STARK COUNTY OHIO - Abraham BAER of Stark County
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Al Dawson 
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November 14, 1998
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Just received a nice reply from Neal Thompson Gardner, Genealogy
Division Asst. Manager, Stark County District Library in Canton...
their e-mail is:  scdlgen@oplin.oh.us ....in reply to my written
request (715 Market Ave, North Canton, OH 44702 (330) 452-0665)
for information on Abraham Baer (c. 1766-after 1846) whose daughter
Sarah married John Patrick Creighton in Stark County.  Their son,
Jeroboam Baer Creighton, born in Paris Township, was my great-great-
grandfather.  He is buried in Akron's Glendale Cemetery.

Enclosed:  three sheets from one of those wonderful turn-of-the-
century county books "Portrait and Biographical Record of Stark
County, Ohio" published in Chicago in 1892.  The article copied is
about Professor Henry C. Baer (I've seen references to him in other
Stark County books) born in Osnaburg Township [just west of Paris
Township] in 1834.

"His grandfather, Abraham Baer, was a Virginian, and was a
of Swiss descent [strike the a - typo].  He subsequently moved
to Pennsylvania, and was a partipant in the whiskey riots in that
State. [will research this, but if anyone has information on this...]
In 1806 he came with his family to Ohio, and located in Osnaburg
Township, Stark County, and began his career as a pioneer."

"family...consisting of sixteen children, twelve sons and four
daughters...On the Little Sandy he built the first sawmill in the
township, which later became known as Hershberger Mill."

"He was a Dunkard in his religious views and lived to be over eighty
years of age."

The BAERS seem to be associated with Massillon, where J. B. Creighton
lived at the time he enlisted in the Mexican War.  

The article also includes information on the DOLL family, mother
of Prof Henry C. Baer, who after a Civil War career in Michigan's
Sixth Michigan Infantry (he had earlier been a student at the
Musical Conservatory at Dayton, Ohio) settled back in his home town
of Massillion, where he gave music lessons and led Baer's Orchestra.


--
Al Dawson, Berea, OH.  MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973.
"HAVE SPOOL, WILL UNRAVEL" - professional services available.
Family surnames include "Mary and John" (1630) passenger/puritans
MASON, GILLETT, WOLCOTT, PHELPS, HOLCOMBE, GRISWOLD, FORD, and COOK.