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  Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake.
 Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co., 
1893

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  HON. DARIUS CADWELL. - Twenty miles from Lake Erie, on the east line of the State of Ohio, is situated the town of Andover.  It is settled by a population entirely from the Eastern States, and solely agricultural in their pursuits until recently.  Now two railroads unite at the center, and a thriving village is growing up around the station.  But rural as were the habits of this people, they have contributed largely of their number to the legal profession.  Among the present and former members of the bar, we notice the following as having been residents of that township at the time they commenced the study of that profession, viz.: Benjamin F. Wade, Edward Wade, Darius Cadwell, James Cadwell, B. E. Wade (2d) D. S. Wade, E, C. Wade, Matthew Reed, David Strickland, B. B. Pickett, J. W. Brigden, J. N. Wright, Monroe Moore, Homer Moore, C. D. Ainger, Archie P. Laughlin, Clarence S. Darrow, James W. Roberts, Charles H. Sargent, Fred J. Bishop, E. H. Green, Charles Lawyer, Jr., and James P. Cadwell; most of whom have occupied conspicuous positions in the county and State, and some of them in the councils of the nation.
     Roger Cadwell removed from Bloomfield, Harford county, Connecticut, to Andover, Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1817.  Darius , his second son, was born at Andover, Apr. 13, 1821.  His father had a very large farm, and his children were all reared to habits of industry.  Darius obtained a good education which was in part acquired at Alleghany College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania.  He commenced the study of law with the law firm of Messrs. Wade & Ranney, at Jefferson, Ohio, in February, 1842, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1844.  In the spring of 1847, he entered into partnership in the practice of law at Jefferson, with Rufus P. Ranney and Charles S. Simonds.  This partnership continued until the fall of 1871.
     Mr. Cadwell was a diligent student, had fine literary and legal attainments, was a close reasoner and a good advocate, and soon after he commenced the practice of the law he took rank with the best members of the profession, and few cases of importance were tried in the county in which he did not participate.
     On Apr. 13, 1847, our subject was married to Ann Eliza Watrous, a daughter of John B. Watrous, of Ashtabula, by whom he had one son and one daughter, now living.
     In habits of morals he was correct and exemplary.  He was very social and always had a large circle of ardent friends and admirers.  From the time he became a resident of Jefferson he discharged his full portion of the duties of minor offices, from that of village Alderman upward.  He held the office of Representative in the State Legislature during the years 1856 and 1857, and during the years 1858 and 1859 he represented his district, composed of Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga counties, in the senate of Ohio.  Upon the organization of the provost-marshal general’s department in 1863, he was ap- pointed Provost Marshal for the nineteenth district of Ohio, which office he held until the close of the war, with his headquarters at Warren, Ohio, until September 1865, when his headquarters were transferred to Cleveland, where he was placed in charge and closed out the business in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth districts, and was himself mustered out of service Dec. 20, 1865.  In the fall of 1871, he opened a law office in Cleveland, and immediately secured a large practice in the courts of Cuyahoga county.  At the October election in 1873, he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Cuyahoga county for the term of five years, and is now discharging the duties of that office, in which he has acquired an enviable reputation.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 834
  JUDGE JAMES P. CADWELL - Conspicuous among the eminent jurists of Jefferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio, stands the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, and who has received, within the last ten years, some of the highest official positions in the gift of the people, the duties of which have been dispatched with ability and honor.
     Judge Cadwell of the Probate Court of Ashtabula county, a progressive citizen and worthy man, was born in this county, October 26, 1853, son of Rodger S. and Elizabeth Jane (Putnam) Cadwell, the former born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1811, and the latter a native of Columbiana county, Ohio.  The mother was a daughter of Isaac Putnam, a native of Vermont, who came to Ohio in 1825, and settled near Wellsville, Columbiana county.  Isaac Putnam married Mary Ann Birney of Virginia, who was a cousin of John C. Calhoun, the celebrated statesman of South Carolina.  Rodger Cadwell had three children: James P., the subject of this sketch; and two daughters.  The worthy father died in Ashtabula county, aged seventy-six years, greatly lamented by all who knew him.  The paternal grandfather of Judge James P. Cadwell, also named Rodger, was born near Hartford, Connecticut, whence he removed with a colony to Ohio in 1817.  He settled in Andover, Ashtabula county, of which he was a pioneer settler.  Here he engaged in farming, in which occupation he passed his life.  Toward the close of his career, he went to Richmond, in the same county, where he died at the advanced age of ninety years.  He had three sons: Rodger, father of the subject of this notice; Darius, afterward a Judge in Cleveland, and the only one now living; and James, who after a successful career in law died at the age of forty years.
     Judge James P. Cadwell, of this biography was reared in his native county, attending the common and high schools of the vicinity.  He commenced the study of law in that city in the office of Messrs. Simons & Wade, in 1877, but later was appointed Deputy County Clerk, in which capacity he served for three years.  He was admitted to the bar in 1881, and began his practice in Jefferson in the following year.  Possessed of a keen, analytical mind, great perseverance and energy, he mounted gradually in his profession until he became Prosecuting Attorney for Ashtabula county, to which position he was re-elected three years later.  In 1890, he became Judge of the Probate Court, receiving the nomination from the Republican party by acclamation, and had no opponent.  He is now tilling the term for which he was elected.
     Judge Cadwell was married in 1885, to Miss Ida M., daughter of J. H. Baldwin, of Jefferson, Ohio, and they have two daughters; Donathy and Susan.
     Fraternally, the Judge is a Knight Templar Mason and a Knight of Pythias.  as a citizen and man he is deserving of the high regard in which he is held by his fellow men.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 146
  JOHN ANSON CALDWELL, one of the prominent business men and worthy citizens of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1838.
     The Caldwells trace their ancestry to Tyrone and Donegal counties, Ireland, and are of Scotch-Irish extraction. They were Protestants; were people of wealth, belonging to the landed nobility, and had a coat of arms.
     John A. Caldwell's parents, Robert and Maria (Lowry) Caldwell, were both natives of Pennsylvania. Robert Caldwell was born December 14, 1798, and died in Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1842. He was a farmer by occupation, was keenly alive to the best interests of the farm, and was well known as an honest, industrious and worthy citizen. From boyhood he was a devout member of the United Presbyterian Church. He had decided views on political matters, and was an ardent Whig. His wife, Maria, was born July 17, 1801, and died November 15, 1838. She, too, was a worthy member of the United Presbyterian Church, and was a woman of many estimable qualities, loved by all who knew her. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell were married February 1, 1821, and had a family of children as follows: Nancy, wife of Lewis Speer, was born January 16, 1822, and died in 1858; Mary, born March 3, 1824, became the wife of Richard Bran, his death occurring February 11, 1892, and hers February 19, 1892; Elizabeth L., born March 22, 1827, married William Catlin, her death occurring in 1891, and his in January, 1893; Emeline, wife of Elisha Stone, resides in Batavia, Illinois; Almira, wife of R. S. Whitney, is a resident of Westfield, Wisconsin; and John and Anson, the youngest of the family. By a second marriage Robert Caldwell had one child, Alfred Augustus, born May 7, 1841 This son, Alfred Augustus, enlisted in the Union army in 1861. He was taken prisoner on the battlefield and was sent to the Andersonville prison pen, where, after months of suffering from exposure and starvation death came to his relief. He sleeps his last sleep in the National Cemetery at Andersonville.
     The subject of our sketch was deprived of a mother's loving care in infancy, and, his father having died a few years later, he remembers little of him. He lived at the old farm home until he was fifteen years of age. Then he worked two years at the tinner's trade, and after that went to school two years. In 1859, at the age of twenty, being of a restless disposition and having a desire for travel, he set out for California, via the Isthmus route, taking passage on the celebrated Star of the "West. It will be remembered that this same vessel, while on the way to Fort Sumter with provisions and ammunition for General Robert Anderson in 1861, was fired upon by the rebels.
     Mr. Caldwell spent two years in California in mining operations, and several years more in mining and prospecting through the territories of Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Montana. He returned east as far as Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1866, and the following year made a visit to the home of his childhood. In 1868 he went to Omaha, Nebraska, and for several years worked at his trade there. January 6, 1872, be removed to Conneaut, Ohio, and engaged in the grocery business, under the firm name of Bosworth & Caldwell. Two years later the firm became Poole & Caldwell, and since 1882, having bought out his partner's interest at that time, he has continued the business under the name of J. A. Caldwell. He carries a full line of groceries, provisions, crockery, queens-ware, notions, etc., and has a large trade, numbering among his customers the best people of the city and surrounding country.
     Mr. Caldwell was married in Couucil Bluffs, Iowa, April 29, 1869, to a daughter of Calvin and Harriet Poole. It was his father-in-law with whom he was engaged in business, under the name of Poole & Caldwell. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell have two children, viz.: Jessie A., wife of C. B. Stoke, of Conneaut; and Harriet Almira, a pupil in the Conneaut public school. Mrs. Caldwell is a member of the Episcopal Church.
     In social as well as business circles Mr. Caldwell ranks with the leading citizens of Conneaut. He is a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Cache Commandery, in all of which bodies he holds the office of Treasurer. He is also Treasurer of the, Knights of Honor, National Union and the Elks of Conneaut. He is a charter member of the Knight of Pythias Lodge, at Conneaut; was the first Past Grand Chancellor of said lodge, and has also served five years as District Deputy of the same—Maple Lodge, No. 217. He is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. Aside from his activity in secret organizations, he has always shown a public spirit worthy of commendation and has been deeply interested in the public enterprises of the city. He holds decided views on political matters of county, State and Nation, and affiliates with the Democratic party.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 167
 SHARON WICK's NOTE:  The Caldwells were buried in City Cemetery, Conneaut, Ohio
  ADAM and FRANK CALLANDER, father and son, proprietor and manager, respectively, of the extensive Callander estates, situated in Morgan, Orwell and Rome, and who have been for many years among the most extensive raisers, buyers and shippers of stock in the United States, are the subjects of this sketch.
     Adam Callander is a native of bonny Scotland, the home of Bruce and Burns, and inherits many of the sterling qualities of that hardy race.  In 1850, he crossed the ocean in the employ of his uncle, George F. Callander, of Painesville, Ohio, with whom young Adam remained six months, after which he removed to Chardon, where he was variously engaged for a year.  He then went to the northeastern part of Orwell township, where he purchased a farm of 187 acres, which he still owns and upon which he then moved and made it his home for six months.  At the end of that time, doubtless becoming homesick from the contrast between the old and new world, he returned once more to his native land, which he visited for six months, renewing acquaintance with former happy scenes and reviving old friendships.  At the end of that time, in 1853, he once more turned his face westward, returning to Rome township, accompanied by his parents, John and Willie (McLoud) Callander, his brother, John, and two sisters, Jessie and Mary.  On Mr. Adam Callander's return he purchased the fine farm of seventy acres, situated a mile from New Lyme, on which he now resides.  He erected on this a magnificent new residence, beautifying and improving the grounds, and making other valuable and modern improvements, until he now has one of the handsomest places in Ashtabula county.
     He then began those stock speculations which have since become so extensive as to give him the reputation of being one of the heaviest dealers in the country.  Before the completion of the Ashtabula, Youngstown and Pittsburg Railroad, Mr. Callander drove his stock to Waterford, Pennsylvania, for shipment, driving to this point every week large herds of cattle, sheep and other stock.
     Since the completion of that road, however, Mr. Callander has made New Lyme his principal shipping point and greatly increased his business.  During the year following the finishing of that road, he shipped from that point, horses, cattle, veal calves, sheep and hogs, amounting in value to more than $300,000.
     He finally turned over this immense business to his son, Frank Callander, and began buying sheep and lambs at the Pittsburg market for shipment to Eastern cities.  Here he was recognized as one of the most extensive shippers in the country, his shipments from that point exceeding in value $400,000 a year.  During one month, he shipped thirty-eight carloads, the proceeds of which was nearly $50,000.  While in Pittsburg, he also established a wholesale meat market in Youngstown, to supply the retail markets of the former city; and about twenty head of cattle, fifty head of sheep, together with large quantities of hogs and other stock, were sold in Youngstown every week.
     Since leaving Pittsburg in 1887, Mr. Adam Callander has devoted himself to rearing, buying and shipping fine carriage and coach horses for the best eastern markets.  He handles nothing but the best horses and realizes the best market prices.  He raises on his home farm every year, four or five excellent carriage and coach horses, for which he receives the average price of $450 a head, his annual sales of horses alone averaging about $10,000.  Few men have been more uniformly successful than Mr. Adam Callander, the secret of which may be found in excellent financial ability, untiring energy and strict integrity, the power to conceive great enterprises and the will to execute them.
     Mrs. Adam Callander was before marriage Miss Nettie Hopkins, a native of Chardon, Ohio.  Her father, James Hopkins, a widely and favorably known pioneer of the Western Reserve, died in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1840, greatly regretted by all who knew him.  Mrs. Callander is devoted to her early home and is an exemplary wife and mother, her taste and refinement being manifest in both the interior and exterior of her beautiful home.
     Frank Callander, as well known in commercial circles as his father, was born in Orwell township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, June 7, 1864, where he was reared and educated and has ever since resided.  He early took part in his father’s business, evincing an aptitude and ability which would have been commendable in an older person.  He now superintends the entire Callander estate of more than 700 acres, situated in Morgan, Rome and Orwell townships.  He also does a heavy business in stock shipments, being one of the largest dealers in veal calves in the market.  He has, during some seasons, about thirty buyers in various parts of the country, and in ten weeks has shipped from New Lyme, Austinburg and Espyville, about 4,500 calves, at the same time doing a large business in other stock.  He evinces the same indefatigable energy, which is such a marked characteristic of his father, and inherits much of that financial insight and executive ability which have contributed to his father’s phenomenal prosperity.
     Sept. 3, 1890, Mr. Frank Callander was married to Miss Minta A. Laird, a lady of culture and refinement, daughter of J. H. Laird, a prominent citizen of Mesopotamia, Ohio.  Mr. Frank Callander and wife have an attractive home a few rods north of the residence of his parents, where, surrounded by all the comforts and luxuries of life, they are prepared to enjoy life to its fullest extent.
     Politically, both father and son are supporters of Republicanism, but their personal affairs necessarily absorb most of their attention, although deeply interested in the public welfare.  They have done much to develop the resources and add to the prosperity of their community, and are justly regarded with the highest esteem by their fellow-citizens.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 905
  FRANK CALLANDER - See Above Biography

Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 905
  WILLIAM CALLOW, who is now living retired at North Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, is a naive of the Isle of Man, born Oct. 20, 1828, son of William and Margaret (Stephen) Callow, born natives of that island.
     The senior William Callow was a tailor by trade, which occupation he followed in the old country for some years.  Afterward he was engaged in fishing and coasting, going to Russia, Scotland, Ireland and England for salt, coal, etc.  In 1828, he came to this country, being seven weeks in crossing the ocean in a sailing vessel, and in April of that year he located at Fairport, Ohio, being followed three years later by this wife and three children.  His first employment here was in a furnace, working in coal and iron ore, and he continued to be thus occupied until about 1835.  Then he bought a farm near the Little Mountain in Geauga county, where he gave his attention to agricultural pursuits until 1870.  That year his second wife, nee Mary Corlet, died, after which he came to live with his son William, at whose home, two years later, he died Sept. 7, 1872, aged seventy-seven years.  He was a member of the Established Church of England.  His first wife, our subject's mother, died in 1831, at the age of thirty.  She, too, was a member of the Church of England.  She had three children, of whom William, is the youngest, the others being Thomas, a resident of the Isle of Man, now seventy years of age, and James, who died in Painesville, Ohio, at the age of twenty-nine.
     William Callow lived on a farm until he was twenty.  Then he worked at the edge-tool business, following that ten years, after which for nineteen years and two months he was in the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, repairing their railroad irons, etc.  Since that date, July, 1876, he has been interested in farming, now having 202 acres, all except ten acres being well improved, his principal crops being hay, wheat, oats, corn and potatoes.  His farm, with its substantial buildings, good fences, well cultivated fields and broad pastures, is one of the best and most desirable ones in the township.
     Mr. Callow was married Jan. 19, 1853, to Miss Electa Williams, daughter of Isaac and Nancy (Leavett) Williams.  His parents, natives of Connecticut, came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, in their youth and were married at Kingsville in 1819, he being twenty-three and she eighteen.  Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The father died in June, 1859, aged sixty-two; the mother, Feb. 18, 1883, aged eighty-two.  Following is a record of their family of ten children: Rebecca, widow of a Mr. Jones, died Jan. 20, 1890, at the age of seventy; Adolphus, a resident of Kingsville; Erastus, Ashtabula Harbor; Mrs. Callow; Adelia, wife of Andrew Owen, North Ridge, Perry township, Ashtabula county; Marinda, the wife of Thomas H. Brooks, Mentor, Ohio; Isaac, living on a farm near Mentor; Hazen, who died at the age of twenty-one; and Elisha, a resident of Mentor.
     Mr. and Mrs. Callow have five children, namely: Ella, wife of Joseph Howell, Ashtabula Harbor, has four children, Bertha, Carrie, Pearley and Harry, and two, Ethel and Jay, deceased; James E., who married Minnie Louzelle, resides on a farm in Kingsville township, this county, their six children being Eilein, Lucy, William, Lillian, Bernice and Thomas; Frank W., who married Dollie Fowler, resides in Cleveland, their two children being Alice and Annie Belle; Carrie, wife of William Fitch Ashtabula; Fred B., who married Miss Sarah Woodworth, has a family of three children, Grace, Helen and Jennie V. 
     Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.  Mr. Callow belongs to the Sons of Temperance and also the Good Templars.  In politics he is an ardent Prohibitionist.
     In connection with the history of Mrs. Callow it should be stated that her grandparents, James and Miriam (Leavitt) Leavitt, were natives of New Hampshire and came from that State to Ohio the year after Buffalo was burned.  They were of English ancestry.  Of their family of seven children only one is now living, Hazen, a resident of Michigan.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 561
  ROBERT W. CALVIN, a representative attorney and highly respected citizen of Ashtabula, Ohio, was born in Crawford  county, Pennsylvania, Nov. 30, 1840.  His parents, Matthew and Rebecca (Kelley) Calvin, were born and reared in the Keystone State, where they passed their entire lives.  Matthew was a son of John Calvin, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, of French lineage, and his wife was of Scotch origin.  Rebecca Kelley, mother of the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of John Kelley, of Irish descent.  Matthew Calvin was a successful farmer of Pennsylvania, and highly esteemed as a man of industry and integrity.  This worthy couple had ten children, all of whom were reared to habits of frugality and self-reliance, calculated to make them noble men and women.
     The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and attained a fair academical education in Meadville, Pennsylvania.  He boarded with a brother who was a shoemaker by trade, and paid for his board by working in his brother’s shop, thus learning the shoemaker’s trade.  When he was nineteen years of age his father died, and he was thrown upon his own resources, beginning to teach school in his seventeenth year, after which he taught for about seven winters, attending school in the spring and summer.  In 1873 Mr. Calvin began to manufacture and deal in boots and shoes at Jamestown, Pennsylvania, which business he continued two years, when, in 1875, he discontinued this occupation and commenced the study of law in that city.  In 1876 he removed with his family to Ashtabula, Ohio, where he began making and repairing shoes, in which occupation he was engaged until 1878, in the meantime studying law under Judge L. S. Sherman, of that city.  In March, 1878, he was admitted to the bar, whereupon he, at once and without a partner, commenced the practice of his profession, in which he has been creditably successful. His reputation for uprightness and trustworthiness has gained for him the confidence of all who know him, while his uniform courtesy, the expression of a kindly disposition, has served to strengthen this favorable impression.
     In 1860 Mr. Calvin was married to Miss Euphemia M. Hogue, an estimable lady of Mercer county, Pennsylvania.  They have two daughters: Rose, now Mrs. Walter W. Ennis, and Carrie A.  In October, 1892, this little household were called upon to mourn the loss of the devoted wife and mother, whose every thought had been to subserve their welfare.
     In politics Mr. Calvin is Republican, but aside from supporting the candidates and issues of his party, has taken no active part in politics.  He is an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church, with which he has been connected for many years.  He is a progressive, public-spirited citizen, and takes a deep interest in the material and moral advancement of Ashtabula, to both of which he has contributed.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 344
  REV. PRENTICE A. CANADA, or Canaday as the older generation spelled the name, was born near the village of Losantville, Randolph county, Indiana, Dec. 18, 1859.  His father, Jonathan Canada, in 1830, at the age of eight years, emigrated from Randolph county, North Carolina, with his father, Walter Canada, settling in the then young but now staid old Quaker settlement near Economy, Wayne county, Indiana.  There they lived, Jonathan having few opportunities for anything save toil until young manhood, when he located in Randolph county.  He immediately began to pay for what is now known as the Canada homestead, where he lived and reared a large family, and died in 1890, at the age of sixty-eight years, after a brief sickness.  Brought up a Quaker and a Whig, he early became a member of the Christian Church, and was one of the first members of the Republican party.  He married Susanna Moore in 1843.  Her people were Virginians, but on account of their dislike for slavery emigrated some time in the '20s to southern Ohio, and shortly afterward to Randolph county, Indiana, where she died in February, 1886, at the age of sixty-two years.
     Prentice A., our subject, was the tenth in a family of twelve children, and the youngest of five sons, all of whom attained maturity, and all of whom are now living but one.  Mr. Canada was reared to farm life, and was taught to love work, and to respect only people who were honest and industrious.  The meager opportunities for schooling during the winter season were improved, and at the age of fifteen years the common branches had been mastered.  Two terms in the Winchester high school and the help of an older brother, William Walter, enabled him to enter Union Christian College, at Merom, Indiana, in the autumn of 1877.  By sawing wood, acting as janitor, teaching classes in the preparatory school, teaching two terms of district school, and by hard manual toil during vacations, Mr. Canada earned sufficient money to pay all bills, and graduated with class honors in 1883.  The following year was spent in charge of the graded school at Greentown, Howard county, Indiana, and the next year in Oberlin Theological Seminary, and in preaching at the East Norwalk Mission Church, in Ohio.  In the autumn of 1885, Mr. Canada removed to Columbus Grove, Putnam county, Ohio, where he was ordained to the work of the ministry in January, 1886.  In that year also he located at Hagerstown, Wayne county, Indiana, near his old home, having charge of the Christian Churches at that place and Hanna's Creek, Union county.  In 1888 he was called to the more important pastorate of the Christian Church at Versailles, Ohio, where he remained nearly three years, and from that place was called to his present field.  April 1, 1891, he entered his third year of work in this church with every evidence of prosperity.
     Feb. 28, 1888, Rev. Canada was united in marriage to Miss Addie R. Spencer, who was born at Oxford, Ohio, Sept. 28, 1861, a daughter of Frank and Catherine, (McArthur) Spencer, natives also of that place.  Mrs. Spencer's father, Rev. John McArthur, D. D., and the venerable Dr. Scott, father of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, were intimately associated in ministerial and educational work.  Mr. and Mrs. Spencer now reside at Chillicothe, Ohio.  Mrs. Canada received her education mainly in the high schools of Connersville and Liberty, Indiana, graduating at the latter place at the age of seventeen years.  She also attended the State Normal, at Terre Haute, and was a successful teacher.  Rev. and Mrs. Canada have three daughters:  Susannah S., born Mar. 18, 1889; Dec. 30, 1890 both at Versailles, Ohio; and Marguerite, born Nov. 12, 1892, at Conneaut.  Our subject also represents his denomination as one of the executive officers of the Ohio Christian Endeavor Union, is Superintendent of Christian Endeavor Work in the State of the Christian denomination, and has been appointed by the Church Missionary and Extension Board to oversee the missionary efforts of the Endeavor Societies of his church in the West.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 590
  PROF. C. E. CAREY, Superintendent of Schools, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Dutchess county, New York, Nov. 20, 1860, son of John and Julia (Williams) Schoonover, both natives of New York.
     John Schoonover, leaving his wife and four children, enlisted in the army at Stanford, New York, Aug. 28, 1862, for three years, and was mustered into Company C, One Hundred and Fiftieth New York Volunteer Infantry, as a private, Oct. 11, 1862.  During his absence in the war, in the early part of 1864, his wife died, leaving her little ones to the care of friends and relatives.  About three months after his death, news of the father's death reached them.  He died at Louisville, Kentucky, June 28, 1864, aged forty years.  He was a man of sterling qualities, was in the prime of a vigorous manhood, and freely gave his life for his country.  Of his army experience little is known.  Three of the Schoonover children were reared and educated by three of their mother's sisters, each taking the name of the aunt who reared him, and all growing up to occupy honorable positions in life.  Of them we make the following record:
     William, the oldest, retained the name of Schoonover.  He married and settled in life, and his untimely death occurred at the age of twenty-six years.
     Richard S. Thomas, the second-born, has been a teacher ever since he was fifteen years old.  For two years he was superintendent of the Jefferson, Ohio, schools, and is now superintendent of the schools, and is now superintendent of the schools at Warren, Ohio.  He married Miss Stella Saxton, of Madison, this State.
     Calvin T. Northrop, the third of the family is also a teacher.  He has been engaged in this profession for the past thirteen years in the schools of Ohio, and is now superintendent of the Garrettsville schools.
     C. E. Crary is the youngest.  He and his brothers are all prominently identified with the leading educators of the State, and wherever known their scholarly attainments and ability as instructors and organizers have been recognized.
     The subject of this sketch received his education at Cazenovia and Syracuse, New York.  He first began teaching in the country schools, and taught there several terms.  Then he was two years at Masonville, New York, and in 1885 located in Conneaut, where he has since been superintendent of schools, having rendered a high degree of satisfaction here.  He is a member of the County Examining Board and also of the Board of Health.  Professor Carey's being selected for these important positions and his long continuance here are ample proof of his qualifications.
     He was married Feb. 25, 1885, to Miss Elsie M. Smith, daughter of Frederick W. and Electa M. (Wells) Smith  His parents are natives of New York, and her father is a farmer in that State.  Of their family we make record as follows:  Mrs. Carey is the oldest; Olivia died in 1872, aged eighteen years; Hosea died at the age of six months; Fred W., a New York farmer, married Mattie Vail and has one child; Jennie B., wife of John Hochtitzky, has three children; Addie died at the age of two years; Delia died in childhood; Jessie, wife of Fred Ostrander; and Frank A., at home.  Mrs. Cary's grandfather was Hosea Smith.
     The Professor and his wife have one child, Charles Schronover Carey.  They are members of the Congregational Church, and he is also identified with the Masonic fraternity, being W. M. of the blue lodge.  Politically he is a Republican.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 862
  HENRY C. CAREY. proprietor and manager of the New Lyme Station (Ohio) lumber and heading mill, was bornin Kinsman, this State, July 8, 1841.  His parents, Fabius and Betsy (Splitstone) Carey were natives of Lynn, Connecticut and Maryland, respectively.  His father came to Ohio in an early day, and, in 1811, purchased land near Kinsman, on which he resided until his death, June 9, 1876.  The mother subsequently made her home with the subject of this sketch, at whose house she died in April, 1889.  They were the parents of two children: Henry C., whose name heads this sketch, being the elder, and William, born July 24, 1845, who went West at the time of the building of the Pacific Railroad, and was never afterward heard from, and is supposed to have been killed by the Indians.
     Being early thrown on his own resources, Mr. Carey learned the shoemaker’s trade in his native city, where his early life was spent.  This vocation not being to his taste, however, he at an early age turned his attention to milling, which occupation he followed uninterruptedly until the beginning of the war.  He was among the first at that time to respond to his country’s call, and volunteered his services, enlisting in Company C, Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on Aug. 26, 1861.  This regiment experienced much severe service, and Mr. Carey participated in nearly all the battles of the campaign.  He was in the battles of Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg; and other notable engagements, his conduct being noticeable for bravery, faithfulness and efficiency, and eliciting the commendation of his officers and comrades.
     On the close of the conflict, Mr. Carey returned to Ohio, first spending two years in Mecca, as master mechanic for the New England Oil Company.  From 1866 to 1869, he assisted his father in Kinsman, and from that date until 1871, he was in the employ of O. W. Brown, a prominent mill man of South New Lyme.  He spent the following five years in Wayne, where he assisted in building the Phillips mill, and afterward helped in its operation.  In 1876 he removed to New Lyme Station, his present home, where he has ever since resided.
     The extensive milling- business which he now carries on, was for ten years the property of Harvey Hill, a former resident of New Lyme township, for whom Mr. Carey worked as superintendent at this time.  The property was then purchased by J. T. Connack, of Cleveland, by whom Mr. Carey was continued as superintendent, until he himself bought the property in 1888, since which time he has conducted the enterprise.  The mill has been greatly enlarged since its establishment and its business is considerably augmented.  The work of the mill was first restricted to planing and custom sawing, which has since been supplemented by the manufacture of handles and heading and the grinding of feed.  The capacity of the heading department alone is 10,000 a day.  In addition to his extensive custom work, Mr. Carey purchases annually about 400,000 feet of native timber and ships large quantities of hemlock, poplar and pine.  The grinding department was established about a year ago, for Mr. Carey’s own convenience, as he maintains several teams and consumes annually a large amount of feed.  He also does considerable custom work for his neighbors in this line.  The weekly expense of his mill frequently reaches as high as $425.
     Besides his large milling interests, Mr. Carey is also an extensive dealer in lath, shingles, coal, phosphate and agricultural implements.  He sells annually about 600 tons of hard and soft coal, eighty tons of Milson phosphate, ten to fifteen binders and mowers, 600,000 shingles and 100,000 lath.  He is an indefatigable worker, and the secret of his success is that he gives all departments of his large business his own personal supervision, realizing that eternal vigilance is the price of prosperity.
     Jan. 27, 1864, Mr. Carey was married to Haney C. Laughlin, a lady of intelligence and refinement.  Her father, Alexander Laughlin, was a well known and respected resident of Mecca, Ohio, in which place he died in 1874.  Mr. and Mrs. Carey have had three children: Allie, born Jan. 25, 1866, is the wife of G. H. Fuller, a hardware merchant of Brooklyn, Ohio; Lillie, born Sept. 26, 1868, died when eight years of age; and Edward H., born June 6, 1885.
     Politically, Mr. Carey is a Republican.  He is a Mason and a member of Symbol Lodge of New Lyme.  He is a business man of intelligence and integrity, and one of New Lyme Station’s most progressive and public-spirited citizens.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 729
 

CAPTAIN THOMAS J. CARLIN, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public, Conneaut, Ohio, dates his birth at Chautauqua, New York, Jan. 12, 1816.
     His parents, James and Mary (Smith) Carlin, were born, reared and married in Ireland, and in 1814 came to the United States and settled in Westfield, New York.  James Carlin was a brick mason, which occupation he followed all his life.  He was an honest and straightforward business man and in him were the truest and purest types of religion united.  He died in September, 1826, about the age of fifty years.  Both he and his wife were Presbyterians.  Later in life, however, Mrs. Carlin united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she died a consistent member, at the age of seventy-seven years, her death occurring about 1874.  During the latter part of her life she made her home with the subject of this sketch, and her last resting place is at Conneaut.  This worthy couple were the parents of three daughters and four sons, only two of whom, Captain James Carlin and the subject of this article, are living.
     Thomas J. received his education in the public schools and the Westfield Academy.  His first business was that of making brick at Westfield.  He also followed the same occupation at Conneaut in an early day, having made this place his home since 1838.
     Early in 1861, although forty-six years of age and not in reach of the draft, being too old, he enlisted in the service of his country; raised and took into the service the Second Ohio Four-gun Battery, General Fremont subsequently adding two twelve-pound howitzers to their force.  Mr. Carlin was made Captain of the battery and served as such until his health failed in 1862, when he resigned.  He served in western Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi.  He was then appointed assistant enrolling officer, under Governor Tod, for the Nineteenth Congressional District, and served in that capacity until the close of the war.  The battery was in the first battle of Pea Ridge, later at Black River bridge, at Raymond, Mississippi, and also at Vicksburg.  On one occasion the Captain, with twenty-non-commissioned officers, was detailed to capture a ton of reel powder near Warsaw, Missouri.  He accomplished the task, delivering the ammunition over to the United States Arsenal in October, 1861.  While out on this raid his horse shied at a large rock which was on a dug-out road, thereby causing Captain Carlin to strain his back.  An hour later he was compelled to dismount, and from the effects of this strain he has been troubled ever since.  At the time he enlisted in the army two of his sons, Orson A. and James M. also entered the service, leaving the mother and two daughters alone.
     Captain Carlin had been a Postmaster at Conneaut for eight years previous to his enlistment, and at the close of the war he was elected Justice of the Peace, holding the office by re-election up to the present time.
     He served as Mayor of Conneaut three terms, not in succession, however.  In the educational affairs of the town he has been an important factor.  He served continuously for twenty-one years on the Board of Education, his associates retaining him even while in the war.  With fraternal organizations he has also taken an active part.  He organized the first lodge of Good Templars in Conneaut and was its first Worthy Chief, which office he held for two years.  He has taken a prominent part in all temperance work of the town ever since and has ever been an ardent Prohibitionist.  He is the oldest member of Evergreen Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of which he served four years as Worshipful Master.  At the breaking out of the war he was Senior Grand Deacon of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, and was in a fair way for promotion at that time.  He took part in the unveiling of the Perry monument at Cleveland Ohio.  He signed for a carter for a lodge of I. O. O. F. nearly fifty years ago; remained with the organization, was its Noble Grand for several terms, and had a working place in it until it surrendered its charter.  His name is the first on a petition for a charter for Custer Post, No. 9, G.A.R., and it is he who had the honor of naming the post in Conneaut.  He is a United States pensioner.
     Captain Carlin was married Nov. 22, 1838, at Conneaut, Ohio, to Miss Mary Ann Dibble, daughter of Ezra Dibble, a soldier in the war of 1812, the marriage ceremony being performed by S. F. Taylor, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Huron county.  After fifty years of happy married life they made arrangements to celebrate their golden wedding, but Mrs. Carlin's health would not permit them to carry out their plans.  She died June 22, 1889, aged seventy-two years.  From her girlhood she was a member of the Conneaut Congregational Church.  Her life as far as health would permit, was one of activity.  It was an inspiration to gentleness, patience, faith and courage:  these virtues in her were luminous, and never more so than in her last protracted illness.  She was a woman of rare intelligence and Christian character, and all who knew her cherished her memory with grateful affection.
     The Captain and his wife had four children, of whom we make the following record:  Orison A., who married Miss Allie Loomis, is agent for the Adams Express Company at Greenville, Pennsylvania; Ellen J., wife of J. C. Kuchler, agent for the Erie & Pittsburg Railroad Company at Greenville, Pennsylvania, died Jan. 17, 1893 in the fifty-third year of her age.  She was a member of the Presbyterian Church for many years, and was the mother of an only child, Miss Carlin.  James M., who married Miss Doty Crane, died in September, 1889, aged forty-two; and Artimisia Blanche is the wife of G. W. Bigelow, of Conneaut.  Mr. & Mrs. Bigelow have four children, as follows:  Mamie C., who has been a successful teacher in the Conneaut public schools since her graduation in 1889;  Brownell, a graduate of the Conneaut high school with the class of 1893; Helen K.; and Orsie Carlin.
     Captain Carlin is the oldest member of the Conneaut Congregational Church, having been a member for more than forty years.  During his official career he has had an enviable reputation as a brave and efficient public officer.  In church, with eye bedimmed and enfeebled voice, he still remains a working member as in former years.  On all questions of moral reform he has always been, and still is, at the front, laboring for the true and good.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 621

For reference: See
1860 Census, Conneaut, Ashtabula Co., Oh
Thomas J. Carlin, ae. 34; Mary Ann Carlin, wife, ae. 33; Helen J., dau., ae 10; Orson A., son, ae 8; James M., son, ae 6; Blanche, dau, ae 1. (Thomas b. Ireland, all others born Ohio.
 See 1860 Census, Borough of Conneaut, Ashtabula Co., Oh
Thomas J. Carlin, ae 44; Mary A. Carlin, ae 43; Helen J. Carlin, ae 20; Orran A. Carlin, ae 18; James M. Carlin, ae 16; A. Blanche Carlin, ae. 11
Also See 1870 Census, Borough of Conneaut, Ashtabula Co., Oh
Dwelling 58 Family 60 Thomas J. Carlin, ae. 54; Mary A., ae. 54; George Bigelow, ae 24, sailor; Blanche A. Bigelow, ae 22.
Dwelling 59 Family 61 James M. Carlin, ae 37; Josephine A. Carlin, ae 33.
Also See 1880 Census Conneaut Village, Ashtabula Co., Oh
T. J. Carlin, ae 62; Mary A., ae 59.
Also See 1900 Census Conneaut Township
413 Harbor Street
Dwelling 294  Family 329
T. J. Carlin, ae 84; Emeline Carlin, Wife, ae 77; Bertha Meinke, Servant, ae 23
  DWIGHT R. CARPENTER, a well known and prosperous farmer near Andover, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in this county, May 17, 1825.  His grandfather, Benjamin Carpenter, was married, in the East to Olive Wright, and they joined the western tide of emigration to Ohio in 1813, settling in the woods and living for many years in a rude log cabin.  His son, Jahaziel Carpenter, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Chester township,  Hampshire county, Massachusetts, Mar. 23, 1793, and accompanied his parents to Ohio in an early day.  He was married in 1817 to Demaris Houghton, a native of Keene, New Hampshire.  Her father was Rufus Houghton and her mother was a member of the Richardson family, prominent in the New England States, who removed to Harpersfield, Ohio, in 1811.  The mother died in 1816 and is buried in the cemetery at West Andover.  Mr. and Mrs. Jahaziel Carpenter had eight children, three of whom died in infancy.  Of the five who attained maturity, four still survive:  Louisa, who resides in Oberlin, Ohio; Dwight R., whose name heads this notice; Sarah, widow of Sylvester Searle, residing in Edgar, Nebraska; and Jahaziel of West Andover.  After marriage, the father of the subject of this sketch settled upon a good farm of 110 acres, which he industriously cultivated, and derived therefrom a comfortable income during the rest of his life.  The family were first called upon to mourn the death of the beloved wife and mother, who expired at the age of seventy-seven years, greatly lamented by all who knew her.  July 29, 1887, the father died from the effect of injuries inflicted by a runaway team.  He was in his ninety-fourth year.  He was a progressive and public-spirited man.  Originally a Whig in politics, he afterward became a Republican with strong Abolitionist tendencies, and was a member of an underground railroad.  He joined the Congregational Church Oct. 18, 1817, and was ever afterward a faithful adherent to this cause, eventually serving as Deacon, in which capacity his father before him had acted and which position the subject of this sketch is now filling.
     Mr. Carpenter of this notice was reared on the home farm and received his education in the adjacent district schools.  He remained at home until twenty-five years of age, when he settled on fifty-five acres of land, to which he he has since added until he now owns 198 acres of the best realty in the county.  On this he now has a comfortable residence and good barns, the lawn in front of this place being surrounded by a beautiful arbor-vitae hedge and the yard dotted with flowering shrubs and ornamental shade trees - the whole offering an inviting retreat on a summer's day.  He has an orchard of four acres, keeps eighteen cows, a number of fine horses, some sheep and other stock, all exhibiting evidences of a high degree of care and leading to the general air of thrift which surrounds the place.
     At the age of twenty-five, Mr. Carpenter was married to Charlotte Creesy, a lady of domestic tastes, who was born, reared and educated in Andover township, daughter of Trask and P. (Loomis) Creesy, early settlers of the county.  They had two children: Amelia, now the wife of Lamore Seeley, of Painesville, Ohio, who have four sons, Bondinot, Coral C., Lamore and Arthur C.  Arthur B, the second child, was a physician and surgeon of much promise and skill in Cleveland, but died at the age of thirty-seven years.
     In 1856, the devoted wife and mother died, leaving two children to the care of the afflicted husband.  June 3, 1857, Mr. Carpenter was married again, this second wife being Mary L. Seymour, a worthy lady, born and reared near Lebanon, Madison county, New York.  She was one of the ten children - consisting of five sons and five daughters - of Silas and Sally (Gilbert) Seymour, the former born in Hartford, Connecticut, and the latter in Pomfret, the same State, and both members of old and respected families.  Both parents are now deceased.  By this marriage there were born to our subject two children:  Jennie, wife of Clarence Yates, of Cherry Valley, and Herbert D., at home.
     Mr. Carpenter is Republican in politics and has filled the office of Trustee of his township.  He is prominent in the Congregational Church, in which he is Deacon, having acted in that capacity for a number of years.  His prosperity is due to his energy and intelligent management, and in his success he has the best wishes of all who know him.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 658
  JOHN AVERY CARTER was born Oct. 3, 1850, at Warren, Litchfield county, Connecticut, a son of Charles and Mary M. (Avery) Carter.  His father, also a native of Connecticut, was born Aug. 1, 1819.  Acquiring a good education in the academy, he followed agricultural pursuits until middle life; then embarking in mercantile trade, he conducted the business for a few years, after which he built a hotel at Lake Waramaug, Connecticut.  He kept this hostelry for a period of twenty-years, and in 1892 retired from business.  He was Major in the old State militia, and was Selectman in the towns of Warren, Plymouth and Washington.  The maternal grandfather of Connecticut, and  a manufacturer of hats and woolen goods at Cornwall, Connecticut.  For many years he was Justice of the Peace and was a most efficient officer.  The paternal grandmother of our subject was a grand-daughter of Brigadier-General James Wadsworth of the Revolutionary war: (See page 312 of "Appleton's Encyclopaedia of American Biography.")  John Avery Carter received an academic education, and, until he was a youth of seventeen years, lived on his father's farm; at this time he was employed as clerk in a general store at Terryville, Connecticut, where he remained three years.  Afterward he entered the wholesale house of Hart, Merriam & Co., Hartford, Connecticut, continuing in the employ of this firm nearly two years.
     In 1872 Mr. Carter was united in marriage to Eva May Beach, daughter of Edward S. and Carolin M. Beach, the great-grand daughter of Eli Terry, who in 1792 made the first wooden shelf-clock in America.  This clock is still in the family, treasured as a precious heirloom.  Soon after his marriage Mr. Carter went to Michigan and spent four years in the lumber business.  Returning to Connecticut in 1876 he entered the wholesale flour and feed house of N. W. Merwin & Co., where he remained until his removal to Geneva, Ohio, in October, 1878.  Here he took a position with the Western Lock Company as general foreman and special salesman.  The plant and business were sold in 1882 to Eagle Lock Company of Terryville, Connecticut, at which time Mr. Carter was made western manager of the business, no bonds being required of him.  For the past three years he has been one of the directors of the Eagle Lock Company, and his untiring energy and superior business ability have done much toward placing the company in its present prosperous condition.
     Mr. and Mrs. Carter have a son and a daughter.  Lerria Terry Carter was born Aug. 7, 1875; she is now a student at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and will be graduated from the institution in 1894.  Charles E. Carter, the son, was born Mar. 18, 1882.  Mr. Carter joined Geneva Council, No. 303, Royal Arcanum, as a charter member in 1879, and is now Past Grand Regent of Ohio and Representative to the Supreme Council from Ohio.  He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of which he is Past Chancellor and Past Grand Officer.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the blue lodge and chapter.  He organized the first council in Ohio of Loyal Additional Benefit Association, to which order he belongs and is Supreme Deputy for Ohio.  He is a member of the Congregational Church, and one of the board of trustees, and for several years was Superintendent of the Sabbath-school.  In all the relations of life, whether social or business, he has shown the same earnest purpose of benefiting his fellow-men, and enjoys the highest regard of all who know him.
     Although educated a Democrat, he began early to read and think for himself, and coming to believe ardently in the principles proclaimed by the Republican party, his first ballot was cast for the party nominee, and under its banner he is still a willing worker.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 364
  IRA F. CASE, yard master of the Nickel Plate Railroad at Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, Nov. 15, 1862.
     His parents were Orson and Rhoda A. (Wilmarth) Case, both natives of Pennsylvania.  His father was a soldier in the Army of the Potomac during the late war, serving several years.  Previous to the war he conducted farming operations, and afterward was engaged in railroading, beginning as yard master and subsequently serving as baggage master.  He continued as baggage master up to the time of his death, April 24, 1891, aged 68 yrs.  From his boyhood up he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his whole life being characterized by honesty and industry.  His widow is a resident of Pennsylvania.  She is a member of the Universalist Church.  Of their three children we make record as follows:  Orney E., the oldest is a conductor on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, having been on the road for nine years; Ira F., the subject of this sketch; and George M., a farmer in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, has a large stone quarry on his farm, to which he gives considerable attention and which affords him a handsome income.
     Ira F. Case was reared on a farm in his native county.  At the age of fifteen he began learning telegraphy at Foster, Pennsylvania, and remained there six months.  Then he had charge of different offices along the line until he obtained a steady situation at Homer, New York, remaining at that place a year and a half.  After this he served as station agent on the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad for three years.  Then he served as brakeman on the same road, and subsequently as conductor on the Buffalo & Southwest.  Since 1888 he has been in the employ of the Nickel Plate at Conneaut, first as yard conductor and then as yard master, his present position.
     Mr. Case was married in New York, October, 8, 1884, to Mrs. Sarah J. Thompson, daughter of Samuel Peacock, a native of Canada.  They have one child, Myrtle E.  Mrs. Case is a member of the Christian Church.
     He affiliates with the Democratic party, and is a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen of Conneaut.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 926
  THOMAS CASE, of Andover township, Ashtabula county, was born May 7, 1830, a son of Orren B. and Delia A. (Cresey) Case, the former born in Massachusetts in 1804, and the latter a native of Cherry Valley township, Ashtabula county, Ohio. The paternal grandfather of our subject, Timothy Case, was a native of Massachusetts, and the family came to this county in 1822. O. B. and Delia Case had thirteen children, seven now living: Thomas, Morris, Birney, Eliza, James, Levacia, and Edd P. One son, Hon. A. T. Case, died in Michigan, at the age of fifty-three years; and another, Timothy, departed this life at the age of twenty years. Mr. Case was one of seven Birney men in Andover in 1840. He held the positions as Clerk and Trustee, and was a prominent man in his community.  His death occurred in 1880, and his wife departed this life in 1874.
     Thomas Case, the subject of this sketch, enlisted for service in the late war, February 24, 1865, entering the One-hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company D, and served until the close of the struggle. He was discharged at Salisbury, North Carolina, July 14, 1865. Mr. Case resided for a time in Richmond, but he now owns 162 acres of land in Andover township, Ashtabula county, Ohio. This is one of the finest farms in the neighborhood, contains all the necessary farm buildings, a sugar grove of 400 trees, an orchard, a patent evaporator for syrup and sugar, and a dairy of twenty cows. In his political views, Mr. Case is a Republican, and was the choice of his party for Assessor and Trustee. Socially, he is a member of the G. A. R., H. Kile Post, No. 80.
     He was married at the age of twenty-one years, to Lucinda, a daughter of Samuel and Clarissa (Adams) Halmon. Mrs. Case died in November, 1855, and in 1857 our subject was united in marriage to Sarah A. Laughlin, formerly a successful teacher and a daughter of Hugh C. Laughlin, a prom­inent early settler of Ashtabula county. Mr. and Mrs. Case have three living children: Mary E., wife of F. S. Higden; Cora, of Montana; Hugh L. and Stiles C. Their deceased children were: Azalia Strickland, who had charge of the Bloomfield public school for a time, died December 4, 1892, at the age of thirty-three years; Charles, deceased at the age of four years; and a son died at the age of six months. Mrs. Case is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 242
  DANIEL CHAPEL, senior member of the firm of D. S. Chapel & Son, hardware merchants at Dodgeville, Ohio, is a native of Lyme, Connecticut, born June 15, 1823.
     His parents, Ezra S. and Rachel (Bogue) Chapel, natives of Connecticut, came to New Lyme, Ohio, in 1829, and purchased the farm now owned by V. G. Bedell.  Here they spent the residue of their lives and died, the father's death occurring in December, 1862, and the mother's in December, 1877.  Daniel S. was the second born in their family of nine children.  Betsey, the eldest, wife of Josiah Beckwith, resides in Colebrook, Ohio; Ezra H., the third, died at Chattanooga during the Civil War, his death resulting from a wound received in battle; Smith, the next in order of birth, died in infancy; Emeline, wife of Christopher Beckwith, died in 1892; Mary, the sixth, died in infancy; Eunice, the seventh, now Mrs. J. F. Bruce, is a resident of Madison, Wisconsin; Elias S.  lives at East Claridon, Geauga County, Ohio, and John L., the youngest, is a resident of Brownsville, this State.
     Daniel S. Chapel received a fair education and for some time was engaged in teaching.  May 19, 1847, he married Mary Willey, daughter of Ethan Willey, who emigrated from Connecticut to New Lyme, Ohio, in 1815.  They have had four children, as follows:  Myron S., born Sept. 4, 1848, is now extensively engaged in farming and stock-raising in Mitchell county, Kansas; Cassius C., born June 7, 1850, died in youth; Ethen Allen, born Sept. 18, 1855, is the junior member of the hardware firm above referred to; and Alice May, born Aug. 27, 1857, is the wife of V. G. Bedell, a prominent farmer of Colebrook township, this county.
     In 1887, Mr. Chapel exchanged his large farm for a stock of hardware, and the small farm upon which he now resides.  He and his son have gained an excellent reputation as reliable and successful business men, and are doing a constantly increasing business.
     Politically, Mr. Chappel affiliated with the Whig and Republican parties respectively, until the birth of the Prohibition party, when he allied himself with that exponent of moral reform.  He has held several township offices, and is highly esteemed for his manly character and incorruptible integrity.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 642
  FRANKLIN H. CHAPIN, a farmer and stock-raiser of Lenox township, Ashtabula county, was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, Dec. 7, 1820, a son of Amos and Rebecca A. (Sheldon) Chapin.  The father was born in Marlborough, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in 1777, in early life learned the carpenter and joiner's trade, later the brick and stone mason's trade, and was also proficient at farm work.  In the spring of 1835 he started for the West, going first to Albany, thence by canal to Buffalo, and by lake to Ashtabula, landing at his destination June 1, 1835.  He purchased sixty acres of timber land near where he now lives, and began the sturdy life of a pioneer farmer.  Mr. Chapin was accompanied to this State by his wife and ten children.  This section of the State was then a wilderness, the only evidence of improvement being a roadway cut through the forest.  The country abounded in bear, deer and wild turkey, and the frontiersman had little trouble in obtaining meat.  Mr. Chapin departed this life Apr. 18, 1867, at the advanced age of ninety years.  The mother of our subject was born in 1799, at Marlborough, Massachusetts, where she was subsequently married.  She united with the Presbyterian Church in early life, and lived in consistent Christian until her death, which occurred in 1875.  She had attained the venerable age of ninety-five years.  Mr. and Mrs. Chapin lived to see the wilderness disappear, and improved farms and commodious residences take the place of forests and log cabins.  They were the parents of fifteen children.
     Franklin H. Chapin, the subject of this sketch, was reared to manhood on his father's pioneer farm.  In company with his three brothers he assisted in clearing the place, and at the age of twenty years purchased a farm of sixty acres near his father's farm.  He was to pay for the same by working by the month.  Mr. Chapin was next employed as a farm hand aby Ludman Groves, with whom he remained two years, receiving $10 per month.  By good management, well directed efforts and persistent industry, he succeeded in clearing the debt from the farm.  He then turned his attention to the dairy business and to the manufacture of a superior kind of cheese.  Leaving his farm in good hands, and accompanied by his wife, Mr. Chapin worked in various factories for four years, after which he returned to his farm.  He now owns 210 acres of valuable land, all under a good state of cultivation, and is living a comparatively retired life.  He has contributed liberally of his means to the support of schools and churches.
     In 1844 our subject was united in marriage with Miss Polly J. Isherwood, a daughter of Pilgrim Francis and Rebecca Isherwood.  The father was born in Pennsylvania Nov. 6, 1781, and was a son of an English sea captain.  The former was reared on a farm in the Susquehanna valley; was married there in 1815, and shortly afterward located on 300 acres of Government land in Crawford county, Pennsylvania.  That tract was then a veritable wilderness.  He felled a sufficient number of trees to build a cabin, and the mother made the first bedst4ead they ever owned, constructing the same of round poles cut from the woods.  The father with his ax and the mother with her spinning-wheel and loom soon overcame every obstacle to home and fortune.  A well improved farm was made and a commodious house erected, the latter as the Travelers' Home, a stopping place on the stage line between Pittsburg and Erie, Pennsylvania.  In his political relations, Mr. Isherwood was an old-time Democrat.  He died Jan. 4, 1871, at the age of eighty-four years.  The mother of Mrs. Chapin was born in Vermont, Nov. 10, 1798; removed with her parents to Pennsylvania, and was married at the age of seventeen years.  She was a woman of great force of character and consequent usefulness; lived a consistent Christian life, and through her untiring efforts and good judgment much of her husband's success was attained.  She united with the Free-will Baptist Church in early life, and her death at the age of ninety years, occurred July 30, 1868.
     Mr. and Mrs. Isherwood had nine children, all of whom grew to years of maturity, and of whom six still survive.
     Mrs. Chapin, wife of our subject, was born in Rockdale township, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, Apr. 17, 1825.  She grew to womanhood under careful home training, became proficient in all the useful household duties, and took her place at the wheel and loom when yet in her teens.  In 1843 she came to Ohio with her uncle, Melancthon Alfred.  The latter was a minister and physician by profession, and also taught vocal and instrumental music.  He reorganized the church of this place, filled the pulpit and administered to the wants of the sick, taught a singing school, and built up the society in general in Lenox township.  Mrs. Chapin taught the district school one year in this township, and was married in 1884.  Mr. and Mrs. Chapin have had two children.  The eldest, Ladema Rosella, was born Jan. 13, 1849, and was married Apr. 17, 1867, to Hezeron Harmon, a farmer by occupation.  During the late war he was a soldier in the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, and at the expiration of his two years of service re-enlisted, and served until the surrender.  He took part in all the campaigns with John Brown.  After returning from the army Mr. Harmon resumed agricultural pursuits, which he was resumed agricultural pursuits, which he was soon afterward obliged to abandon on account of ill health, and he then spent six months in the city of Denver.  He died Aug. 1, 1874, at the age of thirty-two years.  Ladema was again married, Nov. 15, 1882, to Ralph G. Owen, of West Andover.  She died Feb. 7, 1888.  The youngest child of our subject, Francis P., was born Jan. 23, 1854, was reared to manhood on a farm, where work was never scarce, and at the age of five years he milked two cows night and morning.  At the age of nineteen years he attended a three months' course at the Jordan Business College, after which he was employed as clerk in the dry-goods house of Schule & Berkenhewer.  He worked the first six months without compensation, and his first wages was $20 per month.  Mr. Chapin afterward entered the tobacco manufactory of W. S. Sherwood & Co., having charge of their packing department, and in 1875 was employed as their traveling salesman through the New England States.  In 1877 the firm was succeeded by Powers & Stewart, with whom he remained as traveling salesman until 1878, and in that year became a member of the firm.  The partnership was known as Stewart, Chapin & Co.  Dec. 8, 1878, Mr. Chapin married Miss Zetta St. John, a native of Rock Creek, Ohio.  Their only child, Ralph, died in 1883.  In 1881 Mr. Chapin sold his interest in the tobacco business, and became part owner of the Toledo Bee, of which he is now manager.  He is also Secretary and Treasurer of the Presque Isle Company.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 486
  FREDERICK L. CHAPMAN, ex-Postmaster, of Andover, Ohio, and proprietor of the comfortably appointed opera house in that city, who now enjoys in retirement that well- merited repose, the reward of years of active industry, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, Apr. 11, 1827.  His grandfather, Rev. Frederick Chapman, was a close communion Baptist minister, and a soldier in the Revolutionary war on the side of American independence.  He survived to the good old age of ninety years in the enjoyment of universal esteem, and died in the light of independence, to the attainment of which he had contributed his share.  His two children were: Edwin, father of the subject of this sketch; and Delia, who married Samuel Wilson, of Windsor, Connecticut.  Edwin Chapman was born in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1800, and was reared on the old homestead in that city.  He was married in Windsor to Miss Abigail Drake, a native of that city, daughter of Lemuel Drake, a direct descendant of Sir Francis Drake, a member of the English Parliament and Vice-Admiral of the English fleet in 1588, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for being the first circumnavigator of the globe.  ln 1838, Edwin, with his wife and children, joined the westward movement of emigration, coming overland to Ohio and settling on wild land in the woods of Ashtabula county, near West Andover, where he cultivated a farm.  This remained his home until just prior to his death, which occurred in Jefferson in the spring of 1849, subsequent to his election to the office of County Sheriff in 1848.  He was a magistrate for a number of years in Andover, discharging his duties in that capacity with his usual wisdom and impartiality.  He was a generous-hearted, genial-mannered person and enjoyed the esteem of numerous friends throughout the county.  His worthy wife survived him many years, dying Sept. 21, 1887, at the age of eighty-eight, leaving a large circle of friends to mourn her loss.  Their five children were: Edmund D., residing in Monroe, Michigan, served as Quartermaster during the war and is now City Inspector of Chicago; Frederick L., whose name heads the notice; Ann M., deceased; George H., residing in West Andover; and James F., a prominent real-estate dealer, of St. Louis, Missouri.
     Frederick L. Chapman, the subject of this sketch, was six years of age when his parents removed to the western wilds of Ohio, and his boyhood days were principally passed on the farm, his education being received in the pioneer schools of his vicinity.  On attaining his majority, he assumed the management of the home farm, and when his father erected the old Andover Hotel, Frederick operated it for three years, when it was sold advantageously.  The war coming on, Frederick served two years as wagonmaster at St. Louis,  On the close of the struggle, returned to Ohio and engaged in the mercantile business in West Williamsfield, where he remained about twelve years.  At the end of that time he removed to Andover, where he erected the present comfortable and tasteful opera house, and also his handsome residence, and has since lived in retirement from active business pursuits, with the exception of managing the opera house and filling the office of Postmaster four years under the first administration of President Cleveland, a position bestowed in recognition of his stanch support of Democracy.
     Mar. 5, 1856, Mr. Chapman was married to Miss Abbie J. Bishop, a lady of cultivated tastes, a native of West Williamsfield, and daughter of Thomas and Phoebe Bishop, early and prominent settlers of that city.
     Fraternally, Mr. Chapman affiliates with the I. O. O. F.  Of a progressive disposition and the strictest probity of character, with ample means to contribute to the advancement and welfare of a community, Andover may well be congratulated on the acquisition to its midst of so worthy a citizen.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 868
  P. H. CHENEY, On account of his own intrinsic worth and his contributions to he growth and welfare of Ashtabula county, Ohio, as well as by reason of the prominence of his father, who was one of the moving spirits in this county seventy-five years ago, the subject of this sketch is deserving of special mention in a history of his vicinity.
     Thomas Cheney, his father, an extended notice of whom appears in a sketch concerning Mrs. Captain George Field, of Ashtabula, Ohio, was a tanner and shoe manufacturer by trade, which occupations he followed in youth and for some time after coming to this county.  He was one of the four original Abolitionists of Ashtabula county, and was famous as an “underground conductor,” assisting many slaves to cross the Canadian border to freedom.  His last days were passed on his farm, where he was killed by a falling tree in 1850, in his sixtieth year, universally regretted.  His father, Stowell Cheney, grandfather of the subject of this notice, was a native of Connecticut, as indeed was Thomas Cheney.  The family is of Welsh descent and is mentioned in an old history of Connecticut, which contains a picture of the upper part of the house in which Thomas was born.
     The subject of this biography was born in Ashtabula county, Apr. 13, 1836, where he was reared and educated.  Being of an active and enterprising disposition, he early secured employment as a porter on a steamer plying the Great Lakes, and rose by successive promotions to a clerkship.  He passed thirteen years on the water, when he relinquished that business to accept a position on a sleeping car, running between Chicago and Cincinnati, in which occupation he continued until 1863.  He then assumed the management of the lighthouse at the harbor, which he kept in trim for seventeen years, being at the same time engaged in the lumber business with other parties.  On closing out all his other business, Mr. Cheney embarked in his present occupation, that of ship chandlery and vessel brokerage, which has of late been principally managed by his sons, while he has been investigating1 the resources of Southern countries, with a view to finding an opening for a profitable business, and at the same time gaining a knowledge of the manners and customs of a strange people.  Mr. Cheney is accompanied on these journeys by his wife, a lady of much artistic skill.  She is a ready sketcher with a pen, and makes pen pictures of all points of interest which they visit. Their first trip was made in 1890, to Florida, where they spent four months in the enjoyment of that delightful winter climate.  They visited the West Indies the next winter and have but recently returned from a tour of Southern California and Central America, having visited Guatemala, San Salvador and Costa Rica, to which last place he will return the coming fall (1893) and engage in the coffee-growing business.
     Dec. 23, 1858, Mr. Cheney was married, at Ashtabula, to Miss Catherine H. Benham, the ceremony being performed by Rev. I)r. Cole, a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  She comes of an old and highly respected family, her great grandfather, Thomas Benbam, having been born in England.  He emigrated to America in ante-Revolutionary days, and married a Miss Bunnell, and they were the parents of three sons:  Thomas, Adney and Samuel. The oldest son, Thomas, married Amanda Chittenden and they had six children: Alonzo, Asahel, Lucius and Lewis, twins; Clarissa, who married Lemuel Barber; and John. Asahel Benham, the second in order of birth, was born in Connecticut, Mar. 19, 1813.  He was a wood workman in early life, but in later years was engaged in farming.  He was married in 1839 to Esther Ann Fox, daughter of Giles Fox, and they had three children, of whom Catherine, wife of the subject of this sketch, was the oldest.  In 1815 the Benham family came from Connecticut to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where they have since taken an active part in the development of the country.  Amanda, wife of Thomas Benham, was born Dec. 17, 1777, and was married in October, 1808.  She died Feb. 2, 1874, at the age of ninety-seven years, and fifty-nine years after her advent to Ashtabula county.  She united with the church at the age of fourteen, and was ever afterward an earnest and active Christian, exerting an untold influence for good during her long and varied career.  Mr. and Mrs. Cheney have four children: Denn S., born Apr. 13, 1867; and Thomas A., born June 4, 1869, proprietors of the ship chandlery and grocery establishment, on Bridge street, in Harbor; Clara, born Sept. 26, 1870; and Robert, born Jan. 12, 1876.  Mr. Cheney is a member of the Masonic Order, Rising Sun Lodge, No. 22.
     Politically, Mr. Cheney is a Republican, with which party he has cast his vote since its organization.  He is an honorable and energetic businessman and a progressive, public-spirited citizen, genial and kind-hearted, and enjoys the esteem of all who know him.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 254
  WALTER A. CHENEY, a prominent lumberman and esteemed citizen, of East Orwell, Ohio, was born in Fly Creek, Otsego county, New York, Nov. 20, 1848.  His parents, William and Matilda (Dennis) Cheney were prominent and highly respected people of the Empire State, the former of English birth, a veterinary surgeon by occupation.  The father enlisted in the Revolutionary war at the age of fifteen and served his country faithfully and well.  He died in 1851, at the advanced age of ninety-three years.
     The mother of the subject of this sketch died when he was young, and he was, consequently, reared in young, and he was, consequently, reared in Colebrook, Ohio, by his half-sister, Mrs. Patience Perry, until he was thirteen years old.  The Civil war then coming on, he enlisted in Captain Crowell's company of the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment of Ohio Voluntary Infantry, but was rejected on account of his age.  He soon afterward enlisted in the Forty-first Ohio Regiment, by which he was also rejected for a similar reason, when, on Sept. 13, 1862, he enlisted as a recruit in the same regiment and was accepted, but transferred to Company C, of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was organized in Cleveland, and he was mustered into service before attaining the age of fourteen, being the youngest soldier ever enlisted from Ashtabula county.  He served in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment three years and twenty-six days, first as a musician, but after the battle of Chickamauga he carried arms.  He participated in twenty-seven engagements, principal among which were those of Franklin, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Rock Face Ridge, after which, latter engagement he was sixty days under fire until
the capture of Atlanta.  He was wounded in the right leg at the battle of Dandridge, Tennessee.  Oct. 26, 1865, he was honorably discharged at Camp Irwin, Texas, lacking then twenty-four days of being seventeen years of age.
     Immediately returning home, he at once began working at the carpenter’s trade, continuing to be thus occupied for five years, when he began the manufacture and sale of lumber, which he has followed ever since, being now situated in East Orwell.  His energy and perseverance have been rewarded with prosperity, until he is now one of the most substantial citizens of the county.  He owns seventy acres, known as lots eighty-three and eighty-four in Colebrook, and has some of the finest buildings, two business blocks, besides which he has thirty acres in Green township, Trumbull county, Ohio, and ten acres in East Orwell, on part of which he is now (1893) building a handsome residence and otherwise improving the place, which, when completed, will he one of the most attractive and comfortable homes in the city.  All of this prosperity is entirely due to his own unaided efforts and intelligent management and he justly deserves his present good fortune.
     Mr. Cheney was first married June 28, 1868, to Momild J. Witter, a lady of many excellent qualities, the second of three children of Ira and Jane Witter, well-to-do and highly esteemed residents of Ashtabula county.  Mr. and Mrs. Cheney had two children:  Wallace W., born Apr. 6, 1869, graduated at Delaware (Ohio) College and is now teaching his ninth consecutive term in a school in Colebrook. Sadie L., born Dec. 15, 1870, married G. H. Older, a well-to-do citizen of Colebrook, and they have one daughter, Jessie, born Oct. 8, 1891, who is the joy of her grandfather’s heart. Aug. 30, 1883, the family were called upon to mourn the loss of the loving wife and mother, whose life had been one of devotion to her home and family.   She was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and an earnest, zealous and Christian woman. May 25, 1884, Mr. Cheney was re-married, his second wife being Miss Edith V. Denslow, a lady of domestic and social accomplishment, daughter of B. F. and Josephine Denslow, of Cherry Valley, Ohio, where her father is a prospeous farmer.  She is one of the most useful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
     Politically, Mr. Cheney is a stanch Republican and served his constituents three years as Township Trustee of Colebrook, which position he resigned when he settled in East Orwell.  He is, fraternally, a member of the A. F. & A. M., in which he has tilled all the chairs; the organizer of the G. A. R. Post in Colebrook, of which he is Commander; and is a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.  Domestic in his disposition, Mr. Cheney finds his greatest pleasure in the society of his family and intimate friends.  He is active in church matters, a liberal supporter of all objects tending to advance the interests of the community, and, in all things, a representative citizen of his county and State.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 851

E. J. Clapp		 HON. ELVERTON J. CLAPP was born at Windsor, Ashtabula county, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1842, a son of Ichabod Clapp, a native of Windsor, Connecticut, born in 1810.  Johnathan Clapp, the grandfather of our subject, was one of a small company that emigrated to Ohio in 1813 and located in Ashtabula county, naming their town Windsor, in honor of the town they had left in New England.  Johnathan Clapp died soon after coming to his western home.  He was possessed of those sterling traits which characterize the typical New Englander.  Ichabod Clapp was an only son, and was a lad of ten years when his father died.  When he became of age he took charge of the old Clapp homestead near Windsor, where his mother resided until her death.  He married Hannah McIntosh, a native of Rutland county, Vermont, who had accompanied her parents to the Ohio at an early day.  He was a farmer all his life, took a deep interest in improved methods of agriculture, and was very successful, the earth yielding, under his management, her best harvests.  He died in January, 1891, at the age of eighty-two years; his wife died in 1877, in her sixty-sixth year.  Both were zealous Christian people of the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Of their five children, Milo S. is the eldest: he is located at Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, and is one of the leading business men of that place: he is Grand Master of the I. O. O. F. of Ohio; he is president of the Second National Bank of Warren, and is a prominent Mason, being Grand Master of the order in the State; Dette, the youngest daughter, is the wife of George Welsh, a hardware merchant of New Castle, Pennsylvania.
     Elverton J. Clapp received his elementary education in the district school and in the Orwell (Ohio) Academy; began teaching at the age of sixteen, and followed this calling several years.  When the war broke out he left his books for the battlefield, but after peace was declared he went back and finished his course.
     He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company K, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private, under Captain Bowers, of Geneva. Ohio.  His first engagement was at Perryville, Kentucky; then he was at Stone River and Chickamauga; he was all through the campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, being under fire for100 days.  He went with Sherman to the sea, was at Bentonville, North Carolina (the last fight), at the surrender of Johnston at Raleigh, and participated in the grand  review at Washington.  When he entered the service he left the train at Lexington, Kentucky, and marched through Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and on to Washington, riding not one step of the way.  He was promoted to Sergeant after the battle of Perryville, and was honorably discharged June 5, 1865.
     He was married Nov. 11, 1867, to Eliza A. Carpenter, a native of Thompson, Geauga county, Ohio, and the accomplished daughter of John Carpenter, a prominent citizen of Thompson township, and one of the most intelligent farmers of this section.  She was a graduate of West Farmington Seminary, Ohio.  In 1878 Mr. Clapp assisted in the organization of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company, and has been secretary since that time, aiding very materially in building up the business and advancing its interests.
     A Republican of the stanchest type, in1889 he was elected to represent his party in Lake and Geauga counties at the State Legislature, and re-elected in 1891.  He was elected Speaker pro tem. of the Seventieth General Assembly by acclamation, and filled the position with marked ability.  He served on the committees of Finance, County Affairs and Insurance.  He was largely instrumental in Relief Corps Home at Madison, Ohio, and secured an appropriation of 40,000 for the erection of a cottage at the home, for the State of Ohio.  He was made chairman of the Ohio Board of Construction, and was appointed a delegate to the Agricultural Congress, held in Chicago in 1893.  He is a member of the Masonic order; is Past Grand of the I. O. O. F., and Commander of Guernsey Post, No. 701, G. A. R., at Thompson.  He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and live a life consistent with their profession, always friends to the poor and distressed and willing helpers of the needy.  They are fitting guardians of the abundance that flows through their hands.
     Mr. Clapp was an able, active and laborious member of the Assembly, broad in his views, true and unyielding, though honorable and conscientious in the advocacy of the principles of his party.  During the four years he represented his district he was ever alive to the interests of the State and his constituency, and achieved an enviable reputation as a legislator, honoring the county that honored him.  He is a man of good presence, pleasing address, and an able forceful and attractive speaker.  He is genial and social by nature, and warm and true in his friendship.  His distinguished services in the Legislature, and his honorable and patriotic conduct during the late canvass, established him more firmly in the hearts of the people, and created a broad field for future preferment.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 701
  E. G. CLARK, M. D., a prominent physician of Willoughby, Lake county, Ohio, is one of the early settlers of the place, having resided there for about forty years.  When he landed here he only had $40, but being possessed of energy and a determination to succeed, he overcame all obstacles in his pathway, and for many years has occupied an enviable position in professional and social circles.  He is descended from an old New England family, and is a son of Linus Clark, who was born near Boston, Massachusetts, in 1798, being the youngest of a large family.  His parents removed to St. Lawrence county, New York, where the father died at a ripe old age and the mother lived to be ninety-eight years old.
     Linus Clark was a lawyer in early life and manifested considerable talent in that direction, being possessed of a wonderful memory and good judgment.  He afterward turned his attention to farming and emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1833.  He settled in Warrensville township, Cuyahoga county, paying $3.50 an acre for the land, on which he erected a log cabin, and there resided for two years, when he sold his land for $16 per acre.  He died February, 1881, aged eighty-five years.  His wife, formerly Hulda Bunnell, was born near Hannibal, Massachusetts, in 1802, and died in 1880.  She was the mother of nine children, who all lived to maturity.  The eldest was born in 1823 and died in 1887.  At the present time only three of the number are living.  Linus Clark was elected Justice of the Peace and was given other local offices.
     The Doctor attended the district schools and afterward was a student in the Academy at Twinsburg, Ohio, then a noted institution.  He taught school for a few terms and for four months received only $16 per month and took his pay in checks on a Wooster “wildcat” bank, realizing only twenty-five cents on a dollar.  In the spring of 1848, he began the study of medicine with Dr. S. U. Torbell, of Bedford, and remained under his instruction for three years.  He next attended the Cleveland Medical College, from which he graduated in the spring of 1852.
     Going to Fairfield county, the Doctor began the practice of medicine at a point ten miles from Lancaster, but was only located there for a few months.  He came to Willoughby on the fifth of December, 1852, and has made this the field of his operations ever since with the single exception of three years.  For six years he lived on a farm in Willoughby.  In the early days he had quite a large practice, considering the fact that the country was yet sparsely settled.  As a sample of one of his busy days, we give the following: he pumped water and fed seventy head of cattle and ten horses, drew five logs to the mill, which was two miles distant, and saw six patients, besides attending to other matters on the farm.
     On the 15th of May, 1854, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Clark and Miss Sarah E. Drake, a native of the Green Mountain State.  Her father, Alonzo Drake, emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Bedford township, Cuyahoga county, and lived thereon his farm, for about one half a century.  He died at the age of eighty-five years.  He was a skillful shoemaker, and carried on work in that line in addition to that of his farm.  Our subject and wife are the parents of three children: Nettie, wife of J. W. Wheeler, who is in the stave and hoop business in Paulding, Ohio.  For a number of years he was business manager of the Moline (Illinois) Plow Works.  Edwin A., the second child, graduated from Willoughby high school, after which he attended Hiram College for two years, and then graduated from the Adelbert College of Cleveland.  He afterward entered the Cleveland Medical College, and is now practicing, his office being on Cedar avenue, Cleveland.  Mary Josephine, the youngest of the family, is a graduate of Hiram College and is now teaching in the public school at Willoughby.
     In former days, Dr. Clark was an Abolitionist, and since the formation of the Republican party has championed the same.  He and his family are members of the Disciple Church, in which he is now a Trustee.  In 1891, he built a tine substantial residence, which is pleasantly situated.
     The mother of Mrs. Clark, a native of Vermont, died in her seventy-seventh year.  Both she and Mr. Drake were active in the work of the Disciple Church.  S. S. Drake, a brother of Mrs. Clark, is president of the Eagle Oil Refining Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 620
  J. H. CLARK, a farmer of Ashtabula county, was born in Lawrence county, W. Pennsylvania, November 9, 1836, a son of John K. Clark, a native also of that county. His father, John Clark, was born of Irish parents, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and his death occurred in Williamsfield township: Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1857, at which time he had attained the age of eighty-three years. The mother of our subject, nee Emily Harris, was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Joseph and Anna Harris, pioneer settlers of that place. The mother effected the opening of the first store at Warren, Ohio. In 1838, John K. Clark, father of our subject, located in Williamsfield township Ohio, where he remained until 1879, and in that year went to Greenville, Pennsylvania. He still resides at that place, aged eighty years. His wife died in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Clark had five children: William, J. H., Henry, Mary and Travilla. After the mother's death, the father married Mrs. Elizabeth Cook.
     J. H. Clark, the subject of this notice, was reared on the old home farm. In 1860 he went to Illinois, and in 1861 enlisted in the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Rosecrans and Major R. B. Hayes, and was in the same regiment as was William McKinley. Mr. Clark participated in the battles of Antietara, South Mountain, Winchester, and many others, and was honorably discharged from service in July, 1864. He now owns 167 acres of fine land in Ashtabula county, and a sixty-four acre farm at Kingsville. The latter is known as the old Daniel Smith place, is one of the oldest farms in the county, contains a good residence, a barn 38 x 50 feet, a sugar grove of 650 trees, and numerous other improvements, resultant of time and labor. In his political relations, Mr. Clark is a Republican, and has held the position of Township Trustee eight years.
     He was married July 9, 1863, to Annette Smith, who was born on the farm where she now resides, a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Reed) Smith, natives respectively of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Clark, William Reed, was a soldier of the war of 1812. At one time his wife was lost in the woods, and was obliged to spend two nights in the branches of trees with a child two years old in her arms. A panther followed their path the second night out, and came under the tree and gave a most unearthly scream and then retraced his steps. They finally came to some raftsmen on the Shenango river, who kindly took them home.
     Daniel and Mary Smith had five children: Corintha (deceased), Emeline, William, Daniel and Annette. The mother died at the age of eighty years, and the father at the age of eighty-five years. The father was a farmer and fuller by occupation, a Republican in his political views, and religiously a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have three children: Lizzie, J. Reed and Mary E., all of whom are successful teachers. Mrs. Clark is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Socially, our subject affiliates with Kile Post, G. A. R., and is one of the prominent and popular citizens of Ashtabula county.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 1893
  GEORGE H. CLEVELAND, a retired merchant of Conneaut, Ohio, was born at this place Nov. 18, 1840, son of Cyrus and Ann Eliza (Latimer) Cleveland, the father a native of Fair Haven, Vermont, and the mother of Dryden, New York.
     Cyrus Cleveland, late of Conneaut, was well known in this vicinity and was highly respected by all.  He was born in Rutland county, Vermont, in 1807, and at the age of sixteen was left an orphan, dependent upon his own exertions and the kindness of an older brother.  He made his home with his brother at Saratoga, New York, for three years.  At the age of nineteen he started out in life on his own responsibility, working by the month, and after he had saved $60 he returned to Saratoga and entered into a co-partnership with his brother in the general merchandise business.  This partnership lasted two years, at the end of which time he purchased his brother's interest, and continued the business five years longer.  It was while he was in Saratoga that he married Miss Latimer who proved herself a helpmate to him not only in name but also in deed.  They had two sons, both now residents of Conneaut.
     In 1833, we find Mr. Cleveland established in business at Conneautville, Pennsylvania, where he remained two years, coming from there to Conneaut, Ohio, in 1835.  In 1836, he became the landlord of the Mansion House, then the hotel of Conneaut, and had fairly good success, but the business was not congenial to his taste and he relinquished it at his earliest opportunity.  In 1837, his brother Oliver and family came to Conneaut, and the same year Messrs. Cyrus and John B. Cleveland commenced the erection of the building where Mariam's planing-mill now stands.  When it was completed they filled it with goods, and carried on business for fourteen years.  During these years Cyrus was the active manager and did nearly all the business.  From 1851 until 1862, he was in business by himself, was very successful and accumulated property rapidly.  In 1862, he took in his youngest son as partner.  In 1861, he began the erection of the block which bears his name and which at that time was the best in the county.  The substantial structure is still an ornament to the city.  He also owned and occupied one of the finest residences in the county.  Besides accumulating a large amount of property, he gave liberally of his means toward advancing the best interests of the town.  He was the first president of the Conneaut Mutual Loan Association.  Mr. Cleveland continued in business here until 1868, when he retired.  His death occurred Mar. 5, 1892.  He was a man loved and respected by all who ever had the pleasure of his acquaintance.  He was possessed of a strong constitution, a vigorous intellect and a cheerful disposition.  In the family circle he was a kind husband and an indulgent father; in church work he was earnest, and in business enterprising and progressive.  Mrs. Cleveland also lived to an advanced age, her death occurring in 1891, aged eighty-two years.  Hers was the first death in the family for a period of sixty-three years.  For over sixty years she was a member of the Baptist Church.  She was a conscientious Christian, always ready and willing to assist in all good works for the Master and for humanity.  She and her worthy husband had a happy married life of more than sixty years, by their many amiable qualities made hosts of friends, and their memory will long be cherished with grateful affection.
     G. H. Cleveland, with whose name this article begins, attended school at Conneaut and also received instruction under Prof. Brayton at Painesville.  In early life he engaged in business with his father, and continued in mercantile life until 1882.  After his father retired he was a member of the firm of Cleveland, Benton & Cheney, and subsequently did business under his own name, closing out about 1882.  From the spring of 1891 until the spring of 1892, he was proprietor of the Commercial House.
     He was married Dec. 16, 1863, to Miss Lydia A. Stafford, of Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Kelly) Stafford.  They have four children, namely, Minnetta E., Merrit C., Laura H. and Clarence S.; Merrit married Miss Frances Adair.
     Mr. Cleveland is a member of Evergreen Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; Conneaut Chapter Council and Commandery, being a charter member of the Commandery; is a member of the Order of the Elks, and in politics joins issue with the Democratic party.  In every way he is an honorable and upright man, progressive and public-spirited.  To him have been transmitted many of those sterling qualities of mind and heart that characterized and ennobled his worthy ancestors.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page  759
  LA GRANDE COLE, a prosperous farmer and influential citizen of Saybrook township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, residing just outside of the corporation limits of the city of Ashtabula, is a descendant of probably the third family to settle in Trumbull township, this county.  He is of English descent, his grandfather, Reuben Cole, having been born in the mother country, whence he emigrated to America at an early day.  He settled on land in Orange county, New York, where he passed the remainder of his days and whence his family emigrated to the frontier of Ohio.  He married Eliza King, also a native of the "tight little isle," a woman of superior intelligent and worth of character, and they had five children: Herman, father of Ina Cole, a large stock drover and a circus man; John; a daughter who married a Mr. Knox; also one who married Leisure Baldwin, a banker; and Charles, father of the subject of this sketch.  Charles Cole found his way into Ohio in the first quarter of the present century.  His first stop in Ashtabula county was for three weeks in Harpersfield township, at Skellinger’s mill, where he had some acquaintances.  It was while here that some one suggested that, since winged game was so plentiful, he ought to take a duck hunt before returning to New York, as he then fully intended to do.  Acting on this suggestion, he procured a boat, which was the favorite method of hunting ducks, and launched his little craft, being previously warned not to venture too near the dam in the river.  In floating down for his game, however, he became so interested in his sport that the imminence of his danger completely escaped him and before he noticed his predicament, he had very near come to grief.  In attempting to change his course, he became entangled in some drift wood and his boat became unmanageable and moved toward the dam with the increasing current.  Realizing the uselessness of remaining in his boat, his eye sought a place to leap and discovered an old tree lodged on the brink of the stream.  He made one desperate effort to throw his arms about it and succeeded in his attempt and climbed up above the torrent, from which place he was soon rescued by his friends.  Thus initiated, Mr. Cole’s stay was lengthened beyond his original intention, and finally terminated only with his life.  He eventually engaged in farming, later embarked in stock dealing, buying and driving stock, East being the first person to drive a herd from Ashtabula county into New York city.  He also conducted an extensive daily business, marketing his product with Clark & Bingham of Boston.  His energy was rewarded with success and on his death, about 1881, he left a large and valuable estate to his family.  The mother of the subject of this sketch was Hannah Merwin, from Peekskill, New York, who had six children; La Grande, whose name heads this sketch; Eliza, who married Lawson Andrews and later died; Pruilla, who married Porter Dibble; Granville, a prominent attorney of Kansas City, Kansas; Charles, a farmer; and Maria, wife of Myron McIntosh.
     The subject of this sketch was born in Trumbull township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, June 28, 1826, where he was reared and educated, receiving excellent practical business training under the direction of his father.  He early engaged in farming and when about twenty-two years of age traded his Trumbull township farm for a tract of eighty-four acres, where he now resides.  He lived under the parental roof until twenty-eight years of age, when he was married and removed to his present place.  His wife owns 116 acres adjoining this farm, which together makes a large and valuable tract, particularly valuable because it adjoins the city limits.  This property has been greatly improved under the careful supervision of Mr. Cole, until it is now one of the show places of the county, being admirably fitted for the purposes for which it is used.  For the last fifteen years, Mr. Cole has been in the milk business, his wagon being one of the most familiar landmarks in the place.  His energy and industry have been rewarded with prosperity, and he is numbered among the most substantial men of his county.
     In 1854, Mr. Cole was married to Miss Rebecca Fremont, a worthy lady, daughter of Austin Fremont, a prominent and respected citizen of Ashtabula county.  She was one of seven children: James, Amos, Rebecca, Henry, Delia, Fayette and Sarah.  Mr. and Mrs. Cole have had five children: Earnest, deceased; Ray; Fred; Georgia, wife of Thomas Hall; and Flora.
     Aside from his connection with one of the most distinguished families in the county, Mr. Cole, has qualities which would have gained for him success and esteem in any part of the country, and justly deserves the good wishes of all right-minded men.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 979
  FRANCIS COLEMAN, a prominent farmer and citizen of Wayne township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, a member of an old and influential family of the county, was born in this township in July, 1827.  His father, Nathaniel Coleman, was one of the earliest settlers of the county, and a man highly respected for his ability and integrity of character.
     His mother, Mrs. Nathaniel Coleman (Kezia Jones), taught the first school in Wayne township.  The subject of this sketch was reared in Ashtabula county, and received most of his education at the Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio.  He now owns and lives on one of the best farms in the county, and erected in 1889 a good house, with modern improvements.
     Jan. 8, 1852, Mr. Coleman was married to Miss Mary R. Miles, who was born in Weymouth, England, the daughter of James and Margaret (Royal) Miles.  Her father died in 1847, leaving a widow and five children.  Margaret Beale died in England; John, in Gustavus, Trumbull county, Ohio; James still resides in England; William G. R., one of the earliest settlers to Topeka, Kansas, was accidentally killed in 1856, and was there buried with military honors.  The mother died in Kingsville, Ohio, a short time after the death of this, her youngest son, who was unmarried.  Mr. and Mrs. F. Coleman have three children: Alphonso M., an enterprising merchant of Glenndive, Montana, who married Miss Mary Keiser, of that place; Clifton R., who is a partner on his father's farm; and Carrie Margaret, who is the wife of James A. Hill, a publisher of New York City, and who has one daughter, Mildred.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page  154
  MARSHALL CONANT, a farmer of Dorset township, Ashtabula county, was born in Chittenden, Vermont, in 1826, a son of Thomas Conant, a native of Massachusetts.  The latter's father, Thomas Conant, Sr., was also born in that State.  The mother of our subject, nee Mrs. Mary (Evans) Allen, was a native of Vermont.  She had two children by her first marriage, - Mary and Joseph, both now deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. Conant subsequently located in Harpersfield township and later removed to Dorset, Ashtabula county, where the father died, at the age of ninety years.  He was a farmer by occupation, voted with the Whig party, and was a member of the Congregational Church.  The mother departed this life in Lenawee county, Michigan.  They had nine children, five sons and four daughters.
     Marshall Conant, the subject of this sketch, came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1832 at the age of eight years, and was early inured to farm life.  In 1850 he came to his present farm of seventy-five acres, all of which is under a good state of cultivation, having a double cottage, a barn, 36 x 36 feet in dimensions, and many other improvements.
     Mr. Conant was married, at the age of twenty-five years, to Mary Bassett, a native of Massachusetts, a daughter of Nathan and Hannah (Cole) Bassett, natives also of that State.  Our subject and wife had one son, Ora, of Bay City, Michigan.  The wife and mother died in February, 1880.  In November of that year, our subject was united in marriage to Rosalia A. Bissell, a native of Bainbridge, Geauga county, Ohio, who was reared and educated in Dorset township, Ashtabula county.  Her father, Lorenzo Bissell, still resides in this township.  His father, Justin Bissell, was one of the first settlers of Geauga county, and died at the age of ninety-two years.  The mother of Mrs. Conant, nee Sarah Marsh, was a native of Geauga county, Ohio, and she died in 1871, at the age of forty-two years.  She left the following children:  Rosalia A., wife of our subject; and Henry, also now deceased, leaving two daughters, Lillie and Lola, who reside with Mr. Conant.  Lorenzo Bissell served two years and nine months in the Sixth Ohio Cavalry during the late war.  Mrs. Conant is a member of the Church, and our subject affiliates with the Republican party.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 362
  G. H. CONNELL, assistant shipping clerk in the employ of the Nickel Plate Railroad, Conneaut, Ohio, is a native of Crawford county, Pennsylvania, born November 24, 1845, son of Jonah and Eliza (Zielie) Connell.
     Jonah Connell was born in Schoharie county, New York, oldest in the family of seven children—five sons and two daughters —born to Isaac and Eva (Fink) Connell, both natives of Scholarie county. Isaac Connell moved West, and died in Illinois. Following are the names of their children: Jonah, Cornelia, Peter, John, Christopher, Margaret, and Martha, the last two being the only ones now living. Margaret is the widow of Aaron Colly, and Martha is the wife of Omri Goodwell. Jonah Connell was married April 3, 1845, to Miss Eliza Zielie, daughter of David and Sallie (Stokes) Zielie, her father a native of New York and her mother of Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Zielie had four children, viz.: Catherine, who married Charles Fink, both being deceased; Margaret, widow of Daniel McLaughlin, has one child, Matilda; Mrs. Connell; and Peter who married Susan Brown, both being deceased, and leaving two children—Caroline, wife of John McGee, and Sarah, wife of Martin Rawley. Mrs. Connell is nearing her seventy-eighth mile post, the date of her birth being October 14, 1815. Her worthy companion passed away October 11,1887, aged seventy-four years, two months and six days. He was a consistent Christian from his boyhood days, and filled most acceptably in his Church all the offices accorded to laymen. His many estimable traits of character and his pure Christian life endeared him to a large circle of friends. For more than sixty years Mrs. Connell has been a member of the church. In their family of five children, G. H., whose name heads this sketch, is the oldest; Jane, born August 9, 1848, died April 15, 1853; Sallie, born February 17, 1850, died April 18, 1853; James, born March 7, 1852, died April 20, 1853; and Mary, born July 15, 1854, died May 27, 1858.
     G. H. Connell was educated in Erie, Pennsylvania, finishing his studies with a commercial course. After leaving school he was engaged in farming until 1883. In the mean time, in 1865, his father's family had moved to Conneaut. In 1883 he began working for the Nickel Plate Railroad Company, first, in the shops, and subsequently as foreman in the yard, continuing in the latter capacity nine years. He was promoted to his present position October 20, 1892, and has since been rendering efficient service here.
Mr. Connell was married April 23, 1869, to Miss Amelia Cathcart. Their only child, James, is engaged in agricultural pursuits, having charge of his father's farm.
     Mr. Connell is a member of Maple Lodge, No. 217, K. of P.; the Uniform Rank, K. of P.; and the State Police, of which he is a Special Officer. For six years he was School Director in Conneaut township, and one term was Clerk of the Board. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
     Of Mrs. Connell's family we make record as follows: Hugh Cathcart, her father, was born September 10, 1803, was a pattern maker by trade; died February 14, 1869. Her mother, Caroline (Giddings) Cathcart, was born April 30, 1820, and died February 1, 1855. Both were old school Presbyterians for many years. They had six children, namely: Earl, who died at the age of six months; Emma, wife of Eugene Maxfield, born August 3, 1842, died December 29, 1878; Holmes, born January 3, 1845, died July 26, 1845; Amelia; born December 12, 1849; Hubert, born July 24, 1852, died October 10, 1852; and Addison, born January 8, 1855, died May 4, 1855. By a former marriage to Olive Youngs, Mr. Cathcart had three children— Solomon H., of Elyria, Ohio; Elizabeth, born September 13, 1835, died in April, 1849; and Augusta, wife of M. Z. Andrews, Centralia, Kansas.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 282

S. H. Cook

CAPTAIN SIDNEY HARRIS COOK.   - The subject of this sketch is doubly deserving of notice, as having helping to preserve the Union and as now belonging to that class on which the stability and prosperity of the Union depends, the farmer.
     Captain Cook, a successful farmer and esteemed citizen of Jefferson, Ohio, was born at Newton Falls, Trumbull county, this State, Aug. 11, 1838.  His parents, Carlos P. and Alzina (Barden) Cook, were both natives of New York, in which State they were married in 1834.  They shortly afterward turned their faces westward, journeying to Ohio and settling in Trumbull county, of which they were pioneers.  Their home was on wooded land, where the father began to clear off the forest and industriously to cultivate the soil.  About seven years later, in 1844, the father was killed by the fall of a tree, leaving several children to the care of the bereaved mother.  She subsequently married Dr. David Webster, who died in 1865.  She is now living, at the age of seventy-eight years.  She has resided in Ashtabula county since 1849, having removed to Lenox township from Geauga county shortly after her second marriage.  There were seven children by her first marriage: Emily; Charles P.; Sidney Harris, the subject of this sketch; Cornelia, deceased; Harriet L., once a successful teacher in the Jefferson schools, who died in 1865; and two sons who died when very young.
     After the death of his father, the subject of this notice made his home with his uncle for a time.  He was subjected to many changes, and circumstances were such that he was afforded but limited educational advantages; but, gifted with quick observation, good judgment and retentiveness of memory, he has worked out his walk in life to honor and success.  On attaining the age of fourteen years, he worked at the carpenter's trade four or five years, under the instruction of his stepfather.  At the age of eighteen he went to Illinois, and was there employed at his trade a year and half.  Next he went to Wisconsin, where he followed his trade until 1860, when he returned to Ashtabula count.
     When the Rebellion broke out he felt that it was his duty as a patriot to do what he could for the preservation of the Union, and accordingly, in August, 1861, he joined an independent company of sharpshooters, which however, was not long afterward disbanded.  In October following he enlisted in what was known as "Lane's Brigade Band," under the command of Captain W. R. Allen, of Jefferson.  His service in that connection also was of short duration, as the company was by general order soon disbanded.
     Young Cook was not a little discouraged by these failures to get to the front, where the enemy was.  However, he concluded to make one more effort, which met with success, and Aug. 16, 1862 he became a member of Company A, Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  The first important battle in which he engaged was that at Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, in which he was wounded in the right shoulder and ankle.  He however, refused to go to the hospital, but marched with his company, using his musket for a crutch.
     After this battle he was appointed Corporal.  Oct. 15, 1862, he was promoted Assistant Quartermaster, and November 16, following Assistant Brigade Quartermaster.  Mar. 15, 1863, he was raised to the rank of Sergeant Major, in which position he served twelve months.
     May 9, 1864, at the beginning of the movement toward Atlanta, Mr. Cook was promoted as Second Lieutenant of Company E, which he most gallantly commanded during that remarkable campaign, his regiment being in General Schofield's corps.  Almost at the beginning of this campaign, at Dalton, he was wounded in the left arm, but continued with his company.  After the fall of Atlanta, his corps was attached to General Thomas' army, which followed Hood on his march on Nashville.  In this last campaign, Mr. Cook fought in the battles of Columbia, Franklin, Nashville and Spring Hill, in all of which engagements he, with his company, was most of the time at the front and in the hottest of the fight.  At the battle of Spring Hill, he was taken prisoner during the night, but made his escape before morning.  He never seemed to like the idea of being a prisoner.  After the battle of Spring Hill, Dec. 20, 1864, and the total defeat of Hood, his command followed the fleeing enemy as far as Columbia, almost destroying the late opposing forces.  December 24, Captain cook was transferred to Company G.  At Clifton, his command embarked on transports going down the Tennessee, then up the Ohio to Cincinnati, from which place they were ordered by rail to Washington, and went into camp at Alexandria for a time.  In February, 1865, Captain Cook was appointed Provost Marshal of the Third Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-third Corps, and in March following, was promoted to the position of Division Provost-Marshal on General McLean's staff, same division.  In April, 1865, he was still further advanced to an important position by the appointment to the place of field Ordnance Officer on General Schofield's staff.  His first and most important service while holding this important position was that accomplished when General Schofield detailed him with a thousand men, to rebuild the railroad which the rebels had torn up from New Berne to Kingston, North Carolina, a distance of sixteen miles.  The rapidity with which Captain Cook accomplished this work astonished his superior officers and brought him the highest commendations.
     To return to his command: Leaving Alexandria, they embarked for Fort Fisher; from there they went to Wilmington, North Carolina, thence marched to Goldsboro, where they again joined Sherman's army, after a separation of almost six months.  the two armies then operated together until the surrender at Appomattox.  After General Joseph E. Johnston's surrender at Greensboro, North Carolina, Captain Cook was with a detail of eight officers sent under a flag of truce, to receive the ordance stores in behalf of the United States.  Later his command went into camp at Salisbury, North Carolina, where he with his regiment was mustered out, June 26, 1865.  His old company (A) had been left without a captain, and Captain Cook was ordered to take command of it on the homeward journey.  They embarked for Baltimore, thence via Pittsburg to Cleveland, remaining there two weeks, then took the cars for Camp Dennison, Ohio, where they were paid off and finally discharged, July 26, 1865.  The Captain then returned to his home.
     Thus briefly is given the military career of one of Ohio's bravest soldiers.  He was always ready for duty, even though wounded.  He was a special favorite of his superior officers, and particularly was this so with General Schofield.  when that general desired any service done that required judgment, dispatch and bravery he would send for Captain Cook, and the work was generally accomplished, and satisfactorily so.
     After he returned home, Captain Cook engaged in mercantile business in Lenox, Ashtabula county, where he continued for thirteen years.  He was brought out for County Treasurer by the Republicans in 1877, and was elected.  His administration of the office was so satisfactory to the people that he was re-elected, his second term ending in 1882, when he retired to private life on his beautiful farm in the suburbs of Jefferson.
     Captain Cook was married Nov. 1, 1865, to Miss Laura C., daughter of Rev. Rufus R. Clark, a prominent citizen of Conneaut, Ohio.  They have two children: Hattie, now a popular teacher in the public schools; and Carlos C., at home, attending school.
     Captain Cook is a member of the Masonic order of the Giddings Post, No. 7, G. A. R., and is a pensioner.  For the last five years he has been trustee of Jefferson township, and three years member of the Board of Education, two years of which he has been president of the same.
     As a citizen Captain Cook is much respected, having the confidence of all who know him.  He is public-spirited, laboring for the welfare of the people.  At present he is talked of by many as the Republican candidate for Representative for Ashtabula county.  He is a man of pure character and domestic habits, and has an interesting family, to whom he is much devoted.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 349)
  CHAUNCEY H. COON is a successful farmer and apiarist of New Lyme township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he has resided since the close of the civil war.
     He was born at Jefferson, Ohio, July 19, 1838, son of Peter Coon.  His father was a native of New York, but resided in Ohio from his youth up, having first located at Morgan, Ashtabula County, he purchased a farm and sawmill in the northeastern part of the township, where he spent the rest of his life.  The mother of our subject, whose maiden name was Lura Cole, is a native of Pennsylvania.  She is now a resident of Jefferson, aged seventy-five.  Chauncey H. is the oldest of her six children, five of whom survive.  Seth H., the second, married Emma Baldwin, a native of New Jersey, and now resides in Jefferson.  Loren M., married Elizabeth Hurry (who died several years since) and resides in Iowa.  Perry D. enlisted at the age of eighteen years in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died at Memphis, Tennessee, during the civil war.  Merrit M. married Alta Lucas and lives in Jefferson.  Mary, wife of Frank Parker, also lives in Jefferson.
     Leaving home at an early age of fourteen years, Chauncey H. Coon was employed for a short time by a Mr. Barnes of Trumbull, this county.  Then he was for one year in the employ of Elijah Peck, of New Lyme, and spent one year in Mecca during the oil excitement at that place.  The following three years he assisted his father in the sawmill.  Then he went to Painesville and learned the harness trade.  He has there engaged in that work when the civil war broke out, and, April 25, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, the first regiment organized in this vicinity.  His term of service expiring about the time of the organization of the Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he next united himself with that regiment and was appointed Sergeant of Company A, and remained with it during the rest of his service.  His war record is a good one.  He participated in four of the hardest-fought battles of the war - Rich Mountain, Winchester, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.  Feb. 28, 1862, he was promoted, for meritorious conduct, from the rank of Sergeant to the office of First Sergeant in Company A.  In August, 1863, having become physically unfit for further duty in the field, he was appointed Ward Master of the United States General Hospital at Fairfax Seminary near Alexandria, Virginia, where he remained until he received his discharge Sept. 30, 1864.  From May 11, 1862, until August, 1863, he held the important and responsible position of Mail Agent of Shields' Division, and First Brigade, Second Division, Twelfth Corps, in which capacity he was entrusted with the care of large sums of money and a vast quantity of mail and express matter.  He at one time delivered to the Adams Express Company, in Alexandria, Virginia, over $20,000, this being a part of four months' pay received by the soldiers of the brigade at Dumfries, Virginia, and sent to friends at home.
     Returning to Washington after receiving his discharge, Mr. Coon was engaged first in the Quartermaster's Department, and later on the Government hay and grain wharf at Alexandria till July, 1865.
     Soon after the close of the war Mr. Coon was married, at New Lyme, to Maria L., daughter of Elijah Peck, one of the earliest settlers of New Lyme, he having emigrated from Connecticut to this place in 1811.  Mrs. Coon was previously married to George A. Gibbs, of Painesville, by whom she had one child, G. De Forest Gibbs, who is married and has two children, and resides with the subject of our sketch.  G. De Forest Gibbs has served his township for several years as Justice of the Peace.  G. A. Gibbs died in Perry, in 1862, from the effects of a cold contracted in camp while a member of Company D, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
     Soon after his marriage Mr. Coon, in company with other parties, erected a steam sawmill in New Lyme, which he managed four years.  Selling the mill in 1870, he purchased the property, forty-five acres, upon which he now resides, and in company with his step-son has devoted himself to its management and to this they have added 124 acres.  They also have a large apiary and do an extensive poultry business, annually shipping about two to four tons of dressed poultry.  For about fifteen years Mr. Coon has been engaged in the bee business and has acquired an extensive reputation as a successful apiarist.  He frequently writes articles upon this subject for agricultural periodicals, and has served both as secretary and president of the Northeastern Ohio, Northern Pennsylvania and Western New York Beekeepers' Association five successive terms.  Mr. Coon conducts his various operations on the most approved scientific principles and with the best modern conveniences.
     He is a Republican and a member of the G. A. R.  In 1880 and in 1890 he served as Census Enumerator for his township.  Few men in this part of the country have a large circle of friends and acquaintances than Mr. Coon, he is a popular as he is well known.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page  993
  JACOB COON, a well-to-do farmer and stock-raiser, as well as a mover of houses and other heavy bodies, resides in Jefferson township, Ashtabula county, Ohio.  He was born in Delaware county, New York, Mar. 10, 1821.  His parents, Jacob and Louisa (Northaway) Coon, were natives of New York State, where they grew up, were married and spent their lives.  The father of Mr. Coon was a farmer, who died in 1826, when the subject of this sketch was but five years of age.  The fatherless boy was then given by his mother to Hiram Dart, a farmer, who was to give our subject a home.  The boy, however, did not remain long with that gentleman, but passed most of his time with his paternal grandfather.  In 1833 his mother was married again, her second husband being Jesse Markham, and he then fund a temporary home with her.  At the age of sixteen he accompanied his grandfather to Orwell township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where the latter settled on a farm.  Here the subject of this sketch was variously employed in cutting wood, shearing sheep, butchering and other kids of work until he grew to manhood.  He was married at the age of twenty two, after which he engaged in farming and dairying on shares of for a percentage of the products, being thus employed for three years.  At the end of this time he had by industry and economy accumulated sufficient means to commence business for himself.  He accordingly settled on a farm in Morgan township, where he successfully conducted for two years a dairy with twenty-two cows, making a high grade of cheese and good butter.  He then, in 1851, bought eighty acres of his present farm, situated three and a half miles northeast of Jefferson, for which he paid $120.  This was at that time in the wilderness, covered with woods, with not a vestige of improvement of any kind, and, save for a sawmill on the mill creek near by, was completely isolated from other human habitations - no road leading to the premises nearer than that to the mill.  On this land Mr. Coon made a clearing and built a log house, into which he and his family moved, and they there began the life of pioneers.  He immediately secured employment in the sawmill, and at the same time commenced clearing his land, and in this manner finally had his original tract free from incumbrance.  To this he subsequently added 107 acres more, which he also cleared.  He has industriously cultivated and improved this until he now owns a thriving farm, a good orchard, with a comfortable residence and a convenient barn, with other outbuildings and accessories necessary for the successful operation of his place.  He also moves houses and other heavy bodies, besides working sometimes at the stone-mason's trade, which he learned when young.  His industry and perseverance have been rewarded by success, and he now has an ample competency for his old age.  He has seen many changes take place in Ashtabula county, has seen the dense forest and primitive log cabin disappear and well tilled farms and attractive homes take their place.  In all of this improvement he has been an important factor and is justly recognized as an old landmark of his county.
     In May, 1843, Mr. Coon was married to Miss Juliet Gardner, a lady of domestic tastes and accomplishments, born in New York State, June 28, 1823.  Her parents, John and Edith (Sissen) Gardner, were natives of Vermont and New York State, respectively the former born in 1781, of Quaker descent, and the latter of English extraction.  They were married in Otsego county, New York, when the latter was twenty years of age.  Induced by the enlarged opportunities afforded by the West, in 1832 they removed to Colebrook, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where the father, who was a farmer, settled on land which he cultivated and improved, and on which he passed the remainder of his days.  They had ten children, six sons and four daughters, only two of whom survive:  Mrs. Coon and Lorenzo Dow Gardner.  Both parents were devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The father was an old-line Whig in politics and a man of patriotic mold.  He died in 1861, universally regretted.  His worthy wife survived him until 1869, expiring at the age of eighty years, leaving many friends to mourn her loss.  When she was nine years of age Mrs. Coon accompanied her parents to Colebrook township, where she was reared, enjoying the educational facilities afforded by the frontier schools.  She was married at the age of twenty and had six children, five of whom survive: Abbie A., born Aug. 14, 1854, deceased, was the wife of John Ford; Arthur L., born Sept. 23, 1845, married Isabel Loomis and resides in Jefferson; Allen M., born Jan. 25, 1848, married Miss Mary Aikins, and is now a prosperous farmer in Kansas; Alfred A., born Mar. 6, 1860, married Orphia March, and resides in Jefferson; Allison D., born Mar. 19, 1860, married Miss Ella Sutton, is a farmer and lives on a farm adjoining the old homestead; Alice E., born Aug. 21, 1864, is the wife of Edward Wilson, a stone-mason and contractor and one of the young "hustlers" of the county, resides with the subject of this sketch.  Mrs. Coon has been an efficient aid in the early struggles of her husband, and is now a sharer in his triumphs.  No one is better versed in the duties of the household than she, and she has been an important factor in the economy of her home.  She assisted in the economy of her home.  She assisted in the dairy work, spun the thread, wove the household linen, made the garments of the family, and reared the children.  This is an array of accomplishments which would strike a modern housewife with astonishment, and she deserves all the credit which can be bestowed upon her.  She is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and prominent in all good works.  Mr. Coon has been conspicuously identified in the shaping of the early policies of the county and in the development of its industries, and is worthy of the highest regard of all right-minded men.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page  270
  DR. DURAN S. COSSITT, a popular young physician of Conneaut, Ohio, is just starting out in a career of usefulness and is already winning his way to the front ranks of his chosen profession. As one of the representative young men of the town, it is fitting that some personal mention of him be made in this work.
     Dr. Duran S. Cossitt was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, Mar. 6, 1866, son of Dr. Henry De La Cossitt and Elizabeth (McClimans) Cossitt, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of Pennsylvania. Dr. Henry de La Cossitt was a practicing physician of Greenville, Pennsylvania, for over fifty years, having settled there when he was twenty-six. He had two brothers, Epaphroditus and James, who were also eminent physicians, the latter having practiced at Newcastle, Pennsylvania. Our subject's father practiced medicine not only throughout Mercer county but also in the adjoining counties, and wherever he was known he was highly respected, both as a skillful physician and as an upright Christian man. He was a member of the Greenville Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a Democrat in politics, and when the war came on he was in favor of its vigorous prosecution. During those dark days he assisted in the organizing and drilling of recruits. He died Mar. 1, 1877, aged seventy-six years. His widow, born Mar. 1, 1831, is still living, an honored resident of Greenville. She is a member of the United Presbyterian Church. Following are the names of their six children: Dr. Henry De La Cossitt, a graduate of the Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, class of 1893; Sarah Elizabeth, wife of Dr. J. A. Doyle, who is located at Homestead, Pennsylvania, and who graduated at the medical college in the same class with Drs. Henry De La and Fred S. Cossitt, his only child being Joseph; William E., who resides at the home place with his mother and has charge of the estate; Dr. Duran S., the fourth born; Dr. Fred S., a graduate of the Western Reserve; and Carrie J., attending the public school.
     Drs. Henry De La and Fred S. are practicing at Greenville, Pennsylvania.
     The subject of this sketch received his literary education at Thiel College, at which institution he graduated in 1887.  Sarah Elizabeth, William E. and Dr. Fred S. Cossitt, are graduates of the same school, Dr. Henry De La having passed to the junior year.  Our subject began the study of medicine in 1889, spent one year in the University of Pennsylvania and two years in Cleveland at the Western Reserve.  In April, 1892, he established himself in the practice of his profession in Conneaut, where he has since remained, meeting with good success.  He is Examiner for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.  Recently he has been appointed, for the period of one year, as one of the Board of Examiners of the teachers of the public schools, which board is composed of three members.
     He was married June 29, 1892, to Miss Maud G. Hamblin, daughter of Samuel Hamblin, a member of the firm of Hamblin & Sons, of Greenville, Pennsylvania.  Both the doctor and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mrs. Cossitt is one of a family of four children, of whom we make the following record:  John H. Hamblin, a machinist, and a resident of Conneaut, Ohio, married Miss Emma Reichard of New Hamburg, Pennsylvania, and has two children:  Mary C., a member of the home circle; Mrs. Cossitt; and Ralph, who is attending the public school.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page  276
  G. E. COUGHLAN, proprietor of a livery and also dealer in buggies, wagons and harness, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Erie county, New York, May 8, 1849, son of George and Mary (Ingles) Coughlan, natives of Watertown, New York.
     The Ingles family were great musicians and were also noted for their patriotism.  Three of Mrs. Coughlan's brothers were leaders of bands in the Mexican war.  George Ingles, another brother, took part in the Civil war, responding to Lincoln's call for 75,000.  He died in January, 1862.  Albert, her other brother, was an architect.
     George Coughlan, the father of our subject, was a farmer, cultivating land on shares.  He was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he filled all the offices of the layman.  He died in 1882 at the age of seventy-three, honored and respected by all who knew him.  His whole life was characterized by honest industry and Christian acts of kindness.  His wife, also a devoted Christian and a member of the Methodist Church, died when the subject of this sketch was a few years old, he being the youngest of ten children.  Four of this number are still living.  Two of the sons, L. M. and A. M., are engaged  in the grocery business in Conneaut, the latter having been at the same location on Main street for the past thirty years.  Only one of the daughters, Frances, is living.
     G. E. Coughlan learned the trade of painter in 1869, which trade he followed with good success for nineteen years.  In 1887 he turned his attention to the carriage business, in connection with which he subsequently opened out a livery.  He has a good business, his location being on the corner of Mill and Madison streets.
     Mr. Coughlin was married July 19, 1874, to Miss Josephine Bartlett, daughter of Rev. Noah and Harriet (Wilcox) Bartlett, both natives and residents of Conneaut and among the most highly esteemed people of the place.  Mr. and Mrs. Coughlan have one child, Bessie Gertrude.  Mrs. Coughlan is a member of the Episcopal Church.
     Politically, Mr. Coughlan affiliates with the Republican party; socially, with the I. O. O. F., being a member of the lodge at Ashtabula.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 674
  A. C. COWIN, station agent at Andover, was born at Latimer, Trumbull county, Ohio,  July 24, 1867, a son of George Cowin, who was born, reared and educated near Dublin, Ireland.  He was there married to Hannah Taylor, and in 1861 they came to the United States.  Mr. Cowin departed this life in 1881.
     A. C., the subject of this memoir, was reared and educated at Latimer, Ohio.  At the age of eighteen years he began railroad work, first serving as targetman at Latimer, then as telegraph operator at different towns, and later was employed as station agent at Williamsfield, Ashtabula county, four and a half years.  On account of his ability to fill a more responsible position of trust, he was promoted to the position as station agent of Andover in1892, where he has ever since remained.
     Mr. Cowin was married at Williamsfield, Ohio, Oct. 29, 1890, to Sada M. Tickner, a daughter of M. H. and C. P. (Croven) Tickner of that city.  Mr. Cowin affiliates with the I. O. O. F., No. 728, of Andover, and both he and his wife are members of the Congregational Church.  Our subject has all the desirable qualities of a successful railroad man, is affable and courteous to all, and zealous and trustworthy.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page  463
  LYMAN T. CREESY, a prominent farmer of Cherry Valley township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in this township, Dec. 14, 1843, a son of Trask Creesy.  The latter was a son of Josiah Creesy, whose father was an old sea captain and who lost his life at sea.  The family are supposed to be of French origin.  Josiah Creesy married Tryphena Wright, and they had six children: Frank, Dryden, William, Gilman, Delia Ann and Eliza.  The mother died in Cherry Valley, at the age of ninety years.  In the fall of 1823, when Trask Creesy was a lad of seventeen years, he came with his parents from Otsego county, New York, to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he was among the first settlers. Cherry Valley township was organized and named at his father’s home.  Trask Creesy was married Dec. 25, 1828, in this township, to Permelia Loomis, who was born near Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a daughter of Josiah Looinis, one of the early settlers of Williamsfield, this county.  He died in that town at an advanced age.  Mr. and Mrs. Creesy had seven children, four now living: Susan, wife of C. A Hitchcock, of Chicago, Illinois; Tryphena, wife of D. O. Tourgee; Truman, who served eighteen months in the Seventh Kansas Cavalry during the late war, is now a resident of Colorado; and Lyman, our subject.  The deceased are: Charlotte, who was the wife of D. R. Carpenter; Celina and Abbie.  Trask Creesy was a farmer by occupation, a member of the Congregational Church, and a Republican in his political view.  He died Feb. 2, 1890, at the age of eighty-five years, and his wife departed this life in 1874, at the age of sixty-five years.  She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
     Lyman T. Creesy, the subject of this sketch, still resides on the old home farm where he was reared to manhood.  In 1864, he enlisted for service in the late war, entering Company D, One Hundred and  Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served ten and a half months.  He participated in the battles of Murfreesborough, Town Creek, etc.  After the close of hostilities Mr. Creesy returned to his home in this township, where he now owns 200 acres of fine farming land, all well improved.  In addition to his general farming, he also conducts a large dairy, keeping twenty-five cows of high grade.
     Mr. Creesy was married June 5, 1867, to Miss Elizabeth Laughlin who was born in Richmond township, this county, Aug. 21, 1843, a daughter of Hugh and Jeannette (Brice) Laughlin.  Our subject and wife have four children: Filson D.; Lottie M.,  who has taught school seven terms; Belle, engaged in the same occupation four terms; and Budd L.  Mr. Creesy affiliates with the Republican party, has served as Township Trustee, and has been President of the School Board six years.  Socially, he is a member of the G. A. R., Hiram Kile Post, No.. 80.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 633
  C. J. CRONIN, a conductor on the Nickel Plate Railroad, residing in Conneaut, Ohio, is a native of Chautauqua county, New York, born Mar. 14, 1853.  His parents, John and Margaret (Haley) Cronin, were born, reared and married in Ireland, and came to America some time in the '40s, settling at Dunkirk, New York.  His father settling at Dunkirk, New York.  His father was a tanner by trade.  Both parents have passed away, the father dying at Cherry Creek, New York, at about the age of fifty years, and the mother living to be about sixty-five.  They had a family of nine children, C. J. being among the youngest.
     At about the age of fourteen years the subject of our sketch entered upon a seafaring life, beginning as deck boy, being promoted to ordinary seaman and three years later to seaman.  For more than a dozen years he sailed on the briny deep, and during that time visited nearly all the principal ports of the world.  From 1870 until 1882 his home was in Erie, and during the warm weather he sailed on the lakes.  The only serious shipwreck he was in in all these years was on Lake Huron.  He was on the Francis Berryman, Captain William Norris, and about eleven o’clock on a moonlight night this vessel was run down by the steam barge Coffinbury and struck forward of the fore rigging.  Two men were killed or drowned and were never seen afterward.  The trouble was caused by a misunderstanding between the officers, the steam barge being responsible for the damages.
     Mr. Cronin began railroading in 1880, as brakeman on the Lake Shore Railroad, and continued as such for two years.  In 1882 he began service on the Nickel Plate, with which company he has since remained, having served three years as brakeman and the past eight years as freight conductor.  In all his railroad experience he has never had an accident that cost the company a dollar.  His career has been one marked by the closest attention to business and the interest of his employers.
     Mr. Cronin was married Dec. 28, 1881, to Miss Margaret Griffin, daughter of Tarrence and Margaret Griffin, natives of Ireland.  Mr. and Mrs. Cronin have four bright children, Anna May, Frank, Charles and Margaret, of whom they are justly proud.   After having spent much of his life on the sea and in foreign climes, Mr. Cronin knows how to appreciate his comfortable and happy home.  He and his wife are members of the Catholic Church, and in politics he affiliates with the Democratic party.   He is is a man of pleasing address, is an entertaining converser, and is popular with the Brotherhood, of which he is Assistant Chief.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 770
  DWIGHT L. CROSBY. - The subject of this sketch descended from a long line of hardy New England ancestors, inherits their best qualities of mind and heart.
     His grandfather, Elijah Crosby, was one of those pathfinders who blazed a way into the Western wilds of Ohio, and started those arts of peace which have culminated in her present prosperity.  He was the first of his family to arrive in Ashtabula county, the date of his coming being Aug. 2, 1806, and was one of the earliest pioneer settlers of that county, taking up his abode on a claim of wild land in Rome township.  He was born in Connecticut of early New England ancestors who came from England to Massachusetts in 1635, their descendants all over the Union.  Elijah Crosby married Phoebe Church, also a native of Connecticut, and they had seven sons and five daughters.  (For mention of each of the children, see Williams' History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, published in 1878.)
     Levi Crosby, a son of Elijah and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in East Haddam, Middlesex county, Connecticut, Apr. 2, 1803.  He was married in 1832 to Miss Sarah Leonard, a native of Warren, Herkimer county, New York, and they had four children:  Giles H., Dwight L., Maria J., and Jane E., all of whom are living in 1893.  Levi Crosby was for many years successfully engaged in the mercantile and produce business, and at the same cultivated a large farm in Rome township, Ashtabula county, where he died in 1883, to the great sorrow of a large circle of friends.
     His son, the subject of this sketch, was born on the home farm in Rose township, Nov. 21, 1836.  He remained on the farm until eighteen yeas of age, and received his education in the public schools of his vicinity and the Grand River Institute, in Austinburg, Ohio.  At the age of eighteen, he went to Rock Creek as a clerk in a mercantile business, owned by his father and a partner, where he remained about sixteen years.  He was elected County treasurer in October, 1873, serving in that capacity one term of two years, when, in 1875, he was re-elected for another term of the same length of time.  On the expiration of his second term of office, he became Assistant Cashier of the First National Bank of Jefferson, which position he still retains, to his own credit and the satisfaction of all concerned.
     In 1864, Mr. Crosby was married to Miss Augusta M. Bond, a native of Morgan township, Ohio, and daughter of Frederick M. Bond, a well known and worthy citizen.  They have had two children:  and a daughter, Caspie F.
     Fraternally, Mr. Crosby is a Knight Templar Mason, and a member of the Knights of Pythias.  In politics, he is a Republican.
     In domestic, business and public life, Mr. Crosby has ever been the same honorable, energetic and capable gentleman, and richly deserves the prosperity which he enjoys.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 198
  F. E. CROSBY, a lumber dealer residing in Rome township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born here July 29, 1834.  He received good educational advantages in his youth, and has proved himself a man of more than ordinary business ability.  As a member of the firm of Crosby & Beckly, wholesale lumber dealers, he has established a reputation that extends not only over this part of Ohio, but also throughout the East, West and South.  They have a branch office in New Haven, Connecticut.
     Mr. Crosby was married Sept. 12, 1863, to Miss Emma Wood, who was born Nov. 6, 1846, the daughter of a prominent merchant of Ashtabula.  They have two children:  Nora, born Dec. 16, 1864, and Charles C., Jan. 10, 1877.
     During the war Mr. Crosby was one of the brave soldiers in the Union ranks.  He enlisted Apr. 25, 1861, in Company D, Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, and was discharged Aug. 30, 1861.  On the 5th of the following October he re-enlisted in the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and remained in the service until he was honorably discharged, Oct. 4, 1862.  A portion of this time he served as hospital steward.  R. Crosby is a Freemason, having attained the royal Arch degree.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 376

D. Crowell		 DWIGHT CROWELL, the efficient and popular Auditor of Ashtabula county, Ohio, is a native of this county, born May 31, 1828.  His parents, William and Nancy (Hewins) Crowell, were natives of Connecticut and of Genesee county, New York, respectively.  The Crowell family is an old and numerous one in Ashtabula county.  The name of the English origin, and is authentically stated to have formerly been "Cromwell."  The paternal grandfather, William Crowell, married Miss Peck and joined the westward tide of emigration from Connecticut to Ohio, settling in Rome township, Ashtabula county, when William, the father of the subject of this sketch, was but three yeas of age.  They were the second or third family to settle in Rome township, and experienced all the hardships of pioneer life.  They had eight children.  William became a carpenter and joiner by trade, and was one of the contractors to construct the Ashtabula and Warren turnpike.  In later life he engaged in mercantile business, being altogether for many years an honored resident of Geneva, Ohio.  In 1872 he died, in Jefferson, aged seventy-six years, and his mortal remains lie buried in the city cemetery.  He had a brother John, who was a prominent attorney of Trumbull county, Ohio, and who served three or four years in Congress and held other public offices of trust.  He afterward settled in Cleveland, where he attained first rank as a lawyer,  and where he died at an advanced age.
     Nancy (Hewins) Crowell, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was spared to her children until her ninety-fourth year of age, and was ever held in veneration by them and watched over with loving solitude.  She died Mar. 20, 1893, at the home of her son, W. H. Crowell, in Washington, District of Columbia, and the mortal remains were consigned to earth in the cemetery at Jefferson, beside those of her husband.  She was the daughter of Ebenezer Hewins, a native of Massachusetts, who removed in an early day to New York, whence, in 1820, he went to Ohio, at that time on the extreme frontier.  He settled on a farm near Harpersfield, and became prominent as a man of superior intellect and moral worth.  On the organization of Ashtabula county, he became one of the first Associate Justices, and held other positions of public trust.  He had a large family.  William Crowell and wife had four sons and one daughter, all of whom are now living.  W. H. has been a clerk in the Auditor’s office at Washington, District of Columbia, since 1880, having formerly served fourteen years as Auditor of Ashtabula county, and being widely known as a man of ability and honor.  W. H. H., the youngest brother of the subject of this sketch, served in the Civil war, and for his bravery and efficiency was promoted.  He afterward joined the regular army, in which he is still a Captain, being stationed in Kentucky.  The name of the only sister is Ruby.
     Dwight Crowell, whose name heads this notice, was reared in Ashtabula county, and received his education in the Geneva high school.  He early entered the mercantile business in Geneva, where he continued fifteen years, enjoying the confidence and respect of that community.  In 1869 he went to Jefferson and entered the Auditor’s office as deputy, which position he held eleven years.  In 1880 he was elected Clerk of the Supreme Court, in which capacity he served three years, making his home at Columbus.  In March, 1884, lie returned to Jefferson and again assumed the position of deputy in the Auditor’s office, in which he continued until November, 1889.  He was then elected Auditor of the county, to which office he was re-elected in November, 1892, and is the present incumbent.  He has always been a stanch Republican, and has been a delegate to a number of State conventions.  Fraternally, he is a member of the I. O. O. F
     He was married in 1852, to Miss S. Frary, an estimable lady of Ashtabula county, who has been a helpmate to him in every sense of the word.  They have three interesting children: William S., Kate F. and Nancy E., the last named being the wife of E. B. Lynn, of Geneva, Ohio.
     The long and continued public preferment which has been accorded to Mr. Crowell is sufficient evidence, even were there no other, of his ability, sterling worth, and of the high esteem in which he is held.  In person he is above the medium size, possessed of a splendid physique and of pleasing address.  He is a man of fine social qualities and is one of the most popular officials in the county.  He is a thoroughly domestic man and devoted to his family, yet warmly attached to his friends.  He prefers, however, to be a host rather than a guest, and at his home is ever extending a welcome to representatives of his large circle of acquaintances, all of whom delight in his friendship.  It is such men that advance the standard of humanity, honor a community and make life brighter.
 Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 733
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