Horace Fenton was 28 years of age when he came to Cleveland. He was a carpenter and after a time became a contractor. He was a useful man in the community and much respected. Several fine residences and public buildings were erected by him. We find his name in the volunteer Fire Department. Milo Hickox is foreman of Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, W. J. Warner is his first assistant, and Horace Fenton second assistant. All three were carpenters. Early in the '40s Horace Fenton, with whom his parents lived, built a home on Kinsman street now Woodland Ave, just east of Erie Street, where the old people died.
Mrs. Horace Fenton was Lois Thorp of Ogdensburg, NY. She was born in 1808, therefore was 24 years of age when she made Cleveland her home. She died in the home on Woodland Ave in 1853, leaving a family of five children.
In 1858 Horace Fenton removed to Barton, Mass., and from that place to Kiantone, NY. Meanwhile, he had married secondly, Mrs. Katherine Young (b. 1824 Ireland) of the former place by whom he had six more children.
Horace Fenton, the elder, died 1885 in Cleveland while on a visit to his children in this city. He was dining with his niece Clarissa Fenton Jaynes on Madison Ave, now East 79th St, when stricken with apoplexy, and was buried by the side of his first wife in Erie Street cemetery.