DR. CLINTON D. BAKER, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1859, son of Lewis and Sarah A. (Webb) Baker.
     Lewis Baker was born and reared in Buffalo, New York, the date of his birth being 1812. His father, William Baker, owned the land on which a large part of Buffalo now stands. Lewis Baker moved to Crawford county, Pennsylvania, when a young man, and was married at the age of twenty-three, his bride being "sweet sixteen." His whole life was spent in agricultural pursuits. A true Christian, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, honorable and upright in his dealings with his fellow men, industrious, public spirited and generous, his life was one worthy of emulation. In his home genial hospitality was dispensed to all, and especially did the Methodist minister find a warm reception there. October 24,1883, at the age of seventy-one years, he passed from earth to his reward. His widow, born May 10, 1819, is still living. They reared a large family to occupy useful and honorable positions in life, and of them we make the following record: James, who served five years as Drum Major of Company E, One Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, married Miss Laura Alden, and is now a resident of Spring Creek, Warren county, Pennsylvania; Josiah W., First Lieutenant of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was detailed as Captain of Company G, and was acting as such in the battle of the Wilderness when he was shot and instantly killed, aged twenty-six and unmarried; William, an extensive lumber dealer of Spring Creek, Pennsylvania, married Abi Grant, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Grant; Adelia, wife of William Bates, resides on a farm in Crawford county, Pennsylvania; Agnes and her husband, Dr. John Gray, are both deceased; Mary E. is the wife of L. E. Pearce, a banker and prominent citizen of Morris, Minnesota; Ellen M., wife of J. H. Symons, of Elyria, Ohio; Frances, wife of William Baker, is deceased; Sarah, who died at the age of nine years; Clinton D.; Irvin W., who married Minnie Foreman, is in the lumber business with his brother in Spring Creek.
     Dr. Clinton D. Baker received a common and high-school education and then served an apprenticeship in pharmacy, under G. W. Clarkson, M. D. After this he became a member of the firm of Weist & Baker in a drug store, and before they had conducted business a year were burned out. This was in 1873. The following seven years he was employed as traveling salesman. Then, in company with Dr. W. O. Gilson, he bought a drug store at Spring Creek, and while in this business be­gan the study of medicine. He passed the State examination in pharmacy. Then he took a three years' course at the "Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, graduating with the class of 1892, and after his graduation established himself in the practice of his profession at Conneaut, where he is meeting with excellent success.
     Dr. Baker was married June 11, 1885, to Miss Laura B. Calvin, daughter of Atchison and Essie Calvin, of Brookville, Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, her people being of Scotch descent. She is a line pianist, has a beautiful voice, and is a graduate in music. They have one child, Harold Lewis. Mrs. Baker is a member of the Presbyterian Church. The Doctor is a stanch Republican. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow and is also a member of the Equitable Aid Union.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 258)

L. I. BALDWIN, a venerable citizen of Conneaut, for several years engaged in milling, now retired from active business, dates his birth in Oneida county, New York, Oct. 26, 1811.  The facts in regards to his life and ancestry have been gleaned and are herewith presented.
     The Baldwins trace their ancestry back to Nathaniel Baldwin, of England, whose son, Samuel, was the father of Nathaniel Baldwin, the great-great-grandson of the subject of our sketch.  Nathaniel Baldwin and his wife, nee Abigail Camp, came from England to America and settled in Milford, Connecticut, in 1639.  He was born in Bucks county, England, and died in Connecticut in 1658.  His wife died Mar. 22, 1648.  At the time they came to America his brothers, Timothy, Joseph, John, and Richard also came.  Nathaniel and Abigail Baldwin had seven children:  John, Daniel, Nathaniel, Abigail, Samuel, Sarah, and Deborah.  Samuel, the fifth, was born Nov. 28, 1744, and died Feb. 22, 1804.  His wife, who before her marriage was Mercy Stanley, died Jan. 6, 1768.  They had a family of six sons and five daughters, one of whom, Enos Stanley Baldwin, married Charlotte Bailey, and had four sons and four daughters.  Enos S. died Oct. 20, 1828, and his wife died Feb. 26, 1815.  One of their four sons, Remus, the father of L. I., was born in Milford, Oct. 5, 1791, and his wife, whose maiden name was Julia Ives, was born Dec. 20, 1787, she, too, being a native of Connecticut.
     Remus Baldwin moved to New York and subsequently to Pennsylvania, in Erie, in the latter State, spending the closing days of his life.  He and his wife were engaged in farming and afterwards in various occupations.  He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church for many years, he being an officer in the Church.  They were married Sept. 9, 1810.  Their family of five children is as follows:  L. I.; Almira C., wife of David Brand, is deceased, as also is her husband; Samuel, who married Abigail Snow, is deceased; Horace and his wife, Nancy A. (Welton), are both deceased; and Caleb Parker, unmarried, died on the Pacific ocean, July 29, 1852, while on his way to California, the supposed cause of his death being cholera.  The father of this family died in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dec. 9, 1853; the mother at the same place, Feb. 10, 1873.
     L. I. Baldwin removed with his parents from Oneida to Genesee county, New York and in 1820 to Cattaraugus county, same State, whence they afterward removed to Erie county, Pennsylvania.  He remained on the farm with his father until after they went to Erie county, when he located at Erie for the purpose of learning a trade, that of woolen manufacturer.  After remaining there six years, he went back to the farm.  For many years he farmed in Erie county.  In the spring of 1872 he located in Conneaut, and here for four years he ran a gristmill.  He served as Justice of the peace of Conneaut three years, having filled the same office while a resident of Elk Creek and Girard, Pennsylvania.
     Mr. Baldwin was married Aug. 10, 1837, to Miss Rosanna Battles, daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Brown) Battles.  Her father was born in Massachusetts, Apr. 10, 1786, and her mother in Vermont, May 9, 1787.  The former died in 1848, and the latter in 1868.  In the Battles family were six children, as follows:  (2) Rosina, oldest, born June 27, 1815; George, a resident of California; Alsina, of Girard, Pennsylvania; Lucina, also of Girard; Asa, deceased; and Rush, a banker, manufacturer and farmer of Girard.
     Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have had twelve children, namely:  Byron A., a real-estate dealer of Chicago, is married and has two children; Julia, wife of James A. Moorehead, Erie county, Pennsylvania, has six children; Narcissa, wife of J. C. Denslow, died at the age of twenty years; Remus Asa, who married Adaline Foot and has seven children, was in the war two years, and the past twenty-seven years has been in the employ of the Pittsburg & Cleveland Railroad, being now a resident of Cleveland; Georgia A., wife of Morton H. Gould, of Arizona, has seven children; Gorbam Ives, an engineer, was killed in a railroad wreck in 1882, and left a widow and three children; (4) Florence E., who died at the age of thirty-six years; Rush Emerson died at St. Louis at the age of twenty-one years; Lucene, wife of C. R. Goddard, of Conneaut, has four children; Leslie, who died at the age of twenty-six years; (2) Kent Kane, married and living in Chicago, has three children; Elmer E., of Conneaut, is married and has one child.  There are forty grandchildren to the family and five great-grandchildren.  Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage Aug. 10, 1887.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 215 with notes added by Sharon Wick)

For REFERENCE:
(1) See Death Register
(2) See City Cemetery
(3) See City Cemetery
(4) See City Cemetery

WILLIAM E. BENDER, a conductor on the Nickel Plate Railroad, resides at Conneaut, Ohio, where he is well known and much respected.  Following is a sketch of his life and ancestry:
     William E. Bender was born in Fostoria, Ohio, May 18, 1856, son of Captain William H. and Prudence E. (Doke) Bender, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively.  William H. was a son of Samuel and Sarah (Kinsey) Bender, of Pennsylvania, the former dying in December, 1892, at the age of eighty-two years, and the latter still living, aged eighty-one.  He was the oldest of their family of five sons and three daughters, the others being as follows:  John, an attorney of Fostoria; Rev. Daniel, a minister in the United Brethren Church, stationed at Westerville, Ohio; David, Charles and Henry, farmers at Coldwater, Michigan; Mary; Libbie; and Amanda.
     William H. Bender had a good education and taught sixteen terms of school in Ohio.  Subsequently he was a commercial man in the employ of ex-Governor Charles Foster, for many years, until the war opened, when he enlisted, in 1862, in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, entering the service as a Lieutenant and six months later being promoted to a captaincy.  He was wounded in the battle of Winchester, receiving a shot through both hips, and with many others was captured.  He was taken to Libby, then transferred to Andersonville and later to Columbia, South Carolina, where he died of yellow fever, after an illness of three days, having been a prisoner sixteen months.  His treatment while in prison was horrible in the extreme.  His remains rest in the national cemetery at Columbia, South Carolina.  He was a valiant soldier and a princely man.  As a husband and father he was affectionate and devoted; as a citizen he was held in high esteem; as a soldier he was magnanimous, brave and true.  His death was almost as a personal bereavement to all who knew him.  He was married at Fostoria, in 1855, and some time after his death his widow became the wife of his brother, Jeremiah Bender.  William E., the subject of this sketch, is the oldest of three children, his two sisters being Effie Augustus, wife of Chance Reynold, of Fremont, Ohio; and Frances, wife of W. F. Boley, a teacher in Fostoria.  Mr. and Mrs. Reynold have two children: Georgia and Bessie.
     The subject of our sketch has been engaged in railroading since 1872.  He began as brakeman on the Lake Erie & Western, being in the employ of that company six months.  Then he was brakeman on the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo nineteen months, after which he was in the employ of the Chicago & Alton eight months, four months as brakeman and four months as extra conductor.  In the fall of 1881 he began service with the Nickel Plate.  He was three yeas brakeman on the road and for the past nine years has been conductor, and during this long term of service he has neer had a collision or any other trouble for which he was responsible.
     Mr. Bender was married Jan. 24, 1878, to Miss Ida B. Miller, daughter of Louis L. and Sarah Miller, residents of Conneaut.  They have one child, Emory J.
     Mrs. Bender is the fourth in a family of seven children, six of whom are living.  Her three brothers are William A., telegraph operator at Cleveland, Ohio; Roy, operator in the Postal Telegraph office at Atlanta, Georgia; and Newton, a Western Union Telegraph operator at Cleveland, Ohio.  By her mother's Former marriage, to Mr. Lesher, there were two sons and two daughters; John, a traveling salesman; Frank, owner of a large stone quarry in Colorado; Mary, widow of George Fishbaugh; and Ella, wife of J. W. Will, of Denver, Colorado.  Mrs. Bender and her parents are members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
     Mr. Bender is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the order of Railway Conductors, having served as secretary and treasurer of the latter organization for three years.  Personally, he is a man of fine physique, pleasing address and generous impulses.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 879)

HENRY BLAKELEY, late of Conneaut, was for many years a prominent factor in the business and social life of this town, and few men stood higher in the estimation of its people than did he.
     Mr. Blakeley was born in Erie county, New York, Oct. 10, 1815, and was married in Conneaut, Apr. 4, 1841, to Miss Sarah Ann Wade, also a native of Erie county, New York.  It was about 1838 that he landed in Conneaut, and from that date until Jan. 26, 1889, the time of his death, he was iden­tified with its best interests.  For some time he was engaged in the livery business here.  He built the Tremont Hotel, and as its genial landlord catered to the traveling public for a period of twenty-five years, during which time he made hosts of friends.  After he sold the Tremont it was enlarged, and has since been known as the Commercial Hotel.
     Mr. Blakeley was a member of the F. & A. M. and the I. O. O. F., and for many years was a Deacon in the Congregational Church.  He was a man of pleasing address, warm heart and generous impulses, and was eminently fitted for the position he occupied.  At his death Conneaut lost a valued citizen. His good wife, too, has passed away, her death having occurred Aug. 14, 1883, at which time she had attained the age of sixty years.  She was a member of the same church as was her husband, and for more than forty years their lives were happily blended together.
     Of the five children of this worthy couple we make record as follows: Mrs. Sarah J. Loomis, of Conneaut, is the oldest; James H. is the next in order of birth; Charles P. died at the age of five years; Ellen E., widow of George B. Humphrey, resides in Conneaut; and Emma A., wife of Charles P. De Hart, is also of Conneaut.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 229)

FRANCIS B. BLOOD, a prominent and wealthy farmer and stock dealer of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, Aug. 31, 1837, son of John and Caroline (August) Blood.
     John Blood was born in Franklin, Venango county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 4, 1807, and died Dec. 31,1892, lacking four days of being eighty-six years of age.  Left an orphan when he was six months old, he was adopted by Francis Buchannan, of Corn Planter township, Venango county, and was reared by him.   Dec. 7, 1828, he married Elizabeth Masterson, who died in 1834, leaving three daughters.  A year after her death he married Caroline August, daughter of Benjamin and Mary August, and with her he lived in ever growing affection for fifty-six years.  She, too, was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, is still living, and will be eighty-two years old her next birthday, Sept. 22, 1893.  She has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for over forty years.  Few men in northeastern Ohio were better known or more highly esteemed than John Blood.  Fifty-four years of his rugged life were spent in Pennsylvania.  He moved to Ohio in 1861, and here for thirty-two years he went out and came in, a man among men, much respected and beloved, a man of sterling integrity, fearless in defending what he believed to be right, at heart as sweet and tender as a child.  He was converted in 1843, and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which church he lived to adorn its fellowship and communion for over a half century.  In this church he lived and died, - nay, not died, but sweetly fell asleep. His song on earth is hushed. His chair in the church is vacant. He will not soon be forgotten. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.
     John Blood and his second wife had a large family of children, five sons and eight daughters, of whom we make record as follows: Two of the daughters, Caroline and Julia A., are deceased, the former, the wife of Adison Bugby, dying at the age of forty years, and the latter at the age of eight years.  Those living are Hiram, the oldest, who married Belle Read; John, who married Sarah Baker; William L., who married Lucy Root; Benjamin, who married Alice Ashley; Mary, wife of William Pierson; Nancy, wife of James Pierson; Margaret, wife of Howard Brooks; Almira, widower of William Lilly; Jane, widow of R. Rockwell; and Hattie, wife of Charles Sharley.
     Francis B. Blood began life on his own responsibility when he reached his majority, having had 200 acres of land in the oil regions of his native State willed to him by the gentleman for whom he was named - Mr. Francis Buchannan, his foster grandfather, who died about 1848. On this land he operated in the oil business himself, and had others to sink wells from which he received a royalty. In this enterprise he was very successful. Selling out in 1864, he came the following year to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he has since been extensively engaged in farming. He has three farms, altogether containing 400 acres.  One of 160 acres is located just across the Ohio line in Pennsylvania.  The other two are near Conneaut, one west and the other south of the city.  These are rated with the best land in the county, and will soon be laid out in town lots.  Mr. Blood has given considerable attention to buying, selling and raising stock, sheep, cattle and horses.
     As a public spirited and enterprising man, Mr. Blood ranks with the leading citizens of the county.  He is now serving his sixth year as Township Trustee, his term to expire in April, 1894.  He is a stockholder and one of the directors in the Conneaut Mutual Loan Association. In educational affairs he has ever taken an active interest, having served as School Director for fifteen years. Politically, he is an ardent Democrat.  He is prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of the blue lodge, chapter, council and commandery, and at various times holding official position in the same.  During the Denver conclave he was the only Standard Bearer who carried the banner from beginning to end of the parade without being overcome by fatigue.  Mr. Blood is also a member of the Knights of Honor and other fraternal organizations.
     Mrs. Blood is a lady of culture and refinement and presides with ease and grace over their charming country home.  Her maiden name was Miss Angeline Steward, she being one of a family of eleven children and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steward, all natives of Venango county, Pennsylvania.  She and her brother James are the only ones of the family living in Ashtabula county. Mr. and Mrs. Blood were married Feb. 18, 1862, and have five sons, namely: Charles C., who resides on the Pennsylvania farm above referred to, and who is married to Nellie Lamphier and has one child, Pearl; Francis B. and John C., residing at home, are associated with their father in his farming operations; Otis K., a mechanic of some notoriety; and Ralph A., a student in the public schools.
     Mrs. Blood has been a member of the Christian Church for nearly twenty years.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 219)

DR. LUCINDE E. BRAYMAN, a leading physician and surgeon of Pierpont, Ohio, also a prominent business man and financier, was born in Ashtabula county, Oct. 26, 1844.  He comes of good old New England stock, his father, Harry Brayman, being a native of Connecticut, while his mother was also of New England birth and a descendant of an old and respected family, her name before marriage having been Mary M. Snow.  This worthy couple were among the early settlers of Ashtabula county, where they took new land, which the father assiduously cultivated, together making a home for themselves and children in this new country.  In 1851 the family had the misfortune to lose the hard working and kind father, who died leaving a widow and six children:  Edwin, deceased; Jeannette; Bennet; Sylva; Lorenzo E.; and Lucinde E., whose name heads this sketch.  The father was a Whig in politics, a firm patriot and worthy man, who enjoyed the respect of all who knew him.
     The subject of this sketch was reared in Pierpont township, and received his preliminary education in the common schools of his vicinity.  He commenced to study medicine in the fall of 1865, under Dr. Trimer, a prominent pioneer doctor of Pierpont, with whom he continued three years.  He then  attended the State University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and later the Cleveland Medical College, graduating at the latter institution in February, 1869, after which he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania for four years.  He then commenced the practice of medicine at Pierpont, where he has been for twenty-four years, meeting with the greatest success, and is the leading physician of the county.  He also does an extensive drug business, in which he has been engaged for twenty years, having one of the best drug stores in his part of the county, with a complete stock and a large business house two-stories high.  He also owns other valuable property, a hotel in Pierpont and a brick business house in the best part of Andover, the latter of which is 23 x 100 feet and two stories high.  He has one of the best residences in Ashtabula county, which cost $7,000, also a brick barn, 26 x 60 feet, which cost $2,500, and is used for road horses.  He owns several good farms, aggregating 800 acres, which are devoted to general farming and stock purposes, principally the raising of thorough-bred horses, of which he has seventy-four, the leading members of the herd being Atlantic Wilkes, Flood, Jet, Gold Leaf and Blazing Star, all well known as horses of unusual merit.  This prosperity is the result of perservering endeavor and good management on the part of the Doctor, combined with upright business methods, gaining for him not only financial success but the respect of all who know him.
     Apr. 5, 1888, Dr. Brayman was married in Conneautville, Pennsylvania, to Miss Lizzie Fitzgerald, a lady of education and refinement, daughter of John Fitzgerald, a prominent and respected citizen of the Keystone State.  They have one son, John Harry, born Mar. 5, 1889.
     In politics, Dr. Brayman is a Republican.  He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Pierpont Lodge, No. 284, the Chapter of Conneautville, No. 76, Commandery No. 27, and the Mystic Shrine of Cleveland.  Few men have contributed so much to the general welfare of the county as the Doctor, and he is justly numbered among its representative citizens.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 996)

STEPHEN B. BUSS, a self-made man and representative farmer of Ashtabula county, Ohio, is deserving of some personal mention in his work.
     William Gilman Buss, his father, was born in Vermont, in 1810, and about 1849 removed from the Green Mountain State to Ohio, making the journey hither by way of the New York and Erie canal and lake, and settling in Conneaut township, Ashtabula county.  Here he remained until his death, in 1862.  By occupation he was a farmer.  Politically, he affiliated with the Republican party, and, fraternally, with the I. O. O. F.  His father, William Buss, the grandfather of our subject, passed his life and died on a farm in Vermont.  The Buss family have resided in America since before the Revolutionary war.  Electa S. (Cook) Buss, the mother of Stephen B., was born in Vermont, Jan. 19, 1814, and died Dec. 1, 1892.  She was the daughter of John and Phoebe Cook, natives of Germany.  William G. Buss and Electa S. Cook were married in 1841, and in time became the parents of three children, viz.:  Minerva, wife of G. W. Salisbury of Conneaut township, Ashtabula county, Ohio; Maranda, wife of Frank Willard of Cleveland, has one son and seven daughters; and Stephen B., the oldest of the family and the subject of the article.
     Stephen B. Buss was born Oct. 16, 1843, and remained with his parents as long as they lived.  When he was 25 years old he bought the home farm, about 100 acres, upon which he has since been engaged in farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of the sheep business, in which he has been very successful.  He was married in 1867 to Della Smith, who was born in this county in 1848, daughter of Barlett B. and Eliza (Cheney) Smith, natives of New York and Vermont respectively.  Her father passed sway June 5, 1891, and her mother in March, 1872.  Both were members of the Universalist Church.  Mrs. Buss is one of a family of ten children, two of whom are deceased - an infant and Lovina.  Those living are:  Sidney, of Hazelton, Pennsylvania; Bessie, wife of J. R. Warner, Special Pension Examiner, Washington, District of Columbia; Abbie R., wife of W. F. Richards, Conneaut, Ohio; Della; Frank W., Sunbury, Pennsylvania, is in the employ of the Reading Railroad Company, as station agent; Fred F., Conneaut, Ohio; John C., a Wichita farmer; and Willis, a grocer at Elmdale, Kansas.  Mr. and Mrs. Buss have three children - Gracie, Warner and Helen.
     Mr. Buss is a Republican and is now serving as Trustee of his township.  He is a member of the Knights of Honor.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 873)

WILLIAM G. BUSS, a carpenter by trade and a highly esteemed citizen of Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio, was born in Canada, and dates the day of his nativity back to June 2, 1838.  He first arrived in Conneaut when he was six weeks old, his parents having located here at that time.
     Mr. Buss is a son of Alford and Jane (Kilbourn) Buss, who were born, reared and married in Vermont.  Alford Buss was a tanner and currier by trade.  He carried on business at Conneaut from 1854 until 1859, when he moved to Tennessee.  In Tennessee business at Conneaut from 1865 until 1859, when he moved to Tennessee.  In Tennessee, he was engaged in the boot and shoe business until the spring of 1863, when, with his property burned by the rebels and his life threatened by them, and for no other reason than that he was a Union man, he was obliged to seek a home elsewhere.
     Just before he left a friend of his, a Union Man, was found suspended by the neck and dead, Mr. Buss had warning that unless he left within twenty-four hours he would share the fate of his friend.  General Buell made his headquarters on Mr. Buss's premises while in that vicinity.  Coming north with his family -- wife and one son -- Mr. Buss located in New Albany, Indiana.  Eight months he went to Galena, same State, where he spent the rest of his life, engaged in the boot and shoe trade.  He was born in 1809 and lived to be seventy-six years old.  His wife also born in 1809 died in 1866.  Their family was composed of six children, as follows:  (9) Loring, who was accidentally drowned in Conneaut Creek in 1842 at the age of six years; William G., the subject of this sketch; Henry who came home from the army during the war with health impaired, and died two weeks later at the age of twenty-two; Alfred, who was in the same battery with his brother Henry -- the Section Ohio -- was discharged on account of disability in 1863, but recovered, and several years afterward died of heart disease;  George, who enlisted in a Kentucky regiment in 1864 and served until the end of the war, is now a resident of Galena, Indiana; and Hattie, widow of Burr Emerson, is a resident of Crothersville, Indiana.
     William G. Buss first launched out in business for himself in a sawmill at Fort Burwell, Canada.  When the war broke out he came to the United States and enlisted in Ashtabula, Ohio, Apr. 27, 1861, in the Company I, Ohio Volunteer Infantry,  in the three months service.  He was discharged Aug. 30, 1861, and on the 16th following month enlisted in Company E., Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a Sergeant.  He veteranized Dec. 21, 1863, at Wauhatchie, Tennessee; was mustered out of the service at Louisville, Kentucky, Dec. 21, 1863, at Wauhatchie, Tennessee, was mustered out of the services at Louisville, Kentucky, July 13, 1865.  Among the engagements he took part in were those of Winchester, Fort Republic, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Look-out Mountain.  He was with Sherman on that famous march "Atlanta to the sea," thence up through the Carolinas to Richmond and on to Washington, taking part in the grand review.
     The war over Mr. Buss went to Saginaw, Michigan, as a lumber inspector, and remained there until 1876.  He has since been a resident of Conneaut, engaged in work at the carpenters trade.
     Mr. Buss was married Mar. 28, 1867 to Miss Emma Farnham, a native of Conneaut and a daughter of (7) Elisha and Mary (Ring) Farnham.  Elisha Farnham was born in Connecticut June 8, 1806, the sixth in the family of ten children of Thomas Farnham.  Thomas Farnham and his father were soldiers in the Revolutionary war.  At the age of twenty-five Elisha Farnham came West to Ohio and settled in Ashtabula county on lands that he occupied up the time of his death.  He owned and operated a gristmill and sawmill, located four miles from Conneaut.  He was married in Conneaut.  He died Oct. 4, 1875, aged sixty-nine years, his wife having passed away in 1849, aged thirty-two.  Mrs. Buss was two years old when her mother died, and was the youngest of the family, which was composed of (6) six children, the others being as follows:  Don Alphonzo, who served in the Second Ohio Battery two years, came from the army and died soon afterward of hasty consumption; (1) (2) Flora, wife of T. S. Young, of South Ridge, this county; (4) Patrick Henry, a Wisconsin farmer; Mary, wife of Steven Havelin, of South Ridge;  Lydia E., widow of Cornell Fuller, is a resident of Conneaut.
     Mr. and Mrs. Buss have five children, viz,:  Henry, Jennie, Don Alfred, Lee Ring, and Anna Emily.  (3) Henry married Minnie Tinker and lives in Conneaut.  The other children are members of the home circle.
     Mr. Buss belongs to the G. A. R., and his wife is a charter member of the W. R. C. at Conneaut, of which organization she was the first vice-president.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 149 with notes added by Sharon Wick)