History of the Western Reserve, Vol. II, Part 99

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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Mr. Artman was married to Mary M., daughter of John and Lydia Kremer, of this village, April 19, 1879, and to this union one child was born, Mable Corine. She received her education at the Woman's College, Fred- erick, Maryland, and was married to L. O. Caine, of same city. To her and her husband one child has been born, William Artman Caine. Mr. Artman is a member of the board of regents of Heidelburg University, Tiffin, Ohio, and himself and wife are members of the Reformed church. They have done much to promote good morals and good citizenship, and by their efforts, morally and financially, hope to have helped make the world better for their having lived.

WILLIAM L. CAMP has spent the greater part of his life in Portage county, Ohio, and during many years of this time has been identified with its agricultural life. He was born, how- ever. in New Milford, Connecticut, December 17, 1835. a son of Lacy and Betsie ( Bradshaw ) Camp, also from that commonwealth, and a grandson on the maternal side of William and Lucy ( Fairchild) Bradshaw. During the sum- mer of 1837. only two years after the birth of their son William, Mr. and Mrs. Camp drove through from Connecticut to Portage county,

Ohio, and located on the timber land of Roots- town township. There the husband and father cleared his farm and placed it under culti- vation, and there he died on December 25. 1874, his wife surviving him and residing among her children until she, too, was called to the home beyond, dying in October of 1898. Their four children are as follows: Eliza A., who became the wife of L. B. Sanford, and both died in the year of 1905; Charlotte, who became the wife of Lloyd Hinman, and both are also deceased ; William L., mentioned be- low ; and David P., whose home is in Cortland, this state.

When a boy of seventeen William L. Camp left the parental home and learned the car- penter's trade, and at the age of twenty-four he secured employment with the Atchison and Great Western Railroad Company, now the Erie Company, as a bridge builder, he having been one of the first bridge builders in the company's employ, and as a foreman had charge of this line of their structural work. He had in his earlier life secured a good edu- cation in the district schools, with one term at Hiram College. Continuing along the line of bridge building from 1861 until 1873 he then left the railroad to engage in agricultural pur- suits, purchasing for that purpose ninety acres of land in Rootstown township, but he has since sold about twenty-five acres of the tract for town lots. Since purchasing this land he has torn down its old buildings and erected in their place new and modern ones, including a fine large residence of eleven rooms and a large bank barn thirty-six by sixty feet, with eight- een foot posts. He follows a general line of farming, and the raising of Durham cattle.

In January of 1866 Mr. Camp was married to Jennie Gledhill, who was born in Ravenna township, Portage county, a daughter of John Gledhill, from England. Mrs. Camp died in January of 1869, and on September 17, 1872. he was married to Mrs. Celestia Francena (Peck) Stanley, who was born at Burton, illinois, May 16, 1841, a daughter of Chauncey and Maria (Wood) Peck, born respectively in New York and in Missouri, and a granddaugh- ter of Ezekiel and Electa (Buck) Peck, from New York, and of Henry and Esther ( Cran- mer ) Wood. Mr. Camp votes with the Prohi- bition party and he has served Rootstown one term as a trustee.

EDWARD B. HAUEISEN, a successful farmer of Henrietta township, Lorain county, and one

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of the county's enterprising and public-spirited citizens, is a native of this county and town- ship, born March 1, 1882. His father, Henry Haueisen, was born in Germany in 1849, and came to the United States when two years of age, with his parents. They located in Cleve- land, Ohio, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Henry Haneisen remained with his parents until twenty years of age, and then came to Lorain county and purchased a farm in Henrietta township ; here he lived until 1907, when he went to Connell, Washington, as a minister of the German Methodist Episcopal church. He married Katherine Portman, who was born in Switzerland in 1851, and came to America in 1870, settling in Henrietta town- ship, Lorain county.

Edward Haneisen received his education in the public schools and took up farming as an occupation. He is a Republican in his po- litical views, and takes an active interest in local public affairs. He is a member of the Henrietta Grange and belongs to the German Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Haueisen married, at Buffalo, April 17, 1900, Esther L. Portman ; they have no children.

CHARLES DOLL, postmaster of Lorain, was born in Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, September 24, 1864, and is a son of Frederick and Rachel (Barth) Doll. Frederick Doll was born in Alsace, Germany, and came to the United States in the thirties and located in Ma- honing county, Ohio, being for years connected with furnace work at Youngstown. He is now in his eighty-fourth year. His wife was born in Dresden, Ohio, and died August 28, 1876, at the age of thirty-eight years.

In 1876 Charles Doll left Youngstown and went to make his home with an uncle at Peters- burg, in Mahoning county, Ohio ; later he spent several years in Coshocton county, working on a farm and attending school. He then spent about a year at Massillon, Ohio, and in 1879 came to Lorain and began working for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. In 1885 Mr. Doll enlisted in the regular United States Army, and was assigned to Company A, Seven- teenth United States Regulars, stationed in the Dakotas guarding the Sioux Indians, pris- oners of war. He took part in the battle of "Wounded Knee" and other engagements, and was discharged at Cheyenne, Wyoming, at the expiration of his time of enlistment. Return- ing to Lorain, he resumed work for the Balti- more & Ohio road, remaining with them a year.

At the end of that time he was elected chief of police in Lorain, at the time the steel plant was being built and the town was filled with so many undesirable characters. He served as deputy sheriff under Sheriffs Ensign and Lord, and then became employed by the Lake Shore Electric Railway Company, purchasing rights-of-way for building their road. He spent two years in their employ, in different capaci- ties, and brought out the first car when the road was completed.

Mr. Doll has always taken great interest in municipal and county political matters, and is an ardent supporter of the principles of the Republican party. He was appointed assistant postmaster in Lorain in 1898, under President McKinley's administration, in which capacity he continued until March 12, 1909, when upon the death of Postmaster Bowman he received the appointment of postmaster, his appointment bearing date of May 14, 1909, for a full term. He has served as secretary of the Lorain City Republican Committee. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order and is a Knight Templar in the order; he also belongs to the Maccabees. He belongs to the Board of Com- merce of Lorain, and is an enterprising, pub- lic-spirited citizen.

Mr. Doll married Lucy Barth, of Chili, Coshocton county, and they have one daugh- ter, Gladys Marie.

HARRY W. POWERS, M. D., of South Am- herst, Lorain county, is a physician and sur- geon of active practice and substantial reput- tation in the prime of his natural and profes- sional life. In each sense he is also a product of the Buckeye state. The doctor is a native of Trumbull county, born September 5, 1864. and is a son of Dr. Abram M. and Cynthia A. (Sherwin) Powers, the latter having been born in Braceville township, Trumbull county, and the father in Milton township, Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1837. The paternal grand- parents of Dr. Powers were also natives of Milton township, Grandfather James Powers serving as the first sheriff of Mahoning county after it had been set aside from Trumbull. His wife was before marriage Miss Rebecca Win- dle. The maternal grandparents were Will- iam and Polly Sherwin, of Genesee county. New York. The Powers family is English. its American branch springing from three brothers who came to the United States, one of whom settled in western Pennsylvania at an early day and is the ancestor of the Western

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Reserve subdivision. Dr. Abram M. Powers, father of Dr. Harry W., began the practice of medicine at Lordstown, Ohio, in 1861, and on November 20, 1868, moved to Rootstown, Portage county, where he has since been en- gaged in successful professional work. He is the father of four children. Frank R., the first-born, died in 1904, Harry W. was the sec- ond born, Jessie is a resident of Rootstown, and John R. died as an infant.

Harry W., the second child of the family, received his elementary education in the pub- lic schools of Rootstown, graduated from the Ravenna high school in 1884 and then left home to matriculate in the Cleveland Medical College at Cleveland, now the medical depart- ment of Western Reserve University, attending. two years. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Wooster in 1886. Dr. Powers immediately commenced practice as his father's associate in Rootstown, but after about a year and a half located at Deerfield, Portage county, where he remained four years, subsequently practicing the same length of time at Washingtonville, Columbiana county, Ohio. In August, 1895, he located at South Amherst, and has continued there as its only practitioner, having served since 1905 as surgeon of the Ohio Quarry Company. He is an active member of the Lorain County Medi- cal Society, Northeastern Ohio Eclectic Asso- ciation, Ohio State Eclectic Association and the American Medical Association.

As a citizen, Dr. Powers has ever taken a deep interest in the educational matters of the township, having long served on its board of education, for two years as president of that body. He has also been an active and promi- nent figure in the fraternities of the locality these many years, being at present identified with the Royal Arcanum, Modern Woodmen of America and Knights and Ladies of Se- curity. The Doctor has been clerk of the local camp of the Modern Woodmen since 1904, and financial secretary of the Knights and Ladies of Security, South Amherst, since 1899. Dr. Powers was married November 29, 1883, to Miss Susie E. Greene, who was born in Roots- town and is a daughter of George W. and Sarah (Berlin) Greene. Her paternal grand- parents, Thomas and Elizabeth (Brooks) Greene, were natives of Nantucket, Massachu- setts, where her father was also born. Her mother was a native of Washingtonville, Ohio. Mrs. Powers' maternal grandparents were John D. and Susan ( Hoffman) Berlin, being

natives of Pennsylvania of German parentage. The children born to Dr. Harry W. Powers and his wife were Alice'MI., a graduate from Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1910, and now a teacher, chiefly of the piano and vocal music ; and Arthur M., an electrician ; Fred R., a student at Oberlin College; and Ralph E., a storekeeper, the first and last named being con- nected with the Ohio Quarries Company at South Amherst.

LUCIAN ADAM WILT, who during many years has been identified with the business life of Kent, was born in Juniata county, Penn- sylvania, June 14, 1874, a son of Frederick and Mary (Dunn) Wilt, who were also from Juniata county, as was his maternal grand- father, William Dunn, a jeweler and civil en- gineer. Frederick Wilt was a Pennsylvania farmer, and he died in that commonwealth in May of 1881. His widow resides in Alliance, Onio.

From the early age of eleven to sixteen years, Lucian A. Wilt worked on a farm near his boyhood's home; was then in Vienna, Trumbull county, Ohio, on a farm for one year, and for six months was employed in a rolling mill at Niles, this state. He was eight- een months at Canal Dover, was for two years on a farm near Brimfield, spent a similar period at Talmage, this state, and then, com- ing to Kent in 1896, he worked for three years in the railroad shops. During the following year he was employed in a feed store, and in the fall of 1899 he embarked in the coal busi- ness, and since that time he has enlarged his business to include masons' materials, plaster supplies, drain tile, sewer pipe and cement blocks. His is one of the leading industrial interests of the city.

On the 5th of October, 1899, Mr. Wilt was married to Grace King, who was born in Man- tua, Ohio, a daughter of Chester and Hattie (Bemis) King, born in Maryland and Ohio respectively. The children of this union are Ruth, Arthur, Edward and Donald. In poli- tics Mr. Wilt endorses the principles of the Republican party.

JAMES COOK .- Well deserving of more than passing mention in a work of this character is James Cook, who represents one of the earlier settlers of Perry township, Joseph Cook, who came to this section of the Western Reserve from Essex county. New York, in 1833.

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joseph Cook spent the remainder of his life in Perry township, following mostly his trade of a blacksmith. He was widely known through- out this locality, having built up an extensive patronage. He was very skilful and ingenious, being the first smith to adopt the "goose-neck shank," and acquired a wide reputation as the first maker of steel shoes. Many specimens of his handiwork are still in existence, being treas- ured as relics, among them being a hoe that kept its edge. He died in 1844, at the com- paratively early age of fortv-four years, of virulent cancer. He was an intense sufferer, having his leg amputated twice in one day, and that without the use of anaesthetics, which were then unknown.

Joseph Cook married Nancy Richmond, and at his death left six children, namely: J. W., deceased, succeeded to the ownership of the parental homestead; James, whose name ap- pears at the head of this sketch; and four daughters, Susan, residing in the Sandwich Islands; Cynthia, who died in California; Emma, residing in California; and Laura A., of Perry, Ohio.

James Cook married Ann Wood, a daughter of Otis Wood, of Perry, and they have one son living, Willis W. James Parmly, the youngest son, died at the age of sixteen. Mr. Cook is a member of the F. & A. M. Temple Lodge, No. 21, Chapter No. 46 and Eagle Commandery No. 29, Knight Templar Masons of Paines- ville.

ALMON G. LOWELL .- Standing prominent among the leading citizens of Pierpont town- ship, Ashtabula county, is Almon G. Lowell, a keen, progressive business man, who served his country gallantly in the Civil war, and has since been actively identified with substantial industrial enterprises. A native of New Hampshire, he was born July 8, 1842, in the picturesque little town of Rindge, where, draw- ing health and strength from its invigorating breezes, he grew to a sturdy manhood. He comes from a family whose name stands among the first in honorable distinction in the early annals of New England, and takes pride and pleasure in tracing, his ancestry back in a direct line to the year 1300.

to remain in the hospital nine months. On October 19, 1864, he was honorably discharged from the service, and returned home.

For many years Mr. Lowell was employed in the manufacture of pails, being foreman in the Warren Pail Factory four years; a fore- man in a pail factory in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he owns a fine residence, eight years ; and for four years was superintendent of the pail department in Louisville, Kentucky, where he installed a plant that cost a million of dol- lars, the plant being used for the manufactur- ing of pails and tobacco packages. Mr. Lowell now resides in Pierpont township, Ashtabula county, where he owns thirty acres of choice land.

Mr. Lowell married April 7, 1868, at Beaver Center, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Mary Jane Smith, who was born August 27, 1836, a daughter of Frank Strong, who married Mrs. Hannah (Lunger) Hall, and widow of the late Frank Smith. Mr. Lowell is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and for forty years has belonged to the Grand Army of the Republic, at present being quartermaster of the Pierpont post, while his wife belongs to the Woman's Relief Corps, of which she was vice president for a year. He is also an Odd Fel- low, and Mrs. Lowell was formerly a member of the Daughters of Rebekah.

ELEAZER PAYNE CHAPMAN is one of the oldest living residents of Portage county, hon- ored and revered wherever known. He was born in Rootstown township, Portage county, Ohio, many years ago, on March 27, 1827, to Nathan and Mary (Whitney) Chapman, the father from Tolland, Connecticut, born July 5. 1783, and the mother from Massachusetts, and she lived to the remarkable age of one hundred years lacking two months.

Nathan and Mary Chapman, the grand- parents of Eleazer P. Chapman, drove with oxen, with one horse in the lead, from Con- necticut to Portage county, Ohio, via Pitts- burg, where their one horse fell over an em- bankment and was killed. Taking up their abode in Rootstown township in 1805 they se- cured a large tract of timber land, which Mr. Chapman attempted to clear and while engaged in the work a tree fell upon him and caused his death. Thus he was permitted to enjoy his new home only a few years. He had a family of seven sons and a daughter, to each of whom he gave a farm, and thus Nathan Chapman,

On August 19, 1861, Mr. Lowell enlisted in Company E, Fifth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, under command of Colonel Edward E. Cross, and took part in many engagements, at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 4, 1864, being so severely wounded that he was forced the father of Eleazer, came into possession of

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his first farm, but this he traded soon after- ward for another near by. In the clearing, of his land and preparing it for cultivation he suffered all the hardships known to the true pioneer. This part of the country was then infested with wild beasts, and the nearest mar- ket place was on the Ohio river, from which they brought their flour, and when this com- modity could not be obtained there they manu- factured it in a pepper mill, and salt in those early days sold for seven cents a pound. Nathan Chapman had learned chairmaking as early as 1801, and he worked at his trade while his sons conducted the farm. Nathan and Mary Chapman had twelve children, but only the following three are now living: Francis Horley, who was born June 29, 1820; and Fan- nie E., who was born April 3, 1824.

Eleazer P. Chapman, the youngest of the three, resided at home until his marriage, and going to Clinton county, Michigan, when twenty-three years of age he secured 160 acres of land from the government, which he cleared of its timber and placed under cultivation. Returning finally to Ohio he assisted his father on the farm for three years, and then going again to Michigan, he finished the clearing of his land and lived there for twelve years, when he sold and returned once more to the old Chapman farm in Rootstown township and thereafter remained with his parents until their deaths. Then buying the interests of the other heirs in the farm of seventy acres, he has since added to this nucleus until he owned an estate of 204 acres, but he has since sold until he has left but ninety-two acres, but as fine farming land as lies in Rootstown township.

While in Michigan, on February 12. 1850, Mr. Chapman was married to Martha E. Bald- win, who was born in Batavia, Genesee county, New York, March 3, 1830, a daughter of Charles and Sophronia (Crowell) Baldwin, from Hartford, Connecticut, and Genesee county, New York, respectively. Mrs. Chap- man died on February 20, 1905, leaving one son, Thaddeus Eleazer, who was born January 2, 1860, and is now the city engineer at Cleve- land, Ohio. On September 26, 1906, Mr. Chap- man married Lucy Ann Baldwin, a sister of his first wife and the widow of William W. Hen- derson. She has one daughter, May, the widow of Francis Gates and a resident of De- troit, Michigan. Mr. Chapman is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has held all of its offices.

GEORGE L. GLITSCH .- In the life record of George L. Glitsch are contained many valuable lessons of self help, showing what can be ac- complished by the young men of this free country, though they have no capital with which to start out on life's journey. For many years he has been one of the leaders of the bar of Lorain county, an able lawyer and a leader in political circles. He was born at Johnstown. Pennsylvania, March 14, 1867, a son of Caspar and Anna Elizabeth ( Hoffmann) Glitsch. The parents were both born in Laundenhausen, Grassherrzun, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany. where they were also married and from whence they came to the United States in 1848. They located at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where Caspar Glitsch died on July 24, 1883, at the age of sixty-three years, and his wife died there in 1893, when sixty-five years of age.

George L. Glitsch received a public school education, but at the age of twelve years he left school to work in the family market gar- den, and it was not until he was eighteen that he again took up his studies, and then he en- tered night school, working in the mills at Johnstown during the days. He continued his mill work until the age of twenty-five, and then entering the University of Michigan he took a special literary and law course and graduated from its law department with the class of 1895. In the same year he came to Lorain, was ad- mitted to the bar in June of the same year and at once entered upon the active practice of the law. In the meantime Mr. Glitsch has won his way to a high standing in professional circles, and has been prominent in the public life of his city, serving as its city solicitor by appoint- ment and as its mayor in 1900, refusing a sec- ond term in that office. In 1898 and with W. B. Thompson they formed the Thompson & Glitsch legal firm, which later became Thomp- son, Glitsch & Cinninger and is recognized as one of the strongest law firms in Lorain coun- ty. Mr. Glitsch is also the vice president of the National Bank of Commerce of Lorain, is the president of the Lorain Driving Park Asso- ciation and is a member of the Board of Com- merce. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias.

He married Amelia Hessellbein, who was born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

AMOS COLEMAN FISK .- The Fisk family has been represented in the neighborhood of Ash-

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tabula since 1810, and have contributed their full share to the progress and development of the city. Amos C. Fisk was born in Ashta- bula in 1823, and spent his entire life in his native city, where he died in 1891. He was a son of Amos and Mary (Hubbard) Fisk.

Amos Fisk was born May 26, 1780, at Wen- dell, Massachusetts, and in 1807 removed to Erie, Pennsylvania. He married, January 13, 1808, at Trenton, New York, Mary. daughter of Isaac and Ruth (Coleman) Hubbard, born at Middletown, Connecticut, August 26, 1789. Mr. and Mrs. Fisk removed to Ohio in 1810. settling at Ashtabula, and to them were born eleven children, of whom four died in infancy. Mr. Fisk from the first took an active part in public affairs, and became an influential citi- zen. At one time he owned the land south of the North Park, where the present city is lo- cated, and besides carrying on a farm he was interested in mercantile business. He and his wife were greatly interested in the erection of schools and churches, and in 1825 the Baptist church was organized in a building erected by Mr. Fisk and donated to the society, with the land. This building stood in the southwest corner of North Park, and about 1858 the city wished to straighten the park, and purchased the church, giving in exchange land now occu- pied by the present Baptist church. Deacon Amos Fisk died in 1836, and his widow in 1872. In 1834 he erected the first brick resi- dence in Ashtabula. Three of their sons grew to manhood, the oldest of whom, Isaac Hub- bard, settled in Watertown, New York, where his children now reside. The second son was Amos Coleman, and the third Edward W. Edward W. Fisk was born in 1832, and mar- ried Mary Mygatt, of Canfield, Ohio, in 1860; he died in 1901. In 1859 he removed to Lee- tonia, where he engaged in coal mining until 1864, then returned to Ashtabula and engaged in flour business with his brother Amos C. Later he engaged in mercantile business at Ashtabula Harbor, and for eight years was collector of customs. His oldest son, Dr. George Mygatt Fisk, lives at Madison, Wis- consin ; he served during President McKin- ley's first term as second secretary at the Em- bassy at Berlin. He was professor of eco- nomics at Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Mary- land, and later held a similar position at the University of Illinois. The second son of Ed- ward Fisk, Edward A., is employed in railroad work, and lives with his mother in Ashtabula.

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History of the Western Reserve, Vol. II, Part 99

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