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HORACE F. JEROME, one of
the most substantial and successful agriculturists of Huntsburg
township, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, Sept. 22, 1845. His
father, Asahel Jerome, a native of Connecticut, removed to
Ohio after his marriage, and settled in Cuyahoga county in 1830; the
journey was made by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, and thence by the lake to
Cleveland, when that flourishing city was a mere hamlet. He bought
eighty acres fourteen miles east of the present site of the city in
Orange township, which he cleared and placed under cultivation. He
married Lavina C. Sabin, a native of New York State, and they had
a family of four children. She died at the age of
seventy-three years, and he lived to be seventy-nine years old.
They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for forty years
he was Class-leader. Politically, he was successively a Whig and
Republican, and held many of the township offices. H. F. Jerome,
the youngest of his family, received his education in the district
schools, and also attended Western Reserve College for a year. One of
the most important events of his life was his enlistment in the service
of his country, when he became a member of Company A, One Hundred and
Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Aug. 4, 1862. He was mustered in at
Camp Mitchell, Kentucky, and participated first in the battle at Blue
Springs, Tennessee; he was in the siege of Knoxville, Tennessee, where
he was wounded in the left hip and was confined in consequence to Bell
hospital, at Knoxville, but finally came home on a furlough in the
spring of 1864. He rejoined his regiment four months later.
He was in the engagement at Resaca, where he was wounded by a shell,
which disabled him for four months, during which time he was in the
hospital at Louisville. Again joining his regiment near Atlanta,
after the capture of the city, he participated in the battles of
Franklin and Nashville, and was on the campaign in Tennessee in pursuit
of Hood, joining Sherman at Raleigh, North Carolina. There
he was honorably discharged, and was mustered out June 23, 1865, at
Cleveland, Ohio.
After the war was ended and peace was declared, he
settled in Cuyahoga county. He was united in marriage Oct. 13,
1870, to Ordel Lockener, who was born in Cuyahoga county,
and they are the parents of two children: Charles A. and
H. Grove. Mr. Jerome has devoted his efforts to
agriculture, and has made a most gratifying success; he cultivated
eighty-three and a half acres in Cuyahoga county, which he sold before
he came to Geauga county in 1886. Here he bought 100 acres of
choice farming land on which he has made excellent improvements; he
raises grain and live-stock, and has a small, well- managed dairy.
From 1878 to 1881, Mr. Jerome was a resident of Riley
county, Kansas, being engaged during the time in farming, but at the end
of three years he returned to Ohio. In politics he supports the
Republican party. He has been a member of the School Board for the
past six years and takes a deep interest in the advancement and progress
of the schools. He and his wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and are highly esteemed members of the community.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis
Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 757 |
DANIEL JOHNSON
has been identified with the various interests of Geauga county,
Ohio, all his life.
Few
men in the county are held in higher
esteem than he, and of such a one it is appropriate that some
personal mention be made in this work. Following is a brief
sketch of his life:
Daniel Johnson was born in Newbury,
township, Geauga county, Ohio, June 22, 1826, son of Seth
Johnson and grandson of Solomon Johnson, both
natives of Massachusetts. In 1815, his father and grandfather
emigrated to Ohio, the former at that time being twenty-one years of
age. They located in Newbury township, this county, and worked
for Lemuel Prenderson, who had settled here in 1809,
he being the first settler in the township. That same year,
1815, the Johnsons bought land on which they erected a log
house and where they at once began the work of clearing. The
following year the rest of the family joined them in their frontier
home, making the journey by ox teams and reaching their destination
after six weeks’ travel. In due time, they cleared up and
developed a tine farm. Solomon Johnson died here
at the age of seventy- nine years, lie had a family of three sons
and one daughter, of whom Seth was the oldest. Seth
Johnson was married in 1821 to Saloma Curtis, a
native of Massachusetts. Her people had emigrated to New York
and from there came to Cleveland, Ohio. She died at the age of
forty-four years. Seth Johnson died in December,
1857, aged sixty-five. He held various local positions in the
township and was a man of some prominence. They had a family
of twelve children, all of whom grew to maturity and six of whom are
still living.
Daniel Johnson was born in a hewed-log
house on the farm on which he still resides. His father was an
invalid and able to do but little work for several years, so upon
Daniel and an older brother fell the work of supporting the
family. This brother struck out for himself at the age of
twenty-one and the father said to Daniel, “ You must stay at
home and help take care of the children. It was about this
time, when the subject of this sketch was sixteen, that the mother
died, Dec. 9, 1842, at the age of forty-four. He had been able
to attend the district school during a portion of the time until the
attainment of his sixteenth year, and in his eighteenth year he
attended a private or select school for a few weeks. By
diligent application and perseverance when in school and by
supplementing this work by studying evenings and at odd times, he
secured a good, practical business education. He taught one
term of school in his home district, but owing to the urgent demands
upon his attention at the home and farm, he was obliged to
discontinue his pedagogic labors at the expiration of the time
designated. His sisters also became teachers. After the
death of his father, he bought out the other heirs, and has
continued to reside on the old farm. This farm comprises 105
acres of good land, it being utilized for dairying and general
farming.
Mar. 9, 1852, Mr. Johnson married Miss
Belle M. Gould. Their five children are as follows:
Stella, wife of R. B. Roe, a druggist of Elyria, Ohio;
William C., who is married and lives at Creston, Wayne county,
Ohio, where he is extensively engaged in truck farming; S. D.,
also married, is an employe of the Valley Railroad Company, at
Cleveland; L. Grace, is a teacher; and D. Lloyd is at
home.
During his early life Mr. Johnson was a
Henry Clay Whig, but since the reorganization of the Republican
party he has been identified with it. He has always taken an
active part in local politics, having been frequently sent as a
delegate to county, district and State political conventions.
He has been Township Trustee, was Township Assessor three terms, was
Magistrate for eighteen years, and for nine years served as County
Commissioner. During his service as County Commissioner, the
Superintendent’s building at the Infirmary was erected, and the
county records were indexed. Mr. Johnson is a
man of more than ordinary business ability. In addition to his
farming operations and the duties of the various official positions
to which he has been called, he has for the past thirty-five years
served as executor, administrator and assignee, and has frequently
been appointed appraiser of the personal estates of deceased
persons, and as one of a committee to appraise and partition real
estate, in which way he has transacted a vast amount of business for
other people. He holds a commission as Notary Public, and has
for several years transacted in that capacity such business as has
been required of him by his neighbors. In the second year of
the Harrison administration he received the appointment as
Postmaster at South Newbury, a preferment which he still holds, the
detail work of the office being assigned to a capable assistant.
He has ever proved himself worthy of the important trusts reposed in
him. performing his duty with the strictest fidelity. He has
been vice-president of the Pioneer Society of Geauga county for
several years, and has served as chairman of its executive
committee. In early manhood, Mr. Johnson became
actively identified with the noble work of temperance reform, and
his interest in the cause has never flagged. For many years he
was a member of Division 119 of the Sons of Temperance. His
personal habits are consonant with the views he advocates, and it is
a noteworthy fact that he has never used tobacco in any form.
Of Mrs. Johnson, it should be further
stated that she is a daughter of Rev. Simon Gould, a
minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and that she was born in
Twinsburg, Ohio, of which place her parents were early settlers.
She has been a most devoted wife and mother, particularly gifted in
the art of home-making, and in every way a support and helpmeet to
her husband in his life work. Hers has been a life of
ceaseless and unselfish devotion to her home, its interests and to
all who came therein. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have ever
maintained a home in which the refining influence of music has been
manifest, and each member of the family has a marked taste for that
beautiful art. The house has always contained a piano, and
both vocal and instrumental music have conserved the pleasures and
attractions of the home.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The
Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 649 |
EDWIN A. JOHNSON,
special agent of the Ætna Life
and Accident Insurance Company, has been a resident of Chardon for
eighteen years, and of Geauga county during his entire life.
He first saw the light at Montville, in that county, Mar. 17, 1843.
His parents, William and Catherine (Austin) Johnson, were
natives of Danbury, Connecticut, removing to Ohio a few years before
the birth of our subject, and purchasing a home in Montville, where
they still reside. Ten of the children born to them still
survive, our subject having been the fifth in order of birth.
Of the children we make record as follows: Four, Elizabeth
Miller, Emeline Cross, Luther Elbert and Millie Legget,
reside in Montville; three, Adaline King, Eva
Proctor and our subject, reside in Chardon; John C.
resides in Chicago; Hubert, in Cleveland, and Alice
Randolph in Midland, Michigan.
The father and mother of our subject are both
consistent members of the Disciple Church in Montville.
William Johnson, at the advanced age of eighty-five
years, is still an active, industrious and energetic man. He
is a cabinet maker.
Thrown on his own resources at the early age of
thirteen, our subject sought and obtained such educational
advantages as were within his grasp, and then devoted himself to
such occupations as presented till the outbreak of the Civil war, in
1861, he enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry and served with
that celebrated regiment for several months, participating in
several engagements till his discharge, mi account of pulmonary
trouble. Recovering, to some degree, his health, he again
enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, remaining with that regiment till it was mustered out of
service. After the close of the war he returned home and
engaged in the manufacture of lumber for a time. Later he
followed the barber’s trade at Chardon, continuing in that
occupation for several years. He was then tendered his present
position as Special Insurance Agent and has continued in successful
service for the Ætna Life
Insurance Company till the present time.
In 1874 our subject was united in marriage to Jennie
C. Nash, of Chardon. The fruits of their marriage were
five children, four of whom survive: The eldest, Edith, now
attending school in Chardon, is an artist of considerable ability;
the second, Mabel, is a line musician, both vocal and
instrumental; the third, Tressie, died when but four years of
age; the fourth and fifth, Claudine and Stewart E.,
are apparently possessed of equal natural gifts.
Mrs. Johnson is a model wife and mother,
devoted to her home and its interests. She is a member of the
Disciple Church.
Fraternally, Mr. Johnson is a member of
the Masonic order, the I. O. O. F. and the C. A. R. at Chardon,
Ohio. Politically, he votes the Republican ticket but is not
extremely partisan, preferring men and principles to party
subserviency.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The
Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 999 |
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