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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
LIV LIUMAn I
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GENEALOGY 977.101 T77H V.2
HISTORY
OF
TRUMBULL AND MAHONING
COUNTIES,
WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
VOL. II.
CLEVELAND : H. Z. WILLIAMS & BRO. 1882.
Mid land Rais Bock Co-27.5 (2 VOTES)
CONTENTS.
1164477
HISTORICAL.
TOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES OF MAHONING COUNTY.
CHAPTER.
PAGE.
I .- Canfield
9
II .- Poland
57
III .- Boardman
83
VII .- Brookfield 346
IV .- ElIsworth
97
VIII .-- Hubbard
357
V .- Berlin
112
IX .- Vernon
368
VI .- Austintown .
126
X .- Bloomfield
38.4
VII .- Jackson .
1.46
XI .- Johnston
400
VIII .- Coitsville
163
XII .- Fowler
411
IX. - Milton
178
XIII .- Liberty
430
X .- Beaver
189
XIV .- Vienna 448
XI .- Goshen
193
XV. - Newton
457
XII .- Green
196
XVI .- Gustavus .
472
XIII .- Smith
199
XVII .- Bazetta
478
XIV. - Springfield
202
XVIII. - Mesopotamia
492
XIX .- Braceville
501
XX .- Mecca
512
XXI .- Southington
519
I. - Howland
. 207
XXIII. - Champion 549
XXIV .- Greene
561
BIOGRAPHICAL ..
PAGE
PAGE
Arrel, Walter S.,
74
Church, Nathaniel
32
Allen, Martin,
108
Canfield, Hon. Judson
Anderson, David,
13.4
Calvin, Dr. A. W.
39
Allen, Dr. Peter
301
Coit, Joseph
106
Beardsley Family
3-
Carson, George
123
Brown, James S.
between 72-73
Crowell, Henry
400
Chalker Family
529
Baldwin, Jacob H. 93
Chalker, Newton
531
Brockway, Edward 27.4
Drake Family
215
Bushnell Family 276
Davis, Aaron
485
Borden Family
279
Fuller, Davis
280
Beebe, Dr. R. M.
285
Fowler Family
283
Burnham, Jedediah
302
3º3
Bishop, James C.
303
Hughes, Dr. James W. 120
Bidwell, Riverius and Eunicia
Hayes Family
27.4
Burnett, William
365
Hutchins, Sullivan 285
Brown, Ephraim
398
Hart, Bliss and Family 355
Bushnell Family
406
Humason, James J. and Eliza 455
Button, Roswell A.
498 Jones Family.
280
CHAPTER. PAGE
III. - Hartford
250
IV .- Kinsman . 288
V .- Farmington
VI. - Bristol 316
TOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES OF TRUMBULL COUNTY.
CHAPTER.
PAGE.
XXII .- Lordstown
5.36
II .- Weathersfield
221
SURNAME FILE
Boardman Family 91
Fobes Family
332
CONTENTS.
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PAGE
PAGE
Jewell, A. M.
366
Porter, William
13-4
Kinney, Colonel Sherman
Perkins, Seth
301
Kirtland Family
73
Peck, Joel and Eliza
330
King, Elias .
75
Payne, Ichabod B.
454
King, Jonathan
I22
Post, James Hervey
486
King, James Franklin
214
Ripley Family
107
Kennedy Family
217
Rowland, Horace
124
Kepner Family
282
Ratliff, John
213
Kinsman, John and Family
296
Reeder, Wills
Kincaid, Rev. William
330
Reeve Family
298
King, John 1., M. D.
378
Reed, Edmund A.
376
Kline, Peter
441
Sanzenbacher, John, and Family
36
Kennedy, William B.
486
Servis, Judge Francis G.
40
Laird, William
500
Strong, Alonzo
between izo and 121
Milligan, James
173
Snyder, George Sr.
284
McFarland Family
282
Tanner Family
37
Merry, Samuel
377
Van Hyning, Henry
42
Morrow, Robert
118
Wadsworth, General Elijah
32
Newton, Hon. Shelden
93
Williams, James
109
Norton, Homer
527
Osborn Family
156
Ward, James
241
43
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE.
PAGE
Portrait of Eben Newton
facing 9 Portrait of Hannah L. Anderson
between 128 and 129
Portrait of Judge F. G. Servis
facing I2
1 Portrait of William Porter .
between 136 and 137
Portrait of Henry Van Hyning .
facing 16 Portrait of Mrs. William Porter
between 136 and 137
Portrait of Mrs. Sophia Beardsley
facing 17 Portrait of Jonathan Osborn
facing 156
Portrait of Edmund P. Tanner .
facing 20 Portrait of James Milligan .
facing 173
Portrait of J. M. Nash
facing
24
Portrait of John Ratliff
facing 207
Portrait of Sherman Kinney
facing
25
Portrait ot James F. King
facing 214
Portrait of Dr. A. W. Calvin
facing 28
Portrait of A. A. Drake
facing 217 facing 284
Portrait of Mrs. John Sanzenbacher
between
36 and
37
Portrait of Riverins Bidwell
between 292 and 293 between 292 and 293
Portrait of W. S. Arrel .
between
60 and 61
Portrait of Mrs. Ennicia Bidwell
Portrait of Mrs. W. S. Arrel
between
60 and 61
Portrait of James C. Bishop
facing 303
Portrait of Elias King .
between 64 and
65
Portrait of Miss Lottie Fobes
facing 304 between 320 and 321 between 320 and 321
Portrait of Mary A. Brown .
between 72 and
73
Portrait of Rev. William Kincaid
facing 328
Portrait of Billins Kirtland
between 84 and
85
Portrait of A. M. Jewell
between 360 and 361 between 360 and 361
Portrait of Shelden Newton
facing 89
Portrait of E. A. Reed
facing 376
Portrait of F. A. Boardman
between 92 and 93
Portrait of Samnel Merry
facing 377
Portrait of Mrs. Mary A. Boardman
between 92 and
93
Portrait of Ephraim Brown
between 396 and 397 between 396 and 397 facing 418
Portrait of Martin Allen
between 100 and 101
Portrait of Robert Morrow Portrait of Peter Kline .
between 440 and 441 between 440 and 441
Portrait of Hervey Ripley
facing 105
Portrait of Mrs. Esther Kline
Portrait of James Williams .
between 108 and 109 between 108 and 109
Portrait of Mrs. Betsy Payne
Portrait of R. K. Hughes
between 112 and 113
Portrait of James J. Humason ,
between 448 and 449 between 452 and 453 between 452 and 453
Portrait of Jonathan King
Portrait of William B. Kennedy
facing 480
Portrait of Mrs. Lydia King
between 112 and 113 between 116 and 117 between 116 and 117 between 120 and 121 between 120 and 121
Portrait of Aaron Davis
facing 485
Portrait of Alonzo Strong
Portrait of James H. Post
facing 486
Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Strong
Portrait of Roswell A. Button
facing 498
Portrait of George Carson
facing 123
Portrait of Homer Norton
facing 527
Portrait of Horace Rowland
Portrait of James Chalker .
facing 529
Portrait of Mrs. Fidelia Rowland
between 124 and 125 between 124 and 125
Portrait of Newton Chalker
facing 531
Portrait of David Anderson
. between 128 and 129
37
Portrait of G. W. Snyder
Portrait of John Sanzenbacher .
between
36 and
65
Portrait of Joel Peck
Portrait of James S. Brown
between 72 and 73
Portrait of Mrs. Eliza H. Peck
Portrait of Mrs. B. Kirtland
between 84 and 85
Portrait of Rebecca C. Jewell
Portrait of Joseph Cox
facing 97
Portrait of Mary B. Brown
l'ortrait of Mrs. Lucy M. Allen
between 100 and 101
Portrait of Ichabod B. Payne
between 448 and 449
Portrait of Almyra Williams
Portrait of Mrs. Martha A. Hughes
Portrait of Mrs. Eliza Humason
Portrait of Mrs. Elias King
between
64 and
Itm Newton
TOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES
OF
MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO.
CHAPTER I. CANFIELD.
INTRODUCTORY.
Canfield is the central township of Mahoning county. On the north lies Austintown; on the east Boardman; on the south Green and Beaver; and on the west Ellsworth. In point of agricul- tural importance this township ranks among the very first of those situated in the southern part of the Reserve. There are no large streams flowing through Canfield, but a large number of swales and small creeks divide the land into a number of varying ridges and undulatory eleva- tions of moderate height. Indian creek, the largest of these streams, enters the southern part of the township almost directly south of the center, and, after flowing northward about one mile, turns to the east and crosscs into Board- man township. The number of fresh water springs is large, affording a supply of pure, cold water which seldom fails-a most valuable ar- rangement of nature for the convenience of dairy farmers and stock raisers.
The soil is an easily cultivated loam of rich- ness and fertility. The township being among the earliest settlements made upon the Reserve, and withal thickly peopled by an industrious and thrifty class, is conspicuous for its large number of well improved farms and other general evi- dences of prosperity.
In addition to its important agricultural re- sources, Canfield has considerable mineral wealth. Coal was discovered in 1798, and coal reservations were marked in the original surveys. Bituminous coal is found in nearly all parts of
the township in veins from fifteen to thirty-three inches in thickness; while in the southern and southeastern parts extensive fields of cannel coal are found.
There is but one village, which has an air of rural simplicity quite unusual in most places of its size. As in most townships of the Reserve first settled by Connecticut Yankees, the "center" was the point where the first families took up their abode, and about that point has grown up one of those sober, quiet, unpretentious country villages, far more like an old New England vil- lage than one of the modern western "towns."
The village of Canfield has the advantage of a pleasant site, the principal part of it being upon a gentle elevation of land overlooking by far the greater portion of the township. Broad street, running north and south, is the principal business street, and includes within itself a park or common extending almost its entire length. Though there is little that can be said in praise of the architecture or general appear- ance of many of the buildings facing upon this park, yet so large a tract of grassy lawn adds much to the beauty of the village. And a few years hence, when the small trees now growing shall have attained a size entitling them to be ranked as shade trees, this spot will become a charming ornament to Canfield. The remaining streets of the village have, in general, an old- fashioned look. The houses are placed some distance back from the road in some instances, but in others, near to it,-many of them sur- rounded by orchards or gardens, making a gen- erous mingling of the country in the town which delights by its quaintness.
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The old court-house at the head of the com- mon-soon to be transferred into an educational institute-may yet become a source of pride to Canfield's people instead of an eye-sore, as it has been since the removal of the county seat.
Whatever may be the future of the place, the brightness of the past will not speedily be extin- guished. Many men of sterling worth and wide reputation have Canfield either for their birth- place or their home. Though some of them have been sleeping for years in the quiet village cemetery, Canfield still remembers them, and points out the acts of their lives as examples worthy of imitation.
OWNERSHIP AND SURVEY.
Township one in range three was purchased from the Connecticut Land company by six per- sons, who owned in the following proportions : Judson Canfield, 6,171 acres; James Johnson, 3,502 acres; David Waterman, 2,745 acres; Elijah Wadsworth, 2,069 acres; Nathaniel Church, 1,400 acres, Samuel Canfield, 437 acres.
The price paid for this township of 16,324 acres was $12,903.23, being a very little more than seventy nine cents per acre. But in addi- tion to the number of acres above given, there was annexed to this township, for the purpose of equalizing its value, lot number two in township one in the tenth range. To explain this process of equalization we make the following extract from the manuscripts prepared by Hon. Elisha Whittlesey:
As the whole tract purchased by the Connecticut Land company was in common, it was a principle of justice to equalize the township so that the proprietors of each should have an equal share of the whole, and if the quality of the land was below mediocrity, the quantity was to be increased to obtain the equality in value. A committee was appointed to make this equalization. They had no personal knowledge of the land, and judged of it by examining the field notes or surveys. The surveyors who ran the lines of the townships did not examine the land not on or contiguous to the line surveyed; and the surveyors who subdivided the townships had no knowledge of the land except what they saw on the line; and their descriptions of it in their field notes were made from what they thus saw. On the south line of Can- field and west of the north and south center line is low, wet land, on the margin of a creek, the extent of which was not known to either set of the surveyors mentioned. The tradi- tion is that the equalizing committee, apprehending that the low swampy land which they saw on the south township line might be extensive, annexed lot two in township num- ber one in the tenth range, containing 1,664 acres, to make lownship number one of range number three equal in value to an average of the land on the Reserve. It was a fact,
however, at that time, that the said township number one, range number three, was above instead of below the average quality of the tract divided. Calvin Cone, Esq., of Hartford, was assessor in Trumbull county during several years, and he said he deemed the township of Canfield to be the best quality of land in the county. This opinion was given ex- clusive of the annexation. The annexation was a valuable tract of land, and on being re-surveyed was found to con- tain 1,7237% acres, or 5816 acres more than it was computed to contain when annexed. The proprietors, therefore, may be considered as having been unusually fortunate.
In 1798 the proprietors of the township ap- pointed Nathaniel Church, one of their number, an agent to superintend the surveying of the land into lots and commence improvements. Concerning the journey and the first operations of the party after reaching the township, the fol- lowing extract from a letter written by Samuel Church to Hon. Elisha Whittlesey gives a graphic and interesting account. The letter bears the date "Salisbury, Litchfield county, Connecticut, November 5, 1837," and is written by a son of Nathaniel Church. Mr. Church writes :
DEAR SIR: Yours of July 27, 1837, addressed to my father, Nathaniel Church, enquiring of him in regard to the early history of the town of Canfield, Trumbull county, Ohio, has been submitted to my perusal. The age and iufirmities of my venerable parent have prevented him from making under his own hand a reply to your request-a cir- cumstance regretted by me. But the brief detail of facts here given you is taken from his verbal statement.
He says : On the 20th day of April, 1797,* I started from Sharon, accompanied by the following named persons and perhaps a few others not now recollected : Nathan Moore, of Salisbury, surveyor ; Eli Tousley, Nathaniel Gridley, Barber King, Reuben Tupper, and one Skinner, of Salis- bury; Samuel Gilson, of Sharon, and Joseph Pangburn, of Cornwall, axemen.
I performed the journey on horseback with all my effects contained in my saddle-bags. My men traveled on foot. My associates were cheerful, and at times a little rude, though not uneivil, on the journey. We traveled through the towns of Newburg, in the State of New York; Lupex, Belvidere, in the State of New Jersey; Eaton, Bethlehem, a Moravian town, Reading, Harrisburg, then a small village on the Susquehanna river, Carlisle, Shippensburg, and Shaws- burg, in Pennsylvania, at the eastern margin of the Alle- ghanies. Thus far the country was well inhabited and well cultivated. On our way over the mountains to Pittsburg the roads were dreadful and the settlements sparse. Bedford, Strystown, and Greensburg were about all the settlements we passed. From Pittsburg, or Fort Pitt as it was then most commonly called, to the mouth of the Big Beaver, there were few or no inhabitants. We performed our journey on the south side of the Ohio river, there being no road on the other side. At the mouth of the Big Beaver was a small settlement called McIntosh. From thence to the place of our destination the forest was uninterrupted, with the excep- tion that one or two families had settled and made some improvement at a place since called Greersburg.
*Should be 1798 .- E. Whittlesey in a note.
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We arrived at Canfield on the 24th day of May, 1797,* and pitched our first tent near the northeast corner of the town, our surveyor mistaking this for the center. Our jour- ney from the mouth of the Big Beaver had been performed by the aid of the compass and marked trees. We erected a cabin or hut of poles and bark at the place where we first stopped. Our surveyor soon learned his mistake, and ascer- tained and fixed the center of the town. While doing this our cabin took fire and was burned up and some of our uten- sils with it. The lot upon which this cabin stood was after- wards known as the Burnt Cabin lot. Our first repast was made of smoked pork bought in McIntosh, bread made by ourselves and baked in the ashes, and coffee without milk or sugar; and having thus feasted we slept soundly upon our blankets spread upon the ground. Within a day or two we erected another cabin, at the center, and began to survey the road from the center east. Our surveyor after running about half a mile eastwardly from the center pronounced it impracticable to proceed, by reason of the wet and miry state of the ground. I returned with him ; and, wading through mud and water over my boots about six rods, found hard ground and we proceeded without further difficulty.
A little eastward of this swale of wet ground, on the north side of our surveyed road, we commenced the first clearing. Having cleared two acres we raked off the leaves with our hands, harrowed it with one horse and a wooden harrow. I planted it with corn, potatoes, and beans. We cleared twelve acres and sowed wheat, and inclosed one field with a seven-rail fence. We cleared and sowed three acres to oats, and on the south side of the road we cleared and sowed twelve acres of wheat, + which proved an abundant crop. We erected a log house in the center and two houses and one barn east of the center. Having done this we cut out the east and west road.
About one month after our arrival at Canfield, Champion Minor, with his wife and two children from Salisbury, arrived with an ox-team. This was the first family which ever visited or settled in the town, and the company made a donation of land to the woman. A few days after the arrival of Minor's family the youngest child died. I went to Youngstown to procure a woman to aid in preparing the body for the grave. The coffin was made of split wood pinned together, and we buried the child decently, but without religious solemnities, about twenty rods from our cabin. Some wild beast nearly disinterred the body on the night of its burial, and we then built a strong fence around the grave. This was the first burial of any white person within the town.
During this first summer I brought all our provisions and other necessaries from Pittsburg through the wilderness on pack-horses, guided on my way by marked trees. A settle- ment had commenced the year before at Youngstown, and that was the only settlement near us. A few Indians visited us on their hunting excursions this summer. We understood that they came from the vicinity of Sandusky. They ap- peared friendly. Our party enjoyed tolerable health during the summer, and were generally submissive to my orders, although in my absence some disorder prevailed.
Our men established a code of justice and system of pun- ishment of their own, and when I was ahsent from them, sometimes put their laws in force by tying the condemned one to a tree with his body naked and exposed to the attacks of mosquitoes. I soon repealed this cruel code.
The town was laid off into lots, and most of our men took up lots but did not retain them long, as but few of them re- mained in the town. One Sunday one of my men, with- out my leave, went into his lot and commenced labor upon it by clearing. He was soon frightened away and came back to our cabin declaring that the devil had appeared to him. He had probably been frightened by the appearance of some wild beast. After this incident none of my men were disposed to labor on the Sabbath, a practice which I had strictly forbidden.
Champion Minor and his family, Samuel Gilson and Joseph Pangburn remained in the town. I believe all the others returned after cutting through the east and west road, which was the last of our labor. We reached Connecticut in safety the fall of the same year, some of us at least grate- ful for the mercies which Providence had extended to us."
It may be interesting to our readers to know with what equipments this surveying party were provided, and fortunately the information is at hand:
A bill of articles delivered to Judson Canfield for the New Connecticut:
April 28, 1798 .* 6
s. d.
12 Narrow axes at 8s. 4 16 O
1 Broad axe at 155. 15
O
I Chain. 18 O
r Square and two pair compasses. 7 0
I Draw-shave. 6
Half bushel white clover seed. 2
8
0
Half bushel herdsgrass seed. 16 0
3 lbs. Bohea tea at 4s. 6d.
13 6
2 lbs. pepper at 35. 3d. 6 6
6 lbs. ginger at Is. 6. 9 0
£II I4S 6d
Received the above mentioned articles from Captain Elijah Wadsworth, by the hand of Arad Way. Also 16s. in cash. Sharon, April 28, 1798.
Such was the outfit for a party of twelve men who were to spend several months in a solitary wilderness, fifty miles from any settlement of im- portance-about $5 to each man in tools, seed, and groceries, and sixteen shillings in cash! Yet the eleven men, who performed the journey on foot, doubtless thought they had as much bag- gage as was convenient.
The names and residences of this surveying party were as follow: Nathaniel Church, Na- than Moore, Eli Tousley, Nathaniel Gridley, Barker King, Reuben Tupper, and David Skin- ner, of Salisbury, Connecticut ; Carson Bacon, Samuel Gilson, and Joshua Hollister, of Sharon, Connecticut; Charles Campbell and Joseph Pangburn, of Cornwall, Connecticut.
*1798 .- E. Whittlesey.
+There was probably but one twelve-acre lot of wheat, and that on the south side of the road .- ED.
* The date given in Mr. Church's letter must be incorrect. Evidently these articles were for the surveying party, which must have left Sharon after their delivery and not on April 20th, as stated .- ED.
TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO.
Just here arises the question whether Hon. Judson Canfield was of the party. That he was in Canfield in. June, 1798, is show by a trans- cript of the records of the survey, originally in the possession of Judson Canfield and now be- longing to his grandson. On page 123 of this transcript is the following:
A draft of the first division in Campfield on the Reserve, made the 20th of June, 1798, at Campfield, by Nathaniel Church, the agent, and Judson Canfield, clerk, and drawn by Nathan Moore, viz :
Judson Canfield.
4,081,* drew lot No. fourth.
Judson Canfield 2,090
Samuel Canfield 437
4,081, do. lot No. first.
Nathaniel Church 1,400
James Johnston 154
James Johnston 3,348
David Waterman 733
4,081, do. lot second.
David Waterman 2,012 1 4,081, do. lot No. third.
Elijah Wadsworth. 2,069 1
N. B .- Not No. I is the southwest lot, lot No. 2 is the northwest lot, lot No. 3 is the southeast lot, and lot No. 4 is the northeast lot.
Signed, JUDSON CANFELD. NATHANIEL CHURCH. NATHAN MOORE.
N. B .- The above four lots were the font center lots pre- vious to their being ent up into small lots containing about seven acres each. Each of the above four lots before cut up contained about sixty-three acres, being 186 by 60 rods, in- cluding highways; and each lot has been cut up into eight.
When these four center lots were subdivided does not appear, but it must have been during the summer of 1798, as Mr. Church speaks of his men taking up lots in the town, in the letter given above. It is somewhat surprising that he nowhere mentions Mr. Canfield's visit to the Reserve.
THE NAME.
Campfield was the name given the township by the surveyors, and it is so denominated in their maps and notes. An old book of records deposited with the recorder of deeds of Trumbull county contains in manuscript a record of the survey as well as other records. The first page of this book is as follows:
The first book of records of the township number one in the third range in the Connecticut Reserve called Campfield, alias Canfield.
April, 1798. Voted that township number one in the third range should be called Campfield.
April 15, 1800. Voted that the above township should be called Canfield.
The last name was bestowed in honor of Jud- son Canfield, the largest proprietor of land in the township.
* The number of acres owned by each is denoted by the figures opposite the name.
SETTLEMENT.
All of the first settlers were from Connecticut -wide-awake, progressive Yankees. We have attempted to classify the early settlers according to the date at which they arrived here. As al- ready recorded, Champion Miner and family made a permanent settlement in 1798. This family, with Samuel Gilson and Joseph Pang- burn, made up the population of Canfield dur- ing the winter of 1798-99.
1799. Phineas Reed arrived in the spring of this year, whether with or without a family, we are unable to learn. In the fall came Eleazer Gilson and Joshua Hollister.
1800. Nathan Moore and family arrived on the 15th of May, having been forty-five days on the road. This is the only recorded arrival dur- ing that year.
1801. James Doud and family, Ichabod At- wood, Calvin Tobias, Abijah Peck.
1802. Captain Wadsworth, Simeon Sprague, Tryal Tanner, Matthew Steele, Aaron Collar, and William Chidester with families, David But- ler, David Hatfield, Charles and Henry Chit- tenden, Benjamin Bradley, Ariel Bradley, War- ren Bissel, Daniel Miner. Some of those last named were probably accompanied by their families.
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