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Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. -
1893
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JOHN PELTON,
a well-to-do farmer and representative citizen of Willoughby
township, Lake county, Ohio, was born in Willoughby, this county,
Mar. 6, 1844.
Henry
Pelton,
his father, was born in Genesee county, New York, in 1806.
According to tradition, he was descended from one of three brothers
who emigrated from Scotland to America at an early day. Little,
however, beyond this is known of his ancestors. He moved West to
Willoughby, Ohio, in 1831, bringing with him his wife and two
children. He farmed here from some time, and also kept a hotel at
Willoughby one year. Ten he went further West, traveling by team
through Michigan and northern Illinois, and passing through what was
then the village of Chicago, now one of the great cities of the
world. Not being favorable impressed with that section of the
country, he came back to Ohio and located in Mayfield township,
Cuyahoga county, where he lived for a short time. Then he came to
Willoughby and purchased it, and here he engaged in farming.
Subsequently he went to Michigan, from there some years later to
Missouri, and afterward to Nebraska. He died in the last named
State, in 1891. Wile a resident of Lake county he served as Trustee
of Willoughby township several terms. His wife, the mother of our
subject, was by maiden name Miss
Margaret Hamilton.
She was a native of New York. Her death occurred June 15, 1889.
They had nine children, five of whom grew to maturity, and four are
still living, John is
next to the youngest.
Mr.
Pelton and
his youngest brother took charge of the home farm when the farmer
was nineteen, and on this place he has lived nearly ever since.
Here he has 148 acres of good land, six acres being devoted to a
vineyard and a few acres to a pear orchard. For several years he
has also kept a dairy in connection with his other farming
operations.
IN March, 1869, Mr.
Pelton married Logena
Baker,
a native of Mentor, Ohio. She died in 1885, leaving three children: Alma
Howard and Frank.
in !888 he married Ella
Dewey,
his present companion, a native of Willoughby.
Fraternally, Mr.
Pelton is
identified with the Knights of Pythias. Politically, he is a
Republican. He has been a member of the Council of Willoughby for
several terms. Mrs.
Penton is
a member of the Disciple Church.
†Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of
Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. -
1893 - Page 720 |
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SAMUEL
WARD PHELPS, a prominent and wealthy horticulturist of Willoughby
township, Lake county, Ohio, is a native of Painesville, this county,
born November 29, 1825.
Hon. Samuel Ward Phelps, his father, and one of
the pioneers of the Western Reserve, was a native of Connecticut. He
died in Ohio, in the prime of life, July 4,1826, aged forty-five years.
A graduate of Yale College, a lawyer by profession, and a man of marked
business ability, he was in every way fitted to become a leader in the
pioneer district where he settled, and few men in northern Ohio were
better known or more highly respected than he. He came to the frontier
as agent for a Connecticut land company, which owned a large tract of
land along the lake shore. His arrival in Ohio dates in 1801. That was
before there had been any settlement in this part of the country. In
1803, he married Lydia Paine, daughter of General
Edward Paine. During the war of 1812, Mr. Phelps
served as aid to General Harrison. He was a member of the
Legislature when it met at Circleville; was also a member of the
Constitutional Convention and helped to frame the Constitution of the
State of Ohio. Judge Spaulding, now of Cleveland, Ohio,
was at one time a student in Mr. Phelps' law office at Painesville.
Mrs. Phelps died in 1857, leaving five daughters and one son, the
latter the subject of our sketch, being one of the three children who
are still living.
Young Phelps attended the public schools
at Painesville until he was twelve years old, after which he spent five
years at Kenyon College. After leaving college, he became connected with
the Geauga Iron Company, at Painesville, in which he was a stockholder
and with which he was associated seven years. The following seven years
he was agent for the Lake Shore Railroad at Painesville. Then he located
at Oil City, Pennsylvania, and spent two years in buying oil and
shipping to Pittsburgh. Next we find him at Brazil, Indiana, where he
was interested in coal-mining seven years, and following that he was for
thirteen years in the Fountain county mines of Indiana. He owned and
developed a number of mines.
In 1883, Mr. Phelps came to Willoughby
and purchased a farm on the Cleveland and Painesville road—the farm on
which his wife was born, and on which since 1883 they have made their
home. Here he has 238 acres, and he also has under his management a
hundred acres near by. 100 acres of this land he has devoted to fruit
culture, having twenty-live acres in peaches, twenty-seven in a vineyard
and a pear orchard comprising 1,600 trees. Mr. Phelps also
owns 280 acres of land in Clay county, Indiana.
He was married in 1849, to Miss Mary O. Hall,
daughter of Levi and Nancy (Cord) Hall.
Her father came to Ohio in 1813, and her mother's people were also among
the pioneers of Lake county. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps
have three children: Samuel H., Mary E., and William C.
Mr. Phelps is a member of the Masonic
fraternity. In politics he was first a Whig and is now a Republican.
†Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake -
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 1015 |
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DEWITT C. PIERCE Source: Biographical History of Northeastern
Ohio - embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Chicago:
The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 338 |
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DAVID QUINCY, a prominent
and well-to-do farmer of Mentor township, Lake county, Ohio, is a man
who has made his own way in the world and is justly entitled to the
place he occupies among the representative men of the county.
Mr. Quincy was born in Northamptonshire,
England, Feb. 18, 1834, son of Josiah and Rebecca (Drage) Quincy,
also natives of that place. His father died at the age of
fifty-two years, and his mother at seventy-five. They had a family
of nine children, three of whom emigrated to America.
His father being a farmer, David was reared to
agricultural pursuits, and has been engaged in farming all his life.
When he was nine years old he worked out, receiving thirty-six cents a
week. In 1854 he sailed from Liverpool for New York, landing at
his destination after a voyage of nine weeks and four days. From
that city he went to Rutland, Vermont, where he found employment as a
farm hand and where he continued as such until the war came on. In
the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Seventh Vermont Volunteer
Infantry, and went South with his command. He participated in the
battle of Pearl River, Louisiana, and was a Baton Rouge and Grand Gulf.
At the time he entered the service he weighed 187 pounds, and in less
than a year, when he was honorably discharged on account of disability,
he was reduced to ninety-six pounds! He was promoted to Sergeant,
but was discharged before he ever got to fill the office.
After leaving the army Mr. Quincy returned to
Vermont and remained there one year. Then he came to Lake county,
Ohio, and settled in Mentor township, where he has since resided.
Upon his arrival here he purchased land, to which he has added by
subsequent purchase until he is now the owner of 188 acres, all nicely
improved.
Mr. Quincy was married in the fall of 1863 to
Jane Kelley, a native of Washington county, New York. After
her father's death, which occurred in New York, her mother came to Ohio
with her family and settled in Lake county, her death occurring some
years later in Willoughby township. Mr. and Mrs. Quincy
have six children: Emma, Belle, George, Myra, Willis and
David.
Mr. Quincy is a member of the Masonic order and the
James A. Garfield Post No. 591, G. A. R., of Mentor, having served
as Commander of the Post three years. Politically, he is a
Republican, and has served in various local offices.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
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embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake -
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 883 |
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