Summit County, Ohio - Chapter 20: Statistics, 1908 (part 11 of 27)

After marriage Mv. and Mrs. Scheck located on their present farm, where Mr. Scheck has been engaged in raising vegetables, the larger amount of which he sells at wholesale. He is considered one of the reliable men of the township, and has served efficiently in the capacities of school director and supervisor. Mr. Scheck and family belong to the German Reform Church and Mrs. Scheck belongs to the German Lutheran Church.

CORNELIUS ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, a highly esteemed retired citizen of Tallmadge Township, was born in Green Township, Summit Couny, Ohio, July 16, LS42, and is a son of William and Elizabeth G. (Moore) Johnston.

of Pennsylvania. He lived in Green Township until his death when aged about eighty years. His birth is recorded in Center County, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1782. He married Elizabeth Wilhelm, March 25, 1806, who was born June 18, 1787, a daughter of Abraham Wilhelm, who settled in Green Township in 1814. Cornelius Johnston entered 320 acres of land on which the town of Greensburg is now located. His children were as follows : Mary,' born March 3, 1807, resided at Akron until her death; Alexander; Abraham W. ; John, born February 11, 1813, married Elizabeth R. Newton, February 4, 1840, and died January 26, 1876 ; William, born in Green Township, August 3, 1815, and was the third white child born in the township in which his father had located in the previous year.

On April 22, 1841, William Johnston was married to Elizabeth G. Moore, who died in 1894. They had two children : Cornelius Alexander, named for his grandfather and for an uncle, who was born in Center County, Pennsylvania, in 1808; and John M. The latter is a retired ciizen of Akron and one of the Board of Infirmary directors of Summit County. In 1844, William Johnston moved to Copley Township, settling on lot 15, where he resided initil his death, in 1886. He was a man of quiet tastes, a farmer and good citizen. He was identified with the Republican party.

Cornelius Alexander Johnston was educated in the district schools and the Twinsburg Institute and also enjoyed two years at Union College, at Mt. Union, Ohio. When twentythree years old he embarked in the coal business in Coventry Township, as a member of the Johnston Coal Mining Company, with which he remained connected for four years, and then sold his coal bank, purchasing an interest in an oil refinery at Akron. In 1874 he disposed of this interest and purchased a farm of 104 acres, one miles south of Tallmadge, which was the old Alpha Wright farm. This farm Mr. .lohn.ston continued to operate until he retired in 1897.

married to Sarah A. Swartz, who was a daughter of Christian and Ehzabeth Swartz. She died December 8, 1894. They had three children ; Elizabeth May, Clara B., and one that died in infancy.

Ever since attaining his majority Mr. Johnston has consistently supported the candidates and measures of the Republican party. He is not bigoted in his views, however, and has a kindly tolerance for those whose ideas conflict with his own. This pleasant temperament perhaps has something to do with making Mr. Johnston so universally esteemed in his community. He has been a progre.ssive, and intelligent promoter of public-spirited enterprises and has shown that he has had the best interests of his neighborhood at he;irt.

DANIEL P. STEIN, sheriff of Summit County, and a capable and conscientious public officer, was elected in the fall of 1906, and assumed the duties of this responsible office, January 7, 1907. He was born in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1859, and is a son of Henry and Mary E. (Cramer) Stein.

Henry Stein was ).)orn iu Germany and settled in Green Township shortly after coming to America, but prior to his death removed to Springfield Township. Four of his six children still survive, namely : Amanda, who is the widow of Emanuel Killinger, residing at Akron, Emeline, who is the wife of Benjamin Hollen, residing in Marshall County, Indiana; William Henry, who is engaged in farming in Green Township; and Daniel P., whose name begins tliis sketch.

Daniel P. Stein was reared and educated in Green Township and continued to farm there until 1890. He then became connected with the street railway business, in which he continued for thirteen years, when he turned his attention to the grocery business. In this latter btisiness he prospered and it was only given up in order that he might assume the duties of sheriff to which his fellow-citizens had elected him. For the past fifteen years he has been active in politics and has served

Sheriff" Stein was married January 25, 1879, to Celia A. Hartong, who is a daughter of Allan Ilartong. Their family consists of five sons and five daughters. Fraternally, Sheriff Stein is an Encampment member of the Odd Fellows, is a Knight of Pythias, Uniform Rank, Company 21, and of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is one of Akron's representative men and is popular all over the county.

RUFUS P. UPSON, a prominent citizen of Tallmadge Township, wdiere he owns two fine farms aggregating 175 acres, was born November 23, 1834, iu Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of Anson and Polly (Upson) Upson.

The earliest ancestors of this family in America came from England in 1635, two brothers of the name being with the colonizing Puritans. Stephen Upson, the great-greatgrandfather of Rufus P., was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The maternal Upson line follows:

John Upson, the great-grandfather of Rufus P., lived in Connecticut. His children were: Stephen, Daniel, Horatio, John, Thurman, Reuben, Iluldah, Sylvia and Lucinda. In 1810, when advanced in years, John Upson came to Tallmadge Township and lived with his son Reuben until his death. He was a member of the Congregational Church.

Reuben Upson, the grandfather of Rufus P., was born at Waterburj'', Connecticut, August 14, 1771. He received a good education for his time and taught school. On December 25, 1798, he was married to Hannah Richardson, who was born at Waterbury, October 18, 1780, a daughter of Ebenezer Richardson. By trade, Reuben was a carpenter and joiner. In 1808 he came to Ohio with his brother Stephen and family, making the trip with a five-horse team, but even then the journej' required six weeks of time as the road had to be cut through the forest. They settled in Portage County, where the brothers had bought land from the Connecticut Land Com-

The land upon which Reuben Upson settled was heavily timbered and it required hard work to clear up even 60 acres, after which Mr. Upson sold that land and moved to Tallmade Township, Suniniit County, where he purchased a farm of Priest Leonard Bacon, a celebrated character of that day. Reuben Upson cleared 100 acres of this land and lived on that farm until 1818, when he moved to the northeastern part of Tallmadge Township, where he bought 300 acres. Not being able to secure a clear title to this land, he received in lieu of it, 100 acres in Tallmadge Township, 100 acres on the Cuyahoga River and 100 acres near by. Mr. Upson now worked to a large degree at his trade, and hired others to clear the farm and make improvements. He died on this farm in 1844, aged 77 years. He was a strict member of the Congregational Church. In politics he was a Whig and later a Republican, having strong anti-slavery views. He was one of the earliest Masons in the Western Reserve and he belonged to Masonic Lodges at Canfield and Columbus. Four more children were born to him after he settled in Ohio, namely: Chloe, Hannah, Julius A. and George M.

Rufus P. Upson descends from Thomas Upson, who came from England and settled at Hartford, Connecticut, at an early day, where it is on record that he enjoyed the right to get wood and keep his cows on the Common. About 1638 he is listed as one of the original proprietors of Farmington, Connecticut. He married Elizabeth Fuller, in 1646, and died July 19, 1655. His children were: Thomas, who died at Saybrook, Conneeticut; Stephen; Marv; Eliza, and Hannah, the latter of whom died\july 20, 1655.

Stephen, second son of Thomas and Elizabeth Upson, wa.s married December 29, 1682, to Mary, daughter of .John Lee, Sr. of Farmington, Connecticut, and died in 1735, aged

85 years. His wife died February 15, 1715-16. Prior to his marriage he moved to Waterbury and became a proprietor December 29, 1679, to the amount of tifty pounds. He became & man of affairs there and was one of a committee to settle bonds with Woodbury, in April, 1702, and was made surveyor, committeeman and grand juror. He was three times deputy to the General Court, in May, 1710, in October, 1712, and in October, 1729. In 1715 he was a sergeant and in 1729 he had a seat with the volunteers in the new meeting-house. His children were: Mary, born November 5, 1683, married Richard Welton, son of John; Stephen, born September 30, 1686; Elizabeth, born February 14, 1689; Hannah, born March 16, 1695, married (first) Thomas Richards, (second) John Bronson, and in 1751 was living a widow; Tabitha, born March 16, 1698, married John Scoville; John, born December 13, 1702; and Thankful, born March 14, 1706-7, married James Blakesley.

Thomas Upson of the third American generation, was a son of Stephen and Mary (Lee) Upson. He married Rachel, daughter of Thomas Judd, and they resided on Cole street, Waterbury, Connecticut, until 1732-3, when he sold and moved to Farminglon, later to Southington, where he died respected and esteemed. His wife Rachel died July 13, 1750, aged 56 years, and he died September 29, 1769, aged 68 years. The following children were born to Thomas and Rachel Upson : Thomas, born December 20, 1719; Mary and -Tohn, twins, the latter of whom died in 1741, the former of whom married Jo.siah Newell, of Southington ; Josiah, born January 28, 1724, died in 1725; Asa, born November 30, 1728; T. W., bom October 8, 1731; Amos, born March 17, 1734; Samuel, born in March, 1737; Freeman, born July 24, 1739, died in 1750.

Thomas Upson, son of Thomas and Rachel (Judd) Upson, married Hannah Hopkins, daughter of Timothy Hopkins, of Waterbury, May 28, 1749, and settled one mile north of Wolcott Center, and died in 1798, aged 79 vears. His wife died .Tune 6, 1757. Thev

Charles Upson, known as 'Squire Upson, son of Thomas and Hannah Upson, married Wealthy Hopkins, March 26, 1773, who died I-)i'ceiuber 8, 178o. He uuirried (second) the Widow Mary Moulthrop, March 24, 1784. He resided on the homestead and was a man of considerable influence in the community, and in 1805 he had the largest tax list of any man there. He subscribed the largest sum for the settlement of Reverend Woodward in 1792, and for many years he was a justice of the peace. He was accidentally killed when riding into his barn on a load of hay, April 29, 1809, aged 57 years. His widow died March 30, 1826, aged 76 years.

The children of Charles Upson by his first wife were: Washington, born September 2, 1775; Lee, born May 7, 1778; and Gates, born July 18, 1780. By his second marriage he had the following children : Thomas, born September 23, 1785; Charles Hopkins, born July 18, 1788 ; Mark, born October 24, 1790 ; Wealthy H., born April 18, 1794, married March 30, 1817.

Dr. Lee Upson, son of Charles and Wealthy (Hopkins) Upson, married Roxanna Lewis and they had the following children : Anson, Sarah, Israel and Olivia. All of the children remained in Connecticut except Anson. Dr. Upson and wife died in Connecticut, the former, February 7, 1851. He was a member of the Congregational Church.

Anson Upson, son of Dr. Leo and Wealthy (Hopkins) Upson, was born at Walcott, Connecticut, December 21, 1801. In 1825, prior to marriage, he came to Tallmadge township. Summit County, where he remained two years and then returned to Connecticut and worked in a cotton factory for Seth Thomas, who later became distinguished as a clock-maker. In

1833 he was married in Tallmadge Town.ship to Polly Upson, who was born at Waterbury, Connecticut, June 9, 1806, and died November 1, 1884. She was a daughter of Reuben and Hannah (Richardson) Upson. Their chilch-en were: Rufus P.; Maria P., residing in Tallmadge, married George H. Root, and they have two children; and Helen L. and Harriet H., twins, born October 18, 1842. Helen L. married Roland Hough, of Rootstown, and they have five children. Harriet H. married Festus Sanford and they also reside at Rootstown, Portage County, and have one child.

Anson Upson settled in Tallmadge Township, where he bought a farm of seventy-two acres, which was then all forest land, and there he lived until his death, February 7, 1851, aged forty-nine years. He was a member of the Congregational Church and a trustee. In politics, he was first a Whig and later an Abolitionist. Like other members of his family, he was a man of unswerving integrity.

Rufus P Upson attended the schools of Tallmadge Township in his boyhood, where he laid the foundations of his education which years of practical experience and contact with his fellow-men has widened and broadened. He was reared to agricultural pursuits and followed farming on his father's land until 1891, when he settled on the farm which he has operated ever since. This contains 100 acres of most excellent land and he has improved it greatly by erecting commodious and substantial buildings, fie carries on a general farming line and has been rewarded for his industry by continued pro.sperity. His second farm is equally valuable and he is .justly considered one of the subslantial as well as competent agriculturists of Tallmadge Township.

On October 22, 1861, Rufus P. Upson was married to Mary Upson, who was born May 20, 1836, in Tallmadge, and is a daughter of Edwin and Betsey (Blakesley) Upson. Edwin Upson, father of Mrs. Rufus P. Upson, Ava? born May 21, 1804, at Waterbury, Connecticut, and was a son of Horatio and Hannah (Cook) Upson, who was a son of John Upson.

Edwin Upson came to Tallmadge Township, Summit County, Ohio, a youth of twenty-two years, in 1822, accompanying his uncle Reuben Up.^on, Calvin Treat and Abra- ham Hiae. The party came on foot, making the journey as far as Buffalo, New York, in eighteen days. Subsequently, Edwin Upson returned to Connecticut, where he married Betsey Blakesley and in 1833 he came with his family, to Tallmadge and settled on a partly improved tract of land in the north part of the township. The farm contained 107 acres and fifteen had been cleared and a log house stood on the place. Mr. Upson cleared the remainder of the land and developed a fine property. His parents accompanied him when he settled permanently in Ohio and they died on this farm. Edwin Upson lived to the age of eighty-one years, dying May 1, 1885. His wife lived many years longer, dying May 4, 1902, aged eighty-four years. Up to the close of her life she retained remarkable eyesight, never having required the assistance of glasses until within a very few years of her death, although she delighted in fine sewing and embroidering. Both Edwin Upson and wife were members of the Congregational Church. The children of Edwin and Betsey Upson were: Mary M. ; Jacob E., who died aged five years and nine months; and Joseph E., residing at Cleveland, who married Cornelia Lyman.

Rufus P. Upson and wife have had the following children : Addie M. ; Amelia A., who married Walter L. Mallory, of Cuyahoga Falls, have had five children, Ruth, Ernest Leroy, Helen, Donald D., and Blanche, deceased: Edward A., residing in Tallmadge Township, engaged in farming, married Minnie Skinner; Henry S., who died March 25, 1887: George L., residing on the home farm with his parents, married Jessie Southmayd; and Be.ssie L., residing at home.

Mr. Upson is one of the original Republicans of Tallmadge Township and voted for Abraham Lincoln when he was first the nominee of this party, and he has never changed his political allegiance. For nine years he has served as township trustee and both in and out of office has taken pride in being a good citizen in all that the word implies. He is a useful member of the Tallmadge Historical Societv.

U. G. HICtH, county treasurer of Summit County, Ohio, and president of the Johnson Hardware Company, of Barberton, was born in 1868, in Coventry Township, Summit County, and is a son of Alem and Elizabeth High.

The father of Mr. High has been a resident of Coventry Township for the past sixty years and is still hale and hearty, although he has passed his eighty-fourth birthday. He accompanied his parents from Pennsylvania to Summit County in 1831, and can still recall many of the incidents of the wagon journey through the unsettled regions. He has followed agricultural pursuits all his life.

U. G. High was educated in the local schools near his home and later at Lebanon, and then taught school for six years, when he was made deputy auditor of Summit County, serving in that office for five years. Mr. High resigned that position in order to become assistant cashier of the Barberton Savings Bank, where he remained for four years, resigning August 12, 1906, in order to again resume the duties of public office. He was appointed treasurer of the county to fill out the term of Treasurer F. E. Smith, who had resigned the office, and his efficiency has brought him many marks of public confidence and approval. Mr. High has always taken an active interest in public matters in his community, has served five yeare on the Barberton Board of Education, and has consistently promoted the movements which have been designed to be of benefit to this section. Pie was the first Republican clerk elected in Coventry Township in twenty years. His business interests are also important, and for a number of years he has been president of the Johnson Hardware Company.

In 1899 Mr. High was married to Laura B. Miller, who is a daughter of John Miller, of Portage County, and they have two children : Laura Lucile and Wayne Miller. Fraternallv, Mr. High is identified wath National Lodge,' F. & A. M. ; Barberton Tent. K. 0. T. M., and Barberton Lodge, B. P. 0. E. He is a memher of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Barberton.

W. G. ALLEN, general manager of the Niagara Fire Extinguisher Company, with oftices in tlie Hamilton Building, Akron, is one of the city's capable business men, and has been a resident here since 1900. He was born at Dundee, Michigan, in 1872, and was reared and educated in his native state. During almost the whole of his business life, he has been in his present line of business. For fourteen years he was connected with the Automatic Sprinkler Company, of Chicago, as department manager, leaving there in 1900, in order to become general manager of the Niagara Fire Extinguisher Company, at Akron, where the company has a factory for the manufacture of automatic sprinkling appliances. The output of this factory is of standard excellence and the sale of the company's goods, under Mr. ^VUen's progressive business methods, is constantly increasing.

In 1897 Mr. Allen was married to Jessie D. Bryden, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and they have one child, Jeanette M. Mr. Allen is a man of social tastes and belongs to all of Akron's exclusive clubs.

C. S. HIDDLESON, M. D., one of Akron's leading medical men, who located here after a number of years of professional experience in other places, was born at Randolph, Portage County, Ohio, in 1860, and there obtained his literary training to the extent of graduating from the Randolph High School.

After some preliminary medical study, he entered the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and in 1883 he received his medical degree from the old Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. Dr. Hiddleson then located at Randolph, where he practiced for four years. He subsequently went to Atwater, where he remained for seventeen years, and then took a post-graduate course in the New York Post Graduate School. Coming afterward'^ to Akron, he has remained here since, taking a yirominent place among the skillful medical practitioners of this city. He is a member of the Summit County Sixth Councilor District, and also of the Ohio State, the

In 1885 Dr. Hiddleson was married to Ella M. Mendenhall, of Randolph, Ohio. They have two children, Robert M. and Dorothy, both students, the former having just entered upon his second year in Western Reserve University, after a vacation tour of Europe. The family belong to the West Hill Congregational Church of Akron. Dr. Hiddleson is a Royal Arch Alaaon, a Knight of Pythias and a Maccabee; he belongs also to the Masonic club of Akron.

Benjamin Franklin Hoffman

one of Portage Township's leading citizens, who has served as township trustee since 1901, resides on liLs well-improved farm of fortytwo acres, which is situated on the North Howard Street extension, just north of the city limits of Akron, and which Mrs. Hoifman inherited through her mother. Mr. Hoffman was born in Norton Township, Summit County, Ohio, August 12, 1843, and is a son of Philip and Amelia (Feller) Hoffman.

Philip Hoffman and wife were both born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and were married at Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio. They went to hoasekeeping near Doylestown, Wayne County, but later moved to Norton Township, Summit County, where Philip Hoffman owned a small farm, and also carried on shoemaking. Both he and wife died on another farm, of eighty acres, to which they moved when Benjamin F. was twelve vears old.

Benjamin F. Hoffman attended the country schools and worked in the neighborhood until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to work for Superintendent Frank T. Husong, at the Summit County Infirmary, where he remained until he was twenty-one. He was mainly engaged in teaming until 1870, when he went to work at the Excelsior Works and remained two years, after which he became an employe of the Buckeye Reaper and Mower Company, and continued with that concern for twenty years. In 1893, he purchased his present farm and has been con- cerned in its cultivation and improvement ever since. Mr. Hoffman al^o owns four acres of very valuable land on the corner of Tallmadge and Schiller Avenues, Akron, which he is selling in town lots. In 1893 he erected his commodious frame residence and gradually has built all necessary farm buildings.

In 1865 Mr. Hoffman was married (first) to Clara Brumbaugh, who died in 1869, leaving no children. She was a daughter of David Brumbaugh. He was married (second), in 1870, to Almira Zeller, who is a daughter of William Zeller, and they have had eleven children, all of whom survive except Joseph, the next to the youngest, who died when two years old. Those living are : Charles W., residing at Akron, is engaged in the plumbing business; George P., residing at Akron, is in the plumbing and building block business; Frank P., residing at Akron, is a bookkeeper; Harry, residing at Detroit, is a baker by trade; Edward, residing at Akron, is collector for the People's Telephone Company; Oliver, residing at Akron, is a plumber by trade; and May, Clyde, Eli and Ruth, all residing at home. The older sons are all married, and all are doing well.

Politically, Mr. Hoffman is a Democrat. He has always taken a good citizen's interest in public matters. In 1901 he was elected township trustee and has been continued in office to the present time, giving his fellow citizens careful and faithful service.

A. LINCOLN CARPENTER, residing on North Howard Street, Akron, owns a fine farm of eighty acres, just outside the city limits, and is one of the substantial citizens of Portage Township. He was born on the old Judge Pitkin's farm, just east of his present one, August 15, 1863, and is a son of Abraham and Eliza (Wise) Carpenter.

Abraham Carpenter was born in Lancaster Countv. Pennsylvania, and was a son of Gabriel Carpenter, who came to Stark County, Ohio, when Abraham was about eight years of age. Gabriel Carpenter was a day laborer. His wife died in Stark Countv. He continued to reside there until within five years of his death, when he took up his residence with his sons, Abraham and Jacob, in Summit County.

Abraham Carpenter was reared in Stark County, and in early manhood married Eliza Wise, who was born in Stark County and was a daughter of George W. Wise. A few years later, Abraham Carpenter and wife came to Portage Township, his father-in-law having purchased a farm of 320 acres, which he farmed on shares for many years, a large part of the property subsequently coming into the posse&sion of his family. Mr. Wise died on the Wise farm, a part of which A. Lincoln now owns. The Carpenters had three children : Alfaretta, who married Levi A. Lancaster, resides at Akron ; Jennie, who married Joseph Schnee, resides at Akron ; and A. Lincoln. The mother of the above family died at the age of seventy-five years. The father still survives, at the age of seventy-seven years.

A. Lincoln Carpenter was reated on the home farm, and with the exception of the first four years of married life, when he rented a farm in Copley Township, he has never lived out of sight of his present farm. He attended the country schools near his home and when we was seventeen years of age, he entered the Empire Mower and Reaper Company and worked in the blacksmith shop for eleven years. He was employed also, for one year, in the Buckeye Mower and Reaper Works. Leaving out these twelve years, Mr. Carpenter has devoted himself exclusively to farming and dairying. He has made a success of the latter industry through hard work. He started in with a milk route, buying his milk from other parties, and peddled it for some five years before he purchased any cows. He now own twenty-eight head and has a good business. In 1902 he moved to his present farm and in 1906, he built his handsome and commodious cement-block house. His farm has an excellent tenant house on the place, that he built in 1902, and he has erected all the other substantial buildings, no improvements being here when he purchased the land. 'Mr. Carpenter has shown great good judgment in locating the site of his residence. It overlooks the Cuyahoga Valley and on a clear day the view extends to West Richfield, seventeen miles away. His fertile land yields readily to culture and he makes something of a feature of gardening and growing choice berries.

On April 29, 1886, Mr. Carpenter was married to Laura Viers, who is a daughter of B. J. Viers, and they have two children : Ford L. and Adele, both of whom are students at Buchtel College.

JOHN W. SEWARD, a representative citizen, formerly county surveyor of Summit County, now living at Tallmadge Center, was born in Tallmadge Township, Summit County, Ohio, October 14, 1826, and is a son of Amo.-3 and Asenath (Dudley) Seward.

Mr. Seward traces his ancestry to an old English family which was first represented in New England by Lieut. William Seward, who was married to Grace Norton, April 2, 1651. He died March 22, 1689. John W. Seward is in the seventh generation from this ancestor.

Nathan Seward, the paternal grandfather, was born October 18, 1758, and married Martha Gridley. They moved to New Hartford, Connecticut, where he died November 15, 1815. He served for five years with the Continental Army in the Revolutionary struggle, and was given a colonel's commission in the War of 1812, in which he served several months.

Amos Seward, father of .John W., was born at Cornwall, Connecticut, February 19, 1786, and died in Tallmadge Township, Summit County, Ohio, November 12, 1859. He married Asenath Dudley, who was born at Middletown. Connecticut, November 28, 1787, and died September 20, 1852. Her parents were Isaac and Anna (Woodhouse) Dudley, the former of whom was born April 8, 1761, and died September 9, 1843. He was a descendant of William and Jane (Lutman) Dudley, of Oakland, England, and came with the original colony that settled at Guilford, Connecticut, in 1639.

In 1817 Amos Seward came to Tallmadge Township, Summit County, where, as the lay of the land suited his fancy, he bought a farm and then returned to his former home, Whitestown, New York, from which place he removed his family and established his home in the new location, March 10, 1818, where he spent the remainder of his life. Four of his children grew to maturity, John W. being the youngest and the only one born in Tallmadge Township, of which he is now the oldest sui-viving native-born resident. The other three children, all born at Whitestown, New York, were: Frederick, who was born in 1811, married Nancy Carrell ; Amos, who was born April 19, 1815, married Pleiades Barber, July 14, 1840, and they reside in California; and Sarah Abbott, who Avas born November 5, 1817, married Rev. James Shaw, October 22, 1850, and died in December, 1904.

In many respects, Amos Seward was one of the most prominent men of his day in Tallmadge Township, and for years was a factor in the public and political life of Summit County. About 1830 he was appointed on'e of the appraisers, at the time that Congress appropriated several thousand acres of school lands for the Western Reserve, these being mainly situated in Llolmes County. In 1835 he was elected to the State Legislature from Portage County, and in 1842 was elected from Summit Count}-. In 1847 he was elected to this body from both Portage and Summit Counties. In the .spring of 1840, when Summit County was formed, he was appointed county assessor and at the regular election in the fall of the year, he was elected for a period of two years and was the only man who ever held that office in the county, as the law was then changed, giving assessors to each township. In the meanwhile he had been appointed by the governor of the State to membership on the State Board of Equalization. He was an active member of the Tallmadge Historical Society and was its first president. In all that pertained to his section he was activelv interested throughout his long and useful life.

John W. Seward attended the district schools of Talhnadge Township and enjoyed one term at Middlebury (now the Sixth Ward of Akron) and spent one term at the academy at Tallmadge Center. He continued to assist on the home farm up to 1851, in the meanwliile teaching several sessions of the district school in his neighborhood. From November, 1850, to June, 1851, he served as a guard in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus, when he resigned on account of his health. He had given some attention to the study of general surveying and when the C. A. & C. Railroad extended its survey through this section, Mr. Seward became a member of the engineering corps and continued with this body until the road was completed as far as Millcrsburg. After his marriage, in 1858, Mr. Seward continued on the home farm for several years, after which he engaged in a foundry business at Fredericksburg, "Wayne County, for almost five years. In 1864, he served four months in the Federal Army, as a member of Company G, 166th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry-, and was honorably discharged in September of that year.

On account of his father-in-law's feeble health, Mr. Seward then returned to Tallmadge, and he engaged in carpenter work and paid some attention to surveying, gradually giving that calling the larger part of his attention. His capacity and efficiency were soon recognized, and in 1874 he was elected surveyor for Summit County, and during his three years in the oflfice did a large amount of important work. For a period of thirty years he did all the surveying for the Akron cemetery, and on account of his accuracy and experience, he was called upon to do a great deal of private work in this line. For some years Mr. Seward has been a notary public and for eighteen years he was a justice of the peace.

On April 22, 1858, Mr. Seward was married to Urania D. Ashley, a daughter of Anson and Miranda (Fenn) Ashley. The .Ashley family can be traced back for many generations. Oliver Ashley, paternal grandfather of Mrs. Seward, was a son of Oliver, son of

David, son of David, son of David, son of Robert and was in the fifth generation from a daughter of Governor Robert Treat of Connecticut. Oliver Ashley married, in 1793, Tabitha Baker. Pie was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, November 20, 1766, and died June 14, 1825. Anson Ashley, father of Mrs. Seward, was born in Massachusetts, in 1796, and was married in Tallmadge Township, Summit County, to Miranda Fenn, who was born June 1, 1798, and lived to the age of ninety-one years, within two years oi the limit of the lives of her mother and hei grandmother. Peck Fenn, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Seward, was also in the fifth generation from Governor Robert Treat, of Connecticut. He came to Tallmadge Township in 1818, one year later than Anson Ashley, his son-in-law. There were ten children born to Anson Ashley and wdfe, namely: Miranda, who was the wife of Edward C. Leach, of New York ; Sarah, who was the second wife of Edwin C. Leach, died in 1902 ; Anson, who lived to the age of seventy-nine years; Urania; Andrus; Lucretia; Anna, Arlington, residing in California; and two children died in infancy.

Mr. and Mrs. Seward have three children: Myra, Anna Woodhouse and Henry Baldwin. Myra Seward was born July 24, 1859, and was married to William G. Pitkin, in 1880, and they have five children : Paul B., Frederick S., William Henderson, John Ashley iind Thomas Monroe. Anna Woodhouse Seward went out to China as a missionary, under the auspices of the Southern Baptist Association. In her field of work she met Rev. C. W. Pruitt, who was also a mi.ssionary. and they were married and are stationed in North China and have four children : .John and Ida, who are attending school at Atlanta. Georgia; and Robert and Dudley McClellan. Henry Baldwin Seward w^is horn Augu.st 19, 1865, arid in 1892 he married May Avery. They reside at Mineral Ridge, Ohio, and have three children : Myra Rosalie, Laura May and Allen Dudley.

forty-two years he has belonged to the Tallmadge Historical Society and is an autliority on matters pertaining to its researches, and is treasurer of this organization. He is one of the leading members of the Congregational Church at Tallmadge, and has long been treasurer of the church's private benefactions. For eighteen years he was registrar of the Puritan Conference of this religious body. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Seward, at Tallmadge Center, is the residence in which she was born, the old part of which is the oldest frame house in the town.

JOSEPH WARBURTON, M. D., a wellknown physician and surgeon, who has been established at Tallmadge since the spring of 1902, was born October 17, 1874, at Greentown, Stark County, Ohio, and is a son of Richard and Sarah (Marsland) Warburton.

The parents of Dr. Warburton were natives of England, where the father was born June 3, 1835, and the mother, December 21, 1842, tlie latter at Hazel Grove, near Stockport, not far from Liverpool. Richard Warburton was a mining engineer and a superintendent and inspector of mines. He preceded his family to America and sent for them in 18G4. At the time of his death, October 5. 1895, he resided at New Berlin. The family of Richard and Sarah Warburton consisted of the following children : John Thoma.s, residing at New Berlin, Stark County, Ohio; David; Margaret, who married Henry Gladieux; Richard ; Emma and Joseph.

Dr. .Joseph Warburton was educated in the public scliools and in 1897 he graduated from the New Berlin High School, after which he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and spent one year in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and following this, three years in the Ohio Medical I^niversity at Columbus, graduating in the class of 1901. For one year he served a,s house physician at the Deaconess Hospital, at Dayton, Ohio, and in the spring of 1902 he located in Tallmadge, where he has enjoyed a large and lucrative practice and is recognized as a man of personal high standine;.

In 1901 Dr. Warburton was married (tirst) to Maude E. Wills, who died in the following September. She was a trained nurse by profession. In October, 1903, Dr. Warburton was married (second) to Myrna Munn, of Macedonia, who is a daughter of Wesley and Mary Munn, and they have one child, Francis Munn, who was born at Tallmadge. He is an interesting child of three years.

Mrs. Warburton's grandparents were Hiram and Esther Munn, who were pioneers in Summit County and early settlers at Macedonia. Wesley Munn, father of Mrs. Warburton, married Mary Lanier, who was a native of New York. They had the following children : Esther, who married Frank Wise, a prominent citizen of Macedonia, who was the first mayor there ; King, residing at Macedonia; Myrna; and Gladys, residing at home. Mr. Munn died in 1891, aged fifty-eight years, and Mrs. Munn died in 1903, aged fifty-two years.

Dr. Warburton is a member of the Summit County Medical and the State Medical Societies. Politically, he is a Republican, but is only active so far as becomes a good citizen. His fraternal connections are with the Knights of Pythias, No. 501 at Tallmadge, and the order of Maccabees, at New Berlin.

THOMAS E. McSHAFFREY, of the firm of E. McShaffrey & Son, general contractors, doing a large business at Akron and at other points in Summit County, has been one of the partners in this firm for the past two years, and has been indirectly connected with the concern for the past ten years. He was born in 1876, at Akron, and is a son of Edward and Margaret (Magrath) McShaffrey.

Edward McShaffrey was born in County Antrim. Ireland, in 1851, and came to America at the age of sixteen years. He located at Akron, where, for the past quarter of a century, he has been engaged in general contracting, in 1905 admitting his son to partnership.

ing a course in Hanimel's Business College. Prior to entering into partnership with his father, he was foreman of the Whilman- Bai'ues Manufacturing Company for eight years, and was identified with that firm for seventeen years in all. The firm of E. Mc- Shaffrey & Son have done a large amount of street paving at Akron, with other work, and at present they are building a large sewerage disposal system at Ravenna, Ohio. They are practical men and their work gives universal satisfaction.

On September 28, 1899, xMr. McShaffrey was married to Rose C. Gilbride, of Ravenna, and they have two children : Regina and Thoma-s Vincent. Both Mr. McShaffrey and wife are members of St. Vincent Catholic Church.

Politically he is a Republican and takes an intelligent citizen's interest in public affairs. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the ancient order of Hibernians and the Whitman-Barnes Relief Association.

J A RED BARKER, formerly sheriff of Summit County, resides on his farm of fortyfour acres, situated in Portage Township, where he is engaged in making such improvements a.s will make his one of the leading dairy farms of this section. Neither time nor expense is being spared in the construction of sanitary buildings and wholesome surroundings. Mr. Barker was born March 14, 1861. at Bath, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of William and Eliza (Hutchinson) Barker.

Lanson Barker, the grandfather of Jared Barker, was born in Connecticut, November 17, 1791. and he was a son of Jared Barker, who was born in England. Lanson Barker became a resident of the State of New York and, in 1809, he was married to Betsey Phelps, who was born in Connecticut. Augu.-t 15, 1791. They moved to Ohio and finsf bought land in Holmes County, removing from it to Massillon, but soon after to Cranger Township. Medina County, where they resided a number of years. Still later, Lanson Barker bought land at Rovalton.

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where his wife died in 1847, his death following in 1855. They had eight children: Roxie A., William, Jared, John, Lyman, Mary, Frances and Nelson.

William Barker, father of Jared, was born in the State of New York, July 30, 1817, and accompanied his parents to Ohio. In 1849, he went to California but soon returned, owing to poor health, and in 1853, he purchased the farm in Bath Township. At that time it was all covered with timber, which he cleared off and erected substantial buildings, developing subsequently a good farm. He engaged also in manufacturing to some extent. In politics he was a strong suppporter of the Republican party and held manv offices of trust. He died February 10, 1898. In 1856 he married Eliza Hutchinson, who was born April 8, 1826, who died-October 2, 1876. She was a daughter of Warren and Martha (Mc- Laughin) Hutchinson. Thej' had four children, namely; Alonzo, who was born in 1857 ; Jared and a twin brother, the latter of whom died in infancy; and Bettie, who was born in 1867, died in infancy.

Jared Barker was reared and educated in Bath Township, where he owns a magnificent farm of 267 acres, located in the Yellow Creek bottoms. In addition to farming and stock-raising, Mr. Barker engaged in lumbering, owning a planing mill and a sawmill. He purchased his dairy farm of forty-four acres, June 1, 1907. Until 1902, he continued to live in Bath Township, when, having been elected sheriff of Summit County, he moved to Akron and resided there during his two terms in office. His administration of the responsible office of sheriff gave universal satisfaction to all law-abiding citizens and he retired with a fine record as to efficiency. Since then he has devoted a large part of his attention to developing his dairy farm along first-class lines, it being his idea to supply certified milk, absolutely inire. This is a laudable enterprise w'hich engages the attention of the public at large.

February 24, 1862, at Rome City, Indiana, and is a daughter of William and Sarah (Weikel) Myers. The parents of Mrs. Barker moved from Ohio to Indiana, in 1856, settling in Noble County, where they are prominent in every circle. Mr. Mj'ers is one of the largest agriculturists in that section. They had four children, namely: Samuel, born March 27, 1857; Ellen, born June 22, 1858, who married R. Shroyer, of Indiana; Almira, Mrs. Barker; and Charles, who was born April 7, 1868. Mr. and Mrs. Myers arj members of the German Lutheran Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Barker have five children, namely: Pearl, born January 7, 1886; Bessie, born October 25, 1889; Marv, born October 21, 1891 ; Sarah, born August 31, 1890; and William Barker, born July 7, 1898. Mrs. Barker and family are members of the Disciples Church. Politically, Mr. Barker is a stanch Republican, casting his first Presidential vote in support of Hon. James G. Blaine. Mr. Barker is one of the representative men of Summit County.

A. J. DIETRICH, senior member of the firm of Dietrich & Brunswick, proprietors of pattern works, located at No. 90 East South Street, Akron, is at the head of one of the prospering industries of the city. He was born in Akron, in 1872, and is a son of the late Anthony Dietrich, a native of Germany who came to America in 1861. The latter followed the trade of stone-mason until within a short time before his death, which occurred in 1891.

A. J. Dietrich was reared and educated at Akron and is master of two distinct trades, those of cabinet-maker and mill-wright. For eight years he was connected with the American Cereal Company's plant. Later he was employed in the pattern shops of the Taplin- Rice Company, for seven and a half year.a, for two years of this period being in charge of their pattern department. Having gained the necessary experience and possessing sufficient capital. Mr. Dietrich then entered into partnership with AVilliam F. Bnmswick, establishing the pattern works of the Dietrich

In 1900 Mr. Dietrich was married to Louise Willenbacher, of Akron, and they have two interesting little sons, Carl Philip and Philip Joseph. Mr. and Mrs. Dietrich are members of St. Bernard's Catholic Church. He belongs to the order of Knights of St. John.

PETER SERFASS, a successful agriculturist of Norton Township, residing on his valuable farm of seventy-six acres, was born in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1826, and is a son of Peter and Eva (Houtsmith) Serfass.

The i^arents of Peter Serfass came from Pennsylvania to Ohio, in 1838, and as they traveled by wagon their progress was slow and they were on the road nineteen days. The father bought eighty acres of land in Norton Township, which had been partly improved, but later he sold four acres, the remainder being the farm now owned by his son, Peter Serfass. The hoase that was standing on the place at that time still serves as a residence, although a large amount of money has been spent in remodeling it. The land was soon all cleared and orchards were set out and the parents lived to enjoy some years of comfort and ease on this farm before they passed away. Of their five children, three survive, namely: Ladina, who is the widow of Louis Mosier; Matilda, who is the wife of Jacob Boerstler ; and Peter, of Norton Township.

Peter Serfass remained at home and assisted his father until he was twenty-one years of age, and for the following three years worked by the month on the home farm. At this time he was married to Ansaneta Seigfreid, who was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio in girlhood, accompanying her father, who was Louis Seigfried. They have had four children, namely: Clara, who is the wife of Dr. Joseph Wingerter, residing at Akron : Alice Viola, who died aged twenty-

Egbert J. Rodd

After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Serfass settled on the farm, on which they have resided ever since, with the exception of fourteen years spent at Akron, during which time Mr. Serfass was employed by the liankey Lumber Company. He carries on a general farming line. Mr. Serfass and wife belong to the Lutheran Church.

ROBERT JAMES RODD, superintendent of the rivet department of the Falls Rivet a,nd Machine Company's plant at Kent, Ohio, but a resident of Cuj'ahoga Falls, was born at London, England, May 29, 1854, and is a son of William James and Sarah (Ashby) Rodd.

The father of Mr. Rodd was born in the great manufacturing city of Birmangham, but learned no trade, having been collegebred. He worked as an accountant until 1875, when he crossed the ocean and settled in Canada, residing at Dundas until 1893. He then came to Cuyahoga Falls, where his death occin-red when he had reached the age of sixty-two years. He married Sarah Ashby, who resides with^ her daughter, Mrs. George Shannon. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while her late husband belonged to the Episcopal communion. They were the parents of eight children, namely: Kate, who married John Morri.son, residing at .Jordan, Canada; Rosa, who married George Forester, and resides at Cleveland: Mary; Frederick, residing at Cleveland; Arthur; Charles, residing at Cleveland; and Esther, who married George Shannon, and resides at Cuyahoga Falls. Marj' and Arthur are deceased.

Robert James Rodd enjoyed good educational advantages, and before coming to Canada, was a.«.sociated with his father in office work. He then learned the machinist's trade and in 1877 became foreman for the Canada Screw' Company, with wihich concern he remained until it went out of business. In 1879 Mr. Rodd came to Cuyahoga Falls, where he was employed by E. L. Babcock, then of the Falls Rivet and Machine Company, to operate the cold headers, and has been identified with this business ever since. From 1888 until 1891 he was engaged as erecting engineer in the East and South; in the latter year he became assistant superintendent, and in the fall of 189.3 became superintendent of the rivet department, which wa.s then separate from the machinery department. He remodeled the shops, and^the tvork has so increased that from a force of thirty-five men then required, he now employs 150.

In June, 1891, Mr. Rodd started to build machinery for making bolts. Prior to that time the company had made only rivets. By adding the manufacture of bolts, the output of the plant was doubled. Mr. Rodd has patents on machines for automatically tapping nuts, this being known as the Rodd's Automatic Nut Tapper. It is in use in all the leading factories of the United States and Canada, and sales have been made also in England and Germany.

On January 4, 1881, Mr. Rodd was married to Katherine Cooper, who was born at Grantham, England, and is a daughter of William Cooper, who settled at Dundas, Canada, in 1859. They have one son, William Cooper, who learned the machinist's trade with hLs father and now fills the position of draughtsman, the International Harvester Company, of Akron. Mr. Rodd and family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1901 Mr. Rodd built a fine residence on the comer of Broad and Third Streets. The land was secured from the Sill family, whose deed came from the Connecticut Land Company, its eai^liest owners, the Indians having sold it to that body of promoters.

In politics Mr. Rodd is a Republican. He ha? never been anxious for political honors, but has served several years as a member of the Board of Education. He has been identified with the Masons for a number of years, and is past master of Star Lodge, No. 187.

L. W. CAMP, president of the L. W. Camp Company, is one of Akron's enterprising and progressive business men of the younger generation, whose energy, in many instances, has infused new life into old and conservative houses. Mr. Camp was born in 1879, at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and is a son of H. B. Camp, one of Akron's prominent men. He was reared at Cuyahoga Falls and Akron, where he attended school. He then engaged in contracting, in association with his father, with whom he remained for three years in New York, where the father had at that time large business interests. In 1902 the L. W. Camp Company wa.s organized and incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000, for the manufacture of fireproof clay products, with L. W. Camp as president and R. E. Armstrong, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Camp has other business interests, being president of the Factory Oil Company and treasurer of the Akron Fire Proof Construction Company. On June 18, 1904, he was married to Louise B. Wettach, who is a daughter of F. .J. Wettach, of Akron.

GEORGE A. BISBEE, a veteran of the Civil War and a substantial business citizen of Akron, where he is engaged in a wholesale and retail feed business, at No. 127 South Main Street, was born in 1844, at Union Mills, Lagrange County, Indiana.

Mr. Bisbee was but four years old when his parents died and he was taken into the family of a Mr. Capon, whom he subsequently accompanied to Summit County. Here he was reared and attended the district schools. He learned the blacksmith trade and worked at it until 1864, when he enlisted in Company F, 164th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for the 100-day service in the Civil "War. During this enlistment he was stationed at Fort Cochran, near "Washington, D. C. In February, 1865, Mr. Bisbee re-enlisted, entering Company I, 188th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was sent first to Murfreesboro, and thence to Nashville, where it was stationed at the close of the war, being later mu.'tered out at Columbus.

After the close of his military service, Mr. Bisbee went to work again at his trade, first in Michigan and later at Orland, Indiana, but in February, 1867, he returned to Summit County and went into business at Ghent, where he lived until September 23, 1872. He then came to Akron, and for the succeeding seventeen years was an employee of the Whitman-Barnes Company. He next embarked in his present business, in which he has met with very satisfactory success.

In 1868 Mr. Bisbee was married to Sarah Davis, of Bath, Summit County, and they have one child, Adclia B., who is the wife of M. Janse, residing at Maple Creek, Northwestern Canada. Mr. Bisbee has an honorable record as a soldier, and is a valued member of Buckley Post, G. A. R. He belongs to the Knights of Honor, at Akron.

WILSON F. SEIBERLING, a general farmer, residing on a part of the old Seiberling homestead farm, which is situated on the Norton Center road, just east of Western Star, was born on this farm, in Summit County, Ohio, September 24, 1876, and is a son of Gus and Julia (Kulp) Seiberling, the former of whom was one of the county's prominent men.

Wilson F. Seiberling was reared and educated in Norton Township and attended school at We«tern Star, completing his education at the Norton Center High School. From that time to the present he has given his attention to general farming and to the raising of fine horses. He settled on his present farm immediately after his marriage, and has continued to develop and improve the land ever since.

On November 29, 1899, Mr. Seiberling was married to Kittle Marnin, who was reared in Chippawa Township, Wayne County, Ohio, and is a daughter of William Marnin. They have had two children, a babe that died in infancy, and Marcella Gertrude.

JAMES B. CROSS, a well-known citizen of Tallniadge Township, where he owns a fertile farm uf sixteen and one-half acres, on which he carries on general fanning and poultryraLsing, is a survivor of the great Civil War and a veteran of the same. He was born in Canil)ridgeshire, England, January 30, 1844, and is a son of Elijah and Hannah (Bidwell) Cross.

The parents of Mr. Cross were natives of England and came to America in 1853. The father settled finst in Medina County, Ohio, where he engaged in business as a horticulturist and tiorist, having served an apprenticeship of seven years to this business in his native land. He died in Medina County in 1879, aged seventy-one years. His widowdied in the town of Medina, in 1861. The father wa.s married twice and to his first union there were born four children: Jo.seph, William, Mary and Elijah. To the second marriage four children were born, as follows: Sarah, who i.s the widow of Clarence Peck, resides in Lorain County, Ohio; Hannah, decea.sed, w^ho married Eudoris Stewart ; Henry B.. who was born in 1848, operates a broom factory in Akron, where he is a useful citizen, taking an interest in public affairs, and being the originator of the measure known a.s the Buchtel Bill for the Blind ; and James B.

Jam'es B. Cross attended the district schools in ^Medina County and a.ssisted his father until he entered the service of the United States, becoming a member of Company G, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was enrolled June 2, 18G2, to serve three months, and was honorably discharged Septemljer 20, 1862, at Camp Delaware. He re-enlisted May 2, 1864, in Company B, 162nd Regiment, Ohio National Guards, to serve 100 days and was honorably discharged a second time, September 4, 1864. at Camp Chase. A third time he enlisted, February 19, 1865, in Company T, 188th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for one year. His first service was on the United States mail boat, taking prisoners from Covington, Kentucky, to Louisville, and the second was at Tullahoma, Tennessee; New- Creek, Virginia; Cumberland, Maryland, and at Nashville, Tennessee. He was at Tullahoma at the time of General Lee's surrender, being so ill at the time that it required two men to bring him home.

Following his return from the army, for forty-three years he worked in the gearing dejiarlment of the Aultman-Miller Company, at Akron, engaged in putting machinery together, and remained until the business changed hands. For twenty-four years he resided at Akron, and has lived on the present place for the past nineteen years. On February 20, 1865, Mr. Cross was married to Almira Branch, who belongs to a very old pioneer family and is a daughter of Lawson and Cordelia Branch. Mrs. Cross is of English descent on the paternal side. The grandfather, Levi Branch, with his brothers, Theodore, Edwin and Elisha, came to Ohio from Massachusetts, and they all settled in York Township, Medina County. The children of Levi Branch were: Lawson, Levi, Theodore, Elisha, Edwin and Mary. Levi Branch was born at Worthington, Massachusetts, September 17, 1779, and died in York Township, Medina County, Ohio, in 1855. He came to that section from Sweden, New York, in 1830, accompanied by his wife and several children. He was a man of authority in York Township. The first election was held in his barn and the first religious meeting was held in his house. The first educational institution the little community erected was named the Levi Branch school-house. For a time he owned the only team in the town and had the monopoly of hauling provisions from Wooster and Portage. For a long period he was the owner of the only stove in the township.

The parents of Mrs. Cross lived and died in Medina County. Her mother came from Sweden," New York, and her father from Massachusetts. Mrs. Cross' eldest sister, Fannie, was born in 1831 and was the first white child born in York Township. She married C. B. Abbott and died aged seventy-six years. The other members of the family were: Egbert, .Julia and James, living, and Ellen, Miles, Almira, Levi and Evaline, deceased. In 1907 the survivors of this familv had their

To Mr. and Mrs. Cross were born tlie following children : Nellie, who married Charles Leonard, resides at Los Angeles, California, and they have one child, Blanche; Minnie, died in 1877, aged nine years ; Pearl, who married Lewis Frase of East Akron, has two children, Ruth and Ralph; Bertha, who married Arthur Warner, who is head chemist of the Goodrich Company, resides on Crosby Street, Akron, and they have one child, Helen ; and Roy, who is a bookkeeper in the office of the Goodrich Company, married Lorna Scott of Tallmadge, and they have one child, Winnifred.

For thirty-five years Mr. Cro.ss has been a member of Summit Lodge No. 50, Odd Fellows, his membership dating from January 16, 1871. Both he ami wife are members of Tallmadge Grange. They belong to the Universalist Church. Politically, Mr. Cross is a Republican.

LEVI BURROUGHS, general farmer and highly respected citizen of Northfield Township, residing on his well-cultivated farm of thirty-eight acres, is a surviving veteran of the great Civil War, in which he served honorably from 1862 until 1865. Mr. Burroughs was born on the farm in Summit County, Ohio, on which he lives, June 15, 1843, and is a son of Allen and Betsey (Honey) Burroughs.

Allen Burroughs was born in Vermont, in November, 1799, and was a son of David and Polly Burroughs, who founded the family in the Western Reserve. He was an early landholder in Northfield Township; settling here when his land was still in the virgin state. He cleared a forty-acre farm, and continued to improve his property as long as he lived, in the meanwhile taking a good citizen's interest in the development of all this section. He was a man of exemplary life, and supported the public schools, contributed liberally also to religious enterprises, and was a strong advocate of temperance. He lived respected, and died at the age of eighty-two years, esteemed by all who knew him. He married Betsey Honey, who was born in Connecticut, and of their children the following reached maturity: Tryphena, who married John Seidel, both being now deceased; Dorsey W., also deceased; Sabrina, who married Aseph Thompson, and is deceased with her husband; Marinda, who is (he widow of Darius Wolcott, residing in Gueaga County; Wealthy (deceased) was the wife of A. J. Cross, of Michigan ; Mary, deceased; and Levi. The parents of the above mentioned family were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Levi Burroughs was reared on the home farm in Northfield Township, and his occupation in life has been agriculture. He was only nineteen years of age when, impelled by a sense of patriotism, he offered his services in defense of the nation. On July 30, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, 115th Regiment, Ohio Volimteer Infantry, under Capt. H. Fitch, contracting to serve three years or during the continuance of the war. Fresh from the healthy life of farm and field, Mr. Burroughs, in all the strength of vigorous youth entered the service of his country.

During the first year of service. Mr. Burroughs was mainly kept on guard duty at Covington, Kentucky, and while endeavoring to protect a bridge on the Chattanooga Railroad, he was captured, with his regiment, by a part of General Hood's army. For one month he was kept a prisoner at Meridian, Mississippi, where rations were issued occasionally, consisting of corn meal with a little beef. From there Mr. Burroughs with his comrades were transferred to Andersonville Prison, famous for the severity with which prisoners were treated, and the hard- .ships they were obliged to endure. Mr. Burroughs was incarcerated there February 3, 1865, and remained until the middle of April, 1865. While his strong constitution enabled him to survive the semi-starvation that was usually the lot of prisoners at Andersonville, many of his comrades succumbed. Mr. Burroughs was one of the last prisoners to be released from Andersonville. He was there at the time President Lincoln was as-

On November 20, 1867, Mr. Burroughs was married to Sarah F. Nichols, who was born in West Virginia, across the river from Wellsville, Ohio, September 17, 1839. Mrs. Burroughs is a daughter of Harbin and Lorana (Viers) Nichols. Her father, a shoemaker by trade, settled in Northfield Township about 1850, residing many years at Little York. He died at Northfield, in 1864, aged sixtyfive years. His children were: Harriet M., Margaret V., Matilda N., McCourtuey B., Beersheba L., Sarah F. and Thomas Benton. Two brothers of Mrs. Burroughs served in the Civil War - McCourtney B. and Thomas Benton. The former died from wounds received at the battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia. The latter served through the war, taking part in seventeen battles and being wounded at Gettysburg. He. subsequently entered the regular army and was sent to the western frontier.

In 1877 Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs settled on the farm on which he has since resided. He carries on general farming, raising corn, oats, wheat and hay, and keeps about five head of cattle.

Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs have four children, namely: Eva M.. Harvey A.. Thomas Benton and Sheppard H. The eldest daughter is the widow of Frederick Plank and has two bright children. She is the popular teacher at Northfield Center, and resides at home with her parents. Harvey A., who resides at Cuyahoga Falls, married Beatrice Burns. Thomas Benton lives in Northfield Township. He married Lillian Burns. Sheppard H. is one of the leading surgeons in the State of Ohio and is filling the responsible position of surgeon in chief at the Ashtabula General Hospital. He married Elizabeth Baker.

Mr. Burroughs cast his first Presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln, and has been identified with the Republican party ever since. He has been affiliated with the Royal Dunham Post, Grand Army of the Republic, No.

JACOB J. KRISHER, superintendent of the Akron Foundry Company, is one of the city's successful, self-made men - one who has had a large amount of practical experience in his present line of business. He was born in 1850, at Massillon, Ohio, where he attended school up to the age of eighteen years. He subsequently learned the molder's trade with Russell & Company, and after completing the necessary apprenticeship in the foundry, worked in different establishments at many different places, until 1876, when he came to Akron, which city has been his home since. He was engaged as a molder by the Buckeye Company, with which he remained for five years, and then spent four years with the Empire Company. Later he became connected with Schumacher's Gymnasium, where he remained until 1893. In that year, with J. K. Williams, John C. Weber and Jahant and Charles Stores, he built the Akron foundry, or which he has since had charge. This foundry turns out a large variety of manufactured goods, and gives work to eightyeight employes. Mr. Krisher is a very competent superintendent, having the fact to manage large bodies of men to good advantage, without friction.

Mr. Krisher was married at Massillon to Frances F. Rhoadbaugh, who died January 11. 1904, leaving three children, namely: Nellie E., who married Henry Brooks, of Akron; Kate S., who married J. F. McGovern, of Akron; and Perry A., who is proprietor of the Krisher Brass Foundry. Mr. Krisher was married (second), on January 24, 1907, to Mrs. L. M. Higy, of Akron. For a number of years he has been an active Odd Fellow.

L. H. SCOTT, residing on his well-improved farm of 114 acres, which is situated one-fourth mile from the eastern limit," of the city of Akron, is one of the well-known, highly respected and substantial citizens of this quarter.

The parents of Mr. Scott were married at Bufiulo, New York. The mother was born in England and accompanied her parents in childhood to America, where her father died one year hxter. Her mother returned to Enghmd for a short period, but decided to make her permanent home ni America and after coming back wiis married to a Mr. Kendricks, and one child was born to this second union. Three of the five children of her first marriage still survive, namely: L. H., of Tallmadge Township; Mary, residing at Buffalo, where she married Harris Wilkins; and Charles. The hitter, when eighteen years of age, entered the regular army of the United States and has served both in Cuba and in the Phillipine Islands. He is still a United States soldier. The father of Mr. Scott had one brother, Zenas, and one sister, Lucretia. Zenas Scott served all through the Civil War, in the Union army. Lucretia Scott married a Mr. Cook. After the death of her first husband, the grandmother of Mr. Scott married a Mr. Green, and children were born to them of whom we have no record. Mr. Green was the only father known to the father of L. H. Scott.

L. H. Scott was reared Ijv his mother's people and was educated in public school No. 19, on North Washington Street, Buffalo, New York. When he had reached the age of twenty-one years, Mr. Scott went to Pittsburg, where he remained four months and then worked for a time in a rolling mill at Girard, Ohio, subsequently traveling to a number of cities, including Cincinnati, Newport, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Marquette, Michigan ; and then back to Pittsburg, working for a time in each place and remaining for two years in the latter city, engaged as a structural iron worker. From Pittsburg, Mr. Scott came to Akron, where he engaged in the bu-siness of kiln burning sewer pipe.

On May 11, 1881, Mr. Scott was married to Adelaide Denmead, who is a daughter of James and Mary Ann Denmead. They came from England to America, about 1860, settling on the present Scott farm .shortly afterward, on which they re.sided until death.

Mrs. Scott was born in America, one of three children. She has one surviving sister, Mary Ann, who married Charles Pennington, and they reside in the State of Washington, where he engages in farming. The mother of Mrs. Scott died soon after coming to America and the father was married (second) to a Mrs. Sands. Mr. Denmead lived to the age of seventy-two years. His second wife, who died two weeks previous to his demise, was eightyfour years of age.

Mr. and Mrs. Scott have had four children : Lois Lucretia, who died aged nineteen years, from the cffect^s of an accident on a railroad; Earl J., who operates the pumping station for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at Akron; Robert Clyde, a potter by trade, residing temporarily in Minnesota; and Vera, who is a student in the school at South West Six Corners.

For nine years Mr. Scott has been successfully engaged in farming on this place. He .«old one acre after erecting a house on it, to a Mr. Evvart. The present residence was built by Mrs. Scott's father. Mr. Scott is an independent voter, declining to be identified with any political party. In religious belief he is a Spiritualist.

DANIEL HAWK, one of Summit County's most re-spected citizens, has been a resident of Tallmadge Township for more than twenty years. He was born in Suffield Township, Portage County, Ohio, November 14, 1848, and is a son of Philip and Lena (Dock) Hawk.

Philip Hawk, father of Daniel, was born in Germany, and was twenty-one years of age when he accompanied his parents to America. Grandfather Philip Hawk purchased 150 acres of land in the soiitheastern part of Suffield Township, where he spent the rest of his life. His widow died at the home of their son, Michael Hawk, in Tallmadge Township, Summit County. The children born to the grandparents of Daniel Hawk w-ere: Philip, Abbie, Catherine, Daniel and Michael. Of this family, Abbie married John Guenther and both are deceased; Catherine married

Henry Swartz and she died iu Portage County. Daniel was a prominent citizen of Akron, from which place he moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and thence to Los Angeles, California, where he has lived for the jjast ten years. Michael is a resident of Tailmadge Township.

Philip Hawk (2), father of Daniel, also bought a farm in Sutheld Township, situated just north of his father's land, but sold this about the close of the Civil War and purchased a farm in Springfield Township, Summit County, where he died in 189G, in his seventyninth year. He married Lena Dock, who still survives, being now iu her eighty-fifth year. The children born to Philip and Lena (Dock) Hawk were the following: Daniel, Philip, Frederick, and Lewis. Philip Hawk, the third of the name, resides east of Mogadore, but in Portage County. He married a Miss Guenther, of Hartville, Stark County. Frederick Hawk is a successful farmer of Bromfield Township, Portage County. He married a daughter of Peter Lepper, of Springfield Township. Summit County. Lewis Hawk i.<' employed in tlie rural mail service. He married Margaret Kobinstine, of Logtown.

Daniel Hawk attended the district schools of Suffield Township and grew to manhood (in his father's farm, where he was trained in agricultural pursuits. After his marriage he .-ettled in Portage County, where he farmed on share* for one year, and then moved south of Kent, purcha.sing a farm in Bromfield Town.ship, the .same on which his eldest son now lives. In 1883 he bought the farm of 128 acres on which he has resided ever .since, which he devotes to general farming and dairying. He gives considerable attention to raising hor.ses, his method being to purchase when young, break and then sell, and he has been very successful in this line. In all he owns 420 acres of most excellent land and is one of the township's most substantial men. He has practically made his own way in the world, acquiring his ample fortune by hard work and close attention to business.

In 1872. Mr. Hawk was married to Catherine Fulnier. who was born in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Adam Fulmer. Her father was born in Germany and her mother iu j\.lsace, France, the latter coming to America when eighteen years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Fulmer settled first iu Suffield Township, Portage County, but later moved to Jay County, Indiana, where they died.

To Daniel Hawk and wife have been born eight children, namely: Lewis, Ellen, Adam, (irant, Clyde, Frederick, Bertha and Grace. Lewus Hawk is engaged in farming on his father's land near Kent. He married Delia Brumbaugh. Ellen, an educated young lady, is bookkeeper for a business firm at Kent, Ohio. Adam Hawk is engaged in farming on the family property, in Tailmadge Township. Grant, residing at home, carries on the dairying interests. The other members of the family reside at home.

Mr. Hawk has shown his interest in the development of his section in many ways, according to his convictions of the duties of a good citizen. Politically, he is a Democrat, but he is no aspirant for office. Both he and wife belong to the local Grange and enjoy its meetings. He is one of the leading members of the East Akron Reformed Church and he was one of the most liberal contributors to the building fvuul when the present edifice was put up.

OLIVER HARTER, who owns eightythree acres of some of the finest farming land in Norton Township, resides on this property, which is situated on tlie East and West road, eight and one-fourth miles west of Akron and about one-half mile east of the Medina County line. Mr. Harter was born in Norton Township, Summit County, Ohio, July 25, 1851, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Baughman) Harter.

John Harter was born in Green Township, Summit County, and was a son of .Jacob Harter, who was a native of Pennsylvania and a veteran of the War of 1812 as well as a pioneer settler in this section. When John Harter was ten years of age, his father moved from Green to Coventry Township, where he settled in a wild region, in the midst of the woods. There he cleared up a farm on which he lived until the age of ninety-two years. John Harter grew to young manhood in Coventry Township and then went to Wisconsin, where he remained for eighteen months working in a lumber camp. There are many accidents in the life of a woodsman and frequently they prove as serious as the one which befell Mr. Harter and his companions. A raft of logs which it had taken hard work to secure, went to pieces in the river when they started to float it. With difficulty they saved enough of the valuable logs to make a second but much smaller raft on which the party floated to St. Louis, where is was sold for only about enough to take the party to their different homes. This adventure seems to have satisfied Mr. Harter as to the safety and stability of an agricultural life and after his return home he soon married and moved to Norton Township. He died Februarv 20, 1905.

John Harter married Elizabeth Baughman, who was born in Pennsylvania and died ^ in Norton Township, August 18, 1881. She was a daughter of Theobold Baughman, who came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Summit County, when Mrs. Harter was three years old. The children born to John and Elizabeth Harter were: George; Oliver; AVilliam, who died in Illinois; Theobald ; Melvina, who married Wilson Waltz, of Tallmadge Township; Eli; Mary, who married Frank Waltenberger ; and Otis, who is a Presbyterian minister located at Frederickstown, Knox County, Ohio.

Oliver Harter was reared on the farm which is now owned by R. B. Baughman and which is situated just west of Johnson's Corners, which was then his father's property, and there he was trained to be a farmer and has followed agricultural pursuits ever since. He continued to reside in Norton Township until October 11, 1871. when he removed with his family, to Illinois, where he acquired a farm of eighty acres in Fayette County, on which he lived for ten and one-half years. In 1882 he sold that farm and returned to Ohio, settling on the farm of his father-in-law, west of Johnson's corners, and lived there for eleven years. During this period he was elected township trustee on the Democratic ticket and served three years. Mr. Harter in the meanwhile, bought his present excellent farm to which he came, March 28, 1893. He has recently completed a fine seven-room residence, modern in constiiiction and full of conveniences and comforts. He has taken an active interest in township matters, being an intelligent, thoughtful man, and for the past eleven years has been serving in the office of assessor.

Mr. Harter was married to Mary S. Weygandt, who is a daughter of Elias Weygandt. She was born in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, Ohio. Her parents lived for two years in Ashland County and then came to Norton Township and settled near Johnson's Corners. Mr. and Mrs. Harter have had seven children, the survivors being: Clara Olive, who taught school for five years after graduating from the Norton High School, later married Henry W. Mong and they have one son, Roy ; Emma, who married George Young, resides with her father, and they have three children, Mary Lavina, Gertrude and Marcus Oliver; Ada Blanche, who married Clyde S. Burgner, resides at Cleveland, and they have one child. Earl Raymond; and Earl Monroe, residing at Loyal Oak, married Minnie Bauer. Mr. Barter's youngest daughter, Mrs. Burgner, graduated from the Norton High School, then taught school one year, then took a couree in the Spencerian Business College at Cleveland, after which she worked as a stenographer for eighteen months. She was married at Cleveland to a gentleman who had been a childhood companion in Norton Township. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Harter are deceased, namely: an unnamed infant; John Edmund, who died aged eleven montlis; and Anna, who died February 17, 1902.

Mr. Harter has always favored popular education and for twelve years served on the School Board. He is a leading member of the Lutheran Church.

Mr. And Mrs. John M. Hoertz And Family

JOHN M. HOERTZ, one of the leading men of Norton Township, residing on his well-improved farm of forty-eight and a quarter acres, was born October 22, 1852, in Independence Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and is a son of Philip Ploertz.

The mother of Mr. Hoertz died when he was an infant, and his father passed away when he was a boy of ten years. He thereupon went to the home of his uncle, John Hoertz, who was a farmer of Cuyahoga County, and remained with him, working on the farm for seven years. After this he worked on farms in the neighborhood until 1875, when he rented a farm, after his marriage, and his family lived on it until 1882, when he purchased his present farm in Norton Township. He has done a large amount of improving here in the way of building and remodeling, and has a very comfortable home. He grows fine fruits and vegetables.

On April -1, 1875, Mr. Hoertz was married to Maiy L. Harris, who is a daughter of Vincent G. and Magdalena (Long) Harris. Vincent G. Harris was born in Wayne County, Ohio, February 7, 1826. and died at his home in Copley, November 14, 1905, lacking but a few months of being eighty years of age. He was a .son of Aaron and' Ellen Harris. He secured such educational training as was afforded in the schools of his day, and after his marriage settled on a farm of fifty acres, one mile north of the center of Copley. To this land he added until he owned 210 acres, all in one body. He was _ a loyal supporter of the Government during the Civil War and when Governor Tod called on the patriots of Ohio to suppre.s.s the raids of the guerrilla, Morgan, in the State, he was one that immediately responded and remained in the ser\'ice until all danger was over, when he was honorably discharged. Mrs. Harris still survives, having passed her seventy-eighth birthday on March 1, 1907, and she resides in the fine home which her husband built at Copley.

children, namely: Mrs. Belle Unger, residing at Averill, Michigan: Mrs. Mary Hoertz; Rev. Joseph J., who is pastor of the Disciples Church at Marion, Illinois; John, deceased in infancy; Mrs. Elizabeth Shook, residing at Helena, Montana; Eliza J., residing at Copley with her mother; Charles F., residing at Loyal Oak; Mrs. Alice S. Fried, rcisiding at Blake, Ohio, and Andrew J., residing at Copley.

Mr. and Mrs. Hoertz have two children, Ada Alljerta and Harry Ernest. Ada Alberta married Carman Seiberling of Wadsworth, where he operates a grocery store. They have four children - Ernest Allen, Harold Robert, Helen Mary and James Larin. Mrs. Seiberling is an educated, cultured lady. She graduated from the Nortnn Center High School and sub.sequently taught school for two years, one term in' Norton and the rest at Kruinroy, Springfield Township. Harry Ernest also graduated from the Norton Center High School and the Actual Business College, at Akron, and is a member of the office force of the Goodrich Rubber Company, at Akron.

To dispose of the products of his farm , Mr. Hoertz runs a wagon to Barberton at stated intervals, and sometimes even sells at Akron. He is an active, interested citizen and has served as a member of the School Board of Norton Township. He is a member of the Pathfinders. Mr. and Mrs. Hoertz belong to the Wabash Avenue Disciples Church, at Akron.

W. H. HUNT, of the firm of Hunt & AViglej', general contractors, at Akron, is a man of large experience in his line of work and hiis been a resident of the city in which so much of it is in evidence, for the past twentyeight years. Mr. Hunt was born in Lanca.stcrshire, England, in 1860, and lived there until he was eighteen years of age. In 1878, he came to America, settling in Akron, where he thoroughly learned the brick- and stonemason's trade. He was located for some five years subsequently in New York city, during which time he was engaged in general con- tracting. After his return to Akron he continued in the same line of industry, working alone for some years, and later admitting J. Wigley to partnership, the firm name of Hunt & Wigley then being assumed. During his nearly twenty years of contracting at Alcron, he has executed a large amount of important work, including the erection of great buildings used for business, school and residence purposes His first large contract was the Doyle Block, which was followed by the Walsh Block and by other buildings of a substantial character, more or less ornate as their uses demanded. His work has stood the most satisfactory tests, and each succeeding job has added to his reputation as an honorable and capable business man. He is the owner of the National Biscuit Block, which he leases to the National Biscuit Company, and of the Hardware & Supply Warehouse, Avhich he leases to the Hardware & Supply Company. He also owns a block at No. 63 Market Street. In 1880, Mr. Hunt was married to Mary McGowan, of Akron, and they have seven surviving children, namely: Annie, who married Arthur Wales, residing at Akron ; and Mary, .James, William, Margaret, Edward and Ellen, all residing at home. Mr. Hunt's business address is No. 35 North Maple Street, Akron.

NELSON W. FENN, a prominent farmer and dairyman of Tallmadge Township, was born October 23, 1847, in Tallmadge Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of Treat and Harriet (Bierce) Fenn.

In 1818, Richard Fenn, the grandfather of Nelson W., brought his family from Connecticut and purchased a farm of 200 1-2 acres in Tallmadge Township, now in Summit but then in Portage County. The maternal grandfather, Philo Bierce, was an early settler in Nelson Township, Portage County, coming there also from Connecticut.

Tieat Fenn was born in Connecticut and \.as about fourteen years of age when his }iarents came to Ohio, and he was reared on the home farm in Tallmadge Township. He was married three times, (first) to Harriet Bierce, who died when Nelson W. was an infant, and (second) to Rachel Fuller Baldwin, who died in 1856. In 1861 he was married (third) to Florilla Wright, who is also deceived. Mr. Fenn died November 24, 1886, aged eightytwo years. Of his eight children, seven were born to his first marriage.

Nelson W. Fenn has resided all his life on the present farm, which is a part of the old homestead purchased by his grandfather. He attended the local schools and has made farming and dairying his main occupations, and keeps from eighteen to twenty cows to carry on the latter industry. He is numbered with the township's substantial and representative citizens.

In 1885, Mr. Fenn was married to Mary Gunsualis, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and they have one daughter, Irene. They have an adopted son, Oliver Fenn.

HARVEY THORNTON, a representative agriculturalist who is carrying on farming on a part of the old Thornton homestead, a 100-aere tract of fine land situated in the northeastern corner of Franklin Township, was born in the brick house located just across the channel from his present residence, Summit County, Ohio, March 20, 1876, and is a son of Aaron Thornton.

Samuel Thornton, the grandfather of Harvey, was one of the first settlers of this district, where at one time he owned 800 acres of land, 200 of which is now South Akron. He donated a large amount of land to Akron, including Thornton Street and Pleasant Park. In his latter years he removed from his farm in Franklin Township to Akron, where his death took place. His widow resides at Akron, aged eighty years.

Aaron Thornton, father of Harvey, was born in Franklin Township, Summit County, Ohio, on his father's farm, which he made his home until 1893, when he removed to Akron. His wife, who is a native of Snyder County, Penn- ,sylvania, came to Franklin Township, in girl- liuudj oil u visil tu litT sister. Her father died wheu she was an infant. Here she met Mr. Thornton, wlioni she later married. Three children were born to this union: May, who died in childhood; Harvey; and Bessie, who married Russell Robison of Akron.

Harvey Thornton remained on the home, farm in Franklin Township until he was sixteen years of age, when he removed with the family to Akron, where he assisted his father in a coal business, until his marriage. He then settled on his present farm, where he has followed farming and threshing ever since, with the exception of a short period, when he engaged in a grocery business at Akron. He has been an active citizen and taken an interest in township affairs. In 1901 he served in the office of road supervisor and at present is a school director. Mr. Thornton and family belong to the Lutheran Church.

On January 5, 1898, Mr. Thornton married Bertha Diehl, and they have three children, namely; Floyd, Fern and Robert. The parents of Mrs. Thornton are AVilliam and Eliza (Diehl) Diehl, residents of Barberton. They have the following children : Hattie, who married Charles Swigart, residing in Franklin Township ; Edward, who resides at East Liberty ; Curtis, who resides at Barberton ; Bertha, who is the wife of Harvey Thornton ; and Wallace, who lives at Barberton. William Diehl was born in Pennsylvania and his wife in Stark County, Ohio. They were prominent residents of Franklin Township for many years, Imt in 1904 removed to Barberton.

.T. V. CLEAVER, M. D., physician and surgeon, of Akron, who probably stands at the head of the medical profession in Summit County, and whose reputation as a surgeon extends all over Ohio, was born June 13, 1858, at East Bethlehem, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of John T. and Pleasant H. (Hill) Cleaver.

The Cleavers have been known in Penn^vlvania .since 1682, when the German founder of the family settled there. John Cleaver, grandfather of the doctor, was a pioneer of

Washington County, Pennsylvania. He reared a large family, some members of which became distniguished. One of his sons, Hiram, became a professor in the medical college at Keokuk, Iowa, and his son, John, a physician. James IL, another grandson, also a physician, was elected to the office of mayor of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and a third son, Eli B., served in the Ohio State Legislature.

John I. Cleaver, father of Dr. Cleaver, spent his whole life as an agriculturist and sheepraiser in Washington County. He married Pleasant Hill, whose ancestor.-; - paternal and maternal - came from Ireland and Scotland respectively, and they had four children, namely: Etta, Avho died in childhood; J. V. Cleaver, M. D., whose name begins this sketch; Solon H., who died in childhood; and Isaac N., who is in business at Indianapolis, Indiana, in the Archibald Cleaver Companj*.

After finishing the public school course in Washington County, the subject of this sketch took a course in the Southwest Normal School in the same county. He then spent four years in teaching. During this time he was quietly reading medicine under the direction of Dr. Q. C. Farquhar, and also found time to serve as clerk to the county treasurer. He subse- (juently entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and had the advantage of receiving the special instruction of Dr. Agnew, who was probably one of the most skilled surgeons of the day. He was graduated from the LTniversity as M. D., May 2, 1887. Deciding to locate in Akron, he came here and entered an office with Dr. Thomas McEbright, with whom he remained one year. Since then Dr. Cleaver has practiced alone, and for some years has devoted himself mostly to surgery. He is a member of the American Medical A.ssociation, the State Medical Association, the Union Medical Association of the Sixth Councilor District, this state; the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, and the Summit County Medical Society, to all of which he has contributed carefully prepared papers on medical and surgical subjects. Dr. Cleaver's modern-equipped

On October 24, 1894, Dr. Cleaver was married at Akron to Mabel Wagoner, who i» a daughter of Captain xVaron Wagoner, and they have one child, Josephine. The family home is at No. 605 West Market Street. Politically Br. Cleaver is a Republican. He ha^ served both as city physician and inlirmary physician. Fraternally he is ccnnected with the Odd Fellows. He is also a member of the Akron Medical Club.

JOHN T. BRITTAIN, a leading citizen of Springfield Township, where he owns 135 acres of valuable land, was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1823, and is a son of John and Margaret (Albertson) Brittain.

The mother of Mr. Brittain died when he was eight years of age. In 1832 his father came to Summit County, Ohio, and settled on the farm on which his son, John T. Brittain, resides, a property which has been owned by father and son for seventy-five years. At the time John Brittain located in Springfield, not a house had yet been built at Akron, and only a sparse population was scattered over the township. Neither schools nor churdies had been established, but Mr. Brittain and his brother soon aroused enough interest to have a schoolhouse erected, this being the first one in Springfield Township. The first house built on the Brittain farm was destroyed by fire, and was replaced by 'the one which still stands, in which John Brittain died in 1857.

There were eight children born to John and Margaret Brittain, four sons and four daughters, namely: Henry, Zebrith, Jane, Elizabeth, Margaret, John T., Matilda, and a son that died in infancy, in Pennsylvania. All the other members of the family reached maturity. John T. Brittain is the only survivor. John Brittain was married (second) in 1834, to a member of the Gaynor family, which was one of the first to settle in Springfield Township.

His life has been mainly devoted to agricultural pursuits and his industry has brought him independence. For some yeai's he operated a blacksmith's shop and for three years was in the fire clay industry, carrying on these industries on his farm. He retains 135 acres of the original farm, having disposed of fiftysix acres some time since.

Mr. Brittain has been married twice (first), to Hannah Rodgers, who was born in Geauga County, Ohio, whose parents were natives of Connecticut. To this union were born four children: Amanda, John G., Sarah and Hannali. The eldest daughter married Wesley Corp, of Northampton, and all of their four children have married. John G., named for both father and grandfather, married Augusta Dennis and they reside in the Sixth Ward, East Akron. During the Civil War he served as a member of the Fourth Ohio Battery. Sarah married Herman Newbower and they have two children. Hannah married Thomas Gilcrist, and they reside at Hartville, where he is engaged in celery growing.

Mr. Brittain w"as married (second) to Catherine Potts, who died June 22, 1906, aged seventy-four years. She was a daughter of Israel Potts and was a woman of most estimable character, one who was much beloved by all who came within her kindly ministrations. There were six children born to this marriage, as follows: Olive, who married W. S. Rhodes, residing at Kent ; Lemuel, who married Carrie Brunil)augh, residing with Mr. Brittain; Alice, who married Charles Kohler, residing in Indiana ; Cora, who married Harry Harrington, residing at Twin Lakes ; and Edith, who married L. Ewart. Mrs. Ewart is the only one of Mr. Brittain's children who is decea.sed. His family record is a very remarkable one, as he has thirty grandchildren and forty great-grandchildren and death has invaded the family but once.

Mr. Brittain cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, in 1844, and has supported every candidate of the Republican party since the birth of this organization. He has always taken a deep interest in national affairs and in local good government and has been ready to do hirf full duty ou every occasion. For about thirty years lie served as a member of the township School Board, and for a number of years as township trustee.

THOMAS HALE,, one of Springfield Township's substantial men and leading citizens, residing on his well-improved farm of 110 acres, has lived on this place for the past fortytwo years and has acquired property at other points, including thirty-five acres near Mogadore and 111 acre.s in Suflield Township, Portage County.