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WILLIAM HURST.
William Hurst was born at Elkington, Northamp- tonshire, England. January 7, 1804. He came to this country in June. 1831, and was a resident of Dover, Cuyahoga county, until the year 1834; he then re- moved to Elyria, and was engaged in the township business for four years. He thence removed to Avon, Lorain county, where he has since resided, and was engaged in farming, in which he was enterprising and successful until the time of his death. He died December 6, 1875, of paralysis, aged seventy-one years and eleven months. He married Elizabeth Town- shend for his first wife; she died, and he married Incina E. Moon, September 26, 1837. She was born March 23, 1820. They had six children: Elizabeth S., born August 12, 1838; she was married to Edward Carter, August, 1861, by whom she had five children; she died January 24, 1872. Wm. HI. was born April 23. 1840; died October 25, 1844. Josiah O., born May 19, 1842, died November 8. 1844. Lucina M. was born November 16. 1845. Geo. W., born Jany- ary 26, 1848. Wm. O., born February 23, 1851, was married Jannary 19, 1876, to Jennie Hawley, by whom he has one son, George IL., who was born Jan- nary 30, 1877. Mrs. Incina E., the mother, died January 25, 1822.
JOSEPH SCHWARTZ,
son of the oklest German settler in Avon, Ohio, tells his own story in the following words:
.. My father, JJohn Schwartz, came with my mother. Catharine, from Bavaria, Germany, in 1833. Their young family consisted of live children, namely: Jo- seph. Anna, Mary, Catharine and Frederick. My father settled on section thirty-three, in Avon, on the 24th of December, 1833. Two other persons, both heads of families, accompanied him, by name, JJacob Miller and Paul Faber. These were the first and only German settlers that I know of in Avon until 1840, when my uncle, Peter Schwartz, came in with a family of seven persons. Then German settlers came flocking in. In 1844, Trinity church was built in East Avon."
Mr. Joseph Schwartz lived with his father until the latter's death. in the year 1820; his mother having died in .Inly, 1858. He married Catharine, daughter of Peter Kraus. This marriage left eight children, seven sons and one daughter, all living. Still living on the
ALBIN STICKNEY.
The genealogy of the Stickney family is as follows :
Lemuel, who is the son of Solomon, who is the son of Albin, who was the son of Lemuel, who was the son of Moses, who was the son of Joseph, who was the son of Benjamin, who was the son of Benjamin, who was the son of Amos, who was the son of William, who was the son of William, who was the son of Robert.
In the county of Lincolnshire, in England, is situated the parish of Stickney, from which the family derives its sur- name.
The first who came to America by this name was William Stickney, who settled at Rowley, Essex Co., Mass., in 1637. He was born in Frampton, England, in 1592 ( the day and date not known), and was baptized Sept. 6, 1592, in St. Mary's Church at Frampton. It is not known when he was married, or to whom, except that her name was Elizabeth. To them were born ten children. He died at Rowley, Mass., in 1665, at the age of seventy-three years.
His father, whose name was also William, of Frampton, was baptized Dec. 30, 1558, and married Margaret Pierson, June 16, 1585. His grandfather's name was Robert. We find that he made his will October 3, and was buried Oct. 18, 1582.
Amos, the second son of William and Elizabeth Stickney, who emigrated to America, was born in England about the year 1635, and married Sarah Morse, at Newbury, Mass., June 24, 1663. He was a weaver by trade, and set up at Rowley the first fulling-mill in America, about the year 1643. To Amos Stickney and his wife Sarah there were born nine children. He died in Newbury, Aug. 29, 1678, at the age of forty-three years.
Benjamin Stickney, the sixth son of Amos, was born at Newbury, April 4, 1673. He married Mary Palmer, June 16, 1700. To him were born eleven children. He died March 5, 1756, at the age of eighty-three years.
Joseph Stickney, the third son of Benjamin, was born at Rowley, Oct. 8, 1705, was baptized April 1, 1706, and was married Dec. 26, 1727, to Jane Pickard, who was born March 5, 1704. She died, and he was married in Boxford, Nov. 7, 1737, to Hannah Goodrich, who was born in Newbury, Feb. 1, 1712. By these two wives he had sixteen children : by his first wife five, and by his second wife eleven. He died in March, 1756, at the age of fifty-one years.
Moses, the first son of Joseph and Jane Stickney, was born at Boxford, Feb. 11, 1729 ; was married there to Abigail Hall, Aug. 28, 1750. He was a private soldier in Captain William Thurlow's company, and served through the Revolutionary
war. He had eleven children, and died at Springfield, Vt., Aug. 11, 1819, in the ninety-first year of his age.
Lemuel Stickney, the fifth son of Moses, was born at Box- ford, Feb. 13, 1761 ; was married in 1781 to Polly Tomlinson. He settled in Cornwall, Vt., where three of his children were born. Here his wife died, and he married for his second wife, in Weybridge, Addison Co., Vt., Martha Scovill, who was born at Saybrook, Conn., June 14, 1760, by whom he had eight children, all born at Weybridge. Ile finally moved to and settled in Franklin, Franklin Co., N. Y., where he died May 3, 1842, at the age of eighty-one years.
Albin Stickney, the second son of Lemuel, and subject of this sketch, was born at Cornwall, Vt., Nov. 29, 1786. He served for a time in the war of 1812, and came to Madison, Ohio, in 1815, and from there he came to what is now Avon, Lorain Co., Ohio ; here he bought a farm and settled in 1817, where he lived until his death. He married Clarissa Moon, Feb. 1, 1821, at Avon. She was born at Tyringham, Mass., May 30, 1795, and died at Avon, May 3, 1866, aged seventy years. Albin Stickney was a man of great industry and per- severance, of moral integrity, and honesty of purpose. He accumulated considerable property, and in his later years loaned money ; but such were his convictions of uprightness, that while money everywhere commanded ten and twelve per cent., he never asked or would receive but six per cent., the then legal interest. He died Feb. 7, 1867, at the age of eighty- one years. They had three children,-Solomon R., born at Avon, Ohio, Jan. 22, 1823 ; Sarepta R., born at Avon, Ohio, June 9, 1826 ; Sidney A., born at Avon, Ohio, Oct. 29, 1830.
Solomon R. was married to Catharine Crow, Jan 1, 1845. To them have been born Amos M., Nov. 30, 1846, who died July 17, 1865; Clarissa E., born Aug. 23, 1848, and died March 1, 1849; Esther J., born June 20, 1850, and died May 7, 1866; Lemuel S., born Aug. 2, 1852, and married Josephine Mumm, Oct. 13, 1878; and Clarissa C., born July 8, 1864. They now live on the old homestead at Avon.
Sarepta R., only daughter of Albin and Clarissa Stickney, was married at Avon, Ohio, to Rev. L. S. Johnson, Ang. 11, 1844, by whom she has five children,-William A., born March 5, 1851; Albert W., born Dec. 10, 1854; Cora E., born May 7, 1862; Clarissa A., born Nov. 25, 1864. They now live in Fairfield, Huron Co., Ohio.
Sidney A., youngest son of Alhin and Clarissa Stickney, mar- ried Julia M. Goldsmith, July 4, 1852. To them have been born three children,-Albin S., born March 4, 1855; Eddie A., born Feb. 9, 1859, and died July 25, 1860; Martha 1I., born June 17, 1875. They live at Avon, Lorain Co., Ohio.
JOSEPH SCHWARTZ.
E . G. MOON.
DR TRUMAN B. DAILEY
PHOTOS BY LEE, ELYRIA OHIO
HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY, OHIO.
old homestead, a member of the German Catholic church, with his dear oft wife, always and ever attending to the farm and its interests, refusing always any tender of office from his fellow citizens, he is a striking example of what German thrift may do for a man.
ELBRIDGE G. MOON.
Jacob Moon, who lived at Lennox, Mass., was the father of Colonel Abraham Moon, who was born at Lennox, Berkshire county, Mass., in 1790. He came to Troy (now Avon), this county, in the spring of 1816, when he commenced the stern realities of fron- tier life. Ile bought and cleared up a farin on which he lived until his death. In 1820 he was married to Teressa Durand, who was born in 1803. To them were born five children: Elbridge G, was born March 5, 1822 ; Selim born in 1824 and died in 1828 ; Dewit. C., born October 15. 1825, and died January 14, 1861; Cordelia Q., born June. 1827 ; Stern W., born No- vember 5, 1829. Col. Abraham Moon died in Sep- tember, 1831. Elbridge G. Moon was married on the 29th day of December, 1844, to Ann Eliza Wilder, who was born March 28, 1825, at Bristol, Onta- rio county, N. Y. To them were born Russel E., December 21, 1845: Durand D., November 5, 1854 ; C. Bell, August 11, 1857. Dewit C. married Mary J. Davis, October, 1852. They had one son and four daughters. Cordelia Q. married Ezra Jackson, De- cember 29, 1844. They have had three sons and four daughters. Stern W. married Ann C. Hicks, in the spring of 1858. They have one daughter born Feb- ruary 14, 1861. Mrs. Terresa D. Moou, the mother of Elbridge, died at Avon, December 3d, 1877, aged 74 years. Russel E., ellest son of Elbridge, married . Rachel Orum, February 16, 1872. They have Ger- trude E., born January 30, 1843; Myra B., born December, 1874; Morris R., November, 1836; May S., born April, 1878.
The subject of this sketch is a farmer, having in- herited the farm from his father, it being a part of the original homestead. He has constantly improved it until he has built up for himself and family a beautiful home. He excels as a horticulturist and stock raiser, the Jerseys being his especial pets. As a man, neighbor, citizen and christian, he ranks high in the community in which he lives.
DR. TRUMAN B. DAILEY.
Elijah Dailey, the grandfather of Dr. Dailey, emi- grated when a boy, with his father's family, from Ire- land to Massachusetts, about 1750. He went into the
revolutionary war at its commencement, and con- tinued until its close. He was at the defense of Bos- ton and in the battle of Bunker Hill. He died about 1837, at Potsdam, New York. His son Benjamin was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1780. He married Jane Moe, in Essex, Essex county, Vermont, in 1802. She was born in Massachusetts, in 1785, and died in 1871, at the age of eighty-six years. Ile was a farmer and a man of the strictest integrity ; one who lived to do his neighbors good. He set a just. valne upon his labor, and estimated and regulated the sale of his products accordingly : for instance, he estimated that he could produce hay for six dollars per ton. If the price was below that he would not sell ; if above, no matter how much, he would only ask that, and would receive no more : so with all his other products. He would not, however, sell to spec- ulators, only to those who needed it for their own consumption. He came from Essex, Vermont, to Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, New York. about the year 180%, at which place he bought and cleared up a farm, on which he lived until his death. He served as a sollier through the war of 1812, and died in 1872. at the age of ninety-two years. He had ten children.
Dr. T. B. Dailey, the subject of this sketch, lived with his father on the farm, until he was twenty-one years of age, working on the farm during the sum- mer, attending the St. Lawrence academy in the fall, and teaching in the winter. He graduated at the St. Lawrence academy in the twenty-first year of his age, at which time he commenced the study of medicine at Madrid, St. Lawrence county, with Drs. Pierce and Manley, with whom he studied two years, teach- ing school winters. In the spring of 1844 he came to Dover, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Here he contin ued the study of medicine with Dr. Jason Peabody, his uncle. He remained with him two years, and finally graduated at the Cleveland medical college. in March, 1846.
In 1847 he settled at Avon, Lorain county, where he commenced the practice of medicine, and soon by his untiring industry and perseverance, built up a large practice. He educated himself, and by his own energy and integrity, has won an honorable name in the community in which he lives and may .justly be said to be a self-made man.
He was married to Laura A. Rogers, at Avon, April 5th. 1848, by whom he had three children : Jamin, born January 6th, 1849; Ezra, born September 3d, 1851. and died April 1st, 1853 : Leslie, born January 29, 1858, and died October 8th, 1853. His wife, Laura A., died July 2d, 1853. He married a second time, his choice being Martha Ballon, March 26. 1854.
Ile united with the M. E. Church at the age of seventeen years, and has ever continued a living working member.
Ile still lives at Avon, this county, where he has a large medical practice and a host of friends.
HUNTINGTON.
TOWNSHIP number two, in the eighteenth range, is bounded on the north by Wellington township, on the south by Sullivan township. Ashland county, on the east by Spencer township. Medina county, and on the west by Rochester. The surface is generally level, except along the streams, which are of but slight importance. They are as follows: Wellington ercek, which rises in the eastern portion of the town- ship, a short distance south of the center line, and flowing an almost due north course, crossing the township line a short distance east of the center, on lot seven: Charlemont creek has its rise on or near the sonth line of the township, and near the south- east corner. The course of this stream is slightly cast of south, passing into Wellington township on lot thirty-two. These streams are tributary to the west branch of Black river. The soil is clay, but, when suitably tilled, produces large erops of all kinds of grain, and is especially good for grass.
ORIGINAL PROPRIETORSHIP.
The original owners by deed from the State of Con- neetient, were Oliver Sheldon, Simeon Griswold, John Cowles, Benjamin Keut and others. Joseph Sage, Skinner. Bowles, and a number of persons whose names are not in our possession, soon became large proprietors by purchase. The lands selected by Joseph Sage were situated in the southwest quarter of the township, and here was made the pioncer
SETTLEMENT.
In the year 1818, Joseph Sage induced several fami- lies to emigrate from their old homes in the east, with a view to cultivate for themselves farms in the wilder- ness of the Western Reserve. The first to make the venture was a son-in law of Mr. Sage, John Laborie. The place of his nativity was Huntington, Fairfield county, Connecticut, and the date of leaving for Ohio was February 12, 1818. In the company were Joseph Sage, Mr. Laborie, his wife and two children, four young men and a hired man. They started in a sleigh, and found snow in abundance until reaching Hudson, then in Portage county, at which point they arrived four weeks after beginning the toilsome jour- ney. The weather was severe; the coldest known. At Buffalo, the snow was drifted to the chamber win- dows, and had not thawed a particle for seventeen days. Much of the journey from this point to Ohio was made on the ice. When they reached Hudson, Mrs. Laborie was too unwell to proceed further, and a halt was made until she had sufficiently recovered
to resume the journey. They left Stow township on Monday, March 15th, and journeyed on nich of the way through the dense forest, with nothing but an occasional marked tree to guide then.
On arriving at Westfield, they put up at Mr. Brainard's, then occupying a small log house, of but one room, and this was occupied by four families. The addition of the ten persons comprising our party, tilled the little cabin to overflowing; but a big heart, full of hospitality, made everything seem quite com- fortable. Arriving in Sullivan township, they took up their abode in a little log house, built by Henry Chase. This was a distance of one and one-half miles from the lands selected in Huntington township. " They rested that night as emigrants of to-day know nothing about." The house was a cheerless affair, withont chimney, door or windows; and the wide spaces between the logs, not being chinked, afforded easy access for the clouds of snow which the furious March winds sent whirling through the air. Here the family remained until a log house had been con- structed. This was on lot nineteen, tract two. The family moved into it on April 13th. As the weather was fine, and the men anxious to get a piece of ground ready for planting, the floor was not put down, or door, windows and chimneys constructed, until sev- eral weeks later. As it was impossible to procure straw for beds, the dry leaves were used instead, and it is said they made a good substitute. Provisions were scarce, especially meat, and although deer, tur- keys and other game were plenty, yet at this season of the year they were too poor to eat. About May 1st, Mr. Sage went to Worthington, near Columbus, to purchase stock; and being gone longer than was ex- pected. the provisions became exhausted, except a small quantity of Indian meal, and the bran from a bushel of wheat; this was mixed with water and baked into a loaf, and on this diet the family subsisted for some three weeks, but at length the needed supplies arrived. Wooster, in Wayne county, was the nearest village, and to this point our settlers were obliged to go to find a store, grist mill, post office or blacksmith shop. The family of Mr. Laborie are: Sarah, born in Milford, Connecticut; she came to Ohio, and died at the age of thirteen years. Anthony, who was a mere babe when the family settled in Huntington, married Laura A. Darry; they have six children, and live on traet two. Jane, who was born in Ohio, became the wife of William Kelsey; they live in Williams county, this State, and have five children. Myra married William S. Preston; they have four
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children, and live on tract one. Charlotte married William HI. Howard: they reside in Rochester town- ship, this county, and have six children. Emily married Gideon Bliss; they went on a visit to Ver- mont, and died soon after. James married Louisa Cook, and lives on tract three, they have one child. Perry married Mary A. Cole (deceased); and Alzina, the youngest, married Edwin W. Williams; they have four children, and reside on tract two. John Laborie is dead. The aged widow yet resides in the township of which she was the pioneer white woman. She has rendered us material aid in our labors, for which our thanks are tendered.
The following June, Isaac Sage a brother of Joseph arrived, and began settlement about three-fourths of a mile south of Laborie's, His family consisted of a wife and the following children: Charles who mar- ried Anna Rice, deceased; Polly who married John Munson, deceased; Lucetta who married John Cros- by, and lives in Huntington: Alzina married M. Rice, deceased; Isaac married Lucinda Case, also dead, and Jackson who is the only living male representative of the family. He lives in Huntington.
The subsequent September Benjamin and Oliver Rising arrived from Connecticut, and made a loca- tion about one mile south of the center. Isaac Sage soon exchanged his first location for hands near the Rising's.
A few days after the arrival of the Messrs. Rising, Daniel Tillotson and family put in an appearance at the settlement. A brother, Ira and D. C. Hickok arrived early the following winter, and were soon fol- lowed by Henry R. Ferris, Capt. Timothy Culver who settled one mile north of the center; Captain Chauncey Barker and Capt. Benjamin Banning. The former settled on lands some half a mile south of Isaac Sage's son; Barker located near John Laborie's. Joseph Sage returned East, and soon came on with his family, which consisted of a wife, Sarah Kelsey Sage, and the following children: Philomela, wife of Chauncey Barker, deceased; Myra who married George Case, deceased: Marilla who married John Laborie; her husband is dead, and she now lives with a son, James, in Huntington township; Harlo P. who married Jnsan Mallory; she died, and he married again; he is a minister of the Univeralist faith, and lives on the old homestead. Two or three grand- children also came with Mr. Sage's family, and Thomas II. Case; Erastus Royce came about the same time. Zenas Kelsey and several sons purchased land of Joseph Sage, and settled thereon. The following persons settled north of the center: David Rogers, Zelotus North, Dudley Lewis, Daniel Chapman, William Lang and John Chapman.
Of Renel Lang, another pioneer of Huntington, we learn that the place of his nativity was Epson, Merri- mac county, New Hampshire. In 1818, he began to learn the cabinet maker's trade, in his native State, and on completing it, started with a horse and wagon for the west; stopping for a time in Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania, where he made a set of tools from a beech free, which had been used as a whipping post, in the days when Pennsylvania was a slave state, and by the way, these tools are now, nearly all of them, in his possession. After, perhaps, two years, he came on horseback to Ohio, bringing his effects with him.
At Springfield, Portage county, this State, he engaged to make some furniture for Jesse Hart, who had just completed a large brick house, and while engaged in proscenting the labors of his trade, he became conscious of a new sensation. He fell in love. Amy, the fair daughter of his employer, was the ob- jeet of his devotion. They were married Jannary 30, 1823. The following spring, they settled in Elyria. Here he built a house, and remained for one year, when he removed to Huntington township. where he lived until a few years since. He now lives in Wellington village. Mr. Lang was for many years a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church. lle was always a strong anti-slavery man, and in con- sequence of the connection of the church with the institution of slavery, he withdrew, and assisted in forming a Wesleyan Methodist church, of which he was an official member until it disbanded.
Their children are as follows: Josiah B., who married Losena M. Chapman, and lives in Welling- ton: (to this gentleman we are under obligations for much of the matter contained in this history); Jesse If., married Mary E. Fitch, lives in Oberlin; Cyrus, died in 1847: Charles R., died in 1846; Lonisa M., married P. S. Wright, and lives in Michi- gan; Esther A., married C. W. Horr, Esq., and lives in Wellington; Olive A. married Dr. M. B. Lnkins, and lives in Cleveland; George L., married Lizzie Viles, and lives in Dennison, Ohio; and Merrill W., married Mary L. Cook; she died, and he married Etta Root. He lives in Wellington.
Abner Chapman, wife, Olive Fisher Chapman, and a family of six children, came from Montgomery, Hamden county, Massachusetts, and settled in Hunt- ington lownship in 1833. They located on the farm now ocenpied by Lucius Walker. Six children remained at the East; after a time, two settled in Troy, Geauga county, Ohio. Those who came with the parents to LInntington were: Abner, JJr., who maried Eliza A. Cone, and now lives in Huntington, (of his six children, there are now living: Paul, who married Margaret Case, lives in Erie, Pennsylvania; Lucien HI., who marrried Deette G. Phelon, lives in Rochester on lot five, has five children; and Agnes E., who married J. T. Haskell, and lives with her par- ents): William F., married Rowena Babevek, -they have five children: one son was killed at the battle of Antietam; Eunice, married Lyman West, and lives at Lansing, Michigan; Huldab. married J. Crosby Lang -she is deceased; J. Austin, married Isabel Lindsey, lives in Wellington; and Eeniline, married Edmond West, and lives in Huntington.
Delos Phelon, who was born in Connecticut, came to Huntington from Cooperstown, New York, in
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1833. Ile was then in the forwarding and commis- sion business at Black River. He located at the center of the township, where he still resides. Ile has five children: Daniel W .. Joseph, Deette, Tasso D. and Mary.
The history of the settlement has been gleaned from every available source, and is believed to be sub- stantially correct. Should there be errors or omis- sions, the memory of man is alone responsible for them.
INDIANS,
Scattering members of the Wyandot and Seneca Indians were frequent in this vicinity when the settle- ment was made, They came only during the hunting season and made their home further west. In about 1828 they took their final departure from the township.
EARLY EVENTS.
The first white child born in the township of Huntington was a son to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Tillotson: the date December, 1818. This child was named Enos, but of his subsequent career we know nothing. The following January, Benjamin Rising was born. The first death was an infant son of John and Marilla Laborie, born in March, 1819. The little stranger lived but sixteen days.
The first adult death was that of Benjamin Banning. The body was interred in the orchard just south of his late residence.
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