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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 733 Today's Topics: #1 Pioneer Marriages in Allen County ["Linda D" ] #2 EDWARD SHOEMAKER UNDERWOOD-SUMMIT [Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000201bf1895$c6965d40$6547443f@Linda> Subject: Pioneer Marriages in Allen County 1851 end Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Taken from Lima Democratic News Oct 1851 By Samuel Rockhill JP, Caleb SPRAGUE to Elizabeth PARKER By S.W.Washburn, Jacob BOYD to Louvenia CRAIG By Daniel Richardson, Jesse WHETSTONE to Elizabeth MOORMAN By Joseph Griffiths Jr JP, Absalom SEITZ to Rachel BUSSERT By George Ward JP, John FURNEY to Elizabeth LEHMAN By Daniel Boyer JP, Emanuel DULL to Malinda CROSSLEY By same, William DOTY to Jane WYGANT By George Daniel JP, George KERNS to Charlotte CURTIS By R.M.Badeau, Samuel McCLURE to Elizabeth JENKINS By Rev. A. Doner, Levi STEEPLETON to Eliza DENNER By same, David DITTO to Mary STEMAN By D.P.Darling JP, Henry IMLER to Mary FORBES By J.O.Bredeick, Lorenz DEUBLER to Maria WURSTNER By Andrew Craig JP, Henry ENOS to Nancy WATT Nov 1851 By A. Harmount, Franklin DUNAN to Mary ANTHONY By Thomas Emerson, John VAIL to Rachel STEWART By D.Bemiss, James DELZELL to Harriet CHANEY By same, John ROUSH to Sarah HANSON By Rev. John Fitzgerald, Louis SAWYER to Annie WEBB By Philip Herring JP, William CREMEAN to Malvina SMITH By D.P.Darling JP, Abraham REEDER to Mary ROBBINS By Rev. A. Doner, Jacob KNITTLE to Matilda DILSAVER By T.H,King JP, Isaac STAGER to Elizabeth EVICK By John CUTLER, William SCOTT to Elizabeth MILLHOUSE By M.Leatherman JP, Jacob SNIDER to Lydia GARWOOD By same, Samuel LYMAN to Lucinda SIEBOLD By Thomas Griffith, Joseph GRIFFITHS to Mary MORRIS By Andrew Craig JP, Michael MURRAY to Elizabeth GUTHRIE Dec 1851 By George Ward JP, John VAN ATTA to Mary REED By same, Jonathan DILSAVER to Malinda SHOPE By R.M. Badeau, Cyrus MOWEN to Elnora BASEHORE By William Morrman JP, John WORKMAN to Clarinda PLACE By Freeman Bell JP, Reuben COLLAR to Ursula JENNINGS By Philip Herring JP, William LEECH to Lance POVENMOYER By Isaac Schooler JP, Augustus CURTIS to Sarah VORHIS By Daniel Boyer JP, John KIME to Lydia LONG By Michael Martz, Isaac THARP to Mary EVERITT By Rev. John Fay, David SHAMBARGER to Elizabeth CAIN By S.W.Washburn, Henry KERSEY to Eliza TUNIS Submitted by Linda Dietz Oct 17,1999 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:37:05 -0400 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991015111243.009605b0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: EDWARD SHOEMAKER UNDERWOOD-SUMMIT CO. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 336 EDWARD SHOEMAKER UNDERWOOD, M.D. Almost continuously for more than half a century the name Underwood has stood for some of the most esteemed personal and technical qualities in the medical profession at Akron. The late Dr. Warren J. Underwood practiced in that city for over twenty years, and shortly after his death his son, Edward S. returned from medical college and has maintained the prestige of an honored name. The Underwood family is of old Pennsylvania Quaker ancestry. Warren J. Underwood, a son of Joseph and Hannah (Wells) Underwood, was born at Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1840, began reading medicine in 1860, and in 1862 was appointed assistant surgeon in the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, and after the regiment disbanded he did hospital duty as assistant surgeon at Chambersburg, at Camp Curtin and finally with the One Hundred and Fifty-first Pennsylvania Infantry. In 1864 he graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and, coming to Ohio, practiced for the time at Canal Fulton, but in 1867 located at Akron, where he had a busy general practice until his death on June 9, 1890. In 1873 he was appointed United States pension examining surgeon for Summit County, and in 1889 was unanimously elected president of the Board of Examining Surgeons, and was a member of the Summit County Medical Society, Union Medical Association of Northeastern Ohio, the Ohio State and American Medical associations. He married on December 8, 1864, Harriet Shoemaker, daughter of John J. Shoemaker, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She died December 9, 1873. Edward Shoemaker Underwood was born at Akron, December 8, 1868, and was about five years of age when his mother died. He was carefully educated, at first in the public schools, then in Buchtel College at Akron and in Ohio Wesleyan University. He received the Doctor of Medicine degree from Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in 1891, and since that year has given his time and talent to a general practice, involving work as a surgeon as well as a physician. He is a member of the medical staff of the Akron City Hospital, was for four years city health officer and for fifteen years surgeon to the city Fire Department, and in 1924 was elected president of the Summit County Medical Society. During the World war he was medical examiner for the local draft board. He also belongs to the Northeastern Medical Society, the Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Underwood has affiliations with the Akron City club, the Portage Country club, Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons, Akron Lodge No. 131, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a republican, and is a director of the Society Savings and Loan Company. He married Miss Sarah Grace Kile. her father, Salem Kile, has for over thirty years been prominent in the industrial affairs of Akron, serving for a number of years as president of the Kile Manufacturing Company. Mrs. Underwood takes an active part in the Woodland Methodist Episcopal Church and the Akron Woman's Club. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:50:28 -0400 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991015113502.0094a350@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: WILLIAM AARON SACKETT - SUMMIT CO. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed HIstory of Ohio The American Historical Society Inc., !925 Volume III, page 336 WILLIAM AARON SACKETT, M.D. This is one of the honored names in the medical fraternity of Akron, where Dr. Sackett has labored earnestly for a period of over thirty years. He has been a lifelong resident of Summit county, and his family has been American for generations. He was born on a farm at Copley, near Akron, March 27, 1866. The Sackett family is of Norman French stock. John Sackett founded the family in the colony of Connecticut in 1632. Doctor Sackett's father, William Chester Sackett, and grandfather, Aaron Sackett, were both natives of Warren, Connecticut. Aaron Sackett brought his family to Ohio and settled in Summit County in 1837, spending the rest of his life as a farmer in Talmadge Township. William Chester Sackett was a farmer, dairyman and to some extent a manufacturer, and died in 1902, at the age of seventy-five. His wife, Harriet H. Galbraith, who died in 1906, in her sixty-ninth year, was born at Mogadore, Ohio. Her father, Henry H. Galbraith, a native of Belfast, came to Canada as a boy with his father, a Scotch general in the British army. At the age of twenty he came to the States, and passed away in Ohio in 1893, at the age of 77 years. William Aaron Sackett had the advantages of the public schools at Akron during his youth, and is a man of very liberal education and culture, the result of a lifetime of study, thought and observation. he took the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at Oberlin College, and in 1893 graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Since that year he has been engaged in a general medical practice at Akron, being a member of the Summit County, Ohio State, and American Medical associations. Doctor Sackett is a lover of flowers and garden, and his hobby is Masonry, in which order he has enjoyed some of the highest honors. He is past master of Akron Lodge No. 83, Free and Accepted Masons; past high priest of Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons, past thrice illustrious master of Akron Council No. 80, royal and Select Masters; and instituted and was the first eminent commander of Bethany Commandery, Knights Templar. He is active in lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and at Cleveland in September, 1922, was awarded the supreme honorary thirty-third degree in the Northern Jurisdiction. On September 30, 1915, Doctor Sackett married Mrs. Della A. Shaffer Stotler, of Akron. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 21:51:31 -0400 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991016212743.009607f0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: W. EDWIN PALMER - SUMMIT COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 336-337 W. EDWIN PALMER. As secretary and assistant treasurer of the Seiberling Rubber Company, W. Edwin Palmer is close to the seat of power and responsibility in the "Rubber City" of Akron, and has rounded a full quarter of a century of experience in the rubber industry. His hobby has been Masonic ritual and administration, and the various bodies in Ohio have conferred upon him some of the highest honors of the craft. William Edwin Palmer was born at Hudson, Ohio, August 31, 1874, son of James and Malissa (Wireman) Palmer. His father, a native of Connecticut, was a railroad man of long and competent experience. He located in Summit County, Ohio, in 1860, and was in the service of the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus until he retired in 1876. He died at Hudson in November, 1896. His wife was a native of Wooster, Ohio, and died in February, 1923. In his home town of Hudson, W. Edwin Palmer attended high school and the Western Reserve Academy, and soon afterward began his business training in Akron. After several years with the Enterprise Manufacturing Company he became bookkeeper, in January, 1889, for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. His service became increasingly valuable to the company during the critical years of its development, and in 1915 the duties of assistant secretary were added, and a short time afterward he was made treasurer, and about 1919 was also made secretary of the company. In 1921 he took his present responsibilities as secretary and assistant treasurer of the Seiberling Rubber Company. He is also a director of the Ohio State Bank & Trust Company and the First Trust & Savings Bank. Some of his Masonic affiliations and honors are represented as follows: Past master of Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons; past high priest Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; member Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; past commander Akron Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar; Ysef Khan Grotto No. 41; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite; a charter member and treasurer of Tadmor Temple of the Mystic Shrine; and Cleveland Court No. 14, Royal Order of Jesters, at Cleveland; St. Benedict's Conclave, Masonic Order Red Cross of Constantine. At Boston, September 17, 1918, he was crowned an honorary member (thirty-third degree) in Scottish Rite Masonary. He has been grand warden, grand standard bearer, grand sword bearer, grand junior warden, grand senior warden, and in 1924 was grand captain general Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Ohio, and has represented the Minnesota Grand Commandery and the Ohio Grand Commandery. He is president of the Akron Shrine Club, vice president of the Akron Masonic Temple Company, secretary of the Scottish Rite Society of Summit County, and for several years has been a trustee of the Ohio Masonic Home of Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Palmer is a member of the Akron City Club, Portage Country Club and the First Congregational Church of Hudson, Ohio. he married Miss Mary Gertrude Ramp, daughter of John Ramp, of Cuyahoga Falls. Their two children are Elmer J. and J. Kathryn, the daughter a graduate of Penn Hall and now attending Akron University. Elmer, during the World war, enlisted as a radio operator in the navy, was commissioned ensign, being in the service eighteen months, and was executive officer on sub-chasers out of Norfolk. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1919), where he was a Sigma Nu, and is with the Aetna Life Insurance Company as field representative, group division, and, like his father, is a Royal Arch, Knights Templar and a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He married Ruth Maginnis of Akron. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 22:20:33 -0400 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991016215329.00960800@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: CHARLES WILLARD SEIBERLING - SUMMIT CO. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 337 CHARLES WILLARD SEIBERLING. This name has been identified with the industrial activities for which the Seiberling family have been famous at Akron for a period of forty years. His father, the late John F. Seiberling, began manufacturing farm machinery about the time Lincoln was elected and the Civil war started, and Charles W. Seiberling became foreman in his father's factory in 1880. Concerning his father, one of the notable figures in Ohio industry, more is said on other pages of this publication. Charles Willard Seiberling was born at the old home of the family in Summit County, January 6, 1861. Four years later his parents established a home in Akron, where he grew up, attending the public schools, and for two years was a student in Oberlin College. Following this came his experience as foreman in his father's factory, and in 1884 he was made one of the directors of the J.F. Seiberling company. For several years he acted as superintendent of this company, and in 1896 joined his father in the organization of the India Rubber Company, which he served as secretary two years. For over a quarter of a century he has been one of the prominent figures in the development of Akron as "the Rubber City." In 1898 he became secretary of the newly organized Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, of which he was made treasurer in October, 1906, and vice president in February, 1909. In 1922 he resigned as vice president and manager of purchases for the Goodyear Company, to become vice president and manager of purchases for the Seiberling Rubber Company. His great business ability and his eminent spirit of helpfulness to all worthy causes have brought him numerous honors and responsibilities in his home city. He is a director of the Akron National City Bank, the Citizens Building and Loan Company, the Macendonia Northfield Banking Company; was president in 1917, and is a member of the Akron University Club; was president in 1918 of the Akron Chamber of Commerce; is a member of the Portage Country Club, Rotary Club, City Club, Fairlawn Golf Club, Mayfield Country Club of Cleveland, Untied States Chamber of Commerce, Ohio Society of New York, and is a director of the Barberton Chamber of Commerce. Probably his chief hobby is improvement of the public health service. He is trustee and treasurer of the Springfield Sanatorium, is a trustee of Akron City Hospital, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron Young Women's Christian Association, Better Akron Federation, Barberton Citizens Hospital, the boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of Akron. His home is "Old Acres," Northfield. Mr. Seiberling married, November 18, 1895, Miss Blanche C. Carnahan, daughter of the late Theophilus Carnahan, who was a merchant at Findlay, Ohio. Mrs. Seiberling in 1908 organized at Akron the Woman's Home School League, and has been the guiding spirit in making that a force for education in many states, with a total membership now of more than eight thousand. Mr. and Mrs. Seiberling have four children: Charles Willard Jr., Theophilus Karnaghan, Lucius Miles and Catherine M. Theophilus is now connected with the sales department of the Seiberling Company. Charles W. Jr., is in the rubber brokerage business at Akron, member of White, Seiberling & Company. During the World war he was sergeant in the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, one of the two American regiments sent to the Italian war front. He married Miss Cecil Valarge, of London, England. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 22:38:26 -0400 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991016222132.009599a0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: CHARLES PHILLIP KENNEDY - SUMMIT CO. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 338 CHARLES PHILLIP KENNEDY. A law firm that stands among the first in professional esteem and quality of clientele at Akron in Anderson, Ormsby & Kennedy. Each member of the firm has been known for many years of valued services in the legal profession and public life, Mr. Kennedy, the junior partner, being a former prosecuting attorney of Summit County. His grandfather, David Kennedy, settled in Summit County in 1837, having come from Ireland. Charles P. Kennedy was born in Boston Township of Summit County, July 18, 1883, and his father, James B. Kennedy, was born in the same locality in 1848, spending his life as a farmer, until his death in March, 1913. James B. Kennedy married Mary Carter, who was born in Boston Township in 1847, her father likewise being a native of Ireland. She is still living. While a boy on the farm Charles P. Kennedy attended country schools, graduating in 1900 from the Peninsula High School. After two years of clerking in business offices at Cleveland he began the study of law at Akron, being admitted in 1906 as a law student from the offices of Rogers, Rowley, Bradley & Rockwell. A half dozen years of earnest labor brought him some of the coveted early rewards of the successful attorney, and on January 1, 1913, he became assistant prosecuting attorney. The death of the chief in that office, Howard Castle, in January, 1915, caused Mr. Kennedy to be advanced to the vacancy, and he rendered a term of very satisfactory service as prosecutor, until January, 1917. On resuming private practice he became associated with F.R. Ormsby in the firm of Kennedy & Ormsby, but subsequently Judge G.M. Anderson joined them in the firm of Anderson, Ormsby & Kennedy, handling a general practice, with offices in the Central Savings & Trust Building. Mr. Kennedy has membership in the County, State and American Bar associations, is a republican, and is a former member of the election board of Summit County. His diversions outdoors are fishing and golf, and he is a member of the Portage Country Club, Akron City Club and Akron Lodge of Elks. Mr. Kennedy married, December 10, 1912, Miss Anna Sullivan, of Leetonia, Ohio, daughter of Michael Sullivan. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #733 *******************************************