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Source: 
A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio
by Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren - Vol. II - Illustrated
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
1909

  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, Sept. 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.
     Sept. 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.
Source:  A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 - Page 346 ok
  GEORGE B. FRAZIER, one of the enterprising agriculturists of Liberty township, Trumbull county, was born Oct. 23, 1843, on the farm where he now lives.  His father, George Franzier, Sr., was born and reared in Hubbard, Ohio, and he was the son of William Frazier, of Scotch descent.  George, Sr., was reared to farm work and educated at the district school at Hubbard.  He commenced his active career as a tiller of the soil and always carried on general farming operation.  Politically, he was first a Whig and later a Republican.  In church relations he was a member of the Evangelical Association, in which church he was a faithful class leader and Sunday school superintendent.  He married Melinda Hoffman, daughter of Isaac Hoffman and wife Susanna, who lived in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where Melinda was born.  When fourteen years of age she accompanied her parents to a point about fourteen miles west of Pittsburg, remained there two years and went to Trumbull county, locating in Liberty township, which was then a wilderness.  Melinda (Hoffman) Frazier had many thrilling experiences in those days.  She had no brothers, and consequently it fell to her lot to help in the field.  When sixteen years of age she would work all day in the field and then milk nine cows, and if there was churning to do would perform that ever-irksome task before bedtime.  Late one evening she had finished her work at the springhouse and started to the house, which she found locked, her parents supposing her in bed.  She opened a window and had hardly closed it when she heard the cry of a panther just outside.  Luckily, she escaped an attack from this most dangerous of wild animals.
     Mr. and Mrs. Frazier had seven children.  They were as follows:  Mary, who died in infancy; John H.; William H.; Isaac R., drowned while in the army; George B., of this notice; Elvira; Julia H., now residing with George B.  All are dead but George B. and Julia H.  The father died December 29, 1885.
     George B. Frazier, the fourth child in order of birth, was educated at the public schools of Liberty township.  He remained single and was for some time a member of the Ohio National Guard, later enlisting in the One Hundred and Seventy-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, being a member of Company D, where he served until the close of the war.  He was at the battle of Kellars Ridge, Kentucky, against General Morgan, the famous cavalry raider.  The Union troops, being outnumbered, were surrounded and captured.  He now holds in sacred keeping his honorable discharge from both the National Guard and the Union army as a soldier of the great civil conflict, together with a letter, or rather certificate of thanks, from President Lincoln, of which he is justly proud.  Politically, he is a stanch Republican, while in church faith he is of the Evangelical Association, in Which church he has served as class leader, Sunday school and a teacher in the same.  Mr. Frazier carries on general farming, having sixty-five acres under cultivation.
     His sister, Julia H. Frazier, was born Feb. 19, 1849, and was reared and educatedin her native township.  She has lived with her brother, George B., making a home for him and caring for their mother, who is now in her ninety-sixth year and is the oldest woman in this part of the country, and is in feeble health at this writing - 1908.
Source:  A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 - Page 340

 

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