John Haymaker.

About John Haymaker

John and Sarah Sally Haymaker were early white settlers of Ohio and are considered the founders of Franklin Township and what would become the city of Kent, Ohio. The Haymakers, who were of German descent, moved west from Warren, Ohio, to Franklin Township in the Connecticut Western Reserve in early November 1805, shortly after Ohio had become a state. They came after Jacob Haymaker, the father of John Haymaker, had visited the area in early 1805 and purchased a tract of land along the Cuyahoga River from Aaron Olmsted, the original proprietor of the township. John and Sally, along with their children Eve, Catherine, and Jacob, were the first of several Haymakers to come to Franklin Township.