ELLIOTT B. HALL, son of the above named gentleman, was born in Orwell, Ohio, Jan. 23, 1870.  He was educated in the public schools and the Orwell Institute, and although quite young is ranked with the enterprising business men of his town.  He is the senior member of the firm of Hall & Stevens, clothiers.  They occupy a fine brick salesroom, situated on the west side of the public square in Orwell, where their large and well-assorted stock of men’s and boys’ clothing, furnishing goods, shoes, etc., is nicely arranged and presents an attractive appearance.  In their establish-ment an air of cleanliness as well as general “hustle” prevades the atmosphere.  Both of the proprietors seem to be especially adapted for the business in which they are engaged, and are meeting with well deserved success.
     Mr. Hall is a man of family.  He was married Aug. 15, 1888, to Miss Lucy E. Parker, daughter of Oren N. and Alzade Parker, of Orwell.  They have one child, Albert P., born Dec. 21, 1890.
     Mr. Hall, like his father, is a stanch Republican.  He is both an Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias, being Chancellor Commander of Orwell Lodge, No. 510, Knights of Pythias.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 618

GEORGE HALL, a widely known and popular contractor of Ashtabula, Ohio, was born in England, July 25, 1842.  His parents, William and Mary (Hollingsworth) Hall, were also natives of the tight little isle, the latter being a daughter of William and Mary Hollingsworth.  In 1844, two years after the birth of the subject of this sketch, the little family were deprived by death of the care of the devoted husband and father, who in life was an able and industrious mechanic and a man of sterling traits of character.  After the father's death, the mother married again, her second husband being John Muffett, a practical tile and brick maker and an upright, kind man.  They had no children, the subject of this sketch remaining as formerly the only child.  In 1851, the family came to the United States, landing at New York city, whence they went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where they lived three years.  They then removed to southern Ohio and shortly afterward to Upper Canada, settling for a brief period near Toronto, finally removing in 1858 to Michigan, which continued to be the home of the parents until their death.
     The subject of this sketch mastered his stepfather’s trade, after which he learned brick-laying, at both of which he worked until the outbreak of the war.  When twenty years of age, he enlisted in the Federal army, being assigned to Company H, Fourth Michigan Cavalry.  The command went south at once, and upon the organization of the Army of the Cumberland this regiment was incorporated into that branch, and was one of the hardest fighting regiments in the cavalry service.  The first brush which the Fourth Michigan Cavalry experienced with the Confederate forces was at Perryville, Kentucky, just after that historic battle.  General Bragg, of the Southern army, was followed as far as Murfreesborough, Tennessee, and there attacked by the Union forces.  Mr. Ilall, however, was already a prisoner of war, having been captured at La Vergne, Tennessee, while on picket duty and protected by a flag of truce.  On being attacked, General Bragg offered to parole the prisoners, including Captain Abeal and thirty of that officer’s company, but General Rosecrans, of the Union army, rejected this proposition, unless the prisoners should he returned with all the equipments and other accoutrements which had been captured.  This General Bragg refused to do, and started with his prisoners for Vicksburg, Mississippi.  That point, however, was so besieged with Union forces that it could not be reached from the outside, and at Montgomery, Alabama, a stop was made and they turned toward Richmond.  On arriving at that city, the prisoners were placed in Castle Thunder, where they remained six weeks, and then transferred to Libby prison, where they remained two weeks longer.  On being released from confinement, Mr. Hall was placed in a parole camp at Annapolis, Maryland, whither he was sent to Columbus, Ohio, for exchange.  He then rejoined his regiment at Murfreesborough and participated with it in the battle at Shelbyville, Tennessee, at Ohickamauga and many other points, before entering on the Atlanta campaign.  After the fall of Atlanta, Mr. Hall’s command returned North with General Thomas, and fought more or less from Rome, Georgia, to Nashville, Tennessee, from which city they continued to Louisville, Kentucky, where they were remounted.  They next participated in Wilson’s raid, finally arriving at Macon, Georgia, at the close of hostilities, and were discharged on general order at Nashville, just one month before Mr. Hall had served three years.
     On his way home, Mr. Hall had occasion to pass through Ashtabula, Ohio, and was so favorably impressed with its prospects as a business center that he stopped there and finally settled there permanently.  He was first engaged by George Russell as Superintendent of the former’s brick and tile factory, in which capacity Mr. Hall did faithful and efficient service for ten years.  He then entered the same business on his own account and also began to contract for the erection of buildings, continuing both employments successfully until 1888, when he discontinued the manufacture of brick and tile and has since been engaged in contracting exclusively.  Among the buildings the construction of which Mr. Hall has either superintended or contracted for, are the schoolhouse on Division street in Ashtabula and that at Harbor, the Ducro and Morrison blocks, the Dalin’s residence at Harbor and the Presbyterian Church.   These display a high grade of work and are sufficient guarantee of his ability.
     In November, 1869, Mr. Hall was married, in Jefferson, Ohio, to Miss Eliza Sandhover, an intelligent and estimable lady, daughter of Simeon Sandhover, an old and respected citizen.  They have had six children:  Bertha, wife of Chester Woolridge, of Painesville, Ohio; William; Edna; Charles, who was accidentally killed in 1892; Mary and Frank.  All of Mr. Hall’s children have enjoyed liberal educational advantages, Edna being a graduate of the high school.
     Fraternally, Mr. Hall is a Royal Arch Mason and has filled the Master’s chair and been High Priest of the chapter and Sword Bearer of the commandery, and filled all the important offices of both lodges, and represented these orders in the Grand Lodge and Great Council.  He is Worshipful Priest of the Eastern Star, is a charter member of the Elks, and is identified with the A. O. U. W. and an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
     Mr. Hall’s prosperity is most emphatically due to his own unaided efforts, governed by thorough and conscientious principles in his work, while his uniform uprightness and genial personality have gained for him many warm friends and placed him among the representative citizens of his favorite town.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 842

HENRY H. HALL, conspicuous among the prominent business men of Ashtabula, Ohio, was born in Ashtabula Nov. 3, 1836.  His parents, Valerius and Betsy W. Hall, were natives of Connecticut and Massachusetts, respectively, and were both of English descent.  In 1812, shortly after their marriage, they joined the westward tide of emigration, coming to Ashtabula, Ohio, at that time on the frontier of Civilization.  The father, who was a manufacturer, followed that calling in Ashtabula until about 1845, after which he was engaged in farming.  Both parents lived in Ashtabula to an advanced age, dying greatly lamented by all who knew them.  They had six children, four sons and two daughters.
     The subject of this sketch was reared to the age of thirteen in Ashtabula, gaining a fair common school education when in 1852, he left the parental roof on his own responsibility and began to learn telegraphy.  He worked at his business in many places, principally at Cincinnati, Pittsburg and Louisville, Kentucky.  In 1862 he discontinued telegraphing and returned to Ashtabula where he entered the merchandise business, in which he was successfully engaged for twenty years.  In 1882 he discontinued this to embark in other interests, being instrumental in establishing the following enterprises: The Ashtabula Tool Company, of which he was president two years, and then sold his interest; the Bolt & Shaft Company, of which he was manager; the Ashtabula Pump Company, of which he was president; and others.  The Carriage Bow Company was organized and began operations in Ashtabula partly through his influence, and all of these enterprises have brought prosperity in their train, materially contributing to the advancement of the city and surrounding country.  Nor have material interests alone occupied his time and attention, for, being a charitable man, he has devoted much means and thought to the condition of those less fortunate in the race of life.  In 1885 he, with other charitably disposed gentlemen and ladies, organized, under the State law, the Children’s Home at Ashtabula, and throughout its entire history of unusual prosperity he has acted as president, doing untold and far-reaching benefit to the community.
     In 1859 Mr. Hall was married to Miss Susan L. Tuller, a lady of domestic tastes and social accomplishments, formerly of Worthington, Ohio, and they have two children, a son and daughter.
     In politics Mr. Hall has for many years been a stanch supporter of the principles of Democracy, to which he still firmly adheres.  Fraternally he is an active Knight-Templar Mason.
     By business ability, energy and perseverance Mr. Hall has gained financial prosperity, while by high integrity and a genial personality he has secured the greater success of universal confidence and esteem.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 134

SERENO E. HALL, Orwell, Ohio, was born in Charlestown, Portage county, Ohio, May 22, 1835.  He is a son of Smith Hall, and one of a family of eight children, a record of whom is as follows:  The oldest child died in infancy; Albert S., a brevet Brigadier-General, died from the effects of a wound at Murfreesborough; Joseph N., who served through the war as a private in the Seventh  Ohio Regiment, was wounded at Missionary Ridge; Sereno E.; Julia, wife of Charles A. Clark, Oakwood, California; Travere A., a resident of Wheeling, West Virginia, was a Lieutenant during the Civil war; Temperance, who died at the age of ten years; and Mrs. Helen Stedman, a resident of California.  Sereno E. Hall was also a soldier in the late war.  He was a member of Company B, Second Ohio Cavalry, and served in Kansas during the Indian expedition.  He received a slight wound in the left leg, and on account of disability from sickness was discharged from the service.  He is now the recipient of a pension.
     Mr. Hill was married Sept. 1, 1857 to Miss Sarah Cowles, who was born in Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio, June 23, 1838, daughter of Elliott Cowles.  Mrs. Hall's father died when she was an infant, she being his only child, and her mother was subsequently married to Thomas Rush.  Mr. and Mrs. Rush had six children, Everett, Florence, Blanche, Eugenia, Winnie and Edward.  Mr. and Mrs. Hall have two children: Edith M. was born Aug. 31, 1858, and is the wife of Ernest Howard, Orwell; Elliott B. was born Jan. 23,1870, and of him further mention is given below.
     From the above it will be seen that four of the Hall brothers served in the late war.  They come from ancestors noted for their patriotism, their great-grandfather having served in the Revolution, and their grandfather in the war of 1812.  It is stated of his grandfather, Hall, that when he came to Ohio at an early day he and a brother, with their wives and twenty-four children, lived for some time in a little log house.  Sereno E. Hall was engaged in farming previous to his enlistment in the army, but after he returned from the war he became a carpenter and shoemaker.  He is a skillful mechanic, and a man who has the respect of all who know him.  For over twenty-seven years he has made his home in Orwell.| Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 618

THEODORE HALL. - The legal profession of Ashtabula, Ohio, possesses some of the ablest minds and the most upright characters to be found in the country, a conspicuous figure being the subject of this sketch.
     Theodore Hall was born in this city, Aug. 29, 1838, son of Stephen and Ruth (Booth) Hall.  Great-grandfather Stephen Hall was a Captain in the Revolutionary war and his son Friend Hall was a brave soldier in the war of 1812.  Stephen Hall, father of Mr. Hall of this notice, was born in New York, whither he and his widowed mother came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, about 1800, when this country was new and slightly settled.  Stephen Hall was for a few years a journeyman hatter, traveling throughout this country, but lie later entered the general merchandise business in Ashtabula, in which he continued for years.  He was first married in this county, to Ruth Booth, and they had two sons: the subject of this sketch; and Edgar, born in 1841.  The devoted wife and mother was spared to her family but a few short years, her death occurring when Theodore was about six years of age.  Some time afterward his father married again, his second wife being Rachel Pierce, and they had two children.  In 1864 the father died, at the age of sixty years, greatly lamented by all who knew him.  Mr. Hall, whose name heads this notice, was reared in Ashtabula where he received his preliminary education, which instruction was supplemented by a course at the Allegheny College, in Meadville, Pennsylvania.  In 1860 he began the study of law in his native city, under the supervision of Judge L. S. Sherman, and the following year was admitted to the bar, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession.  He formed a partnership in 1867 with his previous preceptor, Mr. Sherman, and they successfully practiced law together for eight years.  Mr. Hall was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue in 1862, serving from November of that year until November, 1868.  He afterward served five successive years as City Solicitor of Ashtabula, until he refused to retain the office longer, being supported by both political parties in the nomination for the second term for this position.  He has taken an active part in the development of this city, and since the organization of the Ashtabula Water Supply Company he has acted as president, greatly aiding it by his legal and financial ability.  He is local attorney for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and the Nickel Plate Railroad Companies.
     Dec. 25, 1862, Mr. Hall was married to Lucy M. Pierce, an estimable lady of this city, who departed this life Sept. 29, 1889, leaving two children: Edward Pierce Hall and Ruth Booth Hall.  Jan. 28, 1898, he married Miss Nellie Ketcham, a lady of many excellent qualities.
     Politically, Mr. Hall supports the principles of the Republican party. Fraternally, he is a Knight Templar Mason.  As a lawyer he is able, faithful, honest and energetic, while as a citizen he is enterprising and progressive, with a genial personality which has gained for him great popularity among his associates.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 325

EDWIN HARMON.  He who seeks to promote the general welfare of his country, and labors to further the growth and development of his own immediate community; who seeks to strengthen the cause of justice and morality and advance the standard of civilization, becomes a public benefactor, and as such is worthy of special mention on the pages of history.  Such is the character of one of the old pioneers of northeastern Ohio, Edwin Harmon, whose name heads this memoir, and who has passed from the busy scenes of this life to the life eternal.
     Edwin Harmon was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, May 6, 1803, a son of Anan and Tryphenia (Harmon) Harmon, of English ancestors, who settled in America in early Colonial times.  In 1816, they became imbued with the spirit that was moving the people westward, and, joining the tide of emigration that was following the setting sun, journeyed as far as Ohio, then the Western frontier.  They settled on a tract of wild land situated about one mile north of where the city of Ashtabula now stands.  They, with their children, traveled overland in wagons, the only conveyance in those times, and were many days on the journey.  Having made his location, Mr. Harmon, with that energy that belonged to the pioneer, began his labors for the building up of a home, and laying the foundation for the future prosperity of his family.  He engaged in farming, trading and merchandising.  Here the old pioneer lived for many years, working his farm and attending to his other interests, until he moved to near the present homestead of the, Harmons, where he died, in 1855, at the advanced age of eighty-two years.  He and his good wife became the parents of six children, two sons and four daughters: Clarissa, Edwin, Roxana, Achsah, Anan and Polly.
     Edwin Harmon, of this biography, was educated in the common schools of his time, in his native State, and in the one of his adoption, where he assisted his father in his labors.  As a youth he possessed unusual brightness and activity, and embraced every opportunity afforded him for increasing his knowledge and bettering his condition.  Attaining his majority he started in life for himself, and, after earning a sufficient amount of money, purchased some horses and a vehicle, and established a stage line between Erie, Pennsylvania and Cleveland, Ohio, also, soon afterward, secured the contract for carrying the United States mail.  This gave him a fair start in life, and was the foundation of his future prosperity.  From this enterprise he extended his operations to farming, trading and shipping.  For the latter enterprise, Mr. Harmon built several vessels, which sailed on the lakes.  A large part of his trade was with the Indians at Mackinaw and vicinity.  He would load his vessels with articles that they were accustomed to buy, and sail for their villages.  These trips were made annually, when the Indians secured their annuity from the Government, and in exchange for his goods would receive gold and silver.  The Indians held him in great confidence and would often make him depositor of their money.  He continued this and other business interests for many years, and, through energy, strict industry and financial ability, amassed a fortune.  One of his enterprises, which indicates his broad conception of business affairs, was the erection of a gristmill on Ashtabula creek, at the foot of Main street.  It began operation in 1846, and attracted wide attention, people having visited it from far and near. It was also a great benefaction, affording the people a convenient means of turning their grain into flour and meal.  It did good service until burned down in 1887.  The dwelling Mr. Harmon erected sixty-five years ago, in 1828, now known as the Harmon homestead, was so far in advance of the residences of those days that it not only was an attraction but a source of wonder.  This building indicates the broad mind, liberal character and refinement of Mr. Harmon.  For beauty of architecture, stability of construction, elegance, completeness of  finish, solid grandeur and comfort, it has no superior in this section of the country.  It has a commanding location and extensive grounds, which are ornamented with fine shrub trees.  He moved into this elegant home with his young bride in 1829, and it has been the residence of the Harmons ever since. Mr. Harmon’s farm, which surrounds the mansion, was brought to a fine state of cultivation, and was a model in itself.  There was not a thistle to be seen on its broad acres, or a fence rail out of place.  It was the admiration of all who passed it.
     Mr. Harmon was united in marriage Jan. 21, 1829, to Miss Miranda Cunningham, a native of Hamilton county, New York, born Nov. 21, 1808.  To this union were born eight children, six of whom grew to years of maturity: Adelaide, born Aug. 7, 1830, died July 21, 1845; Miranda, born Feb. 19, 1832, was married to James A. Wilkinson, and died Aug. 6, 1892, leaving
one child, Edwin Harmon.  She was a woman of refined tastes, and was a devoted wife and mother; Mary, horn June 18, 1834, was married to Charles Collins, and died Apr. 15, 1893; Harriet, born June 27, 1836, died Aug. 22, same year; Charles, born Feb. 10, 1838, died March 19, same year; Francis Edwin, born June 24, 1839; Albert, born Feb. 18, 1842, and Gertrude (Kittie), born Dec. 10, 1844, died June 29, 1891.  Gertrude, or Kittie, as she was familiarly known, possessed an even temperament, and a very amiable disposition.  She seemed not to have a selfish thought, but lived to make those around her happy.  She was most lovable in character, and was deeply mourned by all who knew her.  Francis E., the elder of the two children now left of this large family, was reared at home, where he secured a common-school education.  He assisted his father in his business until the latter’s death, when the estate was divided.  He remained on his portion until 1881, when he disposed of his farm and shipping interest and embarked in the mercantile business.
     Mr. Harmon was married in Ashtabula, Oct. 24, 1867, to Miss Emeline, a daughter of Bennet and Levia (Mann) Seymour.  They have one child, Louise Gertrude.  In politics, Mr. Harmon is a Republican.
     Edwin Harmon departed this life Aug. 13, 1863.  His loss was deeply felt by his family and a large circle of friends.  His widow, who had been an affectionate wife and mother, and possessing rare social qualities, survived him about ten years, joining him in the other world Feb. 5, 1872.
     A. few thoughts voicing the sentiment of the community in which the subject of this record so long dwelt, and the biographer will close.  Mr. Harmon was a man of great force of character, to which attribute was united untiring energy and perseverance.  His intellect was bright, clear and comprehensive; he was quick to grasp a subject, and was seldom at fault in his conclusions.  He had a broad humanity, was liberal, charitable and benevolent, and strictly conscientious in all his dealings.  Mr. Harmon was deeply imbued with that divine principle, “Do unto others as ye would others should do unto you.”  For half a century he dwelt and did business among the people of Ashtabula, and not a breath of suspicion was ever breathed against his honesty of character, but was universally esteemed and beloved by the people in whose confidence he was well fortified.  He was public-spirited and active in all matters pertaining to the welfare of his city, and labored during his long association with it toward its advancement.  He was greatly attached to his home, which he had surrounded with elegance, and to his family, having been a devoted husband and an affectionate and sympathetic father.  In his death, Ashtabula lost one of its most beloved, prominent, useful and attractive citizens, and the country a true patriot.
     Albert Harmon, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and son of Edwin Harmon, that grand pioneer whose biography and portrait appear in this connection, was born in this city, Feb. 18, 1842.  He was tenderly reared at home, where he received his education.  As soon as of sufficient age he was inducted into his father’s business, and was a very useful assistant up to the time of the latter’s death.  Albert was twenty one years of age when his father died, and when the estate was divided among the heirs he took charge of his portion, which included a half interest in the homestead.  His sister, Gertrude, who never married, had the remaining half interest in the homestead, where she continued to reside until her demise in 1891.  Aside from looking after his large estate and stock interests, being a man of refinement and cultivated tastes, he has given much attention to the greater adornment of the homestead, keeping up with the advancement of the age.  He has made a specialty of breeding high trotting Hambletonian horses, in which he is successful.  Like big father, Mr. Harmon is public spirited, and keenly alive to all matters tending to the development of Ashtabula.  He has been very zealous in his efforts to secure a bridge across the river at the foot of Main street.  In this movement, of which he is the originator, he is the leading spirit, and, as it now appears, his labors will justly be crowned with success at no distant day.  In politics he is a Republican.  A deep gloom was cast over his happy home lately by the loss of his only surviving and beloved sister and companion of his household, Mrs. Mary Collins.  She was very attentive and winning in her manners, warm and generous-hearted, and liberal to the poor, by whom as well as by her many friends, she is greatly missed.  Mr. Harmon is of medium Height, well and compactly built, and pleasing in his address; is generous in his disposition, and social and genial in temperament.  He worthily tills the place of his lamented father, and enjoys the esteem and confidence of the community and of all who know him.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  637

JOHN HARMON, of Ashtabula, Ohio, is one of the retired wheel-horses of this city, who has contributed by his energy and means to the promotion and sustaining of the best interests of the place where his life began, his birth having occurred here Mar. 1, 1826.  From his hardy New England ancestors he inherits that industry and determination which have won for him a comfortable competence and the highest regal'd of his fellow-men.  Jahial Harmon, his paternal grandfather, passed his life in Massachusetts, and belonged to an old and prominent family of that State.  He married Dorcas Sheldon and they had five children: Amos, Reuben, Hiram, Aaron and Ada, all of whom removed to Ohio, where they reared families.  Aaron, who was the father of the subject of this sketch, came to the Buckeye State in 1815, settling in Ashtabula county, of which he is a pioneer.  He had but limited means aside from health, willing hands, natural intelligence and a courageous heart, elements highly necessary in a pioneer, which comprise a fortune in themselves.  He set to work industriously to improve his wild land, cultivating it so carefully and assiduously that it became a very valuable estate, which was divided among his surviving children at his death.  He was one of the best informed farmers in the country, knowing more about that occupation that ninety per cent, of those in that business, as his eminent success substantially proves.  His wife, Abigail Tyler was one of four children, the others being Isaac Tyler, was also an old and respected settler from Connecticut.  This worthy couple were the parents of seven children: Hardin D., a resident of Jefferson, Ohio; Judson, deceased; Edmond, deceased; Ezekiel, residing in New York; John, whose name heads this sketch; Sheldon, who died in 1892; and Gilbert, of Ashtabula.  In 1851 the family were called upon to mourn the loss of the devoted father, who died at the age of seventy-one years, on the homestead which his energy had reclaimed from a wilderness, being greatly lamented by all who knew him.
     The subject of this brief biography was reared on his lather’s large farm in Ashtabula county, where he received the best possible instruction in agriculture and kindred matters, while his knowledge of books was attained in a private school taught by George Hall.  When twenty-one years of age he began farming for himself, to which enterprise he soon added stock-raising, which latter business attained in a few years very considerable proportions.  His operations extended to the westward, where he bought much stock, which he brought to this point, where it was fattened and afterward resold or reshipped, as the market warranted.  He was for a few years proprietor of a market in Ashtabula, and the older residents well remember the choice roasts which came from his store.  No day or week found him idle when his health permitted him to he up and doing, and it was not until 1886 that the demands of his health forced him to retire from the commercial arena.  He is essentially a man who has worn out, not rusted out, and his record of untiring industry and progress makes a large balance on the credit side of his journal of life.  He is financially well situated, being the owner of the old Harmon homestead of 200 acres, one of the fine places of the county.  He also owns valuable city property, including a beautiful home in East Village. He is a stockholder and director in the Farmers’ National Bank of Ashtabula. In 1859 he was elected Justice of the Peace, which position he held for three years.  In 1880 he acted as Town Assessor of real estate, being probably the best informed man in the county on realty valuations.  Previous to this he had been Assessor of personal property for seven years.
     Mar. 3, 1847, Mr. Harmon was married, in Austinburg, by the Rev. A. Williams, to Nancy Belknap, a well-known and highly esteemed lady of that city.  Her father, Asa Belknap, a prosperous farmer of this county, was born in 1790, and served as a Captain in the war of 1812, removing from the East to Ohio in 1829.  He married Miss Betsy Little, by whom he had seven children: Almon J., who married Laura Baker; Martha, who was married to E. H. Willsey; Clarissa B., wife of John Sargent; Nancy P., born Mar. 31, 1827; Asa N., married Ann Charlotte Gates; Jane, who was married to Cornelius Baker; Abbie Amelia was twice married, first to Hamilton Bunce and afterward to Cornelius Baker;, and Marcia, now Mrs. H. W. Hacket.  Mr. and Mrs. Harmon have had two children: Eugene H., born Sept. 9, 1848; and Lizzie A., born Nov. 6, 1860, died Aug. 13, 1865.  In politics Mr. Harmon is a Democrat.
     In religious faith the family are Episcopalians, and afford material aid to the church and all local charities.
     In the enjoyment of ample means and universal confidence and esteem, Mr. Harmon may truly be said to have acquired the highest and best success in life, and has the best wishes of all for his future prosperity and happiness.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  157

LEWIS HARPER, a real-estate dealer in Conneaut, Ohio, is a veteran of the late war and a prominent and highly respected citizen of this place.  Following is a resume of his life:
     Lewis Harper was born in Perry, Lake county, Ohio, Nov. 30, 1841, son of Aaron and Sarah (Richardson) Harper, both natives of Ohio.  He is the only son and oldest child in a family of three children, his two sisters being Mrs. Laura Ford, of Conneaut, and Mary, wife of Henry Strong, a wholesale merchant of Newark, Ohio.  The mother died in 1847, at the age of twenty four years.  The venerable father, now eighty-three years of age, is in the enjoyment of health and strength.  His life has been one of honest industry, and by his sterling qualities he has gained the respect of all who know him.
     Mr. Harper was engaged in farming in Ashtabula county until the breaking out of the Civil war.  In September, 1861, he tendered his services to the Union cause, becoming a member of Company E, Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, First Brigade, Second Division, Twelfth Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac.  After the battle of Winchester, in the spring of 1862, he was taken sick and was sent to the hospital at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he remained a month and then rejoined his regiment.  Among the important engagements in which he took part were those of Cedar Mountain, second Bull Run, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.  After the battle of Gettysburg the Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps were transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, where they were consolidated, forming the Twentieth army Corps and rendering valiant service.  To give an account of all the engagements in which they participated would be to write a history of the war.  Suffice it to say that Mr. Harper was among the victorious soldiers who saw the stars and stripes floating on Lookout Mountain after the battle; took part in nearly all the battles in the Atlanta campaign; that he was with Sherman's forces on that memorable "march to the sea;" that he was in the march northward through the Carolinas, and that he witnessed the Grand Review at Washington.  He had a furlough of thirty days, beginning Dec. 2, 1863, and with this exception and the one above referred to, he was in the service until the war closed, being mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, and discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 13, 1865.  And during all this time, although he was often in the thickest of the fight and in close quarters, he never received a wound nor was he ever taken prisoner.  At one time he had a lock of hair shot off just above his ear, and in two different battles had bullet holes cut through his coat.  Mr. Harper has a valuable relic of the late war, an English-make Enfield rifle, which he captured on Culp's Hill at Gettysburg, and which he carried from that time until the close of his service.  Both his paternal and maternal grandfather were in the army of 1812.  All honor to these brave, loyal soldiers who without flinching went into the heat of battle, faced the cannon's mouth, endured privation and exposure, and often subsisted on short ration - all for the love of country and the protection of the Old Flag.
     The war over, Mr. Harper turned his attention to the business of ship carpentry, which he followed for sixteen years, and afterward for three years was foreman mechanic in the shop of G. J. Record's butter-tub factory.  Since then he has been engaged in the real-estate business in Conneaut.  He platted the Marshall Capron place, and has been successful in the business operations.  Mr. Harper was a member of the City Council for two years, from 1890 to 1892.
     He was married Dec. 26, 1865, to Miss Augusta Dodge, daughter of James and Susan (Culver) Dodge, of Conneaut.  They have four children, namely: Carrie, wife of James C. Tyler, Conneaut; Ann M., Wallace M. and Sadie O., these three being of the home circle.
     Mr. Harper and his wife are members of the Christian Church.  He is prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity, having taken the degrees in the blue lodge, chapter, council and Cache Commandery.  He is also an active member of Custer Post, No. 9, G. A. R., and has filled nearly all its offices.  Politically, he is a Republican.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  526

A. F. HARRINGTON, an enterprising and successful business man of Conneaut, Ohio, who has various interests in this city, is deserving of some personal mention on the pages of this work.  A brief sketch of his life is as follows:
     A. F. Harrington was born in Pennsylvania, August 16, 1851, son of Reuben and Permelia (Campfield) Harrington.  His father and mother were natives of New York and Pennsylvania, respectively, and were married in Pennsylvania.  About 1857 they settled in Conneaut, Ohio, where they spent the rest of their lives.  The senior Mr. Harrington was a cooper and bridge carpenter, and after coming to Conneaut was chiefly engaged in work at the former trade.  He was twice married, and his second wife is still living, aged about sixty years.  He died in 1887, at the age of seventy.  He was the father of nine children, four by the first union and five by the second.  In the last family were three sons and two daughters, of whom A. F., the subject of this sketch, is the oldest.
     Mr. A. F. Harrington made his own start in life, and the success he has attained is due solely so his own well directed efforts.  He first worked with his father, then he spent one year in a marble shop, and after that clerked for Captain Capron in the ship yard three years.  He subsequently spent one year in Wisconsin, working in a stave factory.  He is a man of marked energy and business ability, which has been amply demonstrated by the successful manner in which he has handled the various interests to which his attention has been called.  At this writing he runs a fishery in the lake, is engaged in the oil business, has a grocery and meat market, deals in hides, etc., and also has a large real-estate interests.  With an eye ever open to business opportunities, he has made a number of judicious investments and is now the owner of valuable property interests in Conneaut.  While he looks well to his own private business affairs, he is public-spirited and generous and takes a lively interest in whatever pertains to the welfare of the community in which he lives.
    Mr. Harrington was married February 22, 1876, to Miss Hattie L. Keep, adopted daughter of Luther and Fanny Keep, of Monroe township, this county.  Mr. and Mrs. Harrington have two children, Arthur A. and Minnie V., both attending school.  He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Conneaut, of which he is serving as a Steward.  Mr. Harrington is also a member of the Protected Home Circle, Junior Order of American Mechanics, Knights of the Golden Eagle, and of the State Police Force.  Politically, he is an ardent Republican.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  769

FREDERICK HARRINGTON. - Among the many worthy citizens of Ashtabula county, Ohio, none is more deserving of mention in this history than the subject of this sketch, who enjoys the unlimited confidence and esteem of all who know him.
     Mr. Harrington was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, Dec. 20, 1832, a son of William and Helena (Bascom) Harrington, natives of Vermont and Massachusetts, respectively.  His father, Dr. John Harrington, was the son of a prominent physician of the Green Mountain State, where William received the advantages afforded by the common schools of that early date.  When a young man, he joined the westward tide of emigration, then setting in and which has never since ceased, moved to Ohio, at that time the frontier of civilization, where he settled in Trumbull county about 1817.  He there took up 160 acres of land which he industriously cleared and cultivated, making for himself a modest home in the wilderness.  He was married Mar. 6, 1821, his wife having emigrated to that county with her parents when she was a child.  This worthy couple spent their lives on the home farm, contributing by their honest efforts to the advancement of their county.  They were members of the Congregational Church, the father serving as Deacon for many years.  They had four sons and one daughter; Charles A., now cashier of the Second National Bank of Warren, Ohio; Corydon, the second son, is a capitalist of Painesville, Ohio; William Ashley, the next son, is a farmer on the parental homestead in Trumbull county; and the fourth son is the subject of this sketch; while the only daughter, Ermina, is the wife of Joseph B. Ashley, a prominent citizen of Oberlin, Ohio.
     Mr. Harrington, of this notice, remained on the home farm until he was sixteen years of age, receiving the educational advantages afforded by the schools of his vicinity in his day.  At the age of sixteen he went to New York city, where he assumed a position as accountant, remaining in that city for twelve years.  From there he went to Albany and afterward to Buffalo, the same State, being in all absent from his native State fifteen years, to which place he returned in 1863.  He at first settled on a farm near Colebrook and there followed agricultural pursuits for four years.  Thence he removed to Rock Creek, where for twenty-two years he was successfully engaged in the mercantile business, his former long experience amply fitting him for such an undertaking.  He was president of the bank at Rock Creek for a number of years, his financial and executive ability aiding largely in the advancement of that institution.  He was also one of the incorporators of the Pittsburg, Ashtabula and Youngstown Railroad Company, in which he acted for fourteen years as director, and in which capacity he did able service.  In 1889, he received the nomination from the Republican party and was elected Treasurer of Ashtabula county, to which position he was reelected in 1891, which is a most flattering endorsement of his integrity and financial ability.  Mr. Harrington was married in 1857 to Miss Hannah, daughter of James and Orpha (Parker) Truesdale, an estimable lady of Canfield, Ohio.  They have live children living: Emma is the wife of Alison Loomis, of Jefferson; James A. is a ticket agent for the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company at Shreve, Ohio; Charles W. is United States railway mail clerk; Ellen is at home; and John is a student in Oberlin College. Death deprived Mr. Harrington of his devoted wife in July, 1880, her loss causing not only deep sorrow to her family but also cast a gloom over the entire community, where she was esteemed for her many Christian virtues.
     Thus surrounded by his children, in the enjoyment of the comfort resulting from years of honest industry, and secure in the regard of his fellowmen, he may justly be said to have gained true success.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 187

DR. HENRY HARRIS, a retired druggist and grocer of Ashtabula Ohio, who was for twelve years Postmaster of that city, a gentleman widely known and highly esteemed for his any estimable qualities, was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, June 24, 1805.  His ancestors were early settlers of America, the paternal grandfather of Dr. Harris having been born in Providence, Rhode Island, Apr. 3, 1752.  He was for many years in charge of an extensive linen factory in Smithfield, from which point linen goods were exported to all parts of the world.  He was religiously a Quaker and opposed to all warfare, in consequence of which he did not participate in the Revolutionary War.  He was married in 1779 to Hepsibah Bunker, whose ancestors were French and originally spelled their name "Bonquor."  They had nine children: David F., father of the subject of this sketch; Hannah, the first, born June 3, 1783; Sarah, born Aug. 28, 1784; William, the first, born Dec. 1, 1781; William, the second, born Dec. 28, 1785; Joseph, Dec. 26, 1787; Daniel, the first, Aug. 23, 1789; Hannah, the second, May 27, 1791; Samuel, May 7, 1793; and Daniel, the second, Oct. 23, 1795.  David F. Harris, father of Dr. Harris of this notice, was born Aug. 17, 1780, and Dec. 31, 1800, was married to Lydia Streeter, born Jan. 27, 1783.  The father was a Quaker in religious faith and a farmer by occupation.  He removed from Rhode Island to Dutchess county, New York, when the subject of this sketch was an infant; and when the latter was fourteen years of age his parents settled in Saybrook township, the same county.  Here the father followed farming until elected Postmaster of Saybrook, in which latter position he efficiently served for many years.  He died as he had lived, a consistent Christian gentleman, universally beloved and respected, his death occurring in 1848, when he was a little more than sixty-eight years of age.  The devoted wife and mother died Feb. 11, 1837.  They had nine children: Edward, born Oct. 3, 1801; Sophia, Oct. 10, 1803; Henry, the subject of this sketch; Samuel, Jan. 2, 1807; Rufus, Dec. 25, 1809; Paul B., Aug. 9, 1812; Beulah Ann, Jan. 6, 1815; Hepsibah H., Jan. 29, 1817; and Rhoda, Dec. 13, 1819.  Edward, the oldest born, became the celebrated manufacturer of woolen goods, known as the Harris cassimeres, his factory being in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.  He amassed great wealth in this business and died in 1873.  Samuel, another brother, was also a woolen manufacturer, first at Leeds and later at Catskill, New York.  Rufus was a farmer, and Paul was for many years a merchant in Ashtabula, Ohio.
     The early life of the subject of this sketch was passed in Saybrook, New York, where he received his education.  His first business experience was as a clerk in the store of D. I. Boyd & Co., when there were but three stores in Saybrook.  He was thus engaged until 1829, when he formed a partnership in the merchandise business with Levi Jenks, with whom he continued until 1830.  Young Harris then joined the western tide of emigration, coming to Ashtabula, Ohio, where he entered the drug business and grocery business, in which he was successfully engaged until 1842.  He then began traveling and selling medicine from a wagon, establishing agencies wherever he went.  He was thus employed five years, traveling in the meantime all over the States of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Missouri.  At the end of this time, in 1848, he returned to Ashtabula and for a number of years was not engaged in any business except settling up his father's estate.  In 1861, he was appointed Postmaster of Ashtabula and capably filled this position twelve years, when he was succeeded by Joseph F. Sexton, now at Spokane, Falls, Washington.  Since leaving the office he has been in business but two years, during which time he was railway mail clerk between Ashtabula and New Castle, Pennsylvania.  With an ample income assured him, the necessity for further exertion is eliminated, and the Doctor is enjoying in retirement those pursuits which he finds most congenial.
     Dec. 2, 1851, Dr. Harris was married in Bloomfield, Wisconsin, to Miss Mary S. Whittier, a native of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and a relative of the celebrated American poet, John G. Whittier.  They have had six children: Ella, born Sept. 18, 1852, married Joseph F. Sexton and has two children: Mary Louise and Katie; Emma, born Nov. 29, 1843, died young; Harriet, born June 24, 1855, also died young; Henry Fremont, born Sept. 25, 1856, now lives in Warren and is editor of the Daily and Weekly Tribune of that city; he married, on Mar. 16, 1881, Bessie Isabel Darling, of Elyria, Ohio, and they have one child, William Russell;  Antoinette, born Feb. 25, 1857, died young; Walter Whittier, born Feb. 21, 1867, is single, and is employed in the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad office at the Harbor.
     The Doctor is public-spirited and progressive in disposition and takes a deep interest in the welfare of Ashtabula, to the advancement of which he has materially contributed.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  807

WILLIAM S. HARRIS, engineer on the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, and a worthy citizen of Conneaut, dates his birth in Jefferson county, this State, Aug. 15, 1843.  His parents, Nathan S. and Susan (Smith) Harris, were natives of Ohio, and for many years were residents of Jefferson county, where they were married and where they reared their family.  Nathan Harris owned a farm and flouring mill and for over thirty years ran the mill, doing custom work.  He was well known and highly respected, and at various times held minor offices in the county.  Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  His death occurred Oct. 15, 1870, at the age of forty-nine years.  His first wife, the mother of our subject, died Aug. 17, 1859, aged twenty-eight years.  They had seven children, as follows:  William S.; Jennie, wife of Thomas Keiger, Barnesville, Ohio; Anna, wife of Samuel Cecil, died Feb. 2, 1891, aged forty-seven years; Lizzie, wife of E. A. Miller, Conneaut; Emma, wife of Josiah Quillin, died Aug. 3, 1890, aged thirty-eight years; Ella, wife of David McKever, Conneaut; and Susan, wife of H. F. Brown, Conneaut.  By his second marriage, to Anna Clark, Mrs. Harris had one daughter, Grace, now the wife of John Shearer, of Leesville, Ohio.  Mrs. Harris makes her home with this daughter.
     William S. Harris farmed in Jefferson county until he was twenty-five years old.  He entered upon a railroad career about 1869 as fireman on the Pan Handle, and for the past twenty-two years has been serving as engineer.  He continued with the Pan Handle until 1882, when he resigned his position with that company to accept one with better pay on the Nickel Plate.  No further evidence of his efficiency and fidelity is needed when his long continuance with the company is known.
     Mr. Harris was married Sept. 17, 1873, to Miss Anna Mary Andrews, a native of Franklin county, Ohio, and a daughter of John W. and Permilia (Tharp) Andrews.  Her father and born in New Jersey, July 3, 1825, and her mother was a native of Euclid, Ohio.  They were married in Middletown, this State.  Mrs. Harris is the oldest of their six children, the others being as follows:  George, Martin Lewis and James W., the second, third and sixth born, are all married and living in St. Louis, Missouri, all employed as painters.  Joseph H., the fourth born, died in 1852, aged eighteen months; Alice, the fifth, is the wife of George W. Smith of Cedar Falls, Iowa.  The mother of this family died June 17, 1862, aged thirty-six years.  She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. Andrews’ second marriage was to Sarah Smith.  Their two children are Cyrus, a fireman on the Vandalia Railroad, and Ida May, wife of Dr. Beaver, of Decatur, Indiana.  During the late war Mr. Andrews was a member of the Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving in Company A, and being in nearly all the battles of the Army of the Potomac.  For some time his health has been poor and he is now in the Soldiers’ Home at Sandusky, Ohio.  Mrs. Harris is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Politically, Mr. Harris affiliates with the Republican party, having cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 718

WILLIAM SIMONDS HARRIS was born in Saybrook, Ohio, Feb. 14, 1846, a son of Rufus Harris, born at Clinton, Dutchess county, New York, Dec. 25, 1809, who was a son of David F. Harris, born at Smithfield, Rhode Island, Oct. 17, 1780, removed by five generations from William Harris, a native of Wales who emigrated to America and settled in Rhode Island.  David F. Harris moved from his birthplace to Dutchess county, New York, and thence in 1818 to Saybrook, Ohio, where he became a large land owner and followed agricultural pursuits through a long and active life.  He held the faith of the Society of Friends, and was a most exemplary citizen.  Rufus Harris was also a farmer and occupied a portion of the original homestead for a period of sixty-two years; he was a man of sterling integrity, superior ability, and was highly esteemed by neighbors and friends.  He married Louisa Bliss Simonds, a daughter of Moses and Priscilla Stetson Simonds, born at Westminster, Vermont, Mar. 4, 1810.  Priscilla Stetson was born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was a lineal descendant of the voyagers in the Mayflower, removed four generations.  Rufus and Louisa Harris had four children: Samuel Rufus was born Jan. 12, 1844; Mary Ellen, Dec. 20, 1844; William Simonds, Feb. 14, 1846; Louisa Priscilla, Apr. 14, 1849.  Samuel R. is president of the Ashtabula Tool Company; Mary E. is the wife of E. G. Pierce, and Louisa P. married D. J. Barnes, of Chicago, Illinois.
     William S. Harris was united in marriage Jan. 24, 1878, to Harriet Mahala Walker, a daughter of Elisha and Julia Ann Walker.  Charles Walker, father of Elisha Walker, removed from Adams, Massachusetts, to Saybrook, Ohio, in 1821, and followed farming through life.  Elisha Walker was twice married, his first wife being Harriet Sabin; they had one son, Charles Walker, wdio still lives on the old homestead; the second marriage was to Julia Ann Blackinton in 1844; they had one daughter, Mrs. Harriet M. Harris.  Mr. Harris is descended from a line of successful agriculturists, and has himself followed this occupation.  He received a good academic education, and has ever been an enthusiastic supporter of the public-school system; he is president of the Board of Trustees of Grand River Institute at Austinburg, and is one of the most efficient members of that body.  In politics, he is a zealous Republican, and has been nominated by his party as representative from Ashtabula county.  A man of liberal views and broad public spirit it would be difficult to choose one better suited to advance the interests and elevate the standard of his followmen.  In his financial operations, he has been prosperous, and ranks among the most reliable and solid citizens of the county.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 709

JOHN WINSHIP HASKELL, deceased. - One of the representative men and pioneers to whom Ashtabula owes much of her growth and present development, is the late John W. Haskell, the subject of this memoir.  He was a descendant of old Puritan stock, and was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, Aug. 16, 1810, being the son of Aretas Haskell and Betsey Moody.  Upon the death of his wife Betsey, the father married Annie Folson, who was of that family from whom Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland descended.  The elder Haskell (Aretas) was born in Vermont, in 1783, of Welsh ancestry.  He spent his entire life in that State, dying in 1858, at the age of seventy-five years.  John Winship was reared at home, securing his education at the common schools.  His youth was spent in various kinds of work until he arrived at the age of twenty-four years.  At this period, 1834, he started out in life for himself, seeking the West as the most advantageous country in which to better his condition.  He first located at Conneaut, where for a time he was engaged in school teaching and in peddling goods, in the northern part of the State.  Later on he settled at South Ridge, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits for several years.  In 1846 he removed to Conneautville, Pennsylvania, where he continued his mercantile business and also engaged in the manufacture and sale of lumber.  He and his partner, Edwin R. Williams, erected the first steam sawmill in that section of the country, the same being located at Steamburgh, Crawford county, Pennsylvania.  The enterprise created quite a sensation and people came from Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and many other points to see it.  It was predicted by the people in that vicinity that this mill would cut up all the timber in that part of the country in a few years.  It is worthy of note that this mill is still in operation, and that there yet appears to be plenty of timber for it to work upon.  This mill marked the introduction of steam power for running mills in this section of the country.
     In 1857, Mr. Haskell again moved to Ohio, settling this time in Ashtabula, where he followed the same business, making lumbering and the shipping trade on the lakes special features, together with railroad building.  The advantages of lake transportation were the principal cause of his removal.  He, with his partners, Oran Baldwin and Edwin K. Williams, under the firm name of O. Baldwin & Co., secured the contract for the construction of the Ashtabula & New Lisbon Railroad from Ashtabula harbor, on lake Erie, to the Ohio river.  The work on the road was suspended on account of hard times brought about by short crops.  The firm took mortgages on the road-bed and other property, which subsequently they disposed of.  The road was finally completed and is now known as the Pittsburg, Youngstown & Ashtabula Railroad.
     1886 Mr. Haskell was united in marriage, at South Ridge, to Mary Ann, daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Wright) Williams, a native of Ashtabula county, Ohio.  Four children ware born to them: David Williams Marshall Harrison, William Cassius and Ida, now Mrs. Frank Sherman.  They also adopted Fannie Harriet as their daughter.
     Mr. Haskell departed this life at Ashtabula, Ohio, Nov. 12, 1885, having lived to the same age as did his father.
     Mr. Haskell was originally a Free Soiler, but upon the formation of the Republican party he became an advocate of its principles, never, however, seeking public office.  During his earlier years he was a member of the Baptist Church, but later on in life he joined the Presbyterian Church, of which he was for many years an Elder.
     Mr. Haskell was eminently a self-made man, the architect of his own fortune.  By his energy, perseverance and good financial judgment, by his strict integrity and honorable business methods, he accumulated a fortune and established an enviable reputation.  He was a man of noble character, public, spirited, liberal and charitable, giving generously to the poor and to the church.  To his family he was much devoted, looking carefully after their wants, and making the domestic hearth his place of rest.  He died as he had lived, a Christian, holding the confidence and esteem of all who knew him.
     David Williams Haskell, the oldest son of John Winship Haskell, was born at South Ridge. Ashtabula county, Ohio, Apr. 14, 1838.  He was educated at the common schools, and in 1857 accompanied his father to Ashtabula, which has since been his home.  For a time he was associated with his father in business, but subsequently started in business for himself, conducting a dry-goods store for about, ten years in a very successful manner.  He is now conducting a lumber business and has also extensive interests in real estate, operating chiefly in his own realty.
     Mr. Haskell was married at Ashtabula, Dec. 24, 1861, to Harriet E., the accomplished daughter of Honorable Henry Fassett, whose portrait and biography will he found in another part of this volume.  This estimable lady met an untimely death, departing this life in October, 1862, to the great sorrow of her devoted and loving husband and her numerous friends.  She was a woman of fine culture and rare musical talent, of a sweet, winning disposition, and much beloved by her many admirers.
     June 12, 1867, Mr. Haskell was married the second time, to Julia Ann, the amiable and talented daughter of Joseph D. and Lucinda C. (Hall) Hulbert, whose portraits and biographies appear in this work.  This union has been blessed with eight children: Harriet Fassett, born May 16, 1868; Mary Lucinda, born Aug/ 22, 1870; Josephine Dewey, born Apr. 10, 1872; Phyana Hulbert, born Apr. 29, 1874; Julia Dewey, born Jan. 2, 1876; Alma Chadwick, born Nov. 16, 1878; Andrew Stone, born Sept. 4, 1880; and Ethel Williams, born Nov. 22, 1882, - all living but Josephine, who died Oct. 10, 1872, and Julia, who died Apr. 28, 1881.
     Mr. and Mrs. Haskell are members of the Congregational Church, the former holding the positions of Trustee and Treasurer.  He is a member of the Masonic Order, and has taken the Royal Arch degree.
     Mr. Haskell is a gentleman of good presence, genial, social disposition and winning manners.  He is liberal in his views, progressive and interested in the development of his native county; he is a worthy representative of his noble father and is held in high esteem by the community in which he was born and reared, and by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 203

COLONEL WILLIAM CASSIUS HASKELL, the efficient and popular United States Marshal for the northern district of Ohio, is a native son of the Buckeye State, having been born in Ashtabula county, July 24, 1845.  He comes of an old and respected family, several members of which have attained positions of honor in the State.  He is the third of four children.
     The subject of this sketch was educated in the private school of William Hubbard which gentleman was among the earliest settlers of Ohio and did much by his energy and worth of character toward the advancement of civilization in the western wilds.  His school was one of the first in the State, having flourished in anti-bellum days, but is now extinct.  Under the direction of this worthy schoolmaster, Mr. Haskell learned not only those necessary principles of education usually laid down for the youth of the land but also imbibed healthy ideas of honor, perseverance and industry, which have contributed to his present success.  At the early age of sixteen he enlisted in the Civil war, and had an extended experience, of which we shall speak more at length further on.  On his final return, and when twenty-one years of age, he entered the mercantile business, in company with his brother, D. W. Haskell, and was thus successfully engaged four years.  At the age of twenty-four the subject of this sketch was married, and soon after went to Indiana, where he engaged in the lumber business, his operations extending to western Ohio, with head-quarters at Waterloo, Kendallville, Frankfort and Crawfordsville, in Indiana, from which points he shipped largely of the Wabash export.  He was thus occupied until 1876, meeting with gratifying success, when he returned to Ashtabula county, where he settled permanently and engaged in the same business, his field of operations extending to western Pennsylvania.  He was thus occupied until 1888, when he was ushered into public life by his election to the office of Mayor of Ashtabula, in which capacity he served efficiently one term, advancing by liberal measures the general welfare of the community.  In February, 1892, he was appointed to his present position of United States Marshal of the northern district of Ohio, succeeding Hon. B. F. Wade, an old and esteemed resident of Toledo.  The able and prompt discharge of his duties in this capacity has served to increase the confidence of his friends in his energy and wisdom, and they are to be congratulated on their choice.
     Colonel Haskell's military record, and important one, has been reserved until now.  In 1861 he enlisted in the Nineteenth Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served three months, participating in the battle of Rich Mountain in West Virginia.  He was then discharged, but soon resumed connection with the army, in the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, from which he was brought home sick.  Before the regiment left Cincinnati.  With patriotism undampened, however, as soon as he was able for duty, he again enlisted, under call of Governor Tod, as one of the Squirrel Hunters, and was afterward in Company A of the Fifty-sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania.  This regiment was stationed at New creek, Virginia, most of the time, during the remainder of his service, and he was mustered  out at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.  In 1867 the subject of this sketch was elected First Lieutenant of the Ashtabula Light Guards, and three months later became Captain of the same, which position he filled efficiently for seven years.   The Ashtabula battalion was then formed of which his company was a part, and he was elected Major.  This battalion was one year later consolidated with the Tenth Regiment, of which Major Haskell was chosen Lieutenant Colonel, which rank he held until this regiment was incorporated with the Fifth Regiment, when Governor Foraker of Ohio, appointed him Chief of Engineers of his staff, with the rank of Colonel.
     Nov. 17, 1868, Colonel Haskell was married in Ashtabula to Miss Emma Kruger, an  estimable lady, daughter of Prof. Jordan Kruger, who came from Hanover, Germany, and is an educator of ability.  Prof. Kruger espoused the cause of the "Blind King" of Hanover, and upon the retirement of the latter the former left his native country, and, coming to America, settled in western Pennsylvania, near Erie, his daughter, Emma, wife of our subject, being at that time ten years of age.
     Colonel and Mrs. Haskell have had six children:  John Winship, deceased; Isabelle D., now Mrs. Ray D. Lampson; John Moody; Jacob A.; Harvey, deceased; and Douglas Dysmar.
     Politically, the Colonel is stanchly Republican; fraternally, is a Knight Templar Mason.  He is a man of strict integrity, generous-hearted and public-spirited, and stands high in the community of which he has been a worthy member for so many years.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page 698

EDWIN R. HATCH, a carpenter and contractor, of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Monroe township, Ashtabula county, this State, Mar. 9, 1829, son of Daniel and Mary (Shoudler) Hatch, both natives of Vermont.
     Rufus Hatch, the grandfather of Edwin R., came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, with his family of five sons and four daughters, in 1824.  His daughters married, and all his children settled on different farms in Monroe township.  Not one of the number is now living.  One son, Harvey, went to Michigan in 1848 and settled on a farm near Grand Rapids, where he spent the rest of his life and died.  The youngest son, Alpheus, moved to Kansas, and died on a farm in that State.  The rest of the family spent their lives in Monroe township, where they were well known and highly respected for their many estimable traits of character.  Daniel Hatch located, in 1824, at Hatch’s Corners, which place was named in honor of him.  He died in 1880, at the age of seventy-seven years, and his good wife passed away in 1883, aged eighty-one.  Both were members of the Universalist Church.  They had eight children - seven sons and one daughter.  Five of the sons are still living, four in Conneaut and one in Michigan.
     Edwin R. Hatch, when a young man, was engaged in sailing on the lakes, being thus occupied until after the time of his marriage, which event occurred Nov. 24, 1850.  After that he learned the carpenter’s trade, including both house and ship carpentry, and has followed contracting and building ever since.  During the war he rendered efficient service on the Monitor Wehawken for nine months.
     When Sumter was fired upon in 1862 by our Monitors, they became damaged and withdrew to Port Royal for repairs.  Captain Ericsson, who built the vessels, said another deck could be placed upon them.  Mr. Hatch was at that time in New York city, in the employ of the Government as ship carpenter.  He and some twenty-five others were sent to Port Royal to do the carpenter work in putting on the decks.  They took with them timbers, iron and all necessary material, and in due time arrived at Port Royal.  The officers, however, would not permit the extra decks to be put on the Monitors, as they thought the additional weight would sink the vessels.  Mr. Hatch relates that while he was on the Monitors, officers would come on board to, nominally, look around.  They would incidentally remark: “This is a long boat,” and would then be invited to the cabin to measure the length, which, as our subject facetiously explained, usually amounted to about two to three “fingers” in a common tumbler.
     Some of the ship carpenters went home, but Mr. Hatch remained and was engaged in repair work on the Wehawken.  He continued on this vessel nearly nine months.  During this time the ship Courier, a tea vessel that formerly ran between this country and China, came in under the United States flag.  Mr. Hatch was transferred from the Wehawken to her for blockade running off the coast of Charleston.  One morning three blockade runners came out of Charleston, loaded with cotton, and the Courier at once proceeded to capture them, which result was accomplished.  Two of the three vessels were placed in command of the second and third mates of the Courier, and the third, the Maria Bishop, was put in command of the Courier’s purser.  Mr. Hatch was one of the crew on the Maria Bishop, and, taking the place of a sick officer, he steered the vessel for fourteen hours, the sea covering them all the time.  Dripping wet, he remained all those long hours at the post of duty, without the least hope of ever seeing land again.  In passing Hatteras they went on the inside channel next to the lighthouse.  The weather then was fine until they neared Fortress Monroe, when, on account of a northern gale, they ran back to Chickatis, Virginia, and, missing the stakes, ran ashore.  Here they intercepted a schooner, Tom Collier, belonging to some insurance companies of New York, transferred the cargo of cotton to this vessel and proceeded to New York.  The Maria Bishop was unseaworthy and they abandoned her.  They reached New York ten days before the draft for more soldiers was made there.  Mr. Hatch’s name was on the list of drafted, and it was not until after he had had some difficulty and had paid a lawyer to write a letter to the enrolling officer in Ohio, that he succeeded in proving the fact that he was enrolled in Ohio.  After this he was sent in charge of fifteen men to repair the Great Eastern, which work was completed in twelve days.  Then he went south on the Fulton to take charge of building docks at Port Royal, where he remained nine months, at times having under his chgare as many as 400 men.
     On his return from Port Royal the second time, he made a visit to his family.  Feb. 1, 1864, in company with others, Mr. Hatch left Cleveland and proceeded south to assist in the building of gunboats for river defense at Bridgeport, Alabama, on the Tennessee river.  Here he was at work at the time when General Sherman started on his memorable march to the seaboard.  After remaining in Alabama for some five months, Mr. Hatch returned home.
     About thirty-five years ago Mr. Hatch invented a vessel for navigating the air.  The draft of it is still in his possession, and was photographed and taken by him to the Columbian Exposition.  He still thinks it feasible.  It has a length of forty feet and a capacity of carrying from forty to sixty people.
     Since the war the subject of our sketch has been engaged in contracting and building in Conneaut, and many of the buildings of this city are the result of his handiwork.  He erected the gristmill, papermill, the business block occupied by Hoskins & Palmer, besides other busines_ houses and numerous dwellings.
     The date of Mr. Hatch’s marriage has already been given.  Mrs. Hatch, nee Amanda J. McElvain, was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McElvain.  Her father died in the summer of 1885, and her mother has been dead over fifty years.  Mr. and Mrs. Hatch had four children, namely: Mary, a resident of New Bedford, Pennsylvania, has been twice married, by her first husband, E. Heiler, having one child, Fannie, and by her second husband, Wilson McCluskey, three children—Clara, Nellie and Earl; Emma C., wife of Lou Naef, photographer, of Conneaut, has two children— Otto and Leo; T. R., foreman in Pond’s planing-mill at Conneaut, married Louella Warren and has one child, Walter E.; and Frank H., baggage-master on the Conneaut accommodation, married Tillie Ellen, of Cleveland, their only child being Dorotha.  Mr. Hatch has one great-grandchild, Benjamin E. Maltley, son of Fannie and James Maltley, of Geneva, Ohio.  Mr. Hatch was buried Christmas, 1892.  She was born Sept. 10, 1829, and for forty-five years was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  From her girlhood up, her life was characterized by the sweetest of Christian graces.  A kind and obliging neighbor, a loving mother, a devoted wife, a true friend, an earnest Christian.  Such a character was hers.
     During his long life in Conneaut, Mr. Hatch has ever been identified with the best interests of the place.  In the days of slavery he was an ardent Abolitionist, and when a boy in his ’teens helped many a negro to make his escape to Canada and freedom.  For thirty-eight years he has been a blue lodge Mason, and for thirty years has been a member of the chapter.  Politically, he is a full fledged Prohibitionist.  He has been a delegate to various State conventions; was a delegate to the Rational Temperance Convention at Saratoga Springs in June, 1892, and this year (1893) is a delegate to the World’s Temperance Congress at Chicago.  He is a member of the Grand Lodge of Royal Templars of Temperance, of Ohio, a member of the Good Templars, and an honorary member of the Sons of Temperance, of New York.  He has been identified with the last named organization since he was eighteen years of age.  In many respects Mr. Hatch is a remarkable man.  He never drank a glass of beer in his life, never used a drop of liquor as a beverage, never used tobacco, nor does he drink tea or coffee.  A man of varied experiences, keen powers of observation, more than ordinary intelligence, and, withal, possessing a disposition to improve time and opportunity and keep pace with current events, Mr. Hatch has accomplished much in life.
     The above, while only a brief and imperfect sketch, will serve to show something of the life of one of Conneaut’s best citizens.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 666

Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 173

JUDGE THEODORE E. HAWLEY, a shining light of the legal fraternity of Jefferson, Ohio, was born in this city, October 4, 1848, and with the exception of a few years at college has passed his entire life in his birthplace, which is hallowed by all the memories of childhood and mature age. His father, Almore Hawley, M. D. (of whom mention is made elsewhere in these pages), is well and favorably known in this vicinity, where he has been a practicing physician for many years. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood in Jefferson, where he attended the common and high schools, afterward going for two years to the Grand River Institute, in Austinburg, this State. In 1870 he began the study of law in the office of Messrs. Wade & Betts, prominent attorneys of Jefferson, and May 8,1872, he was admitted to the bar. He at once commenced the practice of law and by industry and perseverance, coupled with a good knowledge of law, he soon attained prominence in his profession. In 1881 he became Deputy Probate Judge of Ashtabula county, and three years later, in 1884, he was elected Justice of the Peace for Jefferson township, which office he has held ever since, discharging his duties with ability and impartiality. He was a member of the Board of Councilmen of Jefferson in 1890, and lent his best efforts to aid the city's advancement. He has also been a member of the Board of Education of his native city, in which capacity he has sought to further the interests of the schools. He is pre-eminently the friend of the husbandman, having held some official position in the Agricultural Society for fifteen years or more. He has also held other positions of honor and trust, being ever active in advancing the interests of his community. He has for nine years been Cemetery Trustee, in which capacity he has done much toward beautifying the final resting place of many of Jefferson's distinguished citizens.
     In 1876, Judge Hawley was married to Miss Ida M. Bushnel, an accomplished lady, youngest daughter of J. C. A. Bushnel, cashier of the First National Bank of Jefferson. Three children have been born to them, one son and two daughters: Earl C., Ruth A. and Anna E.
     In politics, the Judge has always been a representative Republican and an active worker for his party. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. Liberal-minded and progressive, he has always taken a deep interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of Jefferson and is to be noted as a representative citizen in the highest sense of the term.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  179

TIMOTHY R. HAWLEY came to Ohio in the spring of 1801, as surveyor for the Torringford Land Company, and surveyed the township of Morgan, also cut and cleared a road from Austinburg to Gustavus that year and returned to Connecticut late in the fall.
     In 1802, Mr. Hawley, with his family, left Farmington, Hartford county, Connecticut, on the 12th day of April; came on by way of Albany to Buffalo, New York, where he had to wait ten days for Dr. O. K. Hawley, D. M. Curtis and Erastus Allen to come down from Ohio with a small open boat after them.  He then left Buffalo, in the boat, with his wife and three children, and all of their goods; Dr. O. K. Hawley, his wife and one child and their goods; Chauncey Hawley in company. They coasted along the shore during the day and landed to pitch their tents at night. In about a week they arrived safely at Ashtabula creek, about nine o'clock at night on the first day of June, 1802. He sent their teams on through the woods to Ashtabula, thence he came to Austinburg, and about the first of July he moved with his family into Morgan, then an unbroken wilderness, where they were well accommodated with a good log cabin, built by Deacon Nathaniel Gillett, for their rudimentary habitation. It was well covered with elm bark and the floors laid with the same.
     His was the first family that moved into Morgan. Mr. Hawley planted two or three acres with potatoes, corn and pumpkins, and his family had to live through the next winter mostly on what he raised. The pumpkins and potatoes were boiled and eaten with milk; the corn was, some of it, ground at Mr. Humphrey's mill in Austinburg; some of it was pounded in a large wooden mortar, made by digging and burning a hollow place in a stump, and some of the cereal was boiled whole.
     In January, Mr. Hawley and Deacon Gillett went with a one-horse dray to Smithfield, now called Williamsfield, and purchased a barrel of pork at $25 per barrel and drew it home on the dray.
     He and his family were subjected to the usual hardships of the early settlers. He cleared up quite a farm in Morgan township.
     The Chippewa Indians were numerous and used to supply the inhabitants with bear meat, venison, elk, wild turkeys, etc.
     The next summer Captain Wright moved his family into Morgan; and in the fall Deacon Gillett and Mr. Hosea Wilcox moved in with their families, and the second and third winters the inhabitants lived in about the same style as that of the first.
     Timothy R. Hawley continued surveying for the first ten years, most of the time for the Torringford Company.
     Ashtabula county was founded June 7, 1807, from Trumbull and Geauga counties, and organized January 22, 1811.
     In 1811, Timothy R. Hawley was appointed County Clerk (the judges of the court-appointed the clerks at that time), and he then removed to Jefferson and held the office until 1828.
     Mr. Freithy put up a frame on the spot where the late Dr. Hawley's house now stands. Timothy R. Hawley bought the frame, enclosed but did not finish it, and kept a hotel there.
     In 1822 he built the present front of Dr. Hawley's late residence and lived there until his death, July 24, 1828, at the age of fifty-eight.
     He had a family of ten children, of whom only five arrived at the age of maturity. These were three sons: Thales Hawley, who died in 1831; Dr. Almore Hawley, and John Kent Hawley, who moved with his family to Brownholm, Ohio, where he resided many years and until his death; and two daughters, —Mrs. Sophia Stone, of Geneva, Ohio, and Mrs. Celia Dunn, of Quincy, Illinois, both deceased.
Almore Hawley, M. D., was born August 11, 1801, at Avon, near Hartford, Connecticut, and died November 3, 1876, at Keokuk, Iowa, while visiting relatives. He studied medicine under Dr. O. K. Hawley, his uncle, and graduated from the medical department of Yale College, in 1828, and became the first settled physician in Jefferson, Ohio, where he practiced during the remainder of his life.
     In 1802, before he was a year old, his parents removed from Connecticut to Morgan township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, settling about a mile from the present village of Rock Creek, and in 1811, his father having been appointed County Clerk, he removed to Jefferson, where he resided until his death.
     He was married to Miss Susan A. Dunn, of New Haven, Connecticut, who died in 1839; and afterward, in 1841, he married Miss Sophronia March, who survived him one year.
     Dr. Hawley was a leading member of the Episcopal Church; he led an active, busy life, always public-spirited and interested in the welfare and growth of the village.
Five children survived him: Adiliza H., who married A. D. Olds, now deceased; Adelbert K. Hawley; Cornelia S., now Mrs. Milo A. Loomis; Theodore E. Hawley, of Jefferson, Ohio; and Laura S., the wife of C. E. Udell, of St. Louis, Missouri.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  177

ALEXANDER HAY, the popular landlord of the Nickel Plate Eating House, Conneaut, Ohio, is a native of Coshocton county, Ohio, born in 1846.  His parents were Alexander and Mary Hay, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Pennsylvania.  The senior Mr. Hay was a man of excellent business qualifications, all his active life being spent as proprietor of a hotel at Coshocton.  He died in 1846.  His wife survived him until August, 1892, when she passed away at the age of seventy- four years.  She was one of the pioneers of Coshocton county, having gone there with her parents when she was a little girl.  From her girlhood she was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and her whole life was characterized by the sweetest of Christian graces.  She had thirteen children, the subject of our sketch being one of the six who are still living.
      When the Civil war broke out Mr. Hay was only in his ’teens, and, young as he was, he enlisted, in August, 1861, in Company E, Fifteenth United States regulars.  After the battle of Shiloh, in which he participated, he was detailed in recruiting service, and was at Newport, Kentucky, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Newport, Rhode Island.  From Newport he went South, reaching Lookout Mountain two days after the battle; thence to Mobile, and from there to Selma, Alabama.  He was discharged at Selma in 1867, after a service of five years and four months.  He served as drummer four years.  He stood the service well, and has never made any application for a pension.
     The war over, Mr. Hay turned his attention to work at his trade, that of machinist, and for eleven years worked for the Pan Handle Railroad Company at Dennison, Ohio.  He learned this trade after the war.  In 1878 he went from Dennison to Coshocton, where he worked at his trade until 1887.  Since that year he has been a resident of Conneaut.  After being in the employ of the Nickel Plate as machinist here one year he turned his attention to the hotel business, having been proprietor of the Nickel Plate Hotel ever since.
     Mr. Hay was married Feb. 8, 1872, to Miss Lucy F. Furgeson, daughter of Edwin Furgeson, of Uhrichsville, Ohio.  She is a lady of many estimable qualities and is a member of the Congregational Church.  They have three children, all in school: Eddie, Mary E. and Frank F.
     Mr. Hay is an ardent Republican, and is prominent in fraternal circles, being a member of the Knights of Pythias, Uniform Rank, the G. A. R., A. O. U. W. and Home Circle.
     Of Mrs. Hay’s father we record that he was born in Culpeper, Virginia, and was for many years engaged in work at his trade, that of tailor, at Cadiz and Uhrichsville.  He served all through the Mexican war, participating in its leading battles, and in the war was a lieutenant in the Second Ohio Battery, serving three years.  He died at the home of his only child, Mrs. Hay, his wife having passed away two years before at Uhrichsville.  Mr. Furgeson was a stanch Republican and a prominent Mason, having taken the Knights Templar degree.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  
SHARON WICK'S NOTE:  Alexander Hay was buried in City Cemetery, Conneaut, OH

CAPTAIN SAMUEL HAYWARD, deceased, for many years prominently identified with the banking and other interests of Conneaut, and at the time of his death Mayor of the city, was a native of New York, and came to this place with his parents when he was six years old.
     He was the second born in the family of twelve children of Samuel and Elizabeth (Campbell) Harvard, natives of Vermont.  Samuel Hayward, Sr.,  came with his family to Ohio in 1833 and settled on a farm in Monroe township, Ashtabula county, where he passed the rest of his life, honored and respected by all who knew him.  He was not only one of the leading farmers of his day, but also served the public as a Justice of the Peace, and filled other minor offices.  Politically he was a Whig.  He died in 1851, aged fifty-four years.  His wife survived him until August 25, 1891, when she passed away at the advanced age of eighty-eight.  She was a Universalist.  Grandfather Campbell, a venerable citizen of Conneaut, was accidentally drowned at Conneaut Harbor when he was over seventy years old.  Samuel and Elizabeth Hayward reared a large family of children, three of whom, Samuel, George and Charles served in the late war.  George was a First Lieutenant, and was acting as commander of his company - Company E, Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry - in the battle of Gettysburg when he was instantly killed, July 3, 1863, aged twenty years.  His remains rest in the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
     Samuel learned the tanner's trade when a boy and worked at it until the fall of 1861, when he enlisted in the army, and was made Captain of a company.  Through the influence of Ben Wade, who was a warm friend of his father, he received the appointment of Captain in the regular army.  He served as recruiting officer three years, being stationed at Toledo, where he rendered most efficient service.  At the close of the war he resigned his position.
     After the war Captain Hayward began speculating in wool and provisions, and subsequently turned his attention to the oil business in Pennsylvania, where he was engaged several years.  In 1872 he moved to Conneaut and engaged in banking, which business he followed the rest of his life.  He was president and one of the charter members of the Mutual Loan Association of Conneaut, being president of that institution at the time of his death.  In 1886 he was elected Mayor of Conneaut to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Burgiss, but met the council only a few times, his death occurring six weeks after his election.  He died Dec. 30, 1886, aged fifty-eight years.  Few men were better or more favorably known in Conneaut than he.  Indeed he was one of the leading citizens of the town.  Generous to a fault, public-spirited and enterprising, he could always be depended upon to support any movement which had for its object the best interests of the city.  Personally he was a man of fine appearance and his conduct was such that he commanded respect in whatever position he was placed.  Few men here had more friends than he.
     Captain Hayward was married, Apr. 1, 1848, to Miss Edna Dean, and had four children, as follows:  Kate, wife of James T. Parmer; Mrs. Minnie H. Burington, who has two children: Edna and Ruth; Abner K., who married Mrs. Kate Demon, resides in Findlay, Ohio; and Collin D., engaged in the lumber business with his brother, Abner, at Findlay.
     Mrs. Edna Hayward is a native of Ohio, and the youngest of the eleven children of Harvey and Phoebe (Kellogg) Dean, natives of Massachusetts.  She has two brothers and two sisters living.  Harvey Dean was one of the seven children of Captain Walter and Abigail Dean.  The former was born in New Lisbon, Connecticut, Sept. 5, 1751, and died Jan. 19, 1814, aged sixty-two years, and the latter died Apr. 11, 1811, at the age of fifty-seven.  Captain Walter Dean enlisted at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry, and served seven years in the Revolutionary war, participating in the battles of Monmouth, White Plains, Brandywine, Valley Forge, Trenton, Saratoga, and others.  At the close of the war he received a certificate, commending him highly as an officer, and signed by General George Washington.  This document is now in the possession of Mrs. Hayward's family, and is highly treasured.  Mrs. Hayward is a woman of wide general information, skilled in the duties of home and possessing unusual business tact.  She and Mrs. Lyon, another of Connecticut's estimable ladies, are double cousins, Mrs. Lyon's father being a brother of Mrs. Dean and Mr. Dean and Mrs. Lyon's mother being brother and sister.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  434

EDGAR L, HILLS. - Ohio is peculiarly fortunate in her public officers, who are universally men of worth and ability. Conspicuous among these is the gentleman whose name initiates this sketch.
     Edgar L. Hills, the efficient and popular Recorder of Ashtabula county, worthy citizen and successful business man, was born in Albion, Erie county, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1852, and is a son of Humphrey A. Hills, a widely known and highly respected resident of that State. Humphrey Hills was born in Goshen, Connecticut, August 10, 1811, and was married at Cranesville, Pennsylvania, September 11. 1834, to Antha, daughter of Georde and Eunice (Green) Reed, by whom he had nine children: Charles W., Marcus A., Alice P., Henry H., Mary A., W. Scott, Lucy E., Humphrey A. and Edgar L. Of these all are living except Alice. His second marriage occurred at Albion, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1853, when he wedded Louise Adelia, daughter of Hiram and Susan (Powers) Williams, by whom he had four children: Willis P., James L., Victor F. and Jessie May.  Four of the sons responded to their country's call and took arms in the great civil conflict. The four were Charles, Marcus, Henry and Scott. Charles was Captain of the Seventh Iowa Infantry, and afterward in command of Company B, One Hundred and Fortieth Illinois Infantry; Marcus was First Lieutenant of the Third Iowa Infantry; Henry served in the First Colorado Regiment; Scott served in the Navy, on the United States man-of-war " New Ironsides." In early years Mr. Hills secured various official preferments in Erie county, Pennsylvania, having served as Constable, Justice of the Peace, School Director, and in 1847 County Commissioner. In 1850 he was Surveyor in charge of the work of establishing the county line between Erie and Crawford counties. Later on he was the incumbent as United States Marshal for his district, and in 1852 and 1853 was a member of the House of Representatives in the State Legislature. He died March 14,1887, at Springfield, Pennsylvania.
     Edgar L. Hills, concerning whose life this sketch has mainly to do, was reared in his native county, receiving a common-school education. He then took a position in a dry-goods establishment at Springfield, Pennsylvania, and after a time took a course in the Spencerian Business College at Cleveland, Ohio. Upon the completion of his studies in this institution he entered a dry-goods establishment at Cleveland, as salesman, retaining the position for about three years. He then returned to the Keystone State, where he clerked for four years longer. He was then married, and shortly afterward removed to Conneaut, Ohio, where he entered the mercantile Held upon his own responsibility, continuing in business until his election, in 1886, to his present office as Recorder of Ashtabula county. In December, 1886, lie removed to Jefferson, the county seat, where he has since resided. He has twice been elected as his own successor,— at the expiration of his term, in 1889, and again in 1892, his election for the third term being the first instance of the kind in many years, and serving to show the high regard in which he is held, both as an officer and a man.
     Mr. Hills was united in marriage June 28, 1877, to Miss S. Louise Doty, an estimable lady of Springfield, Pennsylvania, who was born in Eagleville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, June 28, 1855, and they have two daughters, Maude L., who was born at Conneaut, Ohio, February 19, 1879, and Margaret, who was born at Jefferson, Ohio, December 24,1887.
     Politically, Mr. Hills sympathizes with the Republican party, and socially, is a member of Columbian Lodge, No. 491, Knights of Pythias, at Jefferson, and the Royal-Arcanum, at Conneaut, while, as a citizen and business man, he enjoys pre-eminence in his community.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  171

WILLIAM HOFFMAN, locomotive engineer on the Nickel Plat Railroad, and a resident of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Jefferson county, this State, October 2, 1862.
     His parents, Andrew and Anna (George) Hoffman, were born in Germany and were married in Steubenville, Ohio, Andrew Hoffman having arrived in this country in 1858.  He learned the trade of stone mason in the old country and has followed that trade all his life.  Both he and his wife are members of the German Lutheran Church.  Their three children were Anna, John and William.  Anna is the wife of Andrew Rosenbomer (Rosenhomer?), a farmer of Beaver county, Pennsylvania.  They have five children:  Henry, Albert, Maggie, Lawrence and Christopher C.   John, a resident of Little Washington, Pennsylvania, is a locomotive engineer.  He and his wife, Ella (O'Brien) Hoffman, have three children:  William, John and Stella.
     William Hoffman, the subject of this article, remained on his father's farm until he was sixteen years of age, at which time he went to Wheeling, West Virginia, and entered the car shops of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to learn the painter's trade, working at that a year and a half.  The paint not agreeing with him, he sought another line of work, and for a year was employed as hostler in the Pan Handle engine-house in that city.  Then he began firing on the Pan Handle, and ran between Dennison and Pittsburg two years.  In 1882 he came to Conneaut and accepted a position as fireman on the Nickel Plat.  After serving as fireman two months he was promoted as engineer and has been acting as such ever since.  By his careful attention to duty and the best interests of his employers, he has never met with any accident and has gained an enviable reputation as an engineer.
     Mr. Hoffman was married November 5, 1885, to Miss Mary Sullivan, daughter of Dennis and Ellen Sullivan.  Her mother died August 27, 1884, at the age of forty years, and her father is still living, in Conneaut.  She is the oldest of three children.  Her brother William lives in Conneaut, and her sister, Ann in Pittsburg.  All three were born in London.  The Sullivan family came to America in 1871 and settled in Collingwood, Ontario, and in 1876 came to Ashtabula county, Ohio.  They are members of the Catholic Church.  Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman have one child, William John.
     Politically, Mr. Hoffman is a Democrat.  He is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and of the Junior Order of American Mechanics.  Like many of the Brotherhood, he owns a comfortable home which his industry and frugality have secured.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  1001

Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 967

DAVID HOTCHKISS, a successful farmer and dairyman of Jefferson township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, and respected citizen, was born in Steuben county, New York, Dec. 30, 1833.  He is of New England stock, his father, Demas Hotchkiss, having been born in Connecticut in 1798.  Demas was educated in the State of his birth, his advantages being somewhat meager.  It is said that he was able to attend school only three months in his lifetime.  This, however, was more than offsset by a quick intellect and great force of character.  He was naturally a mathematician and elocutionist, in both of which branches he perfected himself by close application and perseverance, and was deservedly regarded as a man of ability and superior accomplishments.  His character was above reproach and he enjoyed the respect of all who knew him.  He was married to Orphia Bryant in the State of New York, where he resided on a farm until 1847, when he removed to Jefferson township, Ashtabula county, where he passed the remainder of his life.  He first purchased sixty-four acres of land to which he afterward added thirty-four more, all of which he cleared and of which he made one of the best farms in the county.  He was active in all matters tending to advance the interests of his vicinity as well as those of the country at large.  He was in politics originally a Whig, afterward
a Free Soiler and later a Republican, finally espousing the cause of the Prohibitionists, in which he took a deep interest.  He was Township Assessor for some time, discharging his duties with ability and honor.  He was a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, being a Class-Leader and Steward and especially active in Sunday-school work.  Both his and his wife’s names appear on the memorial window of the Jefferson Methodist Episcopal Church, as among those most active in establishing that institution on a firm basis.  These were not the greatest of their benefits bestowed upon society, but rather the flower of a constant Christianity, conspicuous in daily life and immeasurable in its influence.  The mother of the subject of this sketch was born in Mount Holly, Vermont, in 1805, and her father, John Bryant, was a Baptist minister, a man of education and
ability.  Orphia accompanied her sister to New York State in an early day, where she attained her growth and enjoyed moderate school advantages, which she improved.  This was then the frontier and she passed most of her life in a wilderness.  She was married at the age of twenty and spent the latter part of her days in Ohio, enjoying with her husband the universal esteem of their community.  She had eight children, four of whom survive.  The father of the family died on the Ohio homestead on Dec. 26, 1882, at a good old age, while his worthy wife survived him until July 26, 1883, dying in the midst of her friends, regretted by all who knew her.  Few pioneers contributed as much to the general welfare of their vicinity as did these worthy people, and they justly deserve the affectionate remembrance of all future generations.
     The subject of this sketch, David Hotchkiss, who is the proprietor of one of the best farms in the county, situated a mile and a half east of Jefferson, was fourteen years of age when his parents removed to Ohio, where he has lived ever since.  He was reared on a farm and enjoyed the educational advantages provided by the pioneer schools, where he applied himself diligently to study.  In the spring of 1856 be commenced to teach school, his first charge being in a distant and sparsely settled township.  He continued this occupation intermittently for twenty years, being some of the time employed in district and high schools.  In the meantime, at the age of twenty-one, he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner and later that of a stone and brick mason and plasterer, at which he worked during the summer, teaching school in the winter.  In the spring of 1857, he went to Minnesota, where he taught in the district and high schools, employing assistants.  He afterward returned to Ohio and purchased his present farm, which he has cultivated and improved with a line residence and good barns, besides other valuable accessories, the whole making a comfortable and desirable home for himself and family.
     June 19, 1861, Mr. Hotchkiss was married to Miss Rebecca Whaley, a lady of rare personal and mental charms, who was born in Cambridgeshire, England, in 1843.  Her father, Joseph Whaley, was also a native of the “tight little isle, ” and removed with his family to America in an early day, coming to Ohio and purchasing a farm in Saybrook township, which was his home for a number of years.  He finally went to Iowa, where he died in 1869, greatly regretted.  Mrs. Hotchkiss was four years of age when she came to Ohio, where she was married at the age of eighteen.  She had seven children, four sons and three daughters: Eva, born in 1862, wife of John Purdy of Manchester, Virginia; Allen L., horn in December, 1864, a plaster contractor, residing in Iowa; Mary L., born in December, 1868, wife of E. E. Graham, a prosperous farmer of Dorset township, Ashtabula county, Ohio; Norman L., born in December, 1870, unmarried and residing in Iowa, is a prominent clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Vinton R., born in 1875, living in Youngstown; Ruby L., born in 1879; and Floyd E., born in March, 1889.  Mr. Hotchkiss is a near relative of William Cullen Bryant.  Mrs. Hotchkiss was converted young, uniting with the Methodist Episcopal Church, since which time she has been most active in good works.  She belongs to the W. C. T. U. and Home Missionary Society, and leads a busy and useful life.
     In politics, Mr. Hotchkiss has been a Prohibitionist for years, and has done good work in that cause.  He has acceptably filled the office of Trustee and other positions of trust, is now the nominee for County Commissioner and has been for several other county offices but prefers attending to home duties.  He is a prominent member of the Township and County Grange, to the advancement of which he has materially contributed.  He is a devout member of and active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday school, exerting a strong influence for good in his community.  Such men are the foundation of Ohio’s greatness and prosperity, adding by their industry to her wealth and by their right living to her honorable position among the sister States.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page 259

GEORGE A. HOUGHTON, the efficient and popular Road Master of the Franklin Division of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, residing in Andover, Ohio, was born in Windham county, Vermont, Nov. 23, 1855.  He comes of good New England ancestors, his parents, James K. and Abbie (Felker) Houghton, having been natives of Vermont and New Hampshire, respectively.  His father is now a mechanic in Cleveland, Ohio, where he has the esteem of all who know him.
     The subject of this sketch was reared and educated in Putney, Vermont, and at the age of twenty-one he entered the railroad service, in which direction his taste seemed to have a particular bent.  He was first foreman of a fence gang and later of a work train, from which he rose to a responsible position on the Wabash Railroad, which he filled with his usual trustworthiness until accepting a better position with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.  He took up his residence in Andover in 1886, as Roadmaster of the Franklin Division, consisting of the tracts from Ashtabula to Youngstown, Andover to Oil City, as well as the Ashtabula & Harbor Railroad, making 136 miles of track, besides which he looks after seventy miles of other track.  He has two efficient clerks and the details of his business are kept in good shape.  He is a thorough railroad man and fills his position with credit to himself and to the best interests of his company.
     Mr. Houghton was married in Whitehouse, Ohio, to Sarah E. Shepler, a lady of ability and worth, daughter of P. L. Shepler a prominent citizen of Toledo.  They have three children: Abbie J., Rufus A., and Gladys B.
     Of careful business methods, paying strict attention to his responsible duties and of domestic tastes, Mr. Houghton is a quiet, unassuming man and enjoys the respect of all who know him.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 708

PLIMON D. HOWARD, a representative of one of the oldest and most influential families of Orwell township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, and one of her most prominent citizens, is a native of the Green Mountain State.
     His father, Johnson Howard, was a typical New Englander, devoted to his home, his country and his God; stern and uncompromising, when religious principles were involved, he never abated one jot of his incorruptible integrity.  A native of New Hampshire, he adopted Vermont as his home, and subsequently removed from there to Ohio.  It was in Plainfield, Vermont, Dec. 17, 1829, that the subject of our sketch was born.  Removing to Ohio in 1884, the Howards first settled in Bloomfield, where they remained four years.  In 1838 Johnson Howard removed his family to Orwell, purchasing the farm now owned by Hiram Goddard.  Here he and his wife lived and died.  Finding only a dense and unbroken wilderness, the sturdy efforts of Mr. Howard gradually transformed it into productive fields.  Mrs. Howard, nee Harriet Townsend, was also a native of Vermont.  She was a noble woman, economical and industrious.  In those trying days of early settlement she arose to the full measure of the necessity of the occasion, and performed her full share toward providing for the family.  Six children were born to this worthy couple, —one, Elvira, dying in infancy.  The remaining five reached maturity, and four yet survive.  The eldest, Samantha, married Z. C. Biglow, of Orwell, and both have passed away; Rosina, the second, became Mrs. N. A. Barnes.  She resides in Orwell with her three children.  Marshall J., the third, is a resident of Warren, Ohio.  The fourth is the subject of this sketch. Harriet Jennette, the youngest, became the wife of Prof. Henninges, a celebrated music-teacher of Cleveland.  This family, consisting of the professor and his wife and their daughter, Dora, and son, William, have an extensive reputation in musical circles.
     By the death of his father, P. D. Howard found himself, at the early age of fifteen, thrown upon his own resources.  Beginning life with no other endowments than those which nature had bestowed upon him, he has secured for himself and family an ample competency.  After about three years in Michigan, where he pursued his chosen vocation of carpenter and builder, be returned to Orwell and purchased the property now owned by Homer Stone.  Disposing of this a few years later, Mr. Howard acquired the property upon which he now resides.  Here he has erected buildings, and made other improvements, and has to-day, one of the finest residences in the village.
     Mr. Howard was first married to Betsey Ruby, daughter of John Ruby, of Orwell.  They had one child, Cora A., who died in her twenty-second year, Feb. 6, 1879.  Her friends speak lovingly of her beautiful Christian character.  Misfortunes never come singly.  Three years after his daughter’s death his devoted wife was called to her last home, her death occurring Feb. 24, 1882.  The present Mrs. Howard was before her marriage Miss Ellen Morris.  She is a daughter of Thomas Morris, of Orwell.  They have five children as follows: Mabel, born Sept. 29, 1883; George E., Sept. 7, 1885; Plimon D., Dec. 10, 1887; Clara, Dec. 20,1889; and Earle M., June 3, 1893.
     During the war Mr. Howard was debarred from active military service by a disability which unfitted him for marching.  He was enabled, however, to render his country much valuable service as a master builder.  This responsible and lucrative position Mr. Howard filled until ill health compelled him to resign.  In this capacity he erected several important buildings for the storing of Government supplies in Chattanooga.  His work always met with the entire approval of the Government inspectors. General Thomas, “The Rock of Chickamauga,” then commanding the Fourteenth Corps, in the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga, after inspecting one of those buildings, remarked to the Quartermaster, “Your master builder throughly understood his business.”
     Among Mr. Howard’s most important local service may be mentioned the erection of Orwell’s beautiful and commodious Presbyterian Church, of which denomination he has been a faithful member for over forty years.  This well-constructed building owes its existence to Mr. Howard’s energy and perseverance.  Feeling the need of such a structure, he laid the matter before the trustees.  To them the undertaking seemed too vast for the financial condition of the church.  Mr. Howard obtained permission to build the church if he could secure sufficient financial support.  By his efforts a considerable sum was raised by subscription.  Supplementing this by a liberal sum from his private resources, Mr. Howard next applied to the Presbytery for aid. His plain, straightforward statement of the case secured an appropriation of $800.  No building committee was appointed.  The subscription and appropriation were placed in Mr. Howard’s hands with full power to act, and with the entire responsibility of the result.  At the completion of the work Mr. Howard presented the building to the trustees, unincumbered.  He has also been of material aid in furnishing the church and erecting its parsonage.  This work may be taken as a fair illustration of Mr. Howard’s character.  He has always taken an ardent interest in the growth and development of his town, and has been a warm friend and liberal supporter of its institutions.
     Politically, he affiliates with the Republican party, has filled several township offices with fidelity and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents, and is at present a member of the High School Board, being its efficient secretary.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 611

AMOS FISK HUBBARD. - Another landmark of the growth and prosperity of Ashtabula, Ohio, fell with the death of the subject of this sketch, who contributed his share to the advancement of the city which his uncle, Matthew Hubbard, founded.
     The Hubbard are of English ancestry, who settled in Connecticut in 1640, and the first six generations of whom were farmers.  In 1697 Captain Isaac Hubbard and wife (nee Ruth Coleman) removed to Trenton, Oneida county, New York, where they passed the remainder of their lives.  Among their children were Matthew, previously mentioned, and Colonel William Hubbard, father of the subject of this notice.  The latter married Catherine Hulbert, and they had five children: John C., for many years a prominent physician and surgeon of Ashtabula, who died in 1883; William F. deceased in 1880; George C., a merchant, who died in 1876; Catherine, deceased in 1859, who was the wife of O. H. Fitch; and Amos F., the subject of this sketch.  In 1834 Colonel William Hubbard removed with his family to Ashtabula, near which city he engaged in farming, which he continued successfully until his death.  The genealogy of this family represents a long line of distinguished and honorable men, who not only achieved financial precedence, but also enjoyed in an unusual degree the respect and esteem of their fellow men, conspicuous among whom may be mentioned the subject of this sketch.
     Amos Fisk Hubbard was born July 8, 1822, in Holland Patent, New York, where the first eleven years of his life were passed.  At the end of that period he accompanied his parents to Ashtabula, Ohio, which was ever afterward their home.  He received an academic education, and after completing his studies taught school four years, first in East Village and afterward in St. Catharines, Canada.  At the end of this time he bought land on the lake shore in Ashtabula county, intending to engage in the nursery business, but resigning this plan when he was offered a position in the bank with which Messrs. Henry Parsons, Frederick Carlisle and O. H. Fitch were connected.  The date of his entering on his duties was Dec. 7, 1848, which date he carved on a piece of plaster that he cut from the wall of the building, the fragment being now preserved and cherished by his family.  Two years later he be- came cashier in the same institution, in which position he faithfully and efficiently served forty-two years, until his resignation, January, 1892, on account of ill health.  His condition did not improve, and a year later, Jan. 22, 1893, he died, leaving his family and many friends to mourn his loss.
     Although taking a deep interest in the welfare of his city, State and country, he was devoid of political aspirations, finding his greatest happiness in the care and society of his family and in association with those friends whom he had known from childhood.  He had religious convictions from early life, with which his conduct was in thorough conformity.  He was a consistent supporter of the Christian Church.  His theology was broad and his religion was charitable.  He loved science in all of its phases, and his philosophy was remarkably pure and ennobling.
     Mr. Hubbard was twice married, first on Nov. 15, 1853, in Buffalo, New York, by Rev. G. W. Heacock, to Miss Ursula Pomeroy Graves, daughter of Josiah Dwight Graves, an esteemed citizen of Springville, Erie county, New York.  They had ten children: Clarissa, born Sept. 12, 1854, died aged seventeen; William, born June 3, 1856, died aged twenty-seven; Dwight Graves, Dec. 31, 1857, died in infancy; Thomas Hulbert, born July 22, 1859, now a physician of Toledo, Ohio, is married and has one son, Amos Holland; Sarah Casky, born July 24, 1861, resides in Toledo; Catherine, June 14, 1863, died in infancy; John Coleman and Amos Fisk, twins, born Mar. 11, 1865, the former now on the staff of the Standard of Ashtabula and the latter studying dentistry in the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis; and Graves, born Mar. 13, 1870, died in infancy.  Mar. 22, 1870, the family were called upon to mourn the death of the devoted wife and mother, who had watched over their interests for so many years.  Four years later, Oct. 15, 1874, Mr. Hubbard was married, in St. Peter’s Church, at Ashtabula, to Miss Emily Holland, a lady of many worthy qualities, daughter of Ashley Holland, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, later of Ashtabula.  Mr. Holland was born June 26, 1808, and was a machinist by occupation.  He married Penelope Graves, and they had three children, two of whom survive: Mrs. Hubbard and Mary, now Mrs. C. E. Graves, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Mr. Holland passed his last years in Ashtabula, where he died at the age of seventy-six years. Mrs. Hubbard has two children: Abigail, born Aug. 10, 1875; and George Holland, born Mar. 5, 1878.
     In the various relations of life Mr. Hubbard was characterized by the same whole souled honor and geniality, winning and retaining the regard of all with whom he came in contact.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 137

HENRY HUBBARD. - As a mighty monarch of a forest, which has long been a notable landmark, at last succumbs to time's ruthless hand, so may be regarded the recent taking away of the subject of this sketch, whose interests had been identified with those of Ashtabula, Ohio, for more than seventy long years, diversified by light and shade, by storm and sunshine.
     He was born in Trenton, Oneida county, New York, July 19, 1803, and was a son of Isaac and Ruth (Coleman) Hubbard.  His early education was obtained in the district schools of short summer and winter terms, and this instruction he supplemented by three terms in an academy at Steuben Valley, near his home.  In November, 1825, he left his eastern home.  In November, 1825, he left his Eastern home and slowly traced his steps westward to Ohio, then on the frontier, and, making his way to Ashtabula, he became Assistant Postmaster, his brother, Matthew Hubbard, being then Postmaster at that place.  Two months later, in December of that year, he and his brother made a survey and estimated the cost of constructing a harbor at the mouth of Ashtabula river, and with the data thus secured they forwarded to Congress a petition praying for an appropriation by the general Government of the amount necessary to make the necessary improvements.  May 20, 1826, a grant was made by Congress of $12,000, and the ensuing fall the work of building the piers was commenced.  In the spring of 1830 Mr. Hubbard engaged in the forwarding and commission businses at the harbor, which, in consequence of the recent improvements, had become the entrepot for the produce of the farmer and the merchandise of the farmer and the merchandise of tradesmen from a large area of country.  In 1832 Middlesex post office was established at the harbor, and Mr. Hubbard became Postmaster, in which position he continued until 1835.  He then resigned and was appointed Deputy Collector of Customs, and in 1844 was made Disbursing Agent for the Government moneys appropriated that year for the repairs and improvements of the harbor, which disbursements were made to the entire satisfaction of all concerned.  In 1853 Mr. Hubbard was instrumental in the formation of the Ashtabula and New Lisbon Railroad Company, in which he became a director.  In 1857 he assumed the office of vice-president of this corporation, and in 1859 became its president.  Owing to an impending financial crisis in 1856, Mr. Hubbard and Mr. Henry Fassett, secretary of the company, effected a compromise with contractors to save the stockholders from personal liability for the debts of the corporation.  The company subsequently sold the road, and other changes have since taken place, until it is now known as the important line of the Pittsburg, Youngstown & Ashtabula Railroad.  Mr. Hubbard continued to be a prime factor in the management of this road until his death, his labors in its interest being manifold and impossible to be justly touched upon in the short space of this article.  He was a person of great financial and executive ability, imdoubtable enterprise and untiring energy and perseverance, with a deep and abiding interest in the public weal of Ashtabula and vicinity, by the inhabitants of which he will ever be held in affectionate remembrance, as well for his great material benefactions as for his high integrity, benevolence and purity of character.
     In June, 1836, Mr. Hubbard married Julia Ann, a sister of Joseph D. Hulbert, for many years his partner in business.  In 1859 he was called upon to mourn the loss of his devoted companion, who was a lady of many estimable qualities of mind and heart.  Mar. 26, 1862, Mr. Hubbard was married to Miss Harriet C. Stanhope, daughter of John R. and Harriet (Cornell) Stanhope, the former a prominent pioneer and esteemed citizen of Ashtabula county.  There were no children by either marriage.
     In religions faith Mr. Hubbard was a devout Episcopalian, contributing liberally to all church and charitable affairs, as well as to the general welfare of all worthy objects tending to benefit the community.  Few will reach his exalted standard, as few possess the powers of mind and heart, with which he was endowed to an eminent degree.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 189

DR. JOHN C. HUBBARD. - When a great and good man passes away, one whose every act and thought was replete with beneficence to his fellow men, no words can adequately express the loss which humanity sustains or attempt to soothe the world for its bereavement.
     The Hubbard family are of English ancestry, their progenitors having settled in Connecticut in 1640, and the heads of the first six generations in this country were farmers.   In 1697, one branch of the family, led by Captain Isaac Hubbard and wife (nee Ruth Coleman), removed to Trenton, Oneida county, New York.  Among their children were Matthew Hubbard, well known as a prominent pioneer of Ashtabula county, Ohio, and Colonel William Hubbard, father of the subject of this sketch.  Matthew Hubbard left the parental home at Trenton in May, 1804, and was the first of the family to blaze his way to the frontier of Ohio, coming to Ashtabula county as land agent, arriving June 21, a date remote in its history when the condition of the country is taken into consideration.  His family accompanied him as far as Erie, Pennsylvania, where he left them temporarily to precede them to the frontier and prepare a rudimentary home for them in the western wilds.  His journey, in company with some friends, from Erie to Ashtabula county, Ohio, was made on horseback along the lake shore and through the primeval forests of the Buckeye State, through scenes at once romantic and sublime.  On arriving at Ashtabula creek, Mr. Hubbard’s horse slipped down the bank and on reaching the bottom Mr. Hubbard exclaimed, “Here is my pitch,” and there he pitched his tent.  He built a rude cabin on the western bank.  June 3 he selected a farm and located a town site.  It was there he established the first post office in the county.  This very soon became the business center of a small community that formed the nucleus of the present city of Ashtabula, which in all probability would have been situated on the eastern side of the creek had not accident led Mr. Hubbard to build where he did.  On such trifles does history depend.
     A few weeks later, Mr. Hubbard returned to Erie for his family and, accompanied by them, retraced his way once more to his pioneer home.  His faithful horse, companion of his former journey, was again in requisition.  On reaching Ashtabula creek, what was their dismay to find that usually mildly flowing stream very much swollen.  No settlement being on the eastern side and no means of crossing existing except by fording the stream, Mr. Hubbard at once plunged his horse into the water and swam to the other bank.  He repeated this as an example for his wife to follow, when the plucky woman, with baby Amos in her arms, accomplished the same feat and climbed the steep bank on the western side, beholding for the first time her future home.  Mr. Hubbard was a very heavy man and he feared that his horse would fail to ford the stream successfully with a double burden; consequently the child was left in its mother’s charge, while Mr. Hubbard essayed the fording of the stream.  On awaking the first morning after their arrival, they found their beds covered with snow, a circumstance which would have dampened the ardor of a less determined and hopeful couple.  The red men were everywhere to be seen, those both hostile and friendly.  These often visited the little cabin in the absence of the husband and would by signs ask for bread, and when Mrs. Hubbard would start for her larder, Mr. Indian would often follow with knife in hand,—for what purpose the little woman was afraid to guess, but it always happened that he only meant that the loaf might be more easily and promptly cut with his own knife.  On one occasion, some weeks after a hungry Indian had been fed, and while the Hubbard household were sitting around their, fireside at night the door was stealthily opened and a large object was cast into the room, which proved, on investigation to be a ham of venison, believed to have been intended as a reward for former kindnesses.  Mr. Hubbard was Ashtabula’s Postmaster in those days, the post office being kept in his parlor.  Thus lived these hardy pioneers, contributing to the early development of a country which was to become a center of civilization.
     Colonel William Hubbard, a brother of Matthew Hubbard, with his wife (nee Catherine Hulbert) and children, came to Ashtabula in 1834.  Their six children were: Catherine, who died in 1859, was the wife of O. H. Fitch; William F. died in 1880; George C., a merchant, died in 1876; John C., whose name heads this sketch, died in 1883; Amos F., deceased, was a prominent banker of Ashtabula; and Edward, deceased.  All of these did their share toward the advancement of the country and deserve to be enshrined in the memory of future generations.
     In this long line of worthy and distinguished men, no one is more deserving of mention than the subject of this sketch, Dr. John C. Hubbard, who by his learned and unselfish devotion to humanity and his efforts in their behalf, won the everlasting gratitude of the people.  This truly great and good man was born in Holland Patent, Oneida county, New York, in 1820, where he passed the first fourteen years of his life, receiving a liberal education.  At that age he accompanied his parents to Ohio, in which State the residue of their lives was passed.  When twenty years old, he began the study of medicine at St. Catherines, Canada, under Dr. Beadle, and subsequently under the preceptorial direction of Dr. Stephen H. Farrington, an able physician and surgeon of Ashtabula.  He later prosecuted his studies at the medical college at Willoughby, Ohio, and in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city.  He graduated from the last named institution in 1845, with high honors.  He was essentially a student and added to this excellent training by continued study to the time of his death.  At the acre of fifty-five, when most men have lost their desire for increased knowledge, Dr. Hubbard suspended a profitable practice to enter Guy’s Hospital, in London, England, the largest institution of the kind in the world, for the purpose of studying diseases of the eye and ear and learning the best treatment of the age in this branch of medical science.  Before returning home he made a pleasure trip to Paris, that great center of modern art, and largely added to his store of knowledge.  When sixty years of age, Dr. Hnbbard again temporarily stopped his practice to attend a general course of medical and clinical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and combined with his study and observations abroad a daily research among books and reviews at home.  His professional ambition was to possess the best knowledge, not to outrival his confreres, but, more laudably, to cure diseases, and the daily throngs at his office fully attested the confidence reposed in his skill.  During the latter part of his life his attention was given more generally to ophthalmic surgery and gynecology.  He belonged to a number of medical associations, being President of the Ashtabula County Medical Society, Vice-President of the Ohio State Medical and Corresponding Member of the Boston Gynecological societies.  He was chosen in 1866, one of the censors of the medical department of the Wooster University, of Cleveland, and in 1876 was a delegate to the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia.  During the Civil war, he was Surgeon of the Forty-first Ohio Regiment, but resigned this post on account of ill health, greatly to the regret of the regiment.
     In October, 1863, Dr. Hubbard was married to Mrs. Catherine Logan, nee Hubbard, widow of Linus Logan, a steamboat captain who died just after transporting some of the Federal army to the battlefield of Shiloh.  Mrs. Hubbard had five children by her former marriage: Caroline M., the wife of W. S. Talliaferro; Margaret died aged one year; Catherine, who was married to Samuel Tyler; John H., a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Cornelia, who died in 1857.  There were no children by the second marriage, but the children and grandchildren of Mrs. Hubbard lived at the Doctor’s house and received from him most fatherly care, his treatment of them showing his warm affection for the young and dependent.
     In personal appearance, Dr. Hubbard was a perfect type of intellectual and physical strength, with a fair complexion, classical features, blue and expressive eyes, and a well poised head.  His face indicated intelligence and calm emotions, while his manner was kind and gentle.  He was a good friend and neighbor, easy in conversation, to whom to listen was to learn.  He was deservedly popular among his associates, and in 1878 yielded to the solicitations of friends to be- come a candidate for Congress.  He knew his defeat was certain, for his competitor was the lamented Garfield.  His defeat caused him no regrets, his ambition being not to govern but to serve his fellow men.  He was a leader, counselor and authority among the professional fraternity, and his name was a household word in his community, where he was universally beloved and revered, and where all hearts still cherish his memory.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 226

PROF. MORRISON L. HUBBARD, the efficient and popular principal of the commercial and elocutionary departments of New Lyme Institute, New Lyme, Ohio, enjoys an extensive reputation as one of the ablest educators in these departments in the United States.  He not only established the commercial departments of New Lyme and Grand River Institutions, but has every commercial school in Ashtabula county.
     Eri Hubbard, father of Prof. Hubbard of this notice, was the first male white child born in Cherry Valley, Ohio.  Thrown on his own resources at the age of fifteen, Eri Hubbard struck boldly out for himself and soon found a temporary home in the family of Mr. Charles Woodworth, of West Williamsfield, for whom he worked for some years.  He spent several years more on the Erie Canal, which was then being constructed, when, having in the meantime learned the trade of wagonmaking, he removed to Jefferson, Ohio, where he established himself in that occupation.  In 1848, he returned to West Williamsfield, where he now resides.  He was married in 1847 to Elvira Woodworth, daughter of his former employer, Charles Woodworth, a well-to-do farmer of Williamsfield.  Of their three children, the subject of this sketch is the oldest; Edwin died in infancy; and Charles, born Jan. 2, 1834, resides in Youngstown, Ohio, where he is employed by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company.
     The subject of this sketch was born in West Williamsfield, Ohio, May 29, 1849, and received his preliminary education in the district schoools of his vicinity.  When nineteen years of age, he entered Orwell Normal Institute, at that time the leading academy of Ashtabula county.  In 1869 he began studying in Grand River Institute, but owing to the failure of his vision he was obliged to discontinue his studies one term before completing his course.  After a few terms at Soule's Business College, Philadelphia, and the Spencerian Business College in Cleveland, Prof. Hubbard returned to Grand River Institute and conducted a commercial school during the summer of 1873.  He had already taught these branches in that institution in connection with his studies, and so successful had he been that his summer school was liberally patronized.  The prestige of this work secured him a position at Oberlin Business College, where he remained until 1876, when he resigned to accept a similar position at Erie, in the National Business College.  After six months’ successful teaching, he, in partnership with one C. A. Wood, of Morris, New York, purchased the National Business College of Erie, and, during their three years’ management, made it one of the foremost institutions of the country.
     In 1878, the failure of Prof. Hubbard’s health, rendered it necessary for him to dissolve his connection with that institution, and, by advice of physicians he devoted a few months to outdoor pursuits, pursuing meanwhile the study of physiology and anatomy, preparatory to the study of medicine.  Returning subsequently to Grand River Institute, he once more resumed teaching in order to defray his expenses, and continued the study of medicine under the instruction of the celebrated Dr. Tuckerman, of Cleveland, and later under Dr. Hubbard, of Ashtabula.  After two years thus occupied, and finding a course of lectures beyond his means, he abandoned the idea of practicing medicine and devoted himself entirely to teaching.  Under his able management, the commercial department of Grand River Institute became recognized as one of the leading schools of its class in the State.
     In 1882, that grand old educator, Prof. Jacob Tuckerman, withdrew from the principalship of Grand River Institute and accepted a similar position at New Lyme.  Prof. Hubbard also received a flattering offer from the same institution to accompany the principal and establish a commercial department in the same school, which proposition he accepted, and the acquisition of two such excellent educators could not fail to give the school great prestige.  It has grown in popular favor ever since, until New Lyme Institute is now recognized as one of the leading academies of the country and its commercial school as one of the best in the State.  Its graduates have established all the commercial departments in the county and many elsewhere, among Prof. Hubbard’s students being numbered some of the leading business men and educators of the country, notably Prof. McKey of Oberlin Business College fame; Prof. Loomis, of the Spencerian College; W. H. Cook, Assistant Deputy United States Marshal at Cleveland, and many others of equal note and prosperity.
     Successful as Prof. Hubbard has been in commercial school work, however, his efforts in elocution deserve, if possible, even greater commendation.  He, to-day, has a wide reputation as one of the most thorough and successful teachers of elocution in the country.  The secret of his phenomenal success in both of these departments is, no doubt, his careful and extensive preparation.  Much of his life has been devoted to perfecting himself in elocution, and his school expenses were largely defrayed by teaching this art at Orwell and Grand River Institutes.  His studies have been prosecuted under some of the ablest teachers, such as Samuel Wells, of the Albany (New York) Conservatory of Elocution; Prof. W. K. Fobes, of Boston; Webster Edgerly, A. M., LL. B., of Washington, an author of numerous standard works on elocution; and many other instructors of equal reputation.  Many books in his well-filled library are devoted to this eminently pleasing and useful art, of which he is at all times a student.  Among the Professor’s scholars in this department are some of the best elocutionists in the country, notably R. D. Lampson (a brother of Senator Lampson), who was chosen as orator by the Michigan University; A. M. Ingraham, orator-alternate of Oberlin College; President Fuller, of Walnut Grove College, Tennessee; Prof. B. C. Chapin, rapidly becoming known as one of the most brilliant elocutionists that the country affords; Prof. Ed. Amherst Ott, Professor of Elocution in Drake University, at Des Moines, Iowa, and recognized as one of the best of Western orators; and others of local and national reputation.  All of these unite in testifying that their success is largely due to the thorough and careful instruction given them by Prof. Hubbard.
     May 2, 1874, Prof. Hubbard was married to Alice E. Hart, a lady of culture and refinement, daughter of a prominent farmer near Williamsfield, Ohio.  They have seven bright children, all at home except the eldest, who is employed by the Wheeling-Chair Company at the Columbian Exposition, avocation especially adapted to an intelligent and well- educated young man.  The children are as follows: Fred, born Mar. 2, 1875; Burton, born Feb. 14, 1877; Alice E., Aug. 5, 1879; Carl, Nov. 20, 1881; Flora, Dec. 1, 1884; Diodate, Feb. 28, 1887; and Edith, May 25, 1889.
     Politically, Prof. Hubbard was a stanch Republican until the birth of the Prohibition party, since which time he has allied himself with that moral reform.  He belongs to the Presbyterian Church, in which betakes an active interest.  He is a man of the highest integrity, most conscientious scruples, of broad views and liberal culture, and is recognized as one of New Lyme’s best citizens and most ardent reformers.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 360

NEHEMIAH HUBBARD, so long and prominently identified with the best interests of Ashtabula county, is justly entitled to extended notice in a history of this vicinity, which his energy and ability has been instrumental in developing.
     The subject of this sketch was born in Ashtabula township, Ohio, November 11, 1812, being a son of Matthew and Mary (Willard) Hubbard, prominent and widely esteemed pioneers of this community.  The Hubbard family came to this country from England in early Colonial times, and took an active part in the history of those times. Grandfather Isaac Hubbard was born in Connecticut, but removed in an early day to Holland Patent, New York. He subsequently followed his sons to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he afterward died, great in age and in the regard of his fellow men. His eight children were: Matthew, Isaac, William, Daniel, Henry and three daughters Matthew, the oldest and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, April 29, 1783. He accompanied his parents to Holland Patent, where he was married to Mary Willard, a native of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and a member of a prominent and highly respected family. They became the parents of twelve children: Mary, who married H. J. Pees; Anna C; Sarah; Harriet, wife of Richard Roberts; Nehemiah; Eliza, wife of Ira Smith; Isaac; Cornelia F., wife of William Strader; Fidelia; Catherine, relict of Dr. John C. Hubbard; Caroline, wife of Captain Dodge; and Sarah (2d). All are deceased save Mary Caroline, Catherine, Nehemiah and Sarah. In 1803, being of an adventurous and enterprising disposition,  Matthew Hubbard joined the westward tide of emigration to Ohio, and in Ashtabula county took up wild land, which he industriously set about improving and preparing for a home for his wife and family, who followed him in 1807. Shortly after his arrival here he was followed by three of his brothers. Henry first came and began business in Harbor, this county, after which William L. followed, also settling in Harbor, and Daniel came later. Matthew Hubbard took a prominent part in the development of the early interests of this county. He was one of three to secure the right and construct the Ashtabula and Warren turnpike road, which became a popular highway and greatly contributed to the welfare of the county. He was for many years land agent for the Western Reserve, and was the first Postmaster of Ashtabula, Nehemiah, the subject of this sketch, acting as second Postmaster, which positions they retained until 1849. Matthew Hubbard afterward spent five years in Iowa, at that time on the extreme frontier, but later returned to Ashtabula county, where he died July 9, 1869, aged eighty-six years. His wife died September 6, 1865. He and his worthy wife were the parents of twelve children, of whom the subject of this sketch and three daughters now survive.
     Nehemiah Hubbard, whose name heads this biography, the efficient Township Clerk and a worthy citizen, was reared in Ashtabula, where he has passed his entire life. He gained a common school education, which was supplemented by self-application and extensive experience. He early learned civil engineering, gaining much knowledge of this useful art in his father's land office, where he spent many of his youthful days. He commenced this business in 1823, and from that time until 1888 was actively engaged in that pursuit, having made more land surveys in Ashtabula than any other man. He was the civil engineer of the Ashtabula harbor, which fact alone is a sufficient guarantee of his abil­ity, if any were needed. He also has a wide mercantile experience, having been an accountant and been in the dry-goods business for some time. He served as Postmaster for fifteen years, and for about twenty years pre­vious was assistant in the office during his father's incumbency. He continued to follow civil engineering, together with his other duties, until 1888, when he discontinued that business. In 1872 he was elected Township Clerk of Ashtabula township, which position he filled efficiently a year, when he was defeated by a single vote, but was elected the following year to the same office, which he has continuously retained for twenty years, being the present incumbent. This is a strong endorsement of his ability and integrity, inasmuch as he is Democratic in politics and the county largely Republican. He is, however, conservative in politics, supporting those men and measures best calculated to sub-serve the highest interests of the community and country at large. He is fully conversant with current events of the day, and well informed on topics of public interest. He is a member of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
     In 1858 Mr. Hubbard was married to Miss Amelia A., daughter of William Hopkins, a lady of many excellent qualities, and they have had three children, two now surviving: Walter C, and Mary Amelia, now the wife of Richard Beer, the oldest, Matthew, having unfortunately been drowned.
Mr. Hubbard is a natural musician and has a genius for mechanics. He organized the first military band in this part of the country, and was leader of it for many years. With this band he became quite a conspicuous figure in the memorable campaign of 1840. The band was wont to go all about the Western Reserve, giving concerts, etc., and often went into Pennsylvania. He could make musical instruments, as well as play them. Among those he made was a pipe organ, and it was a good one, having a full, rich tone.
His residence is at the old homestead, and is a model for convenience, its handy and ingenious contrivances—like the home of Thomas Jefferson—being constructed by his own hands. In the summer season he spends much of his time in his garden and about his grounds. He is one of the old-style gentlemen, and his tall form and genial face has been a pleasing sight to the people of this community for nearly three-quarters of a century.
     Such long and continuous fidelity to public trust, and uniform uprightness in all the walks of life, stamp Mr. Hubbard as well worthy of the confidence and esteem which he so generally enjoys.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  1001

RICHARD HUBBARD. - Much of the proverbial prosperity of Ashtabula, Ohio, is traceable to her energetic and capable business men, of whom no one is more worthy of mention than the subject of this sketch.
     Of New England ancestry, from whom he inherits clear judgment, an energetic disposition, hardy manhood and uprightness of character, it is not surprising that he should have gained foremost rank in the commercial circles of his community, otherwise he would belie his Puritan ancestry, as history has never represented that race as laggards.  His great grandfather, Nehemiah Hubbard, was a native of Middletown, Connecticut, and was a Revolutionary patriot.  He was a man of great wealth and owned at one time most of the town site of Ashtabula besides large tracts of land in Ashtabula and adjoining counties.  He was thrice married, his first wife being a Miss Sill, who had one child, now the mother of Mrs. Senator Wade and Henry Parsons.  He next married a Miss Starr, and they had four children: Thomas Richard, Cornelia, Lucy and another daughter.  His third wife was a widow by the name of Latimer, who had no children.  Richard Hubbard, grandfather of the subject of this notice, was also born in Middletown, Connecticut, who had four children: Lucy; Edward C., who died young; Edward C., father of the subject of this sketch; and Frances Cornelia.  Edward Cone Hubbard was also born in Middletown, Connecticut, the birthplace of so many generations of his ancestors, his birth occurring Sept. 21, 1824.  He was reared and educated in his native city where he was married, and in which place he was engaged for a few years, in his younger days, in the drug business.  He then settled in Ashtabula county, Ohio, near which place he was for a while engaged in fruit-farming, being at the same time proprietor of a brick and tile factory, besides which he was for three years in the milling business at Conneaut.  He was married June 20, 1849, to Sarah Maria Humphreys, of Derby, Ohio, daughter of an old and prominent resident of that city.  They had six children: W. H., born Apr. 13, 1850, now a leading attorney at Defiance, Ohio; R. W., the subject of this sketch; Mary C., born June 8, 1858; Lucy M., born Mar. 10, 1861; Ellen C., Feb. 28, 1867; and John P., Nov. 21, 1870, now with the Ashtabula Banking Company.
     R. W. Hubbard, of this biography, a resident of Ashtabula, Ohio, a dealer in hardware at Conneaut and traveling salesman for the McIntosh Company of Cleveland, and an all around hustling business man, was born in the same city as his father, Oct. 14, 1853.  He secured his education principally at the boarding school of William H. Hubbard, in Bunker Hill, Ashtabula county, an institution founded before the war but now extinct.  On leaving school, Mr. Hubbard entered the hardware establishment of John C. Selden, at Erie, Pennsylvania, as clerk, where he remained one year.  He next entered the employ of McConkey & Shannon, of the same city, and after eighteen months' faithful and efficient service with them, severed his connection to accept a position as traveling salesman for Messrs. Pratt & Company, of Buffalo, for which latter firm he completed a service of fifteen years in 1889.  This arrangement being concluded, Mr. Hubbard secured a similar position with his present firm, the McIntosh  Company, of Cleveland.  Besides this, he engaged in the hardware business in Conneaut in 1891, under the style of R. W. Hubbard & Company.  He has been justly prospered and enjoys the best wishes of a largle circle of friends for his future success and happiness.
     Politically, Mr. Hubbard advocates the principles of the Republican party; fraternally, he belongs to the blue lodge of the Masonic order; and socially is president of the Lenewawee Society of Ashtabula.
     On June 30, 1886, Mr. Hubbard was married, by the Rev. Jabez Hall, to Miss Clara Gertrude Cadwell, a well known society lady, daughter o Judge Darius Cadwell, now a prominent attorney of Cleveland, this State.  They have no children.
     Judge Darius Cadwell has been so intimately connected with the progress and development of this country for so many years, that it is but fitting that some extended mention should be made of him in this connection.  He was born in Richmond, Ashtabula county, Ohio, Apr. 13, 1821, and was a student of Alleghany College, in Meadville, Pennsylvania.  He read law with Ramey & Wade, of Jefferson, Ohio, in which firm he later became a partner.  In 1856, he was elected a member of the Lower House of the Legislature, and in 1858 and 1859 represented his district in the Senate of Ohio.  On the organization of the Provost-Marshal General's department at the time of the internecine struggle, he was appointed Provost-Marshal for the nineteenth district, which he held until the close of the war, being stationed at Warren, this State.  He was then transferred to other departments and closed out the business of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth districts, being himself mustered out of service Dec. 20, 1865.  In the fall of 1871, Judge Cadwell opened a law office in Cleveland, and in 1873 was elected Common Pleas Judge of Cuyahoga county, in which capacity he served two terms, his incumbency being distinguished by a prompt and efficient discharge of duty.  He has since devoted his attention to the practice of his profession, in partnership with his son.
     The Judge was married Apr. 13, 1847, to Miss Ann Elizabeth Watrous, daughter of John B. Watrous, widely and favorably known and a descendant of an old and distinguished Connecticut family.  They had four children:  Florence, deceased at three years; James, died aged eleven; Mrs. Hubbard, born Nov. 5, 1855, who was educated in the common schools and at Guilford Academy; and Frank, unmarried.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page 829

D. C. HUGABOON, one of the worthy citizens of Conneaut, and for many years conductor on the Nickel Plate Railroad, dates his birth in Erie County, Pennsylvania, Oct. 12, 1852.
     His parents were James and Mary (Russell) Hugaboon, natives of Vermont and Pennsylvania respectively.  His father was engaged in farming and stock-raising in Pennsylvania, and at one time made a specialty of fine horses.  He was well known in his county as a man of the strictest integrity, and fully lived up to his high ideas of morality.  He died June 13, 1868, at the age of sixty-one years.  His wife passed away May 14, 1880, aged forty-six.  Of their family we make the following record: Mary, the oldest, is the widow of W. D. Feidler, and lives in Erie; Helen M., wife of G. N. Johnson, is also a resident of Erie; Margaret, wife of T. H. Collins, lives in Ashtabula; Nettie, who died at the age of twenty-eight, was the wife of H. R. Bissell; Frances Lillian died at the age of twenty-three years; Charles J., a resident of Erie, is machinist in the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad shops.
     D. C. Hugaboon, the fourth born in his father's family, remained on the home farm until he was eighteen years old.  At that time he entered upon a railroad career.  He served four years as brakeman and has ever since been a conductor.  He was on the Erie & Pittsburgh until 1883, since which time he has been on the Nickel Plate, with the exception of the winter of the Ashtabula disaster.  At that time he was braking on the Lake Shore Railroad.  That night the engine of the freight, on which he was employed, was taken from the train to assist a passenger, there being deep snow and a heavy storm.  This gave him and his fellow brakeman,, William Burrell, a chance to take a much needed sleep.  They were in the caboose when the wreck occurred.  They were awakened by the pumpman and told of the disaster, and at once hastened to the scene.  Only one man had reached the wreck before them, and he, with ax in hand, stood appalled at the sight before him.  Mr. Hugaboon, rushing up and taking the ax from his hand, knocked open the door of a sleeper and, unaided, carried six of the passengers to a place of safety before the fire reached that car.  In other cars he found trunks of human beings with head and limbs burned off, and the screams of the injured and dying rose above the storm of the night.  He carried out a child which was still living, though perhaps unconscious, its legs being burned off below the knees.  For six hours in the slush and snow he worked, thinking all the time that his sister might be the next he would carry out of the wreck, for he thought she was on the train.  She and her husband went to Erie, expecting to board that train, but, owning to its lateness and the extreme cold and severe storm, they returned home, and were thus saved from an awful death.  In all the twenty years of his railroad experience, Mr. Hugaboon says that was the worst night he ever saw for a wreck.
     In 1882 he located in Conneaut, and has been here ever since.  His own railroad experience has been a remarkably "lucky" one.  He was never suspended a day in his life, has never had to made out an accident report for a person hurt on his train, and is today the oldest freight conductor on the road.  He was chosen a member of the City Council since coming to Conneaut, and served two years, at the end of that time declining a second term.
     Mr. Hugaboon has been twice married.  In 1875 he married Mary C. Uber, daughter of Jacob Uber, of Mercer county, Pennsylvania.  Their only child, Alice May, died at the age of eight years.  The wife and mother died Mar. 10, 1892, aged thirty-six.  She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He present wife, nee Lydia Brown, is a daughter of Abijah and Emiline (Galloway) Brown, the latter a relative of Hon. Samuel Galloway.  Her father died in 1858, aged fifty-one years, and her mother in 1871, aged fifty-two.  Mrs. Hugaboon is the older of two children.  Her brother Alonzo, a resident of Conneaut, is a decorator and paperhanger.  Mr. Hugaboon and his wife are members of the Christian Church.  He belongs to the Order of Railway Conductors, the I. O. G. T., and the Protective Home circle.  He was formerly a Republican, but now affiliates with the Prohibition party.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page 854

JOSEPH DEWEY HULBERT, a prominent and representative citizen of Ashtabula, Ohio, was born in Holland Patent, Oneida county, New York, Nov. 24, 1809.  His parents, Joseph Clark and Phyana (Dewey) Hulbert, were natives respectively of Middletown, Connecticut, and Bennington, Vermont.
    Thomas Hulbert, the remote paternal ancestor, was of English origin, and came to America about 1635, and later settled in Saybrook, Connecticut.  His descendants are now numerous and far scattered, many of them having filled prominent places before the public.  Thomas was a blacksmith by trade, and during the Indian troubles was engaged against them, under Levi Granger.  He was the father of six children: Thomas, Jr., John, Samuel, Joseph, Stephen and Cornelius.  John, the direct ancestor of the subject of this biography, was born at Wethersfield, Connecticut, Mar. 8, 1642, and was brought up to the trade of his father.  At the age of twenty-seven years he received a proposition from the settlers of Middletown to come there and work as blacksmith of the town, which overture he accepted, and was thus engaged there for seven years.  He married Mary, daughter of John Danning and Honor Treat, at Wethersfield, Dec. 15, 1670.  Their first child, John, Jr., was born Dec. 8, 1671, and July 8, 1698, married Rebecca Warner, and John, the first child of the marriage last noted, was born Oct. 14, 1701, and June 11, 1724, married Elizabeth Sage, of Middletown, Connecticut.  His first son and second chld, Hezekiah, was born in Middletown, June 2, 1727, and became a farmer, living at the place of his birth.  He was married Feb. 2, 1749, to Anna, daughter of Daniel and Phoebe Hall, and they became the parents of two children, - Hezekiah, Jr. and Daniel.  The former of these, who was the grandfather of the subject of this memoir, was born May 23, 1749.  His second marriage occurred June 12, 1779, when he espoused Hannah Clark, and their eldest son, Joseph Clark, was born at Middletown, Sept. 4, 1778.  Their other children were Anna, Elizabeth, Hezekiah, Margaret, Mariah, Jonathan O. and John.  Joseph Clark, the elder son, was married at Bennington, Vermont, Mar. 11, 1804, to phyana Dewey, by whom he had two children, - Julia Ann and Joseph Dewey Hulbert, both born in Holland Patent, New York, the former Apr. 1, 1806.  Joseph C. died at Ashtabula, Aug. 21, 1861, and his wife died at Holland Patent, Jan. 16, 1853.
     Thomas Dewey, the maternal ancestor of Mr. Hulbert, was born in England, in 1600, and came to America in 1630, settling in Chester, Massachusetts, May 4, 1634; he was made a freeman; Mar. 22, 1638, he married Frances C. Clark, and lived at Chester until 1642, when he sold his property and removed to Windsor, Connecticut, at which place he died, Apr. 27, 1648.  Rev. Jedediah Dewey, his great-grandson and the maternal grandfather of Mr. Halbert, was born Apr. 11, 1714, and married Mindwell Hayden, July 3, 1736, at Westfield, Massachusetts.  Feb. 20, 1761, he married for his second wife, Betty Buck, by whom he had six children, the fifth of whom, Phyana, was Mr. Hulbert’s mother.  Jedediah Dewey died Dec. 21, 1778, and his widow, June 21, 1792, at Bennington, Vermont.  He was the first minister of the Congregational Church in Vermont.
     Hezekiah Hulbert, grandfather of Joseph D., was a native of the grand old State of Connecticut, which is so full of historic reminiscences of interest to this country.  The father of Mr. Hulbert of this notice, was reared to the age of nineteen years in his native city, when he accompanied his parents in their emigration to New York State.  He was here married to Phyana Dewey, to whose father, Rev. Jedediah Dewey, reference has just been made.  For him the first Congregational Church building in Vermont was erected, and it was captured by General Stark at the battle of Bennington, and used for the confinement of Hessian prisoners.  This worthy couple had but two children who survived to maturity, namely: Julia Ann, who married Henry Hubbard and resided at Ashtabula; and Joseph D.
     The subject of this sketch grew to manhood on the home place, where his father was a farmer, and for a time attended Remsen Academy.  In 1834, when twenty-four years of age, he left home and proceeded to Ashtabula, Ohio, then a new and but slightly settled country, where he has ever since resided.  At first he clerked in a store, but later engaged in farming and in the storage and forwarding business at Ashtabula harbor.  For about forty years he continued to prosecute these important enterprises, simultaneously owning and operating vessels plying the lakes and eventually accumulating a comfortable property.
     He was also engaged with Henry Hubbard in the stave and lumber business and the carrying trade for a number of years.  About 1875, he discontinued all other enterprises to give his attention principally to his real-estate interests, and has been instrumental in greatly furthering the growth and aiding in the development of Ashtabula harbor and the surrounding country.
     Jan. 31, 1837, Mr. Hulbert was married to Miss Mary Ann Fisk, and they had three children, all of whom died young, as also did the wife and mother, who passed from this life Aug. 25, 1842.  Jan. 3, 1844, Mr. Hulbert married Miss Lucinda C. Hall, an estimable lady of Ashtabula, and they had five children, namely: Julia Ann, born at Holland Patent, New York, Nov. 3, 1844, and married D. W. Haskell, of Ashtabula; Mary F., born Oct. 31, 1846, and married Andrew C. Stone, of Lawrence, Massachusetts; Phyana D., born Oct. 2, 1848, is now the wife of Walter R. Rowe, of Lawrence, Massachusetts; Eliza Maria, born Oct. 27, 1850, married Milo L. Rice,  Ashtabula; and Joseph Clark, born Apr. 25, 1852, died in September following.  Mrs. Hulbert departed this life Aug. 29, 1878, leaving a bereaved husband and four children, to whom her life had been devoted.  She was a woman of sweet disposition, rare amiability, refined and winning manners, and as a natural sequence she was greatly beloved by those who knew her well, and by them is still held in grateful and affectionate remembrance.
    Jan. 24, 1885, Mr. Hulbert was married to Mrs. Cornelia A. Reece, daughter of Ralph and Catherine (Sanford) Williams.
     In politics Mr. Hulbert was formerly a Whig, later an anti-slavery Whig, and was connected with the “under-ground railroad” thinkers and actors.  He became a Republican when that party was formed, but, ever independent and courageous in his convictions, he has not endorsed every specific principle advocated by the party, and has manifested his approval of certain of the policies brought forward by each the Greenback and People’s party.
     He is a man of deep patriotism, but has never sought office, his numerous private interests absorbing most of his time and attention.  However, he held for several years the position of County Commissioner, at the earnest request of the people.  Indeed, it is to be regretted that he has not served the public welfare in some official capacity, possessing as he does business and moral qualifications peculiarly fitting him for a position of trust and responsibility.
     In person, Mr. Hulbert is six feet in height, and although he is now crowned with the fullness of years, being eighty-tour years of age, he is in the enjoyment of excellent health, with faculties unimpaired.  He still maintains a personal control and supervision of his business interests.  He grew to manhood under Presbyterian discipline, but, following out his personal convictions, he now coincides with certain of the views of the Unitarians and Spiritualists.
     He was instrumental in securing railroad facilities at Ashtabula, being associated with Mr. Henry Hubbard in rendering tangible aid in the way of money and donation of land.  During the memorable contest between the Pittsburg, Youngstown & Ashtabula and the Ashtabula, Jamestown & Franklin (under the control of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern) Railroad Companies, to determine the right of ground at the harbor, by pacific measures the former company was induced to give up its division on the east side, and thus both lines were given entry to the harbor.  John Harmon, Albert Fields, H. E. Parsons and Hulbert & Hubbard gave the land which the railroads demanded and thus settled the matter in a satisfactory way.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page 141

H. S. HUNT, a prominent and esteemed business man of Jefferson, Ohio, was born in Orleans county, New York, Oct. 3, 1815. His parents, Joseph L. and Lydia (Davenport) Hunt, were natives of Vermont, in which State they mere married.  This worthy couple removed to New York State in an early day, settling in the forest on the banks of Lake Ontario, among the Indians.  Thence they later removed to Orleans county, in the same State, and, in 1833, joined the westward emigration to Ohio, settling in Ashtabula county.  They afterward removed to Illinois, where both parents died.  The father was a farmer all his life, and he and his worthy wife were the parents of ten children.
     The subject of this sketch was reared in his native county, receiving the educational advantages afforded by the pioneer schools, and learned the trade of carpentry, at which he worked during the earlier years of his life. In 1837, four years after his parents’ removal to Ashtabula county, Ohio, Mr. Hunt also came West, settling in Hartsgrove township.  In the fall of 1850, he removed thence to Jefferson, where he has since resided.  He was engaged in carpentry and house building until 1857, at which time he entered the furniture business, which he has since successfully followed.  He began life with limited means and has acquired his present comfortable income by energy and perseverance.
     In 1838 Mr. Hunt was married to Miss Harriet White, and they had three children, two of whom now survive.  In 1845 the family were called upon to mourn the loss of the devoted wife and mother, an estimable woman who left many friends to mourn her loss.  In 1846, Mr. Hunt married Fidelia Little, a lady of domestic tastes, and they had one child.  In 1855 death again entered the household, this time again claiming the faithful helpmate.  In 1877, Mr. Hunt was married to Lucy Fuller, who now presides over his household.
     Politically, Mr. Hunt has been for many years identified with the Republican party.  He is an earnest and useful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to the aid of which he contributes of his means and influence.  As a business man and citizen, Mr. Hunt is upright, energetic and progressive, and with commendable public spirit is ever ready to aid in the material and moral advancement of his favorite city, in which he takes a deep interest.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  819

D. L. HUNTLEY, a well-known business man of Pierpont township, Ashtabula  county, was born in this city, Oct. 25, 1832, a son of James Huntley, a native of Massachusetts, and a soldier in the war of 1812.  The latter's father, Amos Huntley, was also a native of Massachusetts, and of Scotch parentage. James Huntley came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, early in life, and was married at Denmark, this State, to Lydia Hart, a native of Litchfield, Connecticut, and a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. Huntley was a farmer by occupation, a Republican in his political relations, and a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church,  His wife came from Connecticut to Ashtabula county, on horseback. Mr. and Mrs. Huntley had five children: William, Milo (deceased), Harriette, Phoebe Wright and D. L.
     D. L. Huntley, the subject of this notice, received his education in the Kingsville Academy, and was a successful school-teacher for a number of years.  He was engaged in trade at Pierpont for a time before the war, and was also engaged in farming at the old home place.  In his political relations he votes with the Republican party, and has held the positions of Justice of the Peace and Township Trustee.
     In 1871 Mr. Huntley was united in marriage with Susan Carver, a native of Pennsylvania.  They had one daughter, Ethel E. The great loss of our subject's life was in the death of his beloved wife, which occurred Aug. 29, 1890.  She was an affectionate wife and mother, a kind neighbor, and lived a consistent Christian life.  Mr. Huntley is frank and cordial with all whom he meets, and is one of the popular citizens of Ashtabula county.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  1017

ORLANDO L. HUSTON, a substantial farmer and venerable citizen of Ashtabula County, Ohio, was born in Canada, Mar. 8, 1815.
     He is a son of William Huston, whose birth occurred in New York in 1790.  His father having died when William was a mere lad, the latter moved with his mother to Eaton, District of Three Rivers, Canada, where he was subsequently employed on the river and where he lived until 1820.  That year he came to Ohio and located in Conneaut township, Ashtabula county, near where the subject of our sketch now lives.  He afterward lived in Ashtabula and then Pennsylvania and about 1850 came back to this county and settled in Monroe township.  Here he died some time in the sixties.  His political affiliations were formerly with the Whig party, and after the organization of the Republican party he gave it his support.  The mother of Orlando L. was before her marriage Miss Sarah Learned.  She was born in New Hampshire in 1797, and went from her Native State of Canada, where, about 1813, she married Mr. Huston.  Her father had a contract to make a turnpike from Quebec to Montreal.  An expected invasion of the country by Bonaparte, however, caused that enterprise to be abandoned, and thus it was that in 1822 her parents, Abijah and Ann (Sullingham) Learned, came to Ohio.  Her father and mother were natives of New Hampshire, the former's ancestors being English and the latter's German.  William and Sarah Huston had four children, viz.: Orlando L., the oldest; David W., a resident of Monroe township, Ashtabula county, Ohio; Sophronia, widow of Robert Jennings, is also a resident of Monroe township; and Maria, widow of William Fitz.
     Orlando L. Huston came to Ohio with his parents and remained with them until he was sixteen years old, when he bought his time of his father and began farming on the shares at the place where he now lives.  In this way he continued his farming operations until 1852.  That year he bought his present farm, and upon it he has since resided.  He is indeed one of the old landmarks of this vicinity, having resided here since 1829, and few men here are better known or ore highly respected than he.
     Mr. Huston was married in 1836, to Flora H. King, who was born in Conneaut, Ohio, in 1812, and who died in 1884.  She was the daughter of Elisha and Mercy (Bruce) King, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Virginia.  Mr. and Mrs. King were married in Ohio, being among the very earliest settlers of the Western Reserve.  Elisha King was the son of Peter King, the Kings being of English descent.  The Bruce family originated in Scotland.  Mr. Huston's grandfather was a Presbyterian Minister.  Our subject and his wife have had two children: Mary, who died in January, 1890, was a deaf mute; and Martha, widow of Oscar Allen, lives with her father.  Mr. Allen died in 1871, leaving his widow and two children.  Fred W., the older of these two, is a widower with one child, Juva, that lives with its grandmother.  The younger, Carrie, is now the wife of Charles E. Hicks.
     In his political affiliations Mr. Huston is a Democrat.  He has served as Township Trustee twenty-eight years; has also rendered efficient service on the School Board.  He is a member of the G. A. R. and of the Home Guard.  In 1861 he enlisted in the Second Ohio Independent Battery, under Esquire Cartin, and was sent to the West.  While foraging at Osage Springs, Arkansas, he was captured and was taken prisoner to Fort Smith, where he was  held one month, after which he was exchanged.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page  941

PERRY G. HYDE, a Notary Public and the efficient and popular Postmaster of South New Lyme, Ohio, having held the former position twenty-four years and the latter eight years, is deserving of prominent mention in a history of Ashtabula county.  He comes of a worthy and large family, originally of New England.  His father, Hyram Hyde, was born in Hartland, Connecticut, Dec. 16, 1804, and had two brothers and six sisters, of whom only two sisters now survive; Mary, now Mrs. Wayne Bidwell, of Kinsman, Ohio, and Julia, now Mrs. Chrisholm, of Kenosha, Wisconsin.  While Hiram is an infant, his parents removed to Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he was reared and educated.  On attaining his majority, Hiram engaged in the mercantile business at Penn Line, Pennsylvania, later going into the hotel business, first at Leon, Ohio, from 1836 to 1840, and then at Conneaut, the same State, where he kept the Mansion House until 1844, afterward going to Jefferson, where he conducted the Beckwith House until 1846.  He then engaged in farming, to which he devoted the remainder of his life, first following that occupation near Jefferson for one year, and afterward removing to a farm near New Lyme, where he resided until his death, Dec. 16, 1889.  The mother of the subject of this sketch, was before marriage, Olive Sargent, of Kelloggsville, Ohio.
     Mr. Hyde, of this notice, was born in Penn Line, Pennsylvania, Nov. 15, 1834, when his father was in the mercantile business there, and was reared in the several different places which was afterward his parents' home.  He received a good education in the schools of Penn Line, Conneaut and New Lyme.  He removed with his parents to New Lyme in 1847, which has ever since been his home, and where he has devoted himself to farming until called to official life.  Few men have discharged a public trust with so much efficiency and honor as Mr. Hyde, who brought to his work an extensive business experience and a conscientious regard for his duty and the rights of others, qualities which are, unfortunately, too often conspicuous for their absence.
     June 28, 1865, Mr. Hyde was married to Temperance A. Dodge, an educated and accomplished lady of New Lyme, daughter of Jeremiah Dodge, a well-known and widely respected resident of that city.  They had four children: Hattie Olive, born Mar. 22, 1866; Bernice Eugenie, born Feb. 16, 1868; Perry G., Jr., Nov. 20, 1870; and Edward J., Mar. 26, 1872.  In 1874, the loving and devoted mother was removed from the family which so much needed her care.  Mr. Hyde afterward remarried and had nine children by his second union: Jessie B., born Aug. 31, 1876; Mabel O., born Apr. 15, 1879; Hiram L., Feb. 17, 1882; Glenn R., Mar. 12, 1884; Ruby, Jan. 28, 1886; Ruth, Jan. 28, 1886; Walter W. Oct. 8, 1887; Carl N., Feb. 21, 1889; and Ethel M., Aug. 8, 1891.
     Politically, Mr. Hyde is conservative, finding much to endorse in the principles of both parties.  His position on the tariff question has led him to vote with the Republicans.  Fraternally, he is an honored member of the Masonic order.  As a Postmaster, Mr. Hyde has been a most popular and capable public servant, and much regret is expressed over the fear that party affiliations may lead to his removal.  As a private citizen, he enjoys the best wishes for his prosperity of all who know him.
  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page 847