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Israel Potts, after marriage, settled in Suf- field township, cleared up a good farm of about 100 acres. His children were Cather- ine, Levi, Eli, Nathan, Mary, Louisa, Jonas, Israel, Mendel, and Elizabeth. Of these, Israel served three months in company D. Seventh Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in several battles, including Cedar Mountain, and Nathan served in the Fortieth Ohio bat- tery of artillery. Mr. Potts was a democrat in politics; was an upright citizen, and died in Kent January 1, 1877. Chiloe Cook, maternal grandmother of Mrs. Catherine Brittain, lived to the advanced age of ninety-four years, and
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died in Suffield township, Portage county, in April, 1880.
John Thomas Brittain, after marriage, remained on the old homestead until 1888, when he settled on his present farm, which then consisted of fifty-six acres, but which, by good management, he has increased to about 200 acres, and is now one of the most sub- stantial farmers of Tallmadge township. In politics he is a republican, has held the office of township trustee, and been a member of the school board thirty years. He has always been an industrious, public-spirited citizen, and no man in the township is held in higher esteem than he.
EORGE M. BUEL, an old soldier of the Civil war and a respected citizen of Akron, springs from old colonial Connecticut stock.
George M. Buel was born February 7, 1828, at Riga, Monroe county, N. Y., a son of Samuel and Lavina (King) Buel. He came to Summit county, Ohio, in January, 1837, with his parents, and at the age of twenty- three years engaged in running stationary engines in Hudson, Richfield and Copley townships, and in Iowa, where he went about 1855 or 1856 and resided a few months, and then returned to Summit county. He was in this business about thirteen years. He mar- ried, November 2, 1863, in Richfield town- ship, Julia A. Poor, who was born November 1, 1845, a daughter of Elijah and Harriet (Humphrey) Poor. Mr. Buel enlisted Septem- ber 1, 1862, at Piqua, Ohio, in the Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve three years unless sooner discharged, and was honorably mus- tered out at Winchester, Va., March, 1863, on account of disability. His services were in West Virginia, where he contracted lung fever from sleeping on the frozen ground. He was
for a time in field hospital and then in Taylor hospital at Winchester, Va., two months, and was discharged as incurable. It was a year before he was sufficiently recov- ered to do any regular work; he then ran a stationary engine two years and then went to Akron, Ohio, where he was employed in the Moffit & MeNiel boiler foundry, and remained with them seven years; he then worked in the Buckeye shops thirteen years, and retired from business in 1885. He is disabled by rheuma- tism and lung trouble, and obliged to spend his winters in Kentucky. In politics he is a republican and is a member of A. N. Gold- wood post, No. 104, G. A. R., at west Richfield, Ohio; he is also a member of Meridian Sun lodge, F. & A. M., West Richfield, in which he has held the offices of senior deacon, and senior and junior warden. Mr. Buel is a re- spected citizen and has always been an in- dustrious and upright man.
Samuel Buel, father of George M., mar- ried Lavina King at Riga, Monroe county, N. Y., and their children were Sidney K., Leman C., Samuel M., George M., Eliza A., Elizabeth M. and Elsie M. Mr. Buel was a farmer, moved to Ohio in 1836 or 1837, bought land in Royalton, Cuyahoga county, yet never settled on it, but sold it and settled in Richfield township, on thirty-five acres, and added to this by his thrift and industry until he owned 105 acres, and became a sub- stantial farmer. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and a respected citizen. He died in this township. aged sixty-three years, in 1856. He was a very industrious and honest man. Ichabod Buel, father of Samuel, was a soldier in the American Revolution, was of Welsh ancestry, was a blacksmith in Connecticut, married there, and his children were Ichabod, Samuel, George and Anna. Samuel Buel had one son in the Mexican war-Samuel M. --- who enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was
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in all the battles. He died of brain fever in the city of Mexico. Another son, Leman C., enlisted in the regular United States army after the war with Mexico, and died at Tampa, Fla., during his service.
Elijah Poor was born in New York state and was a cabinetmaker by trade. He mar- ried in Hinckley, Ohio, Maria Oviatt, and they had one daughter, Maria. Mrs. Poor died soon after the birth of the daughter, and Mr. Poor next married, in Richfield, Harriet Humphrey, daughter of Julius and Rhoda (Oviatt) Humphrey, and their children were Julius, Julia A., Lucy A., Carrie, Benjamin, May and Mark. Mr. Poor moved to Cali- fornia about 1851 and engaged in gold min- ing. His children, Lucy and Mark, are the only members of the family now living, and they reside in California.
L EVI BURROUGHS, at Northfield, Ohio, an old soldier and ex-prisoner of the Civil war, and a respected cit- izen, comes of New England ances- try, and was born June 15, IS43, on his par- ents' farm, a son of Allen and Betsey (Honey) Burroughs. He received a common education in.the district school, and was reared to farm- ing when young. He enlisted, at the age of twenty years, July 30, 1862, at Northfield, .Ohio, in company G, One Hundred and Fif- teenth Ohio volunteer infantry, Capt. H. Fitch, to serve three years or during the war, and was honorably discharged June 17, 1865, at Camp Chase, Columbus. He was on guard duty at Covington, Ky., Chattanooga railroad, Tenn., was captured nine miles south of Nash- ville by Hood's men, and taken to Meridian, Miss., being three weeks on the march. The weather was rainy and the rations raw corn meal. He was held a prisoner at Meridian a
month, and there, also, the rations were corn meal and a very little beef. From there he was taken to Andersonville, Ga., arriving at this infamous prison stockade February 3, 1865, remaining about three months. The rations were very poor beef, corn meal and beans, which, when cooked, made one meal, and the remainder of the day they went hun- gry and many died. Mr. Burroughs had no shelter except to bunk with some comrades, who made a tent of two blankets and retained two blankets to cover over them; they lived on the ground and suffered greatly from the cold and wet. Mr. Burroughs was strong and hardy and managed to keep well while many of his comrades became sick. About the mid- dle of April, 1865, the prisoners were released and Mr. Burroughs was sent to Jacksonville, Fla., with others, or to within fifteen miles of Jacksonville, and released on April 29. At Jacksonville he received clothes and food. After the war Mr. Burroughs returned home to Ohio and resumed farming.
In 1867, November 20, Mr. Burroughs married Sarah F. Nichols, who was born in West Virginia, near Wellsville, on the Ohio river, September 17, 1839, a daughter of Harbin and Lorena (Viers) Nichols. Harbin Nichols was born in 1799 in Maryland, and his father was a slave owner. The Viers famn- ily were of English ancestry and early resi- dents of the Isle of Jamaica, but finally set- tled in Steubenville, Ohio. Harbin Nichols was a shoemaker by trade and moved to Sum- mit county, Northfield township, during the early 'fifties, followed his trade here and at Little York many years, and here died, aged sixty-five years, in 1864. His children were Harriet M., Margaret V., Matilda N., Mc- Courtney B., Beersheba L., Sarah F. and Thomas Benton. During the Civil war Mc- Courtney B. was a soldier in company I. Twenty-fourth Iowa volunteer infantry. aud
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died in hospital at Winchester, Va., from wounds received in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va. Thomas Benton was in the Seventh Ohio regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and re-enlisted in the Twelfth United States in- fantry, regular service, and after the war re- enlisted and served five years longer. He was in seventeen battles during the Civil war, and was wounded at Gettysburg, and after the war was out on the frontier.
After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs settled on their present farm. The children are Eva M., Harry A., Thomas B. and Shep- ard H. Both Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs are members of the Methodist church at North- field, and in politics Mr. Burroughs is a repub- lican, and while in the army cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln. He is also a member of Royal Dunham post, No. 177, G. A. R., at Bedford, Ohio.
Allen Burroughs, father of subject, was born in 1799 in Vermont, and was a son of David and Polly Burroughs. David Bur- roughs was a blacksmith by trade, and came to Ohio and settled at Cleveland in 1811, and died there an old man. Allen came with his father to Cleveland, a boy of twelve years, and became a farmer. He married Miss Betsy Honey, of Northfield township, Summit county, located, after marriage, on a farm in this township, but the same year moved to their present homestead, of which he cleared up forty acres from the woods, and on which he made all the necessary improvements. His children were Tryphenia, Dorsey W., Sa- brina (who died a married woman), Marinda, Wealthy, Mary and Levi. Mr. and Mrs. Bur- roughs became members of the Methodist church at an early day. In politics he was a republican. He was always a hard-working man, respected by all, and lived to be about eighty-two years old. He had two sons in the Civil war-one of whom, Dorsey M., was in
the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh regi- ment, Ohio volunteer infantry, three years.
Levi Burroughs, the subject, has always been an industrious hard-working man and is much respected. His daughter, Eva May, married Frederick E. Plank May 1, 1894. Mr. Plank was born in Michigan, near Detroit, graduated at the Ithaca (Mich.) high school,, attended Adelbert college, Cleveland, the med- ical department of the Western Reserve col- lege, and was principal of schools several terms in Michigan. Their children are Gladys M. and Winifred. Mr. Plank died June 29, 1896. Shepard H. Burroughs is a student in the high school at Northfield, and will gradu- ate in the class of 1899.
OMER S. CARTER, one of the re- spected citizens of Tallmadge, Sum- mit county, Ohio, and a retired merchant, has done business in this. town for over a third of a century.
Adonijah Carter, the grandfather of Homer S., was born in Vermont. He was a farmer, and married, in his native state, Lucena, Mun- son, and their children were Guy, Bushnell, Adoniram and Lucy. i
Adoniram Carter, father of Homer S., was born in Warren, Litchfield county, Conn., March 2, 1792, on a large farm, and there lived the remainder of his days. He was a member of the Congregational church and a man of goodly property and sterling worth. He married Arrilla Sackett, who was born in 1792, also in Warren, Conn., a daughter of Homer and Sarah (Carter) Sackett. Of the. children born to this union, Flora M., Homer S., Patty L., are those who lived. Adoniram Carter owned a homestead of 300 acres; was township trustee, and held other offices and was one of the pioneers who were looked up to by all. He was a member of the Congre;
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gational church, and lived to be fifty years old, dying in Illinois of typhoid fever when on a visit, in 1842, to his daughter, Flora M., in Morgan county.
Homer S. Carter was born on the home- stead, in Litchfield county, Conn., April 6, 1817, and received a thorough education, fit- ting him for college. He taught school one winter, in 1837-8, in Litchfield county, and then, in May of 1838, came to Tallmadge, Ohio, and bought a stock of goods of E. C. Sackett. This stock was brought from New York and Philadelphia by canal. Mr. Carter's father had bought a third interest in what was known as the Chuckery company of New York, or Portage Canal Manufacturing com- pany, which was founded for building a canal from Cuyahoga river, at the falls, to Akron. Not being satisfied with the solidity of the enterprise, Mr. Carter withdrew and bought the stock of goods as above stated. In this Mr. Carter sold an interest, after one year, to William A. Hanford, of Cleveland, Ohio, who remained with him two years. After that he was in company with E. V. Carter, C. Wright, B. D. Wright, George M. Wright, Cyrus Treat and D. E. Wright for one-third of a century. By his attention to business and strict integrity he always conducted a safe and successful business, and his credit was im- peached by no one. His children are Homer W., Mary A., Howard H., Alpha Wright, Starr V. V. and Charles E. Mr. and Mrs. Carter are both members of the Congrega- tional church of Tallmadge. In politics he was a republican, was postmaster at Tall- madge for about twenty-five years and town- ship trustee many years and treasurer of the Congregational church.
Mrs. Homer S. Carter is a daughter of Al- pha and Lucy (Foster) Wright. Alpha Wright was the son of Capt. John and Sarah (Case) Wright, and was born near Boston, Mass.
Capt. John was a farmer and pioneer. His children were John, Amos, David, Alpha, Lydia and Sarah. Capt. John was an officer in the Revolutionary war. He came with his family to Oliio about 1806 and located in Morgan township, Ashtabula county; about ISIO-II he moved to Tallmadge township and settled in the woods south of Tallmadge Center, on the 120-acre farm now owned by Cornelius Johnson, and here he passed the re- mainder of his days, dying a member of the Congregational church at Tallmadge. Alpha Wright was born at Winstead, Conn., Decem- ber 3, 1788, and came with the family to Ohio in 1806. He was possessed with a great desire to acquire a collegiate education, but his father removing early to a pioneer country he was denied the privilege; nevertheless, being a great reader, he acquired an excellent education and was very well informed on most subjects. He had a good knowledge of music, and was a fine bass singer, lead the church choir at Tallmadge for forty years, and at the time of his death was still a member of the choir. He married, in Suffield, Ohio, Lucy Foster, who was born in 1790, a daughter of William Foster. Her parents were citizens of Hanover, N. H., but both died when she was young and she was reared by Martin Kent, of Suffield, Ohio. Her father, William Foster, was a lawyer, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and received a bullet in his hat at the battle of Acton Bridge.
Alpha Wright and wife settled on the old Wright homestead and here passed all their active life and in their last days made their home with Mrs. H. S. Carter. Mr. Wright lived to be sixty-seven years old and died March 1, 1855. His wife reached the age of eighty-six years and died in 1875. Their chil- dren were Philo, William W., Lucy A., Clem- ent (deceased), Abigail, Clement, second, Amelia, Martha and Mary (twins), Benjamin
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D., Handel and Charles S. Mr. Wright was a strong anti-slavery man and his house was a station on the underground railroad, and he assisted several slaves on their way to Canada. He voted for James G. Birney, first and only abolition candidate for president of the United States. Mr. Wright was a man of excellent character and a substantial farmer. His wife was the first school-teacher in Tallmadge. teaching in 1809. Dr. Leonard Bacon, LL. D., son of David Bacon, the home missionary, who was one of the original proprietors of Tallmadge, Ohio, attended this school, and he afterward became famous as a professor in Yale college. Elizur Wright was also a pupil. He was the son of Deacon Elizur Wright and became famous as an actuary in Boston. Mrs. Wright also taught a pioneer school at Hud- son, Ohio, and among her pupils was the famous John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame. These, and others, almost equally famous, were accustomed to visit her in after years. When seventeen years old she came with Mr. Kent's family, in 1807, through Tallmadge. The roads had not been cut through and she sat on a log in Tallmadge Center while a way was cut. She taught but the two terms above referred to and then married Mr. Wright. Alpha Wright was a soldier in the war of 1812, was called out to protect the frontier and was stationed near Sandusky for a few months; a son, Philo, was born while he was away. His house was a rendezvous for the home guard during part of that time. This branch of the Wright family has always been educated-Philo and William, brothers of Mrs. Carter, were both graduates of Western Reserve college; a sister, Mary, married Sidney Edgerton, who later became governor of Montana; two sisters married clergymen. Two of Mr. and Mrs. Carter's sons are graduates of Oberlin college-Rev. Homer W. and Charles E .- and Howard is professor of music at Ober-
lin, having spent three years in Europe in studying this art. Charles E. is studying medicine in the New York university. Rev. Homer W. Carter, of Beloit, Wis., is home secretary of the Home Missionary society. The first school for the deaf and dumb was held at the residence of Alpha Wright in 1828- 29, and was taught by Col. Smith, who died in the Sixth ward in Akron. He was the founder of the institution for deaf and dumb at Column- bus, and was formerly from Hartford, Conn. Mary A. Carter, the daughter, was educated at Oberlin, and taught a missionary school at Selma, Ala., one year. She went to Montana in 1884 and in 1886 took up a ranch-pre-empt- ing a claim of 160 acres, situated near where the city of Great Falls now is-then a hamlet and now a city of 12,000 persons. She is a lady of literary culture and assisted in editing the Pioneer Women of Tallmadge under the auspices of the Western Reserve Historical society.
RS. HENRY CASE .- This lady is the widow of one of the prominent and substantial citizens of Hudson township, now deceased - Henry Case-who was born on the Case homestead October 30, 1817, son of Chauncy and Cleo- patra (Hayes) Case. Henry Case received the common education of his day, became a farmer, a pursuit which he always followed. He married Mary L. Goodman, October 27, 1847. She was born in Connecticut Septem- ber 7, 1828, at Hartford.
Henry Case and wife settled on the Case homestead after marriage, and she now lives on part of the estate with her daughter, Mrs. Hood. Mr. and Mrs. Case were both niem- bers of the Congregational church. Politic- ally he was a republican. His children were Nelson, born September 13, 1848, now living
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in Hudson township, where he is a prominent farmer; Eugene was born June 27, 1850, lives in Mentor, where he is a merchant; Eliza E. was born February 13, 1854, and died July 22, 1875; Frank was born Jannary 17, 1852, and died June 14, 1858; John Goodman, born August 11, 1856, graduated from the Western Reserve college in 1881, and is now a farmer in Hudson township, near the homestead; Edmund W., born November 1, 1858, is a carpenter and builder at Earlville; Hattie S., born January 13, 1861; Frederick C., was born July 19, 1863. and died October 24, 1890; Mary L. was born October 26, 1865, and Clara C., born March 25, 1868. Mary L. was married, August 24, 1892, to John B. Hobart, a native of Ohio, a descendant of ante-Revo- lutionary ancestors, a graduate of Adelbert college, Cleveland, and also of a theological institute in the east, and now a minister in the Presbyterian church.
Politically Henry Case was a republican. He inherited and purchased the Chauncey Case homestead, consisting of about 275 acres, and by his thrift and industry he added to it until he owned a handsome property of 375 acres. He greatly improved the buildings and erected, just prior to his death, a very substantial modern barn. He was a prosperous farmer, well known for his sterling worth, and had justly earned a reputation as a straightlor- ward and honest man.
The genealogy of Mrs. Henry Case is as follows: She descends from Deacon Richard Goodman, who came to Cambridge, Mass., in 1632; to Hartford, Conn., in 1639, and was one of the original proprietors of that town. His house-lot was on Main street, directly north of the "meeting house" yard. He was "townsman," "surveyor of common lands and fences," "fence viewer ," "juror," "ser- geant of the train band," "constable." He married Mary, daughter of Stephen Terry,
who was one of the settlers of IIadley, and was slain by the Indians in 1676, aged about sixty- seven years. The above facts about Deacon Richard Goodman entitle the ladies of this family to be members of the "Society of Colo- nial Dames." His son, Richard Goodman, was born 1663 and died 1730. His son, Tim- othy Goodman, was born September, 1706, in West Hartford, and died 1786; married in 1735, Joana, daughter of Joseph and Jane Wads- worth and granddaughter of Capt. Joseph Wadsworth, of Hartford, who in 1687 saved the charter of Connecticut from seizure by Gov. Andros, and hid it in the Charter Oak of that city. His son, Richard Goodman, born April 10, 1748, and died May, 1834, married Nancy Seymour, of West Hartford, in 1771, and had thirteen children; Richard Goodman served from April 21 to June 6, 1777, in Lient. Seymour's company of Col. Belden's regiment of Connecticut militia.
His son, the twelfth child, Sylvester Good- man, born April 18, 1789, married January 1, 1810, Rebecca, daughter of Deacon Thomas and Rebecca (Ives) Hough; she was born August 29, 1789, and resided in West Hartford many years. He died in Wolcottville, Conn., No- vember 8, 1834. She moved to Atwater, Ohio, in 1835, and died in Hudson, Ohio, in 1853. They had seven children, viz: Nancy Seymour; Emeline; Henry; Eliza A., who married John Buss and died May 21, 1889; Thomas Richard; Susan Gaylord; Mary Lucia, married Henry Case October 27, 1847. There was a John Goodman who came to this coun- try in 1620. He was, however, a single man, and died in 1621; nothing further is known about him. The ancestry of the Goodman family is taken from the records in the state library of Albany, N. Y., by Mrs. Ella Buss Seymour.
Of Chauncy Case's children, Laura died November 30, 1825, in Hudson, a single lady
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aged about twenty-three years; Chauncy mar- ried, first, Dollie Blair, and then Sarah Wil- cox. He moved to McComb, Ill., and there died. Clarinda married Alvin Loomis; Per- intha married Amos Woods; Lucian married Julia Pitkin and for his second wife he married Lucia Lyman. He moved to McComb, Ill. Amelia married Charles Hunt, now deceased, and lived in Cuyahoga Falls; Maria married John W. Gross.
Frank F. Barlow, of Hudson, Ohio, is a substantial farmer and respected citizen. He was born on April 25, 1858, at Mariaville, Schenectady county, N. Y. He married Hattie S. Case December 12, 1883. She was born on the old Case homestead January 13, 1861, daughter of Henry and Mary (Good- man) Case. To Mr. and Mrs. Barlow have been born three children, viz: Henry C., born December 22, 1885; Harley E., born February 14, 1887, and died February 16, 1894; Clara M., born June 22, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow are both members of the Congregational church at Hudson. Politically he is a republican. Mr. Barlow is one of the representative and practical farmers of Hud- son township. James M. Hood was born in Tennessee at Flat Creek, August 1, 1863, son of Hezekiah and. Emily (Jones) Hood. It is believed that William Hood, the grandfather, was born in Connecticut, fifty-four miles east of Hartford, of English descent. He married and settled in Tennessee, near Flat Creek, where he bought a large plantation and was a slaveholder. He was a brother of Gen. Hood, of the Confederate army. He freed his slaves a few years before the Civil war and after the war he removed to West Virginia, where he bought a farm and passed his remaining days. He lived to the venerable age of eighty-eight years and died in 1890 or 189 !. Hezekiah Hood, father of James M., was born about 1831, in Connecticut, and was a small boy when he
went with his father to Tennessee. He was a blacksmith by trade and married in Allegheny, Pa. He settled in Tennessee and moved to Virginia during the Civil war, passing through the Confederate lines to the northern army. He died near Marietta, Ohio, aged about forty- five years, the father of six children and a member of the Presbyterian church.
James M. Hood received a common-school education in Noble county, Ohio, and early began to work on the farm-was fireman for a time on a railroad, came to Summit county in 1887, and was clerk for a time in Ravenna in the hardware and agricultural implement business. He married, November 13, 1895, in Hudson, Ohio, Clara C. Case, born March 25, 1868, daughter of Henry and Mary (Good- man) Case. After marriage Mr. Hood settled on part of the old homestead, and has a good farm of 100 acres.
ORA CASE, one of the most vener- able and honored citizens of Summit county, a pioneer and a man who was always identified with the best inter- ests of humanity, sprang from sterling English descent on the Case side, who came from Eng- land in the old colonial Puritan times.
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