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GEORGE L. ENSIGN, A. M., was born in Claridon township, Geauga county, Ohio, July 1, 1852, a son of Emery Ensign, a native of Connecticut.  The paternal grandfather, Ensign Ensign, was also a native of Connecticut, and was one of the earliest pioneers of Geauga county.  He emigrated to Ohio, making the journey overland by teams, and settled in the northeastern part of Claridon township when it was yet an unbroken wilderness.  He succeeded in clearing a farm before his death, which occurred at the age of eighty years.  Emory Ensign was a mere lad when his father came to Ohio, so he received his education in the primitive log schoolhouse, and lived the life of a pioneer farmer's son.  He married Rebecca M. Chase, who was born in Claridon township, Geauga county, Jan. 21, 1822.  Her father, Captain Holder Chace, was a native of Massachusetts, who settled in Claridon township as early as 1816, making the journey to the West by team, guided by blazed threes.  Captain Chace owned 200 acres of land which he placed under cultivation before his death, which occurred at the age of seventy years.  Mr. and Mrs. Ensign had a family of five children:  Diodate J., Theodore W., Harmon N., Emory who died at the age of two and a half years, and George L.  The father lived to be only thirty-nine years of age, but the mother still survives, making her home with her son, George L.  She is now one of the oldest residents living in the section and has a vivid recollection of the incidents attending their early efforts and pioneer life.
     George L. Ensign is the youngest of the family of five.  His youth was passed in Middlefield township, and his early education was acquired in the district school.  At the age of seventeen years he entered Hiram College, where he pursued his studies for three years.  Taking both the Latin and scientific courses eh was graduated from the Western Reserve College in 1881, afterward finishing the post-graduate course when he had conferred upon him the degree of A. M.  He began teaching at the age of sixteen years and while a student at the Western Reserve College taught in that institution in connection with the prosecution of his studies.  After graduation he occupied the chair of professor of mathematics at his alma mater teaching all branches of the science.  In 1883 he accepted the principalship of the Geauga Seminary, and during his management of this institution the attendance reached its highest point, 250 pupils being enrolled.
     Mr. Ensign was married in March, 1873, to Addie H. Bower of Geauga county; they had one child, Addie R.  The mother died in 1880.  Mr. Ensign was married a second time in 1881, being united to Celia M. Foster, a native of Wisconsin.  They have had born to them five children: Theodore F., Harmon O., Sina Pearl, Winona M., and Caro B.  It was in 1884 that Mr. Ensign removed to southwestern Kansas and located in what is now Gray county; there he bought and sold farming lands and town lots, remaining four years.  At the end of this period he went to the Pacific coast, and took up his old profession of teaching.  He was in the public schools of Lordsburg and Spadra, California, but the Italy of America had not sufficient charms to keep him from the old Buckeye State.  In September, 1892, he returned to his old home, and since that time has given special attention to agriculture.  He has seventy-five acres of well improved land, and is surrounded by all the comforts suggested by refined and cultivated taste.  He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he belongs to the Masonic order.  Politically he is an ardent supporter of the principles upon which the People's party is founded.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 760
A. C. EVANS, one of the largest landowners of Huntsburg township, and a prominent pioneer of Geauga county, was born in Delaware county, New York, Feb. 12, 1820.  His father, Andrew Evans, was a native of New York, and his grandfather, John Evans, was born in Massachusetts; the latter was a tailor by trade, and at an early day removed to Schoharie county, New York, where he followed this vocation.  He was a Major in the Revolutionary war, and was a man of broad intelligence and ranch force of character; he died at the age of sixty years.  Andrew Evans was a shoemaker by trade, and worked at night at this calling, while he spent his days in farm labor.  He emigrated to Delaware county, Ohio, in 1833, locating in Huntsburg township four years later.  He purchased 150 acres of land in the forest, and built a log cabin for his home; he succeeded in clearing his land before his death, which occurred at the age of fifty- five years.  He married Lydia Cole, who was born in New York, and was a classmate of Martin Van Buren.  They reared a family of seven children, and she lived to the age of eighty-six years.  She was a fine seamstress, and used her needle with much taste and skill, even after she had attained her four score years and ten.
     The eldest of a family of seven children, Mr. Evans was early in life thrown upon his own resources and became accustomed to the hard work of pioneer farming.  He was married Dec. 18, 1844, to Abigail Strong, who was born at Westhampton, Massachusetts, coming to Ohio in her girlhood.  They had three children: Dr. Ephraim B. Evans, of Farwell, Michigan; Clara L., now Mrs. Horace Carothers: and Asel S., who died at the age of twenty-one years.  The wife and mother died Dec. 7, 1889.  Mr. Evans was married a second time, in June, 1890, being united to Julia A. Strong, a niece of his first wife.  He is now the owner of 440 acres of land, 150 of which is fine timber land, the balance being in a high state of cultivation.  Mr. Evans does a general farming business, and has a well-kept dairy; he has made all the improvements on his land, and the buildings which he has erected are of a most substantial order . Although in the beginning he had no capital save that with which nature endowed him, he has accumulated a handsome estate.  Mr. Evans is a member of the Masonic order, Benton Lodge, No. 274, and is an attendant and liberal supporter of the Congregational Church.  Politically, he adheres to the principles of the Republican party, and has served as Trustee of his township, discharging his duties with the same fidelity that has marked all the undertakings of his life.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 786

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