Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Dec 20, 1916
Middlefield, Dec 19-
Joseph Turner, 65, implement dealer, died
suddenly of apoplexy at the home of James
Tremble, farmer, six miles from here, while
the two were discussing business this
afternoon.
The National Tribune: Washington, D.C.
Thursday, May 30, 1895
Conservation Club
Mabel Woolsey, who is now a Burton, Geauga
County, is still doing pretty work,
notwithstanding she is a lifelong
"Shut in", confined to her
couch. A white linen finger-bowl
doylie, leaf shaped and veined and edged
with green, has found its way to the
editor's table. Mabel always likes
to hear from C.C. friends, but they must
not forget to inclose stamps in writing to
her
Submitted by Kate Watson
The St. Louis Republic.(St. Louis, Mo.)
1888-1919, January 03, 1904 PART IV,
Image 36
Remarkable Ohio Woman, Ninety-Three
Years Old, Reads Without the Aid of
Glasses.
Republic Special
Chardon, O., Jan. 2.-One of the
most remarkable women of Geauga County
is Mrs. Lucinda M. Avery, who was 93
years old on the 23d of last month.
She has probably lived longer in
one place than any other resident in the
county, as she has lived over seventy
years on a farm in Munson, where she
began housekeeping.
Mrs. Avery was born in Ellisburg,
N.Y., in 1810, and with her husband made
the journey to Ohio with an ox team in
1832. Another remarkable fact
about Mrs. Avery is that she discarded
glasses twenty-five years ago.
She is an interested reader of
the newspapers and keeps well posted on
the news of the world, being able to
read the finest newspaper type without
the aid of glasses.
Mrs. Avery, who is in good
health, is well preserved for a woman of
her age, and hopes to note Ohio's
progess in future years.
Submitted by Kate Watson
Perrysburg Journal, November 03, 1882
Mr. James A. Morey, of Geauga County,
has been in town and vicinity for the
past few days. The present makes
twenty-one consecutive years Mr. M. has
been on the road for G. G. Norris,
manufacturer of the patent medicines at
Cleveland, and there is scarcely a
village, hamlet or villa in Ohio but
what he has visited in these years.
Submitted by Kate Watson
The Hocking Sentinel, Logan, Ohio, March,
17, 1904
Ohio Legislature
The House passed without
objection the Kimball bill relieving D.A.
Austin, treasurer of Geauga county, who
lost $11, 563 county funds in the failure
of the banking company of Broughton, Ford
& Co., Chardon.
Submitted by Kate Watson
The Mahoning Dispatch; Canfield, Ohio,
October 24, 1913.
WHAT PEOPLE READ IN THE DISPATCH 25
YEARS AGO.
T.E. King of Troy, Geauga county,
reports having raised a White Star
potato that weighed 4 pound and 14
ounces.
transcribed by Kate Watson
transcribed by Kate Watson:
Perrysburg Journal; Perrysburg, Ohio,
November 27, 1919
Drainage Paying 25 Per Cent Dividends
Tile drainage is proving
to be a profitable investment for
Emerson Dayton on his farm southeast
of Burton, Geauga County. When
he bought his original farm 16 years
ago there were but two acres of plow
land on the entire tract. The
remainder was wet, cut over timber
land.
Last fall, after he got
all of his land paid for and had gone
over his fields with the county
agricultural agent, he invested in
nearly two carloads of tile.
Mr. Dayton says that the
increased crops for this year alone
have paid 25 per cent interest on the
investment in tiled rainage. For
instance, oats on land that had
formerly been under water for a
considerable part of each year yielded
53 bushels per acre. A bumper
crop of corn was produced on swales
this year which before had sometimes
scarcely been worth harvesting.
Mr. Dayton also realizes
the value of lime and acid phosphate
and is using them, as well as tile in
increasingly large amounts.
The Mahoning Dispatch; Canfield,
Ohio, April 29, 1910.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
-L.V. Mills,
superintendent of Burton schools for
many years, and one of the most
popular educators in Geauga county,
will retire this year and engage in
other work. Prof. Mills is
well known and has many friends in
Canfield where he has attended
teachers' institutes and visited
Prof. E.D. Williams and wife who
some years since were instructors in
the Normal college.
transcribed by Kate Watson:
The Mahoning Dispatch; Canfield,
Ohio, July 08, 1910
NEWS OF OHIO
Chardon.-Fred
Coe of Montville, a village in
Geauga county, probably will die
as the result of his essaying to
play the villain of an amateur
dramatic performance in the
Montville Town hall. The
pistol with which the hero shot
him in the first act proved to be
loaded.
transcribed by Kate Watson:
The Mahoning Dispatch; Canfield,
Ohio, March 11, 1910
PLUCKY TEACHER WINS CASE
Young Woman Upheld by Board of
Education When She Determines to be
Boss.
Chardon, O., Mar.
9,-After facing the board of
education and a crowded court room
as the result of an attempt to oust
her as teacher in Hudson school
district No.8, Chardon township,
Miss Bertha Fisk, who was charged
with having no drinking water in the
room, with doing fancy work in
school and showing partiality to
pupils was acquitted here.
Miss Fisk immediately
after the trial went to her school,
faced the pupils who had enjoyed a
holiday the day before with their
teacher on the grill and resumed her
position. Miss Fisk throughout
the ordeal did not loose her nerve.
Miss
Fisk's pupil were on the stand to
testify against her. Miss Fisk
says she is teacher, and intends to
be boss at the little school house
which has a reputation of having
more trouble than any other school
in Geauga county.
transcribed by Kate Watson:
Perrysburg
Journal; July 25 1896
Despondent
Lover Suicides
Chagrin Falls,
July 21. - Leo Howard, the
19-year-old son of Art Howard, a
wealthy Geauga county farmer,
instantly killed himself Sunday
evening in his father's woods,
south of town, by shooting himself
through the head with a shotgun.
He tied a string with one foot.
Despondency over being rejected by
his sweetheart is given as the
cause.
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The National
Tribune; Washington D.C., August
01, 1901
PERSONAL
Capt. C. E.
Henry, a gallant
soldier of the 42d Ohio, and an
intimate friend of its Colonel,
James A. Garfield, who appointed
him Marshall of the District of
Columbia, in which office it
became his duty to execute the
murderer of his old Colonel and
friend, is living on his
beautiful farm of 400 acres, in
Geauga County, Ohio, near Geauga
Lake. On this is a
magnificent maple-sugar orchard
of 3,000 trees, and the Captain
has every year a great output of
maple sugar and syrup. He
has paid much attention to this, has
the latest and best appliances,
and his crop is very highly
esteemed by the dealers.
In addition he is in the employ
of several great security
companies, to whom his services
are valuable because of his
great skill and success in
following and bringing back to
justice criminals of the
greatest cunning and daring.
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Akron Daily
Democrate; Akron, Ohio,
November 29, 1899
It might be told, as a matter
of news, that Mr. S.D.
Hollenbeck, of Geauga county,
has sent a nice pony to Col.
Dick. The fact that Mr.
Hollenbeck is a candidate for
the appointment as U.S.
District Marshal is a
mere incident. The
Beacon goes over the local
field every day with a
hay-rake for news about Col.
Dick, but this interesting bit
of information about the pony
seems to have gone through the
prongs. Henceforth our
esteemed neighbor should use a
fine-toothed comb.
Mr. S. D. Hollenbeck, of
Geauga, will be appointed U.S.
District Marshal, and Senator
J.J. Sullivan, of Warren, will
be appointed District
attorney. Stick a pin in
that.
submitted
by Kim Torp
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The Mahoning Dispatch,
Canfield, Ohio, January 27,
1911
News of Ohio
Chardon.-Simon Brainard a
pioneer of Geauga County,
who came to Munson township
from Keene, N.H., when this
was a wilderness and saw the
clearing made for his home,
died in Munson at the age of
92.
Submitted by Kate Watson
Transcribed by Kate
Watson:
The Evening Bulletin;
Maysville, Kentucky,
November 02, 1892
Gave Bogus Checks.
Kent, O., Nov. 2-A.G.Squires
a well known
stock buyer of Auburn,
Geauga county, was landed
in jail at Ravenna last
week. He gave checks
to the amount of $2,600 on
the Benton & Ford
bank, at Burton. The
bank of Crafts, Hines
& Company, at Mantua,
cashed the checks to the
amount of $1,475, but they
were protested and the
person to whom the money
was paid had to return it.
The principal losers were
N.H. Nichols, W.B.
McCollum and D.C. Tilden.
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The Mahoning Dispatch;
Canfield, Ohio, August
03, 1917.
Gets Conditional Pardon
Ernest
Zimmer, Chardon farmer,
who, on Jan.17, 1914,
shot and killed William
Eggleston, a neighbor,
was granted a
conditional pardon from
the Ohio state
penitentiary, on
condition he care for
his four children and
remain away from Geauga
county.
This action
ends countless efforts
on the part of Zimmer's
friends to obtain his
release. Eggleston
was slain by Zimmer
after the former's
alleged friendship for
Mrs. Zimmer had aroused
comment. At his
trial Zimmer testified
he shot in self-defense
after Eggleston had
begun firing at him when
he went to protest
against Mrs.
Zimmer's friendship for
Eggleston.
Despite
these statements and the
appeal to the
"unwritten
law", Zimmer was
convicted and given a
life sentence.
Petitions asking for his
release in 1915 were
denied by the parole
board, but Gov. Willis'
sympathies were aroused
and he directed a
rehearing in October of
that year.
Subsequently Mrs. Zimmer
was arrested in a vice
raid and her children
taken from her.
Mrs. Zimmer later
obtained a divorce and
married Albert H.
Hitchcock, who within a
few weeks sought a
divorce from the woman.
Mrs.
Zimmer, when her husband
was tried, took the
witness stand and told
of clandestine meetings
and various trips she
had taken with the
murdered man.
transcribed by Kate Watson
The Democratic Banner; Mt.
Vernon, Ohio, July 28, 1916.
DEATHS
Horn Funeral
The funeral of the
late William Horn, who died
Monday at his home in Geauga
county, was held Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock at
Morris chapel.
Interment was made in Morris
cemetery
Perrysburg Journal; June
15,1900.
OHIO STATE NEWS Gathered
From Many Points By
Telegraph.
Will Drill for Oil.
Chagrin
Falls, June 13.-Citizens
of Parkman township,
Geauga county, are
enthusiastic over the
promising outlook for the
discovery of oil in paying
quantities in that
township. More that
4,000 acres of land have
been leased by Cleveland
capitalists, who propose
making a thorough test for
oil and gas. Nearly
all of the machinery for
drilling has arrived at
Parkman. The derrick
is being built and the
first test well will be
sunk as soon as it is
completed. The first
well will be put down east
of Parkman village.
Forty years ago Alonzo
Smith, a Parkman pioneer,
sunk a well at this place,
and at the depth of about
200 feet found both oil
and gas.
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The Democratic Banner;
Mr. Vernon, OH, May 03,
1910
OBITUARY
Silas Young
At the ripe old
age of eighty-eight
years, six months and
nine days, Mr. Silas
Young, for years one of
the best known and most
prominent farmers of
Knox county, passed away
at 10 o'clock Thursday
evening at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. C.A.
LaFever, three miles
south of the city.
Although he had
patiently suffered for a
long time, the immediate
cause of his death was
an attack of grip, which
he contracted in March.
Mr. Young was
born in Middlefield,
Geauga county, Ohio,
Oct. 19, 1821. In
1839 he came to Knox
county, and in 1848 was
married to Miss
Catherine Davis,
daughter of Mr. Jacob
Davis, ten children
being born to them.
Those surviving are Mrs.
C.A. LaFever of south of
this city, J.R. of
Springfield, Ill., J.S.
of Tallula, Ill., Mrs.
Walter Steele of San
Benito, Tex., C.R. of
east of the city, and
Mrs. Walter Spittle of
San Benito, Tex.
Mrs. Young died a few
years ago, and since her
death Mr. Young had been
making his home with his
daughter, Mrs. LaFever,
from whose residence the
funeral will be held at
2:30, Sunday afternoon.
Mr.Young's
principal occupation in
life was farming.
Shortly after his
marriage he rented a
farm, where he lived two
years. Then he
purchased a 66-acre
tract on the Wooster
road, there making his
home until 1870.
For the following two
years he rented a farm
of 233 of the Lafever
heirs in Clinton
township, and at the end
of that period the
residence there burned
and Mr. Young moved to
Mt. Vernon. After
another year had passed
he purchased a farm of
123 acres in Monroe
township, where he
resided until the death
of his wife.
The deceased was
a man of strong
character and strict
integrity. In his
ripe old age he retained
his memory to the last,
and until the cold
weather of the past
winter he made frequent
trips to the city.
His memory will be
revered by a large
circle of friends and
acquaintances.
The Mahoning Dispatch;
Canfield, Ohio,
December 06, 1918.
LOCAL NEW ITEMS
Gathered in Town,
County and
Neighborhood
- Henry E. Ford
of Burton, aged 81, is
one of Geauga county's
oldest Masons, having
joined the order in
1860 - fifty-eight
years ago. He
frequently walks up
town-in fact, seldom
rides when coming to
town on business or
pleasure. He is
pretty regular
attenday at lodge, and
never misses a
Decoration Day parade
and mingles often with
his comrades of the
civil war. - Leader.
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Geauga County, OH
Perrysburg Journal,
Perrysburg, Ohio,
April 29, 1899
Ho. Lester Taylor
Dies.
Painesville, April
25. - Hon. Lester M.
Taylor, aged over
100 years, the
oldest man in Geauga
county, died Monday
at his home in
Clairdon. He
was a member of the
general assembly of
the state from 1832
to 1833, and was
elected to the
senate by Ashtabula,
Lake and Geauga
counties in 1856.
His last public act
was when he presided
at the Geauga county
centennial at
Burton, in June
1898.
Transcribed by Kate
Watson
Los Angeles Herald;
September 30, 1907
ALL OF THE LATE NEWS
FROM YOUR OLD HOME
STATE
Ohio
CHARDON-J.P.
Swarthout,
a Cleveland man, may
own Geauga county's
only coal mine in
Newbury.
Swarthout has been in
Chardon inquiring into
the matter. If
the mine suits him he
will make an effort to
get control of it.
Swarthout has been in
the mining business
for forty years.
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Los Angeles Herald;
Octover 06, 1907
ALL OF THE LATE NEWS
FROM YOUR OLD HOME
TOWN
Ohio
CHARDON-DeWitt C.
Warner, 68, one of
the best known
farmers of Geauga
county, died as the
result of being
stepped on by a
horse in January.
Shortly after the
horse stepped on his
foot Mr. Warner
began to suffer a
pain in the leg.
Blood poisoning
later set in and
amputation was
necessary last week.
He failed to survive
the shock.
Submitted by Kate Watson
Perrysburg Journal; July 15, 1904
Wadworth Will Retain His Office
Chagrin Falls, O.,
July 9,-The government recently
issued an order abolishing the
postoffice at Auburn and
establishing rural free delivery
service. The office has been
conducted for 33 years by S.L.
Wadsworth, a Geauga county
pioneer, aged 90.
Wadsworth's friends protested
because of his age and service,
and the order to discontinue the
Auburn office was rescinded.
Submitted by Kate Watson
1938
newspaper unknown
CHESTER COUPLE BADLY HURT IN
HOLIDAY CRASH
Three Chester
residents, Mr. and Mrs. B.W. Eddy
and Miss Jewel Hill, were painfully
injured Wednesday, Nov. 23, in a
three-machine collision, just south
of Mansfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddy
were on their way to Plain City, and
Miss Hill was riding with them as
far as Columbus, where she was to
visit friends over Thanksgiving.
On a wide
pavement, where it was said there
was plenty of space for passing, the
Eddy machine was sideswiped by a car
carrying several college students.
This collision whirled Mr. Eddy's
car around and directly into the
path of another oncoming auto.
This car struck the Eddy car
amidships. Both cars were
nearly demolished, and all occupants
injured.
Taken to Hospital
Mrs. Eddy
suffered a fractured left leg,
fractured jaw, and arm. She
was first reported in a serious
condition, but is expected to
recover. She was unconscious
when removed from the wreck.
Mr. Eddy received
cuts about the face and head, and a
severe bump on his forehead.
He was rendered unconscious.
Miss Hill has a
fractured leg, cuts, bruises and
other injuries. They are all
confined to the hospital in
Mansfield.
Although in a
semi-conscious condition, Mr. Eddy
insisted upon driving his car away
from the scene of the crash.
He was removed from the car when
Miss Hill's cries attracted passing
motorists.
Speeds to Family
Mrs. Marion
Parker of West Chardon, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Eddy, was driven to the
scene of the accident by Roger
McBride of McBride Brothers garage.
The injured persons will by brought
to their homes as soon as they may
be moved.
It was but a few
days prior to this accident that
Clay Eddy, son of the injured
couple, fell from the roof of a
garage at Chester, and severely
injured his back. He was
brought home from the hospital, and
is recovering.
transcribed by Kate Watson
THE BLADE: TOLEDO, OHIO,
Thursday, July 16, 1964
Skull Is Found In Storage Room
Used As Exhibit In Slaying Trial
CHARDON, O., July 16 , Part of a
human skull was found yesterday
when workmen started renovating
the Geauga County courthouse to
provide more space for county
offices.
The
skull was found in a storage
room by Common Pleas Court Judge
Robert B. Ford, Mark Sperry, a
Chardon attorney, said the skull
was that of Myron Raymond, who
was beaten to death with a club
filled with lead in Middlefield
in 1917.
Mr.
Sperry said the top of the skull
had been sawed off and exhibited
at the trial of Mr. Raymond’s
slayer to show marks made by the
blows that killed Mr. Raymond.
The
attorney said he remembered that
as a boy he accompanied the late
Dr. Frank Pomeroy, who was the
coroner, when he investigated
the Raymond slaying.
transcribed by Kate Watson
Early
Chardon
,
Ohio
Marriages:
Babcock,
Laura E. and Albert F. Clemons,
August 7, 1868,
Chardon
,
Ohio
.
(Source:
A Journal of American Ancestry
Genealogy Vol. 5, Nos. 3-10;
Publ. March-October, 1915;
Submitted to Genealogy Trails by
Andrea Stawski Pack)
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