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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 Sayles,
Mrs. William Sayles
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Mrs. Sarah C. Sayles
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WILLIAM SAYLES
was born in Milan, Erie county, Ohio, June 5, 1821,
and was the sixth child in a family of eight
children of Lemuel Sayles, who was born Mar.
8, 1783, and Laura Adams, who was born Feb.
4, 1789, she being a native of Utica, New York.
The subject of this sketch started out in life at
the age of fourteen, sustaining the loss of his
excellent mother at a tender age. During the
winter months he attended school, and by being
industrious and indefatigable in the pursuit of
knowledge, he became quite proficient in the English
branches, and followed school teaching as an
avocation, commencing in the winter of 1839-'40, at
New London Center, Huron county, Ohio, and continued
for nineteen consecutive winters, all but the first
one, in the vicinity of his present home. He
made his first purchase of land, consisting of fifty
acres, in the year 1845, in Vermillion township.
He bought his present farm of one hundred acres in
the spring of 1851, and has since added some
adjoining land to it.
Mr. Sayles was united in marriage with Sarah
C., daughter of Perry and Elizabeth Darley,
Jul. 3, 1843. She was from
Frederickstown, Maryland. She died May 6,
1876, regretted by her friends, and deeply mourned
by her relatives. She joined the
Congregational Church of Vermillion, in 1845, and
her connection with that body ceased only with her
life. Her husband became a member of the
church at the same time, and still retains his
connection with it. For his second wife,
Mr. Sayles married Louvina E., daughter
of John and Elizabeth Gordon, of Paulding
county, Ohio, in September, 1877, who is still
living.
Mr. Sayles is a self-made man in the broadest
sense of that term. He secured his education
by personal efforts, and the same energy and
determination to succeed that characterized his
endeavors in that direction, has attended him in his
subsequent business career. From Jan. 18,
1864, until 1875, he occupied the position of
superintendent of the Antwerp Iron Works, located in
Paulding County, Ohio, and retains an interest in
the same at present.
In early life he was an old line whig; and in the
formation of the republican party espoused its
principles as being best calculated to perpetuate
popular government and our American institutions.
He was elected a justice of the peace in 1876, and
still holds that office. He has also been
township treasurer, assessor, etc., at different
times. A fine illustration, surmounted with
the family portraits, appears elsewhere in this
volume, which forms an appropriate page in the
history of Brownhelm.
 Source: History of Lorain County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia: William Brothers - 1879 - page 234 |
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C. LESTER SEXTON
Source: History of Lorain County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia: William Brothers - 1879 - page 167 |
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ELISHA
SHELDON. Closely identified with
affairs tending to develop the general interests of
the township of Penfield, and always endeavoring, by
his life and character, to exercise a beneficial
influence in the community of which for many years
he has been a prominent member, Elisha Sheldon
to-day deservedly enjoys a foremost position among
the best citizens of that township.
Elisha Sheldon was born in the town of Kortright,
Delaware county, New York, Jan. 16, 1811. He
continued to reside in Kortright until the death of
his father, Jonathan Sheldon which occurred
in 1822, when he went to live with an uncle in the
adjoining town of Harpersfield, where he lived until
he was twenty-two years of age. He was engaged
as a teamster for Croswell & Dickerman
tanner, of Gilboa, Schoharie county, New York, with
whom he continued almost one year. In the
spring of 1834, he removed to Ohio and purchased one
hundred and eighty-eight acres, located in the town
of Penfield, Lorain county, upon which he worked,
and also by the month, until the fall, when he
returned to New York, and the following year married
Sallie Peters, and returned to the new home
in Ohio, May 3, 1835. He then put up a log
cabin, in the midst of an almost unbroken
wilderness, into which he moved before it had
windows. In the January following, he built
that necessary appendage to a comfortable dwelling,
his young wife helping to lay the brick. After
the elapse of forty-five years, Mrs. Sheldon
very appropriately designates her her experience in
the brick-laying line, as "the spice of pioneer
life." The first year of his settlement,
Mr. Sheldon cleared off some six or eight acres
and sowed it to wheat. Every year since has
witnessed some improvement to his farm, to which he
added seventy acres, subsequent to his original
purchase, upon which he still resides. He has
deeded to each of his sons a good farm, thus giving
them an infinitely better and easier start in life
than he ever had.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon have had seven children, namely:
Sarah E., now the wife of C. E. Starr,
resides in Penfield; Daniel P. lives at
Wellington; Addison resides on a farm in
Wellington township; William L. lives on a
farm in Penfield; Charles H. lives at home
with his parents, owning a part of the homestead;
James M. and John L. are dead, the former dying
at the age of five years and five months, and the
latter at the age of almost ten years.
In politics Mr. Sheldon is a republican.
He has served his township as assessor and trustee
several terms. He and his excellent wife are
both members of the Penfield Baptist church, of
which Mrs. Sheldon is the only one of the
constituent members now living. This worthy
couple have pulled together forty-four years, and
the prospects are for them to celebrate their golden
wedding.
Mr. Sheldon is noted for his liberality in
sustaining benevolent and charitable institutions,
and for the generous aid he lends to worthy objects
connected with religion and education. He is
deservedly esteemed as an upright and honest
citizen, a good neighbor, a kind husband and an
affectionate father. He has lived an
industrious and busy life, and in the management of
his interests has been careful and economical, so
that he and his wife, who has largely assisted him
in the accumulation of his property, can pass their
declining years in comparative ease and comfort.
Having always been temperate and regular in his
habits, he enjoys perfect good health, and bids fair
to exceed by many years, the allotted span.
Source:
History of Lorain County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia:
William Brothers - 1879 - page 305 |
Mrs. Orrin Starr
Mr. Orrin Starr
Residence
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Residence of Clapp R. Starr |
ORIN STARR
Source:
History of Lorain County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia:
William Brothers - 1879 - page 306
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