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DUDLEY LOOMIS
is the oldest pioneer in Webster Township in point of years
of residence, and it is within his recollection when there
was only one shanty in Pemberville, and when the nearest
neighbor to the south was three and a-half miles, the
neighbor on the north twelve miles, to the east four and
a-half miles, and westward over five miles distant. He
is now the owner of two hundred and fifteen acres of land on
section 14, Webster Township, on which he has made all of
the improvements. Besides attending to general
farming, he has been quite extensively engaged in raising,
buying and selling cattle and hogs. He is a loyal
Republican, and for eleven years has filled the office of
Trustee to the full satisfaction of his constituents.
In a family of eight children, Dudley Loomis is
the third in order of birth, the date of that event being
February 9, 1826, and his birth place Grafton, Lorain
County, Ohio. His brother George died in May,
1890, leaving a wife and family. Betsey, the
eldest sister, and wife of Eli Colvin, lives on a
farm near Grand Rapids, Mich. Melinda, who died
June 1, 1894, was the wife of Samuel Muir, of Webster
Township. Lorin L. is the next in the family.
Almira married John Forrest, who died in
1865. Matilda, Mrs. Jefferson Stillwell, makes
her home in Toledo; and William died in infancy.
The parents of this family, Levi and Prudie
(Stedman) Loomis, were both natives of Massachusetts and
were married in that state. In 1822 they settled on a
farm near Grafton, Lorain County, taking up a tract of
Government timber-land. The father cleared and
improved a farm, his family living in a log cabin until
1835, when they left the place to take up their abode in
Wood County. They located on one hundred and sixty
acres of Government land covered with heavy forest, and paid
therefor $1.25 per acre. A shanty made of poles, and
with a roof and floor of elm bark, provided a shelter for
some time, and the mother cooked the first summer by a log
pile in front of the house. This shanty was replaced
in the fall by a substantial log cabin of one room, with a
puncheon floor, and here the parents passed their last
years. They were both placed to sleep their last sleep
in what is known as the Loomis Burying-ground, on the
old homestead.
Dudley Loomis continued to live with his
other until he was seventeen years of age, when he took a
contract to clear ten acres of land in return for a tract of
forty acres of virgin forest land. He carried out his
bargain to the letter and received the forty acres, which
were on section 14, in this township. He was busily
employed in clearing his farm until he reached his majority,
when he returned to the old homestead and operated the same
for two years. After that he went back to his own
tract, on which he put up a log cabin, and here he dwelt
until 1869, when he purchased the farm where he now lives.
This place comprised eighty acres of fertile and well
developed land, and with this for a nucleus he gradually
increased his possessions until he now owns two hundred and
fifteen acres.
In 1847 Mr. Loomis married Miss Mary Wallace
who died in 1862. She became the mother of the
following children: Eliza, Mrs. John D. Muir;
William L.; Rachel, who died in 1891; Sarah, Mrs.
Wright Stacy; Emily, who departed this life in
1887; Linda; and Sanford D., a resident of
this township. The present wife of Mr. Loomis,
whom he married December 31, 1862, was then Miss
Catherine Burke. She was born near Bowling Green,
Ohio, February 21, 1842, and is a daughter of William and
Christina (Brandeberry) Burke. Ten children
came to bless this marriage: Clara, wife of
Samuel Jolly; Alma, Mrs. Henry Forrest; George M.; Samuel;
Ella, Mrs. William Kinsley; Elbert; Henry; Nettie, who
died in infancy; Frank and Orrin.
As an instance of the time which it took in the
early days to go even short distances, Mr. Loomis
tells that when a boy, in company with a brother, he went to
Stein's Mill, on Green Creek in order to have their corn
ground, and was gone eight days, during which period they
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HENRY LONG, a
well known farmer of Webster Township, Wood County,
journeyed hither with his family and household effects in
1854, making the trip by ox-team, and settling on the farm
where he now resides. He has held several local
offices, among others that of Township Trustee, School
Director, etc. His first purchase in this
neighborhood, over forty years ago, was eighty acres on
section 17. This had not been improved, but was
covered with heavy timber, and the price he paid for the
tract was $4 per acre. Desiring to put up a log cabin,
he first had to clear a space, and when his one room house
was completed the family moved in. Though the building
had a roof and a floor, the cracks between the logs had not
yet been chinked up, and there were no window-pains in the
space left for windows. Mr. Long was taken
sick, and during the winter which followed, which was an
extremely cold one, his family was obliged to live in this
poor shelter. Game was very abundant, and helped to
eke out the diet of the early settlers.
Henry Long is a son of Noah and Mary E.
(Berge) Long, natives of Pennsylvania. Their
family numbered thirteen children, as follows:
Adam, Simeon, John, Noah, Henry Eunice, Becky, Lavina,
Eliza, Maria, Margaret, Nancy and Theresa.
The father was one of the pioneers of Ashland County, Ohio,
where he settled at a very early day. He took up one
hundred and sixty acres of Government land, about six miles
from the county seat, and paid $1.25 per ace for the same.
Henry Long was born in his father's humble log
cabin in Jan., 1826, and attended the old-time subscription
schools of the neighborhood for three months, perhaps during
the year in his boyhood. Slab benches and seats were
about the only furnishings of the poor little log
schoolhouse, and pieces of wood served for writing-books.
The nearest schoolhouse was about three quarters of a mile
from his home, and, like country boys of the period, young
Henry rarely wore shoes. He remained with his
parents until reaching his majority, when he engaged in
farming on some wild land in Sullivan Township, where his
father had purchased three hundred acres at $3 per acre
From seven years Henry Longs lived in the one-room
cabin which he erected on the land, and during that period
he worked industriously to improve the place, clearing about
thirty acres of heavy forest land with ox-teams. In
1854 he came to this township, where he has ever since been
one of the most respected residents.
In 1847 Mr. Long married Miss Mary A.
Bowerize, by whom he had ten children, only five of whom
are living, namely: Simeon, Adam, Freeman, Henry and
Sarah. Those who have passed away are
George, John, Noah, Elmer and Eliza. Mrs. Long
died in 1871, and Feb. 5, 1872, Mr. Long married
Mrs. Sarah Housholder, nee Pember.
In his early manhood Henry Long was a Whig,
and cast his first vote for William H. Harrison On
the formation of the Republican party he joined its ranks,
and for over thirty years has been identified with it.
He is an active worked in the United Brethren Church, to
which his wife also belongs. |
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