Levi E. Carlton
Levi E. Carlton, farmer, P. O. Mantua, was born March 7, 1824, in Mantua Township, this county, son of Dudley and Lydia (Eaton) Carlton, natives of Stafford, Tolland Co., Conn., former born September 3, 1796, latter August 31, 1791, and who were married in 1814, and moved to Ohio in the same year. There were born to them five sons and one daughter, two sons and the daughter being deceased; two sons living in Mantua and one in Kansas: E. D., a widower, residing in Mantua; B. P. in Kansas; and Levi E. in Mantua. Dudley Carlton died in 1878, and his wife in 1868. Capt. Caleb Carlton, Dudley Carlton's father, was a soldier throughout the entire Revolutionary war, serving seven years. He moved to Ohio with his son, Dudley, and died in 1823. Our subject was married, October 16, 1851, to Mary L., daughter of Capt. John and Betsey W. Esty, and born December 18, 1830. To this union were born two sons, both of whom died in infancy.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885