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Born 1853, Springfield township
From A portrait and biographical record of Portage and Summit counties, Ohio (1898), History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881)
CORNELIUS E. TRASTER, teacher. Summit; is one of the finest educated young men of Green Township; he was born in Springfield Township, Summit Co., April 3, 1853; the son of Daniel and Margaret (Ki-eighbaimi) Traster. Daniel was born in Union Co., Penn., and moved to Summit Co. about the year 1832; he is at the present time living in Springfield Township; is the father of eight children as follows: Hester Ann, Sarah J., now Mrs. Samuel Ritsman, of Springfield Township; Jacob W., of Whitley Co., Ind.; Rebecca M.; John, of Suffield Township, Portage Co.; Hiram, of Springfield; Cornelius E., subject of this sketch; and Mary M. IVIi-s. Daniel Traster is a member of the Lutheran Chm-ch at Uniontown. Cornelius attended the common schools of Springfield Township during his youth; he was raised on the fai'm and I'remained with his parents until about 17 years of age; then worked by the month for some three years; he entered Greensburg Seminary which he attended foiuterms, and was also a pupil in Warner's Normal Institute at Aki'on, and the Northwestern Ohio Normal
School at Fostoria. He has taught school for seventeen terms as follows: First in Springfield, and then one term in District No. 11, Green; tlnree in Springfield; one in East Liberty District; one in Springfield; foiu" in District No. 2, Green; two in District No. 4, Green; two in District No. 3, Green; and two in the East Liberty District. In April, 1881, he was elected Clerk of Green Township. He was married, Sept. 13, 1877, to Miss Lovina A., daughter of Henry and Sarah Elizabeth (Benner) Raber. Mr. and Mrs. Traster are members of the Reformed Church of East Liberty. Hemy Raber, father of Mrs. C. E. Traster, was born June 14, 1831, at the farm upon which he now resides. He was the son of Hemy and Rossanah (Suder) Raber; Hemy, Sr., was born in Germany about 1792, and, when 6 years of age, his father Com*ad emigrated to America, and settled near Reading, Penn., and about twelve years later removed to Stark Co., Ohio. Henry, Sr., married Sarah Huyerd; and after she died, Rosannah Suder; he died in October,. 1859; his second wife in November, 1871; Henry Raber, Jr., was the father of six children— Mary Alice, died aged 3; Lovina Alma, now Mrs. C. E. Traster; William Madison, Anna Eliza, Minnie Levora and Norman Dayton. Henry has served as Township Trustee three terms, and as School Director nine years. Mr. and Mrs. Raber are members of the Reformed Church at East Libertv.
SAlVrUEL WISE, farmer; P. O. Summit; born in Union Co., Penn., July 3, 1818; was the youngest son of Peter and Elizabeth (Vonieda) Wise; Samuel received a knowledge of the common branches in the schools of Pennsylvania; he was early apprenticed to learn the blacksmith's trade, which he followed in Union Co.; in 1842, he removed to Green Township, and for six months worked for Phillip Seecht, who kept a shop at Greensbui'g. He was married, Oct. 22, 1843, to Miss Catharine Raber, daughter of Henry and Rosannah (Suder) Raber; he then farmer his father-in-law's land on shares for several years, until he purchased the farm of Mr. Raber; he also bought some land of Daniel Evans, and owns at the present time 143 acres; was the father of nine children, thi*ee died in infancy, six are living — Rosannah, now Mrs. George Hinland, of Akron; Elizabeth, now Mrs. John Chamberlain, of Springfield Township; Sarah, now Mrs. Edward Mc- Chesney, of Springfield Township; Aaron, now residing on the farm with his father, and married some five years since to Miss Mary Miller, of Union Co., Penn.; Lovina, now Mrs. Huston Kreighbaum, of Green Township; and Catherine Jane, now at home with her father; Mrs. Wise died Feb. 1, 1867. Samuel Wise when a young man united with the Lutheran Chm'ch in Pennsylvania; since moving to Green Township, he has been connected with the Reformed congregation at East Liberty, in which society he was an Elder for some two years. His wife was also a member of this denomination. Samuel has frequently been chosen to serve in several minor offices in the township; his present brick residence was built abou.t the year 1855; a short time previous to this, his home was destroyed by fire.
SAMUEL B. AXTELL was the fourth child in a family of twelve children who lived to be men and women — six boys and six girls. His mother is still living, now in her 89th year. His parents emigrated from Morris Co.,
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.
ORNELIUS E. TRASTER, justice of the peace of Green township. Summit county, Ohio, was born in Springfield township, in the same county, April 3, 1853, a son of Daniel and Margaret (Krieghbaum) Traster, of whom fuitiier mention will be made. He attended the district school until seventeen years old and was reared to that age on his father's farm. For three years afterward he worked out as a farm hand, earning sufficient money to enable him to pay his expenses during the winter month.- at school and his tuition fees for four terms at the Greensburg seminary, and in the fall of 1873 began his career as a school-teacher, a vocation he followed twenty-two terms in all, at different places, in subsequent years. In 1875 he took a course of study in the Northwestern Ohio Normal school, at Eostoria, t" better qualify himself for his profession, the practice of which included one term in Di- trict No. 9, one in No. 7, one in No. 10, five in Springfield and Green townships, five m District No. 11, five in No. 2, three in No. 4- and four in No. 3.
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Jacob tne W.,
February 15, 1844, married to Maggie Bixler, and a farmer of Whitley county, Ind.; Ivebecca M., April 13, 1845, married to james Housel and living on the old homestead in Springfield township; John, November 21, 1846, married Sarah A. Young, and resides in Lake township, Stark county; Hiram, July 20, 1846, married to Savilla Ssvinehart, and lives in Springfield township; Cornelius E., oursubject, and Mary, born April 10, 1855, and now wife of Henry Sauseman, also of Springfield township. The father of this family died November 4, 1896, at the a.ge of seventy-six years, ten months and three days, and the mother February 12, 1897, aged seventy-four years, eight months and twenty days — both devoted members of the Lutheran church.
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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.
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