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Born 1848
From History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881), A portrait and biographical record of Portage and Summit counties, Ohio (1898)
A. A. VIALL, farmer; P. 0. Tallmadge; was born in Harrisburg, Penn., Nov. 29, 1848. He remained at home until he was 16 years of age, receiving his education in the common schools of his neighborhood. In 1864, he enlisted in 184th 0. V. I., where he remained until the close of the war. After his return home, he was engaged as engineer on a steamboat. He then worked on the Pittsburgh & Cleveland Railroad, where he fired a locomotive. He was then engaged by J. A. Caruthers to take charge of machinery in his mill. In 1878, he purchased, in company with C. D. Caruthers, the mill he now operates. In 1879, he was united in marriage to Helen Caruthers, daughter of J. A. Caruthers, of Tallmadge, whose family settled there in an early day from Connecticut. Mr. Viall is a strong Republican, and has always been identified with that party.
As printed in History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
HLBERT A. VIALL, the well-known saw-mill proprietor and lumber dealer at Tallmadge, Summit county, Ohio, and one of the youngest of the volunteers of the late war, was born in East Akron November 29, 1849, a son of Emory D. and Orpha L. (Wilcox) Viall, the Viall family being descendants of old New England colonists of Connecticut and Vermont.
Emory D. Viall, a lumberman, married, in Stowe township. Miss Wilcox, a daughter of L. H. and Hannah (Porter) Wilcox, who were from New England. The children born to this union were Albert A., Frank H., Arthur J. (deceased), Alfred C. (deceased), Carrie M. (a practicing physician of Cleveland), Nellie (deceased), and Cynthia E. Mr. Viall conducted an extensive business for many years, was a highly respected gentleman, and was killed in a railroad accident December 16,
Albert A. Viall received a good district school education, and was but twelve years of age when the first shot of the Civil war was directed against Fort Sumter. This fired his youthful patriotism, which grew with the growth of the war. Finally, with the consent of his parents, who, in fact, could not restrain him, he enlisted at Alliance, Ohio, January 26, 1865, in company F, One Hundred and
Eighty-fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, for one year, unless sooner discharged on account of the war being brought to an end. He was a large lad, stood five feet seven and one-half inches high, weighed 167 pounds, and but a little over fifteen years of age at the time, and but twenty-seven days older than the youngest enlisted soldier, as reported at the reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic at Buffalo,
As printed in A portrait and biographical record of Portage and Summit counties, Ohio (1898). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Albert A. Viall
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