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From: Betty Ralph <>
Subject: Bio - 1885 - Portage Co, OH, Mantua # 4
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:40:28 -0500


Bios: Davis, Frost, Harmon - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of Portage
County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

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STEPHEN J. DAVIS (deceased) was born October 10, 1816, in Delaware County,
N.Y.; son of Aca and Anna Davis. He was married August 31, 1848, to
Philena, daughter of Alonzo and Emily (Mount) Gates, of Harbor Creek
Township, Erie Co., Penn., who were the parents of five children, all now
living, viz.: Grandison, married to Lucy Dalley, residing in Dakota; Abby,
wife of S. Brown, at Chautauqua Lake; Pamelia, wife of William Trimble,
formerly of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, now of Erie, Penn.; Philena, the widow of our
subject, and George, married to Julia Bostwick, in Springfield, Penn. Mrs.
Davis was born in Erie County, Penn., and came here with her husband (on
account of his failing health) and here bought a home. To our subject and
wife was born one son - Clinton, married to Jennie, daughter of Ebenezer
McIntosh, of Mantua, Ohio. Stephen J. Davis departed this life in August,
1878. His widow makes her home with her son, Clinton, and is carrying on a
flourishing millinery and fancy goods store at Mantua Corners, where she is
known as an affable, conscientious lady.

JAMES FROST (deceased) was born in Blandford Township, Hampden Co., Mass,
son of John and Eleanor Frost. His educational advantages were limited, as
his father died when he was but eleven years old, and he was then put out to
work. At the expiration of one year he returned home and took charge of the
farm, remaining thus occupied until he was seventeen years of age. In May,
1816, being then twenty-five years old, he came to Ohio, and soon after
married Semira, daughter of Samuel Forward, who came to Ohio in 1803, and
whose family was the second to settle in Aurora Township, this county. Our
subject and wife were the parents of seven children: Charles; Frank; John,
a bachelor, a thorough business man, who is proprietor of the Mantua Seam
Flouring Mills; Elmer, who was born October 22, 1826 (is now Trustee of the
township, and has held other official positions; was married November 8,
1848, to Rhoda, daughter of L. Reed, and they had two children: James B.,
married to Percis Barker, and Eva A., who died in infancy); Madison and
Benton, living in Auburn Township, Geauga Co., Ohio, and Mary, wife of
Nelson Blair (have two daughters now residing in Parkman, Ohio).

FRANK FROST, farmer, Mantua Corners, was born March 9, 1821, in this
township, son of James and Semira (Forward) Frost, and grandson of Samuel
Forward and James Frost, natives of Massachusetts and early pioneers of
Ohio, the former settling in Aurora Township, this county, in 1803, and the
latter in Mantua in 1816. The father of our subject had six sons (five now
living) and one daughter, viz.: Charles, Frank, John, Elmer, Madison, Benton
and Mary, wife of Nelson Blair (have two daughters residing in Geauga
County, Ohio). Our subject was married November, 1844, to Rhoda C. Bump,
who died in 1865. He subsequently married Marcia A., daughter of Lot
Mitchell, of Windham County, Conn. Mr. Frost has no children. He is a
leading farmer and cheese manufacturer of this county, and has served his
township as Assessor and Trustee. Politically he is a Democrat.

JOHN FROST (deceased) was born in Mantua Township, this county, March 21,
1823, son of James and Semira (Forward) Frost, the former a native of
Massachusetts, and came to Ohio in 1816, the latter born in Connecticut,
came in 1803. They were the second family in Mantua Township, and settled
two miles west of the present site of Mantua Station. They reared a family
of eight children, of whom five are now living: Frank, John, Madison, Mary
and Benton; Elmer and his wife died of pneumonia, former, February 14,
latter, February 17, 1885, and their funeral obsequies were both held on the
same day. Our subject was a farmer and miller by occupation, and head of
the firm of John Frost & Co., of the Centennial Mills, an establishment
employing the new process roller system and possessing a capacity of turning
out seventy-five barrels of flour per day. The Centennial is the leading
mill in the vicinity. John Frost died of pneumonia February 22, 1885, aged
sixty-one years. He was a citizen of capital, enterprise and public spirit.

EDWIN M. FROST, farmer, P.O. Mantua Station, was born August 22, 1832, in
Mantua Township, this county; son of Marvin and Mary Ann (Demaw) Frost,
former of whom, a native of Blandford, Mass., came to Mantua Township, this
county, in 1818, settling on Lot 33, now occupied by Nelson Brann; latter a
French-Canadian. They had four children, three now living: J.K., who was a
resident of Hudson, Ohio, where he died in 1882 (leaving a widow and two
children: Hallie and George); Lorenzo L. and Edwin M. In 1864 the parents
of our subject removed to Hudson, where they passed the remainder of their
days with their son J.K. Frost. In 1854 Edwin M. was married to Agnes A.,
daughter of Garrett C. Vanwagnen, who came to Ohio from New York State and
was the parent of a family of fifteen children, of whom Mrs. Frost is
twelfth. To Mr. and Mrs. Frost have been born three children: R.F., a
physician in Ashtabula County, Ohio; Lou Y. and Arthur E. at home. In
politics our subject is a Democrat.

DEMAS HARMON (deceased) was born January 11, 1805, in Suffield, Conn., son
of Cephas and Deborah Harmon. He was married to Rachel Gillett, April 21,
1830, by whom he had five children: Maria R., wife of C.B. White (had six
children: Elbridge G., Arthur H., Charles C., Fred H., Mary E. and Marcia
M.; three are still living: Charles C. Fred H. and Mary E.); Eloisa C.,
wife of E.M. Kent (have five children: Anna A., Demas E., Zenas A., Eleanor
E. and Arthur A); Mary A., wife of F. Canfield, of Austin, Ill. (had two
children: Louisa and Hattie B.; Hattie B. is still living); Horace A.,
married Tyrphena Reed (have two children: Vernie I. and Demas), and Silas
D., a bachelor. In 1833, accompanied by his wife, he came to Chardon,
Geauga Co., Ohio, where he remained until the spring of 1834, when he moved
to Mantua, Portage Co., Ohio, and bought 215 acres of land. He died May 19,
1842. His widow, in October of the same year, married King Nooney, a
brother of Capt. Nooney of the war of 1812, and by him had one daughter -
Sarah R. - now the wife of G.O. Reed. Mr. Nooney died October 9, 1848. His
widow still resides on the farm located by her first husband many years ago.
Her son, Silas D., who lives with her, has charge of the farm, dairy, etc.,
and is one of the leading farmers of the town.

SAMUEL HARMON, farmer, P.O. Mantua, son of Alexander and Mary (Hanchett)
Harmon, was born in Suffield, Conn., July 30, 1808, came to Ohio in 1834 and
settled in the northern part of Mantua Township. In 1835 our subject
married Jane Deming, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Smith) Deming, and born
in Sandisfield, Mass., November 1, 1815. By this union eight children were
born, seven now living: Esther A. (Mrs. H.L. Moore, in Kansas), Orcelia J.
(Mrs. H.H. Converse), Martha A. (Mrs. G.W. Stitt), Carrie L. (Mrs. H.J.
Sanford) Rhoda J. (Mrs. M.H. Case, in Illinois), Samuel (who married Sylvia,
daughter of Charles Streator, of Shalersville, this county), and Fred H.,
residing with his brother Samuel at the old home. January, 1875, Mr. Harmon
buried his wife, and March, 1878, he married Mrs Wood; they live near the
old homestead. Our subject has held several offices of trust in the
township, and is a quiet, unassuming, well-to-do farmer.

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