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David Mills Pease was born in Deerfield, Conn. into the Pease/Chapin family, a prominent family of carpenters, joiners, furniture makers and community leaders of the Connecticut River Valley. He came to the Western Reserve in 1838 from New England by was of New York. He followed the same path established by his uncle, Seth Pease, who was part of the original Moses Cleveland, Western Reserve surveying party. After operating and selling a chair factory in Chagrin Falls area, David moved his family to the Cascade Valley along Big Creek in Concord Township, Lake County, Ohio. It is in this location where he established the first of several wood-turning mills in 1850.

David had 4 children:
Curtis Gould
Charles Hiram
Marvin James
and Mary

All three of the boys became successful woodturners in their own right.

In 1886, Curtis established a second mill in the Valley about 1/2 mile from his fathers. Two of his children, Frank and George Marvin began working in their father’s and grandfather’s mills at a very young age. At this same time Otis Almon Brown married Minnie Pease, George & Franks sister, and took over the David Pease original mill. Two of Otis and Minnie’s sons, James Curtis and Roy Franklin, were the the last in the family to carry on the woodturning tradition.

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