Notes for Lewis DAY

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Notes for Lewis DAY

Don't know if this is the same Lewis Day, but locations seem to match:
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PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@@HiWAAY.net
December 1, 1999
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Copyright � 1999 by Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in
the OH Biographies Project. bralph@@hiwaay.net
from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co.,
Chicago, 1885
H.E. DAY, farmer, P.O. Deerfield, was born on the banks of the Mahoning
River, in Deerfield Township, this county, November 23, 1804. His
grandfather, Lewis Day, with Mr. Ely and Daniel Diver, came to this county
in 1799, subsequently returned to the East, but came back here in 1800,
bringing their families, and were the first to settle in Deerfield Township.
The Day's settlement was east of the Center, and there two generations have
lived and passed away. Munn and Lucy (Ely) Day, the parents of our subject,
were natives of Massachusetts and Connecticut, respectively, and were
parents of eight children, six of whom are now living. Our subject was
married, first in 1830, to Miss Minerva Scranton, of Atwater, who died in
1838, leaving three children: Dudley M., born on the homestead in 1831, and
who married Miss Mary Smith, of Portage County Ohio, in 1856 (have three
children); Edgar M., and Lucy H., wife of A.M. Crosser. Mr. Day was married
on the second occasion to Miss Martha Wakefield, of New York State, who bore
him four children: Ewing W., who enlisted in Company D, Sixty-fifth
Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed in the battle of Stone
River; Louisa ; wife of Charles Newton; Laura E., wife of F. Hartzall; and
Heman L. Mr. Day was engaged in the tannery erected in Deerfield by Jesse
Grant, father of Gen. Grant, with whom he had pleasant business
associations. Our subject is Trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of
which he has been a consistent member for many years.
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