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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 853 Today's Topics: #1 CYRUS HULING - SENECA COUNTY [Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991223235922.00957340@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: CYRUS HULING - SENECA COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 203-204 CYRUS HULING. In the early years that he was practicing law at Columbus, Cyrus Huling earned distinction as a famous prosecuting attorney and showed a skill in conducting complicated causes that brought him all the practice he could attend to. In his later years, however, he has busied himself with enterprises of a business rather than a professional nature. He represents one of the oldest families in America. The Huling ancestry goes back to the French Huguenots, who as a result of the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572 were scattered abroad to different countries. The Hulings found refuge in England, and from there about 1650 James Huling came to America, locating at Newport, Rhode Island, where he died in 1686. A later descendant and a direct ancestor of Cyrus Huling was Walton Huling who located in Dutchess County, New York, in 1750. He and his brother John were signers of the whig pledge adopted ten days after the battle of Lexington. This pledge originated in New York, and the Huling Brothers were among the first signers. This bound the signers "under ties of religion, honor and love to country to adopt and to endeavor to carry into execution whatsoever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress or resolved upon by our Provisional Convention for the purpose of preserving our Constitution and of opposing the several arbitrary acts of the British Parliament." Walton Huling was a soldier of the Revolution with the Fifth Regiment of Dutchess County. He died in 1823. His son, Alexander, became a soldier in the War of 1812, and was a founder of the family in Ohio in 1820. He died near North Prairie, this state, in 1828. Nathan Huling, son of Alexander, was born in 1803, and married Eliza Wickoff. The youngest of their eight children was Cyrus Huling, who was born on a farm in Seneca County, Ohio, August 10, 1851. A few days after his birth his mother died, and he was only four years old when his father passed away. Until he was seventeen he lived with his guardian, Peter Brayton. Going out to Illinois he expected to follow the career of farming, but was strongly attracted to the law. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware with the class of 1878. In the meantime he had taught school several winters, being principal of the Marysville, Ohio School two years. In recognition of his scholarship at Ohio Wesleyan University he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity when it was established there. Mr. Huling was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1879. He formed a partnership with John R. Bowdle, a classmate. In 1885 he was elected prosecuting attorney on the republican ticket in a county that was democratic by 3,000. The election that year involving the choice of a United States senator from Ohio was hotly contested in the campaign and at the polls, and it was found that ballots were tampered with at the election, some three hundred being cast out. There followed a large amount of litigation and general scandal and much bitterness. Mr. Huling handled much of this investigation and trial work as prosecuting attorney. One tally sheet case with a jury trial which he conducted in December of 1887 occupied over three months in trial. Associated with him on that case were such distinguished public men and lawyers as Allen G. Thurman, then Untied states senator, Judge George K. Nash, Col. J.T. Holmes, and the well known Chicago lawyer, Luther Laflin Mills. Another extended and bitterly fought case was that of the Elliotts on account of the murder of Osborne, a case in which editors of rival Sunday papers figured. Mr. Huling was elected prosecuting attorney in 1888. The fearlessness and ability with which he had discharged his duties during his first term again enabled him to overcome a democratic majority of about 2,500. Mr. Huling in 1892 formed a partnership with Col. J.T. Holmes,and three years later succeeded Mr. Holmes in his position in the firm. This firm was the first to occupy the Wyandotte Building on West Broad Street in Columbus. During the next fifteen years Mr. Huling was constantly engaged in a large and important practice until other matters gradually absorbed his energies. Hei s a director of the Columbus McKinnon Chair Company, is president of the Broadway Company, owner of the Seneca Hotel, is president of the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Telephone Company and a director in several other important companies. He has served as chairman of the State Central Republcian Committee, and has been a delegate to a number of the national conventions. He is affiliated with Magnolia Lodge of Masons, Mount Vernon Knight Templar Commandery, Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Alladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and Elks, and is a member of the Columbus Club, the Scioto Country Club. He also belongs to the Ohio State Historical and Archaeological Society. In 1875 he married miss Rose Marguerite Hack. She is also a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University. Three children were born to their marriage, Mary Wyckoff, wife of William B. Woodbury; Helen, Mrs. Dr. Arthur W. Newell, and Frank C. Mr. Huling, while not a communicant has been actively associated with the work of the First Baptist Church and has served on a number of its committees. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:04:44 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991222224920.00956500@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: ELLSWORTH GREGG STALEY-SENECA CO. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 6 ELLSWORTH GREGG STALEY has earned a favorable reputation at the Ohio bar during more than fifteen years of practice, first at Tiffin, his old home town, and in recent years at Akron, where he became a member of the law firm of Staley & Trunko with offices in the Peoples Bank Building. Mr. Staley was born on a farm near Tiffin, in Seneca County, August 3, 1883. His father, Clayton J. Staley, a native of Frederick, Maryland, came to Ohio, when a young man, devoted his active life to farming,and finally came to Tiffin, where he died in 1915. His wife was Alice Loose, who was born in Pennsylvania, and died in 1918. Oldest of three children, Ellsworth Gregg Staley was educated in the Tiffin High School and in Ohio Northern University., He was prominent in athletics, and played on the football team that gave Ohio Northern its most enviable reputation for that branch of sport. He received his law degree in 1907, was admitted to the bar, and began practice at Tiffin in the same year. He handled the general routine of law business and for one term served as city solicitor. In 1922, on removing to Akron, he was associated for one year with the firm, Burch, Bacon & Denlinger, and since then has been head of the firm, Staley & Trunko, handling a general practice. Mr. Staley has been active in democratic politics. During the World war he participated in all the patriotic programs at Tiffin, being one of the four-minute speakers. His fraternal affiliations include the Eagles and Elks. He married at Tiffin in July, 1907, Miss Rose O'Brien, a native of Cincinnati, but reared in Tiffin. Her parents were James and Alice O'Brien. Her father for many years was foreman in the moulding department of the National Machinery Company but is now living retired at Cincinnati. Mrs. Staley was active in the Catholic Church and the various social and club organizations of Tiffin. They have three children: Alice, Jane and Phyllis. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 01:27:00 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991223010410.00954cd0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: SCOTT J. MATTHEWS - SENECA/OTTAWA COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 383. SCOTT J. MATTHEWS is founder and president of the Matthews Company at Port Clinton, Ottawa County, manufacturers of motor boats and cruising yachts and operating one of the largest plants of the kind. This company also builds various types of pleasure boats, gas engines, electric lighting plants and other mechanical equipment for marine service. Scott J. Matthews was born at Bascom, Seneca County, Ohio, March 8, 1869, son of Henry W. and Linney C. Matthews. His parents still live at Bastom, his father, at eighty-two and his mother at eighty. His father is a retired lumberman,and for many years operated saw mills in Lauderdale County, Tennessee, and elsewhere, and had planing mills and lumber yards at Bascom.He and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church. Scott J. Matthews was the only child of his parents and in his early manhood was actively associated with his father in the lumber business. In 1892, while he was manager of his father's lumber and timber business, which included a plant for the manufacture of cabinets, Mr. Matthews constructed his first boat, one for his own pleasure and use, a launch propelled by a two-horse power motor, internal combustion engine. Several years later he was commissioned by the superintendent of the Lozier Manufacturing Company at Toledo, Ohio, to construct a twenty-six foot cabin boat. After considerable difficulty a motor was secured and installed in the boat, but Mr. Matthews and the owner spent nearly an entire day before they could get the motor in action. Out of this came an alliance between the great Lozier industry and Mr. Matthews, the latter turning out the boats at his plant in Bascom, while the Loziers built the motors. In 1906 Mr.Matthews moved his plant to Port Clinton, and the Matthews Company now has an establishment with about 50,000 square feet of floor space, covering eight acres, and with 1,200 feet of dockage. The company is capitalized at $820,000, Mr. Matthews being its president. Mr.Matthews also invented and designed the high class type of the farm lighting plants, and manufactured some of them before the World war. The company still sells marine lighting plants. During the World war the Matthews plant was greatly enlarged, and handled a number of government contracts, including contracts for twenty submarine chasers for the navy, about one hundred sea plane hulls and pontoons, and also built some submarine chasers for the French Government, all the contracts being filled with honor. After the war the Matthews plant was shut down for three years, but in 1922 it was reopened and has since been busy with yacht construction. The company has built some of the finest cruising yachts in existence, including one for a Cleveland man that is ninety-five feet long and designed for ocean travel. While at Bascom Mr. Matthews built a seventy-foot motor yacht called Onward, and made a notable cruise of a year, beginning at Peoria, on the Illinois River, and down the Mississippi and across the Gulf and up the Atlantic coast to New York. that was in 1905-06. The boat is still in commission on the Atlantic coast. Mr. Matthews married Martha J. Miller, of Bascom. They have two sons and two daughters. The oLdest son, Carl F. Matthews, was a naval designer with the navy department at Washington during the World war, and is now chief engineer and designer for the Matthews Company. He is the inventor of a tire rope for automobiles. The second son, Allen W. Matthews, is assistant engineer at the plant. the two daughters are Catherine and Helen. The family are members of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Matthews is a member of the Kiwanis Club, Colonial Club and many yacht and hunting clubs. He is a republican, and his sons are members of the Masonic Order. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:16:41 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991223210556.0094c4a0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: J. PYATT - SENECA COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 1882 History of La Grange County Indiana F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 J. PYATT owns 200 acres of well-improved land in Section 33, of this township. He is native of Ohio, born in Seneca County, March 5, 1829, and first came to this county with his parents, Moses and Elizabeth (Parker) Pyatt, who were of French and Irish descent, in the fall of 1839, where they remained three years; then went to Kendall County, Ill., resided three years and returned. The mother died May 9, 1866; her husband the 24th of the following June. Both were members of the Disciples' Church. The subject began working in the saw-mill at Milford at the age of twenty-one, receiving from $13 to $20 per month, and by the strictest economy he purchased a farm of eighty acres at $5 per acre, built a good frame house, and in the fall of 1855 was free from debt. January 1, 1856, he married Julia Swogger, daughter of Isaac and Susannah Swogger, natives of Ohio, of German descent. They have three children -Ada, who married Eugene Nichols December 26, 1875; Amanda and Charles W. For a period of about twenty years, he was never more than twenty-five miles away from home; but October 30, 1876, he saw his neighbor, Mr. Acton, starting out, en route for the Centennial, and, without further ceremony, Mr. Pyatt concluded to accompany him, and did so, returning in time to vote for Tilden and Hendricks. Mr Pyatt's property is estimated at about $24,000. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 22:15:42 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991223215040.00956410@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: WILLIAM SLICK - SENECA COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware and Randolph Counties, Ind. A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894. WILLIAM SLICK, deceased farmer of Greensfork township, Randolph county, Ind., was born in Seneca county, Ohio, in July, 1829; he is the son of David and Eleanor (Messler) Slick, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Maryland. The parents were married in Pennsylvania, and there had born to them three children, viz: Joseph; Margaret and Jacob; thence they moved to Seneca county, Ohio, rented a farm, and there William was born; in 1847, they came to Greensfork township, Randolph county, Ind., purchased eighty acres of land and here were born four children, viz.: Mary; John; Rebecca and Mahlon. Here the father died in 1858, and the mother in 1885. William Slick was reared on the home farm, and remained at home until twenty-four years of age, when he was married October 16, 1854, to Armecy Elliott, who was born in Wayne county, Ind., May 10, 1835; she is the daughter of Miles and Frances (Newburn) Elliott, who were native of North Carolina, the former born in March, 1795, and the latter in May, 1803. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott came to Indiana in 1828, and located at White Water, in Wayne county, resided there one year, and then came to Greensfork township, Randolph county, and bought eighty acres of land, which, after a short time, they sold, and bought 120 acres, and later on moved to Lynn. They were the parents of eight childlen, viz: Mary, wife of Lorenzo Anderson; Rachel, wife of Alfred Price; Richard, deceased; William E., a farmer; Armecy (Mrs. Slick); Sarah, wife of Joseph Stuttler; Anna, wife of Luther Cox, and Josiah Elliott, merchant. The mother of this family died August 4, 1867, and the father April 7, 1879. The latter had been in life a dry goods merchant, and later a farmer, and he and wife were members of the Baptist church. To William Slick and wife were born eight children, six of whom are living, viz: George W., born October 22, 1856; Perry, November 22, 1860; Anna J., March 29, 1863; William H., March 20, 1866; Mary F., September 4, 1867; and Amanda E., September 6, 1870. Miles, the eldest born, died when two years old, and James R., the youngest, died in infancy. George W. married Sarah Coning; Perry, married May Thornburg; Anna J. became Mrs. William A. Coning; William H. married Laura Baily; Mary F. was married to Daniel Egan, who died May 14, 1892, and Amanda E. to Everett Hunt. William Slick after marriage settled on a farm of sixty acres, but, by economy and careful husbandry, soon began to add to his estate, accumulating acres after acres until, at the time of his death, which occurred March 23, 1893, he possessed fully 523 acres, all in good condition. He was a great admirer of horses, and had the reputation of keeping the finest in the country. He was noted for his kindness to the poor, and Fortune seemed to smile on him, for every two or three years he was able to add another eighty acre tract to his already large estate. A few years ago Mrs. Slick inherited quite a large amount from her father, and this, too, was invested in land. At the death of Mr. Slick the greater part of the large farm was divided proportionately among the children, with an abundance left the widow. Mr. Slick was always active in maintaining the pikes in his neighborhood in good condition, the main one, east of his place, having cost him over $2,000. He never aspired to public office, and never held one higher than that of supervisor. He was however, very popular as a member of the Christian church, while Mrs. Slick is equally well respected as a member of the Untied Brethren church. He never sued nor was sued, believing it to be better to give than to take. The family are honored for their integrity and upright lives, and for their openhanded charity. A precious one from us has gone; A voice we loved is stilled; A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled. God, in his wisdom, has recalled The boon his love had given, And, though the body slumbers here, The soul is safe in Heaven. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #853 *******************************************