Isaac Slabaugh
Isaac Slabaugh, farmer, P. O. Suffield, was born March 15, 1830, in Columbiana County, Ohio, son of Christian and Nancy Slabaugh, natives of Lancaster County, Penn., who settled in Rootstown Township, Portage Co., Ohio, about 1835. Here Christian Slabaugh died about 1848. His widow subsequently moved to Elkhart County, Ind., where she remained until her death. Of their family of twelve children, Isaac is the fifth. Our subject was brought up on the farm and attended the limited schools of the home district. He early learned the brick-maker's trade, which he followed about eleven years, in Akron and the surrounding country, being four years foreman of a large brick-yard in Akron. Ho was married July 4, 1850, to Catherine, daughter of Samuel J. and Elizabeth Wise, of Stark County, Ohio. Their children are Lewis, Ella (now Mrs. Alexander, of Akron,) and Emma. In 1868 they settled where they now reside in Suffield Township, and here by industry have acquired a fine farm of 107 acres of well-improved land. Mr. and Mrs. Slabaugh are pioneer members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which they have belonged for twenty-five years. He is a stanch Republican; a successful farmer; an upright citizen respected by all who know him.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885