HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 275 attention to the raising of potatoes, making it quite profitable. Politically he is a supporter of the Republican party and has been a trustee of his township for two terms. In fraternal relations he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 554, at Cortland, and has passed all chairs within his lodge. He is also identified with the order of the Patrons of Husbandry, he and his wife being charter members of Union Grange No. 1575, at Cortland. He was married November 18, 1874, to Lucy Kennedy, born June 27, 1852, daughter of Thomas and Phoebe (Casterline) Kennedy, both now deceased. Three children bless the home circle of Mr. and Mrs. McCleery : Merle Adelia, born August 2, 1875, resides in Bazetta township, wife of Ernest Shaffer, by whom she has five children : Lucy, Howard, Neva, Vera and Ethel; Harry, born May 22, 1877, resides at home, unmarried, and is a rural letter carrier from Cortland; Wayne, born December 11, 1882, lives in Warren, Ohio, and is a member f the Griswold Company, department store. Mr. and Mrs. McCleery are both members f the Christian church. JOHN H. GOE, of Bazetta township, Trumbull county, Ohio, an extensive stock dealer and farmer, living on his excellent farm one mile to the north of Cortland, was born on the Goe road, north of Cortland, September 17, 1841, a son of John and Mary (Meek) Goe,. The father was born August 3, 1798, in Ireland and died in Bazetta township, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1873. John Goe came to this country in 1819 at the age of twenty-one years. He first came to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he worked on the canal, then went to Ohio and located in Trumbull county, where he married and started farming and brick making, which he followed, however, but a short time. His farm was little else than a. wilderness. He had secured one hundred acres and when he had cleared that all up he purchased seventy-seven acres more. He raised stock and followed dairying. Politically he was an old-fashioned Jacksonian Democrat. In his church faith he was of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. John Goe was the son of William and Mary Goe, who never came to this country. Mary (Meek) Goe was the daughter of William Meek, a farmer who came from Washington county, Pennsylvania. John H. Goe is one of the following six children in his father's family : William, who died in California; Sarah Jane, living in Cleveland, Ohio, she married N. S. Cozad ; Rebecca Ann, deceased, who died in Cortland, was married to R. D. Larnard ; Nann, deceased, in California, married to George Davis, also dead ; John H., of this notice; Mary A., deceased, married" C. N. Noteware, of Carson City, Nevada. John H. Goe was educated in Cortland, Ohio. At the age of twenty years he went to California by steamship, going via Panama. While in the far west he teamed from California to Nevada, crossing the mountain range, this before there was any railroad built to the Pacific, and his freighting brought extra good remuneration. He continued there five years and six months. After his. return "to the States" he purchased the old 276 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY home farm in Bazetta township and began farming, continuing until 1875, then went with H. J. Gilmore in the dry goods business at Cortland. After three years' trading Mr. Goe moved to the place where he now resides, and where he carries on general farming and deals in live stock, and up to 1907 he bought and sold wool. He now has a farm of one hundred and ninety acres, divided into three farms. Politically he is a Democrat. Mr. Goe was united. in marriage, first, January 21, 1868, to Mary L. Brooks, born in 1846 in Trumbull county Ohio, and who died October 20, 1874. By this union two children were born: 1. Arthur M. of Cleveland, in the Society for Savings Bank, where he has been employed for seven years. He graduated from the Commercial College, at Oberlin, Ohio, and was bookkeeper for the Big Four Railroad Company three years. The next three years he was employed with the L. S. & M. S. Company, after which he went to Buffalo to the Fast Freight & Express Line, where he remained for five years and from that point went to Cleveland, to the bank in which he now works; he married Elizabeth Drew. 2. Ray, who died at the age of fourteen months. John Goe married secondly October 20, 1875. Adell M. Smith, born September 1, 1853, in Johnson township, Trumbull county, Ohio. She is the daughter of Rev. Calvin and Maria Smith. He is now deceased, but the mother is living with her daughter, aged over ninety-six Years. By the second marriage Mr. Goe is the father of two children: Alice, born August 4, 1879, living in Monessen, Pennsylvania, married C. W. Kennedy and has two children—Thelma and Shirley; Frances A., born August 24, 1889, now teaching in Kinsman, Ohio. JOHN C. THOMPSON, a highly respected citizen of Trumbull county residing in Bazetta township, was born on the 14th of April, 1840, in Howland township of this county, a son of Jonathan and Jane (Mitchell) Thompson. Jonathan Thompson, a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, born rn 1798, came to Howland township in 1820 and put in a "still" at Howland Corners, while later he rented a. farm and died there in 1852, an old time Jacksonian Democrat. He and his estimable wife were the parents f ten children, born in the following order: Henry, deceased; Rachael, deceased; Jane, the wife of William Craig, of Topeka, Indiana; Daniel, Celia and Jonathan, all deceased; John C., who is mentioned below; Mary, residing in Warren, Ohio, the wife f Jerry Green; and James and Abbie, also deceased. Jonathan Thompson, the father, was a son of Henry Thompson, also from Pennsylvania. John C. Thompson. received a common school education, and as his father died when he was but fourteen years of age, he thereafter lived with neighbors for five years, and he was just then at the age when a boy most needs the watchful care f a kind father to start him aright in life. After this he worked by the month on a farm, and as he advanced in age he engaged in buying and selling farms. He now has a fine twenty-acre HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 277 tract of land situated on the Cortland road, and in addition has a good residence in Warren. He married in 1864 Emily Wilson, who was born in Howland township in 1842, and died in 1888, leaving no issue. In 1893 Mr. Thompson married Ettie Simpson, born in 1852 in Mahoning county, and she died on the 8th of May, 1907, without issue. In his religious faith he is a Free Will Methodist, and politically he is a Republican. HENRY L. DRAY is known both as farmer and minister f the Gospel. Mr. Dray was born March 29, 1852, in Bazetta township, Trumbull county, Ohio, a son of Darius and Almeda (Bacon) Dray. His father was born September 9, 1826, and resided in this township. The mother was born in 1829, in Cortland, Ohio, and died in 1860. They were the parents of two children : Henry L. and Alice M., she now resides in New Waterford, Ohio, married to W. D. Scoville. After the death f Mrs. Dray Darius Dray married Grace T. Smith, by whom two children were born : Mamie, residing in Cortland, married Charles Gretsinger, and Myrtle, at home. Darius Dray is an extensive stock raiser and farmer. As a cattle raiser, he is known over a wide area of territory. He owns a farm of more than three hundred acres, all finely improved. Politically, he is a stalwart Republican. He is a member f the Christian church. His father was William and his mother Elizabeth (Cummings) Dray. William was a farmer and spent most f his life in Mahoning and Trumbull counties, Ohio. Edward Dray (or Drake as it is believed it was formerly spelled), the father of William, was a native of England and came to America in 1828, when an old man. Henry L. Dray obtained his education at the common schools and this was supplemented by a partial course at Hiram College (the institution which President J. A. Garfield attended). His life was spent at home and in like manner to that of other Ohio boys, up to the time he was twenty-seven years of age, when he purchased a farm, in the northern part of Trumbull county. That was in the autumn of 1878, and at that period of his life he began preaching as a minister in the Christian church at Greens-burg, at which point he continued to dispense the Word of Life for thirteen years, every other Sabbath and the other Sabbaths at Mecca. In 1891 he sold his farm and went to Augusta, Ohio, where he became pastor, continuing there as such for two years. At the close f his pastorate there he returned to Bazetta township and bought a fifty acre farm, to which has been added, through the estate of Aaron Davis, until there is now one hundred and sixty-four acres. On this place there is a sugar grove which produces two hundred gallons of maple syrup annually. Besides attending to this farm and running a dairy business, Mr. Dray preaches at Howland and Greensburg. Politically, he is a. firm supporter f the principles set forth in the platform of the Republican party. October 15, 1878, he was married to Eliza. Davis, born in 1853, a daughter f Aaron and Mary (Johnson) Davis, both now deceased. Aaron 278 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY was a son of William Davis, the son of Joshua Davis, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1809, who died March 6, 1895. He was a farmer and large landowner. Mr. and Mrs. Dray have two children living and one deceased, Lida B., born December, 1878, a graduate of Cortland high school and Warren business college, and now in Hiram College ; Paul S., born 1885, died 1892 ; Mark M., born January, 1888, has graduated from the Cortland high school, and is now in Hiram College. LEWIS HUTTON, well known in Trumbull county, Ohio, is a veteran of the great Civil war, a business man and farmer, who also had the honor of casting his first vote for President Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Mr. Hutton is a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, born August 8, 1845, a son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Cooper) Hutton. The father died aged forty-eight years, when Lewis was but four years of age. He was a stone mason by trade, and a son of Lewis and Harriet Hutton, both of whom lived to an advanced age. He was a native of Chester county, and followed farming all of his life, dying in old age. The Huttons originally came from England. Elizabeth (Cooper) Hutton was the daughter of Phineas and Ann Cooper, natives of Chester county, Pennsylvania, and by occupation Phineas Cooper was an agriculturist. The grandfather, Thomas Cooper, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving with credit to himself and his fellow-countrymen. The six children born to Lewis Hutton's parents were as follows: 1, Mary A., residing in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.; she married Constantine Strong, who is now deceased ; 2, Lewis, of this memoir ; 3, Lydia, a twin sister of Lewis, died in 1905, married Jacob Greig, who now resides in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania ; 4, Evan, now deceased, married Emily Brown, now lives at West Row, Pennsylvania; 5, Caleb, a resident of Chester county, Pennsylvania ; 6, Philenia, who lives in Gona. Lewis, the twin brother of Lydia, the second and third of the children born to Caleb and Elizabeth (Cooper) Hutton, obtained his education at the schools of Avondale, Pennsylvania. When sixteen years of age, Mr. Hutton enlisted with Company B, Eighth United States Regulars, on August 18, 1861, and was discharged August 18, 1866, giving five years of the prime of his youth and young manhood to the service of his country during the Civil conflict. He received a wound in the ankle at the battle of Chancellorsville ; was wounded at Gettysburg and participated in the battles of Yorktown, Seven Oaks, the seven days battle on the return to Harrisonburg, Virginia., second battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, The Wilderness campaign, where there was a constant engagement with the enemy for thirty days, in 1864 ; was at Appomattox in April, 1865, and was sent to California the following autumn, being honorably discharged in the summer of 1866, at San Francisco. He returned to Philadelphia, remained in that locality four years, then went west to Iowa and Missouri, finally locating in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1871. There he engaged in milling business at Cortland for four years, after which he went to Saginaw, Michigan, stopped a year, returned to Trumbull county and purchased a HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 279 mill at North Bristol, Ohio, where he was engaged six years. He sold out there and again went to Cortland, and in company with Mr. Kennedy, from 1886 to 1891, operated a grist mill. In his political views he is a supporter of the Republican party. In .May, 1907, he was nominated for mayor and elected in November to a two year term. He is a stockholder and director in the First National Bank of Cortland, Ohio ; also stockholder and director of the Telephone Company. He was united in marriage, May 18, 1875, to Ella Post, born August 6, 1855, in Cortland, Ohio, a daughter if M. C. and Elvida Post, both now deceased. The father was a miller by trade. Mr. and Mrs. Hutton are the parents of : Olive O., born April 18, 1881, resides in Warren, Ohio, married Frank Musser and they have one child, Paul H., Elvida E., born March 31, 1888, living in Cortland, Ohio, married John Hartman. GEORGE A. GRISWOLD, who retired from the old homestead to Kinsman, Trumbull county, some twenty years ago, has enjoyed the longest continuous residence of any inhabitant in that section of the state. He is also the oldest living alumnus of the Western Reserve College, and a revered character whose life has been a happy combination of practical usefulness and high thought. Although he has been living with a daughter in Kinsman since 1888, he is still the owner of the old homestead, which was established in Gustavus and Kinsman townships by his father ninety years ago, when the family migrated to this region from Connecticut. George A. Griswold was born in Windsor, Connecticut, on the 5th of October, 1814, son of Abram and Cornelia (Humphrey) Griswold. The parents were both natives of Connecticut, the father born at Windsor, November 30, 1788, and the mother at Canton, July 30, 1787. After their marriage they located in the former city, where the husband was engaged in merchandising for a number of years prior to his migration to Trumbull county. He came to the farm in Gustavus and Kinsman townships in 1816, and two years afterward loaded his household and his household goods onto a wagon and started on his long journey to the. wilderness northwest of the Ohio river. His family then consisted of his wife and two children, and when they arrived at their destination they found a double log-house awaiting them as their residence. This remained the family home until the death of the father, September 6, 1865. Abram Griswold was a good farmer and a good man ; a deacon in the Congregational church and a true Christian ; was a leader in the founding of local government and good order, serving for many years as justice of the peace. The widow died June 14, 1869, the mother of the following four children who reached maturity : Adeline Cornelia, George A., Ellen Frances and Edwin H. Griswold. George A. is the only one now living. George A. Griswold was a lad f only four when the family occupied the double log house in Gustavus township and after attending various district schools and thoroughly exhausting their facilities became a student at the Western Reserve College, from which he graduated in 1835. 280 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY He then went south, teaching school during his absence of nine months at Woodville Mississippi. Upon his return he taught the home district school, engaged in farming and followed the life of the industrious and useful citizen of those days. At his marriage in 1842 he located on the homestead in Gustavus. township, upon which his wife died in 1887. In the following year he retired to Kinsman, making his home with Mrs. Birrell, his daughter. With the passing of the generations which are spanned by his life, Mr. Griswold has seen the establishment and development of a new civilization around him. It has not only sprung from the wilderness in material form, but has developed in the higher forms of local government, national politics and religious movements. For many years held such local offices as clerk and treasurer of his township, and attained .early prominence as a vigorous opponent of slavery, being chosen a delegate to the convention which met in a barn at Granville, Licking county, and nominated Birney for governor on the anti-slavery platform. Since he became of voting age he has either been a Whig or a Republican, and, in his church connections, either a Presbyterian or a Congregationalist. On September 19, 1842, Mr. Griswold was wedded to Miss Mary Sperry, daughter of Eli Sperry. His wife, who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and reached young girlhood in that city, came to Trumbull county with her parents. She died in Gustavus township January 28, 1887, the mother of three children—George H., whose biography is published elsewhere in this workf Ellen AI., wife of Mr. Birrell, whose sketch is also given elsewhere.; and Marion A., now Mrs. George L. Peabody, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. JOHN C. BURROW, postmaster at Cortland, Trumbull county, Ohio, was born Woodville, 1862, in Cortland. His parents were Anthony and Martha (Hadsell) Burrow. The mother was born September, 1832,in Mecca township, Trumbull county, and the father in England, in the month of November, 1823. He came to America as a young man and subsequently he found his way to Cortland, then known as Baconsburg, where he engaged in rope making, which vocation he carried on successfully until the autumn of 1862, when he enlisted with Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. fie served in the cause of the Union until June 5, 1865. He saw great hardship in both the rebel prisons—Libby and Andersonville—being confined in both about eighteen months. He was captured at the battle of Chickamauga. Alter his return from tbe service of his adopted country, he went to Pierce county, Wisconsin, and there engaged in farming for five years. He then returned to Cortland, Ohio, and there followed stone work several years, then retired, dying December 21, 1888. His wife died October, 1908. They were the parents of two children, of whom John C. is the youngest. His sister, Carrie L., died August 11, 1880. John C. Burrow attended school in Wisconsin and later at Cortland. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 281 He remained with his parents until seventeen years of age, then worked for others as a farm hand, receiving but ten dollars a month for such labor. After two years at such work, he was employed as a baggagemaster on the N. P. & O, (now Erie) Railroad. He was an invalid about two years, after which he engaged in handling Mecca Oil, exclusively, and at this agency continued five years, then went to operating for a couple of years, after which he learned. the trades of paper hanging and painting, which he followed six years. He was then appointed, under McKinley, as postmaster at Cortland, taking his commission July 1, 1897. He still holds the office and is assisted by his daughter. It was made a "third class" office and he was re-appointed postmaster December 13, 1904. Mr. Burrows is a firm believer in the principles of the Republican party. He is a member f the Disciples church. He was married, December 28, 1884, to Minnie E. Mapes, born August 22, 1863, a daughter f Andrew and Joanna (Casteline) Mapes. Her father was born in New York state and the mother in Cortland, Ohio. The date of the father's birth was June 20, 1826, and that of the mother, April 18, 1830. He went to Trumbull county with his parents when he was a boy and remained on the farm until the death of both his parents. Later he moved into the village of Cortland and there he and his wife are leading retired lives. In the Mapes family there were six children, f whom four still survive: Fayette, died aged two years ; Fitch P., died about 1898, was a prominent hardware merchant, of tile firm of Mapes & Faunce ; Lettie J., wife of L. D. Casteline, deceased ; Addie, wife of J. H. Faunce, and Mary, wife f Eugene A. Sigler ; Minnie E., wife of Mr. Burrow. Mr. and Mrs. Burrow are the parents of the following children: Carrie A.., unmarried and at home, assistant postmistress, under her father ; Harold A., a clerk in a grocery store, of Cortland; Edna M., attending school, residing at home ; Martha J., also at home. Mr. Burrow is a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities. He is public spirited and makes a capable and very obliging postmaster, as may be observed by the long term he has held the position. LEWIS H. MINES.—Howland township of Trumbull county numbers among its agriculturists Lewis H. Alines, who owns and operates a splendid estate there. He is a representative of an old established family of Virginia, and is a son of James AI. and Ellen (King) Mines, both from Augusta county, that state, and a grandson of Lewis and Hannah Mines, who spent their entire lives in the Old Dominion state. Lewis Mines was a lifelong agriculturist, but he supplemented his farm labor with carpenter work. James M. Mines was throughout his life a farmer and teamster; and buying a large farm in the woods of West Virginia he cleared his land and lived the remainder of his life in Harrison county, dying there on the 15th of March, 1892, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years, and his. wife survived him until 1905, and died at the age of ninety-four years. In their family 282 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY were the following nine children: Mary M., Hannah J., Elizabeth E. and Sarah A., all f whom are deceased; Lydia M., the wife of Edward Fittro, of Harrison county, West Virginia ; Susan L., whose home is in Wheeling, West Virginia; Arthur L., deceased ; Lewis H., who is mentioned below ; James H., also in Harrison county, West Virginia. Lewis H. Mines was born in Augusta county, Virginia, on September 29, 1832, and he received his educational training in Clarksburg of West Virginia. Remaining at home with his parents until his marriage he then farmed his father's estate in Harrison county until the latter's death, and then with his brother he inherited the farm of five hundred and fifty acres, by paying to his sisters $3,500. After selling that farm to a coal company in 1901, Mr. Mines rented land for a few years, and in the fall of 1903 came to Howland township and bought the A: A. Drake farm of two hundred and forty-three and a half acres, which he has further improved, and he is now engaged in general farming and dairying there. In 1868 Mr. Mines was married to Emma Griffin, who died in the year of 1876, after becoming the mother of four children, namely : Ray, who married Ann Walker, and is engaged in the real estate business in Seattle, Washington; Nellie, the wife of Moses Tichenal, of Harrison county, West Virginia; L. Warren, who married Lois Gregg, and resides in Seattle, Washington; and Louie, whose home is with her sister Nellie. In 1884 Mr. Mines was united in marriage to Carrie A. Tichenal, and their five children are : Henry C., Wilburn S., Roscoe, Lloyd and Dorothy, all of whom are at home with their parents. Mr. Mines gives his political support to the Republican party, and during his residence in Virginia he served as a member of the board of education. IRWIN WILLIAM BOLIN, one f the substantial farmers of Howland township, Trumbull county, Ohio, was born September 9, 1851, in Green county, Wisconsin. He is the son f William and Rachel (Dee) Bolin. The father was born in 1807, in Allegheny county, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and died in 1876. The mother was born in 1822, in Connecticut, near Long Island Sound. She died in 1880, both dying in Wisconsin. William Bolin was married in Trumbull county, Ohio. He resided there about twelve years and carried on the business of a thoroughgoing agriculturist. In 1848 he went to Green county, Wisconsin, where he bought forty acres of land and there farmed until his death. He raised a family of ten children, as follows: Abeline, deceased ; Jane, residing in Greenville, Pennsylvania, married Jesse Weaver; Ellen, residing in Buckley, Washington, married Albert Buck ; Nancy, deceased; James, residing in Wisconsin, married Lydia Young; Betsey, residing in Buckley, Washington, married Almond Ballow; Irwin William, of this biography; Electa, residing in Buckley, Washington, widow ; Lewis, resides near St. Paul, Minnesota; Laura, deceased. William was the son of John Bolin, who married a Miss Merriman, and both were natives f Pennsylvania. He followed farming for an HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 283 occupation. John Bolin was the son of Patrick, born in Ireland, came to this country during the war, served in the Revolutionary war, and never returned to his native land. Irwin W. Bolin was educated in the common schools of Wisconsin. Politically, is a Republican of the stanch type. In church affiliations, he is a Methodist. He commenced life for himself when eighteen years of age, learning the carriage makers trade, in Olmstead county, Minnesota, where he remained for three years. He then went to Greenville, Pennsylvania, and went into the mercantile business, continuing about three years. He was also proprietor of a store and was postmaster at Atlantic, Pennsylvania, where he resided three years. His next location was in Trumbull county, Ohio, to which place he removed in 1876, and worked as a farm hand until he was married, when he commenced farming for himself on a farm owned by his wife's father. Mr. Bolin also owns forty-seven acres of land in Braceville township. He carries on a general farming and dairy business. Irwin W. Bolin was united in marriage March 11, 1889, to Olive Van Wye, born in 1856, on the farm two miles south of Warren. She is the daughter of John and Adeline (Carillon), Van "Wye, both now deceased; the father was born in 1822, in Pennsylvania, and died 1907. The mother was born September 13, 1827, in Liberty township, Trumbull county, Ohio, died July 6, 1897. This worthy couple were laid to rest in Oakwood cemetery. John Van Wye went to Trumbull county at the age of ten years with his parents, Abraham and Charity (Laird) Van Wye. When they first settled. there all was wild and uncultivated. In October, 1908, Mr. Bolin left the farm and moved to Warren and became a partner in the Wadsworth Feed Company. WILLIAM D. HAKE is still numbered among the survivors of the soldiery of the Civil war, and is a farmer of Howland township, Trumbull county, Ohio, in which township he was born September 27, 1837, a son of George and Catherine (Wortman) Hake. The father was born in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1794 and died in 1876. The mother was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and died in 1892. George Hake went from Pennsylvania to Ohio about 1830, and on his way lost his first wife. By trade, he was a potter, but upon going to Ohio he purchased a farm in what was then but a wilderness and erected a log house, which he lived in several years, then provided himself with a good frame residence. For his first wife he married a Miss Miller, by whom he had five children: Henry, John, deceased; George, Jr.; David, deceased; Ann, deceased. For his second wife he married about 1832, Catherine Wortman, by whom was born five children : Jacob, residing on the old homestead, in Howland township; William D., of this sketch; Susan, resides in Cortland, married Benjamin Battles; Eliza, deceased; Zephniah, residing in Cortland, married Bazetta Stewart. William D. Hake was educated in the district schools, but did not have 284 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY the educational advantages enjoyed by the average youth f today. He remained at home until 1858, then moved to Missouri where he teamed with an ox team until the Civil war broke out. In June, 1861,—first year of the Rebellion—he enlisted with Captain Dockerdy and General Price, serving six months; was in the fierce battle of Wilson's Creek and Lexington, where Col. Mulligan was captured, Mr. Hake was forced to join the rebel army, but with a fleet horse made his escape in March, 1862. Twenty-eight soldiers fired nine rounds at him, but he received no wounds. He returned to his old home in Howland township and worked for his father a. year, then worked at logging business three years. After that, he, with a nephew, operated a. saw mill two years, after which he purchased forty acres of land, upon which he now resides and has followed farm life ever since. Politically, Mr. Hake is a loyal Democrat, and in church choice is a Disciple; as is also his good wife. He has been married twice, first to Mary Hayhusk, in 1862; she was born in 1843, and by such union one child was born, Leman, who is now engaged in the lumber business at Niles, Ohio. He married Nellie Chamberlain. For his second wife, William D, Hake married in 1874 Mary (Messimer) St. John, a widow, by whom Mr. Hake had two children : Maude, residing at home; she married Clarence Jones, who is engaged in the saw mill business and employed by Charles F. Hake of Girard, Ohio, and Mamie, who died at the age of four months. CLARENCE R. VIETS, who is engaged in general farming and horticulture in Southington township, Trumbull county, comes of an old family first established in this locality during the early part of the nineteenth century. The great-grandfather settled in Southington township in 1805, his grandson Russell being also born in this part f the county. The father of Clarence R., Frank Viets, was also a native of Southington township and married Francis Tift, a daughter of Joseph Tift. As both Frank Viets and his wife were born and reared in Southington township their eight children are especially sons and daughters of Trumbull county. The household consisted of Clarence R., the eldest child ; Eugene, who is a resident of this township; Todd, who lives at Redondo, California ; Belle, who married Calyin Leiby and now lives at Niles, Ohio; Hal and Fred, who both live in Southington township; Lottie, now deceased, and Joseph, also a resident of this locality. The father, who is still an active farmer of Southington township, is an old-time Republican, and at one time was assessor of the township, having always actively participated in local politics. Fraternally he belongs to West Farmington Lodge No. 333, Knights of Pythias. Clarence R. Viets was born in Southington township, near his present home, on the 30th of August, 1876; received his early education in the township schools and later enjoyed a two years' course at the Nelson (Ohio) high school. As stated he has engaged in agriculture as a general farmer and fruit grower, having made a specialty of strawberries. His entire estate consists of one hundred and seven acres and is a part of the fourteen HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 285 hundred. acres which his great-grandfather purchased in 1805 when he settled in Southington township. Mr. Viets has always been an active Republican and has served for three years as assessor of his township and was elected to his present membership on the school board in 1907. Like his father, he is an active member of the Knights of Pythias, being identified with West Farmington Lodge No. 333. He is a charter member f Southington Grange No. 1670 and served as its first secretary. On April 19, 1896, AIL Viets married Miss Mary Harshman, daughter of Charles Harshman, his wife being a native of this township. Their four children are: Dale, deceased.; Roger, Gladys and Sadie, who reside with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Viets are both members f the Methodist church at Southington and they take an active and leading part in its local work. FRANK E. SAWYER, a substantial farmer and an educated and honored citizen of Southington township, Trumbull county, was born in the township named, October 15, 1864, and in his early manhood established a high reputation as an educator. He is a son of Franklin Sawyer, a native of Vermont, who came with his parents to Southington township about 1830, being then six years of age. The grandparents, Ezra and Elizabeth (Griggs) Sawyer, were typical New Englanders, a part of whose religion was to provide their children with a good education. Franklin therefore received a thorough training in the district schools of Southington township, and afterward. pursued a partial course at the Western Reserve Academy, at West Farmington, Ohio. He was thus qualified to teach the schools of his day, and dig so for several winters in his youthful life, the summer months being passed as a farmer. Later in life he diversified his general farming operations by dealings in livestock, becoming quite an extensive shipper of horses. At the time of his death in February, 1906, he was the owner f a farm f one hundred and four acres; had held many township offices and was a citizen of weight in the community affairs. He was a firm Republican. Franklin Sawyer married Miss Jane Elizabeth Betts, a daughter of Xenophon and Betsy Betts, who were natives f Norwalk, Connecticut. Her father, a graduate of Yale University, was a Presbyterian clergyman, and the daughter was a graduate of the Oxford (Ohio) Female Seminary and a lady of thorough education and culture. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer, as follows: George B., who resides at Warren, Ohio; Frank E., of this sketch; Mary B., who married Cortland Ives and lives at Los Angeles, California; Fred A., a resident of. Boston, Massachusetts, and Helen, deceased, who became the wife of Irvin Boles. Frank E. Sawyer, a native and life-long resident of Southington township, was educated in the district schools, and at the Western Reserve Academy, West Farmington, Ohio, and the Grand River Institute. The training received at the institute prepared him for teaching, and he com- 286 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY menced to thus occupy himself, at the age of eighteen years. He commenced his career with six terms at Southington; was afterward principal of the grammar school of Brookfield township for two years, and for five years was superintendent of the schools at West Farmington. Since that time he has resided. on his fine farm of two hundred and five acres, which he successfully conducts, occupying a large and modern country residence of eleven rooms. He has served as township trustee, and in January, 1904, was elected president of the township school board—a position for which he is admirably adapted, both by reason of natural talents and his long experience as an educator. On December 24, 1890, Mr. Sawyer married Miss Bertha Doty, daughter of Sylvester and .Mary Doty, natives of Southington township. The first members of the family migrated to Trumbull county from Massachusetts and were among the pioneers of Southington township. Mr. Sawyer belongs to West Farmington Lodge No. 333, Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife are leading members of the Methodist church. He himself is a class leader and superintendent of the Sunday school, and steward and treasurer of the church. IRWIN J. BATES, a farmer of life-long industry and an honorable citizen f Hartford township, Trumbull county, was born in the township named on the 12th of June, 1843. His paternal grandfather, Elihu Bates, migrated from Connecticut, the mother state f the Western Reserve, in 1815, and settled in Hartford township, with his family. His son, Samuel C., was then eleven years f age and was reared and educated in the township. Samuel C. Bates was married three times and died in March, 1881. He was a farmer all his mature life, his homestead, at the time of his death, consisting of one hundred and eighty-four acres of land, thoroughly cultivated and also improved with substantial buildings. In his religious faith, he was a member of the Disciples church. The first wife of Samuel C. Bates was Emily Mason, a native of Trumbull county, by whom he had three children : Homer, Ruby, now Mrs. Canfield, and Herman. Miss Mary daughter of John Williams, of Hartford township, was his second wife, and their children were Irwin J., of this sketch, and Emma, who died in 1857. For his third wife Samuel C. Bates married Mrs. Lucinda Aikens. Irwin J. Bates followed in his father's footsteps, and has been a life-long farmer, his present estate comprising eighty acres. Raised and educated in Hartford township, he has ordered his life with sobriety and wisdom, and is highly esteemed as a citizen of honor and practical ability. While yet in his teens he offered his services in defense of the Union cause, enlisting in an independent company called Trumbull Guards, which was organized by Charles W. Smith, of Warren, Ohio, and sent to Gallipolis to do guard duty. He cast his first presidential vote in 1864 for Lincoln, and has never since abandoned Republicanism. Although the bulk f his life has been devoted to the affairs of his farm and his household, he has HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 287 served in many of the township offices with credit and unvaried faithfulness. Fraternal life has little interested him, his connection in this regard being confined to Hartford Grange No. 1479. Mr. Bates has been twice married—first, to Mrs. Anna (Perkins) Mizner, and after her death to Miss Caroline Hyde, born at Farmington, June 4, 1846, daughter of Sylvester and Martha (Bartholomew) Hyde. ALLEN B. UNDERWOOD. a farmer residing in Liberty township, was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, within Wayne township, March 7, 1859, a son of Alfred B. Underwood, who was born in New York state, coming when but eight years old to Ohio, locating in Trumbull county. He was a farmer and a minister. At first he was of the Baptist church faith, but later united with the United. Brethren church and was for seven years previous to his death, a Seventh Day. Adventist. He died March 15, 1906. He married. Sallie Morse, November 3, 1847. She was the daughter of Ansel Morse, of Ashtabula county, where she was born and reared, as well as educated. They had eight children, born in the following order Rovilla, married George Stevens, and resides in Mesopotamia township; Rufus A., of Minneapolis, Minnesota ; Emily, who married Milton Bacon and lives in Ashtabula county; a son who died in infancy; Judson P., now residing in Kinsman, Ohio; Mary, who married E. Tidd and resides in Williamsfield, Ohio; Nettie C., who married George Westlake and resides in Youngstown, Ohio; Allen B., of this narrative. The mother of this family is now residing with her daughter in Youngstown, and has attained the age of ninety-one years. Allen B. Underwood received his education in Ashtabula county, graduating from the common schools and had one term in the high school at Mesopotamia, but did not complete his course there. He began the active duties of a farmer and gardener, when but ten years of age, and worked under his father until twenty-two years. He now owns sixty-three acres of land, all well improved and carries on general farming and truck gardening. In the season of 1908 he raised twenty-two thousand cabbage plants. His chief market is Youngstown, Ohio, where he has a stall in the market house. Besides his garden proper, he has a fine orchard of several acres. In his political belief, he stands for Republicanism. He has been school director and takes much interest in all educational matters. He is a member f Vienna Grange, No. 1537, at Vienna Center. In religious faith, Mr. Underwood is in accord with the tenets of the United Evan-gelical denomination, to which he belongs, at Lloyd's Corner, Ohio. He is serving as one of the trustees f the parsonage. Mr. Underwood was married March 5, 1881, to Olive M. Tidd, born to Martin and Lucy (Still) Tidd, of Williamsfield, Ohio, but who came from Connecticut ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Underwood. are the parents of four children: Elroy E., Vol. II-19 288 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY married and lives in Liberty township; L. C., who lives at home ; Albert C., died in infancy; Iva Irene, at home. MRS. RUBIE CANFIELD, widow of the late Whitney L. Canfield, of Hartford township, for many years assisted her husband in the conduct of their farms. Mr. Canfield was a native of this township, born December 22, 1833. His father, Levi Canfield, came from the state of Connecticut and settled in Trumbull county in the pioneer period of its history. Whitney L. was reared and educated in Hartford township, and March 14, 1868, was united in marriage to Miss Rubie Bates, a daughter of Samuel and Emily (Mason) Bates. Mrs. Canfield's mother was born in New York state and her father was a native of Connecticut. Her parents came. to Hartford township in 1824 and here Mrs. Canfield was born and passed her entire life. There were three brothers in her family : Samuel, John and Linus. Whitney L. Canfield was a Republican and served for some time as trustee of the township. He was a Mason and was identified with Jerusalem Lodge No. 19, of Hartford, and both he and his wife were active members of the Disciple church, in which for many years he served as deacon. Mr. and Mrs. Canfield had no children, but received a girl into their household and reared her as their own daughter, and she married Augustus Hyde. Their adopted daughter and her husband now live with Mrs. Canfield, who superintend the farm which she and her husband improved: and developed together. GEORGE B. PERRINE has long been a familiar and substantial citizen of Hartford township, having been engaged in farming and in carpentry, and for a period of twenty-two years held the office f township clerk. Had he not himself resigned the latter office he would have been continued in it indefinitely, so efficient and entirely satisfactory were his services. Mr. Perrine is a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, born in Lake township, that county, March 23, 1860. His grandfather, Daniel Perrine, was one of the early pioneers of Mercer county. He was a witness to the great naval battle fought by Perry on Lake Erie and the sight made such an impression on his mind that at the birth of his son, Oliver Perry, he named the child in honor of the hero of that engagement. Oliver P. Perrine, the father of George B., was also a native of Mercer county and married Miss Sophia Bierce, who was born in that county, her parents being among its honored pioneers. The nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver P. Perrine were : Jason, George B., Hudson, Carrie, Lottie, Mattie, Mary, Emma and Maude. The father followed farming during his entire life, removing to Trumbull county in 1866 and dying here in 1891. The wife passed away eight years previously. George B. Perrine reached manhood in Hartford township and has always followed the ancestrial vocation of farming, dealing extensively in HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 289 live stock. His present farm consists f one hundred and nine acres. His specialty is raising fine horses and he is considered an excellent judge f them, both as to their substantial and fancy qualities. In early manhood he also learned the trade f a carpenter and followed that in connection with his farming. He is an active Republican and a persistent worker for the betterment f the township and county schools. As township clerk for twenty-two years he fully proved his popularity, but on account f the growth f his private interests he was obliged to resign the office. He is a member f Jerusalem Lodge, No. 19, F. & A. M., having been its secretary three years. Mr. Perrine's wife was formerly Miss Ella Clark, a daughter of Lewis Clark, and was born in Brookfield township. The seven children born to them have been: Leah, who married Frank Baxter, a clergyman f the Christian church; Bierce; Mont; Oliver N.; Frank; Andrew; and Geneva M. The family are members of the Disciples church. GILES OLIVER GRISWOLD, president and founder of the Griswold Linseed Oil Company, was born on the family homestead at Meriden, Connecticut, December 1, 1810, and died at his home, 40 South street, Warren, Ohio, April 27, 1902, aged ninety--one years, five months and twenty-seven days. Mr. Griswold resided in Warren fifty-three years and in Ohio over sixty years, during which time he was actively engaged in manufacturing, chiefly in the production f linseed oil. He began his business career at Meriden, but was driven away by the hard times following the panic of 1837. He built mills at New Castle, Pennsylvania, and Warren and Cleveland, greatly stimulating the raising of flaxseed among the farmers of the section and giving substantial returns to labor for many years. He was interested also in other lines of business, principally as a shareholder in a number of banks and an investor in real estate to a limited extent. Mr. Griswold sold his mills a few years before his death and, retiring from active affairs, he devoted his last days to the preparation of his estate. G. O. Griswold was born and raised at the home f his father, Jesse Griswold, who lived on a small Connecticut farm on the Old Colony road, which runs from New Haven to Hartford, now in the heart of Meriden. There was a large family, and he was the eldest son. His mother died when he was ten years old, and at the age f twelve years he went out to meet the world, bound out by indenture papers to a neighbor for the benefit f his father. He worked in a comb. factory at Meriden during the day and at evening did chores for his keep. For the first year his wages were $4 per month. Soon he got a better place in another factory, and his wages began to go up steadily by the year until they reached $20 a month. At eighteen years f age he was foreman f the factory, and had managed to save enough money to buy the rest f his time until he should be of age, for which he paid his father $167. Then he went into business for himself, making sheet-iron ware; later he began making tools. At twenty 290 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY he was well enough off. to marIy. He took for his bIide Eliza Ann Bailey, daughter f Simon and Prue (Deming) Bailey, the father being a farmer of Lebanon, Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Griswold were married at Southington, May 4, 1831, by the Rev. Irenus Atkins, pastor of the First Baptist Society. Mr. Griswold continued working at Meriden, drawing wages as foreman in one factory after another, and keeping up his own business ventures in a modest way. He was engaged at different times in making small, useful articles of ivory, tin, wood, glass and iron. He handled labor well, and managed with machinery and material to good advantage. Always he was industrious, energetic and saving, and his affairs steadily improved. He cared for his father and step-mother, and for his younger brother and sisters, and they all lived together at the family home in Meriden. Thus they were in a fair way to prosperity when the panic of 1837 struck New England and put a stop to manufacturing. Mr. Griswold at the time decided to move west. The Western Reserve, "Haven of Rest, to the true son of Connecticut," invited him, and, gathering up his possessions, he set out overland for Ohio. Meanwhile his wife had died, leaving an infant daughter, Angeline Eliza Griswold, threes years old. The mother's grave in the old society burial ground on the hill east of Meriden still bears the marks, "Died August 27, 1836, aged 28." Mr. Griswold took with him a second wife, Mary Maria Merriman, eldest daughter of Anson and Jerusha (Bacon) Merriman. Mr. Merriman was a well-to-do farmer at Southington, and the families had been intimate for many years. Mrs. Griswold was the teacher of the village school. She was also a member of the First Baptist church, and the marriage was solemnized on October 23, 1837, by the same Irenus Atkins, who performed Mr. Griswold's first marriage ceremony. The next spring they were all on the way west : Mr. Griswold and his wife and the child Angie, his brother, Edward Collins Griswold, and his sister Fanny. It was a long and tedious journey, three weeks by stage and carriage to Pittsburg, and then still farther onward into the Reserve. They found a home in the village of Aurora and began business there in the year 1838. The two brothers, G. O. and E. C. Griswold, put up a frame shop building at Aurora on land purchased by G. O. Griswold for making tin and sheet iron ware. It was a two-story building and well put together, for it stood for seventy' years on the plot now forming the lawn f the Disciple church. The family lived in the upper floor of the building, which for lack of money had to be left unfinished. Mrs. Griswold made up for the deficiency of partitions by drawing upon her Connecticut chests, and provided the necessary "quarters" by hanging up quilts from the rafters. Thus she had kitchen, dining room, parlor and bed rooms, each in its proper corner. This was their home during the years of their stay in Aurora. The brothers were busy in the shop. Mrs. Griswold took care of the household. Fanny Griswold attended Oberlin College and became a teacher. She died at Aurora unmarried at the age of twenty-six, and was buried there. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 291 The Griswolds continued in business at Aurora for a time, and then decided to broaden their field. They selected New Castle, Pennsylvania., where water power had just been made available, and in 1841 they put up the first linseed oil mill in the western -country. lt was a small -mill, but it was run successfully for a number f years, and there the Griswold repu-tation for a fine quality f linseed oil had its foundation. The canal sys-tem was being extended through Ohio about this time, and they planned to put up another mill at Warren. They bought land in 1848 on the canal and began. building a. brick and stone mill with a steam plant and a larger capacity. The younger. brother died in the. midst of these preparations, and G. O. Griswold sold the mill at New Castle and moved up to Warren to complete the plant. He finished the mill in 1849 and started it running soon after. When the family removed to Warren from New Castle they went to live in the new mill. There was no time or money for a dwelling house, but at the front of the new mill was a space about six feet wide running across from wall to wall, which was not required for the workmen. This was partitioned off into rooms, and in this narrow space Mrs. Griswold kept house for a number of years, managing Ninth wonderful patience and cheer, while her husband contrived by ceaseless toil and tireless energy to build up the business. It was not a very comfortable home, but the mill kept running night and day, and Mr. Griswold was always at hand to see that the quantity and quality of oil did not fail. Soon, however, Mr. Griswold provided a suitable home for his loved ones. He purchased the old tannery in the original village of Warren., at the northwest corner f South street and Liberty street, now called Park avenue, and here he built his home. South street was then a favorite thoroughfare, and the Griswold home was a great change from the cramped rooms of the mill. By a lucky purchase Mr. Griswold got the lumber, the choicest of white pine, where it had been seasoning for several years on a siding in the Ashtabula woods. He designed the house himself, after the plans of the best houses at Southington and Meriden, and he attended to the building also. It was well built, for it still stands, after fifty years' service, sound as ever. In the new house, and with prosperity upon them, the habits of the family changed but little, the same careful management and prudent thrift prevailed at home and at mill. The mill was first, business was of the utmost importance. Matters at the house could wait, but nothing was permitted to interfere with the running of the mill. So the business succeeded, some years with large profits. The canal afforded easy shipping for oil and meal, and soon the railroads were in. Farmers were encouraged by advances of seedings and by loans on harvests. They brought in their crops early under insurance contracts of a bonus to cover any rise in market price. Thus there was a steady supply of seed for the crushers and very little chance of success for the frequent attempts of rivals to start operations in that vicinity. The Warren mill continued practically without interrup- 292 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY tion for over fifty years, producing oil of the highest grade. The quality of the Griswold make Was so well appreciated on the market that empty barrels bearing their marks were in demand at a premium among certain shippers. Thus the market widened and the daily capacity had to be increased. Mr. Griswold had to go abroad for seed, and he began shipping his product over the sea. Larger capital was required, and different arrangements developed in the conduct Of business. Still Mr. Griswold changed very little himself. He clung to the end of his life to the strict habits of industry and economy established in his youth. He kept up his good name for the quality of the oil he manufactured and for the strictest integrity in dealings with business men. He never speculated in oil or seed. It was always a matter of pride with Mr. Griswold that he bought only the seed which he could crush in his own mill and sold only the oil from his own presses. Meantime many important events affected the family. Three children were born of the second marriage, but none of them survived the perils of infancy. The only daughter, Angie, had grOwn to womanhood. She attended the public school in Warren and the old Willoughby Seminary, where there were a number of young women from Warren. Later she went to school among relatives at Reading, Massachusetts. She made frequent visits with her stepmother back and forth to Connecticut to the old Merriman farm. Next farm to the Merriman's on Shuttle Meadow mountain was the Dunham family homestead, which had come down through four generations from the ancestor, Gideon Dunham, of Farmington. Harvey Dunham, Jr., kept an inn on the wayside half way from Southington to New Britain. There were sons and daughters, and they were intimate with the Merriman young folks. The youngest son was a. widower, his wife having: died at Charleston, South Carolina, and he himself having been driven out f the south, where he was engaged in the dry goods business, by the outbreak f the Civil war. It was natural that there should be a match between these two, Truman Dunham and Angie Griswold. The wedding took place at the father's home, 40 South street, Warren, on December 4, 1862. It happened about this time that a venture of Mr. Griswold's in petroleum, or carbon oil, as it was then called, had fared badly, and Mr. Dunham was placed in charge of the interests at Cleveland under the firm name of Benton & Dunham. This concern did a leading wholesale business in drugs, paints, oils, etc., being located in the old Perry block, 116 and 118 Superior street, next west f the American House. Mr. Dunham arranged a separation of the business in 1864. The storeroom was divided; the drug trade was taken over by Horace Benton, under the name of Benton, Myers & Canfield, at present one of the largest establishments in that line in America. Truman Dunham & Co., with Mr. Griswold as the company, took charge of the paints, oils and glass trade. The next year they admitted Henry A. Sherwin as a member of the firm, in charge of the HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 293 bookkeeping: In a few years there was another division, and Mr. Sherwin took as his share the paint and varnish lines, thus beginning the Sherwin-Williams Company, now known all over the world. A new firm, Griswold & Dunham, confined attention entirely to linseed oil in connection with the Warren plant. In 1869 they put up a mill in Cleveland at Merwin street and Columbus avenue, which was operated as the Cleveland Linseed Oil Works, in charge f Mr. Dunham. Mr. Dunham lived in Cleveland, first at No. 40 and 44 Cheshire street. and here his two children' were born—Ella Maria Dunham, January 21, 1864, and Tryon Griswold Dunham, July 4, 1865. Later he built a home at 71 Seneca street, in what was then the popular section of the city. This house still stands on the west side f the street, a little to the north f St. Clair avenue, in the rear f the building f the Lake Shore Railway Company'. Here he was living on July 12, 1867, when Mrs. Dunham suddenly expired from the effects of an abscess on the brain, leaving the two infant chi.ldren. Just about this time Mr. Sherwin had been married to Miss Fanny Smith, and they were boarding near by. At Mr. Dunham's earnest request, Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin moved into the Seneca street home and took charge of the Dunham household. On October 7, 1868, Mr. Dunham took as his third wife Helen F. Sutliff, of Warren, Ohio. In 1880 he removed his family to 1290 Euclid avenue. He was preparing to build a home here when he was killed by machinery in his mill at Cleveland, March 30, 1882. Following Mr. Dunham's death, the business went on for a while with the administrator, Judge. C. C. Baldwin, in the organization. Later the Cleveland mill was sold to the Cleveland -Linseed Oil Company, but the Warren mill was represented in Cleveland for many years by branch offices. In 1884 the business was incorporated under the laws f Ohio as The Griswold Linseed Oil Company. Air. Griswold was the president, and remained in personal charge until the end. When the linseed oil trust was formed, the Warren mill could have entered with great personal profit to Mr. Griswold, but he declined to join the trust, preferring to continue the business as an independent. In 1890 he found it necessary to increase greatly the capacity f the old mill at Warren, and a larger brick mill was erected on the Perkins farm, north of the city. Arrangements were made here for shipping and storage f seed and oil in large quantities, so that contracts could be made ahead for heavy deliveries. In this way he could manage to protect himself in the markets in competition with the trust. This mill was but fairly started running when it was totally destroyed by fire, resulting in a great loss to Air. Griswold. It was rebuilt, however, at once, with larger capacity and improved machinery, and it continued in commission, producing one hundred barrels of oil a day, and using two thousand bushels of seed daily. As Mr. Griswold drew near his ninetieth year he felt constrained to simplify his business affairs before he died. His wife had passed away several years before, and he had drawn his grandchildren back to the Warren home. He sold his mills in 1899 and began the settlement of his estate. 294 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY The Griswold family in Connecticut had always been members of the Congregational church,. as the records of the Wallingford and Meriden societies show, but Giles O. Griswold, in his early years, transferred his faith to the Baptist church. From that time until the day f his death he was a stanch Baptist. He had his membership in the Warren church at first, but in 1883, when differences arose, he took his letter to Garrettsville, and for a number of years attended church there, although his wife continued to the end a supporter of the Warren Baptist church. ...Alter her death Mr. Griswold took hold of a struggling Baptist society at Niles, Ohio. He joined this church, and was its main support for many years. He built the church building at Niles and established a fund for its support after his death. Mrs. Griswold died at Warren November 7, 1890, after an illness f several years. They are buried side by side in the Griswold family plot at Oakwood cemetery, Warren. The Griswold ancestors are of the earliest New England stock. In every line, including the Bailey and Dunham lines, it runs back to the Yeomen of England who joined in the movement of 1630-1635 to establish free constitutional government in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Their names are in the lists of original proprietors, first settlers, patentees, of the ancient towns of these colonies. For the most part they were descendants of a race of farmers, but among them were men of highest learning who fled from England to escape direct persecution on account of their opinions, and in the new country they assumed the most intimate relations with the political and religious life of the communities. Many of them were quiet, un-assuming farmers, some were leaders in the affairs of state. Several were founders of churches and one was the great Charles Chauncey, second president of Harvard College. All are names recognized by genealogists as among the most important in New England life. Mr. Griswold was a descendant in the seventh generation from Edward Griswold, who, with his brother Matthew, came from Kenilworth, England, in 1640 and founded the Griswold family in Connecticut. Edward Griswold founded the town of Killingworth, now Chester, Connecticut, and this line (Edward, John, Joseph, Giles, Giles 2d, Jesse, Giles Oliver) traces back through intermarriage to the founders of many towns in Connecticut, including: Andrew Benton, George Stocking, Thomas and Dorothy Lord, Thomas Stanton and James Ensign, original proprietors of Hartford. David Atwater, John Austin and John and Jean (Woolley) Hall of New Haven. Capt. George Denison, one of Cromwell's soldiers, hero of the Indian wars and founder of the town of Stonington. Robert Lay, of Lyme and Saybrook. William Hough, of Gloucester. Robert Royce, Hugh Caulkins and Josiah Churchill, of Norwich; James Bate, of Dorchester, Mass. Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Deming) Foote, first comers at Ancient Windsor. Capt. Nathaniel Merriman, of Wallingford; John Catlin, of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Joseph Baldwin, of Milford, Connecticut. Mr. Griswold's wife, Eliza Ann Bailey, is of the famous Bayley-Bailey line, founded by John Bayley, of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1635. The marriages in this line bring in families of the first importance in Massachusetts and Connecticut genealogy, including John Emery, of Newbury; George Carr, of Salisbury; Capt. Joseph and Hannah (Denison) Saxton, of Lebanon; John Ingram and Chileab Smith, of Hadley, Massachusetts; Luke Hitchcock, of Wethersfield, Connecticut; John and Hannah (Birchard) Baldwin, of Guilford. Connecticut. and John Deming and Richard Treat, patentees named in the famous Charter of Connecticut. On the Dunham side are families of equal distinction. The ancestor Deacon HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 295 John Dunham was in Plymouth in 1630, where he was deacon of the colonial church until his death. His son, Jonathan, married the daughter of Elder Henry Cobb, founder of the colony of Barnstable. Gideon Dunham his grandson, removed to Norwich, Connecticut, in 1735, and thence to Southington, where he died in 1762, leaving a large .estate in lands, some of which have never left the family. Gideon's wife, Mary Dunham, was a descendant in the fourth generation of Rev. John Lothropp, the martyr minister of the Congregational church, London, and first minister at Scituate and at Barnstable, Massachusetts. Gideon and Mary Dunham had five sons, James, Gideon, Cornelius, Barnabas and Sylvanus, who were the progenitors of the Dunham family in Connecticut. Truman Dunham's father, Harvey, was gra.ndson of Sylvanus. ln the line from Sylvanus many well known names are brought in by intermarriage: Matthew Woodruff, John Clark, Deacon Stephen Hart. Gov. Thomas WeIles, Anthony Hawkins, John Steele, Ensign William Goodrich, Matthew Marvin, Jonathan Gilbert, John Cowles, Thomas Porter, William Wadsworth and the three brothers, Timothy, Thomas and John Stanley, are all included in the list of original proprietors of Hartford. Mr. Dunham's' grandmother Tryon was a descendant of Sarah Goodrich of Middletown whose ancestry has been traced to President Charles Chauncey, of Harvard College, and Rev. Peter Bulkeley, first minister of the church at Concord. The only child of G. O. Griswold to reach the age of maturity was the daughter by his first wife, Angeline Eliza, born at Meriden, October 21, 1834. She removed to Ohio with her father in 1839. She married at Warren, December 4, 1862, Truman Dunham. He was the son of Harvey and Julia Ann (Cornwall) Dunham, Jr., and was born at the Dunham homestead, Shuttle Meadow, town of Southington, Connecticut, June 30, 1831. Both were members of the old First Baptist church, at the corner of Euclid avenue and Erie street, Cleveland. Mrs. Dunham died at Cleveland, July 12, 1867, and Mr. Dunham was killed in his mill in Merwin street, Cleveland, March 30, 1882. Both are buried in Woodland cemetery, Cleveland. Two children were born of this marriage, both at the Cheshire street home, Cleveland. I. Ella Maria Dunham born January 21, 1864. She attended Rockwell school and the Central high school, Cleveland, and Cooper Seminary, Dayton, Ohio. She was married June 23, 1886, at Warren, to Albion Morris Dyer. They reside at No. 1905 East Seventy-third street, Cleveland. The children of this marriage are: i. Elbridge Griswold Dyer, born at New York City, May 15, 1887, graduated at the University school, Cleveland, class of 1906, and is now a student at Yale University. ii, Sydney Dunham Dyer, born at Omaha, Nebraska January 13, 1889, graduated at the University School, class of 1907, and now a student at Yale University. iii. Dorothy Dyer, born at Omaha, June 17, 1890, attended Miss Mittleberger's school, Cleveland, and is now in the East completing her education. iv. Truman Dunham Dyer, born at Warren, January 26, 1896. II. Tryon Griswold 'Dunham, born July 4, 1865, attended Rockwell school and Central High School, Cleveland, and Amherst College. He left college to engage in business. He married, June 20, 1891, at Warren, Clara Hunt. He resides at No. 317 Park avenue, that city. Their only child is: i. Tryon Hunt Dunham, born at Warren, July 23, 1898. ALBION MORRIS DYER was born in Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, January 16, 1858. He came to Warren some time after marriage and lived there several years, later removing with his family to Cleveland. His father, Ethridge Gerry Dyer, was a pioneer manufacturer in Ohio, having come from Maine to Columbus about the year 1840 and engaged in the making 296 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY of stoves and steam engines. He is a descendant of William Dyer of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was one of the original settlers of York county, Maine, in 1665. Mr. Dyer's mother, Margaret, was the daughter of Rev. William Teyrer, a Welsh farmer and preacher. She was born in Wales, November 27, 1825, her ancestors being of Scotch and Irish descent. The Teyrer family came from Anglesea Island, North Wales, in 1829, on account of disagreement with the collectors of the tithes. They came at once to Ohio, where many of their countrymen were settling, and broke forest for a home on the bank of the Scioto river in Radnor township, Delaware county. Mr. Dyer, the youngest son in a family of six children, was raised in Hamilton, attending the public schools. He prepared for college at Dayton, Ohio, and graduated at Madison (now Colgate) University, Hamilton, New York, with the degree of A. B., in 1884. He took post-graduate courses at Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, receiving from that institution the degree of A. M. Mr. Dyer was a newspaper writer in service of daily papers for many years in Cleveland, Youngstown, Buffalo, St. Louis and New York. He was associated with the Pan-American. Exposition at Buffalo and the St. Louis World's Fair in publicity work. In 1904 he returned to Cleveland and took charge of the Western Reserve Historical Society, of which he is the curator and a life member. His home is at 1905 East Seventy-third street, Cleveland. Mr. Dyer has been an active student and worker in American history. He has made careful examination of the manuscript and printed sources of American history in the large libraries and is now at Washington finishing for the Historical Society a bibliography of Ohio history covering the westward movement and the titles and surveys of the Northwest Territory. Mr. Dyer married on June 23, 1886, Ella M. Dunham, at the home of her grandfather, Giles Oliver Griswold, 40 South street, Warren, Ohio. Mrs. Dyer was the eldest child of Truman and Angeline Eliza (Griswold) Dunham. There are four children : Elbridge Griswold Dyer, born May 15, 1887; Sydney Dunham Dyer, born January 13, 1889, both students at Yale College; Dorothy Dyer, born June 17, 1890, and Truman Dunham Dyer, born January 26, 1896. They, with their parents, are members of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, Cleveland. WILLIAM BISHOP KILPATRICK, born at Warren, Ohio, September 5, 1877, is the son of William and Grace (Hull) Kilpatrick. William Kilpatrick's parents came from Ireland and their older children were born in that country, but the father of the subject of this sketch was born in the United States. When a very young lad he was thrown on his own resources. He learned the iron moulder's trade and came from the East to Warren to join an elder brother who had located here. Here he married Grace Hull, who was descended on the maternal side from the Smith family, who came to the Western Reserve from Connecticut in the early days, and on the paternal side from eastern people also. Three children, Dexter, Jessie HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 297 and William Bishop, were born to them. Mrs. Kilpatrick died April 23, 1908. William B. Kilpatrick was graduated from the Warren high school in June, 1896. He read law in the office of George P. Hunter and was admitted to the state bar in June, 1901, and to practice before the United States circuit court in March, 1902. Mr. Kilpatrick, from early manhood, has been deeply interested in politics. In the fall of 1898 he cast his first vote and at the April election in 1899 was elected to the city council from the second ward on the Democratic ticket. This ward was a. workingman's ward, but usually Republican, and the young Democrat's opponent was John L. Smith, a man of mature years, who had been county commissioner and twice mayor of the city. Mr. Kilpatrick served one term as councilman and declined a re-nomination. In 1901 he ran for mayor and was defeated by William C. Ward, Republican. In 1903 he made the race again and was beaten by M. J. Sloane, the Republican nominee. Both times, however, the normally over-whelming Republican majority was greatly reduced, and these two cam-paigns paved the way to success in November, 1905, when he was elected mayor—the first Democrat to hold that office since the Civil war and the second to ever have held it. He was re-elected in November of 1907, after one of the hardest fought campaigns in the history of the city. His administration has been characterized by a strict enforcement of the laws governing the regulation of the liquor traffic and. a constant desire to serve all the people irrespective f party. Mr. Kilpatrick has estranged the machine politicians of his own party by his constant and earnest advocacy of fundamental Democracy and his supreme disregard for mere partisan politics. He has offended the liquor interests by- his activity in the county local option campaign which resulted in a "dry" victory in Trumbull county in September, 1908. He has invoked the antagonism of the "big business" interests by his determined stand against the granting of franchises that were inimical to the interests of the people. He vetoed the Hydro Electric Company's and the Warren Water and Light Company's franchises because the granting of these to private companies would defeat the right of the people to determine whether or not they desired municipal ownership, also because the city was not compen-sated in any way for the grants—not even accorded free lights for city buildings. Further reason for vetoing the Hydro Electric Company's franchise was that some of the councilmen were financially interested in the company. He vetoed the gas franchise of the Mahoning Gas Fuel Com-pany (supposedly the Standard Oil Company) because the grant was perpetual and the city received no compensation whatever; also because the franchise gave the right to the use f the streets to the Standard Oil Company for "natural produced gas," and the regulation of the price of gas had only to do with "natural gas." Mr. Kilpatrick ran for common pleas judge in 1908 and, though de- 298 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY feated, carried his own city and cut down the Republican majority in the three counties represented as it never had been cut down before. He was a delegate to the state Democratic convention in Columbus in May, 1908, and a member of the resolutions committee of that convention. One may estimate fairly well the kind of man Mayor Kilpatrick is by the character f the enemies he has made. But he has won friends among those classes which need befriending most. Since 1902 he has been president of the Trumbull County Humane Society and a member of the Board of County Visitors since 1905. He is a member of the National Child Labor League and was recently elected a member of the executive board of the Ohio Child Labor Committee. He knows more than any one other person in Trumbull county about "how the other half lives." His study of conditions has convinced him that poverty is the cause of most human misery, and he does not assent to the easy doctrine that it is either necessary or inevitable. Though he has no formal church affiliations, he has very definite and positive religious beliefs, which are his political beliefs also. Mr. Kilpatrick was married August 14, 1905, to Dorothy Robbins, daughter of Charles C. and Jennie Robbins, of Mesopotamia, Ohio. She is also a distant relative of Moses Cleaveland. Two sons, Bishop and Page, have been born to them. MISS SARAH PAULINE AND THE LATE THOMAS ANDREWS BUSHNELL. Miss Sarah Pauline and her brother, the late Thomas Andrews Bushnell, were the descendants f the early pioneers f Hartford township, Trumbull county, being the children of Eli Wells and Electa (Jones) Bushnell. Eli Wells Bushnell was the direct descendant of Francis Bushnell, one of the first settlers of Guilford, Connecticut, who landed at Boston in 1630. Eli Wells' grandfather, Captain Alexander Bushnell, was born at Lyme, Connecticut, December 2, 1739, and married Chloe Waite, February 12, 1761. Chloe Waite was the granddaughter of Thomas Waite, an English member of parliament, and one of the judges who signed the death warrant of Charles I, the Waite family coming to America about the time of the restoration in 1660. Thomas Bushnell was the eldest son of Captain Alexander and Chloe (Waite) Bushnell, and was born at Lyme, Connecticut, January 11, 1762. He served during the later years of the Revolutionary war and married Rebecca Andrews toward its close. The latter was the daughter of Captain Nehemiah Andrews, called The Schoolmaster, of Hartford, Connecticut. It is a remarkable fact that Captain Alexander and Chloe (Waite) Bushnell were the parents of ten children, all of whom married in Connecticut and emigrated with their families to the Western Reserve. Thus the seeds f New England influences, moral, religious, and governmental, were transplanted from the thin and rocky soil of New England to the deep, fertile ground of the West, there springing up and bearing abundant fruit. Thus it was that in 1804 Thomas and Rebecca (Andrews) Bushnell set out HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 299 from Hartland for the West with their family, then numbering ten children, two being born after their arrival at Hartford, Ohio, namely, Amanda and Eli Wells. Eli Wells Bushnell was the youngest of twelve children and was born at Hartford, Ohio, October 22, 1806, on the farm now owned by Mrs. Addie (Cone) Kepner, widow of the late Allen P. Kepner. His father, Thomas Bushnell, died April 10, 1817, his being the first death in the paternal family, and a severe. shock to the community, as well as a terrible blow to the household. Eli learned the trade of edge tool making with Linus Parker, of Kinsman, and immediately after his marriage to Electa Jones (January 14, 1829) began life for himself in Austinburg, Ashtabula county, where his son Thomas Andrews, and a daughter Cordelia Amanda, were born. Mr. Bushnell being importuned by his brother, General Andrews Bushnell, to return to Hartford, did so in 1835, and remained there until his death in 1862. He was well known in the county as one f the best mechanics in the state, and for many years was proprietor of an ax factory, which also manufactured all kinds of edged tools. At one time every tool in his establishment was his own handiwork, including anvils, vises, screw-plates, trip-hammers, etc. It was a just matter of pride with him that he was able to repair any tool which was constructed of iron or steel, it mattered not how large or how small. His factory being destroyed by fire in 1859, he retired permanently from active business. Mr. Bushnell was an honest, conscientious, Christian man, who always remembered and practiced the Golden Rule. His heart was ever open to deeds of charity and the poor and oppressed always found in him sympathy and help. He was one of the advance guards of the old liberty party, being one of its twelve first voters in this township. He was also a member f the Congregational church, f which he was one f the deacons. He died September 8, 1862. Electa Maranda (Jones) Bushnell, wife of Eli Bushnell, was the fourth daughter of Elam and Sarah (Hyde) Jones, and was born in Hartford, January 25, 1808. Mrs. Bushnell was a lady f remarkable strength of mind and one of the pioneer schoolmistresses of the township. As Miss Jones she taught the first district school at Brockway's Mills, now known as Brockway, and made her home in the family of Abner Fowler, school director and representative of one of the pioneer families from Connecticut. She also taught several terms at Wheatland, Pennsylvania, living in the home of Rev. Isaac Satterfield, many of whose family have won national fame in the fields f theology and education. It was always her custom to associate with people f culture and education; thus when she reached old age her mind was so well developed by reading and intercourse with people f intelligence that she impressed all as a woman of more than ordinary intellectual training. Elam Jones, father f Electa (Jones) Bushnell, was the oldest son f Samuel and Ruth (Ackley) Jones, and was born at Barkhamstead, Connecticut, September 29, 1774. Mr. Jones acquired more than an ordinary education; in addition to what he could obtain from the Schools f the neighborhood, he received private instruction from Rev. Aaron Church, of