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WILLIAM H. HANNOLD
- Among the many prominent and successful agriculturists now living in Portage
county who claim their nativity within its borders, stands William H. Hannold,
for many years a well known business man of Rootstown township. He was
born in Edinburg township. He was born in Edinburg township, October 15,
1845, to Joseph and Catherine (Huffman) Hannold, from New Jersey and
Pennsylvania respectively, and he is a grandson of John and Rachel (McWain)
Hannold and William and Christena (Mauny) Huffman. John
Hannold was an ocean sailor and he was married in New Jersey, and the
maternal grandparents were from Pennsylvania. In the latter commonwealth
Joseph Hannold and Catherine Huffman were married, and coming to Stark
county, Ohio, they soon afterward located in Edinburg township, Portage county,
and after eight years sold their land there and Mr. Hannold came with his
father-in-law to Rootstown township. He bought the shares of the remaining
heirs in the latter's estate, and lived here until his death in 1880. His
wife had died in 1865.
William H. Hannold was their only child, and he
has always made his home on the old Hannold estate here, attending
meanwhile the graded schools and Mt. Union College one year. He came into
possession of the farm of sixty-eight acres at his father's death, and he is
extensively engaged in general farming and stock-raising, raising Shorthorn
cattle, horses and sheep. He marred, in October of 1869, Mary
Chittenden, who was born in Randolph township, a daughter of John and
Sarah (Filly) Chittenden. Their three children are: Curtis
L., married first, Winifred Evans, and second, Nine Sewal, and
resides in Brewster county, Texas; Elva G., wife of Frank Gunder,
of Edinburg, Ohio; Cora A., wife of Edward Robb, of Alliance, this
state. The wife and mother died October 28, 1899, and for his second wife
Mr. Hannold married, on March 19, 1903, Ada Huffer, born in
Columbiana county, this state. This one child of this union is Grace E.,
born May 29, 1905. Mr. Hannold has been a member of the Christian
church since 1865. He votes with the Prohibition party, and he has served
his township two terms as a trustee.
(Source: History of The Western Reserve - Vol.
III by Harriet Taylor Upton - Publ. 1910, page
1278) |
Here is a sketch of the Hart Furniture Dealership in Kent, OH. owned
by Betty Patterson's Great Grandfather, John Homer Hart and which she
titled
"THE PROPRIETORS"
John Homer Hart was in partnership with his Uncle John M Hart.
They owned this Furniture Dealership in Kent, Portage, OH.
The last I heard, the building is still standing in 2005 though it is no
longer used as a furniture store.
John M Hart, born 1809 in Vermont, removed to Ohio in about 1830 and
met and married Cecelia P. Preston in 1835. John M. died in Franklin
Township, Portage, OH in 1877.
John Homer Hart, born 1842 in Ohio, married 1) Francelia Sawyer
in 1870. After her death in 1889, he remarried Cora B,. Wadsworth. John
Homer died 1916 in Ravenna, Portage, OH and is buried in the Standing Rock Cemtery
in Kent, Portage, OH.
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SAMUEL F. HICKOX, retired
farmer, Aurora, was born in Hartford County, Conn., Sept. 9, 1810; son of
Josiah and Betsey (Forward) Hickox, who were the parents of four children:
Josiah V.; Betsey, wife of Marcus Taylor; Samuel F., and
Chauncey, deceased in 1836. Josiah Hickox, a native of
Watertown, Conn., was born Aug. 22, 1777, a son of Ebenezer Hickox, a
soldier in the Revolutionary War, who was descended from one of three brothers,
natives of England, who immigrated to America to the early part of 1700.
The father of our subject came with his family to Aurora Township, this county,
in 1818, and here engaged in farming until his death, which occurred Aug. 2,
1840. His widow, who survived him until Jan. 15, 1885, was born in Granby,
Conn., June 18, 1787, daughter of Samuel and Susanna (Holcomb) Forward,
also natives of Granby, Conn., who came to Aurora Township, this county, in
1803, and here died, the father in 1821, and the mother in 1830. Samuel
F. Hickox was reared on a farm, and received a common school education.
In 1840 he was married to Miss Emily Blair, born in Aurora, Nov. 21,
1816, and died Jan. 20, 1884, leaving four children: Oliver, Walter G., Henry
M. B. and Olivia, wife of Albert Sheldon. Mr. Hickox is
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HILLYER, HOMER,
retired, was born in Deerfield Township, this county, November 17, 1815; son of
Daniel and Charity (Loomis) Hillyer, natives of Southwick, Mass. The
family, along with a colony of seventy-five persons, embarked for the West in
1815, and were forty-four days on the road, settling in this county during
October, 1815. Daniel Hillyer was a farmer and did considerable
surveying in Atwater and Randolph Townships. Of the six children born to
him and his wife three are now living: Homer, Joseph T. and Edwin,
the two younger now residents of Dodge County, Wis. Homer Hillyer
was brought up on a farm and was married, June 11, 1845, to Miss Hannah
Cooney, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, who died January 17, 1865,
without issue. He was married, on second occasion, September 6, 1865, to
Miss Celinda C. Crail, born in Beaver County, Penn. Mr. Hillyer
was appointed station agent at Atwater on the C. & P. R. R. at the time it was
being one of the oldest agents on the road, and retired to enjoy the well-earned
results of his labors. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal
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CHESTER R.
HOWARD, farmer and mechanic, P. O. Aurora Station, was born Feb. 3, 1812,
in Hartford Conn.; son of Freeman and Eunice A. (Risley) Howard, natives
of Hartford, Conn., and a descendant of TGhomas and Susanna Howard, who
emigrated from England to America, and settled in Ipswich, Mass., in the year
1634. Freeman Howard, subject's father, was born in 1789; was a
carriage maker by trade, and in 1828 came to Aurora and erected and controlled a
saw-mill and grist-mill. He died in Chardon, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1867. His
wife was born June 15, 1788, died June 26, 1866, at Chardon, also. They
were the parents of the following children: Freeman, Jr., Chester
Risley, Eliza, Celestia and Julius Field. Our subject remained
at home during his minority, assisting his father in farming and in the saw
mill. In 1846 he bought the property his father had first owned in Ohio,
and has since continued to occupy it. He has been twice married, on first
occasion to Harriet Benjamin, who died July 10, 1864, leaving the
following children: Emerett, Emerson, Elmira and Eliza. He
subsequently, Sept. 7, 1865, married Harriet, daughter of Robert and
Rhoda (Henry) Root. Mr. Howard has always quietly and
assiduously devoted himself to his private affairs, except when he has
been called by the citizens of his township from time to time to discharge the
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ELISHA HURD,
(deceased) was born Mar. 10, 1822, in Aurora Township, Portage County, Ohio, son
of Hopson and Betsey (Lacy) Hurd, who had a family of seven children:
Maria, wife of P. H. Babcock, of Cleveland, Ohio; Elilsha; Hopson;
Eliza, wife of S. C. Greene; Frank; Cornelia, wife of J. E.
Williams, and a daughter deceased. About 1815 Hopson Hurd,
accompanied by Roman Humphrey, came over the mountains with a stock of
goods and embarked in business in Aurora. Mr. Humphrey in a short
time withdrew from the firm, and the business was then carried on for many years
by Mr. Hurd alone. He accumulated a large fortune and died in
Aurora in 1869. The subject of this sketch was reared and educated in
Aurora Township, and here married, Oct. 13, 1852, Louisa Williams, born
in Newark Valley, N. Y., May 13, 1830, daughter of Stephen Williams,
of Tioga County, N. Y. Four children were born to this union:
Eliza, wife of Frank Aldrich, in Cleveland, Ohio; C. Williams;
Fred S.; and McClellan, also in Cleveland. Mr. Hurd
remained at home assisting his father on the farm until he was twenty nine years
of age, when he engaged in cattle dealing on his own account, and about 1857, in
company with his brother Frank, embarked in mercantile trade, and at the
same time attended to his dairy, live stock and farming interests. This
firm continued until the death of Elisha, when Frank carried on
the business until 1879, and the sold out to Fred and William S.,
sons of Elisha Hurd. Mr. Hurd was a Republican
in politics. By industry, fact and perseverance he accumulated
considerable property, and owned over 700 acres of land at the time of his
death, June 17, 1868. |
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