Biographical history of northeastern Ohio : embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake, Part 22

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

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visited the scattered homes, swam streams and underwent all the hardships incidental to pioneer experience for nearly a year and a half, finally returning to his home, which he reached January 1, 1802. He then began to prepare his family for the journey to their new home, where they arrived a few months later. He built bridges, cut roads, blazed trees and guided his little flock through a hitherto unexplored country, his being the first wagon west of Buffalo, New York. His salary was $6 a week, at a time when living expenses were as high as now, and on this amount he was expected to support himself and family. At the time of the war of 1812, he was appointed chaplain in the army, and was much of the time busily engaged in caring for the sick of the service, near Ash- tabula. Rev. Dr. Badger, on account of his familiarity with the country in Michigan, to which his ministerial duties had often taken him, was selected by General Harrison to pilot the army through from Ohio to Fort Meigs, which service he performed most creditably. Rev. Dr. Badger was married in October, 1784, in Connecticut, to Lois Noble, and they had five children: Henry Langdon, Julian, Lucius, father of the subject of this sketch; Sarah and Joseph. His wife dying, he was married a second time, in 1819 to Abigail Ely, who survived him six months. His death occurred in Maumee, Ohio, in 1847, while he was in the active exercise of his duty, thus terminating a life which was rich in good works and in all things tending to glorify the Master. His loss was widely and deeply mourned by those in whose in- terest he had so unselfishly labored, while his name is still held in grateful remembrance by their descendants.

Lucius Badger, his son, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1790, and

early became familiar with pioneer life. He accompanied his father on many trips through the wilds of Ohio and Michigan, enduring the fatigues and hardships without a murmur, although but a boy of fifteen. On attaining his growth, he chose the pursuit of farming, which he successfully followed during his whole active career. He was called into service in the war of 1812, but was not needed. He was married March 8, 1811, to Hulda Pringle, daughter of Gideon Prindle, of Ver- mont, and they had eleven children: Julia Ann, married Josiah Hicks, deceased; Sallie Lois, wife of John Crowell, of Ashtabula; Joseph, in Washington county, Iowa; Hulda, deceased, who married Walker Richmond; William, deceased; Gideon Noble; Lucius Day, whose name heads this sketch; Gideon Noble, the second; Fidelia, now Mrs. Alonzo Waterman of Washington county, Iowa; Milton, living in Colorado; and M. Elenor, wife of John Farly, a resident of Hill City, Kansas and County Clerk of Graham county.

Lucius D. Badger has been variously em- ployed as a sailor, farmer and dairyman in Trumbull county and at Wayne, Ashtabula county. He discontinued the latter enter- prise after twenty years in the business and devoted himself exclusively to farming. This also be dropped in 1890, and has since been interested in the Barber, Noyes & Company's foundry at Ashtabula, with which he is still connected, and which has been very success- ful.

November 28, 1849, Mr. Badger was mar- ried in Gustavus, Trumbull county, to L. Maria Cowden, an estimable lady, born De- cember 11, 1828. Her parents were Tru- man and Eliza (Simons) Cowden; the former originally a shoemaker but later a farmer, who had nine children: Cornelia, who mar- ried Orin Gridley; Marietta, wife of Jackson

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Williams; Rosanna, married Edward Fitts; Jane married Edward Bladon; Triphenia; Clarissa married Nelson Sawyer; Sophronia died unmarried; and Louise, who married Erie Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Badger have had three children: Milton, born April 9, 1854, died aged three months; Lilly, born July 28, 1856, wife of E. E. Taylor, a prosperous farmer of Ashtabula township, Ashtabula county, of whose life an extended sketch follows; and Truman, born April 6, 1858, who married Clara Meacham, who has been born to him three children: Ethel Mary, born April 14, 1881; Grace Helm, born Novem- ber 5, 1884; and Susie Genevieve, born Sep- tember 3, 1886.

In religion the family are Congregational- ists, and are worthy members of a community in which their ancestors have been for so many years representative and influential residents. Mr. Badger has been an accept- able Deacon in the Congregational Church for a full quarter of a century and is still serving in that honored capacity.

E. E. Taylor, previously mentioned, widely and favorably known in Ashtabula county as an intelligent and progressive farmer and citizen, was born in Rutland county, Ver- mont, July 3, 1853. He comes of good New England stock, his father, Charles W. Taylor, having been born in Weathersfield, Vermont, September 12, 1818, and Levi Taylor, grand- father of the subject of this notice, having been a native of Connecticut. The latter, a farmer and stone mason by occupation, re- moved his family to Vermont in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His chil- dren were: Harvey, C. W., Guilford, and two ' other sons, deceased; Lannira Ann, and Hester Ann. Charles W. Taylor, the second child, grew to manhood in the State of his birth, Vermont, where he lived until thirty-

nine years of age. In 1857 he proceeded by boat and rail to the extreme Northwest, his objective point being St. Paul, Minnesota, and he there engaged in stone and brick work. He expected to make that country his future home, but the sickness and death of one child disheartened the family and they decided to return East. On their way thither, the father became ill, and on reaching. La Crosse, Wisconsin, he died, and was buried February 1, 1859. His devoted wife, whose maiden name was Harriet J. Smith, was a daughter of Roswell Smith, of Vermont, and inherited all the sterling qualities of her Puritan ancestry. Her father was born about 1790, in the same year as was his wife, whose name was previously Sarah Currier. They had four children: Harriet J., previously mentioned, who was born March 26, 1818; Lyman, Hiram, and Roswell, now living in Cavendish, Vermont.

E. E. Taylor was reared and educated in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and owing to the limited means of his mother his early ad- vantages for attending school were limited, but possessing a naturally active intellect and quick observation as well as a strong and in- cisive judgment, he has become self-cultured and well read. He early became self-depend- ent, being variously employed for many years, working for wages, but, in 1876, he married and settled down to farming, working the first year for his father-in-law, Mr. Lucius D. Badger, mentioned at length in the first part of this notice. Mr. Taylor then bought a farm on Middle Road, on which he resided and which he industriously cultivated until he sold in 1882, and removed to his present place of eighty-five acres, previously owned by W. W. Castle. Of this farm Mr. Taylor's father-in-law, Mr. Badger, owns fifty-four acres. Mr. Taylor is engaged in mixed farm-

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ing, in which he is very successful, being a practical and careful manager. He also fol- lows the dairy business quite extensively and at the same time very profitably. His con- tinued prosperity is entirely due to his unre- mittting energy and industry and careful watchfulness of details, and he is amply de- serving of his good fortune.

. April 6, 1876, the Centennial year, Mr. Taylor was married, in Ashtabula, by Rev. S. D. Pete, to Lilly M. Badger, daughter of Lucius D. Badger, a prominent and highly respected citizen of Ashtabula county. They have two sons: Lloyd Raymond, born in De- cember, 1879 ; and Lucius Everett, born in April, 1883.

Fraternally, Mr. Taylor affiliates with the Royal Templars, and is religiously a useful member of the Congregational Church. As a business man and citizen he enjoys high esteem, and is worthy of the unqualified con- fidence of his fellow men.

H ON. EDWARD C. WADE .- The legal profession of Jefferson, Ohio, has no more worthy representative than the subject of this sketch, whose ability has been repeatedly endorsed by elec- tion to one of the most honorable positions in the gift of the people.

Judge Wade, an able lawyer and public- spirited citizen, was born in Andover, Ash- tabula county, Ohio, Feburary 13, 1838. He was the only son of Samuel S. Wade. His father was one of nine children, six sons and three daughters, one of his brothers being Senator Benjamin F. Wade, of Jefferson, and another, Hon. Edward Wade, for several terms a member of Congress from the Cleveland district.

The subject of this sketch passed his youth in alternately working on the farm in sum- mer and attending the district schools in winter. At the age of seventeen, he entered Kingsville Academy, at which he graduated in 1859. In 1860 he came to Jefferson, where he began his law studies in the office of Messrs. Simonds & Cadwell, during which time he superintended the high school in that village four terms. In 1863, he was admitted to the bar, and the same year ac- cepted a position as clerk for Hon. D. Cad- well, who was appointed Provost Marshal at Warren for the Nineteenth District. Mr. Wade remained in that position until the close of the war, and on his return to Jeffer- son, in 1865, formed a partnership with Hon. E. J. Betts, under the name of Wade & Betts. This partnership was dissolved on the elec- tion of Judge Betts to the position of Pro- bate Judge, Mr. Wade at the same time be- coming Prosecuting Attorney, both entering upon their duties in January, 1872. Mr. Wade served in that capacity four years, after which he resumed his private practice for a time, again entering public life in Feb- ruary, 1882, when he became Probate Judge, which position he filled until Feburary, 1891. Judge Wade gained the universal approba- tion of his community by his impartial and able decisions as a jurist and his honor as an official and man, and carries with him into private life the confidence and esteem of his fellow men.

The Judge was married in 1864 to Miss Ella M. Sawyer, of Austinburg, whose death he was called upon to mourn three years later. In 1869 he was married to Miss Louise M. Simonds, an estimable lady, and . daughter of Hon. C. S. Simonds, a well known lawyer of Jefferson. Three children blessed this union; Alice L., Grace E., and Charles S.

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In the enjoyment of the comforts of life, gained by years of honest toil, and crowned with the approbation of all worthy men, Judge Wade has attained true success. In politics, the Judge has always supported the Republican party by his vote and as a public speaker.

Judge Wade is an able lawyer and a force- ful speaker, and has never ceased to be a careful student, not only of matters pertain- ing to his profession but of literature.

He is a good example for young men who are ambitious to excel in any profession, show- ing how scholarly attainments may adorn the same.

He has a thorough knowledge of the ele- mentary principles of law, and in the argu- ment of questions of law to a court, is clear, concise and able, and excels as an advocate before a jury.

0 LIVER C. DARLING, a contractor and builder, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Ashtabula county, this State, Sep- tember 27, 1836.

His parents were James and Maria (Hogle) Darling, the former a native of Massachu- setts and the latter of Genesee Flats, Otsego county, New York. They were married in Rochester, where the father learned the trade of carpenter. They came to this county about 1825 and settled in Conneaut, where he bought property and where he was engaged in work on vessels in the harbor. Subse- quently he exchanged his town property for a farm in Pierpoint township, moved there about 1833, and lived at that place until his death, in April, 1861, at the age of fifty-six years. He was a fine workman, had a good education, and stood high in the community

in which he lived. Both he and his wife were worthy members of the Congregational Church. She died May 6, 1885, at the age of seventy-eight years. They had ten chil- dren, nine of whom are living to-day. They are as follows: Mary E., wife of Alexander Marvin, of Pierpoint; James Ephraim, who married Matilda Stanton, and has three chil- dren, lives in Marysville, Missouri; Francis Marion, who died at the age of nineteen years; O. C., the subject of our sketch; Susan Alvira, wife of Orsemus Peters, lives in Winslow, Illinois, their family being composed of two children; Jane D., wife of Jonas Scramlin, of Climax, Michigan; Caroline, wife of Albert Hildum, of Warren county, Pennsylvania, has two children; Harriet P., wife of Edwin Trevit, Monroe, Wisconsin; and Esther Jane, wife of Richard Marvin, Corry, Pennsylvana; has two children.

(). C. Darling began his trade at the work- bench with his father, in this county, when a mere boy. In 1856 he went to Illinois, and from there in 1859 made a prospecting tour to Pike's Peak. On his return he stopped at Platte City, Missouri, and worked at his trade there for a time. He built a commodious residence for Colonel Burns, a wealthy planter, and while he was there the Colonel took a great fancy to him. It was about that time that secession fever arose to a white heat. Colonel Burns was an enthusiastic rebel. He offered Mr. Darling a commission, $100 per month, and a horse and saddle, if he would enlist in the Southern cause, and when the offer was emphatically but respect- fully declined, the Colonel said, "Then you must leave these parts." That night, with a colored slave as driver, and the Colonel's own family carriage and fine horses, he was driven with his effects to the river, and upon their reaching the landing the negro begged him

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to sell the carriage and horses and take him along to "God's country," which, of course, Mr. Darling would not do. At Quincy he enlisted in the Ninth Illinois Regiment, was drilled and stationed on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, and at the expiration of his term of enlistment came on to Ohio. From Ashtabula county he went to the oil fields of Pennsylvania, and at Titusville fol- lowed his trade until September 8, 1862, when he enlisted for three years in Company D, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He enlisted as wagoner, and had charge of a train of wagons until, on account of rheumatism, he was compelled to go to the hospital. April 9, 1864, he was discharged on surgeon's cer- tificate of disability. This ended his army career.

The war closing, he returned to Titusville, and for two years was unabled to do any work. Indeed, he has never been very strong since. He was engaged in contracting and building for some time in Titusville and afterward at Corry and North East. He came to Conneaut in March, 1889, and has since been identified with the interests of this place. He and his son are both master workmen and are doing an extensive business here. Many of the nice residences in which Conneaut abounds are examples of their handiwork. Mr. Darling is a generous and public-spirited man, and while a resident of North East held various minor offices.

He was married, Christmas, 1861, to Miss Elizabeth Bright, daughter of Josiah and Amy Bright, old settlers of Trumbull county, Ohio. Her parents were the first white couple ever married in Trumbull county. Mr. Bright died in Newton Falls, that county, at the age of forty-five years, his death re- sulting from the bite of a mad dog. He was born August 13, 1805, and died September 2,

1851. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The latter died July 18, 1881, at the age of sev- enty-eight years. Their seven children are as follows: Josiah, who died at the age of two years; Rebecca, who died at the age of sixty- two; Jonathan, a resident of Dallas, Texas; David, of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Amy, wife of A. P. Swartz, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Darling; and Margaret, wife of Sidney Thompson, Pierpoint, Ohio.

Marmaduke Bright, Mrs. Darling's grand- father, was born in England, August 23, 1773, and his wife, nee Amy Duffield, was born in the same country, September 20, 1775. Their four children were Elijah, Josiah, William and Paul.

Mr. and Mrs. Darling have four children, namely: Burton A., who married Bertha L. Huffleman, of Chicago. They have one child, Lester Edwin; Ida May, wife of William Huller, of Climax, Michigan, has two chil- dren; Floyd C. and Claud; Lonella A., wife of Melvin Scramlin, also of Climax, Mich- igan, has one child, Henry; Frank Ulysses, who married Elma Jenkins, lives in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Mr. Darling and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Conneaut, of which he is a Trustee. He is also a mem- ber of the A. O. U. W., and Custer Post, No. 9, G. A. R., of Conneaut. Mrs. Dar- ling belongs to the W. R. C., and the Royal Templars of Temperance. They are among the most excellent people of the city.

HARLES LAWYER, JR .- The life of one of the most brilliant and deserving of the younger members of the bar of Jefferson, Ohio, is briefly outlined in the fol-

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lowing sketch, which cannot fully do justice to his superior ability and many deserving qualities of mind and heart.

The subject of this sketch was the son of Charles and Caroline E. (Brown) Lawyer, the former a prominent physician and surgeon, of Andover, Ohio. Charles Lawyer, Sr., is a native of Pennsylvania and of German ex- traction. He is now a resident of Andover, Ohio, where he enjoys an extensive practice in his profession. He is a Republican in his political proclivities and was a Representative in the Legislature of his native State for two terms. His wife was of Welsh descent. They were the parents of three children: Mary, now Mrs. Chauncy Marvin; our subject, Charles, Jr .; and Frank, who is now engaged in the general music business at Butler, Penn- sylvania.

Charles Lawyer, Jr., was born at Penn Line, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 7, 1857. The first ten years of Mr. Lawyer's life were passed in his native town, when the father removed with his family to Andover, Ohio. Here the subject of this sketch attended the common schools, and later the high school in Jefferson. He then taught twelve terms during six successive years, in the meantime working on the home farm and learning and working at the trade of tanner. This, however, failed to satisfy the growing ambition of the young student, who subsequently went to Jefferson and be- gan reading law in the office of Judge W. P. Howland. In 1881 Mr. Lawyer entered the law department of the University of Michi- gan, at which he graduated in March, 1883, being admitted to the bar in Jefferson in May of the same year. Shortly afterward Mr. Lawyer was elected to the office of Jus- tice of the Peace, which position he filled creditably for four years. He was then

elected solicitor for the city of Jefferson to which position he was re-elected, serving in that capacity two terms of two years each. In 1889 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney .for Ashtabula county, to which office he was re-elected in 1892, and is now serving his second term.

In 1885, Mr. Lawyer was married to Miss Flora A., daughter of Horatio and Eliza (Cracy) Lindsley, a lady of social tastes and prominence and a resident of Jefferson, Ohio.

Politically, Mr. Lawyer is a Republican, and, fraternally, belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.

Such universal commendation leaves little further to be added than to emphasize those noble traits of character which have secured for Mr. Lawyer professional and social promi- nence and gained for him the friendship of many honorable men.

I. BALDWIN, a venerable citizen of Conneaut, for several years engaged in milling, and now retired from active business, dates his birth in Oneida county, New York, October 26, 1811. The facts in regard to his life and ancestry have been gleaned and are herewith presented.

The Baldwins trace their ancestry back to Nathaniel Baldwin, of England, whose son, Samuel, was the father of Nathaniel Baldwin, the great-great-grandfather of the subject of our sketch. Nathaniel Baldwin and his wife, nee Abigail Camp, came from England to America and settled in Milford, Connecticut, in 1639. He was born in Bucks county, En- gland, and died in Connecticut in 1658. His wife died March 22, 1648. At the time they came to America his brothers, Timothy, Jo-

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seph, John and Richard, also came. Nathan- iel and Abigail Baldwin had seven children: John, Daniel, Nathaniel, Abigail, Samuel, Sarah and Deborah. Samuel, the fifth, was born November 28, 1744, and died February 22, 1804. His wife, who before her mar- riage was Mercy Stanley, died January 6, 1768. They had a family of six sons and five daughters, one of whom, Enos Stanley Bald- win, married Charlotte Bailey, and had four sons and four daughters. Enos S. died Oc- tober 20, 1828, and his wife died February 26, 1815. One of their four sons, Remus, the father of L. I., was born in Milford, Oc- tober 5, 1791, and his wife, whose maiden name was Julia Ives, was born December 20, 1787, she, too, being a native of Connecticut.

Remus Baldwin moved to New York and subsequently to Pennsylvania, in Erie, in the latter State, spending the closing days of his life. He was for some time engaged in farm- ing and afterward in various occupations. He and his wife were members of the Presby- terian Church for many years, he being an officer in the Church. They were married September 9, 1810. Their family of five children is as follows: L. I .; Almira C., wife of David Brand, is deceased, as also is her husband; Samuel, who married Abigail Snow, is deceased; Horace and his wife, Nancy A. (Welton), are both deceased; and Caleb Parker, unmarried, died on the Pacific ocean, July 29, 1852, while on his way to California, the supposed cause of his death being cholera. The father of this family died in Erie, Penn- sylvania, December 9, 1853; the mother at the same place, February 10, 1873.

L. I. Baldwin removed with his parents from Oneida to Genesee county, New York, and in 1820 to Cattaraugus county, same State, whence they afterward removed to Erie county, Pennsylvania. He remained on the

farm with his father until after they went to Erie county, when he located at Erie for the purpose of learning a trade, that of woolen manufacturer. After remaining there six years, he went back to the farm. For many years he farmed in Erie county. In the spring of 1872 he located in Conneaut, and here for four years ran a gristmill. He served as Justice of the Peace of Conneaut three years, having filled the same office while a resident of Elk Creek and Girard, Penn- sylvania.

Mr. Baldwin was married August 10, 1837, to Miss Rosanna Battles, daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Brown) Battles. Her father was born in Massachusetts, April 10, 1786, and her mother in Vermont, May 9, 1787. The former died in 1848, and the latter in 1868. In the Battles family were six chil- dren, as follows: Rosina, the oldest, born June 27, 1815; George, a resident of Cali- fornia; Alsina, of Girard, Pennsylvania; Lu- cina, also of Girard; Asa, deceased; and Rush, a banker, manufacturer and farmer of Gi- rard.

Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have had twelve children, namely: Byron A., a real-estate dealer of Chicago, is married and has two children; Julia, wife of James A. Moorehead, Erie county, Pennsylvania, has six children; 'Narcissa, wife of J. C. Denslow, died at the age of twenty years; Remus Asa, who mar- ried Adaline Foot and has seven children, was in the war two years,and the past twenty- seven years has been in the employ of the Pittsburg & Cleveland Railroad, being now a resident of Cleveland; Georgia A. A., wife of Morton H. Gould, of Arizona, has seven children; Gorham Ives, an engineer, was killed in a railroad wreck in 1882, and left a widow and three children; Florence E., who died at the age of thirty-six years;

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Rush Emerson died at St. Louis, at the age of twenty-one years; Lucene, wife of C. R. Goddard, of Conneant, has four children; Leslie, who died at the age of twenty-six years; Kent Kane, married and living in Chicago, has three children; Elmer E., of Conneaut, is married and has one child. There are forty grandchildren in the family and five great-grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage August 10, 1887.

M J. WARNER, proprietor of the Chestnut Hill stock farm, in Con- cord township, Lake county, Ohio, near Painesville, and a prominent citizen, was born in Hampden, Geauga county, this State, June 23, 1851. His grandfather, Daniel Warner, was a native of New York State, who emigrated to Leroy township, Lake county, Ohio, in an early day. Ile there clearcd and improved a farm in the woods, whence he subsequently removed to Geauga county and later to Cleveland, finally going to Bryan, Williams county, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his days. He was a successful farmer and stock raiser and took a prominent part in the early development of the country. He died at a ripe old age, leav- ing many friends to mourn his loss. His son, Martin J. Warner, father of the subject of this sketch, was also a native of the Empire State and one of a large family. He accom- panied his parents to Ohio, where he early engaged in the stock business, buying cattle and driving them over the mountains to East- ern points,-Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and other large cities,-and although but a boy when he commenced he was very successful. Ile followed this business most of his life,

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Biographical history of northeastern Ohio : embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake, Part 22

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