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To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <1.5.4.32.20030701184534.0071d7c8@clubnet.isl.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Message: #1 >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb. -------------------- "Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888) Lorain County Page 135 CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY was born in Warren, Conn., August 29, 1792, and died at Oberlin, Ohio, August 16, 1875. As a young man he began the study of law, but having been converted in 1821, was licenses to preach in the Presbyterian church. He was a very successful evangelist. In 1835 he accepted the professorship of theology at Oberlin. From 1851 to 1866 he was president of Oberlin, during which period he spent three years as a revivalist in England, and gained a very great reputation for eloquence. His "Lectures on Revivals" was translated into several foreign languages. ______________________________ --Boundary_(ID_ZG3fJpGKWu+8z6817ZcwaA) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:45:30 -0500 From: Tina Hursh Subject: [OH-FOOT] bio: Mahan, Asa - Lorrain Co. To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <1.5.4.32.20030701184530.00713364@clubnet.isl.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Message: #2 >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb. "Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888) Lorain County Page 134-135 ASA MAHAN was born in Vernon, N. Y., November 9, 1800. Graduated at Hamilton College in 1824, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1827. In 1831 he was pastor of a Presbyterian church at Cincinnati, and four years later accepted the presidency of Oberlin College, which he held for fifteen years. After leaving Oberlin he was president of Cleveland University, and later, Adrian College, Michigan. He received the degrees of D. D. and LL. D., and after 1871 resided in England. He is the author of a number of theological works. ______________________________ --Boundary_(ID_ZG3fJpGKWu+8z6817ZcwaA) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:45:35 -0500 From: Tina Hursh Subject: [OH-FOOT] bio: Langston, John - Lorain Co. To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <1.5.4.32.20030701184535.00716418@clubnet.isl.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Message: #3 >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb. -------------------- "Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888) Lorain County Page 135 JOHN MERCER LANGSTON was born in Louisa county, Va., December 14, 1829. At the age of six he was emancipated from slavery. Appleton's "Cyclopaedia of American Biography" says of him: "He was graduated at Oberlin in 1849, and at the theological department in 1853. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1854, and practiced his profession there until 1869, during which time he was clerk of several townships in Ohio, being the first colored man elected to an office of any sort by popular vote. He was also a member of the Board of Education of Oberlin. In 1869 he was called to a professorship of law in Howard University, Washington, D. C., and became dean of the faculty of the law department, and active in its organization. He was appointed by President Grant a member of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia, and was elected its secretary in 1875. In 1877-85 he was United States Minister and Consul-General in Hayti. On his return to this country he was appointed president of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in Peterburg, which office he now (1887) holds. In addition to various addresses and papers on political, biographical, literary and scientific subjects, Mr. Langston is the author of a volume of select addresses entitled 'Freedom and Citizenship,' Washington, 1883. ______________________________ --Boundary_(ID_ZG3fJpGKWu+8z6817ZcwaA) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:45:33 -0500 From: Tina Hursh Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Parsons, Chas. - Lorraine Co To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <1.5.4.32.20030701184533.00714dc4@clubnet.isl.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Message: #4 >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html transcribed by Deb ------------------ "Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888) Lorain County Page 135 CHAS. CARROLL PARSONS was born in Elyria in 1838; graduated at West Point in 1861. In the war he took command of a battery, "Parsons' battery," which was famous in both Union and Confederate armies, and many stories are told of his courage and daring. In one instance he remained with his guns until dragged from them by the order of Gen. McCook. After the war he was chief of artillery in Gen. Hancock's Indian expedition. Later he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church. He died September 7, 1878, at Memphis, during the yellow-fever epidemic, from overwork in his heroic ministrations as nurse and clergyman. ______________________________ --Boundary_(ID_ZG3fJpGKWu+8z6817ZcwaA) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:45:37 -0500 From: Tina Hursh Subject: [OH-FOOT] bio: Burke, Stevenson - Lorain Co. To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <1.5.4.32.20030701184537.0071387c@clubnet.isl.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Message: #5 >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb. -------------------- "Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888) Lorain County Page 135 STEVENSON BURKE, so eminent as a lawyer, jurist, president of many railways and other corporations, passed his early youth and manhood in this county, where he was admitted to the bar in 1848, and is now residing in Cleveland. From penury he fought his way to such success that few great cases have been tried in Northern Ohio within the last twenty-five years in which he has not been engaged. He possesses untiring powers of application, executive capacity, with genial, winning ways. ______________________________ --Boundary_(ID_ZG3fJpGKWu+8z6817ZcwaA) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:45:41 -0500 From: Tina Hursh Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Wells, Wm. - Lucas co. To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <1.5.4.32.20030701184541.007286c8@clubnet.isl.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Message: #6 >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb. -------------------- "Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888) Lucas County Page 144 WM. WELLS was such an extraordinary man as to deserve a fuller notice. When a child he was captured by the Indians, and became the adopted son of LITTLE TURTLE, the most eminent forest warrior and statesman of his time. In the defeats of Harmar and St. Clair he took a distinguished part, commanding in the latter action three hundred young Indian warriors, who were posted immediately in front of the artillery, and caused such carnage among those who served it. He arranged his party behind logs and trees, immediately under the knoll on which the guns were, and thence, almost uninjured, picked off the artillerists, until, it is said, their bodies were heaped up almost to the height of their pieces. After this sanguinary affair, his fore-cast enabled him to anticipate the final ascendancy of the whites, who would be aroused by their reverses to such exertions as must be successful with their preponderance of power, and he resolved to abandon the savages. His mode of announcing this determination was in accordance with the simple and sententious habits of a forest life. He was traversing the woods in the morning, with his adopted father, the Little Turtle, when, pointing to the heavens, he said, "When the sun reaches the meridian I leave you for the whites; and whenever you meet me in battle, you must kill me as I shall endeavor to do by you." The bonds of affection and respect which had bound these two singular and highly-gifted men together were not severed or weakened by this abrupt dereliction. Capt. Wells soon after joined Wayne's army, and by his intimacy with the wilderness, and his perfect knowledge of the Indian haunts, habits and modes of Indian warfare, became an invaluable auxiliary to the Americans. He served faithfully and fought bravely through the campaign, and at the close, when peace had restored amity between the Indians and the whites, rejoined his foster-father, the Little Turtle; and their friendship and connection was broken only by the death of the latter. When his body was found among the slain at Chicago, in August, 1812, the Indians are said to have drunk his blood, from a superstitious belief that they should thus imbibe his warlike endowments, which had been considered by them as pre-eminent. The above paragraph respecting Wells is copied from the discourse of Henry Whiting, Esq., before the Historical Society of Michigan; that below, relating to his death, is from the MSS. of Col. John Johnston. William Wells, interpreter for the Miamies, and whose wife was of that nation, himself uncle to Mrs. Heald, the lady of the commandant at Fort Dearborn, Chicago, went from Fort Wayne with a party of twelve or fifteen Miamies to that place, with a view of favoring the escape of the garrison to Forty Wayne. Nothing could have been more unfortunate than this, for Wells was peculiarly obnoxious to the Putawatimies, and especially to the chief, "the Black Bird," who was the leading warrior on the occasion. The Putawatimies were alone in arms against us at the time, in that part of the country. The presence of Wells was fatal to the safety of the troops; the chief Blackbird had often spoken to myself in very bitter terms against him. On the 14th of August, 1812, a council was held between the officers and the chiefs, at which it was agreed that the whole garrison with their arms, ammunition sufficient for the journey and clothing should retire unmolested to Fort Wayne, and that the garrison with all that it contained should be delivered up to the Indians. In the night preceding the evacuation all the powder and whiskey in the fort were thrown into a canal, communicating from the garrison to the Chicago river. The powder floated out and discovered the deception to the Indians; this greatly exasperated them and, no doubt, brought matters to a crisis. On the morning of the 15th of August the troops marched out to commence their journey, and had proceeded but a short distance when they were attacked by the Indians. Wells seeing that all was lost, and not wishing to fall into their hands, as he well knew that in that case a cruel and lingering death awaited him, wetted powder and blacked his face, as a token of defiance, mounted his horse and commenced addressing the Indians with all the opprobrious and insulting language he could think of. His purpose evidently was to induce them to dispatch him forwith. His object was accomplished. They became so enraged at last with his taunts and jeers, that one of them shot him off his horse, and immediately pouncing upon him, cut his body open, took out his heart and eat it. The troops were massacred, the commanding officer and wife were saved…. Chicago means in Putawatimie, "the place of the polecat." ______________________________ --Boundary_(ID_ZG3fJpGKWu+8z6817ZcwaA) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:45:29 -0500 From: Tina Hursh Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Gillmore, Quincy - Lorain Co. To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <1.5.4.32.20030701184529.00718c50@clubnet.isl.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Message: #7 >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb. "Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888) Lorain County Page 134 QUINCY ADAMS GILLMORE was born in Black River (now Lorain), Lorain county, O., February 25, 1825 and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 11, 1888. His early life was passed on a farm. In 1849 he graduated, at West Point at the head of his class. His first great distinction was achieved in the siege and capture of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, February 19 to April 11, 1862. As a commander of the forces engaged in this siege, he boldly discarded the traditions of attack upon fortified places, and planting his breaching batteries at distances never thought of before, succeeded in less than two days' bombardment in rendering untenable a work which the most eminent engineers had, in view of its peculiar situation, pronounced impregnable. In fact, General Gillmore's cannonade and capture of Fort Pulaski revolutionized the naval gunnery of the world, and extended his fame throughout Europe as well as America. For this service he received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers, April 28, 1862. His next notable success was with the noted "Swamp Angel," a gun used in the siege of Charleston. This gun was apparently planted in the edge of the sea, but really in the shallow marsh between Morris and James islands. There a firm foundation was laid, a low breastwork put up in a circle around the gun, and one-hundred pound shells were "dropped" into Charleston. But it was only fired thirty-six times, exploding at the last discharge. Other guns soon after did as effective work, but the "Swamp Angel" is remembered because it first proved the practicability of the method. Later with his (Tenth) corps, he took part in the final operations of the army on the James river. He received brevets of brigadier-general and major-general for services before Charleston, resigning his volunteer commission as major-general in December, 1865. After the war he was engaged upon important engineering works and his name is most intimately associated with the improvement of the harbors at Charleston and Savannah, with other like works along the Atlantic coast, and as president of the Mississippi River Commission with the great works which have been projected for the rectification of that important water-way. Outside of his military record, General Gillmore gained a high reputation by his published studies in cements and mortars, concretes and building stone, and road-making and paving, and his treatises on these subjects are regarded as of the highest authority. ______________________________ --Boundary_(ID_ZG3fJpGKWu+8z6817ZcwaA) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:45:43 -0500 From: Tina Hursh Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Lasselle, Antoine - Lucas Co. To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <1.5.4.32.20030701184543.0071b010@clubnet.isl.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Message: #8 >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb. -------------------- "Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888) Page 145 ANTOINE LASSELLE I well knew: this man, a Canadian, was taken prisoner at Wayne's battle, painted, dressed and disguised as an Indian. He was tried by court-martial at Roche de Boeuf, and sentenced to be hung. A gallows was erected and the execution ordered, when Col. John F. Hamtranck-a native of Canada, who joined the American standard under Montgomery, in the Revolutionary war, and was, in 1794, colonel of the 1st regiment of infantry, under Wayne-interposed and begged the life of the prisoner. Gen. Wayne afterwards granted to Lasselle license to trade at Fort Wayne, and he was there as such many years during my agency at the post. He was a man of wit and drollery, and would often clasp his neck with both hands, to show how near he had been to hanging by order of Mad Anthony. ______________________________ --Boundary_(ID_ZG3fJpGKWu+8z6817ZcwaA) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:27:10 -0500 From: "debrabeach" Subject: [OH-FOOT] Obituary - Henry Mandell 1897 Wood county Ohio To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <000701c34049$d3b74720$e0bf22d0@xxx> Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Message: #9 I have referenced your archives for about 2 yrs now, and finally have learned enough to be able to share with all. I have gained alot of information and advice from the archives and am so proud to be a "born Buckeye" Debbie Combest Beach, Summit Co, Ohio resident, Waynesville Mo Transcribed from Wood county Sentinel 1897, Feb 4; pg 1, column 2 (as posted on the Ohio Obit index) In Perrysburg at the home of his daughter, Henry Mandell passed peacefully away to the reward of a faithful life, January 23, 1897, at the age of 83 years and 11 days. The subject of the above notice was born at Hardwick township, Worcester county, Mass., January 12, 1814. He passed his boyhood on the dairy farm that belonged to the family for three generations; received a mercantile education at Ashburnham Academy; taught school and served a business apprenticeship in his native state. The time of his coming west is not known with certainty to the writer, but he taught school in Indiana before locating in Perrysburg in '38, and engaging in a general merchandise business. He was married January 5, 1841, to Miss Fredica Main Creps, of the same place. The result of this union was five sons and three daughters of whom two sons, Henry Edgar and William Arthur, the daughters and 18 grandchildren remain to cherish his memory and emulate his example. Owing to the fluctuating state of society and his own open-heartedness, his business did not promise well for pecuniary success, so he sold out and moved to Otsego, where as postmaster he is still remembered by men now old, who then were young. In 1845 he moved, with his little family, into the deep woods, four miles below Perrysburg and commenced hewing out the farm that since has been his care. Eighteen months later, sickness compelled a return to civilization, and after taking his family to his boyhood home for a winter season, he returned with them to Perrysburg, where he again engaged in a business venture in company with George Powers, of whom he ever retained a grateful memory. In the spring of 1852 he returned to the embryo farm, where in 1872 the devoted wife and mother followed her two younger sons to the spirit world, leaving with him the remaining children to whom he has ever been a devoted father. In the spring of 1893, feeling the feebleness of age coming on, he came to live with his daughter and wait like patient Job for his "change". A faithful friend, he was also a courageous foe, his energy and integrity being beyond question. To him truly it might be said, " Thou that been faithful over a few things," and to those who knew him best his memory shall "smell sweet and blossom from the dust." A FRIEND I thank my uncle of Wadsworth Ohio for obtaining this for all "Mandell-Welever" descendants. I also owe much to the information shared about the other lines of the Wood county Ohio MANDELL families from Dorothy in Michigan. Henry Mandell married Frederica Marie Creps 5 January 1841 Wood County Ohio. Children born include: Henry Edgar who married Harriet Lusher Phila Elizabeth who married Jacob Dunn Catherine Delphia who married Charles Drayton William Arthur who married Frances Whitson Franklin Dwight [died young] Ada Mary who married Leroy Welever 26 Dec 1872 Frederick C. [died young] Nathaniel [died in infancy] Many of the Mandell family are buried in the Fort Meigs Cemetery in Wood County Ohio. My great-great grandparents, Leroy and Ada Mandell Welever are buried also in the Fort Meigs Cemetery in an unmarked family plot, originally purchased by Phila Mandell Dunn, listed as 'Lizzie Mandell' on cemetery records. She and her husband Jacob are the only two of 7 in this family plot with tombstones. I have yet to learn as to why no markers were placed at Leroy and Ada Welever's plots. Leroy and Ada Mandell Welever had three (3) children: +Della born about 1876; she shows up in 1880 but no other information can be found about her life, marriages or death. +Clarence Eugene born 5 July 1876 on the Mandell farm; married Florence Katherine Wackle (bn 1873, Lucas Co OH) +Ada born 1880 who married 1st Mr Woodmancy and 2nd Mr Frisch Many thanks to Bill of Columbus of the Woodmancy line for sharing his family tree. Leroy Welever/Wellever/Woolever was born 17 Sept 1847 in Steuben County New York, the son of Philip and Lydia (Burley) Wellever/Woolever; grandson of David and Jane Lowe Woolever/Wellever of New Jersey/New York Leroy's father is unknown after the 1850 Steuben County NY census. Mom Lydia shows up in 1860 with the children in neighboring Livingston County NY. Leroy and a brother George Welever/Wellever show up in Wood county Ohio by the 1870 census residing in the home of James White, his daughter Mary and a Lydia White. It took much 'detective' work to learn that Lydia, Leroy's mother had come to Wood County and in May of 1867 married James White, age 63, born in Scotland. Leroy and Ada Mandell Welever stay in Wood County, raising their children. I have ascertained that Leroy was a carpenter and general handyman along with being a farmer. Ada Mandell Welever passed away in Lucas County, Toledo in January 1921. Leroy died in April of 1926. Surviving in Lucas County, Toledo,as far as my research shows was son Clarence Eugene and daughter Ada Frisch. Debbie in Missouri debrabeach@jobe.net --Boundary_(ID_ZG3fJpGKWu+8z6817ZcwaA)-- -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V03 Issue #103 *******************************************