The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-04
Rortage Conhty az Years Ago.

, EoftuBe county ~ Icurs Ago.
FtRsr GExERAL ELECTION AFTER THE on.
OF PoRTAGh CoUKrY.-AA ibe
attendance at the seaaisk election inn6f,
fsos, was small, and goes but little way to
show who were the pioneers Of this county,
have thought that it might, perhaps, inter-
est the present generation Of readers, in this
county, to see, who were the pioneers, who
attended and voted at elections near Al years
ago, in the several thownships of Portage
county, who were the officers of election,
and who the candidates, as found by examin-
ing the records OF our county.
And first Of the candidates.
The candidates voted for in Portage coun-
ty at thaG election, were:-
For Gouernor-T#oMAs WoRTHINeToN,
of Chillicothe, had l42 votes; SAMUEL Hun.
TrseToN, of Cleveland, IOs votes, elected.
Congress-JEREMIAH MORROW, had $50
votes, elected; PHILEMON BEEcHER, of Lam
caster, 81 votes.
. ;iSeRaIe-DAvrD ABBoTT, Of Chagrin, (now
Willoughby) 1877 votes, elected; Amos
STAFFORD, Of Cleveland, ll3 votes.
Represcniatiue--ABEL SABIN, Of Randolph,
(no orposition,) elected.
Sherif-ALvA DAY, of Deerfeld, Isl
votes, elected; JOHN CAMPBELL, of Camp
bellsport, 40 votes. '
Coroner-LEwIs Ely, of Deerfeld, 13i
votes, elected; GosHAM BosTwIcK, Of Roots
town, 81 votes.
County missioaers-LEwIs DAY, OF
Deerfeld, had l56 votes, elected; JOSEPH
HARRIS, Of Randolph, had 1873 votes, elect
ed; JOEL GAYLORD, of Hudson, had 254
votes, elected; JEREMIAH Roof, of Aurora,
had l3l votes; OLIVER Forward, Of Auro-
ra, had "a votes.
THOMAS WoRTHINGToN, was talented
and wealthy farmer--was afterward Sena-
tor in Congress, and voted against the decla-
ration of war, in 1912; but advocated its
vigorous prosecution when declared. He
was afterwards elected, and served as Gov
ernor Of Ohio one or two terms, and died
many years ago.
SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, elected from the
Supreme Court to Governor in 1903, was a
relative of former Governor of Connecti-
cut, of the same name. He died, think,
about the close Of his term as Governor
He was esteemed good man, but the objec-
tion heard urged against him, during the
canvass, was, that He was hot talented, ant
his vote, in this section of the Stute, was
lighter than in the south part!
Old Governor Mokho#, who so long rep
resented Ohio in Congress, when we had
bat one representative ahd was afterwards
Governor, has but recently PASSED from earth,
and is well remembered.
BEEcHER, represented the Columbus and
Lancaster Dim Din Congress-; for Several
terms, after the census Of 1910, Has been
dead many years.
DAVID ABBOTT, represented this Senate
District, in Senate of Ohio; fof two or more
terms, and in 1919, was elected sRelectol
of President, to vote for the reselectioh oil
JAMES MADISON, but in passlhg from his res
idence, then ut Huron, to meet the electoral
college, at Columbus, at a bad season of the
year, through a then unsettled wilderness,
he lost his way, and CONSEQUENTLY lost his
vote. He was afterwards, on the organiza-
ton of Huron county, appointed Clerk OF the
court of that county. He died many years
ago. He was educated to the law. but dep
recated the practice. He was an excentric
intelligent snd strong minded man.
HUNTINGTON, WoRTHTNefoA, Morrow
BEEcHER, and ABBOTT, were all members oI
the Convention that formed the first Consti-
tuition of Ohio. ABBOTT was a surveyor
and made the first survey of Mantua town
ship, surveying it into AZ large lots, about
the year l798-99.
STAFFORD, was also surveyor, and first
settled in Trumbull county, and removed af-
terwards to Cleveland, where he kept tav-
ern many years, until about the year 1911,
when he removed to Fort Meiggs, now Per-
Eysburgh. He contracted to survey Aurora
and afterwards sub-let his contract to JOSEPH
LAsDoK, who was afterw%ds tavern-keep'
er at Buffalo. LANDoN made bad survey
Of it. STAFFORD was allowed to name the
township, and gave it the name ofhis eldes
son, then youth of some ten years. AuRo
RA STAFFORD, well knew, up to the TINT
OF his removal frem Cleveland. He was at
terwards, an associate Judge Of Wood coun
ty, and died but few years ago.
Thus much of the candidates residing gu
bf our county, the other are better know
here, and perhaps need no farther reference
-------sseeA--
ASSAULT AND BATTERY.-Mr. EPHRAIO
NORTON Of Edinburg, was arrested last week
for assault and battery upon the person o
little girl six or seven years OF age. Al