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BIOGRAPHICAL
INDEX
Source:
A Portrait and Biographical
Record of Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio
containing Biographical sketches of many
Prominent and Representative Citizens.
together with portraits and biographies of all the
Presidents of the United States and Governors of Ohio.
V. 2
Logansport, Ind.
A. W. Bowen & Co.
1898
Starting at page 493
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H. Baldwin, Jr.
Emily Carver Baldwin
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HARVEY BALDWIN, one of the pioneers of the Western
Reserve and a substantial farmer of Aurora township, Portage county,
Ohio, and a respected citizen, is a son of Harvey, who was a
son of Samuel Baldwin, who came to Cleveland in 1806,
and was a member of the famous Baldwin family of Connecticut,
who were among the early founders of that state. Samuel,
the original pioneer of the family of Aurora township, was a farmer,
and married, in Connecticut, Hannah Camp, who was born
in the same state. The children born to his marriage were
Smith, who was one of the first sheriffs of Cuyahoga county,
Ohio, and under his administration the first hanging—that of
an Indian - in Cuyahoga county, took place; Caleb, James,
Elicam, Harry, Harvey and Alanson, and
also four daughters. Samuel Baldwin made the Journey to Ohio
with horses, part of the way on the ice on the borders of lake Erie,
and at one point he broke through. He settled, in 1808, in
Aurora township. Portage county, having lived in Newburg,
Cuyahoga county, about two years previously. He bought about
400 acres of land just east of Aurora Center, all woods, and he
cleared it up and made a good farm, most of which he divided with
his sons, although a part of the land was laid off into town lots in
Aurora. Samuel Baldwin was an honored pioneer
citizen and a member of the Baptist church. He died, aged
about eighty-one years, on his farm, Feb. 30, 1829.
Harvey Baldwin, son of Samuel and father
of Harvey, was born in Connecticut, at Danbury, Dec. 31,
1796, and was a boy of about twelve years when the family came to
Ohio. He received a common-schol educaton and was always a
farmer and cheese merchant, and the pioneer of the cheese
manufacture in Portage county, selling the first large lot of cheese
ever shipped from the county, about 1820, the shipment consisting of
five casks of cheese and two barrels of cranberries. He hauled
them through to the Ohio river, bought a skiff and took them to
Louisville and sold them. He had previosly been to New
Orleans, when a young man, and saw cheese sold at $1 per lb.
At New Orleans he found his brother James, and they both went
to New York and James died on Staten Island and Mr.
Baldwin returned home and continued in the cheese trade for
thirty years. In early ties he would buy the cheese and wagon
it across the state and then ship by way of barges of keelboats to
New Orleans. He had associated with him different parties -
Samuel, Granger, Alanson Baldwin and a Mr. Kent, but he
did the traveling and selling. He first settled in Bainbridge
township, and later moved to Aurora and Streetsboro.
Mr. Baldwin first married, in Bainbridge
township, Lora Kent, born Mar. 23, 1797, daughter of
Gamaliel and Deborah (Huntington) Kent. The Huntingtons
were a prominent Connecticut family, and Gov. Huntington, of
Ohio, owned 500 acres of land where Henry Baldwin, now lives,
and from whose heirs Harvey Baldwin's second marriage was to
Lucinda Brown, of Louisivlle, Ky., in 1832. He was laid
up there with his boat during a great flood, during which Mr.
Brown's house was rendered untenable; he took the family on
board and finally married the daughter. The first wife's
children were Laura A., Henry, Philander and Oscar O.
The second wife's children Ellen, Belle, Esther A. and
Lester. Mr. Baldwin was a Methodist and class
leader and a prominent man in his church; he was one of the founders
of the Methodist church in Streetsboro and the principal builder,
paying $400 towards its erection. He was a man of integrity of
character, much respected, and died on his farm in Streetsboro
township at the age of eighty-five years.
Harvey Baldwin was born Apr. 14,
1823, in Bainbridge township, received the common education of his
day and has always been a farmer. He married, Dec. 23, 1847,
in Aurora township, Portage county, Emily Carver, who
was born Nov. 8, 1823, in Aurora township, a daughter of Chester
and Anna (Eldridge) Carver. Chester Carver, a pioneer of
Solon, Ohio, was a descendant of the New England family of that name
- the founder of the family of America, having come over in the May
Flower to Plymouth in 1620. Chester Carver was born
about 1800, came to Ohio with his parents when a boy, and was a
carpenter by trade. He married Anna Eldridge, who was
born, about 1800, in New York state, a daughter of Sylvanus and
Alice (Fisk) Eldridge. Sylvanus Eldridge's family were
pioneers of Aurora township, the father dying on the way about 1816.
His children were Betsy, Daniel, John I., Anna and
Caroline. Chester Carver and wife, parents of Mrs.
Baldwin, settled on 100 acres of land in the southeast part of
Aurora township and partly cleared up their farm, and he died three
years later, about 1827. His children were Chester and
Emily. Mr. Carver was a young man when he died of malarial
fever, and Mrs. Baldwin, although then a child of four years,
remembers the sad event. Her mother lived to be an old lady of
eighty-eight years and died Jan. 7, 1891. She was married, the
second time, to Oliver Spencer, who died young, Melinda,
Matilda, and Russell. Harvey Baldwin settled on a
farm in Streetsboro township after marriage, and ran a dairy of
sixty cows for I. C. Dow, in the good old way, making the
cheese and butter by hand, and selling the cheese for four cents per
pound and butter from nine to twelve cents. Two years later
Mr. Baldwin went overland to California, starting Mar. 14, 1850
with a company of men from northeastern Ohio, shipping by steamer
their wagons and effects to St. Jo-seph, Mo., where they bought
horses and crossed the plains, being eighty-one days from St.
Joseph, Mo., to Eldorado county, Cal., where Mr. Baldwin
engaged in gold mining and remained three years, did fairly well and
brought his gold home with him. While still a resident of
California, he volunteered in the state militia and served against
the Digger Indians. He returned via the isthmus of Panama in
1853, and bought a farm in southeast Aurora township, adjoining his
present farm, consisting of 130 acres. He resided there but
two years, then bought his present place of 142 acres, which he has
greatly improved, and has a pleasant home.
To Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have been born the
following children; Ella F., wife of Erskine R. Merrill,
resident of Aurora township; he is engaged in the roofing business,
and has been an active business man all his life. They have
three sons, Ernest B., Richard K. and Gilbert H.
Mrs. Merrill was educated at the ladies' seminary of
Painesville, Ohio, and highly trained in music. Alice M.
is the wife of T. A. Gould, who is also engaged in the
roofing business. They have two children: Lee H. and
Carrie E. Carrie E. died at the age of fifteen
years; Hattie E. is the wife of W. M. Heinly,
who is the manager of Mr. Baldwin's estate. Anna L.
resides mostly with her parents. Minnie C. was the wife
of T. H. Warren, who is a member of the Burton Stock Co. of
Boston, Mass. She died Mar. 1, 1891, and her remains are
interred in Aurora cemetery, where the beautiful family
monument of Quincy granite marks the last resting place. Dec.
23, 1897, marked an event in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin
which will ever be cherished by them and their children. It
was the celebration of their "golden wedding." They sent out
numerous invitations to their many friends, with the injunction "No
presents," but this injunction was not heeded. In their
comfortable and pleasant home is found a beautiful and elegantly
engraved gold-headed cane, a beautiful ebony and gold-plated
cathedral gong clock, also a superb delph parlor lamp, an exquisite
hanging lamp, and gold coin and other beautiful souvenirs.
Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin are members of the Congregational church of
Aurora, and in politics Mr. Baldwin is a democrat and
cast his first presidential vote for James K. Polk.
Mr. Baldwin is an honored citizen, has been elected township
trustee three terms. He is a man of undoubted integrity of
character and has always been industrious and energetic.
Source: A Portrait and Biographical
Record of Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio -
Vol. 2 - Publ. Logansport, Ind. - A. W. Bowen & Co. - 1898 - Page 708 |
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JOHN
M. BISSELL, a well-known business man of Garrettsville,
Portage county, Ohio, was born in Medina county, Ohio, Nov. 13,
1844, a son of Rowland F. and Betsy (Marsh) Bissell. He
received a limited common-school education, and enlisted in January,
1864, in Capt. Jonas Schoonover's company H, 'I'wenty-ninth
regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years or during the
war, and served until he was honorably discharged, in July, 1865, on
account of the closing of the war, with the rank of corporal.
He was in the battles of Mill Creek Gap. Resaca, New Hope Church,
Pine Knob, Peach Tree Creek and Atlanta. He was then on the
march to the sea and in the battle at Savannah, Ga.; North Edisto
River, S. C, and Goldsboro, N. C, Mar. 23, 1863. He marched in
the grand review, at Washington, D. C, and then returned to Ohio.
After the war Mr. Bissell settled in Bath
township, Summit county, Ohio, where he was married Addie M.
Conkling Jan. 7, 1869 - daughter of Rial and Hannah (Sweet)
Conkling, and in 1873 moved to Garretsville, and, with the
exception of two years when he lived in Akron, has since resided
here. For some time he was engaged in draying and expressing;
he has also been in the grocery and coal business, and on July 21,
1896, he bought his present property, which consists of a residence
and twenty acres. He also owns another residence and lot in
Garrettsville, and is now engaged in the ice business.
Mr. Bissell is an invalid, and for twenty-three
years has not walked a step, but uses a wheeled chair skillfully and
does much work. She bears her great affliction with rare
patience and fortitude, and is a lady of much refinement. In
politics Mr. Bissell is a stanch republican. He is a
member of the G. A. R., Mark Horton post, Garrettsville, and has
held the office of quartermaster. He is also a member of the
/blue lodge, F. & A. M., at Garrettsville, and of Portage lodge, No.
456, I. O. O. F. Mr. Bissell has always been a
straightforward, industrious and reliable man. He was a good
soldier, and is an excellent citizen.
John Bissell, the grandfather of subject, was
born in New England. He married Miss Fish, and settled
in Ontario county, N. Y., where he died. His children were
Rowland, Lorenzo, Carlos and Almira.
Rowland Bissell, the father of subject, was born in
Ontario county, N. Y., Apr. 14, 1810. He was a farmer and
lumberman, and married Betsey Marsh, of Ontario county, N.
Y., and daughter of Marcius Marsh. Mr. Bissell moved to
Ohio, and settled in Westfield, Morrow county, about 1837, and
bought land and cleared a farm. His children were Dilana,
Mandona, Lorenzo, Louisa and John M. Mr. Bissell
moved to Bath township in 1861, bought a a farm and saw-mill, and
here passed his remaining days. He was an industrious and
substantial man, respected by all. He lived to be
seventy-eight years old and died in 1889. Rial Conkling
was a second cousin to Roscoe Conkling, the famous statesman.
Rial was the son of Augustus and Rhodah (Denton) Conkling.
Augustus Conkling was a citizen of Cayuga county, N. Y. Rial
Conkling was born July 10, 1820, in Cayuga county, N. Y., and came
to Ohio in 1840 and settled in Bath, Summitt county, Ohio, on land
and here passed his remaining days. His children were
Augustus, Addie, Austin, Selwyn, Frank and George. In politics
he was a republican. He lived to be seventy-three years old
and died in 1892. He was an upright, industrious and respected
man - Carpenter and stone mason was his trade.
John Bissell, the founder of the family, and
with a brother came over from England to the Plymouth colony, Mass.,
in 1628. One brother was drowned in Plymouth harbor.
John Bissell came with the colony to Windsor, Conn., and was
soon sent back to England for cattle. For faithful services he
was rewarded with the Windsor Ferry, called to this day the
Bissell Ferry. It is believed that all of the name in this
country descended from him.
Benjamin Bissell was a soldier in
the war of the Revolution and died of camp dysentery in middle life.
He had three sons, viz: Israel; Justice, who settled in
Aurora, Portage county, Ohio, where he died, aged seventy years, and
Robert; also four daughters: Eunice, Roxanna, Prudence
and Anna. Benjamin Bissell died in Massachusetts.
Prof. Samuel Bissell, founder of Twinsburg academy, was born
in Middlefield, Hampshire county, Mass., Apr. 28, 1797, and died in
Twinsburg, Ohio, Aug. 26, 1895.
Source: A Portrait and Biographical
Record of Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio -
Vol. 2 - Publ. Logansport, Ind. - A. W. Bowen & Co. - 1898 - Page 947 |
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