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Biographies
Source:
* Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County,
by Ex-Sheriff Samuel A. Lane.
Akron, Ohio: Beacon Job Department -
1892
Dr. Moses Thompson |
DR. MOSES THOMPSON, -
born in Goshen, Connecticut, Jan. 22, 1776; liberal
education, including study of medicine; Dec. 22, 1797,
married to Miss Elizabeth Mills, immediately moving
to Kinderhook, New York; practiced medicine there until
Spring of 1800, when he came to Ohio, with Summit county's
first settler, David Hudson, purchasing for
himself, his father, Deacon Stephen
Thompson, and his brothers, Abraham and
Stephen, 750 acres of land in Hudson; in Summer of 1800,
went back to Connecticut on foot, walking 650 miles in
twelve days; in Spring of 1801, returned to Ohio with wife
and one child, settling on farm two miles southwest of
center of Hudson, where he afterwards resided, until his
death, from an accident, November 20, 1858, at the age of 82
years, 9 months and 28 days. Dr. Thompson
was the first practitioner in what is now Portage and Summit
counties, his ride extending from Lake Erie south nearly
fifty miles. During the War of 1812, Dr.
Thompson served as surgeon in the army; at close of the
war engaged in raising and selling agricultural products in
in Southern markets, Louisville, Nashville, Huntsville, etc.
Mrs. Thompson shared with her husband the
hardships and privations of pioneer life, both heartily
promoting the religious, educational and material
enterprises of the time, Mrs. Thompson, a
member of the Congregational Church of Hudson, from 1808,
dying November 20, 1850. Their children were: Eliza
Lemira, wife of Horace Metcalf,
deceased; Susan, wife of Horace Holbrook,
deceased; Mills, deceased; Emily, widow of
Samuel Woods, deceased; Sylvester H.,
deceased; Virgil M., a prosperous farmer in Stow;
Ruth B., wife of Leander Starr, deceased;
Mary, wife of John Hazelton, deceased;
Martha, died at 22; Elizabeth, unmarried, yet
living, and two dying in infancy.
Source: Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County, by
Ex-Sheriff Samuel A. Lane. Publ. Akron, Ohio: Beacon
Job Department - 1892 - Page 721 |
Hon. Sylvester H. Thompson |
HON. SYLVESTER H. THOMPSON,
- son of Dr. Moses and Elizabeth (Mills) Thompson,
among the very earliest settlers of Summit county, was born
in Hudson, July 28, 1808; educated in pioneer district
schools; raises to farm life, at 22 began farming for
himself; May 14, 1833, was married to Caroline D. Peck,
of Waterbury, Connecticut, who bore him seven children
Charles S., deceased; Sherman P., now a
prosperous farmer of Hudson; Martha E., now Mrs.
P. G. Clark, of East Cleveland; Theodore F., now
a prominent dealer in carriages, implements, etc., in
Ravenna; Albert S., carpenter and builder in
Cleveland; two dying in infancy. Active in all public
affairs, he held many positions of trust in his native
township, resigning the office of justice of the peace to
accept the appointment of associate judge of Summit county,
on the resignation of his old neighbor, Judge John B.
Clark, in 1846, which office he ably filled till the
taking effect of the new constitution in February, 1852; in
1859 was elected representative to the State Legislature,
serving two years ; in 1864, was appointed commissioner; was
connected with City National Bank of Akron, and its
president thirteen years. Mrs. Thompson died
November 23, 1876, the Judge himself dying January 15, 1883,
aged 74 years, 5 months and 17 days.
Source: Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County,
by Ex-Sheriff Samuel A. Lane. Publ. Akron, Ohio:
Beacon Job Department - 1892 - Page 729 |
Grant B. Turner, Esq. |
GRANT B. TURNER, ESQ., -
born in Blooming Grove, New York, Oct. 17, 1810, moving with
parents of Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1818, coming to
Cuyahoga Falls in 1828; common school education; learned
printer's trade in office of Western Intelligencer,
Hudson; was four years deputy sheriff for Portage county;
studied law, practicing that profession for several years, a
portion of the time as a partner of Judge James S.
Carpenter and Samuel W. McClure; in 1856, in company
with several other gentlemen, founded the Variety Iron
Works, under the firm name of Turner, Parks & Co.,
afterwards changed to Turner, Vaughn &
Co., incorporated January 11, 1889, as The Turner, Vaughn
& Taylor Company, which has more than a national
reputation for the excellence of its manufactures. April 30,
1835, Mr. Turner was married to Miss Ada
Morley, of Canandaigua, New York, who bore him three
children Augusta, married to Mr. James M. Edson, an
early merchant in Akron, and now Mrs. H. C. Lockwood,
of Cleveland; Harriet, now Mrs. Charles S. Hanford,
of Cleveland, and Alice, wife of Mr.
Clayton Whittlesy, but now deceased. An
invalid, from partial paralysis, though for most of the time
able to be about, and in full possession of his mental
faculties, Mr. Turner was not active in the
business affairs of his firm for several years previous to
his death, February. 21, 1891, at the age of 80 years, 4
months and 4 days, Mrs. Turner dying May 18,
1891.
Source: Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County, by
Ex-Sheriff Samuel A. Lane. Publ. Akron, Ohio: Beacon
Job Department - 1892 - Page 739 |
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