Re: "The Hapgood Family" Descendents of Shadrach 1656-1898
Rebecca Dixon, of Columbianna County, Ohio, born June, 1819 is the only mention of "Dixon" in the book...read on...
OTHER HAPGOOD FAMILIES whose identity with the descendants of Shadrach has not been fully established, some of whom are presumably of the same race or near akin, either in this country or in England.
THE OHIO FAMILY is the most numerous, and they have first place.
About the year 1817 there appeared in Warren, Ohio, a young man by name of George Negus Hapgood, a printer, who learned his trade in Brattleboro, Vermont, but being by nature reserved and silent he never talked of his boyhood days, his parents, or place of nativity. He was an enterprising young man of excellent habits, found employment in the office of the "Western Reserve Chronicle," a weekly paper published in that flourishing town, and by industry and economy in a few years saved up money enough to buy a half interest in the paper, and later on became sole proprietor and publisher of that popular journal. Under his skilful management the paper prospered and had a wide circulation.
In 1841 he was appointed by President Harrison postmaster of Warren, and later on received the appointment of auditor of Trumbull County, Ohio. In 1847 he bought ninety acres of land some two miles out from Warren, on what was called the river road, and converted it into a nursery farm. In 1853, having been in journalistic harness for nearly thirty years and desiring to be released from its arduous and responsible duties, he sold his interest in the "Chronicle" to his son George and his nephew, Comfort Adams, under firm name of Hapgood & Adams, and removed to the fruit farm, where he lived and labored and enjoyed his well-earned reputation as an honorable, upright man of marked ability, up to the time of his death, September 2, 1861.
On the 6th of April, 1820, at Girard, Ohio, he married Adaline Adams, born February 24, 1799, in Canterbury, Connecticut, and died in Warren; Ohio, October 26, 1871.
SECOND GENERATION.
IV. George Negus2, born November 24, 1825; married, December 24, 1846, Rebecca Dixon of Columbianna County, Ohio.
GEORGE NEGUS2 (George Negus1), born November 24, 1825, in Warren, where he was educated under the special care of his parents; married, December 24, 1846, Rebecca Dixon, of Columbianna County, Ohio, born June, 1819.
He succeeded his father as editor and publisher of the "Chronicle," associating with himself in its management his cousin, Comfort Adams, under firm name of Hapgood & Adams, and by skill in journalism sustained the reputation so well earned by his father. When the war of Rebellion came on he enlisted, on the call for ninety-days men, in Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-first Regiment Ohio Volunteers, infantry, was in the battle of Keller's Bridge, Kentucky. Served out his term, returned to Warren, and continued his labors on the "Chronicle" up to the time of his death. The name of the publishing firm had been changed to Hapgood & Ritezel, and after his death Mr. Ritezel purchased his interest, and assumed the responsibility of the publication in company with his son, and the paper passed out of the Hapgood family.
He died, beloved and mourned by his many friends, August 18, 1865. His widow died June 13, 1884.
CHILDREN.
I. Olivia3, born October 12, 1847, at Salem, Ohio; unmarried.
II. Frances3, born April 26, 1850, at Warren; married, May 14, 1874, George S. Schryber, of Cleveland, Ohio, where he resides.
III. William Kersey3, born June 14, 1852, in Warren; married, November 28, 1877, Stella Seymour, daughter of N. P. and Mary (Comstock) Bailey, born at Painesville, Ohio, December 19, 1856; resides, a clerk, in New York City.
I. Eugene Palmer4, born June 29, 1880, at Warren; a student in University of Columbus, Ohio, 1897.
IV. Mary Stiles3, born June 27, 1860; died December 18, 1874, at Cleveland.