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


  Plin Smith.  "It was in Sheldon, Franklin County, Vermont, on the 5th day of
  August, 1802, that the subject of the following sketch was born.  His father, John
  Smith, who was born in New London, Connecticut, died when Plin was fourteen
  years of age; he, however, remained at home until 1821, when he came to Ohio,
  the greater part of the way on foot.  Arrived at the house of his uncle, Roger
  Cadwell, in Andover on February of that year (1821).  His first business on
  reaching this wilderness was chopping.  to procure an axe, he cut an acre of
  heavy timber and piled the bush; he estimates that this axe and helve cost him at
  least seven dollars.   He then hired out to chop, and continued to prosecute this
  vocation until he had cleared one hundred acres of forest.   From the effect of this
  labor he became an invalid and returned to his native place.   In doing this he was
  so fortunate as to engage for a gentleman to drive cattle over the mountains to
  Philadelphia.  B.F. Wade was his companion, and they received for their
  services nine dollars per month; arrived home, he learned the trade of
  wagon-making.  On January 25, 1829, (Mr. Smith) was married to Aurelia,
  daughter of John Weeks, of Sheldon, Vermont, and the subsequent October
  started again for Ohio, and after some two weeks spent on the road arrived at the
  above-mentioned uncle's hourse, purchased twenty five acres of wild land, ut up a
  log house and began house-keeping.  the first wagon he built was hewn from the
  adjacent timber, his wife assisting him in turning the hubs, and also in sawing
  logs from which to make the rails necessary to fence their farm.  They have lived
  in Richmond and Austinburg Township, but the greater part of their lives was
  passed in Andover.  They are living in Conneaut.  The children of this venerable
  couple are Philo, born June 6, 1830, married Elsie Frink, and lives in Madison,
  Lake County; Jasette, born November 4, 1832; she is the wife of E.B. Linn, M.D.,
  Richmond Township; Sagito, born August 23, 1834, married Alicia Lake, and
  lives in Conneaut.  Delia was born April 17, 1836.  She married Olmstead Baker,
  and now resides at Andover.  Mary was born March 28, 1838.  She is now the
  wife of the Rev. L.E. Beardsley, of Akron, Ohio.  John Harrison was born March
  29, 1840.  He married Martha Hartshorn and lives at Frayer, Iowa.  Aurelia, born
  March 12, 1842, married Cyrenus Laughlin; home at Rouseville, Pennsylvania.
   Eliza Ann, the next child, was born March 19, 1844; died May 29, 1867.  Plin
  Weeks, born January 1, 1847, married Mary Kelley, and lives in Chicago, Illinois.
   Aurelia A. was born May 6, 1849; her husband is Professor N.L. Guthrie of
  Conneaut.  Lizzie H., born December 12, 1853, married Charles Morris, and
  lives at Millerstown.  They have been life-long members of the Methodist
  Episcopal Church."