Albert Doolittle
Albert Doolittle, farmer, P. O. Streetsborough, was born in New Milford, Susquehanna Co., Penn., October 7, 1806, son of Benjamin and Fanny (Ward) Doolittle, natives of Cheshire, New Haven Co., Conn., and Roxbury, Litchfield Co., Conn., respectively, and who settled in Streetsboro Township, this county, in 1825, on the farm now owned by our subject. They were the parents of the following children: Nelson; Albert; George, deceased; Henry, deceased; Lydia, wife of E. F. Mason; William, deceased; Polly J., deceased; Theodora B., deceased, and Eloisa, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Doolittle were members of the Disciples Church. He was Justice of the Peace of Streetsboro two terms, and was a representative pioneer, one of the first in Streetsboro Township, and for several years was land agent for the original owners of the township. He died in September, 1849, in his seventy-ninth year, his wife having preceded him April 27, 1845, at the age of sixty-five. Our subject has resided in Streetsboro Township, this county, since 1825. He assisted in clearing his father's farm as well as several others in the vicinity, and also helped form many of the early roads. He was married December 22, 1836, to Alamanda, daughter of Simon and Lucy (Green) Burroughs, who settled here in 1818, the former a native of Walpole, N. H., the latter of Bethel, Vt. The issue of this marriage is four children: Charles R.; Augusta, wife of N. S. Olin; Horace A., and Lucy A., wife of Charles E. Harmon. Mr. Doolittle has served his township as Justice of the Peace one term and in other minor offices. In politics he is a Republican.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885