Hermon Bronson and Mary Hickox, both natives of Waterbury, Conn., were married
in Waterbury on Dec. 18, 1795.
They moved to Ohio and settled in Cleveland 1801, Mr. Bronson working in the carpenter's trade.
A militia company was organized in 1810 and a two-story blockhouse was constructed for protection during the War of 1812. But, there are no facts that support that he in fact served as a solider in the War of 1812. Hermon was probably responsible for directing the construction of a Blockhouse built in Columbia Township after the loss of Detroit to the British. During this time Mrs. Bronson returned to Waterbury on horseback with her 4 young children. At the close of the war they removed to Lorain County and engaged in farming, in 1821 returning to Cleveland, and in 1824, locating at Peninsula, Boston Township. Here Mr. Bronson became a large property owner, and built, and for several years successfully conducted the pioneer saw and grist mills, besides liberally promoting the various other industrial and business enterprises of village.
Their children were - Julia, afterwards Mrs. Pope; Hannah, afterwards Mrs. White; Rhoda, afterwards Mrs. Payne, and later Mrs. Jacob Barnhart; and Hiram Volney.

In 1835, they organized a Protestant Episcopal Church, building at his own expense, a comfortable house of worship, dedicated by Bishop McIlvaine, in 1839, as "Bethel Episcopal Church", the building being remodeled in 1889, by his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ruth Ranney Bronson.
The church is now known as "Bronson Memorial Church" and is located on Main Street, across the street from the "Bronson House" which was built in 1845 and of Greek Revival architecture. Above the front door of the Bronson house is carved in stone " H. V. Bronson " (Hiram Volney Bronson, his son).
Mr. Bronson died after a slight illness of three days.

Ohio Historcial Marker:
Near Columbia Station in Lorain County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Columbia Township, reads;
Founded in 1807 Columbia was the first continuously inhabited settlement in Lorain County. Harmon, Levi and Azor Bronson, Calvin Hoadley, Jared Pritchard and others formed the Waterbury Land Company to buy the township from the Connecticut Land Company. In 1808, Sally Bronson named the township and became its first teacher. In 1809, the first church society was formed and Hoadley built a log gristmill beside the Rocky River. A militia company was organized in 1810 and a two story blockhouse was constructed for protection during the War of 1812.