He married Miss Della Proper and they had six children, four of whom survive and are: C.O. Grove Guild settled on the farm adjoining his father’s, and cleared a good portion of it. Lucetta married John Henry Cowan of Wallaceville in 1905, and they were a well-liked and respected couple. The oldest daughter, Angeline Amelia, took as her name, “Linn”, and was always known by that name. 31, 1864, aged two years, and Alice died the following Nov. The other twin, Alice, and Preston both died of diphtheria only six days apart.
One twin, Albert, died June 21, 1860, aged five weeks and three days. Lusetta Mary Guild Cowan, Grove Guild, Albert and Alice Guild (twins), Preston Guild, and Victor E. Romanzo and Margaret had seven children who were: Miss Angeline Amelia Guild, Mrs. The main portion of this farm is the farm now owned by Mr. Romanzo cleared and worked the farm into cultivation and eleven years later received his deed, dated Aug. These same 125 acres had been previously contracted by Abram VanDresser in October, 1838, but he eventually moved off. This was part of the huge Huidekoper Tract. Then during that spring or summer they moved to Plum township, settling on 125 acres less than a mile east of Diamond. They began housekeeping near Schreiners Corners, Troy Township, where their first child was born in March, 1850. 1, 1827 just southeast of Chapmanville, the youngest child of John and Mary Welsh Grove. On July 12, 1849, Romanzo was married to Miss Margaret Grove at Sunville with W.W. It certainly held true in Romanzo’s case, as he lived to be very old. There used to be an old saying that anyone who had smallpox and survived it would reach a ripe age. Romanzo once had a case of smallpox in his younger years and recovered from it in good shape. He hewed and ran the timber down Oil Creek to Titusville where it was used in erecting the city mills. The others cannot now be named due to the passing of time.Īlso in his earlier life he was engaged for a few years in the lumber business in the vicinity of Mystic Park. One of the schools was the Diamond school.
He taught a number of terms in the schools of Cherrytree and Plum Townships. He completed his common school education, then was a student for a while in the Allegheny College at Meadville.
Therefore he was fourteen years old when the family settled in Cherrytree Township. Romanzo was born March 23, 1824, at Cold Creek, Allegany County, N.Y. He chose here.ĭorastus Guild and his wife, Ann Jane Haskins Guild, the latter having been a native of Massachusetts, had nine children, one of whom was Romanzo Dorastus Guild, the subject of our sketch. He had a choice between land here or within the present limits of Chicago. He built the famous stone springhouse from which Stone Springhouse Corners takes its name. It is claimed that a guild kinsman was one of the early governors of Massachusetts.Īround 1811, a descendent, Dorastus Guild (five generations after the original John), left New Hampshire for New York state, living there several years before finally settling in northern Cherrytree Township, Venango County, Pa., in 1838. The Guild family is an old New England family, the first one, John Guild, having come from England to Dedham, Mass. Hattie Guild in January, 1954, brought to a termination the long ownership of the property in that name east of Diamond. Guild A family name that was once very familiar and well known not only in Plum Township, but in Cherrytree Township as well, was the Guild name.