James Fillmore
James Fillmore, farmer, P. O. Streetsborough, was born in Middletown, Rutland Co., Vt., July 14, 1817; son of John and Huldah (Whitmore) Fillmore, former of whom died when our subject was but four years of age. James Fillmore was then reared by his uncle, Asher Seward, of Jefferson County, N. Y. , with whom he remained until seventeen years of age. He then worked by the month on a farm for one man until he was twenty-two years old, at $10 per month. Mr. Fillmore married, on the first occasion, January 1, 1840, Juliette E., daughter of Ezra Nutting, of Henderson, Jefferson Co., N. Y. His second wife was Sophia Myers, daughter of Stephen Myers, of Streetsboro, by whom he had one child—Dyer V. By his third wife, Rachel E. Likers, of Streetsboro, he had three children: One deceased in infancy, Luther U. and Lucia M., wife of Adelbert Pierce. His present wife was Mrs. Louisa French, nee Tucker, by whom he has one child—Gracie L. In 1840 Mr. Fillmore came to Streetsboro Township, this county, aad purchased fifteen acres of wild land, where he lived three years, and then bought thirty-five acres now owned by Curtis C. Singletary. In 1860 he settled in the southwest part of the township, where he still resides. He has been elected to the office of Township Trustee two terms; in politics he is a Republican.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885