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James King was born in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1781. He had brothers Robert, William, John, and a sister Mary. His mother, Mrs. Jane King, married John Brackin, by whom she had three children, Ezekiel, David, and Elizabeth. John Brackin left Londonderry, Ireland, in 1800, with his family, and landed at Wilmington, Delaware, after a four weeks' voy- age, and came to Strabane, Washington county, Pennsylvania. Robert King first went to Kins- man, Ohio, and the rest followed in 1804. James worked for Mr. Kinsman in that town- ship and subsequently bought of him a farm in the north part of lot twenty-three, Kinsman, now owned by J. R. Russell. In 1805-6 he married Jerusha, daughter of Rev. Obed Crosby, of Vernon, by whom he had eleven children, three boys and two girls dying in infancy. A short time after his marriage he traded his farm ın Kinsman for one in Vernon, with his brother- in-law, Ezra Crosby, and became identified with the interests of this township thereafter. He held various offices of trust ; was considered one of the best farmers in the township. The jokes he played were many and of a practical kind and often repaid. One of his neighbors at one time
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in his absence turned a drover's herd into a field of clover nearly ready to be cut. He told him it was all right, as it was to be plowed under, then went to Mr. King and told him some one had taken possession, and he better see about it. Mr. King, as soon as he had had a talk with the drover, could trace the joke back to his in- former. He watched his opportunity and soon had a chance to play a prank on him. This and many other ones were played and repaid in the best of humor. He was county commissioner in 1837. His wife died in 1839. He was a member of the Seceder church in Kinsman at his death, which occurred May 9, 1842. His children were Obed, horn 1807, married Mary Phelps, 1833, who had one child-died in in- fancy. He died in 1840. David, born 1810, died 1875. George, born 1819, married Sarah Waldorf, had children, Obed C., died aged ten, and Will C., born 1853 .* James, born 1813, an artist of much promise, died 1842. William, born 1822, died in Platteville, Wisconsin, in 1865. John, born 1827, died 1850. See sketch of J. I. King, M. D. The others died in in- fancy.
Rev. David King was born in Kinsman town- ship, August 22, 1810. When about twenty- four years of age he professed religion in Wayne, Ashtabula county. Attended Allegheny college, Meadville, Pennsylvania, in the years 1834 and 1835. Was licensed to exhort in 1834 and to preach in 1836. Was missionary among the Sioux Indians about Fort Snelling and St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1836 to 1842 inclusive. Was financial agent for Allegheny college in 1850-51 and 1853; was married in 1851 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Mrs. Jane Settlemires. He died in Vernon, January 31, 1875. He was noted for his zeal and peace-making. He was not great, but good, and died respected, the world being better for his having lived in it.
NOTES OF SETTLEMENT.
General Martin Smith was born in Connecti- cut in 1762; removed to the Reserve in an early day and was among the first settlers of Vernon township. He was a soldier in the Revolution- ary war. He followed merchandising in an early
day and was also by occupation a surveyor. He was grand master Mason and in early times the Masonic lodge held their meetings in his house. He married Sarah Kellogg, born in 1763, and had a family of eleven children. They were prominent members of the Presbyterian church and their home was the usual stopping place of the pioneer preacher and missionary. He died in Vernon in 1853; his wife July 22, 1834.
Harvilah Smith, son of the subject of the pre- ceding sketch, was born in Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, January 3, 1801, said to be the second white male child born in that township. His birthplace was on the farm where he still lives near the center of Vernon. His memory is still quite good and he retains a vivid recollec- tion of the experiences of pioneer life. He says he can well remember when a small boy of lying awake in bed at night listening to the wolves tear- ing the bark from the logs of the cabin. Of the four hundred acres comprising the Smith home- stead there is not a field in which he has not as- sisted in clearing it of the native forest. He married, in 1824, Hannah Clark, born in Con- necticut in 1802, and who removed to Vernon in 1813. They have children as follows : Erastus, Eliza, Julia, Alexander H., Charles H., Lottie, and Hannah.
Luman Hobart, son of Martin and Chloe (Jennings) Hobart, was born in Pennsylvania in 1812, February 7th. His father was a native of Massachusetts, born October 13, 1779, and his mother a native of Vermont, born in 1783. They settled in Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1834, on the land now owned by Isaac Morford. Ten years later they removed to Michigan, and in 1855 removed to New York State, where they died. They had a family of eleven children, their names all beginning with L, viz: Lorin, Lyman, Lester, Luman, Lucy, Lemuel, Lois, Lucius, Leonard, and Lewis; one died in infancy. Martin Hobart was a commissioned officer in the War of 1812. Luman Hobart came to Trumbull county with his parents in the fall of 1834, and has always since resided in Vernon township. He married, July 4, 1837, Rebecca Splitstone, born in Vernon July 11, 1818, and has a family of six children: Mary L., born in 1838, now wife of A. Brockway, residing in Mercer county, Pennsylvania; Oscar F., born 1840, married, March 7, 1872, Elvira Mifford, of Oneida
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county, New York, and has two children, Idelma R. and Sylvia J .; Clinton, born 1842, married Marilla Johnston, of Pennsylvania; Thomas C., born 1844, married Lizzie Storier, of Vernon; Dudley, born 1846, married, October 16, 1872, Lydia Bates, of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and has three children, Sadie L, Albert C., and Ella May; Lima O., born 1850, married J. V. Bates, of Pennsylvania. Three of the sons, Oscar, Clinton, and Corwin, were members of company G, One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio National guard, served four months and were discharged with their regiment. In 1852 Mr. Luman Hobart made a trip to California, being one hundred and nine days in reaching San Francisco, owing to sickness and other draw- backs, and followed mining about two years near Grass valley. On his homeward trip in October, 1854, when out about twenty-four hours the vessel struck a rock and sank. There were a large number of passengers aboard and many lives were lost. Mr. Hobart fortunately saved his life, but lost nearly all of his effects.
John Langley .- This venerable gentleman is one of the oldest residents of Trumbull county, as he was one of its earliest pioneers. His res- Idence in the county spans a period of over eighty years. He was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, July 29, 1791. He came to Trum- bull county in 1801, and lived with his uncle, Andrew Burns, until he was twenty-one. He was drafted in the army in the War of 1812, and served three months under Captain Fobes, when he was discharged on account of sickness. He then began the improvement of his land, sit- uated east of the center of Vernon. He put up a hewed log house and barn, and in 1814 put in a small piece of wheat. In 1816 he married Mary Waldorf, who came with her parents to Hubbard township in an early day. She died in Vernon December 28, 1871. Mr. Langley is the father of two sons and two daughters, viz: John W., George W., Rhoda, and Lucinda. John W., born October 11, 1817, married El- len Millikin, and has four children. George W., born April, 1820, married in 1844 Margaret Millikin, born December 29, 1821, in Ireland, and has a family of four children, viz: Jasper, born March 10, 1846, married Movilla Fell and has two daughters; Emery, April 1, 1850, married in 1875 Ellen Biggins, born in England
in 1854, and has two children, Flora and Willie; Alfred, March 1, 1855; Lucinda Dott -his sister's daughter-horn February 3, 1866. Rhoda Langley, the third child of John and Mary Langley, was born July 25, 1824, died July 4, 1861. Lucinda, born December 20, 1831, died March 10, 1866. Mr. Langley, the subject of this sketch, was present at the first quarterly meeting held by the Methodist Epis- copal church in Trumbull county. The presid- ing elder was Jacob Gruber, and the meeting was held in the barn of Obed Crosby.
Francis Haynes, son of Asa Haynes, Jr., was born in Connecticut, December 24, 1811, and came to Ohio with his parents in 1817, the family settling in Vernon township, Trumbull county. Colonel Haynes was horn in Connecti- cut March 29, 1791, and married in 1810, Sarah Rice, born in the same State the same year. They had three children: Francis, Eliza J., and Sylvia. Colonel Haynes was an associate judge for several years. He died January 28, 1879, his wife April 28, 1857. Francis Haynes married in 1835, Mary A. Davis, born July 19, 1812, in New York. They have a family of five children, viz: George F., Orlando W., Mary L., Amaret A., and Fayette M. The three sons served in the late war. Asa Haynes, Sr., the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, settled in Vernon in 1818. They raised a family of ten children, all of whom lived to raise families.
William E. Chapman, son of Erastus and Lydia (Leonard) Chapman, was born in Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1827. His grand- parents, William and Sylvia (Smith) Chapman, of Connecticut, came to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1805, and settled in Vernon township. They had a family of four children : Erastus, Fanny, Electa, and Sylvia. Erastus, the father of William E., was born in Connecticut in 1794, came to Ohio with his parents, and subsequently married Lydia Leonard, born in Massachusetts in 1799, and had eight children. Erastus Chapman died in Vernon in 1869. William E. Chapman was married in 1848, to Charlotte Clark, born in 1829, and she died in 1857. He was again married in 1859 to Mary A. Sheldon, born in 1838. He had two children by his first marriage: Erastus C. and William R.
Ralsa B. Clark was born in Hartford county, Connecticut, in 1796, and came with his parents
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to Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1814. His father, Eber B. Clark, was born in Con- necticut in 1774, and his mother, Wealthy A. Holcomb, in 1775; she died in 1861. They had a family of eleven children. Ralsa Clark was united in marriage in 1823 to Dorothy B. Hol- comb, born in 1799 in Connecticut. They have had eight children, four of whom are living. Mr. Clark, now one of the most wealthy farmers of the county, started in life a poor man ; his pros- perity and success are the result of his industry, foresight, and economy. Laura S., a daughter of Mr. Clark, was born in Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1839, married in 1860 Jasper D. Mattocks, now a resident of Toledo. They had two children, a boy and girl.
Joseph P. Williams was born in Vernon town- ship, Trumbull county, Ohio, January 18, 1818. His parents, Asmond and Mary (Sheldon) Wil- liams, removed to Vernon in 1815. Asmond Williams was born in 1790 and his wife in 1789. He died in 1865 and she in 1869. They reared a family of nine children-four are living. Joseph P. married Vienna Proper, who was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, in 1822. She died in 1865. He is the father of three chil- dren : Sarah U., Amanda B., and Joseph P. Mr. Williams is a farmer and dairyman.
Alfred F. Waldorf, son of John and Elizabeth Waldorf, was born in Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1818. His grandfather, John Waldorf, Sr., was a native of New Jersey, born 1750, and came to Ohio in 1802, and died in Hubbard township, Trumbull county, in 1810. He had a family of six children. His son John, Jr., father of the subject of this sketch, was born in New Jersey in 1786, settled in Vernon township, Trumbull county, in 1809, and died there in 1835. He married Elizabeth Misner, daughter of Nicholas and Rhoda Misner. She was born in New Jersey in 1789, and died in Vernon in 1876. They had a family of thirteen children, of whom four are living. Alfred F. was united in marriage in 1842 to Annis L. Wadsworth, daughter of Henry and Laura Wadsworth, born in New York State in 1823. Mr. and Mrs. Wal- dorf have a family of six children, as follows: Laura A., John H., Gertrude, Emma, Ada M. and Ida M. (twins). Eugene is dead. Mr. and Mrs. Waldorf are members of the Free-will Baptist church.
George K. Pelton was born in Gustavus, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1818. His maternal grandfather, Joseph DeWolf, was born in Hart- land, Connecticut, in 1762, and settled in Ver- non township, Trumbull county, one mile south of the center, in the spring of 1800. He came out a short time in advance of his family, who followed with an ox team. On the way one of the oxen died, and the cow, which they were bringing with them, was yoked up in his place and the journey completed in this way. Joseph DeWolf married Sarah Gibbons (born in 1764), and had a family of thirteen children. He was a soldier in the war of independence, serving through the whole struggle. As a pioneer he battled not only with the forests of Vernon, but frequently with the wild beasts as well. On one occasion he had quite an adventure with a wounded deer. On going up to cut its throat it sprang up and at him, knocking him down. On regaining his feet he ran for a log that lay up some distance from the ground. Whenever the deer would spring at him he would roll down under the log and the deer would land on the other side of the tree, and he would then roll back and climb upon the log. This proceeding was kept up for some time, finally wearing the animal out, but not without himself receiving many bruises. Mr. DeWolf died in Vernon in 1846, and his wife two years later. They were highly esteemed by the entire community in which they resided so long. Their oldest daugh- ter, Ruhamah, was born in Connecticut in 1783 and became the wife of Joseph Pelton, a native of Saybrook, Connecticut, and died in 1872. Mr. Pelton served in the War of 1812. They had eleven children. George K. married in 1848 Mary A. King, daughter of William King, of Kinsman. She was born in 1821 and died in 1874. Two children is the result of this union-Myra and John S., both at home.
Ira Case, son of Abner and Hannah Case, of Barkhamstead, Connecticut, was born March 15, 1782, came to Ohio about the year 1805 and set- tled in Vernon, Trumbull county, where he lived until his death which took place May 25, 1837. His wife was Ursula, daughter of Uriah and Mehitabel Hyde, born June 10, 1786, in Lyme, Connecticut, died in October, 1864. They had a family of seven children, namely : Julia, born August 10, 1808, married Norris Hum-
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phrey, and died January 26, 1870; Imri, born March 4, 1810; Uriah N., born August 26, 1811, of Orangeville; Hannah M., born March 6, 1813, wife of George Fell (second), of Vernon; Eveline, born July 12, 1819, died about 1860; Lucy C., born May 7, 1821, died in 1879; George S., born April 1, 1826, of Vernon. He married Mary Hoagland, of Brookfield, born October 15, 1836. They have had five children, as follows: Ida L., born July 27, 1856, died in Colorado July 14, 1880; Jesse H., born De- cember 7, 1858; Mary E., horn March 26, 1862; Cora D., born December 5, 1865, died Septem- ber 5, 1866; Minnie D., born August 26, 1869.
James M. Dickerman, son of Isaac and Ann Dickerman, was born in Massachusetts in 1826; came to Ohio in 1854 and settled in Bloomfield township, Trumbull county. Later he moved to Vernon township and at present is proprietor of the hotel at Burg Hill. His wife Harriet was born in Massachusetts in 1828. In 1862 he enlisted in company B, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served nine months.
CHAPTER X. BLOOMFIELD.
GENERAL FEATURES.
Bloomfield, the seventh township in the fourth range, is in the northern part of Trumbull county, adjoining Ashtabula county. It lies between Greene on the east and Mesopotamia on the west, and is north of Bristol. The largest stream in the township is Grand river, which enters near the southwestern corner, and pursues a general northerly direction parallel to the western township line, crossing the center road, and passing out of the township into Mesopo- tamia a short distance north of this road. Several small streams, tributaries of this river, drain the western portion of the township. Baughman's creek enters the river in the south- west; about a mile north of its mouth a small run empties, and perhaps a half mile further, Center creek flowing west from its headwaters in
the tamarack swamp, adds its waters to those of the river. North creek rises north of the center of the township, and flowing southwesterly, joins the river near the township line. Still another small creek, known as Haine's run, flows through the northwestern portion of this township. The streams are mainly in the western half of the township. A large portion of the land in the eastern half is covered by the tamarack swamp, which extends from north to south almost entirely across the township, east of the Ashtabula & Pittsburg railroad. The eastern and western portions-the tamarack swamp and the valley of Grand river-are low-lying and wet. The river bottom is often flooded by rains which appear to affect other localities much less. Through the township from north to south extends a swell or ridge of land rising gradually from the swampy regions on either side, and generally very nearly level on its broad crest. The soil of this slight elevation varies from sandy and gravelly loam on the west to clay on the east. Along the turnpike are many fine farms, with first-rate buildings and improvements. This is an excellent farming region, well suited for wheat. Dairying and sheep-raising are carried on quite profitably.
The township was late settled, and even now contains but a small number of inhabitants, there being less than two hundred voters. The tamarack swamp has not yet been subjugated, but labor is now being expended upon it with a view toward making its fertility and richness available for the farmer. When this result has been ac- complished the agricultural resources of Bloom- field will be greatly enlarged. Another swamp in the southwest of the township is the black ash swamp, containing three or four hundred acres lying near Grand river. These swamps have proved a drawback to Bloomfield, but they soon must yield, subdued by the labor of the progressive agriculturist.
The only village in the township is the center, or, to give its post-office address, North Bloom- field, situated a half mile west of the geographical center. This is one of the pleasantest rural vil- lages in the county. Beautiful shade trees line its streets, and a level grassy lawn of nearly five acres in the center of the village lends additional beauty to the place. Forty or fifty houses, three stores, and a few other shops, and two churches are comprised in North Bloomfield.
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RONGIIAL OWNERS.
Peter Chardon Brooks, of Boston, was the pro- prietor of large tracts of land in this portion of the Reserve and this township was held by him until 1814. He then sold it to Ephraim Brown, of Westmoreland, New Hampshire, and Thomas Howe of Williamstown, Vermont. Although the purchasers were of nearly the same age, Howe was Brown's uncle and the playmate of his boy- hood. It is said that the first business transac- tion between the two took place when the uncle and the nephew were both less than ten years of age, and was of a most unique nature. Howe rented a hen of Brown for the season, and, at the expiration of the time agreed upon, returned her with half her chickens. Two or three years after purchasing the township, Howe sold out to Brown, reserving one thousand acres in the south- ern part.
SURVEY.
Soon after purchasing Howe and Brown en- gaged S. I. Ensign, of Mesopotamia, to survey this township-not an easy task, considering the then swampy condition of the land. The town- ship is divided into one hundred and seventy lots, contaming from fifty to one hundred acres each. These lots are numbered from north to south, beginning with lot one in the northwest- ern corner of the township.
THE FIRST SETTLER ..
Leman Ferry, of Brookfield, Vermont, started for his new home in the western wilds about the roth day of January, 1815, and reached his des- tination about the 20th of February following. He started with two teams, one a sled drawn by two yoke of oxen, the other a sleigh drawn by a span of horses. The teams conveyed his household goods and his family. Mr. Ferry was accompanied by his hired man, Mrs. Ferry, and two sons and three daughters. When west of Buffalo it was found impracticable to proceed further with the ox-sled on account of the scan- tiness of snow. Therefore Mr. Ferry exchanged the sled for a wagon and continued his journey, but kept the sleigh along, the horses dragging it over bare ground much of the way. He en- tered this township from the northward, guided only by spotted trees in the latter part of his journey. There was then no house between Rome center and Bristol township, and no road
through Bloomfield. Arriving in the vicinity of his purchase Mr. Ferry found shelter for his fam- ily in a deserted log cabin situated just over the line in Bristol, until he had time to erect a shanty upon his own land. Leman Ferry, Jr., his oldest son, was at this time twenty-one years old, and with his assistance and that of the hired man a comfortable dwelling was soon finished. At first no chimney was built, but a smoke-hole was cut through the roof instead. The fire was built against the green logs in the end of the room until these were burned away somewhat, then a kind of stone fire-place was made by heaping up stones against the logs. Here the family lived and worked. When spring came, a num- ber of men came on to make clearings, and as many as twenty at a time boarded at the house of Mrs. Ferry. Benches made of split or hewn logs were ranged round the room for seats, and at night beds were made up on the floor. Mr. Ferry had never built a log-house before this, and therefore was not especially skilled in that kind of carpentry; and the roof of the building, which was covered by "shakes," or long shingles, held down by weight-poles, was not properly con- structed. One day Mr. Ferry's son Noble, then a small boy, climbed upon the roof to rescue a cat which had got up there and was afraid to come down. When he was about midway of the building, the whole roof suddenly started, shin- gles, and weight-poles all together, and carried the boy to the ground, burying him in the debris. The hired man, who was chopping wood back of the house, saw the fall and with the assistance of young Leman Ferry soon extricated the bruised and frightened child. Fortunately no bones were broken, and the victim of the acci- dent still lives to relate the incident.
The summer following his arrival and settle- ment Mr. Ferry returned to Conneaut, where he had left his sled, taking back the wagon he had purchased in order to reach Bloomfield. The wagon he sold for six barrels of salt at $10 per barrel, hauled the salt home on the sled, and sold it out to the settlers at the price he had paid.
Leman Ferry died in 1825, aged sixty. Mrs. Ferry lived to reach her ninetieth year. They were the parents of seven children, of whom the youngest five came to Ohio with them. The children were Editha (Pinney) and Lucy
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(Lamphere); Leman, Polly, Chloe, Lucinda, and Noble B., of whom only the youngest sur- vives. Leman, Jr., married Susan Hillman, and afterwards moved to Garrettsville, where he died. Polly married Dr. Andrew Clark and lived in Newton township. Chloe married William Mc- Clintock and resided in Bloomfield several years. She died at Garrettsville. Lucinda married first Samuel Tinan, of Rome, and second Thomas Bushnell, of Bloomfield. N. B. married Abi- gail Flower, and lives upon the old homestead. His wife died in 1875. They had ten children; nine are now living, the youngest son with his father.
EARLY SETTLERS.
The spring and summer after Mr. Ferry's set- tlement a number of others came and began im- proving their farms, and a few brought their fam- ilies during that year. In the spring of 1815 Willard Crowell, Israel Proctor, Samuel East- man, and David Comstock came to this town- ship from Vermont on foot.
Ephraim Brown, from Cheshire county, New Hampshire, was one of the first settlers and most prominent citizens. He settled at the center in 1815, in a log cabin built a short time previously by Major Howe. The site of the cabin is now cov- ered by the residence of his son, E. A. Brown. Ephraim Brown married Mary B. Huntington, and at the time of their arrival in the township their family consisted of four children ; five were afterwards born to them. The names of the children were Ephraim Alexander, George W., Mary, Charles, Elizabeth H., James M., Marvin H., Fayette, and Anne F. E. A. Brown now resides upon the old homestead. He was in business in Pittsburg from 1829 to 1845, princi- pally as a wholesale dry goods merchant. George WV. died in Bloomfield; Mary (Wing) still lives in the township as also Elizabeth; Charles died in Georgia in 1880; James died in Massillon ; Marvin resides in Painesville, and Fayette in Cleveland, Annie F. in Bloomfield. Ephraim Brown died in 1845, and his widow in 1862. Mr. Brown was the first postmaster, the first merchant, and the second justice of the peace. With Major Howe, and Judge Austin, of Austin- burg, he was among the originators of the War- ren and Ashtabula turnpike.
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