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From: Betty Ralph <>
Subject: Bio - 1885 - Portage Co, OH, Franklin # 2
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 20:48:33 -0600


Bios: Barnett, Bassett, Bethel, Blake, Boettler, Boosinger - Portage
County, Ohio, from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner,
Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

Copyright © 2000 by Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in
the USGenWeb Archives.


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GEORGE BARNETT, miller, Kent, was born in the County of Sussex, England,
July 7, 1821; son of John and Susan (Roberts) Barnett. He was reared and
educated and learned the miller’s trade in his native county, where he
served an apprenticeship of three and a half years, after which he worked as
a journeyman in Epson, Barnstead, Banbury and Elhialsham. In 1851 he came
to America, locating at Cuyahoga Falls, where he worked in Van Tine’s mill
for nearly a year. He then settled in Kent and worked in the Kent Flouring
Mills up to 1865, when he rented the mills, and with the exception of three
years, has been proprietor up to the present time. This mill was built by
Marvin Kent, and is one of the best and most substantial in the State,
having four run of stone with a capacity of 1,500 barrels of flour per week.
Mr. Barnett was married, February 25, 1866, to Lucina, daughter of Jonathan
Thorngate, of Stowe Township, Summit Co., Ohio, by whom he has two children:
Fanny and Clara Belle. He has served two terms as member of the Council of
Kent; is one of the directors of the co-operative store; in politics a Democrat.

WILLIAM BASSETT, Jr., farmer, P.O. Kent was born in Ravenna Township, this
county, May 22, 1829; son of William and Eloisa (Welton) Bassett, native of
Oxford, New Haven Co., Conn., former born September 18, 1794, latter August
4, 1798. They came to this county in 1817 and located in Rootstown Township
and settled on the place known as the Pritchard farm. They afterward
exchanged the farm for the property now occupied by the mother of our
subject, which was then considered the poorest portion of the township. The
farm comprises 263 acres of land, 200 of which are under cultivation.
William Bassett, Sr., was a veteran of the war of 1812, Captain of the
militia in Franklin Township in early times, and generally known as Capt.
Bassett. After his settlement in Franklin Township he taught a night school
for two months, said to be the finest school in the township. He had four
children: William, Jr., Harriet (deceased), Edward W., in Ravenna, and
Horace P., in Warren. He was a thorough-going, pushing business man and at
the time of the building of the Ohio Canal he contracted to furnish the
stone for the locks. He died October 21, 1878, at the age of eighty-four;
his widow, aged eight-six, still resides on the old homestead. Our subject
was reared in Franklin Township, this county, where he received a common
school education and has always followed farming as an occupation. He was
married, May 9, 1854, to Esther A., daughter of Deacon Barber Clark, of
Franklin Township, this county, who died May 8, 1879, at the age of
forty-eight years. Mr. Bassett is a member of the Congregational Church,
with which he has been identified since 1859. He is a F.&.A.M.; in politics
a Republican.

JOSEPH BETHEL, dealer in stoves, tinware, etc., Kent, was born in England,
February 23, 1827; son of Joseph and Sarah (Baylin) Bethel, who immigrated
to America in 1828 and located in the State of New York but subsequently
removed to Summit County, Ohio, where they lived and died. They had seven
children: Joseph; Ann (Mrs. Alexander Ritchie); Mary (Mrs. Perry Prentiss);
Cummings; Elizabeth (Mrs. Nighman); Julia (Mrs. Call), and Frederick. The
subject of this sketch located in Franklin Mills (now Kent) in 1850, and
embarked in the stove and house-furnishing business with L.C. Dodge & Co.,
of Ravenna. This partnership continued up to 1857, when they retired, Mr.
Bethel succeeding to the business, in which he has continued up to the
present time. He was married, May 22, 1850, to Clara Mills, of Cuyahoga
Falls, by whom he has three children living: Louie P., Carrie (Mrs. Preston
Spaulding) and Harry. Mr. Bethel is one of the live business men of Kent,
and has served as a member of the Council two terms with credit to himself
and to the satisfaction of the people. In politics he is a Republican.

CHRISTIAN BOETTLER, farmer, P.O. Kent, was born in Greene Township, Summit
Co., Ohio, March 14, 1836; son of Frederick and Margaretta (Zimmerman)
Boettler, natives of Germany, who settled in Greene Township, Summit Co.,
Ohio, in 1834, and who were the parents of nine children: Jacob; Mary A.,
wife of F. Krumroy; Margaretta, wife of George Humbert; Diana, wife of Adam
Fulmer; Elizabeth, wife of Peter C. Frisch; Catherine, wife of Adam
Kroehley; Frederick, Christian and Daniel. Frederick Boettler died in 1849,
his widow in May, 1883. Our subject was reared in his native township,
where he resided until he was twenty-four years of age, when he located in
Greene Township, Summit Co., Ohio, for four years, after than in Brimfield,
Portage Co, Ohio, and there lived eight years. He then resided in Canton,
Ohio, one year, and returned to Brimfield Township, this county, where he
resided until 1870, when he located in Franklin Township, and has here
resided ever since. Mr. Boettle has always been engaged in farming and is
the owner of the well-known Alvin Olin farm, but resides in one of the
finest suburban residences of Kent. He was married, December 14, 1860, to
Ann M., daughter of Peter and Catherine (Essick) Pontius, of Stark County,
Ohio, by whom he has one child - Charley A. Boettler. Mr. and Mrs. Boettler
are members of the German Reformed Church. In politics he is a Democrat.

PHILIP BOOSINGER, of Kent, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, November 21,
1814, son of John and Barbara (Willyard) Boosinger. His father was born in
eastern Virginia, March 17, 1785, son of Conrad Boosinger, a native of
Germany, who settled in Ravenna Township, Portage Co., Ohio, in 1800, where
he cleared and improved a farm. In 1809 he removed to Tallmadge, Summit
County, where he resided until his death. He had twelve children, four sons
and eight daughters. John Boosinger was married in 1813, and settled in
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he resided three years. In June 1816, he
settled in Brimfield Township, one and a half miles west of Brimfield
Center, the first permanent settler in the township, where he resided until
his death at the advanced age of ninety years. He had eight children, five
sons and three daughters. The subject of this sketch, who was reared in
Brimfield Township, receiving a limited education in the common schools, is
a wheelwright, carriage and wagon-maker by trade. On reaching maturity he
worked for four years as a journeyman in Pennsylvania and Wayne County,
Ohio. In 1843 he returned to Brimfield, embarked in business for himself,
and there married in October of the same year Miss Mary A., daughter of
Conrad Neff. The issue of this union was five children, two of whom are now
living: Ellis A. and Rhoda A. (Mrs. Joseph Whitehead). Mr. Boosinger
worked at his trade in Brimfield until 1862, when he removed to Kent and
embarked in the boot and shoe business, in which he was engaged about seven
years. In politics he was formerly a Democrat, but at the breaking out of
the Rebellion joined the Republican party, with which he has since acted.

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