ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO - BRAINARD, Hon. Harry K. (published 1925)

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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 256, 257

        HON. HARRY K. BRAINARD is giving characteristically effective
service as judge of the Police Court in the City of Ashtabula.
        Judge Brainard was born at Trumbull, Ashtabula County, on the 12th
of August, 1876, and in that same community his father, Albert H. Brainard
was born in the year 1842, his death having occurred at Rock Creek, this
county, March 15, 1917. The name of the Brainard family has been worthily
linked with civic and industrial affairs of Ashtabula County since the
pioneer days, and has here been constructively represented by three
successive generations. Albert H. Brainard was reared and educated in
Trumbull Township, this county, and he became one of the substantial
business men of his native county, where he operated a cheese factory for a
number of years, besides having been a successful saw-mill operator. He
removed to Rock Creek, in 1889 and later he removed to Ashtabula, where for
many years he was engaged in the grocery business. On his retirement from
active business he removed to Rock Creek, and there passed the remainder of
his life. He was a republican of unqualified loyalty, and he served a
number of years as clerk of Trumbull Township. He was affiliated with the
Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republic, he having enlisted
in defense of the Union in 1861, within a short time after the inception of
the Civil war, and having served during virtually the entire period of
conflict, the history of his Ohio regiment constituting the record of his
gallant military career. His wife, whose maiden name was Araminda Searles,
was born in Madison, Lake County, Ohio, in 1847, and she survived her
husband only a few months, her death having occurred December 15, 1917. Of
the children the eldest is the wife of Charles S. Wiles, a locomotive
engineer, and they reside at Sharon, Pennsylvania; Clyde died at the age of
four and Paul, at the age of two years; Harry K., of this sketch, was the
next in order of birth; and M. Gladys is the wife of G. Owen Hollenbaugh,
superintendent of the McKinney Steel Works at Lakewood, Ohio.
        The public schools of Rock Creek, and Ashtabula Harbor gave Judge
Harry K. Brainard his early education, and he was graduated from the
Ashtabula Harbor High School as a member of the class of 1893. For seven
years thereafter he was a member of the reportorial staff of the Ashtabula
Beacon, then one of the leading newspaper at Ashtabula. He then became
assistant postmaster in that city, and of this position he continued the
incumbent until 1909, in September of which year he entered upon his
administration as county recorder, an office in which he served two terms,
of two years each.
        In 1913 Judge Brainard turned his attention to the buying and
selling of real estate, and with this important line of enterprise he has
since continued his association. In March, 1921, he was appointed police
judge at Ashtabula, to fill out the unexpired term of Judge Don V. Parker,
and in the autumn of the same year he was regularly elected to this office,
his term in which will expire December 31, 1925. His executive offices are
in the city hall, and his business offices are established in Ashtabula
National Bank Building. The Judge is secretary and treasurer of the
Northwestern Finance Company at Ashtabula and also of the Water Front
Properties Company.
        The political adherency of Judge Brainard is with the republican
party, and he and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian Church
in their home city. He is past exalted ruler of Ashtabula Lodge No. 208,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; is past chancellor of Unity Lodge
No. 133, Knights of Pythias; and is affiliated also with Ashtabula Lodge
No. 547, Loyal Order of Moose.
        In June, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Brainard and
Miss Ethel Cline, daughter of Capt. Sidney A. and Jennie (Alexander) Cline,
whose home is at 42 Walnut Street in the City of Ashtabula. Captain Cline
formerly served as captain of vessels on the Great lakes, and is now in the
employ of the Ashtabula Dock Company. Mrs. Brainard, like her husband, was
graduated from the high school at Ashtabula Harbor. Dorothy, elder of the
two children of Judge and Mrs. Brainard, was graduated from the Ashtabula
High School as a member of the class of 1922. She remains at the parental
home and is a popular figure in the social activities of Ashtabula. Sidney
A., the younger of the two children, is, in 1923, a student in the Junior
High School at Ashtabula.


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