Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County : embellished by nearly six hundred engravings--portraits of pioneer settlers, prominent citizens, business, official and professional--ancient and modern views, etc.; nine-tenth's of a century of solid local history--pioneer incidents, interesting events--industrial, commercial, financial and educational progress, biographies, etc., Part 104

Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department
Number of Pages: 1228

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OTHER INDUSTRIES .- As an adjunct to the immense business just written of, the cheese box and butter tub factory, of Mr. E. A. Osborne, established in 1870, with a capacity of about 300 boxes and 100 tubs per day, is worthy of mention; also a similar factory, established in 1878, by Erastus Croy, now operated by Mr. E. B. Shields, the former being destroyed by fire in January, 1890.

For a number of years subsequent to the destruction of the Wilson mills, above alluded to, quite an extensive flouring mill was maintained near the depot, but the building having passed into the hands of Mr. E. J. Lobdell, was devoted to the manufac- ture of all kinds of buggy lumber, until burned in January, 1890, the business having since been removed to Marietta, Ohio.

About 1878, the Oviatt Manufacturing Company was organized and suitable buildings erected, south of the depot, for the purpose of manufacturing the patented inventions of Mr. Solomon E. Oviatt (formerly of Richfield)-Oviatt's thresher and separator, common sense wagon, independent runner sled, etc., but though promising well for a year or two, either from lack of adequate capital, proper enterprise or judicious management, the company came to financial grief, and the business was abandoned.

HUDSON'S PRESENT BUSINESS STATUS .- Dry goods, Charles H. Buss, Henry Wehner; groceries, Dennis J. Joyce, George V. Miller, James A. Jacobs, E. E. Lewis; drugs, John Whedon, Edwin S. Bentley; shoes, Sebastian Miller; books, Edwin S. Bentley; stoves and tinware, R. H. Grimm, John N. Farrar; harness, John G. Mead, Cornelius A. Campbell; blacksmiths, Charles H. Farwell, Charles R. Cash, Perry N. Shively; carriages, James L. Doncaster; machin- ist, Samuel Bediant; bakery, Ralph T. Miller; meat markets, George V. Miller, Philip Wendling; undertaker, James L. Doncas- ter; syrup evaporators, The G. H. Grimm Manufacturing Company; hotels, American, A. A. Edson; Hotel Delta, Henry A. Bissell; livery, Andrew May & Company; lawyers, Matthew C. Read, Horace B. Foster; dentist, Dr. E. E. Rogers; physicans, Drs. Frank Hodge, L. D. Osborn, George L. Starr, Horace C. Coolman; jew- elers, Samuel Fletcher, A. Pettingell; news dealer, David M. Darrow; saloons, 5; the latter "industry" being out of all propor- tions to the requirements of so staid and sober a people, as are the majority of the inhabitants of the village and township.

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS .- April 1, 1837, Hudson village was incor- porated by an act of the Legislature, the territory embraced in the

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corporation being 480 rods in length, from north to south, and 320 rods in width, from east to west, the exact geographical center being the center of the east and west and north and south center roads. Some small tracts outside of these bounds, notably on Aurora street, have been laid out into lots and handsomely improved, but have never been formally annexed to the village plat. The first election, under the charter, was held on Tuesday, May 2, 1837, the officers then elected being as follows: Mayor, Captain Heman Oviatt; recorder, Lyman W. Hall; trustees, Frederick Baldwin, John B. Clark, Jesse Dickinson, Harvey Baldwin and Daniel C. Gaylord. As showing the shrinkage of values and the resources of the property holders, caused by the panic of 1837, it may be » stated here that the tax lists of 1837, place the value of the real estate of the village at $93,967.58, and the personal property at $19,474, while the list of 1844 (seven years later) give the real estate at $30,427 and the personal property at $12,177, only.

MAYORS FOR OVER HALF CENTURY .- In the fifty-four years of Hudson's corporate existence, its successive mayors, elected yearly, have been as follows: Heman Oviatt, 1837; 1838, George E. Butler; 1839, Charles R. Hamlin; 1840, Anson A. Brewster; 1841, Dr. Israel Town; 1842, J. W. Selby; 1843, E. E. Parks; 1844,'45, Harvey Whedon; 1846, Herman Peck; 1847, John Buss; 1848, George Ved- der; 1849, S. E. Judd; 1850, George E. Pierce; 1851, '52, Van R. Humphrey; 1853, '54, E. B. Ellsworth; 1855, Anson A. Brewster; 1856, George P. Ashmun; 1857, Anson A. Brewster; 1858, John Buss; 1859, Isaac L'Hommedieu; 1860, Henry L. Hitchcock; 1861, D. D. Morrell; 1862, William Pettingell; 1863, '64, D. D. Beebe; 1865, Professor N. P. Seymour; 1866, '67, '68, Isaac L'Hommedieu; 1869, S. E. Judd; 1870, '71, William M. Beebe; 1872, '73, S. H. Thompson; 1874, '75, R. Bosworth; 1876, Charles R. Grant; 1877, Matthew C. Read; 1878, '79, S. E. Judd; 1880, '81, '82, '83, '84, '85, '86, '87, Horace B. Foster; 1888, '89,'90,'91, Henry E. Lee. Of the 27 persons who have been thus honored by the good people of Hudson, seven only are now (December, 1887,) living, viz .: Messrs. Judd, Morrell, Sey- mour, Grant, Read, Foster and Lee.

The village government, though never called upon to grapple with the great problems of grading, paving, sewering, electric · lighting, etc., that have agitated larger municipalities, has, never- theless, been of great service to the people of Hudson in conserving the public order, providing proper sidewalk and street improve- ments, regulating and beautifying the public square, cemetery, etc., and especially in the fostering care which it has ever bestowed upon the educational, religious and moral interests of the com- munity, having, in connection with the township, in 1878, '79, erected a handsome two-story brick town hall, on the site of the old Congregational church, which, besides meeting rooms for the council and trustees, and a lockup on the ground floor, has a capa- cious well-seated public hall in the second story; in addition to which Adelphian Hall, in Farrar's block, west side of Main street, has a seating capacity of about 900.

IN THE NEWSPAPER LINE .- The second town in what is now Summit county, to avail itself of the manifold blessings of the news- paper, was Hudson, the Portage Journal, established in Middle- bury, in 1825, having a priority of some two or three years. In 1827, a religious and literary paper called the Western Intelligencer,

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was established in Cleveland, which after several changes was suspended in 1829. In March, 1830, Mr. Warren Isham revived the paper in Hudson, under the name of the Obsever and Tele- graph, Mr. Isham changing the name in 1832, to the Ohio Observer. In February, 1834, R. M. Walker and S. J. Bradstreet became its proprietors, and in December, 1834, Rev. James B. Walker, afterwards, for several years, pastor of the Congregational church in Akron, became its owner and editor, Mr. Walker being succeeded by Rev. A. P. Clarke in the Autumn of 1835.

A SLEDGE-HAMMER EPISODE .- The Observer was not only a profound religious sheet, and a good family newspaper, generally, but it was especially devoted to the several reforms of the day- the anti-slavery reform, the temperance reform, moral reform, etc., and was remarkably plain-spoken in regard to the real or sup- posed infractions of the moral code. In those days, too, the tongue of the gossip and the scandal monger were fully as "waggish" (and perhaps more so) than at the present time.

It coming to the ears of a prominent citizen that a scandal, which had been worked up against him, was about to appear in the columns of the Observer, in the shape of a series of resolutions adopted by the Female Moral Reform Society of Hudson, reflecting upon his moral character, he called upon the editor to ascertain the truth of the rumor. Getting no satisfaction in that direction, but learning from other sources that the objectionable matter was already upon the press, ready to be worked, the gentleman quietly stepped into a neighboring blacksmith shop, and, borrowing a heavy sledge, deliberately entered the Observer office and not only knocked the entire form into pi, but thoroughly crippled the press by demolishing the heavy cast-iron bed plate. It is not now remem- bered that any legal proceedings for damages were ever instituted against the wielder of the sledge, the presumption being that his summary action in the premises was justified by the general public, if not by the proprietors of the Observer themselves.

REVIVIFICATION .- Printing presses were not as readily obtain- able in those days as now; and the Observer was removed to Cleveland and consolidated with the Cleveland Journal, Rev. O. P. Hoyt being associated with Mr. Clark as editor. The Journal was suspended November 1, 1838, but resumed again January 9, 1839, and in April, 1840, returned to Hudson, resuming its old name, Ohio Observer, continuing, under various proprietors, until February, 1844, when the office was destroyed by fire. For a short time the paper was now printed at Cuyahoga Falls, but soon after- wards with a new outfit re-established in Hudson, and with many changes of proprietors and editors, and a great variety of vicissi- tude, it struggled on (its latest name being Ohio Observer and Register) until the general business collapse of the town, in 1855, '56, when it ceased to exist. It may properly be added, here, that the broken press above alluded to, was bought by Horace K. Smith and Gideon G. Galloway, of Akron, in 1836, furnished with a new bed-plate and otherwise repaired, and devoted to the publication of the American Balance, and its successor, the SUMMIT BEACON, until its final destruction, in the first burning of the BEACON office January 9, 1848.

OTHER LITERARY EXPERIMENTS .- The Family Visitor, started in Cleveland in 1850, and for a time published simultaneously in

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Cleveland and Hudson, was wholly transferred to Hudson in Jan- uary, 1852, with Professor M. C. Read as sole editor, under whose auspices it was in every way a first-class scientific, literary, religi- ous and agricultural family newspaper, but a quarter of a century ahead of the times, and for lack of adequate support its subscrip- tion list was transferred to the Observer in January, 1854.

College City Venture was started by E. F. Chittenden, a former compositor on the Visitor, in July, 1866, with Professor Read as editor, who made a spicy, interesting paper of it for a few weeks, when it, too, was compelled to suspend for lack of proper pecuniary encouragement.

Hudson Gazette, started in November, 1857, by Rev. Alexan- der Clarke, afterwards a D. D., and a man of note in the M. E. church of Pennsylvania, was devoted to " commerce, education, agriculture, art and news," and though very ably edited, survived but a few weeks, only.

Hudson Enterprise, established as an amateur paper, in con- nection with a small job office, in May, 1875, finally became a household necessity to the people and vicinity, and under various proprietors seemed for a time to be quite prosperous, but its purely local support being inadequate to meet the considerable weeky expense of its publication, it, too, was several years ago discontinued.

Hudson Gazette. Hudson's last local newspaper, a sprightly 32 column sheet, started November 23, 1888, by D. B. Sherwood & Son, independent in politics and everything else, had an existence of about one year only.

HUDSON'S WAR 'HISTORY.

Excepting Jonathan Draper, 80; John Walker, 77, and John Ellsworth, 78, reported as pensioners by the census of 1840, we are entirely without data as to Hudson's part in the war of the Revo- lution-1776 to 1783-though, originating mostly in the patriotic State of Connecticut, most undoubtedly several others of her early settlers participated in that glorious struggle.

In the War of 1812 several Hudsonians took an active part, though of this no accurate written history has been handed down. The people of the Western Reserve, of that day, were not only thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the Revolution, but, being upon the frontier, deemed it important to keep up military organi- zations for self-protection in case of trouble with their red-skinned neighbors. To this end, the able-bodied settlers of Hudson and vicinity were early organized into a military company, with Amos Lusk as captain; this company with others, formning a battalion, with George Darrow as major, the battalion being under the jurisdiction of General Elijah Wadsworth, of Warren. After Gen- eral Hull's ignominious surrender at Detroit, in August, 1812, the news of which, and the rumored approach, eastward, of the British and Indians, caused a great panic in Hudson and sur- rounding towns, this battalion was ordered to Cleveland by Gen- eral Wadsworth, and from thence, when the scare was over, to Old Portage, then the headquarters of the Reserve militia.

Later, Major Darrow and his battalion were assigned to the work of opening a road through to Camp Huron, near Sandusky,

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before completing which, learning of the trouble which the American troops were meeting with at the hands of the red-coats and red-skins, in the vicinity of Detroit, he hurried forward to reinforce the garrison at Fort Huron; afterwards being ordered to Fort Stephenson of which he was in command, until the defeat of General Winchester, at Frenchtown, when he was ordered to Maumee, to assist in the building of Fort Meigs; the names of Zina Post, Eben Pease and James G. Bishop, only, being monu- mentally recorded, in the cemeteries of the township, so far as the writer is advised, as being soldiers in that war, though there must have been at least a score besides those herein named. In regard to the Mexican War, of 1846-48, we can find no historical indica- tion that Hudson furnished a single soldier.

EDUCATION AND PATRIOTISM .- In the War of the Rebellion, however, Hudson was patriotic to the core. By reference to the Register of Graduates of Western Reserve College, compiled by President Cutler, in 1873, it will be seen that fully one hundred of the graduates of the college entered the army, nearly one-half of whom enlisted directly from the college during the progress of the war, to say nothing of those who entered the service from the preparatory and medical departments, and of whom no adequate record is now available.

Besides those who volunteered from the college, in 1861, the remaining students, together with several of the professors, organ- ized for military drill, with Colonel Haywood, of. Cleveland, as drill-master. During the vacation, between the sessions of 1861 and 1862, many of the students enlisted from their several homes, and, on the call of President Lincoln for three months troops, after the reverses of the Union forces in the Shenandoah Valley, in May, 1862, the College Company, en masse, tendered their ser- vices to Governor Tod, which were promptly accepted. The com- pany, embracing some 35 or 40 students and professors, quite a number of the scholars in the preparatory school and several out- siders, (from 70 to 80 in all) was assigned, as Company B, to the 85th Regiment O. V. I., which regiment was never completed, the four companies thus assigned, being put on guard over rebel prisoners at Camp Chase, Columbus, later escorting a body of Confederate prisoners to Vicksburg for exchange; the college catalogue of 1862, '63 stating that sixteen members of the college classes, and twenty-three members of the preparatory school were in the army.

Of Company B, Professor Charles A. Young (now a distin- guished professor of astronomy in Princeton College), was Captain, and Professor Carroll Cutler (afterwards for fifteen years presi- dent of Western Reserve and Adelbert College), was First Lieuten- tant; W. C. Parsons (of the Selle Gear Works, Akron), was corporal; my R. H. Wright (of the Buckeye Works), first sergeant; Judge E. W. Stuart, corporal and promoted to sergeant; C. P. Humphrey Esq., as third sergeant; the latter being early transferred to the 88th, Regiment, as first sergeant and quartermaster, but almost imme- diately detailed as Post Adjutant of Camp Chase, in which capacity he served until mustered out in September, 1862. George A. Purington, an Akron boy, then a member of the preparatory school, went into the army as first sergeant of Company G, 19th, O. V. I., in April, 1861, in August 1861, as captain in Second Ohio

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Cavalry; promoted to major, lieutenant colonel and colonel; after the War joined the Regular Army as captain of cavalry, and is now (1891) major of the 3rd U. S. C., with headquarters at Fort Clark, Texas.

OUTSIDERS EQUALLY PATRIOTIC .- Outside the college,' the citizens of Hudson were equally patriotic as the following roster,. prepared from memory, by Mr. George W. Church, and others, and from the assessors' returns for 1863, '64, '65, believed to be substan- tially correct, abundantly demonstrates :

Robert Andrews, George P. Ashmun, Charles C. Ashmun, David Antles, William C. Bell, Henry J. Bell, Andrew Brewster, Allen C. Burrows, William M. Bebee, Jr., James H. Bateman, John Bullock, Edward Blackman, Charles A. Bunnell, David Baker, William Baker, Henry Beardsley, Alexander Burney, John Barnell, Rufus T. Chapman, George W. Church, Robert F. Cahill, Charles Clark, Clinton C. Chambers, John C. Coffey, Charles W. Clapp, Robert Cox, Mortimer Danforth, Albert D. Dunbar, Arvin Draper, James Draper, Cyrus H. Delong, Francis Danforth, Norman Darrow, Patrick Devaney, Cyrus B. Deacon, Edmund W. Deacon, Henry Doncaster, John Dusenbury, Jr., Ransom J. Ellsworth, Harry Eggleston, James M. Foley, Charles Felton, Daniel Francis, Arby P. Farwell, Foster V. Follett, Henry Farwell, George W. Golden, George W. Gaylord, Nicholas D. Gilbert, Prosper Gott, Charles Harris, Jarvis Holcomb, L. F. Humiston, John F. Hitchcock, John C. Hart, Henry Hitchcock, Albert A. Herkner, Robert L. Hubbell, · Al. Hinckston, Julius Harris, Marquis Holden, Henry Ward Ingersoll (Band), Isaac Isbell, Albert Isbell, Edwin Ingersoll, William Jones, Edward King, Charles Lusk, Amos M. Lusk, E. Lusk, Charles Leach, Henry Leach, Russell Lucas, Joseph Morgan, Dwight Murray, J. McCulloch, Charles A. Miller, Andrew S. Miller, John Mehow, Andrew J. Minty, Charles Mason, Nicholas Murray, Charles Messer, John Mclaughlin, J. W. Mitchell, H. A. Miller, - Meloney, Richard Noonan, George Nichols, John F. Oviatt, Almon Oviatt, Miles Oviatt, James Parks, James Page, Jr., Harry Pettengill, Thomas Pacey, William Peet, Joseph T. Parks, Samuel W. Parks, Joseph H. Peck, Charles Pettengill, James C. Packard, Samuel Patterson, E. A. Parmelee, A. B. Quay, John Rowe, Joseph Rowe, Jackson Rowe, Addison H. Richardson, J. B. Reed, Albert A. Ruger, William Rubbins, Foster Rubbins, Adam Rubbins, Elihu Richmond, Charles Robinson, Edward Seasons, Theron W. Smith, Joseph E. Smith, Alfred E. Smith, William B. Straight, Benja- min Sovacool, [Boston also claims this recruit, who was wounded in the foot at Pittsburg Landing, carried to the rear, and never again heard of] John Scanlan, Lester Secoy, James H. Seymour (Band), William Smith, Edward Smith, Henry Smith, Chauncey Smith, F. O. Stone, George S. Stanley, William Strong, Martin Shrady, William H. Thompson, Samuel J. Tracey, Orlow Thompson, Henry A. Thompson, Salmon Thompson, Harrison Thompson, Harry O. Thompson, W. S. Thompson, Henry A. Tallmadge, William H. Thomas, B. B. Tremlin, - Varney, Bennett H. Wadsworth, W. P. Williamson, William Wilder, Dwight H. Whedon, James Winborn, George Wright, Samuel Wilkes, John Williams.

CASUALTIES, DEATHS, ETC .- Of the foregoing, those who fell in the service, from casualty, are as follows : John F. Hitchcock, lieutenant, U. S. A., died December 31, 1862; Dwight E. Murray,

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9th O. L. A., supposed to have been killed by guerrillas near Talla- homa, Tennessee; W. P. Williamson, 29th .O. V. I., killed in battle ; Thomas Pacy, Company A, 2nd O. V. C., killed at Woolson's river, August 16, 1861; Robert Cox, Company D, Daniel Myers, Company G, Edward King, Company C, 115th O. V. I., lost by blowing up and .burning of Steamer Sultana, near Memphis, Tennessee, on the morning of April 27, 1865; A. Richardson, Company D, 1st O. L. A., Russell Lucas, Albert D. Dunbar, John C. Hart, James C. Packard, din phoid er N. D. Gilbert, time and place of death unknown; James Draper, 9th O. L. A., died at Tullahoma, Tennessee, March 21, 1864 ; F. O. h Choce Stone, 9th O. L. A., died at Somerset, Kentucky, March 1862 ; Charles W. Clapp, 29th O. V. I., died at Camp Giddings, Ohio, December 5, 1861; Marquis Holden, 1st O. L. A., killed at Lost Mountain, Georgia; William Wilder, Company 9, S. S., killed at City Point, Virginia, March 13, 1862; George H. Gaylord, Company K, 19th O. V. I., died July, 1862; Ransom J. Ellsworth, 64th O. V. I., killed at Missionary Ridge; William Jones, 115th, O. V. I., killed at Cleveland, Ohio; Robert Andrews, Company H, 6th O. V. I., lost in South, December 1862; Nicholas Murray, navy, lost at sea ; Clinton C. Chambers, 6th Ohio Battery, died at Jeffersonville, Indiana, March 21, 1862; William Rubbins, 34th N. Y. I., killed at Antietam, September 17, 1862; Foster Rubbins, 34th N. Y. I., killed at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 12, 1862.

HONORABLE CIVIL RECORD .- In official civil affairs, Hudson presents an extensive and highly honorable record, as will be seen by what follows. The first grand jury of the new county of Portage, which convened August 23, 1808, embraced among its members four of Hudson's pioneer settlers : David Hudson, Samuel Bishop, Moses Thompson and Stephen Baldwin, Mr. Hudson being named as foreman by the court.

AARON NORTON was among the accessions to the township in 1801, soon afterwards, in connection with Mr. Hudson, building a saw mill, grist mill and distillery, on a branch of Tinker's Creek, in the northeast part of the township, which were destroyed by fire in 1803; a year or two later removed to Northampton, where he embarked in a similar enterprise; in 1807, removed to Middle- bury, where he became interested in a mill project, in company with Mr. Joseph Hart, was appointed an associate judge of the Common Pleas Court for Portage county, on its first organization, in 1808, serving the full term of seven years, with great ability and satisfaction.

HON. VAN RENSSELAER HUMPHREY, then practicing law in Hudson, represented Portage county in the State legislature for two successive terms-1828, 1829-and in the session of 1836, '37, was appointed by the legislature, president judge of the Third Judicial District, embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Portage. On its erection, in 1840, Summit county was attached to the third district, thus coming under Judge Humphrey's jurisdic- tion, who served with marked ability for the full term of seven . years.

' JOHN B. CLARK, was appointed associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas, on the death of Judge Charles Sumner, of Middle- bury, June 19, 1845, filling the place with honor to himself and his constituents for about one year, when he tendered his resignation.

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SYLVESTER H. THOMPSON, a native of Hudson, succeeded Judge Clark upon the bench, in 1846, ably performing the duties of the position, until the adoption of the new constitution in 1852; "Side Judges," as they were then called, being abolished by that instru- ment.

WILLIAM O'BRIEN was Summit county's first treasurer, elected in April, 1840, and re-elected, in the following October for the full term of two years, making a very competent officer, until his death, of consumption, in February, 1842; ex-sheriff George Y. Wallace, of Northfield, being appointed by the county commissioners to fill the vacancy.

MILLS THOMPSON, from 1843 to 1849, two full terms, ably and faithfully filled the position of county commissioner, being in the office at the time the present infirmary farm was purchased, and aided in inaugurating that noble charity for the care and comfort of the comparatively few destitute infirm, among the generally well-to-do inhabitants of Summit county.

HARVEY WHEDON, EsQ., was elected prosecuting attorney, in October, 1850, holding the position two years, making in all respects, a first-class officer.

DR. GEORGE P. ASHMUN, then an honored citizen of Hudson, was elected State Senator from the Summit-Portage district, in October, 1857, discharging the duties of that office to the full satisfaction of his constituents, in both counties, for the fuil term of two years.

SYLVESTER H. THOMPSON, in October, 1859, was elected to, represent Summit county in the lower House of the General . Assembly of Ohio, as the colleague of Hon. Alvin C. Voris, serving one full term of two years.

STEPHEN HENDERSON PITKIN, a graduate of the class of 1834; county surveyor of Fulton county, Illinois, from 1836 to 1840; probate judge of that county from 1840 to 1844, elected on the Union ticket, in October, 1861, to fill the unexpired term of Probate Judge William M. Dodge, deceased, (two years) re-elected on the same ticket in 1863, and again re-elected, on the Repub- lican ticket in 1866, making his term of service in that important office eight full years. In 1868, Judge Pitkin was chosen as the Republican presidential elector for the Eighteenth Congres- sional district, composed of Summit, Cuyahoga and Lake counties, casting his vote in the electoral college for Ulysses S. Grant for president and Schuyler Colfax for vice-president of the United States the judge also holding the office of secretary of the Summit County Agricultural Society fron 1871 to 1880, nine years, and an efficient member of the board of trustees of the Northern Ohio Hospital for the Insane, at Newburg, between 1862 and 1878, fourteen years.

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Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905 Publication date: 1892 Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department Number of Pages: 1228

Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department
Number of Pages: 1228