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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D. L. Wadsworth |
DAVID L.
WADSWORTH
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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S. S. Warner |
SIDNEY SARDUS WARNER
Commemorative Biographical Record of
the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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CLARENCE G. WASHBURN,
a rising young attorney at law of
Lorain, is a native of Ohio, born Feb. 19, 1867, in
Huron county, a son of Henry C. and Charlotte
(Griffin) Washburn, who came to Huron county,
Ohio, from the State of New York.
Clarence G. Washburn received his literary
training at the schools of Greenwich, in his native
county, and on completing his studies became a
traveling man, his business taking him over as many
as seventeen States, besides Canada and the Indian
Territory. In 1887 he gave up traveling, and
proceeding to Kansas served as deputy postmaster at
Wendell, a town near Kinsley. Returning to
Ohio, he there for a year carried on a boot and shoe
store, in both New London and Plymouth, for a
Cleveland firm, conducting a safe and profitable
business. Mr. Washburn then
studied law a year and a half, in Greenwich, Huron
county, under the preceptorship of T. K. Strimple,
after which he took a law course at Ann Arbor, Mich.,
which he completed June 30, 1892, after having
commenced the practice of his chosen profession in
Lorain Apr. 10, 1892. He is also a member of
the real-estate firm of Buell, Washburn
& Co., in the same town. In his political
predilections he is a liberal Republican; socially
he has been a member of the I. O. O. F. since
twenty-one years of age.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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HON. GEORGE G.
WASHBURN, is a native of Orange, Grafton Co.,
N. H., born Nov. 24, 1821. His father, Azel
Washburn, descended from the Main branch of the
Washburn family, and his mother Elizabeth
Danforth, was of Scotch-Irish descent, her
ancestors being among the early settlers of
Londonderry, New Hampshire.
The subject of this sketch spent his early days among
the rugged New Hampshire hills, with his parents for
his only teacher, until he was eleven years old,
when the family removed to Ohio, and settled in
Perry township (then in Geauga county) where for
three years he had the benefit of good schools.
In 1835, they removed to Camden, Lorain county, then
an unbroken wilderness, where he spent most of the
days of his minority in the laborious work of
clearing up a new farm.
By the aid of his father, and by the light of the
log-cabin fireplace, he acquired sufficient
education to teach school in the winter, while his
summers were spent in farm labor. At the age
of twenty-one years he abandoned the farm, and spent
one year in teaching a private school in
Brandenburg, Ky. On his return he spent four
years in study at Oberlin College, paying his way by
labor on the college farm, and by teaching during
the winter months. From Oberlin he removed to
Elyria, nine miles distant, where he read law in the
office of Hon. Philemon Bliss. He was
admitted to practice in 1848, and for two years was
admitted to practice in 1848, and for two years was
associated with Hon. Sylvester Bagg, who
subsequently removed to Iowa.
Mr. Washburn became an early writer for the
press, and on the removal of Judge Bagg to
Iowa he assumed charged of the Elyria Courier,
the organ of the then Whig party, which soon became
recognized as an influential factor in moulding
public sentiment. He soon abandoned all other
pursuits, and for forty-two years conducted that
journal and its successors - the Independent
Democrat and the Elyria Republican - as the sole
proprietor, editor and manager. For many years
he declined all political preferment, but served
during this period as member of the board of school
examiners for the county, member of the Elyria
council, and for six years as president of the board
of education. He was appointed by Gov.
Dennison, and served during the war as secretary
of the military committee for Lorain county, the
duties of which often led him to visit the
battle-fields of the Rebellion, and aid in caring
for the wounded soldiers. He has been
connected with the Lorain Bank in Elyria, and its
successor, the National Bank of Elyria, as one of
its board of directors for thirty-four years.
In 1883 he consented to become a member of the Ohio
General Assembly, as the representative for Lorain
county, and served four years with credit to himself
and his intelligent constituency. He then
declined further political service, and resumed his
journalistic duties, but was soon afterward
commissioned by the Governor as one of the board of
managers of the Ohio State Reformatory, which he had
been active in establishing while in the General
Assembly, and which position he now holds. In
September, 1891, he sold the entire plant of the
Elyria Republican, which he had conducted
with marked success for so many years, and is now
devoting his time chiefly to the reformatory
movements of the day. His long connection with
the State and National Press Associations, and
services as a legislator, have given him an
extensive acquaintance with men prominent in
politics and journalism in both the State and
Nation.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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A. R. Webber |
A. R. WEBBER
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. Whiton |
JOSEPH L. WHITON
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. H. Williams |
HENRY H. WILLIAMS
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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CHARLES E. WILSON,
county commissioner of Lorain county (with residence
in Elyria), is a native of same, born in Avon
township, Aug. 26, 1840.
His father, William Wilson, was born in 182 in
Northamptonshire, England, whence at about the age
of eighteen years he came to the United States,
locating in Cleveland, Ohio, for a few years.
He there married Miss Elvira Clisbee, and the
young couple then (1839) moved to Avon township,
Lorain county, settling on a piece of land, at that
time all covered by the forest. He died Jan.
19, 1860, aged forty-seven years, two months,
nineteen days, a Democrat in politics, a Baptist in
religion. His father, also named William
came from England to this country, and died in Avon
township, Lorain county; he was twice married, his
first wife dying in England, his second in Avon
township. Our subject's mother, who is at
present living at Tabor, Iowa, aged seventy-three
years, comes of New England stock. She is the
mother of six children, of whom the following is
brief mention: Charles E. is the
subject this sketch; Nancy is the wife of
N. S. Phelps, of Glenwood, Iowa; Louis E.
is in Atchison county, Mo.; Anna is the wife
of J. Graves, of Tabor, Iowa; Willis S.
died when twenty-three years old; Alice is
also deceased.
Charles E. Wilson the subject proper of this
sketch received his elementary education at the
common schools of Avon township, which was
supplemented with an attendance of one term at
Oberlin College. In 1864 he enlisted in
Company H, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, which served
in eastern Tennessee. He remained in the army
until the close of the war, and was in active
service at the time of Lee's surrender, after
which he came home, and in the fall of the same year
drove a team to Iowa, where he resided one year on a
farm. Once more coming to Lorain county, he
married Miss Elzina Lucas, and then settled
on the old homestead which at that time he rented,
but later bought. They lived there until 1886,
when he located in Elyria. He is a stockholder
in the Elyria Savings Deposit Bank Co.; has been a
member of the board of directors of the Lorain
County Agricultural Society; he is affiliated with
the G. A. R., and is a F. & A. M. He is a
Republican in politics, and has been a member of the
city council and of the board of education. To
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were born two children,
viz.: Alice who was married, June 8,
1893, to F. E. Edwards, and lives in Medina,
Ohio, where her husband is a leading dry-goods
merchant, and Grace, who departed from earth
at the early age of sixteen years. The family
are members of the M. E. Church.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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John Wolf |
JOHN WOLF
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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Hiram Woodworth |
HIRAM WOODWORTH
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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