ashtabula county; Ohio, and there spent ten years. For the past twelve years Mr. Pickton has been a resident of Hartsgrove township, where he has become a prominent citizen. He and his wife are charter members of Hartsgrove Grange, No. 1,684, of which he is now treasurer. He owns 30 acres of land, which he carries on with great success, having a fine dairy. He is a Republican in politics, and has for the last ten years served as justice of the peace. He and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is now trustee, treasurer and steward. In 1875 Mr. Pickton married Mary Fillman, of Reidsville, North Carolina, born HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 991 March 26, 1853, and they have become parents of children as follows : Mary L., born November 3, 1876, is a graduate nurse in a hospital at Akron, Ohio ; Grace E., March 23, 1879, lives at home ; Britton, born October 11, 1882, is a farmer and lives in Ohio ; Walter L., March 28, 1884, lives in Scenic, South Dakota, a farmer on a ranch ; Scott E., March xo, 1887, lives at home ; Raleigh, February 2, 189o, is a farmer in South Dakota ; Theodore, April 29, 1892, is attending school ; and Harlow, born December 12, 1895, and attending school. JOHN FREDERICK BYERS was born in Milton township, Mahoning county, Ohio, November 13, 1844, a son of Frederick and Anna M. (Reichard) Byers, who were from Pennsylvania. His paternal grandfather, Frederick Byers, was a son of Frederick Byers, Sr., who was born in Germany. Frederick Byers, the father of John Frederick, came to Mahoning county, Ohio, about the year 1839, as a horse drover traveling across the mountains from eastern Pennsylvania. He raised and sold many fine breed horses. In. 1859 he sold his farm in .Mahoning county, and coming to Ravenna township located just south of the city of that name, and during the early years of his proprietorship he utilized his farm for putting horses in a marketable condition for selling. He died on March 4, 1869, and his wife survived until May of 1887. Their children were : Mary, who became the wife of Aaron Williard and is now deceased ; John F., also deceased ; George R., an agriculturist in Ravenna township ; C. C., of the same township; and Hattie, the wife of A. S. Trowbridge, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. John F. Byers during the early years of his life assisted his father with the work of the home farm, and -fter the latter's death he bought the interests of the other heirs in the property, built a small shop on his land and followed his natural bent as an inventor, and among the many other useful articles which he patented was an oat meal cutter which he sold for $5,000 to a cereal company. After a time he erected a shop in Ravenna, but he moved frequently to larger shops as the volume of his business increased, and in 189o, he formed a stock company for the manufacture of, hoisting machines, derricks and small engines. He was the inventor of most of the articles manufactured by that company, and he was its first president and general superintendent. He died on September 17, 1905, and thus ended the life of one of the most useful and best known residents of Portage county. Mr. Byers married on August 7, 1890, Catherine Palm, who was born in Rootstown township, Portage county, November 28, 1861, a daughter of John A. and Eva Elizabeth (Bousch) Palm, the father born in Prussia and the mother in Baden, Germany. She is a granddaughter on the maternal side of Michael and a Miss Reiterman Bausch. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Byers : Frederick C., who was born on May 19, 1891; Anna C., who was born July 10, 1892, and died September 6, 1906; John Reichard, born September 29, 1894 ; and Eva Irene, born March 17, 1896. Mr. Byers was an independent political voter, and he was a member of the fraternal order of Odd Fellows. JAMES L. PARMLY, who died at his home in Painesville, Lake county, on the 31st of January, 1908, was a native son of this county, a member of one of its distinguished pioneer families, and he himself passed the major portion of his life in this county, where for many years he was actively identified with the agricultural industry, besides which he was for some time before his death engaged in the hardware business in Painesville. His life was one of signal usefulness and honor, and he well upheld the prestige of the honored name which he bore. Mr. Parmly was born in Perry township, Lake county, Ohio, on the 23d of August, 1832, and was a son of Jehiel and Eliza A. (Pleasants) Parmly. Jehiel Parmly was the sixth in order of birth of the ten children of Eleazer and Hannah (Spear) Parmly, and was born at Braintree, Vermont, July 14, 1799. He died in Painesville, Ohio, on the 23d of May, 1873. Eleazer Parmly came to Perry township, Lake county, Ohio, in the year 1816, for the purpose of visiting his daughter, Hannah, who had come here with her husband, Samuel Burridge, in 1814. The father was so impressed with the attractions of this locality, even in that early pioneer period, that in the spring of 1817 he brought his family to Lake county. He purchased a tract of land near Lake Erie, and to secure the same he made the trip on foot to Canandaigua, New York, to confer with Captain Granger, who owned the land which he desired. He and his wife 992 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE passed the residue of their lives in this county and their names merit an enduring place on the roll of its sterling pioneers. Jehiel Parmly was reared to maturity on the pioneer farm of his father, in Perry township, and was afforded the best educational advantages available under the conditions of time and place. Upon attaining to years of maturity he determined to adopt the profession of dentistry as a vocation. One of his elder brothers, Levi, had already become a successful practitioner, and together they went to the city of London, England, where they passed two years in the study of their profession and where they became experts in the same, according to the standards and systems of the times. After his return to America Dr. Jehiel Parmly opened an office in the city of Washington, D. C., where he built up an excellent practice, and later he was engaged in the work of his profession at Charleston, South Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia. In the latter place, in 1826, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Eliza A. Pleasants. Finally Dr. Parmly was called to the old homestead in Perry township, Lake county, Ohio, on account of the death of his father, who was killed in an accident, and on this fine old place the doctor continued to make his home for more than thirty years, though he customarily passed the winters in the south, where he followed the practice of his profession during these intervals. One of his brothers, David, continued to be engaged in farming in Perry township until his death, and three other brothers, Samuel, Eleazer and Levi, became prominent as dental practitioners. Samuel and Eleazer were among the first widely known dentists of New York City, and Eleazer especially made such advances in certain details of the work of his profession as to become a recognized authority as a dental surgeon. He invented new methods and processes and was one of the leaders in the early stages of advancement to the present high standard of the profession. He ever retained a deep interest in the old home in Lake county, Ohio, and he it was who erected in Painesville the fine Parmly hotel, which still bears his name and which at the time of its building was one of the best in this section of the state. Dr. Samuel Parmly, who held a large and valuable landed estate in Lake county, gained a fortune through his well ordered labors and operations, and had extensive interests of a capi talistic order in New York City. Dr. Levi Parmly was long engaged in the practice of his profession in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Jehiel and Eliza A. (Pleasants) Parmly became the parents of seven sons, namely : Jehiel, a representative farmer of Perry township, Lake county ; James L., the immediate subject of this memoir ; Leo, residing near Painesville ; and Henry C., Samuel P., and David. Dr. Jehiel Parmly and his wife both died on the old family homestead in Perry township, and they were held in the highest esteem by all who knew them, being notable for their gracious refinement and having long been prominent in connection with the social activities of the county. James Lownes Parmly, to whom this memoir is dedicated, passed the major portion of his boyhood and youth on the old homestead farm in Perry township, and during the winter seasons he was with his parents in the south. He was afforded good educational advantages, and was a man of strong individuality and sterling character, ever commanding the confidence and regard of all with whom he came in contact in the various relations of life. At the time of the Civil war he went forth as a valiant soldier of the Union, and thereafter he returned to his farm in Perry township, where he was for many years actively identified with general agricultural pursuits and stock-raising, in connection with which he attained to a high degree of success, as he was a man of much discrimination and business acumen. For several years he was engaged in the hardware business in Painesville, but he continued in the ownership of his fine farm until his death. He passed the closing years of his life in retirement, in Painesville, where he lived for nearly forty years, while he still gave his general supervision to his farming interests. He erected the residence in Painesville, and it is one of the most commodious and attractive of the many beautiful homes in this thriving little city. He had various capitalistic interests in his native county, and gave his support to all measures and enterprises which tended to advance the general welfare of the community. He ordered his life upon the highest plane of integrity and honor, was genial and courteous in the social relations, and was kindly and tolerant in his judgment of others.. Mr. Parmly held a secure place in the regard and esteem of the community in which the major portion HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 993 of his life was passed, and he will long be remembered as one who made his life count for good in all its relations. Though never desirous of public office and having no wish to enter the turbulent stream of "practical politics," Mr. Parmly was ever arrayed as a stanch supporter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and in local affairs he gave his support and influence to men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, without special regard to absolute partisan lines. He was an appreciative and valued member of the Painesville post of the Grand Army of the Republic, was also affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and his religious faith was signified by his membership in the Christian, or Disciples church, with whose work he was actively identified and to whose support he contributed with much liberality. As a young man Mr. Parmly was united in marriage to Miss Marian A. Woods, of Perry township, and she died in 1899, leaving no children. On the 3d of January, 1901, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Mary E. Barrett, who was born and reared in Lake county and who is a daughter of F. E. and Ruth (Stephens) Barrett, who now maintain. their residence in Painesville. Mr. and Mrs. Parmly became the parents of two children—Henry B. and Ruth Eliza, and Mrs. Parmly still maintains her home in the fine old residence erected by her late and honored husband. She has been prominent in connection with the religious and social life of Painesville and is a devoted member of the Disciples church in this village. HERBERT O. HUTSON is one of the intelligent and prosperous citizens of Randolph township, Portage county, who, after enjoying a business success of many years in his home community, returned to the old paternal farm, doubled it in area and made it into a modern and valuable country place. His parents, Orville and Marie (Clark) Hutson, were both natives of the Western Reserve, who, early in their married life, located in Edinburg township, their homestead comprising 160 acres of land. In 1848 they moved to Michigan, where Herbert O. was born on the 19th of March, 1851. The family remained in the Wolverine state until 1861, returning to Ohio in May, 1863. At the latter date a home was again established on a farm of ninety-five acres, in Randolph township—this original tract being included in the fine estate of 186 acres which is now operated by Herbert O. The boy obtained his education in the district school near the home farm and at Mouflt Union, and assisted his father until he had matured into young manhood. On May 4, 1873, two weeks after he had celebrated his twenty-second birthday, he married Miss Emeline Gorby. His wife was born July 26, 1849, daughter of Thomas and Wealthy Gorby, natives of Massachusetts. There is one child of this union, Charles E., who resides at Randolph Center. After his marriage Mr. Hutson resumed farming on his father-in-law's place, and after being thus engaged for twelve years established himself in business at Randolph. There, as a dealer in live stock and wool, he conducted a good business for another dozen years, returning then to the paternal homestead as its proprietor and developer. What he has accomplished since has already been noted. Mr. Hutson is independent in politics, but his ability and integrity have brought him into the public service in such positions as trustee and assessor, irrespective of party affiliations. His fraternal relations are with the Knights of Pythias, with whose objects and actual benevolences he is in earnest sympathy. SYDNEY H. HINE, the substantial farmer of Randolph township, Portage county, was born in New York City November 10, 1866, and on the 22d of the following December, before he had reached the age of two months, was adopted by Louis and Clementine Hine. These good people were therefore the only parents he ever knew and they reared the boy as carefully as though he were their own offspring. Louis Hine was born in Randolph township, October 12, 1824. Sydney H. Hine lived with his foster parents until his marriage, which occurred November 9, 1892, to Miss Ida B. Chapman. He afterward located on the farm of twenty-nine and a half acres which he inherited from them. Mr. Hine has always voted the Republican ticket. DR. JOSEPH PRICE, one of the best known physicians of Portage county, was a native of the Buckeye state, as was also his wife, Cynthia Underwood. When only twelve years of age, Dr. Price was bound out to a tailor for a three years' apprenticeship, being placed under bonds of $500 as a guarantee of good behavior—which included "sticking to his 994 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE job." He thoroughly mastered the trade; married when he was about of age, and continued as a tailor for some seven years thereafter. In the meantime he had studied medicine at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, graduating in 1851. Receiving his license to practice, he began a professional career of forty-four years. He died October 22, 1895. His son, Benjamin F. Price, who is a successful agriculturist of Randolph township, was born in the township December 14, 1860. He resided with his parents until September 20, 1882, when he married Miss Ruth Meriam. He then located on the home farm of fifty-two acres, which he inherited at the death of his father. Two children, J. Paul and Howard W., were born to Benjamin F. Price and wife. Mrs. Price died June I, 1905. GILES MANCHESTER EASTON.—FOr many years Giles Manchester Easton, late of Guilford township, was actively associated with the development and advancement of the agricultural prosperity of this part of Medina county, and was known far and wide as one of its most esteemed and worthy citizens. A son of Julius Easton, he was born, July 22, 1833, in Manlius, Onondaga county, New York, of substantial New England ancestry. Julius Easton was born in Connecticut May 1, 1791, and subsequently spent a number of years in the Empire state. Coming with his family to Medina county in 1833, he located in Guilford township, buying ninety acres of land one and one-fourth miles north of Seville. There he was engaged in mixed husbandry for many years, devoting a large part of his time to raising cattle and sheep, residing there until his death, in 1880. His wife, whose maiden was Artemesia Manchester, was born in Dutchess county, New York, and died, in 1881, in Medina county, Ohio. An infant when his parents settled in Guilford township, Giles M. Easton attended first the district schools, and later the Seville Academy, remaining at home until becoming of age. In 1861 he enlisted as a musician in the Twelfth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, responding to Lincoln's first call for troops, and served for six months. Mr. Easton subsequently served from 1864 until 1866 in Company F, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Ohio National Guards. On receiving then his discharge from the service he returned to the parental homestead in Guilford township, and having as sumed its management was for many years prosperously employed in general farming and stock-raising, being one of the most prosperous members of the farminab community. He raised more sheep than his father had at any time and he made improvements of much value, erecting a fine barn and outbuildings, supplying his farm with the most approved machinery and farming implements, and continued in his chosen occupation until his death, May 29, 1909, although the few years previous to that event he had lived in Seville, somewhat retired, but still considering himself a farmer. Mr. Easton married, in 1858, Mary M. Caughey, who was born in Guilford township, a daughter of James and Jemima (McConnell) Caughey. Their only child, J. Jay Easton, was educated in the public schools and academy of Seville. He died February 9, 1898, leaving a widow and two children, Leonard and Lucile. Leonard Easton, born February 16, 1891, was educated in the common schools, and now lives with his grandmother in Seville and is attend ing school in Columbus, Ohio. By the terms of his grandfather's will Leonard will ere long come into possession of the old Easton homestead, which is a valuable and most desirable estate. The other child, Lucile Easton, born February 13, 1895, lives with her mother and stepfather in Kentucky. Mrs. Easton is a bright and active woman of seventy-five years, with her faculties unimpaired by age, her hearing and eyesight being good, and her mind as clear as in her younger days. She is a member of the Presbyterian church. HARRY A. MCCONNELL is a prominent dairy farmer and business man in Dorset township. He is a son of Frank McConnell, who was born in Medina county, Ohio, about the year of 1818, and locating in Harding county of this state he moved from there to Wayne county and died in 1894. He was by trade a tanner. Mrs. McConnell, his wife, bore the maiden name of Jane Armstrong, and was born in 1816, and died in 1876. They reared three children, but the two eldest are now deceased. William S., the first born, was a Civil war soldier for four years, and was later a member of the medical profession. Edward, the next younger son, died in 1905 at Burbank, Ohio. Harry A. McConnell, born August 15, 1864, attended the schools of Ashland, Ohio, and is now a prominent dairy farmer and the owner of 160 acres of land in Dorset township. He HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - has also been in the hotel business at Dorset Station, was for six years the deputy supervisor of elections for Ashtabula county, is the president and manager of the Dorset Telephone Company, and for twelve years has served his township as a trustee. He is a Republican in his political allegiance. At the present time he is a candidate fdr the office of county commissioner. Mr. McConnell married Mollie Camp, who was born in January, 1863, and they have had the following children : Charlie, who was born October 20, 1888, and is a graduate of the Western Reserve Law School at Cleveland ; Frank, born October 23, 1889, attended school in Andover, Ohio, and is now in the county surveyor's office at Jefferson ; Grant, born in 1892; Wade, January 6, 1897 ; and Don, February 26, 1902. Mr. McConnell is a State Police, and is a high degree Mason, a member of both the chapter and council, and a member of the fraternal order of Maccabees. WILLIAM CALTON INMAN is one of the most active business men of Dorset township, and is prominently known as a mill owner, charcoal manufacturer and farmer. He owns both saw and planing mills, also a large farm of B00 acres, and operates a number of charcoal plants, one at Dorset, one at Andover and another at Wick, and he furnishes employment to from twenty-five to fifty men. He has also been quite extensively engaged in contracting and building, having during the past summer of 1909 erected seven houses in Ashtabula, and he owns a lumber yard there and several residence properties. Mr. Inman is a grandson on the paternal side of Nicholas Inman, born in Vermont, who came to Ohio with ox teams many years ago, and later established his home in Erie county, Pennsylvania. His wife was nee Esther Whitmore, and their children included : Worlin C., who was born in 1830 and died on the l0th of March, 1905 ; Isaiah, who was born in 1831, a stone mason, lived in Dowagiac, Michigan, and died in 1907 ; David, who died in Wisconsin; Betsy, also deceased ; and Alvira, the wife of a Mr. Taylor and a resident of Kettle Falls, Washington, and Laura, wife of Abraham Clute, late of Kelloggsville, Ohio, deceased. Worlin C. Inman, the third born child in the above family, became a resident of Colebrook in this county when a small boy, and learned the trade of a blacksmith and wagon maker. He married Elizabeth Finlaw, wh0 was born in 183o and died May 9, 1904, and they became the parents of the following sons and daughters : Henry, born in 1850, married Elizabeth Williams, deceased, and he lives in Andover ; Martha, born in 1852, became the wife of Norman Fink, and died in 1877 ; James W., born in 1854, married Matilda Larson and resides in Ashtabula ; John, born in 1859, married Dora E. Smith, and their home is in Richmond Centre, of this county. William Calton Inman, the youngest child in the family of Worlin C. and Elizabeth Inman, born March 19, 1869, attended school at Jefferson, and later found employment in the woods. He married on the 12th of July, 1889, Jennie M. Phelps, a daughter of James M. and Mary M. (Smith) Phelps, and a son, Clyde, was born to them on the 29th of March, 1893. Mr. Inman has fraternal membership with the Modern Woodmen of America, a charter member of Andover Camp, No. 5,261, and he is a Republican in his political allegiance. He occupies a high place in the business circles of Ashtabula county, and, although yet young in years, his is proving a truly successful life. HOMER P. CUMINGS.—As an able representative of the profession of civil and mechanical engineering, Mr. Cumings has been identified with much work of important order, and not the least of this has been accomplished Within the time of his incumbency of the office of city engineer of Painesville, Lake county, of which position he has been in tenure since 1903, in which year the office was created. He is a member of one of the old and honored fainilies of Lake county and is well entitled to consideration in the publication, which is dedicated to the Western Reserve and its people. Mr. Cumings was born in Madison township, Lake county, Ohio, on the 19th of February, 1862, and is a son of Charles and Rebecca (Sullivan) Cumings. Further data in regard to the family genealogy may be found in the sketch of the career of Henry H. Cumings, on other pages of this work. Charles Cumings was a native of New Hampshire, and was a boy at the time when his father, Benjamin Cumings, removed to Ohio, settling first at Unionville, Union county, whence he later removed to Lake county. Charles Cumings was reared to manhood in the latter county and eventually he became one of the representative farmers of Madison township. He passed the 996 - TORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE closing years of his life at Madison, Ohio, where he died in 1900. His cherished and devoted wife survived him by three years. Both were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics he was a stanch advocate of the cause of the Republican party, though never a seeker of public office. Charles and Rebecca (Sullivan) Cumings became the parents of ten children, concerning whom the following brief record is entered : Henry H., who is a graduate of Oberlin College, is a resident of Tidioute, Pennsylvania, where he is engaged in the oil-production business ; Charles E. is engaged in the oil and gas business at East Brady, Pennsylvania; Frank A. is a resident of Madison, Lake county, Ohio, and is a farmer and coal dealer ; Jane R. is the widow of Howard Atkinson and resides in East Cleveland, Ohio ; Homer P., subject of this review, was the next in order of birth ; Miss Emily E., a deaconess of the Methodist Episcopal church, resides in Cleveland ; Ma'ry M. is a teacher in the Painesville high school and is a graduate of Oberlin College; Nellie L. is the wife of Allen N. Benjamin, of the village of Madison, Lake county ; Kate C. is the wife of Rev. Orlando Pershing, of Ada, Ohio ; E. Roscoe is professor of geology in the Indiana State University at Bloomington, Indiana, and is a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York, besides which he received from Yale University the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ; and Lucy, who became the wife of James Boyce, died at the age of fifty years. The old homestead farm is still owned by the family, and the present Cumings Homestead Park is that portion of the farm which lies along the shores of Lake Erie, a distance of about 1,000 feet, and which comprises about ten acres. This property was conveyed by deed to the ten children, and those of the number living now hold the property as an incorporated company, known as the Cumings Homestead Park Company. The park is beautifully situated, has a fine grove of trees, thirty years old, and is improved by effective landscape gardening. The place has been used for many years as a private summer resort. It lies due north of the village of Madison, and adjacent on the west is the Madison township park, a public park. The remainder of the old homestead is owned by Henry H. Cumings, the eldest son. Homer P. Cumings, whose name introduces this article, passed his boyhood and early youth on the old home farm of which mention has just been made, and after duly availing himself of the advantages of the public schools he entered the engineering department of Union College, at Schenectady, New York, in which he was graduated as a member of the Class of 1888, and from which he received the degree of Civil Engineer. After his graduation he engaged in practice as a general engineer in southern Missouri and later in Cleveland. He then returned to Union College as an instructor in civil engineering, and he was thus identified with the work of his alma mater for a period of six years, being most successful in his efforts and gaining a strong hold on the esteem of the students of his department. After leaving the college he returned to the city of Cleveland, where he engaged in both office and field work in connection with the construction of electric railways and where he maintained' his professional headquarters until 1898, when he took up his residence in Painesville, where he has since continued in the successful work of his profession. He has done all the city engineering work and has been city engineer from the time of the establishinent of this department of municipal service, in 1903, at which time also Painesville was incorporated as a city. Under his direction has been installed an effective system of sanitary sewers, which already cover a distance of fourteen miles. The paving work of the city has also been done under his supervision, as well as all incidental work relative to the establishing of grades and other engineering requirementS. He devotes the major portion of his attention to his official duties, and his administration has gained him the most unqualified commendation and approval. He is known as an able and progressive business man and loyal citizen and is held in high esteem in his native county. Here he was executor of his father's estate, and here he is the owner of valuable realty in addition to his interest in the old homestead, as noted in a preceding paragraph. Mr. Cumings is not active in the domain of practical politics, but takes a lively interest in all that touches the welfare of his home city. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he has been one of thq most prominent factors in advancing the interests of the Painesville Young Men's Christian Association, of which he is president at the time of this writing. He is a member of the Sigma Xi, an honorary college fraternity. At Willoughby, Ohio, on the 13th of Au- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 997 gust, 1891, Mr. Cumings was united in marriage to Miss Jennie M. Hills, a daughter of Clinton W. Hills, who is now living retired in Painesville. Mr. and Mrs. Cumings have two children—Mildred J. and Harold H. The attractive family home is a center of gracious hospitality and is a favored resort of a wide circle of friends. CLINTON W. HILLS.—This venerable and honored citizen of Painesville, where he is now living retired, has had an eventful career and one that has stood representative of consecutive industry and earnest purpose. His experiences in a business way have been varied, but he has had the ability and good fortune to so direct his efforts as to make ample provision for his declining years, which he is passing in peace and prosperity. Mr. Hills is a native of Vernon Center, Oneida county, New York, where he was born on the 1st of September, 1829. He is a son of Manley Miles Hills, and the latter was a son of Jesse Hills, who was prevailed upon to come to Ohio with the Mormons and who led the singing in the old temple of this organization in the village of Kirtland. Jesse Hills was in turn a son of Seth, who was a son of Benoni. The last mentioned was a son of Joseph, whose father, William Hills, the original American progenitor, came from Durham, England, and settled in Boston in 1632. Clinton W. Hills passed the first eleven years of his life on the farm of his father, who was also a cooper by trade and vocation, and thereafter he was "bound out" to a man named Tryon, with whom he remained until he had attained to the age of twenty-one years, when he was given $100 as full compensation for his services during the interval of ten years. His early educational advantages were most meager, but through self-discipline and the experiences gained in connection with the practical affairs of life he has become a .man of broad and accurate information. With the $100 which he had received he engaged in the poultry business with a partner, and the latter finally accumulated all the cash and left to him the experience, as is often the case. Under these conditions he secured work on a farm at eleven dollars a month, and within a year he had saved another $100, having lost but two days during the entire year. Realizing his need of better educational training along practical lines, he then went to Buffalo, New York, where he entered the Bryant & Stratton Business College, in which he completed a course of study, in the meanwhile paying his way by sweeping floors and doing such other work as came to hand. After leaving this school he found his cash exhausted, and under these conditions he secured from a dealer in New York a stock of steel pens, lead pencils, etc., which he sold to the trade. He worked day and night and finally gained sufficient experience to make him successful. He traveled in fully twenty different states, selling goods of this description, and in the meanwhile carefully conserved his resources, so that at the end of five years he had about $6,000. He purchased seventy acres of land in Willoughby township, Lake county, Ohio, having come hither to visit Mr. Tryon, with whom he had lived as a boy and who had located on a farm in Willoughby township, and he assumed possession in 1863. On December 31 of that year, in the city of Cleveland, Mr. Hills married Miss Emeline Horton, who was born in Rochester, New York, and who had come to Ohio to live with an uncle. The young couple settled on their farm in Willoughby township, where they remained five years. Mr. Hills then sold the property and joined his wife's uncle, Austin Fulter, in Kansas, where he engaged in the raising of cattle. He purchased a tract of land near Burlingame, Orange county, where he erected a house and made other improvements, but the Kansas winds proved so disagreeable that he sold the property and went to Winchester valley, Virginia, where he bought a farm of 140 acres, upon which he passed two years. As there were no public schools in the locality, he sold this property and returned to Lake county, Ohio, in order to give his children needed educational advantages. He here bought twenty-six acres in Willoughby township, one-half mile distant from his old farm, but as he liked the climate of the middle south he finally sold out and removed to Tennessee, locating near the village of Newmarket. There he passed two years under most pleasing environment, but he then returned to Lake county and bought a farm of thirty acres in Willoughby township. He again sold out and returned to the south, but finally came back to the same township and bought thirty acres lying adjacent to the first farm he had owned in Willoughby township. During the various removals and changes he had practically "held his own," but had not greatly increased his capital from that with which he started in Lake county. On 998 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE the last mentioned farm, however, he continued to reside from 1875 until 1903, when he sold the property and removed to Painesville, where he has since lived virtually retired. He made the best of improvements on his farm, which he devoted largely to the growing of fruits, in which line he made a specialty of peaches and grapes. He sold from the farm in one year 4,000 half-bushel baskets of these products, and his success is well indicated by this statement. He became an authority on fruit-growing in this section, and the attractive little homestead of which he was so long the owner is recognized as one of the best in the county. Mr. Hills took a deep interest in all that concerned the welfare and prosperity of his section of the county and held various local offices. His political support is given to the Republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Church of Christ. They have one son and one daughter-Edwin M., who is proprietor of a livery and boarding stable in the city of Cleveland, and Jennie, who is the wife of Homer P. Cumings, of Painesville, individually mentioned on other pages of this work. Mr. Hills is well preserved in physical and mental powers and in appearance gives slight indication of the four-score years that rest upon him. CONSTANT S. BACON is numbered among the well known and successful farmers of Monroe township, with whose interests he has been identified throughout nearly his entire business career. Leander Bacon, his father, born in New York in 1809, came to this state in 1868 from Wisconsin, and he had previously married Sarah A. Hillibert, who was born December 10, 1814, and she died on the 2d of January, 1883, the husband surviving her until the 6th of January, 1891, dying in Monroe township, Ashtabula county. They became the parents of the following children : Betsey, born January 8, 1831, lives in Nebraska ; Amanda, born in April, 1834, lives in New York ; Orlando, born in 1837, died July 4, 1908 ; Calista, born September 26, 1839, died in 1891 ; Frank, born in 1841, resides in Wisconsin ; Alfred, born December 25, 1845, died in August of 1896 ; and Constant was born February 18, 1849, in New York. Constant S. Bacon was twenty years of age when he became a resident of Ashtabula county and he is now one of the leading dairy farmers of Monroe township and a property owner, his estate numbering one hundred and fifty acres. He was formerly quite extensively engaged in the making of cheese and kept on an average twenty head of cattle, breeding Durham cattle for his own use. After ten years he gave up this branch of business and has since been a dairy farmer and grain raiser. He is a Republican in his political affiliations, and is a member of the State Police. Mr. Bacon married on June 6, 1869, Calista Hill, born October 23, 1851, a daughter of Wallace and Hannah (Laird) Hill, who are represented on other pages of this work. The children of this union are : Orlando, who was born March 10, 1870, and is now a Monroe township agriculturist ; Nell, born December 17, 1871, is living in Nebraska ; Fred, barn April 24, 1875, is in Monroe township ; Granville, born July 13, 1878, is also a Monroe township agriculturist ; Wardell, born September 3, 1882, is at home with his parents ; Nora, born June 2, 1885, lives in Springborough, Pennsylvania ; Floyd, born September 25, 1888, is a member of the regular army and living at Camp Sheridan, Illinois ; Agnes, born March 8, 1891, is at home ; and Sarah, born January 27, 1883, is also with her parents. The family are members of the Grange. WILLIAM WALLACE HILL, honored alike for his sterling worth of character, his patriotism and his true citizenship, represents an early pioneer family of Monroe township. Almerian Hill, his father, came to Ohio from Genesee county, New York, about the year of 1810. He had been defrauded of his money by signing notes, and came to the west to replenish his lost possessions, living for a short time at Conneaut, then called "Hunter Hill," and later established his home in Monroe township. He married Rachel Haskins in Canada, and their children were : John (deceased), Almerian, Jerusha, Robert, Judie Ann, Samuel, Alexander, Louisa, Hector, Marian, William Wallace and Luretta. William W. Hill, born December 19, 1828, spent the early years of his life in helping to clear the home farm, in chopping wood, building fences and at various other labor necessary on a new and undeveloped farm. There were no roads and scarcely any houses in this community at that time, and his young life was replete with pioneer conditions. He spent one year in a blacksmith shop, and enlisting for the Civil war in August of 1861, he was mustered in in the following September and was made member of Company E, Twenty-ninth Ohio HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 999 Volunteer Infantry, under Captain H. Luce. But in 1862 he was honorably discharged from the service on account of sickness, thereafter receiving a pension until he relinquished it in 1865, owing to the then poor financial condition of the government. He again in 1895 applied for his pension and received the pension in full. During the past two years he has suffered the loss of his eyesight, but he bears this affliction with the same courage and fortitude which has characterized his entire life. He married in Espyville, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1848, Hannah Laird, who was born January 26, 1829, and her parents, Nathan and Hannah (Allen) Laird, were respectively from the Green Mountains in Vermont and from the state of New York. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hill : Celestia, born October 10, 1849, married C. Wittwer and lives in Wright county, Missouri ; Calista, born October 23, 1851, married C. Bacon, mentioned in the sketch of Constant Bacon, and they live in Monroe township, Ashtabula county ; Solyma, born December 1, 1853, married Hiram Sevey and is living in Monroe township ; Jasper, born March 1, 1856, lives in Monroe township, and is mentioned more at length below ; Lydia Louisa, born October 24, 1857, married Thomas Scribner, of Monroe township; Ida, born February 26, 1862, died in 1902 ; Nora, born September 26, 1860, married Andrew Lanum and lives at Painesville, Ohio ; and Laura, born October 14, 1870, married Elmer Pitts and lives in Loveland, Colorado. Jasper Hill, a son of William and Hannah Hill, has been a lifelong farmer, and he received his education in the district schools of Monroe township. He is a general farmer, and also maintains a small dairy and raises some stock for sale, keeping on an average about sixty sheep. He owns an estate of 110 acres in Sheffield township, Ashtabula county. Mr. Hill married on February 6, 1876, Ellen Patrick, who was born January 19, 1856, a daughter of William and Hannah (Leavitt) Patrick, the father born in 1811 and died in 1877, and the mother born in 1829, died in 1868. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Hill are Ray and Wallace. The elder, born March 28, 1877, married Janetta Cowan and lives in Sheffield township. The younger son, born June 19, 1879, married Ruby Crosby and als0 lives in Sheffield township. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hill are members of the Grange, and Vol. II-19 she is also a member of the Congregational church. HARLEY BARNES.-A citizen of Painesville standing high in its business, intellectual and religious circles, Harley Barnes is a native of Ohio, born at Chester, Geauga county, March 6, 1859. He was first educated in district schools and completed his scholastic training at Chester Seminary. Mr. Barnes was reared on a farm, but after leaving the seminary spent a number of years in newspaper work, which proved a valuable discipline for him, both in the way of mental training and in the cultivation of self-possession and adaptability. Mr. Barnes' journalistic career was interspersed with the reading of law, and in 1884 he was admitted to practice at Painesville. Both his professional work and his labors for the Republican party were thoroughly appreciated by. his friends and associates, so that in 1891 he was honored with appointment as recorder of Lake county. The discharge of these duties led to the establishment of an abstract business, which gradually developed and expanded into real estate, banking and investments, to which Mr. Barnes now devotes himself, to his encouraging profit and increase of reputation as a broad, honorable and successful man of affairs. He is not only a successful promoter of various investment enterprises, but has always held many positions of a fiduciary nature, which call for both executive and managerial ability and an integrity which is proof against all temptation. Mr. Barnes' intellectual talents run along the line of history, and in that field he is widely known throughout the Western Reserve. He is a life member of the Ohio Archeological and Historical Society and of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and vice-president of the Old Northwest Genealogical Society. He is also deeply interested in church and Sunday school work, and in all else which tends to elevate the intellectual or moral life of those with whom he associates. ELMER E. ROYER, cultivator of a valuable farm in Randolph township, Portage county, is the son of George Amos and Anna (Lookenbauch) Royer, who are still located on the old and productive farm in the center of the township, upon which their son was reared. Mr. Royer, of this sketch, wa's born in Pennsylvania (also the birthplace of his parents), November 6, 1862, and was brought to Ran-