Judge Turhand Kirtland
1755 - 1844
Born at Wallingford, Connecticut. Served during the Revolutionary War. Proprietor, Agent, and Surveyor of the Connecticut Land Company. Appointed Judge of Trumbull County by Territorial Governor Arthur St. Clair, 1800. State Senator, Trumbull County, 1815-1816. Poland Justice of the Peace, twenty years. Moderator of St. James Episcopal Church, Boardman, 1809. First Worshipful Master of Erie Lodge No. 47, Warren, 1803, oldest lodge in the Connecticut Western Reserve and one of six lodges to form the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio, 1809.
Served his God, his Country, his Fellowman, his Fraternity -- Benefactor of this Village Green and Cemetery.
Marker is on Hine Circle near Main Street (Ohio Route 170), on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
