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Biographies
Source:
History of Trumbull
& Mahoning Counties
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
Vols. I & 2 -
Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro.
1882
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DR.
A. W. CALVIN. In the full strength of vigorous manhood
in the midst of a successful professional career which was rapidly
raising him in the esteem of a community where he was already
trusted and honored, Dr. Calvin was suddenly prostrated by a
dread disease, and after an illness of brief duration, died on the
18th of December, 1881, in the thirty-fifth year and seventh month
of his age.
Of his boyhood it is perhaps sufficient to state that
it was like that of most farmers' sons.
Aaron Wilbur Calvin was born in Green township,
Mahoning County, May 18, 1846. He was a son of Robert and
Jane Calvin, who were well-known in this vicinity, and both of
whom have been dead less than two years, the husband preceding the
wife about three weeks. Nurtured by Christian parents
by whom the seeds were sown which subsequently developed into the
character which gave him such a hold upon the affections of all who
knew him, he with the rest of the children was accredited with a
good name.
His education was begun in the district school at
Locust Grove, and afterwards prosecuted at the old academy in
Canfield. After acquiring an ordinary amount of learning, he
turned his attention for a brief period to the profession of
teaching. He was married, Feb. 15, 1866, to Miss H. J.
Fowler, a daughter of Dr. C. R. Fowler. After his
marriage he resided in Canfield until 1868, when he removed to
Crawford county, Illinois, where he remained two years. In
1870 he returned to Canfield, and began the study of medicine with
his father-in-law, Dr. Fowler, and in 1873 graduated from the
Cleveland Medical college. After graduation he began the
practice of his profession in Canfield, and continued the same up to
the time of his death. During his married life he was blessed
with three children: Mamie, Emma, and Florence,
who are now aged respectively fifteen, eleven and six years.
These, with the bereaved wife and three brothers and four sisters,
are left to mourn his loss.
As a citizen and a man Dr. Calvin received the
respect and confidence of all. Always generous and obliging,
he made hosts of friends, and was able to retain them. As a
student he applied himself with more than usual vigor, and completed
his course of study in much less time than in usually allotted to
the ordinary pupil. As a physician he was learned in theory
and skilled in practice, yet he was a constant student, searching in
every field for means of increasing his knowledge and usefulness.
He was a faithful and tender nurse, and to this fact owed much of
his success. But above all he was a conscientious man.
He took no unwarranted risks; none of his patients were ever
troubled with the fear of being experimented upon at the risk of
life. He had begun to gather about him, just prior to his
death, circumstances of prosperity above the ordinary man of his
age. He had just reached that period of life where he might
begin to enjoy the fruits of his faithfulness and industry, when he
was smitten by the hand of death.
The above statements are gathered from a discourse
delivered by Rev. C. L. Morrison on Dec. 25, 1881, and they
present a fair and impartial view of one who was beloved, honored,
and esteemed by a large circle of intimate acquaintances.
Source: History of Trumbull
& Mahoning Counties
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches -
Vols. I & 2 - Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro.
1882 - Page 39 |
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HON. JUDSON CANFIELD was born in New Milford,
Connecticut, Jan. 23, 1759. He was the second son of
Colonel Samuel Canfield, an officer in the Revolutionary army
and a member of the Connecticut State Legislature for twenty-six
sessions. Colonel Canfield
was distinguished by great energy of character and clearness of
intellect. He died in 1799 in the seventy-fourth year of his
age. Judson Canfield was educated at Yale college and
graduated therefrom in 1782. Two years later he was admitted
to the bar, and in 1786 he settled in Sharon, Connecticut, where he
successfully pursued his profession. The same year he was
married to Mabel Ruggles, daughter of Captain Ruggles,
an officer of the Revolution and a man distinguished for high moral
character and refinement.
Mr. Canfield was a member of the popular branch
of the State Legislature, from the town of Sharon, at almost every
session, from 1802 to 1809, when he was elected a State Senatory for
each successive year until he removed from the State in 1815.
From 1808 to 1815 he was also an associate judge of the county court
for the county of Litchfield.
After his removal to Ohio he devoted himself mainly to
farming and disposing of his lands. He died Feb. 5, 1840.
His children were Henry J., Julia, Elvira, Elizabeth H., and
Caroline Elena.
Henry J. Canfield was born Jan. 4, 1789, died Nov.
27, 1856. He married Sally R. Ferris in 1825; she died
Jan. 23, 1881. The children of this union were two, Julia
E. and Judson W. Julia married D. C. Rugles,
and died in 1857.
Source: History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Vols. I & 2 - Publ.
Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro.
1882 - Page 34 |
George Carson |
GEORGE
CARSON, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, Aug. 19,
1812. His parents were John and Catherine (Wentz) Carson,
who removed to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1832, and first
settled on the farm now owned and occupied by James Weasner,
in Berlin township. After residing there a number of years he
moved to Milton, where he died at the age of seventy four years.
Mrs. Carson survived her husband a couple of years.
They raised a family of seven sons and five daughters, named as
follow: Sarah (dead, John, in Berlin; George
in Berlin; Sophia (Hiser), in Michigan; Jacob,
in Portage county; Harriet, dead; William, in the
West; Samuel, in Michigan; Robert, in Milton; David,
in Michigan; Susan (Vaughn), in Ashtabula county.
George Carson was brought up on the farm.
He was married in 1835 to Miss Catharine Gross,
daughter of John and Christina Gross,
who was born in York county, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1818.
After his marriage he settled near Schilling's mills, in
Berlin, where he resided until his removal to a farm at Berlin
center, some eighteen years ago. The same fall he was elected
justice of the peace and has held that office continuously since
with the exception of only a few months. Mr. Carson,
besides his farm at the center of Berlin, still owns a part of the
farm on which he originally settled, near Schilling's mills.
Mr. and Mrs. Carson have had eleven children,
one dying young. The others are as follow: Catharine
married Cornelius Mott and lives in Portage county,
Harriet married John Cessna and lives in Weathersfield
township; Uriah married Mary Jones and lives in
Lordstown; David has been married twice and lives in
Deerfield, Portage county; Emily married Lawrence
Shively, in Berlin; Minerva married Frank
Keiser, both deceased; Ella married Jeremiah
Shively, and lives in Berlin; Elmer married Addie
Newton, and lives at Berlin center; William F.,
single, of Deerfield center, Portage county, is fitting himself for
the medical profession; Clara married Amos Hoyle,
and lives in Berlin. Uriah volunteered at the first
call for troops in 1861, going out with the Nineteenth Ohio
volunteer infantry and served three years. He was also out in
the one hundred days' service as member of the One Hundred and
Fifty-fifth Ohio National guard. David was also out in
the same regiment.
Mr. Carson has always been an intelligent
and industrious farmer and has prospered in his business. He and his
wife are members of the Christian church.
Source:
History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
- Vol. II
- Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. 1882 - Page
123 |
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NATHANIEL
CHURCH was a descendant of the fifth generation from
Richard Church, one of the colonists of Plymouth, Massachusetts,
who, though not a passenger in the Mayflower, joined the Pilgrims as
early as 1631. It is supposed that he afterwards removed to
Hartford, Connecticut, as the name of Richard Church is found
there upon the public monument erected to the memory of the first
settlers of the town. Nathaniel Church was the son of
Samuel Church, and was born in Bethlehem, Connecticut, Nov.
16, 1756. His father died when he was but three years old.
At a suitable age he was apprenticed to a weaver, but finding his
master one difficult to please he deserted his service soon after
the breaking out of the Revolutionary war and joined the patriot
army. He was wounded in the battle of White Plains and his
injuries were pronounced mortal. He recovered, however, though
his wounds ever troubled him. He did not rejoin the army, but
as soon as he was able to resume his trade as a weaver he went to
Canaan, Connecticut, and was there employed by Captain John
Ensign, a clothier. Oct. 4, 1781, he married Lois Ensign,
youngest daughter of his employer. She died in about two
years, leaving two sons, Ensign and Samuel. In
1793 he was again married, to Dorcas Nickerson, who died in
1799. From this marriage there were also two children,
Luman and John. He was a third time married in
1800, to Mrs. Ruth Johns, who bore five children-
Nathaniel, Frederick, Lois, William, and Ruth. His
third wife survived him and died in 1842. Mr. Church
was prominently engaged in manufacturing and assisted in the
erection of a paper-mill in Salisbury. This mill having
burned, he retired to a farm on the banks of the Housatonic, where
he died Nov. 10, 1837. He was an active and ardent politician
and was twice elected a member of the House of Assembly from the
town of Salisbury. He was a devoted Christian of the Methodist
denomination.
Samuel Church, his oldest son, became a
distinguished lawyer in Connecticut and chief justice of the supreme
court in that State. He was the father of A. E. Church,
a distinguished mathematician and a professor in the United States
Military academy at West Point.
Ensign Church was born in Salisbury in 1782, and
married Jerusha Wright in 1805. He and his wife left
Connecticut in May, 1805, and arrived in Canfield the 4th of June
following. In 1812 he was appointed deputy quartermaster under
General Simon Perkins, and was discharged in 1813, broken
down by fatigue in the service. He died April 17, 1813.
He was the father of two children, one of whom died in 1818; the
other became the wife of Hon. Eben Newton. His widow
afterwards married Eli T. Boughton, of Canfield, and died
here in 1869 at the advanced age of eighty-four.
John R. Church, a son of Nathaniel Curch,
came to Canfield in 1818, and for several years was a successful
business man and associate judge. He died Apr. 11, 1868.
Source:
History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
- Vol. II
- Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. 1882 -
Page 32 |
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HENRY CROWELL was
born in Grafton, Vermont, in the year 1802. His father,
Mayhew Crowell, emigrated from Cape Cod, Massachusetts,
residing in Grafton for a term of years and finally removed with his
family to Bloomfield, Trumbull county, Ohio. His maternal relative,
Mahitable Crowell, was the sister of Major
Howe, formerly of Bloomfield, and cousin of Ephraim Brown,
Esq., of the same township.
The subject of this biographical sketch removed with
his parents from his Vermont home to Bloomfield in the year 1815.
The journey was accomplished by means of ox teams and was
necessarily slow and tedious, six weeks being consumed before they
reached its termination, a distance which can now be overcome in
less than twenty-four hours. For miles in many places they had to
cut their way through dense forests, where the settler's axe had
never before swung, bridging streams and camping out nights.
This journey proved no pleasure excursion. Few in
these days of good roads and easy locomotion can appreciate the
trials, privations, and suffering incident to pioneer life in those
times when these little bands, severing the ties of old
associations, poor in purse but strong in will, went forth in the
early twilight of our Nation's history sowing the seeds of empire
and breaking the way for future generations in the great West.
Arriving at Bloomfield, which at that time was a
dense wilderness broken here and there only by small clearings, few
and far between, his father located a tract of land, a portion of
which he ultimately sold to his son Henry, who, with
characteristic industry, proceeded to clear and prepare it for
cultivation, erecting a dwelling thereon. In the year 1832 he was
united in marriage with Miss Almena Saunders, the resulof which
union was five sons and two daughters; five of these seven children
are still living.
In the year 1865 he removed to Cleveland, Ohio. Here he
afterwards resided until his death, which occurred Sept. 20, 1881,
in the eightieth year of his age, he being the last member of a
family of twelve. His temperate, orderly life, combined with
habits of well regulated industry, prolonged his years far beyond
the average span of existence.
Source: History of
Trumbull & Mahoning Counties with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches - Vol. 2 - Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro.
1882 - Page 400 |
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