BIOGRAPHIES
COMMEMORATIVE
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF THE COUNTIES OF
HURON AND LORAIN, OHIO
CONTAINING
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens
and of Many of the Early Settled Families
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
J. H. BEERS & CO.
1894
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Benjamin Redfern |
BENJAMIN REDFERN
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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H. G. Redington |
H. G. REDINGTON
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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J. H. REED,
a prominent and influential farmer of Eaton
township, was born July 19, 1847, in Strongsville,
Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, a son of Joseph and Tamar
(Lyman) Reed, natives, the father of Cornwall,
England, the mother of Strongsville, Ohio.
At the age of twenty Joseph Reed emigrated to
the United States, and locating first in
Strongsville, Ohio, from there moved to Columbia
township, Lorain county, where he followed
agricultural pursuits during the rest of his life.
He died in 1882; his widow is yet living. They
had a family of nine children, of whom six are yet
living, viz.: J. L., married, residing
in Ridgeville township (he has two children, Fred
and Elsie); J. H., subject of
sketch; Sophia L., widow of Chauncey
Nichols, late of Berea, Ohio (she has three
children - Lena, Mary and William);
Mary I. wife of Otis B. Osborne, of Eaton
township (she has three children - Nellie,
Charlie and Bayard); F. N.,
married, in the wholesale millinery business in
Cleveland, Ohio (has one daughter - Winifred);
and Charles T. single, in business with his
brother in Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Reed also reared a niece, Lydia Ratcliffe,
now married and living in California.
J. H. Reed, whose
name introduces this sketch, received his education
at the public schools of Columbia township, Lorain
county, supplemented with a few months attendance at
Oberlin College. For a time he worked at
the stone business in Berea, Ohio, as well as in
Columbia township, but farming has been his chief
life vocation. In 1872 he came to Eaton
township, and bought a partly improved farm of
seventy-nine acres, on which he erected a house and
barn, subsequently adding thereto sixty-two acres,
aggregating one of the finest farms in the township.
Just after marriage, and prior to coming to Eaton
township, Mr. Reed and his wife lived two
years in Ridgeville township.
On Christmas Day, 1871, our subject was married, in
Ridgeville township, to Miss Jennie McNally
of that township, daughters of John and Elizabeth
(Cave) McNelly, the father a native of
Whitehall, N. Y., who settled in Ridgeville township
some sixty years ago, the mother of England; both
are living in Elyria, Ohio. Thomas and Jane
(Wilson) Cave, grandparents of Mrs. Reed,
were natives of England, whence in an early day they
came to America, making a settlement on Chestnut
Ridge, Ridgeville township, Lorain county. To
our subject and wife have been born two children -
Claude Thomas and Clyde Joseph. Mr.
and Mrs. Reedare members of which he is clerk
and deacon. In politics he is an active
Republican, is a member of the school board, and has
served in Congressional conventions. He takes
an active interest in the local Agricultural
Association; is one of the directors of the County
Agricultural Society, and has been a delegate to the
County Conventions.
The mother of our subject is a daughter of Elijah
and Irene (Whitney) Lyman natives of Vermont, of
English ancestry, who in 1814 came to Strongsville,
Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, where they died, he in 1828, she
in 1820. Thomas and Mary (Hickens) Reed,
paternal grandparents of J. H. Reed, were
natives of Cornwall, England, whence about the year
1838 they came to Ohio, making their new home in
Cuyahoga county. The grandfather died in
Columbia township, Lorain county, in 1876, at the
age of eighty-seven years; the grandmother had
passed away in Strongsville, Cuyahoga county, in
1871, when seventy-six years old.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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J. L. REED,
widely known in the county as a thorough business
man, and an active member of the enterprising firm
of Teasdale & Reed, proprietors of the
People's Shoe Store, and of the livery firm of
Moysey & Reed, Elyria, is a native of Cuyahoga
county, Ohio, born Feb. 7, 1846, in Strongville.
Joseph Reed, father of subject, was a native of
Cornwall, England, a son of Thomas Reed, who
was born in the parish of St. Agnes, in the same
county, and was a farmer and landowner there.
In an early day he (Thomas) immigrated to the
United States, bringing with him his family of
thirteen children, of whom Joseph was the
seventh in order of birth. They settled in
Strongville (near Cleveland), Cuyahoga Co., Ohio,
where the father of this large family followed
farming to the close of his life, which was a long
and active one, he being close on ninety years of
age at the time of his death. He was a member
of the Congregational Church. His wife,
Mary (Hitchens), was nearly eighty years old at
the time of her death, and all the ancestry, on both
sides, seem to have been long-lived. Joseph
Reed, their son, was barely twenty years old
when he came to America. He was married in
Strongville, Ohio, to Miss Tamar Lyman and
six children were born to them, J. L. being
the eldest. The father of these was born in
1818, and died Aug. 14, 1880; the mother, now in her
seventy-fourth year, is living in Columbia.
After marriage Joseph Reed settled in
Columbia township, where he followed farming.
By trade he was a shoemaker, which he followed in
England, and to a limited extent in this country.
J. L. Reed, the subject proper of this
biographical memoir, in his boyhood worked about the
quarries in Berea and Columbia, and chopped wood by
the cord, in order to earn money to pay for his
schooling. His elementary education he
received at the common schools of his native place,
which he supplemented with three terms study at
Oberlin, and three terms at Baldwin University,
Berea, Ohio, besides a course at Oberlin Commercial
School. He then took up farming, securing a
lease of his wife's father's farm in Ridgeville
township, Lorain county, where he now owns 110 acres
of well-cultivated land. He also, in
connection with his farming interests, deals in
wagons, agricultural implements, etc., and runs a
shop in which repairing of wagons and implements, in
all of its branches, is done. In 1889 he
became associated with the People's Shoe Store, in
Elyria, in company with Mr. Teasdale, as
successors to Stone & Campbell.
In May, 1891, he became a partner with Mr. Moysey
in the present livery business, both of which
enterprises are in a sound flourishing condition.
In 1869 Mr. Reed was married to Miss
Elizabeth Healy, and two children have been born
to them, viz.: Fred, at present a
student at Garfield School, in Portage county, Ohio,
and Elsie, better known as "Kittie"
among her many friends and acquaintances. In
his political affiliations he is a stanch
Republican, and he served as justice of the peace
nine years, declining to accept further election.
He is a notary public, a member of the Church of
Christ at North Eaton, and is the superintendent of
the Sunday School in some church. He is now
vice-president of the Lorain County Agricultural
Society, of which he has been a director four years.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the
counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_
Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1095 |
F. S. Reefy |
FREDERICK S. REEFY
Source: Commemorative
Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and
Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 806 |
P. D. Reefy |
P. D. REEFY, M. D.,
Source: Commemorative
Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and
Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 784 |
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JOHN RILEY, JR.,
one of the prominent representative young men of
Amherst township, is a native-born Ohioan, having
first seen the light of day in Erie county in 1856.
He is a son of John and Bridget (Welch) Riley,
the father born in Ireland. Coming to America
in 1844 he made his home in Erie county, Ohio, a
number of years. About 1868 he removed with
his home in Erie county, Ohio, a number of years.
About 1868 he removed with his family to Lorain
county, and he now resides in Elyria township.
He has been a lifelong farmer, and in politics a
stanch Democrat. Eight children were born to
John and Bridget Riley, all yet living.
John Riley, Jr., received his education in the
public schools of Elyria and Berlin Heights.
For some years he followed agricultural pursuits,
and he now owns a good farm of one hundred acres in
Amherst township. In 1882 he commenced
contracting for the Toledo & Cleveland Railroad,
northern and southern division, and later has been
employed in getting out ship timber.
Mr. Riley has been twice married; first time in
1880 to Miss Jennie Davis, who died in 1883,
and he subsequently, in 1889, married Miss Carrie
Armert. He takes an active interest in
politics, and is a strong, useful member of the
Democratic party. Since September, 1893, he
has been the efficient and courteous postmaster at
North Amherst.
Source: Commemorative
Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and
Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 999 |
William Rininger |
WILLIAM RININGER
Source: Commemorative
Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and
Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 910 |
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