BIOGRAPHIES
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1798
History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
of its Pioneers and Most Prominent Men.
Publ. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers
1878.
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Corydon Harrington
Mrs. Corydon Harrington
Res. of C. Harrington, Mentor Ave &
Newell St.,
Painesville, O |
Painesville -
CORYDON HARRINGTON. The subject of our
sketch is the son of Deacon William Harrington, and the
grandson of Dr. John Harrington. He was born in Greene
Trumbull county, Ohio, Apr. 24, 1826. His education was
obtained at the common school of his native township, with a short
course of some six weeks at a high school at Gustavus in an
adjoining township. At the age of nineteen he taught a winter
school, and continued to teach for four subsequent winters, working
on his father's farm through the summer season. During the
period of his school-teaching he purchased a farm in the southern
part of Colebrook township, Ashtabula county, now owned by J. D.
Anderson, and Apr. 19, 1852, was united in marriage with
Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Captain Thomas and Lois Swain.
She was born in Barnston, Canada East, Oct. 15, 1827, and with her
parents removed to Conneaut, Ashtabula county, when some six or
eight years of age. After his marriage, Mr.
Harrington resided with his father until after the haying
season, when he moved to his own farm in Colebrook. He lived
there until the spring of 1864, and then sold and purchased a farm a
short distance south of the centre of that township, on which he
erected, in 1870, a fine frame house.
Mr. Harrington has always been
prominently identified with every enterprise whose object was the
advancement of the interests of the community in which he resided.
He has held various township offices, among which was that of member
of the board of education in Colebrook, for a period of twelve
years, inclusive of one year as clerk of the board. During his
long term of office in this capacity he was most efficient in
promoting educational interests in his township. He was at one time
a stockholder in the cheese-factory at the centre of Colebrook, and
in 1872 or 1873 was its president, which position he held until the
termination of its existence as a corporation, something over a year
afterwards.
His first wife died of pneumonia Jan. 17, 1873, after
an illness of four days. To Mr. and Mrs. Harrington the
following-named children were born: Helen E., May 24,
1854, married Ellis E. Anderson, Sept. 30, 1876, and resides
in Colebrook, Ashtabula county; William Thomas, Aug.
10, 1856, now a resident of Rock Creek, in the same county, where he
is engaged in the dry goods trade; John Corydon, an
unusually precocious child, born June 20, 1850, and died Oct. 2,
1865; and also a son still-born, Sept. 5, 1858.
June 16, 1874, Mr. Harrington was again
married to Alcinda E., daughter of Henry F. and Sallie E.
Chaffee, of Bristol, Trumbull county. She was born June
12,1839. Mrs. Harrington possesses a fine
musical education, having graduated at. Dana’s Musical Institute at
Warren, Ohio, in 1872. She has two sisters living, viz.,
Mrs. Everett Finney, in Nebraska, and Mrs. Arthur E. Fenton,
in Painesville. A brother, Almanza H., entered the
service of the government in August of 1861, enlisting in Company D,
Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. His health becoming impaired,
he returned home (in Bristol, Trumbull county), June 17, 1862, and
died the 27th of the same month of quick consumption.
Mr. Harrington removed to Painesville in
February, 1878, his wife having, the fall previous, purchased the
fine residence they now occupy. He still retains his farm in
Colebrook, his son-in-law, Ellis E. Anderson, occupying it.
Source: 1798 - History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia: Williams Brothers - 1878 - Page 228 |
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Mentor Twp. -
D. B. HART. The parents of the subject of
our writing were natives of Connecticut, and removed thence to the
Reserve in the fall of 1826. Their first location was in Concord,
where they occupied a rented farm until Apr. 1, 1828, when they removed
to this township, settling in South Mentor, on the farm now occupied by
Stephen Johnson. They resided there until their death, -
that of the father in 1859, and that of the mother in 1845.
D. B. Hart was born in Winsted, Litchfield
county, Connecticut, Jan. 6, 1812, and was the youngest of eight
children. His opportunities for the acquirement of an education
were limited, comprising an attendance at the common schools of his
native township, with a short attendance after his arrival in this
country. His latest school-teacher prior to his removal to Ohio is
now living in Cleveland, at the advanced age of ninety-four.
His first purchase of land was an eighty-acre farm on
the road leading from the Disciples church to the Newell corners, and is
now occupied by Abram Rexford. He and his brother
Stephen went vigorously to work on this farm, and cleared during the
winter thirty-five acres, which they logged off during the months of
February and March. This cleared piece the spring following was
extensively cultivated at that time, some farms containing a crop of a
hundred acres. Wormseed was also largely grown. Mr. Hart
subsequently sold this farm and took possession of the old homestead,
his parents residing with him. To this he added at various times
until the farm contained one hundred and ninety acres. He also
owned a large amount of land elsewhere.
Jan. 3, 1836, he was united in marriage to Laura E.,
daughter of Russell and Rebecca (Woodruff) Manly, who were also
natives of Litchfield county, Connecticut, and settled in Mentor in
about the year 1828. Mrs. Hart was born Mar. 4, 1819, in
Colebrook, Connecticut. A daughter, Aldie L., was born Aug.
27, 1856.
In 1869, Mr. Hart purchased the farm on which he
now resides, and three years subsequently erected his present fine brick
residence, a view of which may be found on another page. He
possesses one of the most desirable farms in the township.
While taking a great interest in political and other
questions of general interest, Mr. Hart does not aspire to
office. He was originally a Whig, afterwards a Free-Soiler, then a
Republican, and is now a "Greenbacker." He claims to have given,
at the election in the fall of 1875, the first greenback vote ever cast
in the township.
Source: 1798 - History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia: Williams Brothers - 1878 - Page 252a (Portrait of D.
B. & Mrs. D. B. Hart and Residence) |
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Perry Twp. -
ELI B. HASKELL. The Haskells in
this country—or at least those of them who spell the name with two
l's-trace their ancestry to three brothers who were emigrants from
England at a very early date. We have, however, no definite
knowledge of the ancestors of the family of which the subject of
this writing is a member farther back than the grandfather,
Samuel B. Haskell. He was a native of Plymouth colony,
Massachusetts, and was born in the year 1734. Of his seven
children Silas was the fifth, and was born in North
Brookfield, Massachusetts, Aug/ 31, 1772. He
was united in marriage to Sarah Bond, of Brimfield,
Massachusetts, who was born Dec. 9, 1775. To them were born
the following-named children: Samuel, Feb. 16, 1800, died
Mar. 23, 1878; Silas, Jr., Feb. 17, 1802; Ferdinand,
Apr. 14, 1804; Hiram, June 19,1806, died in infancy; Eli
B., Aug. 31, 1808; Lucy Ann, Nov. 19, 1810, died
Sept. 15, 1874; Chauncey, Sept. 15, 1813; Sarah, Apr.
9, 1816, died June, 1877; and Harrison, Oct. 8, 1818,
deceased.
The family, except Samuel, who remained in
Massachusetts, came to the town ship of Perry, Aug. 20, 1822, at
which time Eli was about fourteen years of age. When
quite a lad, he was employed as a porter in his brother's hotel in
Boston. After coming to this country he remained with his
father on the farm until he was nearly eighteen, when he was
permitted to commence business on his own account. With about
seventeen dollars’ worth of “personal property,” which was all
the pecuniary aid he ever received from his parents, young Eli
started out to begin the battle of life, and, notwithstanding such
adverse circumstances as are incident to a newly-settled country,
such as sickness particularly, of which he had his full share, yet,
by reason of his energy and industry, he was soon possessed of a
farm of his own, his first purchase being the eighty acres now owned
by Thomas Thompson. After selling this he bought
the adjoining west half of his present farm, containing eighty-two
acres, and erected a log house thereon. He was united in
marriage, Dec. 29, 1833, to Elvira Smith, who was born
in Sandisfield, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, May 15, 1809.
Her father died when she was seven years old, her mother afterward
marrying Elder Jesse Hartwell, who was a man of
strong temperance principles; in illustration of which it may be
mentioned that he had a barn “raising” in 1829 without the use of
liquor,—a thing hitherto unknown in the township. To Mr.
and Mrs. Haskell were born ten children, five
of whom are living. They lost a son in the war of the
Rebellion. He received a wound at the battle of Chickamauga,
which resulted in his death twenty days afterwards.
Mr. Haskell united with the Baptist
church in 1834, his wife having previously now owned by the heirs of
David Parmly, and subsequently erected a saw-mill
there. The subject of this sketch afterwards came into
possession of this farm. In April, 1831, he was united in
marriage to Electa Lyman, of Concord, (then) Geauga
County. The fruit of this union was the following-named
children: Marion A., wife of James L. Parmly, of
the city of Painesville; Lavinia L. (deceased); Ann,
who became the wife of James Cook, and resides in
Perry; Eliza Jane (deceased); and Electa, now Mrs.
John Casler, who resides near Eaton Rapids, Michigan.
In 1864, Mr. Wood sold his farm in Perry,
and purchased in the eastern part of the township of Painesville,
where he resided at the time of his death, which occurred in
December, 1866. His widow survives him, and resides in Perry,
in the sixty-seventh year of her age.
Source: 1798 - History of Geauga and Lake
Counties, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers - 1878 -
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Painesville Twp. -
REUBEN HITCHCOCK
Source: 1798 - History of Geauga and Lake
Counties, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers - 1878 -
Page 214a (Portrait of Residence) |
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Painesville Twp. -
EBER D. HOWE was born of the genuine
Connecticut Yankee stock, in the little town of Clifton Park,
Saratoga county, on the 9th of June, 1798, and is still living, as
hale at the age of eighty as most men who are his junior by a score
of years. He was the fifth in a family of six, the two
youngest of whom, besides himself, only survive. At the age of
six years the subject of this sketch removed to Orid, a little town
in the central part of New York State, and it was there that the
next seven years of his childhood were passed. At the age of
thirteen he removed with his father into the dominion of George
III., and located eight miles from Niagara Falls. While
residing here Mr. Howe saw much of the stirring times
occasioned by the war of 1812, in which he afterwards had
considerable experience as a volunteer in a New York State regiment
commanded by Colonel Swift. His recollections of this
period of our national history are vivid and sisters, and both had
large families, each having nine children. In 1824 the
brothers, with their families, removed to northern Ohio, and settled
at Twinsburg, that name being given to the settlement by them.
They engaged in farming together, having purchased a quarter of the
township, and by their in interesting. At the close of the
war, emulating the example of Benjamin Franklin, young
Howe apprenticed himself to the publishers of a newspaper, - the
Buffalo Gazette,—receiving forty dollars for his first year’s
services. In 1816 he went forty miles farther west, to
Chautauqua (now Fredonia), to assist in the printing of a
paper started by the poet James Gates Percival;
but after a seven months’ sojourn there returned to Buffalo. A
little later the young printer went to Erie, and there set up most
of the type for the first issue of the Gazette. In the
winter of 1818-19 he went to Cleveland, then a village of two or
three hundred inhabitants, making the journey from Fredonia upon horsback.
Here he soon conceived the idea of establishing a new paper, and,
after some delay, did go, in connection with his old friend
Willes, who had the year before started the Erie Gazette.
This was the origin of the Cleveland Herald, a paper which was
conveyed to its readers every week by Mr. Howe, who,
mounted upon a horse with a satchel full of Heralds under his
arm, rode to Painesville and back again to Cleveland. The
Painesville Telegraph was started on the 16th of July, 1822,
by Mr. Howe, who had removed from Cleveland a few
months before. Mr. Howe conducted the
Telegraph until 1835, at which time it passed into the hands of
his younger brother, Asahel Howe. Mr.
Howe has reared a large family, and has lived long enough to see the
fourth generation of his descendants. He has living two
children, seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
He is the author of a book entitled “History of Mormonism," setting
forth its fallacies, depicting in their true light the character of
the principal founders of Mormonism, and tracing to its true source
the origin of the Mormon Bible. He is also the author of the
“Recollections of a Pioneer Printer," to which we are indebted for
many items of interest that appear in this volume.
Source: 1798 - History of Geauga and Lake
Counties, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers - 1878 -
Page 223 |
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Painesville Twp. -
COLBERT HUNTINGTON. Of the six children of
Governor Samuel Huntington, all born in Norwich, Connecticut, two
only are alive at this writing, and abut one resident in Painesville.
The children were Francis, Martha Devotion (wife of John H.
Matthews, M. D., late of Painesville), Julian Claude, Colbert,
Samuel, and Robert Giles.
Julian Claude was until recently a resident of
Painesville, but lately of Ashtabula, Ohio; and Colbert, the
subject of this sketch, is now living in Painesville at the advanced age
of over fourscore years, though as well preserved in mind and body as
most men are at sixty or seventy. He was born at the governor's
old house in Norwich, Oct. 17, 1797, and came to Ohio with his father
and mother in the first year of the century. He was married, May
8, 1833, to Ellen Paine, who was born May 9, 1809. Upon the
death of his father, in 1817, Mr. Huntington came into possession
of a share of the land originally purchased by the governor in 1807,
from John Walworth and Charles Parker. This farm, described
as being lot one in tract No. 2, has ever since been in his possession,
and until the year 1861 was the place of his residence. His life
has been that of a farmer, though he followed for several years the
profession of teaching, and also for quite a number of years practiced
surveying, being at one time county surveyor. Quiet, and
comparatively without incident, his life has been passed in a manner
useful to himself and others. Reserved and retiring in nature, he
took only such part in public affairs as he deemed it his duty to take
for the advancement of the best interests of the community, and never
sought anything like personal benefit or aggrandizement through the plea
of laboring for the well-being of the people. Whatever he has done
has been done without consideration of self and as quiet and
unostentatiously as possible. He has always been looked upon by
all who knew him as a solid, substantial citizen, conservative and
reliable. His character is blameless, and he has the unqualified
respect of all who have known him, either through business connection or
socially. Mr. Huntington removed from his farm to the place
at present occupied by him, on Erie street, in 1861.
Source: 1798 - History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia: Williams Brothers - 1878 - Page 221 |
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Perry Twp. -
JAHIAL HURLBURT is the third of a family of four,
the children of Moses and Betsey Hurlburt, who were born in
Braintree, Vermont, - the father in 1785, and the mother, who was a
daughter of Eleazar Parmly, in 1794. In 1816 they emigrated
to Perry, where the subject of this sketch was born, April 8, 1820.
He was joined in marriage to Eunice Spears, of Painesville, Oct.
19, 1842. The children born of this marriage were Elizabeth
Eugenia, born Nov. 10, 1844, and died May 20, 1845. The
child's death was caused by a tub of hot water being tipped over upon
it, - its own act. Eugene R., born June 20, 1846, married
Maria Gray, Jan. 5, 1870, and resides in Philadelphia.
Isaac S., born Jan. 16, 1848, married, Jan. 18, 1871, Sarah
Lockwood, and lives in Perry. Royal G., born May 20,
1849, died Apr. 20, 1851. Jennie L., born Sept. 26, 1850,
became the wife of Fayette Owen, Jan. 12, 1871, and died
Nov. 1, following. Adelaide, born Mar. 21, 1852, died
unmarried, June 23, 1870. Leona P., born Dec. 1, 1853,
married Frank Frink, Oct. 4, 1871, and resides in Perry.
Nov. 19, 1845, he was again united in marriage to Sarah
Bates, the youngest of eight children of Philip and Mary Bates,
having previously obtained a divorce from his first wife. Of this
union the following-named children were born: Eva May, Nov. 18,
1857; Nelly, Mar. 4, 1861; Leverette J., June 26, 1863;
Lovina P., Sept. 23, 1873.
Eva, the eldest of these, met with a terrible
accident, Oct. 11, 1873, by which she lost her life the day following.
One evening about ten o'clock, after having finished her work int he
kitchen, she stooped, she stooped down down to close the door of the
stove, holding a glass lamp filled with fluid in one hand and a cloth in
the other. The edge of the cloth becoming fastened by the door
closing upon it, she endeavored to release it by giving a sudden jerk,
when the door flew open against the lamp, breaking it in pieces and
dashing the fluid over her arms, bare to the elbows, and also over her
clothing. Instantly she was enveloped in flames, and with piercing
cries fled to an adjoining room, in one corner of which the poor
sufferer stood, all ablaze. Her father, hearing her cries, rushed
to her assistance, and, seizing an overcoat, wrapped it about her, and
soon extinguished the flames. But they had done their fatal work.
Her clothing was almost entirely consumed, and her arms, the front part
of her body, and lower limbs were terribly burned. The poor
girl lingered in great agony for about twenty-four hours, when death
came to her relief. She was about sixteen years of age, full of
joy and hope, and possessed the love and esteem of all who knew her.
Mr. Hurlburt, likewise, came near losing his life by lightning a
few years since. He was driving a team and wagon into Painesville,
in September, 1874, Duncan Card accompanying him. Just
before reaching the covered bridge, near the Lake Shore road, it
commenced raining. He hurried into the bridge, where he concluded
to remain until the shower which was accompanying the thunder and
lightning should be over. In a few moments a stroke of lightning
hit the bridge about ten feet in the rear of his wagon, instantly
killing both horses, while the occupants of the wagon were unhurt.
The current, after striking the bridge, was carried forward by the
timbers until opposite the horses, when it was attracted by the vapor
arising from them. The escape, under the circumstances, was one of
the most remarkable we have ever recorded.
A view of Mr. Hurlburt's pleasant residence is
given on another page of this volume.
Source: 1798 - History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia: Williams Brothers - 1878 - Page 245
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