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Also See Individual Townships for biographies.
ELMER E.
FERRIS, of Weathersfield township, Trumbull county who
is an enterprising farmer, residing on R. F. D. No. 2, and who also
is an extensive dealer in both sand and gravel, was born near
Ottawa, Canada, September 28, 1843, a son of Thomas Ferris,
who was reared and spent his entire life at and near Ottawa, Canada,
where he followed farming. He died when the son, Elmer E.,
was a child. The wife and mother was Frances (Elward)
Ferris, also of Canadian birth, where she spent her life.
In the family were two sons and four daughters, as follows:
Elizabeth, wife of Mathew Lonsdale, now deceased:
Sophia, wife of Hugh Gehan; Mary Ann,
wife of Alexander Cooper, now deceased; Catherine,
wife of Elmer Gehan; Robert B., who now lives at Ottawa,
Canada; and Elmer E.
Elmer E. Ferris was educated in the schools near
Ottawa, where he continued to reside until 1860, when he went to the
States, making the trip via Prescott, by rail, thence by boat to
Cleveland, Ohio. From that city he went to Mercer county,
Pennsylvania, where he was employed by the Mercer Coal and Iron
Company. Subsequently he embarked in the lumber business,
contracting lumber for the Erie Canal Extension Company.
In 1864 he removed to Trumbull county, Ohio. Upon
his arrival in Trumbull county he located at Warren, and there
engaged in the lumber trade, associated with Kirk, Christy & Co. for
four years, when he conducted the business for himself until
recently. He engaged in farming on a place having one hundred
and forty-eight acres, upon which he now resides, having lived there
thirty-two years ago and drove to Warren to attend to his lumber
business. Here he carries on a successful agricultural
business. But recently he has engaged in a new industry, that
of handling sand and gravel he having a pit on the own farm,
Which is also a portion of the Salt Springs tract, and a part of the
four thousand acre reserve.
In his political views Mr. Ferris is a stalwart
defender of Democratic principles, and in church fail a life-long
Episcopalian, in which faith his parents reared him.
September 8, 1875, he was married to Savilla Moser,
daughter of Cornelius Moser and wife, whose maiden name was
Adaline McKee, of Warren, whose father came to Trumbull county
at an early day from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Mrs.
Ferris received her education at the public schools of Warren,
Ohio. One child has blessed this union, Elward Leon,
born in 1898, now at home with his parents. |
| ASA FOOTE
was born in Fowler township, Trumbull County, Ohio, August 31, 1807.
The Foote family was among the earliest pioneers of the
county, and the fifth family that settled in Fowler township.
Levi Foote, father of Asa, moved with his family into
that township in 1800. He served in the War of 1812. It
is said that Lyda Foote (Barber), who died in the spring of
1880, was the first white female child born in Fowler. Asa
was the oldest son of Levi and Amelia (Allen) Foote, and he
distinctly recollects when the red men roamed through the forests of
Fowler. He married November 12, 1840, Mary Dickinson,
born in Connecticut, April 22, 1817, by whom he had six children.
Levi was a member of the Forty-first Ohio volunteer infantry,
and died in hospital January 23, 1862. Philip M. was a
lawyer by profession; died April 19, 1872. Curtis was a
member of the One Hundred and SEventy-seventh Ohio volunteer
infantry, and died at Nashville, Tennessee, February 27, 1865.
He was married to Orell Baldwin, December 31, 1868.
Lovilla died in infancy. Helen L. is the wife of
L. G. Spencer, of Hartford township, and has two children,
Bennie F. and Byron H. Auriel D., born September
27, 1857, wife of Frank E. Clark, resides on the home place.
Mr. Foote was kicked a number of years ago on the head, by a
horse, and severely injured, thirty pieces of broken bone being
taken out, since which time he has been almost totally deaf.
Mrs. Foote died March 15, 1872. |
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