Biographical history of northeastern Ohio : embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake, Part 127

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

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In connection with the general lines of agriculture, not a little attention is paid to the cultivation of fruits. The farm has a good orchard and numerous varieties of smaller fruits are propagated.

September 23, 1858, Mr. Jerome was united in marriage to Miss Cornelia Cum- mings, daughter of William and Phila Cum- mings. The father was a native of the State of New York, and there he grew to man-

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hood, was married and there he died, about 1844. In his business career he was engaged in the manufacturing of salt. The mother of Mrs. Jerome was born in Saratoga county, New York. Her father died when she was quite young and she was then adopted by an uncle, at whose home she lived until the time of her marriage, which happy event occurred when she had attained her nineteenth year. She was the mother of five children, four of · whom reached maturity, were married and had homes of their own. The cherished and venerable mother departed this life June 10, 1860.

The wife of our subject was born in the State of New York, and there passed her girl- hood days, receiving the ordinary educational training which the section afforded, and making good use of these opportunities. At the age of twenty-seven years she was united in marriage to Mr. Jerome, and to them have been born four children, of whom three sur- vive, namely: Seymour A., born in 1861, resides in Jefferson and is engaged in rail- road business; Merritt E., born in 1869, is engaged in the manufacture of tile at Con- neaut; and Mabel Irene, born in April, 1871, received superior educational training, grad- nating from the Jefferson Educational Insti- tute, with highest honors, in 1889. After her graduation, Miss Mabel devoted herself to teaching, having taught in Plymouth town- ship for a period of three years, besides filling similar incumbencies in other localities. She is also an adept in painting and drawing, and the home bears, in its tasteful embellish- ments, many evidences of her marked talent in these artistic lines of accomplishment. She now occupies a position in the public schools of Cleveland.

Mrs. Jerome is a woman of gentle refine- ment, is devoted to her husband, children and

home, and has that gracious presence which ever designates the true and beautiful charac- ter. She united with the Baptist Church early in life and has ever remained a devoted and consistent member of the same. Mr. Jerome is also a member of the Baptist Church, and both of them have been prominently identified with the county and township grange since the time of organization. In his political proclivities Mr. Jerome is a Re- publican.

During his life our subject has noted many and varied changes in Ashtabula county and in its progress he has ever maintained a lively interest, having given liberally of his means for the support of schools and churches, as well as for other praiseworthy undertakings. He now enjoys the richly merited privileges afforded by a beautiful home and that competency which will enable him to pass his declining years in well-earned repose, secure in the love of his children and the esteem of all who know him.

C ALVIN POOLE, a merchant of Con- neant, is a son of Calvin Poole, a na- tive of Connecticut. When twenty years of age he removed to the State of New York, and, it is said, taught the first school west of the Genesee river. His wife was Hannah Perkins. Of their four children, Calvin was the youngest, and is the only one now living. He was born in Genesee, Liv- ingston county, New York, April 2, 1811, and in 1812 his parents moved to Wheat- land, that State, where his mother died in 1813. In 1819 Calvin was " bound out " to Francis Smith, remained with him until 1832, and during that time was not allowed school advantages. After leaving him Mr.

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Poole drove team one year, receiving $12 per month. December 1, 1834, he was mar- ried to Miss Harriet Trowbridge, and soon afterward started for Ohio. He, however, went no farther than Allegany county, New York, where he made his first purchase of land, for $400. One year later he sold his farm, and again started Westward, halting this time at North East, Pennsylvania, for one year, and from that time until the date of his removal to Conneaut, February, 1873, he resided in New York and Pennsylvania. While in the former State Mr. Poole did military duty, in 1841 was appointed on the staff of Colonel Stoner, the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Regiment, and received his com- mission from Hon. William H. Seward. In 1855 he was appointed steward of the Erie county almshouse, retaining the position un- til his removal to Ohio. In April, 1874, in connection with John A. Caldwell, Mr. Poole began the mercantile business in Conneaut, in which he is still engaged.

Mr. and Mrs. Poole have had the following children: Dolly M., born August 14, 1836, is the wife of C. R. Buchling, of Erie, Penn- sylvania; Daniel P., born August 22, 1837, died in October, 1859; Delia D., born No- vember 26, 1838, married John A. Caldwell, and resides in Conneaut; Emeline E., born March 15, 1840, married Benson Bingham, of North East, Pennsylvania; John C., born November 9, 1842, enlisted in August, 1862, in the One Hundred and Forty-Fifth Penn- sylvania Infantry, was wounded in the left knee in the battle of the Wilderness, May 12, 1864, for which it became necessary to am- patate the limb, which he endured with heroic fortitude, was removed to Fredericks- burg, and died there on the 26th of the same month. Almost his last words were, "I am glad that I died for my country." The next

child was Henry P., born November 18, 1843, married Mary W. Brown, and resides in Conneaut; Harriet S., the youngest child, born September 20, 1850, married Dennis McCarty, and lives in Ashtabula. Politically, Mr. Poole is a Republican, and feels a just pride in belonging to that grand party. There are perhaps few men in the township who have battled with the strong current more successfully than he, and in closing he pays to his companion in life the highest compliment possible: "She always made our home pleasant."

G ENERAL HENRY KEYES, of Con- neaut, Ohio, was born November 16, 1793, in New Marlborough, Massa- chusetts, the only child of Elias and Phebe Keyes, who removed from that point to Conneaut township, Ohio, in 1814. Our subject received his education in his native State, and since arriving in Ohio his life has been spent in farming, he being now an ex- tensive land owner and capitalist. He has held numerous offices in this township, hav- ing been the first Mayor of the village of Conneaut. The title by which he is familiarly known was given him years since, he having been commissioned as General in the State militia.

January 19, 1819, Mr. Keyes was united in marriage with Mary Cole, of Conneaut. They had the following children: Henry P., born February 14, 1820, married Sarah M. Huntington; Alvin C., born October 25, 1821, married Minnie Rupp, and both reside at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mary C., born No- vember 14, 1823, is the wife of Edward Grant, of Conneaut. Mrs. Keyes died in 1824, and July 9, 1829, the General married

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Vesta Bates of Cummington, Massachusetts. They have had seven children, namely: Marcus B., who married Louisa Gordon, now deceased; Martin B. married Ann Eliza Lloyd; Charles W., deceased in 1854; Elias A., mar- ried Charlotte E. Trenton; Phebe A., Russell M. and Milo O. All reside in Conneaut ex- cept those designated above. In political matters, General Keyes is a Republican. He is a member of the Masonic order, Evergreen Lodge, No. 222, of Conneaut, Ohio.

W ESLEY F. MASON, a farmer of Ashtabula county, was born on the farm where he now lives, September 25, 1852, a son of Robert L. Mason, the old- est settler in the town of Dorset. He was born in Connecticut, August 22, 1814, a son of Shubal and Betsey (Roberts) Mason, natives also of Connecticut. Grandfather Roberts was a bugler in the Revolutionary war. Mr. and Mrs. Shubal Mason came with ox teams to Trumbull county, Ohio, bringing a load of household goods, and located at Braceville. The father died in that city in June, 1851, at the age of sixty-six years, and the mother died at about the age of seventy years. The former was a farmer and trader by occupation, and was a member of the Baptist Church. They had eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. Robert L. Mason, father of our subject was reared on the old farm in Braceville, Trumbull county, and in 1851 came to Dorset township, Ashtabula county, erecting a log cabin 20 x20 feet. At that time the county was inhabited by deer, wolves and other wild animals. About five years after locating in this county he moved to where he now lives. His farm consists of fifty acres of rich agricultural land. Mr.

Mason was married in Braceville, in February, 1842, to Phoebe McCauly, a native of that city, and a daughter of James and Charlotte (Hancock) McCauly, natives of Connecticut. The father died in Minnesota, and the mother in Wisconsin. They were the parents of eleven children, five sons and six daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Mason have three sons, viz .: eldest, Orrin Clinton, who resides in Unionville, Ashtabula county, is married, and has nine children; Wesley Francis, our subject; and Charles Adelbert, who married Alma Cazwell, and they have three children, Daisy, Oscar and Hattie. The father has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for sixty years.

Wesley F. Mason, the subject of this sketch, still resides on a portion of the old farm purchased in 1851, where he has 102 acres. He has a two-story residence, 18 x 28 feet, with additions, 18 x 18 feet and 14 x 24 feet, a barn, 30 x 40 feet, has a good dairy, and his land is under a fine state of- cultivation. Mr. Mason was married at Penn Line, Pennsylvania, to Sadie Mizener, a native of Trumbull county, Ohio, and a daughter of Richard and Minerva Mizener. Our subject and wife have three children, Corda L., Bessie Ann and Howard Robert.

0 P. BAKER, a farmer of Richmond township, Ashtabula county, was born in Geauga county, Ohio, June 12, 1847, a son of Nathan T. Baker, who was born at Penfield, Monroe county, New York, March 24, 1821. The latter's father, Stephen Baker, was a native of that county, and his father, Elisha Baker, was also born in New York. Stephen Baker married Betsy Clark, a native of Connecticut. They had ten chil-

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dren, viz .: William, Sarah, George, Adaline, Nathan, Elisha, Betsy, Eunice, Maria and Mary J. The father was a carpenter and farmer, voted with the Whig party, and was a member of the Baptist Church. He died at the age of eighty-two years, and his wife departed this life at the age of sixty years. Nathan Baker remained in New York until eighteen years of age, spent eleven years in Russell township, Geanga county, later went to Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and in 1865 came to his present farm of 186 acres in Ashtabula county. He has a good, thirteen- room house, a large barn and a dairy.

Mr. Baker was married at Chardon, Geauga county, September 1, 1846, to Tilmida Paine, a native of Monroe county, New York, and a daughter of Eben Paine, a native of Vermont. His father was also a native of that State. Eben Paine married Rhoda Thompson, a na- tive of Vermont, and a daughter of Ben Thompson. The father died when Mrs. Baker was ten years of age, after which the widow and children came to Geauga county, Ohio. They had five children, Abdon, Eder, Samuel, Rhoda and Philena. The mother died December 7, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Baker have two children, Omer Paine of this township; and Emer Turner who is married and has one child.

O. P. Baker, the subject of this sketch, was reared and educated in Crawford county, Pennsylvania. He is a mason by trade, and has followed that occupation many years. In 1865 he came to Richmond township, Ash- tabula county, Ohio, and in 1881 located on his farm of fifty-three acres, which is well improved, and contains good buildings. Mr. Baker was married at the age of twenty-two years, in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, to Frances H. Nims, a native of that State, and a danghter of Charles and Sarah (Bailey)

Nims. To this union was born four children : E. C., a popular teacher of Ashtabula county; Ernest W .; Eda, wife of E. Hulett; and Mabel. The wife and mother died in August, 1878. In February, 1882, Mr. Baker was united in marriage with Mrs. Catherine Reed, widow of Charles Reed. By her first mar- riage she had two children, Nellie and Lizzie, the latter now deceased. Our subject and wife have two sons, Omer and Carl. Mr. Baker is identified with the Democratic party.

C HAUNCEY H. COON is a successful farmer and apiarist of New Lyme township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he has resided since the close of the civil war.

He was born at Jefferson, Ohio, July 19, 1838, son of Peter Coon. His father was a native of New York, but resided in Ohio from his youth up, having first located at Morgan, Ashtabula county. Subsequently removing from that place to Jefferson township, Ashtabula county, he purchased a farm and sawmill in the northeastern part of the township, where he spent the rest of his life. The mother of our subject, whose maiden name was Lura Cole, is a native of Pennsylvania. She is now a resident of Jefferson, aged seventy-five. Chauncey H. is the oldest of her six children, five of whom survive. Seth H., the second, married Emma Baldwin, a native of New Jersey, and now resides in Jefferson. Loren M., married Elizabeth Hurry (who died sev- eral years since) and resides in lowa. Perry D. enlisted at the age of eighteen years in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died at Mem- phis, Tennessee, during the civil war. Mer-

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rit M. married Alta Lucas and lives in Jef- ferson. Mary, wife of Frank Parker, also lives in Jefferson.

Leaving home at the early age of fourteen years, Chauncey H. Coon was employed for a short time by a Mr. Barnes of Trumbull, this county. Then he was for one year in the employ of Elijah Peck, of New Lyme, and spent one year in Mecca during the oil ex- citement at that place. The following three years he assisted his father in the sawmill. Then he went to Painesville and learned the harness trade. He was there engaged in that work when the civil war broke out, and, April 25, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, the first regiment organized in this vicinity. His term of ser- vice expiring about the time of the organiza- tion of the Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he next united himself with that regiment and was appointed Sergeant of Company A, and remained with it during the rest of his service. His war record is a good one. He participated in four of the hardest- fought battles of the war-Rich Mountain, Winchester, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. February 28, 1862, he was promoted, for meritorious conduct, from the rank of Ser- geant to the office of First Sergeant in Com- pany A. In August, 1863, having become physically unfit for further duty in the field, he was appointed Ward Master of the United States General Hospital at Fairfax Seminary near Alexandria, Virginia, where he remained until he received his discharge September 30, 1864. From May 11, 1862, until August, 1863, he held the important and responsible position of Mail Agent of Shields' Division, and First Brigade, Second Division, Twelfth Corps, in which capacity he was entrusted with the care of large sums of money and a vast quantity of mail and express matter. He

at one time delivered to the Adams Express Company, in Alexandria, Virginia, over $20,- 000, this being a part of four months' pay received by the soldiers of the brigade at Dumfries, Virginia, and sent to friends at home.

Returning to Washington after receiving his discharge, Mr. Coon was engaged first in the Quartermaster's Department, and later on the Government hay and grain wharf at Alexandria till July, 1865.

Soon after the close of the war Mr. Coon was married, at New Lyme, to Maria L., daugh- ter of Elijah Peck, one of the earliest settlers of New Lyme, he having emigrated from Connecticut to this place in 1811. Mrs. Coon was previously married to George A. Gibbs, of Painesville, by whom she had one child, G. De Forest Gibbs, who is married and has two children, and resides with the subject of our sketch. G. De Forest Gibbs has served his township for several years as Justice of the Peace. G. A. Gibbs died in Perry, in 1862, from the effects of a cold contracted in camp while a member of Company D, Sev- enth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Soon after his marriage Mr. Coon, in com- pany with other parties, erected a steam saw- mill in New Lyme, which he managed four years. Selling the mill in 1870, he purchased the property, forty-five acres, upon which he he now resides, and in company with his step-son has devoted himself to its manage- ment and to this they have added 124 acres. They also have a large apiary and do an ex- tensive poultry business, annually shipping about two to four tons of dressed poultry. For about fifteen years. Mr. Coon has been engaged in the bee business and has acquired an extensive reputation as a successful apiar- ist. He frequently writes articles upon this subject for agricultural periodicals, and has

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served both as secretary and president of the Northeastern Ohio, Northern Pennsylvania and Western New York Beekeepers' Associa- tion five successive terms. Mr. Coon con- ducts his various operations on the most ap- proved scientific principles and with the best modern conveniences.

He is a Republican and a member of the G. A. R. In 1880 and in 1890 he served as Census Enumerator for his township. Few men in this part of the country have a larger circle of friends and acquaintances than Mr. Coon, he is as popular as he is well known.

P HILLIP MOORE, another one of the worthy citizens of Conneant, who is employed as conductor on the Nickel- Plate Railroad, was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, May 26, 1867, son of Elijah and Mary E. (McGuire) Moore.

Elijah Moore was born in Pennsylvania, and was twice married-first, June 4, 1845, to Mary E. McGuire, and, September 18, 1885, to Mrs. Julia (Mills) Barnum. The latter is still an honored resident of Con- neaut. During the war Mr. Moore rendered efficient service in Company A, One Hun- dred and Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, enlisting August 21, 1862, and being honorably discharged May 31, 1865. He was in the Army of the Potomac and was corporal of his company. He came to Conneaut from Girard, Pennsylvania, in 1872, and resided here until the time of his death, October 31, 1892. He was a teamster, worked for the Conneaut Paper Mill Company for a number of years, and by all who ever knew him was regarded as an honorable and upright man. His first wife died May 13, 1884, at the age of sixty years.

Their four children were as follows: Jennie, a resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, was married February 3, 1869, to Joseph Hamilton, and has six children, Ella, Nelson, Willie, Martha, Eddie and Viola; Desda, of Sandusky, Ohio, was married February 11, 1872, to Orlando J. Orcott, and has five children, Alice, Lloyd, Mary, Samuel and Joseph; George, of Cleve- land, Ohio, was married November 25, 1887, to Margaret Stevens; and Phillip, the subject of our sketch.

Phillip Moore started out in life as a clerk, and after clerking for awhile, he kept a feed- store. Then he turned his attention to rail- roading and has been in railroad employ ever since. He began as brakeman on the Nickel Plate in 1884, and in 1887, at the age of twenty, was promoted to the posicion of con- ductor. He has been a conductor ever since, and in that employ of the same company, his efficient service making him a valued em- ploye.

Mr. Moore is a member of the Uniformed Rank, K. of P., No. 114, and Maple lodge, No. 217, K. of P., Conneaut; also of the Nickel Plate Division, No. 145, Order Rail- road Conductors. He is a Republican.

In concluding this sketch, we relate the story connected with the life of Mr. Moore's mother, which, indeed, reminds us of the old saying that truth is often stranger than fic- tion.

Mary E. McGuire was born on board a clipper ship, sailing under American colors, in the waters of the Mediterranean sea, her father being captain of the vessel. Captain Daniel McGuire and his wife were drowned off the coast of Maine. He was in the Am- erican marine and was just returning from Japan after an absence of three years. His wife and little daughter were with him, the former, a consamptive, being in a dying con-

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dition. The vessel had seventy-five cabin passengers, besides a crew of twenty-five per- sons. During his absence the channel had been changed. The night was dark, a storm was approaching, his wife was thought to be dying, and he was anxious to get to land. In this troubled and excited condition he had neglected to give the signal for a pilot. This oversight caused the vessel to run against the breakers and she was torn to pieces. The captain tied his daughter to some rigging, tossed her into the sea, and jumped in after her. The dying wife and mother sank to rise no more, as also did the crew and cabin pas- sengers. Mary and her father were picked up the third day. She was unhurt, but he, having been struck by timbers, was injured fatally and lived only a short time after they were brought to shore. This occurred in 1836, when Mary E. was ten years of age. She was adopted by Rev. R. A. Sheldon, an Episcopal clergyman, and his wife, and was reared by them. Her father married her mother very much against the will of the latter's parents. The young couple eloped. This so incensed the parents that they dis- owned her. The parents were immensely wealthy, and if the certificate or proof of Captain McGuire's marriage to their daugh- ter could be produced, the descendants of Mary E. would be heir to an independent fortune.

After the little orphan had lived for some years at the home of Rev. Sheldon, he and his wife took her with them to England, and while there, they visited her grandparents. The clergyman introduced their granddaugh- ter to them and told them of the sad death of her parents. The grandmother, who still had a mother's love for her erring and lost daughter, suggested to her husband that they adopt the child as their own. After consid-

ering the matter, he replied: "No! she looks like her father; I can't consent to it." Those who knew the old gentleman were well aware that when he said " No" he meant it with all the impetuosity of his English nature. She returned to America with the clergyman and wife, who gave her a happy home while she remained with them.

D R. LUCINDE E. BRAYMAN, a lead- ing physician and surgeon of Pierpont, Ohio, also a prominent business man and financier, was born in Ashtabula county, October 26, 1844. He comes of good old New England stock, his father, Harry Bray- man, being a native of Connecticut, while his mother was also of New England birth and a descendant of an old and respected family, her name before marriage having been Mary M. Snow. This worthy couple were among the early settlers of Ashtabula county, where they took new land, which the father assidu- ously cultivated, together making a home for themselves and children in this new country. In 1851 the family had the misfortune to lose the hard-working and kind father, who died leaving a widow and six children: Ed- win, deceased; Jeannette; Bennet; Sylva; Lo- renzo E .; and Lucinde E., whose name heads this sketch. The father was a Whig in poli- ties, a firm patriot and worthy man, who enjoyed the respect of all who knew him.

The subject of this sketch was reared in Pierpont township, and received his prelimi- nary education in the common schools of his vicinity. He commenced to study medicine in the fall of 1865, under Dr. Trimer, a prominent pioneer doctor of Pierpont, with whom he continued three years. He then

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attended the State University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and later the Cleveland Medical College, graduating at the latter institution in February, 1869, after which he was a stu- dent at the University of Pennsylvania for four years. He then commenced the practice of medicine at Pierpont, where he has been for twenty-four years, meeting with the great- est success, and is the leading physician of the county. He also does an extensive drug business, in which he has been engaged for twenty years, having one of the best drug stores in his part of the county, with a. com- plete stock and a large business house two- stories high. He also owns other valuable property, a hotel in Pierpont and a brick business house in the best part of Andover, the latter of which is 23 x 100 feet and two stories high. He has one of the best resi- dences in Ashtabula county, which cost $7,000, also a brick barn, 26 x 60 feet, which cost $2,500, and is used for road horses. He owns several good farms, aggregating 800 acres, which are devoted to general farming and stock purposes, principally the raising of thorough-bred horses, of which he has seventy- four, the leading members of the herd being Atlantic Wilkes, Flood, Jet, Gold Leaf and Blazing Star, all well known as horses of un- usual merit. This prosperity is the result of persevering endeavor and good management on the part of the Doctor, combined with upright business methods, gaining for him not only financial success but the respect of all who know him.

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Biographical history of northeastern Ohio : embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake, Part 127

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