Samuel Wait, Jr.
Samuel Wait, Jr., farmer, P. O. Streetsborough, was born in Hampden County, Mass., September 21, 1816; son of Samuel and Rachel (Judd) Wait, who settled in Aurora Township, this county, in 1826, where they cleared and improved a farm on which they lived seven years, and then removed to the farm now owned and occupied by their son, Samuel, in Streetsboro Township, which they also cleared and improved, and where they lived and died. The paternal grandparents of our subject were Jonathan and Margaret (Smith) Wait, formerly of Hampden County, Mass., who settled in Aurora Township in 1829, and lived and died there. His maternal grandfather, Reuben Judd, also of Hampden County, Mass., was an early settler of Streetsboro, this county, and his maternal grandmother was Rachel Smeed. Samuel Wait, Sr., was twice married, having by his first wife, Betsey Bell, three children: Melissa, wife of Frederick Plum; Betsey (deceased) and Samuel (deceased). By his second wife, Rachel Judd, he had eleven children: Samuel, Sarah (wife of Linus Smith), Andrew, Mary (deceased), William, Orlinda (deceased), Edward, Delilah (deceased), G. Washington, Wellington, and Ellen, wife of Harvey Ferris. Our subject was married April 22, 1855, to Maria, daughter of William and Fanny Welch, of Franklin Township, this county, and by her he has three children: Elbert H., Estella, wife of Charles King, and Gertrude M. Mr. Wait is one of Streetsboro Township's representative farmers and citizens. In politics he is a Democrat.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885