History of the Western Reserve, Vol. II, Part 31

Author: Upton, Harriet Taylor; Cutler, Harry Gardner, 1856-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: Chicago ; New York : The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 886

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Ever well fortified in his opinions upon po- litical, economic and social matters, Judge Barnard was aligned as a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party, in whose cause he gave yeoman service, though he manifested naught of ambition for

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official preferment. In 1876 he was chosen presidential elector on the Republican ticket, was made a member of the judiciary commit- tee in the Ohio electoral college, and cast his vote for Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler, the respective candidates of his party for president and vice-president. In the field of politics he was known as an effective organizer and forceful speaker. He was clear and logical in thought, ready and apposite in expression, and forceful in delivery. Though a man of intense convictions, he surveyed pub- lic questions with a calm, dispassionate judg- ment. Of a generous, sympathetic and con- fiding nature, his personality shone most gra- ciously in the home circle and among his inti- mate friends.

In varied activities Judge Barnard touched success at many points, and this generation knew him as one whose life exemplified a beautiful content and whose character was one of symmetrical development, in which culture and polish had not weakened the qualities of strength and force. A natural graciousness in manner and mind marked his intercourse with his fellow men, and the affection entertained for him was of one of much warmth and sin- cerity. He was a devout communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, as was also his wife, and in its work they ever took an active part. Judge Barnard was summoned to the life eternal on January 9, 1907, and the angle of his influence continues to widen in ever cumulative beneficence now that he "rests from his labors."

On October 7, 1849. Judge Barnard was united in marriage to Miss Malvina M. Mar- tin, daughter of Asa and Nancy ( Wetherbee) Martin, both natives of Bath, Grafton county, New Hampshire, where the former was born on February 14, 1807, and the latter on Sep- tember 25, 1805. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Martin was solemnized in their native town on August 8, 1826, and in 1832 they came to Ohio and took up their residence in Medina county, where they made their advent on No- vember 30. They became the parents of four children, of whom Mrs. Barnard was the sec- ond in order of birth. She was born at Bath, New Hampshire, September 16, 1828, and her death occurred in Medina on the evening of January 16, 1902. Concerning this noble woman the following appreciative words have been written by one who knew her and had cognizance of her admirable attributes of char- acter: "Notwithstanding the meager oppor-

tunities for gaining an education in the pioneer community in Medina county, her quick per- ceptions as a child and her earnest devotion to her studies enabled her to make such rapid progress that at the age of fourteen years she was granted a certificate and began teaching in the local schools. She continued in this profession until some time after her marriage. Possessed of fine mental abilities, excellent forecast of mind, good taste and judgment and lively wit, she was, above all, womanly, a de- voted mother and an earnest member of the Protestant Episcopal church."

Judge and Mrs. Barnard became the parents of four children, concerning whom the follow- ing brief data are given: Frank J., born in Medina, March 26, 1852, was educated in Cor- nell University, New York, and was a promi- nent educator in the state of Ohio for fourteen years, when he was chosen superintendent of the schools of Seattle, Washington, which po- sition he held for eleven years. He now repre- sents the American Book Company in the state of Washington ; Lily, who was born in Medina, March 23, 1856, died on August 12 following : Bertie A., who was born in Medina, August 12. 1857, was for some time a teacher in the public schools of her native village, where she still resides, owning and occupying the attrac- tive old family homestead and being held in affectionate regard in the community which has represented her home during virtually her entire life : she was educated under her father in the public schools and at Medina Normal school; Harry, the youngest of the children, was born in Medina, September 29, 1865, and died at Ticonderoga, New York, in 1895.

NATHANIEL P. GOODHUE .- A representative business man and prominent and highly es- teemed citizen of Akron, which has been his home from the time of his birth, Nathaniel P. Goodhue, is treasurer of the Bruner-Good- hue-Cooke Company, whose sphere of opera- tions includes insurance, real estate, loans and abstracts. This concern is one of the larg- est of the kind in the Western Reserve and dates its organization back to the year 1882. In 1889 a reorganization took place and the company was at that time incorporated with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Goodhue is also assistant secretary of the Akron Building & Loan Association, has been incumbent of various public offices and is a citizen to whom is accorded the fullest meas- ure of popular confidence and esteem.

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Nathaniel Perkins Goodhue was born in the city of Akron on the 6th of August, 1854, and is a son of the late Judge Nathaniel W. Goodhue, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work, so that further resume of the family history is not demanded in the present connection. The subject of this sketch gained his early education in the public schools of Akron, and in September, 1872, when eighteen years of age, he became deputy clerk of the United States Court in the city of Cleveland. This incumbency he retained until December, 1878, and thereafter he was a traveling salesman for the wholesale boot and shoe firm of Keller & Goodhue, of Roch- ester, New York, until 1880. He then passed two years in the study of law in the office of his father, in Akron, and when the latter be- came probate judge of Summit county, on the 9th of February, 1882, the son entered the probate office in the capacity of deputy clerk. He was incumbent of this office at the time of the death of his honored father, Sep- tember 12, 1883, and he continued to hold the position during the regime of Judge Charles R. Grant, until the 9th of February, 1891. In November of the preceding year Mr. Good- hue was elected, on the Republican ticket, to the office of clerk of the courts for Summit county, and of this important office he con- tinued in tenure, by successive re-elections, until August. 1897. He now gives his atten- tion principally to his large business interests, and in addition to those already noted in this article he is one of the principal stockholders in the Bruner-Goodhue-Cooke Company, of which he is treasurer, conducts operations of wide scope and importance, and its business is one which has definite bearing on the indus- trial prestige and material advancement of the city of Akron.

In politics Mr. Goodhue gives an unwaver- ing allegiance to the Republican party, in whose cause he has rendered yeoman service. He and his wife hold membership in St. Paul's Episcopal church, and he is identified with various fraternal and social organizations of representative order.

On the 4th of April, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Goodhue to Miss Mary Kent McNaughton, daughter of Finley and Ella (Kent) McNaughton, who were at that time residents of Akron and who now are deceased. Mrs. Goodhue was born in Akron, October 31, 1858, and here she has ever made her home, being prominent and popular in

connection with the social activities of her native city. Mr. and Mrs. Goodhue have no children.

PRYOR L. FRANK .- During many years the name of Frank has been associated with the business interests of Portage county, and the family was founded in this state by Samuel and Mary ( Monosmith) Frank, the grand- parents of Pryor L. They were numbered among the Trumbull county pioneers, and they were farming people there for a number of years, finally moving from there to Alliance, Ohio, and the later years of their life were passed in Freedom township, Portage county.

John F. Frank, one of the sons of Samuel and Mary, was born in the Trumbull county home, and he is now one of the honored resi- dents of Warren township, Portage county. In Newton township of Trumbull county he married Margaret Christ, from Pennsylvania, the eldest of her parents' four children. Left an orphan when but eight years of age, she was reared by an aunt at both Milton and Berlin, in Trumbull county, Ohio. The young couple after their marriage resided at Newton Falls, where he followed contracting and building, until coming to Charlestown in Por- tage county in 1875. They lived there and in Freedom until 1888, when they moved to Warren, Ohio, and Mr. Frank followed con- tracting there until 1893. In that year he bought the farm in Warren township where he now resides. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Frank are, Pryor L., who is mentioned be- low; Aaron, whose home is in Warren, Ohio ; Simon, of Ravenna; Elizabeth, the wife of Earl Dunlap, a railroad engineer at Paines- ville, Ohio: Levi, who is also residing in Ra- venna ; and Henry, who died in infancy.

Pryor L. Frank was born in Newton town- ship, Trumbull county, Ohio, December 3, 1863, and learning the trade of carpentering from his father he worked with him from the age of seventeen until 1890. During the following three years he was a contractor in Charlestown, and then returning to Ravenna he built his present home here and has since been actively identified with its business life. In 1905 he built a planing mill and carpenter shop, and he is also the proprietor of a retail lumber yard, where he furnishes employment to from twenty to sixty men.

He married on September 2, 1890, Eva G. Beman, from Atwater, in Portage county, a daughter of Cassius and Sarah ( Mix) Beman,

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who were also born in the town of Atwater. The two children of this union are Carl and Mary. Mr. Frank is a Republican in politics, and he is a member of the Masonic order and of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is also a member and a trustee of the Congre- gational church at Ravenna.

ALLEN A. BARBER .- With the civic and business history of Portage county the name of Allen A. Barber has been prominently identified, and he stands as one of the repre- sentative citizens of this favored section of the Western Reserve, has maintained his home in Portage county from the time of his birth and, through both paternal and maternal lines, is a scion of old and honored families of the historic Western Reserve. He has been con- tinuously engaged in business in the village of Garrettsville for more than half a century, and the hardware firm of which he was the senior member now takes precedence as being the oldest in Portage county. He is also en- gaged in the real estate and insurance busi- ness, and is one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of his native county, where he has been called upon to serve in various offices of public trust and where his name has ever stood synonymous of integrity and honor.

Allen A. Barber was born in Freedom township, Portage county, Ohio, on May I, 1833, and is a son of Captain Harmon and Locena (Daniels) Barber. Harmon Barber was born in the state of Massachusetts, where the family, which is of stanch English stock. was founded in the colonial era, and the date of his nativity was December 14, 1804. He was a son of Thomas Barber, who came with his family from the old Bay State to the West- ern Reserve in the early years of the nine- teenth century and numbered himself among the early settlers of Nelson township, Por- tage county, where he secured a large tract of land and reclaimed a farm from the virgin forest. He was a prominent figure in the pub- lic and civic life of this section in the pioneer days and was a man of sterling character. He and his wife here passed the residue of their lives, and they reared a family of sixteen chil- dren. Captain Harmon Barber was afforded the advantages of the common schools of his native state and was a young man at the time of the family immigration to the wilds of the Western Reserve. He assisted in the re- clamation of his father's farm and eventually

became the owner of a farm in Freedom town- ship, where he continued to be actively identi- fied with agricultural pursuits until his death, in 1845, at which time he was only forty-one years of age.

In 1829 was solemnized the marriage of Captain Barber to Miss Locena Daniels, who was born in Freedom township, Portage coun- ty, on November 1, 1809, and who was a daughter of Reuben and Polly (Larcomb) Daniels, who came from the state of Massa- chusetts and became early settlers of Portage county, where the father set to himself the arduous task of reclaiming a farm from the wilderness and where both he and his wife passed the residue of their lives, honored by all who knew them. Captain Barber was one of the popular citizens of Portage county, where he held various public offices of a local order and where he served as captain of a com- pany in the state militia. His political sup- port was given to the Democratic party and both he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. They became the parents of five children, namely: Calvin J., who is a resident of Rodney, Iowa; Allen A., who is the immediate subject of this sketch : Chester T., who died at the age of about forty-one years; Brewster O., who died at the age of twenty-nine years; and Polly, who was about forty-two years of age at the time of her demise, and she married Jerry Musser, of Garrettsville. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Locena Barber became the wife of Paul Musser, and they had one daughter, Ella, who is now deceased. Mrs. Musser survived her husband and passed the closing days of her life in the home of her eldest son, Calvin J. Barber, in Iowa, where she died on December 24, 1873.

Allen A. Barber passed his childhood days on the home farm and his early advantages in an educational way were those afforded in the common schools of the locality and period. When about fourteen years of age he went to Parkman, Ohio, Geauga county, where he served an apprenticeship of about three years to the trade of tinsmith. He then returned to his native county and took up his residence in Garrettsville, where he engaged in the work of his trade and where he has been con- tinuously identified with business interests during the long intervening years, within which he has risen to the position of one of the representative merchants and influential citizens of his native county.

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In 1857 Mr. Barber associated himself with Enos C. Smith and engaged in the hardware business in Garrettsville under the firm name of Barber & Smith, and this business alliance continued without interruption until 1883, when Mr. Smith bought Mr. Barber's interest in the hardware business. For a number of years Mr. Barber has also been engaged in the real estate and insurance business, in which his agency controls a representative support. He is the owner of valuable realty in Gar- rettsville and elsewhere in Portage county and has made many important transactions in the real estate department of his business.

In politics Mr. Barber has ever been aligned as a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, and he has shown a loyal interest in public affairs, giving his support to enterprises and measures tend- ing to conserve the general progress and pros- perity of his home town and county. He has served for many years in the office of justice of the peace, to which he received his first commission from Governor William Allen, and he has since been confirmed in the office by nearly all of the successive governors of the old Buckeye commonwealth. He was for sixteen years a valued member of the board of education of Garrettsville, and during most of this period was treasurer of the board. He served four years as postmaster of Shalers- ville, during the first administration of Presi- dent Cleveland, and at the same time he was incumbent of the office of treasurer and jus- tice of the peace of Slialersville township. He has been the candidate of his party for the offices of county sheriff and county treasurer, and while running ahead of his ticket was unable to overcome the normal Republican majority in the county. Mr. Barber has done much to promote the upbuilding and general progress of Garrettsville, and his influence has ever been given in support of all worthy undertakings. In view of his life and labors it may well be understood that he maintains an impregnable hold upon the confidence and esteem of the community in which practically his entire life has been passed and in which he now stands as one of the venerable citizens and pioneer business men. He and his wife hold membership in the Unitarian church, as did also his first wife, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a past-master of Mantua Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Garrettsville. He is also identified with

the local council of Royal and Select Masters, and with the Commandery, Knights Templar, in Youngstown and Warren, Ohio. In Feb- ruary, 1855, Mr. Barber was united in mar- riage to Miss Helen McClintock, who was born in Bloomfield township, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1832, and who was a daughter of William and Polly McClintock, who were pio- neers of the Western Reserve and who passed the closing years of their lives in Portage county, where they resided for many years. Mrs. Barber was summoned to the life eternal in 1896, and is survived by four sons,-Fred- erick A., who is a resident of Mantua, Portage county ; William H., who is engaged in busi- ness in the village of Kent, this county ; Frank A., who is a representative citizen of Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga county ; and George A., who is identified with business interests in the city of Cleveland.

On May 7, 1897, Mr. Barber contracted a second marriage, as on that date was solemn- ized his union with Miss Lucy Lane, who was born in Windham township, Portage county, Ohio, on June 25, 1841, and who is a daughter of Hiram and Caroline (Davis) Lane, the for- mer of whom was a native of Litchfield coun- ty, Connecticut, and the latter of Westmore- land, Oneida county, New York. Hiram Lane was a son of Nathaniel Lane and when he was but four years of age, in 1810, his parents immigrated from Connecticut to the Western Reserve and settled at Braceville, Trumbull county, where he was reared and educated and where he continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits until his marriage. He then took up his residence in Windham town- ship, Portage county, where he became a successful farmer and where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred when he was sixty-eight years of age. He was a man of sterling attributes of character and was one of the honored and influential citizens of his community. His wife, who came to the Western Reserve when a girl and who made her home with an older sister until her marriage, lived to attain the age of sixty-five years, and her memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of her gentle influence. Mr. Lane was always liberal in his religious views and until middle life Mrs. Lane was a Methodist, but in late life was a member of no church, holding like her husband liberal views. They became the parents of four (laughters, all of whom are living, namely : Sarah, who is the wife of Ambrose B. Collins,

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of Ravenna, Portage county ; Lucy, who is the wife of Mr. Barber, of this sketch; Augusta, who is the wife of Joseph Schooley, of Cleve- land; and Helen, deceased wife of Almearon Pierce, of Ravenna.

Mrs. Lucy (Lane) Barber gained her pre- liminary educational discipline in the district schools of her native township, after which she pursued her studies in the graded school at Farmington, and finally she was matricu- lated in Hiram College, in which fine old in- stitution she was a student for one year. She was long numbered among the successful and popular teachers in the public schools of the Western Reserve, and devoted her attention to the pedagogic profession for the long period of seventeen years, and up to the time of her marriage. For ten years she maintained her home in the city of Cleveland, and for four years she was a resident of Braceville, Trum- bull county, where she maintained her home until her marriage, in 1897. She is a woman of fine intellectual attainments and gracious personality, and is prominent in connection with the religious and social activities of Gar- rettsville, where she has the friendly regard of all who know her.

HENRY C. KAUFFMAN has been numbered among the business men of Ravenna since February of 1907, when he came to this city and became associated with H. J. Meyers in monumental work. Their work is principally along the line of preparing monuments and laying flagstone sidewalks, and on June 1, 1908, the business was incorporated as a stock company and has since been known as the Ravenna Monumental Company. The officers of the company are as follows: H. J. Meyers, president; E. P. Fouse, vice-president ; and Henry C. Kauffman, secretary and treasurer, all men of the highest standing in business circles.

Mr. Kauffman was born in Mifflin, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, January 28, 1876, a son of William and Mary ( McCahan ) Kauffman, also from Mifflin, Pennsylvania, and a grand- son of Henry and Mary ( Kauffman ) Kauff- man, also from the Keystone state, and of Alexander and Rebecca ( Custer) McCahan, of Scotch parentage. Mrs. McCahan was a cou- sin of the celebrated General Custer. Both Mr. and Mrs. William Kauffman yet reside on a farm in Juniata county, Pennsylvania. Henry C. was the third born of their five sons and five daughters, and the early years of his life

were spent on his parents farm, working in the fields during the summer months and attend- ing the country schools in the winters. Thus he continued until he had attained the age of twenty years, and then going to Akron, Ohio, he worked on farms in that vicinity for two years. He then worked in the Goodrich rub- ber works for nine years. At the close of that period, in February of 1907, he came to Ravenna and has since been prominently associated with its interests.

He married on September 7, 1898, Ella Fouse, who was born in Akron, Ohio, a daughter of Edwin P. and Mary (Rose) Fouse, natives respectively of Stark and Summit counties, this state. The children of this union are Mary Grace and Eva May. ' Mr. Kauffman upholds and supports the principles of the Republican party, and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

GEORGE WALLACE ALVORD, one of the leaders of the Lake county bar, is of a well-known Massachusetts family, whose members have been identified with the agricultural and pro- fessional progress of this section of the West- ern Reserve since 1851. He is of English descent, although his ancestors have lived for several generations in America. Gaines Al- vord, his grandfather, who was a native of Massachusetts and a soldier in the Revolution- ary war, was prominent in the affairs of the New Jersey militia, dying at the age of nearly ninety years. His father, G. W. Alvord, was born in Granby, Massachusetts, and was reared in his native state, where he married Miss Mar- garet Bush, a representative of a prominent New England family. In 1851 they migrated to Lake county, settling on a farm near Madi- son. Their five sons and four daughters were reared in Lake county.

Mr. Alvord, of this sketch, is a native of Concord, Lake county, born in 1856, and ob- tained his education at the Painesville Union schools and the Western Reserve College. In 1880 he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and has since become a leading lawyer. He has mostly practiced alone, but in recent years was con- nected with the Honorable A. G. Reynolds, formerly speaker of the House in the Ohio legislature, but upon Mr. Reynolds' elevation to his present position as judge of the common pleas court, in January, 1909, the firm name of "Alvord & Reynolds" was dropped, and in April, 1909, Mr. Alvord formed a partner- ship with Elbert F. Blakely, an able lawyer and

GEORGE W. ALVORD

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present prosecuting attorney of Lake county. and the firm of "Alvord & Blakely" carries both dignity, strength and a high reputation.

Mr. Alvord is also one of the leading Demo- crats of Lake county, and enjoys the honor of having served as the first mayor of Painesville belonging to that party. He is affiliated with Masonry (Knights Templar ) and Odd Fellow- ship, belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, and is an honored citizen whose sub- stantial character is founded on intellectual ability, fraternal traits and firm moral quali- ties. He married Miss Mary Moodey, only daughter of the late Addison Moodey, June 20, 1895, a lady of culture and prominence in social circles. Both are active members of the Congregational church, she a lifelong mem- ber and he since 1898, and none stand higher in practical church and charity labors than he and his good wife.

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History of the Western Reserve, Vol. II, Part 31

Author: Upton, Harriet Taylor; Cutler, Harry Gardner, 1856- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: Chicago ; New York : The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 886

Author: Upton, Harriet Taylor; Cutler, Harry Gardner, 1856-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: Chicago ; New York : The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 886