LORENZO
E. BRAYMAN, M. D. - Prominent among the long established and
successful practitioners of Ashtabula County, Ohio, is Lorenzo E.
Brayman, M. D., who has been engaged in the practice of medicine
in Pierpont township for the past forty-one years, during which time
he has gained valuable experience and built up a substantial
patronage. He was born Oct. 26, 1844, in Pennsylvania, coming
from excellent New England stock, his father, Harry Brayman,
and his grandfather, Ezekiel Brayman, having been natives of
Massachusetts. Born and reared in Massachusetts, Ezekiel
Brayman spent a large part of his life among the Berkshire
hills. Hearing glowing accounts of the new country being
opened up in the West, he migrated with his family to Ohio, locating
in Ashtabula county. Taking up wild land, he reclaimed a
homestead from the forest and there spent his declining years.
He married Susan Hall, who was born in 1772, in
Massachusetts, and died in Pierpont township, Ohio, in 1854.
Their children, six in number, were as follows: Lyman,
deceased; Ezekiel, Jr., deceased; Solomon, deceased;
Harry; Susan, deceased; and Sylvania, deceased.
Harry Brayman was born Mar. 4, 1805, in
Tyringham, Massachusetts, and died on his farm in Pierpont township,
Ashtabula county, Ohio, Sept. 28, 1851. He married Mrs.
Meribah Benjamin, who was born in 1803, and was then a widow
with three children, namely: Alva Benjamin, deceased;
Sumner Benjamin, and Levi Benjamin. To Harry
Brayman and his wife six children were born, namely: Edwin,
born Feb. 7, 1833, died of smallpox, in Cambridge, Pennsylvania, in
1870; Bennett, born Aug. 21, 1839, died in 1905; Jeannette,
born Mar. 11, 1835, is the wife of Amos Curtis, of Pierpont
township; Sylvia, born Jul. 22, 1841, married Tiffany
Kellison, of Pierpont, Ashtabula county; Lorenzo E., the
special subject of this brief biographical sketch; and Fidelia,
born Feb. 24, 1846, is the widow of the late William Benjamin
who died Jan. 11, 1888. She is now postmistress at Pierpont,
Ohio.
Obtaining his elementary education in the public
schools of Cambridge, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, Lorenzo E.
Brayman began the study of medicine with Dr. Trimmer, of
Pierpont, Ohio, continuing under his tutorship three years.
Going then to Ann Arbor, Michigan, he studied there for a year, and
was subsequently graduated from the medical department of the
Western Reserve University, in Cleveland. Returning to
Pierpont, Dr. Brayman was in partnership with his former
instructor, Dr. Trimmer, for four years, after which he spent
a year at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, making a
special study of medicine and surgery. Since that time Dr.
Brayman has been in active practice in Pierpont, and has also
had offices in Jefferson and in Andover, having maintained an office
in the latter place for twenty-six years. He is widely known
throughout this section of the state, and has a very large and
remunerative patronage. The University of Pennsylvania gave Dr.
Brayman a scholarship for high standing as a student.
Dr. Brayman in much interested in the
agricultural growth and prosperity of Ashtabula county and has
invested a part of his accumulations in land, owning about twelve
hundred acres of Ashtabula county. He has a three hundred acre
farm in Pierpont township, which he devotes to dairying and fancy
stock raising. He keeps a fine grade of Holstein cattle, and
has now about forty magnificent horses, many of them being noted
roadsters. He has at times had as many as a hundred horses in
his possession. The doctor began life for himself at the age
of fourteen yeas, with no capital, and has steadily climbed the
ladder of attainments, his present prosperity being due to his own
efforts. He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of
Relief Lodge, No. 284, F. & A. M. of Pierpont; of Conneaut
Commandery, K. T.; and belongs to the Ancient Arabic Order of the
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was formerly a member of the
Ashtabula County Medical Society, but dropped from its ranks in
1909.
Dr. Brayman married, April 5, 1888, Lizzie
Fitzgerald, who was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, June
20, 1865. Their only child, John H. Brayman was born
Mar. 5, 1889, in Pierpont, Ohio. He is well educated, having
graduated from the Pierpont high school and from the Ashtabula
Business College.
Source:
History of the Western Reserve By Harriet Taylor Upton And a staff
of Leading Citizens collaborated on the Counties and Biographies -
ILLUSTRATED - VOL. III - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company -
Chicago - New York - 1910 Page 1565-66 |
JOB BRAZEE
has lived in Ashtabula county for many years and is numbered among
its agriculturists, soldiers and worthy citizens. The family
was founded in Ashtabula county by his grandfather, Francis
Brazee, who came from Connecticut prior to the year of 1838.
He married and reared the following children: Peter, Anson,
Francis and John, and all are now dead. Anson
Brazee was a minister of the Gospel. Peter became
the father of Job. He followed the tilling of the soil
for a livelihood, cleared his land, and was long one of the
representative citizens of the community. He married
Lucretia Wooden, and they became the parents of the following
children: Olive, who was born in December, 1836, and now
lives at Jefferson, in Ashtabula County, the wife of John Stone;
Job is mentioned below; George, a retired wagon maker now
living at Windham in Portage county, Ohio, married Celia Chapman;
Martha is deceased; Sally married James Rose
and lives in Pierpont; Drucilla is deceased; Peter
died of sickness at Wilmington, South Carolina, during the Civil war
service, and Vesta married Raymond Burr and lives in
Jefferson.
Job Brazee, born on the 29th of January, 1838,
attended school in Pierpont township, Ashtabula county, and on the
19th of August, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-ninth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, for service in the Civil war. After the
expiration of this term he re-enlisted and served for four years
lacking three weeks, and during that time he was held for two months
in Belle Isle prison at Detroit, Michigan. He as been a
life-long tiller of the soil of Ashtabula county, and now owns
a homestead of one hundred acres in Denmark township and is engaged
principally in dairy farming. He is a member of the Grand Army
Post and of the Republican party.
Mr. Brazee married in 1869 Unice Craft,
who was born Aug. 4, 1845, and she died on the 18th Dec., 1906,
after many yeas of a happy married life. Their union was
blessed by the birth of two children, a daughter and a son.
The former, born Jan. 22, 1871, married Hart Barber, and they
are also living in Denmark township. The son was born in 1876
and died on the 18th of January, 1902, a young man of the highest
promise and ability.
Source:
History of the Western Reserve By Harriet Taylor Upton And a staff
of Leading Citizens collaborated on the Counties and Biographies -
ILLUSTRATED - VOL. III - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company -
Chicago - New York - 1910 Page
1538 |
WILLIAM
BURGETT, Jr. - prominent among the early settlers of
Harpersfield township, Ashtabula county, was William Burgett,
Sr., who came here from New York with his family in 1819,
being then past forty years of age. his birth having occurred
in 1776. Wild animals of all kinds then roamed at will through
the dense woods, and a few Indians remained, but were for the most
part friendly. Building a log cabin, he was here employed as a
tiller of the soil until his death, in 1830. He married, in
New York, Abbie Andrews, by whom he had seven children, as
follows: William Jr., the special subject of this sketch;
Jehoiakim, born in 1801, died in 1850; John, Reuben,
Priscilla, David, and Ursula.
William Burgett, Jr., was born Aug. 22, 1813, and
at the age of six years came with his parents to Ohio. As soon
as old enough he began assisting his father in the pioneer labor of
clearing a homestead, and was subsequently engaged in general
farming on his own account, for ten or more years being an extensive
manufacturer of cheese. HE was a man of considerable
prominence, and his death, Jan. 16, 1886, was a loss to the
community.
William Burgett, Jr., married Mary Pool,
who was born in 1819, and died in Jan. 1886, very nearly at the time
that he passed away, and they were buried in the same grave, their
funeral obsequies occurring at the same time. Seven children
were born in their union, namely: Henry, born July 22, 1839;
Harrison, born in 1842, lives in Florida; Jane, born
in 1844, is a resident of Lenox, Ashtabula county; Ward, born
in 1854, died in 1890; Marietta; and Ella, born in
1862,
Henry Burgett, the oldest son, assisted by
his father both on the farm and in the cheese factory, and has
succeeded to the ownership of the old homestead in dairying and
general farming, keeping a small flock of sheep. He married,
in 1875, Alice Hitchcock, who was born 1856 their only
children, Edith,, born Apr. 12, 1876, died in Aug. 26, 1899.
Source:
History of the Western Reserve By Harriet Taylor Upton And a staff
of Leading Citizens collaborated on the Counties and Biographies -
ILLUSTRATED - VOL. III - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company -
Chicago - New York - 1910 Page 1577 |
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