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Hugh H. Hutchison
Hugh Henry Hutchison was born in Troy Township, Geauga County, October 13, 1887. He was the son of L. George and Addie Lucinda (Messenger) Hutchison. The Messneger family came from Litchfield, Conn., to Mantua, then a wilderness, in 1815, and settled on the Kilby farm north of Mantua Corners.
Mr. Hutchison was educated in the Auburn township schools up to the sixth grade. The family then came to Hiram in 1902, where he finished the eight grades in Hiram school.
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He then took a three-year preparatory course at Hiram College and took one year in regular college classes.
On October 22, 1913, Mr. Hutchison was married to Elzadah Ruth Ladd of Mantua. To them were born two sons. They are Hyle Henry Hutchison of San Diego, Calif .; and Howard Kenneth Hutchison of Hiram.
In Hiram he operated a retail milk business over a period of 23 years ending in 1942 when he started work as a car- penter in the Windham Housing Project in World War II.
He is a seventh degree member of the Grange, having joined in Mantua in 1903; a life-time member of the Hiram Christian Church, serving as deacon, elder and trustee; a member of the Farm Bureau, first joining the Portage County Improvement Assn. in 1912.
He has served on the Hiram village council and on the zoning commission. He has worked extensively in maple sugar products and for the past ten years has had charge of the boiling for Arthur Ryder in the production of between 700 and 1,000 gallons of syrup each year. He works at the carpenter trade regularly.
Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison have traveled extensively, covering most of the United States.
Jesse M. Jerome
Jessie M. Jerome was born September 5, 1865 in Randolph, Ohio, the daughter of Joseph and Mary Jerome. She was one of three children, having an older sister, Amelia and a younger brother, Elgin.
Miss Jerome taught in public schools in and near Randolph before she entered Hiram College in 1896 when she was 31. She taught part time in the village school while attending Hiram and received her bachelor of philosophy degree in 1903, joining the college faculty in September of that year. Later she received her master's degree from Hiram and attained her full professorship in 1919.
Listed as a professor of mathematics she also taught courses in the history of Christian missions and the history of Asia. Her rich contribution to the life of the college students and the townspeople came as much through extra-curricular interests as in the classroom.
The church was always her deep interest, and she gave liberally in all aspects of church work, especially the Sunday School and the Missionary Society.
Her lifelong love and knowledge of birds was shared with many of her friends and through her rare skill as a teacher opened this rewarding hobby to many young people in Hiram.
She travelled quite extensively in the Far East, visiting many mission stations. Later she travelled in the Near East and through Europe as well as widely in the United States.
She taught in Hiram College until she retired in 1938 at the age of 73. Her death occurred in a nursing home at Grosse Point, Michigan, September 26, 1949, at the age of 84.
John Samuel Kenyon
Born July, 1874, Medina Twp. (US rt. 42), son of Charles C. Kenyon (1847-1940), whose parents were of R. I .; and Lucy Gouldin (Goldin) (1849-1921), granddau. of John Gouldwin of Lisbon (from Va.). Married, 1899, Myra Pow (1875-1955) of Salem, dau. of Alexander Pow (Eng'd 1807-O.1879) and Harriet Baldwin (1835-1922). Children, Martha
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(1904-) and Elizabeth (1906- Mrs. A. E. Andress). Grad. Medina H. S. 1892, A.B, Hiram Coll. 1898, A.M. Univ. of Chicago 1903, Ph.D. Harvard 1908, Litt.D. West. Res. Univ. 1954. In Eng'd with family, studying at Univ. Coll., London 1926-27.
Taught school, York, 1892-93, prof. Greek and math., W. Ky., Coll. 1898-99, prof. Greek, Christian Univ., Canton, Mo. 1899-1901. Head depart. of English, Butler Coll., Indianapolis 1906-16, prof. Eng. lang., Hiram Coll. 1916-44, Emeritus since '44. Lecturer in Eng. lang., West. Res. Univ. Graduate School 1929-37. Research Associate in English, Univ. of Wisconsin 1940-41, Phi Beta Kappa 1941.
Visiting prof. of English, summers: Wooster Coll. 1909-10, Indiana Univ. 1915, Butler Coll. 1918, Harvard 1924, Univ. of Texas 1928, Univ. of Michigan 1929, appointed at Stanford 1930, but resigned owing to illness. Twice invited to Univ. of Chicago, but was previously engaged.
On committee of American Council of Learned Societies to plan and initiate The Linguistic Atlas of US and Canada. Published for New England in six folio vols. 1939-43. Re- search for the remainder is still in progress. Participating delegate to Second International Congress of Phonetic Sci- ences, London 1935. With wife and daughter toured England and Scotland in English car April-July 1935. Delegate to joint conference of British and American scholars, New York 1923. Hiram Coll. Alumni Award for Distinguished Service 1943.
Member Modern Lang. Assoc., Linguistic Soc., Dialect Soc., Assoc. of University Professors, Association Phonetique Internationale (on Administrative Council since 1929). Mem- ber Disciples Church.
Contributed to: Pubs. Mod. Lang. Assoc., Modern Philology, Jour. of Engl. and Germanic Philology, Mod. Lang. Notes, Philological Quarterly, Quart. Jour. of Speech, American Speech (usage editor 1928-32), Dialect Notes, English Jour., College English, Nation, Sat. Rev. of Lit., Outlook, Lond. Times Lit. Suppl., Le Maitre Phonetique, N. Y. Times, The Herbarist, The American Scholar, etc.
Editor of Phonetic Terms, Consulting Ed. of Pronunciation, and author of Guide to Pronunciation, in Webster's New International Dictionary 1934. Author, books: Syntax of the Infinitive in Chaucer, London 1909; American Pronunciation 1924, 10th ed., 5th print- ing 1956; with Thomas A. Knott (1880-1945) Pronouncing Dictionary of American English 1944, 4th printing with Addenda of 350 words 1949, 6th printing 1953.
Though not a native of Portage County, Mr. Kenyon was married here and has lived here forty-five years.
Floyd J. Leathernow
Floyd James Leathernow was born in Empire, Jefferson county, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1897, being the son of Martin and Hettie Caroline (Grafton) Leathernow. The father was killed in a mine explosion, leaving four children of which Floyd was the youngest.
He then lived with his grandmother at Dillonvale, Ohio, and attended school there until he was fifteen. He then worked at various jobs in the western part of the county until he went to Canton in 1917. There he was employed in several factories.
On August 21, 1926, he married Mary Frances Lake, a native of Keester, Pa., the youngest of thirteen children. To them were born two children, both in Cleveland. These
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were Elizabeth Jane, Dec. 14, 1928; and Fern Lucindia, Jan. 4, 1932, now Mrs. Luther McCoy of East Cleveland.
After Mr. Leathernow's marriage he went to Cleveland, where he was employed as a machinist. He was with the Dall Mfg. for nine years, and the Cleveland Traction Co. for eleven years. He also operated a laundry in Cleveland over a period of about thirteen years.
In 1946 he purchased property in Hiram which he con- verted into a home for the aged. It is known as the Harmony Nursing Home, is licensed and has accommodations for about thirty patients.
Mr. Leathernow is a member of the Masonic lodge at Newburg. Mrs. Leathernow is a member of the Grand Cross Colors of East Cleveland. The Leathernows belong to the St. Paul's Episcopal church.
Mabel M. Mason
Mabel M. Mason is a native of Hiram Township, daughter of John G. and Emily Allyn Mason, the granddaughter of Carnot and Olive Cole Mason and of Pelatiah and Adaline Joslyn Allyn, and the great-granddaughter of Elijah and Lucretia Green Mason, who came to this county in 1802 and who were one of the first settlers in Hiram Township. The old Mason home is still standing-the second house north of Jeddo (once known as Hiram Station) on the west side of the road. Carnot Mason is credited with having more to do with getting the college located at Hiram than any other person and Pelatiah Allyn who was a carpenter who helped to build the main building of Hiram College.
To John and Emily Mason were born three children: Cora Mason King, March 20, 1858; Owen J., October 26, 1866; and Mabel M., October 22, 1879.
Miss Mason has been a member of the Hiram Church since 1901. She is a charter member of the Research Club; a charter member of the Hiram Grange, belonging also to the County, State, and National Grange; a life member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and was connected with the telephone service in Hiram for 37 years, retiring in Novem- ber, 1950 when the dial system was installed; and a member of the Hiram Township Historical Society.
Miss Mason still lives in the home on East Wakefield Road which was built by her father in 1884.
Carl A. Nichols
Carl Albert Nichols was born July 26, 1881, in Freedom township, the son of Marcus Harvey and Jennie (Wilson) Nichols. He attended the local district school (Nelson No. 70) after which he worked on his father's farm of 100 acres. The family moved to Hiram township when he was 14 years of age. He then attended Hiram College Preparatory School, as well as three years in the college.
In 1902 Mr. Nichols operated the home farm and in 1907 he took a short course in Agriculture at Ohio State University. He continued operation of the farm, specializing in
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Holstein Freisian registered cattle, until 1936. He was appointed to the Hiram township school board in 1902, serving 14 years in that capacity. He was also on the board of trustees and the cemetery board. In all, he served the public in some capacity or other over a period of 54 years.
In 1936 he was elected a county commissioner for Portage County, serving one term. In 1940, he became a member of the Hiram village council.
On Sept. 2, 1911, he married Lois Pearl Hurd. She died in 1940. On Aug. 17, 1941, he married Esther E. Stelsen, of Hiram. She was a teacher in Hiram high school for 14 years. In 1901-02 she taught in Hiram village for $25.00 per month.
In 1949 the Nichols moved to the old farm property and built a modern ranch style home. It is unique in that most of the materials came from the farm and the home used 22 kinds of native wood in the buliding.
In 1956 Mr. Nichols sold part of the farm, amounting. to 90 acres, to the Methodist church organization for the new Asbury Park recreation area.
George Alfred Peckham
George Alfred Peckham was born July 17, 1851, in a section of Tallmadge township that was later annexed to the city of Akron. He was the oldest of the four children of Harry and Cornelia (Barney) Peckham. The parents, who were of New England stock, were born at New Haven, Conn., and Mayville, N. Y., respectively; but both of them migrated in early childhood to Summit County, Ohio.
George Peckham received his elementary education in the Akron public schools and his collegiate education at Bethany College and Buchtel College, obtaining the A.B. degree from the latter institution in 1875. His pursuit of graduate studies years later, during summer quarters at the University of Chicago, culminated in his attainment of the Ph.D. degree in 1909. His doctoral dissertation, A Com- mentary on Obadiah, is recognized as one of the most out- standing works in its field.
George Peckham's teaching career spanned half a cen- tury. After four years as instructor at his alma mater (now the University of Akron), he became, in 1880, Professor of Ancient Languages at Hiram College. In his later years his fields of concentration were Hebrew and Old Testament History. He taught continuously at Hiram until within a few months of his death, June 13, 1926.
He was a preacher as well as a teacher. Although he held no resident pastorates, he was an ordained minister and a very active and nationally prominent member of the Disciples of Christ. His college fraternity was Delta Tau Delta.
George Peckham was married in 1879 to Anna Cora Sisler, of Akron, who died in 1943. They had four children: Bertha A., of Cleveland (deceased, 1946); Rev. Mark S., of Fowler, Cal. (deceased, 1913); Prof. Emeritus Harry H., of Ohio University; and Anna Laura, of Hiram.
Arthur C. Ryder
Arthur Carnot Ryder was born May 25, 1896 on a farm one mile south and one-quarter mile west of Hiram. He is the son of Rosa (Ritter) and Will J. Ryder, who was a grandson
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of Jason, brother of Symonds, both of whom came from Hartford, Vermont, to Hiram as pioneer settlers in 1815 and remained to become lifelong leaders in the Hiram com- munity and church.
Arthur graduated from Hiram High School in 1915 and attended Hiram College the following year. Since then he has continued to farm in the same neighborhood in which he was born. He owns and operates farms totaling 300 acres, on which he keeps a sixty-five head herd of registered Holstein cattle. He is also one of the largest producers of maple syrup in this area, having made 1030 gallons in 1956.
On October 17, 1920 Arthur was married to Miss Doris Messenger, daughter of Grant and Evaline Ludlow Mes- senger and a great granddaughter of William Messenger who came from Connecticut in 1815. They have one daughter, Vesta, now Mrs. John B. Groselle of Cincinnati. There are two grandsons, John Ryder and Robert Keith Groselle.
Arthur, his wife and daughter are all members of the Hiram Christian Church. He served as a trustee for several years and has been a deacon of the church for thirty-five years. He is a charter member of the Portage County Farm Bureau, organized in the spring of 1920, and also of the first Farm Bureau Advisory Council organized in Portage County in 1936. He served as a Hiram township trustee for sixteen years.
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Udall
George Frank Udall was born in Hiram Township on June 6, 1876. He was the son of Frank Morton and Clara (Bishop) Udall. The mother was a native of Nova Scotia and the father a descendent of New Englanders who came to Hiram in 1818.
George attended the Hiram public schools and later entered the preparatory department of Hiram College. During this time he worked for his father on the farm on which he has now spent his entire life.
On August 1, 1901, he married Miss Jessie May Conant of Hiram. Mrs. Udall passed away April 3, 1950.
Mr. Udall, in his farm activities, has specialized in dairying, with a herd of registered Jersey cattle, being one of the first in that locality to handle this breed.
He was a township trustee for several terms and a member of the Hiram Board of Education for a number of years. He is a member of the Hiram Christian Church and has served as deacon for a long period.
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Udall
Two children were born to the Udalls. The first is Alma U., now Mrs. Leon M. Cook, born Aug. 28, 1903. She was a graduate of Hiram college and served as assistant librarian
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there for 14 years. She is now high school librarian and does part time teaching. She has one son, William George Cook, born Oct. 23, 1942, the only grandchild of George Udall. Leon Cook died July 23, 1944.
The second child of Mr. and Mrs. George Udall, Howard Frank, was born May 7, 1908, and he now has the main responsibility of operating the old farm.
Clinton M. Young
Clinton Mason Young, born in Hiram, March 21, 1876. Only child of Clinton and Seraph Amelia (Mason) Young, grandson of Thomas Fitch and Lydia (Tilden) Young and of Ruphus Ira and Amelia (Root) Mason, great-grandson of Daniel and Esther (Mason) Tilden (Daniel Tilden was the largest subscriber in the original purchase of the township from the Connecticut Land Company.) Married Adraine Jones, daughter of A. Caleb and Annie (Russell) Jones; only child, Clinton J. T. Young.
Educated in the district school, then in Hiram College, B. S. 1898; Case, B. S. in Mining Engineering, 1904; Engineer of Mines, Case, 1909.
Author "Natural Gas" and of many engineering and scientific papers. Former editor Colliery Engineer; head of Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Uni- versity of Kansas; Specialist in Mining Engineering, U. S. Engineer Office, Pittsburgh, Pa., Mining Engineer and Con- sulting Engineer, U. S. Bureau of Mines.
Member; Am. Inst. Min. and Met. Eng .; Am. Petroleum Inst .; Sigma Xi; Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Gamma Epsilon; Sons Am. Revolution. Former member; Coal Min. Inst. of Am .; Illinois Min. Inst .; Eng. Soc. N. E. Pa. Former Pres .; Board of Trustees, Portage County District Library; Hiram Town-
ship Historical Society.
After graduation from Hiram, he taught for a time before entering Case. After leaving Case, he worked for two years as an analytical chemist in the development of a new metal- lurgical process, then went to the University of Kansas. After eight years there, he was with the U. S. Engineer Office in Pittsburgh, engaged in a study of acid pollution of the Ohio River and its tributaries. He then went to Scranton, Pa., as editor of the Colliery Engineer, one of the two principal coal mining papers of this country. After this, he went to the University of Illinois where he spent three and a half years in studying the coal mining problems of that state. He returned to the University of Kansas in 1919 and remained there until retirement in 1946, with the exception of two and a half years with the U. Bureau of Mines during the last war.
His professional interestes have been partly in the concentration of ores but mainly in the mineral fuels. In the mineral fuels, he worked first on the mining of coal and on mine explosions and, later, on the cleaning of coal to lower the amount of ash and increase the heat value. Later, he became interested in methods of producing petroleum. During the last years of his active professional work, he was engaged principally in problems of producing, transporting, measuring and utilizing natural gas.
Early in life, he became interested in photography, and this has continued to be his principal hobby. Upon retirement in 1946 he returned to the home in Hiram which had been built by his grandfather, where his father was born and died, and which has remained the property of the family. Here, on a part of his grandfather's farm, he is caring for a sort of apple museum where an effort is being made to preserve some of the varieties of apples which were raised by the early settlers. With Mrs. Young, he has been much interested in the history of Hiram and in the lives of the pioneers.
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MANTUA
Mr. and Mrs. George Brehm
George Brehm was born in Cleveland, December 25, 1891, the son of John and Gert- rude Brehm.
His early education was obtained in the grade schools there and the age of fourteen found him working in a bakery shop. When eighteen, he became a bakery driver for Snyder Bros., a position he held for thir- teen years.
On Jan. 11, 1916, he married Mollie Josephine Runiger. To them, five children were born. These are Bernice, now Mrs. Rus- sell Thompson of Tuczon, Ariz .; George Carl, Jr .; Robert Allen; Leonard Howard; and Edward Gene.
Mr. and Mrs. Brehm moved to Mantua Corners on September 24, 1923, where they bought a general store and dance hall which they conducted for eighteen years. From 1924 to 1936 they backed a baseball team which won the Portage County championship in Mr. and Mrs. George Brehm 1934. From 1923 to 1936 they operated the dance hall twice a week-Thursdays with square dancing and Saturdays with modern dances. He was interested in community improvement and worked in various worth while activities.
From 1942 to 1947 he had a grille at Chagrin Falls, retiring in 1947. He passed away Jan. 29, 1948, in Orlando, Florida.
Mr. Brehm was a charter member of the Eagles club in Ravenna.
Harry L. Chadwick
Harry L. Chadwick was born in Hudson, Ohio, July 1, 1890, the son of Joseph and Edith Chadwick. When he was only a small boy his parents purchased a farm in Streetsboro, where he attended school with a brother, Don, and a sister, Helen. He graduated from Streetsboro high school and later attended Hiram college.
In 1915 Mr. Chadwick married Bernice Bosworth of Streetsboro and for seven years lived on rented farms in Streetsboro. He then moved to Columbiana, Ohio, where for 21 years he was manager of the 800 acre Harvey S. Firestone farms. For seven years of this time he lived on and also managed the Firestone estate in Akron.
In 1944 he bought a 300 acre farm in Mantua township where with his son, Glenn, he specialized in raising sweet corn and potatoes.
He was a member of the Farm Bureau and was a director for many years of the Ohio Potato Growers Association. He
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belonged to the 400 Bushel Club for many years and gained recognition as one of the Champion Farmers of the United States.
Mr. Chadwick was a member of the Allen Masonic lodge of Columbiana and the Columbiana Kiwanis Club. He was always a faithful church member in whatever com- munity he lived.
His marriage was blessed with five children and he lived to see them all graduate from college and happily married. They are Dene, now Mrs. Rexford Taylor; Louise, now Mrs. Richard B. Hoskin; Glenn Chadwick; Esther, now Mrs. Paul Jacobs; and Mrs. Irene Havas. From these marriages were born eleven grandchildren.
Though in failing health for several years he worked daily on his farm until near the end of his life. On April 22, 1954, he passed away at Robinson Memorial Hospital, Ravenna, from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of sixty-three. He is buried in Westlawn, Mantua Center.
James G. Crafts
James Griffin Crafts, born September 23, 1889, was named for a Revolutionary war ancestor in Craftsbury, Vermont. His parents were William H. and Ann Augusta (Merriman) Crafts. W. H. Crafts was one of the founders of Mantua First National Bank.
James G. Crafts was educated in Mantua village school, Culver Military Academy and Burkey and Dyke Business College in Cleveland. He was associated with the Guardian Savings and Trust Bank on Euclid Ave., Cleveland, until its closing in the "bank holiday" of 1933.
Until six months before his death, on his sixty-fifth birthday, he had been a member of the office staff at Raven- na Arsenal since 1941.
He was a member of Mantua Masonic Lodge. His hob- bies were dogs, horses, hunting and baseball. He was a skill- ful participant and an able teacher in the field of sports- manship.
James G. Crafts was married Feb. 28, 1911, to Jessie, daughter of Henry H. and Ada Root Spray of Shalersville.
Their children are James S. Crafts, artist and head of the art department at Teachers College, Connecticut; Mrs. W. B. Webb (Ada Ann) of Ravenna; Captain Claude H. Crafts, lost in World War II and Virginia, on the faculty of Ohio State University.
The Crafts home is on West Prospect St., Mantua.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Derthick
Benjamin Moore Derthick, son of Frank A. and Perlea Moore Derthick, was born on a farm in Mantua in 1872. He grew up on the farm and was graduated from Hiram College in 1899. He was ordained in the Hiram Church.
He married Mary Lois Plum of Mantua Sept. 19, 1894. Mr. Derthick began his ministry in 1895 while still a student and served as pastor in North Jackson, Chesterland and Fowler's Mills, Solon and Cortland, O. He served at Mantua Center from 1909 to 1919 with two interruptions, and at Mantua Village for 17-1/2 years beginning in 1919. A $17,800 addition was dedicated there in 1926, the note was burned 1929, and 305 were received into the church. Mr. Derthick returned to Mantua Center Feb. 13, 1944, and con-
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tinued preaching there until Dec. 30, 1950. In this period an electric organ was installed and 125 mem- bers were received. A two-story addition was started in 1950.
The Ohio Christian Missionary Society granted Mr. Derthick a certificate for 50 years in the min- istry in 1952.
During his pastorates he was state deputy inspector of feed and fertilizer in North Eastern Ohio from 1901 to 1909 for four months in each year. From 1910 to 1952 he was a travelling sales- man in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, selling feed and grain Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Derthick in car load lots to dealers. While working as inspector and sales- man he returned to his pastorates on week ends for pastoral work and preaching.
Mr. Derthick is a Mason, belonging to the Knights Templar. He is now retired and resides in Mantua.
Mrs. Derthick taught school, studied in Hiram College and the Emerson School of Oratory, Chicago. She was a talented public speaker and entertainer. She was also an ardent and effective partner with her husband in church work, teaching in Sunday schools, assist- ing in plays and Aid Society bazars.
Mrs. Derthick was past worthy matron of the Eastern Star and past president of the Mantua Literary and Social Club. She was Mantua correspondent for the Ravenna Evening Record for 18 years. She died Oct. 13, 1955, at the age of 86. Mr. and Mrs. Derthick were married 61 years. They had three children, Howard who died in infancy; Mrs. A. S. (Louise) Bemis of St. Marys, Pa .; and Everest P. of Chagrin Falls, O.
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