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CORYDON O. WARE, an
enterprising farmer of Hampden township, is a native of Geauga county,
Ohio, born January 13, 1850, a son of Alfred Ware, a
native of Madison, Lake county, Ohio. The grandfather, Asaph
Ware, emigrated to Ohio from the East at an early day, and located
in Madison, subsequently removing to Hampden township, Geauga county. In
1855 he removed to Linn county, Iowa, where he passed the remainder of
his life. Alfred Ware is one of a family of four children,
and he lived all his life in Hampden township with the exception of two
years. He bought the old Ware homestead, where he died in 1862. His
wife, whose maiden name was Harriet Dorman, was born in
Charleston, Portage county, Ohio; she died at the age of fifty-seven
years. C. O. Ware, is the only child of Alfred and Harriet D.
Ware. He attended the district schools, and early became
accustomed to the hard labor of the farm. He was a lad of thirteen years
when his father died, and at the age of sixteen he took charge of the
homestead on which he has ever since lived. Mr. Ware was
married June 22, 1886, to Alma Mapes, who was born at
Mayfield, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, a daughter of Hiel and Eliza (Field)
Mapes, natives of New York and Vermont, respectively. They emigrated
to Ohio in their youth and were married at Mayfield. Mr. Mapes
followed agricultural pursuits through life; he moved to Michigan, and
died at Coldwater, at the age of sixty-seven years; his wife is still
living, at Winfield, Michigan. They reared a family of five children. Mrs.
Ware was educated at Oberlin College, and is a woman of superior
attainments. Mr. Ware supports the issues of the
Republican party. He carries on a general farming business, and has 123
acres in a high state of cultivation. His maple grove contains 700 trees
and is one of the best in the township.
Mr. and Mrs. Ware are the parents of one child,
a daughter named Margery.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio -
Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 1014 |
JASON C.
WELLS, an old and honored citizen of Geauga county, is known
as the "Claridon poet," having written many verses recounting the
incidents of life on the frontier. Possessing more than
ordinary literary ability, he has prepared many articles for
publication in the Geauga Republican, and upon the sixtieth
anniversary of the organization of the Congregational Church in
Claridon he read a paper which received much favorable comment.
He is one of the oldest settlers in the county, and a biographical
sketch of his family is here appended.
He was born in Claridon township, Geauga county, Ohio,
Jan. 24, 1818, a son of Ebenezer Wells, a native of West Hartford,
Connecticut, born in 1784, and grandson of Timothy Wells, who was
born in West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1750. The family is of
Scotch origin.
During the early part of the sixteenth century there
lived in Scotland, by the side of some noted wells of water, a
family by the name of Thomas; to distinguish the father from
others bearing the same name he was called “Thomas by the
wells.” The family afterward went to England to live and the
name was finally changed to Wells. About the year 1630
it is said three brothers came to America and settled in
Massachusetts: the oldest brother, disliking the rigors of the New
England climate, prospected toward the South and settled in
Virginia; the youngest joined a party of colonists in 1636 and
settled in Connecticut, near the present site of Hartford. In
1745 appears Thomas Wells, great-grandfather of our
subject, residing at the foot of Tolcott mountain. His son
Timothy was a farmer, and served in the Revolutionary war.
He was engaged to be married to Miss Esther Clark
before going to the war, but delayed the marriage that he might
serve his country. He was with the army during the terrible
winter it Valley Forge, and was in several noted battles. On
one occasion he witnessed a meeting of Washington and Lee,
when the anger of the father of his country was amazing and he swore
in vigorous terms. After three years’ service Timothy
Wells was stricken with smallpox, and his eyes became so
affecten that he was discharged; he then returned to his home and
was married. He traded his rough and stony land in Connecticut
for land in Ohio, and sent his son, Timothy, Jr., on
horseback to look after the investment. The war of 1812
delayed the settlement until 1815, when he came with his family,
fourteen in number, making the journey with wagons and oxen in
thirty-seven days. He built a log cabin, and owned 430 acres
of land. He died in 1820, at the age of three-score years and
ten. Ebenezer Wells, father of Jason C.,
was married in Connecticut to Diantha Coe, and had two
children when he came to his western home. With hard and
unremitting toil he cleared up a farm before his death, which
occurred at the age of forty-eight years; his wife survived to the
age of eighty-seven. Money was very scarce in those days, and
it was with difficulty that Mr. Wells raised his
annual tax of $4. He hauled twenty-four bushels of wheat to
Fairport, taking three days for the journey, and received in
exchange only a barrel of salt. Jason C. Wells is the
only surviving member of a family of five children, of whom he was
the third-born. He attended the schools of the day until he
was obliged to relinquish his books for the sterner duties of the
farm. His father died when he was a youth of fourteen, and at
the age of nineteen he began life on his own account. He
traded his share in the homestead for a tract of fifty acres, which
he tilled with untiring industry until the fall of 1847, when he
removed to his present farm.
He was married Jan. 22, 1845 to Caroline Moffit,
a native of the State of New York, and they had three children:
Hettie E.; Della, wife of Frank Kellogg, residing in
Missouri; and Margaret, wife of John C. Libby, who
lives in the State of Michigan.
Mr. Wells’ farm contains one hundred and
thirty acres, which is in an excellent state of cultivation. He has
given especial attention to the culture of fruit, and has done much
to promote this branch of farming in this section. He and his
wife are members of the Congregational Church. Politically he
affiliates with the Republican party, and has with great credit
served as Justice of the Peace two terms. He is a member of the
Farmers' Club, and has been for thirty years. He is frequently
called on for essays, poetical and otherwise, his literary talent
being of marked order.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The
Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 744 |
OBED W. WICKS
has for many years been prominently identified with the agricultural
interests of Geauga county, Ohio, and is entitled to the space
accorded him in this volume. He is a native of New York State,
born at Watertown, Jefferson county, Dec. 11, 1823. His father
Obed Wicks, was a native of Halifax, Vermont, born in 1776.
His grandfather, Joseph Wicks, was a native of Providence,
Rhode Island, while the great grandfather of the subject of this
sketch was Warren Wicks, who emigrated from England in an
early day and settled at Providence, where the Indians took him
prisoner and burned him alive. Joseph Wicks, removed
from Providence to Halifax, Vermont, in which latter place he died
at a ripe old age. Obed Wicks, father of the subject of
this sketch, was the youngest of a family of eight sons and four
daughters. He was a farmer, and in 1832, removed with his
family to Ohio, settling in Middlefield township, Geauga county
where he took up new land, which he cleared and improved. He
was accidentally drowned at Cleveland, this State, in 1866, at the
age of eighty years; he was never sick a day in his life. He
served in the war of 1812, and assisted in driving the British from
Sackett's Harbor. He married Sabra Ellis, a native of
Massachusetts, who died when forty-nine years of age; she was one of
a family of ten daughters and two sons. The subject of this
sketch is the youngest of three sons, two of whom are living.
The eldest emigrated at an early day to Cook county, Illinois, and
thence to Pottawattamie county, Iowa, accompanying the Pottawattamie
Indians. He was killed by the red men in Idaho.
Mr. Wicks, of this notice, had limited
opportunities for acquiring an education. He attended the
primitive schools of the frontier, and, in 1838, returned to
Watertown, New York, where he went to school for a few months.
In 1839 he hired out as a boat hand on the Ohio canal and made one
trip to Portsmouth. He afterward went down to Mississippi and
visited other sections of the South, and also contemplated a trip to
Santa Fe, New Mexico, but did not carry out his plans.
Returning to Ohio, he settled in Burton township, Geauga county, and
turned his attention to farming. In 1852 he crossed the plains
to California, where he spent two years in mining. He made the
trip home by water and has ever since devoted himself to general
farming, also dealing largely in live-stock and breeding fine grades
of cattle.
In 1847 Mr. Wicks was married to Malinda
Betts,
a native of Johnstown, New York, and they have had four children:
Ellen, deceased; Flora, wife of Alfred Endsley,
a farmer of Burton township; Carl, married, and living in
Burton; and Bertha, wife of Clifton Nickerson,
of Russell, Frontier county, Nebraska.
In his business transactions, Mr. Wicks has been
very successful. He owns 100 acres in the home farm and ninety
more in Middlefield township, all of which is under good
cultivation. Politically, he supports the Republican party.
He is a man possessing the courage of his convictions, and enjoys
the respect of his entire community.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio -
Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page |
ABRAM A. WILMOT,
Vice President of the First National Bank of Chardon and of the
Geauga Savings & Loan Association of the same place, was born in
Claridon township, Geauga county, Ohio, June 30, 1824, being a son
of Abraham Wilntot, a native of Connecticut, and
grandson of Asa Wilmot, who was also born in
Connecticut
of Scotch-English extraction. Asa Wilmot was an
agriculturist, and reared a large family of children; he was a man
of small means but untiring industry; he died in Connecticut at a
ripe old age. Abraham Wilmot first came to the West in
1816, when a single man, making the
journey on foot with a solitary companion, averaging 100 miles every
three days. He remained six months and then returned to his
home. He was married in 1818, his wedding journey being a trip
to the West, this emigration being accomplished in a one-horse
wagon. He had $300 to make a payment on land, and bought 100
acres in Claridon township, Geauga county, where he built a log
house in the heart of the forest, and began the task of clearing and
improving a farm. He was an expert rifleman, and often hunted
wild game for his neighbors while they chopped for him. In
early life he was strong and vigorous, but in later years suffered
from fever and lameness. He died at the age of eighty-three
years. He was a member of the Congregational Church, and in
politics was a Whig, being a strong Abolitionist. He married
Raney Tuttle, a native of Connecticut, by whom he had
a family of seven children, six of whom grew to maturity: Lucina,
Esther, Emily Ann, Charles, Lucius T.,
Abraham, and Thomas, deceased. The mother died
at the age of seventy-seven years; she was a member of the
Congregational Church, and possessed many admirable traits of
character, being deeply attached to her home and family. Her
father was a native of Connecticut, and was a soldier in the war of
1812, dying of camp fever contracted in the service.
Lucius T. Wilmot is the fourth-born of this family.
He was reared amid the privations and hardships of life on the
frontier, and received his education in the primitive log
schoolhouse of that day and in Kirtland Academy at the age of
nineteen years he began teaching in Portage county, Ohio. In
1845, he went to Shelby county, Kentucky, and followed his
profession during the winter season for five years. In 1846,
he traveled through Georgia and Alabama and had a good opportunity
to study the evils of slavery. In 1847, he taught school in
Washington county, Indiana, returning to Ohio in the summer of 1850.
On the tenth day of September of that year he was united in marriage
to Mrs. Nancy (Taylor) Kellogg, who came to the West from
Connecticut at the age of seven years. Her father, Childs
Taylor, was an early pioneer in Claridon township, and owned 500
acres of land; he was born in 1782 and died in 1847, the father of
six sons and six daughters. Mr. and Mrs.
Wilinot are the parents of four children: Eugene is a
farmer in this county; Stanley, is a practicing lawyer at
Dunlap, Iowa; Alice is now Mrs. C. C. Kellogg; and
Melva resides at home.
After his marriage Mr. Wilmot located on
130 acres of land in Claridon township, where he farmed for
twenty-seven years, making many tine and valuable improvements.
In the meantime his operations were not confined to this one tract,
as he bought and improved several other farms which he sold as they
became desirable property. At one time he was the most
extensive dealer in livestock in the township, shipping to points in
New England. He removed to Claridon in 1877, where he has
since resided. He was one of the incorporators of the Geauga
Savings and Loan Association, and also of the First National Bank of
Chardon. He is vice-president of both institutions and a
member of the board of directors. He began life without
capital excepting that with which nature had endowed him, and he has
made the most of his opportunities. Possessing sound judgment
and keen discernment, years of experience have made him one of the
best financiers in the county. He is a member of the
Congregational Church,
taking great interest in its welfare. Politically, Mr.
Wilmot affiliates with the Republican party, and has served as
Trustee of the township three years. It was during his term of
office and through his instrumentality that the town hall was built,
the same having been erected in 1886.
Mrs. Wilmot departed this life Dec. 14,
1892. She was a woman of strong character, warm-hearted and
charitable, and was in reality a helpmate to her husband in all his
labors. She was much devoted to her family, was a devout
Christian woman and an active member of the Congregational Church.
She was deeply mourned by all who knew her.
Mrs. Wilmot departed this life Dec. 14,1892.
She was a woman of strong character, warm-hearted and charitable,
and was in reality a helpmate to her husband in all his labors.
She was much devoted to her family, was a devout Christian woman and
an active member of the Congregational Church. She was deeply
mourned by all who knew her.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The
Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 754 |
ALEXANDER T. WING,
deceased, was for many years a prominent and successful farmer of
Auburn township, Geauga county, Ohio. Few men in this section
of the country were better known or more highly respected than he.
Of his life we make mention as follows:
Alexander T. Wing was born at Perry's
Mills, Champlain township, Clinton county, New York, Dec. 29, 1827.
His father, Tyler Wing, was born at Rockingham, Vermont, and
was of Welsh-English extraction. By occupation he was a
farmer. He moved his family from New York State to
Streetsborough, Portage county, Ohio, in 1833, where he bought a
farm, and ran a store for a number of years. In his old age he
came to Geauga county, and died at the home of his son, Alexander
T., in 1874, aged eighty-six yeas. His wife, nee
Martha Rogers, a native of New York State, died here in 1880, at
the age of eighty-six. Both were devoted Christians and were
members of the Congregational Church. They reared a family of
seven children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest son
and sixth born, and the only one of that number who has passed away.
Alexander T. Wing came to Portage county, Ohio,
in his boyhood days. His education was received in the public
and select schools of Streetsborough. At the age of eighteen
he left home to learn the carpenter’s trade. Subsequently he
traveled over a large scope of country, as far West as St. Louis,
Missouri, and through Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio, working at his
trade.
At Streetsborough, May 29, 1853, Mr. Wing
married Miss Cordelia Risley, who died Jan. 3,
1855, without issue. Sept. 10, 1859, he married Miss
Frances L. Stafford, who was born in Ontario county, New York,
Sept. 10, 1832, daughter of Joshua and Lucretia (Gibson) Stafford,
the former a native of Rhode Island, and the latter of Portland,
Maine. The Stafford family moved to Ohio in
1834. While coming across the lake they were caught in a
storm, ran into Fairport, and were wrecked. The boat was lost
but all on board were saved. Mr. Stafford
settled in the western part of Auburn township, where he improved a
farm and spent the residue of his life, dying here at the age of
seventy-eight years. His wife passed away at the age of
forty-five. They reared nine children. Mr. and Mrs.
Wing had four children, namely: Martha C., who died at
the age of three years; the second child died in infancy; Willis
S., a merchant at Auburn Corners; Ella E., wife of W.
D. McCollum, resides on a farm in this township.
It was in 1852 that the subject of our sketch settled
on his farm in Auburn township. He cleared up about seventy
acres of the place and made all the substantial improvements upon
it. He was a hard worker all his life. He gave his
attention to general farming and stock-raising.
Mr. Wing was prominently identified with
various organizations. Religiously he was a Universalist, of which
church Mrs. Wing is also a member. He was a
Republican in politics, and was twice a member of the United States
jury at Cleveland. He served as Trustee seven terms, as
Assessor two terms, and two terms as a Justice of the Peace.
When a young man he joined the Masonic order at Kalamazoo, Michigan,
and for thirty-three years was a member of Golden Gate Lodge, No.
245, at Chagrin Falls. He had taken the Royal Arch degree in
Masonry. He was also identified with the Odd Fellows, having
his membership at Auburn Corners. June 2, 1892, this good man
passed away. His funeral was attended by a large concourse of
people, and at his grave the Masons and Odd Fellows performed their
beautiful and impressive ceremonies over their departed brother.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The
Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 1026 |
FRANCIS P. WORK,
one of the most progressive and successful farmers of Middlefield
township, was born at Somers, Tolland county, Connecticut, Sept. 2,
1831. His father, James M. Work, was a native of
Massachusetts, and his grandfather, James Work, was born in
the same State, but in 1828 he emigrated to the West and settled in
Logan county, Ohio, where he lived to the good old age of more than
four-score years. His son removed to Geauga county in 1836,
and located in the northern part of Claridon township. He
rented land for a few years and then came to Middlefield township,
where he bought 121½ acres; he made
most of the improvements, which are of a very substantial character,
and placed the land under good cultivation. He was a man of
fine constitution, and was an industrious worker. He died at
the age of eighty-three years. He married Harriet Pease,
a native of Massachusetts, and they reared a family of six children.
The mother is still living, in her ninetieth year, and makes her
home with her son, F. P. Work. Politically, the father
affiliated with the Whig party, and later became a supporter of
Republican principles; he served as Trustee of his township, and was
a man much respected by all with whom he came in contact.
F. P. Work was a child of five years when the family emigrated
to the West, and well remembers many incidents of the journey.
He received his education in the pioneer schools, and when old
enough began farming.
He was married Apr. 14, 1857, to Mary Ames, a
native of Geauga county, Ohio. They have had born to them one
daughter, Mary J., who married Walter Bowen, an
agriculturist of Middlefield township.
Mr. Work is the owner of 266 acres of fine
farming land, in four different tracts, and in addition to the
cultivation of the soil he runs a dairy, milking thirteen cos.
He is an excellent manager, and has been very prosperous in all his
undertakings. Politically, he votes with the Republican party,
but takes no active concern in the movements and issues of that
body.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The
Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 758 |
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