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Biographies
Source:
A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio
by
Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren - Vol. II - Illustrated
Published by The Lewis
Publishing Company - Chicago
1909
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ELMER E.
FERRIS, of Weathersfield township, Trumbull county who
is an enterprising farmer, residing on R. F. D. No. 2, and who also
is an extensive dealer in both sand and gravel, was born near
Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 28, 1843, a son of Thomas Ferris,
who was reared and spent his entire life at and near Ottawa, Canada,
where he followed farming. He died when the son, Elmer E.,
was a child. The wife and mother was Frances (Elward)
Ferris, also of Canadian birth, where she spent her life.
In the family were two sons and four daughters, as follows:
Elizabeth, wife of Mathew Lonsdale, now deceased:
Sophia, wife of Hugh Gehan; Mary Ann,
wife of Alexander Cooper, now deceased; Catherine,
wife of Elmer Gehan; Robert B., who now lives at Ottawa,
Canada; and Elmer E.
Elmer E. Ferris was educated in the schools near
Ottawa, where he continued to reside until 1860, when he went to the
States, making the trip via Prescott, by rail, thence by boat to
Cleveland, Ohio. From that city he went to Mercer county,
Pennsylvania, where he was employed by the Mercer Coal and Iron
Company. Subsequently he embarked in the lumber business,
contracting lumber for the Erie Canal Extension Company.
In 1864 he removed to Trumbull county, Ohio. Upon
his arrival in Trumbull county he located at Warren, and there
engaged in the lumber trade, associated with Kirk, Christy & Co. for
four years, when he conducted the business for himself until
recently. He engaged in farming on a place having one hundred
and forty-eight acres, upon which he now resides, having lived there
thirty-two years ago and drove to Warren to attend to his lumber
business. Here he carries on a successful agricultural
business. But recently he has engaged in a new industry, that
of handling sand and gravel he having a pit on the own farm,
Which is also a portion of the Salt Springs tract, and a part of the
four thousand acre reserve.
In his political views Mr. Ferris is a stalwart
defender of Democratic principles, and in church fail a life-long
Episcopalian, in which faith his parents reared him.
Sept. 8, 1875, he was married to Savilla Moser,
daughter of Cornelius Moser and wife, whose maiden name was
Adaline McKee, of Warren, whose father came to Trumbull county
at an early day from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Mrs.
Ferris received her education at the public schools of Warren,
Ohio. One child has blessed this union, Elward Leon,
born in 1898, now at home with his parents.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 -
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GEORGE B. FRAZIER, one of the
enterprising agriculturists of Liberty township, Trumbull county,
was born Oct. 23, 1843, on the farm where he now lives. His
father, George Franzier, Sr., was born and reared in Hubbard,
Ohio, and he was the son of William Frazier, of Scotch
descent. George, Sr., was reared to farm work and
educated at the district school at Hubbard. He commenced his
active career as a tiller of the soil and always carried on general
farming operation. Politically, he was first a Whig and later
a Republican. In church relations he was a member of the
Evangelical Association, in which church he was a faithful class
leader and Sunday school superintendent. He married Melinda
Hoffman, daughter of Isaac Hoffman and wife Susanna,
who lived in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where Melinda
was born. When fourteen years of age she accompanied her
parents to a point about fourteen miles west of Pittsburg, remained
there two years and went to Trumbull county, locating in Liberty
township, which was then a wilderness. Melinda
(Hoffman) Frazier had many thrilling experiences in those days.
She had no brothers, and consequently it fell to her lot to help in
the field. When sixteen years of age she would work all day in
the field and then milk nine cows, and if there was churning to do
would perform that ever-irksome task before bedtime. Late one
evening she had finished her work at the springhouse and started to
the house, which she found locked, her parents supposing her in bed.
She opened a window and had hardly closed it when she heard the cry
of a panther just outside. Luckily, she escaped an attack from
this most dangerous of wild animals.
Mr. and Mrs. Frazier had seven children.
They were as follows: Mary, who died in infancy;
John H.; William H.; Isaac R., drowned while in the army;
George B., of this notice; Elvira; Julia H., now residing
with George B. All are dead but George B. and
Julia H. The father died December 29, 1885.
George B. Frazier, the fourth child in order of
birth, was educated at the public schools of Liberty township.
He remained single and was for some time a member of the Ohio
National Guard, later enlisting in the One Hundred and Seventy-first
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, being a member of Company D,
where he served until the close of the war. He was at the
battle of Kellars Ridge, Kentucky, against General Morgan, the
famous cavalry raider. The Union troops, being outnumbered,
were surrounded and captured. He now holds in sacred keeping
his honorable discharge from both the National Guard and the Union
army as a soldier of the great civil conflict, together with a
letter, or rather certificate of thanks, from President Lincoln,
of which he is justly proud. Politically, he is a stanch
Republican, while in church faith he is of the Evangelical
Association, in Which church he has served as class leader, Sunday
school and a teacher in the same. Mr. Frazier carries
on general farming, having sixty-five acres under cultivation.
His sister, Julia H. Frazier, was born Feb. 19,
1849, and was reared and educatedin her native township. She
has lived with her brother, George B., making a home for him
and caring for their mother, who is now in her ninety-sixth year and
is the oldest woman in this part of the country, and is in feeble
health at this writing - 1908.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 -
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