LAKE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Lake County, Ohio Biographies Project by
Deb Breniser
rbcobb@ncweb.com
January 6, 2000
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From the 1915 Lake County, Ohio Atlas

MANCHESTER HOMESTEAD. This farm is owned by Charles O. Manchester, Post Office 
Perry, Ohio, one and one-half miles distant. It contains 110.20 acres in 
Township 11, Range 7, Perry Township. Grapes, 24 acres, mostly, Concords and 
Niagaras, four acres in other varieties of fruit, general farm products 
consisting of oats, wheat, corn, etc., constitute the farms industries. The 
fields, stockyards and buildings are watered by brooks and wells, the water 
being forced to buildings by windmill power. The building improvements are in 
fine condition. There are two substantial residence besides a tenant house and 
stock barn 36 x 40, horse and carriage barn 24 x 60, storage barn 36 x 60, pig 
sty 40 x 30, and several small buildings for sheep, poultry etc. The farms 
surface is level, its soil composed of gravel and sand and loam. Eli Graves was 
a former owner, he selling to Marcus Winchester; Winchester to Orsemus 
Manchester;thence to Elmer Manchester by will and purchase. The owner was born 
in the Manchester homestead, and his life those far has been devoted to farming 
pursuits, and he is responsible for the present high rating of the farm. He was 
married Nov. 11, 1896, to Miss Ella Hurlburt of Perry.