Grace Lee Smith

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• Name: Grace Lee

Grace married Jonathan Fairbanks on 20 May 1617 in Halifax, St John the Baptist, Yorkshire, England. Jonathan (son of John Fairbanke and Isabella Stancliffe) was born on 3 May 1594 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England; died on 5 Dec 1668 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Grave Information
Birth: Feb. 15, 1618 Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
Death: Nov. 13, 1684 Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA

Family links:
Parents:
Jonathan Fairbanks (1595 - 1668)
Grace Smith Fairbanks (1597 - 1673)

Spouse:
Sarah Fiske Fairbanks (____ - 1683)

Children:
Joshua Fairbanks (1642 - 1662)*
Jonathan Fairbanks (1648 - 1662)*
Martha Fairbanks (1650 - 1650)*
Mary Fairbanks (1650 - 1650)*

Note: No gravestone exists
Burial:Old Village Cemetery, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA

John married Sarah Fiske on 16 Jan 1641 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah was born in 1620 in St James, Suffolk, England; died on 26 Nov 1683 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Mary Adams on 26 Oct 1646 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary was born on 10 Nov 1625 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 11 Aug 1711 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Metcalf

Mary married Michael Metcalf on 2 Apr 1644 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Michael was born on 29 Aug 1620 in Norwich, Norfolk, England; died on 24 Dec 1654 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan married Deborah Shepard on 4 Oct 1649 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Deborah (daughter of Edward Shepard II, Cpt. and Violet (Stanley) Charnould) was born on 5 Nov 1631 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 7 Sep 1705 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact 1: Slain with son in King Phillip's War by indians.

Notes:

FAIRBANK. Jonathan Fairbanks or Fairbank, immigrant ancestor, was born in England before 1600, and came to Boston with his family in 1633. He remained there about three years, then settled in Dedham, where he was pioneer, and a signer of the Dedham convenant. His house is still standing in Dedham, and is now owned by the family association, having been occupied to the present time by Jonathan and his lineal descendants. He was a town officer, and died December 5, 1668. He married Grace Lee, who died December 28, 1673. Children: 1. John. 2. George. 3. Mary. 4. Susan. 5. Jonas, mentioned below. 6. Jonathan.

(II) Jonas, son of Jonathan Fairbanks, was born in England and came to Dedham with his parents. He signed the covenant in 1657, and March 7, 1659, became one of the fathers of the town. He was a farmer and believed to be a carpenter also. In 16752 he was fined for wearing great boots, not being worth two hundred pounds, the amount of wealth prescribed by the laws of the colony, in 1651 to suffice for men who could lawfully wear great boots. He removed to Lancaster in 1657. There he met his death in the assault by King Philip and fifteen hundred warriors, February 10, 1675, 76. Some fifty persons were slain that day, including Joshua Fairbanks, son of Jonas. Jonas Fairbanks married, May 28, 1658, Lydia Prescott, born in Watertown, August 15, 1641, daughter of John Prescott, who came from Sowerby, Halifax, England, the English home of the Fairbanks family. she married (second) Ellis Barron, of Watertown, Groton and Lancaster. Children: 1. Marie. 2. Joshua. 3. Grace. 4. Jonathan. 5. Hazadiah. 6. Jabez, mentioned below. 7. Jonas.

(III) Captain Jabez, son of Jonas Fairbanks, was born at Lancaster, January 8, 1670-71, and settled there after the war. He died March 2, 1758. He was a very efficient soldier and officer in the Indian War, and was no doubt incited to heroic exploits by the massacre of his father and brother in 1676, and of his only surviving brother in 1697, during a raid on the town. At the time his brother Jonathan and one of his children were killed, Captain Jabez was the means of saving a garrison and perhaps many lives, including that of his little son Joseph. Twenty-one persons were killed this raid, two were wounded, and six carried off captives, of whom five were ransomed later, including the wife of Jonathan Fairbanks. In 1700 Jabez Fairbanks had land granted him on both sides of the brook above Thomas Sawyer's sawmill. This site was the homestead of Jabez and his descendants for a hundred years. He was deputy to the general court in 1714-21-22-23. He married (first) Mary wilder, who died February 21, 1718, in her forty-third years, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Houghton) Wilder. He married (second) March 25, 1719, Elizabeth Whitcomb, who died May 11, 1755, aged about eighty years. Children of first wife: 1. Joseph. 2. Jabez. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Jonas. 5. Thomas, mentioned below. 6. Abigail. 7. Jonathan. 8. Grace. 9. Joshua. 10. Anna.

(IV) Deacon Thomas, son of Captain Jabez Fairbanks, was baptized in Lancaster in 1708, died February 10, 1791. He was sentinel in Captain Josiah Willard's company in the Indian War, June 3, to November 10, 1725. He was also a soldier in Captain Ephraim Wilder's company, Colonel Sam-

Jonas married Lydia Prescott on 28 May 1658 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Lydia (daughter of John Prescott, Sr and Mary Gawkroger) was born on 15 Aug 1641 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 31 Dec 1723 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact 1: 9J45-NX
• Fact 3: 23 Dec 1627; Thornton Crown, Halifax, York (west), England

Susan married Ralph Day on 12 Oct 1647. Ralph died on 28 Nov 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Mary Richards in 1693 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of John Richards and Mary Colburn) was born on 23 Jun 1675 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 25 Mar 1732 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact 1: 1V8C-WS

Notes:

An Old Family Burial Site...
"A Tombstone, surrounded by wild strawberry plants, embedded in the soil of the country town of Lancaster, Massachusetts bears mute testimony of facts. The rough slate is boldly cut with the following inscription:
JONATHAN-FAIR BANKS-AND-HIS DAUGHTER-GRACE FAIRBANKS For two hundred and ninety-nine years this stone has weathered the elements to maintain the memory of a tragic event that cut short the lives of Jonathan and Grace. Two nearby stones, carved by the same hand, record the fateful September of 1697 when twenty-seven towns folk were massacred by Indians. Killed in that raid was the town's minister, the Rev. John Whiting. The Jonathan buried in Lancaster surely was not that earlier Jonathan (deceased 1668) whose Dedham home is preserved by the family Association. No, the identity of Jonathan of Lancaster is documented in the monumental book by Lorenzo Sales Fairbanks, Genealogy pp. 49-50. Lorenzo Sales explains that the Jonathan who met his untimely death in Lancaster was the son of Jonas, the third son of the original Jonathan of Dedham. Jonas had moved to western Massachusetts as one of the original settlers of Lancaster in 1657. He was a founding father of that town. Although a carpenter and a farmer, he had a sense of style and self-worth that exceeded his monetary position in society. Even before moving to the frontier of the seventeenth century he was, in 1652, fined a few shillings for violating the sumptuary laws (passed the year before) by wearing great boots before his estate amounted to more than 200 pounds. Jonas married Lydia Prescott of Watertown who bore him seven children. The fourth was Jonathan (b. 7/8/1666). Within ten years, Jonas was dead - having perished in an Indian attack on Lancaster on Feb. 10, 1676. That raid also took away the life of Jonathan's older brother Joshua, who was at the time fifteen years of age. It is not surprising therefore that when Jonathan matured he became a soldier, and was one of the first to venture on long expeditions into the wilderness. He shared in the ill-fated expedition against Quebec in 1690 with Sir William Phips. On Aug 24 1688 he married Mary Hayward of Concord. She gave him three children: Hannah, (d 1704), Grace (d 1697), and Mary (d 1745) Grace was about seven when she perished in the Indian raid of 1697 that killed so many inhabitants of Lancaster, including her father and his younger brother Jonas (b. 1673). Jonathan's wife was carried away with six other Lancastrians as captives, like Mary Rowlandson who had been taken in the l676 raid and wrote a famous account of her captivity and return. All captives from Lancaster but one were redeemed by government intervention and returned to their remaining family members a year later. During the raid of 1697, another brother of Jonathan s, Jabez, saved many Lancastrians in a garrison, or fortified house. He later became a notable soldier commissioned by Governor Dummer, employed as a Captain for long distance travel and scouting throughout the 1720's. "

Died:
Massacred with two children by indians.

Jonathan married Mary Hayward on 24 Aug 1688 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Joseph Hayward and Hannah Hosmer) was born on 21 Sep 1667 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 5 Jan 1734 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact 1: 22JL-7L8

Notes:

Captain Jabez Fairbanks, son of Jonas Fairbanks, was born at Lancaster, January 8, 1670-1, and he settled there after the war. He died March 2, 1758, aged eighty-seven. He was a very efficient soldier and officer in the Indian war, and was no doubt incited to heroic exploits by the massacre of his father and brother in 1676 and of his only surviving brother in 1697 during a raid on the town. At the time his brother Jonathan and one of his children were killed, Captain Jabez was the means of saving a garrison and perhaps many lives including that of his own little son Joseph. Twenty-one persons were killed in this raid, two were wounded and six carried off captives, of whom five were ransomed later, including the wife of Jonathan Fairbanks. In 1700 Jabez had lands laid down to him on both sides of Dane's brook above Thomas Sawyer's saw mill. This site was the homestead of Jabez and his descendants for a hundred years. He was deputy to the general court in 1714-21-22-23.

He married Mary Wilder, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Houghton) Wilder, who died February 21, 1718 in her forty-third year. He married (second), March 25, 1719, Elizabeth Whitcomb, who died May 11, 1755, aged about eighty years. The children of Jabez and Mary were: Joseph, born 1693, see forward; Jabez; Elizabeth, married Deliverance Brown, December 24, 1718; Jonas; Thomas; Abigail, married Major Henry Willard, of Ashburnham, descendant of Major Simon Willard; Jonathan, baptized June 18, 1710; Grace, baptized February 27, 1712, married Joseph Brown, March 27, 1733; Joshua, baptized March 28, 1714; Anna, baptized November 18, 1716, married April 5, 1738, Simon Butler.

Jabez was well educated for the times. He was his father's only son who left any male descendents and he shines in history. His military dispatches preserved in the records show him to have been a man of marked intellectual ability, and he was certainly a hero of great physical stamina and bravery. His children and their descendants contributed largely o the population of Lancaster and the neighboring towns, especially Sterling and Harvard, originally parts of Lancaster. The name did honor to the towns in those days. The marriages were generally with the foremost families.

About 1720, the Indians at the East again began to manifest open hostilities to the whites, which soon assumed the proportions of war. There had been occasional fights previous to 1722, instigated by the French Jesuits, and in August 1723 the General Court met and approved of the proclamation of war which had been issued by Governor Samuel Shute, July 25, 1722. By the death of Governor Shute the conduct of the war fell to the lot of Lieut-Governor William Dummer, acting governor of the colony; hence it is sometimes known as Dummer's War. Expeditions were sent in successive years, with great loss of men and money, until the natives were subdued. The people of Lancaster bore their part of the public burden, and probably volunteered more than their proportion of fighting men. Prominent among these were the Willards, White, Fairbank and Hartwell. (See Marvin's History of Lancaster).

"First in the order of time of our military heroes in these days of trial," says Marvin, "was Lieut. afterwards Capt. Jabez Fairbank. He was a famous scouting officer, and traversed large sections of the country to the north, east and west, in search of prowling Indians. More than sixty parties were engaged in this service. Some of names of the men under his command, between 1721 and 1724, were the following; Edward Hartwell, Ephriam Wheeler, Daniel Osgood, Isaac Farnsworth, Isaac Lacain, John Bennett, Joseph Wheelock, Ezra Sawyer, Moses Willard, John Eams"

Gov. Dummer immediately sought the services of Fairbank to enlist men. He offered him the choice of the office of sergeant, if he remained at home in Lancaster, or that of Lieutenant, if he were willing to serve at Groton or at Turkey Hill. He chose the latter, and at once entered the service. He reported directly to the Governor during the war, and the published correspondence between them furnishes many interesting chapters of history. (See Mass. Archives and Marvin's History of Lancaster; also History of Groton).

In the year 1700 he had lands laid out to him "on both sides of Danes Brook about Thomas Sawyer's Sawmill." This site became the home of the Fairbanks, and so remained for a hundred years or more."

He was elected as a representative to the General Court in 1714, 1721, 1722 and 1723.

Jabez married Mary Wilder in 1691 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Thomas Wilder and Mary Wheeler) was born on 21 Feb 1676 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; died on 21 Feb 1718 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jabez married Elizabeth Whitcomb on 25 Mar 1719 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Elizabeth was born in 1674 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; died on 11 May 1755 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 11 Feb 1657

Mary married Ephraim Brown on 9 Feb 1719 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Ephraim (son of Boaz Brown and Mary Richards) was born in 1697 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 4 Jan 1756 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Deliverance Brown on 24 Dec 1718 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Deliverance (son of Boaz Brown and Abiel Abigail Parmenter) was born on 4 Oct 1692 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1744 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Willard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Brown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Butler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joshua Warner. Joshua (son of Samuel Warner and Hannah Cady) was born in Apr 1719 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; died on 2 Oct 1756 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Silas married Judith Marble on 25 Feb 1744. Judith (daughter of John Marble and Abigail Merriam) was born about 1702 in , Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
aka: Oron Brown

Aaron married Rachel Reed on 3 Oct 1746 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Rachel (daughter of Daniel Reed (Read) and Elizabeth Ide) was born on 10 Jun 1728 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1758 in , , New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aaron married Sarah Fails on 19 Feb 1761 in Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah was born in 1735 in , , Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Jan 1817 in , , Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Silas Wetherbee. Silas (son of David Wetherbee and Mercy Brown) was born in Jan 1727 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 3 Apr 1811 in Boxborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lydia Wetherbee. Lydia (daughter of David Wetherbee and Mercy Brown) was born in 1734 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 13 Apr 1758. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ephraim married Abigail Thomson on 23 Dec 1758. Abigail and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joshua Kendall. Joshua (son of Isaac Kendall and Elizabeth Kendall) was born on 20 Jun 1746 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; died on 29 Jun 1837 in Landaff, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1790, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1810, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA

Notes:

Died:
After Ephraim's death, his wife moved with family to Trumbull County OH.

Ephraim married Hannah Howe on 30 Jan 1775 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Hannah (daughter of Abner Howe and Mehitable Holton) was born on 19 Nov 1754 in Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Apr 1818 in Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aaron married Submit Howe on 19 Feb 1777 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Submit (daughter of Abner Howe and Mehitable Holton) was born on 23 May 1756 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1851 in , , New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Zadock Nims in 1775. Zadock (son of David Nims and Abigail Hawks) was born on 27 Mar 1754 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 31 Jan 1842 in Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Oct 1754
• Residence: 1780, Temple, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1786, Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1790, Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1794, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 26 Sep 1796, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1800, Wardsboro, Windham, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1810, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA

Notes:

I have come to the conclusion that the Revolutionary War service of Silas Brown, as claimed by his descendants, is non-existent.

The service in question is that detailed in "The Brown-Schutt Genealogy, 1948", and further represented in "Brown-Schutt Ancestral Lines, 1979". The data on Silas Brown's service was compiled by Maude Levering Lawrence and Geraldine Lawrence Hurd. The work of these 2 women shows up in several family genealogies.

Our Silas died in 1813. The Silas who is cited in the above mentioned books was alive in 1834, and living in Essex county New York, when he was awarded a pension on the cited revolutionary service.

Another Silas Brown was found on the Revolutionary Pension Rolls. This Silas was living in Townsend, Wyndham County, Vermont, which is close to Putney. This is also not our Silas since this pension was awarded to a living Silas Brown in 1818. He died in 1826 and is buried in Townsend. Following data from findagrave.com.
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Birth: 1755, USA
Death: Nov. 12, 1826, Townshend, Windham County, Vermont, USA
Burial: Maple Grove Cemetery, Townshend, Windham County, Vermont, USA
Created by: Judith6355
Record added: Nov 12, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 100614501
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100614501
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It is still possible our Silas served in the Revolutionary War, but evidence has not been found. Silas Brown was a very common name at the time, making the identification of relevant records more difficult. Since there are no pension documents for Silas, which usually contain enlistment and service data at a minimum, it makes it nearly impossible to say which Silas Brown in the muster rolls is actually him.

The evidence does affirm, however, that our Silas is the one who married Mary Nims Larabee, and settled in Putney Vermont. Though his children were born prior to the family moving to Putney, a number of their marriage records are contained in the Putney Vital Records.

Silas married Mary Nims about 1776. Mary (daughter of Ebenezer Nims and Mercy Smead) was born on 23 May 1756 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 13 Nov 1819 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas Howe, Ohio
A TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY Of TRUMBULL OHIO: A NARRATIVE ACCOUNT OF ITS HISTORICAL PROGRESS, ITS PEOPLE, AND ITS PRINCIPAL INTERESTS; BY HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON OF WARREN; VOL I; THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO, 1909

Peter Chardon Brooks, of Boston, was the owner of the land now known as Bloomfield. He sold it to Ephraim Brown of West Moreland, New Hampshire, and Thomas Howe of Williamstown, Vermont, in 1814. Brown and Howe were nephew and uncle. They had been in business together. Eventually, Howe sold out to Brown, reserving one thousand acres in the southern part of the township for himself.
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An old story worth repeating is that of the dog, Argus, who accompanied the early settlers in 1815. The dog either became tired, dissatisfied or was stolen in New York state. When Mr. Howe was going through that place some months later, he saw the dog and claimed it. The landlord said he had raised him from a pup. Whereupon Mr. Howe ordered Argus into his cutter, told him to watch it, and then dared the landlord to take anything from the cutter. The dog stood guard and did not allow the landlord to come near him, and proceeded with his master.
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Thomas Howe did not move his family to Bloomfield until 1817, his wife and five children coming with him. She was a woman of very benevolent nature. He was a member of the (p.416) Ohio legislature and he lived to be more than eighty. His children were identified more or less with Bloomfield, Dr. G.W. being one of the early teachers and later a doctor for forty-four years. He was surgeon for three years in the war of the Rebellion and his services were especially commended. He was twice elected to the Ohio legislature. William Howe did not spend much of his early life in Bloomfield. He was engaged in business in Pittsburg and the ore districts of Lake Superior. He was a clerk in the provost office in Warren during the rebellion. He married Melvina Flowers and had nine children.
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When Ephraim Brown and Thomas Howe decided to come into New Connecticut, they expected to take up land near Cleveland, but the Cuyahoga River and the lakeshore seemed so dreary that they decided on Bloomfield. The family came in a chaise to Buffalo, then to Grand River in boats and by horseback to North Bloomfield.

Ephraim and Fayette Brown of North Bloomfield, Ohio
Elroy McKendree Avery, A History of Cleveland and Its Environs: The Heart of New Connecticut, Volume II, Biography (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918).

[413-414]

Ephraim Brown. The life of Ephraim Brown is of interest to Cleveland people for several reasons. He was never a resident of the city, though he was one of the pioneer founders and owners of the great Ohio Western Reserve, and during the first half century of its development he was not only a big factor in its material life and business affairs, but exemplified in a remarkable degree that idealism, love of liberty, and harmony between the conscience and will which have been among the finest products and contributions of Northern Ohio to the American nation. His sketch should also be read as a means of better interpreting the forces and character possessed and exemplified by his son, the late Fayette Brown, one of Cleveland's most distinguished citizens.

Ephraim Brown was born at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, October 27, 1775. He was the oldest of the ten children of Ephraim and Hannah (Howe) Brown. In many ways the family was typical of New England middle class people of the eighteenth century. His father had a small farm and by occasional outside labor at some mechanical pursuits was able to afford comfortable support to his family. He was a man of great sturdiness of character, but one virtue he pushed to excess and by going security for a friend lost all his property. After that he never regained his economic position. Ephraim Brown's mother was a woman of deep religious feeling, and she imparted it to her son.

When the financial calamity came Ephraim Brown, as the oldest son, became the chief support of the family. While necessity forced upon him responsibilities beyond his years, it served to develop in him an indomitable perseverance and a self reliance which were ever afterwards among his chief characteristics. But hard labor did not prevent him from seeking and obtaining access to much of the best culture of his day. He read good books, though books and libraries were not widely distributed when he was a young man, and he constantly sought the society of people whose worth rested upon character rather than artificial standards. His developing character is illustrated by many of his early letters which have been preserved. As was the custom of the time such correspondence was largely concerned with moral, religious and political discussions. The letters are important because they show that Ephraim Brown had a certain fearlessness and sincerity of thought and a tendency to reject the conventional prejudices unless they were ratified by his own thinking. He also showed a readiness to be convinced of error in the face of superior argument.

Very early in life he conceived a bitter hatred of the system of slavery, and that was one of the actuating principles of his subsequent career. In a letter he wrote in 1807 to a Southern relative who had tried to persuade young Brown to come South and improve the superior facilities there for making money, Mr. Brown questioned the method by which wealth might be acquired so rapidly by "commerce in human flesh" and added, "I have been taught from my cradle to despise slavery, and will never forget to teach my children if any I should have the same lesson.'' Other sentiments in that letter thirty years later were expounded and used in the public utterances of William Lloyd Garrison and other distinguished abolitionists. Ephraim Brown possessed his mother's earnestness of inward thought and feeling, and whatever religious disposition he had was made a deep part of him rather than a conventional robe of thought and emotion. He was quick and ready at all times to denounce evil vigorously, and some of his more conservative friends felt that he was too radical on this score. Due largely to his love of freedom and his habits of independent thought, he never became closely associated with societies of any kind.

For a number of years he applied himself industriously to the task of earning a living for himself and those dependent upon him, and in 1803 he engaged in merchandising in Connecticut with Thomas K. Green of Putney, Vermont. Mr. Green had charge of the business at Putney, while young Brown managed the branch store at Westmoreland. He remained a merchant there until he moved out to Ohio in 1815. While in Connecticut he represented his town in the Legislature several times. Soon after entering upon his individual business career, on November 9,1806, he married Miss Mary Huntington. She was the oldest daughter of Gurdon and Temperance (Williams) Huntington, and was born at Windham, Connecticut, August 29, 1787. While still a child her father and mother moved to Walpole, New Hampshire. Mrs. Ephraim Brown came from a talented family, and she herself possessed many qualities of both heart and intellect. Before her marriage she taught school. Her ancestors had come from England in 1639 and settled in Connecticut, and one of the family was Governor Samuel Huntington of Ohio.

In 1814 Ephraim Brown formed a partnership with his uncle, Thomas Howe. From Peter C. Brooks of Boston they bought township 7, range 4, in the Western Reserve of Ohio. This township has since taken the name of Bloomfield. In 1815 Mr. Brown brought his family out to the new possession. The journey required six weeks, and they arrived at the new home on July 16th. Some preparations had already been made for their comfort and support, but then and for years afterward they were face to face with the hardships and privations of pioneering on the edge of the western wilderness. Mr. Brown later assumed the burden of the debt consequent upon the partnership, and in a few years had fully discharged it. In 1819 the Ashtabula & Trumbull Turnpike Company was formed and chartered under the laws of Ohio. Ephraim Brown took an active part in pushing this enterprise, in spite of the tremendous obstacles in its way, and as much as any other man credit was due him for its successful completion. For many years he exercised a ceaseless care for the interests of the company and the preservation of the road. Through his influence a postoffice was established at Bloomfield. Within seven years after the first settlement in Bloomfield daily four-horse mail coaches passed through the place on the way to the lake or south to the Ohio River. In consequence land advanced in value, and the better class of settlers acquired many of the comforts and improvements to which they had been accustomed in the older states. After coming to Ohio Ephraim Brown served several terms in the General Assembly. In his younger days he was a Jeffersonian republican, and from first to last was an avowed abolitionist. He believed implicitly in the complete separation of the church and state, and he therefore strenuously opposed the efforts of a prominent religious sect in 1822 to dominate politics. He was long known as Colonel Brown. He had served as captain of a company of militia in New Hampshire, and afterwards was made governor's aide with the rank of colonel. Ephraim Brown in his social relations was distinguished for his kindness, benevolence and hospitality, and in his business transactions by prudence, promptness and integrity. He was the type of character such as any state or community might prize and might hold up as an example to coming generations.

Ephraim Brown died April 17, 1845, in the seventieth year of his life. His wife survived until January 26,1862. Their nine children, all now deceased, were: Alexander; George W.; Mary, who became the wife of Col. Joseph K. Wing; Charles; Elizabeth; James Monroe; Marvin Huntington ; Fayette; Anne Frances.

[414-416]

Fayette Brown. One of the vital elements entering into the making of Cleveland as a city was the establishment many years ago of the iron industry at this point where land and water meet and combine to make Cleveland a great transportation and industrial center. It is important to remember that the iron industry would not have been created without the energies, the foresight and the patient wisdom of men. Of the men chiefly responsible for this factor of Cleveland's growth perhaps the greatest was Fayette Brown. Not that his life did not mean more than its results in the upbuilding of Cleveland's iron interests. He was a great business man from whatever point of view considered, and he was not less great as a citizen, whose judgment was always true, whose public spirit was unlimited, and who, when all things are considered, left as his best monument the City of Cleveland itself, which in the final analysis is only an expression of the energies and spirit of a notable group of citizens, among whom Fayette Brown was by no means the least.

He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, December 17, 1823, and at the end of a long and useful life died at his home in Cleveland January 20, 1910. He was the eighth in a family of nine children. His parents were Ephraim and Mary (Huntington) Brown. Ephraim Brown was also a conspicuous character in his generation, and his name is the subject of a biography found on other pages of this publication.

Fayette Brown during his early youth had every incentive to develop his natural talents and abilities, and his father, realizing the value of an education, gave his children all the opportunities he could afford. Fayette Brown therefore attended the schools of Jefferson and Gambier, Ohio, but at the age of eighteen began an apprenticeship at business life as clerk in the wholesale dry goods establishment of his eldest brother at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was with that establishment as an employe until 1845, when the senior partner having retired he was admitted to the firm and for six years was one of its active managers.

Fayette Brown became a resident of Cleveland in 1851. Some months previously he had formed a partnership with the Hon. George Mygatt in the banking business. The firm of Mygatt & Brown, Bankers, is one best remembered in the history of banking in Cleveland. Mr. Mygatt retired in 1857 and Mr. Brown continued as a banker under his individual name until the outbreak of the Civil war. He closed his banking house and accepted an appointment from the president as a paymaster in the United States Army. His personal integrity and his experience as a banker gave him splendid qualifications for the heavy responsibilities of that work, but a year's illness and the demands of his private affairs compelled him to resign.

It was on his return to Cleveland that Mr. Brown became actively identified with the iron industry. As general agent and manager for the Jackson Iron Company he soon became known as one of the most capable iron masters of his day. He remained with the Jackson Iron Company until December, 1887. "While he possessed an exceptional general knowledge of business, Mr. Brown was not technically familiar with the iron industry when he took up his duties with the Jackson Iron Company. It was in keeping with his nature that he should embark enthusiastically upon this enterprise and should familiarize himself with every detail, practical and technical, connected with his work. His associates always envied his perseverance and his indomitable energy and resolution, and it was the impregnable resources of his personal character as much as anything else that accounted for the wonderful success of the Jackson Iron Company and which eventually fortified the iron industry in Cleveland beyond all danger of outside competition. While the operation of the business was exceedingly profitable to all concerned Mr. Brown from the first realized his responsibility to the city as well as to his stockholders, and the prosperity of the company was also the prosperity of the community. During the last half century the Middle West has developed no greater iron master than Fayette Brown.

Naturally he became identified with various kindred enterprises and was associated as a director or otherwise with some of Cleveland's best known business organizations. He was president of the Union Steel Screw Company, was chairman of the Stewart Iron Company, Limited, was president of the Brown Hoisting Machinery Company, of the National Chemical Company, the G. C. Kuhlman Car Company, and was a member of the firm H. H. Brown & Company, one of the large iron ore firms of the country. This company represented the Lake Superior Iron Company and the Champion Iron Company, handling the products of two of the largest iron mines in the Lake Superior region.

Mr. Brown was a member of the Union Club, the Golf and Country Clubs of Cleveland, the Castalia Club, the Winous Point Shooting Club, the Point Moullie Shooting Club, the West Huron Shooting Club, the Huron Mountain Shooting and Fishing Club, and the Munising Trout Club. To describe all the influences and activities of this notable Cleveland citizen would exceed the limits of this sketch, but something more should be said in a general way to give sharper definition to a sketch which will enable a later generation to picture this veteran iron master and citizen. His was a life from which nothing but good can follow, and a character that may well serve as an example for all that is highest and best in manhood and citizenship. While he attained a high degree of prosperity it was never gained at the cost of other men's success. He was also interested in everything for the good of Cleveland and the welfare of its people; was an advocate and practicer of healthy outdoor life, a keen sportsman, taking his vacations and recreation in shooting and fishing. He was an expert in all things pertaining to sportsmanship. Up to the age of eighty-five he spent many days in the duck marches belonging to the clubs of which he was a member and with as keen an interest and unerring an aim as he had always been noted for. He exemplified to a high degree that classic ideal of mens sana in corpore sano. When he worked it was with indefatigable energy. When he engaged in recreation he did so with as keen an appetite and vigor as when following his business affairs. He kept himself healthy in mind and body and spirit, and though he lived to be upwards of 87 years of age he never really retired and he came to the end of his life with scarcely a faculty diminished until the day of his final illness. At his funeral gathered notable men who had played important parts in making Cleveland the metropolis of Ohio, men who had been fellow workers with Fayette Brown, fellow builders of Cleveland, and they did honor to his memory as one of the greatest of them all and who had signally enriched and expanded his beloved city by his many enterprises.

On July 15, 1847, Fayette Brown married Miss Cornelia C. Curtiss of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Fayette Brown was born December 4, 1825, and died April 5, 1899. They were the parents of three sons and two daughters: Harvey Huntington Brown, whose part in Cleveland affairs is described elsewhere; Florence C. Brown, of Cleveland; Alexander E. Brown, a great inventor and manufacturer, who died at Cleveland April 26, 1911; William Fayette Brown, who died in 1891; and Mary L. Brown, of Cleveland.

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In 1814 Ephraim Brown of West Moreland, New Hampshire, and his uncle, Thomas Howe of Williamstown, Vermont purchased from Peter Chardon Brooks of Boston a tract of land five miles square in the northern part of what is now Trumbull
County. Howe and Brown were boyhood playmates since they were about the same age. “It is said that the first business transaction between the two took place when the uncle
and the nephew were both less than ten years of age. Howe rented a setting hen of Brown for the season; and at the expiration of the time agreed upon, returned the hen with half of the chickens.” In 1815 Howe sold his share of the township to Brown reserving 1,000 acres in the southern part for himself. Thus Ephraim Brown had to assume the responsibility of developing the area. He hired S.E. Ensign of Mesopotamia to survey the land -- no easy task on account of the swamps. The township was divided into 170 lots, containing 50 acres to 100 acres each, and named West Moreland, probably because Brown had
originally lived in West Moreland, New Hampshire. Later the name was changed to Bloomfield.

Ephraim married Mary Buckingham Huntington on 9 Nov 1806 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Mary (daughter of Gurdon Huntington and Temperance Williams) was born on 29 Aug 1787 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA; died on 26 Jan 1862 in North Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: , , , USA

Mehitable married Charles Carlton Thayer on 14 Aug 1803 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Charles was born on 14 Aug 1782 in Orange, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA; died on 23 Jan 1866 in Sheffield, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Westminster, Windham, Vermont, USA

Dorcas married Jonathan Winchester on 1 Dec 1812 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Jonathan (son of Jonathan Winchester and Eunice Smith) was born on 16 Feb 1787 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 11 Jul 1861 in Walpole, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1840, , Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Shelby, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1860, Barre, Orleans, New York, USA

Luther married Anna Burke on 25 Mar 1813 in , , New Hampshire, USA. Anna was born on 28 Sep 1785 in Westminster, Windham, Vermont, USA; died on 1 Feb 1836 in , Orleans, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, China, Wyoming, New York, USA
• Residence: 1860, China, Wyoming, New York, USA

Hannah married Isaac Dennis on 17 Mar 1804 in Arcade, Wyoming, New York, USA. Isaac was born on 2 Jan 1782 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; died on 30 Mar 1864 in Arcade, Wyoming, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1840, , Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA

Family/Spouse: Anna Brown. Anna was born about 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1830, Cambria, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1840, , Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1860, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1870, Ingersoll, Midland, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Ingersoll, Midland, Michigan, USA

George married Julia Stebbins on 29 Aug 1824 in , Monroe, New York, USA. Julia (daughter of Ashel Stebbins and Betsy Stebbins) was born on 16 Dec 1808 in , , Connecticut, USA; died on 6 Feb 1885 in Midland, Ingersoll, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1810, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1820, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1830, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1 Jun 1840, Roxbury, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA

Philander married Sarah White on 26 Nov 1807. Sarah was born on 24 Nov 1782 in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; died on 20 Jun 1866 in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in 1866 in Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Betsey married Captain John Wilson on 23 Nov 1809 in Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. John (son of Daniel Wilson and Abigail Morse) was born on 17 Jun 1778 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 3 Dec 1830 in Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; was buried in Dec 1830 in Four Corners Cemetery, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriet married Nathaniel Heaton on 20 Mar 1822 in Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Nathaniel (son of Jonathan Heaton) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1810, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA
• Residence: 1816, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA

Notes:

Silas worked as a clerk in Boston. He met and was recruited by Comfort Tyler to participate in the "Aaron Burr Expedition". He made it to Mississippi where all the group, including Burr, were arrested. Burr was acquitted of treason in 1807. Silas lived in Natchez, Mississippi for some years working as a clerk before he died in 1817. He corresponded with his cousin Ephraim Brown over the years leading up to his death. The letters were published in 1915 in "The Aaron Burr Expedition - Letters to Ephraim Brown from Silas Brown 1805-1815". A copy of this book is attached below.

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• Residence: 1850, Wayne, Noble, Indiana, USA

Mary married James Minott on 19 Apr 1812 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. James (son of Samuel Minott and Martha White) was born on 18 Feb 1788 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA; died on 18 Sep 1842 in Fredonia, Chautauqua, New York, USA; was buried in Fredonia, Chautauqua, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1820, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1840, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1850, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1870, Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, USA

Ephraim married Sally Sarah Reed in Aug 1814. Sally was born in 1796 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA; died on 25 Jan 1825 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ephraim married Sophia Eddey on 10 Sep 1826 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. Sophia was born about 1805 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA; died about 1840 in , , Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ephraim married Mary Keyes on 1 Nov 1843 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. Mary was born in 1808 in , , Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1820, Clark, Clinton, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 1830, Clark, Clinton, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 2 Sep 1835, , Allen, Indiana, USA; Land Patent, sections 8 & 21
• Residence: 1840, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 10 May 1848, , Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1849, , Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1850, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1 Jun 1865, Austin, Mower, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1870, Beaver, Fillmore, Minnesota, USA

Notes:

Laws of the state of Indiana, passed at the ... session of the General Assembly, by Indiana General Assembly.
Type: Journal, magazine: State or province government publication; English Publisher: Indianapolis : J.P. Chapman, 1853-1982.

CHAPTER CLXXV1II.
Aa met to incorporate the Albion and Lisbon Turnpike Company. [APPROVED FEBRUARY 12, 1851.]
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That Asa Brown, Leonard Myers, Jerome Sweet, William M. Clapp, and Alpheus Baker, of the county of Noble, and their successors in office duly elected as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of the Albion and Lisbon Turnpike Company, shall be able and capable in law and equity to sue and be sued, plead and be impleadunto in any and all courts of justice whatever, to make and use a common seal, and the same to alter, change, or renew at pleasure, and shall be able and capable in law to make contracts and enforce the same, and to make and enforce the necessary by-laws, rales and regulations to enable them to carry into effect the provisions of this act and the objects contemplated by the same, not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this State.

Asa Brown

d: 1876

Asa Brown, an early hotelkeeper, was born in Vermont, and married Lucy Baker, of Ohio. After their marriage they located in Indiana, where Asa was one of the contractors on the Wabash canal. After the completion of the canal he located in Noble county, purchased a tract of land, and founded the village of Lisbon. Here he also erected a hotel which he conducted for several years. In 1861 he removed to Alexandria, Minn., built and conducted a feed and flouring mill, and remained three years.

In 1864 he came to Austin, Minn., and purchased what afterward became the Lacy House. Three years later he sold out and purchased a farm in Fillmore county. After farming three years he came to LeRoy and engaged in the hotel business a year. Then he and his wife spent two years in Kentucky, afterward taking up their residence in Lansing township.

Here Asa Brown died in 1876 at the age of eighty-three years. His wife died in June, 1909, at the age of eighty-seven.

HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY, MN. 1911.

Asa married Caroline Baker on 8 Jul 1817 in Granville, Licking, Ohio, USA. Caroline (daughter of Timothy Baker and Prudence Brooks) was born in 1805 in Cornwall, Addison, Vermont, USA; died in 1840 in Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Asa married Lucy Baker on 14 Feb 1838 in , Saint Joseph, Indiana, USA. Lucy (daughter of Alpheus Baker and Adelia Burgess) was born on 21 Jun 1821 in , Licking, Ohio, USA; died in Jun 1909 in Lansing, Mower, Minnesota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mary Minott on 22 Jun 1815 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. Mary (daughter of Samuel Minott and Martha White) was born on 3 Dec 1794 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA; died on 12 Jan 1837 in Franklin Mills, Portage, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 1870, Akron, Summit, Ohio, USA

Charles married Julia Ann King on 19 Feb 1842 in , Warren, Ohio, USA. Julia (daughter of Leicester King and Julia Ann Huntington) was born on 7 Nov 1817 in Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, USA; died on 8 Jan 1885 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ephraim and Fayette Brown of North Bloomfield, Ohio
Elroy McKendree Avery, A History of Cleveland and Its Environs: The Heart of New Connecticut, Volume II, Biography (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918).

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Ephraim Brown. The life of Ephraim Brown is of interest to Cleveland people for several reasons. He was never a resident of the city, though he was one of the pioneer founders and owners of the great Ohio Western Reserve, and during the first half century of its development he was not only a big factor in its material life and business affairs, but exemplified in a remarkable degree that idealism, love of liberty, and harmony between the conscience and will which have been among the finest products and contributions of Northern Ohio to the American nation. His sketch should also be read as a means of better interpreting the forces and character possessed and exemplified by his son, the late Fayette Brown, one of Cleveland's most distinguished citizens.

Ephraim Brown was born at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, October 27, 1775. He was the oldest of the ten children of Ephraim and Hannah (Howe) Brown. In many ways the family was typical of New England middle class people of the eighteenth century. His father had a small farm and by occasional outside labor at some mechanical pursuits was able to afford comfortable support to his family. He was a man of great sturdiness of character, but one virtue he pushed to excess and by going security for a friend lost all his property. After that he never regained his economic position. Ephraim Brown's mother was a woman of deep religious feeling, and she imparted it to her son.

When the financial calamity came Ephraim Brown, as the oldest son, became the chief support of the family. While necessity forced upon him responsibilities beyond his years, it served to develop in him an indomitable perseverance and a self reliance which were ever afterwards among his chief characteristics. But hard labor did not prevent him from seeking and obtaining access to much of the best culture of his day. He read good books, though books and libraries were not widely distributed when he was a young man, and he constantly sought the society of people whose worth rested upon character rather than artificial standards. His developing character is illustrated by many of his early letters which have been preserved. As was the custom of the time such correspondence was largely concerned with moral, religious and political discussions. The letters are important because they show that Ephraim Brown had a certain fearlessness and sincerity of thought and a tendency to reject the conventional prejudices unless they were ratified by his own thinking. He also showed a readiness to be convinced of error in the face of superior argument.

Very early in life he conceived a bitter hatred of the system of slavery, and that was one of the actuating principles of his subsequent career. In a letter he wrote in 1807 to a Southern relative who had tried to persuade young Brown to come South and improve the superior facilities there for making money, Mr. Brown questioned the method by which wealth might be acquired so rapidly by "commerce in human flesh" and added, "I have been taught from my cradle to despise slavery, and will never forget to teach my children if any I should have the same lesson.'' Other sentiments in that letter thirty years later were expounded and used in the public utterances of William Lloyd Garrison and other distinguished abolitionists. Ephraim Brown possessed his mother's earnestness of inward thought and feeling, and whatever religious disposition he had was made a deep part of him rather than a conventional robe of thought and emotion. He was quick and ready at all times to denounce evil vigorously, and some of his more conservative friends felt that he was too radical on this score. Due largely to his love of freedom and his habits of independent thought, he never became closely associated with societies of any kind.

For a number of years he applied himself industriously to the task of earning a living for himself and those dependent upon him, and in 1803 he engaged in merchandising in Connecticut with Thomas K. Green of Putney, Vermont. Mr. Green had charge of the business at Putney, while young Brown managed the branch store at Westmoreland. He remained a merchant there until he moved out to Ohio in 1815. While in Connecticut he represented his town in the Legislature several times. Soon after entering upon his individual business career, on November 9,1806, he married Miss Mary Huntington. She was the oldest daughter of Gurdon and Temperance (Williams) Huntington, and was born at Windham, Connecticut, August 29, 1787. While still a child her father and mother moved to Walpole, New Hampshire. Mrs. Ephraim Brown came from a talented family, and she herself possessed many qualities of both heart and intellect. Before her marriage she taught school. Her ancestors had come from England in 1639 and settled in Connecticut, and one of the family was Governor Samuel Huntington of Ohio.

In 1814 Ephraim Brown formed a partnership with his uncle, Thomas Howe. From Peter C. Brooks of Boston they bought township 7, range 4, in the Western Reserve of Ohio. This township has since taken the name of Bloomfield. In 1815 Mr. Brown brought his family out to the new possession. The journey required six weeks, and they arrived at the new home on July 16th. Some preparations had already been made for their comfort and support, but then and for years afterward they were face to face with the hardships and privations of pioneering on the edge of the western wilderness. Mr. Brown later assumed the burden of the debt consequent upon the partnership, and in a few years had fully discharged it. In 1819 the Ashtabula & Trumbull Turnpike Company was formed and chartered under the laws of Ohio. Ephraim Brown took an active part in pushing this enterprise, in spite of the tremendous obstacles in its way, and as much as any other man credit was due him for its successful completion. For many years he exercised a ceaseless care for the interests of the company and the preservation of the road. Through his influence a postoffice was established at Bloomfield. Within seven years after the first settlement in Bloomfield daily four-horse mail coaches passed through the place on the way to the lake or south to the Ohio River. In consequence land advanced in value, and the better class of settlers acquired many of the comforts and improvements to which they had been accustomed in the older states. After coming to Ohio Ephraim Brown served several terms in the General Assembly. In his younger days he was a Jeffersonian republican, and from first to last was an avowed abolitionist. He believed implicitly in the complete separation of the church and state, and he therefore strenuously opposed the efforts of a prominent religious sect in 1822 to dominate politics. He was long known as Colonel Brown. He had served as captain of a company of militia in New Hampshire, and afterwards was made governor's aide with the rank of colonel. Ephraim Brown in his social relations was distinguished for his kindness, benevolence and hospitality, and in his business transactions by prudence, promptness and integrity. He was the type of character such as any state or community might prize and might hold up as an example to coming generations.

Ephraim Brown died April 17, 1845, in the seventieth year of his life. His wife survived until January 26,1862. Their nine children, all now deceased, were: Alexander; George W.; Mary, who became the wife of Col. Joseph K. Wing; Charles; Elizabeth; James Monroe; Marvin Huntington ; Fayette; Anne Frances.

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Fayette Brown. One of the vital elements entering into the making of Cleveland as a city was the establishment many years ago of the iron industry at this point where land and water meet and combine to make Cleveland a great transportation and industrial center. It is important to remember that the iron industry would not have been created without the energies, the foresight and the patient wisdom of men. Of the men chiefly responsible for this factor of Cleveland's growth perhaps the greatest was Fayette Brown. Not that his life did not mean more than its results in the upbuilding of Cleveland's iron interests. He was a great business man from whatever point of view considered, and he was not less great as a citizen, whose judgment was always true, whose public spirit was unlimited, and who, when all things are considered, left as his best monument the City of Cleveland itself, which in the final analysis is only an expression of the energies and spirit of a notable group of citizens, among whom Fayette Brown was by no means the least.

He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, December 17, 1823, and at the end of a long and useful life died at his home in Cleveland January 20, 1910. He was the eighth in a family of nine children. His parents were Ephraim and Mary (Huntington) Brown. Ephraim Brown was also a conspicuous character in his generation, and his name is the subject of a biography found on other pages of this publication.

Fayette Brown during his early youth had every incentive to develop his natural talents and abilities, and his father, realizing the value of an education, gave his children all the opportunities he could afford. Fayette Brown therefore attended the schools of Jefferson and Gambier, Ohio, but at the age of eighteen began an apprenticeship at business life as clerk in the wholesale dry goods establishment of his eldest brother at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was with that establishment as an employe until 1845, when the senior partner having retired he was admitted to the firm and for six years was one of its active managers.

Fayette Brown became a resident of Cleveland in 1851. Some months previously he had formed a partnership with the Hon. George Mygatt in the banking business. The firm of Mygatt & Brown, Bankers, is one best remembered in the history of banking in Cleveland. Mr. Mygatt retired in 1857 and Mr. Brown continued as a banker under his individual name until the outbreak of the Civil war. He closed his banking house and accepted an appointment from the president as a paymaster in the United States Army. His personal integrity and his experience as a banker gave him splendid qualifications for the heavy responsibilities of that work, but a year's illness and the demands of his private affairs compelled him to resign.

It was on his return to Cleveland that Mr. Brown became actively identified with the iron industry. As general agent and manager for the Jackson Iron Company he soon became known as one of the most capable iron masters of his day. He remained with the Jackson Iron Company until December, 1887. "While he possessed an exceptional general knowledge of business, Mr. Brown was not technically familiar with the iron industry when he took up his duties with the Jackson Iron Company. It was in keeping with his nature that he should embark enthusiastically upon this enterprise and should familiarize himself with every detail, practical and technical, connected with his work. His associates always envied his perseverance and his indomitable energy and resolution, and it was the impregnable resources of his personal character as much as anything else that accounted for the wonderful success of the Jackson Iron Company and which eventually fortified the iron industry in Cleveland beyond all danger of outside competition. While the operation of the business was exceedingly profitable to all concerned Mr. Brown from the first realized his responsibility to the city as well as to his stockholders, and the prosperity of the company was also the prosperity of the community. During the last half century the Middle West has developed no greater iron master than Fayette Brown.

Naturally he became identified with various kindred enterprises and was associated as a director or otherwise with some of Cleveland's best known business organizations. He was president of the Union Steel Screw Company, was chairman of the Stewart Iron Company, Limited, was president of the Brown Hoisting Machinery Company, of the National Chemical Company, the G. C. Kuhlman Car Company, and was a member of the firm H. H. Brown & Company, one of the large iron ore firms of the country. This company represented the Lake Superior Iron Company and the Champion Iron Company, handling the products of two of the largest iron mines in the Lake Superior region.

Mr. Brown was a member of the Union Club, the Golf and Country Clubs of Cleveland, the Castalia Club, the Winous Point Shooting Club, the Point Moullie Shooting Club, the West Huron Shooting Club, the Huron Mountain Shooting and Fishing Club, and the Munising Trout Club. To describe all the influences and activities of this notable Cleveland citizen would exceed the limits of this sketch, but something more should be said in a general way to give sharper definition to a sketch which will enable a later generation to picture this veteran iron master and citizen. His was a life from which nothing but good can follow, and a character that may well serve as an example for all that is highest and best in manhood and citizenship. While he attained a high degree of prosperity it was never gained at the cost of other men's success. He was also interested in everything for the good of Cleveland and the welfare of its people; was an advocate and practicer of healthy outdoor life, a keen sportsman, taking his vacations and recreation in shooting and fishing. He was an expert in all things pertaining to sportsmanship. Up to the age of eighty-five he spent many days in the duck marches belonging to the clubs of which he was a member and with as keen an interest and unerring an aim as he had always been noted for. He exemplified to a high degree that classic ideal of mens sana in corpore sano. When he worked it was with indefatigable energy. When he engaged in recreation he did so with as keen an appetite and vigor as when following his business affairs. He kept himself healthy in mind and body and spirit, and though he lived to be upwards of 87 years of age he never really retired and he came to the end of his life with scarcely a faculty diminished until the day of his final illness. At his funeral gathered notable men who had played important parts in making Cleveland the metropolis of Ohio, men who had been fellow workers with Fayette Brown, fellow builders of Cleveland, and they did honor to his memory as one of the greatest of them all and who had signally enriched and expanded his beloved city by his many enterprises.

On July 15, 1847, Fayette Brown married Miss Cornelia C. Curtiss of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Fayette Brown was born December 4, 1825, and died April 5, 1899. They were the parents of three sons and two daughters: Harvey Huntington Brown, whose part in Cleveland affairs is described elsewhere; Florence C. Brown, of Cleveland; Alexander E. Brown, a great inventor and manufacturer, who died at Cleveland April 26, 1911; William Fayette Brown, who died in 1891; and Mary L. Brown, of Cleveland.

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• Residence: , , , USA

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• Residence: 1850, Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1860, Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1870, Lima, Livingston, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Lima, Livingston, New York, USA

Jonathan married Fannie Brewster Wetherell on 14 Mar 1838 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Fannie was born on 1 Aug 1813 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 9 Feb 1894 in Corning, Steuben, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Soloman C Winchester
• Residence: , , , USA
• Residence: 13 Oct 1850, White Plains, Westchester, New York, USA

Salmon married Verona D Mann on 17 Sep 1850 in Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Verona was born in 1831 in Upton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1837, , Saint Clair, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1870, , Saint Clair, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1880, Lebanon, Saint Clair, Illinois, USA

Family/Spouse: Carrie Brown. Carrie was born about 1830 in , , New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Shelby, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1860, Barre, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1870, Gaines, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Gaines, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1892, , Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1910, Albion, Orleans, New York, USA

Mary married Clark Leonard on 23 Apr 1844. Clark (son of Daniel Leonard and Sally Mann) was born on 30 May 1821 in Dover, Windham, Vermont, USA; died on 23 Apr 1898 in Barre, Orleans, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1861, Lockport, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1870, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Ingersoll, Midland, Michigan, USA

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Lewis. Elizabeth was born on 18 Aug 1828 in Royalton, Niagara, New York, USA; died on 29 Mar 1900 in Ingersoll, Midland, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: , , Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1870, Richland, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Richland, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1900, Richland, Saginaw, Michigan, USA

Julia married Joseph Lewis in 1849 in Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA. Joseph (son of Oliver Lewis and Lucy Avery) was born on 25 Dec 1825 in Royalton, Niagara, New York, USA; died on 28 Apr 1906 in Richland, Saginaw, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA

Asahel married Janet Evans on 11 May 1854 in , Niagara, New York, USA. Janet (daughter of Lewis Evans and Anna Hoyt) was born on 25 Sep 1835 in Ridgeway, Orleans, New York, USA; died on 5 Dec 1911 in Thomas Township, Saginaw, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Ingersoll, Midland, Michigan, USA

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• Residence: 1850, Wayne, Noble, Indiana, USA

Family/Spouse: Jane Green. Jane was born on 28 Feb 1829 in Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA; died on 31 Aug 1857 in Kendallville, Noble, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: James Warner. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA
• Residence: 1855, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Relation to Head: Wife
• Residence: 1860, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA
• Residence: 1865, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1870, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Residence Post Office: Westfield
• Probate: 18 Jun 1895, , Kings, New York, USA

Mary married John Goddard Hinckley on 29 May 1843 in Fredonia, Chautauqua, New York, USA. John (son of Solomon Hinckley and Mercy Otis) was born on 27 Aug 1809 in Buckland, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA; died on 6 Mar 1869 in Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; was buried in Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Abby N Brown

Abigail married David Ransom Cobb on 4 Feb 1840. David was born on 30 May 1810; died on 2 May 1888 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA

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• Residence: 1850, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA

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• Residence: 1850, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Concord, Elkhart, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, New Lots, Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1895, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA

Notes:

1880 Federal Census
Benj. F. BROWN
Male
Other Information:
Birth Year <1827>
Birthplace OH
Age 53
Occupation Hotel Keeper
Marital Status M
RaceW
Head of Household Benj. F. BROWN
RelationSelf
Father's Birthplace VT
Mother's Birthplace ---
Source Information:
Census Place Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana

Benjamin married Helen Melissa Schutt on 9 Apr 1848 in Lisbon, Noble, Indiana, USA. Helen (daughter of Abraham Schutt and Electa Bruce) was born on 20 Sep 1831 in Yates, Orleans, New York, USA; died on 14 Dec 1912 in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, USA; was buried in Grace Lawn Cemetery, Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Barlow. Henry was born in 1828; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, Beaver, Fillmore, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1880, Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, USA

William married Martha Ann Carll on 22 Jun 1864. Martha was born in 1843 in Lyons, Ontario, New York, USA; died on 30 Oct 1933 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, New Lots, Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, , Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1900, New York, Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1910, Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Residence: 1920, West Hoboken, Hudson, New Jersey, USA

Miles married Emma L in 1875. Emma was born in Oct 1852 in New York, Kings, New York, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, Beaver, Fillmore, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1 May 1875, Lansing, Clinton, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Le Roy, Mower, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1 May 1885, Anoka, Anoka, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1900, Le Roy, Mower, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 12 Jun 1905, Le Roy, Mower, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1910, Le Roy, Mower, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1920, Le Roy, Mower, Minnesota, USA

Notes:

Charles B. Brown

b: 1849

Charles B. Brown, a prominent farmer of LeRoy township, was born in Noble county, Indiana, August 19, 1849, son of Asa and Lucy (Baker) Brown. He received his early education in Cold Springs, Ind., and at Austin, Minn., and then engaged in farming in Lansing and LeRoy townships until 1885, when he went to Anoka, Minn., and engaged in lumbering for some fourteen years.

In 1899 he returned to LeRoy township and engaged in farming on the Mason place in section 8, where he is now successfully engaged in diversified farming, making a specialty of Durham and Black Poll cattle.

Mr. Brown was married November 5, 1873, to Florence Mason, born in Rutland county, Vermont, May 12, 1856, daughter of Joseph and Lucinda (Freeman) Mason. This union has been blessed with three children: Jay R., born March 6, 1875, is manager of the North American telegraph in the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce; May, born July 16, 1880, is the wife of Charles Howe, of LeRoy village. Grace is the wife of Arthur J. Arnot, of Bismarck, N. D.


HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY, MN. 1911.

Charles married Florence L Mason in 1875. Florence (daughter of Joseph R Mason and Lucinda M Freeman) was born in May 1854 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Warren, Kentucky, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Warren, Kentucky, USA

William married Sarah Ann Ayer on 1 Jan 1849 in , Daviess, Kentucky, USA. Sarah (daughter of Alexander Outlaw Ayer, M.D. and Esther Durham Johnson) was born on 2 Jan 1829 in Kingston, Roane, Tennessee, USA; died on 25 Jan 1892 in Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1870, Akron, Summit, Ohio, USA

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• Residence: 1880, Lima, Livingston, New York, USA

Sarah married Benjamin Franklin Cary in 1874. Benjamin was born about 1833 in , , New York, USA; died in 1898 in Lima, Livingston, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1860, Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1900, Wellsville, Allegany, New York, USA

Charles married Mary Pengra on 22 Jul 1868 in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA. Mary was born in 1844 in Enfield, Tompkins, New York, USA; died in 1908 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Ella Jones on 6 Apr 1910 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Ella was born in 1856 in New York, Kings, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Elkland, Tioga, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1900, Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA
• Residence: 1910, Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA
• Residence: 1920, Deerfield, Tioga, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1930, Deerfield, Tioga, Pennsylvania, USA

Family/Spouse: Ellen Taylor. Ellen (daughter of Winslow Taylor and Mary) was born in Oct 1857 in , , Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eugene married Ella Jones in 1873. Ella was born in 1856 in New York, Kings, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Lebanon, Saint Clair, Illinois, USA

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• Residence: 1880, Lebanon, Saint Clair, Illinois, USA

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• Residence: 1880, Lebanon, Saint Clair, Illinois, USA

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• Residence: 1850, Shelby, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1860, Barre, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: 1900, Albion, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1910, Albion, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1920, Albion, Orleans, New York, USA

Clara married Henry S Harding in 1870. Henry was born on 29 Oct 1847 in Barre, Orleans, New York, USA; died on 1 Jul 1909 in Barre, Orleans, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1870, Kendallville, Noble, Indiana, USA

Mary married Frank Adams Caswell on 24 Jun 1868. Frank (son of Daniel Caswell and Phebe Russell) was born on 17 Apr 1848 in Fremont, Steuben, Indiana, USA; died on 2 Nov 1904 in Pleasant Lake, Steuben, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1855, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Relation to Head: Son
• Residence: 1865, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1870, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Residence Post Office: Westfield

John married Jennie Louise Flagler on 26 Apr 1876 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA. Jennie was born on 18 Mar 1855 in Bellevue, Huron, Ohio, USA; died on 25 Mar 1889 in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Teresa Driscoll on 17 Feb 1906 in Chelsea, London, London, England. Mary (daughter of Charles E Driscoll and Anna Josephine Smiley) was born on 2 Apr 1886 in Springfield, Clark, Ohio, USA; died on 19 Oct 1951 in N Elba, New York, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Grace Mary Lloyd
• Residence: 1855, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Relation to Head: Daughter
• Residence: 1865, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 1870, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Residence Post Office: Westfield
• Residence: 1900, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head: Wife
• Probate: 15 Oct 1904, , Kings, New York, USA

Grace married Dr Thomas Mortimer Lloyd on 6 Jun 1883 in Morristown, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA. Thomas (son of Ephraim Jacob Lloyd and Elizabeth Mulford) was born on 18 Feb 1855 in Salem, Salem, New Jersey, USA; died on 21 Aug 1936 in Bellport, Suffolk, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, Concord, Elkhart, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1880, Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1900, Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1910, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA

Eugene married Katherine Leach on 1 Jan 1876 in Bristol, Elkhart, Indiana, USA. Katherine was born in 1860 in , , Ohio, USA; died in 1951. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1900, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1910, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1920, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA

Family/Spouse: William F Reitze. William (son of Tobias Reitze and Gertrude) was born about 1852 in , , Maryland, USA; died on 14 Jan 1912 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1860, Concord, Elkhart, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, New Lots, Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1885, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1895, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1900, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1905, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1910, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1920, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1930, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA

Notes:

Buried:
SECTION 20 LOT 466 GRAVE 8

Ida married Reed Dante Smith on 30 Aug 1878 in Mason, Cass, Michigan, USA. Reed (son of Daniel C Smith and Melissa Munger) was born on 31 Jan 1851 in Springville, Lenawee, Michigan, USA; died on 3 Nov 1922 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA; was buried on 6 Nov 1922 in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1870, New Lots, Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, USA