Biographical history of northeastern Ohio : embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake, Part 122

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1094

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Dr. Proctor is one of a family of fifteen children, nine of whom are living. He was a child of seven years when his parents came to Ohio, so he received his literary educa- tion in the rude log houses of pioneer days, and at the academy at Painesville. At the age of twenty-one years he started out to meet the world on his own responsibility; his first occupation was in a sawmill, where he worked three years. Desiring to fit himself for the medical profession he read under the direction of Dr. M. P. Sherwood & Son, of Unionville, Ohio, for four years, and then entered the Cleveland Medical College, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1857. He was engaged in active

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practice at Thompson, Geauga county, for fourteen years, and then began a course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he also took a degree. He has had a wide and varied experience in his profes- sional work, and is recognized as one of the most skillful members of the fraternity. He belongs to the medical societies of Geauga and Lake counties, where his counsel is often sought and highly esteemed.

Dr. Proctor was married December 31, 1867, to Rosana Louisa Raphold, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany, who emigrated with her parents to America in 1852. Dr. and Mrs. Proctor are the parents of two daughters: Florence S., who was born January 9, 1869, and was graduated from the Western Reserve Seminary, at Farmington, in 1889; she has entered upon the duties of a teacher and gives promise of a brilliant success: Mary Julia was born June 16, 1871; she was also a student of the Western Reserve Seminary, and now holds a responsible position at Del- phos, Ohio, with a millinery firmn.

Politically, the Doctor supports the prin- ciples of Democracy; he has been considered for Representative and other county offices, but his party is greatly in the minority in this section. He and his wife are worthy members of the Metho list Episcopal Church.

F REDERICK HULBERT, one of the most enterprising and progressive citi- zens of Thompson township, is a native of Ohio, born in Geauga county, April 16, 1818, a son of Seth Hulbert, whose history appears on another page of this volume. Frederick Hulbert's first home was the log cabin built by his father; his education was received in the primitive log schoolhouse

characteristic of the frontier; he was permit- ted to attend the short sessions of school until he was sixteen years old, when he went to work on the farm. His father had 200 acres of land, and the harvesting of grain was all done by hand; the day of reapers, self-binders and steam-threshers had not yet dawned. The father often went to Paines- ville to work by the day, and would return at night with a sack of meal on his back, guided in his path by the glazed trees of the forest. Wild game was abundant, and Fred- erick supplied the family table with meat by hunting; he was also a skillful trapper and brought home many a coon and fox. He remained at home until he was of age, and then went to Mentor, where he was employed for nearly two years. At the end of this time he came back to the old homestead which he cultivated three years. Having saved his earnings until he had accumulated a little money, he bought fifty acres of land which had been a part of his father's farm. He cleared away the dense timber, moved into a log house that was on the place, and began the task of placing the land under cultivation.

September 8, 1842, he was united in ma"- riage to Charlotte C. Tolcott, a native of Connecticut and a daughter of Moses and Charlotte (Warner) Tolcott; John Tolcott was the first member of the family to come to America; he emigrated from England, and was one of the colonial settlers of New England. The parents of Mrs. Hulbert removed to Ohio in 1830, and settled near Thompson, where the father died, at the age of sixty-six years; the mother survived to the age of eighty-one years. They had a family of four children, two of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Hulbert celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, September 8,

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1892, with a golden wedding. They had born to them six children: Alonzo, who en- listed in the service of his country at the age of eighteen in the Sixth Ohio Cavalry, Com- pany A, and died, in 1863, in the hospital at Germantown. He was in the service two years. Edgar is married, and resides in Youngstown, Ohio; he has three children. Esther is the wife of G. A. Mathews, of Jackson, Michigan. Mary is the wife of Charles Wilber, a farmer of this township. Newell E. is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and Almira E. is living at home. The father and mother are worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Politically, Mr. Hulbert supports the issues of the Republican party, and has served as Trustee of his township several terms. He now owns seventy-five acres of choice land, well-stocked with good horses and cattle. He has given his children a liberal education, fitting them for useful positions in life, and has contributed very generously to the build- ing of the church at Thompson.

A LEXANDER L. POMEROY, M. D .-- One of the most successful physicians and surgeons, and probably the oldest in continnous practice in Ashtabula county, is represented in the subject of this memoir, who has devoted his life to that noble profession whose province is the pal- liation of human suffering.

The Doctor proceeds from good, old Anglo- Saxon stock, his paternal ancestors, the Pomeroys, having come from England, while his maternal ancestors, the Holcombs, were natives of the historic land of Bruce and Burns, although grandfather Holcomb was born in England and espoused the cause of

the Tories in colonial times. Grandfather Captain Epworth Pomeroy was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, distinguishing him- self for gallant service in the battle of Bunker Hill. Grandmother Pomeroy, whose maiden name was Sarah Allen, was a niece of Gen- eral Ethan Allen, of Revolutionary fame. The maternal grandmother of our subject was a daughter of Jesse Pinney, a promi- nent clothier and cloth dresser of his day and proprietor of a large cloth factory and dis- tillery.

Dr. Pomeroy's parents were Alexander A. and Hannah Eliza (Holcomb) Pomeroy, both natives of New England. In 1829 they re- moved to Ohio, settling in Windsor, whence, a year later, they removed to Garrettsville, and from there to Mantua, the same State, where the father died in the fall of 1846, and the mother on December 15, 1849. Of their family of twelve children, one died in infancy, the others attaining maturity. Of these the subject of this sketch was the oldest; Eliza H., married James VanDusen, of Benton Harbor, Michigan, a retired farmer, and they have four children: James P., Nancy L., Charles P. and Mary M .. Emily M. is next in order of birth and then follow Martha E .; Joseph M .; Charles C .; John W .; Frederick H., Eleanor C. (who married James E. Sherrill, of Pomeroy, Washington, and who is the mother of two sons, James and Fred); Clarissa C. married Fred Harford, of Verona, Illinois, and has two sons, Fred and Jay; Nancy Lahella mar- ried Harrison Reynolds, of Evart, Michigan, and has four children.

Dr. Pomeroy was born in Southwick, Massachusetts, November 25, 1822, and was but seven years of age when his parents re- moved to Ohio. He was the oldest of a large family, and as the financial resources of his

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parents were limited he early became inured to toil and gained that reliance and self-de- pendence which furnished the key to his future success. From the time he was tall enough until he attained to mature years he worked at a picking machine in a cloth fac- tory. All this precluded him from following out his own inclinations and utilizing these early years in acquiring a thorough educa- tion. To the man who is earnest and de- termined seemingly inseparable obstacles to the attainment of desired ends will give way, and thus it was that our subject finally secured the educational discipline he craved, by attending the Shalersville Academy and paying his expenses at the institution by his own efforts. He began the study of medi- cine at Shalersville, Ohio, in 1843, and sub- sequently attended a course of lectures at Willoughby College, now extinct. From there he went to the Cleveland Medical Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1845, giv- ing his note for his tuition. This precluded him from securing a diploma, which he could not obtain until his indebtedness was discharged, but he received a certificate which entitled him to practice. Thus fitted for his life work, he began his practice in Bristol, Trumbull county, Ohio, in which place he successfully continued until his re- moval to Windsor, his present abode, in June, 1846. He has prosecuted his professional practice in the latter city ever since and now (1893) enjoys a large and lucrative patron- age, the just reward of earnest and able efforts. As he says, he has paid off his note to the Cleveland Medical College and has something left. He owns a comfortable and attractive village residence, and, contiguous to the town, has an excellent farm, which is well adapted to general farming and stock- raising. He raises standard-bred horses,

Jersey cattle and some fine sheep and each year has the product of 1,200 sugar maple trees, finding a ready market for bis sugar and syrup. He has entrusted the manage- ment of his farm to his son and son-in-law, while he devotes his entire time to his large and constantly increasing practice.

At the outbreak of the late war of the re- bellion, Dr. Pomeroy was summoned by Gov- ernor Tod to turn out with his company of militia, called the Squirrel Hunters, and they proceeded to Cincinnati, where they were honorably discharged. He was twice drafted, and each time furnished a substitute, who was honorably discharged in either case.

July 30, 1847, Dr. Pomeroy was married to Miss Huldah Cook, an intelligent and capable lady, born January 6, 1827. Her parents, Jesse and Chloe (Phelps) Cook, were both natives of Connecticut, born November 19, 1785, and April 25, 1786, respectively. They emigrated to Ohio in an early day, traveling overland from Connecticut to Windsor, Ohio, with an ox team and an old linch-pin wagon, behind which followed a cow, which furnished milk for the family. The journey was six weeks in duration, but the little sojourning family party arrived in due time at their destination without any accident worthy of mention. On the land secured by the father the virgin forest was still intact, but, under his industrious and well-directed efforts this gave place to a cul- tivated and valuable farm. Mr. Cook built the first frame house in Windsor; he became a wealthy farmer and left a large estate to his family. His death occurred in Windsor, Ohio, August 9, 1859, and the devoted mother expired January 5, 1862. Mrs. Pomeroy has four brothers and one sister, Catherine, who was born November 11, 1810, became the wife of Lathrop Roden and died

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November 26, 1876, leaving ten children, only three of whom survive. Mrs. Pomeroy's brothers are: R. Wells Cook, born March 8, 1813; Elmer, born June 23, 1816; Amherst P., born June 22, 1824; and Walter, Sep- tember 19, 1829.

Dr. and Mrs. Pomeroy have two children: Chloe G., who was born April 17, 1848, and who is the wife of E. P. Northway, a pros- perous farmer, living west of Windsor, and Alexander Allen, born June 11, 1853, un- married and living at home.

The Doctor supports the principles of the Democratic party, but does not seek political preferment. He was, however, within the first administration of President Cleveland, appointed to a membership on the Pension Board of his district, and has held several township offices, filling each with his wonted uprightness and ability. He is an active member of the Ashtabula County Medical Society and affiliates with the I. O. O. F. As a professional man, he is careful, conscien- tious and capable, and as a citizen is pro- gressive, public-spirited and liberal, enjoying, to an unusual degree, the confidence and good will of his fellow-men.

0 BED W. WICKS has for many years been prominently identified with the agricultural interests of Geauga county, Ohio, and is entitled to the space accorded him in this volume. He is a native of New York State, born at Watertown, Jefferson county, December 11, 1823. His father, Obed Wicks, was a native of Halifax, Ver- mont, born in 1776. His grandfather, Jo- seph Wicks, was a native of Providence, Rhode Island, while the great grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Warren Wicks,

who emigrated from England in an early day and settled at Providence, where the Indians took him prisoner and burned him alive. Joseph Wicks removed from Frovidence to Halifax, Vermont, in which latter place he died at a ripe old age. Obed Wicks, father of the subject of this sketch, was the young- est of a family of eight sons and four daugh- ters. He was a farmer, and in 1832, removed with his family to Ohio, settling in Middle- field township, Geauga county, where he took up new land, which he cleared and improved. He was accidentally drowned at Cleveland, this State, in 1866, at the age of eighty years; he was never sick a day in his life. He served in the war of 1812, and assisted in driving the British from Sackett's Harbor. He married Sabra Ellis, a native of Massa- chusetts, who died when forty-nine years of age; she was one of a family of ten daughters and two sons. The subject of this sketch is the youngest of three sons, two of whom are living. The eldest emigrated at an early day to Cook county, Illinois, and thence to Pot- tawattamie county, Iowa, accompanying the Pottawattamie Indians. He was killed by the red men in Idaho.

Mr. Wicks, of this notice, had limited op- portunities for acquiring an education. He attended the primitive schools of the frontier, and, in 1838, returned to Watertown, New York, where he went to school for a few months. In 1839 he hired out as a boat hand on the Ohio canal and made one trip to Ports- mouth. He afterward went down to Missis- sippi and visited other sections of the South, and also contemplated a trip to Santa Fé, New Mexico, but did not carry out his plans. Returning to Ohio, he settled in Burton township, Geauga county, and turned his at- tention to farming. In 1852 he crossed the plains to California, where he spent two years

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in mining. He made the trip home by water and has ever since devoted himself to general farming, also dealing largely in live-stock and breeding fine grades of cattle.

In 1847 Mr. Wicks was married to Malinda Betts, a native of Johnstown, New York, and they have had four children: Ellen, deceased; Flora, wife of Alfred Endsley, a farmer of Burton township; Carl, married, and living in Burton; and Bertha, wife of Clifton Nick- erson, of Russell, Frontier county, Nebraska.

In his business transactions, Mr. Wicks has been very successful. He owns 100 acres in the home farm and ninety more in Middlefield township, all of which is under good cultiva- tion. Politically, he supports the Republican party. He is a man possessing the courage of his convictions, and enjoys the respect of his entire community.

W ALTER PIKE, another one of the representative farmers of Orwell, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in Somersetshire, England, January 15, 1855. He is a son of William and Mary Ann (Manly) Pike. His mother died in England, at the age of fifty-seven years, Four of her fourteen children are still living, namely : Walter; Sidney, a resident of California; Sarah E., who is now the wife of Robert Hill; and Jane A., wife of George Fry.

Walter Pike received an ordinary educa- tion in his native land, not being privileged to attend school after he was twelve years old. When he was nineteen he came to the United States. All his life he has been engaged in farming. For several years he worked out by the month, and by careful economy was able to save some money. Then he lived on rented farms for some time, and, in the fall of 1884,

purchased his present property, seventy-eight acres in Orwell township, buying it of Uriah Lintern, an uncle of his wife, and paying $60 an acre for it. This farm is well improved and beautifully located. Upon a natural emi- nence stands the fine residence, surrounded with a tasteful lawn dotted over with shade trees and ornamental shrubbery, which, with the well-kept and commodious barns, grana- ries, etc., forms one of the attractive homes of the county.

July 2, 1878, Mr. Pike married Miss Frances M. Linten, daughter of Matthew Lin- tern, of Orwell, one of the early pioneers of the county. Their children are as follows: Olive C., born January 25, 1880; William M., January 22, 1882; Lida A., March 16, 1884; Charles A., March 15, 1886; Walter E., June 11, 1888; Mary A., November 18, 1889; and Granville E., August 29, 1891. After his marriage Mr. Pike settled in Park- man, Ohio, where their first child was born, Moving from there to Orwell, he then lived on his father-in-law's farm and on other rented places until 1884, when, as above stated, he bought his present property.

A LBERT E. STEVENS was born in Martinsville, Ohio, August 2, 1836. For some time he was engaged in the lumber and milling business, but for several years past has given his attention to agricultural pursuits. After his marriage, which event occurred December 26, 1863, he settled in Geauga county. In June, 1874, he moved to Kansas, but the following Au- gust he returned to Ohio and located at Or- well, where he has since resided. June 7, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Eighty- eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was

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honorably discharged at Camp Chase Septem- ber 26, of the same year. He is a stanch Republican, but is not active in political circles.

The date of Mr. Stevens' marriage has al- ready been given. Mrs. Stevens' maiden name was Armena E. Rawdon. She was born July 22, 1845, daughter of Ariel and Ruie (Johnson.) Rawdon, of Windham, Ohio. Her father died February 22, 1862, and her mother is still living. The latter was mar- ried a second time, to Sumner Barr, her last husband dying May 28, 1886. Mrs. Stevens has one brother, Emory D., a resident of Kansas.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Stevens are as follows: Charles E., born January 4, 1866, married Lucy Brook and has one child; Bert E., born March 25, 1871; Emory R., born January 22, 1873; and Amaret L., born October 15, 1874.

M ATTHEW LINTERN, who has re- sided on his farm at Orwell, Ohio, since 1846, came to this place from Bloomfield, Ohio. He had settled in Bloomfield in 1836.

Mr. Lintern was born in Somersetshire, England, April 4, 1817, son of Thomas Lin- tern, a farmer. Matthew Lintern came to this country in 1836 and was followed a year and a half later by his father. The mother of our subject was before her marriage Miss Sarah Love, and she, too, was a native of England. Of the six children born to Thomas and Sarah Lintern three reached adult years. Uriah, the oldest, came to Amer- ica with his brother Matthew, and died here in 1884, on his sixty-eighth birthday. For over thirty years he worked for Alexander

Brown of Bloomfield, and by all who knew him he was regarded as a man of the strictest integrity. He was never married. Sarah Lintern, our subject's sister, died in England. Their father died about 1851, aged sixty- seven years, and their mother passed away in 1848, also at about the age of sixty-seven years.

Matthew Lintern married Cyrena Saun- derson, a niece of John Saunderson, of Meso- potamia, Ohio. She was a lady of marked intellectuality and rare domestic accomplish- ments. She became the mother of five chil- dren. The oldest died at the age of eighteen months. Sarah Jane, the second born, is now the wife of Daniel H. Parker; Olive Ann, wife of George Griffin, died September 18, 1879, aged twenty nine years; Mary Ellen, wife of Densmore Griffin, of Bloom- field, has two children, a son and daughter; and Cyrena Almeda, wife of William Win- ters, of Bloomfield, died September 15, 1879, three days prior to the death of her sister, Mrs. Griffin. Some time after the death of his first wife Mr. Lintern was again married, March 5, 1857, to Christiana, daughter of David Albert. Her father, a native of Penn- sylvania, and a mechanic by trade, died in Farmington, Trumbull county, Ohio, Feb- ruary 18, 1852, aged sixty-seven years, three months and fifteen days. The maiden rame of Mrs. Lintern's mother was Catherine Sink- foos. She, too, was a native of Pennsylvania. Her death occurred in 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Albert had seven children, a record of whom is as follows: Leah, the oldest, died January 2, 1879, aged sixty-six years and unmarried; Catharine, the wife of a Mr. Bower, died in Farmington, Ohio, aged about seventy-three years; David, who died in Michigan at the age of sixty-nine; Margaret, the wife of a Mr. Sperry, died in Michigan, aged seventy ;

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Elizabeth, born February 1, 1815, is now liv- ing with her brother; Christiana, now Mrs. Lintern, was born March 10, 1825; and Abram, the youngest, born September 12, 1828, is a resident of Orwell. Mr. Lintern has two children by his second wife: Frances, the older, was born October 20, 1858, and is now the wife of Walter Pike, of Orwell. Mr. and Mrs. Pike have seven children. Matthew David Lintern, born June 4, 1861, married Emma Kingdom, a native of Orwell. He lives on and conducts his father's farm.

Mr. Lintern has been a hard-working man all his life. He cleared up and developed his farm of 140 acres, cutting the forest from all but seven acres of it, and he built his house out of timber that grew on his own land. For a number of years he was exten- sively engaged in stock-raising in connection with his farming operations. Recently, being somewhat crippled with rheumatism, he is practically retired from the active duties of the farm. Mr. Lintern is an ardent Repub- lican and a most worthy citizen. He takes a just pride in the fact that he has never had a lawsuit in his life,

R EUBEN WOODWORTH, a prosper- ous farmer and worthy citizen of Williamsfield township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in the same township, November 4, 1821. He comes of good old New England stock, his grand- parents, Ezra and Annie Woodworth, having both been born in Vermont and descendants of ancient and respected families. Grand- father Ezra Woodworth was a brave soldier under General Washington in the Revolu- tionary war and served his country faith- fully and well, deserving to be mentioned in

history with other great patriots of his time. In an early day, Ezra, with his wife and eleven children, joined the westward tide of emigration, coming overland to Ohio, being among the first settlers of Williamsfield township, Ashtabula county. The country was covered with woods and much work was necessary to clear and prepare land for culti- vation, but by diligent industry, assisted by his wife and older children, Ezra made a home and in time became a prosperous and influential man of the county. Their chil- dren were: Abijam, father of the subject of this sketch; Diodate; Hope; Orpha; Luther; Lucinda and Surinda, twins; Nancy; Horatio and Sarah. Both grandparents died on the old homestead, the grandfather at the age of sixty-five and the grandmother at eighty, and both are buried in the cemetery at West Williamsfield. Abijam, their oldest son and father of Mr. Woodworth of this notice, was born in Vermont in 1807, and inherited the sterling qualities of his ancestors, his life having been characterized by industry, hon- esty and the highest regard for moral truth. He was eighteen years of age when he came with his father to Williamsfield township, where he married Sally Woodworth, daughter of John Woodworth. They had six children: Ezra; Abijam; Reuben, whose name heads this notice; Laura and Sally. The devoted wife and mother died, leaving these children to the care of the father, who some time later married an estimable English lady, widow of Rev. Robert Wheeler, of the Con- gregational Church. They had two children: Ellen C. and Newell. The faithful and lov- ing father died at the age of eighty-two, greatly lamented by all who knew him.

The subject of this sketch was reared and educated in his native township and has fol- lowed farming all his life. He settled on his

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present farm in 1854 and has since added to his land until he now owns 400 acres of the choicest realty in the county. He also has bank stock, town lots and other securities and keeps a dairy of forty cows. All of this prosperity has not come by chance, but by hard and persistent labor, and Mr. Wood- worth is amply deserving of all praise for his industry and intelligent management which have resulted in his present success.

November 14, 1843, Mr. Woodworth was married to Laura Kingsley, a worthy lady, born in Washington county, Ohio, September 5, 1819. Her father, Supply Kingsley, was also born in Washington county and was an efficient soldier in the Revolutionary war. He married Ovis Mason, a native of the same county, and they had twelve children: Julia, Orson, Truman, Samantha, Milton, Newton, Laura, Betsy A., Judson, Harriet, Eliza and Peleg. Mrs. Kingsley died aged seventy- four and Mr. Kingsley at the advanced age of eighty-three, leaving many friends to mourn their loss. Mr. and Mrs. Woodworth have had five children, two of whom survive. Lucinda died aged three years; Orson, aged ten; and an infant daughter. A son, Rev. Leverett Supply Woodworth, has been preach- ing for the past sixteen years, and for the last six has been city missionary in Provi- dence, Rhode Island. He married Joseph- ine Field, of Hillsdale, and they have three sons: James Reuben, Clarence Field, and Alfred Keith. Mr. Woodworth's other surviving child, Josephine Lucinda, married Clarence Chase, of Oberlin, Ohio, and is now a widow with two children; Paul L. and Laura Nell.

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Biographical history of northeastern Ohio : embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake, Part 122

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn Publication date: 1893 Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1094

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1094