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After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thompson settled on the farm where Mrs. Thompson now lives. Mr. Thompson bought this farm in 1835, and partly cleared it, especially the north half, which he purchased from the Con- necticut Land company. He prospered by his thrift and energy, and finally acquired a goodly property, consisting of 350 acres of val- uable land, which is now owned by Mrs. Thompson. Mr. Thompson was a member of the Presbyterian church of Hudson, Ohio, and1 Mrs. Thompson is a member of the Episcopal church of Cuyahoga Falls. In politics he
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was an old-line whig and afterward be- came a republican. He was an honored citizen, served as township trustee, and also held several other offices. He was a well- known and public-spirited gentleman, and highly respected for his sterling character, up- rightness and excellent morals, and died Janu- ary 11, 1894, aged about eighty-four years. To Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were born three children, viz: Celia M., Mary A. and Emma P. Of these, Celia M. married Henry H. Chamberlain, of Hudson, Ohio; she is now de- ceased, leaving no children. Mary A. married Mr. Chamberlain above mentioned; they have no children; he is now in the milling business in Hudson. Emma P. married Edward D. Ellsworth, a farmer of Stowe township, now deceased, leaving two children-Fred Thomp- son and Mary Antoinette. Mrs. Thompson is now a venerable lady with an excellent mem- ory and well preserved faculties, having fur- nished the matter for this biography.
Edward D. Ellsworth was born July 30, 1847, in Hudson, Ohio, a son of Edgar B. and Mary (Daws) Ellsworth-was of New England ancestry. and Edgar B. was a merchant of Hudson, Ohio. Edward D. Ellsworth received a common-school education and became a farmer. He married Miss Thompson March 27, 1867. and settled on a farin in Stowe township. He was an industrious man and good citizen, but is now deceased.
Fred Thompson Ellsworth, son of above, was born October 8, 18-, and married Novem- ber 4. 1893, Elizabeth B. Harrington, a widow, (née Dillon), a daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy (Connor) Dillon.
LBERT B. TINKER, attorney at law, with his office in the Savings Bank building, Akron, was born in Mantua, Portage county, Ohio, January 28, 1852, and is descended from one of the oldest
families of Ohio as well as of America, as will be found from the following record.
John Tinker, an attorney, came from Eng- land to America in 1637 and located in Bos- ton, Mass., where he practiced law many years and was a member of the general court at the time of his death. From him descended the Tinker family of America. He left three sons and three daughters, of whom Amos married Sarah Durant, who also bore six chileren- John, Sarah, Mary, Amos, Samuel and Jona- than. Amos, the fourth of this family, mar- ried Lucy Lee, and had twelve children-Jos- eph, Amos, Lydia, Lucy, Benjamin, Sylvanus, Parthenia, Phineas, Eunice, Martin, Jehiel and Belle. The second of these, Ainos, mar- ried Hannah Minor, who bore four children -- Joseph, Jane, Azubah and Silas.
Silas Tinker, the youngest of the above- named four, was born in Lyme, Conn., No- vember 25, 1748, and in September, 1776, enlisted in the patriot army in the war for in- dependence. He fought at White Plains, Ber- lin Heights, and at other points, and served until the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, and was honorably discharged in November, 1777. He also participated, on three other occasions, in the defense of New London. He was a farmer and extensive land owner in the east, and in 1806 sold his property and came to Ohio by ox-team, and first located at Mantua, Portage county, when there were but eleven families in the township; in 1808 his son, Silas, Jr., was the only delegate from Mantua township to the convention held to nominate county officers. Silas Tinker eventually re- moved with his family to Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he died in 1840, in his ninety-second year. He had married Lois Wade, daughter of Joseph and Esther ( Chad- wick) Wade. This lady was mentally, morally and physically strong, and died at the age of eighty-one years, in the faith of the Presby-
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terian church, and the mother of eleven chil- dren, one of whom died in infancy; Sylvester, a machinist, who invented a carding machine and operated it in Westfield, Mass .; he mar- ried Sally Riley, and died at Conneaut, Ohio, whither he had moved in 1818; Cynthia mar- ried Edward Bancroft, in Massachusetts; Clarissa married William Skinner, Jr .; Giles was a mechanic and later a manufacturer of cotton goods, was a captain in the state militia, and married Zilpha Knight; Patty was married to Jacob Pettybone, of Mantua, Ohio; Hosea died unmarried; Silas married Betsey Randall, and served in the war of 1812, de- fending Cleveland under Col. Nathan King; Guy married Lucretia Kellogg; James died un- married; Chauncey was born at Chester, Mass., February 28, 1793, served in the war of 1812 as fourth sergeant in the Third Ohio militia un- der Capt. J. D. Jackson, was a farmer by vo- cation, was a well-informed man and of great muscular strength, was first married to Betsey Rice and next to Lydia Andrus, and died in Howardsville, Mich., October 25, 1873.
Horace Tinker, second child of Chauncey Tinker, was born June 28, 1824, in Kingsville, Ohio, was reared on a farm and was educated in the Kingsville academy. In 1848 he went to California with a train of ox-teams, and after two years of successful operations in the gold mines returned to Ohio and married Miss Sophronia Skinner, a daughter of John and Rachel (Clapp) Skinner. He then purchased land in Mantua township, Portage county, Ohio, where he followed the pursuit of agri- culture until 1884, when he retired from toil. His faithful wife died May 10, 1891, the mother of five children, of whom Albert B., the gentleman whose name opens this notice, is the eldest; Frank P. was born November 5, 1854, is a leading and prosperous fariner of Mantua township, Portage county, and is the husband of Ida Plum, a daughter of Anson
Plum, of the same township; Ella M., born in July, 1858, is the wife of W. L. Carlton, for- merly of Mantua but now of Akron, where he is bookkeeper for the Aultman, Miller Com- pany, is a member of the city council, and ex- member of the board of health; John S. and Jefferson C. died in infancy.
Albert B. Tinker, the subject proper of this memoir, was reared on the home farm in Portage county and received his early educa- tion in the district schools; he next attended Hiram college four terins, and in 1873 entered Buchtel college, from which he graduated in 1876, having completed his literary and scien- tific education. Ile began his preparatory law studies under Green & Marvin and com- pleted them at the law school of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1883, and was the same year admitted to the bar. In 1879 he was elected financial secretary of Buchtel col- lege, which office he held twelve consecutive years, also for seven years delivered lectures to the senior class on constitutional and in- ternational law. From 1885 to 1891 he was a member of the city board of health. In the last-named year he resigned his offices, both in city and college, to devote his attention to the duties of his profession, although he is still a trustee and the treasurer of Buchtel college. For four years he was president of the Ohio Universalists convention, and at the same time a member of its board of trustees, and has been very active in benevolent work. He is a member of the American Bar association. as becomes an attorney of his extensive prac- tice, and in politics he has not been idle, although not an office seeker.
The marriage of Mr. Tinker took place December 25, 1876, with Miss Georgie Olin. of Windsor, Ashtabula county, Ohio, a daugh. ter of George Olin, and this felicitous umon has been blessed with seven children, born in the following order: Olin Dale, February 19.
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1878; Gertrude Ellen, March 20, 18,9; Frank Burk, August 20, 1880; Sophronia Mary, June 39, 1882; Abbie, June 8, 1888; Donna Al- berta, June 6, 1890, and Albert, January 27, 1892. The parents are members of the Uni- versalist church, and have their home at No. 552 East Buchtel avenue.
ON. NEWELL D. TIBBALS, a lead- ing lawyer of the city of Akron, Ohio, and a member of the prominent law firin of Tibbals & Frank since 1889, is a native of Deerfield, Portage county, and
was a native of New Jersey, was born in 1800, and died in 1891. Both were strong in the faith of the Methodist church, and both were honored as pioneers of Summit county and for their sterling personal worth.
Newell D. Tibbals received a liberal cdu- cation and graduated from McLain academy, Salem, Ohio, in 1853; he then rcad law in the offices of Otis & Wolcott and Wolcott & Up- son, was admitted to the bar in 1855, at once opened an office for the practice of his profes- sion in Akron, and the details of his profes- sional and political career, as given in brief below, give ample proof of his capabilities for performing the duties he had selected for his life-work. An ardent republican, his party quickly recognized his legal, administrative and political merits, and elected him, in 1860, prosecuting attorney and re-elected him in 1862. In 1865 he was elected Akron's first city solicitor, and was re-elected to the same office; he was next elected state senator to represent Summit and Portage counties, and in this capacity he served in the sessions of 1866 and 1867. In 1870 he was a factor in the organization of Buchtel college, and has ever since been a member of its board of trus- tees. lu 1875 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas, second subdivision of the Fourth judicial district of Ohio, and the duties of this office he filled so well that a re- election followed in 1880, but the demands in his practice as an attorney were so extensive that he felt it to be incunibent on him to re- sign his seat May 1, 1883, and resume the handling of the cases of his rapidly increasing list of clients as an attorney at law, or, in simpler terms, as a lawyer.
was born September 18, 1833, a son of Alfred M. and Martha H. (Swemn) Tibbals. The fa- ther, Alfred M. Tibbals, was born in Gran- ville, Mass .. August 4, 1797, was brought to In the scenes of war Judge Tibbals has played his part, and in 1864 served in defense Deerfield, Ohio, by his parents, in 1804, and lere died in 1858, at the age of sixty-one ; of the capital of his nation - Washington, years; his wife, Martha H. (Swem) Tibbals, . D. C .-- as fourth sergeant of company F, One to whom he was united in marriage in 1821, Hundred and Sixty-fourth regiment, Ohio
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volunteer infantry. On his return to Akron he was elected major of the Fifty-fourth bat- talion, Ohio national guard, and was com- missioned by Gov. Brough: in 1886 he was appointed judge advocate for the department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, by Commander A. L. Conger, and in 1890 was appointed as aid-de-camp to Commander-in- Chief Russell A. Alger. In 1890 also he was again appointed judge advocate of the Grand Army by Department Commander P. H. Dowl- ing. In 1894 Mr. Tibbals was elected com- mander of Buckley post, No. 12, G. A. R., and the same year was sent as a delegate to the national encampment of the order at Pittsburg, Pa.
October 26, 1856, Judge Tibbals was united in marriage with Lucy A. Morse, the fruit of the union being seven children, of whom five are still living, viz: Martha A. (Mrs. Wilson M. Day, of Cleveland), Jessie A. (Mrs. Dr. Albert Hoover, of Akron), Newell L., Gertrude A. and Ralph Waldo. The amiable and accomplished mother of these children was called to rest October 27, 1894. She was born at Randolph, Portage county, July 9, 1835, being fifty-nine years, three months and eighteen days of age, at the time of her death. She was a daughter of Huron and Alethea Morse. In 1852, together with her parents, she came to Akron, Mr. Morse keeping what is now the Empire house. Mrs. Tibbals made a host of friends during the war, when she took an active part in securing food and clothing for Union soldiers. She was one of the organizers of the Dorcas society, out of which grew the Akron board of charities, and at one time was superintendent of the indus- trial branch of this board, and was an active member of the Woman's Relief corps as a trustee and a member of several committees. She was president of the Ladies' Cemetery association one term, and was always promi-
nent in all its movements. Mrs. Tibbals took an active part in the formation of the Summit county children's home, the first meeting for the same being held at her residence. As a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church and Woman's Home Missionary society, she was recognized as a hard and faithful worker. Beside the numerous public charita- ble institutions to which Mrs. Tibbals belonged, she did a great deal of individual work that was never known outside of her home.
When the death of Mrs. Tibbals was an- nounced at the Akron court house, a meeting of the bar was called, over which Judge A. C. Voris presided, and a resolution that its mem- bers attend the funeral in a body was unan- imously adopted. Buckley post, Grand Army of the Republic, and the Woman's Relief corps also attended the services. Judge Tib- bals, notwithstanding his severe bereavement, is still in the active practice of his profession and is one of the prominent attorneys of Ohio, honored alike by his fellow-lawyers and the citizens of Akron, whom he has so long and faithfully served in eivil as well as official life.
S MITH D. TIFFT, one of the promi- nent citizens of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. and the head of a respected family. is a son of John D. Tifft, who was born April 2, 1807, in Vermont, was of old colonial ancestry and was a lumberman.
John D. Tifft married, November 23, 1822. Louisa M. Abbott, who was born January 27. 1812, and died November 11, 1836, leaving no children. Mr. Tifft came to Ohio in the 'thirties and cleared up part of the Case es- tate, on what is now Euelid avenue, Cleve- land. He married, the second time, Novem- ber 5, 1837, Anna Bang, of Waconda, Ill., born in Vermont, July 21, 1818, a daughter of Mark and Lydia Bang. John D. Tifft came
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to Cuyahoga Falls in the autumn of 1840, and engaged in buying cattle and in the butcher business and prospered. His children by this wife were Smith D., Louisa M .. Horace, John and Johnson (twins), Alice and Hattie I. In politics Mr. Tifft was a republican and a strong Union man, and had one son n the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Tifft were both members of the Methodist church, in which he was an officer in early life. He lived to be seventy-one years old and died in Cuyahoga Falls November 19, 1875. He was always an industrious and respected citizen, very tem- perate in his life and of excellent habits.
Smith D. Tifft, the subject, was born March 16, . 1840, at Western Star, Ohio, where his father spent a short time. He was brought to Cuyahoga Falls in November of the saine year, where he received his education in the public schools, including the high school. A reunion of this school was held a short time since of the class of 1868-69, and many of the old pupils were present. Mr. Tifft was engaged in the stock and butcher business for twenty-five years. He was after- ward in the carriage business and later with the Howe & Company Flour mills four years; then in the implement business four years, and has generally been successful in his undertak- ings. He married, January 29, 1863. in Cuy- ahoga Falls, Julia E. Allen, born December 21, 1839, at Cuyahoga Falls, a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Harper) Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Tifft have no children, but have reared two-Harry E. Allen and Julia T. Allen. Mrs. Tifft is a member of the Episcopalian church, and in politics Mr. Tifft is a repub- lican and has held the office of town clerk and other minor positions. Mr. Tifft was one of the early members of Starr lodge, F. & A. M., and has held the office of treasurer. He is vice-president and director of the Falls Saving & Loan association, is greatly honored for his
integrity of character, and is acknowledged to be one of the best and foremost business men of Cuyahoga Falls.
R EV. LAMBERT TWITCHELL, a native of Brimfield township, Portage county, Ohio, was born August 12, 1827, a son of Arba and Sallie (Bar- ber) Twitchell, the former of whom was a native of Massachusetts and the latter of Con- necticut.
Jonas Twitchell, paternal grandfather of the Rev. Lambert Twitchell, was born in Scotland, and came to America prior to the Revolution, in which war he took an active part. He was the father of two children -- John and Arba --- was an early pioneer of Ohio, and he and wife ended their days on the farm where Rev. Lambert was born and where he still resides. Joseph and Susan (Coe) Barber, the maternal grandparents of subject, were natives of Connecticut, also were among the pioneers of Ohio, and, beside Mrs. Sallie Twitchell, had born to them ten children, viz: Dorcas, Minor, Turner, Lyman, Edwin, Polly, Lucy, Maria, Jemima and an infant that died unnamed.
Arba Twitchell, father of Rev. Lambert Twitchell, came to Ohio in 1816 and settled on the farm on which subject now resides, and to his marriage with Miss Sallie Barber, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Coe) Barber, there was born one chi d only-the subject of this memoir. Arba Twitchell was a man of great influence in his time, and for a number of years was a justice of the peace in Brimfield township; he held all the secular offices in what was then known as the Brimfield Baptist church, of Brimfield, and died in its faith April 7, 1849, when fifty-five years old -- his widow surviving until March 28, 1866, when she expired at the age of seventy-six years.
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Rev. Lambert Twitchell attended the dis- trict school of Brimfield until sixteen years of age during the winter seasons, and assisted on the home farm during the summers. Later he devoted all his spare time to private study, and at eighteen years of age began teaching school, a vocation he followed for several years when not otherwise employed. For some time he traveled for Garguer & Co., of Philadelphia, as agent for a Sunday-suhool journal, but, on account of ill-health, returned to his home and began studying theology. In 1874 he was ordained a minister of the Baptist church, was assigned to Kent, Ohio, and for six years acceptably filled the pulpit and then retired to his farm.
The marriage of Mr. Twitchell was solemn- ized October 30, 1851, with Miss Julia M. Sill, daughter of Sedley and Maria (Barber) Sill, of New York, and this union has been blessed with three children, of whom only one sur- vives-May, who still has her home with her parents. Of the two departed, Josephine died April 13, 1868, aged eight years, and Russell died in Detroit, Mich., June 12, 1885, at the age of thirty-three years.
Mrs. Julia M. Twitchell was born in New York, April 11, 1822. Her father was a ma- chinist by trade, and was one of the first to suggest the idea of a cylindrical printing-press. In 1820 he married Miss Abigail Barber, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Coe) Barber, and of the eight children born to this union four are still living, viz: Mrs. Twitchell; Allen, of Hot Springs, Ark. ; Elizabeth, wife of S. H. Phinney, of New York, and Jose- phine, wife of Enos Graham, of Detroit, Mich. Those who passed away were named Henry C., Frank, Cyrus and Ann. The last named died August 17, 1894, at the age of seventy-three, and was the widow of A. R. Knox. The mother of Mrs. Twitchell was called away February 9, 1843, at the age of
forty-three years-her husband surviving until 1864 --- and both died in the faith of the Epis- copal church.
Since his retirement from the pulpit, Rev. Mr. Twitchell has lived on his farm, which, under his skillful supervision, has been made quite profitable. He and family are greatly respected by their neighbors, and the pious and useful life of Mr. Twitchell has won for him imperishable honor.
ORNELIUS E. TRASTER, justice of the peace of Green township, Sum- mit county, Ohio, was born in Spring- field township, in the same county, April 3, 1853, a son of Daniel and Margaret (Krieghbaum) Traster, of whom further men- tion will be made. He attended the district school until seventeen years old and was reared to that age on his father's farm. For three years afterward he worked out as a farin hand, earning sufficient money to enable him to pay his expenses during the winter months at school and his tuition fees for four terms at the Greensburg seminary, and in the fall of 1873 began his career as a school-teacher, a vocation he followed twenty-two terms in all, at different places, in subsequent years. In 1875 he took a course of study in the North- western Ohio Normal school, at Fostoria, to better qualify himself for his profession, the practice of which included one term in Dis- trict No. 9, one in No. 7, one in No. 10, five in Springfield and Green townships, five in District No. 11, five in No. 2, three in No. 4. and four in No. 3.
In politics Mr. Traster is a democrat, and in 1881 was elected township clerk for one year, and then moved to Clinton, engaged # agricultural pursuits for three years, and then removed to Coventry township, where he fol-
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lowed the same calling for five years, then re- turned to Green township, where he has since followed the same vocation, In 1892 he was elected justice of the peace, and re-elected in 1895, although his township is strongly repub- lican. Fraternally, Mr. Traster is a member of Hadassah lodge, No. 405. I. O. O. F., Greentown, Ohio, of which he is a past grand, and is also a member of encampment No. 18, at Akron.
Mr. Traster married, September 13, 1877,. Miss Lovina A. Raber, daughter of Henry and Sarah E. (Benner) Raber, and this union has been blessed with one son, William Earl, who is now attending school. Mr. Traster and wife are consistent members of the Reformed church, of which he has for some years been a deacon as well as a teacher of the Bible class.
Daniel Traster, father of Cornelius E., was a son of Martin and Catharine (Shout) Traster, was born in East Buffalo township, Union county, Pa., January 1, 1820. His father, Martin Traster, was born in Tulpe- hocken, Berks county, Pa., in 1773; died April 4, 1848. His wife, Catharine, was born near Youngstown, Westmoreland county, Pa., March 5, 1781, and died March 1, 1858. The parents of Martin Traster came from Germany. Margaret (Krieghbaum) Traster was born in Lenkers township, Dauphin county, Pa., June 22, 1822, and died February 12, 1897. Her father and mother, Peter and Margaret (Trout) Krieghbaum, were also born in the Keystone state.
Daniel Traster was about twelve years of age when brought to Ohio by his parents, who settled in Springfield township, Summit coun- ty, on a farm, on which he was reared to man- hood. February 17, 1840, he was married to Miss Krieghbaum, the result of the union be- ing eight children, viz: Hester Ann, born April 16, 1841; Sarah J., July 27, 1842, the widow of Samuel M. Ritzman; Jacob W.,
February 15, 1844, married to Maggie Bixler, and a farmer of Whitley county, Ind .; Re- becca M., April 13, 1845, married to James Housel and living on the old homestead in Springfield township; John, November 21, 1846, married Sarah A. Young, and resides in Lake township, Stark county; Hiram, July 20, 1846, married to Savilla Swinehart, and lives in Springfield township; Cornelius E., our subject, and Mary, born April 10, 1855, and now wife of Henry Sauseman, also of Spring- field township. The father of this family died November 4. 1896, at the age of seventy-six years, ten months and three days, and the mother February 12, 1897, aged seventy-four years, eight months and twenty days-both devoted members of the Lutheran church.
Mrs. Lovina A. (Raber) Traster was born April 4, 1859, in Green township. Her fa- ther, Henry Raber, was born in the same township June 14, 1831, on the farm he still owns, but from which he retired in 1890, having his present residence in Myersville. He was three times married-first, Septem- ber 13, 1856, to Sarah E. Benner, who was born May 20, 1840, a daughter of Henry and Eliza (Kintz) Benner, the union resulting in the birth of six children, of whom five are still living, viz: Lovina A .; William M., mar- ried to Ida Shaffer; Anna E,, wife of M. G. Buchman; Minnie L .. wife of William H. Swinehart, and Norman D .; the deceased child was named Mary Alice. The mother of this family died May 10, 1882, at the age of forty-two years and ten days, a member of the Reformed church, and in May. 1886, Mr. Raber married Miss Catherine Swinehart, who bore him no children and died June 20, 1896, a member of the Lutheran church. The third marriage of Mr. Raber took place April 8, 1897, to Miss Amanda Rhodes, who with her husband is a member of the Reformed church. Cornelius E. Traster and wife are among the
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