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JONATHAN
HAINES, farmer; P. O. Alliance; was born in New
Jersey, Dec. 28, 1821, the only child born to Abraham and
Axey (Bryan) Haines, who lived to maturity.
Jonathan Haines, the grandfather of the subject of these
notes, was a native of New Jersey, who with his family moved
to Ohio and settled in Columbiana Co., in 1802.
Abraham (Jonathan R.'s father), was then a lad about 6
years old, and grew up to manhood in the pioneer days of
Columbiana Co. Here he formed the acquaintance of
Axey Bryan, a young lady who came from New Jersey to
Ohio on a visit to some friends, which led to matrimonial
alliance, and after their marriage they began farming and
clearing up their home. Some time later they paid a
visit to the parents of his young wife, in New Jersey, and
while there Jonathan R. was born. They returned
to their home in Ohio, and continued to farm.
Jonathan R. was reared to farming and its kindred
pursuits. Sept. 28, 1841, he married Sarah Grant,
daughter of John Grant, who emigrated from New
Jersey, and settled where Mr. Haines now resides, in
1811, and remained in this place until his death which
occurred in 1854. The latter part of his life was
spent with Mr. and Mrs. Haines, as they came to his
old homestead in 1852. They have five children living
viz - J. Columbus; T. Foster; Charles B., of Warren,
O.; Alma G., now Mrs. T. Lingo of Warren, and
Florence A., at home. Mr. Haines'
ancestors were of the Society of Friends, but in his
religious views he is unsectarian. Politically, he
early in 1842, espoused the anti-slavery cause, which was a
most unpopular cause at that time. Believing that the
Republican party had fulfilled its destiny, he withdrew from
its ranks, and affiliated with the liberal Democracy, which
nominated Horace Greeley in 1872. He attended
the convention in Cleveland, which nominated John C.
Fremont for President in 1864. Mr. Haines
has been a member of the Board of Education of Alliance for
several years,, and is a member of the I. O. O. F. e
is one of those men who are favored with that most valuable
and desirable gift, common sense, is pleasant and
unassuming, and at all times the same, yet a man of clear
and well-defined views.
Source 1 : History of Stark County: with an outline sketch of
Ohio - Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881 -
Page 727 |
| GEORGE
W. HALL, Navarre; was born in Sugar Creek Twp., Stark
Co., Ohio, May 21, 1830. He is a son of Samuel and
Susan Hall, appropriate mention of whom is made in the
biographical part of Sugar Creek Twp. George W.
was reared on a farm, receiving a common-school education.
At the age of 21 he left home and came to Navarre, where he
engaged as a clerk in the dry goods store of Harmon V.
Beeson, and with whom he remained some two years. At the
end of that time he undertook the management of the
co-operative store of the Farmers' and Mechanics'
Association, which he successfully carried on about three
years. He then went to New Bedford, where for one year
he was in the employ of James Bell. At the end
of that time his employer failed, and Mr. Hall was
appointed assignee. After straightening up matters at
this point, he and his brother-in-law, John E. Clark,
entered into the dry goods business in Millersburg.
After two years Mr. Hall sold his interest in the
store to his partner, and then formed a partnership with
Goshorn & Rose, in dry goods at Navarre. In 1861
he commenced buying horses, afterward selling them to the
Government, and after four years began dealing in live
stock, tinware, stoves, etc. For the past fifteen
years he has dealt quite extensively in grain of all kinds,
and his present annual business amounts to about 50,000
bushels. Mr. Hall has been quite successful as
a grain-merchant, his whole attention at present being
directed to the grain business. He owns 80 acres of
land in Sugar Creek Twp. where his family reside. In
politics Mr. Hall is a Republican, and he is a member
of the I. O. O. F. He was married Dec. 25, 1855,
to Miss Rebecca Miller, and has a family of seven
children - Lilly, Viola, Arthur, Eva M., George H.,
Myrtle and Ernest M. |
JOHN W. HARTZELL.
Canton is the home of a large number of enterprising
business men, whose sturdy ambition and keen foresight have
been the means of promoting the material welfare of the
city. Their labors have resulted in the advancement of
the place, until it now ranks among the best cities of the
State, a city of wealth and commercial standing, no less
than educational and religious prominence. A list of
the prominent men must necessarily include the name of
Mr. Hartzell, who, although still a young
man, has attained to success in his chosen profession.
Born in Adams County, Pa., Dec. 4, 1852, our subject is the
son of Henry and Mary L. (Johns) Hartzell,
natives of the county in which his eyes first opened to the
light. In the spring of 1853, they removed to Ohio and
located in Stark County, where the father carried on the
trade of plasterer and brick mason, his farm being six miles
south of Canton. The mother passed from earth in 1875,
and his father closed his eyes to the scenes of time in
1892. They were worthy and upright and their children
hold their memory in reverence.
The parental family consisted of five sons and one daughter,
as follows: John W., Charles H., James D.,
Elden E., Franklin, and Frances K.,
wife of Joseph Howerstock, of Stark County.
The one in whom we are particularly interested in about six
months old when he came to Stark County with his parents,
and his education was received in the country schools.
He learned the trade of plasterer and brick mason with his
father, in whose employ he worked until eighteen years old.
Later, he worked for parties in Ft. Wayne, Ind., and other
places. Since 1880, he has been doing contracting on
his own account, and has his residence and shop at No. 276
Navarre Street, in Canton. In the erection of many of
the finest buildings of the city, he has been interested,
and among others took the contracts on the Dannemiller
Block, the Liberty Schoolhouse, the residences of J.
Eberhardt. and C. Sherrick, the
Odd Fellows' building, and numerous other structures.
His position is one of prominence among other contractors of
the city and county, and he has gained an enviable
reputation as a reliable workman.
The pleasant home in which Mr. Hartzell
resides, and which he purchased by means of his unaided
efforts, is presided over by his amiable wife, to whom he
was married in 1876. She was Miss Ida M.,
daughter of Christian Sherrick, and is a
lady whose many noble attributes of character have won for
her the regard of all her acquaintances. Three
children have blessed the union: Nora L., William
A., and Clarence S. Mr. and Mrs. Hartzell are
prominent members of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal
Church, and contribute generously of their time and means to
the aid of all worthy projects. Politically, he is a
Prohibitionist.
Source 2:
Portrait &
Biographical Record of Stark County, Ohio - Chicago - Chapman Bros. - 1892
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| JOHN
HILL, retired merchant; Middle Branch; was born in
Baltimore Co., Md., May 1, 1816. His youth was spent
on the farm of his father, Richard Hill, who came to
Stark Co. in 1818. Young Hill lived at home
until he was 21 years of age. He then began to work at
the shoemaker's trade, and worked at the same business for
several years. In 1839 he took charge of a dry goods
store in New Berlin, for a Canton merchant. This
lasted but one year. The following year he began
business for himself, and continued for three years.
He then built the New Berlin hotel, and was engaged in
farming. He removed to Middle Branch, and was engaged
in mercantile pursuits for about eight years. In 1881
he removed one-half mile north to the village of Middle
Branch, the post-office being removed at that time. In
1841 he married Margaret Smith, who bore him eight
children, of whom the following are living, viz: - John
S., George W., Vincent and Lewis L. The
last named three were engaged in the mercantile business at
Middle Branch, and the youngest son, J. B., is in
Canton. |
| DANIEL
HOFFMAN, Justus. The present Railroad Agent,
Postmaster and Grain Dealer of Justus is above-mentioned
gentleman, who is a native of Sugar Creek Twp., born Feb. 7,
1838, being the eldest of a family of three children.
He was raised to agricultural pursuits, remaining under the
parental roof until 23 years of age, when he started in
business on his own account and engaged in farming. In
Nov., 1861, he married Selecta Putman, who was born
in this Township in 1844, daughter of
Andrew Putman.
He has three children - Mary A., now the wife of
P. A. McFarren, this township; Ada May and
Winfield C. He was commissioned Postmaster in the
fall of 1874, and has since served in that capacity and
Railroad Agent and being dealing in grain since his
occupancy of the office. He is also engaged in
farming, having about 100 acres. His parents were
Daniel and Catharine (Cordier) Hoffman. He was
born Mar. 5, 1810, in Germany, and emigrated to this
township in 1829, with his father, whose name was Daniel,
and who purchased 80 acres of land in Sugar Creek Twp., and
improved the same; but afterwards sold it to his son
Daniel, and moved to Adams Co. where he died. He
had four children born to him - Daniel, Peter, Jacob
and Eve. Daniel, the father of our subject,
remained on the home farm until 1856, when he moved into the
southwest part of Tuscarawas Twp., purchasing a farm, and he
resides there. His wife died in 1879. Three
children - Daniel Christopher and Mary A. were born
them. Christopher resides in Wooster, Wayne
Co., Mary A. is the wife of Oliver Brenniger
of Wayne Co. Our subject owns and occupies the same
land first settled by his grandfather, who was a Democrat,
and a member of the Reformed Church. His son
Daniel, the subject of these lines, is a good
Republican. |
| CLAYTON
HOLL, coal and lime operator and farmer; P. O. New
Berlin; is a son of Jacob and Rachel Holl, whose
sketch appears in this work. Clayton was born
in Plain Twp., Stark Co., Ohio, April 4, 1849. He
attended the common schools and the Greensburg Academy,
where he procured a good education, after which he returned
to the old homestead, where he remained until he was 25
years of age. He then purchased 56 acres of land,
where he now resides, the land being made valuable by the
amount of coal and limestone it contains, which Mr. Holl,
for the last few years, has been developing quite
extensively. In 1874 he was united in marriage to
Samantha J., daughter of David Hess, of Stark Co.
Form that marriage there have been born four children. |
MARTIN
HOUSER, farmer and stock-dealer; P. O. Barryville;
the date of the Houser family's advent in Stark
County is not definitely known, but from some of the
earliest settlers the writer of this biography has learned
that it must have been somewhere about the year 1810.
Martin Houser was born in Nimishillen Twp., in
October, 1826. He is one in the following family born
to Daniel and Mary (Hoover) Houser- Esther, John,
Magdalena, Anna, Cahtarine, Martin, Lydia, Daniel, Barbara
and Jacob. The father of these was a son of
Martin Houser, who was a native of Pennsylvania.
One of the interesting episodes in the life of this
gentleman, was that while he was with his father and two
brothers, chopping in the woods at one time, they were
surprised by the Indians. His father and two brothers
fled and escaped, but Martin stood is ground bravely,
and was captured. The Indians took him with them, and
young Houser remained four years a captive among
them. He then made his escape, and went back to
Pennsylvania, and from there to Stark Co., locating on the
farm now owned by S. P. Wilson in Nimishillen Twp.
They erected in 1831, about the first brick house in the
township, the mortar for which was mixed very differently
from what it is now - that is, by horses tramping it.
Our subject's parents were Dunkards, religiously. The
mother died in the fall of 1837, and the father in the
spring of 1838. They were of the old pioneer class of
people, hardy, honest and respected people. Martin
Houser was reared on the farm, receiving but a limited
education. He was married in 1852, to Mary Aur
of Lexington Twp. By her he has had six children:
Aaron A., Phoebe A., deceased, Marietta, Benton,
Frances and Charles. Marietta is the only
one married; she is the wife of Aaron Slusser, who is
the present principal of the Harrisburgh schools.
Mr. Houser commenced dealing in stock soon after his
marriage, and after a time in wool. He now lives in
Nimishillen Twp., and owns 210 acres of land in Stark Co.,
the most of which he has acquired through his own exertions.
He started with but $200, and is now worth about $30,000.
Mr. Houser is also a partner in the first-class
butcher shop in Canton. He is a Republican in
politics, and is one of the leading citizens of his
township.
Source 1 : History of Stark County: with an outline sketch of
Ohio - Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881 -
Page 906 |
HENRY
HOUTZ is well known and honored in Stark County, not
only as a representative of the family whose name has been
connected with this portion of Ohio from the very earliest
days of its settlement to the present, but for the part he
has taken in its development and for his worth as a man and
a citizen. He is one of the prominent and wealthy
farmers of Canton Township, where he has a well-regulated
farm of eighty-five acres on section 2. He is a native
of the county, born here in pioneer times Dec. 24, 1843, on
his father's homestead on section 23.
He of whom we write from early boyhood has been engaged
in agricultural pursuits and has borne an honorable part in
developing the farming interests of this township, and now
is the proprietor of an excellent farm. He received
the rudiments of his education in the district school, but
gained the greater part of his knowledge by reading and
experience. When twenty-three years of age, he began
life for himself, and Sept. 10, 1865, was married to Miss
Susannah L. Brenner who was born Sept. 11, 1844, in
Lancaster County, Pa. They became the parents of one
child, a daughter, Mary who married Albert Eigher
and resides in Canton.
After his marriage, Mr. Houtz of this sketch
rented land for a time, and after living for five years on
the old Brenner homestead came to this section in
1874, where he purchased land, and the following year built
his present large brick residence and barn, the latter of
which is 75x44 feet in dimensions. His estate is
pleasantly located just two miles from the Court House and
is in a good condition as regards its tillage and
productiveness. Mr. Houtz is a man of
progressive ideas and good business ability, to which is
added an amount of energy which carries his enterprises
forward rapidly, and which has increased his worldly
prosperity. He is engaged in mind farming and enjoys a
high personal standing throughout the county, and has many
true friends among his fellow-citizens, with whose interests
his own have been identified for so long a period.
Politically, our subject is a Republican, but in all
local issues votes independently. In an early day, he
operated a threshing-machine on the ground that is now
occupied by buildings in the heart of Canton, and has thus
been an eye-witness of the wonderful development of this
section, which he has aided to bring about by hard labor.
He has always displayed a zealous interest in the welfare of
his township, and his honesty and truthfulness have never
been questioned, and in all business transactions his word
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