CANFIELD, Fitie nee BOSTWICK
Mrs. Herman Canfield– m. 1805
Daughter of Rev. Gideon and Jessie Burghart Bostwick
B. 12 Oct 1773 in New Milford, Litchfield Co. CT
D. 5 Apr 1839 in Canfield Twp., Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co. OH at 65y 5m 24d
Burial – Apr 1839 in Canfield Village Cemetery, Section B Row 06, Canfield, Mahoning Co. OH
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 18 June 1897 - Article No. 22 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Canfield in Early Times, The Changes of a Century Noted
Re: Herman - Canfield Family cont.
Excerpt:
"Mrs. Fitie Canfield, aside from being the daughter of a celebrated clergyman and author, was otherwise well connected. After the death of her mother, she with a sister, was intrusted with the care of five younger children. When the father died in 1793, the family scattered. She went for a time to live with her cousin, Hon. Elijah Boardman and afterwards with Hon. Judson Canfield until married. When she came to Canfield she found the country new and everything to prepare for housekeeping. Mr. Canfield had many men in his employ in his various enterprises - many "comers and goers." Female help was difficult to procure. All these contributed to entail on Mrs. Canfield a load of responsibility, care and personal labor such as few housewives were called upon to endure. All these, we are told "she bore with the most indefatigable, smiling industry." The forgoing quotation, I am pleased to say, was not coined by Mr. Whittlesey, but by a reverend Dr. Barkhaus, who applied the phrase first to the Rev. Dr. Bostwick, Mrs. Canfield's father, and now re-applied to the daughter. The phrase, I think, means tireless industry, accompanied with constant, happy smiles.
The children of Mr. Canfield and wife Fitie were William H. Canfield, Elizabeth M., Cornelia, Laura, and Herman. William studied law in Judge Newton's office and removed to Medina, where he accumulated a handsome competency in the practice of law, and lost all of it by misplaced confidence in some one or two young men he had befriended. He established a bank in Medina and entrusted these young men to manage it. The result was, someone else got all the money, and Mr. Canfield was left penniless. Before this he served one or more terms as judge of the court of common pleas in a district embracing Medina county. Disheartened by his losses he concluded to try his fortune elsewhere, and removed to Kansas, where he succeeded to such an extent as to be elected to the bench a second time. He died at a place and date unknown to his friends here. None of the three sisters married. Cornelia, when last heard from, was living in Kansas at an advanced age. Herman, the youngest of the children, was born in 1817. I remember him somewhat indistinctly when we were both young. One event that brings him to mind was sitting up with him one night during a protracted illness on his part in 1837. My recollection of him is to the effect that he was an amiable, quiet young man, with a delicate constitution. He also became an attorney and successfully practiced his profession. I am uncertain as to his location while in practice, but think it was either Medina or Sandusky. He represented his district for one or more terms in the Ohio Senate, a fellow member with Judge Newton. In the civil war he took active part in organizing the 72d regiment of O.V.I. and went to the front as its lieutenant colonel. Colonel Ralph P. Buckland commanded the regiment. The latter named obtained his law education in the office of Judge Newton, and both student and preceptor married half sisters, daughters of Mrs. Eli T. Boughton. Lieut. Col. Canfield gave up his life on the bloody battlefield of Shiloh. Col. Buckland came home after the war a brigadier-general, and afterwards represented Sandusky congressional district four years."
Mrs. Herman Canfield– m. 1805
Daughter of Rev. Gideon and Jessie Burghart Bostwick
B. 12 Oct 1773 in New Milford, Litchfield Co. CT
D. 5 Apr 1839 in Canfield Twp., Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co. OH at 65y 5m 24d
Burial – Apr 1839 in Canfield Village Cemetery, Section B Row 06, Canfield, Mahoning Co. OH
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 18 June 1897 - Article No. 22 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Canfield in Early Times, The Changes of a Century Noted
Re: Herman - Canfield Family cont.
Excerpt:
"Mrs. Fitie Canfield, aside from being the daughter of a celebrated clergyman and author, was otherwise well connected. After the death of her mother, she with a sister, was intrusted with the care of five younger children. When the father died in 1793, the family scattered. She went for a time to live with her cousin, Hon. Elijah Boardman and afterwards with Hon. Judson Canfield until married. When she came to Canfield she found the country new and everything to prepare for housekeeping. Mr. Canfield had many men in his employ in his various enterprises - many "comers and goers." Female help was difficult to procure. All these contributed to entail on Mrs. Canfield a load of responsibility, care and personal labor such as few housewives were called upon to endure. All these, we are told "she bore with the most indefatigable, smiling industry." The forgoing quotation, I am pleased to say, was not coined by Mr. Whittlesey, but by a reverend Dr. Barkhaus, who applied the phrase first to the Rev. Dr. Bostwick, Mrs. Canfield's father, and now re-applied to the daughter. The phrase, I think, means tireless industry, accompanied with constant, happy smiles.
The children of Mr. Canfield and wife Fitie were William H. Canfield, Elizabeth M., Cornelia, Laura, and Herman. William studied law in Judge Newton's office and removed to Medina, where he accumulated a handsome competency in the practice of law, and lost all of it by misplaced confidence in some one or two young men he had befriended. He established a bank in Medina and entrusted these young men to manage it. The result was, someone else got all the money, and Mr. Canfield was left penniless. Before this he served one or more terms as judge of the court of common pleas in a district embracing Medina county. Disheartened by his losses he concluded to try his fortune elsewhere, and removed to Kansas, where he succeeded to such an extent as to be elected to the bench a second time. He died at a place and date unknown to his friends here. None of the three sisters married. Cornelia, when last heard from, was living in Kansas at an advanced age. Herman, the youngest of the children, was born in 1817. I remember him somewhat indistinctly when we were both young. One event that brings him to mind was sitting up with him one night during a protracted illness on his part in 1837. My recollection of him is to the effect that he was an amiable, quiet young man, with a delicate constitution. He also became an attorney and successfully practiced his profession. I am uncertain as to his location while in practice, but think it was either Medina or Sandusky. He represented his district for one or more terms in the Ohio Senate, a fellow member with Judge Newton. In the civil war he took active part in organizing the 72d regiment of O.V.I. and went to the front as its lieutenant colonel. Colonel Ralph P. Buckland commanded the regiment. The latter named obtained his law education in the office of Judge Newton, and both student and preceptor married half sisters, daughters of Mrs. Eli T. Boughton. Lieut. Col. Canfield gave up his life on the bloody battlefield of Shiloh. Col. Buckland came home after the war a brigadier-general, and afterwards represented Sandusky congressional district four years."
CANFIELD, Fitie nee BOSTWICK
Mrs. Herman Canfield– m. 1805
Daughter of Rev. Gideon and Jessie Burghart Bostwick
B. 12 Oct 1773 in New Milford, Litchfield Co. CT
D. 5 Apr 1839 in Canfield Twp., Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co. OH at 65y 5m 24d
Burial – Apr 1839 in Canfield Village Cemetery, Section B Row 06, Canfield, Mahoning Co. OH
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 18 June 1897 - Article No. 22 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Canfield in Early Times, The Changes of a Century Noted
Re: Herman - Canfield Family cont.
Excerpt:
"Mrs. Fitie Canfield, aside from being the daughter of a celebrated clergyman and author, was otherwise well connected. After the death of her mother, she with a sister, was intrusted with the care of five younger children. When the father died in 1793, the family scattered. She went for a time to live with her cousin, Hon. Elijah Boardman and afterwards with Hon. Judson Canfield until married. When she came to Canfield she found the country new and everything to prepare for housekeeping. Mr. Canfield had many men in his employ in his various enterprises - many "comers and goers." Female help was difficult to procure. All these contributed to entail on Mrs. Canfield a load of responsibility, care and personal labor such as few housewives were called upon to endure. All these, we are told "she bore with the most indefatigable, smiling industry." The forgoing quotation, I am pleased to say, was not coined by Mr. Whittlesey, but by a reverend Dr. Barkhaus, who applied the phrase first to the Rev. Dr. Bostwick, Mrs. Canfield's father, and now re-applied to the daughter. The phrase, I think, means tireless industry, accompanied with constant, happy smiles.
The children of Mr. Canfield and wife Fitie were William H. Canfield, Elizabeth M., Cornelia, Laura, and Herman. William studied law in Judge Newton's office and removed to Medina, where he accumulated a handsome competency in the practice of law, and lost all of it by misplaced confidence in some one or two young men he had befriended. He established a bank in Medina and entrusted these young men to manage it. The result was, someone else got all the money, and Mr. Canfield was left penniless. Before this he served one or more terms as judge of the court of common pleas in a district embracing Medina county. Disheartened by his losses he concluded to try his fortune elsewhere, and removed to Kansas, where he succeeded to such an extent as to be elected to the bench a second time. He died at a place and date unknown to his friends here. None of the three sisters married. Cornelia, when last heard from, was living in Kansas at an advanced age. Herman, the youngest of the children, was born in 1817. I remember him somewhat indistinctly when we were both young. One event that brings him to mind was sitting up with him one night during a protracted illness on his part in 1837. My recollection of him is to the effect that he was an amiable, quiet young man, with a delicate constitution. He also became an attorney and successfully practiced his profession. I am uncertain as to his location while in practice, but think it was either Medina or Sandusky. He represented his district for one or more terms in the Ohio Senate, a fellow member with Judge Newton. In the civil war he took active part in organizing the 72d regiment of O.V.I. and went to the front as its lieutenant colonel. Colonel Ralph P. Buckland commanded the regiment. The latter named obtained his law education in the office of Judge Newton, and both student and preceptor married half sisters, daughters of Mrs. Eli T. Boughton. Lieut. Col. Canfield gave up his life on the bloody battlefield of Shiloh. Col. Buckland came home after the war a brigadier-general, and afterwards represented Sandusky congressional district four years."
Mrs. Herman Canfield– m. 1805
Daughter of Rev. Gideon and Jessie Burghart Bostwick
B. 12 Oct 1773 in New Milford, Litchfield Co. CT
D. 5 Apr 1839 in Canfield Twp., Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co. OH at 65y 5m 24d
Burial – Apr 1839 in Canfield Village Cemetery, Section B Row 06, Canfield, Mahoning Co. OH
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 18 June 1897 - Article No. 22 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Canfield in Early Times, The Changes of a Century Noted
Re: Herman - Canfield Family cont.
Excerpt:
"Mrs. Fitie Canfield, aside from being the daughter of a celebrated clergyman and author, was otherwise well connected. After the death of her mother, she with a sister, was intrusted with the care of five younger children. When the father died in 1793, the family scattered. She went for a time to live with her cousin, Hon. Elijah Boardman and afterwards with Hon. Judson Canfield until married. When she came to Canfield she found the country new and everything to prepare for housekeeping. Mr. Canfield had many men in his employ in his various enterprises - many "comers and goers." Female help was difficult to procure. All these contributed to entail on Mrs. Canfield a load of responsibility, care and personal labor such as few housewives were called upon to endure. All these, we are told "she bore with the most indefatigable, smiling industry." The forgoing quotation, I am pleased to say, was not coined by Mr. Whittlesey, but by a reverend Dr. Barkhaus, who applied the phrase first to the Rev. Dr. Bostwick, Mrs. Canfield's father, and now re-applied to the daughter. The phrase, I think, means tireless industry, accompanied with constant, happy smiles.
The children of Mr. Canfield and wife Fitie were William H. Canfield, Elizabeth M., Cornelia, Laura, and Herman. William studied law in Judge Newton's office and removed to Medina, where he accumulated a handsome competency in the practice of law, and lost all of it by misplaced confidence in some one or two young men he had befriended. He established a bank in Medina and entrusted these young men to manage it. The result was, someone else got all the money, and Mr. Canfield was left penniless. Before this he served one or more terms as judge of the court of common pleas in a district embracing Medina county. Disheartened by his losses he concluded to try his fortune elsewhere, and removed to Kansas, where he succeeded to such an extent as to be elected to the bench a second time. He died at a place and date unknown to his friends here. None of the three sisters married. Cornelia, when last heard from, was living in Kansas at an advanced age. Herman, the youngest of the children, was born in 1817. I remember him somewhat indistinctly when we were both young. One event that brings him to mind was sitting up with him one night during a protracted illness on his part in 1837. My recollection of him is to the effect that he was an amiable, quiet young man, with a delicate constitution. He also became an attorney and successfully practiced his profession. I am uncertain as to his location while in practice, but think it was either Medina or Sandusky. He represented his district for one or more terms in the Ohio Senate, a fellow member with Judge Newton. In the civil war he took active part in organizing the 72d regiment of O.V.I. and went to the front as its lieutenant colonel. Colonel Ralph P. Buckland commanded the regiment. The latter named obtained his law education in the office of Judge Newton, and both student and preceptor married half sisters, daughters of Mrs. Eli T. Boughton. Lieut. Col. Canfield gave up his life on the bloody battlefield of Shiloh. Col. Buckland came home after the war a brigadier-general, and afterwards represented Sandusky congressional district four years."
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