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HISTORY of CITY OF TOLEDO and LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO
Illustrated
Clark Waggoner, Editor
Publ. New York & Toledo:
Munsell & Company, Publishers
1888
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Miles D. Carrington |
MILES D. CARRINGTON
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 479 |
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Adams Twp. -
GEORGE
GERISH CASS was born at Roscommon,
Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, Oct. 7, 1807. He is a son
of Barnard and Martha (Trumbull) Cass. The former had
two half-brothers, Benjamin and Jonathan. The
latter was a Major in the Revolutionary War, and had three sons,
George, Charles and General Lewis Cass;
and two daughters - Mary and Deborah. Barnard
Cass moved to Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1816, where
Jonathan had 4,000 acres of choice lands. He laid out the
Town of Dresden in that County, which became his residence.
Joseph's mother and sister Philena died when he was 12
years old. In 1882, the family with the exception of two
brothers, came to the Maumee Valley, and settled in the Northwest
quarter of Section 24, now in Adams Township, which is still the
home of Joseph. The settlement was made in a dense
forest, with no improvement of any sort nearer than Maumee City,
three miles distant. So straitened in circumstances was
Joseph, that he was compelled to divide his time between
clearing his own land and working for others for means of support,
until relieved by small crops. During the real estate
speculation of 1835-36, he sold his farm to a Maumee party at what
«as considered a good price, and removed to Knox County, where he
bought land and remained for 13 years. The sale of his farm
having meantime failed, he was compelled to take it back and again
occupied it. Mr. Cass's life, though not an
eventful one, has been marked by pervading consideration for the
rights and welfare of his fellow-men, especially in the promotion of
sound morals and good order For 60 years, in principle and practice,
he has been strictly a Temperance man. When he was about 20
years of age (1828), a race-course and an attendant liquor shop at
Dresden, patronized mainly by laborers employed in the construction
of the Ohio Canal, so far reached their natural results among the
youth and the older residents, as to arouse his alarm and to cause
in him the positive resolve to abstain from gambling and the use of
intoxicating liquors, which resolution never has been broken, but
has remained as a ready and effective shield from temptation to
either practices Mr. Cass has been a member of the
Masonic fraternity for about 40 years, being initiated at Newcastle,
Coshocton County, Ohio, and united with Northern Light Lodge at
Maumee in 1850. Having, in the manner already stated,
succeeded in erecting a one-story log-cabin, 18x20 feet in size, and
cleared and planted with corn three acres of his land, Mr.
Cass took the nest step by going to Jackson Township, Knox
County, where, July 10, 1833, he was married with Miss Mary
Wilson, who accompanied him to their forest home, making the
trip by the Ohio Canal to Cleveland, and thence by Steamboat to
Maumee, via Detroit. Coming as she did from a home of
comfort, the bride was found adequate for every demand on her
energies and courage which were liberally taxed in all the ways
known to such trials. The mother of six sons and six
daughters, 11 of whom grew to maturity, she had ample occasion for
the exercise of the physical and mental resources which alone could
have given success in such extraordinary charge. A sincere
Christian, her convictions and faith abided and guided her througout
the long years of her activity, and made their mark on the children
other care. She died Jan. 2, 1876. July 2, 1878, Mr. Cass
was married with Miss Ellen A., daughter of Caleb
Farquhar, of Coshocton County, whose relations to the large
family have been from the first most happy.
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 832 |
William C. Chapman |
WILLIAM C. CHAPMAN, M. D.
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 551 |
Sanford Langworthy Collins |
SANFORD LANGWORTHY COLLINS
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 902 |
Daniel F. Cook |
Waynesfield Twp. -
DANIEL F. COOK.
Few names have been longer identified with the history of Lucas
County, than has that of Daniel F. Cook who for more than 50
years has resided at Maumee. He was born in Waterville, Maine,
Sept. 5, 1814. His father, Daniel Cook, was born in
Kingston, Massachusetts, in 1785, which Town originally was part of
Plymouth; he tracing his ancestry directly back to the Pilgrim
Fathers. In 1809 he was graduated at Brown University; studied
medicine, and in 1812 was appointed a Surgeon in the United States
Army, serving in Maine. After the War, he practiced his
profession at Waterville for a time, when he engaged in mercantile
and banking pursuits, continuing the same until failing health made
necessary a change both of business and climate. In 1834 he
came West, and located at Maumee City, as they point most fully
meeting the demands of his case. His family then consisted of
his wife and three children. Of these, a daughter, Clara
Ann Neal, in February, 1835, was married at Waterville, Maine,
with W. B. S. Moore, subsequently United States Senator from
that State. She died in 1853. Two sons, Charles
and Daniel F., accompanied their parents to the West. At
that time Maumee was regarded as the most promising place of all the
Maumee Valley. There Mr. Cook passed the remaining
years of his life, dying in 1863, at the age of 78 years. His
widow survived him but five years. Charles was long a
merchant at Maumee, where he died in 1852. Daniel F. Cook
was graduated in 1833 at Waterville (Maine) College, now Colby
University. In 1834 he entered Harvard Law School, spending
there two years. Returning to Maumee in 1835, he was about a
year thereafter admitted to the Bar of Ohio, and commenced his
professional life at that place. In 1845 he was admitted to
practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, upon the motion
of Judge E. D. Potter, then Representative in Congress from
this District. The local contemporaries of Mr. Cook in
the early years of his practice included Samuel M. Young,
Morrison R. Waite, Hez. L. Hosmer, Thomas Dunlap and
Horace F. Waite. The vigorous period of his practice
continued until the removal of the seat of justice from Maumee of
Toledo, in 1852, although he pursued the same until 1865.
Meanwhile, he directed his attention to dealing in real estate, with
which and with farming interests he has been for many years largely
identified in both Lucas and Wood Counties - his present
agricultural holdings aggregating 28 farms. In 1854 Mr.
Cook was appointed a Commissioner of the County and in 1855 was
elected to the same office, serving until 1858. He has
frequently served his neighbors in local official positions,
including those of Councilman and City Attorney for several years;
while for three terms he was an efficient member of the Board of
Education. In his earlier years he was active in political
matters, in which he took much interest. In 1866 he joined
Mr. R. B. Mitchell in founding the Banking House of Cook &
Mitchell, with which he remained until 1872. The test of
character involved in an active life of half a century, such as
Mr. Cook has been called to meet, is one which could be borne by
true merit only. The many who have had business relations, and
the many who have enjoyed social contact with him, will bear
cheerful witness to his unswerving integrity in the one sphere, and
to his kindly and generous spirit in the other, where the genial
impulses find fullest expression. His energies and his
means have always been quick in response to demands in behalf of
enterprises looking to the public good; while in the domain of
private life, his course has been of quiet, unobtrusive citizenship.
So, it is safe to say, that the name of Daniel Francis Cook
may justly have place among the pioneers, to whom Lucas County ever
will be indebted for its advance in growth and prosperity.
Mr. Cook was married with Mrs. Abby (Bosworth) Frost, at
Maumee, Nov. 10, 1858. She was born in Genesee County, New
York, July 11, 1818, and died Feb. 12, 1888. No children are
now living.
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 929 |
Josiah D. Cook |
JOSIAH D. COOK
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 571 |
Charles Coy |
CHARLES COY
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 857 |
Gershom Crabb |
GERSHOM CRABB
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 907 |
Charles Augustus Crane |
CHARLES AUGUSTUS CRANE
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 686 |
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