Biographical history of northeastern Ohio : embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake, Part 77

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

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Linus Clark was a lawyer in early life and manifested considerable talent in that direc- tion, being possessed of a wonderful memory and good judgment. He afterward turned his attention to farming and emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1833. He settled in Warrensville township, Cuyahoga county, paying $3.50 an acre for the land, on which he erected a log cabin, and there resided for two years, when he sold his land for $16 per acre. He died February, 1881, aged eighty- five years. His wife, formerly Hulda Bun- nell, was born near Hannibal, Massachusetts, in 1802, and died in 1880. She was the mother of nine children, who all lived to ma- turity. The eldest was born in 1823 and

died in 1887. At the present time only three of the number are living. Linus Clark was elected Justice of the Peace and was given other local offices.

The Doctor attended the district schools and afterward was a student in the Academy at Twinsburg, Ohio, then a noted institution. He taught school for a few terms and for four months received only $16 per month and took his pay in checks on a Wooster " wild- cat " bank, realizing only twenty-five cents on a dollar. In the spring of 1848, he began the study of medicine with Dr. S. U. Torbell, of Bedford, and remained under his instruc- tion for three years. He next attended the Cleveland Medical College, from which he graduated in the spring of 1852.

Going to Fairfield county, the Doctor be- gan the practice of medicine at a point ten miles from Lancaster, but was only located there for a few months. He came to Wil- loughby on the fifth of December, 1852, and has made this the field of his operations ever since with the single exception of three years. For six years he lived on a farm in Willoughby. In the early days he had quite a large practice, considering the fact that the country was yet sparsely settled. As a sample of one of his busy days, we give the follow- ing: be pumped water and fed seventy head of cattle and ten horses, drew five logs to the mill, which was two miles distant, and saw six patients, besides attending to other mat- ters on the farm.

On the 15th of May, 1854, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Clark and Miss Sarah E. Drake, a native of the Green Mountain State. Her father, Alonzo Drake, emigrated to Olio, and settled in Bedford township, Cuyahoga county, and lived there on his farm, for about one half a century. He died at the age of eighty-five years. He was a skillful

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shoemaker, and carried on work in that line in addition to that of his farm. Our subject and wife are the parents of three children: Nettie, wife of J. W. Wheeler, who is in the stave and hoop business in Paulding, Ohio. For a number of years he was business man- ager of the Moline (Illinois) Plow Works. Edwin A., the second child, graduated from Willoughby high school, after which he at- tended Hiram College for two years, and then graduated from the Adelbert College of Cleveland. He afterward entered the Cleve- land Medical College, and is now practicing, his office being on Cedar avenue, Cleveland. Mary Josephine, the youngest of the family, is a graduate of Hiram College and is now teaching in the public school at Willoughby.

In former days, Dr. Clark was an Aboli- tionist, and since the formation of the Re- publican party has championed the same. He and his family are members of the Dis- ciple Church, in which he is now a Trustee. In 1891, he built a fine substantial residence, which is pleasantly situated.

The mother of Mrs. Clark, a native of Ver- mont, died in her seventy-seventh year. Both she and Mr. Drake were active in the work of the Disciple Church. S. S. Drake, a brother of Mrs. Clark, is president of the Eagle Oil Refining Company of Cleveland, Ohio.

C APTAIN THOMAS J. CARLIN, Jus- tice of the Peace and Notary Public, Conneaut, Ohio, dates his birth at Chau- tauqua, New York, January 12, 1816.

His parents, James and Mary (Smith) Car- lin, were born, reared and married in Ireland, and in 1814 came to the United States and settled in Westfield, New York. James Car- lin was a brick mason, which occupation he

followed all his life. He was an honest and straightforward business man and in him were the truest and purest types of religion united. He died in September, 1826, about the age of fifty years. Both he and his wife were Presbyterians. Later in life, however, Mrs. Carlin united with the Methodist Epis- copal Church, of which she died a consistent member, at the age of seventy-seven years, her death occurring about 1874. During the latter part of her life she made her home with the subject of our sketch, and her last rest- ing place is at Conneaut. This worthy couple were the parents of three daughters and four sons, only two of whom, Captain James Car- lin and the subject of this article, are living,

Thomas J. received his education in the public schools and the Westfield Academy. His first business was that of making brick at Westfield. He also followed the same oc- cupation at Conneaut in an early day, having made this place his home since 1838.

Early in 1861, although forty-six years of age and not in reach of the draft, being too old, he enlisted in the service of his country ; raised and took into the service the Second Ohio Four-gun Battery, General Fremont subsequently adding two twelve-pound how- itzers to their force. Mr. Carlin was made Captain of the battery and served as such until his health failed in 1862, when he re- signed. He served in western Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi. He was then ap- pointed assistant enrolling officer, under Gov- ernor Tod, for the Nineteenth Congressional District, and served in that capacity until the close of the war. The battery was in the first battle of Pea Ridge, later at Black River bridge, at Raymond, Mississippi, and also at Vicksburg. On one occasion the Captain, with twenty non-commissioned officers, was detailed to capture a ton of rebel powder

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near Warsaw, Missouri. He accomplished the task, delivering the ammunition over to the United States Arsenal in October, 1861. While out on this raid his horse shied at a large rock which was on a dug-out road, thereby causing Captain Carlin to strain his back. An hour later he was compelled to dismount, and from the effects of this strain he has been troubled ever since. At the time he enlisted in the army two of his sons, Or- son A. and James M. also entered the ser- vice, leaving the mother and two daughters alone.

Captain Carlin had been Postmaster at Conneaut for eight years previous to his en. listment, and at the close of the war he was elected Justice of the Peace, holding the office by re-election up to the present time.

He served as Mayor of Conneaut three terms, not in succession, however. In the educational affairs of the town he has been an important factor. He served continuously for twenty-one years on the Board of Educa- tion, his associates retaining him even while in the war. With fraternal organizations he has also taken an active part. He organiz d the first lodge of Good Templars in Conneant and was its first Worthy Chief, which office he held for two years. He has taken a promi- nent part in all temperance work of the town ever since and has ever been an ardent Pro- hibitionist. He is the oldest member of Evergreen Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of which he served four years as Worshipful Master. At the breaking out of the war he was Senior Grand Deacon of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, and was in a fair way for promotion at that time. He took part in the unveiling of the Perry monument at Cleveland, Ohio. He signed for a charter for a lodge of I. O. O. F. nearly fifty years ago; remained with the or- ganization, was its Noble Grand for several

terms, and had a working place in it until it surrendered its charter. His name is the first on a petition for a charter for Custer Post, No. 9, G. A. R., and it was he who had the honor of naming the post in Conneaut. He is a United States pensioner.

Captain Carlin was married November 22, 1838, at Conneaut, Ohio, to Miss Mary Ann Dibble, daughter of Ezra Dibble, a soldier in the war of 1812, the marriage ceremony be- ing performed by S. F. Taylor, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Huron county. After fifty years of happy married life they made arrangements to celebrate their golden wedding, but Mrs. Carlin's health would not permit them to carry out their plans. She died June 22, 1889, aged seventy-two years. From her girlhood she was a member of the Conneaut Congregational Church. Her life, as far as health would permit, was one of activity. It was an inspiration to gentleness, patience, faith and courage: these virtues in her were luminous, and never more so than in her last protracted illness. She was a woman of rare intelligence and Christian character, and all who knew her cheri h her memory with grateful affection.

The Captain and his wife had four children, of whom we make the following record: Ori- son A., who married Miss Allie Loomis, is agent for the Adams Expre-s Company at Greenville, Pennsylvania; Ellen J., wife of J. C. Kuchler, agent for the Erie & Pitts- burg Railroad Company, at Greenville, Penn- sylvania, died January 17, 1893, in the fifty- third year of her age. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church for many years, and was the mother of an only child, Miss Carlin. James M., who married Miss Doty Crane, died in September, 1889, aged forty-two; and Artimisia Blanche is the wife of G. W. Bigelow, of Conneaut. Mr. and Mrs. Bige-

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low have four children, as follows: Mamie C., who has been a successful teacher in the Conneaut public schools since her graduation in 1889; Brownell, a graduate of the Con- neaut high school with the class of 1893; Helen K .; and Orsie Carlin.

Captain Carlin is the oldest member of the Conneaut Congregational Church, having been a member for more than forty years. During his official career he has had an en- viable reputation as a brave and efficient pub- lic officer. In church, with eye bedimmed and enfeebled voice, he still remains a work- ing member as in former years. On all ques- tions of moral reform he has always been, and still is, at the front, laboring for the true and good.

L OREN CLARK STEBBINS, M. D., deceased, for nearly forty years en- joyed a very large practice in Paines- ville, Lake county, Ohio, and passed his entire life on the Western Reserve. He was of a very energetic disposition, and at the time of his death left a large property. He was a skillful physician and surgeon, and was one who was never content with what he had achieved or learned in the past, but made it his practice to take the best medical jour- nale and continually study new discoveries, methods and sciences relating in any way to medicine.

The birth of Dr. Stebbins occurred Novem- ber 1, 1818, in Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio. His father was Rudolphus Stebbins, and the maiden name of his mother was Clark. The former was born in Connecticut, and with a brother came on foot, with his knapsack on his back, to Geauga county, at a very early day. Ile took up a claim, settled in the thick timber and partially cleared a

farm. He later removed to Hampden, in the same county, where he passed his remaining days, his death occurring when he had at- tained to more than the allotted three-score and ten years of man. The mother departed this life when still quite young, leaving three children, of whom our subject is the eldest.

The boyhood of Dr. Stebbins was passed on his father's farm in Geauga county, and when he became of suitable age he attended the old log school-house of former days. He was about nineteen years old when he began the study of medicine under the guidance of Dr. S. Griffith, who in after years became his father-in-law. The Doctor practiced sev- eral years before he entered the Philadelphia Medical College, where, after pursuing a course of study for a short time, he re- ceived a diploma. For some time thereafter he practiced in Auburn, Geauga county, but in 1847 came to Painesville, and here located permanently.

While a resident of Auburn our subject married Almosina, daughter of Dr. S. Grif- fith, an early pioneer of Painesville, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and, coming here in the early '20s, opened a blacksmith shop where the Lake County Bank now stands. Afterward he studied medicine and was a successful physician for many years. He died at the age of sixty-three years, iu Munson, Ohio, where he had resided for some time. Six children came to bless the union of Dr. and Mrs. Stebbins, and four of of the number died in infancy. Francis E. died in 1884, aged thirty years, and Clarence E. is still living, making his home in Paines- ville, on a farm formerly owned by Dr, Griffith.

Our subject and his estimable wife were both for many years members of the Disciple Church, and the latter, who is still living, is

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yet active in the work. The Doctor was a liberal contributor to church and benevolent enterprises, and was a patriotic citizen in the fullest sense of the term. In politics he was a Whig, casting his first vote for William H. Harrison, and became a stanch Republican upon the organization of the party. In busi- ness he was very successful, and owned sev- eral valuable farms, and at one time was in- terested in the City Flour Mills. Mrs. Steb- bins is now superintending the farms and other property, and has an ample income. She was also a true helpmeet and companion to her husband, easing his burdens and light- ening his labor. The death of Dr. Stebbins occurred February 12, 1880. His loss was deeply deplored by the many friends he had won through his qualities of sterling worth and upright integrity of character.

D R. BYRON P. LATHROP, a retired physician, now living on his large and well kept farm near Painesville, Ohio, comes of an old and respected family of this State. The early ancestor of the family in America was Rev. John Lathrop, who settled in Barnstable, Massachusetts, in the seven- teenth century. Moses Lathrop, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native and farmer at Monkton, Vermont, who came to Lake county, Ohio, in 1848, where he lived a number of years, going thence to Michigan, where he died, at the age of eighty. Lorain L. Lathrop, his son, and father of Dr. Lathrop of this biography, was born in Monkton, Ver- mont, in 1802, whence he came in 1820 to Ohio. He journeyed by raft from Pittsburg to Cincinnati, and thence on foot and horse- back through Chillicothe and Sandusky to Cleveland, where he worked for a time. He

finally came to Painesville, where he alter- nately worked in the postoffice and the store connected therewith and attended school. He had an insatiable craving for knowledge, was an omnivorous reader and an indefatig- able student. The first money he earned was exchanged for a book, which was calculated to fire his young heart with ambition, for it was a life of Patrick Henry, the great orator, statesman, patriot and self-made man. Young Lorain Lathrop worked for a time on the farm of Uriah Seeley, and by frugality and by much self denial accumulated sufficient means to buy fifty acres of land in the woods near Painesville. This he cleared, turning the timber into charcoal, and eventually purchas- ing seventy-five acres more, which he also cleared and successfully cultivated, becoming in time one of the most prosperous farmers in the county. He never outgrew his studi- ous propensities, which on the contrary rather increased with his years and opportunities for indulgence. He bought the first copy of the New York Tribune, the successive issues of which paper he read continuously until his death. He married Polly Holbrook, born in Thompson, Ohio, an adopted daughter of Squire William Holbrook, an early and prominent settler of this vicinity. They reared five children : Frances, deceased; Byron P., whose name heads this sketch; Octavia, deceased; Conrad, deceased; and Gertrude, also deceased. The father was politically a Whig and later a Free Soiler and Republican, but always on the side of right and justice. Both he and his worthy wife were devoted members of the Presbyterian Church, to which they rendered much valuable assistance in those pioneer days. At the age of forty- three years, the devoted wife and mother died, leaving her family and many friends to mourn her untimely taking away. The beloved

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father survived to the venerable age of eighty-four, dying in 1883, greatly lamented by all who knew him.

With such ancestors and such careful train- ing as he must have received, it would indeed be strange if the subject of this sketch should evince none of those admirable traits for which his progenitors were noted. That he has in- herited and acquired his share will be seen by the following notice. Dr. Lathrop was born on the home farm near Painesville, Novem- ber 6, 1832, where he was reared until twenty years of age. He attended the district schools and the academy in this vicinity, and at the age of twenty began the study of medi- cine under the careful tutorship of Dr. Car- penter, now deceased, but at that time a suc- cessful and well known practitioner. In 1854 young Lathrop entered the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, at which he graduated in 1856. He then began his prac- tice in Ashtabula, where he remained one year, going thence to Dubuque county, Iowa, where he continued until 1864. At this time, his father's health began to perceptibly fail, and Dr. Lathrop returned to Ohio, and, his own health eventually becoming impaired, he gave up his practice and retired to his farm, where he follows grain and stock-raising, owning seventy-five acres near Painesville, and seventy more a mile west of the city.

In March, 1858, the Doctor was married, in Burlington, Iowa, to Miss Isabella Lang- son, an estimable lady, a native of Dublin, Ireland, who came to America when eleven years of age. They have three children: William, Eleanor and Julia.

Politically, Dr. Lathrop follows in the foot- steps of his distinguished father, being an ardent Republican. His wife and daughters are active members of the Congregational Church, and while professing no particular

denominational belief he himself is a cham- pion of all that is good and true. He has witnessed nearly all the growth and develop- ment of the vicinity in which he lives, to the advancement of which he and his worthy ancestors materially contributed, and of which he is a representative citizen.

D WIGHT F. STRONG was born in Claridon township, Geauga county, Ohio, May 17, 1840, a son of John F. Strong, a native of the State of New York. The grandfather, Elijah Strong, was a na- tive of Connecticut, but removed to New York, where he carried on farming in his younger days. He finally removed to Ohio with his son, John, and died here at the age of seventy-two years. John F. Strong was reared to manhood in New York State, but removed to Ohio in 1833, making the trip via the Erie canal to Buffalo and thence by lake. He was married here about 1838, and located in Claridon township. He returned to New York in 1841, but came back to Ohio in 1847. He owned a tract of sixty-two and a half acres, which he placed under cultiva- tion. He died at the age of fifty-one years. His wife, whose maiden name was Laura C. Kellogg, was the second white female child born in Claridon township, and the daughter of A. Kellogg, one of the pioneers of this section. She was the mother of eight chil- dren, six of whom lived to mature years; Herman R., Dwight F., Loren A., Edward C., Julia C. and Newton J. She died in September, 1892, aged seventy six years. The parents of our subject were active mem- bers of the Congregational Church, and in politics Mr. Strong was an active Whig until the organization of the Republican party.

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Dwight F. is the second-born of the family He attended the district school taught near his own home, and also was a pupil in the Chardon high school for three terms. He had just reached his majority when his father died and left added responsibilities to the son.

Mr. Strong was first married, November 24, 1864, to Elizabeth Alexander, of Ashta- bula county, Ohio, and they had one child, May, who died in her thirteenth year; the wife and mother died in 1871. The second marriage was in September, 1872, when he was united to Alice Alexander, a niece of the first wife, by whom he had one child, Stuart D. Mr. Strong has a choice tract of land, covering 103 acres, all of which is improved and under excellent cultivation. He carries on a general farming business and runs a dairy, milking twelve cows. He has a fine sugar grove of 800 trees, from which he makes a superior grade of sugar. He has been very prosperous in his undertakings, and in 1892 rebuilt his residence after a more modern and convenient plan.

Mr. and Mrs. Strong are members of the Congregational Church of Chardon, and he has been Trustee for six years past. In politics he adheres to the principles of Re- publicanism.

0 SCAR P. QUIGGLE, Mayor of Char- don, Geauga county, Ohio, is one of the leading members of commercial circles in the county, and a citizen highly esteemed. He is a native of the county, born in Hampden township August 9, 1842, a son of P. J. Quiggle, a native of the same place, born February 24, 1810. John Quiggle, the grandfather of our subject, emigrated from

Pennsylvania in 1808, and settled in Hamp- den township when there were but few fam- ilies there. He bought land, built a cabin in the woods, and developed a farm which he sold. He then cleared another tract of land upon which he erected buildings, and where he lived for nearly half a century. He died at the age of ninety-one years; his wife, a native of Philadelphia, died at the age of seventy-four years. They reared a family of four sons and three daughters. The first settlers of the name in this country emigrated from Holland in colonial times. The great- grandfather of our subject, John Quiggle, came to America in an early day and served in the war of the Revolution seven years. P. J. Quiggle was reared and educated in Hamp- den township, attending the pioneer schools of the neighborhood; he assisted in clearing large tracts of land and has owned several fine farms. He is now living, at the age of eighty-three years. He married Angeline Canfield, who was born in Geauga county, Ohio, in 1816. They reared a family of five children: Mary, deceased; Delia A., a teacher of the public schools of Chattanooga, T'en- nessee; Oscar P .. the subject of this notice; Millie and Gertrude. The mother is still living; she is a member of the Diciples' Church, and has always been deeply inter- ested in religious matters. O. P. Quiggle is the third of the family; he attended the select and district schools of Hampden town- ship until he acquired a good business educa- tion.

He enlisted July 29, 1862, in Company E, One Hundredth and Fifth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, and was mustered in at Cleveland and sent to Lexington, the regiment being placed in the Second Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps. On the retreat from that city to Louisville he was

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taken prisoner; he was confined at Lexington a short time and was then paroled. He rejoined his regiment at Murfreesborough, Tennessee, and afterward participated in the battles at Milton, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge; he was in the Atlanta campaign, and fought in the battles of Kenesaw Mountain, New Hope Church, and was under fire until taken sick at Marietta, where he was in the hospital, and then at Chattanooga, Nashville, Jefferson- ville and Camp Dennison, Ohio. He rejoined his regiment at Goldsboro, North Carolina, in March, 1865, and was afterward at Raleigh, Holly Springs, then marched through Rich- mond to Washington and took part in the grand review May 24, 1865. He was mustered out at Washington June 8, 1865, and paid off at Cleveland.

Mr. Quiggle was united in marriage August 30, 1865, to Helen I. Field, who was born at Claridon, Ohio. They have two children: John J. and Elsie M .; Howard F. died at the age of seven years. Mr. Quiggle went into business with his father-in-law, John T. Field, at Hampden in September, 1865. They carried on a general mercantile business for five years, at the end of which Mr. Quiggle took charge of the business. In 1878 they formed a second partnership at Chardon, which existed four years, Mr. Quiggle then buying the business. He carries a large and well selected stock of dry goods, groceries, glassware and carpets, and has a large patronage throughout Geauga county. A Republican in politics, he was elected Mayor of Chardon in 1892, and has made a good officer. He was a member of the council four years, from 1888 to 1892, was Justice of the Peace in Hampden nine years, from 1869 to 1877, and was Post- master there for ten years, from 1866 to 1876, discharging his duties with that

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Biographical history of northeastern Ohio : embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake, Part 77

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