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Biographies
Source:
† Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co.
Chicago, Ill -
1908
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ABEL VALLEN
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DURASTUS VALLEN
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WILLIAM L. VANDERSALL
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MILTON A. Van HORN
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ROBERT Van HORN
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JOHN R. VAUGHAN
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WILLIAM T. VAUGHAN
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FRED S. VIALL, president of
the Akron Plumbing & Heating Company, of Akron, has been a
resident of this city for the past seventeen years. He
was born in Summit County, Ohio, in 1873, and is a son of
Sylvester Viall. The father of Mr. Viall
was also born in Summit County. in 1844, and is a son of
Sullivan Viall, who settled early in Summit County. Sylvester
Viall resides on his farm in Boston Township and is one
of the prominent citizens of the county.
Fred S. Viall was reared on his father's farm
and obtained his education in the country schools. He
came to Akron when he was seventeen years old, and, deciding
to learn the plumbing business, entered the employ of
Kraus & Oberlin, with which firm he remained
three years. For one year afterward he traveled
through Vermont and Massachusetts, working at his trade, and
then returning to Akron, and was connected with the firm of
Kraus & Kirn for four years. About this
time, in association with other practical men, he formed the
Akron Plumbing & Heating Company, which was incorporated in
the spring of 1907, with a capital stock of $15,000.
The officers are: Fred S. Viall, president;
R. H. Viall, vice-president and manager; and F. S.
Pryor secretary and treasurer. The business of the
company is general contracting and plumbing of the most
approved style.
In 1897 Mr. Viall was married to Kate M.
Watson, a daughter of Frank Watson, who came
originally from Scotland. They have four children:
Irene, Blanche, Mary Frances and Carl Sylvester.
Mr. Viall has a fine business record and is numbered
with the progressive business men of this city.
†Source: Centennial
History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens -
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill -
1908~Page 466 |
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GEORGE
VIALL. Akron has a number of substantial
citizens living in easy retirement after a long and useful
business life, and among these is George Viall, who
was born in this city Mar. 12, 1834, his parents being
Thomas C. and Mahala (Atwood) Viall.
The father of Mr. Viall came to Akron in
1824, where he built both a saw-and a woolen-mill, and
besides operating them he invested in a large amount of farm
property in Summit County. He died when his only
child, George, was about two years of age.
Mr. Viall completed his education in the schools
of Akron, or old Middlebury, as that section of the city was
then denominated, and was nineteen years old when he engaged
in a grocery business at Old Forge. Two years later he
purchased a boat and for three summers plied with it on the
canal. After that he was four three years in the
grocery business in Middlebury, and continued it for three
more in the Tappan Block. He next engaged in the
stoneware business, which occupied him for eight years, and
afterwards he was in the general merchandise business for
nine years in Middlebury. Mr. Viall was one of
Middlebury's most active business men for a long period,
during a part of this time, in addition to the occupations
above noted, being a representative of the United States
Life Insurance Company, and also of the Cleveland Mutual
Accident Insurance Company. For some years he was
secretary and treasurer of the Middlebury Clay Company, of
which he was one of the incorporators.
On Aug. 24, 1857, Mr. Viall was married (first)
to Maria Reepsumer who died Feb. 17, 1877. Of
the three children born to this union, the one survivor is
Mrs. Frank Comstock, residing at Akron. Mr.
Viall married for his second wife, Dec. 7, 1887, Mrs.
Jennie (Thompson). Mrs. Viall was born in 1849, at
Edinbug, Scotland, and was but one year old when her parents
came to America and settled at East Liverpool, Ohio.
Nine years later they removed to Akron, where she was
reared, being educated in the old Sixth Ward school.
By her former marriage, Mrs. Viall had three
children: May and George, both residing in
Chicago, Illinois, and Frank, residing in Lisbon,
Ohio, where he is engaged in a general mercantile business.
Mr. Viall reared Edward F. Carl, from
childhood, and the latter is connected with the M. O'Neil
Company, of Akron.
Mr. Viall has served in public offices in his
native city, at different times, having ever been interested
in public movements and anxious to promote the general
welfare. For thirty years he has been identified with
the Odd Fellows, and he belongs also to the Knights of
Honor. He is a member of the Broad Street Church of
Christ, which he served many years as a deacon, and as
chairman of the board of trustees. Advancing years
have caused him to resign these offices, but not to relax
his interest in the work of the church, or to curtail his
liberality toward it. Mrs. Viall is an active
member of the Ladies' Aid Society of this church.
† Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens -
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. -
Chicago, Ill - 1908~Page 328 |
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JOHN F. VIALL -
See Otis K. Viall
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Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 563 |
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OTIS K. VIALL,
funeral director, whose business is located at No. 919 East
Market Street, Akron, was born at Akron, in 1874, and is a
son of John F. and Cornelia C.
(Wheeler) Viall.
JOHN F. VIALL was born in
Chautauqua County, New York, Apr. 30, 1825, and was brought
to Ohio by his parents, Bennett and Wealthy (Arnold)
Viall, when five years of age. They settled in
Springfield Township, Summit County, among the pioneers.
John F. Viall learned the cabinet-maker's trade,
which he followed until 1866, at which time he engaged in
undertaking. Later he was in partnership with his son,
under the firm name of Viall & Son. He married
Cornelia C. Wheeler and their surviving children are:
Frances, who married William Orendorf,
residing at Akron; Laura, who married C. B. Macey
residing at Noblesville, Indiana; Edward W., a
resident at Noblesville; and Otis K., of Akron.
Both John F. Viall and his wife have passed away.
He was a man of business honesty and enterprise, and he made
the first coffins kept in stock in the city of Akron, an
innovation at that time. He was a stanch Republican
politically but was never disposed to be a politician.
A number of the minor offices of the township he held
because he was elected to them, but he sought no political
honors. For many years he was secretary of the
Middlebury Cemetery Association.
Otis K. Viall, upon completing his school
education, became associated with his father in undertaking
business, and since the latter's death has had sole charge
of it. He is a graduate of the Champion College of
Embalming at Springfield, Ohio, and also of the Boston
College of Embalming, of Boston, Massachusetts. His
firm style is Otis K. Viall funeral director and
embalmer. He keeps in readiness all the paraphernalia
incident to his business, and has an establishment which is
modern in every particular. He is superintendent of
the East Akron Cemetery Association.
In 1895 Mr. Viall was married to Daisy
Shoemaker who is a daughter of the late Cyrus
Shoemaker, one of the old families of Northampton
Township. They have one son, Earl Victor, who
is a student of promise in the public schools. Mr.
Viall and his wife belong to the Disciples Church.
Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow and A Knight of Pythias.
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Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 563 |
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SULLIVAN VIALL -
See Sylvester G. Viall
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Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 472 |
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SYLVESTER G. VIALL, who
is cultivating a finely improved farm of forty-three acres
of Boston Township, was born Mar. 13, 1844, in Northampton
Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of Sullivan
and Mary Ann (Freeby) Viall. He attended his first
term of school in the old log schoolhouse with split log
floors and seats, and after his father's death removed with
his mother to Richfield Township, where Mrs. Viall
purchased a small farm. In 1864 Mrs. Viall
sold this place and Sylvester G. started out in life
for himself, his mother marrying Stephen Dales of
Copley Township, where .she died. In 1864 Mr.
Viall worked in Bath Township, but soon thereafter
married, and started housekeeping at Peninsula, where he was
engaged in teaming for two years. He then removed to
Copley Township and began farming a rented property, but in
1883 located on his present tract, which he had purchased
some time previously. In this year he built his house, and
in the following spring his barn. He now has growing
fruits of all .staple varieties and in addition raises
wheat, corn and potatoes. He makes a specialty of
breeding thoroughbred Poland China hogs.
Mr. Viall was married Oct. 15, 1864, to Mary
E. Ozmun, who is a daughter of Hector Ozmun of
Boston Township. He and his wife have been the parents
of seven children, namely: Florence, wife of F. C.
Lee, a resident of Brunswick Township, Medina County,
Ohio; Theda, who is the wife of David C. Harpham,
of East Akron, Ohio; Ward, who died when twenty-two
years of age; Fred, of The Akron Plumbing & Heating
Company of Akron; Rutherford H., also a member of the same
firm; Maud, the wife of James Crum, of
Brunswick Township, Medina County, Ohio; and Mabel, a
stenographer, who lives at home with her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Viall are identified with the
Congregational Church, of which the former has been a deacon
for the past sixteen or seventeen years. They are also
members of the Richfield Grange, No. 1260, of which Mr.
Viall has been master, and he has also been overseer
of Summit County Pomona Grange for six consecutive years.
In political matters he is a Republican, and he was personal
property appraiser for three years and real estate appraiser
during the last appraisement, which occurred in 1900.
Nathaniel Viall, grandfather of Sylvester G.,
was born Mar. 28, 1782. After his death his widow
Betsey, who was born Dec. 14. 1768, in Vermont, came to
Northampton Township with her son Sullivan, with whom she
made her home until her death.
SULLIVAN VIALL
was born in
Vermont Mar. 3, 1811, and received his education in the
common schools. He came to Middlebury, Ohio, which is
now a part of Akron, and thence he went by team to
Pittsburg, hauling flour there and returning with dry goods.
In this business he was engaged for many years and
accumulated in it about $4,000, which he lost through the
failure of a private bank. He then decided to engage
in agricultural pursuits, and accordingly purchased a farm,
on which the remainder of his life was spent. He met
with a sudden and accidental death, being gored to death by
a savage bull in 1851. He was one of the first Whigs
in this county, and served as township trustee, and for
nearly the full period of his residence in Northampton
Township was a member of the School Board. Sullivan
Viall was married Aug. 28, 1836, to Mary Ann Freeby,
who was born in Pennsylvania, Aug. 28, 1813. Her
father, George Freeby was a shoemaker and farmer who
came to America from Germany and died in Indiana about 1855.
Mrs. Viall died Mar. 21, 1890, having been the mother
of three children, namely: Henrietta, who is
the widow of Isaac Smith, of Portage Township;
Sylvester G. whose name stands at the head of this
article; and Damaris, who is the wife of Dr. F. N.
Chamberlin, of Stow Township. Mr. and Mrs.
Viall were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 471 |
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HENRY C. VIELE,
retired formerly was identified with the business and
official life of both Akron and Summit County. Mr.
Viele was born in Washington County, New York, Oct. 29,
1841, and is a son of Hiram and Abby M. (McFarland) Viele.
In the spring of 1842, the parents of Mr. Viele
settled in Akron, and he was educated in this city.
When sixteen years old he began
clerking in the old stone mill, of which his father was
superintendent. He subsequently left that business in
order to enter the army, enlisting in 1864, in Company F,
164th Regiment, O. V. I., which was stationed at Fort
Corcoran, Arlington Heights, during the whole of his 100
days term of service. Upon his return to Akron he
entered the service of the Merchants' Union Express Company
and a year later became
ticket agent for the C. A. & C. Railroad. Subsequently
he become interested with his father in a flour and feed
business.
In 1868, Mr. Veile was engaged to assist
the city and county in making up the duplicate tax lists,
and later was connected with the county treasurer's office
for some time. In February, 1872, he was appointed
county recorder to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
the incumbent of that office, and he served out that term
and then served as deputy county treasurer until 1878.
Mr. Viele's management of that office elevated him in
public esteem and in 1878 he was elected county treasurer of
Summit County; being re-elected in 1880, he held the office
for four years. The records of those years testify to
Mr. Viele's efficiency as a public officer.
He then became teller in the Citizens' Savings and Loan
Association, serving until 1887; he was assistant treasurer
until 1888, and from then until he retired from business
activity, he was treasurer of the association.
On Oct. 16, 1873, Mr. Viele was married to
Elizabeth F. Mack, of Flatbush. Long Island, and they
have one daughter, Fanny M. Mrs. Viele
died Nov. 14, 1898. Mr. Viele resides at
No. 550 East Market street Akron. As one of the older
residents of this city, Mr. Viele has
been connected with its development, and has always done his
part as a man of broad views and public spirit. He
belongs to Buckley Post, G. A. R., at Akron.
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Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 959 |
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F. DATON VOGAN
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Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 764 |
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CHRISTIAN VOGT
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Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 1086 |
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DANIEL VOGT
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Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 682 |
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HERNY VOGTH
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1908~Page 623 |
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GOTTLIEB VONGUNTON
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Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 1110 |
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JUSGE ALVIN C. VORIS
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Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 154 |
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HON. ALVIN C. VORIS
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Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 306 |
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EDWIN F. VORIS
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Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 305 |
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