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	R. M. CHERRY.  One of the prosperous young farmers of Greenfield township is R. M. Cherry, who owns the one hundred and forty-five acres of land on which he makes his home.  He was born in this township, Sept. 29, 1873, and is a son of Eugene and Augusta (Turney) Cherry  The paternal grandfather, Reuben Cherry, was one of the old settlers of this county.  He was reared and married in New York state, but in 1823 came to Ohio alone, settling at Hanvil's Corners, Fairfield township.  After working here for a time, he returned home to get his wife, coming back to this state which he made his home until 1857, when typhoid fever caused his death.  His widow, who before her marriage was Miss Brilla Snow, lived to be eighty-eight, and until 1893, the year on her death, made her home with her son Eugene, the youngest of her family of nine.  Among the others were Eunice, who married M. Taylor, both now deceased; Eudolphia, the deceased wife of T. F. Hildreth; and Lucinda, the widow of Philander Mitchell.      Eugene Cherry, the father of R. M. Cherry, has spent all his life in this country.  He was born March 20, 1846, in Fairfield township, and began his education in the old log school house there.  He was not privileged however, to receive much of an education, for his father's early death compelled him to give all his time to the management of the farm.  To the cultivation of the soil he devoted himself assiduously until 1905, when he removed to Norwalk to live in retirement and enjoy the fruits of his labor.  His wife was born in Connecticut, but came at the age of thirteen to this state to live with an aunt.  Later, Mrs. Cherry returned to her native home for a while as her father, Cyrus Turney never became a resident of Ohio.  Her mother had died when she was but a young girl.  To Mr. and Mrs. Cherry were born three children:  Jessie, at home; R. M., of this review; and Floyd, who married Miss Rose Sisinger and lives in Arizona, the father of one child, Carlton E.      R. M. Cherry has always lived in this locality, and has worked on the farm from his boyhood.  He attended the district school of the township, but could never be said to have received an education for when his father's health failed, as the result of a sunstroke, he was compelled to give up his lessons and devote himself, mind and body, to the conduct of the farm.  The hard work he has put into the field tell; his crops are bountiful; and the condition of the buildings shows that their owner is thrifty and a good manager.  He has found by experience that his soil is best adapted to general farming and the progressive methods he employs bid fair to make him one of the most prosperous men of his township in a few.      On the 19th of April, 1905, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Cherry and Miss May Hartman, the daughter of William and Alice (Crebs) Hartman of New London, Ohio.  Mr. Hartman was born in Ashland county, Ohio, July 14, 1851, and his wife in Huntington county, Indiana, July 25, 1854.  Both are still living.  The had a family of five children: Ira; Charles: Nina, deceased; May and Sylvia.      Mr. Cherry is a member of the Methodist church of North Fairfield, is in regular attendance at its services and contributes generously to its support.  He was a member of the younger generation of farmers, to whom the township will look for her future prosperity and advancement, and he best expectations will not be disappointed, if we are to judge by the past years of Mr. Cherry's life. Source: History of Huron County, Ohio - Vol. II - By A. J. Baughman - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publ. Co. - 1909 - Page 246
Charles S. Clark	CHARLES S. CLARK needs no introduction to the readers of this volume for he has gained a world-wide reputation as the most extensive producer and propagator of seed corn rot only in this country but in foreign countries as well.  He was born Mar. 22, 1860, in a house which stood upon the site of his present residence, his parents being David S. and Esther (Boyd) Clark.  The father, who followed farming throughout his active life, passed away on the 7th of February, 1885.   In the family were three sons and two daughters: Ella, Walter and Rollie B., all now deceased; Charles S.; and Hattie, the wife of Professor W. Andrews of Oberlin College.  The father was a man of strong character, prominent in public affairs and given to good works, and he lived and died with the full confidence and respect of all who knew him.  His widow still survives at the age of seventy-seven years and enjoys remarkable health.      Charles S. Clark spent his youth on the home farm and was educated in the public schools of Wakeman.  At the age of eighteen years he began raising seed corn on one acre of ground, cultivating two varieties of select corn.  Something of the growth and extent of his business is indicated in the fact that on the 1st of May, 1909, he shipped ninety-four varieties of seed corn to one man in Rockford, Illinois.  His success has been phenomenal in this line of business and for the past twenty years he has been the largest grower of seed corn in the world, shipping to every corn-growing country on the face of the globe.  During the winter of 1908-9 three shipments were sent to Paris and beginning in the month of October, 1909, his shipments averaged one thousand bushels per day during the entire season up to the middle of May.  Among other very large contracts made for next winter’s delivery he has one for a carload to be sent to San Francisco, California, and a full carload to Knowlton, Quebec, Canada.  His business has developed from the small beginning of one acre, which was taken up as an experimental work, the excellence of his product being his best advertisement.  He has been the originator and introducer of a great many of the different varieties of field corn and sweet corn now in use, including the finest varieties which are in cultivation today.  There is a large amount of seed corn and many varieties raised by the farmers of Huron, Erie and Sandusky counties, from seed furnished by Mr. Clark and under contract with him for the purchase of their crop.  He applies the same business rules to other sections which are well adapted for the development of seed corn. In addition to the enormous trade which he has built up in this connection he is also extensively engaged in the production of seed oats, of which he ships large quantities.  These are also produced in many varieties and go into every oat-growing- district.  Mr. Clark has a fine farm of his own on which he produces a great deal of seed corn and oats, especially in an experimental way in the development of new varieties.  His home is a commodious and attractive residence and altogether is a model farm in the nature of its improvements and the care which is bestowed upon it.      On the 12th of June, 1888, Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Sarah T. Smith, of Milford, Connecticut, a daughter of E. Stiles and Maria Theresa (Platte) Smith, who had one son and two daughters: Frank W., Sarah T. and Susan Isabelle.  The last named is now Mrs. Elbert N. Clark.  The son married Miss Carrie W. Beard, of New Haven, Connecticut.  The Smith family, to which Mrs. Clark belongs, never became residents of Ohio but were prominent in their locality, the ancestry extending back to twelve generations since the first of the name came to America from England.  Mr. and Mrs. Clark have three children: Hazel Theresa, Hattie Marie, and Charles Harold Stiles.      They are refined and highly intelligent people and their home bears every evidence of these characteristics.  They expect to give to their children every advantage in educational lines, intending to send all to college.  Mrs. Clark is devoted to her home and gives to it her best efforts but also finds time for diversion and development in club work.  The family are members of the Congregational church and active in church and Sunday-school work.  Mr. Clark has done much valuable public service aside from what he has accomplished in a business Way.  He was a member and president of the board of education for six years, has been vice-president of the Wakeman Banking Company for ten years and is now a member of the township board of trustees.  He is independent in politics, giving his support to the men and measures that his judgment endorses.  As a young man he was much interested in baseball and won considerable note as a member of the famous Wakeman Club.  He still retains a keen interest in the national game but finds his special diversion in a summer outing with his family enjoyed at their handsome summer cottage at Ruggles Beach on the shores of Lake Erie. Source: History of Huron County, Ohio - Vol. II - By A. J. Baughman - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publ. Co. - 1909 - Page 184
	D. H. CLARK, a resident farmer of Peru township, numbered among the men of unfaltering enterprise and progressive spirit, is successfully cultivating one hundred and seventeen acres of highly improved land.  Although now seventy-six years of age, he yet gives personal supervision to the further development of his farm and his life record of unfaltering and intelligently directed activity should put to shame many a man of much younger years but of less resolute spirit who would relegate to others the burdens he himself should bear.      Mr. Clark is a native of New England, his birth having occurred in Vermont, July 21, 1833.  His parents were Daniel and Diana (Warner) Clark.  The father, who was born May 3, 1806, died in 1862, while his wife, whose birth occurred Aug. 9, 1806, passed away on the 30th of October, 881.  They came to Huron county, Ohio, in 1834, when it was still a frontier district, the work of improvement and development seeming scarcely begun.  Many changes have occurred during that time and D. H. Clark has been a witness of the entire transformation.  On reaching Huron county, the family settled in Peru township, and the father, who was a carpenter and joiner by trade, assisted in building a number of the log houses and barns in the locality in that early day.  He also erected a log cabin for himself, and he and his family occupied that little home for a long time.  He worked diligently upon his farm but never allowed his business affairs to exclude his interest in religious matters.  He was a prominent man in the church and assisted in building the house of worship for the Universalists at Peru in 1840.  He belonged to that church throughout his entire life, held a number of offices therein and was very active in the church work.  In his family were eight children.  Mariette, who was born Sept. 22, 1831, married Lyman Johnson and both are now deceased.  D. H. is the second in the family.  Dean, who was born Dec. 6, 1834, died Aug. 10, 1863.  Henry, born July 19, 1836, died Apr. 20, 1888.  Warner, born May 24, 1838, died Feb. 2, 1849.  Cornelia, who was born Feb. 1, 1842, died January 28, 1849.  Francis M., born Oct. 8, 1844, died Mar. 5, 1849.  Mary I., born Jan. 22, 1848, died Feb. 5, 1849.  Thus four of the children died within a few days of each other in the year 1849.      D. H. Clark of this review has spent nearly his entire life in this part of Ohio, save for a few years which he passed in Kansas when a young man. He learned the carpenter’s trade in his youthful days and followed that pursuit until about forty-five years of age, during which time he built a large number of houses and barns in his vicinity.  In 1883 he erected the commodious residence which he now occupies and which stands as a monument to his thrift, skill and industry.  His life has been a busy and useful one, and his success is the merited reward of earnest and persistent labor.  Since his retirement from industrial lines he has given his attention to agricultural pursuits and is now cultivating an excellent tract of land of one hundred and seventeen acres, constituting one of the finely improved farms of the county.      Mr. Clark has always been interested in everything relating to the public welfare and has cooperated in many movements for the general good.  He has served as school director for a number of years and the cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion.  He has always belonged to the Universalist church and at the present time is the treasurer and one of the trustees of the church at Peru.  His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, although he has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking.      Pleasantly situated in his home life.  Mr. Clark was married Mar. 1, 1865, to Miss Melvina Barker, a daughter of Robert and Lucy (Standish) Barker, who were early settlers of Peru township.  Mrs. Clark was born upon the farm which is now her home in a little log cabin, in which her parents were living.  They had come to Ohio from the state of New York when still single and were married in this county in 1837.  Her father was born Aug. 10, 1809, and her mother's birth occurred in March of the same year.  Both are now deceased, Mr. Baker having passed away July 6, 1877, while his wife died on the 25th of October, following.  They were, therefore separated in death for but a brief period.  They became the parents of three children:  Liddie, who married Austin Patterson and is now a widow living in California; Mrs. Clark; and John, deceased.  Mrs. Clark is one of the direct descendants of Miles Standish.  By her marriage she became to mother of one son, Dean B., who was born Oct. 18, 1878, and married Altah Baker, a daughter of Wilson E. and Mary Pauline (Barnum) Baker, of Licking county, Ohio.  They were married Mar. 1, 1900, and have two children: Walter B. and Mary Louise.  They reside upon the old homestead with his father and Dean B. Clark now operates the farm.      Few citizens of the county can boast a longer residence here than D. H. Clark, who for seventy-five years has lived in Huron county and has been an interested witness of its growth and development.  He has lived to see the forests cut away, the land reclaimed and converted into rich fields.  He can remember the time when the harvesting was done with a scythe and the cradle, for it was not until he had become a factor in agricultural life that the modern reaper, mower and steam thresher were introduced nor was the riding plow known in the period of his boyhood.  The labor of the farm was much more arduous than at the present time.  The homes of the settlers, too, were in many cases log cabins, and they were heated by fireplaces and lighted by candles and later by kerosene lamps.  Mr. Clark has lived to see remarkable changes, carrying the county forward to its present state of progress when the agriculturist enjoys the advantages of the telephone and the rural mail delivery as well as the benefits of all the modern farm machinery which has so completely revolutionized the work of the fields. Source: History of Huron County, Ohio - Vol. II - By A. J. Baughman - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publ. Co. - 1909 - Page 412
	DANIEL C. CLARY, operating a farm of two hundred and eighty acres in Ridgefield township, where he has continued to reside from his birth to the present time, was born on the 9th of January, 1858, a son of Homer C. and Laura A. (Humphreys) Clary.  Colonel Humphreys, the maternal great-grandfather of our subject, served on the staff of General George Washington, and Daniel C. Clary now has in his possession a watch which was presented to the Colonel by Washington.  Daniel Clary, the grandfather of the gentleman whose name initiates this review, made his way from the state of New York to Huron county, Ohio, about 1820, being the first man to clear land in his section.  His death here occurred when he had attained the age of sixty-six years, the community thus losing one of its most respected and honored pioneer settlers.  He had two sons:  Homer C., the father of Daniel C. Clary; and George W., who is deceased.      The birth of Homer C. Clary occurred on Christmas day of 1825, in an old log house on the farm where our subject now resides.  He continued to make his home on the place throughout his entire life and followed agricultural pursuits as a means of livelihood.  HE was well known and highly esteemed as a worthy native son of this county and his demise was the occasion of deep and widespread regret.  It was in April, 1900, that he was called to his final rest.  His wife, who bore the maiden name of Laura A. Humphreys and is a native of Guilford, Connecticut, came to this state with her parents in early life, the journey being made by canal boat.  They settled in Huron, Erie county, where the marriage of Miss Humphreys and Homer C. Clary, was subsequently celebrated.  Their union was blessed with six children, as follows:  George, who has passed away; Ella, who is the wife of F. C. Atherton; David; Daniel C., of this review; and Edward and Frank, both of whom are graduates of the state university at Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Edward is now a civil engineer of Iowa and Frank is practicing law in New York city.  The mother of these children still survives at the age of eighty years and resides on her farm of two hundred and eighty acres in Ridgefield township, which is being operated by her son, Daniel C.      In the acquirement of an education Daniel C. Clary attended the district schools and also the public schools at Monroeville.  He took up the study of telegraphy in early life but throughout practically his entire business career has given his attention to the work of general farming with excellent success.  On the 25th of January, 1884, he was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary F. Hill, a daughter of John R. and Mathilde (Shephley) Hill, of New York.  By this union there is one son, Fred H., at home.  Mr. Clary has a very wide and favorable acquaintance throughout the community in which his entire life has been spent and well deserves mention in this volume as a worthy representative of an honored pioneer family that has been identified with the agricultural interests of this county from the period of its earliest settlement to the present time. Source: History of Huron County, Ohio - Vol. II - By A. J. Baughman - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publ. Co. - 1909 - Page287
Mr. & Mrs. William Clements
Capt. C. C. Cook	CAPTAIN C. C. COOK, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Bellevue, where he is conducting a fire insurance agency and is also serving as justice of the peace, which position he has capably and acceptably filled for about sixteen years, was born in a little log cabin in this city Jan. 1, 1838, and therefore has been a witness of the growth and development of the city and county for more than three score years and ten.  His parents were Nathan S. and Eliza (Dixon) Cook, early residents of this part of the state.  The father was born in Seneca county, New York, in 1809 and died in 1850 when returning from California.  He was one of the first to go to the Pacific coast on the discovery of gold in that section of the country.  He had come to Ohio in pioneer times and was closely, actively and helpfully associated with the work of early development and improvement.  His wife, who was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1816, died in Huron county in 1879 at the age of sixty-three years.  They were the parents of six children: C. C.; Robert and Mary C., who are both deceased; James D.; and Charles G. and Ellen who have passed away.      Captain Cook of this review has always resided at Bellevue, save for the period of his service in the United States army, spending his youthful days in his mother's home - his father having died when the son was but twelve years of age - he pursued his education in the public schools of Bellevue and later in preparation for a professional career entered the Buffalo Medical College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1867.  He practiced medicine in Bellevue for one year.  In the meantime, however, he had rendered active aid to his country as a soldier of the Civil War.  He watched with interest the progress of the events in the south, preceding the outbreak of hostilities, believed that no state had the right to withdraw from the Union and in April, 1861, at the first call for seventy-five thousand men, he enlisted at Bellevue and went to Camp Denison, where he joined the First Zouave Regiment.  Becoming a private of Company D, he was soon advanced to the rank of sergeant and participated in a large number of battles and skirmishes, including the engagements at Fayetteville, Virginia, and the Toland and Averill raid to West Virginia.  He also went on the Hunter raid to Lynchburg in 1864 and up the Shenandoah valley under Sheridan.  He was injured at Princeton and because of this was detailed for duty as hospital steward of the regiment.  He remained at the front until the close of hostilities and was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, in 1865, returning to his home with a most creditable military record.  It was subsequent to this time that he studied medicine for a year in Bellevue, but in 1868 he again proffered his military aid to the country and entered the United States Regular Army, joining General Custer at Fort Harker, Kansas.  He was in the regular service for about ten years, acted for a time as inspector on General Hancock's staff and visited all the forts from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Yuma and from British Columbia to the gulf.  Promotion won him the rank of captain of cavalry and he worthily won his officer's stripes.      On retiring from the army, Captain Cook returned to Bellevue.  He was married in 1879 to Miss Emma Murdock, a daughter of Hiram and Carolina Murdock of Orleans county, New York.  Mrs. Cook, who was an estimable lady and enjoyed the friendship of many with whom she came in contact, departed this life in 1903.      Captain Cook is well known in Masonic circles, holding membership in the lodge chapter and council at Bellevue and in the Knight Templar Commandery of Norwalk, Ohio.  He also affiliates with the Royal Arcanum and the Knights of the Maccabees and is a past commander of the Grand Army Post of Bellevue.  In the work of these organizations, he takes an active interest and finds special delight in the camp fires of his post where are recalled the scenes and incidents of warfare in the south.  He went through all the usual experiences of the regular soldier on the frontier of the west and as commanding officer of his company, he enjoyed to the fullest extent the confidence and respect of those who served under him.  Since resuming his residence in Bellevue, he has engaged in the fire insurance business, in which connection he has secured a good clientage.  During sixteen years service as justice of the peace, his decisions have ever been strictly fair and impartial and indicate that he is as loyal to the interests of his country in times of peace as when he followed the old flag on the battlefields of the south or protected the nation's standard upon the western plains. Source: History of Huron County, Ohio - Vol. I - By A. J. Baughman - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publ. Co. - 1909 - Page 320
	S. H. COOK, a well known business man of Bellevue, Ohio, was born in Seneca county, New York, Oct. 22, 1844, the son of Elihu and Lorinda (Hall) Cook.  The mother died there two years after the birth of this son, at the early age of twenty-eight, and the father subsequently came to Ohio, settling in Huron county.  He lived here but a short time, when he removed to Republic, Seneca county, Ohio, where he made his home for some five years.  From there he went to Michigan and in Clinton county, that state, his death occurred in1861, at the age of forty-six.  By his first marriage Mr. Cook had two sons: Artemus, who lives in St. Louis, Michigan; and S. H. Cook, our subject.  By his second marriage, his wife being Miss Magdalena Burbick, he had two more children: William, who lives at College Place, Washington; and Elihu, whose home is in Bay City, Michigan.      S. H. Cook lived in Michigan some few months after his father's death and then came to Bellevue, where he enlisted in Company D, Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the First Piatt Zouaves.  His experiences in the war of the Rebellion were numerous and the list of his campaigns, which is a long one, may be summarized as follows:  he enlisted at Flat Rock, Ohio, Aug. 22, 1862, joined regiment at Point Pleasant, Sept. 27, 1862; Manassas Gap, Virginia, Nov. 5, 1862; Wytheville, Virginia.  July 17, 1863; Averills raid through West Virginia, August 25th to the 30th, 1863; Princeton, West Virginia, May 6, 1863; Cloyd Mountain, Virginia, May 9, 1864; Cove Mountain, Virginia, May 9th and 10th, 1864; New River, Virginia, May 10, 1864; Salt Pond Mountain, June 1, 1864; Panthers Gap, West Virginia, June 3, 1864; Piedmont, Virginia, June 5, 1864; Buffalo Gap, West Virginia, June 6, 1864; Lexington, West Virginia, June 10th and 11th, 1864; Buchanan, West Virginia, June 14, 1864; Otter Creek, Virginia, June 16, 1864; Lynchburg, Virginia, June 17th and 186h, 1864; Liberty, Virginia, June 20, 1864; Salem, Virginia, June 21, 1864; Monocacy, Maryland, July 9, 1864; Snickers Gap, Virginia, July 17, 1864; Snickers Ferry, Virginia, July 18, 1864; Winchester, Virginia, July 20, 1864; Kernstown, Virginia, July 23, 1864; Winchester, Virginia, July 24, 1864; Martinsburg, Virginia, July 25, 1864; Summit Point, Virginia, Aug. 21, 1864; Halltown, Virginia, Aug. 24-26-27, 1864; Berryville, Virginia, Sept. 3, 1864; Opequan, Virginia, Sept. 19, 1864; Fishers Hill, Virginia, Sept. 22, 1864; Strasburg, Virginia, Oct. 9,1864.  Later he was sent to the hospital at Baltimore on the sick list, where he remained until discharged from the army, June 7, 1865.  Upon returning from service he came to Bellevue, but remained here only two months, when he went to Michigan, which was the scene of his labors for about three years.  From there he came again to Bellevue, where he has lived ever since.      On the 2d of December, 1873, Mr. Cook was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Baughman, the daughter of Hieronymous Baughman, of Bellevue.  Mr. Cook's old regiment chaplain performed the ceremony and blessed the couple, such being the wish of the man who endured so much on the field of battle when the Rev. Collier's words of counsel gave added courage.  No children have been born of this marriage.      In his youth Mr. Cook learned the cooper's trade, at which he worked for some time, and for a few years he served as a grocery clerk, but it is as the proprietor of a restaurant that he is best known, for he has been engaged in that business for the past twenty-five years.  He has other commercial interests, for he is a stockholder and a member of the board of directors of the Bellevue Kraut Company.  He belongs to the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic and in the company of his fellow soldiers revives the memories of those four years of fighting.  Hs fraternal affiliations are with the Royal Arcanum, of which he is a devoted member, and in Masonry he holds membership in the blue lodge, chapter and council.  Mr. Cook is one of that rapidly diminishing body of men who are living examples of a militant patriotism.  As an old soldier and for the qualities of noble manhood which he possesses, he is respected among those who know him. Source: History of Huron County, Ohio - Vol. I - By A. J. Baughman - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publ. Co. - 1909 - Page 394
	JOHN ROBERT COX, a substantial farmer of Richmond township, Huron county, and the owner of the fifty-two acres on which he lives, was born in this township, Feb. 12, 1857, and is a son of Abraham and Margaret (Pollinger) Cox.  The parents were also natives of this state, the father having been born in Carlton, the mother in Huron County, and both were early habituated to the hardships of farm life, for their parents were among the early settlers who had to make ready the land before they could put in their crops.  The mother and father died in 1859, leaving two children, the eldest, John Robert, of this review, being but two years old.  William, the other child, is now a resident of Richmond township.      Upon the death of his parents John Robert Cox was taken by his maternal grandfather, Abraham Pollinger with whom he lived until he died.  He attended the district schools, from which his education was derived, until he became twenty-one, though all his vacations and the early spring and fall months were devoted to the work that was carried on on his grandfather's farm.  Upon the death of Mr. Pollinger, Mr. Cox bought the land from the other heirs.  He has found it to be arable soil, that had been kept in good condition during his grandfather's lifetime.  Indeed the latter had cleared it himself, with the help of Daniel Pollinger in the early days of Richmond township.  From his childhood trained in the practical cultivation of a farm, Mr. Cox has known how to obtain the very best returns possible from the land at his disposal.  He has not shirked hard work and feels that he reaps an abundant harvest for his many hours of toil.      In November, 1884, Mr. Cox was united in marriage to Miss Elma Kirkwood, a daughter of Lewis and Anna Kirkwood.  The parents were numbered among those stalwart settlers who prepared the way for the conditions of the present.  They are survived by six children: Thomas, the eldest of the family; Myria, who married John Couch and lives in Chicago, Ohio; Charles, unmarried; Elma, who became Mrs. Cox; Amos, also unmarried; and Jessie, who became the wife of Willis Harmon and lives in Michigan.  Mr. and Mrs. Cox have one daughter, Mabel Fern who married James Dawson, a farmer of Seneca county, Ohio.      Following in the footsteps of his father who joined the republican party when it was first being organized, Mr. Cox has always cast his vote for its candidates, not through a blind acceptance of his father's principles alone but because he believes that in its platform are included some of the best principles for the government of a nation.  Although he has not taken a very active part in public matters, Mr. Cox served one term as road supervisor.  He belongs to the Church of God in Richmond township and is zealous in fulfilling his religious duties and generous in his contributions to the support of the church. Source: History of Huron County, Ohio - Vol. II - By A. J. Baughman - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publ. Co. - 1909 - Page 512
	S. E. CRAWFORD.  The life record of Silas E. Crawford is that of a successful manufacturer and business man yet the range of his activities and the scope of his influence have reached far beyond this special field.  He belongs to that public-spirited, useful and helpful type of men, whose ambitions and desires are centered and directed in those channels through which flow the greatest and most permanent good to the greatest prosperity as well as individual success, and he remained for many years a well known manufacturer of this city, but he is now living retired, his activity being confined to the supervision of his invested interests.      A native of Ohio, Mr. Crawford was born in Richland county, Sept. 20, 1842, a son of David and Margaret (Miller) Crawford.  The father was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 8, 1810, while the mother's birth occurred at Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.  The father came to Ohio with his parents.  John and Mary Crawford, and settled in Richland county, Becoming identified with agricultural interests there.  In that locality David Crawford was reared and on attaining his majority he engaged in teaching school for many years.  He also learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed to some extent.  In the late '40s he removed to Huron county, Ohio, where he worked at his trade until his death.  Both he and his wife are now deceased.  In their family were ten children, of whom three were born in Huron county.      In the public schools Silas E. Crawford pursued his education, but his parents were in limited financial circumstances and at an early age he had to start out in life on his own account as it was necessary that he provide for his own maintenance.  Having learned the trade of carriagemaking, he came to Norwalk in 1877 and began business for himself in company with others.  He afterward sold out and took up the manufacture of pumps in 1876. continuing in that field of activity until 1900, when he retired from active business.  In the twenty-four years in which he devoted his energies to manufacturing lines he became widely recognized as a man of keen business discernment, careful in formulating his plans and determined in their execution.  He learned to utilize every force to the best advantage and as year by year passed he so used his opportunities that success resulted.  Moreover, in all that he did his course conformed to a high standard of commercial ethics.  In 1888 the Home Savings & Loan Company was organized and he became the vice-president, with Mr. Gallup as president, and he is still officially connected with the company in that capacity.      In the midst of arduous business cares demanding close application and unfaltering perseverance, Mr. Crawford has yet found time to aid in the promotion of public affairs which have had for their object the betterment of the community.  His interest therein has been manifest in various substantial and tangible methods, and his fellow townsmen, recognizing his devotion to the public good, twice elected him a member of the city council, of which he served for one term as president.  He was also for four years mayor of the city, and his administration was businesslike and progressive, resulting in the introduction of various needed reforms and improvements.  In 1908 he was elected to represent Huron county in the seventy-eighth general assembly, being the first democrat ever chosen to the office from his county.  His position on any important public question is never an equivocal one.  He does not hesitate to announce his opinion or to support his honest convictions and his course has ever commanded the confidence and admiration of his fellowmen.      In 1869 Mr. Crawford was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Harrington, with whom he traveled life’s journey for more than thirty-five years.  They were separated in death in 1903 and in 1905 Mr. Crawford was again married, his second union being with Martha W. Wightman, a native of Hastings, Michigan.      Fraternally Mr. Crawford is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and other societies.  He has long occupied a position of leadership in this county, his native talents, his acquired ability, his patriotic citizenship and his devotion to the public welfare winning him a place of prominence and securing for him the unqualified confidence and respect of the public at large.  His rare aptitude and ability in achieving results have made him constantly sought and have often brought him into a prominence from which he would naturally shrink were less desirable ends in view.  He has, however, always felt a hearty concern for the public welfare and has been helpful in bringing about those purifying and wholesome reforms which have been gradually growing in the political, municipal and social life of the city.  During the dark days of the Civil war he manifested his patriotism by enlisting in Company C, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for four months, and later became a member of the One Hundred and Ninety-second Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served as first lieutenant for eight months. Source: History of Huron County, Ohio - Vol. II - By A. J. Baughman - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publ. Co. - 1909 - Page265

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