Ephraim Quinby (1766 - 1850)

Born 11 May 1766 in Hunterdon, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Amma Amy (Blackmore) Quinby — married 1790 in Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 5 Jun 1850 at age 84 in Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Ephraim was born in 1766. He was the son of Ephraim Quimby and Elizabeth Hall. He passed away in 1850.

^[1]Children of Ephraim [Sr.]:

I. MARY : QUINBY, " married Smith ;"

II . ELIZABETH - QUINBY

III . SARAH QUINBY married Vance and moved to Xenia, Ohio

IV. PHILENE or FILENAH . QUINBY ;

V. SAMUEL QUINBY, born 1756 ( see) ;

VI . DANIEL QUINBY (see) ;

VII. EPHRAIM QUINBY, born 11 May, 1766, " founder of Warren, Ohio ”

VIII . PHEBE 5 QUINBY, married Reuben Wright,

^[2]Ephraim Quinby was born in New Jersey in 1766; married Ammi Blackmore of Brownsville in 1795 ; settled in Washington county and founded Warren in 1799 as above stated. He was a man of great integrity, interested in the prosperity of the new country and connected with all of the early history of Warren. That this founder and philanthropist should have been forgotten by the descendants of his companions is almost inexcusable. He gave land upon which the court house stands, upon which the first jail and the first city building were built, the whole tract that skirts the river from the west side of the Market Street bridge to the Quinby homestead land, and yet not one monument, park, bronze tablet, or street, except a small, unimportant one, bears his name. The present Tod avenue ran through his farm and should have been called Quinby street. Some time ago an effort was made to change Parkman street to Quinby. People residing on that street objected. They were new people and had not been taught by the press and the older citizens who Mr. Quinby was or how much their town was indebted to him. For many years the land west of the river, in the neighborhood of West Market street, was known as Quinby Hill, but even that term has been obliterated by "the West Side." It would seem exceedingly appropriate to call the land between the river and Main street, upon which the city hall and the monument stand, Quinby Park.

After Mr. Quinby took up his residence in Warren he had eight children, Elizabeth, William, Mary G., James, Warren, Ephraim, Charles A. and George. Ammi Quinby died in 1833. Nancy, the oldest daughter, married Joseph Larwell, of Wooster, and lived to be more than a hundred years old. Mary married Mr. Spellman and lived at Wooster. She was the second child born in Warren township. Elizabeth, who married Dr. Heaton, lived and died in Warren. William was recorder of Trumbull County and a merchant; lived all his life in Warren, James was a merchant, and lived in New Lisbon. George lived in Wooster and acquired a great fortune. Warren and Samuel lived in Warren, as did also Charles.

Ephraim Quinby was not only a real estate dealer and a farmer, but an associate judge. He was one of the original stockholders in the Western Reserve Bank. He and his family were members of the early Baptist church, and but for his influence and that of his family connections this church might have gone out of existence. Ephraim Quinby's children and his grandchildren married into some of the oldest families in the county, and he has today a large number of collateral descendants. His son Samuel was a very prosperous man and occupied the same place in the community as his father had before him. He was a member of several of the early business houses, was publisher of the Trump of Fame, was the receiver of monies derived from the sale of public lands, and when the land office for this district was at Wooster, Ohio, he lived there. He returned to Warren in 1840. He was secretary and treasurer of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Canal and was director of the Western Reserve Bank in 1817. He was always interested in politics, was state senator in '44 and '45 and again in '62 and '63. In 1819 he married Lucy Potter of Steubenville, Ohio. He had two daughters. Elizabeth (who married William Stiles, Lucy Stiles Cobb being her daughter, and Elizabeth Cobb, her granddaughter) and Abagail Haymaker, who is still living in Wooster. Mrs. Lucy Quinby died and Mr. Quinby in 1847 married Emma Bennett Brown, a widow, and a sister of Mrs. C. W. Tyler, who was the widow of Calvin Sutliff, and Mrs. Emily Bennett Hutchins. George H. Quinby was a son by the second marriage and has lived all his life in Warren, and until within a few years in the old Quinby home.

^[3] Judge Ephraim Quinby, removed with his family to the site of Warren [Ohio] as early as 1798, two years before the county of Trumbull was organized, and five years before the State was admitted into the Union. Upon his arrival, or soon thereafter, in Trumbull county, he bought 400 acres of land, lying on both sides of the Mahoning river. After his emigration, and for several years, he lived on the tract lying on the east side of the river, and during his residence there, and in 1801, he laid out the town of Warren, and named it in honor of Moses Warren, of Lyme. Here he engaged in mercantile business, his store room being located upon the banks of the river. In 1808-9 he removed to the west side, although he had as early as 1807-8, erected a grist mill and carding machine on the west side, directly opposite to the present town of Warren. In 1812 he also built a grist mill and carding machine, on the Mahoning, in Liberty township, 12 miles south of Warren. Carding machines in those days were concomitants of grist mills. Howe, in his Historical Collections of Ohio, says: The plat of Warren, in September, 1800, contained but two log cabins, one of which was occupied by Capt. Ephraim Quinby, who was proprietor of the town, and afterwards Judge of the court. He built his cabin in 1799. The other was occupied by Wm. Fenton, who built his in 1798. On the 27th of this month Cornelius Feather and Davison Fenton arrived from Washington county, Pa. At this time, Quinby's cabin consisted of three apartments, a kitchen, bedroom and jail, although but one prisoner was ever confined in it, viz : Perger Shehigh, for threatening the life of Judge Young, of Youngstown. He was a member of the first Legislature of the State of Ohio in 1803, and was afterwards chosen Associate Judge, which position he ably filled for ten years. He was one of the prominent, enterprising and influential citizens of his county, and one of the founders of the Baptist Church in Warren. The Indians of that section entertained for him a great regard, and treated him as a friend. He inclined to cover the fierce nature, savage habits and untutored ways of the Red Man with the broad mantle of a generous and sympathetic charity. He was Captain of a military company, and in his history of Ohio John S. C. Abbott speaks of him: "There was at Warren an excellent man, mild and judicious, by the name of Captain Quinby. He was familiarly acquainted with the Indians, for they had often stopped at his house, which was a great resort. His honorable treatment of them had won their confidence and affection." ... Judge Quinby died in June, 1850.

Sources

1. ↑ H. C. Quinby, "Genealogical History of the Quinby (Quimby) Family in England and America" (New York, 1915), page 124.
2. ↑ Upton, Harriet Taylor. A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests. United States: Whipporwill Publications, 1909. pp. 74-76
3. ↑ Douglass, Ben. History of Wayne County, Ohio, from the Days of the Pioneers and the First Settlers to the Present Time. United States: R. Douglass, 1878. pp. 344-346

• Tombstone in Oakwood Cemetery, Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26151527/ephraim-quinby