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732. Clayton_Uriah_Dorwin, born February 5, 1852 at Monmouth, Root Twp.,
Adams Co., IN;married Emma J. Todd on September 13, 1873.
73. William Russel Dorwin, born December 20(26), 1826 at Cambridge, Guernsey
Co.,OH. Moved with his family, finally to Root Township, Adams Co., IN where
on Decembe 28, 1848 he was married to to Belinda A. Wise, daughter of Andrew
Wise and _______________Leatherman. Belinda was born in Pennsylvania(need
location) December 9, 1827.Miss Wisés parents had also come from Galion,
where she had been an acquaintance of the family, having signed M.M. Dorwin's
memory book in 1845. His education was confined to the advantages furnished
by our system of public schools. After his marriage he farmed seven miles
north of Decatur in Root Township , returning to Decatur in 1864, when he
engaged in the watchmaking and jewelry business, also drug and other
businesses until he retired from active pursuits about 1886. He was a member
of the I.O.O.F. Lodge, and an ardent Republican, patriotic and public
spirited. He attended the First Methodist Church regularly, but never united
with any church. His obituary stated that he "was a man of good common
sense, strong and accurate judgment, practical in all his ways and views of
life, and not given to emotions, vagaries, hobbies or crankisms of any kind.
In his family he was in every way a tender and considerate father and
husband. He was deeply domestic in his tastes, and his home was to him
especially sweet. While he was not given to any especial manifestation of
emotion, he was always full of great concern for the welfare of his family,
and would sacrifice himself for them, and forget his own pleasures and
desires in his unselfishness. He was a man of deep and intense friendship,
and leaves behind him a large circle of friens and relatives to mourn his
loss.
"Mr. Dorwin was sick a week only. There had been a weakness of his heart
for many years, and during the last autumn and winter he faded perceptibly
before our eyes; yet he kept up and went into the town just as long as he
could. A week before his death there was an alarming failure of the heart,
which proclaimed that the end of this long and useful life was at hand. His
children were sent for. From day to day he grew feebler, retaining the full
use of his facilities, fully conscious that the end had come, until Thursday
at 1:35 he fell asleep.
"This long and useful life, so highly favored, has come to the end
appointed for all. With the respect of the community, with the approval and
love of his nearest and dearest, he has gone to his rest. May we so live
that we may leave behind as equally fragrant a memory, so that our successors
shall rise up and call us blessed," the Rev. C.G. Hudson closed.
He died February 28, 1901 and is buried at Decatur. She died in July or
August, 1911(or 1919) in Columbus, OH, but was returned to Decatur for
burial. Their six children are:
7. Calvin Trenton Dorwin was born August 28, 1795 in Lanesborough Twp.,
Berkshire Co., MA, the son of Russel and Eurona Roublee Dorwin, and was No.
#12487, the great-great grandson of Ephraim Darwin of Guilford, CT. Jedidiah
Hubbard Dorwin (J.H. Dorwin) had this to say of Russel: "...he lived for some
years in Berkshire or Enosburgh Twps., Franklin Co., VT and married a Miss
Roublu(sp.?) and died in Hinesburgh, Chittenden Co., Vt. I have often seen
him when he stopped at my father's (Philo) house in New Haven, VT. He had one
son, Asa, and one daughter, Betsy; this is all I knew of him until quite
lately(February 1, 1880) when I heard that he left a large family; some of
his descendants are living in Decatur, Adams Co., IN, and DeKalb, DeKalb Co.,
IL, having received letters from two of his grandsons, Dr. T.T. Dorwin of the
former place and Niram S. Dorwin of the latter town." (4, p. 6)
All nine known children of Russel Dorwin were born in Lanesboro,
Berkshire Co., MA, the last one, Betsy, in 1799. However, Russel and his
family moved to Hinesboro about 1800 or shortly thereafter. He was still in
Lanesboro for the census of 1800 with eight children. In the Census of 1810,
he is listed in Hinesburo with his brothers Oliver and Elisha, the same three
families that proceeded to Ohio together. In the 1881 History of Medina Co.,
Ohio , it is mentioned that Oliver Durham had arrived in Wadsworth Twp.,
Medina Co., on March 1, 1814. "On the 1st day of March, 1814, Oliver Durham
and the writer, Benjamin Dean, went seven miles into the wilderness, and made
the first beginning in Wadsworth...."(p. 417) and from p. 419, "From Vermont
were the Deans, O. Durham, and his brother Calvin(who wrote his name
Dorwin)....Elisha Durham, brother to O. and C., died on the way from Vermont,
and his widow, daughter of Lysander Hard[Hart - see 12488. The Hart Family],
married Mr. Henry Wright, Lysander Hard and son Harlow, and stepsons Davis
and Welles Holcomb, and his brother Abraham Hard, with his sons, Cyrus,
Abraham, Jr., L. Nelson;..."
Mrs. Sherman Kunkel, in February, 1965, wrote, "He (Calvin Trenton
Dorwin) came to Wadsworth, Ohio, Medina County, just west of Akron, in 1820.
(Need Census of 1820 for Vermont and Ohio) Most of the journey was made on
horse- back. He married Fanny Bell on March 27, 1823 in Guernsey Co., OH;
they were residents of Will Twp., and were married by Justice of the Peace
R.B. Moore. She also went by the name of Dickerson as Fred Dickerson was her
stepfather. (Some of the family members state that Bell was her middle name,
and Dickerson her family name, but the marriage record puts that story to
rest.) Fannie Bell was born in Peakskill, NY on March 19, 1804; the names of
her parents are not presently known. Her home was in Guernsey County.
Dorwin bought land and made a home, teaching school. He was a fine scholar.
After their marriage they lived at Wadsworth two years. In the 1875
Wadsworth Township Memorial, he was remembered as a brother of Oliver Durham
(part of the family held the name to have been Dorwin in England and called
themselves by that name). "He was a man of education and ability, and
prominent in the pioneer history. He was for many years a successful
teacher. Moved to the western part of the state." Actually they moved to
Cambridge, the county seat of Guernsey. (Guernsey County is 100 miles south
and a long way from Wadsworth, Galion or Decatur, which are practically on a
line with each. He was said to have been city Auditor there until the Spring
of 1828 when they moved to Richland County and settled on the site of what is
now Galion, Ohio." In 1828, Dorwin sold land in the NW quarter of Section
31, 20-20 to the Greensburgh Plat. In 1829, Calvin T. Dorwin purchased 35
acres in the NW quarter of Section 32, Twp. 20, Range 20. The following year
he purchased 35 more acres in the same area, from David Gile. In 1833 he
purchased a lot in Galion, OH from Jacob Ruhl. In 1837 he purchased 100
acres of land in the NE quarter of Section 30, 20-20, from Isaac Carswell and
Samuel Dunlap. (Records indicate that they next moved to Sandusky in
Richland County. Need Census of 1830 records for Ohio.) They remained in
Galion, which in 1840 was moved to Crawford Co., OH, until about 1845, by
which time their oldest daughter was engaged to Samuel Kunkel, and both
families moved to Root Township, Adams County, Indiana. The Dorwins bought a
farm north of Decatur, west of Monmouth, now(1990) known as the Kunkel farm.
It was purchased from the William Lewis estate for $800;his brother, Ziba
Dorwin, bought Monmouth town lot #49 for $5.121/2. William Lewis, one of the
few Negroes to ever live in Adams County, bought the farm from John Reynolds
on February 6, 1837; he and his large family lived there and ran a grist mill
until January 1, 1844 when Lewis died of a heart attack while running the
mill. Calvin T. Dorwin was appointed to settle the estate; it did not sell
at auction, and Dorwin bought it. In the 1850 Census, he was listed as a
saddler. In 1853, an 80-foot strip was sold to the Cincinnati, Union and
Richmond Railway Co., but they never were able to build their road; later, in
the early 1870's, the Grand Rapids and Indiana bought the right-of-way, and
built the road which connected Fort Wayne with Cincinnati by way of Richmond;
in the old days, it stopped at Monmouth, and Ziba Dorwin's old tavern
building was used as a station for awhile. On April 10, 1863, Samuel and
Martha Maria Kunkel bought the farm from Dorwin;in 1901, Calvin Dorwin Kunkel
bought the farm from his father--"Uncle Cal" lived to be more than 90 years
of age, led the singing at the Presbyterian Sunday School, and was well-known
over the county. In 1932, Cal's son Sherman Kunkel took over the farm, and in
the 50's passed it to his son, Fred D. Kunkel, who farms it with his son
Fred, Jr. The farm has been in the family since Nov. 11, 1845. Fannie Dorwin
died July 28, 1873 at their farm; her husband died March 3, 1874. They are
both buried in the old Monmouth cemetery beside the Monmouth School. Frances
Belle Dickerson, as Miles Dorwin Porter incorrectly spelled the name, was
born in New York in 1804 and lived in Mansfield, Ohio, county seat of
Richland County, not far from Galion. (MDP refs. his notes of 1928 and
letters of Miss Margaret Dorwin.) However, Stafford found the marriage
license in Guernsey County, 100 miles south. Their children were:
I have it several generations back, if you need it.
Dick D. Heller, Jr.Formerly of Decatur, Adams Co. Descendant of a related
Dorwin
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