ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.

THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO 
            WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
              OF ITS PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MEN  
              Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

                       "A. SCHRAMLING

  Mr. Schramling, ( ), is a native of New York State, being born in Cattaraugus
  County, New York, in May 1828.  At about the time of his birth his father removed
  to Ostego County and when Mr. Schramling was eight years of age to Columbus,
  Warren County, Pennsylvania, which was then a new country with extensive
  forests.  Here the subject of our sketch spent his boyhood days engaged in
  lumbering, rafting, chopping and clearing land.  Being the oldest child of a family
  of seven boys and three girls, he was compelled to undergo severe labor, and
  received but little education.  When nineteen years old he acquired under
  competent instruction a knowledge of the carpenter trade.  January 1, 1850, he
  was united in marriage with Miss Deliah Robbins, who has been to him a faithful
  companion and to whom he is largely indebted for his prosperity in life.  In March,
  1854, he settled in Pierpont Township, this county, purchased fifty acres of land,
  which now constitutes a portion of the homestead farm.  In four days after his
  arrival he and his wife were living and keeping house in a dwelling of their own
  erection.  The same year he built a shop and began the manufacture of the
  revolving horse-rake, which he introduced throughout western Pennsylvania and a
  portion of Ashtabula County.  Three years later he built the first steam saw-mill at
  the centre of the township.  This he sold to try his hand in the oil business in
  Pennsylvania, but in 1861 he returned to Pierpont, and, buying more land, went to
  farming.

  In 1863 he was made first lieutenant, and afterwards captain, of the Ohio Militia.
   In 1864, after expending a great deal of time and money to prevent a draft in his
  township, he offered his services in defense of his country, received a recruiting
  commission, and during the last year of the war served as second lieutenant in
  Company K of the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
  Infantry.  Mr. and Mrs. Schramling are the parents of three children, one son and
  two daughters.  A great bereavement came to them in May, 1875, by the death of
  their only son.  but Mr. Schramling does not complain of his lot.  He has been
  greatly blessed with prosperity, has a beautiful home, and enjoys the esteem of
  his neighbors; and his only desire is that the remnant of his days may be spent in
  being useful to himself, his family, his neighbors, his country and his God."