Florence Stanton

Herbert M. Stanton, of Shalersville township, was born in Streetsboro township of Portage county November 13, 1849, a son of Merrill Stanton, one of the early pioneer farmers of Portage county. He was born in Chester, Hamilton county. Massachusetts, January 13, 1820, a son of Asher and Lucy (Wait) Stanton, also from that state. Coming to Streetsboro township in Portage county, Ohio, in the fall of 1831 Asher Stanton worked on a farm there, where his death subsequently occurred. Merrill Stanton married in Aurora township of Portage county Amelia Avery, who was horn there in 1823, a daughter of Rubin and Corinna (Lewis) Avery, from New York. .After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Stanton located in Streetsboro township, but after four years there went to Cuyahoga county, in this state, where Mr. Stanton bought a farm. After living there ten years they sold their property and in 1858 located in Aurora township. Portage county, from whence in 1861 they removed to Streetsboro township and came into possession of the Stanton homestead there. There Mr. Stanton died on February 23, 1881, and his wife on June 7, 1896, after becoming the parents of three children:

Emma, who died on April 15, 1889, the wife of Chauncey Taylor;

Herbert M., of this review ; and

Arthur, on the homestead farm in Streetsboro township.

Herbert M. Stanton as a young man of seventeen and after a common and high school training began working out by the month for others, thus continuing until his marriage, when he became a renter, and in 1882 he bought a small farm in Streetsboro township, but sold that property in 1890 and bought another farm in the same township. In 1903 he moved to his present homestead in the southwest corner of Shalersville township, 118 acres of which are located in that township and thirty-five acres in Streetsboro township. This was formerly the Bentley farm, Mrs. Stanton's mother's old home, and Mr. Stanton purchased the interests of its heirs and is quite extensively engaged in general farming and the raising of sheep.

He married on December 25, 1871, Dorcas Bentley, who was born in Shalersville township, a daughter of Griffin and Mary (Smith) Bentley, he from Cuyahoga county and she from Lake county, Ohio. Her grandparents were Caleb and Anna (Griffin) Bentley, from Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and Garrett B. and Dorcas (Hotchkiss) Smith, from the state of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Stanton have had two children,

Florence, born May 15, 1879, died on June 8, 1903, and

Merrill, born February 26, 1882, died March 16, 1907.

Mr. Stanton is an independent Democrat in his political affiliations, and he has served Shalersville township as a trustee.

Bibliographic information:

• History of the Western Reserve
• by Harriet Taylor Upton , Harry Gardner Cutler
• Published 1910
• Publisher The Lewis publishing company
• Year 1910
• Pages 953
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• Language English
• Digitizing sponsor Google
• Book from the collections of University of Michigan
• Collection americana
• Page 1328
• Identifier-access http://www.archive.org/details/historywesternr01cutlgoog

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