DARWIN G. PALMER., M. D., is one of the leading men of the medical profession in northeastern Ohio.  He is a native of Fitchville, Huron county, Ohio, born May 10, 1842.  He was reared and educated at his birthplace, and also attended the normal school at Milan, Ohio.  At the age of nineteen he entered the service of his country, enlisting in August, 1861, in Company D, One Hundred and First Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He was in the Army of the Cumberland and participated in the battles at Perryville, Lancaster, Kentucky, Stone River and Chickamauga, and took part in the campaign of Chattanooga.  He was in many active engagements of less note, but during the latter part of his service was hospital steward, having charge of a dispensary on Lookout Mountain.  He was mustered out in July 1865.
     Having acquired a taste for the study of medicine he continued in this pursuit, establishing himself in the drug trade at Geneva; later on he entered the Cleveland Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1878.  He at once began practicing at Geneva, and at the end of five years went abroad for the purpose of study and observation.  He also took a special course at Guy's Hospital, London, and upon his return again took up his practice at Geneva.
     Dr. Palmer is a son of David and Jane W. (Gregory) Palmer, natives of Connecticut, tracing their ancestry to the colonists of 1630 who emigrated from Scotland. The father was a manufacturer of boots and shoes for many years, and died in 1852, on his way to California, and was buried in Wyoming Territory.  In the paternal line were many characters of Revolutionary note.  The widow of Dr. Palmer is living with her son, Dr. Palmer.
     Politically, the Doctor is identified with the Republican party, and has filled the office of Coroner for several terms.  He is a member of the Bowers Post, No. 28, G. A. R., and has served as Senior Commander of the Department of Ohio, G. A. R., and as Medical Director and historian of the department.  He belongs to the I. O. O. F., to the Knights of Pythias and to the Masonic order.
     He was married July 20, 1871, to Miss Lillian Smith, of Erie, Pennsylvania.  She is an active member of the Woman's Relief Corps, and Most Excellent Chief of the Pythian Sisters of Kalista Temple.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 293

F. E. PALMER, owner and proprietor of the sawmills of West Williamsfield, was born in Dorset township, Ashtabula county, in 1854, a son of Elihu and Lydia Palmer, residents of Denmark.  The father was born in this county, where the family were among the early pioneers.  Our subject was engaged in agricultural pursuits for a time, and since 1890 has followed the milling business in Ashtabula county,  He has had mills located at Denmark, Pierpont, Wayne and Williamsfield.  During the last eighteen months 800,000 feet of lumber has been cut in Mr. Ralmer's mill,  Our subject's time is divided between his mill and farm at Denmark, where his father resides.  He was also engaged in buying, pressing and shipping hay for two years.
     In 1886 Mr. Palmer was united in marriage with Miss Alice Knapp, also a native of Ashtabula county.  They have three children: Alfred, aged thirteen years; Carrie, eight years; and Alice Betina, eighteen months.  Mr. Palmer affiliates with the Republican party, and is a member of the I. O. O. F., Ensign Lodge, No. 400.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 380

OREN N. PARKER was born in Orwell, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1838, son of Nehemiah and Samantha Parker.  He was reared upon the farm, receiving the advantages of a district school education, as well as a thorough knowledge of farming, which occupation has been his through life.   In connection with his farming, he has been successfully engaged in breeding and raising many valuable horses, at the head of which he now has a fine Conway stallion.  Mr. Parker also makes a specialty of winter dairying, his products finding a ready market in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
     July 1, 1863, Mr. Parker married Alzada M., daughter of Jonathan and Lucy (Eaton) Dimmick, her father being one of the progressive farmers of Orwell, Ohio.  Mrs. Parker was born in Orwell, but her parents were natives of Connecticut and came from that State to Ohio at an early day, making the long and tedious journey by wagon and meeting with many of the exciting and thrilling adventures incident to travel at that time, but finally reaching their destination in safety.  Mr. Parker was the last born of their four children, the date of her birth being July 18, 1840.  Lucy A., their eldest child became the wife of Francis Eaton, and died at the age of thirty-three years, leaving a son, Francis E., and a daughter, Ina May.  The next, Jane E., died at the age  fifty-three years.  She was the wife of James Covert, of Orwell, and left a family of seven children.  Jonathan Erskine, Mrs. Parker's only brother, makes his home with her family.  Mr. and Mrs. Parker have had four children: Cora, the oldest, died in infancy; Lucy Eleanor, born Feb. 1, 1870, is the wife of Barton E. Hall a clothing merchant of Orwell; Maude Valentine, born Feb. 14, 1875; and Samantha Z., born Feb. 2, 1879.  After the death of Cora, their first born, Mr. and Mrs. Parker adopted Jennie, the motherless little daughter of John Wikes, the child being at that time three years of age.  This adopted daughter is now the wife of Robert Williams and resides in Orwell.  Mr. and Mrs. Parker have taken great pride in the education of their children.  Their daughter, Maud V., is one of the four young ladies who have the honor of comprising the first class to graduate at the Orwell Normal Institute.  She was selected by her class to write a class prophecy to be delivered at the commencement exercises of 1893.   Their selection was well made, for she displayed such lively fancy and imagination, perfect rhetoric, and forcible delivery, that she completely captivated her large and appreciative audience.
     Mr. Parker's fine farm comprises 235 acres, and is located a mile west of the village of Orwell.  The comfortable home substantial farm buildings, and other improvements, all combine to make this a desirable place of residence.
     Mr. Parker has no aspiration for political prominence.....  He is, however, a sincere and honest supporter of Democratic principles as set forth by the true Democracy.  He is a charter member of the I. O. O. F. at Orwell, and he and his entire family belong to 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 647

JOHN JAMISON PEARCE, a member of the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Episcopal Conference, and a resident of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, Feb. 28,1826, son of Rev. Marmaduke and Hannah (Stuart) Pearce, the latter being a descendant of Prince John Alden, who came over in the Mayflower. His paternal ancestor, Edward Pearce, served in the battle of the Boyne.
     Rev. Marmaduke Pearce was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, Aug. 18, 1776, and was a self-educated man. He was inti­mately associated with Dr. George Peck (brother of Bishop Jesse T. Peck,) who, in his history of Methodism in the Wyoming valley, says: " Rev. Marmaduke Pearce was the strongest man in the Genesee Conference, although he seldom ever spoke." He was for years a Presiding Elder, and for many years was stationed in Baltimore and other prominent places. He was again and again elected a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After a long and useful life he passed to his reward, his death occurring in Berwick, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 11, 1852. His wife was born in 1781, and died at Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, Oct. 21, 1859. She was a member of the church from her early girlhood, and her whole life was characterized by the sweetest of Christian graces. They had three children. Stewart, the oldest, was born Nov. 26, 1820, and died Oct. 13, 1882. He was a man of prominence in his day, was a historian of some note, served two terms in the Legislature of Pennsylvania; was Postmaster of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, eight years, and served as Collector of Tolls on the Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad at Columbia, Pennsylvania, for some time. While occupying the last named position he lost his eyesight, and thereafter used an amanuensis. He accumulated a large fortune, and in his will left $27,000 to various benevolences. He was a believer in the Christian religion and died in that faith. During his life he placed ten or twelve memorial slabs over various points in the Wyoming valley, where, during the Indian history, noted events occurred. It should be here stated that John Jameson, grandfather of our subject, was the last man massacred by the Indians in the Wyoming valley. Stewart Pearce was never married. Cromwell, the second of the family, was born July 1, 1823, and died June 16, 1872. He was a graduate of law; was married Nov. 27, 1861, to Miss Sarah H. Taylor, of Owego, New York, and was a genial, jolly man, kind-hearted and generous, and a favorite with all.
     Rev. John J. Pearce is the youngest of the family and the only one left to bear his father's name. He became an itinerant minister when a boy less than eighteen years of age, and in 1844 joined the Baltimore Conference, of which he was a member ten years. His first work was on Lycoming circuit. At that time nearly all ministers of the conference were circuit riders. In 1854 he was elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, and while a member of that body voted for General N. P. Banks for Speaker; was closely associated with Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, and a great admirer of Benjamin Wade, who was in the Senate at that time.
     In 1857, Mr. Pearce was transferred to the Wyoming Conference, and was stationed at Kingston, Pennsylvania; in 1858 he was at Owego, New York; in 1859 to 1861, was Presiding Elder of the Owego District; and from 1862 to 1864, was Presiding Elder of the Honesdale District. In 1865-66, he was in the State of Delaware. He was transferred to the Philadelphia Conference in 1867, and was stationed at Philadelphia, from which place he was sent to Pottsville, where he remained from 1868 to 1870. In 1874 he was transferred to the Central Pennsylvania Conference and stationed at Mulberry Street Church, Williamsport, where he rendered efficient service three years. Then from 1877 until 1880, he was Presiding Elder of the Williamsport District, after which he was stationed at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, three years, and three years at Lewistown, same State. Since then he has sustained a supernumerary relation to the conference. In all these years he has been an earnest and faithful worker for the Master, and has been the means of accomplishing a vast amount of good. He spent some time in lecturing throughout the State of Pennsylvania upon the vital subjects:  "Is there a future retribution? The truthfulness of Christianity," and kindred topics.
     Mr. Pearce moved to Conneaut in 1892 and here invested in considerable property, which has rapidly increased in value. He is a great admirer of tine horses, and after his hours of study—for he is a student yet—it is his delight to take a drive behind his prancing steeds. His home surroundings are everything that would indicate culture and refinement.
     Mr. Pearce was married Feb. 22,1848, to Miss Elizabeth Dunn, daughter of Washington Dunn, the owner of the Great Island in Clinton county, Pennsylvania, and a sister of Judge William Dunn, a celebrated politician of Pennsylvania, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Pearce have four children, namely: Stewart, a railroad employee in Conneaut, married Miss Lide McGinley, and has three children: Stewart, John J. and Donald; Anna M., wife of H. S. Schalk, of Conneaut, general dispatcher on the Nickel Plate Railroad, has two children: John Pearce and Marmaduke; Bessie D., wife of F. A. Howard, a wholesale grocer of Chester, Pennsylvania, has four children: Pearce, Mary, Frederick and Ned; and Grace, a graduate of the Poston School of Oratory, is a noted elocutionist.
     Mrs. Pearce and all the children, with one exception, are members of the Methodist Church. Fraternally Mr. Pearce is identified with the Masonic order, and is also a member of the K. of P. In politics, 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 299

IRWIN PEASE, engineer on the Nickel Plate railroad, and a worthy citizen of  Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Chautauqua county, New York, Mar. 17, 1859, son of Russell and Harriet M. (Cruiser) Pease.
     Russell Pease, his father, was born in Bennington, Vermont, and was for many years a resident of Dunkirk, New York, where he was well known and highly respected. He owned a farm and superintended its cultivation, at the same time being in the employ of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad. His people were Presbyterians, in which faith he lived and died. He was a Jackson Democrat and a politician, and at various times held minor offices in the town in which he lived. He died Feb. 18,1870, at the age of forty-one years. Harriet M. (Cruiser) Pease is a daughter of Samuel and Hannah Cruiser, and one of a family of four sons and two daughters, all of whom are living except one, Edward, who was killed in his first battle in the late war. Her father was accidentally killed on the railroad. The mother, now about ninety years of age, is being tenderly cared for at Dunkirk, New York, by her daughter, Mrs. Pease.
     Irwin Pease is an only child. He completed a high school education at Dunkirk, and in 1877 started out in life as fireman on the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad. After firing on that road three years he was employed in the same capacity one year on the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburg Railroad, then, in 1881, being promoted to engineer. He began service with the Nickel Plate and came to Conneaut in 1883. He was fireman on this road a short time before getting a position as engineer, but nearly ever since he entered the employ of this company he has served as engineer on a freight train. His efficient service has gained him a steady position and brought him into favor with his employers. By economy and judicious investment he has acquired a competency, and is not only regarded as one of the highly esteemed citizens of Conneaut, but also as one who is well-to-do.
     He was married May 2, 1880, to Miss Mattie J. Featherston, daughter of John and Mary E. Featherston. She was born in Milton, Canada, where her father was engaged in the harness business for many years. He died when she was quite young at Baltimore, Maryland. Soon after the war the Featherston family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and subsequently located in Vermillion, Erie county, this State. The mother died in 1885, aged forty-eight years. Of the four children composing this family we make record as follows: Melvin, the oldest, resides in Conneaut; he married Mary Nuhn of Lorain county, Ohio, and their only child is Freddie; Anna, the second born, wife of Willis Newberry, died at the age of twenty-nine years, leaving three children—Mabel, Bessie and Johnie; Mrs. Pease was next in order of birth; Charles, the youngest, died at the age of four years.
     Mr. and Mrs. Pease have two children, Bertram Irwin and Howard Russell.
Both he and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church, of which he is a Vestryman.  He is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. In political matters he 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 183

CLAYTON L. PECK, formerly identified with the business interests of Ashtabula county and one of its best known and most successful merchants,  resides upon the fine farm in Colebrook, Ohio.  Mr. Peck was born June 19, 1860, in the township which he now resides.  His parents, Josiah and Minerva (Phillips) Peck, were also natives of Colebrook.  The former was born July 6, 1834 and the latter May 14, 1838.  For many years they occupied a fine farm near the center, removing to Jefferson township in 1885, and purchasing the hotel formerly belonging to Joseph Ruggles of that place.  This Mr. Peck conducted with great success till 1892, when he returned to his former vocation, that of farming at Penn Line, Pennsylvania, where he now resides.
     Our subject is the oldest of five children all of whom survive.  The second, B., born Sep. 30, 1862, resides in Colebrook; Urbine W., born Jun. 16, 1865, holds a responsible position at Andover, Ohio, as a dispatcher for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company.  He was formerly a most successful teacher in the public schools of Ashtabula county, an energetic student, and is highly esteemed by all who know him.  The third, Betsey Eldora, born Nov. 9, 1867, a loveable and accomplished young lady, resides at home;  Clark, the youngest, born Nov. 6, 1869, is also a resident of Penn Line, Pennsylvania.
     The early educational advantages of our subject were those usually granted to the average country lad, consisting of one term a year in the district schools.  Later, however, this was supplemented by a few terms at the celebrated Grand River Institute and Orwell Academy.  The next few years he spent upon a farm and as a clerk in a general store at Triumph, Ohio.  Dec. 29, 1880, he was united in marriage to Jennie E. Smith, daughter of Alonzo R. and Marcia Smith, old residents of Colebrook.  Mr. Smith at present resides with our subject; Mrs. Smith passed away in April, 1883.  The fruit of this marriage is one child, Bernard J., a bright little fellow of eight years, born Sept. 5, 1885.
     Returning of Colebrook in 1885, our subject embarked in the mercantile business in connection with his brother, L. B., with whom he was associated for two years.  During this time the Peck brothers did the heaviest business, probably, that has ever been done in Colebrook, averaging over $2,000 per month.  His health, however, compelled our subject to leave the mercantile business for a time, and, selling his interest to his brother in 1887, he engaged in the insurance business for a few months, representing eleven old companies.  Partially representing eleven old companies.  Partially recovering his health, he soon after purchased the stock of goods from his brother in Colebrook and removed to Jefferson, where he occupied, for two successful years, a part of the Flitch Block.  The business done here exceeded anything previously done in that village, reaching nearly $40,000 per year.  The confinement and care of the business again impaired his health, however, to such an extent that he was once more compelled to retire from business for a time, and he resumed the management of his fine farm in Colebrook.  He was soon after offered a very lucrative position as general agent for the State of Ohio of the Read Fertilizer Company of New York city, a position which he accepted and has since constantly filled with profit to himself and his employers.  In 1891 he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Colebrook and has since been a very active worker in Christian work.  He holds a local preacher's license from that denomination, and finds time to occupy many pulpits in this locality.  Fraternally, our subject is a member of the I. O. O. F. of Jefferson and the J. O. U. A. M. of Colebrook, Ohio.  As a business man, as a citizen, as an earnest church worker, our subject is highly esteemed by his many friends in Ashtabula county.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 1011

  Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Publ. by Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co. - 1893 - Page 676

CHARLES SUMNER PUTNAM was born May27, 1859, in a little red cottage on the farm of his grandfather, in Stockton, Chautauqua county, New York.  His parents were Welcome and Maria L. (Flagg) Putnam.  The father was born and raised and also died on this farm - dying in October, 1872, at the age of fifty-two years.  He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and one of its pillars in the little community where he lived.  He was an enterprising, intelligent, public spirited citizen, of good education and well read, possessed the strictest integrity.  He was a stanch Republican from the date of the organization of that party.  His unbounded admiration for that champion of human liberty, Charles Sumner, was the cause of his naming his son after the great statesman.  His wife survived him until March, 1892, dying at the age of seventy years.  She was a woman of great energy, kindness and cheerfulness, and a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church nearly all her life.  Two children were born to them - the subject of this sketch, and May V., born 1861, and now the wife of W. B. Horton, an insurance agent of Janestown, New York.
     The mother, however, was a widow of James Putnam, a cousin of the father, at the time of their marriage.  By her first marriage she had one son, Edgar P. Putnam, of Jamestown, New York, who is now (1893) forty-nine years of age.  He enlisted in the war in 1861, at the age of seventeen years, and served until its close.  He entered as a private in the Ninth New York cavalry, and was mustered out with the rank of Major, later on receiving from Congress one of its special medals of honor, awarded for distinguished services and acts of bravery on fields of battle.  During the war he was wounded twice and had two horses shot from under him.  He was in the Army of the Potomac, serving during the latter portion of the war for a time on General Sheridan’s staff.  After the close of the war he went to Minnesota, where he obtained employment on the Government surveys.  His energy and faculty of command were soon the means of placing him at the head of a surveying party, and for several years he was engaged in the arduous work of surveying townships and sections in northern Minnesota counties, at all times faraway in an unbroken wilderness.  While engaged in this work he became an expert in selecting and locating valuable tracts of pine lands, which were purchased from the Government by capitalists at the nominal sum of $1.25 per acre.  Into these lands he put every dollar of his savings, and in 1874, owing to greatly impaired health from over work, he sold his lands at a handsome figure and returned with his family to Jamestown, New York, to reside.  After a time, with returning health, he engaged in the drug business.  He was appointed Postmaster of the city of Jamestown by President Arthur, and succeeded in getting the free delivery service established there, but was removed from office soon after President Cleveland’s election.  Two years later (1888), he was elected County Clerk of Chautauqua county.   He refused a re-nomination after serving most acceptably his three-years’ term of office, and returned to his home in Jamestown, and soon after became identified with the management of the Chautauqua County National Bank.  For a number of years he has been active in politics, holding the position of chairman of the county executive committee of the Republican party during several campaigns, and is regarded as one of the leading Republicans of western New York.  He is a man of excellent business qualifications and has accumulated an independent fortune in his various avocations.
     Two years after his father’s death the subject of this sketch removed with his mother and sister from the home of his boyhood to Jamestown, where for two years he attended the union high school.  In 1876 he came to Conneaut, Ohio, where his grandparents then resided, and entered the office of the Conneaut Reporter as an apprentice.  Mar. 8, 1878, at the age of eighteen, he was married to Laura E., daughter of E. A. and Eliza A. Stone.  Two children have been born to them - Eppie May, born June 3, 1879, and Walter, born Feb. 14, 1886.  Mrs. Putnam was born June 23, 1858.  She is a member of the Christian Church of Conneaut.
     In the fall of 1878, he, in company with his brother-in-law, L. V. Stone, engaged in their first business venture by establishing the Conneaut Express.  After publishing this paper a year in Conneaut, Mr. Stone sold his interest in the same to G. P. Foster, of Geneva, Ohio, and the plant was moved to that village, where the publication of the Express was continued, our subject continuing as its editor and manager another year, when, after along and very serious illness, he sold his interest in the newspaper.  With returning health he moved to Cleveland, where he remained a year engaged in working at his trade on daily newspapers and in job offices.  Again returning to Conneaut, he purchased a half interest in the Reporter, in 1882, and in company with J. P. Rieg, continued in its publication until 1889, when he sold his interest in the business to Mr. Rieg.
     During 1888, he held, by appointment from the Governor of Ohio, the office of Lake Erie Warden.  His duties in enforcing the laws of the State relative to fishing in Lake Erie, called forth various and exciting experiences in dealing with the many rough and law-breaking fishermen.  Resigning his office after one year’s experience in that capacity, he at once engaged in successfully carrying out a large newspaper advertising contract which he had secured from one of the leading advertisers of the country.
     In 1890, at the outset of the work then begun on the eleventh census, he was appointed a Special Agent in the field work pertaining to farms, homes and mortgages.  At the conclusion of his work in the field he was called to Washington by the Superintendent of census, and appointed a clerk in the Census bureau.  He continued in that employ two years, resigning his position in June, 1892, to return to his home in Conneaut once more and engage in his present business, embracing furniture, carpets, curtains, and undertaking in its scope.  In June, 1893, he associated with himself Mr. C. H. Simonds, of Jefferson, Ohio, under the firm name of Putnam & Simonds.
     As may be imagined from the foregoing sketch, our subject is an active, aggressive Republican in politics, and has done much work for the party during the past fifteen years, both in the capacity of a newspaper writer and as an active participant in local and State politics.
     The Putnams of this county are principally the descendants of John Putnam, who, with three sons, emigrated from England to the colony of Massachusetts in the seventeenth century.  The race of Putnams, while not so numerous as many others, is one characteristically strong and noted for the traits of honor, honesty, patriotism, integrity, and tenacity of purpose with which its individuals are imbued, as exemplified by the lives and actions of those bearing this name.  It is an occurrence most rare indeed to see or hear the name of Putnam coupled with criminal transactions, and it is an undoubted fact that whenever such case is discovered, a taint in the individual will be found to have been inherited from some other source through marriage relations.
     The subject of this sketch is a descendant along the same branch, though not directly, which produced General Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary fame, and he is more directly a descendant from General Rufus Putnam, a Revolutionary soldier of distinction, and the founder of Marietta, Ohio.  Captain Andrew Putnam, a near relative of General Rufus, moved from Massachusetts, and finally settled in Chautauqua county. New York, in 1817, while it was practically yet a wilderness of forest.  His entire family of thirteen children (one girl and twelve boys) accompanied him.  Newell, the oldest son, and the grandfather of our subject, soon took up a farm of 100 acres near that of his father’s, and in time had cleared some sixty acres of it.  He lived upon this farm over forty years.  Becoming too old for farm labor, he disposed of it to his son, Welcome, and removed to Conneaut, Ohio, where he resided some twenty years at the Center, close beside the home of his daughter, Mrs. Rev. O. T. Wyman.  But after the death of his wife, in 1887, he returned to Chautauqua county and took up his home with Mrs. Wyman (Rev. Wyman having moved there two or three years previous).  He remained with them until his death, in 1890, at the advanced age of ninety-five years.  Newell Putnam was for a short time a soldier in the war of 1812, and was a participant in the battle of Lundy’s Lane.  In politics he was a Whig and then a Republican.  He was a man of sterling character, strong physique, strict honesty and propriety, a teetotaler, and a conscientious Christain of the Baptist faith.  He was most highly respected by all who knew him well.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 190