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about cighty-one years, on his farm, February 30, 1829.
Harvey Baldwin, son of Samuel and father of Harvey, was born in Connecticut, at Dan- bury, December 31, 1796, and was a boy of about twelve years when the family came to Ohio. He received a common-school educa- tion and was always a farmer and cheese mer- chant, and the pioneer of the cheese mann- facture in Portage county, sclling the first large lot of cheese ever shipped from the county. about 1820, the shipment consisting of five casks of cheese and two barrels of cranberries He hauled them through to the Ohio river, bought a skiff and took them to Louisville and sold them. He had previously been to New Orleans, when a young man, and saw cheese sold at $1 per lb. At New Orleans he found his brother James, and they both went to New York and James died on Staten Island and Mr Baldwin returned home and continued in the cheese trade for thirty years. In early times he would buy the cheese and wagon it across the state and then ship by way of barges or keelboats to New Orleans. He had associated with him different parties-Samuel, Granger, Alanson Baldwin and a Mr. Kent, but he did the traveling and selling. He first settled in Bainbridge township, and later moved to Au- rora and Streetsboro.
Mr. Baldwin first married, in Bainbridge township, Lora Kent, born March 23, 1797. daughter of Gamaliel and Deborah (Hunting- ton) Kent. The Huntingtons were a prom- inent Connecticut family, and Gov. Hunting- ton, of Ohio, owned 500 acres of land win :: Henry Baldwin, now lives, and from whose heirs Harvey Baldwin, bought his farm. Har- vey Baldwin's second marriage was to Lucirda Brown, of Louisville, Ky. in 1832. ' He Wit laid up there with his boat during a great fio. f. during which Mr. Brown's house was rendere : untenable; he took the family on board and
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finally married the daughter. The first wife's children were Laura A., Henry, Philander and Oscar O. The second wife's children Ellen, Belle, Esther A. and Lester. Mr. Baldwin was a Methodist and class leader and a prom- inent man in his church; he was one of the founders of the Methodist church in Streetsboro and the principal builder, paying $400 towards its erection. He was a inan of integrity of character, much respected, and died on his farm in Streetsboro township at the age of eighty-five years.
Harvey Baldwin was born April 14, 1823, in Bainbridge township, received the common education of his day and has always been a farmer. He married, December 23, 1847, in Aurora township, Portage county, Emily Car- ver, who was born November S, 1823, in Au- rora township, a daughter of Chester and Anna (Eldridge) Carver. Chester Carver, a pioneer of Solon, Ohio, was a descendant of the New England family of that name-the founder of the family in America, having come over in the May Flower to Plymouth in 1620. Chester Carver was born about 1800, came to Ohio with his parents when a boy, and was a carpenter by trade. He married Anna El- dridge, who was born, about 1800, in New York state, a daughter of Sylvanus and Alice (Fisk) Eldridge. Sylvanus Eldridge's family were pioneers of Aurora township, the father dying on the way about 1816. His children were Betsy, Daniel, John I., Anna and Caroline. Chester Carver and wife, parents of Mrs. Bald- win, settled on 100 acres of land in the south- east part of Aurora township and partly cleared up their farm, and he died three years later, about 1827. His children were Chester and Emily. Mr. Carver was a young man when he died of malarial fever, and Mrs. Baldwin, although then a child of four years, remembers the sad event. Her mother lived to be an old lady of eighty-eight years and died January 7,
1891. She was married, the second time, to Oliver Spencer, and they were the parents of Sally, who died young, Mclinda, Matilda, and Russell O. Harvey Baldwin settled on a farin in Streetsboro township after marriage, and ran a dairy of sixty cows for 1. C. Dow, in the good old way, making the cheese and butter by hand, and selling the cheese for four cents per pound and butter from nine to twelve cents. Two years later Mr. Baldwin went overland to California, starting March 14, 1850, with a company of men from northeastern Ohio, shipping by steamer their wagons and effects to St. Josephi, Mo., where they bought horses and crossed the plains, being eighty-one days front St. Josephi, Mo., to Eldorado county, Cal .. where Mr. Baldwin engaged in gold mining and remained three years, did fairly well and brought his gold home with him. While still a resident of California, he volunteered in the- state militia and served against the Digger In- dians. He returned via the isthmus of l'anama in 1853, and bought a farm in southeast Au- rora township, adjoining his present farm, col !- sisting of 130 acres. He resided there but two years, then bought his present place of 142 acres, which he has greatly improved, and has a pleasant home.
To Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have been born the following children: Ella F., wife of Er- skine R. Merrill, resident of Aurora township; he is engaged in the roofing business, and has been an active business man all' his life. They have three sons, Ernest B., Richard K. and Gilbert H. Mrs. Merrill was educated at the ladies' seminary of Painesville, Ohio, and highly trained in music. Alice M. is the wife of T. A. Gould, who is also engaged in the roofing business. They have two children: Lee H. and Carrie E. Carrie E. died at the age of fifteen years; Hattie E. is the wife of W. M. Heinly, who is the manager of Mr. Baldwin's estate. Anna L. resides mostly with her
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parents. Minnic C. was the wife of T. H. Warren, who is a member of the Burton Stock Co. of Boston, Mass. She died March 1, 1891, and her remains are interred in Aurora ceme- tery, where the beautiful family monument of Quincy granite marks the last resting place. December 23, 1897, marked an event in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin which will ever be cherished by theni and their children. It was the celebration of their "golden wed- ding." They sent ont numerous invitations to their many friends, with the injunction "No presents, " but this injunction was not heeded. In their comfortable and pleasant home is found a beautiful and elegantly engraved gold- headed cane, a beautiful ebony and gold-plated cathedral gong clock, also a superb delph parlor lamp, an exquisite hanging lamp, and gold coin and other beautiful souvenirs. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin are members of the Congre- gational church of Aurora, and in politics Mr. Baldwin is a democrat and cast his first pres- idential vote for James K. Polk. Mr. Baldwin is an honored citizen, has been elected town- ship trustee three terms. He is a man of un- doubted integrity of character and has always been industrious and energetic.
AVID D. CARSON, the popular drug- gist of Deerfield, Portage county, Ohio, and a justice of the peace and notary public, was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, July 23, 1843, and is a son of George and Catherine (Gross) Carson, of whom further mention will be made at the close of this biographical notice.
David D. Carson received a sound educa- tion in the common or district schools of his neighborhood and at Hiram institute, and was reared on his father's farm until twenty-one years old, when he enlisted in company G, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Ohio volunteer
infantry, and served about five months, hold- ing the rank of sergeant, and being slightly wounded. After being honorably discharged, he returned to his home at Berlin, Mahoning county, where he remained until April, 1866, when he went to Missouri and located near Union, in Franklin county, where he lived seventeen years, teaching school, serving as justice of the peace, and filling other positions of trust.
The first marriage of Mr. Carson took place at Berlin, Ohio, in 1864, to Miss Sarah Achsah Buck, but this lady died, on his farm in Missouri, in September, 1880, at the age of thirty-five years. Two sons were born to this union, both of whom died in infancy. After this sad event, Mr. Carson again taught school in the district where he had previously taught in Missouri, and then started on his return to Ohio, but stopped at St. Louis, having been offered a position by an iron firm in Tennes- see he had already worked for in Missouri. In ISSI he reached his old home in Berlin, Ohio, taught school one year near Warren, Ohio, and in 1882 married Mrs. Sarah A. Diver, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Cline) Gross. In the spring of the same year Mr. Carson came to Deerfield and engaged in the hotel business for one year, and in the spring of 1883 formed a partnership with E. J. Shively in the mercantile business at Palmyra. In December of the same year Mr. Shively retired and Mr. Carson carried on the business alone until May, 1884, when G. R. Diver be- came his partner, and for three years they continned together, carrying a stock of drugs, dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, hardware, etc., valued at $12,000. In 1887, F. P. Schultz was admitted to the firm, and until 1891 a flourishing business was carried on under the style of Carson, Diver & Schult . On the dissolution of the firm, Mr. Carson again came to Deerfield and entered into the
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drug trade on his own account, and in the spring of 1897 added a large line of miscel- laneous merchandise.
In politics Mr. Carson is a republican, and cast his first vote at the second nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the presidency of the United States. He has served as township assessor one term. and has been a justice of the peace since 1892. Fraternally he is a member of lodge No. 530, F. & A. M., of Pal- inyra; of lodge No. 136, K. of P., of the same city, and has been an Odd Fellow since 1868. He is also a member of the Maccabees and of the G. A. R.
George Carson, father of David D., was born in Dauphin county, Pa., Angust 19, 1812, a son of John and Catherine (Wentz) Carson, who came to Olio in 1832, and located in Trumbull county, in that part now known as Mahoning county. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom five are still living. viz: George, Jacob, Satnuel. Robert, and Susan. The deceased were named John, Sarah, Sophia, Harriet, William, and David.
David D. Carson has had a rich and varied experience in life and has always been a prominent figure wherever he has resided and is a man of quiet but effective influence; he stands to-day an honored citizen of Deerfield township, and holds a business reputation that has never yet been tarnished.
J AMES CASSIDY, an enterprising farmer and an old soldier of the Civil war, is a son of James and Margaret (Glancey) Cassidy, and was born January 27, 1837, in Boston township, Summit county, Ohio, where he still resides. He was reared a farmer, and enlisted, in Angust, 1862, at Bos- ton, in company C. One Hundred and Fifteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, Capt. John A. Means, to serve three years or during the
war, and was honorably discharged July 5, 1865. at Cleveland, Ohio. His services were in Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio. He was taken prisoner by John Morgan's cavalry at La Vergne (Tenn.) block house, December 5, 1864, and held for nine days. He and two comrades -- S. W. Berry and D. J. Thomas, both of Summit county and of the same com- pany -- made a daring escape at night from the court house at Columbia, Tenn., and after many adventures arrived several days later within the Union lines. They were aided by a negro they found chopping in the woods, who brought them a haversack of cornbread and pork, and assisted them to cross the Duck river by getting his master's horses after dark, on which they swam across. They traveled by night and slept in the woods during the day. They were hotly pursued in the night several times and narrowly escaped capture. The comrades who did not escape were taken to Andersonville and many died ; some of them, on the return homeward, were blown up on the ill-fated Sultana on the Mississippi river after being exchanged. With the exception of four weeks' confinement in Woodraft's hospital in Cincinnati, and the brief period of his impris- onment, Mr. Cassidy was always at his post of duty, and this duty he performed bravely and cheerfully.
After the war Mr. Cassidy returned to Bos -- ton township, and married, May 2, 1871, Miss Elizabeth Hynton, of Independence, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where she was born February 7, 1853, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Hynton, who were of Irish nativity. John Hynton came to America at least sixty years ago, directly after mariage, and settled in Independence, where he became a prosperous farmer, owning over 300 acres of land. He lived to be abont fifty-five years old and died a devout Catholic. His children were Mary, Catherine, John and Elizabeth. Mary is the
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wife of Henry Doubler, a merchant of Cleve- land; Catherine is married to Terrence Walsh, also of Cleveland; John is a farmer and stock raiser at Independence, Ohio, and is married to Ann Cassidy: Elizabeth (Mrs. J. Cassidy) is the youngest.
After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy set- tled on then present farm, which they have greatly improved, clearing a good share of it from the forest, and now have a fine property of 210 acres of fertile land, and are in pros- perous circumstances. Their children are Gilbert, James, Mildred, Hugh, Merwin and Marvin (twins), and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy are both members of the Catholic church at Peninsula, in which he has been councilman for many years. In politics Mr. Cassidy is a democrat and has served as town- ship trustee seventeen years. He cast his first presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas.
James Cassidy, Sr., father of subject, came from county Donegal, Ireland, when a young inarried man, having married, in Ireland, Mar- garet Glancey. They first went to Canada and lived one year, and in 1835, came to Summit county, Ohio, and settled in Boston township, where he and his brother Patrick bought a farm of 160 acres. James was the father of John, Mary. James and William. He was killed while felling a tree in 1841, and later Mrs. Cassidy married Patrick Cassidy, brother of James, and their children were Andrew, Hugh, Catherine and Anna.
ATTHEW D. CLARK, one of the old soldiers of the Civil war and one who lost his left leg at the battle of Dinwiddie Court House, was born in Ireland at Stammullin, county Meath, August 15, 1844, son of Michael and Jane (Sands) Clark. His father was a shoemaker and came to America in 1857, and sent for his
family, who came in 1864 and settled in Farin- ington, Trumbull county, Ohio. The children were Patrick, Matthew, Jolin, Mary, Kate and Ann. Michael Clark was born Septem ber 20, 1819, and his wife was born in 1822. Mr. Clark enlisted in Trumbull county, Ohio, early in the war of 1861, company D, Sixth Ohio cavalry, to serve three years, and after serving two years he was honorably dis- charged on account of disability He was in several battles, among thein the first two bat- ties of Bull Run, and was an active soldier with his regiment and proved to be faithful in the discharge of his duties.
Matthew D. Clark, our subject, began when young in Ireland to learn the trade of a barber, and when he came to America he en- listed in the same company and regiment in which his father had served. He enlisted at Warren, Ohio, February 4. 1864, as a private of company D, Sixth Ohio cavalry. Capt. Fenton, to serve three years or during the war. At the battle of Dinwiddie Court House, Va., March: 31, 1865, he was shot while mounted on his horse and in a charge, the ball striking his thigh bone lengthways and lodging in the knee-cap. He was taken from the field. and rode in an ambulance one day and night, and at Mead's Station was put on a railroad train and taken to Washington, where his leg was amputated April 6, 1865, in Army Squar" hospital, by the celebrated Dr. D. W. Bliss surgeon in charge, afterwards the physician who waited upon Gen. Garfield during his last sickness. Before this, Mr. Clark had been in the battle of Hatchie's Run, Mead's Station, and Yellow House, Va., and had been in many cavalry skirmishes. After the amputation of his limb, he remained in hospital at Washing- ton about three months and was honorably discharged July :5, 1865, and returned to Farmington, Chio. He then attended school for one and a half years, and acquired a com-
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mon education, and then went to Newton Falls, Ohio, and followed bis trade as barber until june 14, 1867, when he came to to Garrettsville, Ohio, and here he has since lived and followed his trade until four years since. He married in Garrettsville, Ohio, October 18, 1866, Elvira E. Johnson, who was born in Suminit county, Ohio, at Copley, March 14, 1850, daughter of D. L. and Elizabeth (Robertson) Johnson. The Johnsons and Robertsons were of old Connecticut stock. The Robertsons had Holland-Dutch blood in their veins. Mr. Johnson was a cooper by trade. He was born in Connecticut and came when a young man to Summit county. Ohio, with his parents, William and Susan (Taylor) Johnson. The Taylors were of French ancestry.
Mr. Johnson and wife were the parents of Ira D., Elvira E., Perry, Flora A. and Celia E. Mr. Johnson died, aged fifty-one years, in Gar- rettsville, Ohio, where he moved in 1860. He was a respected and industrious citizen, and a democrat in politics.
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Clark settled in Garrettsville, and here have since lived. To them have been born one daughter. Maud J., born April 14, 1873, and educated in Gar- rettsville public schools. She is now the wife of Dr. B. S. Higley, of Washington, D. C., United States army surgeon, ranking as first lieutenant. Mr. Clark is a member of I. O. O. F., Garrettsville, Ohio, and has passed all the chairs, including that of noble grand, and is also a member of the Modern Foresters, of which he is past chief ranger. Mrs. Clark is a member of the Daughters of Rebekah, I. O. O. F. and Mr. Clark is an honored member of the G. A. R., Mark Horton post, and has held all the offices except commander. Mr. Clark is a man of independent views, is a strong republican, and has always been an industrious and honored citizen. He lost his leg doing battle for his country and is a sturdy patriot.
He had two uncles by marriage in the Civil war, Patrick and Thomas Floody. Mr. Clark was always an active soldier and not a prisoner and not in hospital except with bis wound. He was always on duty and prompt and checi - ful. He was in all the battles, skirmishes cainpaigns and marches of his regiment while he was with it, and was a good soldier.
EONARD S. CORBETT, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Palmyra township, Portage county, Ohio, was born in Worcester, Mass., March 6, 1819, a son of Chiron and Sarah (Bosworth) Corbett, who came to Ohio in 1822 and settled about three-quarters of a mile west of the now present center of Pal- inyra township, then a dense wilderness.
After clearing up his farm. Chiron Corbett engaged in the hotel business at Palmyra for ten years, and also conducted a general store. To his marriage with Miss Bosworth were born twelve children, of whom ten reached the age of maturity, but of these three only now survive, viz: Charles, Leonard S. and Abijah. Of the other nine, two died in infancy, and the deceased seven who attained maturity were named, in order of birth, Alonzo; Julia, the wife of C. P. Gilbert; Jane, wife of John Lewis; Waldo; Artemon; Olive, wife of Stephen Trowbridge, and Ora. The father of this family died in 1842 and the mother in 1845, both in the faith of the Methodist church.
Nathaniel Corbett, father of Chiron, also a native of Massachusetts, was one the earliest settlers of Portage county, and was a manu- facturer of colton goods, owned a large fac- tory, and was also a manufacturer of shoes To his marriage with Miss Huldah Holbrook were born eight children, named Chiron, Na- thaniel, Moses, Stephen, Lucy (who was mar-
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ried to John Rider), Julia (wife of Naham Smith), Ruth (wife of Nelson Westover) and Nancy, wife of Joseph Shirtliff. Nathaniel Corbett and wife were most highly respected residents of the township and both died in 1834.
Leonard S. Corbett received as good an education as the pioneer schools of his youth- ful days afforded. In his early 'teens he as- sisted in the cultivation of the home farm, but, at the same time, was noted for his skill as a hunter, and it is reported of him that he has killed more deer, foxes and wild turkeys than any youth whoever lived in Portage county, and it is further stated that he killed, after he reached his majority, the last wild deer, wild fox and wild turkey known to exist in Palmyra township.
At the age of twenty-one years, Leonard S. Corbett started farming life on his personal account, and in November, 1844, married Miss Louisa Levis, daughter of John and Polly (Bacon) Lewis, which marriage was blessed with six children, one of whom died in infancy; of the survivors, E. B. Corbett married Maria Jewell; Ellen is the wife of John Robinson; Waldo married Mertie Clark, and Charles and Artimon are still under the parental roof. In 1852, Mr. Corbett settled on his present farm, which is now one of the best in Palmyra town- ship. Here Mr. Corbet had the misfortune to lose his wife, June 4, 1870, her age being forty-nine years. The parents of this lady were natives of Connecticut, and in his early life the father was a school teacher, but on coming to Portage county, Ohio, became a farmer. To his marriage with Miss Polly Bacon, daughter of William and Polly (Thur- ber) Bacon, were born Mrs. Corbett; Mary, wife of Johnson Bigelow; Emeline, wife of Thomas Joues; Edward and Frances, all now deceased, as are also the parents, who passed their declining days in Indiana.
Mr. Corbett has passed nearly all his life in farming, but has also been largely engaged in the live stock trade, and for fifteen years in the butchering business. He has always been an honored citizen and has served as constable and township trustee, and in his ripe years has not a peer in the esteem of his fellow- townsmen.
HE CRANE FAMILY is of Welsh ex- traction and has been identified with America since the early settlement of the New England colonies, wheuicc sprang the entire Crane family, members of which are now found in all parts of the United States. Ezra Crane was born in Saybrook, Conn., where his wife was passed. He reared a family of eleven children, of whom three sons, Simeon, Beldon and Calvin, came to Ohio in 1801 and first located at Canfield, Trumbull county. The journey from Connec- ticut to Ohio was made with an ox-team and occupied forty days, they bringing a horse and a cow with them. In 1808 they came to Portage county, purchased land in Shalersville township, and built two log houses; then re- turned to Canfield, and in the spring of 1809 removed to their home in their perinahent home in Portage county.
Simeon Crane was born in Saybrook, Con., February 14, 1773, and then married Feb. 8, 1796, Rachael Catlin, born, August 30, 1774; she was also a native of Saybrook. They had three children born unto them be- fore migrating to Ohio. Siemon Crane died in Shalesville September 14, 1846, and here, also, Mrs. Crane died in April. 1848. They were the parents of five children, of whom four attained their majority, viz: Harmon, born in 1797, married and was a farmer in Shalersville until 1867, when he removed to Paw Paw, Mich., where his death occurred;
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James, born in August, 1798, was a farmer in Shalersville until advanced in life, when he removed to Painesville, Ohio, and there died in 1871; Anganette, born in February, 1800, was twice inaried-first to Erastus Chapman, and second, to Sheldon Farnham, and died in Warien, Ohio; Edward Manley Crane was born June 14, 1810, being the first white male child born in Shalersville township; Simeon Crane, while in his native state, was superin- tendent of The Connecticut iron works at Saybrook, but after settling in Ohio gave his attention to agriculture pursuits.
Edward Manley Crane was reared on the farm and received such school advantages as were afforded the children of early pioneers. He was of a studious turn of mind and intend- ed to go to college, but his father's health be- coming impaired he was obliged to abandon the idea and assist in the support of his par- ents. When twenty-five years of age he was united in marriage with Lucinda Streetor, daughter of Charles Streetor. She died Jan- uary 1, 1842, leaving him three sons, viz : Frank C., born June 18, 1836, was a teacher for some time, then married Ellen M. Burnett and settled in Cleveland, being employed in the general office of the L. S. & M. S. R. R. He died in Cleveland in March, 1890. Charles Simeon, born April 20, 1828, is a tinner, and is married to Laura Sanford, and resides at Mantua. Seneca L., born in July, 1840, married Addie M. McGowan and resides in Kansas City, where for many years he has been weighmaster at the stock yards. December 8, 1842, Edward M. Crane married a second time -- Sylvina Streator becoming his wife. She was born in Portage county, October 21, 1320, a daughter of Jason Streator, who was born in Rutland county, Vt., in 1799, and Nancy (Perkins) Streator, born in the same county in 1795. Mr. and Mrs. Streator were married in Rutland county, Vt., in 1819, and
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