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Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. -
1893
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E. T. C. ALDRICH, who
is engaged in the insurance business at Mentor, Ohio, resides at his
attractive country home, "Eastside," which adjoins the General
Garfield's homestead, "Lawn Field," on the east.
Mr. Aldrich comes of an old New England family,
and of his life and ancestry we make record as follows:
E. T. C. Aldrich was born in Franklin, Tompkins
county, New York, Nov. 18, 1827, some of William S. Aldrich,
who was born in Providence, Rhode Island, Oct. 3, 1803, and grandson
of Tilson Aldrich, a native of Cumberland, Rhode Island, and
a son of a Revolutionary soldier who fought at Bunker Hill.
Tilson Aldrich went to Tompkins county, New York, in 1816, where
he was engaged in work at his trade, that of tanner and currier and
cotton manufacturer. In the spring of 1835 he moved with his
son William S. to Ellery, Chautauqua county, that State,
where he followed farming the rest of his life. He died in
February, 1858. He was a Quaker.
William S. Aldrich, a farmer by occupation,
moved from Chautauqua county, New York, to Mentor, Ohio, in the
spring of 1866, and here he spent the remaining years of his life
and died Oct. 30, 1876. While a resident of Dryden, New York,
he was captain of a battery for several years, receiving his
commission in 1828. He also served as Township Supervisor for
a number of years, and was well known and highly respected.
His wife, whose maiden name was Maria C. Cantina, was born in
Tompkins county, New York, Sept. 27, 1804, and died Feb. 5, 1892.
Her father was born in New York and her mother was a native of
France. William S. Aldrich and his wife had a family of
one son and two daughters, the subject of our sketch being the
oldest.
E. T. C. Aldrich was born and reared on his
father's farm, and in early manhood was engaged in teaching for
several years - teach the home place with his father, assisting in
the management of the farming operations until his father's death.
He still owns the homestead, which comprises 147 acres, and which,
as already stated, joins the Garfield place on the east. He
has a general supervision over the operations of the farm, and at
the same time conducts an insurance business in Mentor, representing
two companies, the Phoenix and the Dwelling House of Boston.
Mr. Aldrich was married May 29, 1851, to
Emily Fisher, who was born in Chautauqua county, New York, July
19, 1829. Her parents Josiah and Caroline (Clark) Fisher,
both natives of Vermont, emigrated to New York prior to their
marriage. Her father was a carpenter. He was married a
second time, and in 1853 went to Wisconsin, where he spent the
closing years of his life and where he died. Mr. and Mrs.
Aldrich's children are as follows: Frank W., born
Feb. 8, 1853, was married in 1881 to Lena G. Taft; William F.,
born Sept. 29, 1857, is now a resident of North Dakota, engaged in
the insurance business; and Mary C., who was married Aug. 29,
1890, to E. D. Barber, who is engaged in the insurance
business at Wahpeton, North Dakota. Each has received a good
education, and Mrs. Barber was a teacher in Mentor for five
years previous to her marriage.
Politically, Mr. Aldrich is a Republican.
He has served as Trustee, member of the Town Council and Mayor of
Mentor, and for seventeen years was a member of the school board.
He was a member of the Republican Congressional Convention of the
old nineteenth district for eight years, and during that time became
well acquainted with General Garfield. That was before
Garfield moved to Mentor, four years previous to his election
as president, and after his removal here Mr. Aldrich became
intimately associated with the General, enjoying his confidence and
friendship. During the memorable campaign of 1880 Mr.
Aldrich assisted in entertaining the thousands who came to see
General Garfield, singly and in delegation, and had the
pleasure of introducing many distinguished men to him. Mrs.
Aldrich is a Methodist.
†Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake -
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 196
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JOHN W. ALEXANDER Source: Biographical History of Northeastern
Ohio - embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Chicago:
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AMASA I.
ALLEN, who is engaged A\ in farming in Willoughby township,
Lake county, Ohio, was born in Warren, Worcester county, Massachusetts,
April 4, 1818, a descendant of an old Massachusetts family, both his
father and grandfather, Pardon and Abner Allen, being
natives of that State. Abner Allen was a soldier in the
Revolutionary war. He was engaged in farming all his life and died at a
ripe old age. Pardon Allen, also a farmer by occupation,
died at the age of sixty-three years. His wife, and the mother of our
subject, was also a native of Massachusetts, her maiden name being
Ruth Tyler. She died in 1889, at the age of ninety-six years,
her mother having reached the advanced age of ninety-seven. Her father,
Abner Tyler, was a wealthy and influential farmer and at
one time a slave owner.
Amasa I. Allen was the fourth born in a
family of seven children, four of whom are still living. He was reared
on his father's farm, attending the district schools in his youth, and
at the age of twenty-one started out in life on his own responsibility,
beginning as a farm hand, working by the month. In the fall of 1839,
concluding that the opportunities for a young man to prosper were better
in the West than East, he directed his course toward Ohio. He rode from
Warren to Springfield, Massachusetts, on the first train that ran over
the Boston & Albany Railroad, from Springfield to Albany traveled by
stage, thence to Buffalo by canal-boat, and from there to Cleveland by
lake steamer. Upon his arrival here, he selected Chagrin Falls as a
place of settlement and bought land and engaged in farming; but before
he could cultivate the soil he had to clear the land. For some time he
lived in a log house, the forest all around him abounding in deer and
other game. In 1847, Mr. Allen went to Michigan and
erected a sawmill in the northern part of the State on the lake shore,
and after being engaged in business there eighteen months sold out and
came back to Ohio. He purchased his present farm, 100 acres in extent,
in the fall of 1872, and on it he has since been engaged in agricultural
pursuits. He has a five-acre vineyard among other improvements on his
farm.
Mr. Allen was married in 1851, to
Wealthy H. Holmes, a native of Kirtland, this county, and a daughter
of Leroy and Betsey Holmes, who emigrated
from Herkimer county. New York, to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1815. Some years
after their settlement here, her father sold his farm to the Mormon
prophet, Joseph Smith, but subsequently had to take it
back. Her parents are both, deceased, her father having passed away in
his sixty-third year. Seven of their twelve children are still living.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen have three children:
Charles S., George and Lucy. Miss Lucy has taught one term of
school.
Mr. Allen affiliates with the
Republican party. He was personally acquainted with James A.
Garfield, and on one occasion bought two yoke of steers from the
general.
†Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake -
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page
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CAPTAIN JOHN H. ANDREWS,
of Painesville, Ohio, who has traversed the Great Lakes continuously for
fifty years and is probably the most widely and favorably-known man of
his profession, was born in Meriden, Connecticut, May 21, 1829.
His ancestors came originally from England and settled, in 1639, in
Meriden, Connecticut, which town originally bore the name of Andrews,
which was subsequently changed to Meriden. His grandfather,
Aaron Andrews, was born in Meriden, where he was reared and followed
the millwright trade, dying at the age of eighty-six. His son,
Captain Oliver Andrews, father of the subject of this sketch, was
also a native of the historic town of Meriden. He was the youngest
of eight sons, and, according to the English rule of primogeniture,
received only a thorough education as his inheritance, after which he
relied on his own resources, and this, indeed, as future developments
will prove, was the best kind of fortune which could possibly have
befallen him. His self-reliance was inaugurated at the age of
eighteen, when he learned button-making and became foreman of a shop in
Barkhamstead, Connecticut. He eventually engaged in farming near
Meriden. He married Nancy Clark, also a native of
Connecticut, and descended from a represented family of that
commonwealth. In 1834, this young couple emigrated to the West,
going via Buffalo to Fairport Harbor, Ohio, on the steamer Superior, the
second boat to ply the Lakes. They settled in Painesville, where
the father taught school for some time, eventually engaging in farming.
Being a man of unusual ability and energy, he easily impressed himself
on his community and soon became a leader. He subsequently held
various political offices of importance, being at one time a member of
the Ohio House of Representatives for two terms. He also became
Sheriff of Lake county and Collector of the port at Fairport, acting in
the latter capacity for twelve years, being the first in that office to
ever make an official report of the business transactions of the port,
and was the first to hold the position of Inspector of the Port.
He was Justice of the Peace for several years, distinguishing himself in
that capacity as a judicious and efficient officer. He attained
his title of Captain from having commanded a company of militia riflemen
in Meriden, Connecticut; the title well fitted him, as he was a man of
military and imposing appearance. He lost his wife when the
subject of this sketch was young. They had six children, two of
whom survive. The distinguished father died in 1881, at the age of
eighty-seven years, greatly lamented by all who knew him.
Captain Andrews of this notice was thus
five years of age when his parents removed from their eastern home to
Painesville, Ohio, in the vicinity of which city his life, while on
land, has been passed. He received a common-school education with
a three -months attendance at an academy and two winters at a select
school. At the age of fourteen he commenced sailing on the lakes,
serving his apprenticeship on the old brigs which plied these
fresh-water seas in the early day. His first position on a large
vessel was as royal boy on a brig, with which he visited all the
principal ports on the lakes. He was at Chicago when when its
population was not more than 6,000 and when it gave no signs of its
present greatness. From sailor he rose to second mate, then to
mate and finally to the position of master, and has commanded a vessel
for the last forty-one years. During that long period he has
transported millions of dollars' worth of merchandise and has only cost
the underwriters $2,560 for losses. He sailed a brig two years and
the schooner nearly as long. The first vessel of which he had
charge was the Fly Dutchman. In the winter of 1855-'56, he built
the schooner E. C. Roberts, which he sailed about six years. He
then, in 1861, built the William Jones, which he launched in April,
1862, and sailed eleven years. In 1872, he built the Nellie
Redington, which he has commanded for more than twenty years and of
which he still has charge. When the iron trade was opened on Lake
Superior, he brought the first full cargo of that ore from the iron
region and has transported some every year since, having carried 31,000
tons of iron ore and coal in 1892. He also carried some of the
stone used in making the first lock in the Sault Ste. Marie canal.
His boat became frozen up the fall before the opening of this canal, and
he made his way home to Ohio on snow shoes. This accident occurred
again, and in the two seasons he walked more than 1,200 miles on snow
shoes. On his way home he camped out at night as many as
thirty-one days, when the thermometer was thirty-eight degrees below
zero. During one of these trips, he and his party were lost four
days in the Porcupine mountains without food, the first they obtained
being a hedge-hog which they killed. A few winters ago he was
caught on Lake Michigan in a gale, in which his vessel was seriously
damaged. This was the first instance in more than thirty-five
years that his boat received damage to any extent, and up to this time
he had never cost the underwriters a cent. He also experienced a
severe storm on Lake Superior on President Buchanan's election
day, in November, 1856, and has been in many other hard storms and
suffered frequent and great hardships. He has carried more than
100,000 kegs of powder to the Lake Superior mining regions, and at one
time had 7,500 kegs on board when he vessel was struck by lightning, but
there was no damage. He has, however, by perseverance and
continued industry accumulated a comfortable income, owning, besides his
interest in his vessel, real estate in Painesville, and an interest in a
pineapple plantation in Florida, all of which prosperity is entirely due
to his now unaided endeavors and intelligent management; and his career
might well serve as an incentive to all young men starting in life for
themselves, and depending upon their own efforts to make their way in
the world.
June 19, 1853, Captain Andrews was married to
Miss Susan Morris, of New York, a lady of social and domestic
accomplishments, daughter of Isaac and Susan (Whitaker) Morris,
of New Hampshire, her father being a sailor in early life.
Captain and Mrs. Andrews have had four children: Isaac,
deceased June 8, 1891, was married and was master of a vessel. He
had sailed several years with his father, under whom he had been mate
for eight years. George E. is married and lives in Florida,
where he owns a pineapple plantation. He graduated at the
Painesville high school and at the Western Reserve College. He was
for eight years a member of the Philadelphia base ball team, with which
he played against the Cincinnati, Brooklyn and Indianapolis teams, he
being known as the famous "Center fielder." Mary and
Nellie, twins, enjoyed good educational advantages and are both now
married. Mary became the wife of Charles Summers and
has two children; Nellie married Charles L. Titus, a
conductor on the Nickle Plate Railroad, and they have one child.
†Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake -
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page
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