Alonzo Farr
Alonzo Farr, farmer, P. O. Mantua Station, was born in East Claridon, Geauga Co., Ohio, November 28, 1822, son of Abel and Betsey (Mastic) Farr, the former of whom was born in Chesterfield, Mass., May 6, 1795, and the latter in Dunsmore, Vt., July 16, 1796. Mrs. Betsey Farr's grandfather, John Mastic, was born in Scotland in 1717, and married Sarah Coy, born in 1712 in Farmington, Mass. He was pressed into the English service, where he remained until reaching Boston Harbor, when he escaped, and in his flight exchanged clothes with a man digging a cellar under a mill, and also changed his name from Salter to Mastic, by which he was always known thereafter. Nathaniel Mastic, Mrs. Farr's father, was born in Massachusetts July 8, 1772, and married Lydia Caryl, born in 1771. Abel Farr, father of our subject, was married in 1819, came to Ohio the same year, and for two years resided on the present site of Elyria; thence he removed to Claridon, and in March, 1829, to this county, where he lived until 1837, when he went to Troy, Geauga County, where he remained until his death, April 20, 1864. His children, ten in number, survive: Lorenzo A., Alonzo N., LovellL, William H., Arvilla L., Edwin A., Lutheria E., Asenath M., Eri M. and Orren S. Our subject was married November 20, 1845, to Annah P., daughter of Eber Kennedy, and by her has four daughters: Adell N. (Mrs. L. Turner), Edna M. (Mrs. S. Sanford), Frinda A. (Mrs. F. R. Munn) and Georgie A. (Mrs. J. H. Beecher). Mrs. Farr's grandfather, Simeon Pryor, came to Ohio in 1800, and was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. He settled in Portage County, Ohio, and died June 29, 1837. Mrs. Farr's father, Eber Kennedy, came to Ohio from Blanford, Mass., in 1804; settled in Aurora, Portage Co., Ohio; married Polly Pryor July 4, 1808; died May 15, 1837, aged fifty eight years. Polly, his widow died February 15, 1880, aged ninety-one years. Our subject has held the offices of Justice of the Peace twenty-one years, Township Trustee, Postmaster eight years, and is now a Notary Public. He is a Democrat in politics, a valued citizen and an enterprising man.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885