William Paululs
William Paulus, retired farmer and Justice of the Peace, P. O. Suffield, was born March 16, 1825, in Stark County, Ohio; son of David and Catharine Paulus, natives of Pennsylvania, and early pioneers of Stark County, and who removed to Suffield Township in 1839, where they died at the advanced age respectively of eighty-three and seventy-one years. When sixteen years of age our subject left home and removed to Stark County, where he learned the blacksmith trade, and where, March 1, 1846, he married Rebecca Brouse, by whom he has had the following children: Urias, a member of the One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who died at Nashville, Tenn., June 29, 1865; Mary E. (Mrs. Sethman); Isaac; James B.; Jane (Mrs. Neubauer); Jefferson and Catharine (Mrs. Schwartz). After his marriage Mr. Paulus settled in Suffield Township, this county, and followed his trade for six years, which he was obliged to abandon on account of failing health. Upon his partial recovery from a prolonged illness, he engaged in farming and also in contracting for the erection of buildings. In 1849 he was elected Constable, serving nearly two terms. In August, 1851, he was elected Justice of the Peace and has held the position to this day, the longest continuous term of service in the county. In 1852 he was elected Township Clerk, which office he served two terms. In 1869 he was elected Land Appraiser, and also in 1879. In addition to the above he held the position of Acting Manager of the Public Schools for several years. He now owns a farm of fifty acres in this township, one of seventy-eight acres in Stowe Township, Summit County, besides valuable town property. Politically he is a Democrat. Mrs. Paulus is a consistent member of the Lutheran denomination.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885