Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens, Part 106

Author: Doyle, William B., b. 1868
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1150

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On February 9, 1854, Nathaniel Pettitt was married to Rachel Ann Jones, who was born near Sharon Center, Medina County, Ohio, and is a daughter of John and Mary (Foster) Jones. Her father was born in Maryland and her mother in New York and they were married in Wayne County, Ohio. They moved to Sharon when Mrs. Pettitt was small and later to Copley Township, Summit County, where she was reared. Her mother lived to be a venerable lady, surviving for ninety years, passing the last eleven years with Mr. and Mrs. Pettitt, where she died in 1896. Her husband died in 1867. To Mr. and Mrs. Pettitt were born seven children, namely: Mary Alice, who married Charles Brown; Charles Nathaniel, who operates the farm; Milton Howard; Myron Grant ; Emma,

who married Daniel Frederick; Elsie, who married Vinton Hardy; and Homer, residing at home. Mr. and Mrs. Pettitt have been blessed in their children and they have four- teen grandchildren.

A. HI. STALL, M. D., physician and sur- geon, at Barberton, has one of the best equipped offices and most complete medical libraries in Summit County. lle was born July 7, 1876, at Hudson, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of Hiram and Jennie (Gal- loway) Stall.

The father of Dr. Stall died when he was a child of three years, after which his mother moved to Montrose, Summit County, and he attended the common and High School in Copley Township, following which he spent one session at Mt. Union College, at AAlliance, and also attended the Ohio Normal University at Ada for one term. When eighteen years of age he began to teach school, and con- tinued in educational work through the town- ship for the succeeding three years, in the meantime preparing himself, by preliminary medical study, for entering the medical de- partment of the Western Reserve University, where he was graduated June 13, 1901, with his medical degree.

By June 16, 1901, Dr. Stall was established as assistant to Dr. E. A. Bellford, at Barber- ton. with whom he remained until March, 1903, when he located at Johnson's Corners, in Norton Township, where he was made health officer, having previously served in that office at Barberton. He remained in that vil- lage until July, 1906, when he returned to Barberton, loeating on the corner of Baird and Fourth Streets. Dr. Stall is an enthu- siast in his profession and keeps fully abreast of the times, continually adding to his valu- able equipment of surgical instruments and making additions to his already large seien- tifie library. IFe is a member of the Ameri- can Medical Association and the Summit, County. the Ohio State and the Barberton Medical Societies.

On December 24, 1904, Dr. Stall was mar- ried to Edna Prange, who is a daughter of

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IIerman Prange, who is superintendent of the McNeil Boiler Works, of South Akron. They had one son, Arthur, who died August 18, 1903, aged eleven months, and they have a daughter, Margaret, who was born June 22, 1907.

Dr. Stall is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity and retains his connection with his college society, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the medical fraternity society Nu Sigma Nu. Ile is to some degree interested in politics and since 1904 has been township clerk of Norton Township.

JONAATILAN HALE, a pioneer settler of Summit County, was a member of an hon- orable old New England family and the name is still one of note in many sections, espe- cially in the vieinity of Glastonbury, Connec- ticut, where he was born, April 23, 1777, while the country was engaged in the arduous struggle of the Revolutionary War.

In the summer of 1810, Jonathan Hale penetrated to Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, being the first actual settler, Mr. Ilale trading property in Glastonbury, Connecticut, for 500 acres, valued at $1,200, with Thomas and Lucinda Bull, also purchas- ing the interest of a squatter who had located on the land to await newcomers. Later in the year he was joined by other members of his family, and thus the Hales were estab- lished in what was then a wilderness of the Western Reserve. Indians were so numerous and unfriendly that when Jonathan Hale was drafted for the War of 1812, he was released on account of the dangers that would sur- round his helpless family in his absence.

On July 11. 1802, Mr. Hale was married (first) to Mercy S. Piper. who died May 14, 1829. He was married (second) November 2, 1830, to Sarah Cozad Mather. The chil- dren of the first marriage were: Sophronia, William. Pamela, Andrew, Abigail and James M. Those of the second marriage were: Jon- athan D .. Mercy A. and Samuel C.

Mr. Hale was an active citizen and did his full duty in promoting the progress of the community in which he lived. It was through

his influence and from his suggestion that the township was given its name. He died in Bath Township, May 14, 1854.

ABNER L. CALDWELL, general farmer and formerly township trustee of Portage Township, owns thirty acres of land which is highly valuable on account of its close prox- imity to Akron, on the north, he having al- ready sold forty acres for building purposes. the Caldwell School building having been erected on it. Mr. Caldwell was born at Springfield, Indiana, January 13. 1839, and is a son of Tarlton and Julia Ann ( Vrooman ) Caldwell.

In 1841 the parents of Mr. Caldwell moved to Missouri, where they remained for eight years and then removed to California, where the father worked in the gold mines for twenty years. He acquired a mine of his own and after he gave up the hard life of a miner. he settled on a large ranch in Southern Cali- fornia and on that both he and his wife died.

Up to the age of sixteen years, Abner L. Caldwell had few educational advantages. during these early years being called on to as- sist his father. After that, however, the family was in easy circumstances and in 1857 he re- turned to Ohio and entered the preparatory school at Hudson, where he remained two years and then went back to California. Mr. Caldwell made five trips across the Isthmus of Panama. As may be judged, he takes a great deal of interest in the progress of the Govern- ment work at that point, at present. His rem- iniscences of those early trips are very in- teresting.

In 1861, Mr. Caldwell was married to Mary Pitkin, who is a daughter of the late Judge S. II. Pitkin, one of the early pioneers of Summit County and a man of great promi- nence. Judge Pitkin owned 186 acres of land in Portage Township. to which he retired after serving as probate judge. He died at Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell were married at Hud- son. While attending school at Hudson he boarded in the family of Judge Pitkin. After their marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell lived five years in Californa and then returned to

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Summit County, residing with Judge Pitkin, on the present farm, for a time, but subse- quently erecting a residence of their own.

Mr. Caldwell has taken some interest in politics and, as one of the reliable and sub- stantial citizens, has been offered many posi- tions of responsibility, but he has declined all but that of township trustee, in which he has served several terms.

DANIEL IIOLIBAUGH, general farmer, residing on his excellent farm of sixty-three acres, which is favorably located just outside the city limits of East Akron, was born at Mul- berry, Stark County, Ohio, March 28, 1831, and is a son of Joseph and Lydia ( Hosler ) Ilolibaugh.

Daniel Holibaugh was reared in Stark County assisting his father on the home farm and attending the district schools. Ilis par- ents both died in Stark County, the father in 1879, aged seventy-nine years, and the mother, in 1886, at the same age.

On October 22, 1857. Daniel Holibaugh was married at Canton, Ohio, by Rev. P. A. Hlerbruck, to Mary Brumbaugh, who is a daughter of David and Mary (Zeller) Brum- bangh. ' The mother of Mrs. Holibaugh died when she was fifteen years of age. Iler father continued to live in Stark County for a few years and then removed to Akron, where he subsequently married the mother of Judge J. A. Kohler. Mr. Brumbaugh was a carpen- der and cabinet-maker and later a farmer. He died at Akron.

After marriage, Daniel Holibaugh and wife lived on the old Holibaugh homestead in Stark County, for twelve years. In 1869. they bought 111 acres of land in Portage Township, sixty-three of which they still own. and in February, 1870, they settled on it. In the same year Mr. Holibaugh built his sub- stantial barn and in the following year his comfortable residence, and each year since he has done more improving. Hle carried on a general farming line and kept from five to ten head of cattle. On acount of his land be- ing so well located, Mr. Holibaugh has been able to sell as much as he has cared to part

with, at good priees, for town lot sites, and in 1907, he sold six acres to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the new branch passing through the land in such a way that the residence had to be moved. Mr. Ilolibaugh is rather proud of his orchards as he set out every tree himself.

As Mr. Holibaugh and wife had on chil- dren of their own, they decided to adopt a child and found a beautiful little daughter, in Jennie E. Ringer. She was motherless and was the child of Louis and Matilda ( Royer) Ringer. She was taken by Mr. and Mrs. Holibaugh when aged four and one-half years and was reared as their own until her mar- riage, in young womanhood, to William E. Hale. Mr. and Mrs. Ilale have had five chil- dren. namely: Jessie May, who married Ora Rowh, has one child, Grace Lucile: Harvey (" .; Alvin F .; Frank, who died aged ten weeks; and Lenora.

Mr. and Mrs. Holibaugh are consistent members of Trinity Reformed Church, of North Ilill. Ile has served both as deacon and elder in this church. They are most estimable people, kind, hospitable and chari- table, and they have a wide cirele of friends.

MOCAUSLAND BROTHERS, leading brick manufacturers in Portage Township. and general farmers, owning ninety acres of valuable land. succeeded their father, who was the founder of the business, in 1885. The firm is made up of John J. and James C. McCausland, sons of the late John McCaus- land.

John McCausland was a son of James Me- Causland, and he was born in Ireland, where he remained until 1848, when he came to America. The aged father subsequently came from Ireland and died in the home of his son. For several years he worked in the agricultural districts as a farm hand and after coming to Portage Township. Summit County, rented the old Simon Perkins farm, now known as the Fouse farm, and then bought seventy-five acres of the present home farm. To this he added until he had 180 aeres. Ile continued to farm after 1871. when he started his brick business, in which his sons were prae-

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tically brought up. John McCausland built two brick houses on his farm, the one in whichi he resided until his death, being now the prop- erty of James Breen. Hle had commenced the erection of the large briek residence, in which his sons live, but did not survivo to see it completed. Ilis death occurred in Novem- ber, 1884. He was a man of great business enterprise and succeeded in whatever work he undertook.

John McCausland married Mary McQuil- lan, who was a daughter of Charles McQuil- Ian. She was born in Ireland and came to America in young womanhood. She died on Decoration Day, 1894. They had six chil- dren, namely: James C., Margaret, John J .. and Mary, who married James Breen. Two children died as infants.

The two sons of Joim McCausland, as stated above, succeeded to their father's interests and have continued together as they have been since boyhood. The older brother, James C., has never married. John J. McCausland mar- ried Anna M. Doran, who was reared at Akron and is a daughter of William Doran. They have three children : Leo, aged twelve years; Helen, aged eleven years; and Mary, aged four years. John J. McCausland has served two terms as township treasurer and enjoys the full confidence of his fellow-citizens. Both brothers are members of St. Vincent Catholic Church and belong to the order of Knights of Columbus.

The MeCausland Brothers' brick plant has a capacity of about 4,000,000 building brick, and during the six months in the year that it is running. employment is given to abont twenty-five men. It is one of the best estab- lished industries of Portage Township and its owners are among the representative citizens.

AULTMAN BROTHERS, bankers and .brokers, with offices in the Hamilton Build- ing, Akron, and with additional offices at Toledo and Cleveland, manage and control many large financial interests in this section of Ohio. The firm is made up of William J. and George W. Aultman.

William J. Aultman was born at Orrville.

Wayne County, Ohio, in 1875, in which place he was reared and educated, and where he was engaged for two years in the bicycle business. Then coming to Akron, he entered the employ of the B. F. Goodrich Company, with whom he remained for five years. In 1892 the firm of Aultman Brothers was founded for dealing in mining stock, and they have since handled the most success- ful stocks of this kind in this section of Ohio. They carry on a banking and brok- erage business and their standing as business men is very high. In 1902 William J. Ault- man was married to Ella Hostettler, of Orr- ville, Ohio, and they have one child, Gar- nett Marie. Mr. and Mrs. Aultman are members of the First Presbyterian Church at Akron.

George W. Aultman, of Aultman Broth- ers, was born at Orrville, Wayne County. Ohio, in 1877. After leaving school he worked for three years at dentistry, later went into the bicycle business, and in 1890 came to Akron. For eighteen months he was con- nected with the Goodrich Company, and for the same length of time with the Diamond Rubber Company Ile then became associated with his brother, William J., in the brokerage business, making mining a specialty. In June, 1907, George W. Aultman was mar- ried to Edith MeGurry, of Toledo, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Aultman belong to the First Pres- byterian Church.

The material success which has attended this firm of enterprising young men is some- what remarkable. Both had practical busi- ness experience and with their ambition stim- ulated by enlarged opportunities, they found themselves qualified to accept new responsi- bilities and have rapidly built up a large and important business.

OTTO N. H.ARTER, president of the Ak- ron Pure Milk Company, with business loca- tion at No. 265 Bowery Street, Akron, was born April 4, 1866, at New Berlin, Stark County, Ohio, and is a son of Jeremiah Har- ter.

O. N. Harter was twelve years of age when

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his parents moved to Western Star, Summit County, where he completed his education and then entered into a milk and butter bus- iness. For a number of years he was a inem- ber of the firm of Harter Brothers, dealers in dairy products. In April, 1904, when the Akron Pure Milk Company was reorganized and incorporated, with a capital stock of $10,- 000, which put it on a firm foundation, O. N. Harter became president, A. II. IIarter, vice-president, and A. G. Teeple, secretary and treasurer. The Akron quarters are com- modious and sanitary. They have their but- ter manufacturing plant at Killbuck, Ilolmes County, where fine creamery butter is pro- duced which finds a ready market on account of its superior excellence. Employment is given by this company to twenty-five people. In partnership with J. M. Sumner, Mr. Har- ter organized the Sumner Company, exclusive dealers in dairy products, but he has disposed of his interest in this concern. Other enter- prises of considerable importance claim a part of his attention and he is a stockholder in several banks.

On June 15, 1893, Mr. Harter was married to Rose M. Spidle, of Akron, and they have five children, namely: Frederiek S., Flora C., Bessie May, Bert II. and Harry Lee.

Mr. Harter is a good, solid citizen, taking an interest in all that concerns the real wel- fare of the country, but he has never devoted much time to politics.

GEORGE HART ROOT, a leading citizen of Tallmadge Township, was born May 21, 1833, on the farm and in the same house in which he lives, in Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of John Cole and Lydia (Hart) Root.

The Root family is of English extraetion and of Puritan aneestry. John Root, the settler, came from Badby, England, to Farm- Ington, Connecticut, with the first settlers of the place, in 1640. His father being deceased. he was adopted by a wealthy uncle, the latter of whom was a zealous supporter of the great Protector. He insisted that his nephew, John Root, espouse Cromwell's eause against King Charles I. but the nephew was of a peaccable

disposition and chose rather to east in his lot with the little band of Puritans then on the verge of emigrating to the free land across the Atlantic Ocean.

In the settlement at Farmington, John Root became a man of affairs and of much prominence. About 1640, he married Mary Kilbourn, who was born in 1619, at Wood Dutton, England, and died in Connecticut, in 1697, aged seventy-eight years. Her par- ents were Thomas and Frances Kilbourn. She came to the Colonies in the good ship Increase, in 1635. John Root, the settler, died in 1684, aged seventy-six years.

The family record then goes to Ezekiel Root, who was born at Farmington, Con- necti October 18, 1764, and was mar- ried February 17. 1786, to Cynthia Cole, of Kensington, Connecticut. She died at Tallmadge, Ohio, March 9, 1853. Ezekiel Root died in 1825, aged sixty years. He served for eight years in the Patriot army during the Revolutionary troubles and for three years after the elose of the war he was an orderly sergeant at West Point He died at Farmington, in 1825. The children of Ezekiel Root and wife were Horace, George. Fannie, John Cole, Cynthia and Hiram.

Iloraec Root, the eldest son, was never mar- ried. He was born January 8, 1787. Just prior to the War of 1812, he was visiting Boston, Massachusetts, and while there was pressed on board one of the British ships of war and suffered the same shameful treatment then aecorded all Americans. It became so unbearable that with three companions he re- solved to attempt to swim ashore, although the distance was three miles. With one of his fellow sufferers he was successful, and soon after joined the ranks of the American army. Ile took part in the battle at Lundy's Lane, where Gen. Winfield Scott won his first pro- motion, and was with his regiment on the land near where Commodore Perry won his victory on Lake Erie. He assisted in digging the Erie Canal. ITis death took place in Ohio. George Root, the second son, was born at Farmington, Connecticut, February 13. 1791. He was a merchant and moved to Mil-

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ledgeville, Georgia, where he died, as did his wife and two children. Fannie Root was born at Farmington, April 5, 1793, and died at Freedom, Ohio. John Cole Root, was born at Farmington, October 18, 1795. Cynthia Root was born at Farmington, March 20, 1798, and died in Ohio. Hiram, deceased, was born at Farmington, August 29, 1800.

John Cole Root came into Tallmadge, Ohio, in 1828, and purchased the farm of sixty- three acres on which his son, George Hart Root resides, on which he lived until his death, December 20, 1862. He was married at New Briton, Connecticut, November 29, 1819, to Lydia Hart, who was born there, May 13, 1796, and died in Tallmadge, March 9, 1876. Her father died in Connecticut but her mother came to Summit County soon after the Roots came, and she died at St. Mary's, in Auglaize County. John Cole Root and wife had but one child, George Hart.

George Hart Root grew up on the farm on which he was born and gave his father all needed assistance in clearing and cultivating the property. He was given excellent educa- tional advantages, including a district school training, a season at the Tallmadge Academy and one year at Oberlin College. After leav- ing school he engaged in teaching during the winters for a time and taught six months at Akron. He then accepted employment with the Cleveland Construction Company and as- sisted in the building of electric railways from Akron to Cleveland, and also the Niagara Falls Railway, and later aided in the building of the line running from Cleveland to Wil- loughby. For a time he worked on the line from Lima to Piqua, as commissary of the construction camp, and was considered a very useful man in that department. He has long since done little but look after his farming interests, and has now reached a time in his life when the labors of this industry can be easily shifted to younger shoulders.

Mr. Root was married at Tallmadge, Oc- tober 7, 1856, to Marie Phoebe Upson, who was born in Tallmadge, September 30. 1838, and they have had the following children : Ella Evelyne: who was born in Tallmadge.

July 14, 1839; Eddie Harland, who was born June 28, 1862, died in December of the same year; and Frank Lewis, who was born March 7, 1868. Ella E., the eldest daughter, was married to Edward L. Hinman, October 7, 1879, who is a farmer residing near Ravenna, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Hinman have children as follows: Helen Marie, born in Tallmadge. Ohio, March 28, 1881; Lewis Edward, born at Ravenna, Ohio, October 15, 1885; Florence Jennie, born September 19, 1888, and Mabel Harriet, born January 16, 1891.

Frank Lewis Root was married in Tall- madge, June 12, 1896, to Olive A. Skinner, also of Tallmadge, and their four children bear the following names: Charles Edward, born in Tallmadge, April 8, 1898; Gilbert Hart, born February 8, 1900; Marion Phoebe, born September 10, 1902; and Frank Oliver. born October 10, 1905. Frank Lewis attended the public schools of Tallmadge and the West- ern Reserve Academy, and took a course in the Reserve Academy, and took a course in the Spencerian Business College at Cleveland. Ho is engaged in farming and is also the rural mail route carrier in Tallmadge.

Both Mr. Root and son are stanch Re- publicans and both are men of the highest personal standing in the community. Mr. Root has always taken as active interest in the development of the township's resources and has devoted time, labor and means to many public-spirited enterprises. He has been a warm friend of the public schools, in which both he and his children enjoyed advantages. During a part of his earlier life he taught pen- manship and although the winters of seventy- four years have passed over his head and bodily afflictions have fallen on him, his hand is steady enough to pen letters that show little trace of weakness, and which may be placed side by side with those of a younger genera- tion, to the latter's diseredit.

GEORGE C. STANFORD, one of the rep- resentative men of Boston Township, who is carrying on agricultural operations on his fine farm of 300 aeres, was born April 18, 1839,

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and is a son of George and Catherine (Carter) Stanford.

James Stanford, the great-grandfather of George C. Stanford, was a native of Ireland and his wife of Pennsylvania, and they set- tled at Bristol, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1802. They remained there for about three years, and then moved to Jackson Town- ship, Trumbull County, Ohio, where they re- sided for one year. About this time James Stanford joined a surveying party which was appointed to locate and survey what is now Boston Township. and when the survey was completed, in 1805, he brought his family to Summit County and located on 159 acres on the ca-t bank of the Cuyahoga River. In the following year he traded lands with Alfred . Wolcott, securing then a part of the farm now occupied by George C. Stanford, and here he spent the remainder of his life. It was James Stanford who suggested the name of Boston Township, and its acceptance happily ended a disputed question. His son, Andrew John- son Stanford, was the first white child born in Boston Township.

George Stanford, father of George C., was born at Bristol, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1800, and died March 3, 1883. He was a prominent Whig and was a justice of the peace for many years. On January 17, 1828, he was married to Catherine Carter, who was born in 1809, and died December 20, 1872. She was a daughter of James and Elizabeth Carter. They had eight children : Emily, who died in infancy; James M. and Ellen, both of whom died when about twenty years of age; William Irwin, who died in childhood; Perkins W., who enlisted as a pri- vato in the Second Regiment, Ohio Volun- teer Cavalry, was promoted to be sergeant of Company A, was taken prisoner in 1864, and died at Andersonville: Eliza, who died when three years of age; George C .; and Catherine, who is deceased.

George C. Stanford went to school in the second schoolhouse which was erected in this district, and he has always lived on his pres- ent farm, which now comprises 300 acres, 100 of which are under eultivation, being devoted

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Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens, Part 106

Author: Doyle, William B., b. 1868 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1150

Author: Doyle, William B., b. 1868
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1150