OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 166 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 166 Today's Topics: #1 Bio - 1885 - Portage Co, OH, Frank [Betty Ralph ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:05:47 -0500 From: Betty Ralph To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <2.2.32.20000517160547.0092c914@HiWAAY.net> Subject: Bio - 1885 - Portage Co, OH, Franklin # 17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Bios: Sherman, Stauffer, Stevens, Stewart - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ AARON M. SHERMAN, physician and surgeon, Kent, was born in Brimfield, Hampden Co., Mass., March 24, 1826, fourth son of Capt. Harris and Sally (Morgan) Sherman, both of whom were natives of Brimfield, Mass., and who had a family of the following children: Lewis M.; Caleb, deceased; Caroline, deceased; Sarah, wife of William R. Matthews, in Sully, Iowa; Aaron M.; Thomas, in Sully, Iowa; Otis S., deceased, and John W. Capt. Harris Sherman came to Ohio in 1831, arriving in Brimfield Township, Portage County, Sunday the 5th of June, that year. He and his wife are now deceased, having lived honored lives for more than four-score years. The genealogy of the Sherman family dates back to the early settlement of this country, and were honored names in its history. Three brothers emigrated from England to America in an early day, one settled in Massachusetts, one in Connecticut, and one in Rhode Island. The subject of this sketch belongs to the Massachusetts branch. His early life was passed on his father's farm, attending school six months in the year until he was sixteen years old, when a few terms at a select school fitted him for teaching in a county school. He taught four winters in a day school, and singing in the evenings. At the age of twenty-one he commenced the study of medicine at Garrettsville, this county, with Dr. John A. Knowlton. He attended two full courses of lectures at the Medical Department of Western Reserve College of Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in the spring of 1851. On September 26, same year, he was married to Miss Henrietta, eldest daughter of John and Mary (Green) Tabor, of Garrettsville, Ohio, who died October 26, 1853. He was again married April 26, 1854, this time to Harriet, daughter of Watson I. and Mary (McIntosh) Gray, of Bedford, Ohio, by whom he has one son - Harris G., a prominent oculist in Cleveland, Ohio. The Doctor, after graduating, located in Garrettsville, and followed his profession until the spring of 1857, when he moved to Kent and embarked in the drug business, but after four years resumed his profession, and has since had a large and successful practice. During the war of the Rebellion he was Assistant surgeon in Lincoln General Hospital at Washington, D.C. In the fall of 1883 Dr. Sherman was elected to the Sixty-sixth General Assembly from Portage County, of which he is at present a member. During his first winter he took an active and intelligent part in the general legislation, and was among the industrious and prominent members of that body. The Doctor has always been an active promoter of every public enterprise in his community. He has frequently served as a member of the School Board, and for several years has been the efficient Secretary of the Pioneers' Association of Portage and Summit Counties. In 1881 he wrote a history of Brimfield Township, dating from its first settlement, which he delivered as a historical address in that township, July 4 of that year. It was published in pamphlet form and was the only history of that township written up to that date. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and for ten years held the position of Master of the first lodge in Kent. In politics he is a stanch Republican. In religious belief a Universalist. GEORGE L. STAUFFER, grocer, Kent, was born in Uniontown, Stark County, Ohio, October 26, 1839, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Myers) Stauffer, the former a native of Maryland, the latter of Ohio. Our subject was raised on a farm until twenty years of age, and educated in the Greensburg Academy. When twenty-two years of age he went to New York City and entered the employ of the Northern Transportation Company, where he remained seven years. He then engaged in the grocery business in Jersey City for one year. In 1871 he located in Kent and engaged as a clerk in the store of Lute Stauffer. In 1873 he embarked in the grocery trade in Kent with George A. Furry, under firm name of Stauffer & Furry, which partnership existed to the present time. Mr. Stauffer was married, December 14, 1865, to Eva E., daughter of William J. and Lovena (Beach) Sanford, of Connecticut, and who came to this county when quite young, then moved to Marion County, residing there a few years, then returned to this county, where they have since lived. To our subject and wife were born five children: Ida, George J., William S., Lucy M. and Robert E. Mr. and Mrs. Stauffer are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is an active member of the I.O.O.F. and the R.A.; has served as Councilman of Kent one term. In politics he is a Democrat. WILLIAM STEVENS, farmer, P.O. Kent, was born in Franklin Township, this county, September 6, 1820; son of Elisha and Margaret (Brown) Stevens, who were among the first settlers of Franklin Township, and who located on what is now known as the Fulmer farm, taking up 160 acres of land in the wilderness and making a small improvement. They were the parents of eight children: Emily, Marcus, Harriet, Caroline, Mary, Cynthia, Lucius and William, all deceased except William. Elisha Stevens, who was a carpenter and jointer by trade, died in 1822. His widow subsequently married Eben Phelps, of New York, and lived and died in Franklin Township, this county, The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and has always followed agricultural pursuits. He was married, February 2, 1840, to Rebecca, daughter of John Bair, of Stark County, Ohio, by whom he had three children: Francis (deceased), Frank W., and Fred H., now in Colorado. Mr. Stevens gave his sons good educational advantages, and both are filling excellent positions. Since his marriage our subject has lived on his present farm, all of which he himself cleared and improved. He is a representative farmer and citizen of Franklin Township. In politics he is a Republican. THOMAS C. STEWART, farmer, P.O. Kent, was born in Franklin Township, this county, March 1, 1826; son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Clement) Stewart, former a native of Allegheny County, Penn., latter of Washington County, Penn. The mother came to this county in 1811 with her eldest brother, Thomas Clement, and located in Ravenna Township. She is now (1885) living, in her eighty-sixth year, and is hearty. Jonathan Stewart came to the county when a young man, and after his marriage in 1819 settled in Franklin Township on the farm now owned by Nicholas Knapp. He afterward settled in Ravenna Township on the farm owned by his nephew, Alex Clement, and lived there until his death in 1832, in his thirty-third year. He left a family of six children: Uziah (deceased), Alexander (deceased), Jonathan, who enlisted in the Eighty-eighth Indiana Regiment from DeKalb County, Ind., and after participating in several battles in Kentucky, died of exhaustion at Lebanon, Ky., during the late war; Thomas C.; Margaret A. (Mrs. F.D. Reese) and William (deceased). Our subject was reared in Ravenna Township, and received his education in the common schools, the Grand River Institute at Austinburg, and high school at Jefferson, after which he taught in the common schools for four winters following. He was married, March 14, 1854, to Adeline, daughter of Homer W. and Mary (Knowlton) Hart, pioneers of Solon Township, Cuyahoga County, and later of Franklin. The issue of this union is Mary (Mrs. E.W. Talcott); Clara (Mrs. J.C. Yeend), and Julia E. After his marriage Mr. Stewart settled in Streetsboro, and lived there up to 1861, when he located in Franklin Township, where he now resides on what was formerly known as the Latimer farm. He has been elected Trustee of Franklin Township three terms in succession, Assessor one term, and on the Board of Education one term. In politics he is a Republican. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #166 *******************************************