Biographical history of northeastern Ohio : embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake, Part 25

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

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W. P. Horton was reared on his father's farm and assisted in developing it. He also cleared a farm of his own, and after his mar- riage settled thereon. He was married in Darien, Genesee county, New York, October 2, 1836, to Dennis Almira Carter, who was born in New York, August 21, 1810, daugh- ter of Seth and Almira Carter. Her parents were born and married in Connecticut, and were pioneers of the Holland purchase. Of the Carter family we make record as follows: Mrs. Horton was the fourth born in a family of two sons and four daughters. Two of the

latter, Mary Ann and Caroline, are married and living in Kentucky, and the youngest daughter, also married, has her home some place in the west. Samuel lives in the north- ern part of Michigan. William died at Union, Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1890. The father's death occurred in 1851, at the home of .Mr. Horton, in Conneaut, Mrs. Carter hav- ing passed away some years before in Erie county, Pennsylvania; both are buried in the East Conneaut Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Horton had three children, Caroline S., Miles L. and Burrel W., only one of whom, Miles L., is living. Caroline S. became the wife of B. F. Thompson, by whom she had two children, Lida and Alice. Her death occurred December 1, 1881. Mr. Thompson is a farmer and resides in East Conneaut. Mr. Horton's first wife died April 6, 1859. December 31, 1859, he married a widow, Mrs. Mary C. (Knox) Folsom. Mr. Folsom, her deceased husband, had two children by a former marriage, one of whom is the wife of Miles L. Horton, above referred to. Of Mrs. Mary C. Horton's family be it recorded that her parents, Hugh and Martha Knox, had eight children, viz .: Anna, wife of Pyatt Williamson, is deceased, as also is her hus- band; John, who married Catherine Bow, died February 18, 1861, at the age of fifty- five years; James, who died April 24, 1842, at the age of thirty-three years; William, who died June 8, 1873, aged sixty-one years; Mary C., born October 10, 1815; Thomas S., residing near Warren, Ohio; Jane G. Scott, also living near Warren, Ohio; and Robert, who died March 14, 1842, aged twenty-two years: Mary C. Horton died May 30, 1893, leaving the subject of our notice a widower again in his old age.

Mr. W. P. Horton removed from New York to Union county, Pennsylvania, April

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12, 1843, and there developed another farm, on which he remained until he came to East Conneaut, May 5, 1855. About this time he began selling medicines, traveling in the interest of Dr. John S. Carter, of Erie, mak- ing his home in East Conneaut, his son hav- ing charge of the farm. Following his experience on the road, he was sick seven years, with white swelling, and not able to get out or in. He is still afflicted, although he is able to get around, chiefly, however, in his chair. In December, 1883, Mr. Horton moved to West Conneaut and opened a store at his present location, where he has con- tinued to do a successful business.

Mr. Horton, at the age of eleven years, was baptized, and, with his father and mother, united with the first Free-will Baptist Church ever organized on the Holland Purchase, so called, the church being located at Bethany, New York.

For over sixty-seven years Mr. Horton has been a member of the Free-will Baptist Church, and for more than thirty years of that time has acted as chorister in the church. He also served as Church Trustee. Mrs. Hor- ton is a Methodist. Mr. Horton and his son, Miles L., both affiliate with the Republican party.

S® /OLYMAN CLARK OSBORN, second son and child of Samuel Osborn, Jr., and Polly (Webster) Osborn, was born in Franklin, Delaware county, New York, January 1, 1807. He removed with his par- ents in the fall of 1813, to Jefferson, Ashta- bula county, Ohio, to Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1814, to Huron county (now Erie), Ohio, in 1817. Here his father died in September, 1819, and the family returned to Jefferson.

His residence has been since in Ashtabula county, where his time has been consecutively passed at school, learning the clothes-making trade, running a cloth factory, merchandis- ing, milling, and lastly on the small fruit farm on which he now lives in Ashtabula. He was married in Conneaut, Ohio, October 5, 1831, to Harriet Sanford, daughter of Eli Sanford and Sarah (Wheeler) Sanford, of Conneaut, who was born in Conneant, Sep- tember 16, 1815, and is still living. Both he and his venerable wife are in comfortable health and actively engaged in labor,-he with his grapes and fruit and she keeping the house. Both united early in life with the Baptist Church, and have been always active working members in good standing. Mr. Osborn's paternal and maternal grandfather were Revolutionary soldiers; his father was long connected with the militia of Delaware county, in some command. Of these offices he can only remember that of adjutant of the regiment. He was out for some time as a volunteer in the war of 1812. He was a farmer, lumberman and a breeder and lover of good horses, and he was also a hunter and nat- ural mechanic. He possessed great physical strength, which proved, however, to be no de- fense against the malaria of the section known in those early days as the West.

Mr. Osborn and his wife are of New Eng- land stock, his father coming from East Windsor, Connecticut, and his mother from Litchfield county, Connecticut. Mrs. Os- born's father and mother also came from Connecticut. It may be said of his ancestry on both sides, if not great they were good, being pious, honest, temperate and indus- trious.

Mr. and Mrs. Osborn have not been blessed with children. An adopted daughter, now Mrs. Charles Hall, of Conneaut, holds them

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in loving, grateful remembrance, as do also two motherless nieces of Mrs. Osborn -Mrs. Aaron Pickett and Mrs. Hulburt, of Ashta- bula, both of whom were tenderly reared from childhood to maturity at the home of their aunt.

E THENER BEALS, a farmer of Ash- tabula county, was born at Burlington, Genesee county, New York, February 13, 1816, a son of Edson and Jane (Turner) Beals, natives of Massachusetts. The par ents came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1818, settling first in Pierpont township. Edson Beals moved to Cherry Valley in 1828, where he resided until his death. He was a prominent clergyman in the Universalist Church. The children were ninein number: Ethener, Artemas, Amos, Susan, Hannah, Fidelia, Anna, Lydia and Maria. The mother died at the age of ninety-two years. Ethener Beals, the subject of this sketch, now owns a good farm of 108 acres in this county, where he has a good dwelling, barns, orchard, and every convenience necessary for a well regu- lated farm. He was married in Erie county, Pennsylvania, at the age of twenty-two years, to Lucretia Lowe, a daughter of Isaac Lowe. To this union was born five children, two now living,-Ensign and Abileno E. Two chil- dren died in infancy, and Josiah departed this life at the age of twenty-two years. The wife and mother died July 8, 1872, and Feb- ruary 25, 1874, Mr. Beals married Orazetta Gleason, a native of Steuben county, New York. He had been a Republican ever since the formation of the party.

A. E. Beals, a son of Ethener Beals, was born September 15, 1848, and received his education at Austinburg and Oberlin. He afterward taught school for a time, and in

1870 located on his present farm in this county, known as the old Trask Creesey place. He owns 200 acres of the finest farming land in this township, where he has a good resi- dence, a barn 34 x 75 feet, and a fine dairy. In one year Mr. Beals raised 333 bushels of wheat on eleven acres of ground.

February 24, 1870, at Jefferson, Ohio, he was united in marriage to Elcena J. Spellman, a daughter of Charles and Sally (Mason) Spellman. The mother was born at Fort Ann, New York, a daughter of Nathan Mason. Mr. and Mrs. Beals have two chil- dren, -- Frank S., aged seventeen years, is at- tending musical college at Jefferson; and Birney, born in April, 1880. Three of their children are deceased. Mr. Beals affiliates with the Republican party.

RA H. PARDEE, M. D., an able Home- opathic physician and public-spirited cit- izen of Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, was born in Windham, Portage county, this State, May 12, 1859. His parents, Samuel A. and Diadema E. (Owen) Pardee, were early set- tlers of Portage county, of which they are still honored residents, the father being a practical and enterprising farmer.

The subject of this sketch remained on the home farm until about seventeen years of age. at first attending the district schools and afterward going to Hiram College and the Northwestern Ohio University. He began to teach school at the age of seventeen, an occupation which he followed twelve consec- utive years. He first taught in Trumbull county, Ohio, for two or three years; then taught some time in Portage county, after which he became principal of the public schools in Palmyra, this State, and later was

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principal of the schools at Mantua. In the meantime he was diligently reading medicine, and in 1886 entered Pulte Medical College, in Cincinnati, Ohio, at which institution he graduated March 12, 1889. In March, 1888, he went to Mason, Wisconsin, where he taught school and practiced medicine until July, 1889, at which time he settled in Har- bor, Ohio, in which place he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his pro- fession, meeting, from the first, with gratify- ing encouragement. He educated himself, both scholastically and professionally, by earning at intervals the cost of tuition, which may well presage success, inasmuch as our self-made men are the ones who attain the greatest prosperity.

In 1881, Dr. Pardee was married to Miss Ella R. Pierce, an intelligent and prepossess- ing lady of Hiram, Ohio. They have one son, Azro.

Politically, the Doctor is a stanch sup- porter of Democracy, while he is fraternally a member of the Knights of Pythias and the National Union and Independent Order of Foresters. He also belong to the State Homeopathic Medical Association. As a physician he is judicious and careful, while as a citizen and man he is upright and pro- gressive, and is justly esteemed by his fellow men.

UDGE EDWARD J. BETTS .- The legal profession of Jefferson, Ohio, is ably represented by the subject of this sketch, whose natural ability and scholarly · attainments would have rendered him a suc cess in any walk of life.

Judge Betts, eminent lawyer and progres- sive citizen, was born in Norwalk, Connecti-

cut, June 4, 1838. His parents, Josiah and Jane Betts, removed from Connecticut to Pennsylvania in an early day, whence they afterward moved to Ohio, at that time on the frontier of civilization, finally settling in Ashtabula county in 1853.

The subject of this sketch passed most of his youth in Portage county, Ohio, from which place his parents removed to Ashta- bula county when he was a lad of fifteen years. He has ever since resided in the latter county, and since 1863 his home has been in Jefferson. His education was at- tained in the academies of Orwell and Kings- ville, after which he pursued the study of law under the instruction of Mr. S. A. North- way, of Jefferson, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1864. Possessing an analytical and comprehensive mind, gifted with legal acu- men and insight, combined with unflagging energy, he was calculated to push his way to the foremost rank of his profession. In De- cember, 1871, he was appointed Judge of the Probate Court, to which position he was re-elected three successive terms, his incum- bency lasting until February 9, 1882. His judicial record was characterized by justice and honor, his rulings being rendered in thorough accord with the evidence and the law, and he carried with him into private life the approval of his fellow-men and the higher endorsement of his own conscience. His attention has since been devoted to his legal practice, in which he easily takes the lead in his community.

The Judge was first married in 1868, to Miss Olive A. Dodge, but her presence was destined to brighten his home for but a short time, her death taking place in 1873. In 1874 the Judge was married to Miss Maria T. Houghton, an accomplished lady. They have one daughter, Cora M. Betts.

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a half, when he again returned to Ashtabula, where he has since continued in active prac- tice of medicine.

In 1876 Dr. Morse was married to Miss Lydia J. Atwood, daughter of his preceptor in medicine, thus, like Othello, using the charm of noble manhood to win the daugh- ter of his benefactor.

Politically, Dr. Morse is a Republican, and, socially, belongs to the Paulis Post, G. A. R., the Knights of Pythias and Ma- sonic order. As a citizen and man he stands justly high in his community, where he has passed so many busy and useful years.

AMES H. JUDSON, a prominent busi- ness man and enterprising citizen of Conneaut, Ohio, was born at this place, September 28, 1848, son of Hiram and Azuba (Horton) Judson.

Hiram Judson was born in New York in 1812, the oldest of three children of Elisha Judson, his two brothers being Ephraim and Isaac. Ephraim went to Michigan, where he died when about twenty-one years of age. Isaac died in Elkhart, Indiana, about 1886. The mother of J. H. Judson was born December 10, 1809, oldest of the two chil- dren of James and Asenath (Mann) Horton, natives of Connecticut and Massachusetts respectively. The other child, Sarah, was born in May, 1811; became the wife of S. A. Pelton, of Connecticut; died March 1, 1883. After the death of her mother, which occurred when Azuba was three years old, she went to live with her grandparents, Nathan and Elizabeth Mann, by whom she was reared. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Judson were married March 6, 1835, and in 1840 settled in Con- neaut. Of the three children born to them only James H. is living. Elisha, the oldest,

born June 10, 1838, died at the age of seventeen, and Sarah, born October 22, 1844, lived only four years.

James H. Judson was educated in Con- neaut, for a time receiving private instruc- tions under William F. Hubbard. He has been identified with the interests of Conneaut for many years, beginning his business career as a clerk in the store of Mr. Keyes. Afterward he and Mr. Keyes were engaged in the fish business, next he was in the shoe business with Joseph Douglas, and still later became a partner in the dry-goods business with Mr. Higgins. The firm of Higgins & Judson continued to do a successful busi- ness until about 1884, when Mr. Judson sold out. For the past fifteen years he has been interested in the lumber business. In the lumber business he succeeded Mr. Lake, who was a partner with his father, the firm then becoming H. Judson & Son, and now being Judson & Parker. His partner, L. R. Parker, is a resident of Fostoria, Ohio. Mr. Judson is also interested in California fruit- growing. He has forty acres in oranges, of three years' growth, all budded fruit, and in good growing condition. He takes great pride in his orange grove, especially since it was a project of his lamented father; and he visits the place annually as a sort of diversion from his other business exactions. Mr. Judson is a man of genial, benevolent nature, sound business principles and strict integrity, and is a worthy representative of his father.

August 11, 1870, James II. Judson mar- ried Miss Louisa Houck, a native of Buffalo, New York, and a daughter of Michael and Margaret (Pflau) HIvuck, of that place. They have four children: Hiram, Clara M., Lina A. and Margaret-all in school. Mrs. Judson is a member of the Congregational Church.

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Mr. Judson votes with the Republican party, taking, however, little interest in political matters. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken the Scot- tish rite degrees.

In connection with the life of James H. Judson, it is fitting that further mention be made of his honored father, and the follow: ing sketch will be of interest to many.

Hiram Judson, deceased, was born in Penfield, New York, September 29, 1812. He and his wife came to Conneaut in 1840. For a number of years he, in company with Mr. Asa Shepard, conducted a woolen mill and store on South Ridge, and in 1859 he moved into Conneaut and engaged in mer- chandising, E. A. Higgins being his partner. He also, with Hiram Lake as a partner, car- ried on a lumber business. With the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, he went to the oil fields and for a number of years was one of the busy men in that busy sec- tion. He returned to Conneaut, however, in 1864, far from being a wealthy man. At the death of Mr. Lake, James H. Judson came into the firm, and he and his father continued a successful business in lumber.

On Tuesday, October 14, 1890, Mr. Jud- son, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Brayman, left Conneaut in the best of spirits for Cali- fornia, to engage in a new enterprise, the planting of an orange grove, an undertak- ing, as he expressed to the writer, from which he knew he could not live the requisite length of time to receive any benefits, but which he believed would eventually prove one of the most profitable investments. Lit- tle did he think he would not live to reach the Golden State, much less that his death would be the result of his falling from the train that was speeding him to his new field of labor. We have no details of the sad acci-

dent. The following Saturday, the sorrow- stricken family received the following dis- patch: "Mr. Judson fell from the train and was instantly killed." This was a sad ending of a life so grand and useful, making a mournful impression upon the mind.

Hiram Judson is dead. These are the most painful words we have written in many a day. They have cast a pall of sorrow not only over the family and its immediate con- nections, but also over the entire city of Conneaut. No man was better known or more highly respected than the deceased, and therefore this universal mourning. The feelings of sorrow and sadness that hold sway in every breast is but a just tribute to the man whose departure has been so sudden and unexpected.

A resident of this place for nearly a half a century, and identified with all its interests as a leader among the many of our active citizens, his worth became known to us all. No enterprise of a public nature was ever in- augurated without, if according to his judg- ment it was proper and for the best inter- ests of the community at large, receiving the hearty support of his active brain and liberal purse; and if it met with his disap- proval he was equally bold and fearless in opposing it with voice and action. He was a man of strong convictions, fearless and bold in his dealings with municipal officers, and no measure of a public nature was ever undertaken without the result that his voice was raised either for or against it and in no uncertain tone.

During the time we were laboring for the establishment of the Nickel Plate shops, he was one of the active men; again, when work- ing with might and main for our Southern rail- road scheme, his voice was loud and strong, and his purse wide open. He served the

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city as Councilman for a number of years, and as a member of the Council, as in every other place, he was a power for good. In his private business enterprises he was pos- sessed of rare tact and foresight, great activity and indomitable perseverance, and whatever he undertook to do he carried to a successful issue. In his vocabulary there was no such word as "failure."

With all the push and energy he applied to his various business enterprises, and the process of acquiring a handsome fortune, there is not a man living who could give expression to a suspicion that in all his busi- ness relations he was not the soul of honor, honesty and uprightness. In social life he was an example worthy the imitation and emulation of all -- calm, dignified and active. In all measures that had a tendency to elevate mankind and to make better, he was a leader. Every appeal to relieve the suffer- ings of his fellow-men found him not only a ready listener but also ready with an open hand to assist and succor. There are many in our community who will sadly miss his fatherly advice and his many acts of charity.

Although not a professor of religion, he was a regular attendant upon divine service and a most liberal contributor toward the support of the Gospel. He lived the life of the follower of the Lamb. He was merciful and he shall receive merey.

In Evergreen Lodge, A. F. & A. M., he was a pillar, and in his younger days was a most active worker. Here, as well as in business circles, in the church and in the family, is a vacant place.

In his death the aged and invalid wife, the only son and his family have met with an irreparable loss. -

H ON. AMOS AND MARTIN KEL- LOGG .- Amos Kellogg was born in Alford, Berkshire county, Massachu- setts, June 17, 1782, was married to Paulina Dean, July 30, 1805, and was the seventh in a family of nine children, all of whom lived to maturity and reared families of their own. Amos and his brother Martin, two years his senior, who had previously married Miss Anna Lester, remained at home as the joint owners of and cultivating the old homestead until 1811, when one Colwell, of Albany, New York, who was the owner of a large tract of wild lands in western Virginia, by representing his land to be valuable for farming purposes and just coming into mar- ket, and offering him the position of surveyor and general agent for the sale of his lands, with a liberal compensation, induced Martin, who was a practical and skillful surveyor, to accept his offer.

Accordingly, after the necessary prepara- tions, June 12, 1811, Martin with his family, consisting of his wife and two children, aged respectively seven and three years, started from the old homestead to seek a new home in the then far West, their outfit consisting of a pair of horses, wagon, and harness, carrying the family and household goods. The route taken was from Alford to Newburg, where they crossed the Hudson river, from thence to eastern New Jersey, Bethlehem, Allen- town, Reading, Harrisburg, Carlisle, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; Cumberland, Maryland; Clarksburg and Parkersburg, Vir- gininia, to Belpre, Ohio. On arriving at his destination, after a journey of some 600 miles, occupying some five weeks, having crossed the Blue Ridge and seen the country, he became satisfied that nothing could be done in the way of selling lands that then were hardly worth surveying. He was, therefore,

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on the point of turning back, withont unload- ing his goods, when he was offered a house to shelter him for a season. This induced him to remain until he could better determine what to do. He remained at Belpre, on the Ohio river, until the death of his father, late in the autumn of 1812, when, on the 24th of December of that year, he started on foot to return to the old homestead, following the same route traversed on his journey the year previous, arriving at Alford about January 1, 1813.

On the failure of the land enterprise, the death of their father, and the return of Mar- tin, the brothers concluded to embrace one of the then many opportunities to exchange cul- tivated farms in the East for wild lands in what was then known as New Connecticut. They accordingly made such exchange, receiv- ing for the old homestead 1,150 acres of un- cultivated land situated in Ashtabula and Geauga counties. Early in 1813, Martin re- turned to Belpre, and with his family removed to their new lands in Salem, in this county, in time to erect a log house, one mile north of the present village of Kelloggsville, in which they spent the winter of 1813-'14.

In February, 1814, Amos with his family, -- consisting of his aged mother, wife, two daughters, aged respectively eight and six years, and a son, aged two years, with a hired laborer,-started from their old home- stead for their new home in the wilderness of New Connectient, the outfit being four horses with two sleighs, carrying the family and household goods. Arriving at Phelpstown, Ontario county, New York, where his wife had expected to meet her father, two brothers, and a younger sister, who had preceded her the year before and settled in that locality, she learned for the first time, by a messenger whom she met but a few rods from the door,

that her father had died since she had started on her journey. They arrived at their new home early in March, after a journey of more than 500 miles entirely on runners, and oc- cupying four weeks. On the arrival of Amos with his family, in the spring of 1814, the brothers, who were still partners, and held both real and personal property in common, commenced clearing and opening up their new lands preparatory to cultivation, and during the following six years, while they so remained in company, they cleared, fenced, and brought under cultivation some 200 acres of original forest lands, being very largely assisted in their labors by John Hardy. They continued to reside together with their families until February, 1815, when they pur- chased from the late Hon. Eliphalet Austin, of Austinburg, a large part of the tract of land now covered by the village of Kelloggsville, then known as the "Fogger- son settlement." Martin moved upon this tract, where he remained until 1819, when they dissolved their partnership and divided the property, Amos taking what was known as the Foggerson farm and Martin going back to the new one. Amos' business occu- pations were farming, merchandising, buying, driving, and selling cattle, and keeping a village tavern.

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Biographical history of northeastern Ohio : embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake, Part 25

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