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ISAAC MOORE,
the fifth of a family of six children of John and Leah Moore, was born in Half Moon, Saratoga county, New York, January 31, 1794. His father was a soldier of the war of the Revolution, serving the entire period of its existence. He died in 1846. Isaac enjoyed the slenderest possible opportunities for the acquire- ment of even a rudimentary education, the entire period of his attendance at school not exceeding four months. Nevertheless, possessing bright mental qualities, and a will that brushed aside whatever obstacles confronted him, he obtained, by reading and observation, an education sufficient for the performance, in an efficient manner, of the duties of an ordinary life. When in his eighteenth year, accom- panied by his mother, two married sisters and their husbands, and one unmarried sister, he removed to Kirtland, Lake County.
A horse and about fifty cents in money comprised, besides the clothes he wore, his entire possessions at the time of his arrival. The horse he soon afterwards exchanged for two cows, both of which died of the "murrain" a few weeks subsequently. This misfortune left him in a poor condition to begin the struggle with savage nature; but, undaunted, procured an axe (which he paid for with the first four days of his chopping) and went to work. He obtained various jobs of clearing land, at which he continued to work for some three or four years, clearing fully one hundred acres before striking a blow for himself. During this time he pur- chased, jointly with Peter French, a farm on the hill south of the Mormon tem- ple, paying nineteen shillings an acre therefor. The farm was bought for one hundred and five acres, and the arrangement between the purchasers was that fifty acres were to be measured off to French, leaving the balance, whatever it should be, to Moore, who, on measuring, afterwards found he had seventy acres. He resided in Kirtland until about the year 1831, or until the settlement of the Mormons there, which rendered it to him an undesirable place of residence, and he removed to Warrensville, Cuyahoga county. There he remained some six years, thence moving to Mentor, where, subsequently, he engaged in wine-making.
November 28, 1816, he was united in marriage to Philena Blish, daughter of Benjamin Blish, Sr., who was born March 5, 1796. From this marriage the following-named children were born : Clifton H., born October 26, 1817; Abner C., born October 13, 1819; Orinda L., born June 30, 1821, died May 31, 1876; Minerva, born August 10, 1823; Blish, born July 6, 1825; Cornelia M., born March 27, 1827, became the wife of Henry King, of Chardon, and died June 9, 1857; Milan, born June 18, 1829; Henry C., born October 23, 1831.
The mother died May 14, 1832, leaving her husband with eight children, the eldest not then seventeen, and the youngest less than six months old, and in Oc- tober of the same year he married his second wife, Martha Jones, of Euclid, Cuy- ahoga county. The result of this marriage was a son, Alexander J., born July 7, 1834, died March 22, 1855.
The eldest of the children-Clifton H. Moore-is a member of the bar of De Witt county, Illinois, and is also a very large land-holder, owning upwards of eighteen to twenty thousand acres in that county alone, and large tracts in Iowa
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and Missouri. He has been associated for a great many years with Judge David Davis, of Illinois, now United States senator, in these land purchases.
September 15, 1862, Mr. Moore married for his third wife Mrs. Elizabeth King, then widow of George King, of Chardon, his second wife having previously died at a date not given.
This sketch would be far from complete if we were to omit at least a brief sketch of this excellent lady. She was the seventh child and only daughter of Colonel Roswell and Elizabeth Humphrey, and was born in Norfolk, Litchfield county, Connecticut, December 25, 1803. She came to Willoughby in the year 1815, with her parents, who settled on land now occupied by Jacob Viall. Her father died there in 1842, and her mother five years afterwards. When only sixteen years of age she married a man by the name of Hines, who proved un- worthy of her, and a separation ensued. About ten years subsequently she be- came the wife of Ezra B. Viall, who died April 10, 1851, and after a period of some ten years of widowhood, married George King, of Chardon. He died about a year and a half afterwards, and September 15, 1862, as above stated, she was united to the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Moore never became the mother of children. Her early education was obtained at the common school in her native State, with a subsequent attendance at the academy in Talmadge, Portage county.
In 1815, Mr. Moore was elected to two township offices at the same time,- those of constable and supervisor of Kirtland,-and was subsequently elected & justice of the peace, which office he held two terms, and was then elected a com- missioner of Geauga County, in which capacity he served the public six years. In 1847, while residing in Mentor, he represented Lake County in the State legislature, serving one year. He was afterwards, in 1855, elected a justice of the peace of Mentor, and was re-elected in 1858, and also in 1861.
His first military position was that of corporal of the Ohio State militia, to which he was elected not long prior to 1825. He was subsequently promoted to lieutenant, serving one year, when he became a captain.
He is a man of the strictest integrity and unyielding honesty. He has been the executor of a larger number of estates, perhaps, than any man in this section of country, which is abundant proof of the confidence reposed in him by his fel- low-citizens. This undesirable and responsible duty he always discharged with soundness of judgment, and a fidelity to trust rarely witnessed in these times.
He possesses a very cheerful, hopeful disposition. He regards his career as a singularly successful one, for the reason, mainly, that it has been a happy one. Looking back over his life from his eighty-fifth year, he remembers nothing of which he can justly murmur or complain, and believes his " lines to have fallen in pleasant places."
JACOB V. VIALL.
The subject of this sketch was the sixth of a family of seven, the children of Nathaniel and Sarah (Wilson) Viall, and was born in Pittstown, Rensselaer county, New York, December 15, 1807. When two years of age his mother died, and his father afterwards enlisted in the war of 1812, after which he was never again seen by his children, the younger of whom became the wards of their grandparents, who removed to Mentor in the year 1815, and settled on the farm now occupied by Dr. Robinson. He acquired his education in the primitive log school-house, with greased paper for window-glass and puncheons for a floor. After the marriage of a sister (to Daniel Christy) he took up his abode with them in Willoughby, remaining some six years subsequently thereto, after which he "worked around." January 31, 1834, he was united in marriage to Cynthia Jones, daughter of William and Clarissa Jones, of Willoughby (then Chagrin), who was born June 11, 1816. They were from Middlesex county, Connecticut, whence they removed to this township, in about the year 1817. The father died in 1827, and the mother resides on the old homestead, at the age of ninety years. To Mr. and Mrs. Viall have been born eight children, of whom the following named are living: Edgar W., who resides in Oshkosh, Wis- consin, and is the owner of a large property in that thriving city ; George, who is a resident of New York city and is a practicing dentist ; Clara J. and Fred V., who have not yet left the parental roof.
After his marriage, Mr. Viall made his first purchase of one hundred acres, about two and a half miles south of Willoughby village, now owned by John Ward. He has never relinquished farming, although he has been engaged in other pursuits. In 1835 he bought of Joseph Coe the grist- and saw-mills, distant about two and a half miles from Willoughby village, up the Chagrin, which he operated some three years and then sold them. He then embarked in the mercantile trade in the village of Willoughby, in which he continued about two years, and a year subsequently bought back the mill property, which he carried on six years more, and then finally disposed of them.
He was elected to the office of constable of Willoughby in 1836, and re-elected every year for the five or six years following, when he was elected justice of the peace, in which capacity he is now serving his eighth term,-a longer period, we believe, than that of any previous incumbent of the office in the township. Mr. Viall possesses, in an eminent degree, the qualifications which are requisite for an efficient discharge of its duties. In 1860 he was elected sheriff of Lake County, and re-elected in 1862. During Lincoln's administration he was ap- pointed deputy United States marshal of the district of northern Ohio.
In politics he was formerly a Whig, with strong anti-slavery proclivities. Hence it goes without saying that he is now a Republican of the best type. So- cially Mr. Viall is a pleasant gentleman, courteous and afable to all, and possesses the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens. In 1854 he purchased of Eliza- beth Viull, now Mrs. Isaac Moore, the farm on which he now resides.
HON. SIMEON FULLER
was born July 25, 1791, at Westfield, Washington county, New York. His father, Captain Simeon Fuller, a soldier of the Revolution, left Westfield when Simeon was one year of age, and settled in Steuben, Oneida county, New York, on a farm, where Simeon lived during his minority, working on the farm with his father and two brothers-Russel Fuller, afterwards member of the State leg- islature, New York, and John W. Fuller, of Alexandria, St. Lawrence county, New York-and one sister, Mrs. Catharine Peirce, now the only remaining mem- ber of the family, being now seventy-eight years of age, with mind and memory unimpaired. Mr. Fuller was a self-made man, having but few opportunities for -
HON. SIMEON FULLER.
an education, never learning the alphabet until nine years of age, and after that attending none but district schools, with the exception of six months in Fairfield Academy, Herkimer county, New York, and six months in Lowville Academy, Lewis county, New York. He had an excellent memory, and was very zealous for the attainment of knowledge, reading with avidity everything of an instructive nature that came in his way ; and his father owning shares in two libraries gave him a good chance to indulge his love for books. When he was twenty-one years of age he started out in life, taking upon himself the duties of school- teacher, being engaged in a school at Manchester (now Niagara Falls) the second year of the war of 1812. At the time of the capture of Fort George he dis- missed his school and, together with others, volunteered to join the militia, and the same day, with others, was taken prisoner by the Indians, receiving a bullet- hole through the rim of his hat, and one through his coat-sleeve.
The Indians marched their captives back to Lewiston, where they delivered them up to the British army.
He was a prisoner six weeks, and suffered many hardships, being nearly starved at one time. Having unsuccessfully tried to make his escape, he was made to dance in the open bowels of a fellow-prisoner just slain, and also had some of the heart of his dead comrade crowded into his mouth.
When near Kingston he succeeded in making his escape, and making his way - to the river he traveled on the ice for a number of miles. A part of the way he was obliged to walk on floating cakes of ice. He finally reached the American side, whence he was directed to Sacket's Harbor. From there he went to his father's, in Steuben, foot-sore and with little clothing, part of which he had taken off of some of the slain. How rejoiced he was to reach home after his terrible experiences can more easily be imagined than described.
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In 1818 he came to Ohio, and soon thereafter purchased a farm of one hun- dred acres in Chagrin, Cuyahoga county (now Willoughby, Lake County), on which he lived the remainder of his life. The following winter he taught school in Newbury (now South Cleveland); but returned to his farm in the spring, clearing it up and putting it into crops. The 30th of April, 1820, he was mar- ried to Miss Minerva Sprague, a native of Middletown, Connecticut. Her father, Seth Sprague, served during a part of the Revolutionary war. He died Decem- ber 4, 1812, at Lewiston, New York. Her mother, Olive Tenney, was born at Holliston, Massachusetts, August 31, 1763, and died at her son-in-law's, Mr. Fuller's, July 1, 1848. The issue of his marriage was two sons and one daugh- ter. The eldest son, Russel, was born April 23, 1821, and has always resided in Willoughby, following the occupation of farming. He was married, October 26, 1846, to Miss Amelia Whitney, of Avon, Illinois. George, his second son, was born September 26, 1822. At the age of twenty-one he commenced the study of medicine in the Willoughby Medical College, graduating in three years there- after; and on February 26, 1846, was married to Miss Eliza B. Ferguson, of Willoughby, commencing the practice of medicine near his own town; but in 1857 removed to Houghton, Michigan, to practice for the copper-mining com- panies, where he continues up to the present time. The daughter, Louisa, was born October 5, 1827, and was married December 30, 1847, to David Law, of Mayfield, Cuyahoga county. They lived on the farm in Mayfield three years,
then returned to her father's farm, her husband buying out the heirs and taking charge of the farm, which he yet owns.
Mr. Fuller possessed the confidence of his fellow-citizens to such a degree that he was kept in public office almost continually after he moved into the State. He was elected county commissioner of Cuyahoga county November 3, 1826, which office he held for a number of years, serving during the building of the old court- house. In the winter of 1832 he was elected by the legislature of Ohio associate judge of Cuyahoga county, to serve seven years, and on the 1st of February received his commission from Governor Duncan McArthur. He resigned after serving six years, and became a candidate for State senator, to which office he was elected, serving two years,-from 1838 to 1840.
In the springs of 1840 and 1841 he was elected township treasurer. Novem- ber 27, 1841, he resigned that office to accept that of member of the legislature, which office he filled from 1841 to 1843. In 1846 he was called to fill the office of township assessor, which office he held consecutively to April, 1853, when, being admonished of failing health, he withdrew from public life.
In the latter part of July, 1857, he was stricken with paralysis of the left side, which partly crippled him the remaining few years of his life. He died September 15, 1861. He was always a stanch Whig, and ever an active worker in the interests of his party. His wife remained with her daughter, Mrs. Law, on the old farm, until her death, April 6, 1865.
ERRATA.
On page 73, biography of S. L. Phelps, in fourth line from the title, for " William" read Lucy.
On page 78, second column, eighteenth line from top, for " quantities" read qualities. On same page, twenty-third line, for " views" read ideas.
On page 98, second column, seventeenth line from top, for " rutted" read salted.
On page 124, for " D. A." Hamilton read L. A. Hamilton. On page 81, third line from bottom of second column, for P. F. W. " Peace" read P. F. W. Peck.
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