History of the Western Reserve, Vol. II, Part 70

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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After a brief time spent in farm work, young Eady was employed in the factory of Toplipp. Sampsell & Ely. In 1868 he began to learn the drug business as a clerk in the store of W. H. Park, in which business he engaged for himself in 1873, when he opened a store on Cheapside. He continued in the drug business for a period of thirty-two years, from 1873 to 1905, and during his long term of years his store was never closed for a full day. Selling out in 1905, he retired from active business.

In 1885 Mr. Eady built a fine, three-story brick business house on the site of his first drug store at No. 106 Cheapside, and in 1892 he erected the handsome brick block at No. I22 Cheapside, a combination business and apartment building, which bears the name of "The Northampton," in honor of his native shire in England.

Throughout the whole of his residence in Elyria, Mr. Eady has had at heart the best interests of the town. Republican in politics, from 1899 to 1903 he was a member of the City Council, and since January, 1908, he has been president of the board of public service. For years he has been a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce of Elyria, and he has been a member of the board of managers of Me- morial Hospital since it was organized. Also in both lodge and church he has long been active and influential. He is a Mason, an Odd

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Fellow and a Knight of Honor. In the Knights of Honor he has for twenty-five years filled the office of treasurer, and for a num- ber of years he has been warden of St. An- drew's Episcopal church.

On February 16, 1876, Mr. Eady married Miss Charlotte Ellen, daughter of the Rev. B. T. Noakes, D. D., an Episcopal clergyman of Elyria, Ohio.

GEORGE SOUTHWICK HARDY during many years has been actively identified with the pub- lic life of Conneaut, and his name is also en- rolled among the trustees of the township of Conneaut. Born in Monroe township, nine miles south of this city, on the 26th of April, 1850, he is a son of William and Lydia Ann (Southwick) Hardy, and a grandson on the paternal side of Hance F. and Acenath (Cha- pin) Hardy. Hance Hardy was a son of Captain William Hardy, who was born in New Carlisle, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1797. He was left an orphan at the age of seventeen, and when eighteen he began carrying mail from Sandusky to Fort Meigs, a distance of 150 miles, and much of the way lay through the Maumee swamp. In about the year of 1803 this Captain William Hardy left Pennsylvania for Ohio, journeying with ox teams, but en route his wife died, somewhere west of Buf- falo, and was buried in the woods. Captain and Mrs. Hardy had three sons, John, Will- iam and Hance. John reared a family in Mon- roe township, and died when past eighty-six years of age, while William reared his family in Pierpont township, Ashtabula county, and was also more than eighty years of age at the time of his death.

Hance Hardy was six or seven years of age at the time the family moved to Ohio. When he had reached the age of twenty years he bought a farm in Monroe township, adjoining that of his brother John's. On the Ist of Janu- ary, 1819, he married Acenath Chapin, and they spent their lives on that farm, Hance dying on the 23d of December, 1876, when nearly eighty years of age, and his wife, who was born May 4, 1796, died October 10, 1870. He carved a good farm from out the wilder- ness, and was numbered among the progress- ive and substantial residents of his community. For many years he was a deacon in the Con- gregational church at Kelloggsville, and the title clung to him during the remainder of his life. In the family of Deacon Hance and Acenath Hardy were the following children:

Chloe P., who married Charles Crater and lives at Kingsville; Laura A., who married Porter Prince, of Pierpont township; Mar- garet, who married William Odell and moved to Flint, Michigan ; William, mentioned below ; Julia, who died when young; Caroline, who married a Charles Huntley and died in this state September 7, 1860; Matilda E., who mar- ried George Southwick and died in Monroe township; and Jane M., who married William Vandepeer, moved to California, and died in 1904; they had three children.

William Hardy was born in Monroe town- ship, Ashtabula county, August 30, 1825. His home was a valuable farm of 300 acres one mile east of Kelloggsville, as good land as lies in the township, and since his death the prop- erty has been divided into two farms, but is yet in the possession of the family. There he passed away in death on the 17th of Novem- ber, 1890, but is yet survived by his widow, nee Lydia Ann Southwick, who has reached the age of eighty-three years. Their five chil- dren are: Addie P., who became the wife of Quincy Case and died at her home in Kings- ville ; George S., mentioned below; Effie Ma- tilda, the wife of W. A. Fuller, of Monroe township; Hance F., who operates the Hardy homestead in Conneaut township; and Nettie, the wife of C. L. Shipman, of Girard, Penn- sylvania.

George S. Hardy remained with his parents on their farm until he had reached the age of twenty-five, attending in the meantime the Kingsville and Austinburg Academies, and then, on the 6th of October, 1875, he was married to Emma E. Colby, a daughter of John and Maria (Fuller) Colby. She was born in Monroe township, and was twenty- two years of age at the time of her marriage. John Colby came from Vermont to Ohio with his parents when a boy of ten or eleven years of age, and he became one of the prominent farmers of Ashtabula county. During the four years following his marriage Mr. Hardy farmed near Kelloggsville, where he had pur- chased Mr. Colby's farm, and he then moved to Springfield, Pennsylvania, and spent some time in that city. Coming to Conneaut in 1883, he purchased his present home. Mr. Hardy is widely known as a lumberman, for during twenty years or more he has been operating mills and cutting timber, mainly in Monroe and Pierpont townships, but has also operated as far as Pennsylvania. During six years he was also engaged in mercantile pursuits in

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Conneaut, a member of the firm of Weldon, Babbitt & Company, and the senior member of this old establishment, Ervine Weldon, has just recently died. During six years Mr. Hardy has also served his township of Con- neaut as a trustee, and he has served his polit- ical party as a delegate to conventions and has been active in local public work. The trustees of Conneaut township had full charge in se- curing the Carnegie library, and Mr. Hardy was one of the leaders in the movement.

Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, namely : John, connected with the city railroad ; Callie, a graduate of Oberlin Col- lege and now a teacher in the Conneaut high school; and Edward, in the supply store at Harbor. Mrs. Hardy and her daughter are members of the Congregational church.

CARLOS A. TURNEY .- The sterling family of which Carlos A. Turney is a member was founded in the Western Reserve a full century ago, and this statement indicates emphatically that the name has been identified with the his- tory of this favored section of Ohio from prac- tically the time of its admission as one of the sovereign states of the union. Mr. Turney was born in the house in which he now resides, in Madison township, Lake county, on the 28th of January, 1835, and is the owner of the fine old homestead farm which has so long been in possession of the family and to the general supervision of which he still gives his atten- tion. He represented his native county as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war and well upheld the military prestige of the family, members of which were found enrolled as valiant soldiers in the Continental line dur- ing the war of the Revolution. He is one of the representative farmers and honored citi- zens of Lake county, and it is gratifying to the publishers of this history to incorporate within its pages a brief review of his personal career and genealogical record.

The Turney family was founded in America in the early colonial epoch of our national his- tory and is of stanch English origin. Records extant show that at Concord, Massachusetts, in the year 1630, was solemnized the marriage of Benjamin Turney, the name of whose wife was Mary, and that in 1641 they removed to Reading, Connecticut. Their son, Captain Robert Turney, the next in line of direct descent to Carlos A., died in 1690, the Chris- tian name of his wife having been Elizabeth. Robert, son of Captain Robert and Elizabeth

Turney, was born in Reading, Connecticut, and was married on the 18th of January, 1706, the Christian name of his wife being Rebecca. Their son Stephen married Sarah Squire, and his death occurred December 26, 1786. Asa, the son of Stephen and Sarah, was the founder of the Ohio branch of which Carlos A., of this sketch, is a representative, as he is a grandson of said Asa Turney. When but eighteen years of age Asa Turney enlisted as a member of a Connecticut regiment and went forth to valiant service as a patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution, in which his brother Aaron was captain of a company, while a younger brother Abel enlisted when but fifteen years of age. Capt. Robert Turney (our line) died in 1690. All of the brothers continued in service until independence triumphed, and thereafter Asa Turney followed a seafaring life for a number of years, having become captain or master of a merchant vessel and having held this position until he migrated to the wilds of Ohio, in 1809, and located on the farm now owned by his grandson, whose name initiates this article. He continued to reside on this farm until his death, which occurred when he was seventy-four years of age, on April 5, 1832. Concerning his children brief record is given in the following paragraph.

Daniel, the eldest of the children, was mar- ried, in 1815, to Anna Cook, and he settled in Perry township, Lake county, where he died in 1841 and where his wife died in 1847. Phoebe, the second child, was married in 1814 to Erial Cook, who was born June 14, 1791, and was a farmer of Middle Ridge, Lake county, where she died March 4, 1852, at the age of sixty-one years, and where his death occurred August 5, 1868. David Turney was married, November 12, 1818, to Eunice Parm- ley, and he died March 5, 1826, at the age of thirty-two years. His wife lived to attain a very venerable age. George Turney married, in 1820, Polly Parmley, and he died in Madi- son township in 1830, aged thirty-two years. His wife died October 14, 1847. Charlana was married in 1818 to James Gage, and died in 1827 in Madison township at the age of twenty-seven years. Her husband died in 1857, at the age of sixty-four years. Asa Squire Turney, the next in order of birth, was the father of Carlos A., and concerning him more definite mention is made elsewhere. Marvin Turney removed to Wayne county, Michigan, where he died at the age of eighty-six years. Eli Alvin, the only one of the children born in

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Ohio, finally removed to Amherst, Lorain county, this state, where he died when eighty- three years of age. The father deeded his old homestead farm to his sons Asa S., Marvin and Eli A. Asa Turney married Polly Downs, and he died in Madison township, on the 5th of April, 1832, at the age of seventy-four years. His wife died in 1835 at the age of sixty-seven years.

In the year of 1809, as already stated, Asa Turney came to the Western Reserve from Reading, Connecticut, and the trip consumed sixty-one days. The long overland journey was made with a wagon and ox team, besides which one horse was brought along, the daughters taking turns in riding the same. The sons constituted the advance guard of the little family party, and they killed wild game and had it properly cooked for themselves and the other members of the family when the lat- ter came on and joined them. Asa Turney was the fourth settler to erect a house within the limits of Madison township, Lake county, and this primitive log dwelling stood a short distance west of the present residence of his grandson, Carlos A. Turney. Asa Turney had purchased from the Connecticut Land Com- pany a tract of heavily timbered land in Madi- son township for a consideration of one hun- dred and five dollars. This land lies east to the present village of Madison. Asa Turney and his family lived up to the full tension of the pioneer epoch, and he and his sons re- claimed a farm from the primeval forests. The little log cabin was a home in the true sense of the word, and though its furnishings and conveniences were of the most primitive order, it was the abode of content and happiness.

Asa Squire Turney was born at Reading. Connecticut, on the 20th of March, 1804, and thus was a lad of five years at the time of the family removal to Ohio. He was reared under the conditions and scenes of the pioneer days and his early educational advantages were therefore very limited. On the 17th of October, 1824, he was united in marriage to Miss Laura Hoyt, who was born at Reading, Connecticut, June 15, 1806, a daughter of Isaac and Hannah ( Banks) Hoyt, who like- wise were early settlers of Madison township. where the father, who was a member of the Society of Friends, secured a tract of wild land on the old Dock road, so named from the fact that it was the highway leading to the docks built by early settlers on the shore of Lake Erie, in Madison township. Asa S. Tur-

ney received by deed from his father thirty acres of the old homestead farm, and about the year 1829 he erected on the place the principal portion of the house now occupied by his son Carlos A. The house has since been enlarged and remodeled and is to-day one of the attract- ive residences of Madison township. In this dwelling Asa S. Turney continued to reside until his death. He was a man of marked mechanical skill, and for some time he worked at the shoemaker's trade, after which he erected a shop on his farm and engaged in the manufacturing and repairing of wagons, to which line of enterprise he gave the major part of his time and attention during his active career. He was a man of strong mentality and inflexible integrity of character, having been an elder in the Christian or Disciples' church, and having done active and consecrative serv- ice as a preacher in local pulpits. He was a great admirer of Alexander Campbell, the founder of the Disciples' church, and was amply fortified in his religious faith and con- victions. He was one of the organizers and pillars of the church of this denomination at Geneva, lying over the line of Madison town- ship, in Ashtabula county, six miles distant from his home, and he labored with constant zeal and devotion for the uplifting of his fel- lowmen. Even prior to the founding of the Geneva Society he had been one of the organ- izers of the church in Perry township, Lake county, and in a memorial window in the pres- ent church edifice his name appears as one of the founders of the church. A life of signal honor and usefulness was that of Asa S. Tur- ney, and on the 16th of February, 1886, he was summoned to eternal rest at the venerable age of eighty-two years. His cherished and de- voted wife, a veritable "mother in Israel," died January 17, 1879, and of her it may well be said that her children "rise up and call her blessed." In the following paragraph is en- tered brief record concerning the children of this worthy pioneer couple.

Nancy became the wife of Franklin Wyman. of Madison township, and was a resident of California at the time of her death : Polly mar- ried Franklin Fellows and continued to reside in Madison township until her death; Almira became the wife of Horace Norton and her death occurred on their farm, in Perry town- ship : Eliza Amanda remained with her father until his death and thereafter with her brother, Carlos A., until she passed away, at the age of fifty-nine years, never having married: Carlos

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Asa, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; Laura is the widow of Willard Martin and resides in the city of Cleveland; and Louisa, the widow of Minor Allen, maintains her home in Sacramento, California.

Carlos Asa Turney was reared to manhood on the old homestead, which is still his place of abode, and to the common schools of the middle pioneer days he is indebted for his early educational advantages, which were supple- mented by a course in the Eclectic Institute, now Hiram College, at Hiram, Portage county. While he was there a student General James A. Garfield, later president of the United States, was a teacher, and Lucretia Rudolph, who became the wife of General Garfield, was a student in the institution. Mr. Turney reverts with pleasure to the fact that he resided in the same house and ate at the same table with General Garfield during his student life at Hiram, and he has ever retained a deep ad- miration for his former instructor, whose as- sassination was a source of personal bereave- ment to him.

As a youth Mr. Turney assisted his father in the work of the wagon shop and later he was general agent for a nursery, in which con- nection he devoted about three years to selling fruit trees, principally in Michigan and the province of Ontario, Canada. In 1861, within two days after the attack on old Fort Sumter, Mr. Turney responded to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, becoming a member of the local Madison organization known as Wright's Guards. This command he ac- companied to the city of Cleveland, where it remained for some time. Mr. Turney was mntistered into the United States service as a private in the Fifteenth Ohio Light Artillery, in December, 1861, and with his battery, com- prising one hundred and fifty men, he pro- ceeded to the front. His service covered all of the southern states except Florida and Texas, and he remained constantly with his command save for a period of about ten days, during which he was confined in a hospital as a result of sunstroke. As a private Mr. Turney had charge of the ammunition of a twenty-pound Parrott gun, and he remained with the same in every engagement in which his gallant com- mand participated. He participated in thirty- two battles, besides many skirmishes and other minor engagements. The severest experience of the battery was at the siege of Atlanta, and in the siege of Vicksburg the two twenty-pound Parrotts, according to Captain Spear, fired

2,301 rounds of ammunition. Mr. Turney con- tinued in active service for three years and three days and was in the city of Savannah, Georgia, when his term of enlistment expired. He was duly mustered out and received his honorable discharge at Columbus, Ohio, on the 26th of December, 1864.

After the close of his long and faithful serv- ice as a union soldier Mr. Turney returned to the home of his father, who eventually deeded to him a portion of the old homestead, to which he has since added until he now has a valuable farm of one hundred and five acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and stock- growing and to the raising of grapes, to which he devotes eleven acres. He has ever com- manded the unqualified confidence and regard of the community which has represented his home and from the time of his birth, and in his association with the great basic industry of agriculture he has gained a due measure of success, being one of the substantial citizens of his native township and county. Mr. Turney has never been an aspirant for public office, but is a stalwart supporter of the cause of the Re- publican party. He is affiliated with the post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Madi- son and is a zealous member of the Christian, or Disciples' church, in whose faith he was reared. His wife and children hold member- ship in the Methodist Episcopal church, in which Mrs. Turney's father was a most zealous and influential worker.

On Christmas day of the year 1865 Mr. Turner was united in marriage to Miss Caro- line Winchester, who was born in Madison township, Lake county, Ohio, on the 10th of May, 1842, and who is a daughter of Horace and Angeline (VanNess ) Winchester.

The Winchester family history begins with Ellhanan Winchester, a member of a wealthy family of Wales, who came to America in the early colonial days. The name of his wife is unknown. They had four sons and one daughter. He was a soldier of the Revo- lutionary war. The third son, Jonadab, was born February 2, 1795, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. At this time the family es- tate was near Albany. Jonadab completed his college course at the age of twenty-one, and married Eliza A. Castle, of Brattleboro, Ver- mont, who was then eighteen years of age. This event occurred in the year 1816. At that time a colony was leaving for western New York, then a wilderness with Indians and wild beasts. The ancestor's home was

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on the shore of Lake Chautauqua, which has since become the seat of the famous Assembly. These sturdy pioneers cleared away the heavy timber and won prosperity from the fertile soil. In winter, when snow was deep and work on new farms was over for the year, Jonadab sought the only school of the settle- ment. Later he was school examiner and justice of the peace. The family, who were Methodists, numbered three children: Cla- rissa, Horice and Eliza. In the year 1836 they came to Ohio and settled on the Middle Ridge in Madison. In 1852, for services ren- dered in the war of 1812, Jonadab Winches- ter was awarded one hundred and sixty acres of land at Green Bay, Wisconsin, the grant being signed by Millard Fillmore. Eliza A. Winchester died July 18, 1872, aged seventy- five years, and Jonadab Winchester, August 2. 1884, aged eighty-nine years. Horace Win- chester and Angeline VanNess, parents of Mrs. Turney, were married January 31, 1849, the children of this union being: Jane, Ellen, Caroline, John and Annie. The father was elected captain of Madison Rifle Company, November 15, 1845, his commission being signed by Mordecai Bartley, governor of Ohio. He was an official member and liberal sup- porter of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died October 12, 1880, aged sixty-one years, Angeline, his wife, having preceded him, Janu- ary 31. 1849, aged twenty-eight. Caroline Winchester, their daughter, was born in Ohio, May 10, 1842, and was educated at Madison Seminary, and for five years was a successful teacher in Lake county. On December 25. 1865, she married Carlos A. Turney, by whom she is the mother of the following children : Omar Asa, born November 1, 1866; Daisy Ellen, October 11, 1874: Cora Maud, Febru- ary 21, 1876; and Hubert John, October 4, 1879.

Omar A. Turney is mentioned more fully below. Daisy Ellen, the second child born to Mr. and Mrs. Carlos A. Turney, died March 18, 1875, at the age of five months and seven days. Cora Maud Turney, the third in order of birth, graduated from Madison high school, Geneva Normal and Geneva Business College, and she went to Phoenix, Arizona, where she remained two years. Returning, she entered Hiram College, graduating with the degree of Ph. B., in the class of '99. She was work- ing for the Master's degree, when her health failed, and, going south with her parents, died in Thomasville, Georgia, April 10, 1901.

Thus ended a promising Christian life, a bene- diction to all who knew her.

Hubert J. Turney graduated with his sister in 1899, with the degree of A. B., and two years later received the degree of A. M. from Hiram College. At the age of twenty he graduated from Cleveland Law School with LL. B., passed the bar examination at Colum- bus, but was not admitted until he had reached his majority. He then established himself in the practice of law at Cleveland, where he still remains. He was admitted to the United States Circuit Court at the age of twenty- two, and later passed the examination at Washington for admission to the Supreme Court of the United States, he being the youngest member ever admitted to this high- est court of the land. Previous to this he fin- ished the course and received the degree of Ph. D. from Wooster University, and for work done on medical jurisprudence he was hon- ored with the degree of LL. D. from the Uni- versity of Tennessee. He is captain of Com- pany I, Fifth Regiment, Ohio National Guard. Captain Turney was married, June 10, 1908, to Miss Etta May Livingston.

Captain Omar A. Turney, who is a native of Madison, Ohio, is a graduate from the engineering course of the University of South- ern California, and also pursued a post-gradu- ate course at Hiram College. He is a skilled civil engineer, at Phoenix, Arizona, being at present city engineer of that place and United States mineral surveyor for the territory. An especially high authority on irrigation and mining engineering, he is also a retired army captain, a citizen of prominence and variously honored by scientific and professional socie- ties. In 1904 he served as civil and irrigation engineer on the United States Geological Sur- vey and the United States Reclamation Serv- ice ; has also been city engineer of Mesa and Temple, Arizona. Captain Turney earned his C. E. degree from the University of Southern California, while Hiram College has conferred Sc. B., M. S. and honorary LL. D., and he received LL. D. degree from another univer- sity. He is also a member of the American Society for Testing Materials, American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, Amer- ican Institute of Mining Engineers, Western Society of Engineers, Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, International Association for Testing Materials. Franklin Institute for the Advance- ment of the Mechanic Arts, American Mathe-

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History of the Western Reserve, Vol. II, Part 70

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