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No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 1980 02:38:52 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19800113023852.0094ff00@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: GEORGE EDWARD LAUBY - SUMMIT COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 185 with photo GEORGE EDWARD LAUBY, doctor of chiropractic and founder and president of the Akron College of Chiropractic, has been more or less continuously identified with educational work since early manhood. He is a native of Summit County, and his residence is at his native town of Greensburg, where he was born on a farm September 9, 1882. His father, Levi Lauby, also a native of Summit County, combined his trade of stonemason with farming. He died in 1917, at the age of sixty-five. His wife was Alice York, and she is now Mrs. L.M. Kauffman, of Clinton, Ohio. George Edward Lauby was reared on a farm, attended country schools, made farming his principal work until 1907, and he still keeps in touch with that vocation, specializing in the breeding of fine poultry. As a teacher he taught in the schools of Stark, Portage and Summit counties, at Suffield, Mogadore, Uniontown, Greentown, Greensburg and North Canton, most of the time being supervisor of music in these schools. He was graduated in 1916 from the Palmer School of Chiropractic at Davenport, Iowa, and then for several years engaged in a successful practice at Akron. In 1922 he established and became president of the Akron college of Chiropractic. Doctor Lauby in 1920 was elected on the republican ticket as a member of the Ohio State Legislature and has the distinction of being the first chiropractor to sit in that body. He is affiliated with Akron Lodge of Masons; Washington Chapter, No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; Yusef Khan Grotto, and is also a past grand of Hadassah Lodge, No. 450, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Greentown. Doctor Lauby's first wife was Miss Rosa Carmany, who died leaving two sons, Ralph and Paul. Subsequently he married Myrtle Kauffman. Doctor and Mrs. Lauby have three daughters, Ruth, Grace and Fae. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 1980 02:39:03 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19800113023903.009522a0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: CHARLES FREDERICK SCHNEE - SUMMIT COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 209-210 with photo CHARLES FREDERICK SCHNEE is an Akron attorney specializing in corporation, income tax and other commercial branches of the law, eschewing altogether the criminal cases and jury trials of the general lawyer. His has been an altogether successful career in the law. His father and grandfather both lived in Summit County, Ohio, but Charles Frederick was born while his parents occupied a farm near Kalamazoo, Michigan, on June 18, 1887. His grandfather was a tanner in Pennsylvania, and, coming to Ohio in 1864, established a home at Millheim, near Akron, where he followed farming until his death in 1872. Charles M. Schnee was born in Pennsylvania, in 1856, and was about eight years old when his parents moved to Ohio. In 1882, however, he left a farm in Springfield Township of Summit county to move to Michigan. He farmed near Kalamazoo until 1900, since which year his home has been in Akron, where he is now employed in the shipping department of the Akron Banking company. He is a democrat, and an active member of the Trinity Lutheran Church. His wife, Sylvia Long, was born in 1858, and died in 1918. Third in a family of four children, Charles F. Schnee was about thirteen when his parents established their home in Akron. His early schooling was acquired in Michigan, and was continued in the Akron High School and in Buchtel College, now Akron University, where he showed skill in baseball and was a member of the Delta Sigma Epsilon fraternity. Illness terminated his college course in 1907, and his law studies were pursued in the offices of Grant, Seiber and Mather. He was admitted to practice in the State of Ohio in December, 1910, and to the United States Supreme Court in 1916. In 1912 he became a partner of Charles R. Grant in the firm of Grant & Schnee, dissolved when the senior member was elected judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth District on February 9, 1913. His associate for two years following was Ford L. Carpenter and from 1915 to January 1, 1922, he was head of the firm of Schnee, Grimm and Thomas. For two years he has continued an individual practice. He is at this time (1924) president of the Akron Law Library Association. He has been entrusted with the legal details in the organization and administration of a number of corporations, including the Guaranty Mortgage Company, of which he is secretary and chairman of the executive committee; Federal Oil & Gas Company, of which he is secretary and general counsel; acting also in a similar capacity for the five subsidiaries of the Federal Oil; Long Lake Estates Improvement Company, president; Akron Equipment Company, secretary; Dime Savings Bank, attorney and stockholder; Pennsylvania Crude Oil Company of Pittsburgh, general counsel; and is secretary of the Pine Ridge Oil Company, producers in the Kentucky field. Mr. Schnee is a member of the bar organizations, and during the World war was Government appeal agent for Summit County and chairman of District No. 1 of the Akron Legal Advisory Board. He is a republican, member of the City club, plays an enthusiastic game of golf at the Portage Country Club, and is also a member of Fairlawn Gun Club, being an expert with Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and has held chairs in various Masonic bodies. Mr. Schnee married, at Akron in November, 1911, Miss Ellen Mitchell, a native of Cincinnati, but reared in Akron, where her father, John J. Mitchell, was for many years a cafe proprietor. Mrs. Schnee is active in all the societies of St. Vincent's Catholic Church. The four children born to Mr. and Mrs. Schnee were John Charles, who died at the age of six years, Frederick, William Joseph and Louise. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 1980 03:43:12 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19800113023916.0095b770@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: SUMMIT COUNTY PART 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D. SUMMIT COUNTY PART 2 HARROWING UNCERTAINTY. -Having taken an affecting farewell of his friends and acquaintances, whom he had left behind, Mr. Hudson set out from Goshen in January, with this family and others. They tarried at Bloomfield, Ontario county, New York, until spring, making preparations for their voyage through the lakes and up the Cuyahoga. They purchased four boats, from one to two tons burden and repaired thoroughly the wreck of Harmon's boat. Lightly loading them with supplies to the value of about two thousand dollars, they completed every necessary preparation by the 29th of April. "The next night," said Mr. Hudson, "while my dear wife, and six children, with all my men, lay soundly sleeping around me, I could not close my eyes, for the reflection that those men and women, with almost all that I held dear in life, were not to embark in an expedition in which so many chances appeared against me; and should we survive the dangers in crossing the boisterous lakes, and the distressing sickness usually attendant on new settlements, it was highly probable that we must fall before the tomahawk and scalping-knife. As I knew at that time no considerable settlement had been made but what was established in blood, and as I was about to place all those who lay around me on the extreme frontier, and as they would look to me for safety and protection, I almost sunk under the immense weight of responsibility resting on me. Perhaps my feelings on this occasion were a little similar to those of the patriarch, when expecting to meet his hostile brother. But after presenting my case before Israel's God, and committing all to his care, I cheerfully launched out the next morning upon the great deep." The crews of their boats consisted of Samuel Bishop and his four sons David, Reuben, Luman and Joseph, Joel Gaylord, Heman Oviatt, Moses Thompson, Allen Gaylord, Stephen Perkins, Joseph and George Darrow, William M''Kinley, and three men from Vermont by the names of Derrick, Williams and Shefford. The women in the company were the wives of Messrs. Hudson, Bishop and Nobles, with Miss Ruth Gaylord and Miss Ruth Bishop. The six children of Mr. Hudson completed the number. They had little trouble until they reached the mouth of the Cuyahoga. The wind on that day being rather high. Mr. Hudson, in attempting to enter the river with his boat, missed the channel and struck on a sandbar. In this very perilous situation the boat shipped several barrels of water, and himself and all his family must have been drowned had not a mountain wave struck the boat with such violence as to float it over the bar. When up the river, within about two miles of their landing-place, they stopped for the night a little north of Northfield, at a locality now known as The Pinery. WAITING FOR THE FALL OF THE WATERS. -A tremendous rain in the night so raised the river by daybreak that it overflowed the bank whereon they slept, and even their beds were on the point of floating. Everything was completely drenched, and they were compelled to wait five days ere the subsiding waters would allow them to force their boats against the current. On the sixth day, May 28th, they reached their landing-place, from whence Mr. Hudson, leaving his wife and children, hurried to see the people whom he had left overwinter, and whom he found well. About the time they completed their landing, Elijah Noble arrived with the cattle and Mr. Hudson's horse, which had been driven from Ontario by nearly the same route that the cattle were the preceding year. Being busy in arranging for them, Mr. Hudson did not take his horse to the river to bring up his family for several days. When he arrived, he found his wife, who had cheerfully submitted to all the inconveniences hitherto experienced, very much discouraged. She and the children suffered severely from the armies of gnats and mosquitoes which at this season of the year infest the woods. After all the persons belonging to the settlement had collected, thanksgiving was rendered to the God of mercy, who had protected them in perils, preserved their lives and brought them safely to their place of destination. Public worship on the Sabbath was resumed, it having been discontinued during the absence of Mr. Hudson. "I felt," said he, "in some measure the responsibility resting on first settlers, and their obligations to commence in that fear of God which is the beginning of wisdom, and to establish those moral and religious habits on which the temporal and eternal happiness of a people essentially depends." Mr. David Hudson died March 17, 1836, aged 75 years, leaving a memory revered, and an example of usefulness well worthy of imitation. HUDSON IN 1846. -Hudson is twenty-four miles from Cleveland and thirteen northeast of Akron, on the stage road from Cleveland to Pittsburg. It contains two Congregational, one Episcopal and one Methodist church, four stores, one newspaper printing-office, two female seminaries, and about 600 inhabitants. The village is handsomely situated and neatly built, and the tone of society elevated, which arises in a a great measure from its being the seat of the Western Reserve College. The college buildings are of brick and situated upon a beautiful and spacious green, in an order similar to the edifices of Yale, on which institution this is also modelled, and of which several of its professors are graduates. The annexed view was taken near the observatory, a small structure shown on the extreme right. The other buildings are, commencing with that nearest -south college, middle college, chapel, divinity hall, president's house, athenaeum, and a residence of one of the professors, near the roadside, nearly in front of the athenaeum. The Medical College at Cleveland is connected with this institution. By the catalogue of 1846-7, the whole number of professors and instructors in the college was 19; the whole number of students 320, viz. 14 in the theological department; 216 in the medical department; 71 undergraduates and 19 preparatory. -Old Edition. The college, while at Hudson, did a great work in the cause of education; its professors were largely graduates of Yale, some of whom attained national reputation, but it always was financially a struggling institution, and the salaries of its officers pitifully meagre. In consequence of an offer of half a million of dollars from Amasa Stone, the college was removed to Cleveland in 1882, and its classical department then named ADELBERT COLLEGE, in memory of Mr. Stone's "lost and lamented son." The old college buildings are now occupied by the WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY, which is for the education of both sexes. It was established in 1882 under the charter of the old college, which now comprises "Adelbert College" and "College for Women," at Cleveland. It is maintained by and is under the direction of the trustees of Adelbert College, and has an annual income of $3,000. The academy is under the charge of Prof. Newton B. Hobart. The site is beautiful, comprising about thirty acres of land. It began with a higher standard than that of any other preparatory school in the State and its reputation is of the highest. In the eight years of its existence it has had about 400 students from fifteen different States, of whom 111 have graduated and 79 entered varied colleges, as Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Amherst, Adelbert, Cleveland College for Women, Ann Arbor, etc. HUDSON is twelve miles north of Akron and twenty-six southeast of Cleveland, on the junction of the C. & P. and C.A. & C. Railroads. City Officers, 1888; H.B. Foster, Mayor; E.E. Rogers, Clerk; S. Miller, Treasurer; L.E. Reed, Marshal. Newspaper; Express, Independent, D.B. Sherwood & Son, editors and publishers. Churches: 1 Congregational, 1 Catholic, 1 Episcopal, 1 Methodist. School census, 1888, 63. C.F. Seese, superintendent of schools. The celebration of the ninetieth birthday anniversary of Mrs. Anna M. Hudson Baldwin was held in the Congregational Church at Hudson, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1890. From the programme of the commemoration exercises we derive these items. Her father, David Hudson, the founder of the town, was a direct descendant of Hendrick Hudson, who discovered the Hudson river in 1609. Hendrick named his youngest son David, and he was the sixth David in that line. He was born at Branford, Connecticut, July 17, 1760. His daughter, Anna, was the first white child born in Summit county. This event took place in a hut of a single room, which stood at what is now the junction of Baldwin with Main street. FIRST THINGS, wheeled, arrived in March, 1802; log school-house, 1802; first burial in old cemetery, mother of John Brown, 1808; Congregational Church formed September 4, 1802, David Bacon, pastor, 1804 to 1807; first tannery opened by Owen Brown, father of John, 1805; college opened, 1826; removed to Cleveland 1882, and Western Reserve Academy organized; town celebrations, June 18, 1850 and 1856, and October 28, 1890. At this celebration the president was Geo. L. Starr; the historical address by S.A. Lane, of Akron, the county historian; and another, "First ninety years of the century," by Hon. J.C. Lee, Toledo. -continued in part 3 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 1980 02:38:56 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19800113023856.00941100@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: EDWARD M. MILLIGAN - SUMMIT COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 205 EDWARD M. MILLIGAN, the city engineer of Niles, Trumbull County, has had varied and important experience in the work of his profession as a civil engineer, and has held in this connection many positions of exceptional trust and responsibility. Edward Marshall Milligan was born at Hudson, Summit County, Ohio, December 6, 1866, and is a son of Levi and Sarah (Busler) Milligan, the former of whom was born at Rutland, Vermont, in 1846, and the latter of whom was born in Pennsylvania, their marriage having been solemnized at Bedford, Ohio. The death of the father occurred in 1913, in the City of Cleveland, where the widowed mother still maintains her home. Levi Milligan passed the period of his boyhood and youth in the State of New York and in Canada, and he early learned the trade of tanner. After his marriage he continued his residence for a time at Bedford, Ohio, and he finally removed with his family to Kirksville, Missouri, in 1870. There he owned and operated a tannery, and within a comparatively short time he sold the plant and business and removed to the City of Chicago, where he erected and equipped a tannery. This establishment was destroyed in the historic Chicago fire of 1871, before it had been placed in operation, and as Mr. Milligan had no insurance on the plant he was financially ruined. He returned to Ohio and here reengaged in the work of his trade. In 1876 he established his permanent residence in Cleveland, and there he passed the remainder of his life. His sterling integrity in all of the relations of life commended him to the confidence and esteem of his fellow men. Of the children Edward M., of this sketch, is the eldest; Bertha A. is the wife of Warren Brainard, of Cleveland; Alice L. is the wife of George Nuss, and they likewise reside in Cleveland; Harry W. served in the United States Army in the World war period and was still in the service at the time of his death, in 1919; Mae died in childhood, and Warren is employed in the City of Cleveland. The public schools of Cleveland afforded Edward M. Milligan his early education, but at the age of fourteen years he left school and found employment in a printing establishment. He was thus engaged in a printing establishment. He was thus engaged about one year, and then entered upon an apprenticeship in an electrotype and stereotype foundry in Cleveland. he became a skilled workman and gained the grade of journeyman electrotyper and stereotyper when he was eighteen years of age. He did not follow his trade long thereafter, but became associated with civil-engineering work, in the capacity of rodman and general helper. While thus gaining practical experience he fortified himself technically by careful study of civil engineering, and in due course he became a competent surveyor and engineer. In 1890 he was assigned charge of wharf and dry-dock construction work in Cleveland, and after having been thus engaged two years he was associated with engineering service in connection with railroad work and city improvements in Cleveland until 1919. He then became assistant division engineer of the Erie Railroad, with headquarters at Youngstown, Ohio. In 1902 he became city engineer of Warren, judicial center of Trumbull County, where he thus continued his service until 1909, returning then to Youngstown and assuming charge of the good-roads district of Mahoning County. In 1910 he had supervision of both survey and construction work in the building of the Milton reservoir to supply water to the City of Youngstown, and with this important branch of municipal service he there continued his association until 1918. During that year he was in charge of grade-crossing construction in Youngstown, and in 1919 he was chosen principal assistant engineer of that important industrial city. He retained this position until 1921, since which year he has continued his efficient service as city engineer of Niles, where he has had charge of much important improvement work in the intervening period. Mr. Milligan is a loyal advocate and supporter of the principles of the republican party, and at Youngstown he still retains his affiliation with Robert E. Johnson Lodge No. 614, Knights of Pythias. he owns his home property at Niles, on Russell Avenue. In the City of Cleveland, in November, 1891, Mr. Milligan wedded Miss Alice M. Krause, daughter of the late Frank L. and Alice V. (Burlingame) Krause, both of whom died in that city, Mr. Krause having been a civil engineer by vocation. Mr. and Mrs. Milligan have no children. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 1980 02:39:00 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19800113023900.00959100@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: ARTHUR S. MOTTINGER - SUMMIT COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 217-218 with photo ARTHUR S. MOTTINGER has for over twenty years been one of the able attorneys comprising the Akron bar. His law firm has handled an important share of the litigation in local courts, and he has achieved his success in the strict limits of his profession rather than in politics. Mr. Mottinger was born in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, May 14, 1873, son of Daniel J. and Elizabeth J. (Schumacher) Mottinger, and grandson of John J. and Barbara (Long) Mottinger. His grandfather, son of a soldier in the War of 1812, was born in 1799, and established his home in Summit County in 1830. Daniel J. Mottinger was born in 1841, served as a Union soldier in the One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the latter part of the Civil war, and devoted the greater part of his active career to farming. He died at Akron in 1901. The mother was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1845. Arthur S. Mottinger grew up on his father's farm, attending country schools, and in 1892 graduated from the Uniontown High school. He was a teacher for two years, then entered Hiram College, where he took his Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1899. He also had one year in law at Hiram, and for a time attended the Hamilton College of Law in Chicago, from which institution he later received the degree of Master of Laws. He was admitted to the bar by the Ohio Supreme Court in January, 1901, and subsequently admitted to practice in the Federal Court. Mr. Mottinger has practiced individually and also with several of the prominent lawyers of Summit County. His longest association was with the late Judge J.A. Kohler. They were together until a short time before the death of Judge Kohler in 1916. Mr. Mottinger is now senior member of the law firm Mottinger & Evans, with offices in the Ohio Building. He is a member of the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations. Mr. Mottinger was president of the Akron Young Men's Christian Association from 1909 to 1912. He became a trustee of Hiram College in 1914, and is on the official board of the High Street Church of Christ, and has been active in a number of civic and patriotic movements in his home city. On August 9, 1906, Mr. Mottinger married Miss Cassie M. Lawyer, of Burton, Ohio, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John J. Lawyer. They have two children, Claude W. and Marcia Elizabeth. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 07:53:18 -0400 From: "Linda D" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000101bf14a8$623895c0$f946443f@Linda> Subject: Pioneer Marriages in allen County 1850 continued Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Taken from Lima Democratic News Jul 1850 By R.M. Badeau, William VANCE to Grizelda STEWART By W.K. Brice, Jacob HARPER to Martha PORTER By William Moorman JP, Zachariah CHAMBERLAIN to Mary MILLER By S.W.Washburn, Anthony KING to Ann DELPER By George Ward JP, Alpheus ELMORE to Jemima FOSTER Aug 1850 By Daniel Boyer JP, Jacob BOWERS to Priscilla LEISER By R.M. Badeau, Daniel PHILLIPS to Margaret SKILLING By same, William TOMPKINS to Mary GROVE By J.B.Roberts JP, Elisha COPELAND to Elizabeth BRANSTITTER By William Moorman JP, Samuel SUNDERLAND to Amanda HARTER By William Chaffee, Thomas MORRISON to Mary CHANEY By Anson Hadsell JP, Jonas LEHMAN to Susannah WHITE By same, George WOLLETT to Sarah DURST By David Jones, Richard DAVIS to Elizabeth DAVIS By (Blank), Smith HARBERT to Mary HOCKINGBERRY Sep 1850 By D.P.Darling JP, John KEMP to Mary ANDREWS By same, Conrad CUPPS to Rachel IMLER By Michael Martz, Baley RISON to Mary PLUMMER By Rev. A. Doner, Daniel CONRAD to Mary STEVENS By S.W.Washburn, Jacob SELLERS to Emily McDONEL By George Ward JP, Ephriam DAVIS to Hannah SHARP By Archelaus Martin JP, Abraham MILLER to Deborah MAXWELL By Samuel Rockhill JP, Henry KILLEN to Lavina FISHER By Charles Marshall JP, John HEATON to Mary A. HARPER By Andrew Craig JP, Isaac STALEY to Martha GILGERT By Joseph Griffiths JP, Benjamin GRIFFITHS to Julia UNPSBAUGHER Submitted by Linda Dietz Oct 12,1999 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #719 *******************************************