BIOGRAPHIES
** Source:
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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Mentor Twp. -
C. H. MALLORY - PORTRAIT ONLYSource: 1798 - History
of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia: Williams
Brothers - 1878 - Page 250a (Portrait of C. H. Mallory Residence) |
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Perry Twp. -
B. F. MERRIMAN
Source: 1798 - History of Geauga and Lake
Counties, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers - 1878 -
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Willoughby Twp. -
ISAAC MOORE, the fifth of a family of six
children of John and Leah Moore, was born in Half Moon, Saratoga
county, New York, Jan. 31, 1794. His father was a soldier of the
war of the Revolution, serving the entire period of its existence.
He died in 1846. Isaac enjoyed the slenderest possible
opportunities for the acquirement of even a rudimentary education, the
entire period of his attendance at school not exceeding four months.
Nevertheless, possessing bright mental qualities, and a will that
brushed aside whatever obstacles confronted him, he obtained, by reading
and observation, an education sufficient for the performance, in an
efficient manner, of the duties of an ordinary life. When in his
eighteenth year, accompanied by his mother, two married sisters and
their husbands, and one unmarried sister, he removed to Kirtland, Lake
County.
A horse and about fifty cents in money comprised,
besides the clothes he wore, his entire possessions at the time of his
arrival. The horse he soon afterwards exchanged for two cows, both
of which died of the "murrain" a few weeks subsequently. This
misfortune left him in a poor condition to begin the struggle with savage
nature; but, undaunted, procured an axe (which he paid for with the
first four days of his chopping) and went to work. He obtained
various jobs of clearing land, at which he continued to work for some
three or four years, clearing fully one hundred acres before striking a
blow for himself. During this time he purchased, jointly with
Peter French, a farm on the hill south of the Mormon temple, paying
nineteen shillings an acre therefore. The farm was bought for one
hundred and five acres, and the arrangement between the purchasers was
that fifty acres were to be measured off to French, leaving the balance,
whatever it should be, to Moore, who, on measuring, afterwards
found he had seventy acres. He resided in Kirtland until about the
year 1831, or until the settlement of the Mormons there, which rendered
it to him an undesirable place of residence, and he removed to
Warrensville, Cuyahoga county. There he remained some six years,
thence moving to Mentor, where, subsequently, he engaged in wine-making.
Nov. 28, 1816, he was united in marriage to Philena
Blish, daughter of Benjamin Blish, Sr., who was born Mar. 5,
1796. From this marriage the following-named children were born:
Clifton H., born Oct. 26, 1817; Abner C., born Oct. 13,
1819; Orinda L., born June 30, 1821, died May 31, 1876;
Minerva, born August 10, 1823; Blish, born July 6, 1825;
Cornelia M., born Mar. 27, 1827, became the wife of Henry King,
of Chardon, and died June 9, 1857; Milan, born June 18, 1829;
Henry C., born Oct. 23, 1831.
The mother died May 14, 1832, leaving her husband with
eight children, the eldest not then seventeen, and the youngest less
than six months old, and in October of the same year he married his
second wife, Martha Jones, of Euclid, Cuyahoga county. The
result of this marriage was a son, Alexander J., born July 7,
1834, died Mar. 22, 1855.
The eldest of the children - Clifton H. Moore -
is a member of the bar of DeWitt county, Illinois, and is also a very
large land-holder, owning upwards of eighteen to twenty thousand acres
in that county alone, and large tracts in Iowa and Missouri. He
has been associated for a great many years with Judge David Davis,
of Illinois, now United States senator, in these land purchases.
Sept. 15, 1862, Mr. Moore married for his third
wife Mrs. Elizabeth King, then widow of George King, of
Chardon, his second wife having previously died at a date not given.
The sketch would be far from complete if we were to
omit at least a brief sketch of this excellent lady. She was the
seventh child and only daughter of Colonel Roswell and
Elizabeth Humphrey, and was born in Norfolk, Litchfield county,
Connecticut, Dec. 25, 1803. She came to Willoughby in the year
1815, with her parents, who settled on land now occupied by Jacob
Viall. Her father died there in 1842, and her mother five
years afterwards. When only sixteen years of age she married a man
by the name of Hines, who proved unworthy of her, and a
separation ensued. About ten years subsequently she became the
wife of Ezra B. Viall, who died Apr. 10, 1851, and after a period
of some ten years of widowhood, married George King, of Chardon.
He died about a year and a half afterwards, and Sept. 15, 1862, as above
stated, she was united to the subject of this sketch. Mr. Moore
never became the mother of children. Her early education was
obtained at the common school in her native State, with a subsequent
attendance at the academy in Talmadge, Portage county.
In 1815, Mr. Moore was elected to two township
offices at the same time, - those of constable and supervisor of
Kirtland, - and was subsequently elected a justice of the peace, which
office he held two terms, and was then elected a commissioner of Geauga
County, in which capacity he served the public six years. In 1847,
while residing in Mentor, he represented Lake County in the State
legislature, serving one year. He was afterwards, in 1855, elected
a justice of the peace of Mentor, and was re-elected in 1858, and also
in 1861.
His first military position was that of corporal of the
Ohio State militia, to which he was elected not long prior to 1825.
He was subsequently promoted to lieutenant, serving one year, when he
became a captain.
He is a man of the strictest integrity and unyielding
honesty. He has been the executor of a larger number of estates,
perhaps, than any man in this section of country, which is abundant
proof of the confidence reposed in him by his fellow-citizens.
This undesirable and responsible duty he always discharged with
soundness of judgment, and a fidelity to trust rarely witnessed in these
times.
He possesses a very cheerful, hopeful disposition.
He regards his career as a singularly successful one, for the reason,
mainly, that it has been a happy one. Looking back over his life
from his eighty-fifth year, he remembers nothing of which he can justly
murmur or complain, and believes his "lines to have fallen in pleasant
places."
Source: 1798 - History of Geauga and Lake
Counties, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers - 1878 -
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Painesville Twp. -
R. M. MURRAY, banker, was born in Concord, Lake
County, Nov. 28, 1841. His parents, Robert Murray, second,
and Sophronia, lived there until he was five years of age, and
then moved to Mentor. R. M. Murray attended the common
country schools until he was fifteen years of age, and then went to the
Western Reserve Teachers' Seminary, at Kirtland, and the Willoughby
Academy. He afterwards attended Oberlin College for some time, but
having a strong desire for legal studies, entered the Cleveland Law
College, then under the management of Judge Hayden. He
graduated from this institution, and was admitted to practice in the
United States and Ohio courts, and entered the law-office of Ranney,
Backus & Noble, where he remained until the call was issued for the
one hundred days' men to enter the service of the Union. He went
out as a member of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, and was with
that regiment in the vicinity of Washington until the close of the war.
Mr. Murray became connected with the First National Bank, of
Painesville, as collector and book-keeper in 1867, and in 1871 was made
cashier, the position which he now holds. He is a man of extensive
reading, well informed on public affairs, and has always, since taking
up his residence in Painesville, been one of the foremost men in
furthering the interests of the community, and has most of the time had
more or less to do with the management of municipal and township
affairs, besides being interested in various projects, public and
private. He was chosen a member of the school board in 1874, and
served in that capacity for three years. He is the present mayor
of the city, having been elected Apr. 1, 1878.
Source: 1798 - History of Geauga and Lake
Counties, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers - 1878 -
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