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[Mary K Ward ] #5 Fw: Obit, Jayne, 1920, Lake Co. [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:54:04, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume 4, page 69 WHITNEY LEE SAVAGE is president of the Charleston Lumber Company, wholesalers and manufacturers, and this is the line of business which he took up as a young man and has followed consistently and successfully for nearly forty years. Mr. Savage was born on a farm in Jackson County, Ohio, November 29, 1867, son of William A. and Thankful Elizabeth (Detty) Savage. Both parents were natives of Ohio. His grandfather, David Savage, born at Augusta, Maine, January 16, 1808, descended from a branch of the Savage family that came from the vicinity of Belfast, Ireland. David Savage was an early settler in Southern Ohio, and died in that state January 11, 1863. The maternal grandfather, Joseph Detty, also lived in Ohio. William A. Savage has spent his active life in the lumber, oil and iron business, and is now living retired in Charleston at the age of eighty-six. His wife is deceased. There were seven children and five are now living; Mrs. Rosa Snell, of Texas; Whitney Lee; S.C.; Mrs. Maude Brown, of Shreveport, Louisiana; and Talma, wife of Doctor Terry of Shreveport, Louisiana. Whitney Lee Savage was brought to Charleston when a child and attended public schools there. His knowledge of the lumber business comprises everything from lumber mills to wholesale office, and it was in 1907 that he acquired an interest in the Charleston Lumber Company. In 1914 he and his brother took over the entire company. Mr. Savage becoming president, while his brother, S.C. Savage, is vice president and treasurer, and Mr. Savage's son, Fred C., is secretary. They do a general lumber business, both wholesalers and manufacturers, the chief output of their mills being oak flooring, which is sold at wholesale in the Cleveland market. Mr. Savage married Louie J. Slack, a native of Charleston, daughter of John W. Slack, who was a well known steamboat captain on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers. Mr. and Mr. Savage had five children: Fred Cameron, who was educated in Charleston and in West Virginia University, has been associated with his father's lumber business since early manhood, and by his marriage to Helen Wright he has two children, Helen and Fred C., Jr.; Elizabeth Ritter is the widow of Cornelius Estell and has one daughter, Anna Louise Estell; Joseph Whitney, a graduate of West Virginia University, connected with the Charleston Gazette, married Jeanette Kelley; William Lee, Jr., the fourth child, is on the payroll of the Charleston Lumber Company; David Jackson, the youngest, is still in school. The family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Savage is a steward in the church. he is a York and Scottish rite mason and Shriner, being a past master of the lodge, and has held chairs in th e Royal Arch Chapter and Commandery. He is a member of the Kanawha Country Club, and a Democrat in politics. WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume 4, page 71 FRED PAUL GROSSCUP. For many years the name Grosscup has figured prominently in West Virginia and especially in the development of natural gas, oil and real estate in the southern counties and also in connection with the ownership and operation of public utilities in Charleston and vicinity. Fred Paul Grosscup, son of the late Benjamin and Susan Bowermeister Grosscup, was born on a farm in Ashland County, Ohio, in 1854, and passed away in Chicago after a protracted illness in 1925. In 1882 Colonel Grosscup married Bertha Maria Coffey, of Wooster, Ohio, to which union was born one son, Paul Benjamin Grosscup. During his younger days he represented various farm implement manufacturers, but in 1884 he moved to Abilene, Texas, where he built one of the first waterworks installed in that state. In 1890 Colonel Grosscup came to Charleston, and with other Charleston associates organized the Buckeye Cart Company, which did a flourishing business until the panic of 1893. In 1899 Colonel Grosscup organized the Big Sandy Oil & Gas Company, which afterwards became the United States Gas Company, eventually the United Fuel Gas Company. In this venture Colonel Grosscup opened up the southern Roane County gas fields, which are now the nucleus of the United Fuel Gas Company and Columbia Gas & Electric Company, and laid the first pipe line to the City of Charleston from the Roane County field. After selling the United States Gas Company he organized the Charleston-Dunbar Natural Gas Company, having extensive acreage and supplying the towns of Dunbar and Saint Albans with natural gas. Colonel Grosscup and his associates at one time owned and operated what is now known as the Charleston Interurban Railroad and the Charleston-Dunbar Traction Company. They also owned and operated the West Virginia Water & Electric Company, which is now part of the Appalachian Electric System. Colonel Grosscup was fundamentally a developer, as his real estate ventures attest. He was one of the first to build houses for his employes in connection with his manufacturing enterprises. In 1908 he started to build the Town of Dunbar, now having a population of 3,500 people. He also owned and developed, with his associates, a large portion of the residential and business part of Charleston proper. He was active in the politics of that state, and in 1896 was Kanawha County chairman when the state first went Republican. After that he was member and speaker of the House in the state legislative body. It was largely through his efforts while speaker that adequate appropriations were made to finance the geological department of the state. In 1920 he ran for nomination for governor, and was defeated by a narrow margin in the primary. Colonel Grosscup was a member of the State Commission at the St. Louis Exposition and San Francisco Exposition, and also represented the Government in the disbursement of its million dollar loan to the Jamestown Exposition. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:53:09, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: GRAHAM - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO by Charles Galbreath The American Historical Society, Inc. 1925 - Volume 5, page 410 JOHNS S. GRAHAM has been a figure in Licking County, in the Granville community, for many years, grew up there, had been a farmer and stockman, banker, member of the Legislature and is the present mayor of Granville. He was born in Center County, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1864, son of John S. and Hannah (Hayes) Graham, both natives of Center County, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1864, son of John S. and Hannah (Hayes) Graham both natives of Center County, Pennsylvania, while the grandparents Graham came from Scotland. The parents of Hannah Hayes were born in Pennsylvania. John S. Graham, of Granville, was a baby when his parents came to Ohio and settled on a farm in Licking County. He attended public schools there, and as a young man engaged in farming and stock raising, and still has large interests in those lands. From the farm his activity extended to commercial affairs in town, and in 1903 he was one of the founders of the Granville Bank, becoming one of its first directors and for the past twelve years has been its president. Mr. Graham is now serving his second term as mayor of Granville. For about a year he has given considerable time to his duties as manager of the Granville Co-operative Company, doing a general warehouse business, buying and selling farm supplies and builders supplies. Mr. Graham was elected and represented Licking County in the Eighty-first and Eighy-third General Assemblies of Ohio. He was a member of the Board of Education of McKane Township ten years, was for six years one of the county commissioners, and during the World war, having a son at the front, he was spurred to unremitting efforts in behalf of the success of all patriotic causes and campaigns, being a member of the Licking County War Work Committee. He is a member of Grange, is a republican, is president of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Church, and was elected a delegate to the World's Conference of Methodists. Mr. Graham has also some financial interests in oil and gas wells. He married at Springfield, Ohio, October 4, 1888, Miss Minnie K. Deardorff, daughter of General John and Elizabeth (Pettigrew) Deardorff, of Springfield. Her father was a solider of distinction in the Union Army during the Civil War. Mrs. Graham is a member of the Daughters of Veterans, has been very active in literary and musical clubs and church affairs at Granville, and is president of the Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Graham have two sons, Paul B. and Hayes D. Graham. The son Paul was educated in Denison University and in Ohio Wesleyan University, and is now established in a successful contracting business at Grand Rapids, Michigan. He married Myrtle Lovell, of Newark, Ohio. Hayes D. Graham attended Denison University and Ohio Wesleyan University, and married Oleta Spellman, member of one of the early and prominent families of Licking County. Hayes D. Graham is now engaged in farming on a place adjoining Granville. Hayes D. Graham in May, 1917, enlisted for service in the World war, being trained at Camp Perry, then at Mineola and went to France in October, 1917, with a regiment of infantry commanded by Colonel Hough in the Forty-second or Rainbow Division. In the spring of 1918 he was commissioned a second lieutenant, was put with the Twenty-ninth Division, and while on the field of battle was made first lieutenant. He served as liaison officer of his regiment, and was on active duty in several sectors, being once slightly gassed. In the great battle of the Argonne he was on duty thirty-five days without once taking off his clothes, and in the last fight of that engagement he was with an outfit of 228 men who went into action and only sixty-eight of whom came out alive. He is an active member of the American Legion. History of Ohio - Volume 2 page 45 Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851 Selection and Character of Delegates The following paragraph mentions John Graham. Writers have bestowed high praise on the body of men chosen to frame our second constitution. perhaps at this late day it would be vain and unpatriotic to question this judgment, and something on the character and personality of the delegates of all our conventions is reserved for future presentation. It is safe to say, however, that the electors of the different districts did not, without exception, send to this convention their men best equipped for framing the constitution. In the county of Franklin, including then as it does at present, the capital city of the state, Samuel Medary, the chief advocate of the convention, a man of experience in public affairs, and especially well informed on all questions likely to arise before that body, was defeated by his whig opponent, John Graham, a local surveyor and former sheriff, who evidently knew little about the constitution and was not stimulated to interest in it by contact with his fellow delegates. He never addressed the convention on any subject. As we learn from the ample "Debates and Proceedings," he seems to have risen to his feet before that body but four times; once to send to the clerk's desk a proposition from a Columbus citizen to rent a hall to the convention, once to offer a petition signed by a few women of Franklin county, opposing the legalization of the liquor traffic, and twice to offer resolutions evidently prepared by others. His opinions on questions up for consideration are found only in the aye and nay votes recorded in the proceedings. Medary, outside of the convention, had more to do than Graham in the convention in shaping the constitution Hon. Henry Stanberry, of Columbus, who represented a district made up of Delaware County and a portion of Franklin, however, gave the capital city fitting eminence in the convention. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:45:32 -0500 From: Mary K Ward Subject: Obit, Dann, 1963, Lake Co. FANNIE DANN"S OBITUARY in the Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph Friday, Feb 8, 1963 Mrs. Frances Cole: A former resident of Painesville, Mrs. Frances DAnn Cole, 75, died Thursday at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Elmer La Moreaux of Eustis, Fla. Mrs. Cole had been ill for some time. Mrs. Cole was born in London, England June 24, 1887 and moved from Painesville to Florida 10 years ago. She was a housemother at Denison University in Granville, Ohio and her hobby was painting. She was a member of the Eustis Presbyterian Church and a former member of the First Baptist Church here. (in Painesville, Oh) Surviving besides her sister in Eustis are three step-sons, D. Barrett Cole of Painesville; Victor of Miami, Fla.; and Kenneth of California; sisters, Miss Eva DANN of Eustis and Mrs. Martha Wilson of Clear Lake, S.D.; and a brother George DANN of Lakewood (Ohio). Her husband, W.B. Cole; a brother, Frank DANN and her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Frank DANN preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Johnson Funeral Home. Dr. Edward O. Clark of the First Baptist Church will officiate. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:56:55 -0500 From: Mary K Ward Subject: Obit, Woodard, 1899, Geauga Co. Geauga Republican Newspaper: 15 Nov 1899: Bainbridge (Township) "Silas Woodard, aged 52 , who was employed by Lafayette Clark of Newbury, was killed on the Chagrin and Eastern track, near Mr. Blair's place, in Russel township, last Saturday evening. Woodard was sitting on one of the ties when discovered, but Motorman Andy Parker was unable to stop the car until it had passed over the body ad dragged it a distance of 30 feet. The body was horribly mangled, the head and one arm being a crushed mass. Mr. Clark came to Chagrin Falls the next morning and identified the dead man. Acting Coroner Charles Post, of Geauga County, held an inquest at Chagrin Falls, Sunday and after examining, eight witnesses gave the verdict that Woodard's death was purely accidental. It is supposed that he had been drinking. He was unmarried." Geauga Republican Newspaper: 22 Nov. 1899 Bainbridge (township) ......"I saw in your last issue that the inquest over the body of Silas Woodard, who was killed on the track of the Chagrin & Eastern, was held at Chagrin Falls, where C. R. Post would have no jurisdiction- as Coroner of Geauga Couny. The facts are that he required Dick Palmer to run a car with witnesses up to the scene of the accident in Russell township, and held the inquest there." ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:43:49 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: Fw: Obit, Jayne, 1920, Lake Co. ------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 25-Jan-99 23:05 From: Mary K Ward mksroots@juno.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Painesville (OHIO) Telegraph, Aug 2, 1920: Impressive Funeral Services for Mrs. Addie Jayne: Funeral services for Mrs. Addie E. Jayne were held at the home of her son, W. B. Cole, Mentor Avenue, July 29th, Rev. M. W. Foshay of the First Baptist Church officiating. "Crossing the Bar" and "Face to Face" were beautifully rendered by Miss Fannie Dann. Beautiful floral offerings were silent tributes of love for the deceased and expressions of sympathy for surviving relatives and friends. The casket bearers were W. Alfred Cole, Barrett Cole, Kenneth Cole, Justin JAYNE, Donald JAYNE and Theodore Curtis, grandsons of Mrs. Jayne. Those from out of town who attended the funeral were Mr and Mrs. C S. Crook of Youngstown, Mrs. Ida Marsh and Mrs. Emma Berry of Geneva; Mrs. Chas. Kroterfield of Conneaut and Mrs. Zella Judd of Huntsburg, Ohio. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #46 ******************************************