History of the Western Reserve, Vol. II, Part 58

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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As Alonzo was the oldest of the children and his father died when he was fifteen years of age, he was placed in charge of the farm at an early age. He married in 1855, when only twenty years of age, but remained on the home- stead until 1863, when he located in Franklin Mills, Portage county, and for two years con- ducted a grocery store. He then erected the hotel called the Johnson House, and after operating it for three years sold it and opened a butcher shop. During the succeeding eighteen years he conducted a flourishing meat business, as well as operated his farm in Franklin town- ship. He then sold the business to his brother Eben and his son Willard, each of whom now conducts a meat market. After selling his busi- ness, Mr. Johnson purchased ninety acres of land a mile north of Kent, and resided thereon for several years, the farm being actively and profitably cultivated. He then retired to the town of Kent, where he erected a modern resi- dence and has since resided in the enjoyment of a well-earned competency. The grounds of two acres surrounding his home are tastefully improved and materially add to the value and attractiveness of his homestead. In politics, Mr. Johnson is a Democrat and has served the township for two terms as assessor. His religious convictions are founded on the faith of the Christian denomination, of which he has been an earnest member for many years.

In 1855 Mr. Johnson married, as his first wife, Mary Jane Cook, a native of Geauga county, Ohio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Labley Cook, natives of Massachusetts. The children of this union were as follows: Willard and Perry, residents of Kent ; Emma, who is Mrs. Griffin, and lives in California ; Albert, of Bar- berton, Ohio; Ora, who died in February, 1906, as Mrs. John Moore; Nellie, now Mrs. Frank Conley, of Franklin township; Clayton, who resides in Cleveland, Ohio; Cora (Mrs. Arthur Wise) and Selah, both of Kent. On September 18, 1889, after the death of his first wife, Mr. Johnson married the widow of Charles O. Taylor (nee Sabina Cook), who was then the mother of the following: Edith,

now Mrs. J. W. Foust, of Mangadore, Ohio ; and John O. and James H., both of Kent. Mrs. Sabina Johnson is the daughter of Calvin and Mary A. (Stout) Cook, the former a native of Suffield township and the latter of Delaware, Portage county. By her marriage to Mr. Johnson she has become the mother of Annis and Calvin.

ARVIN OLIN HAYMAKER .- East Twin Lake Park, which lies along the shores of the beauti- ful body of water by that name in Franklin township, Portage county, is owned by Arvin O. Haymaker and is one of the most pictur- esque country places in this section of the Western Reserve. Mr. Haymaker is a native of the township in which he has always resided, and has continually engaged in agriculture, the care of land, teaching, and affairs of a public nature largely devoted to educational matters. He was born April 5, 1844, to James D. and Mary R. (Olin) Haymaker. James D. Hay- maker was also born in Franklin township, and as his mother died a few days after his birth he was brought up by his uncle, James Davis, whose home was Beaver, Pennsylvania ; subsequently, by going to an aunt, Rebecca Warner, of Franklin township, Portage county, and after some of his older brothers had become self-supporting, he went to live with his father. Mr. and Mrs. James D. Haymaker became the parents of twelve children, of whom two died in infancy, three passed away in maturity and seven are yet living.

Arvin O. Haymaker, who is the fifth born into the large paternal household, resided with his parents until he was twenty-two years of age, when he purchased one hundred and thirty-four acres adjoining the family home- stead on the shores of East Twin Lake. He engaged in farming, taught winter schools for twenty-five years and, for many years, has been prominent as a Republican and a public man. He has served many terms both as town- ship trustee and as a member of the board of education. Mr. Haymaker is a representative citizen and, although his regular education has been confined to district schooling and one term at Mount Union College, he has been a careful and a wide reader. During the years which have passed since his younger manhood he has also added to his charming place on East Twin Lake, so that the Park now consists of one hundred and sixty acres of land, beauti- fully diversified by nature and tastefully improved by its proprietor.

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On April 5, 1866, Mr. Haymaker married Miss Harriet E. Norton, who was born in Brimfield township, daughter of Joseph and Jenette (Graham) Norton, who were of New England birth and ancestry. The children born to them were Charles A. Haymaker (con- nected with the publications Farm and Fire- side, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Woman's Home Companion, of Springfield, Ohio, and Hattie E., now Mrs. Frank Felger. Mrs. Harriet Haymaker died in April, 1869, and in May, 1870, the widower married Miss Harriet Pow- ell, a native of Columbiana county, Ohio, and daughter of William and Catherine (Berger) Powell, the parents being of Maryland. Four children were born to Mr. Haymaker's second marriage-Homer A., who is a book broker of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Deborah, a high school teacher of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ; Frank P., who is an electrical engineer of that city, and Abby Rosetta, now Mrs. J. Paul Teas, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

MARCUS D. SATTERLEE, M. D., AND BERTHA SATTERLEE, M. D .- Prominent in the medical fraternity of Ashtabula county are numbered Dr. Marcus D. Satterlee and Dr. Bertha M. Satterlee, who have been in practice in the city of Andover since 1894. They are both practi- tioners of scholarly attainments, and have made deep and careful research in the sciences to which they are devoting their lives. Dr. Mar- cus is a graduate of the medical department of the University of New York City with the class of 1879 and both are graduates of the Cleve- land Medical College, he with the class of 1893 and she with that of 1894. They are general practitioners of medicine, but Dr. Bertha M. Satterlee has made a specialty of the diseases of the eye and is an oculist of well-known ability. They are both entirely devoted to their professional duties, and have attained a high place in the fraternity.

Dr. Satterlee and his wife are natives of Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and their marriage union has been blessed by the birth of four children-Lois, Ruth, Herbert and Emma.

ERNEST D. MAYHEW .- On following pages of this publication appears a brief review con- cerning the Nickel Plate Milling Company, of Painesville, one of the successful and important industrial concerns of Lake county, and to the article in question reference can be made in

connection with this brief sketch of the career of the able and popular president and general manager of said company. Ernest D. Mayhew is one of the progressive young business men of Painesville and as he is a native son of the fine old Western Reserve, there is still further consistency in according him representation in this compilation.

Mr. Mayhew was born in the village of North Bristol, Trumbull county, Ohio, on the 27th of November, 1872, and is a son of Ben- jamin H. and Abbie (Downs) Mayhew, who are still residents of that county, where the father is a successful farmer and stock-grower. Benjamin H. Mayhew himself was born and reared in Trumbull county and is a scion of one of the old and honored pioneer families of that section of the Western Reserve. Ernest D. Mayhew passed his boyhood days on the homestead farm, and his earliest experience in connection with the practical affairs of life was gained through the assistance he was able to render as a farmer boy. He was afforded the advantages of the excellent public schools of his native county and remained on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, after which he was employed for two years in a flouring mill at North Bristol, his native town. For the ensuing two years he and his wife had charge of the ladies' department of the county infirmary of Trumbull county, near the city of Warren, and they then removed to Jeffer- son, Ashtabula county, where he purchased a half interest in a flouring mill. He continued to be actively identified with the operation of the same for a period of three years, at the expiration of which he disposed of his interest in the mill and removed to Painesville, where he purchased stock in the Nickel Plate Milling Company, of which he became salesman. He represented the company through its trade ter- ritory and was most successful in placing its products on the market. He continued his labors in this capacity until the mill was destroyed by fire, and upon the reorganization of the company and rebuilding of the mill he secured additional stock, being elected presi- dent of the company in June, 1902. As its chief executive he has handled its affairs with marked ability and discrimination, as his executive and technical ability well qualify him to supervise both the operative and commercial interests of the company. He is loyal and progressive as a citizen, is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party, is identified with various fraternal and social

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organizations, and he and his wife hold mem- bership in the Disciples church.

On the 26th of April, 1893, Mr. Mayhew was united in marriage to Miss Elnora H. Height, of Painesville, who was born and reared in Farmington, Trumbull county. She is a daughter of Adam and Julia Patchin Height, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew have two children-Mildred Irene and Wade H.

THE NICKEL PLATE MILLING COMPANY .- The city of Painesville, the thriving capital of Lake county, offers attractive inducements for the prosecution of industries of magnitude, and. in particular, to manufacturing enter- prises, by reason of available supply sources, desirable internal facilities and ready financial fostering. That these facts are realized is shown by the wide scope and importance of the industrial and commercial activities of the city. and the advancement along normal lines of business activity had been greatly accelerated during the opening decade of the twentieth century, through the application of that pro- gressive spirit which is making for the upbuild- ing of the larger and greater city. Among the manufacturing enterprises contributing materi- ally to the commercial precedence of Paines- ville is that conducted under the title desig- nated at the head of this article, and the finely equipped mill of the company is located at the junction of South State street and the tracks of the Nickel Plate Railroad.

The Nickel Plate Milling Company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Ohio in July, 1900, with a capital stock of $25,000, and the personnel of the interested principals was as follows: George Morse, S. E. Hill. George W. Buck, F. T. Pyle and A. G. Reynolds. Mr. Morse was president and prin- cipal stockholder of the company and had been associated with Messrs. Hill and Buck in the erection of a mill on the site of the present one in 1899. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1899. after having been in operation only a few months. In 1901 the company erected a new mill on the same site, and the same had a capacity for the production of 150 barrels a day. The mill was erected at a cost of about $23.500, and the best modern roller process equipment was installed. Mr. Morse continued as president and manager of the con- cern, and on the 14th of May, 1902, a second disaster by fire destroyed the entire property. after the mill had been in operation only about one year. The loss entailed at this time was

about $10,000, with partial insurance indem- nity. In the autumn of the same year was in- stituted the work of erecting the present mill. which was completed in time to begin opera- tion the following spring. In the meanwhile Messrs. Buck and Pyle had retired from the company and Ernest D. Mayhew had bought a large block of the stock. Under the reor- ganization effected on the 21st of June, 1902, Mr. Mayhew was elected president of the com- pany, an office of which he has since continued incumbent. The mill now has a capacity for the output of 125 barrels of flour per day, is equipped with the best of mechanical facilities throughout, utilizing the full roller process and being a general custom and merchant mill. Many improvements in the machinery have been made since the mill was erected, and the company keeps the establishment up to the highest standard at all times. The business is of substantial order, and much of the time the mill is operated at its full capacity, to meet the demands placed upon it. Ten employes are retained in handling the various departments of work, and a large local market is controlled in the production of flour and feed. Each year the company ships an average of about 300 cars of feed, and besides the wheat utilized in manufacturing a department is given to the buying and shipping of wheat and other grain. This jobbing trade in grain and feed now extends over several counties in northeastern Ohio. The annual business transactions now- represent an average of about $400,000.

The stock of the concern is all held by resi- dents of Painesville, and the present officers of the company are as here noted: Ernest D. Mayhew, president and manager : B. H. Rust, secretary, and George E. Mosley, treasurer.

WILLIAM M. NICHOLS .- As one of those progressive business men and public-spirited citizens who typify the fine initiative power and commercial acumen which have brought about the splendid industrial development of the city of Cleveland, William M. Nichols, who is gen- eral manager of the Cleveland Brick & Clay Company, is eminently entitled to considera- tion in this publication, which takes due cogni- zance of the beneficent forces which have con- served the progress of the fine old Western Reserve.

William Merrell Nichols views with no small meed of satisfaction the fact that he can claim the Western Reserve as the place of his nativ- ity and that it has been his to gain distinctive

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success in connection with the business activi- ties of this favored section of the Buckeye com- monwealth. He was born in Hiram township. Portage county, on the 3Ist of May, 1855, and is a son of Paris C. and Hannah C. (Young- love) Nichols. Paris Chandler Nichols was born at Crown Point, Essex county. New York, on the Ioth of July, 1823, and in 1832. when he was nine years of age, his parents came to the Western Reserve of Ohio and set- tled in Portage county, where they passed the residue of their lives and where his father be- came a representative farmer. There he him- self was reared to manhood, receiving such ad- vantages as were afforded in the common schools, and in 1851 was solemnized his mar- riage to Miss Hannah Caroline Younglove. who was born at South Lee, Massachusetts, whither Mr. Nichols went to claim his bride, who returned with him to Portage county. Ohio, immediately after their marriage. In Hiram township, that county, Mr. Nichols became the owner of a well improved landed estate and gained precedence as a successful farmer and influential and honored citizen. He wielded marked influence in public affairs of a local nature and held various offices of trust, in- cluding that of county commissioner, to which he was elected in the same year that marked the election of General James A. Garfield, an honored son of the Western Reserve, to the presidency of the United States. Mr. Nichols continued to serve in the office of county com- missioner for six consecutive years. He made his life count for good in all its relations and held the unequivocal esteem of those among whom he lived and labored for so many years. He was a stalwart supporter of the cause of the Republican party. He lived to attain the age of seventy-two years and his devoted wife was seventy-two years of age at the time of her death.

Captain Andrew Nichols, grandfather of him whose name initiates this sketch, was a native of the state of New York, and was a scion of a family which was founded in America in 1700, by three brothers of the name who came from England and established their homes re- spectively in New York state, Rhode Island and Connecticut. From the one who settled in the old Empire state the Ohio branch of the family is descended. Captain Andrew Nichols was a valiant soldier in the war of 1812, in which he served as captain of his company, and in 1832 he came with his family to Ohio and settled in Portage county

Paris C. and Hannah C. (Younglove) Nich- ols became the parents of two sons and four daughters, of whom two are deceased. Paul having died at the age of seventeen years and Grace at the age of nineteen. Caroline L. is the wife of Ben H. French, of Garrettsville; William M., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; Blanche A. is the wife of Byron W. Jackson, of East Cleveland; and Lucy M. is the wife of Louis V. Miller, of Garrettsville. Portage county.

William M. Nichols passed his boyhood days on the old homestead farm in Hiram town- ship, Portage county, and after completing the curriculum of the district schools he continued his studies in the high school at Garrettsville. After his school days he continued to be asso- ciated in the work and management of the old home farm, which comprises 300 acres, until the 4th of February, 1896, when he took up his residence in Garrettsville, whence, in the following year, he removed to the city of Cleveland, with whose business interests he has since continued to be identified, as general manager of the Cleveland Brick & Clay Com- pany, an important industrial corporation in which he is a stockholder and to the upbuild- ing of whose extensive business he has con- tributed in large measure. The company manu- factures shale brick, paving brick, hollow-block conduits and fire proofing, and the industry is one of distinctive importance in its line of operations. The company gives employment to about seventy-five persons and the plant is of the most modern type. Mr. Nichols is a progressive business man and as a citizen is loyal and public-spirited, though he has never had aught of ambition for the honors or emolu- ments of public office. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party.

On the 16th of September, 1890, Mr. Nichols was united in marriage to Miss Frances Hig- ley, who was born and reared in Windham township, Portage county, Ohio, and who is a daughter of John L. and Elizabeth (Frary) Higley, who were early settlers of that county, and both of whom are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols have no children.

JONATHAN SHOOK .- An industrious and skilled carpenter of thirty-five years standing in Randolph, Portage county, and one of that dwindling phalanx of Civil war veterans, Jona- than Shook is a native of the township in which

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he has always resided-excepting only the period in which he wore the blue. He was born April 6, 1841, and is a son of Philip and Sarah (Bartholomew) Shook, natives of Pennsyl- vania, who, shortly after their marriage, located in the western part of the township on a 120-acre farm. This was in 1830. The father was also a carpenter by trade, and between that avocation and that of farming provided his family with a good living.

Jonathan resided with his parents until a few months past his majority, when (on August 8, 1862) he enlisted in Battery A, First Ohio Light Artillery, and served under Cap- tain Cotter with soldierly faithfulness for nearly three years, or until the end of the war. On November 4, 1865. he wedded Miss Alvina Brockett, and at once located on a farm of fifty acres in Randolph township. His wife was born March 17, 1841, daughter of Albert and Betsey (Sleath) Brockett, her parents being natives of Wallingford, Connecticut, who migrated to the township in 1825. Mr. Brock- ett became prominent in both the civic and military affairs of the county, serving. as cap- tain of a state militia company for many years. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Shook were : Carlos A., born December 15, 1868, and who married Miss Louisa Unger, April 20, 1892 : Eliza A., who was born March 4, 1871, and died April 25, 1892, and Florain, born January 8, 1882, who is married and a draughtsman by profession.

As stated, Mr. Shook has combined car- pentry and farming nearly all his life. For some years he has also been an insurance solicitor, and in this work, as in all other which he has undertaken, has been thoroughly faith- ful and efficient. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and his religion is based on the faith of the Disciples' church. Mr. Shook is not only the father of affectionate and respected sons, but is the grandfather of Donald H. Hartman Shook, who married Miss Jessie Halman May 2, 1906.

HENRY W. BROCKETT AND MARY B. FEN- TON .- The Brockett family is one of the old- est and most substantial in Randolph town- ship, Portage county, having been established in that section during 1825 by the grand- father of Henry W. and the father of Mary (Brockett) Fenton.

Henry W. Brockett, who enjoyed a long business experience in the west, has resided for the past twelve years at Randolph, not

far from the scene of his birth, which took place May 8, 1860. He is a son of George and Eunice (Ward) Brockett, and the only survivor of their five children. Mr. Brockett remained with his parents until his marriage to Miss Jennie L. Bancroft, November 15, 1882, when he moved to Randolph Center. After remaining there for five years, he went to Kansas and, still later, to Omaha, Nebraska, where he was bookkeeper for G. H. Ham- mond and Company for a period of nine years. Mr. Brockett returned to Randolph in August, 1897, and has since been a re- spected citizen of that place. The children born into his household were as follows: George A., who is now connected with the Root-McBride wholesale house of Cleveland, Ohio; Mary B., a teacher in Randolph town- ship, and Warren, who lives at home. Mr. Brockett's mother was born September I, 1836, and was a daughter of Calvin and Lydia (Sabin) Ward, the former having been recognized as one of the real pioneers of Portage county.

Mary (Brockett) Fenton was born in Ran- dolph township, July 27, 1839, and is a daugh- ter of Albert and Betsey (Sleatlı) Brockett, both natives of Connecticut. In June, 1825, they settled in Randolph township on the farm of two hundred acres upon which they spent the remainder of their lives. There they raised to useful and honorable lives their eight children-Jared, Lucretia, William, Eunice, Lodema, George, Mary and Alvina.

Albert Brockett, father of Mary (aunt of Henry W.), was a son of Jeremiah and Eunice (Marks) Brockett, and was a native of Connecticut, born May 24, 1795, dying in Randolph township on the 6th of February, 1878. His wife (nee Betsey Sleath), to whom he was married January 17, 1817, was born in England, January 4, 1798, and died in Randolph township on the IIth of August, 1843. In 1811, when in his seventeenth year, Albert Brockett settled at Guilford, Connect- icut, to learn the trade of coach building, under Ames Bradley. He afterward estab- lished a business of his own and was so en- gaged when he moved to Portage county. In Randolph township he continued his trade, in connection with farming, for a period of fifty years. He was also active in the public affairs of the locality, serving as trustee of the township and as captain of a rifle com- pany of the state militia. Further, this founder of the family in Portage county was

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a faithful member of the Disciples' church, did much to further its pioneer interests, and was a man of unimpeachable character.

OSCAR F. HAYMAKER, who for so many years held farming and property interests on the shores of Twin Lakes, was born in Frank- lin township, and to the agricultural, horti- cultural and public interests of Portage county he devoted his life. He was born in the township named on the 21st of May, 1838, son of James D. and Mary Rosetta (Olin) Haymaker, and his mother was a native of Perry, Wyoming county, New York, born on the 22nd of February, 1820. Oscar F. was the second of her fourteen children.

Mr. Haymaker assisted his father about the home farm and taught school until his marriage in 1862, his entire career as an educator covering three decades from his nineteenth year.

On May 21, 1862, Mr. Haymaker was mar- ried to Miss Mary S. Burlingame, who was a native of Newbury, Geauga county, Ohio. Born June 26, 1842, daughter of Dr. J. M. and Mary (Ferris) Burlingame, born respec- tively in Cattaraugus county, New York, Feb- ruary 7, 1813, and in Madison county, that state, February 28, 1817. The grandparents, Fritz and Lydia Burlingame, were natives of Germany, while John Ferris, the maternal grandfather was born in New York, May 19, 1782, and the grandmother, Hannah Ferris (nee Hannah Black) in Massachusetts, April 15, 1787. The latter were among the first settlers of Newbury, Geauga county, Grand- father Ferris dying January 18, 1870, aged eighty-seven years, and his widow, December 24, 1875, aged eighty-seven. The parents of Mrs. Mary S. Haymaker, Dr. John M. Bur- lingame and Mary (Ferris) Burlingame, were married at Newbury, on the 4th of April, 1840, and her mother passed away August 31, 1842. A sister of the deceased, Hannah Ferris, became Dr. Burlingame's second wife, and she died November 10, 1848, mother of George W. who lived to be but thirteen years of age. The third marriage occurred in 1850, to Miss Elizabeth Campbell, born in Stow township, Summitt county, Ohio, and a daughter of John and Rosanna Campbell. Otis Burlin- game the only child by this union, died in 1867, at the age of fifteen.

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History of the Western Reserve, Vol. II, Part 58

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