Columbiana County Ohio Biographies and Biographical Sketches - Surnames C-F

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Columbiana County Ohio biographies and biographical sketches - surnames C-F, extracted from Columbiana County, Ohio history books.

ISAAC CARR Biographical Sketch

Isaac Carr was born in New Jersey, Nov. 4, 1796. He married Ann, daughter of George and Elizabeth Crew, in 1815. The same year lie moved to Ohio. His family then consisted of his wife and three children; the others were horn in this county. Their children were Samuel, George W., Isaac R., R. F., Thomas, Elizabeth, and J. M.; three only are living. Mr. Carr’s opportunities for an education from hooks during his minority were limited, as those of our early settlers who still survive remember well the rude log school-house and its meagre appointments. Mr. Carr was a very successful farmer, and by strict economy, industry, and good management he added from time to time to his first purchase of land in this county until he owned two hundred and twenty acres of finely-improved land, which he divided into three farms, giving one to each of his sons, one ot whom now owns the old homestead. It must indeed be a great pleasure, at the close of a long and useful life, to be able to transmit to our children a comfortable fortune, more especially if it has been acquired in an honorable manner. Mr. Carr died June 3, 1873; Mrs. Carr died Aug. 27, 1859, at the age of sixty-five years. She was a good woman, and many friends deeply regretted her loss.

Isaac R. Carr, third son of Isaac Carr, married Isabella, daughter of Obadiah and Mary Crew. Mr. Crew was among the first settlers of this county, emigrating from Virginia in 1808. Mr. and Mrs. Crew were married in 1799. Mrs. Crew died Oct. 10, 1841; Mr. Crew died Oct. 10, 1845.

The above portrait was contributed by Isaac R. Carr in memory of his honored father. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

ENOS COOK Biographical Sketch

In another part of this work may be found a view of the home of Enos Cook, accompanied by the portraits of himself and wife. Caleb Cook (father of Enos Cook) came from Pennsylvania to Knox township, Ohio, in 1835, bringing with him his family, which consisted of his wife and ten children, — eight girls and two boys. Three girls and one boy are deceased, leaving one son only (Enos). Caleb Cook died in 1870 ; Mrs. Caleb Cook died in 1864. This family are of Scotch descent.

Enos Cook was born in Chester Co., Pa., May 13, 1821. Mrs. Enos Cook was born in Columbiana Co., Ohio, Jan. 8, 1827. Enos Cook has been a farmer all bis life; lives on the farm which his father bought when he came to this State; has helped to clear and to improve it, until it is now one of the finest in that section; and he is one of the thriftiest and best farmers in that part of the county. Everything about his premises is kept up in the best style. His barn is a model of convenience and neatness. Over the door of his barn may be found these words, 11 What you do, do well,” — a sentiment which he has practiced to the fullest extent. Some of the heaviest stock which has been weighed at Beloit has been raised upon his farm. April 24, 1844, Enos Cook married Ann, daughter of James and Eliza Michener. Three children have blessed this union, viz. : Eliza, Howard, and Leander. One is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Cook belong to the Hicksite Quakers. Mr. Cook has always been called a Republican, but he does not vote at all times with his party, his last vote being cast for Greeley. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

FLORENCE CUMBERLAND Biography

Florence Wright Cumberland is the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Ann Wright. She was born in Hanover and has lived there and in vicinity all her life. She is a descendant of the Cooney family, who lived on a farm near Hanover. She married Mr. Granville Cumberland some years ago. [ History of Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1804-1908, by Voglesong-Woods, Wessie. cn, 1908]

JONATHAN DAVIS Biographical Sketch

Solomon Davis, father of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Virginia, from whence he moved to Ohio in 1821, and settled in Columbiana County. He brought with him a family of ten children, and eleven were subsequently born, making the large family of twenty-one children; nine are now living, of whom seven are the issue of his second marriage. His first purchase in Columbiana County was eighty acres in Hanover township. Two years later he moved on to a farm near Wellsville, but remained only a short time, again removing to Columbiana County, and settling in Knox township, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He lived in that vicinity until his death, which occurred in Butler township, Nov. 6, 1847.

Jonathan Davis was the only son by his father’s first marriage, and was born in Monongahela Co., Va. He assisted his father in the hard labor incident to the life of farmers of the pioneer period. No beautiful prairie, with its waving grass, met the eye of the early settler who came to find a home in this part of the county at that early day, but the tall trees of the forest, nodding in the wind, seemed to defy the axe of the early settler. The sons of farmers understood the meaning of the words “ clearing,” “log-rolling,” “ bee-coursing.” and many other terms familiar then, but now almost unknown. Amid such scenes young Davis spent nineteen years of his early life, when he left home and commenced the manufacture of brick, which business he continued for forty-two years. Nov. 5, 1833, he married Susan, daughter of Nicholas Leonard. To them were born three children, viz.: Sarah J., James, Harriet M., all deceased. Sarah died April 14, 1835; James died Out. 5, 1836; Harriet died Aug. 26, 1872. Harriet was married to a Mr. Townsend, and left two children at her death, — Horace D., who lives with his father, and Howard W., who is with his grandfather, Jonathan Davis.

Mrs. Davis died Jan. 16, 1850. Mr. Davis married for his second wife Emily, daughter of G. and Rachel Aten, in October, 1850. She died Aug. 13, 1856. His third wife was Margaret, daughter of Levi and Rhoda Burden, to whom he was married March 17, 1857.

Mr. Davis bought the farm upon which he now lives in 1862. Both himself and wife are regular attendants of the Methodist church. And now, after seventy years of life’s experience, lighted with joy and shaded with sorrow, Mr. Davis is looking forward to the time when he will hear the dip of the boatman’s oars who comes to ferry him across the dark river, which his loved ones have already crossed, to the joy of the reunion “ over there.” [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

CHARLES D. DICKINSON Biographical Sketch

Charles D. Dickinson, a prominent member of the legal profession, and one of the rising lawyers of the county, is a native of the Buckeye State, having been born in Poland, Mahoning Co., Dec. 13, 1848. His father, Jacob Dickinson, was of Connecticut origin, and migrated west at an early day to better his fortunes. The grandfather of Charles D. was likewise named Jacob, and came over from Scotland to America when he was but nineteen years of age. He fought on the side of patriotism in the war of the Revolution, and was a member of American Union Lodge, No. 1, F. and A. M., organized, it is said, in Washington’s army at Cambridge. The original certificate of Jacob Dickinson’s membership — the MSS. somewhat faded, but still clearly legible, and bearing date at Roxbury, Mass., March 20, 1776— is now in the possession of Charles D. Dickinson, and, as may he well apprehended, is a highly-valued document. Mr. Dickinson, whose name heads this article, lost his father by death in 1852, and then, at the age of four, accompanied his mother — her only child — from Poland to a farm a few miles east of the town of Columbiana, to which latter place he removed with his mother two years later, and there with her he has since made his home, save for a brief interval, of which more anon. He attended district school in Columbiana until the age of twelve, when he began to feel ambitious to carve out his own fortune, and became accordingly an active worker at what his hands could find to do. Thus he worked out an industrious but laborious experience until he reached his seventeenth year.

Resuming then his scholastic studies, he passed his last term as pupil, and emerged as a teacher of a district school, in which he employed himself one term, when, inclining once more towards the facts and figures of trade, he journeyed to the oil regions of the State of Pennsylvania, where he spent six years, returning to Columbiana in the year 1871.

During that year he studied law seven months in the office of Mr. George Duncan, a lawyer of local note, and so improved his opportunities that he was admitted to the bar, Aug. 28, 1872. He taught school the following winter, and in 1873 entered upon the practice of law, in 1 which he has since continued with gratifying success. Although he has barely passed the age of thirty, his standing in his chosen profession is one of which he may be proud, and in the ambitious zeal which characterizes his progress, as well as in the studious application of his life, it is not difficult to trace the foundation of a highly-promising future.

Mr. Dickinson is a staunch member of the Republican party, and, although actively participating in the political events of the day, he has never chosen to urge himself forward for political distinction. He is a member of Panora Lodge, No. 410, I. 0. 0. F., has faithfully and satisfactorily occupied the public trusts of borough and township clerk, and, in connection with his administration of those offices, is remembered as an official of careful discipline and exceptional efficiency. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

JAMES M. DOBSON Biographical Sketch

James M. Dobson was born in Alleghany Co., Pa., on the waters of Chartier’s Creek, about ten miles from Pittsburgh, March 27, 1807. Mrs. Dobson was born in the same State, Nov. 19, 1807. Mr. Dobson emigrated from thereto Ohio in the early part of his life, and settled in Columbiana County, and commenced life for himself by purchasing a farm. This farm had but little improvement ou it, but Mr. Dobson went to work, as all early settlers did who found a home here, to improve his place, clearing, burning brush, log-rolling, and building. He married Margaret, daughter of John and Martha Bevingston. Eleven children were born of this union, six boys and five girls, viz. : John, Elizabeth, Thomas, Martha, June, Henry B., Margaret, Cynthia, .lames K., Robert (deceased j, aud Joseph (deceased). They are living in Ohio, with the exception of Martha, who resides in Michigan. James M. Dobson came from Columbiana County to Smith township, Mahoning Co., about 1833, where he bought a farm of seventy acres. By hard labor and strict economy he added from time to time to this farm, until he owned one hundred and forty acres. He managed his farm during his entire life-time. At his death he left this land to be divided among his children, giving to John two shares, and leasing him the farm for five years at one hundred dollars per year. John lived at home with his father twenty-five years after his majority, working and receiving no equivalent above his support. Mr. and Mrs. Dobson were Presbyterians, and of Scotch and Irish descent. Mr. Dobson’s education was limited ; he attended school just long enough to be able to read and write. He was a truly kind and indulgent man in his family, and in his intercourse with all true and friendly. As he had lived peaceably and quietly, so peaceably and quietly he passed away, departing this life Jan. 6, 1879, leaving a reputation for honesty and upright dealings.

Mrs. James Dobson died Dec. 22, 1875. The portraits of Mr. and Mrs. James Dobson are inserted in this work by their son, John, as a tribute of respect to their memory. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

JOHN T. DYSART Biographical Sketch

JOHN T. DYSART, was born in Scotland, Sept. 2, 1839. His father (James Dysart) came to America in 1844. He settled first in Carroll County. In 1847 he removed to Columbiana County, where he remained until bis death, which occurred Aug. 24, 1870. James Dysart’s family consisted of thirteen children, — twelve sons and one daughter. Eight of that number are deceased. The subject of this sketch remained at home until he was fourteen years old; he then went to the West, where he remained four years. When the Rebellion broke out he was one of the first to respond to the call to arms, entering the service June 6, 1861, as a private in the 3d Ohio Infantry Regiment, going immediately to the seat of war. This regiment was captured by the enemy near Rome, Ga., and was held three months as prisoners of war, and during that time were in prison in the following places: Belle Island, Atlanta, Knoxville, and Danville. This regiment was in twelve engagements and twenty-three skirmishes. Mr. Dysart was present at all these engagements, and went through safely, with the exception of a slight wound, which he received Aug. 28, 1863, while guarding a wagon-train near Stevenson, Ala. After the discharge of the regiment Mr. Dysart selected Chattanooga, Tenn., as a place in which to engage in the mercantile business; after about six months he returned to Salineville, where he engaged as a clerk in a store. August, 1867, he began business for himself, in the mercantile line, also buying and selling real estate and coal. Mr. Dysart has a partner, and the firm is known as Dysart & Cameron. Mr. Dysart has always taken an active part in developing the mineral resources of this and other States, having spent much time and money to accomplish his object. He has a fine geological collection gathered from this and other States. He is in politics a Republican, and, while never having sought political preferment, has always earnestly served the best interests of the party when chosen by it to fill any office. He was elected mayor of his town in 1866, and has been a member of the council for thirteen years; has represented his party as a delegate to various conventions. Is a liberal in his religious views.

Mr. Dysart remains unmarried, and is now in the prime of life. Long may he live to enjoy the fruits of his industrious youth and busy manhood! And we feel confident that he will maintain the good character lie has won, and retain to the last the respect and the esteem of those who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

HANNAH K. ENTRIKEN Biographical Sketch

This venerable resident of Butler township comes of a hardy race, whose representative in the pioneer history of Ohio was John Whinnery, an early settler in Butler, and the father of Mrs. Entriken.

She was born in that township June 1, 1815, and until her seventeenth year divided her time between a brief attendance at school and rendering assistance in the domestic duties of her father’s household. Jan. 13, 1832, she was married to Isaac Kelly, of Franklin Square, and removed at once with her husband to his farm. She became the mother of five children, as follows: William, born August, 1833, and living near Winona; Zimri, born July 10, 1835, now living in Iowa; Moses, born July 27, 1837, and killed in 1864, during the Rebellion, while engaged, as a member of the 6th Ohio Cavalry, in a skirmish with the enemy ; Phoebe Ann, born Dec. 19, 1845, and died 1873; John, who died at the ago of five. Mr. Kelly died in 1851, and Jan. 13, 1857, his widow married Samuel Entriken, living near New Lisbon. There, on her husband's farm, Mrs. Entriken passed the days of her second married life, until December, 1875, when death deprived her a second time of her conjugal companion. Of her last marriage there was no issue.

Since Mr. Entrikon’s death she has resided with her son William near Winona, and now in the evening of life enjoys a quiet repose and freedom from the bustling cares which earlier employed her active existence. In 1837 she became a member of the Disciples’ church, and her allegiance to that faith has to this time, for a space of forty-two years, remained true and steadfast. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

SAMUEL H. FALOON Biography

Samuel H. Faloon was born near Salineville in 1843. He served his country in the Civil war, Eastern Division, in 1864; came with his father’s family to Hanover in 1866; married Ella Merrick in 1870; and moved to his farm known as Sixteen. He died April 1st, 1894.

Mrs. Faloon was born near Hanover in 1850; taught in the public schools. She united with the Presbyterian church of Hanover (of which her husband was a member) in 1871.

Mr. and Mrs. Faloon had five children, Lida J., William A., S. Merrick, Flora Ella and Leland Evert Faloon. [ History of Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1804-1908, by Voglesong-Woods, Wessie. cn, 1908]

JAMES FARMER Biographical Sketch

JAMES FARMER, is a native of Georgia, having been born near Augusta, on the 19th of July, 1892. During the early part of the seventeenth century his ancestors came from England, where they have honorable mention since the days of Henry VII., and especially so during the time of Charles II. II is grandfather took an active part in the stirring times of the Revolution, participating in the various battles that were fought in Georgia and the Carolinas. His father, on account of slavery, decided to leave the South, and removed, in 1805, to the newly-admitted State of Ohio, settling upon a tract of land in Columbiana County, where he remained until the fall of 1818, when he removed to what is now known as Salineville, in the same county. Here young Farmer grew to manhood, availing himself of such opportunities as then existed for acquiring an education while devoting a large share of his time to assisting on the farm and aiding in the manufacture of salt, which his father had commenced in 1824. At the age of twentytwo he leased his father’s salt-works, and having so enlarged them as to make a more profitable business, devoted himself for years to this industry. In 1828, however, he concluded to extend his business enterprises, and so crossed the mountains to Philadelphia, and purchased a stock of goods suitable to the demands of a new country, and this laid the foundation of a mercantile business which he continued for nearly thirty years. In 1834, Mr. Farmer was married to Miss Meribah Butler, a young lady of English parentage, who had, with her parents, previously removed to Ohio from Philadelphia. In 1838 he built what was for those times a large flouring-mill, thus increasing his business by purchasing wheat and manufacturing it into flour, which he shipped to the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and New Orleans. In pursuance of this business, therefore, Mr. Farmer had occasion to travel very considerably, which brought him into contact with the larger commercial interests of the country, and into business relations with a large circle of wealthy and influential business-men. Before the era of railways in Ohio, when the great commercial business was transacted entirely by water, Mr. Farmer, in 1844, built a fine steamer for the profitable traffic at that time carried on upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and employed it for some years in the trade between Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and New Orleans. In the year 1846 he, with his usual enterprise, was foremost in securing a charter for a railroad from the Ohio River to Lake Erie, and eutered with determination upon the building of the same. The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad thus came into existence. Mr. Farmer was made president of the company, devoting his time, energy, and money to the enterprise, and under his able management the road was completed from Cleveland to the Ohio River in about five years. This road opened up a large tract of mineral wealth, and gave a great stimulus to Cleveland, especially to the coal trade of that lake city. In 1856, Mr. Farmer removed with his family to the Forest City and engaged in the coal trade, having mines of his own which he has worked successfully for the past twenty years. Since arriving in Cleveland he has identified himself with the manufacture of iron, and the banking interests of the city. In 1858, Mr. Farmer was again called to the presidency of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, and in order to facilitate its management the superintendency was also assigned him, and it was thus mainly through his wise and economical administration of the company’s affairs that the road was kept from falling into the hands of its bondholders, — a fate that befell many corporations after the disastrous financial crash of 1857. In 1859, Mr. Farmer, feeling that the company he had served was again upon a safe footing, retired to the management of his private business, yet still remained a member of the board of directors for some years longer, when he resigned entirely, having served the company in all nearly twenty years. Although devoting himself to his own business interests, Mr. Farmer ever kept those of Cleveland in view, and, as he was convinced that the city’s greatness was founded upon its manufacturing interests, determined upon a new railway line to the nearest coal-fields. Thus in 1870 he began, through the press and otherwise, the agitation of the subject as one of vital importance to the future prosperity of the city. In 1871 a company was organized, known as the Valley Railway Company, whose object was to build a road, by way of Akron and Canton, into the very heart of the great coal and iron fields of Ohio. Mr. Farmer was chosen president of the company, and the work of construction began in the spring of 1873, but, owing to the great financial crash in the Call of that year, work was suspended, the company’s affairs being kept in such trim, however, that in 1878 the first rails were laid and machinery put on, so that at the present time the road is nearly completed to Canton, a distance of sixty miles, and its entire success fully assured. Mr. Faimer has thus been the organizer of the two railways that give to Cleveland her commercial importance so far as great mineral and manufacturing interests, founded upon an inexhaustible and cheap coal supply, contribute to that end. Mr. Faimer is now seventy-seven years of age, but is still hale and hearty, has the companionship of his wife and five children, and, with his children’s children around him, still looks forward to years of useful life. He is an honored member of the Society of Friends; has never sought political honor, but gone quietly forth in the business walks of life, devoting his time and energy towards enterprises for the public good, believing that a man has higher duties in life than the simple acquisition of wealth ; that he who lives to benefit mankind has ennobled his own soul, and may well rest when life’s labor is done. He possesses a well-balanced mind, maturing all his plans by careful consideration ; has a calm judgment; is serene in disposition, and charitable to the failings of others. He is genial as a friend, kind and indulgent as a husband and father, and is generally esteemed, respected, and beloved. With a mechanical turn of mind, he is a close observer of both men and things in the world around, and may be said to be wholly the architect of his own fortunes. He possesses a strong will, that has carried him over all obstacles. In his business enterprises he has lived to see his efforts for the public good crowned with success, and is entitled to enjoy the honorable old age that is his. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

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