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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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Dr. Truman B. Dailey |
Avon
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DR. TRUMAN B. DAILEY. Elijah
Dailey, the grandfather of Dr. Dailey,
emigrated when a boy, with his father's family, from
Ireland to Massachusetts, about 1750. He went
into the revolutionary war at its commencement, and
continued until its close. HE was at the
defense of Boston and in the battle of Bunker Hill.
HE died about 1837, at Potsdam, New York. His
son Benjamin was born at Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in 1780. He married Jane Moe,
in Essex, Essex county, Vermont, in 802. She
was born in Massachusetts, in 1785, and died in
1871, at the age of eighty-six years. He was a
farmer and a man of the strictest integrity; one who
lived to do his neighbors good. He set a just
value upon his labor, and estimated and regulated
the sale of his products accordingly; for instance,
he estimated that he could produce hay for six
dollars per ton. If the price was below that
he would not sell; if above, no matter how much, he
would only ask that, and would not, however, sell to
speculators, only to those who needed it for their
own consumption. He came from Essex, Vermont,
to Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, about the
year 1807, at which place he bought and
cleared up a farm, on which he lived until his
death. He served as a soldier through the war
of 1812, and died in 1872, at the age of ninety-two
years. He had ten children.
Dr. T. B. Dailey, the subject of this sketch,
lived with his father on the farm, until he was
twenty-one years of age, working on the farm during
the summer, attending the St. Lawrence academy in
the twenty-first year of his age, at which time he
commenced the study of medicine at Madrid, St.
Lawrence county, with Drs. Pierce and Manley,
with whom he studied two years, teaching school
winters. In the spring of 1844 he came to
Dover, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Here he
continued the study of medicine with Dr. Jason
Peabody, his uncle. He remained with him
two years, and finally graduated at the Cleveland
medical college, in March, 1846.
In 1847 he settled at Avon, Lorain county, where he
commenced the practice of medicine, and soon by his
untiring industry and perseverance, built up a large
practice. He educated himself, and by his own
energy and integrity, has won an honorable name in
the community in which he lives and may justly be
said to be a self-made man.
He was married to Laura A. Rogers, at Avon, Apr.
5th, 1848, by whom hi had three children: Jamin,
born Jan. 6th, 1849; Ezra, born Sept. 3d,
1851, and died Apr. 1st, 1853; Leslie, born
Jan. 29, 1853, and died Oct. 8th, 1853. His
wife, Laura A., died July 2d, 1853. He
married a second time, his choice being Martha
Ballou, Mar. 26, 1854.
He united with the M. E. Church at the age of seventeen
years, and has ever continued a living working
member.
He still lives at Avon, this county, where he has a
large medical practice and a host of friends.
 Source:
History of Lorain County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia:
William Brothers - 1879 - page 277 |
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OEL DURKEE.
The Durkee family in America traces its
ancestry to three brothers who left Scotland at an
early day and settled in New England.
Prior to the commencement of the present century, we
find Joseph Durkee, grandfather of our
subject, settled in Connecticut, where Alba
Durkee, son of the latter and father of Oel,
was born. They were a hardy and industrious
race, and also possessed the quality of economy,
that has become a well-known characteristic of their
race. The mother of Oel Durkee was
Thankful Whitcomb, and she died at Pottsdam, St.
Lawrence county, New York, in 1811, when he was but
four years of age. On the death of his wife,
Alba Durkee returned to Pittsfield, Rutland
county, Vermont, where he had resided previous to
his removal to New York State. Two of his
daughters rode horseback, and Mr. Durkee
carried on a pillow an infant of only four months
old.
Oel Durkee was born in Pittsfield, Vermont, Oct.
28, 1807. His early boyhood was passed in
Stockbridge, Windsor county, in the same State,
where he lived until he was about seventeen years of
age. On his parents' removal to York State, he
was an infant, and, on his father's return to
Vermont, he rode behind him on the same horse.
He then went to live with an uncle, Norman Weber,
and resided with him until he was about fifteen.
His sisters made their home with Ebbe Durkee,
an uncle. The father married again and
returned to Pottsdam, New York, where he remained a
few years, returning temporarily to Pittsfield, and
subsequently removing to Bethany, Genesee county,
New York, where he died. His second wife's
maiden name was Sarah Newton. By her he
had six children; by his first wife, seven, namely:
Elizabeth, Joseph, Cynthia, Thomas, Lucy, Oel
and Nancy, of whom the first, third, sixth
and seventh named survive.
At the age of seventeen, Oel went to Nashua, New
Hampshire, and worked on the canal five years.
He met with many reverses. He made his home,
winters, at Stockbridge, Vermont. He afterward
removed to Allegany, now Wyoming county, New York,
where he engaged as a farm laborer. He there
married Betsey Terrey in 1830. Four
years later, he came to Ohio, and settled on the
farm where he still resides, in Eaton township.
Their children numbere4d eleven, of whom six are
living. They were Mason A., born Nov.
12, 1831; Nancy, born July 16, 1833; (two
dying in infancy unnamed); Fidelia, born June
20, 1838, died July 17, 1871; Hiram, born
Jan. 2, 1840, killed at South Mountain, Maryland,
Sept. 14, 1862; Persis, born Mar. 12, 1841,
died Feb. 29, 1848;Oel, Jr., born Dec. 2,
1843; Betsey Eveline, born Feb. 18, 1845;
Horace A., born June 29, 1848; and Oscar A.,
born Aug. 1, 1849. Those deceased are
Fedelia, Persis and Hiram. Those
living are all married, and are respectable members
of society. Mr. and Mrs. Durkee have
had great-grand children and twenty-two
grand-children, with fair prospects of having these
numbers largely augmented. Mrs. Durkee
was born in the town of Pike, Allegany county, New
York, June 12, 1810. Her father was Peleg
Mason Terry; her mother, Betsey Swift.
They were married on Thanksgiving day, 1808.
They had three children: Lorinda and
Betsey, the other dying in infancy. The
Terrys moved into Ohio in 1836, settled in Eaton
township, and lived and died there - Mrs. Terry
dying in 1838, and her husband Jan. 28, 1875.
He married the widow of a Mr. Nye, and she
survives.
Mr. Durkee can recall the time when there had
not been a tree cut from a half mile south of
Butternut ridge and Rawsonville, the whole territory
being covered with a dense forest. On arriving
in Eaton, he moved into a log shanty, with eight
others, all living in one room, and continued to
live in this way for almost three months. The
shanty served as a habitation for almost two years,
when he built a small frame house, which was
succeeded in 1849, by his present residence - an
illustration of which appears on another page of
this volume.
Mr. Durkee and his excellent wife are in every
sense a worthy couple. They have lived
together nigh unto half a century, and we trust they
will both live an enjoy good health and prosperity
for many years after celebrating their golden
wedding. Mr. Durkee is in politics a
staunch republican; in religion, a free thinker.
Source: History of Lorain County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia: William Brothers - 1879 - page 205 |
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