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MASON GIBBS, retired, P. O.
Deerfield, was born in Worceser County, Mass., in 1801; son of Dolphin and
Asineth (Fay) Gibbs. The family removed to Cheshire County, N. H.,
where the parents died. Our subject was removed to Cheshire County, N. H.,
where the parents died. Our subject was married, Oct. 31, 1835, to Miss
Mary, daughter of Charles Reed, who died June 19, 1880, the mother of
two children, and of whom the only survivor is Julia, who is living at
home and caring for her aged father. Mr. Gibbs came West in 1828,
and located at Strongsville, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio; from there he moved to
Deerfield, this county, in 1831, and entered into mercantile trade in same year.
This he carried on successfully until 1871, and was also largely interested in
stock growing. As the close of his mercantile career his store was
converted late into a dwelling, one of the neatest and most commodious in the
township. Mr. Gibbs retired from all active pursuits in 1883.
He is Trustee in the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he has been long
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THOMAS W. GILSON, farmer, P. O.
Atwater, was born in Oil Creek Township, Crawford County, Penn., in 1823; son of
William and Mary (Lafferty) Gilson, natives of Pennsylvania, both now
deceased. Of their children, John, Alice, Peter, Margaret and
Thomas W. are now living. Our subject spent the greater part of his
life in his native county, and has always been a farmer by occupation. He
was married, in 1846, to Miss Cynthia Fowler, a native of Crawford
County, Penn., who died January 19, 1876, the mother of five children, viz.:
M. H., M. W., L. A., A. T. and E. L., who have been his life.
In 1865 Mr. Gilson purchased and settled on his present estate,
comprising 120 acres, now one of the best cultivated farms in Atwater Township.
He and his family are highly respected in this community. |
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JOHN GOULD, of Aurora Township,
Portage County, the gentleman here introduced, a well known citizen of Aurora,
is now in his forty second year, having been born in Twinsburg, Ohio, in 1844,
of New England parentage. His father, John W. Gould came from
Vermont to Ohio in 1837, and his mother, whose maiden name was Eliza Post,
from Saybrook, Conn., removed to Ohio with her parents in 1821. Mr.
Gould and Miss Post were married in 1839, which
relation was broken in 1882, when the beloved mother died, leaving besides her
husband, three children: John, Aaron, and Ettie. In
1848 the family removed to Aurora, where they resided an unbroken family until
1879. John, the subject of this sketch, led much the life of any
farmer's son, going to township schools, and for several winters was under the
tutorship of the Rev. Joseph S. Graves; being of a very studious turn of
mind, he added to his limited school advantages a general fund of information
gleaned from an extended reading of books, magazines and the best papers.
In 1870, Mr. Gould became locally connected with the Cleveland Herald,
and in 1873 was advanced to the position of traveling agent of the paper.
The year following he became a staff correspondent, and in that capacity made
extended tours, his travels in one year alone taking him into nearly a score of
States. When the temperance movement known as the "Woman's Crusade" began,
Mr. Gould was delegated by his paper to report it, and for over three
months this was his exclusive duty, his observations taking him to nearly every
corner of the State. In 1879 Mr. Gould was married to Miss Helen
Ferris, only daughter of Dr. Osman Ferris of Mantua, Ohio.
Giving up journalism, they located at Aurora Station, Ohio, and farming became
his occupation, but in 1880, upon the reorganization of the editorial staff of
the Herald, he again became connected with the editorial force of that
paper, with special assignment to its agricultural department, though his pen
furnished many columns to other departments, and many long journeys were
taken as a "special correspondent." The same year by urgent solicitation,
Mr. Gould also became dairy editor of the Ohio Farmer, and for
years his writings for that journal over the pseudonym of "Sam," have been
widely read. When Secretary Chamberlain of Columbus, organized the
lecture course known as "Farmer's Institutes," Mr. Gould was early
assigned to a prominent place as a special lecturer upon dairy and kindred
subjects, and during the winters of 1882-83 and 1884, he has visited nearly
every part of the State in that capacity. While rarely ever speaking of
the extent of his literary work, it is known that he is a frequent contributor
to the better class of farm journals, and his writings are sought for, from East
to West, by such papers as in New York Tribune, Rural New Yorker, Country
Gentleman, Coleman's Rural, Prairie Farmer, etc. With the
disappearance of the Herald in 1885, Mr. Gould was promptly
offered a position upon the editorial staff of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mr. and Mrs. Gould have always resided at Aurora Station, where they
assert they shall always continue to reside, and in the future as in the past,
welcome their many friends to the hospitalities of their home. |
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