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Frank Adelbert Derthick
Frank Adelbert (Bert) Derthick was born in Mantua township September 29, 1874. He was the son of Frank Adolphus and Perlea (Moore) Derthick. The Derthick ancestors came from Simsbury, Conn. in 1806, settling on an original grant from the Connecticut Land Company. This land has been in the Derthick family con- tinually since that time.
Mr. Derthick's early education was obtained in township district schools and later he attended Hiram College. During all this time he was helping his father on the farm and his entire life was spent there.
On November 8, 1902, he married Laura Washburn of Berea, Kentucky. Three children were born to them: Helen Derthick Zimmerman, Perlea Derthick Converse and Virgil Albert Derthick.
Mr. Derthick was a pioneer in the good roads move- ment, working with Dan R. Hanna and H. P. Miller in the Portage County Improvement Association in 1912. He did general farming and kept a large dairy. Milk was first sold to a cheese factory but later went to the Cleveland retail market.
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He was also a large grower of potatoes and had a ten acre apple orchard.
Mr. Derthick was a member of the Disciple Church at Mantua Center, of the Grange and the Farm Bureau. He died July 23, 1952.
Lillian Collins Goodell
Lillian Collins was born in Charlestown, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1884, the eldest child of Victor Orson and Carrie (Cooper) Collins. She attended Garrettsville High School and received a teacher's certificate which she never used as she was united in marriage to Fred Allyn Goodell July 27, 1902 and started housekeeping on their farm in Charlestown. There are three surviving children-Marian Alice, now Mrs. J. B. Howard, born April 3, 1906; Evelyn Grace, born Sept. 17, 1908; and Edgar Collins, born Jan. 19, 1914. There are three grand- children-Carolyn and Kenneth Howard and Larry Goodell.
Wishing to enter business life, Mrs. Goodell took a course on the Burroughs Calculator and thus secured a posi- tion in the office of The Chisholm Shoe Co. of Cleveland where she was employed from June 1923 to July 1931. During the last three years of this employment she attended Cleveland College at night and secured credits for three years of ac- counting. She received her appointment as postmaster in Mantua in Nov. 1933 and held this position until Dec. 1954 when she retired, having reach- ed the compulsory age for retirement in government service.
She is Past Matron of Mystic Chapter O.E.S. and Past President of Mantua Literary and Social Club. She is also a member of Hilltop Christian Church. Mrs. Goodell died in November, 1957.
Perry L. Green
Perry Luther Green was born in North Royalton, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, June 5, 1879. He was the son of Worthy Streator and Wealthy (Edgerton) Green.
The Edgerton and Green families were among the early pioneers of the Western Re- serve. Almon B. Green and his brother, Philander, and Phil- ander's son, Frank B. Green, were among the early preachers of the Disciple Church.
Perry L. Green graduated from Medina High School in 1898, going to Hiram in the fall of 1898 and continuing intermittently in college until 1902.
On Sept. 7, 1904, he married Mabel Mary Alden, of Hiram, Ohio. They have a daughter, Naoma; and three sons, Alden, Caspar and Edward.
After spending two years as salesman with the William Bingham Co., wholesale hardware dealers in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Green went into partnership in Hiram with his father- in-law, E. H. Alden, later taking over and developing the widely known Greendale Farms. The pure bred Holstein herd, more than a hundred head, held the distinction, ac- cording to the State University, of being the highest produc- tion herd known up to that time in the United States.
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In 1921 Mr. Green was elected as Portage County's representative to the Ohio General Assembly and was re-elected for three succeeding terms. Mr. Green secured the legislation and appropriations which gave Portage County the distinction of having the first state park-Nelson Ledges-in Northeastern Ohio.
In 1929 Mr. Green was appointed State Director of Agriculture by Gov. Myers Y. Cooper, serving during the succeeding two years.
In 1933 he was elected president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, a position he held for fifteen years. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Farm Bureau Nationwide Insurance Companies since their organization in 1926 and also served as a member of their investment committees and as Chairman of the Board of the Life company.
Mr. Green was a charter member of the Portage County Improvement Association or- ganized in 1912, which was succeeded by the Portage County Farm Bureau in 1920.
In Portage County organizations he has served as president of the Portage County Y.M.C.A. (the second county Y.M.C.A. in Ohio); chairman of the Hiram Church board for eight years; member of Board of Trustees of Hiram College from 1927 to 1939; chairman of the Board of Portage County Farm Bureau Service Co. in 1927 (succeeded by the Portage County Farm Bureau Co-Operative); President of the Portage County Farm Bureau; and Clerk of the Hiram school board, and others.
Mr. Green now holds directorates in the National Casualty Co. of Detroit; the Co-Oper- ative League of the U.S.A., Chicago; the National Co-Operative Finance Assn. of the U.S.A., Chicago; the Approved Finance Co., the Nationwide Corporation, the Peoples Development Co., and the Tectum Co. of Columbus, Ohio.
Since his retirement in 1949 he has written a history of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federa- tion and its subsidiaries up to 1949.
Mr. and Mrs. Green, after forty years residence in Hiram, moved to Mantua, to make their home there.
Mr. Green died July 28, 1957.
Ernest J. Hammel
Ernest John Hammel was born on a farm in Chester- land, Geauga County, on July 12, 1878. He was the son of Christ and Margaret (Grau) Hammel. His education was re- ceived in the schools of Geauga County. He then started work in the meat and provision trade, working for Henry Auer- bach.
In 1909 he came to Mantua and in partnership with William Gast, bought out the Amos Spencer market. In the following year his brother Frank came in, buying out Gast. In this work the brothers "peddled" meat in horse drawn wagons all around Mantua and going into Auburn, Geauga County. For a period of twenty years they did their own slaughtering. He continued in the business until 1950 when he retired, selling his interest to Harold Mizer.
He has been a member of the Masonic Lodge for forty years, the Eastern Star and of the Disciple church.
Mr. Hammel was married on Feb. 18, 1902, to Mary E. Mowen of Ravenna. To them two children were born-Charles M., a dentist in Hudson; and Eugene C., of Miami, Florida. There are three grandchildren.
Mr. Hammel died Sept. 12, 1957.
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Frank A. Hammel, Sr.
Frank Albert Hammel, Sr., was born May 11, 1886, on a farm in Chesterland, Geauga County, Ohio.
He was one of a family of five children born to Christian and Magdaline (Grau) Hamn- mel who came to America from Germany in their teens.
Later the family moved to Collinwood where Frank received his education.
After spending a few years in California working in a logging camp, he came to Mantua in 1910, where he joined his brother, Ernest, in the grocery and meat business, in a partner- ship that lasted until his brother retired in 1950, and Frank retired in 1953.
In 1910 Mr. Hammel was married to Miss Sarah Turner of Mantua, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Turner. To them were born three children, two of whom are living. These are Frank, Jr., with Harold Mizer, took over the Hammel Bros. business; and Eleanor, now Mrs. John Ickeringill, who lives in Columbus.
Mr. Hammel belongs to the Masonic order in Mantua. As a hobby he collects early American flasks, of which he has a large collection. Some of these were made in Mantua in 1821.
Mr. Hammel now lives in what is known as the old Brick Tavern in Mantua, a building that was erected in 1825, and at that time was a stop-over for ox-cart travelers, and later for stage coaches between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace L. Hine
Horace L. Hine was born Feb. 26, 1859, in Shalersville township, being the son of Lyman T. and Sylvia (Crocker) Hine of Shalersville. His early education was received in the local schools and later he attended Mount Union College, where he graduated.
After completing his education he organized the Hine & Cook Lumber Co. of Mantua, operating it until 1910 when the business was sold to N. D. Parker & Son.
In 1885 he helped organize the bank of Crafts, Hine & Co. in Mantua which he served in var- ious capacities for thirty years. The bank later became the First National Bank of Mantua. Mr. Hine was also vice president of the Ravenna National Bank from 1886 to 1911.
On Nov. 27, 1885 Mr. Hine was married to Miss Ella Blanch- field of Bainbridge, Geauga Coun- ty. She was born Nov. 2, 1860. Five children were born to the couple. These were Bert, deceased; Mr. and Mrs. Horace L. Hine Henry, deceased; Leo, deceased; Irving, now in Cleveland; Coletta H., now Mrs. William J. Hafemeister of Mantua.
Mr. and Mrs. Hine celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in Cleveland, Nov. 27, 1935.
Mr. Hine died July 11, 1947. Mrs. Hine died Feb. 3, 1938.
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Dr. Edgar H. Knowlton
Dr. Edgar Horace Knowlton practiced medicine in Man- tua, Ohio for forty-five years from 1904 to 1949 when he died in an automobile accident, October 7, 1949.
He was born February 28, 1874 in Creston, Ohio, the son of Reverend Albert W. and Jemina H. Wright. Reverend Knowlton had a Presbyterian church in Creston and later moved to Mantua to retire.
He graduated from Wooster College and the Ohio Wes- leyan-Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1902. He married Elva M. Penrod of Shanesville, Ohio where he practiced for one year before moving to Mantua, Ohio.
He was a Captain in the U. S. Army Medical Corp of World War I in 1917 and 1918.
Dr. Knowlton was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Knights Templar, and the 32nd degree Scottish Rite.
He is survived by his wife, Elva M., and two sons, Richard S. of Cleveland and Edgar A. of Mantua, Ohio.
Dr. Knowlton served as president of the Portage County Medical Society in 1955.
Ralph G. Mayhew
Ralph G. Mayhew was born in Bristol Township, Trumbull County, July 31, 1878. He was the son of Benjamin H. and Abbie (Downs) Mayhew. The father was a native of Bristol while the mother was born in Troy, Vermont.
He attended local grade and high schools, then went to New Lyme Institute in Ash- tabula County for one year. In 1899 he went to Painesville where he worked in the Downs & Vesey grocery store for three years.
On March 10, 1900, he was married to Miss Elvarene Sutliff, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Sutliff of Bristol. Two children were born to them- Dearil, deceased; and Dorothea M., now Mrs. W. R. Pierce. Beginning in 1902 he worked for three years for John Gage. In 1905 he was employed by the Painesville Elevator Com- pany, becoming a stockholder and remaining there until 1909.
In that year he came to Mantua and organized the Man- tua Grain & Supply Co., also buying the business of O. J. Baumgardner. This firm deals in farm feeds of all kinds, farm machinery, coal, etc., their motto being "Everything for the farm." In 1935 the firm opened a branch in Welshfield, Geauga county, and in May, 1942, one in Aurora.
Mr. Mayhew is a member of the Masonic order-Blue Lodge in Mantua, Chapter in Garrettsville, Council and Com- mandery in Warren and Shrine in Cleveland. He became a director of the First National Bank of Mantua in September, 1917; was elected vice president in January, 1918, and presi- dent of the bank Jan. 9, 1945. He has also been a member of the Mantua Board of Public Affairs for several years.
Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew are members of the Hilltop Christian Church at Mantua.
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Earl V. Mizer
Earl V. Mizer, son of Henry and Margaret Mizer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, May 4, 1898.
He came to Mantua at the age of six where he was edu- cated in the schools at Mantua Center and Mantua Village, graduating from Mantua High School in 1917.
He started his banking career in 1916 with The First National Bank of Mantua, and has continued with that in- stitution to the present, now being a Director, Vice President and Cashier.
He was married to Viola May in 1922. They have two daughters, Lucille Mizer and Eileen Stimpert, and three grandsons.
He is a member of the Hilltop Christian Church, Mantua Rotary Club, Masonic Orders, has been Assistant Chief of the Mantua Fire Dept. for 40 years, and Treasurer of several Portage County organizations. He has been a realtor for many years.
Dr. and Mrs. Ray T. Odell
Odell, Ray Thomas, one of the few remaining horse and buggy doctors in Portage Co., son of Frank Horace and Lillie E. (King) Odell; born in Freedom Twp., May 20, 1886; schools attended: Freedom District 8 and Garrettsville; father died 1888, necessitating his role of a man's responsibility in home. At fifteen years, circumstances required family to move to Cleveland, O .; at sixteen years, obtained clerking position in first A & P store there. Soon thereafter, attended College Preparatory Night School for 24 months; 1907 entered Med- ical Dept. of O.W.U., graduating 1911. Began general practice of medicine in Mantua, O., Jan. 1, 1912. Those years were difficult- House calls-$1.00, Office calls- fifty cents-all medicine furnish- ed; people uneducated to seek medical advice except in emer- gencies; no modern drugs to com- bat disease; later acquired large and successful practice; 1918-1919 "flu" epidemic - carried patients numbering thousands with mor- tality loss of seven only. By re- maining at home for due birth- Dr. and Mrs. Ray T. Odell date of one Mantua boy, rather than accompanying another patient to Cleveland Clinic, May 15, 1929 as planned, he would have perished with 125 others in that explosion disaster.
In 1935, received training in Eye Dept. at University Hospitals at Cleveland, O .; 1937- appointed member of faculty of School of Medicine of W.R.U. and Ass't. Ophthalmologist in O.P.D. of University Hospitals, remaining there until retirement age of 65 yrs .; for past thirteen years has been the Ophthalmologist for Sunny Acres-Cuyahoga Co. Tuberculosis
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Hospital; member of American Medical Association, Ohio State Medical Association, and Portage Co. Medical Society; member Mantua School Board, 1913; Past Chancellor K. of P. Lodge of Mantua; member Hilltop Christian Church; former and charter member Rotary club of Mantua with ten years of perfect attendance; appointed by Commissioner of Pensions at Washington, D.C. an examining surgeon for U. S. Bureau of Pensions at Ravenna, O., 1922, first for Civil War veterans, later for World War I Veterans; has one son, Ray Thomas Odell, Jr. by previous marriage; married Doris Lucretia Wilmot-born Nov. 30, 1900-daughter of Clara (Cobb) and Pliny Gay Wilmot, both of Mantua pioneer ancestry, June 14, 1920; graduate of Mantua School; Dyke Business College; attended K.S.N.C. summer of 1918; member Hilltop Christian Church and Mantua Garden Club; one daughter, Phyllis Elaine Andrews by this union.
Mrs. Odell acquired rheumatic fever at age 14 years, resulting in a defective mitral valve of her heart, with gradual closing, and in 1951, she was given but a few months to live. Then, no operation was known to relieve such conditions at this age. One final hope was given and a trip made to Philadelphia to Dr. Charles P. Bailey, the first surgeon to perfect operation to open the mitral valve, also the first to accomplish it successfully on older people. Thus, Mrs. Odell became first person in Portage Co. to have had successful surgery done within the heart. Today she leads a nearly normal life and the operation is now a common one.
Fred N. Parker
Fred Nelson Parker was born Dec. 31, 1892, in Shalersville township. He was the son of Nelson Daniel and Gertrude (Alley) Parker, both of Shalersville.
He attended District School No. 4 in Shalersville and the high school at Shalersville Center. He then worked for his father, who operated a large farm and saw-mill in Shalersville.
In 1910, when he was 18, father and son moved to Mantua and bought the Hine & Cook Lumber Co. which they then operated under the name of N. D. Parker & Sons until the death of N. D. Parker in 1932. After this it became the Mantua Lumber Co., which is still in business under that name.
In November, 1916, Mr. Parker married Miss Edith Richardson of Mantua. To them was born a daughter- Evelyn Margaret, now Mrs. Robert Eversold of Chagrin Falls. Mrs. Parker died in September, 1919. On Jan. 3, 1926, Mr. Parker married Beulah B. Graham of Mantua. Two daughters were born to them. These are Gloria, now Mrs. William H. Howard of Mantua; and June Ellen, now Mrs. Carl Mesaros of Mantua.
Mr. Parker retired from active business March 17, 1956. He is a member of the Masonic order at Mantua.
Walter S. Prendergast
Walter S. Prendergast was born in Devon, Montana, April 14, 1917. He was the son of Walter J. and Muriel (Burrell) Prendergast. He received his early schooling in Montana and Minnesota and graduated with a B.S. in chemistry from St. John's University, College- ville, Minn., in 1937.
During his college years and until 1939 he worked as a chemist in the food industry and in the teaching field.
Moving to Chicago in 1939 he furthered his education by attending business college
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and then advanced chemistry at Armour Institute of Technol- ogy, doing chemical research and consulting work in inks, plastics and rubber. In 1940 he started commercial work in synthetic rubber, fibers and plastics, doing special work on varous plastic projects for Army and Naval plastic parts.
In 1945 the family moved to Ohio where Mr. Prender- gast was employed by Carter Products Co. He is vice presi- dent of that company, now known as Carlon Products.
One of the earliest in the field of extruded plastics, he is widely known for his work in this field-particularly in the development and commercial application of plastic piping.
Mr. Prendergast married Juanita Grosz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Grosz of Brock, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1941. They have four children-Francis, Deirdre, Brian and Cecily.
A Roman Catholic, Mr. Prendergast is a member of St. Joseph's Church of Mantua; Mantua Council, Knights of Columbus; and Moses Cleveland Fourth Degree Assembly K.C. He is a member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Society of Plastic Engineers and Society of Plastic Industry.
John Howard Wheeler
John Howard Wheeler was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, August 23, 1911. He was the son of Roy M. and Ethel (Crafts) Wheeler.
When still a small child he came with his parents to Mantua where his father went into business. He attended Mantua schools, graduating from high school in 1929. He then attended Hiram College for three years, followed by studies at the Cleveland College of Embalming from which he graduated in 1933. He then entered business with his father in undertaking and insurance, which business continues at the present time.
On Sept. 12, 1935, Mr. Wheeler was married to Miss Marjorie M. Piwonka, daughter of Henry and Mae Piwonka of Aurora. Two children were born to them-John William and Marcia Mae, both of Mantua.
Mr. Wheeler now conducts his insurance and undertaking business and is also a partner of L. F. Converse in the Wheeler-Converse Land Co. He is also a director of the Tom Moore Tractor Co.
He is a member of Mantua Lodge No. 533, F.&A.M .; Garrettsville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Warren Council, Commandery; and Al Koran Temple, A.A.O.N. M.S. of Cleveland. He is also a member of National and Ohio Funeral Directors Associations and the Portage County Association. He holds memberships in the Mantua Grange and the Ravenna Boat Club.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler are members of the Hilltop Christian Church.
Roy M. Wheeler
Roy M. Wheeler was born in Bedford township, Cuyahoga county, Oct. 14, 1871. He was the son of William and Eliza (Dunham) Wheeler.
His education was received from the local schools and he graduated from Bedford High School. He then attended Hiram College and graduated in the class of 1895. For a time after that he operated a farm in Aurora with his brother, John.
In 1900 Mr. Wheeler was married to Miss Ethel M. Crafts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crafts of Mantua. To them were born three children. These were William, now de-
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ceased; Charlotte, now deceased; and John Howard, now continuing his fathers insurance and undertaking business.
From 1900 until 1912 Mr. Wheeler was agent for the Prudential Life Insurance Co., both in Cleveland and in Grand Rapids, Mich. In the latter year he returned to Portage County and with his brother, John, P. C. Coyle and Frank C. Moore cleared the tamarack swamp in North Mantua township, dredged it and drained it. This was planted to onions and celery. Yields of onions as high as 1,000 bushels per acre were obtained. This section today is a valuable vegetable garden.
From 1916 to 1924 he was postmaster at Mantua. In 1924 he bought the furniture, insurance and undertaking business of M. T. Kelly, which is now being continued by his son, John Howard. At one time he was mayor of Mantua and at other times member of council, board of public affairs and Mantua board of education. He also served on the Portage County Fair board and the County Hospital board. He was a member of Mantua Lodge, F.&A.M., No. 533; Royal Arch Masons; Warren Council, Commandery and belonged to the Hilltop Christian church.
He died Sept. 10, 1941.
Robert W. Zoller
Robert William Zoller was born at Bucyrus, Ohio, June 20, 1917. He was the son of William H. and Matilda Emma Zoller. He attended local schools and was graduated from high schools there in 1935.
Mr. Zoller then attended the College of Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, for two years, then attended Ohio State for two years, graduating in 1940. Soon after that he was employed by Carl Ungeright at Marion, Ohio, remaining there one year.
In July, 1941, he joined the U. S. navy, serving as ensign, and was assigned for training at Notre Dame and Northwestern Universities for a period of six months. He then went into active duty on the Destroyer U.S.S. Nields, (DD616) as boss gunnery officer and later at- tained the rank of lieutenant. He received his discharge in December, 1945.
On October 31, 1942, he was married to Miss Mary Alice Perrott, daughter of Ralph O. and Blanch Ann Perrott, of Bucyrus. Four children were born to them. They are Ralph William, Robert William, Barbara Ann and Bonnie Sue. In December, 1945, he worked in Hoard's Drug Store and in July, 1947, became a partner, selling out in 1950. In April, 1951, he was employed by the Triangle Pharmacy at Ravenna, remaining three years. In July, 1955, he moved to Mantua and established the Mantua Pharmacy, which business he is now conducting.
He is a member of the Fraternal Order of Police, B.P.O.E., Ohio State and National Pharmacist Associations. Mrs. Zoller is active in church circles and both are members of St. Joseph's Parish church of Mantua.
NELSON
Bancroft Family
John M. Bancroft, wife and four sons came to Nelson Township in 1803. A son, John R. and wife, Hannah King, settled one half mile east of Nelson Center on land now owned by Bruce Holcomb. This farm was in Bancroft family nearly one hundred fifty years. The last descendent owner was Amelia Hutchison, granddaughter of John R. Children of John R., Barnos and Ursula.
Barnos, wife Anna Chalker, lived on farm north of Nelson Ledges. Children, Mina,
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Henry, Edna, Lysander, Allen, Stella.
Henry, wife Emily Grosvenor. Children, six, including George and Edna.
George, wife Mabel Nicholson. Children, five.
Edna, husband Barton Hull. Children six, including Stuart and Stanley, owners of Hull Resurfacing Company, Butler, Penna. Also Emily, Roger.
Lysander, wife Celia Eldred. Children, two. Newton, wife Lola Carr, children, four. Clarence, wife Effie Sebastion. Children, four.
Stella, husband Oren Conant, children, two. Jessie, husband George Udall. Children, Alma, Howard. Undine, husband Ben Phillips. Children, six.
Ursula, husband Stephen Lewis. Children, William, Emily, Addison, Cyrus, George, Seth, Frank, Amelia.
William, wife Martha Chalker. Children, Ezra, Florence, Blanche, Martha.
Addison, wife Mary Winton. Children, Emma, Clyde, Mabel, Birdine, Seth, Beaulah. Grandchildren, two. One living, Evelyn, daughter of Birdine and Roy Bestor.
Cyrus, wife Eliza Johnson. Children, John, Eugene, Rose, a missionary in China many years, and twins Alta, Archie. Grandchildren three; Lawrence, son of John and Maude Haughton, owner of Lewis Woodworking Shop, Windham, Ohio, and Archie Jr., Fred, sons of Eugene, wife Mary Lukens.
Amelia, husband Frank Hutchison. Children, Ruby, Corroll.
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