JOHN SMITH, conductor on the New York & St. Louis Railroad, and a valued Citizen of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Brooklyn, New York, Sept. 3, 1850, a son of John and Mary (Reinbond) Smith, natives of respectively of Alsace and Lorraine, France.  His parents came to America at an early day and settled in New York.  His mother died about 1856, at the age of thirty-eight years, leaving three children, John, Josie and Frances.  By a previous marriage his father had two daughters, Mary and Kate.
     The subject of our sketch started out in life on his own responsibility at an early age.  His first employment was in the trimming department of a cooper shop, where he received $9.00 per week.  Afterward he learned the cooper trade.  Next, we find him running a circular saw at Queenspoint, New York.  June 27, 1871, he landed in Pittsburg, and soon afterward from there to Steubenville, Ohio.  His best opening there was in a stone quarry, where he was employed by a railroad company and received two dollars per day.  He continued thus engaged until November, 1871.  That winter he entered the service of the Pan Handle, in the employ of which company he remained until 1876, the last two years serving as conductor.  He has continued in railroad employe ever since.  He was freight conductor until 1881 and since then a passenger conductor.  Since January, 1886, he has been in the employ of the Nickel Plate.  In all his railroad career he never has been suspended a day.  His natural ability and his careful attention to business have gained for him the high esteem of the officers of the road as well as of his fellow workmen.  He is one among the large number of employes of the Nickel Plate who have rendered excellent service and are retained because of their thorough knowledge of the business, and their careful attention to the responsible duties devolving upon them.
     Mr. Smith was married in Dennison, Ohio, in 1875, to Miss Mary Liggett, daughter of Robert and Rebecca (McGrew) Liggett, of Dennison.  Her mother died in 1878, aged fifty-six years, and her father in 1890, aged seventy-six.  Their seven children are as follows:  Sarah, wife of John McRichie; Albert, who married Mary Davis, James, who married Mary Darr; Susan, wife of Stephen Fetterly; Mrs. John Smith; John and Harry - the last two unmarried.
     Mr. and Mrs. Smith had four children, three of whom, Josie, Aggie and Belle, are living.  James died soon after they came to Conneaut, aged four years.  The devoted wife and loving mother departed this life Nov. 24, 1890.  She was born at Port Clinton Ohio, Jan. 5, 1857.  Her life was characterized by the sweetest of Christian graces and the most loving devotion to her husband and family.  She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as also was her mother.  A woman of culture and refinement, generous impulses, great energy and sunny disposition, she made her home happy and drew around her a circle of loving friends.  She rendered her husband valued friends.  She rendered her husband valued assistance in securing their comfortable home; but she was not destined long to adorn it with her presence, for disease soon marked her as its victim and she was called to her home above.  Her untimely death cast a gloom not only over the members of her immediate family but also over a large circle of friends and acquaintances.  Mr. Smith’s daughters preside over his home and are deserving of great credit for the way in which they conduct their household affairs.  Mr. Smith and his family attend the Baptist Church, of which he is a supporter.  He is a member of the Order of Railway Conductors, and his political associations are with the Republican party.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 305)

ORSAMUS SMITH. - The first settlement by New Englanders, and the first permanent settlement by any white men in Ohio was made at Marietta, on the bank of the Ohio river, in 1788.  In 1796 a similar lodgment was effected at Cleveland and cast of that place, by settlers from nearly the same section of Massachusetts as those who went to Marietta, and by others from Connecticut.  In both instances the settlers were mainly soldiers who had been connected with the Revolutionary war.  Few families were more intimately associated with these movements than those of which the above named gentleman is a representative.
     The lifting bodily of so large a portion of Puritan Massachusetts and Connecticut over the whole length of the great States of New York and Pennsylvania, across hundreds of miles of forest and mountains, and planting the same so quickly and so securely in the dense woods through which savage tribes were still roaming unchallenged, was an achievement without a parallel in history, and possible of accomplishment only at the hands of those brave determined men, to whose courage, strength and devotion was mainly due the triumphant success of a few colonies, sparsely settled and poor, in a seen years, war with the mightiest nation the world has ever known, whose proud boast it was that she had “dotted the surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping time with the hours, circled the earth daily’ with the continuous and unbroken strain of the martial music of England.”  It is not a pleasant reflection, but truth demands its record, that when the brave men whose strong arms had given a continent to freedom, asked that of the illimitable expanse spreading from ocean to ocean, which they wrested from the British domain, a few acres each might be apportioned them for homes in lieu of the almost worthless script with which their priceless service had been paid, they asked in vain.  But the Government was willing to sell them land.  Some sort of organization had been effected in the asking, and this organization of officers and soldiers was made the basis of a company which bought for $1 an acre a million and a half acres of land in southern Ohio.  General Rufus Putnam, of Rutland, Worcester county, Massachusetts, who was one of the first organizers of this soldier movement, became a leader of a party of forty-eight men, his old comrades in arms, mainly from Worcester and Middlesex counties, and left Massachusetts, Dec. 1, 1787, landing at Marietta, Apr. 7, 1788.  This was the earliest settlement in Ohio.
     George Smith, also of Rutland, the father of Orsamus Smith, and a comrade in the army with General Putnam, while a shareholder and promoter of the enterprise, did not accompany the expedition, having just married, in 1787, Mary Bent, the daughter of Captain Silas Bent and sister of Captain Silas Bent, Jr.  The younger Bent accompanied the first party to Marietta, his father and mother following the next year.  Silas Bent, Sr., was born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1744; was educated at Cambridge, Massachusetts; and married Miss Mary Carter.  He died at Belpre, Ohio, Apr. 4, 1818; she, at the same place, June 10, 1831, aged eighty-five years.  Captain Silas Bent, Jr., went from Marietta to Missouri in 1806, as Assistant Surveyor General; was afterward appointed Presiding Supreme Judge of Missouri Territory; died at St. Louis in 1827.  His son, Charles Bent, was the first Civil Governor of New Mexico, and was with his cabinet assassinated in the insurrection of Taos in 1847.  Several other members of the same family distinguished themselves in the Mexican and Indian border warfare as well as the political history of the West.
     During the earlier years of the Marietta settlement the settlers lived in a fort, built on the site of an ancient city and fort of the mound-builders, and suffered much from Indians, not less than thirty of their number being killed by the savages.
     Eight years after the settlement of Marietta, there landed, July 4, 1796, at the mouth of Conneaut creek, in the northeast corner of Ohio, a band of pilgrims under the leadership of Major Moses Cleveland.  There were fifty souls, among them two women and one young boy.  This boy was the son of Elijah Gunn, and one of the women Mr. Gunn’s wife.  Elijah Gunn was the son of Lieutenant Nathaniel Gunn, who had served in the Revolutionary war, as also had his six sons: Nathaniel, Stephen, Elijah, Elisha, Elihu, and Moses.  The Gunn family had for generations lived in the towns of Montague, Massachusetts, and Granby, Connecticut.  The daughters of Nathaniel Gunn were: Dorothy, Submit, Jemima and Mercy.  Mercy was the wife of Luke Kendall and the mother of Mrs. Orsamus Smith.  This Mrs. Elijah Gunn, who landed at Conneaut with her little son, was the daughter of a Captain Carver, an explorer who, just before the war of the Revolution, had secured a grant of land from the English Government, covering a large tract of land in northern Ohio, west of Cleveland. Captain Carver was in England when the war broke out. He was prevented from returning to America, and subsequently died in England, leaving two daughters, one of whom, as above stated, became the wife of Elijah Gunn, and the other married his brother, Moses Gunn. These brothers spent many years and a large amount of money in unsuccessful effort to obtain from Congress a ratification of the English grant. Elisha Gunn settled in Cleveland in 1796, and was living in good health and in possession of all his faculties in 1847, being then past ninety.
     Orsamus Smith was born in Peru, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, Nov. 9, 1807, son of George and Mary (Bent) Smith, the former a native of Rutland, Massachusetts, and the latter of Sudbury, Massachusetts.  He came to Ohio about 1828.  His father, as already stated, being a shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company, had given to each of his several sons a farm in Ashtabula and Trumbull counties.  After spending a few years in the woods of Ohio with his married brothers, older than himself, who had preceded him (John in Dorset, and Renselaer in Bloomfield), he returned to his home in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, where lie married Melinda Clapp, the daughter of Erastus Clapp, of Deerfield, Massachusetts.  Returning to Ohio, he settled on a tract of land at the center of Orwell, and, with his brothers, Pomeroy and Franklin, who with their father, George Smith, came to Ohio about the same time, at once began to lay the foundation for the present thrifty village.  They erected several good frame houses, a large hotel - still standing in 1893 - and other business places, inducing the location there of those two excellent business men, George A. Howard and R. C. Newell, so long identified with the prosperity of the town.  In a single year the place was trans- formed from a dense forest to a busy village.  The township was rapidly settled, and the town itself, being favorably located on the main thoroughfare of eastern Ohio, half way between Ashtabula and Warren, readily took a position abreast with older towns in the section, which position it has fully maintained.
     Here Mr. Smith lost his wife, who, dying at the age of thirty, left two little boys, George E. and Horatio M., and a little girl, Frances M.  In 1840 Orasmus Smith was again married, this time to Elmira Kendall, of Warren, Ohio, the daughter of Luke and Mercy (Gunn) Kendall, of Deerfield, Massachusetts, before referred to.  Of Luke Kendall, it is recorded that he enlisted in the service during the Revolutionary war, but, being very young, his brother David secured his discharge by going in his place.  The latter was taken prisoner and was held several years by the British.  Elmira Kendall was born in 1806, at Deerfield.  She was a pupil of the celebrated Mary Lyon, of Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts, and at the time of her marriage was a teacher in Warren, Ohio.  The children of this second union were: William O. and Emma L. Smith.
     Orsamus Smith was represented in the Civil war by his two sons, Major Horatio M. and William O., both of whom served in the Army of the Cumberland from Aug. 13, 1862, until the close of the war, a period of three years.  Both enlisted as privates in the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  Major Horatio M. Smith served as Quartermaster in the held the first year and on the staff of Major General George H. Thomas the last two years.  He died in 1890, leaving three sons: Ford R., Louis Ord and Horatio Hoyt, and one daughter, Maud W. Smith. The other grandchildren of Orsamus Smith are: Ida M. and Augusta E. Smith, daughters of George E. Smith who lives in New York city.  Mrs. Frances M. Gilkeson, William O. Smith and Emma L. Smith, the remaining children of Orsamus Smith, live in Orwell.
     Orsamus Smith closed a long and busy life in Orwell, Dec. 31, 1886, in his eightieth year; and his wife, Elmira, passed away at the same place, Mar. 10, 1888, in her eighty-second year.
     Of these pioneer families, it should be further stated that Orsamus Smith had thirteen brothers and sisters; and that there were also fourteen brothers and sisters in Elmira Kendall’s family, nearly all of whom lived to maturity and brought up families in Ohio.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 687)

PLIN SMITH, deceased, was born in Sheldon, Franklin county, Vermont, Aug. 5, 1802, a son of John Smith, a native of New London, Connecticut.  The latter died when Plin was fourteen years of age.  The subject of this memoir, however, remained at home until 1821, when he came to Ohio, the greater part of the way on foot, arriving at the house of his uncle, Roger Cadwell, in Andover, February 15, of that year.  His first occupation, on reaching this wilderness, was chopping.  To procure an ax he cut an acre of heavy timber and piled the brush, and he estimated that this ax cost him at least $7.  Mr. Smith then hired out to chop, and continued to prosecute this vocation until he had cleared 100 acres of forest.  From the effect of this labor he became an invalid, and returned to his native place.  In doing this he was so fortunate as to engage for a gentleman to drive cattle over the mountains to Philadelphia.  B. F. Wade was his companion, and they received $9 per month for their service.  After arriving home, Mr. Smith learned the trade of wagon making.  In January, 1829, he went to Vermont, and in the following October again started for Ohio, and, after about two weeks spent on the road, arrived at the home of the above mentioned uncle.  He purchased twenty-five acres of wild land, erected a log house, and began housekeeping.  The first wagon he built was hewed from the adjacent timber, his wife assisting him in turning the hubs, and also in sawing logs from which to make the rails necessary to fence their farm.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith lived for a time in each Richmond and Austinburg township, but the greater part of their lives was passed in Andover.  Mrs. Smith now resides at Conneaut.  Mr. Smith died March 20, 1881, aged seventy-nine years.
     Mr. Smith was married January 25, 1829, to Aurelia Weeks, who was born Aug. 26, 1810, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Chapman) Weeks.  The grandfather of Mrs. Smith, Timothy Chapman, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and afterward drew a pension of $96 a year.  After his death his wife, nee Avis Curtis, drew the pension while she lived.  Mr. and Mrs. John Weeks had two sons and four daughters and Mrs. Smith and a sister, Anna Traver, are the only ones now living.  The father died in 1810, and the mother afterward married John Ellithorp.  They had six sons, three of whom still survive.  The youngest, Albert Ellithorp, is the inventory of the Ellithorp air cushion for elevators.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith had eleven children.  The eldest, Philo, born June 6, 1830, married Elsie Frink, who died Sep. 22, 1892, aged 56 years.  He now resides in Madison, Lake county.  Josette, born Nov. 4, 1832, is the wife of E. B. Linn, a physician of Richmond township.  Sagito, born Aug. 23, 1834, married Alicia Lake, and now resides in Conneaut.  Delia, born Apr. 17, 1836, married Olmstead Baker, and lives at Andover.  Mary, born Mar. 28, 1838, married Rev. L. E. Beardsley, a member of the East Ohio Conference, and his death occurred Jun. 14, 1889, at the age of 74 years; their two children are:  Mark L. and Jay W., the latter a resident of Conneaut.  Mark L., a resident of Ashtabula county, married Dora Snow, and they have two children, Don and Retah.  John Harrison, born Mar. 29, 1840, married Martha Hartshorn, and resides at Conneaut, Ohio.  Aurelia, born Mar. 12, 1842, married Cyrenus Laughlin, and their home is at Conneaut, Ohio.  Eliza Ann, born Mar. 19, 1844, died May 29, 1867.  Plin Weeks, born Jan. 1, 1847, married Mary Kelley, and died at Chicago, May 11, 1880, aged 33 years.  Amelia, born May 6, 1849, married Prof. N. L. Guthrie, of Conneaut, and died Nov. 10, 1881, aged 34 years.  Lizzie, born Dec. 12, 1853, married Charles Morris, and died Aug. 21, 1887, at the age of 33 years.  The eldest child of Dr. and Mrs. Linn, Harriet A., is the wife of Dr. Bebee.  Both she and her husband were missionaries to China for 7 years, after which they returned to this country for a year, and then went again to China.  Dr. Bebee is superintendent of the Philander Smith Memorial Hospital at Nanking, China.  The eleven children of Mr. and Mrs. Plin Smith were raised to years of maturity, and ten were married.  There are now 22 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.  Mr. Smith was a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which his widow is still actively identified, having been a member from early youth.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 779)
(Buried in City Cemetery)

ROYAL P. SMITH, one of the wealthy farmers of Monroe Township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, appears as the subject of this article.
     He was born in 1840, near his present home, son of Isaac Smith, a native of Vermont.  Isaac Smith emigrated from Vermont to Ohio in 1832, and settled at Kelloggsville, where he farmed and carried on a mercantile business for half a century.  Although he had but limited educational advantages in his youth, he was a man of remarkable energy and business ability, and was successful in his various undertakings.  He began working out for wages when he was twelve years old, and until he was twenty-one his mother, a widow, received his earnings.  When he landed in Kelloggsville, he bought 106 acres of land, and at the time of his death he was the owner of 640 acres and had money at interest.  Politically, he was a Democrat, and took a commendable interest in public affairs, frequently filling local offices.  For sixty years he was an honored member of the Masonic fraternity.  He died on May 12, 1883, at the age of eighty-four years.  At the time of his death, he was a Universalist in belief.  The Smiths are of English origin, some of the family having come to America previous to the war of 1812.  The mother of Royal P. Smith, who before her marriage was Miss Lucia Thompson, was born in New Hampshire, about twelve miles from Dartmouth College.  She had a good education, and was for some time engaged in teaching.  Her death at the age of seventy-six years occurred on Apr. 24, 1881.  The Thompsons are of English descent.  Isaac Smith and his wife had five children, as follows:  Isaac, who died on Jan. 28, 1854, aged twenty-one years; Susan J., wife of G. G. White, of Hutchinson, Kansas; Royal P.; Irving, a resident of Monroe township, Ashtabula county; and Lucia, who died on Nov. 26, 1852, at the age of five years.  Isaac Smith was first married to Harriet Walker, who died without children.
     Royal P. Smith remained with his parents until 1861, when he married and began life for himself.  He is now the owner of 450 acres of land, in three different tracts, 200 acres being under cultivation.  In 1861 he was married to Corinna E. Swift, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Dan and Mercy (Doubleday) Swift, natives of Italy Hill, Yates county, New York.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith have four children, namely: Charles, engaged in farming near Kingsville; Carrie M., wife of George Humphrey of Cleveland, Ohio; Harriet, a student at Buchtel College, in Akron, Ohio; and Corinna, also attending college.
     Mr. Smith's political views are in harmony with Democratic principals.  For six or seven years he has served as Trustee of his township.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the State Police.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 619)
(See 1870 Census Monroe Twp., Ohio)

SAGITO JAY SMITH, Mayor of Conneaut, Ohio has been identified with that place for many years and has probably done more to advance its interests than any other man.  It is therefore fitting that appropriate mention of him should grace the pages of this work.
     Sagito J. Smith was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, Aug. 23, 1834, son of Plin and Aurelia (Weeks) Smith, natives of Sheldon, Vermont.  His parents came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1829, and established their home in a log house in Andover.  The music of howling wolves was frequently heard from their cabin door.  Plin Smith was a wagon maker by trade.  Soon after moving out here he cut down an acre of trees on the farm of Roger Cadwell to pay for having his boots half soled.  The subject of our sketch was the third born in his family of eleven children, and is one of the seven who are still living. 
     John Smith, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in New London, Connecticut and died in 1816.  His maternal grandfather, John Weeks, was of English ancestry, and died when he was thirty-one years.  He had a family of five children:  Philo, Jedediah, Eliza, Ann and Aurelia.  Jedediah died when about fourteen years of age.  Plin and Aurelia Smith were the parents of eleven children:  Philo, Josett, Sagito, Delia, Mary, John H., Aurelia, Amelia, Eliza, Plin W. and Lizzie H.  Mrs. Smith died Apr. 21, 1893 at the age of eighty-three years and was bright and active up to the time of her death.  Plin Smith was an old friend of Benjamin Wade, and in the early days they were much together.
     Mr. S. J. Smith received his education in the common schools of this county and at Kingsville Academy, and for two years taught in the country schools, "boarding around."  In 1854 he came to Conneaut and entered upon a mercantile carrier as clerk in the store of D. N. Webster, at $6.00 per month.  A few months later he entered the employ of Thompson & Rice, at an increase of $4.00 per month on his salary, and remained with that firm five years.  At the end of that time he formed a partnership with E. A. Keyes and opened out in business at the old Keyes stand at the foot of Main street.  A year and a half later, in 1860, he sold out to Mr. Keyes.  They he engaged in the general merchandise business by himself at the stand where he first began clerking.  With $350 in his pocket he set out for New York to buy goods, on the day Fort Sumter was fired upon.  At the house of Butler, Cecil, Ross & Co., in that city, his honest face and straightforward manner ingratiated him at once.  Mr. Cecil, the financier of the firm, after a short interview with him, remarked:  "Young man, you have a small capital with which to start in business, but you look to me like a young man of energy and honesty and one who would succeed in business.  Buy all the goods you want."  And during his long business career he bought more goods from that house than any other.  He made many visits to New York during the exciting times of the war, and did a successful business until the fall of Vicksburg, in July, 1863.  For five years after that date he barely held his own.  He continued in the general merchandise business here until 1887, and at various times had interests in branch stores elsewhere.  He still has some mercantile interests in the county, being a member of the firm of E. T. Dorman & Co., and also of the Andover firm, Smith & Baker.
     In the meantime he merged into manufacturing, buying the Conneaut paper mill at the foot of Main street in 1872.  After conducting the mill for some time he discovered that it could be run on a more paying basis.  Accordingly he put in new machinery and made a specialty of the manufacturing of paper flour sacks, completing and printing the sacks and selling them direct to millers.  He put in six printing presses and employed a large force of hands.  In this enterprise he was very successful and continued to do a paying business until one night in December, 1889, when the mill, while in operation, was burned.
     During this time Mr. Smith formed a partnership with Thayer & Lake, the firm name being Lake, Thayer & Smith, and in 1880 they began a private banking business, Mr. Lake being president.  After the death of Mr. Lake the bank was reorganized into a National bank, and Mr. Smith has since been its president.  In 1885, when the American Bag Company was organized, with Senator R. Kell of New York as president, Mr. Smith was chosen as one of the directors, he holding a large portion of the stock.
     Besides the business affairs already referred to, Mr. Smith has also been interested in real estate transactions.  He purchased several tracts of land in this vicinity about the time the Nickel Plat division was located here, in the establishment of which road he took an active part, making frequent trips to New York in the interest of the line.  In 1880 he purchased the Herald, which he conducted for ten years, when, by reason of the destruction of his plant by fire, he joined with the Reporter, securing an interest in that office, from which both papers have since been issued - the Herald on Friday and the Reporter on Tuesday.
     Mr. Smith was elected, on the Republican ticket, Mayor of Conneaut in 1875 and served one term of two years, declining a second term.  In 1890, he was again elected to this office, and in 1892, was re-elected by an overwhelming majority.  His present term will expire in April, 1894.  From a leading publication we clip the following:  "The municipal government, with S. J. Smith, Esq., as Mayor, is characterized for prompt, thorough and conservative legislation, while the general status of the city is excellent.  Real estate is held at reasonable prices, there are countless attractive sites obtainable and the citizens have already evinced their willingness to entertain and substantially encourage any legitimate manufacture that may bring liberal increase to the local population."  Within his administration the water works and sewerage system of Conneaut were constructed.
     Mr. Smith(1) was married Dec. 7, 1859 to Miss Alitcia Lake, daughter of Hiram(3)(4) and Lois (Gifford) Lake of Conneaut.  She died May 28, 1889, aged fifty-three years, leaving two children, namely:  Hiram L., who has succeeded his father in the merchandise business in Conneaut; and Lois, wife of E. T. Dorman, also of Conneaut.  Mrs. Smith was a member of the Congregational Church for many years.  Mr. Smith's second marriage occurred Dec. 7, 1891, the lady of his choice being Mrs. Daphne (Jones) Loomis, daughter of Mrs. Hiram Lake(2) by her former marriage of Solomon Jones, a well-known and highly esteemed citizen of Conneaut.  Mr. Smith has adopted his niece, Elsie, who is the daughter of his sister Amelia, who is deceased, as is also her husband, Nathan Guthrie.
     Mr. Smith built his residence, corner of Main and Mill streets, in 1865, the timber for which he hauled from his father's farm, twenty-five miles south of here, helping to cut down the trees himself.  In 1868 he built the Lake & Smith Block, corner of Main and Harbor streets.  At this writing he is building a three-story block, which will be arranged for banking and store rooms below and offices above, the building to be fitted with elevator and all modern conveniences.
     Mr. Smith and his wife are members of the Congregational Church, of which he has been a Trustee for a number of years.  He was a member of the building committee of his church in Conneaut, the other three members of the committee being G. J. Record, M. D. Townsend and Hiram Judson.  This committee cleared over $1,700 in one day in running an excursion to Niagara Falls, July 4, 1876, which sum was paid over to the building fund.  In politics Mr. Smith is a Republican, and is an earnest temperance worker.  He has traveled extensively and is well informed on the general topics of the day.  After the death of his first wife he took a trip across the continent.  In 1892 he and his wife made an extended tour through Mexico and Southern California.  He was a delegate for the Nineteenth District of Ohio to the Republican National Convention at Minneapolis, which nominated Harrison for President.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 715 with notes added by Sharon Wick)

FOR REFERENCE:
(1) Sagito J. & Alicia L. Smith, along with their children Hiram L. & Lois A. can be found in the 1880 Census of Conneaut, Ashtabula Co., Ohio on Page 473.
(2) Hiram Lake and his wife is also found on Page 473 of 1800 Census of Conneaut, Ashtabula Co., Ohio.
(3) Hiram Lake and his wife, Louis (Lois) is found in 1860 Census on June 19th, 1860 - Borough of Conneaut, O. - Page 231b - Dwelling 524 Family 527.
(4) Hiram Lake and his wife, Lois are buried in City Cemetery, Conneaut, Ashtabula Co., OH
(See 1870 Census Conneaut, Ohio)
(5) Sagito J. Smith in 1880 Census, Conneaut Village, Ashtabula Co., Ohio pg. 381b
Also Note:   His Large Brick home was on the Southwest Corner of Main and Mill Streets in Conneaut, Ohio.   It is still there as of 2023.

W. N. SMITH, who is engaged in the real-estate and insurance business in Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Hubbard township, Trumbull county, this State, Jan. 4, 1859.
     His parents, Aaron and Rosanna (Simpkins) Smith, were both born in Ohio, and now reside in Pierpont, this county, Mr. Smith being a retired farmer.  Both he and his son, W. N., were born in the same house in Trumbull County, the former's birth occurring in 1818.  Grandfather Smith died about the age of fifty-five years, and Grandmother Smith lived to be nearly a hundred years old.  Aaron and his two sisters are all that are now left of a family of twelve children, he being the youngest of the twelve.  Of these two sisters we record that Anna  is the widow of Daniel Randall and is now living with her son in Indiana; and that Polly, widow of a Mr. Simpkins, is a resident of Brookfield, Trumbull county, Ohio.  Aaron Smith was twice married, each time to a Miss Simpkins.  By his first wife he had five children, as follows: Cynthia A., wife of C. B. Hibler, Pierpont; Amos, who married Nannie Downing, lives in Pittsburg; Lovica, wife of William Stuble, Pierpont; Mary, wife of Joseph Giles, Pierpont; and Judson who is married and living in Pittsburg.  By his present wife Mr. Smith has five children:  Louisa, wife of C. G. Van Winkle, Pittsburg; Florence, wife of Dr. H. C. Holcomb, Pierpont; W. N., the subject of this article; Charles, who married Miss Tuttle, resides in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio; and Clara, wife of G. Warren, resides in Richmond, this county.  Mrs. Rosanna Smith was born in 1827 and is one of a family of eight children, four of whom are living.  Her father, William Simpkins, is still living in Orangeville, Trumbull county, and is now more than ninety years of age.  Her mother died in 1885.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Christian Church, in which he has been Deacon for many years.
     W. N. Smith was educated in the schools of Detroit.  Upon reaching mature years, he engaged in merchandising in Youngstown, Ohio, where he clerked three years, and from there came to Ashtabula and clerked two years for L. W. Smith. In 1881 he came to Conneaut and entered the dry goods store of S. J. Smith, in which he remained as clerk three years.  At the end of that time he went into the dry goods business for himself continuing the same for seven years.  Then he sold out and turned his attention to the real-estate and insurance business, in the real-estate and insurance business, in which he has been engaged since 1892, with good success.
     Mr. Smith was married in 1882, to Miss Sylvia Booth, daughter of Thomas N. Booth, of Ashtabula.  They have one child, Theodore.  Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He is a member of the Uniform Rank, K. of P., and also of the Royal Arcanum, being Treasurer of the latter organization.  He never received a dollar that he did not earn, and that he has succeeded in the life is not due to blind luck but to honest industry, economy and good judgment.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 912)

BENJAMIN S. SNYDER, foreman in the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad shop at Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Wyandot county, this State, son of Simon and Caroline (Edwards) Snyder, his father native of Virginia, and his mother of Connecticut. 
     Simon Snyder came from Virginia to Ohio at an early day and settled in Wyandot county, being one of the prominent pioneers of that county and one of its well-to-do farmers.  He died at the age of forty years.  His wife survived him a number of years, her demise occurring Mar. 3, 1886, at which time she had reached the age of seventy-two years.  For more than twenty years she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Benjamin S. is the youngest child of their six children, the others being as follows:  W. W., a ranchman, is married and living at Eden, Texas;  A. W., a miller by trade, married Miss Myram Peters, and resides in Licking county, Ohio;  Lucy died at the age of forty-three years: Laura, wife of Joseph Baird, died at the age of thirty-nine; and Carey M., who married Miss Anna Robertson, a resident of Tuscola, Illinois.
     B. S. Snyder has been engaged in railroading ever since he was sixteen years of age, beginning as brakeman, afterward being employed as a conductor, fireman and engineer, and at present is foreman in the shops.  With the completion of the road to Conneaut in 1882, he came from Columbus to this place.  He is engine dispatcher, and has charge of both the road men and shop men.  His long connection with the business and the many places he has filled eminently fit him for his present position which he has held the past four years.
     Mr. Snyder was married, Nov. 17, 1872, to Miss Lizzie Hogan, who was left an orphan at an early age.  She is a member of the First Baptist Church of Conneaut.  Mr. Snyder is an enthusiastic Mason, having the reputation of being better posted on Masonry than any other man in the town.  He has taken the degrees of the blue lodge, chapter, council and commandery, and is Eminent Commander of Cache Commandery of Conneaut, No. 27.  He takes little interest in political matters, but votes the Republican ticket.
     Personally, Mr. Snyder is a most genial and courteous man, popular with his railroad employers and associates, and, indeed, with all who know home.  His home surroundings indicate culture and refinement as well as contentment and happiness.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Counties, Published 1893 - Page 534)

PLATT ROGERS SPENCER, celebrated as the founder of the " Spencerian" system of penmanship, was born Sept. 7, 1801, in Dutchess county, New York, the son of Caleb Spencer, a native of Rhode Island and a soldier of the Revolution. The name of Platt's mother before marriage was Jerusha Covell, and she was from the town of Chatham, on Cape Cod.
     Platt, the youngest of a family of eleven children, nine of whom were brothers, was reared mainly among the beautiful hills of eastern New York. It was while living in Windham, Greene county, New York, that the boy, at the early age of seven years, began to exhibit his peculiar fondness of the art in which he afterward rendered himself so noted. Poverty prevented him from enjoying any advantages whatever, and even before he began to handle the pen he would criticise chirography with remarkably good taste, and penmanship reform so constantly occupied his mind that even while playing as a boy he would spend much time in practicing graceful outlines in the sand with a stick, or even with his toes. Up to the time he was seven and a half years old he had not been the happy owner of a full sheet of paper. At that time, having fortunately in his possession a cent, he dispatched it by a lumberman to Catskill, which, though twenty miles distant, was the nearest market, for the purchase of the coveted full sheet of paper. The lumber­man returned to the residence of the boy about midnight, with the sheet tightly rolled up and tied with a black thread, and it was considerably wrinkled, as he had carried it all the way in his bosom; but with all this young Platt was especially happy in beholding the treasure.  He was considerably disappointed, however, with his first efforts at writing upon it.
     His father dying in 1806, his mother moved with her family to Jefferson, Ohio, in 1810, and soon after the older boys began to find business and homes elsewhere. The enthusiastic boy found much pleasure in spending his leisure time on the lake shore, practicing his favorite art and studying the graceful outlines of nature. He had in him the ele­ments of a true poet. It is indeed doubtful whether a person brought up in a city can become poetical; but certain minds, in the loneliness of rural retreats, are sure to be " born again" into the kingdom of poetry, in which they ever after linger despite all the vicissitudes of life.
     In his twelfth year, our lad enjoyed his first year at school, at Conneaut, "where he, partitioned off his desk in a corner that he might pursue his studies undisturbed, and make the most, of every opportunity. He furnished the copies for the school, with the accompanying instructions, and here also he made his first attempts at versification, in which during all his life he frequently indulged, with considerable ability and taste. Being anxious to study arithmetic, he walked twenty miles barefoot over a frozen road to obtain a copy of Daboll.  On this trip his only food was a raw turnip, which he chanced to find. Night overtaking him on his return, he, being too bashful to ask for lodging at a residence, sought lodgment in a barn.
     After leaving school he clerked awhile in stores, where he had much opportunity to practice his penmanship. Before he reached his twentieth year he invented what has ever since been known as the "semi-angular" system of penmanship, which proved so graceful that it served all the purposes of beautiful chirography and gave the inventor a notoriety throughout the United States.
     For many years Mr. Spencer taught penmanship in a small log schoolhouse south of Geneva, and afterward removed to a better building in the town. The first publication of his system by himself was in 1848, and in the form of copy slips with printed instructions. In this he was associated with Victor M. Rice, a former pupil, who afterward be­came Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of New York. In 1859 he was induced to present his system in a copy-book form. In 1861, in connection with his sons and. J. W. Lusk, he revised his system, which was published by Phinney & Co. of Buffalo, and afterward by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., of New York. Since Mr. Spencer's death the care of the system has fallen to his sons, who do it honor.
     "During life Mr. Spencer adopted the temperance and anti-slavery reforms. Taking also a deep interest in historical subjects, especially in those relating to his own locality, he joined the Ashtabula Historical and Philosophical Society, and remained a member until his death, which took place May 16, 1864, after an illness of several weeks, - the event being mourned by all who ever knew him, and that circle of acquaintance was remarkably large. He was a gentleman in every good sense of that term, a man of sweet spirit and irresistible influence for all that is noble.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Counties, Published 1893 - Page 223)

WILBUR F. STANLEY, an enterprising and highly esteemed citizen of Conneaut, Ohio, who has been engaged in railroad contracting for some years, was born in Summit county, Ohio, Feb. 19, 1843.
     Her parents, Daniel S. and Hannah C. (Cranmer) Stanley, were natives of Vermont and New York respectively.  Daniel S. Stanley came to Ohio in 1816, settled on a farm in Summit county, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life.  Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of many years, he holding various official positions in the church.  It was at a camp-meeting in Ohio that they first became acquainted.  She died in April, 1880, at the age of seventy-eight, and he the same year, at the age of eighty.  For a number of years he served as Justice of the Peace, and few men of Summit county were better known or more highly respected than he.
     W. F. Stanley is the youngest of twelve children, eight of whom, four sons and four daughters, are still living.  He remained on his father's farm until he was eighteen, receiving his education in the schools of his native State.  In 1861, his restless and ambitious nature led him to go West, and in the pineries of Wisconsin he was engaged in the lumber business two years.  Coming back to Ohio, he turned his attention to the railroad business.  He was division master on the track of the Lake Shore railroad until 1871, with the exception of some time spent in the army.  From 1871 up to the present time, he has been engaged in contracting, having built about 500 miles of road.  In March, 1865, he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and remained in the service until November of that year, participating in several skirmishes, but most of the time being on guard duty. Mr. Stanley has been identified with Conneaut since Feb. 1, 1863.  He built the Stanley Block in this city in 1889-'90.  He is a stockholder in the Conneaut Mutual Loan Association.  He takes an active interest in the various public enterprises of the city; and, indeed, any movement which has for its object the advancement of the best interests of Conneaut is sure to find in him a hearty supporter.
     Mr. Stanley was married May 9, 1871, to Miss Alice Gould, daughter of Lorin and Mary (Silverthorne) Gould of Conneaut.  Her father died in 1889, at the age of eighty years, and her mother is still living, now seventy-one.
     Mr. Stanley has taken an active interest in social organizations.  He is a member of the Masonic order, of which he is Past Master of Evergreen Lodge, No. 222; Past High Priest of Conneaut Chapter, No. 70 Past T. I. M. of Conneaut Council, No. 40; member of the Cache Commandery, No. 27; is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and a comrade of Custer Post, No. 9, G. A. R.  In politics he is a Republican.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 562)

BURT F. STEINS, proprietor of the Central Hotel, Conneaut, Ohio, is a young man of more than ordinary business enterprise and push.  By nature and training he is especially adapted for the business in which he is engaged, and seems to be exactly the right man in the right place.
     He was born in Pennsylvania, Jan. 4, 1862, and is a son of George W. and Esther (Cross) Steins, both natives of Pennsylvania. 
     After his marriage, which event occurred Nov. 24, 1859, George W. Steins settled in Girard, Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1867, when he moved with his family to Conneaut, having, however, done business here previous to that time.  In 1882 he turned his attention to the hotel business, and soon afterward to the livery business, carrying on both until 1889.  From that date until April, 1892, he devoted his time exclusively to his livery, feed and sale stable, and then, selling out to B. F. Thayer, he retired from active life.
     Burt F. Steins, the younger of the two sons of George W. Steins and the subject of this article, was employed as clerk in his father's hotel after leaving school, and soon proved himself to be especially fitted for the hotel business.  In 1889, he became proprietor of the Central Hotel, which he has since successfully conducted.  In 1892, he renovated it and embellished it with all the modern improvements, such as steam heating apparatus, electric lights, etc., making it one of the most cozy hotels on the line between Buffalo and Cleveland.  He also deals in horses, usually keeping about a half dozen.  Socially, he is a member of the Elks of Conneaut.
     Mr. B. F. Steins' wife, a winsome and cultured lady, is the daughter of Roderick Frazier, of Meadville, Pennsylvania.  They were married at her father's home in Meadville, Nov. 6, 1884.
     There is no improvement by which strangers judge of the character of a city or town as readily as by the character of its hotel accommodations, and at the present time the traveling public expect and demand a good service from the various hostelries to which they accord their patronage.  Thus it is patent that he who would successfully conduct such a public enterprise must be naturally fitted for the business, must look to multitudinous detains, must be genial and gain the good will of patrons and cater to their wants in every reasonable way.  Mr. Steins' success in the conduct of his model little hotel gives evidence that he fulfills all these requirements, and he numbers his friends among the traveling public by those who once stop at his house, as the expression goes with the commercial travelers; the house is a first-class place to put up, and the proprietor well merits the success and popularity which he has attained.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 813)

EDWARD F. STOLL, the efficient and popular proprietor of the Stoll House, in Ashtabula, Ohio, was born in Conneaut, this State, May 13, 1851.  His father, E. Frederick Stoll, was born on the Rhine in Germany, in 1803, and learned the tanner's trade, which he followed all his life.  In 1833 he came to the United States, this mecca of all ambitious spirits, and followed his business for a time in Erie, Pennsylvania, later in Chicago, and finally, in 1843, settled in Amboy, Ohio, where he spent the rest of his days.  After coming to the United States he was married to Margaret Simington, a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and of German descent.  They had eleven children, of whom but five survive.  The father died in Amboy, Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1891, aged eighty-eight, while the devoted wife and mother now resides on the old homestead in that city, at the age of eighty years, universally beloved and respected.
     The subject of this sketch was reared in Amboy, and obtained his education at Kingsville Academy.  When seventeen years of age he began life for himself in Kingsville by learning the tinner's trade, after which he came to Ashtabula, where he was for four years foreman for Messrs. J. B. Crosby & Sons, hardware merchants.
     Nov. 29, 1873, Mr. Stoll was married * to Miss Jennie Warmington, an intelligent and accomplished lady, daughter of Robert C. Warmington, at that time proprietor of the Ashtabula House, then the leading hotel in Ashtabula.  In March, 1880, Mr. Stoll took charge of the Ashtabula House, which he managed for twenty-six months, when it was closed and converted into a business block.  He then, May 1, 1882, opened the Stoll House, which he has since conducted and which is the leading hotel in Ashtabula.  His devoted wife died Oct. 12, 1891, which was a great loss to him and many friends.  She was a model hostess, and, together with Mr. Stoll's capable management, they made a splendid reputation for the hotel.  She was a material aid in his successes and was considered one of the most popular landladies in Northeastern Ohio.
     Socially Mr. Stoll is a Uniform Rank Knight of Pythias, and is a member of the I. O. O. F., holding high positions in both fraternities.  As a business man he is honest, industrious and enterprising, while as a citizen he is a liberal-minded and progressive, ever alive to the best interests of his city, which he has done so much to advance.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 403)
SHARON WICK's NOTE:  * Marriage can be found in Book G, Page 127 at Ashtabula Co., Ohio Courthouse)

EDWARD AUGUSTIN STONE, one of the old settlers of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Ashtabula County, this State, Jan. 17, 1825, son of Captain Merrit and Arsula (Loomis) Stone.
     Captain Stone was a shoemaker by trade, but was for some years engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He was captain of a company in the war of 1812.  A brother of his, Randolph Stone, was a Presbyterian minister for many years, preaching in this county, and owning a farm here on Rock Creek.  Captain Stone went West (to Indiana or Illinois) to settle some land warrants, and died on the way.  He was traveling with ox teams and in company with a large party.  Little, however, is known of his sickness or death, as the facilities for obtaining news in those days were very poor.  His wife is also deceased.  She was a member of the Presbyterian Church.  Grandfather Stone died in Hampton.  He was twice married.  His first wife’s maiden name was Woodruff, and their only child was Captain Merrit Stone.
     Edward A. is the fourth in a family of seven children, namely: Balinda, unmarried, and an invalid for many years, recently went to California for her health, where she died, at the age of sixty-years; Lucinda married John Venen, and both she and her husband are deceased;  Amanda, unmarried, died in Kingsville, this county, at about the age of twenty years; Edward A.; Fernando, who spent some time on the ocean while a young man, was married in New York State, and afterward settled in Kingsville, this county, where his death occurred; Priscilla, who died at the age of twelve years; Henry Warren is married and living at Niagara Falls.
     The subject of our sketch was married Apr. 7, 1851, to Miss Eliza A. Venen, daughter of Dr. John Venen and his wife, Nancy (Haywood) Venen.  Her parents both lived to a ripe old age, her father dying at the age of ninety-two, and her mother two years later.  Dr. Venen and his wife had children as follows: John D., deceased; Virgil H., proprietor of a greenhouse in Conneaut; Eliza A.; Joseph A., a resident of Cleveland, engaged in the jewelry business; Darwin P., a jeweler of Conneaut; Laurel P., of Olympia, Washington; Laura L., a twin sister of Laurel P., is the widow of Levi Briggs, and lives in Conneaut; and Mary, wife of John Scott, is deceased.  Edward A. Stone and his wife have two children: Laura V. and Laura Eliza.  Laura E. married Charles Putnam, a furniture dealer of Conneaut, and has two children, Eppie May and Walter Edward.
     Mr. Stone learned the blacksmith trade in early life, and worked at that trade for thirty years.  He manufactured carriages and wagons, hiring trimmers and painters and running all the departments of a complete carriage shop.  Later he bought a farm and carried on agricultural pursuits, also having a shop on his farm and working in it much of the time. He has seen much of hardships and privations incident to pioneer life.  He has served in various minor offices, at one time being both Deputy Sheriff and Constable.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has a high standing, being a member of Evergreen Lodge, No. 222, A. F. & A. M.; Conneaut Chapter, No. 76, R. A. M.; Conneaut Council, No. 40, R. & S. M.; and Cache Commandery, No. 27, K. T.  He has passed all the chairs in the three former bodies and was a charter member of the three latter bodies and was a charter member of the three latter bodies.  He was also the Senior S. C. of Eureka Council, No. 1, R. T. of T.  He and his wife and two children are members of the Christian Church, all having been baptized the same day.  Thus far there has not been a death in either the Stone or Putnam families.
Source:  Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 735)

LAUREL V. STONE, (1) the leading jeweler of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in this city April 7, 1855, son of Edward and Eliza A. Stone.  His early life was spent on his father's farm, a mile and a half south of Conneaut, and his education was received in the Conneaut Academy and at Cobb's Business College in Painesville, Ohio.  He learned the jeweler's trade of D. P. Venen, at that time a prominent jeweler of Conneaut.  After completing his trade, in the fall of 1879 he engaged in business for himself at Vermillion, Ohio, where he remained six years, meeting with prosperity.  In 1885 he sold out and returned to the home of his youth.  He then purchased the jewelry store of E. H. Hiler, and by close attention to business and untiring energy he has succeeded in building up a trade that has gained for him the reputation of being the leading jeweler of Conneaut.  He carries a well assorted stock of gold and silver, and also keeps musical instruments of all kinds.  Fine and difficult repairing is a specialty with him.
     Mr. Stone was married February 20, 1879, by Rev. J. W. Martin, and has two children, Frank Edward and John Olmsted.  Mrs. Stone, formerly Miss Addie M. Olmsted, is a daughter of John and Hannah (Saulisbury) Olmsted.  He and his wife are members of the Christian Church, and both are active church and Sabbath-school workers, he being Financial Secretary of the church and Assistant Superintendent and teacher in the Sunday-school, and she the Sunday-school Treasurer.  Mr. Stone votes with the Republican party, taking, however, little interest in political matters.  He is a stockholder in the Conneaut, Gas, Light and Fuel Company.
     With fraternal as well as business circles Mr. Stone is prominently identified.  He is a member of Evergreen Lodge, No. 222, A. F. & A. M., also of Conneaut Chapter, No. 76, R. A. M., and Conneaut Council, No. 40, R. & S. M.  He is Chancellor Commander of Maple Lodge, No. 217, K. of P., and is also a member of Conneaut Division, No. 114, Uniform Rank, K. of P.  In the last two named organizations he has passed all the chairs in the local lodges, being the Senior Past Officer in each.  He is Select Councillor of Eureka Council, No. 1, R. T. of T., of Conneaut; is Past President of Conneaut Circle, No. 38, P. H. C.; is Past President of Conneaut Council, No. 37, A. P. A.; is a member of Conneaut Council, No. 780, Royal Arcanum, and is a member of the Ohio State Police.  At the State Council Session, held at Youngstown, Ohio, May 9, 10 and 11, 1893, he was elected State Councillor of Ohio, in the Junior O. U. A. M., he having carved his way in the State Council, step by step, from office of State Council Warden to the highest place in the gift of the State Council; he has the honor of being the first person in the history of Conneaut to fill the chief State executive office of any secret society, and his local Council Northern Star, No. 30, Jr. O. U. A. M., feel highly honored that one of their number should be thus favored.
     He is a member of Conneaut Tent, No. 100, K. O. T. M., and also holds a State office in this order, that of State Picket, and it is fondly hoped by his numerous friends that in the not distant future he will occupy the highest position in the order.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 734)
(1) Laural V. Stone was buried in City Cemetery, Conneaut, Ohio

DR. LUMAN P. STURTEVANT, who stands in the front ranks of the medical profession in Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, Mar. 16, 1846, son of Timothy and Rachel (Fisher) Sturtevant.  His father was born in New York, July 19, 1813, and at the age of five years went to Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1874.  The past nineteen years he has been a resident of Conneaut, Ohio, and now makes his home with the subject of this sketch.  A carpenter by trade, he was for many years engaged in contracting and building, his life being one of activity and usefulness.  The Doctor's mother was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, Oct. 8, 1811, and died Nov. 24, 1887.  Her father, Elezar Fisher, was in the war of 1812, and her grandfather Fisher was a Revolutionary soldier.  She was a member of the Christian Church, as also is her husband, and for the past thirty years he has been a Deacon in the church.  Mr. and Mrs. Sturtevant had six children, namely: E. F., a resident of Conneaut; Homer, who died at the age of twenty months; Anna M., wife of W. P. Laucks, of Kearney county, Kansas; L. P. the subject of this article; Mary J., wife of W. H. Limb, of  Springfield, Ohio; and William H., a resident of Sharpsville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania.
     Dr. Sturtevant was educated in the common schools and academy and received his medical education in Cleveland, being a graduate of the Homeopathic Hospital College with the class of 1874.  While in college he had two years' experience in Hospital work, and in June, 1874, immediately after his graduation, he began the practice of his profession in Conneaut, where he has since remained, meeting with good success.  He now has a large and lucrative practice.  He is a member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Ohio, the American Institute of Homeopathy, and the Homeopathic Society of Erie county, Pennsylvania.
     Dec. 24, 1872, Dr. Sturtevant married Miss Callie E. Fruit, daughter of William and Sarah Fruit of Sharpsville, Pennsylvania.  Her father, in company with William Scott and James Pierce, development the first coal mine in Mercer county, Pennsylvania.  He died in1879, aged sixty-seven years.  His four children are as follows: Sarah wife of James Trimble Philadelphia; Mary wife of F. Livermore, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, is deceased; Mrs. Sturtevant; William W., who died at the age of thirty-seven years.
     Both the Doctor and his wife are members of the Christian Church.  For many years he has been a member of the official board and has also served as Sabbath-school Superintendent a number of years.  He affiliates with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of the blue lodge, chapter, council and commandery, having filled the office of Worshipful Master in the blue lodge and High Priest in the chapter.  He is also a member of the Knights of Honor and the Royal Templars of Temperance, and has been presiding officer in these organizations for some years.  Politically, he is a Republican.
     Dr. Sturtevant is in the prime of an active manhood.  He is public spirited and generous; believes in keeping pace with the times, and especially does he keep posted in all matter pertaining to his profession.  Dr. Miriam and Dr. Ward are the only physicians now living in Conneaut who were here when he located in the city.  Both professionally and otherwise, he has the respect and esteem of all who know him.
(Transcribed from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties; published in Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1893 - Page 288