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BIOGRAPHIES

COMMEMORATIVE
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF THE COUNTIES OF
HURON AND LORAIN, OHIO
CONTAINING
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens
and of Many of the Early Settled Families
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
J. H. BEERS & CO.
1894

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D. L. Wadsworth
DAVID L. WADSWORTH

 

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 704


S. S. Warner
SIDNEY SARDUS WARNER


Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 724
  CLARENCE G. WASHBURN, a rising young attorney at law of Lorain, is a native of Ohio, born Feb. 19, 1867, in Huron county, a son of Henry C. and Charlotte (Griffin) Washburn, who came to Huron county, Ohio, from the State of New York.
     Clarence G. Washburn received his literary training at the schools of Greenwich, in his native county, and on completing his studies became a traveling man, his business taking him over as many as seventeen States, besides Canada and the Indian Territory.  In 1887 he gave up traveling, and proceeding to Kansas served as deputy postmaster at Wendell, a town near Kinsley.  Returning to Ohio, he there for a year carried on a boot and shoe store, in both New London and Plymouth, for a Cleveland firm, conducting a safe and profitable business.  Mr. Washburn then studied law a year and a half, in Greenwich, Huron county, under the preceptorship of T. K. Strimple, after which he took a law course at Ann Arbor, Mich., which he completed June 30, 1892, after having commenced the practice of his chosen profession in Lorain Apr. 10, 1892.  He is also a member of the real-estate firm of Buell, Washburn & Co., in the same town.  In his political predilections he is a liberal Republican; socially he has been a member of the I. O. O. F. since twenty-one years of age.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1079
  HON. GEORGE G. WASHBURN, is a native of Orange, Grafton Co., N. H., born Nov. 24, 1821.  His father, Azel Washburn, descended from the Main branch of the Washburn family, and his mother Elizabeth Danforth, was of Scotch-Irish descent, her ancestors being among the early settlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire.
     The subject of this sketch spent his early days among the rugged New Hampshire hills, with his parents for his only teacher, until he was eleven years old, when the family removed to Ohio, and settled in Perry township (then in Geauga county) where for three years he had the benefit of good schools.  In 1835, they removed to Camden, Lorain county, then an unbroken wilderness, where he spent most of the days of his minority in the laborious work of clearing up a new farm.
     By the aid of his father, and by the light of the log-cabin fireplace, he acquired sufficient education to teach school in the winter, while his summers were spent in farm labor.  At the age of twenty-one years he abandoned the farm, and spent one year in teaching a private school in Brandenburg, Ky.  On his return he spent four years in study at Oberlin College, paying his way by labor on the college farm, and by teaching during the winter months.  From Oberlin he removed to Elyria, nine miles distant, where he read law in the office of Hon. Philemon Bliss.  He was admitted to practice in 1848, and for two years was admitted to practice in 1848, and for two years was associated with Hon. Sylvester Bagg, who subsequently removed to Iowa.
     Mr. Washburn became an early writer for the press, and on the removal of Judge Bagg to Iowa he assumed charged of the Elyria Courier, the organ of the then Whig party, which soon became recognized as an influential factor in moulding public sentiment.  He soon abandoned all other pursuits, and for forty-two years conducted that journal and its successors - the Independent Democrat and the Elyria Republican - as the sole proprietor, editor and manager.  For many years he declined all political preferment, but served during this period as member of the board of school examiners for the county, member of the Elyria council, and for six years as president of the board of education.  He was appointed by Gov. Dennison, and served during the war as secretary of the military committee for Lorain county, the duties of which often led him to visit the battle-fields of the Rebellion, and aid in caring for the wounded soldiers.  He has been connected with the Lorain Bank in Elyria, and its successor, the National Bank of Elyria, as one of its board of directors for thirty-four years.
     In 1883 he consented to become a member of the Ohio General Assembly, as the representative for Lorain county, and served four years with credit to himself and his intelligent constituency.  He then declined further political service, and resumed his journalistic duties,  but was soon afterward commissioned by the Governor as one of the board of managers of the Ohio State Reformatory, which he had been active in establishing while in the General Assembly, and which position he now holds.  In September, 1891, he sold the entire plant of the Elyria Republican, which he had conducted with marked success for so many years, and is now devoting his time chiefly to the reformatory movements of the day.  His long connection with the State and National Press Associations, and services as a legislator, have given him an extensive acquaintance with men prominent in politics and journalism in both the State and Nation.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 523

A. R. Webber
A. R. WEBBER

 

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 844


J. L. Whiton
JOSEPH L. WHITON

 

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 674


H. H. Williams
HENRY H. WILLIAMS

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 735

 

  CHARLES E. WILSON, county commissioner of Lorain county (with residence in Elyria), is a native of same, born in Avon township, Aug. 26, 1840.
     His father, William Wilson, was born in 182 in Northamptonshire, England, whence at about the age of eighteen years he came to the United States, locating in Cleveland, Ohio, for a few years.  He there married Miss Elvira Clisbee, and the young couple then (1839) moved to Avon township, Lorain county, settling on a piece of land, at that time all covered by the forest.  He died Jan. 19, 1860, aged forty-seven years, two months, nineteen days, a Democrat in politics, a Baptist in religion.  His father, also named William came from England to this country, and died in Avon township, Lorain county; he was twice married, his first wife dying in England, his second in Avon township.  Our subject's mother, who is at present living at Tabor, Iowa, aged seventy-three years, comes of New England stock.  She is the mother of six children, of whom the following is brief mention:  Charles E. is the subject this sketch; Nancy is the wife of N. S. Phelps, of Glenwood, Iowa; Louis E. is in Atchison county, Mo.; Anna is the wife of J. Graves, of Tabor, Iowa; Willis S. died when twenty-three years old; Alice is also deceased.
     Charles E. Wilson the subject proper of this sketch received his elementary education at the common schools of Avon township, which was supplemented with an attendance of one term at Oberlin College.  In 1864 he enlisted in Company H, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, which served in eastern Tennessee.  He remained in the army until the close of the war, and was in active service at the time of Lee's surrender, after which he came home, and in the fall of the same year drove a team to Iowa, where he resided one year on a farm.  Once more coming to Lorain county, he married Miss Elzina Lucas, and then settled on the old homestead which at that time he rented, but later bought.  They lived there until 1886, when he located in Elyria.  He is a stockholder in the Elyria Savings Deposit Bank Co.; has been a member of the board of directors of the Lorain County Agricultural Society; he is affiliated with the G. A. R., and is a F. & A. M.  He is a Republican in politics, and has been a member of the city council and of the board of education.  To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were born two children, viz.:  Alice who was married, June 8, 1893, to F. E. Edwards, and lives in Medina, Ohio, where her husband is a leading dry-goods merchant, and Grace, who departed from earth at the early age of sixteen years.  The family are members of the M. E. Church.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 672

John Wolf
JOHN WOLF

 

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1052


Hiram Woodworth
HIRAM WOODWORTH

 

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 684

 


 

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