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Mrs. Haymaker died, and he then married Rachael Davis, who was born December 12, 1788, at Shippensburg, Pa., and she died Sep- tember 15, 1809, in Franklin township, Port- age county, Ohio, the mother of one child, James Davis.
Frederick Haymaker married, for his third wife, Mary Swan, born June 19, 1789. in Westmoreland county, Pa., and bore the fol- lowing children: Allen, William D., Rachael, Eliza, Rebecca, Frederick, George, Cynthia, Jesse, Francis, Marion, and Henry Clay. A period of over thirty-six years elapsed between the birth of his first child and his last, who was born seventeen years before his death. His first child was born when he was about
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twenty-five years old, and the last when he was about sixty-one years old. Frederick Haymaker was a prosperous man, of excellent character and much respected among the pio- neers. In early days he built a woolen-mill at Kent. Ohio, which he ran several years. He was a man of marked ability and had a good knowledge of medicine, which he prac- ticed among the pionecis. In his earlier days he was a well-known Indian trader.
James D. Haymaker was born September 2. 180g. a short distance from the spot where Brady made his leap across the Ohio river in Franklin township, Portage county. He re- ceived a very limited education in the district school and gained much of his knowledge hin- self. He worked in the woolen-mill with his father when he was young, and at the age of twenty-two years he engaged in the manufac- ture of wooden pails with his brother, Will- iam, at what is now Kent, Ohio, then Frank- lin Mills. For two years he had charge of a hotel at Fairport, on lake Erie, and returned to Franklin township, where he engaged in farming, a pursuit which he ever afterward fol- lowed. He married November 29, 1835, Mary R. Olin, born February 22, 1820, in Genesee county, N. Y., a daughter of Arvin and Betsy (Bennett) Olin. Mr. and Mrs. Haymaker were the parents of fourteen children, viz: Franklin, Oscar F., Rachael D., Ann M., Arvin O., Mary R., James A., Clarissa L., Almira B., Martha A., Cora E., William J., Abbie M., and an infant unnamed.
Mr. Haymaker was a strong Union man, and a stanch republican. He had one son in the Civil war-James A .-- a private of com- pany J, One Hundred and Ninety-third regi- ment Ohio volunteer infantry, who served seven months, enlisting when sixteen years old. Mı. Haymaker was a member of the Universalist church of Kent, and was church trustee many years. He was an honored citi-
zen, township trustee many years, and justice of the peace several terms: also a member of the school board. He lived to be seventy-mac years old, and died January 31, 1889. He was a pioneer of great worth, always indns trious and frugal, well known for his honesty. and he accumulated a goodly property. own- ing a well- improved farm of 200 acres. Polit- ically, he was a life-long republican. He was of an active mind and strong character. Mrs. Haymaker is yet living, and is a venerable lady of over seventy-seven years of age. Her faculties are remarkably well preserved, and she possesses an excellent memory. She is a woman of very wide experience and for many years has taken an active interest in his- torical matters pertaining to the county, and to her family, and possesses a wonderful fund of fact and reminiscences. She has since her husband's death managed her homestead wit !: wisdom and prudence, and has succeeded in preserving it in good condition. Hler daugh- ter, Abbie M., resides with her mother. She married Edmund W. Case, son of Henry and Mary Case. They have one daughter, Lora M.
UFUS L. WILLARD (deceased), formerly one of the respected rest- denis of Cuyahoga Falls, was a de- scendant of Revolutionary ancestry. Major Willard, the founder of the family in America, came with an English Puritan ettt- gration between 1630 and 1640, and settled near Boston, Mass. On the maternal side. the subject also descends from Revolutionary stock, his maternal grandfather having served as a soldier in the war for independence.
John O. Willard, father of Rufus I., was born in Hartland township. Windsor county. Vt., in March, 1788. He was a intib. Imtia', and married, in Vermont, Silinda Lamb, wh was born in 1787. Mr. Willard came to Oh :..
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in the fall of 1818 and worked one season, then walked back from Cleveland to Ver- gennes, Vi., in 1818, a distance of about 700 miles, making this long distance in fourteen days, or at the rate of about fifty miles per day. Mr. Willard, in 1820, moved his family to Cleveland, Ohio, in May, coming on the first steamboat, Walk in the Water, on Lake Erie. The passengers were landed in Cleve- land in sinall boats. Mr. Willard's family consisted of his wife and four children -- Sarah, Harrison. Adelia and Anson; Elliott S. and Rufus L. were born in Cleveland. Mr. Wil- lard bought land where the northwest corner of Enclid and Wilson avenues now is, and cleared up a farm of fifty-four acres, built a residence and other buildings, and engaged in the manufacture of wagons. He lived to be forty-four years old, and died, in 1832, in Cleveland. In his day Cleveland was a small village, mostly composed of hewed log houses. His widow passed all her remaining days on the old place and died in June, 1865, having been a member of the Christian church many years.
Rufns 1. Willard was born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 8, 1825, on his father's farm and received the education of the pioneer schools in that city, attending district school in a log school-house during the winter, and a select school in summer. He learned the painting business and made a specialty of marine work and fine painting. He married, November 17, 1847, Mary Tifft, who was born September 24, 1829, in Cato, N. Y., a daughter of Charles and Jane Ann (Chase) Tifft. Charles Tifft was born at Danville, Vt .. March 25, 1800, a a son of Matthew and Sarah (Carr) Tifft. The Tiffts were of English ancestry and probably Cathe with the English Puritans to New Eng- land and were carly colonial settlers in Ver- mont. Matthew Tifft was born in New York, September 12, 1771. and was a shoemaker
He was a member of the Methodist church and he and wife were the parents of Charles, Joseph, John, Keziah and Polly. Mr. Tifft was killed by accident May 31, 1829. He was a prosperous farmer, in comfortable cir- cumstances, and was buried on his old farm. Charles Tifft, son of above, received Ins early education in the public schools and married in New York state, at Cato, Jane Ann Chase, who was born August 14, 1809, at Poughkeep- sie, N. Y., a daughter of Joshua and Mary (Hackett) Chase. Joshua Chase was born in Rhode Island, being a descendant of one of three Chase brothers, John, Aquilla and Will- iam, who came from England in 1730 and settled in that state. The original Joshua, the founder of this branch of the Chase family, married a Miss Johnson, and they had the fol- lowing children: Polly, Mary, Joshua, Job, Johnson, Nathan, Maxon, Merza and Electa. Grandfather Joshua Chase married Mary Hackett. Their children were Austin (boru in Connecticut), Nathan, Edwin, and Jane Ann (born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.), John A. (born in New York), Johnson (born in Red Kill, N. Y.) and Northrup (born at Cato, N. Y.). Joshua Chase was a shoemaker and sub- stantial citizen. He died at Cato, a Metho- dist in religion and a man of many virtues. Salmon P. Chase, the great war statesman, was a descendant of this family.
Charles Tifft, after marriage, settled at Cato, N. Y., and was a manufacturer of potash. In 1833 he came with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, and lived on a farm on what is now Wilson avenue for four years, cleared up to0 acres of land of heavy timber, and then came to Norton, Summit county, and bought a farm of 200 acres, where he lived for five years, and in 1841 moved to Cuyahoga Falls, where he established the first livery stable and a hack line to Hudson, and continued in this business many years. Mr. Tifft ivas also en-
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gaged in the pottery business, and was at one time proprietor of what is now the Clifford Inn. He prospered and bought a great deal of real estate. He and wife were the parents of twelve children: Sarah, Mary, George, Caroline, born in Cato, N. Y .; Adaline, born in Cleveland, Ohio; Mark, born in Barberton, Ohio; Lucinda, Euphemia, Julia, Jane Ann, Willard H. and Edwin H. Mr. Tifft was a well known and prosperous citizen, was highly respected, lived to be eighty-five years old, and died June 30, 1885.
After marriage Mr. Willard settled in Cleveland and followed his business of painting for nearly fifty years, and then engaged in glass staining ten years. He built a substan- tial residence of brick at the corner of J and Pearl streets, in which he resided with his faniily for nearly thirty-seven years. He and his wife were the parents of one son, Charles A. (now deceased). Mrs. Willard is a mem- ber of the Christian church, and in politics Mr. Willard was a republican. Fraternally he was a Mason, a member of Biglow lodge, Cleveland, Ohio, and of Thatcher chapter, and had been master of his lodge and held numerous offices. He was also a K. T. and a member of Oriental commandery, No. 12. Mr. Willard was entirely a self-made man and was always noted for his industry and integ- rity. Mr. Willard was a member of the school board of Cleveland eight years and president of the board one year. Mr. and Mrs. Willard came to Cuyahoga Falls in 1892, having re- tired from active life, and here he died June 6, 1897. In the death of Rufus L. Willard, Ohio lost one of her noble and true men. To his funeral there came from his old lodge at Cleve- land nearly 100 members, to do honor to his memory.
Charles A. Willard, born April 30, 1849, in Cleveland, Ohio, received a good education in the public schools and engaged in the wall
paper business. When he was a boy of six- teen years he enlisted in Capt. Russell's com- pany, in the One Hundred and Eighty-eight !: regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and served one year, when he was disabled and was con- fined for some time in a hospital. He married, in Cleveland, Catherine Arntz, and they had three children, Silenda, Jennie and Frank W. Charles A. Willard was a member of the Masonic fraternity, Thatcher chapter. He was a man of strict integrity, and was greatly respected wherever known, and died April 6, 1896.
O LIFFORD S. HIDDLESON, M. D., of Atwater, Portage county, Ohio, was born in Randolph, in the same county, May 8, 1860, and is a son of John and Mary (Prosser) Hiddleson, both of whom were born in Ohio, the former in 1843 and the latter in 1843, Mrs. Hiddleson dying, however, in 1891. Mr. Hiddleson, a harnessmaker by trade, has followed this busi- ness upward of thirty-eight years, and has always been respected for his straightforward dealing and unswerving honesty. He was a soldier in the Sixteenth Ohio volunteer in- fantry during the Civil war, and is now a mem- ber of the G. A. R.
Dr. C. S. Hiddleson received his early ed- ucation in the district and high schools of Randolph, and pursued his Latin and German studies under a Catholic priest named Reb- holtz, and also under the Lutheran minister. After leaving his tutors he entered upon the study of medicine under Drs. Price and Per- kins of Randolph, with whom he remained four years, and then went to Cleveland and took a course of study in the Western Reserve Col. lege of Medicine, in the meantime reading for six months in the office of Dr. X. C. Scott, of that city. He then went to Cincinnati and
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there completed his medical studies at the Ohio Medical college, in March, 1883, and then returned to Randolph, where he formed a partnership for practice with Dr. J. Price, which partnership continued for three and one- half years. He then came to Atwater, met with unequivocal and unqualified success in his profession, and here he has since remained.
Dr. Hiddleson was united in marriage Oc- tober 1, 1885, with Miss Ella Mendenhall, a native of Randolph, and the accomplished daughter of W. P. and Aseneth Mendenhall, of Atwater, this union resulting in the birth of two children, viz: Robert M., July 1, 1887, and Dorothy, June 30, 1889. The doctor and wife are members of the Congregational church, in which he holds the office of trustee, and are rearing their children in the same faith. Fraternally, the doctor is a member of Unity chapter, No. 12, R. A. Masons, of Ra- venna; holds the office of chancellor commander in the Knights of Pythias order, being a mem- ber of Atwater lodge, No. 164, and is past commander of the Knights of Maccabees, At- water tent, No. 64. In politics the doctor is a sound money republican and protectionist; holds the office of health inspector of Atwater and is a member of the board of education. lle is genial and courteous, is respected for his professional skill, and socially he and wife are always welcome at the homes of the best people of Atwater township.
FARREN T. HAYES, one of the most respected citizens of Streets- boro township, Portage county, Ohio, and a gallant soldier of the late Civil war, springs from an old colonial family of Massachusetts, and was born in Burton, Geauga county, Ohio, May 31, 1846, a son of Elijah and Sallie (Fowler) Hayes. He received a good common-school education, and
enlisted, at the age of eighteen years, at Cleveland, Ohio, March 3, 1864, in company K. Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years or during the war, and served until honorably discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, July 13, 1865 -- a period of one year, four months and thirteen days. He was always an active sol- dier, except one month, when he was home on sick furlough with lung fever. The winter was extremely cold and the summer hot, and Mr. Hayes suffered a great deal from expo- sure, from which he has never recovered. Warren T. Hayes, as a defender of his coun- try's honor and her flag, was unswerving in his efforts. He was faithful to the trust in- posed upon him, and his services as a private in company K, One Hundred and Twenty- eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, were promptly recognized. His ardvous duties were guard- ing and taking care of rebel prisoners at John- son's Island, but he was frequently called upon to help form detachments for important services elsewhere. His work during the en- listment ofttimes called him in pursuit of the rebels in western Virginia, during the year 1862. Mr. Hayes enjoys the confidence of his comrades, as well as those who know him in his vicinity. He is possessed of a genial, cordial disposition, is sympathetic in manner and has a good word for all. The citizens of the United States should ever honor those brave men who offered their lives, if need be. as a sacrifice upon the altar of liberty.
Mr. Hayes returned to Geanga county after the war and engaged in farming until 1870, when he came to Portage county, and here married, March 22, 1871, in Streetsboro town- ship, Laura A. Trotter, a native of the towns- hip, born September 17, 1842, a daughter of John and Harriet (Johnson) Trotter, the former of whoul, an old settler of Streetsboro, was born in Ireland and came to New York state, and thence to Aurora township, where he died
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a venerable man of eighty-three years. His children were Laura A. and Annie. Mrs. Ilaves was the eldest in her father's family. Her sister Annie was the wife of Melville Smith, of Streets- boro township. They had one child. Annie, and she is the wife of William Bell, who is a farmer. Mrs. Smith died October 20, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes settled on the present homestead after marriage, and their children are Fred A. and Annie Z. In politics Mr. Hayes is a republican, and cast his first presi- dential vote for U. S. Grant: isa member of the G. A. R., William T. Sherman post, No. GS, Hudson, Ohio, and is at present officer of the day. Mr. Hayes is a straightforward, honor- able man and a good citizen.
George, great-grandfather of Warren T. Hayes, was a fariner of Connecticut and was born December 12, 1726. The first of the name of Hayes in America was born in Scot- land in 1655, came to Windsor, Conn .. in 1680, moved to Simsbury, Conn., in 1698 and died there September 2. 1725. He married, the first time, at Windsor, Conn., about 1682, and had born to him a son, George, who died an infant, April 3, 1683. The first wife died in 1698, and he next inarried, also at Windsor; Conn., Abigail Dibble, only daugh- ter of Samuel Dibble, of Windsor, by his first wife. She was born January 19, 1868, and died in 1725. Eleven children are men- tioned in his will of April 30, 1725, viz: Abigail, born in Windsor 1664 and married Paul T. Thompkins; Daniel, born in Windsor, April 26, 1686, ancestor of president R. B. Hayes; Sarah, born in Windsor, 1687-8, and married John Gossard; Mary, born in Windsor, 1690 and married William Rice; Joanna, born in Windsor, 16go and married James Hilyer; George, the third, born Windsor, March 9, 1695 and died in or after 1765; William, born in Windsor, June 13, 1697; Samuel, born in Simsbury. 1699.
George Hayes, the fourth, was born at Windsor, March 9, 1765, and by his marriage became the father of the following children: Jonathan, Zera, George, Elisha, Jane, Mary, David, Benjamin, Jacob, Elija, Amos, James and Sarah.
The Hayes family is of undoubted Scottish ancestry, although, since the days of William the Conqueror, branches of the family have lived in England. Four families by the name of Hayes are recorded in New England in the seventeenth century -- one of them in New Hampshire, and the other three in Connecticut.
First ---- Thomas, of Milford, Conn., 1645, whose descendants removed a few years later to Newark, N. J., where they remain to this day.
Second- - Nathaniel, of Norwalk, Conn .. 1651, of whose family no trace is found after the year 1729.
Third-John, of Dover, N. H., who cante in 1640, from Scotland, and was the founder of a widespread and honorable New England family, many of whom still cluster around the old homes in New Hampshire and Maine.
Fourth-George, of Windsor, Conn , who came, also, from Scotland as early as 1680, being then about twenty-five years of age, and whom an early tradition among his progeny calls a brother of the New Hampshire emigra- tion. No proof of this nor any relationship has yet appeared, but the tradition shows the undoubted Scottish descent of both families. and their coming to New England about the same time and the unmistakable coincidence of names. From George Hayes, of Windsor. Conn., cx-President Hayes descended, and many of the Ohio branch. A manuscript record, written or dictated by Ezekiel Hayes. first, of New Hampshire (born 1724 and died 1807, grandson of George, of Windsor, Conn. .. says that George Hayes went from Scotland to Derbyshire, England, and lived with his
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uncle. He was anxious to see London, whither he went. Having received some ac- count of America, he took passage, and came to this country. He married, and three chil- dren were born to him. His wife died, and also his children. Afterward he married Abi- gail Dibble, of Long Island, and settled in Windsor, Conn., and by her he had ten chil- dren. George Haves died at Simsbury, Conn., September 2, 1725; Daniel is the next in this line; then Ezekiel: then Rutherford, and then Rutherford, the father of R. B. Hayes, ex- president of the United States. Of Daniel, the second generation, it is stated that when he was about twenty-two years old he was taken prisoner by the Indians, almost in sight of his old home, and carried a captive to Can- ada, and held four years. An interesting ac- count of this is given in Phelps's History of Sunbury. For full Hayes genealogy, see life of George Hayes, of Windsor, and his descend- ants, by Rev. Charles Wells, M. A., West- feld, N. Y., printed at Buffalo, N. Y., by Wells, Jones & Co.
Eli Hayes, grandfather of Warren T., came to Burton, Geauga county, Ohio, in 1801, and cleared up a farm of about 100 acres, and here remained until his death on his farm-a venerable man of about ninety- three years of age, and a respected pioneer. His children were Simeon, Elijah, Amos, Amanda, and Polly.
Elijah Hayes, father of Warren T., was born at Russell, Hampden county, Mass., in 1784, and came with his parents to Ohio when seven years old. He was always a farmer and owned a farm of 117 acres of good land. To his marriage with Sallie Fowler were born the following children: Eber B., Arvilla L., and Warren T. Mr. Hayes lived to be eighty-seven years old, and died at Char- don, Geagua county, Ohio. He was a mem- ber of the Methodist church from the age of
twenty-one years, and was a class leader. In politics, he was a whig and republican, and was an honored citizen and upright man.
ILLIAM H. HARR is a respected citizen of Mantua Station, though he was born in Green county, Ohio, August, 1, 1845, the son of Jacob and Maria Harr, both of whom came fromn Washington county. Md.
William H. removed, with his father, to Dayton, Ohio, when he was about eight years old, and attended first the public school and then the free academy, and gained a good education. He attended school until 1860, and then began learning the milling business at Tippecanoe City, Ohio. He enlisted in August, 1862, at Cincinnati, Ohio, as a seaman on the United States gunboat Tyler for two years, and served until his time of enlistment expired, receiving an honorable discharge at Cairo, Ills., on the Clara Dolsen, a United States receiving ship, August, 1864. He was in the battle of Lake Providence, skirmish at Millican Bend, and at Vicksburg, Hayne's Bluff, and in the Red River expedition and a battle at Helena, Ark., and in several minor engage- ments. Mr. Harr was a good soldier, and prompt and cheerful in the discharge of all his duties, and served his country faithfully. He considers the hardest battle he was in was at Helena, Ark. His captain was James Pritchett, a regular naval officer, ranking as captain.
After the war Mr. Harr returned to Tippe- canoe City, Ohio, and continued the milling business as soon as he was able, one year being wasted on account of his disease -- the chronic diarrhea, incurred in the war, and from which disease he has ever since suffered. He camne to Portage county about :870, and bought Fenn Valley mills, which he still continues to i run. He. in company with his father, Jacob.
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Harr, built in 1876 the Mantua City mills, which burned in 1879, and W. H. Harr, who then owned the mill, lost about $9,000. He then returned to the Fenn Valley mills and one year later went to Xenia, Ohio, and bought a mill which he sold one year later, and then operated a mill in Tippecanoe City for two years, and thirteen years ago returned to the Fenn Valley mill, which he has operated since.
Politically he is a republican and a mem- ber of the G. A. R., Mantua Station, Bentley post, of which he has served as adjutant; also is a member of the K. of P. Mr. Harr has always been a hard-working, industrious man, and was a good soldier, and has always stood high for his integrity of character.
Mr. Harr married, August 18, 1878, Nannie J. Crocker, born July 27, 1850, at Hiram, Portage county, Ohio, daughter of Amos and Mary Jane (Mannis) Crocker. Amos Crocker was the son of David and Nannie (Warren) Crocker. David Crocker was born in Con- necticut aud came as a pioncer to Portage county, settled in Freedom township, where he owned and cleared up a large farm, and was a substantial farmer. He was the father of Thomas, Amos, Orlando, Lucretia, Charlotte, Salomie and Nancy. David Crocker lived to be an aged man and died on his farin, a much respected pioneer.
Amos Crocker was born in Connecticut, and came when a boy to Ohio with his par- ents, and here married Mary J. Mannis. He was a blacksmith and wagonmaker, and lived in Freedom and Hiram townships all his life. He was a mechanical genius and could make anything of iron and wood. He made guns as well as wagons, and many other things, and was a well-known man. His children were Nannie J., Emma D., Mary I .. , Lillie G .. Olive A , James T., Ella M. and Rose. Mr. Crocker was an industrious man, much re-
spected by all. He died aged fifty-three years His widow lives in Hiram, aged sixty-three.
Jacob Harr, father of subject, was the soo of Rudolph, who was the son of Rudolph, and this name has been handed down to this branch of the Harr family in America for five. generations. In early times two brothers came over-one named Rudolph. They left one family home to hold the old family nam .. which was of noble ancestry. The family settled on the line of Maryland and Pennsyl- vania before the Revolutionary war. Ru- dolph, grandfather of subject, was a pioner; in Washington county, Md., where he was one of the best and largest farmers of that county. He sold out and bought a farm in Montgomery county, Ohio, as a pioneer, set- ting in Dayton, at Shakerstown. Here ht: had a good farm of 160 acres, and here passed his active life. He was drowned in the Miami river at Tippecanoe City.
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