Anna R. Mathews

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THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
ROBERT N. MATHEWS
ROCKFORD
ROBERT NELSON MATHEWS was a native of New York, and was born in Clinton county on the 5th of May, 1809. He was the son of John Mathews, a farmer and mechanic, who came from England, and settled near the line of New York and Canada.
Mr. Mathews spent his youth and early manhood at the east; married Miss Caroline A. Horr in 1834, and in that year settled in Kane county, Illinois, building the first frame house on the site of Aurora. He opened a farm, and continued in agricultural pursuits until 1846, when, having read law at Aurora, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Little rock, Kendall county, continuing in his profession there for eight or nine years. His practice was extensive and profitable. During four years of his residence in Kendall county he served as county judge, an office for which his sound judgment and administrative talents admirably qualified him. In 1853 he was elected to the legislature, and was associated in that body with such men as John M. Palmer, S. M. Cullom and john A. Logan. Mr. Mathews introduced the first bill for the protection of wild game. About this time he became interested in government lands west of the Mississippi, particularly in Iowa and Nebraska, where he prospected considerably, making entries, and finally selecting his home at Rockford, on the beautiful Shellrock, where he settled on the 1st of January, 1857. Here for twenty years he toiled hard to build up a town, leading off in every enterprise which tended in that direction, up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 31st of May, 1877. Judge W. B. Fairfield, of Charles City, long an intimate friend, pronounced his funeral oration, and thus spoke of Mr. Mathews as a lawyer:
As a lawyer, Mr. Mathews was well read, thoroughly versed in its principles, clear in
his perception as to fact and law and the relation of one to the other, lucid in statement, logical in reasoning. Although he rarely in his later years conducted the trial of a cause in court, he frequently brought cases to the bar whose trial was intrusted to younger members of the profession. In all these cases, however, there was this that was noticeable-they were prepared. Not only was the law clearly defined and the authorities digested, but the preparation of the testimony in significance and sequence was masterly. The introduction of witnesses and testimony was so arrayed that as fact after fact and incident after incident was developed they constituted, in the simple order of array, an argument at once clear and logical. No man at the bar in this district understood better the value and weight of testimony.
The last eight or nine years of his life he was a banker, and was successful in this, as in every other enterprise in which he engaged. He left a large property in the village of Rockford, a farm of eleven hundred acres two miles south of town, another farm sixteen miles away in the edge of Franklin county, and other property scattered here and there.
Mr Mathews was elected one of the supervisors of Floyd County, when the law establishing such an office first went into operation, and while in that office was instrumental in freeing the county of very heavy obligations in the form of railroad bonds. He took pride in the accomplishment of this work, and the taxpayers felt that they owed him a heavy dept of gratitude.
In his orientation already referred to, Judge Fairfield thus spoke of the character of Mr. Mathews:
As a man, he was of large brain, large heart and generous impulses. He had a will that would have been imperious if there had not lain back of it a rare kindliness and a quick sympathy. Little children liked him, and dumb animals never feared him; both certain indices of a kindly and sympathetic nature. He was a man given to hospitality in its broadest sense, and while he was not inunificent in his giving, he was, according to his convictions of right, very generous. No person ever went hungering from his door, and the waif and wanderer found at his table food and under his roof shelter cheerfully and unquestioningly given. To the poor, and those who by force of untoward circumstances or of the chariness of nature had been placed in positions inferior to him, he was kind and gentle; to his equals courteous, though sometimes brusque; to his friend he was sincere, reliable, unswerving; toward those who disliked him he was independent and oftentimes defiant; as a neighbor, kind and obliging; as a creditor, lenient and forbearing, and as a counselor, shrewd and safe.
Mr. Mathews was in feeble health for two or three years before he died, and for five or six weeks took not enough food in the aggregate for an ordinary meal. How he could live as long as he did is a mystery even to the medical scientists. He was a member of the Masonic order, and was buried according to their ritual. The number of people in attendance was so large that no church in town could hold one-third of them, and the services were held in open air. Between one hundred and fifty and two hundred members of the Masonic fraternity were in attendance. It was by Mr. Mathews' request that Judge Fairfield officiated.
The wife of Mr. Mathews died on the 29th of August, 1853. She was the mother of three children, only one of them now living. A daughter, Anna R., died in infancy and Oscar, when about ten years old. Ralph C., the only surviving member of the family, was born on the 13th of December, 1836, at Aurora, Illinois, and is consequently forty-one years old. He was trained to business in his father's office at an early day; was in the mercantile trade for several years, commencing in 1860. For the last seven years he has been a banker, all but the first few months in company with his father. He has a wife and one child. His wife was Jennie E. Lumley, daughter of Edward Lumley, of Michigan. Their child, Oscar L., is fourteen years old.
Mr. Mathews is now of the firm of Mathews and Lyon, his partner O. H. Lyon, many years a merchant in Rockford, and now a member of the legislature. Floyd county has very few better business men than Mr. Mathews, who inherits from his father the elements of success, namely, honest, energetic industry.

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Robert married Caroline Horr in 1834. Caroline (daughter of Capt. Ralph Horr and Anna Robinson) was born on 26 Sep 1816 in Swanton, Franklin Co, Vermont, USA; died on 29 Aug 1853 in Rockford, Floyd Co, Iowa, USA; was buried in Rockford, Floyd Co, Iowa, USA (Riverside Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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John married Alice Cheetham. Alice was born on 26 Nov 1770 in England. [Group Sheet]

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Name: Ralph Chauncy Hoar
Gender: Male
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Birth Date: 10 Dec 1790
Birthplace: POMFRET TWP,WINDSOR,VERMONT
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Mother's Name: Theodosia
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: 7450129
System Origin: Vermont-ODM
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He was born to Dea. John Horr and Theodosia Durkee of Sheldon, Franklin, VT. In 1815 he married to Anna Robinson (1791-1821), daughter of Paul Robinson (1768-1824) and Anna Safford (1771-1847) of Swanton, Franklin, Vermont. Ralph and Anna moved to Plattsburgh, NY and had a child Caroline in 1816. After Anna died he married Margaritte Angus in 1822 and they had 5 children. In 1820 Ralph C. Horr was a captain in the light infantry in Plattsburgh, NY. The family moved west and in 1834 he arrived at Aurora, Kane, Illinois and became Justice of the Peace. He then moved to Rockford, IA where in 1856 he sold 1,100 acres to Charles Smith. Ralph built in 1857 the first school house. He died of heart disease is in 1870 in his 80th year.


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1850 Census - Aurora, Kane Co, Illinois
Ralph C. Horr, 58, Farmer, $1, 650, Ill
Mary Horr, 53, Ill
Lyman Horr, 18, Ill
Margaret Horr, 15, VT
(same house)
John A. Horr, 24, ??
Hannah Horr, 24, Ill
Annah M. Horr, 6 mos, Ill
Clarra Bondo?, 17, Ill
Marie? Gardner, 5, NY
Martha Gardner, 3, Ill
Mary Gardner, 2, Ill

Ralph married Anna Robinson about 1815 in Swanton, Franklin Co, Vermont, USA. Anna (daughter of Paul Robinson and Anna Safford) was born about 1791 in Bennington, Bennington Co, Vermont, USA; died on 30 Sep 1821 in Swanton, Franklin Co, Vermont, USA; was buried in Swanton, Franklin Co, Vermont, USA (Woods Hill Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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A blacksmith at Pomfret, Vermont.

Name: John Hoar
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Birth Date: 21 Jul 1765
Birthplace: Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont
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Father's Name: Elijah Hoar
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Mother's Name: Anna
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I01573-6
System Origin: Vermont-EASy
Source Film Number: 28665
Reference Number: 14
Collection: Vermont Births and Christenings, 1765-1908

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Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio

THE HORR FAMILY. Among the pioneer families planted in Lorain county few have left more numer- ous descendants than the one now under consideration; and in no other instance have so many brothers risen to public note and business prominence. For several generations the Horr family had lived at Pomfret, Vt. The grandfather of the Horr brothers, now living in Ohio, was Deacon John Horr, and, back of him, the heads of the Horr family were a line of deacons; but this religious ardor has not been preserved in its orthodox purity to the present generation. The original emigrants of the Horr family to Ohio were Roswell Horr and his two sisters, Mary and Lucina. Mary Horr married Joseph B. Jainison, of Avon ; Lucina Ilorr married Samuel Robinson, formerly of Vermont. She died in Wisconsin without issue. Roswell Horr was born in Pomfret, Vt., January 13, 1796. He had but meager educational advantages in early life, atid he served an apprenticeship to the trade of blacksmith, which he made his chief vocation. In 1834 he emigrated to Ohio, and locateil in Avon township, Lorain county, where he bought and improved a farm, upon which he afterward erected, as the family home, what is now known as the Dr. Townsend residence, situated about one and a half miles cast of the village of French Creek. He also built a blacksmith shop on the farm, and there worked at his trade. Notwithstanding his limited edu- cation, and the fact that he lived only seven years after coming to Ohio ? his death having occurred April 25, 1841 ? he had laid an excellent foundation for his future. He had served his community as justice of the peace and postmaster in a creditable manner, and he left hia family a home of seventy odd acres unencum- bered, and fifty acres more that was nearly paid for. Common sense and strict in- tegrity marked his actions both public and private. For his first wife he married Miss Lucinda Wheeler, who bore him two daughters: Lucinda, who married Bai'low G. Carpenter, of Olmsted Falls, Ohio; she now resides in Chicago, 111., and has two children ? Harry H., of Chicago, HI., and Mrs. Lucena McNeil. Lucina, the second daughter of Roswell Horr, married William S. Carpenter, of Olmsted Falls; she now lives with her son, Newton H. Car- penter, of Chicago, 111., who is secretary of the Art Institute of that city. After the death of his first wife, lioswell Ilorr mar- ried, in Waitsfield, Vt., in 1829, Miss Caroline Turner, a native of Moretown, same State, born in 1805, who is still living, residing in Wellington. Mrs. Horr was a woman not only of great heart and brain qualities, but she secured a more than average early education, and before her marriage was for many years a school teacher. While engaged in this vocation she taught Senator Carpenter, of Wiscon- sin, the alphabet. Her mother was a Miss Carpenter, and a great-aunt of the Senator. Mrs. Horr had eight sons, all of whom reached maturity except Henry and Frank, who died in their " teens," while attend- ing school at Oberlin. The eldest of this fjjmily was but a little over ten years of age at the time of the death of the fatiier, Koswell Horr. In the rearing of this large family of boys Mrs. Horr had ample op- portunity to exercise all her ingenuity and moral courage. If the ambition of the boy is inspired by early lessons, or his genius quickened by early incentives, how well she has succeeded is best told in the lives of her sons. The first birth occurred November 26, 1830, and by this she bore two sons ? one now Hon. Rollin A. Horr, of Wellington; the- other Hon. Roswell O. Horr, of New York City. Hon. Kollin A. Horr received an ele- mentary education in the public schools, and commenced life as a clerk in a store in Huntington, Lorain county. He sub- sequently entered the cheese business and farming and stock dealing there, and made that his home for fifteen years. He as- sisted in the organization of the First Na- tional Bank of Wellincrton in 18()4, and the spring of the same year removed to Wellington, which he has since made his home. He was cashier of the First Na- tional Bank for twenty-seven years, since which time he has been its vice-president. He was for a time a member of the exten- sive lumber firm of W. R. Santly & Co., and besides being vice-president of the First National Bank is now secretary of the Clarksfield Stone Comjtany. He was nominated by the regular Republican caucus, and elected to the State Senate from the Twenty-seventh and Twenty- ninth Senatorial Districts in 1879, serving during the sessions of 1880-81 and 1882- 83; was subsequently the Republican nominee from the Fourteenth Congres- sional District. On October 8, 1891, he was appointed special employe of the United States Treasury Department by Secretary Foster, and served in that capac- ity until June 1, 1898, when he was re- moved by the Democratic administration. Mr. Ilorr is a man of medium height, but large proportions. He has the natural, easy, pleasant bearing of a man long accus- tomed to do business with the public. He was married in 1853 to Miss Sarah A. Ames, from which union were born seven children, of whom one died in infancy; those living are: Abbie C, married to H. B. Hamlin; IloUin C, who was educated in Cornell University, and is now in the stone business in Philadelphia, Peiin. (he is servini^ his third term as member of the city council of Philadelpliia); Walter Scott, who graduated from Wellino'ton nio;h School, now a stenographer and book- keeper by profession, and residing in IJii- luth, Minn.; Warner M., also a graduate of Welliniiton Ilirrh School, now a book- keeper, residing in San Francisco, Cal.; Charles P., wiio was for iive years book- keeper in the First National Bank at Wellington, and is now a paving con- tractor of Philadelphia, Penn.; Nellie, a graduate of AVellington High School, and still at home. Hon. Roswell G. Horr is the other of the twin brothers. He is of national reputation as a politician and lecturer. He tirst attended the public schools, tlien took a partial course in Oberlin College, after which he attended Antioch College, and in 1857 graduated under Horace Maun. Returning to his native county, he v;a8 elected clerk of the court of com- mon pleas in the fall of 1857, and re- elected in 1800. While acting as clerk of the court he read law, and upon stepping out of the office was admitted to the bar, becoming a partner with Judge J. C. Hale, and pursuing the practice of law in Elyria for two years. In the spring of 1866 he removed to southeastern Missouri, engaged in mining business, and while there was the Republican nominee for the State Legislature. In the spring of 1872 he removed to East Saginaw, Mich., and was elected from the Eighth Congressional District, serving in the XLVI., XLVII. and XLVIII. Congresses of the United States of America. He is at present tariff editor of the New York WeeJclij aiul Semi- Weckhj Tribune. AVhen in Congress he participated in the leading debates and legislation of the day. He has perliaps made more political speeches than any otiiei' man living, Ijesides having prepared and delivered a number of lectures on literary and scientific subjects, which have given him a national reputation as a public lecturer. Mr. Horr was married in 1859 to Miss C. M. Pinney, and has four living children ? ^two sons and two daughters, viz.: Flora M., wife of Frederick Hebard, of Plain- field, N. J.; Frank, a merchant of Ithaca, Mich, (he was educated at East Saginaw and Orchard Lake State Military Acad- emy); Katherine, at home, engaged in literary work; and Rollin A., residing in Saginaw, Michigan. James C. Horr, the third cliild of Ros- well and Caroline (Turner) Horr, was born January 25, 1832. He received iiis edu- cation in the common schools of liis native place, which he supplemented with a course of study at Oberlin University. At the age of twenty-one years he went to Australia, remaining there fourteen years, at the end of which time he returned to, Lorain county, and there remained four years. His ne.xt trip was to California, and after spending si\\ years there he located permanently in the city of Olym- pia, now the capital of the State of Wash- ington. He served a term in the Terri- torial Legislature, and was for four years special agent of the United States Ti-easury Department during the GartieldArthur administration. He has served as mayor of Olympia, and is now a member of the State Senate of the State of Washington. He was for a time engaged in the furniture trade, but now operates a wholesale and retail feed and forwarding store, and real- estate business. He was married in Aus- tralia to Miss Lizzie Upton; has no living children. John Horr, born June 2, 1833, in Ver- mont, is the last of these children born in Vermont. He went to Australia with his brother, and subsequently to New Zealand, where he now resides. He married in Aus- tralia, and has one daughter. But little is known of his personal history. Rulph Turner Horr was born June 2, 1835. He was a harness maker by trade, which he followed in earlier life. Swbse- qiieutly he engaged with the American Express Company, and finally entered the United States Mail service. He died a few years since. He married a Miss Martha Barker, and left two sons: George, agent of the Merchants Despatch Transpor- tation Company, Chicago, 111. ; and Howard, in the employ of the Troy Laundry Manu- facturing Company, Chicago, Illinois. C. W. HoRK, leading business man and capitalist of Wellington, is a native of Lorain county, Ohio, born in Avon, Janu- ary 25, 1837. He was reared on the farm, during the brief winter months attending the schools of the locality till he was about sixteen years old, when he went to Cleve- land, with but a few dollars in his pocket, there to seek employment, a total stranger in the place, with solely himself to rely upon. Casting liis eye on the sign of a leading hack and omnibus line office, and understanding something of horses, he im- mediately applied for and found employ- ment as an omnibus driver. Falling into no dissipation, and allowing himself no in- dulgencies of any kind, he succeeded in saving some money, and at the end of five motiths he found himself in a financial position sufiicieiit to enable him to take a term at Oberlin College, which he did. He then taught school at Pittsfield Center, Lorain county. At the age of eighteen, with barely enough money to pay expenses, he took stage coach from Louisville to Nashville, Tenn., near which city he se- cured a position as teacher in Zion Semin- ary. In 1858 he became principal of the public schools of Napoleon, Ohio. In 1857 Mr. Horr entered Antioch (Ohio) College, graduating from there in 1860. On August 12, of the same year, he mar- ried Esther A. Lang of Huntington, Ohio, who has proved the kindest and wisest of wives and mothers. Indeed, Mr. Horr and all of his iTitimate friends would agree in regardintr his marriage as the most for- tunate event of his life. In the fall of 1860, with his wife as assistant, he became principal of the public schools of Vandalia, III. In that town he became a leading o local agitator in the cause of the Union, delivering many eloquent and patriotic speeches, and finally he organized Com- pany B, Thirty-fifth' O. V. I., of which he was made captain. With his command he did duly in Missouri, and served under Fremont, Halleck, Curtis, Jefferson C. Davis, and other leaders of the movement in Missouri. During the larger part of his service, he was employed as forage master or as brigade comniissary of sub- sistence, and during the latter part of his sei'vice he was attached to Gen. Buell's army. At the commencement of the war he was a Douglas Democrat. After he left the army, he returned to Lorain county, and in company with his brother, J. C. Horr, commenced the development of the cheese industry, building in Huntington township the first cheese factory in Lorain county. The firm of J. C Horr & Co. was succeeded by Starr & Horr, and at the end of a year that firm was succeeded by the i)resent cheese and butter firm of Horr, Warner & Co. Of this firm Mr. C. W. Horr has always been the recognized head, and its great success is largely due to his ability as a business man, and to his saga- city as a financier. Mr. Horr is also a memljer of the firm of Weati, Horr, Warner & Co., the most extensive onion and celery growers in Ohio, and probably the greatest onion growers in the world. He is also president of the well-known Wellington Milling Company, and has for years been a stockholder and director in the First National Bank of Wellington, Ohio, and also of the Savings Banking Company of Elyi-ia, Oiiio. Mr. Horr owns an extensive tract of land in Lorain and Medina counties, and is to a large extent engaged in the breeding of fine Holstein-Friesian cattle. In 1892 he was president of the National Holstein- Friesian Association, and he has recently >been elected president of the National Dairy Union. LORAIif COUNTY, OHIO. 651 In his earlier days Mr. Horr read law, and was admitted to the bar, and his knowl- edge of both law and general business has been of invalnal)ie service, not only to him- pelf but also to friends and others who frequently consult him on matters of im- portance and difficulty. In politics he is a Republican, and few campaigns have taken place since the war in which he has not taken a more or less active part, as he is a forcible public speaker, and keeps well posted on all political and public questions. He is also a writer of ability, a master of the English language, and an accomplished rhetorician. Although deeply immersed in his many business enterprises, Mr. Horr still finds time for the study of literature in the quiet of liis home, where he is sur- rounded by every comfort and finds the purest and greatest enjoyment of his life. In the very prime of manhood, he is a man of tine physique, and of great physical and mental energy. He is by no means the meekest of men; he is positive in his views and aggressive in his methods, and his power and influence have been felt in many political contests. Mr. and Mrs. Horr have had live sons, viz.: Norton T., a graduate of Cornell University, and member of the law firm of Boynton & Horr, of Cleveland, Ohio; Charles W., Jr., a graduate of Cornell University, now engaged in various busi- ness enterprises with his father; Clinton (deceased); Alfred E.., at present a member of the junior class of Cornell University, and Harley M., who still resides with his parents.

John married Theodosia Durkee on 7 Sep 1786 in Pomfret, Windsor Co, Vermont, USA. Theodosia (daughter of Bartholomew Durkee and Ruth Keyes) was born on 19 Feb 1764 in Pomfret, Windham Co, Connecticut, USA; died on 2 May 1827 in Woodstock, Windsor Co, Vermont, USA; was buried in Woodstock, Windsor Co, Vermont, USA (Cushing Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Paul married Anna Safford. Anna was born on 9 Jan 1771 in Bennington, Bennington Co, Vermont, USA; died on 9 Nov 1847 in Swanton, Franklin Co, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet]