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

 HORACE LINDSLEY.  "The parents of the gentleman whose name appears at
 the head of this sketch were Abraham and Molly Bidwell Lindsley, of Litchfield,
 Connecticut.  Their ancestors were of English origin.  (They) removed to Paris,
 Oneida County, New York, where Horace was born on the 7th day of July, 1811.
  His father died at this point and in 1818 his mother was married again, to John
 Fenn, and soon after removed to Ohio, coming via the lakes, and after a ong and
 tedious voyage, not devoid of danger, arrived at the mouth of Ashtabula Creek.
  At this time there was at this place one log cabin and a partially-constructed
 building intended for a warehouse.  They first went to Madison, Lake County; only
 remianed ashort time, however; and then removed to No. 9 of the second range
 (now known as Cherry Valley); here they effected a permanent settlement in the
 wilderness.  There was but one other family at this time in the township, their
 neighbors being principally the wild beasts of the forest.  At night they were
 lulled to sleep by the soothing howl of wolves and the hootings of the owls.  Mrs.
 Lindsley Fenn died September 27, 1842.  
 The education of the gentleman under consideration was acquired at common
 school, and his first occupation was the felling of the huge forest-trees
 surrounding his home.  In his youth he taught school in the winter seasons for a
 time, but his life-work has been that of farming.  On December 26, 1842, he was
 united in marriage to Elizabeth A.J., daughter of Joseph and Esther Giddings
 Warren, of Williamsfield.  Eight children were born of this marriage.  These are
 John Quincy Adams; Joseph Warren, married Elma C. Sweesy; Mary E., married
 George H. Burnell; Lucretia Weston, married E.H. Green; Lucretia M. (died);
 Matthew Hale (died); Frank Hildreth; and Wendell Phillips.  Their political position
 is shown by their children.  They were ever warm friends of the colored man, and
 many a slave had reason to thank them for food, clothing and shelter while en
 route for that freedom in a foreign country which was then denied him here.  John
 Brown and his sons were intimate friends, and the last home of the unfortunate
 Aaron D. Stevens, (who was one of the victims of the Harper's Ferry affair, and
 was executed at Charlestown, Virginia), was at one time with Mr. and Mrs.
 Lindsey."