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

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  SELAH DANIELS, a prominent and enterprising farmer of Montville township, Geauga county, in the subject.  He is a native of Ohio, born at Montville, Jan. 9, 1945, a son of Selah Daniels, Sr., who was born in Connecticut, June 1, 1798; the father removed to Ohio at an early day, and settled in Portage county, where he operated a gristmill for a number of years; later he came to Montville and purchased land at a time when the country was thinly settled and little land was under cultivation.  He died in 1880, aged eighty-two years.  His wife's maiden name was Mary Ann Newman; she died in 1882, at the age of eighty-four years.  They had a family of six children, four of whom are living; Luther P., Katherine, Rufus and the subject of this sketch.  Salah Daniels is the youngest born; he remained at home and cared for this parents through their declining years, ministering to their wants with loving fidelity.
     He enlisted in August, 1864, a member of Company F, Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but later was transferred to Company A.  He joined his regiment at Sandusky, Ohio, and for a are did guard duty on Johnson's Island.  He was mustered out at Camp Chase in July, 1865.  Peace having been declared he returned to his home, and embarked in the milling business.  He built a sawmill in 1867, and until 1892 was successfully engaged in the lumber trade, selling out at that time.
     Mr. Daniels was married in 1868, on the 20th day of June, to Jane A. Tucker, a native of Geauga county, Ohio, her parents having emigrated from England to the United States.  Mr. and Mrs. Daniels became the parents of the following children:  Curtis G.; Ernest, deceased; Plinney; Henry; Vernie and Max.  Politically our subject affiliates with the Republican party, and has filled the offices of Land Appraiser and Trustee.  He is a member of I. N. Legget Post, No. 336, G. A. R., at Montville, and has been Commander and Adjustant since its organization.  He was nominated at the Republican County Convention in 1893, for County Commissioner.  He is now the owner of ninety-nine acres in his home farm, seventy-five acres in another tract, and 115 in another.  Untiring industry, good management and economy have been the mainsprings of his success, and in all his transactions he has preserved his reputation for strict integrity and honorable dealing.

Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 951
 

MARK R. DOOLITTLE, the efficient and popular Postmaster of Painesville, Ohio, and a newspaper man of fifty-one years' experience and of international fame, was born in Middlebury, Vermont, August 30, 1824.  He is of Scotch descent, the original American ancestors of the family having settled in this country in early Colonial times.  His grandfather, Titus Doolittle, was born in Massachusetts, where he followed farming.  He died at an advanced age, in Belchertown, that State.  The father of the subject of this sketch, Joel Doolittle, was also born in Massachusetts, and was a lawyer by profession, being a graduate of Yale College.  He was the first tutor in Middlebury College,  in which he was at one time president of the council of censors.  He was Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont for a number of years and died in Middlebury, that State, in 1841, at the age of sixty-nine.  In politics he was a Whig and a devout member of the Episcopal Church.  His wife, nee Sallie Fitch, was a native of Pawlet, Vermont, and a lady of superior ability and culture.  She reared seven children to noble manhood and womanhood and died at the age of eighty-six.  She also was an earnest member of the Episcopal Church.
     The youngest child in order of birth was Mark R. Doolittle, whose name heads this sketch.  He was reared in his native city until sixteen years of age and attended the academy of that place.  Possessing an adventurous and ambitious disposition and much interest existing at that time in the Eastern States in regard to the new country west of them, Mark Doolittle started for Ohio in 1830, coming to Painesville his present home, where he learned the printer's trade.  He first worked at his art in Huron, Ohio, and later was employed at Sandusky on the City Advertiser.  He subsequently went to Fremont and from there, in 1843, came to Painesville, whence he removed the next year to Chagrin Falls, after which he went to Milan and from there back to Painesville in the fall of 1845.  He worked on the Telegraph from that time until 1855 and then established the Advertiser, which he successfully operated until 1860, when he sold it.  He next conducted a job office for several years and then resumed relationship with the Telegraph, purchasing an interest in that paper, with which he continued to be connected until 1867.  In 1869, he once more revived the Advertiser and after two years' successful management sold it and became business manager and associate editor of the Telegraph, in which latter capacity he acted until his appointment, in February, 1890, to the office of Postmaster.  He brings to his latter duties a varied business experience of years' duration and his customary energy and dispatch, coupled with that high integrity so characteristic of his life and to which may be attributed his unvarying success.
     September 4, 1847, Mr. Doolittle was married to Miss Alta P. Briggs, a lady of education and refinement, who is a native of Erie county, New York.  Their four children are: George B., who died aged twenty-two; Kate, afterward Mrs. Albion Gardner, now deceased; Mark R., Jr.,; and Nellie, now Mrs. Hawkins.
     In Politics, Mr. Doolittle has been an advocate of Republicanism ever since the organization of that party and has championed the cause with more than ordinary vigor.  He has been an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for more than forty years.  In religion he is an Episcopalian, and as a business man and citizen is ranked among the best in the community, justly enjoying the deepest regard of all those who knew him.

Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 314
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