History of the Western Reserve, Vol. II, Part 88

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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On November 1, 1906, he was united in mar- riage to Gail Francis Ingram, who was born January 24, 1887, a daughter of Silas Ingram, a native of the state of West Virginia, as was also his father, Silas A. Ingram, born in 1817, while his wife, Hanna ( Phillips) Ingram, was born there in 1819. Silas A. Ingram was a member of the committee of the men appointed to form the dividing line between Virginia and West Virginia. He came from Philadelphia with his father, Abraham Ingram, and they took up 2,000 acres of government land, a part of which, 121 acres, Mrs. King and her father have since inherited. Mrs. King also traces her ancestry in a direct line to Joseph Lazear, who came from the south of France in 1718 and established his home in Greene county, Pennsylvania, there securing 400 acres of gov-

ernment land. His son Francis Lazear mar- ried Mary Crow, and her family were entirely wiped out by Indian massacres. Mr. King has in his short but successful life been quite an extensive traveler and has visited many of the principal resorts of his native land.

CARL W. PAYNE is numbered among the farmers of Austinburg township, Ashtabula county. He was born September 21, 1860, in this county, a son of Orlando and Mary Jane (Chapman) Payne, and a grandson on the maternal side of Thomas Chapman, who lo- cated in this community many years ago. He was born in the mother country of England August 5, 1805, and he married there on June 2, 1830, Mary Humberstone, from Leicester- shire, born March 17, 1799. Two years after his marriage Thomas Chapman with his wife and little daughter Sarah, who was one year old, started for America, and owing to heavy storms spent six weeks on the ocean en route. In his native land Mr. Chapman had had con- trol of hunting grounds belonging to the roy- alty, and in Ohio he bought fifty acres of land southwest of Austinburg, where their first home was a little log cabin, which furnished them shelter during the arduous days of clear- ing the land and preparing it for cultivation. He later built a more comfortable home, and in time bought fifty acres adjoining his original purchase. He was a general farmer, a Whig and a Republican, and both he and his wife were active members of the Methodist church. He died on the 5th of August, 1890, while his wife Mary followed on the 12th of July, 1891. Their children were as follows: Sarah, born May 24, 1831, married David Hoyt, of Austin- burg, by whom she had one child, Frank, and she died December 12, 1903: Robert, born in October, 1833, married Mary Chandler, from New Hampshire, by whom he had two chil- dren, Ida and Clara, and their home was in Austinburg; Mary Jane became the wife of Orlando Payne; Emily, born November 15, 1841, never married, lived in Austinburg and died January 23, 1904.

Mary Jane (Chapman) Payne was born May 19, 1838, in Austinburg, and on the 5th of November, 1859, she was married to Or- lando Payne, who was born in that city August 12, 1837, a son of Henry and Armenia (Wol- cott ) Payne. Henry Payne, born in New York October 21, 1800, came overland to Ohio in 1820, locating his home a half mile west of Grand River, near Cold Springs, where he

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built a log cabin and later a more pretentious home. He was by trade a cooper, and in pol- itics voted with both the Whigs and Repub- licans. His home during the latter part of his life was at the present Henry Abeln estate, and there both he and his wife died, Henry on the 16th of February, 1889, when eighty-eight years of age, and the wife Armenia on May 5, 1885, at the age of seventy-six. Their eleven children were as follows: Mary, born Jan- uary 23, 1829, wedded Salmon Hills, Jr., and had one child, and Mrs. Hills died August 17, 1893; Ellen was born May 2, 1831 ; Rufus, born June 3, 1832, died March 29, 1898, and Orrin, Emily, Orlando, Horace, Selden, Lewis, Dwight and Willard. Orlando Payne, of this family, was a dairyman and general farmer in Austinburg township for many years and a carpenter by trade. He was also a notary public and a constable, and was a man who commanded the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. He was a member of the Grange both in Austinburg and Geneva, and was associated with the fraternal order of Odd Fellows. Although not members, both he and his wife were actively identified with the Meth- odist church, and lived their lives in conform- ity with its teachings. Their home for six- teen years was at Cold Springs, where Or- lando Payne conducted a summer resort, and he died in May of 1906, of heart failure.

Carl W. Payne, the only son and child of Orlando and Mary Jane (Chapman) Payne, received a good education in the district schools and in Grand River Institute, and be- fore his marriage taught school for a number of years in the districts surrounding Austin- burg and also farmed with his father. On May 18, 1887, in Austinburg, he was married to Minnie E. Johnston, from Mahoning county, this state, born June 28. 1865, a daughter of Andrew C. and Missouri L. (Jones) Johnston, whose family numbered eleven children. as fol- lows: Frank M., Rose E., Charley H., Clar- ence W., Walter G., Ida MI., Alice C., Henry H., Bertha L., Loretta E. and Minnie. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Payne are : Mabel L., born October II, 1888, married Claude Buck, of Harpersfield, Ohio, and they have a daughter, Doris; Grace I., born No- vember 4, 1890, married Pearl Truax, of Geneva; Clara L., born September 7, 1894; and Evelyn M., born May 14, 1907. In addition to his general farming pursuits Carl W. Payne conducts a summer resort on Grand river and is a stockholder in the Cork Telephone Com-

pany. He is a Republican politically, and has served his community as a supervisor and as a member of the school board. He is a mem- ber of the Grange, and Mrs. Payne belongs to the Congregational church.

CHARLES A. MOODEY .- In both the paternal and maternal lines is Charles A. Moodev, the present able and popular postmaster of Paines- ville, representative of honored pioneer fami- lies of Lake county, and the name which he bears has been identified with the annals of the county in a prominent way for nearly a cen- tury. His father and grandfather were long concerned in mercantile pursuits in Painesville and had much to do with the civic and material development of the city. Other members of the family also have been well known in busi- ness life in this favored section of the Western Reserve. Mr. Moodey himself has had a some- what varied and interesting career, as further paragraphs in this sketch will indicate, and in his native city and county he is well known as a sterling citizen and as a man eminently worthy of the unqualified esteem in which he is held.

Mr. Moodey was born in Painesville, on September 14, 1847, and is a son of Samuel and Lucinda (Merrill) Moodey, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Concord township, Lake county, Ohio, a daughter of Merrill, who came to this county in the early pioneer days, from Connecticut, and who purchased his land in Concord township from the Connecticut Land Company, which originally held title to all of the Connecticut Western Reserve in Ohio.

Samuel Moodey was a son of Robert and Margaret (Kerr) Moodey, and was an infant at the time of his parents' removal from the old Keystone state to Lake county, Ohio, in 1816. The Kerr family settled in Mentor township, this county in the opening years of the nineteenth century, not long after the ad- mission of Ohio to the Union. Robert Moodey took up his residence in Painesville in 1813, and the present thriving little city was then represented by an obscure and straggling little village in the midst of the forest. He later re- turned to Pennsylvania, but remained only a short interval. In 1816 he engaged in the general merchandise business in Painesville, as one of the pioneer merchants of the town, and he continued in this line of enterprise for many years,-a substantial and honored citizen and one who wielded not a little influence in

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local affairs of a public nature. He reared three sons. of whom the eldest was Samuel, father of the present postmaster of Painesville ; Moses K., the second son, went to New York City when a young man and was there engaged in the hat business for many years, continuing his residence in the national metropolis until his death ; Robert A., who passed his entire life in Painesville, where he was a dealer in caps and furs, died at the age of fifty years.

Samuel Moodey was reared to manhood in Painesville, in whose somewhat primitive schools his early educational training was se- cured. As a youth he became a clerk in his father's general store, and finally he was ad- mitted to partnership in the business, under the firm name of Robert Moodey & Son. He con- tinued in the drug and grocery business in an individual way after the death of his honored father, and was continuously identified with local business interests for fully half a cen- tury, having been one of the oldest merchants of the city at the time of his retirement. He died in 1885, at the age of seventy years, and his wife passed to the life eternal in 1885, at the age of seventy years. Samuel Moodey was a man of unostentatious habits, of good busi- ness ability and of unimpeachable integrity of character. He was loyal as a citizen and though he was never active in public affairs, he was a stanch supporter of the principles of the Re- publican party, with which he identified himself at the time of its organization. He ever held the unequivocal confidence and regard of the people of the community in which practically his entire life was passed, and his name merits a place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Lake county. They became the parents of two children, of whom the only one to attain years of maturity is he whose name initiates this ar- ticle.

Charles A. Moodey secured his rudimentary education in the village school of Painesville, and later he attended the ably conducted acad- emy, in Painesville, of which the head was Professor Moses Harvey, who later became state superintendent of public.instruction and who was long one of the foremost figures in educational circles in Ohio, as well as the author of Harvey's grammar, a textbook long in use in the public schools throughout the Union.

After leaving school Mr. Moodey entered his father's store, where he learned the drug busi- ness, and later he entered Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, in which he was

graduated as a member of the class of 1870. with the degree of A. B. In 1870 Mr. Moodey located in Manistee, Michigan, then one of the important points in the great lumber regions of the northern part of the Wolverine state, and there he was engaged in the drug busi- ness for a period of three years, after which he passed ten years on the great plains of the west,-in Colorado and Wyoming. There he was identified with the largest horse and cattle ranch of that section, the range covered being fifty by one hundred and fifty miles. He had many hazardous experiences, but greatly en- joyed the untrammeled life of the plains. In- dian depredations were frequent and there was a constant menace from the uprisings of the aborigines, but he never suffered any appre- ciable loss of property at their hands.

In 1883 Mr. Moodey returned to Paines- ville, where he purchased and rebuilt the old 'City Mills," in the operation of which, as. general flour and feed mills, he was thereafter associated with his cousin, F. C. Moodey, for a period of about ten years. He also became the owner of valuable farm property in the county. He invested in land at Fairport, and for a number of years his real estate operations- enlisted much of his time and attention. Though never active in the field of "practical politics," Mr. Moodey has given a stalwart support to the cause of the Republican party. He served eight vears as county commissioner,. and since 1906 has held the office of postmaster at Painesville. Within his regime the business of the office has shown a gradual increase, and. the office is of the second class, though Paines- ville has the distinction of being the smallest incorporated city in Ohio. In the office Mr. Moodey has under his direction twenty-one employes, including five city carriers, and from this office as headquarters is handled the work of five rural free delivery routes. Mr. Moodey gives his entire attention to the duties of his- office and has made many improvements in the service, as well as in the facilities and accesso- ries of the postoffice itself.

In the Masonic fraternity the affiliations of Mr. Moodey are with Temple Lodge No. 28, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is past worshipful master; Painesville Chapter, No. 46, Royal Arch. Masons, of which he is past H. P .; and Eagle Commandery, No. 29, Knights Templar.

In the year 1878 was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Moodey to Miss Margaret Ster- ling, a resident of Iron Ridge, Wisconsin, and

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a daughter of William Sterling, who removed to that state from Cleveland, Ohio. In con- clusion is entered a brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Moodey: Harry S. is employed in the drafting department of the offices of the King Bridge Company, of Cleve- land; George R. is manager of the Painesville gas works; Mary remains at the parental home ; Theodore B. is a civil engineer by pro- fession and is employed in the office of the city engineer of Painesville; Florence, who is a graduate of the Lake Erie College, at Paines- ville, is a teacher in the high school at Char- don, Geauga county ; Margaret, a skilled artist, is engaged in teaching oil and water-color painting in Cleveland; Laura is a student of kindergarten work at the time of this writing, (1909) ; and Charles W. and Sterling G. are attending school.

CHALMERS LAMAR QUINE, deceased, was born May 11, 1847, on the farm where his widow now lives, in Leroy township. He was a son of James and Ann (Harrison) Quine. James was the son of James and Gaum Quine, born on the Isle of Man. He came to America in 1827, when James, Jr., was five years of age, and settled near Breakman Church, in Leroy township, building the house that is still stand- ing. He died in old age. His son James mar- ried, at the age of twenty-four years, Ann Harrison, (sister of John Harrison, deceased, mentioned elsewhere in this work), six months his junior. They settled on the farm where their son Chalmers afterward lived, about 1846, and lived there until Chalmers was about eighteen years old, and then removed to a farm on the Girdled road, now occupied by their grandson, Lynn Quine, where they lived the remainder of their lives. He died February 8, 1899, and his wife died in 1888. James Quine's sister became Mrs. Edmund Callow, another sister, Mary Duke, lives in Geneva, Ashtabula county, Ohio, and his brother, Thomas Quine, lives near Warsaw, Indiana. James Quine had but one child, Chalmers.

Chalmers L. Quine inherited his father's farm, and at his marriage removed to the farm where he was born, where he lived until his death, July 8, 1907, at the age of sixty years. He kept adding to his land, until, in company with his father, he had nearly 400 acres, 120 of which was in Hampden, Geauga county. 113 acres in the home farm, and his wife had twenty-five acres. His son Lynn inherited his grandfather's farm, and Chalmers Quine's

farm is now occupied by his daughter. Mr. Quine took an interest in public affairs, al- though he cared nothing for political parties or for public office. His father, however, had taken an active interest in political affairs.

Chalmers Quine married September 26, 1872, Helen, daughter of Sylvanus and Caro- line (House) Hovey, at that time twenty-two years of age. Sylvanus Hovey was a native of New York and his wife of Massachusetts. He, with his brother Marlow. was brought to Ohio by Sylvanus Hovey, when young Syl- 'vanus was about twelve years of age, and they remained in Leroy township. Marlow lived on the old homestead; where he died at the age of eighty years. His first wife was Belinda Bates, and his second wife, who survived him, Lydia Gere. He had three children, Mariette, Addi- son and Emeline, all now deceased. Sylvanus Hovey's farm adjoined that of his brother and he lived there most of his life, removing in his old age to Hampden, Geauga county, where he died in 1881, in his seventy-first year, his wife having died thirteen years previously. They had two sons and four daughters, namely : Franklin, of Midland, Michigan; Cornelia, married James Drake, and died at the age of thirty-six; Adeline, widow of John H. Valen- tine, of Leroy; Amelia, married DeLoss Rogers, of Hampden, Geauga county ; Helen, Mrs. Quine ; and Byron, of Kansas.

Chalmers Quine and his wife had but two children, Bernice, the wife of Carl Crellin, who has no children, and Lynn.

Lynn Quine was born on his father's farm, April 30, 1876, and now lives in his grand- father's old house, coming to it at his mar- riage, when twenty-five years old. He cared for his grandfather before his death; the farm contains ninety-seven acres. He married Mabel McNutt, who was born in Leroy township, and lived in Ashtabula county from the age of four years until her marriage. They have one son, Kenneth.

CLARENCE CLAY CARLTON. superintendent of the public schools of Medina, in the county by that name, is one of the rising young educators of northern Ohio. He is a native of the Buck- eye state, born at Akron on May 17, 1882, and is the eldest son of Wallace L. and Ella (Tinker ) Carlton. The father, who was born at Mantua. Ohio, in the year 1854, was an efficient employe of the Aultman Miller and Company of Akron for nearly twenty-five years. Upon the assignment of that company

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he was employed by the International Har- vester Company, who acquired the property of the old Buckeye Company, and he is at present traffic manager of the Akron division of the International Harvester Company.

Clarence C. passed his boyhood in the city of Akron and after graduating from the Akron high school entered Buchtel College, also lo- cated at that place. He was graduated from Buchtel with the degree of Ph. B. and the same year became a reporter on the Akron Beacon Journal. During his college career he had for three years been editor of the Buchte- ' lite, the official organ of the students of Buch- tel College, and for two years the representa- tive of his college at the Ohio State Oratorical Contest. In the fall of 1904 Mr. Carlton ac- cepted a position as superintendent of the cen- tralized schools of Mantua township. Here he organized one of the strongest centralized school systems in Northern Ohio. After re- maining in the centralized schools for three years, his faithfulness and efficiency were recognized and he was promoted to the super- intendency of the Mantua Village schools. Since graduating from Buchtel College Mr. Carlton has found time to attend the Uni- versity of Michigan and the University of Chicago, for one term each. At both of these universities he has taken post graduate work, his major subjects being economics and so- ciology.

In 1908 Mr. Carlton received a high com- pliment in his being chosen as superintendent of the Medina public schools, succeeding the popular and able J. R. Kennan, who had held the position for over twenty years. Mr. Carl- ton has been fully equal to his newly assumed responsibilities, and under his superintendency are an earnest, smooth-working corps of twenty teachers and an educational system which is well organized and equal to every de- mand made upon it by scholars and parents. Mr. Carlton is a Mason,-a member of Medina Lodge No. 68,-and an active worker in the Medina county Y. M. C. A., but his school duties are paramount to all others. His wife, whom he married in 1906, was formerly Miss Anna L. Durling of Wadsworth, daughter of J. K. and Lydia (Copley ) Durling, who were pioneers of Medina county. Mrs. Carlton is also a graduate of Buchtel College and for sev- eral years was a teacher in the public schools of Wadsworth and Akron, Ohio, and Idaho Falls, Idaho. James Clay Carlton, born March

18, 1908. is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton.

ERNEST LYNN BURR, the present superin- tendent of the Portage county infirmary, was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1878, a son of Lynn and Winifred (Newton) Burr, who were born in Portage county, Ohio, the father in Deerfield township and the mother in Charlestown township. On the ma- ternal side Mr. Burr is descended from promi- nent old residents of Connecticut, who moving from there became early pioneers of Charles- town township in Portage county, Ohio. His great-grandfather, Newton, was very poor when he came here, but in time he accumulated the vast estate of 3,300 acres and he died a rich man.

Lynn Burr before his marriage worked at farming in Portage county, but after that im- portant event in his life he became a trainman on the A. & G. W. Railroad, which later became the Erie road, and in time he was promoted to the position of a conductor. He resided in Oil City until his death, and his widow then re- turned to Charlestown township, Portage coun- ty, and resided with her father for a year, after which for two years she was in St. Louis, Missouri, and then coming to Youngstown, Ohio, she married Benjamin F. Cooke, an in- surance agent. But he was killed about two years after his marriage, and after a year his widow went to Wayland in Paris township and purchased a general store. While there she married E. L. Phillips, and after conducting the store about four years she sold it and moved with her husband to his mother's farm in Paris township. After one year there they moved to Rootstown township, purchased a farm, and resided there three years, when Mr. Phillips was appointed superintendent of the county infirmary of Portage county, and held the office for five years. Mrs. Phillips died on October 19, 1907, after an operation for can- cer of the stomach. Her husband had resigned his position on July I of the same year, but he is still employed at the infirmary as a night watchman. The children born to Lynn and Winifred Burr were Ernest Lynn and Ralph Clifford, and the younger son, born on March 5. 1880, conducts a basket factory at Way- land.

Ernest Lynn Burr was about eight years of age at the time of his father's death, and he then resided with his grandfather Newton at

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Newton Falls in Trumbull county one year, or until the grandfather's removal from Wayland, where he now lives retired. He is an old-time basket maker. After his mother purchased the store at Wayland her son remained with her until his twentieth year, and then became a brakeman on the B. & O. railroad. But after one year he resigned that position, and for three years was a switchman at Youngstown for the Lake Shore Railroad Company,. and then being promoted to a conductor he filled the latter office for one year. Resigning at the close of that period he returned to Wayland and worked for two years in his grandfather's basket factory. During a similar period he was an employe at the Portage county in- firmary, and on July I, 1907, was appointed its superintendent, succeeding his stepfather, Mr. Phillips.

Mr. Burr married on January 1, 1902, Cora Pash, who was born in Auburn township, Jeauga county, Ohio, a daughter of Andrew and Carrie Pash, natives respectively of the countries of Germany and England.

WESLEY A. SEELEY-A retired farmer and justice of the peace at Lodi, Medina county, Wesley A. Seeley has also a faithful Civil war record to add to his honors in civil affairs. He was born in York township, this county, on Jannary II, 1835, and is a son of Jesse and Prudence (Brown) Seeley. His parents were both New Yorkers, his father being born in Schoharie county August 8, 1808. They came to York township in October, 1834, to locate on the tract of eighty acres of timber land which Mr. Seeley had purchased. He soon made a clearing and built a log house, with a huge old-fashioned chimney place, and as he gradually cut away the timber from his land he extended the area of his farm. He engaged in general farming for many years, and was for some time also connected with Steele, Leh- man & Co., of Springfield, Ohio, who culti- vated flax quite extensively, as well as dealt in oil. During the Civil war Jesse Seeley served two terms as trustee of his township, and was sheriff of Medina county, having been elected in 1863. Five of his sons were in the ranks of the Union army. In the late sixties he retired from active work and died January 9, 1888, his wife having gone before, in 1884. They were the parents of fifteen children, as follows : Marietta, John V. K., Esther (deceased), Caroline, Elizabeth, Wesley A., Samuel B., George D., Harmon J., Delia (deceased),

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History of the Western Reserve, Vol. II, Part 88

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