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BIOGRAPHIES.
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VOLUME I
1882 CHAPTER III.
HARTFORD
Trumbull County, Ohio
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DR. R. M. BEEBE.
Robert McEwen Beebe was born in Winchester,
Connecticut, Apr. 28, 1811. His parents were James
Beebe, a prominent citizen of Litchfield county,
Connecticut, five times a member of the Legislature of that
State, and Abi McEwen Beebe, a sister of the Rev.
Dr. Able McEwen, of New London, Connecticut.
He was a member of Yale college class of 1835, but did
not finish his course for want of means. Soon after
leaving he commenced the study of medicine with Dr.
Benjamin Weich, Jr., in Norfolk, and continued his
medical studies in Yale and Berkshire Medical schools,
graduating from the latter in the class of 1836-37. In
1837 he married Miss Huldah Case, of Norfolk, and in
1838 removed to Hartford. Here he entered immediately
on a large and successful practice of medicine, which he
continued till his death, Nov. 16, 1864. Few
physicians ever enjoyed more of the love and confidence of
the community where they lived, or have been more deeply
mourned in their death.
The following is taken from a letter written by Hon.
I. C. Jones, who was a resident in Hartford at the time
Dr. Beebe came to the township, subsequently was a
student in his office, and continued to live in the place
till 1862:
Professionally Dr. Beebe almost
at once took rank among the first physicians in the
vicinity. Among his brethren his thorough scholarship
and learning in his profession, his urbanity and
courtesy, rapidly won for him their good will and high
esteem. They soon learned to know that his judgment
and conclusions in critical cases of disease were of the
highest value, and as a necessary consequence he was oftener
called in consultation than any other physician in this part
of the county.
As a citizen he was active and zealous in all matters
of public interst, and always, notwithstanding the great
demands upon his time by his large practice, took a leading
part in civil and political affairs.
Among the most marked traits in his character were his
liberality and self-sacrificing labors to the poor.
The needed relief, both professional and pecuniary, was
prompt and ready, cheerful, and without evasion or excuse.
To his self-sacrificing labors in his profession may be
attributed in a great degree his early death. He died
in the height of his usefulness, in the prime of his life,
with the harness on, leaving behind him a reputation for
honor, integrity, professional skill, second to none in the
county of his residence, which is remembered by none better
than the writer, to whom he was the valued friend and counsellor,
the sincere and constant friend."
He left a family of four children, one of whom,
Robert, follows his father's profession, and resides in
Cleveland. Lizzie G. (Mrs. J. Jones) was a
poetess of considerable local reputation.
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THE BORDEN FAMILY.
Among the pioneers who came into Hartford during 1804 were
Asahel Borden and his sons Asahel, Jr., and
Sylvester. They left Hartland, Connecticut, May
29th, and arrived at their destination journey, traveling
with an ox team. A few years later Russel Borden,
a brother of Asahel Borden, Sr., and their mother,
Widow Mary Borden, also came. She was born in
1731, and was probably, at the time of her death, the oldest
pioneer. She died in 1818, at the age of eighty-seven.
Asahel Borden and his son Asahel, Jr. settled
on lot twenty-four on the diagonal road. He died July
26, 1826, and his wife Jemima (Jones) Borden died
Dec. 22, 1818. Asahel Borden, Jr. and his wife
Phebe (Bushnell) Borden continued to reside at their
first location nearly seventy years, and will long be
remembered as social and hospital pioneers. "The
latch-string of their log cabin was always out," and
in later years their residence was as freely opened to their
numerous friends. They out-lived all their pioneer
associates, he dying in 1869, at the age of eighty-seven,
and she in 1875, at the age of ninety-one, being the last
one of the early settlers.
They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church
nearly half a century. They were always active and
energetic people. In early times they are said to have
made journeys to Pittsburg and Beaver with oxen, taking
their cheese and farm produce to exchange for family
supplies; often making journeys to Warren, Ohio, and Mercer,
Pennsylvania, on horseback to trade. Once Mrs.
Borden made a trip to Mercer and back in one day, the
round trip being a journey of over forty miles, bringing
home on her horse a tea-set of crockery, groceries, and
other articles for the family. Their children were all
daughters. Eliza (who was bought a baby on the
long journey from Connecticut) married Richard Gates,
Elsa married Paul Wellman, Phebe married
George Hallock, Jemima married Daniel Loomis,
Hannah died at the age of fourteen, Polly married
Abel Whitney, Maria married Abner Banning, and
Deborah L. still remains at the old home with her
sister, Mrs. Banning.
Sylvester Borden married Amoret Bushnell,
daughter of Daniel Bushnell, and their children were
John, Edmund, Truman, and Amelia, wife of
Rev. Robert Crane, of Green.
Russel Borden settled on the farm now occupied
by the Thompson family, on the diagonal road, where
he died in 1813. His family consisted of Captain
Philo Borden, a resident of the township over fifty
years, a prominent man in the Congregational church, a
teacher many years, and a respected citizen, who married
first in Connecticut, Miss Betsy Priest, and second
Abigail Thompson; Florilla, with of Seth Thompson;
Fannie, wife of Alva Hart; Polly, died in
1813; and Catharine, wife of Robison Truesdale.
and Catharine, wife of Robison Truesdale.
This name of worthy pioneers, once so familiar, is now
almost extinct in the township.
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EDWARD
BROCKWAY. The Subject of this sketch, one of
the three pioneer settlers, formerly resided in Branford,
Connecticut. He removed to Hartland about 1786, and
emigrated to New Connecticut in 1800, having in company with
Brainard and Jones
visited the township, purchased his land, and with them
commenced a clearing in August, 1799. He arrived with
his family June 19, 1800. He had purchased of the
proprietors, Root & Holmes,
nearly thirty-two hundred acres of land. At the
present time over one hundred families are residing on this
property.
He first settled on lot twenty-two, but soon after
removed to lot eight. He was a soldier of the
Revolution, taking part in the battle of Saratoga. He
died Mar. 4, 1813, aged seventy-seven years. He had a
family of seventeen children. Three of his sons,
Aaron, Titus, and
Philemon, settled here. Aaron
Brockway first settled in Vernon in June, 1798,
with his family, where his wife is said to have lived seven
months without seeing the face of a white woman.
Three years later he removed to Hartford. At five
different times during his life he shouldered his axe and
started anew to make a home for himself and family in the
woods, making, as we think, a practical pioneer.
He died in Forest county, Pennsylvania, in 1848.
Eight of the daughters of Edward Brockway married and
settled in this township. Five of this number married
into the Jones family.
Titus Brockway settled in little south
of the center, where he resided until his death, Sept. 6,
1840, at the age of sixty-five. He served as
postmaster, justice, member of the Legislature, land agent,
and was a prominent member of the Congregational church.
He had but two sons,
Edward, and Daniel
Webster, and five daughters, Maria, Julia, Melissa,
Martha W., Sophronia, and
Caroline.
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BUSHNELL FAMILY.
Among the early pioneer families of Trumbull county the
Bushnells are probably the most numerous.
Captain Alexander Bushnell, the immediate ancestor of
the family, emigrated with his descendants. He was
born in Lyme, Connecticut, Dec. 2, 1739, and was a
descendant of Francis Bushnell, one of the first
settlers of Guilford, Connecticut, who landed in Boston
about 1630.
He married Chloe Waite, of the same place, Feb.
12, 1761. She was a descendant of Thomas Waite,
member of Parliament, one of the judges who signed the death
warrant of King Charles I, the Waite family
coming to America soon after the restoration in 1660.
Their descendants are numerous, and very many of them reside
in Trumbull county. They had ten children, all of whom
were married in Connecticut, and these families all
emigrated about the same period to Ohio.
He was a captain in the Continental army during the
Revolutionary war, receiving his commission while serving
under Washington. After the close of the Revolution
the tide of emigration first set toward northern
Connecticut, and he with many others moved to Hartland,
Hartford county, in that State, about 1784.
In 1800 the tide of emigration started towards "New
Connecticut" in Northern Ohio, and this now greatly
increased family were swept by the torrent to the Western
Reserve, the first one coming in 1801 and the remainder
following soon after. He died March 8, 1818, in
Hartford, Ohio. Captain Bushnell's children
were Thomas, Daniel, and William, who with
their families settled in Hartford; Chloe, the wife of
Obediah Gilder, one the pioneers of Gustavus, where
their descendants still reside; Alexander, Jr., who
with his family settled in Pittsburg; Sterling G.,
who with his family first settled in Vernon and in 1820
removed to Richland county, Ohio; Mary, the wife of
Hon. Calvin Cone, who was one of the pioneers of
Gustavus in 1804, but in 1817 removed to Hartford,
where some of their descendants still reside. He
served as member of the Legislature from Barkhamsted,
Connecticut, previous to his emigration, and was State
Senator in Ohio from 1806 to 1809. Hannah was
the wife of Davis Fuller, who was a pioneer of
Hartford; Lucy was the wife of Aaron
Brockway, who was one of the first settlers of Vernon.
They soon removed to Hartford, and about 1835 again removed
to Forest county, Pennsylvania. Phebe was the
wife of Asahel Borden. They settled on lot
thirty in Hartford in 1804, where they both lived to a good
old age, she dying at the age of ninety-one, and was the
last of this family of pioneers to pass away.
Thomas Bushnell, eldest son
of Captain Alexander and Chloe (Waite) Bushnell,
was born in Lyme, Connecticut, Jan. 11, 1762. He
served during the last years of the Revolution in the
father's company. He married Rebecca Andrews,
of Hartland, Connecticut, and emigrated with a family of ten
children to Ohio in 1804. He located first on lot
twenty-four, and in a few years re-located on lot seventeen.
He only lived to endure the hardships and privations of
pioneer life, not long enough to enjoy its pleasures which
follow. He died of fever Apr. 10, 1817. His was
the first death in his father's family. He was greatly
respected in the community and much beloved by his numerous
relatives, and his death was a severe shock and a great loss
to his own family.
His children were General Andrew Bushnell;
Rebecca, wife of Colonel Horace Flower who
settled first in Hartford, and afterward in Bloomfield;
Jerusha, wife of Linus Hayes; Hannah, wife of
Colonel Asa Hutchins and mother of Hon. Wells
Hutchins, of Portsmouth, Ohio; Matilda, wife of
Lester Hayes; Lorena, wife of
Dr. Cullin Wilcox;
Thomas, Jr., who lived for many years in Bloomfield;
Amanda, wife of Samuel Corning; and Eli,
who lived and died in Hartford.
General Andrews Bushnell, eldest son of
Thomas, was born in Hartland, Connecticut, Aug. 14,
1782, married Sarah Lane, of the same place, and
immediately started for New Connecticut as it was then
called. He settled on lot twenty-four, in Hartford,
where he died June 17, 1851. He was an extensive
farmer and one of the pioneer breeders of blooded cattle in
northern Ohio. He was also in early life an efficient
and accurate surveyor; was for four years sheriff of
Trumbull county, and held various other positions of trust
and honor. He held a lieutenant's commission in the
War of 1812; commanded a company at the Thames where
Tecumseh was killed, and did brave and honorable service in
the defence of Fort Erie, where he was wounded by a musket
ball through the left lung, for which he received a pension
the remainder of his life. He was an able and well
drilled officer, and after the close of the war was made
brigadier-general of militia, which position he held with
honor many years. He was a member of the
Congregational church, and a Whig in politics until the
formation of the Liberty party, which he supported until his
death. His children were Jerusha, who died at
the age of nineteen years, a young lady highly esteemed and
sincerely regretted by the community; David E., who
is supposed to have died in Palestine in January, 1840.
He was intelligent young farmer of great originality and
very studious habits, fond of historical reading and
investigation. Restive of farm life he laid extensive
plans for foreign travel and research, for which work had
had remarkable qualities. He accordingly left home in
December, 1838. He landed a Liverpool traveled through
England, France, Switzerland, and Italy, spent some time in
Egypt, traveled up the Nile to Abyssinia, visited the
missionaries at Beyroot, and left that place Jan. 8, 1840,
with a guide, intending to visit Jerusalem and other points
in Palestine. The guide soon returned and reported
that Bushnell was short of money and had gone on
alone, since which time no tidings were ever received, and
it is supposed he was killed by his guide for his money.
General Bushnells next child was Mary, wife of
Simon R. Estabrook, of Warren; and the youngest,
Seth A., for many years a resident of Hartford, now of
Oberlin, Ohio.
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FOWLER FAMILY.
The first settler in the township of Fowler was Abner
Fowler, formerly a resident of Southwick,
Massachusetts. He was a brother of the proprietor of
the township, Hon. Samuel Fowler, of Westfield,
Massachusetts, for which place the township was first named;
this name afterwards being changed in honor of the
proprietor to the name it now bears. In 1798 he came
to the township in the employ of his brother as surveyor of
his western lands; finally located and remained till death,
Feb. 18, 1806, his death being the first in the township.
Abner Fowler, Jr., born July 25, 1782, married
Miss Esther Jennings, Aug. 18, 1807, in
Fowler. She was from Fairfield, Connecticut, and a
descendant of the Rev. Peter Bulkley, who came to
America in 1635. Their children were Julia, who
married Thomas J. Collins; Ira, Sarah,
Abner, Harvey, James, and Rhoda,
who married Daniel Parsons. Mr.
Fowler remained in Fowler till 1816, when he changed
his location to Brookfield, where he resided till his death
Apr. 23, 1843. He was a very intelligent farmer, a man
of the utmost integrity, and of high Christian character.
He was identified with the Methodist church in Fowler at its
first organization, also, after his removal, with the
Brookfield church.
In politics he was a Whig till the formation of the
Liberty party, when he took his stand on the side of
humanity, and was one of the first five voters of that party
in Brookfield. His son Ira Fowler, born
in Fowler township, Jan. 21, 1810, married Miss Sarah Ann
Williams, May 6, 1840, and settled on lot twenty-three,
on the south line of Hartford township, where he now
resides. She died May 15, 1841, leaving one daughter,
Elizabeth. Mr. Fowler was again
married, to Miss Lovina Wheeler, and they have one
son, Harvey.
James Fowler, born Feb. 1, 1820, married
Miss Lucina Miner; their children are Esther L.,
Addison J., Dwight A., Albert R., James
C., Sicily, and Ida.
These Fowler brothers, sons of Abner Fowler,
Jr., are both residents of Hartford; intelligent
farmers, courteous, worthy Christian gentlemen, and highly
respected citizens, in whom the virtues of their ancestors
are perpetuated, Ira Fowler and family being
connected with and among the leading members of the
Methodist Episcopal church near his place, and Mr.
James Fowler long having been an elder in the
Disciple church at Hartford center.
The Fowler family have a long line of
ancestors in America, the first of which, William
Fowler, was one of the company which came from London
with Rev. John Davenport, Governor Eaton, and
others, and arrived in Boston June 26, 1637, and settled in
New Haven in 1638. He was a prisoner in Bridewell,
England, with other Puritans in 1592. He was at the famous
meeting in Mr. Newman's barn in New Haven, where the
peculiar constitution and policy of Mr. Davenport,
which afterwards characterized the New Haven colony, was
agreed upon, and Mr. Fowler subscribed to that
agreement. In 1639 he was elected one of the “seven
pillars” of the church of Milford, Rev. Peter Pruden
pastor. He was elected magistrate yearly till 1654.
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DAVIS FULLER.
Davis Fuller, one of the pioneers of Hartford,
emigrated from Hartland, Connecticut, in 1806, and settled
on lot twenty-five. He was a saddle and harness-maker,
and pursued that vocation during his life. He was a
solder in Colonel Hayes' regiment in the War of 1812;
an active member and deacon of the Congregational church,
also a prominent man in the anti-slavery movement. He
died May 5, 1855, at the age of seventy-three. His
wife, Hannah (Bushnell) Fuller, died in 1849, at the
age of seventy-one. As an incident of pioneer life it
may be related that the first Sunday after moving into their
log cabin a peculiar hissing sound was heard under the
floor, which was recognized as that of a rattlesnake.
"Uncle Davis" having removed a puncheon,
discovered the intruder, and with an old fashioned
fire-shovel struck the snake and held him fast while his
wife got down under the floor and cut off his head with a
butcher-knife. The snake had eighteen rattles and was
five feet long.
The children of Davis and Hannah Fuller were
Eunice, Samuel, Henry (who died of fever when eighteen
years of age, in 1828), Chloe, Harvey, and
Alexander. of this family only Samuel is a
resident of the township. He married Eunice Holcomb,
and their children were Emeline, who died at the age
of five years; Jerusha, wife of Albert Rathbun,
and died in Chicago Oct. 27, 1868, at the age of
thirty-three; Emeline, wife of Warren Bates,
and Lieutenant Davis C. Fuller who died Oct. 13,
1870, at the age of twenty-nine, from disease contracted in
the army
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HAYES FAMILY. If it is fair to judge a man by
the impression he has produced upon the minds of those of his contemporaries who
survive him, then Colonel Richard Hayes, who came to Hartford from Hartland,
Connecticut, in the spring of 1804, must have been a man of remarkable energy
and power. He early engaged in trade, and was one of the first to see that
the new country must pay its debts in a currency which could transport itself,
and he therefore organized the cattle trade with Philadelphia, sending over the
mountains droves from three to five hundred head.
When there was any doubt as to the price which ought to be paid, the people
would frequently tell him to take their stock along, sell them, and pay what he
could afford, and such was his reputation for probity and fair dealing that it
is said his returns were never questioned.
When the War of 1812 came on, the Third regiment, Fourth division, Ohio
militia, was called out, and we find him in command. The order calling out
the regiment came late on Sunday night, and the colonel at once mounted his two
sons, Seth and Alvin, as messengers, to notify
the captains to report on Monday for orders. All preparations were
completed on Tuesday, and on Wednesday morning the regiment marched for the
frontier. When we consider that the regiment had to muster from a
territory ten by thirty miles in extent, and that stores and transportation had
to be provided, the military reader will see that the achievement was a
remarkable one. The late Joshua R. Giddings, who was a
private in the regiment, once gave the writer a graphic sketch of the colonel as
a commanding officer, which we regret that we cannot reproduce, but he described
him as a man who could be in more places and think of more things at once, than
any man he had ever met.
After the war he held the position of county commissioner and associate
judge of court of common pleas, and although not a lawyer, it is said that his
decisions were marked by great good sense and fairness. He often used to
ride to Warren over a winter road, remain all day in court, and ride home at
night, making thirty-six miles in the saddle besides his day's work in court.
This life of a pioneer had told upon him, and he died in 1837 at the age of
sixty-five years. He left three sons - Seth, Alvin, and
Richard, of whom only the last named is living. All of
them were active business men and inherited the old colonel's sturdy uprightness
of character. Seth Hayes was a member of the
Ohio Legislature in 1836. He was for many years
engaged as a merchant, and was noted for his public and
private generosity, and had an enviable reputation as an
honorable business man, and as a worthy Christian gentleman.
He died Mar. 9, 1865.
Alvin and Richard Hayes were never in
public life. The former died in 1880, nearly eighty
five years of age, leaving a reputation for integrity and
uprightness which any of his descendants may be proud to
emulate.
There is a soldier streak in the family. Titus
Hayes, the father of Colonel Richard Hayes,
wintered with Washington at Valley Forge, and at least three
of his sons, Richard, Titus, and Lester, were
in the War of 1812, and when the war of 1861 came on, it
"cropped out" in the
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SULLIVAN HUTCHINS
is the second son of Hiram and Eliza (Lane) Hutchins,
and grandson of Samuel Hutchins, who was one of the
pioneers of Vienna township. Samuel Hutchins
was born in Bolton, Connecticut, Aug. 30, 1777, and was
raised by Colonel Holmes, the original
proprietor of Vienna and Hartford townships, in Hartland,
Connecticut. He came to Vienna with Uriah Holmes,
Jr., and his company of surveyors in 1798, and for his
assistance in surveying Mr. Holmes gave him
his choice of a farm in Vienna, which farm was located in
lot four in that township. He married Miss Freelove
Flower in Jan., 1803. They ale said to have been
the first couple married in Vienna. She and her half
sister were the first white women to arrive at this new
settlement. The teams with which the family came not
being able on account of bad roads to proceed farther than
Youngstown, they continued the journey on foot alone through
the unbroken wilderness to Vienna settlement to procure
assistance, and, strange to say, arrived safely and were
received with great astonishment and pleasure.
Samuel and Freelove Hutchins' children were:
Hiram, born Mar. 24, 1804, who married Eliza Lane;
Aurora Amoret, wife of Richard Treat;
Mary Amney, wife of Augustus Fuller;
John, married Rhoda Andrews and was
Representative in Congress from 1859 to 1863; Serena,
wife of Augustus M. Reed; Urial H., married Emily
Bennett; Lucia, wife of L. Cotton, who
died and she again married Norman Andrews; and
Betsey, wife of Larman B. Lane, who went as
missionary to Siam.
Hiram and Eliza (Lane) Hutchins first settled in
Vienna and afterwards removed to Vernon.
Their children who lived to maturity were: Sullivan,
Lovisa, John L., and Elmer.
Sullivan Hutchins was born in Vienna Feb.
26, 1834, and married, first, Hannah Akins, of
Vernon, Apr. 6, 1859. She died Apr. 7, 1875, and left
one child, Hiram Howard, born August 10, 1874,
died Aug. 8, 1875. Mr. Hutchins was
again married, to Martha Bushnell, of Johnson,
Ohio, May 10, 1876. They have Grace Adel,
born June 18, 1877. Mr. Hutchins is the
only descendant of Samuel Hutchins bearing the
name residing in Trumbull county.
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THE JONES FAMILY.
All the Jones families now
residing in Hartford, with the exception of one, are
descendants of the same family. The earliest account
of this family in America which we have been able to obtain
is of Benjamin Jones, who was a resident of
Enfield, Connecticut, and in 1706 removed to Somers,
Connecticut, and was the first settler in that township.
His grandson, Israel Jones, removed from
Enfield to Barkhamsted, Connecticut, and was the second
settler in that township in 1759, fixing his home on East
mountain. This farm is now, by regular descent, the
property of his great-grandson, Hon. Edwin P. Jones.
The children of Captain Israel Jones
were Samuel, Thomas, Colonel Israel
Jones, Jemima (wife of Asahel Borden, Sr.),
Mrs. Joshua Giddings, Mrs. John Billings,
William, and Isaac. Many of this family,
like their ancestors, became “first settlers,” Isaac,
William, and Jemima, also Elam, son of
Samuel, being pioneers of Hartford; others of this
family, including Samuel, Jr., and the Giddings
family, being pioneers of Ashtabula county, Ohio.
Isaac Jones, youngest son of Captain
Israel Jones, was the first to emigrate, coming from
Barkhamsted, Connecticut, with his family in the spring of
1800, and settling on lot twenty-two, near Burg Hill.
He was one of the three first settlers in the township.
His wife, Abigail, was the daughter of Edward
Brockway, who came at the same time. Their
children were Mrs. Asahel Brainard, Mrs.
Abner Moses, Mrs. Aaron Rice,
Selden, John, James F., and Mrs.
George Hewit, the most of them residents of
Hartford many years.
James F. Jones was the only son of Isaac and
Abigail Jones born in Hartford, and is now the oldest
man living who is a native of the place. He was born
Jan. 31, 1804, resides on lot eleven, and married first
Sarepta Wilson, second Mrs. Mary
Pfouts. Their children are Malinda,
Asahel, Albert, Mary Ann,
Lorinda, Florus, Mandana Juliett,
Arial Gordon, Calvin Judson, and
Willie Dayton.
William C. Jones, son of Captain Israel Jones,
emigrated from the same place in 1802, and located on lot
twenty-seven, and on the farm now occupied by Amos
Fell, where he died in 1841, at the age of eighty-one
years. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary war,
having taken part in the battles of Bunker Hill and
Saratoga. His children were William, Jr., Selden
C., Dr. Asahel Jones, Amelia, Sallie, and Allen.
From this family are descended Philander Jones
and Asahel Jones, Esq., of Youngstown, Ohio; Dr.
Allen Jones, of Kinsman, Ohio; R. C. Jones, of
Burg Hill; William C. Jones, of Hartford, and
Edward B. Jones, of Orangeville.
William C. Jones, son of Selden C. and
Laurinda (Brockway) Jones, was born in Hartford,
June 29, 1817, and married Elvira Gates, of
the same township, Dec. 27, 1843. She was born Dec.
27, 1823. Their children are: Eliza
Laurinda, born Oct. 13, 1844, and married James D.
Burnett, June 21, 1866; Alice Minerva, born Aug.
25, 1846, and died Nov. 8, 1854; Edna Luella, born
July 21, 1850, died Nov. 22, 1854; Asahel Hallock,
born Jan. 15, 1852, and married Clara L. Sponsler,
May 16, 1875.
Edward B. Jones, also son of Selden C. and
Laurinda (Brockway) Jones, is a resident of Orangeville.
He was born on the farm where he now resides, May 8, 1822.
This farm has been in the possession of his ancestors since
1799, his grandfather, Edward Brockway, having
purchased the same of the original proprietors of the
township. He first married Miss Mary E. Leonard,
Oct. 24, 1850, who died Sept. 8, 1851; she left one son,
Edward M. born Sept. 8, 1851, and died Oct. 14, 1852.
He was again married to Ellen D. Jones, of Sheffield,
Massachusetts, May 14, 1856. She was born Aug. 26,
1827. Their children are: Lizzie E., wife
of Willard C. Hull; Ivah L., and Hattie L.
These brothers, William and Edward, early
left fatherless, learned lessons of industry, perseverance,
and economy, which have enabled them each to acquire a
competency, and they are among the most prosperous farmers
in the township.
Elam Jones, son of Samuel, and
grandson of Captain Israel Jones, was
born at the old Jones home, on East mountain,
Barkhamsted, Sept. 29, 1774. He was a man of more than
ordinary education and acquirements for his day, having
received private instructions of Rev. Aaron
Church, of Hartland, Connecticut, and followed the
profession of a teacher for many years in his native State.
He married Sarah Hyde, of Hartland, Apr, 27,
1801. They emigrated from Barkhamsted in 1805, making
the journey in six weeks. T hey settled on lot twelve in
Hartford, Ohio. Their children were: Sarah,
wife of Jarvis Gates, a resident of Hartford;
Harriet, wife of Linus Parker, a
resident of Kinsman; Electa, wife of Eli W.
Bushnell, a resident of Hartford; Eunice
Lemyra, wife of George Hezlep, for many
years a merchant of Gustavus; Hannah, wife of Dr.
Edward Best, who died at Freedom, Ohio, Oct. 2, 1838;
and Hon. Lucian C. Jones, a resident of Warren, Ohio.
In 1828 he built the first public house at the center of
Hartford. He was for many years postmaster, and held
the office of town clerk twenty years, in early days.
He was a surveyor in early life. He served in the War of
1812 in Colonel Hayes' regiment. He died
Dec. 2, 1851, at the age of seventy-seven. Mrs.
Sarah Hyde Jones died Sept. 30, 1870, in her
ninety-fifth year.
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KEPNER FAMILY.
John Kepner, the pioneer settler of the south
eastern portion of the township of Hartford, and the
ancestor of all the Kepners in this vicinity, was
born Oct. 7, 1784, in Cumberland, Cumberland county,
Pennsylvania. In 1805 he made his first journey to
Ohio on foot, and immediately purchased a tract of six
hundred and thirty-six acres of land, being lot nine in the
township of Hartford. He brought the gold and silver
coin to pay for the same, in two small, home made linen
bags. He soon made a small clearing and erected a log
cabin which was burned. This accident was occasioned
by Indian fires running in the woods. After this he
returned home and spent the winter, but returning in the
spring of 1806 he built a second log house, in which for a
time greased paper performed the office of glass in the
windows. A second time he returned home for the winter
and married Elizabeth Dubs, who was born in
Cumberland Sept. 4, 1785.
Early in the spring of 1807 they emigrated to their new
home in the forest, coming with large Pennsylvania covered
wagons over the Allegheny mountains, camping out wherever
night found them, and arrived at their new home in time to
put in spring crops. Content and prosperity took up
their abode with them, and on this farm they lived and died.
Their children were: John, born Feb. 15, 1808, and
married Lucinda Hull; Sallie, born Sept.
2, 1809, married John Carnes; Benjamin,
born Aug. 9, 1811, and died in infancy; Jane, born
Mar. 13, 1813, married Eli Myers; Mary,
born May 22, 1815, and married Alex. Spencer;
Jacob, born June 12, 1818, married Eliza
Parsons, and then Mary McKnight;
Catharine, born Mar. 18, 1821, and married Charles
Banning; Elizabeth, born Mar. 7, 1823, and
married John VanGorder, David, born May 23,
1825, and married first Mary Bates, second
Laura Simons; Ruhama, born June 20, 1827,
and married John Bates; Henry, born May
23, 1825, and married Adaline Lynch.
The father of this large family, as faithful to his
country as to his children, served in the War of 1812, in
Colonel Hayes' regiment. In the spring of
1833, while assisting to re-roof his barn, he fell and
received fatal injuries from which he died March 20th.
He and his wife were members of the Lutheran church.
She was a woman of uncommon executive ability, and after her
husband's death faithfully performed her duty to the large
family thus left in her care. She lived to see them
all married, and in her last days resided with her youngest
son on a portion of the original estate, and died July 6,
1862, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years.
John Kepner, the eldest son of the
pioneer, settled on a portion of the original property.
His son Lucious, Lorenzo, and Luzerne
each have homes and reside on the original Kepner farm.
Jacob, second son of the pioneer, resides on the
farm, and in the house formerly occupied by the pioneer,
Asahel Brainard, on lot eighteen. He
married, first, Eliza Parsons, who died soon,
leaving one son - Allen Parsons Kepner.
He then married Mary McKnight, and their
children are Thomas Eugene, Linda,
Florence, Frankie, Emory, Adell,
Maud, and Frederick.
David Kepner is a resident of the
northwestern part of the township.
Henry, youngest son of John and
Elizabeth Kepner, also retains a portion of the
original estate, and his residence stands near the home
where his pioneer parents resided. He married
Adaline Lynch Mar. 22, 1859. Their children
are Sanford H., William L., and John H.
These Kepner brothers,
sons of the pioneer, are all industrious and wealthy farmers
and respected citizens of the township.
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McFARLAND FAMILY.
Robert McFarland, the first settler in the
east part of Hartford, was from the north of Ireland, and of
Scotch descent. He came from Washington county,
Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1803, with one son and one
daughter. He built a cabin about seventy rods from the
State line, and west of the present residence of his
grandson, Thomas W. McFarland. In the spring of
1804 the remainder of the family followed to the new home
prepared for them in the wilderness of Ohio. He only
lived to see his family well
established, as he died in May, 1814. Mrs.
McFarland's maiden name was Martha Burnside.
She lived until 1836, and died at the age of eighty-six.
They were members of the Presbyterian church. Their
children were Martha, Robert (who was killed
by lightning in Washington county, Pennsylvania),
Archibald, Jane, Margaret (who was blind
and died soon after her father), John, and Polly.
The three sons all settled in the township, John
remaining at the old home, Thomas settling a short
distance south on the same road, and Archibald
locating on lot thirty-seven, in the southwest part of the
township. They all lived and died on the farms they
had labored so faithfully to clear of trees and convert into
fruitful fields, and these farms are each occupied by their
descendants. Thomas and Archibald both
served as soldiers in the War of 1812, in Colonel
Hayes' regiment.
Thomas McFarland was born Sept. 24, 1785,
and died Oct. 27, 1862, at the age of seventy-seven.
He married first Martha Fell, and second
Mrs. Agnes McKnight. Their children
were Nathan, Robert, Smith, George,
Cynthia, Thomas F., Phebe, and
Amelia.
Thomas F., son of Thomas and Agnes
McFarland, was born Apr. 13, 1828, and married first,
Parthenia Leslie, who died Sept. 23, 1871; and second,
Alice B. Brockway. Their children were
Wright D., born Feb. 17, 1854, and married Rosie
Wallahan; Julia M., born Sept. 17, 1855, wife of Scot
Bates; Mary Florence, born July 2, 1857, died Aug. 19,
1871; Selma A., born June 22, 1859, wife of Wright
Banning; Bertha, born May 13, 1864; and Agnes
Jane, born June 15, 1873.
John McFarland, youngest son of Robert and
Martha McFarland, married Esther Fell.
Their children were Mary, Archibald, Thomas W., Eliza,
Harnet, and Lucinda. He died in 1857, at
the age of sixty-five.
Thomas W. McFarland son of John and Esther
McFarland married Olive Brockway, and resides at
the old ancestral homestead of the family, where Robert
McFarland first settled nearly eight years ago.
The family of McFarland includes some of the most
thrifty and enterprising citizens of the township.
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WILLIS
REEDER was born in Brookfield, Ohio, Oct. 28, 1830, and was
the son of Washington and Caroline (Mattocks) Reeder, and
grandson of Benjamin Reeder, who came from Geneva, Cayuga
county, New York, and settled on lot twenty-nine, in Hartford, July
9, 1817. When he was a boy of thirteen he found employment on
the Erie extension canal. In 1845 the family removed to
Louisville, Kentucky, and soon he secured a situation on a flat-boat
as cook; subsequently he became a pilot on a coal boat, and
continued on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in that capacity until
the outbreak of the Rebellion, when the business becoming unsafe it
was discontinued and coal was transported by steamers. In 1862
he became a licensed steamboat pilot running between Pittsburg and
New Orleans, and during the last three years of the war of the
Rebellion was engaged in the transportation service. After the
close of the war he took command of a tow-boat until failing health
caused him and retired from river life, and in 1871 he settled on
lot forty-three, in Hartford, where he now resides. He married
Maryett Bartholomew Aug. 8, 1854, who was a descendant of
Seth Bartholomew, on of the pioneers of Vienna township.
their children are Charlie Willis, Ruby Ann, and
Frank Carlyle. Mr. Reeder has served two terms as
served two terms as trustee of the township, and three years as
justice of the peace. He is a member of Jerusalem lodge No.
19, Free and Accepted Masons, also a member of Mahoning chapter No.
66, Royal Arch Masons. The first ancestor of this family in
America, Joseph Reeder, came from London, England, and
settled on Long Island some time previous to 1700 and according to
tradition in the family his wife and sister to William of
Orange, who superseded James II on the throne of England.
Their son s were Joseph, Benjamin, and William. Joseph
settled in New Jersey, and his son Jacob settled in
Pennsylvania, and his eldest son, Benjamin, who was born May
15, 1769, with his family settled in Ohio. Thus families
follow the "star of empire" westward.
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GEORGE SNYDER, SR.
George Snyder, Sr.,
was born Mar. 9, 1799, in Mahatonca, Dauphin county,
Pennsylvania. His father, Thomas Snyder, dying
when he was about four years of age, he was raised by his
maternal grandfather, John Kepner, till he was
fourteen years of age, when he went to Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, to learn the trade of a cabinet-maker.
Although in a school-room but three days in his life, he
acquired a fair education. He came on foot to
Hartford, Ohio, in 1817, and purchased seventy acres of land
of his uncle, John Kepner, in lot nine, near
Messersmith's corners, for the consideration of $300, on
which he immediately built a house. when he was only
nineteen years of age he married Elizabeth Carnes,
daughter of Godfrey Carnes, a Revolutionary soldier
and pioneer of Mercer county, Pennsylvania. Here he
erected a shop, and was the first cabinet-maker in the
township; also working at the carpenter business part of the
time for some years. Their children, all born on this
farm, were Mary, Margaret, Jane, Ruhama, James, A. C.,
Uriah, and George W.
In October, 1835, he purchased an addition of two
hundred and thirty-seven acres of land lying east of his
original purchase, for the consideration of $1,513. On this
land he erected a saw-mill, which was run by water for
twenty years, when he purchased an engine and run the mill
by steam till 1858, when he sold the mill and seventy-nine
acres of this land to his son James, and the
remainder of this tract to his sons, Uriah and
Cornelius Snyder, and in 1861 sold his old home
of seventy acres, where he first settled, to Benjamin
Messersmith, and removed to the center of the
township, purchasing the store and property formerly owned
by G. L. Woodford, where he resided for a time, and
carried on a grocery store. This property he sold to Dr.
Daniel Artherholt, and removed to Brookfield township,
where he resided for a time, but being afflicted with
paralysis he sold his Brookfield property to his son
George, spending the remainder of his days with his
children, dying Mar. 8, 1880, aged eighty-one years.
Mrs. Snyder was born in 1795, and died June 6,
1859, aged sixty-four years.
George W. Snyder, the youngest son, was born in
1839. He spent his early life on his father's farm,
and attended district school till he had reached the age of
eighteen years. He then spent three years in Hartford
academy, and one term in Folsom's Commercial college,
Cleveland. He began the study of law in Hartford, in
the office of L. C. Jones, now of Warren. He
enlisted under the first call for volunteers, in 1861, being
the first man in Hartford to offer his serices, but the
quota having been filled, he, like many others, was
discharged without being mustered in. In 1862 he again
enlisted in the Eighty-fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and
served with that regiment four months. In 1867 Mr.
Snyder was admitted to the bar, and opened an office
in Orangeville. He has been elected mayor of the
village five successive times, and since 1879 has been
postmaster. Though his whole family belonged to the
Democratic party, Mr. Snyder, in 1860, cast his first
vote for Lincoln, and has been an active Republican ever
since. He has been a member of every county convention and
several State conventions since attaining his majority.
He married, in 1871, Julia A. Wilson, daughter of
Nathaniel Wilson, of Orangeville. Their
family consists of three children, Sharlie L.,
Blaine Carlisle, and Vera E.
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