(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 825 elect his home, which now includes twelve rooms and a bath, and built his present barns, one being a combined horse-barn and wagon-house 30 by 60 feet, with 18-foot posts, and the other 58 by 60 feet, with 22-foot posts, for his stock, and, in addition, has a fine granary, 20 by 28 feet. He keeps his buildings in the best of condition, and his farm in general presents a fine appearance. Mr. Hanson was married to Orrie Stewart, who was a daughter of Thomas and Catherine Stewart, of Stow Township. She died in 1896, aged thirty-eight years, having been the mother of six children, namely : Rose E., Zena, Charles Frederick, Abigail I., Thomas S. and Eddie, the latter of whom died aged seven years. In his political views, Mr. Hanson is a Republican, and he has filled the offices of school director and supervisor, and been township trustee for sixteen years. JULIUS OSCAR WILLIAMSON, one of Stow Township's leading citizens, resides on his well-equipped farm of 186 acres, which he devotes to general farming and dairying. Mr. Williamson was born in Stow Township, Summit County, Ohio, on the farm he now owns, March 14, 1846, and is a son of Palmer and Amy (Horton) Williamson. Palmer Williamson was born in Westchester County, New York, October 9, 1802, and died April 30, 1883. From the age of sixteen years he was entirely dependent upon his own efforts, and from poverty and through many hardships he climbed to affluence also, and gained the respect and confidence of all who came within his sphere. In his youth he worked on the docks and engaged in lumbering. In 1823 he secured a. position as shipping clerk at Poughkeepsie. where he continued for three years, doing the hardest kind of dock work. After his marriage in 1827, he settled down to farming and this continued his main occupation during the rest of his life. Prior to coming to Ohio he kept a tavern for one year at Goshen, New York. In the spring of 1831, he brought his family to Tallmadge Township, Ohio, but three years later settled in Stow Township, where he in- vested his capital in a farm of eighty acres. With the help of a frugal, industrious wife, he achieved success and became a man of ample fortune. His life proved the value of industry, temperance and perseverance, and while it presented no heroic qualities, its unselfishness and general well-doing left its beneficient influence on his family and community. In 1827 Palmer Williamson was married to Amy Horton and they had the following children: Mary, Horton, Bradner, Susan, Jane, Aldrette and Julius Oscar. The mother died September 27, 1879, aged seventy-six years. Julius Oscar Williamson found life much easier in his boyhood than did his father, and he was afforded fair opportunities in the way of education. After graduating from the High School at Cuyahoga Falls, he attended Hiram College, and for the subsequent eight years taught school through the winter seasons, and gave his father assistance on his farm and in the dairy during the summers. In 1865 he enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering Company D, 198th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, contracting for two years, but actually serving but five weeks, on account of the happy termination of the great struggle, and he was honorably discharged on May 8, 1865. Mr. Williamson is an intelligent, practical farmer and dairyman, who successfully employs modern methods in the conduct of his business. His dairy requires twenty cows to keep up the necessary supply of milk, and he devotes from eighteen to twenty acres of his land to corn, the same to wheat, and from fifteen to twenty acres to oats, and some six acres to potatoes. His silo is fourteen feet square. His dwelling is substantial and everything about the farm gives testimony to careful management. Formerly Mr. Williamson was a member of the local Grange, and has always been interested in the agricultural development of his section. On February 21, 1875, Mr. Williamson was married to Rozetta Z. White, who is a daughter of H. J. White, of Ravenna, and 826 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY the have had six children, namely: Henry J., residing at Stow Corners, married Ruth Gaylord, of Stow, and they have three children, Valda, H. Julius and Gaylord; Homer E., operating the home farm with his father, married Alice Nickerson, of Stow, and they have one child, Arlene; Don P., residing at Stow Corners, married Jessie Durbin; Arba G., residing at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; and Earl C. and Amy A., residing at home. The family belong to the Church of Christ, in which Mr. Williamson is an elder, and formerly was superintendent of the Sunday School. He is a thoughtful man who casts his vote as his judgment advises. For many years he has held local office, serving as township trustee and supervisor and also as a useful member of the School Board. His father was a Mason, having joined the fraternity in New York, but Mr. Williamson is not identified with any secret society. W. LEWIS SHOEMAKER, president of the Day Drug Company, a large retail drug organization of Akron, is one of the leading business men of the city. He was born October 10, 1869, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty-three years he left the home farm on which he had been reared and began work as clerk in a drug store, being thus employed first at Cumberland, Maryland, and later at Wheeling, West Virginia. In April, 1899, Mr. Shoemaker came to Akron and engaged in a drug business. In November, 1905, The Day Drug Company was incorporated, with a capital stock of $15,000. Its officers are: W. Lewis Shoemaker, president and treasurer, and Sallie B. Shoemaker, secretary, which officials, together with Mark Gair and Scott Housekeeper, constitute a board of directors. The business, entirely retail, is in a very prosperous condition. In addition to his drug interests, Mr. Shoemaker is a stockholder and a director in the Dollar Savings Bank, and is also interested in Akron real estate. In De-camber, 1890, Mr. Shoemaker was married to Sallie Bradley, of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and they have two daughters, Mary and Blanche. Mr. Shoemaker is a Knight Templar Mason and belongs to the Masonic club. LUCIUS C. MILES, vice-president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, is a leading citizen of Akron, whose activities have been directed along both business and political lines. He was born at Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1870 Mr. Miles came to Akron and completed his education in the Akron High School. He entered into busines in partnership with Charles Dick, and they dealt in grain for a period of six years. He became identified with other business enterprises and subsequently was elected president of the Akron Cereal Company, which was merged with the Great Western Cereal Company in 1901. Mr. Miles is on the directing board of the above company, and is also vice-president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Mr. Miles married Harriet M. Seiberling, who is a daughter of John F. Seiberling. Mr. Miles has been an active citizen and to such a degree that in 1895, he was elected treasurer of Akron and of Summit County, was re-elected in 1896, and served for four years. Personally he is a man of business honor and of social standing. CHARLES S. SPANGLER, a representative business man of Clinton, Ohio, who is dealing in general merchandise, was born on the old Spangler home farm in Franklin Township, Summit County, Ohio, April 24, 1859, and is a son of Joseph and Caroline (Smith) Spangler. David Spangler, the grandfather of Charles S., came to Ohio from Adams County, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Elizabeth (Boety) Spangler, and settled north of Clinton on a farm still in possession of the family, where the rest of their lives was spent. Their children were: Joseph, John, David. Ephraim, Henry, Jane and Elizabeth. Joseph Spangler father of Charles S., was born on the home place in Franklin Township, and grew up on the farm which he AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 827 helped to clear. Mr. Spangler now lives a retired life at Akron, but still owns a farm in Franklin Township. He was married, first, to Caroline Smith, a native of Franklin Township and daughter of Daniel Smith, who came from Pennsylvania and settled as a pioneer in Ohio. There were ten children born to Joseph and Caroline Spangler, of whom six died in infancy. Those who reached mature years were: Adam G.; John, now deceased; Charles S.; and Jennie C., who married O. W. Baum. After Mrs. Spangler,s death, Mr. Spangler married for his second wife Adeline Hoy, who was born in South Perry, Hocking County, Ohio. Three children were born of this union—David E., Irving H., and Joseph G. Charles S. Spangler attended the district schools in boyhood, and worked on his father's farm until 1893, when he located in Clinton and went into partnership with P. M. Frase in a general store. After ten years of successful business dealings this partnership was dissolved, Mr. Spangler purchasing Mr. Frase,s interests, and since that time he has carried on the business alone. Here he handles a fine line- of general stock, while at Turkeyfoot Lake, where he established a branch store in 1906, he carries fancy and staple groceries. On October 3, 1881, Mr. Spangler was married to Eleanor H. Whitmyer, who was born in Franklin Township, on her father,s farm, and is a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Haring) Whitmyer. Mr. and Mrs. Spangler have been the parents of four childrenG. Howard, a graduate of Buchtel College; Clinton Grover; Charles Russell; and Elizabeth Beatrice. Mr. Spangler is a member of the order of Maccabees, and in politics is a Democrat. He belongs to the Christian Church, in which he is an elder, and his son Howard deacon and superintendent of the Sunday School. LUTHER KESLEY RANNEY, fruit grower and farmer, residing on his highly-cultivated farm of fifty acres, in Boston Township. was born in Summit County, Ohio, Au- gust 19, 1856, and is a son of Luther B. and Caroline (Clapp) Ranney. The Ranney family is one of the oldest in America and has produced many famous men and women. The ancestral line may be traced to one Thomas Raney, who came to the colonies from Scotland, subsequent members adding the other letters which make the name as it now stands. The original settler, Thomas had a son, also Thomas, whose son Nathaniel, was the great-great-grandfather of Luther Kelsey Ranney. Nathaniel Ranney (1) died in 1766. Nathaniel Ranney (2), the great-grandfather, died in 1800, leaving a son, Comfort Ranney, who came as one of the earliest set tlers to Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio, from a place which is now known as Cromwell, Connecticut. Luther K. Ranney has in his possession a wooden bottle, holding a gallon of liquid, which was made in the days of the French and Indian Wars, which was carried by Comfort Ranney, and which his father had used during the Revolutionary War. It is said that on one occasion the great General Washington accepted a drought from its contents. Comfort Ranney was born March 20, 1788. His wife, Betsey Hubbard, to whom he was married in 1808, accompanied him to Ohio. He was a ship-builder by trade. He located first at Hudson, but soon afterward removed to Cleveland, where he later acquired a large amount of land which subsequently became valuable, but, unfortunately for his descendants, not before it had passed out of his possession. He returned to Hudson and operated a sawmill, and after it was destroyed by fire, in 1820, he moved to Boston Township, purchasing the farm on which Luther K. Ranney resides. He died July 14, 1823. His widow subsequently married William Collier, and died January 4, 1868, aged seventy-eight years. There were two sons born to her second marriage, M. J. and Fred M. Collier, both of whom made brilliant records during the Civil War. Both are deceased. When Comfort Ranney died, it seemed necessary to part with the homestead farm. 828 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY This loss was keenly felt by his son, Luther B. Ranney, who was then a youth of fourteen years. He determined to regain possession of the old home and immediately accepted proposition made by a neighboring farmer named Deacon Hudson. This was that Mr. Romney should receive the sum of five dollars a month for his service for a specified time, while Mr. Hudson should take up a pending mortgage and thus give Mr. Ranney,s mother, brothers and sisters a home. Mr. Ranney continued to work for Mr. Hudson until he was twenty-one years of age, gradually being able to command more pay, and he lived to see his commendable ambition satisfied, becoming the proud owner of the old farm on the State road. While in Mr. Hudson’s employ, he hauled a portion of the brick for building the Western Reserve College. The farm now contains eighty acres, Mr. Ranney having added a few acres to the original tract after it came into his possession. He was a man of great firmness and determination. Naturally gifted with a fine understanding, he would doubtless have made his mark had he been afforded educational advantages. As it was, he overcame difficulties that would have discouraged an ordinary man, took a leading part in the life of his community, and as an exemplary Christian, set an example. He never united with any religious body, but was a great student of the Bible, reading it with a broad sense of its meaning, such as he could never find included in the tenents of any church. In all things moral and temperate he was praiseworthy, and so lived that his fellow-citizens commended him and pointed him out as an example to the rising generation. In his political life he supported measures and candidates who could show their substantial claims to recognition, but in no sense was he ever a politician, and the only office he ever held was that of township trustee. He was born November. 28, 1809. In 1833, Luther B. Ranney was married (first) to Salley M. Carter, who died July 29, 1846, leaving the following children : Martha, who died aged eighteen years; Mary deceased, married Willis Leach; Comfort, residing Lansing, Michigan; Harriet Sophia, who di in 1907, was the second wife of Willis Leach and Sarah M., residing with her half-brother Luther K. Ranney. On April 6, 1847, Lu ther B. Ranney was married (second) to Car line Clapp, who was born May 3, 1821, an died May 26, 1895. She was a daugh ter of Rev. Richard and Anna (Alvord) Clapp, of Northampton, Massachusetts. There were three children born to the second union, namely: Julia Ann, who marri John Criss, residing at South Frankfort, Michigan; Luther Kelsey; and Carrie M., who married William H. Evans, residing at Akron. The family always has resided on the farm with the exception of three years when the lived at Akron, coming to the city in ord tc provide better educational facilities for th children. During the early western gold d' coveries, in 1850, Luther B. Ranney went t California by way of the Isthmus of Panam and was absent for four years, engaged in min ing, and met with success. Luther Kelsey Ranney attended the district schools until he was seventeen years old, when he accompanied the family to Akron, where he entered the preparatory department. of Buchtel College. There he worked hard, crowding the studies of three years so that he completed the preparatory course in two years. He then entered the classical department of the college, taking the course but not completing it, at the same time doing a large amount. of extra work on the farm. He was especially proficient in Greek and Latin, and this led the faculty to urge on him the project of fitting himself for a professorship in languages. Mr. Ranney would have found in professional life, especially in 'this line, much that was congenial, but he had to consider the falling health of his parents and the need they had of his strength, judgment, and services on the farm, and he speedily settled the matter, by putting aside his own personal desires, and returning to Boston Township. On the homestead farm he carries on a general line of agriculture and makes the growing of fruit a specialty. His peach or- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 831 chards have particularly interested him, and he raises a large amount of all varieties of fine fruit and berries. His fruit stock has been scientifically selected, and under his fostering care produces in abundance. Formerly, he did some trucking. He keeps about fifteen head of cattle and ships his milk to Cleveland. Mr. Ranney married Mary M. Ozman, who was a daughter of Abraham Neuman Unpaid, of Boston Township, and they had three children: Luther Carroll, Neuman Clinton and Caroline Eliza. Mrs. .Ranney was formerly a member of the Congregational Church at Hudson and a leader in Sunday-school work. Her death, which occurred July 27, 1897, removed a woman of most lovely Christian character from her home and community. Politically, Mr. Hawley is an Independent Democrat. Be retains his membership in the Delta Tint Delta Greek letter fraternity of Buchtel College. He has a magnificient library of over 1,000 carefully selected volumes, and when other interests fail, Mr. Ranney can generally be found finding pleasure and recreation in his books, toward which his natural inclinations have always led. JOHN T. FISHER, a member of the firm of Fisher Brothers, lumber dealers and manufacturers of doors, sash and blinds, at Akron, was born in Portage County, Ohio, in 1859, "where he was reared and secured a district school education. In early manhood Mr. Fisher learned the carpenter trade and learned it so thoroughly that for twenty-six years his work was in demand in every section he lived in, and it has all stood the test of time. He became a somewhat noted builder of bank barns, his record being of sixty-two of these substantial structures. The one he erected for W. G. Hays & Son, near Ravenna, was 200 feet long and 50 wide, with 32-foot posts, being the largest barn ever built in this section of the country. He also erected numerous residences of different styles of architecture. For four years he was interested in a lumber business at Kent and came to Akron in 1901, where, in association with his brother Philip, his partner. he erected the planing mill and lumber plant at No. 945 South High Street. The firm of Fisher Brothers do an extensive business and personally they stand high in public esteem. In 1887 Mr. Fisher was married to Mary Knapp, of Suffield, Portage County, Ohio, and they have three children, namely: Jennie, Edith and Esther. The eldest daughter was educated in the schools at Kent and Akron, and after graduating from the Akron Business College, became bookkeeper for the firm of Fisher Brothers and is a very capable young lady. Mr. Fisher and family belong to St. Bernard,s Church. LUCIUS V. BIERCE, who has resided on his valuable farm of over 100 acres, situated in Tallmadge Township, for the past thirty-two years, is a member of a family which has made the name one of distinction in Ohio, ever since it journeyed down the Connecticut Valley to the Western Reserve. Lucius V. Bierce was horn June 2, 1827, in Athens County, Ohio, and is a son of William and Harriet (Hineman) Bierce. For seven years the grandfather of Lucius V. Bierce fought in the Patriot army, in the Revolutionary War. The first of the family concerning whom reliable records have been found, was James Bierce, who was born in England prior to 1730, and who emigrated and settled at Halifax, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, his son, Hezekiah Bierce being born on May 25th of that year. The latter married Deborah Sturtevant, who was born January 23, 1732, and they were the great-grandparents of Lucius V. Bierce. William Bierce, son of Hezekiah and Deborah Bierce, was born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, March 26, 1753, and he married Abigail Bell, who was born October 2, 1754. In April, 1775, William Bierce enlisted in the Continental army, in which he served until honorably discharged in November, 1783. He belonged to Colonel Herman Swift,s regiment of Connecticut troops sent immediately after his enlistment., to Ticonderoga. This was then considered, as it truly was, an outpost of civilization, and with the rank of orderly 832 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY sergeant, William Biome did good service here as at other points, participating in the battles of Monmouth, White Plains and Fort George, and starving with his comrades through the dreadful winter at Valley Forge. No better proof of the strenuous life these patriots led in those stormy times, can be found than the •act that when Sergeant Bierce left the army, every superior officer of his company had either been killed or died from hardship. Another unhappy condition was that the soldiers were paid in money that at the end of the war was not negotiable, and for his seven years of faithful service, William Bierce found himself possessed of a bunch of script, of no use except as playthings for his children. He came to Nelson, Ohio, an old man, and his death occurred there. Early in life he was a miller. His grandson, Lucius V. Bierce, preserves the old veteran,s powder horn, of which he made good use at Ticonderoga, in 1775, and which he carried during his seven years of service. Mr. Bierce also treasures a title deed to property, which was given his grandfather in 1803, which bears the signature of Thomas Jefferson, as President of the United States, and of James Madison, Secretary of State. The children born to William and Abigail Bierce were the following: Lucretia, who was born July 30, 1787, died March 10, 1847, and became the mother of Judge Robert F. Paine, of Cleveland; Hannah, who was born March 2, 1789, married Jeremiah Fuller and died at Nelson, Portage County, where they lived; Columbus, who was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, March 8, 1791, became a physician, and moved to Athens. Ohio, and later to Circleville, in Pickaway County, where he died; William, father of Lucius V., was born in Connecticut, in 1793; Lucinda, who was born December 20, 1796, married Dr. Hopkins, of Nelson, Ohio, where she died; Marcus Aurelius, who was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, August 16, 1799, settled at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, where he was a merchant, but died in Indiana, and is survived by a son, Ambrose Bierce, who is an author. and Lucius V., who became so promi- nent in military life and so distinguished a citizen of Ohio. General Bierce was born in the family home at Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, August 4, 1801, from which place he moved to Athens, Ohio, where he entered the Ohio University, from which he was graduated September 11, 1822. He then went to the South, starting for South Carolina, October 9, 1822, carrying his grip-sack in which, along with his clothing and small necessities, he had a splendid letter of indorsement to Robert J. Fennel, a lawyer at Yorkville, under whom he began the study of law, after he had recovered from his long walk to that point. In 1823, he was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Alabama, to which State he had subsequently removed, and the whole course of his life might have been different bad he not listened to the entreaties of his father to return and comfort the latter's declining years. Again strapping the grip-sack on his shoulders, the young man started on his homeward trip of 1,800 miles, and reached Ravenna, Portage County, in time to be admitted to the Ohio bar in 1824. In 1825, he was appointed district attorney, an office he creditably filled for eleven years, when he removed his activities to Akron. During 1837-8 he was prominently identified with the military operations along the border and had command of the forces at Fort Malden. He then returned to Akron and resumed the practice of law until the Mexican War broke out, in which he took an active part. Aside from his military record, had well-deserved notoriety for professional ability and literary accomplishment. One of the valuable results of his studies is found in the two volumes of Digest cases which he compiled and arranged in alphapctical order. He also wrote a comprehensive history of the Western Reserve. He was an authority on historical matters and this interest has descended to his nephew, Lucius V., who has been identified with the Tallmadge Historical Society since its organization, in 1858, has filled all its offices and is the only surviving member of its body of organizers. General Bierce was AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 833 prominent politically and served as mayor of Akron until he declined to longer hold the office. As early as 1853, he was elected grand master of the Grand Lodge of Masons, in Ohio. William Bierce, father of Lucius V., was married (first) in 1818, at Athens, to Lucinda Culver, and they had two children : Mary N., who was born July 30, 1820, married Derastus Harper, and died when more than eighty years of age; and James Culver, who was born in 1822, and resides in California. The second wife of William Bierce was Harriet Hindman and they had two children, Elizabeth L. and Lucius V. Elizabeth L. Bierce was born in 1825, and is a resident of Tallmadge. She survives her husband, the late Spaulding Beach, with two children, Edward E. and Jessie. The latter resides with her mother. The former, Edward E. Beach, is manager of the Baldwin Piano Factory, at Chicago Heights, Illinois. Lucius V. Bierce came from Athens County, Ohio, to Portage County, when two years of age. His education was secured in the schools of Ravenna, and in 1843, he came to Tallmadge, where he completed his education under Gov. Sidney Edgerton. Later he learned the carriage-trimming trade, commencing his apprenticeship in the Oviatt, Sperry Carriage Works, but in 1875, he turned his attention to farming, settling then on his present property, removing from Tallmadge Center, where he had previously lived. He has long been one of the township,s leading citizens, taking an active part in its educational, religious and political life. In his early years he was a Democrat, but for the whole life of the Republican party, has upheld its principles. At various times he has served in township offices and always to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens. Mr. Bierce was married (first) to Delia Robinson, December 11, 1850, who died November 15, 1856. They had two children, Alice Delia and Edmond Lucius, the latter of whom was born November 3, 1856, and died June 4, 1857. Alice Delia Bierce was born December 4, 1851, and subsequently was married to A. E. Lyman, of the Lyman Lumber Company, of Akron. They have one son, Lucius Bierce Lyman, who married Laverne Bishop, of Medina County, Ohio, and they have one son, Richard. Lucius V. Bierce was married (second) to Harriet H. Camp, who can claim kindred with a number of the oldest and most prominent families of New England. Mrs. Bierce was born in Tallmadge Township, and is a daughter of Martin and Sallie (Coe) Camp. Martin Camp was born at New Preston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, October 6, 1791, and came to Tallmadge in 1815. He resided at the home of his uncle, Asaph Whittlesey. He purchased 200 acres of land northeast of Tallmadge, which became very valuable. On March 28, 1816, he married Sallie Coe, who was born at Granville, Massachusetts, and accompanied her family who settled at Charleston, Ohio. She was a teacher at Charleston and Tallmadge Center. This marriage was the first one celebrated at Charleston, Portage County, Ohio. Tracing the Coe branch of Mrs. Bierce,s ancestry, it is found that Robert Coe lived at Litchfield at a very early date and died at Jamaica, New York, after 1687. He was a native of England, where he was born in 1596. His wife Anna was born in England in 1591 and died prior to 1674, at Jamaica, New York. They had three sons: John, born in 1626; Robert, born in 1627, and Benjamin, born in 1629. In June, 1634, they settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, and in 1635 removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1641, to Stamford, in 1644, to Hempstead, New York, and in 1652, to Newton, New York, where the son John settled. Benjamin settled at Jamaica, New York, and there Robert Coe went in 1656. Robert, the second son, left his father at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1644, and went to Stratford, where he married Hannah Mitchell. Their son, John Coe (3), married Mary Hanley and lived at Stratford, where their fourth son, Ephraim Coe, was born. He removed to Durham, Connecticut, and later to Middletown. He married Hannah Miller and their son, 834 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY Samuel Coe, married Hope Hubbard and they removed to Granville, Massachusetts. Their son, Capt. David Coe, was born March 3, 1761, and died July 24, 1824. Captain Coe served in the Revolutionary War. He married Sarah Pratt, and in 1813, settled at Charlestown, where she died in July, 1828. Martin Camp died January 14, 1872, his wife having passed away September 17, 1850. They were pioneers in all the civilizing movements which benefitted the community. The children of Martin Camp and wife were: Heman Coe, now aged eighty-four years, who resides at Mentor, Ohio, married Samantha Clark, of Lake County ; Henry Newton, aged eighty-one years, married Celia Wright, daughter of Amos C. Wright, and resides with a daughter at Detroit, Michigan ; Leroy, aged seventy-nine years, married Harriet Scott, of Tallmadge, and they reside at Cleveland ; Mary Whittlesey, born in 1818, married Orestes Wright of Tallmadge, and died in February, 1883 ; Sarah C., born in 1821, married John Emery, of Philadelphia, and died October 29, 1895 ; and Harriet H., the youngest of the family, who is the wife of Lucius V. Bierce. The children born to the second marriage of Lucius V. Bierce are the following, all prominent members of the communities in which the circumstances of life have placed them : Antoinette, born June 28, 1861, married Harry D. Reed of Weeping Water, Nebraska, and they have three children, Donald, Robert and Helen ; Wallace Camp, born September 5, 1863, married Mollie Hoge, of Kearney, Nebraska, and they have three children, Alice, Bruce and Marion ; Flora Elizabeth, born March 27, 1868, married Thomas J. Dee, of Chicago ; Fannie Louise, born April 26, 1872, married Carlton B. Skinner, of Tallmadge, who died October 27, 1900, leaving one daughter, Charlotte Bierce and Henry Newell, born July 30, 1874, unmarried. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bierce have been members of the Congregational Church for the past fifty years and they are widely known for their practical Christianity. Since he was twenty-two years of age, Mr. Bierce has been connected with the Masonic fraternity, and has been a member of the local Grange since its organization. H. J. EMERMAN, senior member of the firm of H. J. Emerman and Company, of Akron, wholesale dealers in iron, steel and metals, was born in Germany, in 1880, and is a son of Benjamin Emerman. The father of Mr. Emerman engaged in a clothing business at Akron, after coming to the United States. Later he removed his business interests to Erie, Pennsylvania, and makes his home at Cleveland. H. J. Emerman attended school at Akron, after which he was engaged for eighteen months as a clerk in a grocery store, following which he served in the same capacity in his father,s clothing store for two years. He then became a clerk for Emerman Brothers, who conducted a scrap iron business, and he continued eight years in that postition with the same firm. When new yards were opened at Cleveland, H. J. Emerman was placed in charge of the Akron branch, and in 1904, the old firm was succeeded by the present one. Mr. Emerman is interested in other Akron enterprises. On February 16, 1904, Mr. Emerman was married to Bertha B. Louer, who is a daughter of Meyer Louer. Mr. Louer is now a resident of Omaha, Nebraska, but for a number of years he was in the clothing business at Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Emerman have one son, Walter. They are members of High Street Temple, of the Akron Hebrew Congregation. Fraternally, Mr. Emerman is identified with the Masons and the Elks. Socially, he belongs to the Kirkwood club. FRANK BUTLER, who, in partnership with his brother, John Butler, has been cultivating their excellent farm of 150 acres, in Boston Township, since 1870, is one of the leading agriculturists of this section, and is a son of Thomas and Catherine (Brennan) Butler. Thomas Butler was born in County Wex- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 835 ford, Ireland, where he learned the trade of mason. After his marriage, he came to America and with his wife eight months later settled near Botzum, Northampton Township, Summit County. He worked at first on the old Clinton Air Line Railroad, but later purchased a farm of sixty acres, in Northampton Township. He was a very capable and industrious workman and built nearly all of the brick houses in his neighborhood, plastered hundreds of structures and built over 150 cellars in Peninsula alone. He married Catherine Brennan and they had eight children, namely: Frank, John, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Martha, Catherine and Christopher. Frank Butler was educated in the common schools of Boston Township, and in his youth did much work in the woods at lumbering, this being a heavily timbered region at that time. In the spring of 1864, he enlisted in Company B, 188th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and his services continued until the close of the war. His brother John Butler served in Company E, 124th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. While on the march from Missionary Ridge to Knoxville, be was taken prisoner by the Confederates and was sent to Richmond, from whence he was re-'moved to the prison at Belle Island, where he was kept for four months. It is stating the truth to say that while there, John Butler was nearly starved to death. He owes his life to a comrade, whose loyal friendship and persistent entreaty secured recognition from some Confederate officers of Mr. Butler’s pitiable condition. Both Frank and John Butler were brave and gallant soldiers, the cheerful, faithful, hard-fighting kind of men that made the Northern forces invincible. Their war records are such as any man might well be proud to acknowledge. In 1870, the Butler brothers purchased their present farm, of which seventy-five acres are under cultivation, being devoted to hay, wheat, corn and oats, in addition to which is an apple orchard of 100 trees. In 1877, a fine residence was built by Frank Butler, a substantial structure having ten rooms. Mr. Butler is a Republican in politics. LOUIS R. MAY, secretary and treasurer of the Frantz-Body Company, one of Akron,s large and important manufacturing concerns, was born in 1876, at Akron, and is a son of IL A. May, of this city. Mr. May’s happy boyhood was spent in study and play, in his native city, where he completed the High School course prior to taking a commercial course in a business college at Buffalo, New York, and later a general literary course at Buchtel College. For seven years he was connected with the Citizens National Bank, and when it was consolidated with the Second National Bank, he remained with the new organization for one year, and then came to the Frantz-Body Manufacturing Company, with which he has been identified ever since, becoming secretary and treasurer at the time of its reorganization, in 1904. In January, 1905, Mr. May was married to Gertrude Wanamaker, who is a daughter of Hon. R. M. Wanamaker, of Akron. Mr. May stands deservedly high among the business men of Akron. JAMES SULLIVAN, a representative citizen of Boston Township, who owns an unusually fine farm, consisting of 151 acres, was born in County Clare, Ireland, August 14, 1847, and is a son of Michael and Bridget (Ryan) Sullivan. Michael Sullivan, who was also a native of County Clare, Ireland, came to America in 1850, bringing his family with him, and in 1853 he purchased his first farm, which was in Twinsburg Township, Summit County, Ohio. In 1865, he removed to a farm on the State Road, in Boston Township, where his death occurred when he was over eighty years of age. He was a Democrat in politics. He married Bridget Ryan, who was also born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1825, and died in 1889. They had five children: James; John, who is deceased; Delia, who resides at Hudson ; Lawrence, who lives in Boston 836 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY Township; and Agnes, who also resides at Hudson. James Sullivan went to school a part of a term in Boston Township, and the balance of his education was obtained at Twinsburg. He remained on his father,s farm until twenty-six years of age, at which time he was married. Two years before marriage he purchased a farm, with his brother Lawrence, but in 1886 he sold his interest to his brother, and purchased his present property. At that time the land seemed barren, for not even a tree was growing on it, but Mr. Sullivan soon changed its appearance. He set out all of the beautiful shade trees which now are so thrifty, built an addition to the home then standing, improved all the buildings, and has a substantial barn 32x102 feet, with 18-foot posts, and built a silo 16x32x32 feet. He has made this one of the beat farms in Boston Township. He cultivates about sixty-five acres, raising wheat, corn, oats and hay, and keeps about thirty head of cattle, disposing of his milk at Cleveland. Mr. Sullivan is a Democrat in politics. He is a member of the Grange at Darrowville. For the greater part of the past twenty years he has been a member of the Board of Eudcation in Boston Township. Mr. Sullivan was married to Mary McGuire, who is a daughter of John McGuire, of Solon, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. They have five children, namely: Charles A., who resides in Hudson Township, has one child, Mildred; Hugh A., who resides in Hudson Township; Laura, who married H. C. Robinson, of Cuyahoga Falls, has one child, Gladys Mary ; Elsie, who married H. A. Wolcott of Macedonia, Ohio; and Lawrence C., who lives at home. Mrs. Sullivan is a member of St. Mary,s Catholic Church, and . is active in church and charitable work. CAPTAIN ADAM BOTZUM, one of the grand old men of Northampton Township, resided there for nearly a half century. He was born October 25, 1830, in Strasburg, Germany, and died in Summit County, Ohio, October 15, 1907, and is a son of John George and Katherine (Dragaser) Botzum. John George Botzum was born in Germany in 1796, a son of John Botzum. He married Katherine Dragaser, who was born in 1796, in the village of Urmmerspach, Germany, whose parents removed to Poland when she was seven years old, and whom she never saw again, she making her home with relatives until her marriage. In 1836, John George Botzum and his family left home and traveled by ox-team to the nearest seaport, where they took passage on the vessel Princessa for the United States, arriving at New York, November 17, 1836. Here they met an agent who persuaded Mr. Botzum to agree to go to South America, where he was told that a fortune awaited him, but before arrangements were completed, Mr. Botzum discovered from the authorities that it was merely a scheme to get Mr. Botzum and his family to that country to be sold into slavery. Soon after the family took passage on a flatboat to Albany, went thence by canal to Buffalo and by lake to Cleveland, where they stopped for a time on account of illness in the family, and on resuming their journey traveled upon an open fiat-boat to Niles, from whence they made their way to Ghent, Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio. There Mr. Botzum secured his first employment, being engaged at digging on a mill race, at fifty cents per day. There the family continued to reside for two years, and while Mr. Botzum worked at digging, his wife went out into the wheat-fields, her gleaning the first season being eight bushels of nice wheat. The family then removed to Niles, where they remained for four years, and by the strictest economy and frugality were able at this time to purchase a farm in Northampton Township, where Mr. Botzum continued to live until his death in 1855. He and his wife were faithful members of the Catholic denomination, and Mr. Botzum assisted to build the first church of that faith in Akron. John George and Katherine (Dragaser) Botzum had the following children : Michael ; Susan, who was the wife of George Neiberg; AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 837 Nicholas; George; Adam ; Katherine, who is the widow of Conrad Buills of Centralia, Illinois; John A., and Conrad, who resides at Akron. Michael, Susan, Nicholas, George and John A. are deceased. Captain Adam Botzum was six years old when the family came to America, and until seventeen years of age he made his home with, his parents. At this time he. became a driver on the Ohio Canal, an occupation he continued to follow for twenty years. In 1855 he built the canal-boat Germany, which he sold in 1860, and he built the boat Democrat, which he sold two years later. in 1861, he quit the canal and located on the farm, which he had purchased three years previously. Mr. Bot engaged in general farming from that time until his death, his eighty acres of fine, fertile land being in a high state of cultivation and yielding good crops. He marketed wheat, corn and potatoes, while for his own use he raised hay and oats. Ile kept about seven head of cattle, and he also fattened calves and hogs for the market. On June 22, 1857, Captain Botzum was married to Eliza Seeley, who was a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, and she survives, as do also their six children: George A., who resides at Akron; Emma, who is the wife of Frank Averill, of Akron ; Frank, who also resides at Akron; Stella, who is the wife of Clyde Bookwalter, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Lida, who resides at home; and Lillian, who is the wife of Charles Worth, of Akron. The late Captain Botzum was a, Democrat in political faith and from the age of twenty-one years until his death, he never missed casting his vote believing that every good citizen should exercise this privilege. He was frequently sent as a delegate to conventions of his party and frequently was elected to township offices. He served for eight years as township trustee and for many years as school director. In religious belief he was liberal-minded, depending largely on the virtues included in looking after the welfare of his family and doing his full duty to his neigbborhood, his state and his country. DANIEL McGARRY, of the firm of McGarry McGowan, general contractors, at Akron, was born in Ireland, in 1861, and came to Akron in 1873, where he obtained his education in the parochial schools. Mr. McGarry learned the brick-layer,s trade and worked for six years at brick-laying before entering into general contracting. For the past twelve years he has been at the head of the firm of McGarry McGowan, which has done a large part of the important work on the Ohio Canal, and a great amount of street paving, concrete laying and sewer building, at Akron. A large contract which this firm is engaged in filling at the present writing (1907) is the putting in of ten and one-half miles of sewer, at Ravenna, Ohio. Mr. McGarry owns an interest in the Storer Laud Company. In 1884 Mr. McGarry was married to Margaret McGowan, and they have six children, namely: Stephen, who is engaged in newspaper work at San Antonio, Texas; James, who is associated with his father; Arthur, who is a student at Holy Cross College; and Belle, Elizabeth and Madge. Mr. McGarry and his family belong to St. Vincent’s Catholic Church. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association. Formerly, Mr. McGarry took considerable interest in politics and at one time was a member of the city board of commissioners, but in later year he has not been active in public life. NICHOLAS KNAPP, trustee of Boston Township and a prominent agriculturist who resides on his valuable farm of 286 acres, was born in Rheinfalz, Hessen-Cassel, Germany, August 28, 1843, and is a son of Peter and Barbara (Knapp) Knapp. The father of Mr. Knapp was born in the same place as his son and came from there to America in 1844, the voyage lasting sixty-five days from Liverpool to New York, joining some friends who had previously located in Portage County. Peter Knapp acquired a farm in Suffield Township some five years after locating in Ohio, on which he lived for 838 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY the remainder of his life, his death occurring in October, 1856, at the age of sixty-five years, his wife, having died in May, 1856, aged sixty years. Although she was named Knapp before her marriage, she was no relative of Peter Knapp. They had twelve children. Nicholas Knapp was the youngest of the family that accompanied their parents in an old sailing ship across the ocean to New York. In those days Ohio was reached by a still further voyage up the Hudson River to Albany, across New York by the Erie Canal, over the lake to Cleveland and by way of the Ohio Canal to Portage County. The father died when Nicholas was thirteen years of age and thus he had fewer advantages than many boys who had parents to provide for them into manhood. He was strong and industrious and won the favor of neighboring farmers, for whom he worked by the month until 1859. In the early part of that year he hired himself to a farmer in Brimfield Township, where he had every reason to think he would find a good home and continued employment, but the great frost of that year destroyed the crops and the farmer had no further use for his services. He then went to Ravenna, where he found work in a glass factory at six dollars a month, and boarded himself, and remained there during one summer and in the fall he secured a better opportunity, doing chores for his board, after work in the factory was done. In the following spring he returned to work again by the month, in Suffield Township, and in the next year he found a home with his brother, with whom he remained until 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War, Mr. Knapp was one of the first young men to enlist in Battery A, First Ohio Light Artillery, which was sent to the western -department of the army, and he served with faithfulness for four years, lacking but twelve days. He participated in many engagements and went through the Atlanta campaign, and although almost constantly exposed to danger, was able to return from his military service unharmed. It was left for times of peace and in pursuance of the quietest of avocations, that Mr. Knapp experienced an injury which lost him his good left arm. By the accidental overturning of a hay wagon, he was caught in such a manner that the injury was so serious that no mending of the shattered bones was possible. This accident occurred in 1891. Mr. Knapp has borne this affliction with fortitude very remarkable. Mr. Knapp remained in Suffield Township after his return from the army until 1874, when he moved to Stow Township, in Summit County, where he purchased a farm and lived on it until 1878, removing then to another in Franklin Township, on which he lived until 1888. In this year he bought 186 acres of his present farm in Boston Township, to which he added the second 100 acres in 1907. About 150 acres of this land is under cultivation and he raises hay, wheat, corn, oats and potatoes, marketing from 300 to 500 bushels of the tubers in a season. He keeps twenty head of cattle and sells his milk to the Peninsula Creamery, and has eight head of horses. In 1890 he erected his present comfortable residence. Mr. Knapp married Elizabeth Pero, for his first wife, who died February 22, 1873, aged thirty-two years. She had two children: Karl, who died at the age of nineteen years; and Park, of Portage County. Mr. Knapp was married (second) to Louisa Pero, who was a cousin of his first wife. She is a daughter of Nichola Pero. To this marriage seven children have been born, five of whom *reached maturity, namely: Charles E., Pearl Ellen, Albert, Ralph H., and Orrin P. Pearl Ellen is deceased. She was the wife of Abraham Tischer, residing at Shalersville. For some years past Mr. Knapp has been identified with the Democratic party. Formerly he voted for both Abraham Lincoln and General Grant. For the past three years he has been a trustee of Boston Township, his re-election to this office taking place on November 5, 1907. While residing in Suffield Township, he served five years in the office of constable. He belongs to Northampton Grange, and to the Maccabees, No. 56, at AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 841 Peninsula. Mr. Knapp is recognized as a man of excellent business judgment. His many sterling traits of character have won him the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens. GEORGE W. PLUMER, a retired citizen of Akron, and a veteran of the Civil War, for many years was closely identified with the business and financial interests of this city. He was born at Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1840, and is a son of lion. B. A. Plumer, formerly a prominent merchant in Western Pennsylvania, where he was elected to responsible offices, serving for a long period as a judge of the courts of Venango County. George W. Plumer was reared and edu cated in his native place, and for a number of years was engaged in the hardware trade at Franklin. In 1887 he came to Akron and went into the furniture business. in partnership with B. L. Dodge, under the firm name of Dodge and Plumber, which association continued until 1899. He was one of the organizers of the Security Savings Bank and continued as its president until January, 1907, when this bank was sold to the People's Savings Bank. Mr. Plumer owns stock in a number of Akron enterprises and also has business interests in Pennsylvania. In 1862. Mr. Plumer entered the Union army as second lieutenant of Company E, 121st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in which he performed the duties of a good soldier, both on the march and in battle, for two years, and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He is a ,Valued Member of Buckley Post, G. A. R., and of the Loyal Legion. In 1867 Mr. Plumer was married to Jennie M. Whitaker, who is a. daughter of Albert P. Whitaker, one of the prominent journalists of Western Pennsylvania for half a century. Mr. and Mrs. Plumer have three children, namely: Mary Plumer, who married Dr. F. H. Lyder, D. D. S., of Akron; Lida Plumer, who married S. H. Kohler, who is prominently connected with the business interests of Akron, and George A. also of Akron. Mr. Plumer is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a trustee for many years. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason. LEVI MADISON LEESER, who owns and operates a tract of 106 acres of excellent land in Green Township, is a leading agriculturist of this section. He was born on his father's farm in Jackson Township, Stark County, Ohio, aid is a son of Peter and Sarah (Buck tel) Leeser. Abraham Leeser, grandfather of Levi M., came. :from Pennsylvania to Stark County, Ohio, and entered a tract of land there in 1815, on which the rest of his life was passed. He was the father of six children: John, Catherine, Elizabeth, ;Peter, Samuel and Nathan. Catherine became the wife of Rev.J Eby. Peter Leeser Was horn, in Lawrence Township, Stark county, Ohio, and like his father, cultivated land during all. his active years. He died in Jackson Township in 1892, aged sixty-seven .Years. Peter Leeser was married to Sarah Buchtel, wbo was born in Summit County, Ohio, and a daughter of John Buchtel, who was one of the pioneers of this county. Mrs. Leeser resides at Greensburg. Five children were born to Peter Leeser and wife, namely: Catherine, who survives her husband; Samuel Devies; Eva; Levi Madison; Alma, who married Jasper Fry; and John R. Levi M. Leeser attended the district schools in his home neighborhood and spent his youth on his father’s farm. One year after his marriage be removed to his present farm, and this property he purchased in 1894, from his father-in-law’s heirs. He has here engaged in general farming, and has been more than ordinarily successful. On January 27, 1881, Mr. Leeser was married to Emma Long, who was born on the present Leeser farm, and is a daughter of Christian and Anna (Heiss) Long. Mr. and Mrs. Long, who are now deceased, were married in Pennsylvania, and with two children made the long trip overland to Summit 842 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY County, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Leeser there have been born four children : Maude, who is stenographer at the Mount Pleasant Hospital, Mount Pleasant, Iowa; Mamie, who died in infancy ; and Ray and Wilma. Mr. Leeser is a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. With his family he attends the United Evangelical Church. Like his father, he is a Republican in politics and has been one of most active workers in that party,s ranks in Green Township, where he has served as trustee and school director, and fills the latter office at the present time. D. W. KENDIG, a well-known citizen of Akron, who has been finance clerk of the city postoce for the past three years under Postmaster Ebright, was born near Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, October 16, 1846. Mr. Kendig attended the district schools through boyhood and later entered Wittenberg College. He was eighteen years of age when he enlisted in Company H, Eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1862, and served until the close of the great struggle, his field of action being mainly West Virginia. The Kendig family was one of marked loyalty, three of his brothers also becoming soldiers in the Federal Army. One of these, Lee, enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, which was one of the first regiments to answer the call for troops, and he died in the service. Benjamin, a second brother, was a member of the 161st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he accompanied General Sherman,s army to the sea, and since the close of his military life has resided in Indian Territory. The third brother, Simon, now deceased, was in the 100-day service in Ohio. Shortly after his return from the army, Mr. Kendig went to Missouri, where he remained for several years, and after he came back to Ohio, he was engaged in business at Mansfield for fifteen years. He came then to Akron, where he was in the employ of the Erie Railroad for one year, connected with the freight department. For the four follow ing years he was engaged in the retail coal business, after which he became interested in .life insurance, and for the next fifteen years he represented some of the best life companies of the country. Since closing out his insurance interests, he has been an official in the Akron postoffice. In 1869 Mr. Kendig was married at Mans- field, Ohio, to Frances E. Creigh, of that city, who died June 22, 1905. They had three children, viz.: Karl, residing at Akron, who is secretary of the Werner Company; Lee, who died at the age of twenty-seven years, was associated with the Akron Iron Company for five years, at New York City ; and Katherine, residing at home. Mr. Kendig is more or less active in politics and supports the Republican party. He is a member of Buckley Post, G. A. R., and is a Master Mason. He belongs to the First Congregational Church at Akron. URIAS GARMAN, whose fine farm lies on the old Portage Path Indian Trail road, in Portage Township, about one-half mile north of the city limits of Akron, was born in Medina County, Ohio, March 27, 1853, and is a son of Benjamin and Esther (Clause) Garman. Benjamin Garman and his wife were both born and reared in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and after their marriage they came to Medina County, Ohio, driving the long distance with a one-horse wagon. They settled on a farm of 115 acres, in two tracts, in Homer Township, and this land Mr. Garman cultivated and improved for a number of years. In the course of time he decided to remove to Summit County, and on April 1, 1862, settled on a farm of 151 acres, in Portage Township, a portion of which is included in the farm of Urias Garman. He was accompanied to Portage Township by his seven children, who were the following: Alfred, who resides on a farm of twenty-five acres in Portage Township, married Julia A. Norton and has four children : Rose, who is the widow of Louis Esselburn ; Elizabeth, who married J. F. Weygandt ; Sarah, who died in AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 843 1906, was the widow of Louis Andrews; Urias, of Portage Township; Irene, who married Mandus Baughman, resides in Akron; and Mrs. Mary Starks, resides in Akron. For several years after moving to Portage Township, Benjamin Garman and his sons did general farming, and then he went into the stone business, in partnership with his eldest son, having excellent quarries on the land. After he retired, Alfred and Urias Garman carried on the business for some years. They also embarked together in a dairy business, which they conducted for six years. Benjamin Garman died in 1890, and his widow survived until December, 1902. Urias Garman has lived on his present farm since he was nine years old. He attended the district schools through boyhood and subsequent reading and mingling with the world has made him one of the township,s well-informed men. He carries on a general line of farming and meets with the success that usually attends industry and the following of excellent methods. For about nine years he worked in the rubber shops of Akron, otherwise his whole attention has been given to agricultural pursuits. In the spring of 1876 he erected the large frame residence which is a home of attractiveness and is full of comforts: In October, 1875, Mr. Garman was married to Mary Rogers, who is a daughter of Peter and Susan (Heberly) Rogers, and they have five children, namely: Frank, who married Allie Buss, has two children, Ralph and Mary, and he is a carpenter and contractor; Susan, who married John Gammeter, of Akron; Millie, who married Ralph Hogan, has one child, Garman; and Allie and Marjorie, both reside at home. CHARLES MERRIMAN, M. D., formerly a prominent physician and surgeon of Akron, now lives retired on his farm in Portage Township, which is situated on the Merriman road, about three quarters of a mile northwest of the city limits. Dr. Merriman was born in Massachusetts, May 21, 1829, and is a son of Charles and Harriet (Allis) Merriman. Dr. Merriman’s parents left Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with their possessions packed in wagons, and reached Ohio May 21, 1835, and came to Summit County a few weeks later, settling on the farm in Portage Township, on which the son now lives. The father invested his money in 372 acres of land, which then was covered with native timber. On this farm young Charles Merriman grew to manhood, assisting his father to clear a large part of it and put it under cultivation. He attended the country schools and when sixteen years of age taught a term of school in Bath Township, and in the following year, two terms at Greensburg. He continued his own education at Akron and Tallmadge, and had academic training at West Farmington, in Trumbull County. When he made up his mind to study medicine, he placed himself under the tuition of Dr. Wil- liam T. Huntington, with whom he read for two and one-half years, and in the fall of 1849 he attended the lecture course at the Cleveland Medical School. During his absence, his preceptor, Dr. Huntington, died and he spent the summer and the following winter under Dr. Ackley, surgeon of the medical department of the Western Reserve University. He was graduated at this college, in 1858, having returned for his third course during the winter of 1857-8. Prior to this, however, he had studied and to some degree practiced, with his uncle, Dr. Andrus Merriman, in Geauga, now Lake County, and in 1851 he went to Brownsville, Kentucky. He remained there until the latter part of the winter of 1853, having a third interest in the medical practice of Dr. Ira H. Keller. He gained other medical instruction and practice at the Transylvania Medical College, at Louisville, Kentucky, and at Dr. McDowell,s college, at St. Louis, Missouri. In looking over the country for a place to enter upon practice, Dr. Merriman noted that there was no physician established at Hillsborough, Jefferson County, Missouri, and he 844 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY located there until the fall of 1857, when he returned for his last course of lectures. He practiced one year at Peninsula, and then settled at Montrose, Summit County, where he remained from the spring of 1859 until 1873, when he came to Akron. This city was but a semblance of what it has since become, and the best location the young doctor could secure was a small office in Hall,s Block, where he remained for several years. He moved from there to rooms over the City drug store and later established his office in his comfortable home on West Market Street. When he retired he sold his residence to Paul E. Werner. His practice covered a period of fifty-three years and was one of unusual success. Dr. Merriman is held in high esteem. In 1856, at St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Merriman was married in Lavinia P. Myers, who is a daughter of S.amuel and Gertrude (Robinson) Myers. JOSEPH KENDALL, who has been director of the Akron City Infirmary for more than twenty years, was born March 15, 1828, in England, and has been a resident of Akron since 1862. The death of his father when he was young, made his boyhood one of many hardships. For three years he tended the flocks of a hard-hearted shepherd, in the neighborhood of his home, with whom he was obliged to remain until he had completed the period for which he was bound. In 1848, being then twenty years of age, he determined to make his way to America, in order to better his condition, and he crossed the Atlantic Ocean in one of the old sailing vessels of the day, which required nine weeks to make the voyage. He landed at New Orleans, and in search of work Mr. Kendall went up the Mississippi River, and at Evansville, Indiana, he found employment, mainly along the river, which furnished him with support and enabled him to save a little money, with which he came to Akron in 1862. Here he engaged for twenty-five years in the metal business and then went into dealing in hay and the wholesale buying and shipping of grain. In the meanwhile he had built up an honorable business reputation and had gained influential friends. When the Akron City Infirmary was opened, Mr. Kendall was selected its director, and so capable and so honest has been his administration of the office that a change has never been suggested. He is the oldest officeholder in the city, in point of continuous service. It is a matter of justifiable pride with Mr.- Kendall that in all this time not a single bill he has ever contracted for public use, has been questioned.by the board of directors of this institution. In 1864 Mr. Kendall was married to Frances Booth, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who died in May, 1887. They had two children, Elizabeth and Ruth. Ruth resides at home, tenderly caring for her father. Elizabeth died in 1905. She was a noble woman, and was deeply interested in Sunday-school work. Mr. Kendall was reared in the Episcopal Church, but for many years has been an attendant of the Presbyterian Church. SCOTT H. MERRIMAN, whose fine truck farm of sixteen acres is situated on the Merriman road, about two miles northwest of Akron, was born in the old stone house in which his father still resides, located on West Market Street, Akron, August 8, 1863. His parents were Wells and Alberta Merriman. Wells Merriman was born across the road from the farm which Scott H. now owns, in Portage Township, Summit County, Obio, and is a son of Charles and a brother of Dr. Charles Merriman. During his younger years, Wells Merriman engaged in farming. then learned the machinist trade and for twenty-five years was employed in the stove works of the Taplin-Rice Company. He built the old stone house on West Market Street. in which he lives, and which was then surrounded by seven acres of land which was used as a truck farm. The old house is a landmark in that part of the encroaching city. He was married twice and the children of his first union were: Grove, residing at Akron ; Forrest, residing at Minneapolis. Ottawa County, Kansas; and Scott H., resid- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 845 ing in Portage Township. The mother of these children died when her youngest son was small. To his second marriage, Wells Merriman had three children: Jesse, Mrs. Hattie Bechtol and Ruby, wife of Royal Scott. Scott H. Merriman was reared in the old home on West Market Street, Akron, and helped to cultivate the garden which is now covered with structures. He spent twelve years, after completing his education, in the packing business and in operating a hotel, at Omaha, Nebraska., but in 1889 he returned to Summit County and settled on his present farm. Mr. Merriman has made a success of the trucking business. He raises large crops of the choicest vegetables that can be grown in this climate and sells by wholesale. At Omaha, Nebraska., Mr. Merriman was married to Gertrude Finney, who is a daughter of L. A. and Sarah (Oakley) Finney. They have four children: Claude and Byron, both born in Nebraska, and Albert and Dorothy, born in Summit County. Mr. Merriman is not active in politics, merely showing the interest of a good citizen in public matters. He takes great pleasure in improving his tidy little farm and a plenteous return is made him for his careful cultivation. JOHN WOLF, superintendent of the Market House at Akron, was formerly engaged in the mercantile business for many years in this city and established a name for business ability and strict integrity. Mr. Wolf was horn in Bavaria, Germany, January 25, 1837, and was a boy of fourteen years when he came to America. For two years prior to coming to Akron, Mr. Wolf was a clerk in a dry goods store at Aurora, Indiana, and after reaching this city, in 1853, he continued in the same capacity. In 1863 he became a member of the M. W. Henry Company, at Akron. In 1870, the firm of Wolf, Church & Beck was organized, which continued to do business until 1883, when Mr. Beck retired, the firm of Wolf & Church continuing until 1887, when Mr. Wolf became sole proprietor. He retired froth the mercantile business in 1893, and for some years devoted his attention to looking after the real estate of the Wolf family. For the past three years he has been superintendent of the Akron Market House, and has proven himself a careful and efficient officer. In 1864 Mr. Wolf was married to Anna Howe, who is a daughter of Capt. Richard Howe, who was one of the early pioneers of Akron, and who was a valuable assistant in the building of the Ohio Canal. Two sons were born to this marriage, Charles R. and Harry Howe, both of whom are prominent business men, the former being purchasing agent for the B. F. Goodrich Company, and the latter, president of a brick company at Muncie, Indiana. Politically, Mr. Wolf is a Republican and he has always been a patriotic supporter of the government.. During the Civil War he served in the 100-day service, as a member of Company F, 164th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and during his period of army service was located at Fort Cochran, Washington, D. C. He is a Member of Buckley Post, Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Wolf was formerly a member of the Lutheran Church. NATHANIEL PETTITT. Among the many valuable farms and hospitable homes in the environs of Akron, that owned and occupied by Nathaniel Pettitt deserves special mention in connection with its respected and esteemed owner. It lies on the Merriman road, about two and one-half miles northwest of the city limits and has been occupied by Mr. Pettitt for forty-four years. He was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1823, and is a son of Charles and Isabella (Karr) Pettitt. Charles Pettitt was born in New Jersey and was a son of John Pettitt, who moved to Maryland when Charles was five years old. Later he moved to Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Charles Pettitt engaged in farming in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, until 1837, when he came to Ohio and rented a farm which was in Copley Township, then 846 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY in Medina County. This farm belonged to his brother, Rev. John Pettitt, who had come to this section in 1830, and was the pioneer founder of the Congregational Church at Akron. Some years later Charles Pettitt bought this farm but sold it in 1854, and purchased another of 150 acres, which was situated in Portage Township, subsequently selling it also. Charles Pettitt died in 1867, aged seventy-seven years. He married Isabella Karr, who died in 1863, aged seventy-three years. They were people who were held in esteem and affection by their neighbors. Nathaniel Pettitt lived on the farm in Copley Township until he was thirty-one years of age. He attended the district schools in his boyhood and was trained by a strict father to be a good farmer. He assisted in clearing up the land and as the country was not very well settled at that time, experienced, hardships which the present generation would probably consider unsupportable. With his brother, John Pettitt, he rented the farm now owned by Aaron Teeple, at Fairlawn, where he stayed two years and then bought the farm now owned by the Benjamin Garman heirs, on which he lived for seven years and then bought his present farm. Mr. Pettitt found a great deal of clearing had to be done and after that was completed he started improvements, and has a very valuable property. On February 9, 1854, Nathaniel Pettitt was married to Rachel Ann Jones, who was born near Sharon Center, Medina County, Ohio, and is a daughter of John and Mary (Foster) Jones. Her father was born in Maryland and her mother in New York and they were married in Wayne County, Ohio. They moved to Sharon when Mrs. Pettitt was small and later to Copley Township, Summit County, where she was reared. Her mother lived to be a venerable lady, surviving for ninety years, passing the last eleven years with Mr. and Mrs. Pettitt, where she died in 1896. Her husband died in 1867. To Mr. and Mrs. Pettitt were born seven children, namely: Mary Alice, who married Charles Brown ; Charles Nathaniel, who operates the farm ; Milton Howard; Myron Grant; Emma, who married Daniel Frederick ; Elsie, who married Vinton Hardy; and Homer, residing at home. Mr. and Mrs. Pettitt have been blessed in their children and they have fourteen grandchildren. A. H. STALL, M. D., physician and surgeon, at Barberton, has one of the best equipped offices and most complete medical libraries in Summit County. He was born July 7, 1876, at Hudson, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of Hiram and Jennie (Galloway) Stall. The father of Dr. Stall died when he was a child of three years, after which his mother moved to Montrose, Summit County, and he attended the common and High School in Copley Township, following which he spent one session at Mt. Union College, at Alliance, and also attended the Ohio Normal University at Ada .for one term. When eighteen years of age he began to teach school, and continued in educational work through the township for the succeeding three years, in the meantime preparing himself, by preliminary medical study, for entering the medical department of the Western Reserve University, where he was graduated June 13,_1901, with his medical degree. By June 16, 1901, Dr. Stall was established as assistant to Dr. E. A. Bellford, at Barberton, with whom he remained until March, 1903, when he located at Johnson’s Corners, in Norton Township, where he was made health officer, having previously served in that office at Barberton. He remained in that village until July, 1906, when he returned to Barberton, locating on the corner of Baird and Fourth Streets. Dr. Stall is an enthusiast in his profession and keeps fully abreast of the times, continually adding to his valuable equipment of surgical instruments and making additions to his already large scientific library. He is a member of the American Medical Association and the Summit County, the Ohio State and the Barberton Medical Societies. On December 24, 1904, Dr. Stall was married to Edna Prange, who is a daughter of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 847 Herman Prange, who is superintendent of the McNeil Boiler Works, of South Akron. They had one son, Arthur, who died August 18, 190'3, aged eleven months, and they have a daughter, Margaret, who was born June 22, 1907. Dr. Stall is a member of the Masonic fraternity and retains his connection with his college society, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the medical fraternity society Nu Sigma Nu. He is to some degree interested in politics and since 1904 has been township clerk of Norton Township. JONATHAN HALE, a pioneer settler of Summit County, was a member of an honorable old New England family and the name is still one of note in many sections,. especially in the vicinity of Glastonbury, Connecticut, where he was born, April 23, 1777, while the country was engaged in the arduous struggle of the Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1810, Jonathan Hale penetrated to Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, being the first actual settler, Mr. Hale trading property in Glastonbury, Connecticut, for 500 acres, valued at $1,200, with Thomas and Lucinda Bull, also purchasing the interest of a squatter who had located on the land to await newcomers. Later in the year he was joined by other members of 'his family, and thus the Hales were established in what was then a wilderness of the Western Reserve. Indians were so numerous and unfriendly that when Jonathan Hale was drafted for the War of 1812, he was released on account of the dangers that would surround his helpless family in his absence. On July 11, 1802, Mr. Hale was married (first) to Mercy S. Piper, who died May 14, 1829. He was married (second) November 2, 1830, to Sarah Cozad Mather. The children of the first marriage were: Sophronia, William, Pamela, Andrew, Abigail and James M. Those of the second marriage were: Jonathan D., Mercy A. and Samuel C. Mr. Hale was an active citizen and did his full duty in promoting the progress of the community in which he lived. It was through his influence and from his suggestion that the township was given its name. He died in Bath Township, May 14, 1854. ABNER L. CALDWELL, general farmer and formerly township trustee of Portage Township, owns thirty acres of land which is highly valuable on account of its close proximity to Akron, on the north, he having already sold forty acres for building purposes, the Caldwell School building having been erected on it. Mr. Caldwell was born at Springfield, Indiana, January 13, 1839, and is a son of Tarlton and Julia Ann (Vrooman) In 1841 the parents of Mr. Caldwell moved to Missouri,, where they remained for eight years and then removed to California, where the father worked in the gold mines for twenty years. He acquired a mine of his own and after he gave up the hard life of a miner, he settled on a large ranch in Southern California and on that both he and his wife died. Up to the age of sixteen years, Abner L. Caldwell had few educational advantages, during these early years being called on to assist his father. After that, however, the family was in easy circumstances and in 1857 he returned to Ohio and entered the preparatory school at Hudson, where he remained two years and then went back to California. Mr. Caldwell made five trips across the Isthmus of Panama. As may be judged, he takes a great deal of interest in the progress of the Government work at that point, at present. His reminiscences of those early trips are very interesting. In 1861, Mr. Caldwell was married to Mary Pitkin, who is a daughter of the late Judge S. H. Pitkin, one of the early pioneers of Summit County and a man of great prominence. Judge Pitkin owned 186 acres of land in Portage Township, to which he retired after serving as probate judge. He died at Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell were married at Hudson. While attending school at Hudson he boarded in the family of Judge Pitkin. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell lived five years in California and then returned to 848 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY Summit County, residing with Judge Pitkin, on the present farm, for a time, but subsequently erecting a residence of their own. Mr. Caldwell has taken some interest in politics and, as one of the reliable and substantial citizens, has been offered many positions of responsibility', but he has declined all but that of township trustee, in which he has served several terms. DANIEL HOLIBAUGH, general farmer, residing on his excellent farm of sixty-three acres, which is favorably located just outside the city limits of East Akron, was born at Mulberry, Stark County, Ohio, March 28, 1831, and is a son of Joseph and Lydia (Holler) Holibaugh Daniel Holibaugh was reared in Stark County assisting his father on the home farm and attending the district schools. His parents both died in Stark County, the father in 1879, aged seventy-nine years, and the mother, in 1886, at the same age. On October 22, 1857, Daniel Holibaugh was married at Canton, Ohio, by ROT. P. A. Herbruck, to Mary Brumbaugh, who is a daughter of David and Mary (Zeller) Brumbaugh. The mother of Mrs. Holibaugh died when she was fifteen years of age. Her father continued to live in Stark County for a few years and then removed to Akron, where he subsequently married the mother of Judge J. A. Kohler. Mr. Brumbaugh was a carpenter and cabinet-maker and later a farmer. He died at Akron. After marriage, Daniel Holibaugh and wife lived on the old Holibaugh homestead in Stark County, for twelve years. In 1869, they bought 111 acres of land in Portage Township, sixty-three of which they still own, and in February, 1870, they settled on it. In the same year Mr. Holibaugh built his substantial barn and in the following year his comfortable residence, and each year since he has done more improving. He carried on a general farming line and kept from five to ten head of cattle. On account of his land being so well located, Mr. Holibaugh has been able to sell as much as he has cared to part with, at good prices, for town lot sites, and in 1907, he sold six acres to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the new branch passing through the land in such a way that the residence had to be moved. Mr.. Holibaugh is rather proud of his orchards as he set out every tree himself. As Mr. Holibaugh and wife had on cbildren of their own, they decided to adopt a child and found a beautiful little daughter, in Jennie E. Ringer. She was motherless and was the child of Louis and Matilda (Royer) Ringer. She was taken by Mr. and Mrs. Holibaugh when aged four and one-half years and was reared as their own until her marriage, in young. womanhood, to William E. Hale. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have had five children, namely: Jessie May, who married Ora Rowh, has one child, Grace Lucile; Harvey C.; Alvin F.; Frank, who died aged ten weeks ; and Lenora. Mr. and Mrs. Holibaugh are consistent members of Trinity Reformed Church, of North Hill. He has served both as deacon and elder in this church. They are most estimable people, kind, hospitable and charitable, and they have a wide circle of friends. McCAUSLAND BROTHERS, leading brick manufacturers in Portage Township, and general farmers, owning ninety acres of valuable land, succeeded their father, who was the founder of the business, in 1885. The firm is made up of John J. and James C. McCausland, sons of the late John McCausland. John McCausland was a son of James McCausland, and he was born in Ireland, where he remained until 1848, when he came to America. The aged father subsequently came from Ireland and died in the home of his son. For several years he worked in the agricultural districts as a farm hand and after coming to Portage Township, Summit County, rented the old Simon Perkins farm, now known as the Fouse farm, and then bought seventy-five acres of the present home farm. To this he added until he had 180 acres. He continued to farm after 1871, when he started his brick business, in which his sons were prac-