History of Chardon, (Geauga County) Ohio United States of America

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Franklin Evert Denton, journalist and poet, was born in Chardon, Ohio, Nov. 22, 1859; son of Richard Evert and Lydia (Pomeroy) Denton; grandson of Dr. Evert Denton, a graduate of Columbia, and a distinguished practitioner in Ohio; and a lineal descendant of the Rev. Richard Denton, the first Presbyterian minister in America. At seven years of age he began to learn typesetting in the office of the Geauga Republican, published in Chardon, Ohio, and his connection with that paper continued, with occasional brief intervals spent at school, for eighteen years. In 1884 he became editor of the Geauga Leader, published in Burton, Ohio, and in 1887 removed to Cleveland, where he occupied editorial positions successively with the Sun and Voice, Evening World and Cleveland Leader and liter as editorial writer on the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He was elected a member of the Western association of writers. He published a volume of poem (1883) and a novel, The Glass Dwarf, besides many contributions to periodical literature.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Halbert Eleazer Paine, lawyer, was born in Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio, Feb. 4, 1826; son of Eleazer and Jane Caroline (Hoyt) Paine; grandson of Eleazer and Anna (Elsworth) Paine and of Noah and Rhoda (Waters) Hoyt, and a descendant of Stephen Paine, who emigrated from Norfolk county, England, in the ship Diligent in 1638, and settled in Hingham, Mass., and in 1643, in Seekonk, now Rehoboth, Mass. He was a miller by trade; a delegate to the general court, and with others bought the land from the Indians on which Attleboro, Mass., is situated Halbert Eleazer Paine was graduated at Western Reserve college, A.B., 1845, A.M., 1848; was tutor there, 1847-49, and was admitted to the bar in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1849, where he practiced, 1849-57, and at Milwaukee, Wis., 1857-61. He was major-general in the Ohio militia, 1856-7. He was married, Sept. 10, 1850, to Eliza Leeworthy, daughter of Harvey Brigham of Windham, Ohio. He entered the Union army as quartermaster of the 2d Wisconsin infantry; was appointed colonel of the 4th Wisconsin infantry in May, 1861; was stationed in Baltimore, Md., and left with General Butler on the New Orleans expedition in 1862. He captured the town of Grand Gulf and burnt it, by order of General Butler. He was placed under arrest at Baton Rouge, La., by Gen. Thomas Williams for refusing to obey an order to return fugitive slaves in the camps to their masters, and remained in arrest, except when the troops went into action. On the death of Williams at the battle of Baton Rouge, Aug. 5, 1862, he was released by General Butler and ordered to command the forces at Baton Rouge, where he packed the statue of Washington and the books in the library at the state capitol, shipping them to New Orleans before evacuating the place on the 20th. He was transferred to the command of the 1st brigade, T. W. Sherman's division, in September, 1862; afterward to the 3d brigade, Grover's division, and finally to the 2d brigade of Emory's division, 19th army corps. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers March 13, 1863, and in May, 1863, succeeded to the command of the 3d division, 19th corps, and while leading in the assault on Port Hudson, lost a leg, June 14, 1863. He was appointed a member of General Augur's military commission at Washington, D.C., Sept. 1, 1863; commanded the forces stationed between Forts Stevens and Totten during General Early's attempt to capture Washington in July, 1864, and commanded the military district of Illinois, August to October, 1864. He returned to Milwaukee, was brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, and resigned from the army May 15, 1865. He was a Republican representative from the first Wisconsin district in the 39th, 40th and 41st congresses, 1865-71; was a member of the committee on reconstruction, of that on soldiers' and sailors' bounties and chairman of the committee on elections, and of that on militia. He framed and secured the passage of the bill organizing the U.S. signal service in 1869. He resumed the practise of law in Washington, D.C., in 1871; was U.S. commissioner of patents, 1878-90, and was still continuing his law practise at the national capital in 1902. He received the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve college in 1875. He is the author of: Paine on Contested Elections (1880).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor