Gould P. Murwin
Gould B. Murwin, farmer, P. O. Garrettsville, is a native of Delaware County, N. Y. , born January 25, 1819, son of James and Ann (Barlow) Murwin, natives of Connecticut and Nova Scotia, and of Irish and English descent, respectively, and who were married in Delaware County, N. Y. , where they lived a term of years and then removed to Tompkins County, N. Y., where Mr. Murwin died. His widow became a resident of Ashtabula County, Ohio, where she died. Our subject moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1838, thence to .Mentor, Lake Co., Ohio, and in 1840 to Garrettsville, Ohio, where he continued in the shoe trade for five years. He then returned to Ashtabula County, where he operated a tannery and shoe business, and in 1849 came to this county and purchased land in Hiram Township, where he still resides, following general agriculture. Mr. Murwin was married, August 19, 1847, to Miss Amanda E. Udall, of Hiram Township, this county, where she was born August 2, 1826, daughter of George and Melinda (Hutchins) Udall, natives of Vermont and New Hampshire, and of English and Irish descent, respectively, and who were among the first settlers in this county, where Mr. Udall died at the age of sixty-two years and his widow still resides, aged eighty-two years. Our subject is the father of one son—Herbert B., born August 7, 1859, married October 13, 1880, to Miss Flora B. Wells, of Hiram Township, this county, born in Geauga County, Ohio, March 15, 1857, daughter of William H. and Hannah D. (Bancroft) Wells, now residing in Portage County, Ohio. Our subject has served in some of the township offices; in politics he is a Democrat.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885