History of Trumbull and Mahoning counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Vol. II, Part 1

Author: Williams (H.Z.) & Bro., Cleveland, Ohio, pub
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland : H. S. Williams
Number of Pages: 726


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GENEALOGY COLLECTION


LIV LIUMAn I


3 1833 00824 4359


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.


6


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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