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BIOGRAPHIES
HISTORY
OF
LORAIN COUNTY
OHIO
With
Illustrations & Biographical Sketches
of
Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers.
Publ. Philadelphia:
by Williams Brothers
1879
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WILLIAM O. CAHOON
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ISRAEL CASH
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P. L. CHANDLER
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BIRD B. CHAPMAN
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HORACE D. CLARK
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LORENZO CLARK
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BAXTER CLOUGH
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AMOS COE
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JOSEPH C. COLLISTER
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LEWIS RODMAN COOK
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Chester A. Cooley &
Wm H. Cooley
Residences
Chester A. Cooley
Mrs. Chester A. Cooley
Wm H. Cooley |
Brownhelm -
CHESTER A. COOLEY was born in
Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass., Aug. 25, 1812,
and was the seventh child in a family of eight
children of Enos and Anna (Ashley) Cooley,
both of New England ancestry. During the fall
of 1817, Enos Cooley and family started west
with a span of horses and wagon, and arriving at
Batavia, N. Y., stopped over until the month of
February following. He was very poor in the
world's goods, and had nothing with which to start
except a good family. Young Chester had
to work hard, fare poorly and all the amusement he
ever had in youth was fishing and 'cooning.
They arrived at Brownhelm towards the last of the
year 1818, and purchased one hundred acres of land,
upon which they erected a fine, hewed log house, the
corners being squared by Mr. Cooley himself,
he being a practical mechanic. This primitive
residence stood about one mile south of the lake,
and two miles north of the present residence of
Chester A. Cooley. The superior quality of the
log house, however, did not furnish food for the
family, so that they traded one of their horses for
a cow, which helped a little. The creature had
to procure its own fodder in the woods, and
sometimes the family were minus the diurnal supply
of the lacteal fluid owing to the non-appearance of
the bovine. Its absence sometimes extended
over four or five days. Mr. Cooley,
pére, went
to Elyria and worked in Judge Ely's mills,
while the children cleared the land. Clearing
up the forest, however, was somewhat detrimental to
their clothing, so that one of the boys shouldered
his knapsack and proceeded on foot to Massachusetts
for a fresh supply of cloth, earning the same in a
factory where he had previously worked. these
and similar privations the pioneers had to bear, but
little by little the country began to settle up, and
many of the difficulties of their situation were
removed. At the age of twenty-eight, and on
the 4th of November, 1840, Chester married
Catharine B. daughter of Grandison and Nancy
(Harris) Fairchild, who settled in Brownhelm in
the fall of 1818. By this union were born two
sons, - James Francis, born Oct. 11, 1841;
was married, in March, 1863, to Effie Darby
sister of William Sayles first wife; died
Aug. 12, 1863, of diphtheria. He was a
remarkably good son and brother, cheerful, careful,
and conscientious. He watched over his younger
brother with tender solicitude, and was faithful in
every duty both at home and at school. While
attending Oberlin College, and boarding with his
uncle, Professor (now President)
Fairchild, his mother once inquired whether he
was a good boy. The professor said, "You know
you need not ask. I never saw such a boy; he
is always in the right place at the right time."
He taught school, and was also engaged at
Sabbath-school teaching. Although not a
professor of religion he was a devout Christian, and
his death, after a painful illness of only four
days, was a sore bereavement alike to his parents
and to his recently married wife.
The other son of Mr. and Mrs. Cooley, William H.,
was born Sept. 27, 1843; was married, July 8, 1865,
to Sarah Butler. They have two
daughters and one son, viz.: Caroline
Madora, born Nov. 19, 1870; Catharine Eloise,
born Feb. 2, 1874; Wm. Butler born June 15,
1878.
Chester A. Cooley first purchased fifty acres of
land, for which he went in debt. He paid for
it by working for Judge Brown and others, and
making staves from the timber on his land. In
1846 he sold out and bought one hundred acres where
he now resides. He cast his first vote, in
1840, for General Harrison He
afterwards became an anti-slavery man, and is now a
Democrat. He is an honest, conscientious
Christian, a first-class farmer, and a good citizen.
William, his only son, is a merchant at
Brownhelm, and also postmaster and town treasurer.
He follows in his father's footsteps, and is
generally esteemed a worthy member of society.
He was for several years superintendent of the
Sabbath-school, himself and wife being members of
the Congregational Church.
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William Brothers - 1879 - page 226a |
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JOHN V. COON,
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History of Lorain County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia:
William Brothers - 1879 - page 53 |
B. S. Corning
Mrs. B. S. Corning |
B. S. CORNING.
It has been appropriately asserted that the life and
services of a good man constitute an important part
of the history of the community in which he has
passed any considerable portion of his time.
The career of a self-made man, with the narrative of
the principal events that led to the successful
issue of his various enterprises, to the fulfillment
of his hopes, the consummation of his aims, and the
realization of his aspirations, affords a record at
once interesting and instructive. The life of
him whose name heads this brief sketch offers many
features of an excellent nature, and fairly
illustrates what well-directed energy, industry, and
business tact can and almost invariably does
accomplish.
B. S. Corning was born in Columbia Co., N. Y.,
Nov. 16, 1812. He is the grandson of Bliss
Corning, who was born in Massachusetts, Oct.
30, 1763, and at an early day settled in Columbia
County, where he continued to reside until his
death. The name of B. S. Coming's
father was Nathan S.,
and he was born at Norwich, Conn., in the year 1788,
and moved with his father, Bliss Corning,
above mentioned, to New York, where he remained
until 1834, during which year he and his family
removed to Grafton, Lorain Co., Ohio, where he
resided until his death.
B. S. Corning was the eldest of thirteen
children. As a means of perpetuating their
names to posterity, we quote from the family record
as follows:
The first of the Cornings in America was
Samuel, who was born about 1616, and made a
freeman of Beverly, Mass., in 1641.
Nehemiah Corning, born 1717, son of Joseph,
and great-grandson of Samuel married Mary,
widow of Abner Pride, formerly Mary
Richards, Nov. 14, 1745, and had the following
children:
1. Joseph, the oldest, born Oct. 7, 1746; taken
by the British during the Revolutionary war and put
on board of the Jersey prison-ship at New York, and
never was heard from after.
2. Benjamin, born Jan. 22, 1748, a farmer,
settled in Voluntown, in Connecticut; died in 1827.
3. Amos, born Apr. 27, 1751, and died in 1753.
Nehemiah Corning died Oct. 7, 1797, aged
eighty-one. His second wife, Freeborn Bliss,
died Nov. 8, 1809, aged eighty-six years.
The heads of the successive generations down to
Bliss Corning were as follows: Joseph;
Benjamin, who had three children, - Lois,
Charles, and Joseph; Mary; Uriah, married
Sophronia Hall, and had eight children,
namely, Elias Bliss, Rebecca W., Betsey (died
in infancy), Betsey (2d), Jedediah, Amos, Sally
B., and Elizabeth Willett.
Bliss Corning was born in 1763, at Preston, Conn.,
son of Nehemiah who was from Beverly, Mass.;
he married Lucinda Smith, of Preston, who was
born in 1755. Their children were Nathan
S., born May 20, 1788; Elisha, born Feb.
17, 1790; Clarissa, born Dec. 7, 1792;
Erastus, of Albany, who was a member of
Legislature of New York, also a member of Congress,
born Dec. 14, 17194; Alexander B. born Jan.
5, 1796; Edwin, born Mar. 16, 1798;
Richard S. born July 8, 1800; Eliza, born
Sept. 13, 1802, died Oct. 7, 1803; Hannah T.
born Oct. 4, 1804; Mary Ann born Sept. 24,
1806; John H. Corning, born Mar. 10, 1809.
On settling in Ohio, Mr. Corning at once assumed
a prominent position in township affairs, which
position he has ever since retained. At an
early day he was engaged as a builder and
contractor, which business he followed for about
twenty years. He then purchased the farm upon
which he now lives, located about two and a half
miles east of Grafton. On the 10th of April,
1836, he married Miss E. L., daughter of
William and Mary Turner. She was born in
Massachusetts, Feb. 22, 1811. From this union
four children were born, namely, Dwight, born
Sept. 23, 1837; Hobart E., born Apr. 19,
1839; Howard, born Aug. 1, 1843; and
Angelina G., born Mar. 1, 1847.
In 1866, Mr. Corning was elected to the office
of county commissioner, and was twice re-elected to
the same office, serving in all nine years. He
gave very general satisfaction in this important
office, as he had always done in minor positions to
which the people called him. In politics he is
a Republican, having joined them in the organization
of that party in 1854. Both he and his worthy
wife are members of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of Grafton, to which
they are liberal contributors. The portrait of
Mr. Corning appears above this brief
sketch, and that of his wife, his companion for more
than forty-three years, on the opposite page, both
worthy occupants of the places assigned them in the
history of the county in which they have lived and
labored for nigh half a century. May they live
many years to enjoy the esteem of those who know
them as at present, and dying at a ripe old age,
leave behind them
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GEORGE B. CREHORE
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ASAHEL A. CROSSE
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JOHN CURTIS
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CHARLES F. CUSHING, M. D.
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