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was an active member of the Evangelical Church, and early in America's participation in the war organized the Red Cross Chapter of Calla. There are three children, Hazel B., Ruby A. and Roy J. Only three boys from Green Township volunteered to join the colors. One of them is Roy J. Knauf, who spent nearly a year in France in the Thirty-Seventh Division. His comrade and fellow volunteer was J. Lester Templin, who was in the Motor Transport Corps of the Eighty-Seventh Division. Since the war Roy has been helping his father on the farm. The daughters are both graduate nurses of the Youngstown City Hospital.
JOHN HITCHCOCK, one of the prosperous farmers of Boardman Township, owns and operates a fine farm ten miles southwest of Youngstown. He was born at Wellington, England, on March 6, 187o, a son of John and Sarah (Flood) Hitchcock. The elder John Hitchcock was a farmer, who, looking for better opportunities, came to the United States in 1884, and located on a farm then owned by Fred Boardman, comprising 240 acres, remaining there for two years, when he moved on the Baldwin farm, and there he died in 1896, after spending seven years on this last named property. He was a general, farmer and was also engaged in slaughtering stock, which he killed and dressed to sell to the wholesale trade at Youngstown. His wife passed away before his death. Eight of .their children lived to reach maturity, namely : Jane, who is Mrs. Fred Canning, of Youngstown; Howard Henry, who is a farmer at Boardman; Fred, who is a farmer of Beaver Township; John, whose name heads this review; Laura, who married Oliver Stafford, a farmer of Boardman; Herbert James, who lives at Youngstown; Lucy, who lives at Youngstown; and Frank, who is a farmer of Newton Falls, Ohio.
Until he reached the age of twenty-one years John Hitchcock, the younger, remained at home, and then he left the parental roof and spent four years in California, being engaged in business as a meat dealer at Riverside, that state, selling to both the wholesale and retail trade. In 1896 he bought H. D. Correger's meat market on West Rayen Avenue, Youngstown, and developed it into a fine business. In 1904 he bought a farm of eighty acres near Boardman Center of Alex Gault. Four or five years later added the Leander Mockerman farm of 127 acres to the east. Still later he sold all of this property, making a very gratifying profit from his undertaking. Mr. Hitchcock then bought his present farm, which he operates for dairy purposes, having a herd of twenty-five cows of the Holstein strain. He markets his milk at Youngstown. This land was formerly known as the Milk Creek bottoms and regarded as almost worthless. Since acquiring it he has cleared it up and taken off the second growth of timber with which was covered, now using the greater part of it for storage. On this farm he has a fine set of buildings and his is one of the best rural properties in this part of Mahoning Valley.
Mr. Hitchcock is a strong advocate of good roads, and one of the first to advocate the improving of the roads in the county. While he was a member of the school board, the fine new centralized school building near Boardman Center, the largest centralized school structure in Ohio, was erected. He has also served the district as a trustee, and has always been a friend of the public schools. In politics he is a republican.
On March 25, 1893, Mr. Hitchcock was married to Mary Raymond, born in Hubbard, Trumbull County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock became the parents of the following children: Hazel, who is Mrs. Grover Moff ; Richard Perry, who is at home, is a veteran of the great war, having served in the Rainbow Division; Sarah, who is a stenographer, employed at Youngstown; Ethan Allen, who is at home, was also in the great war, as a member of the Thirty-Seventh Division, and being wounded on the firing line, was discharged on account of the ensuing disability; Florence; John Howard; Mary G.; and Elizabeth.
Mr. Hitchcock belongs to the Episcopal Church at Boardman Center, and is serving it as a vestryman. Mrs. Hitchcock is a daughter of D. .B. Raymond, who with his wife is still a resident of Boardman, although now retired. Both the Hitchcocks and Raymonds stand very well in Mahoning County, and have proven their value as good citizens in many ways.
CHARLES M. HARTZELL. One and one-fourth miles west of Berlin Center, in Berlin Township, is situated the fine old homestead farm which figures as the stage of the productive activities of this well known native son of Mahoning County, and it is interesting to note that in the old house that occupied the site of his present modern residence he was born, on the 12th of October, 1872. He is a son of Solomon and Leah (Smith) Hartzell and is a scion of one of the old and honored families of Mahoning County. Solomon Hartzell likewise was born in Berlin Township, a son of Tobias and Susan (Dustman) Hartzell, the latter of whom was a sister of Andrew Dustman, a well known citizen of the county. Tobias Hartzell and his brother David were numbered among the early settlers in Berlin Township, and the old homestead farm which the former reclaimed and improved in Berlin Township eventually passed into the possession of his son Samuel, who is now deceased. Tobias Hartzell gained precedence as one of the substantial farmers and representative citizens of Berlin Township, and his old home farm, one mile west of Berlin Center, is now owned by his great-grandson, Olin M. Hartzell, a son of Charles Hartzell. This property has continuously remained in the possession of the family. On this homestead Tobias Hartzell continued to reside until his death, at a venerable age.
Solomon Hartzell was reared under the conditions marking the pioneer epoch in Mahoning County history, and after his marriage he settled on the farm now owned and operated by his son Charles M., of this review. Here he continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock raiser for many years, and upon retiring from the farm he established his residence in the Village of Berlin Center, where he died at the age of seventy-two years, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest. Mr. Hartzell commanded the high regard of all who knew him and was influential in community affairs. He held vari-
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ous township offices, was a republican in politics, and both he and his wife were earnest communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church, though he had been reared in the Lutheran faith. Of the two children, Charles M., of this review, is the elder, and Seneca is a prosperous farmer one mile south of Berlin Center.
Charles M. Hartzell gained his early education in the public schools of his native township and has remained continuously on the old home farm save for a period of one year, during which he was eke-where employed at farm work. The fine farm of 15o acres he received as a heritage from his father, and upon the place be has since made numerous improvements, including the erection of a fine bank barn, which replaces one destroyed by fire. The father erected the house on the place, but this has since been remodeled and equipped with modern facilities. In connection with diversified agriculture Mr. Hartzell gives special attention to the breeding of fine Shropshire sheep, his average herd numbering forty head. He has exhibited sheep at the county fairs and has won awards on the same. He is now developing a high-grade herd of Shorthorn cattle, and in all departments of his farm enterprise he is wideawake and progressive.
At different periods Mr. Hartzell has served as a member of the school board of his district, and he was thus serving at the time when the centralized school system was adopted in Berlin Township. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife are active communicants of the Lutheran Church.
August 16, 1894, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hartzell to Miss Civilla Hull, who was born in Milton Township, a daughter of Isaac and Angeline (Cover) Hull, the latter a daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Sipe) Cover, early settlers in Milton Township. Isaac Hull was born in Deerfield Township, Portage County, Ohio, January 20, 185o, a son of Andrew Hull, born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a son of Emanuel Hull, who settled in the northeastern part of Berlin Township, Mahoning County, in the pioneer days. Andrew Hull married Mary Ann Coffman, and they settled on a farm near Mottstown, Deerfield Township, Portage County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. They became the parents of four sons : Isaac, father of Mrs. Hartzell ; Homer, who died at the age of thirty-nine years; Andrew, a resident of California at the time of his death, aged sixty-two years ; and William, now a resident of Saginaw, Michigan. Isaac Hull was for several years located on a small farm in the northeast part of Berlin Township, and there he developed a prosperous enterprise in buying ashes, at to cents a bushel, and manufacturing potash, which he sold at 7 cents a pound. At the death of his wife's father he took charge of the old Cover farm, where he continued his activities until his retirement, he and his wife having maintained their home at Berlin Center for the past several years. Mr. and Mrs. Hartzell have four children, three of whom remain at the parental home, Olin M., Clara and Alice. Olin M., the only son, entered the nation's military service when America became involved in the World war, and he served fourteen months, during a portion of which time he was with his command in France. He is now at the parental home, though, as previously noted, he is the owner of the fine old homestead farm of his paternal great-grandfather. Edna, the eldest daughter, is the wife of Floyd Fields, and they reside on a farm not far distant from the old home place.
GIRARD S. BERENY has been one of the live and effective members of the commercial community of Youngstown for the past five years. He is agency manager in this city for the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and is actively affiliated with a number of social, business and civic organizations, including the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, the Credit Men's Association, the Rotary Club, the Youngstown Club, the Youngstown Country Club, Young Men's Christian Association and the Cleveland Athletic Club.
Mr. Bereny was born at Bedford, Ohio, January 21, 1886, son of Gustave and Jennie (Spafford) Bereny. His father was a native of Germany and his mother of Ohio. His father came to this country as a young man, participated as a soldier in the Union army during the Civil war, and for many years was a commission merchant.
Girard S. Bereny grew up at Cleveland, attended the grammar schools and graduated from the Central High School, and his first regular employment was as shipping clerk for the Mutual Transit Company, a lake shipping concern of Cleveland.
Since 1908 he has been identified with the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and in 1915 became manager of the Youngstown agency. He has made Youngstown one of the leading units in the great business and service covered by this company, and the business handled through the local agency has reached the imposing volume of $150,000 annually. He directs both a complete sales and also a service organization.
Mr. Bereny is a Knight Templar Mason, has also attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a member of Al Koran Temple Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Cleveland, Ohio. March 3, 1908, he married Miss Jeanette Graf, of Cleveland.
WILLIAM H. ALLEN, an esteemed resident of Ellsworth Village, and of a family known in Ellsworth Township and Mahoning County, Ohio, since 1807, has lived practically his whole life in the county, being in early manhood a school teacher, and for more than forty years one of the leading agriculturists and breeders of horses in the section.
He was born somewhat more than a mile to the westward of Ellsworth, Mahoning County, Ohio, on January 3, 1845, the son of Martin and Lucy (Fitch) Allen. Through his mother he comes into the genealogy of even longer connection with the Mahoning Valley. Lucy Fitch spent all the years of her life, and they were ninety-four, in Ellsworth Township, in which her father, Richard Fitch, settled in 184 She was born in Ellsworth Village on May 6, 181t, and died there on July 3, 19o4. Both the Fitch and Allen families were of colonial Connecticut ancestry, and the Allen family bought land through George Broadsword, who owned a large tract of the town-
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ship, and Richard Fitch apparently bought from Joseph Coit, who was the local agent of the Connecticut Land Company, which owned most of the Western Reserve. Richard Fitch became a contractor on the canal then being cut between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, and a letter he wrote at that time to Joseph Coit at EllsWorth is still in the possession of his descendants. Martin Allen was not the first of that family to settle in Ohio. His elder brother, Asa Witter Allen, left home at about the time of Martin's birth, 1807, and in that year settled in Ellsorth Township, about one mile from the Village of Ellsworth. Martin Allen, son of Jacob, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1807, and he remained in his native state until he was eighteen years old, when lie came on horseback to Ohio. He took up a tract of undeveloped land in Ellsworth Township, buying 200 acres of the Broadsword estate. He was farming independently in Ellsworth Township five or six years before he married Lucy Fitch in 1832, but after he married he applied himself even more energetically to development work, and from time to time added to his holding until he owned about 600 acres, all in Ellsworth Township. He and his wife for some time after their marriage lived in a small house built by Richard Fitch, her father, soon after he had come into the section, about 1804, and upon the Fitch property which eventually came into the possession of Martin Allen and his wife was an extensive apple orchard, set out early by the pioneer Fitch. Martin Allen had an apple crop of many hundreds of bushels yearly, and sometimes had to sell at 10 cents per bushel. Still, the orchard was a substantial source of profit, and yielded well for sixty years. Martin Allen eventually built a substantial house, the dwelling still standing, habitable and commodious. He was a man of sound business reasoning that being evidenced in one particular instance when, at the founding of the First National Bank of Youngstown, he sold 100 acres of his farm so that he might be able to buy bank stock. After his death the stock passed to his widow, who held it until her death. It was at that time worth $225 a share. He was an ardent abolitionist. and for many years stood alone in his vicinity for the emancipation of the slave. He was so emphatic and prominent in his championing of the cause that at one time, it is stated, an antagonist was supposed to have searched his house. He lived to see slavery abolished, and rejoiced in that mental sight. At the formation of the republican party he became affiliated with it, and at one time was urged to permit himself to be nominated for election to the House of Representatives, to which, however, he would not consent. He was, nevertheless, a man of political influence in his district, and he took some part in the local administration, being township trustee for many years. He was a man of strong religious principle, was an elder of the Presbyterian Church, and was clerk of session for thirty-five years, to which office his son Jesse succeeded him, holding it for a further thirty-six years, from 1882 to 1918, when he died. Martin and Lucy (Fitch) Allen were the parents of twelve children, four of whom died in infancy. The eight children that grew to manhood and womanhood were: Lloyd, who was born in Ellsorth Township on January 14, 1833, married Fanny
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M. Beardsley in 1855, owned a good farm in Ellsworth Township, and died on it in 1898, the farm now being in the possession of his son David A., who is one of the active township leaders, a justice of the.peace for many years, township clerk and church elder. More regarding the life of Lloyd Allen will be found elsewhere in this volume. Mary, who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the wife of Robert Kirk, who is president of the wholesale firm Farnell, Osman and Kirk of that city. Jesse became a veteran of the Civil war, serving in Company F of the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was one of the units of Sherman's army, and took part in the famous "March to the Sea" through Georgia. After the war he returned home and for the greater part of his life worked on the home farm of his father. He died in April, 1918, his widow now living in Salem. They had no children. Chester married Fanny Coit, the only child of Joseph Coit. They lived in the old Coit home in Ellsworth, the house having been bequeathed to her. She now lives in Montana with her son. William lives in Ellsworth Village. Henry was a hardware merchant for the greater part of his time, for some years in Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, but for the greater part of his business life in Jamestown, North Dakota. He became prominently connected with Presbyterian Church work in Jamestown, was made elder and clerk of session, and for thirty-five years kept the church records. He died on July 31, 1919. His wife was Emma Weaver, who preceded him in death. Lucy married John Hanson. They for some years lived in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, but their home is now in the State of Oregon. Jettie, who married Robert Dickson, died in young womanhood, leaving one son, Allen, now of Berlin Township, Mahoning County, Ohio. Martin Allen died on July 15, 1882, aged seventy-five years, fifty-seven of which he had spent in Ellsworth Township. All his five sons eventually became school teachers in the county.
William H., son of Martin and Lucy (Fitch) Allen, is now in his seventy-sixth year. He lived in retirement in Ellsworth Village and later located in Battle Creek, Michigan. He was born in the township, and in due course attended the local schools, the Academy at Ellsworth and the Poland Seminary. Some of his schoolmates later were men of distinguished connections, one of his chums being Abner, brother of William McKinley, who became President of the United States; another was Julian Kennedy, the civil engineer ; another, James Kennedy, eventually an eminent jurist; and other classmates of his were Carey McNab and Cecil D. Hine of Youngstown. When he was twenty years old William H. Allen began to teach in the county school at North Jackson. Later for five terms he taught in the Bowman District School in Ellsworth Township, and for four terms in the Berlin Township School. Subsequently he taught in the Ellsworth Village School, in 1877. He had for some Years also, concurrently it might almost be said, worked a farm. He married in 1873, and eventually took to agricultural pursuits altogether. His wife was Ella Brooke, daughter of the well-known Dr. George Washington Brooke, an eminent physician who was widely known through
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the state, and was at one time the president of the Ohio State Medical Society and a man of much prominence locally. William H. Allen eventually took over the responsibility of a large acreage, a farm of 217 acres, in Ellsworth Township, and upon that farm he worked for the greater part of his life; in fact he did not retire from it until 1918. And during his long period of farming he reached much local prominence as a breeder of good horses. He was a well-known and frequent exhibitor at agricultural and horse fairs, and succeeded in winning many ribbons. He sold his farm about a year ago, and retired to Ellsworth Village, where he has since lived.
Politically Mr. Allen has been a republican since early manhood, and has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since youth. Indeed, the Allen family in its many scions has been a helpful factor to the church. All the five sons of Martin Allen have served on session, and the church record of Martin was an enviable one, as has been previously noted herein.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Allen have three children : George Brooke has been a railroad official for many years and is now yardmaster for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was sent to Panama in 1908, with a commission, to study the question of the building• of a railroad in connection with the canal; Alfred is cashier of the nationally-known sanitarium conducted by Doctor Kellogg at Battle Creek, Michigan; Gladys, who lives in Richmond, Virginia, is the wife of A. R. Lawrence, insurance inspector of that city.
S. M. BURKHOLDER, a well-to-do farmer of Green Township, is still enterprisingly and extensively farming. His farm of 190 acres is in two townships, Green and Beaver, and he has entered extensively into fruit growing; in fact, the orchard he has set out is reputed to be the largest in the county, being excellently situated for apples and grapes.
He was born in Beaver Township, his birthplace being approximately in the center of the township, on June 2, 1863, the son of John and Mary (Moyer) Burkholder, the former a preacher of the Mennonite denomination for more than forty years. The Burkholder family is of colonial ancestry, early generations having been resident in Virginia, whence Abraham Burkholder, father of John, came into Ohio and to Beaver Township, Mahoning County, in about 1828, from which year until that of his death he lived in Beaver Township. He died in .about 187o, his grandson, S. M., then a boy of six or seven years old, clearly remembering him.
John Burkholder, father of S. M., was born in the parental homestead in Beaver Township on February 24, 1838, and grew to manhood in that place. He assisted his father in the development work and the cultivation of the home farm, and at his father's death inherited the property, to which later he added considerably; in fact, until he had in all about 35o acres, and the acreage now owned by his son, S. M., is about four miles distant. John Burkholder was a man of strong characteristics and of marked religious fervor. He was a gifted speaker, and his religious spirit drew him into ministerial work. He was a Mennonite elder, and for forty years followed a ministerial calling, occupying the pulpits of three churches of that denomination in the vicinity of his home county. He was a Mennonite preacher until his death in 1909, when he was about seventy-two years old. At that time he had residence in East Lewistown, which town was of some importance in those and earlier days, but which is now of litt consequence. It was not far distant from the of Burkholder farm, and apparently although Joh Burkholder was regularly in the ministry, and for the greater part of his forty years of association with the Mennonite Church in Eastern Ohio was one of its leading spirits, he also did much farming during the period. The three charges in which he held clerical capacity for so long were the North Lima, Midway, and Nold (now Leetonia) churches, which were among the first Mennonite churches to be established in Mahoning County. The old Burkholder homestead, in the barn of which the obsequies of Abraham Burkholder, grandfather of S. M., wer held when the latter was a small boy, is still in the possession of descendants, for although S. M. Burkholder does not own any portion, the property at the death of his father, John, went to his sister Susan, who married Isaac Mellinger, and the farm at East Lewistown is owned by his sister Ellen, now the wife of Melchor M. Mellinger, twin brother of Isaac. These sisters, with S. M., were the children of Elder John and Mary (Moyer) Burkholder.
S. M. Burkholder, born in Beaver Township, Mahoning County, was reared to manhood in that township, attended the township school, and afterward, until he married, he remained with his parents and took over most of the work of the home farm. He was twenty-two years old when, in 1885, he married Lillie Mellinger, then seventeen years old, daughter of Daniel Mellinger, of Beaver Township. After, marriage S. M. Burkholder took over the management of the Lewistown farm that belonged to his father, and he continued to operate it for twelve years. Then he took another small place in the vicinity, but in 1902 he acquired the farm, Orchard Home, he has since cultivated. His holding at that time was 148 acres, but he has since added adjoining tracts, so that he now has in all 190 acres, Too of which are in Green Township, Mahoning County, and the remainder in Beaver Township. Of his land part was in a wild state; in fact, he has cleared altogether about fifty acres, and now owns a valuable property, located -in one of the most elevated parts of Northeastern Ohio, the elevation being about 1,266 feet above sea level. Mr. Burkholder has given much study to fruit growing, and has shown much enterprise in that connection, having set out an orchard of about fifty acres. He grows apples, pears, peaches and quinces. He has had moderate success with peaches, but his large apple orchard is just coming into bearing. It is said to be the largest apple orchard in the county, and consists of practically three well-known varieties, Stamen Winesap, Delicious and Black Ben. Mr. Burkholder has also laid out a vineyard of four acres, and finds the situation is excellent for grapes, the bulk of his yearly yield being sold for local use. The remainder of his farm is devoted to general farming, in which he has had consistent success. The property is well-improved, has adequate
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outbuildings, including a large barn, and is modernly equipped. Some years ago, Mr. Burkholder erected apt silo sufficient for the needs of his stock, and the dwelling is a commodious and comfortable one.
Mr. and Mrs. Burkholder have five children: Myrtle, who married Clarence Lesher, a farmer of Green Township; Orpha, who has met with much misfortune since she married, feebleness developing, so that latterly she has been incapacitated, and her children are cared for by her parents ; William, Mary and John, the three last-named being at home with their parents. Mr. Burkholder has latterly been enthusiastically identified with the Farm Bureau, and during the recent war did all possible to increase the yield of foodstuffs upon his farm, in furtherance of the plan of the Federal Department of Agriculture. He also co-operated in other phases of local effort of war purpose during that period of stress and abnormal national expenditure.
UPSON AUSTIN ANDREWS, whose business activities for many years were centered at Youngstown, exemplified many of the forceful characteristics which have made the name Andrews distinguished in Northeastern Ohio for more than a century. His people settled in the Western Reserve soon after the close of the War of 1812.
Upson Austin Andrews was born at Vienna, Ohio, May 3o, 1851, and spent his early life on a farm. After finishing his education in Hiram College he entered the employ of his relative Chauncey H. Andrews. Chauncey H. Andrews was also a member of the Vienna family of Andrews, and in early life was a hotel proprietor at Youngstown, afterward achieving a place among Ohio's greatest industrial figures, being a coal operator, railroad builder, banker and leading capitalist of his time.
Upson A. Andrews assisted Chauncey Andrews in building the old Niles and New Lisbon Railroad, and as an employe of the firm of C. H. and W. C. Andrews came to Youngstown. His first venture for himself was as Andrews & Hill Coal Company. About 1879 he engaged in the oil business in Bradford, Pennsylvania, and in 1882 returned to Youngstown and purchased the Carbon and Moravia Limestone companies. In 1886 he was general manager of the Mahoning Gas Fuel Company and brought the first gas from the Pittsburgh field to Youngstown. In 1890 he moved to Pittsburgh, where he was general manager of the Imperial Coal Company. While there he took an active part in organizing the Pittsburgh Coal Company, and served as treasurer of that corporation. In 1901, resigning this office, he returned to Youngstown, and later moved to Cleveland. Near Cleveland he became owner of the Forest City Farm and was happily engaged in its activities at the time of his death on August 18, 1905. The late Mr. Andrews took the greatest pleasure in outdoor life and rural pursuits. He was a republican voter and a member of various social and benevolent organizations, but in no real sense was he a club man. His greatest delight was in his home circle.
In September, 1881, he married Miss Harriet Warmington, of Cleveland. They had three children, Austin W., William M. and Alice. The son Austin served in the Ordnance Department during the war with Germany, and was on duty both in this country and abroad. He married Emma Wainwright and has three children, named Anita, Harriet and Alice. Austin Andrews is a graduate of Yale University with the class of 1906.
William M. Andrews graduated from Yale in 1908, married Helen Morgan and has three children, named Jane, Elizabeth and Upson Austin.
The daughter, Alice, is the wife of Henry J. Welch, and has one son, Henry J. Welch, Jr.
THOMAS L. COBBS represented an old and prominent family of the Beloit community of Mahoning County. The farm on which he lived and on which he was born March 31, 1848, has been in the continuous ownership of the family without change of title except by inheritance for over a century.
His parents were Lindsey and Anna (Woolman) Cobbs. Lindsey Cobbs was born in Caroline County, Virginia, in 1804, and two years later was brought by his parents, Waddy and Margaret (Adams) Cobbs, to the Western Reserve. Waddy Cobbs settled near Beloit in Smith Township and died when about fifty years of age. While the family lived in Virginia for several generations they came originally from England, where the Cobbs ancestry is traced hack in County Kent to the year 1326.
Lindsey Cobbs at the time of his marriage settled on the present farm in 1824, the land having been entered by his wife's father, Abner Woolman. He cleared up the dense timber, and in 1826 began the practice of the trade of cabinet making. He was especially called upon to make coffins for the community, and therefore performed the services of a local undertaker. After 1838 records were kept of his business. These records reveal that the price charged for making a coffin at that time was only $4, and even by 1854 the price had been raised only to $6. The business of undertaking was followed by Lindsey Cobbs and also by his son Thomas L. Lindsey Cobbs died August 21, 1875. Anna, his wife, was born in 18o6 and died in 1891, at the age of eighty-five. Lindsey Cobbs joined the Friends Church as a young man, and all his children were birthright Quakers.
Thomas L. Cobbs, one of eleven children, married at the age of twenty-two Rachel Stradling. They became the parents of seven children: Ruth Anna, Mrs. E. Y. Hogan, of Salem ; Mira, formerly a teacher, now living at San Francisco, California ; William E., a principal of schools at Alliance ; Homer, of Sebring; Caroline, Mrs. Howard Cameron, of Westville; Mabel,. Mrs. Lawrence Cameron, of Beloit; and Ellen, Mrs. Cloyd Benner, of Knox Township, Columbiana County. Thomas L. Cobbs passed away on the 4th of May. 1920, and his widow still continues to reside on the old family homestead.
COVINGTON WESTLAKE, who for the past eight years has been one of the popular county officials of Ma-honing County, began his career in the lower ranks of industrial employment in the Youngstown district, and still holds a card in the steamfitter's union.
Mr. Westlake was born near the Cartwright-McCurdy mill at Youngstown, January 23, 1880, son of Gardner D. and Bessie Elizabeth (Datson) Westlake.
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His father was born in the Mahoning Valley in a log cabin on Crab Creek, on September 8, 1855. The Westlakes have been in this section of Ohio since pioneer times. Gardner Westlake died December I 1909. His widow, now a resident of Youngstown, was born in England.
Covington Westlake acquired his education in the Youngstown public schools and soon after graduating, at the age of sixteen, went to work in the Youngstown Carriage Works. After a year and 2 half he entered the service of the Carnegie Stee Works, and for fifteen years was on the payroll as a steam fitter.
In official affairs Mr. Westlake has been continuously in the county auditor's office, beginning as a deputy in 1911 under Mr. S. M. Hogg. In 1914 he succeeded Mr. Hogg as county auditor, and by reelection in 1916 filled the office with creditable efficiency for two terms.
In 1912 Mr. Westlake married Miss Eleanor H. Arnold, daughter of John Arnold of Youngstown. They have two children, Covington and Jeanne Louise. The family are members of- the Belmont Avenue Methodist Church, and Mr. Westlake is a Royal Arch Mason and affiliated with the local lodge of Odd Fellows. Politically he is a republican.
MANSFIELD MILTON. A member of one of the old and highly esteemed families of Youngstown, Mansfield Milton has stamped the impress of his individuality upon the community and added luster to the honorable name which he bears. He is what he is from natural endowment, having attained his present standing in business circles solely through the impelling force of his own strong personality. He possesses not only those powers that render men efficient in the material affairs of a community, but also the gentler traits that mark genial and helpful social intercourse, and because of his commercial success and his splendid personal character he has long enjoyed the unbounded confidence of the entire community which has been honored by his citizenship.
Mansfield Milton was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on July 20, 1850, and he is the son of Joseph and Helen (Keen) Milton, who were the parents of nine children, two of whom died in Scotland, while seven, three sons and four daughters, came to the United States. Mansfield Milton was the first of the family to immigrate to this country, and the wisdom of that act has been abundantly justified by the splendid success which has since attended him. Early in life, while still at home, he had commenced the study of plant life, in which he had a deep and natural interest. His first responsible work in that line was as an employe of Lord Kintor in Scotland, after, which he was attached to the Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland. In addition he spent two years at Watt Institute, studying English and mathematics. In 1870, in search of a larger field of usefulness and better opportunities for advancement, he came to the United States. His first employment here was in the great orchards of F. L. Ames at North Easton, Massachusetts, where he remained for six years. From there he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and entered the employ of W. J. Gordon, of Gordon Park. In 1881 Mr. Milton came to Youngstown and bought the floral establishment of Thomas Johnson on Deed Street. Sometime later he moved to the present location of the Baltimore & Ohio depot, but the repeated overflow of that tract discouraged him and he moved to his present location. At that time Youngstown was not platted that far distant, and but few streets had even been laid out. He purchased a tract of eight acres, which he had laid out in 1883 as Milton Addition and on which he built a house that year. The tract was officially platted in 1910 and now there are nineteen houses on the land. His plant is located at the corner of Milton and Mahoning avenues, and is one of the most complete and up-to-date flower houses in this section of the country.
At first Mr. Milton made a specialty of plants and vegetables, but eventually he changed his direction of effort to meet the public needs, and now the major part of his business is in cut flowers. For about twelve years he had a cut flower store at Spring, Common and Federal streets. By carefully consulting the tastes of his patrons, and rather anticipating than meeting them, he has built up a large patronage, and his establishment stands second to none in his line in Youngstown.
In 1872 Mr. Milton was married to Catherine Wilson, who also was a native of Scotland, and who had been the sweetheart of his boyhood days, and she came to the United States to become the wife of Mr. Milton. Her death occurred in 1896. To them were born three children, all of whom live near their father. Grace is the wife of T. J. Bray, train master of the Erie Railroad at Youngstown. Catherine, a graduate of Rayen High School and of Ohio University, and who was engaged in teaching school, became the wife of Fred Moore, who has a meat market on Elm Street, but, resides on his farm at Mineral Ridge. They have two children, Catherine Mary and Marion Douglas. Helen, now associated with her father in the floral business, is the widow of Harry Reed, who was a conductor on the Erie Railroad.
Religiously Mr. Milton and the daughters are affiliated with the Tabernacle United Presbyterian Church. Politically he is a stanch supporter of the republican party and fraternally is a member of the Masonic order, being a past master of Western Star Lodge and a past high priest of the chapter. Mr. Milton has taken a great pride in that portion of Youngstown with which he is most closely identified, and is also a consistent and persistent booster for the whole city. He has been not only successful in his business affairs, but has also acquired the confidence and good will of all who know him.
JOSIAH I. MANCHESTER, one of the leading merchants of Canfield, partner and manager of the Manchester Company, hardware merchants of that place, and also owner of a shoe store business of appreciable volume of trading, is well-known in Canfield Township and throughout Mahoning County. The Manchester family has been in the county for almost a century, and is placed among the pioneer families of Canfield Township. His father, Robert Asa Manchester, who is still alive, and who until quite re-
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cently was active in business, was born in the township eighty-two years ago, while through his mother, Anne E. (Bowman), Josiah I. Manchester comes into the Bowman family which came into the Western Rerserve in 1806.
Josiah I. Manchester was born on February 9, 1868, the fifth child of Robert Asa and Anne E. (Bowman) Manchester. His father's life is reviewed elsewhere for this edition of the Mahoning Valley history, so that more need not be written herein regarding the latter's long, active and consequential life. And much will also be found elsewhere in this current history regarding the Bowman family to which his mother belonged. Josiah in his boyhood attended the elementary public schools, and later, having decided to enter the teaching profession, in which his father also was engaged at one time, he took the course at the Northeastern Ohio Normal College, under Professor Webster, and in due course received a teaching certificate. He was not yet twenty-one years old when he began to teach in the school of Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County. In that school he taught for three years, and later was a teacher in Green Township, subsequently becoming the principal of the New Albany School in Green Township, Mahoning County. He gave up his professional work in May, 1892, in order to actively co-operate with his brother Seymour in a business enterprise, the brothers then becoming established as hardware merchants in Canfield, under the trading name of Manchester Brothers. The business grew encouragingly, and two years later the brothers were able to purchase the Hollis brick building in Canfield for the purposes of their business, which needed larger quarters. At that time their father, Robert Asa Manchester, also joined the company, the trading name under the reconstruction becoming the Manchester Company. The company has ever since that year been trading under that name, although since 1905 the partners have only been Josiah and his father, his brother Seymour having retired from the firm and opened a store independently at Niles, Trumbull County. On August 1, 1918, his father, Robert A., retired, he being then eighty years old, and the business has virtually belonged to Josiah since that time, although it is still continued under the company name. The business latterly has been one of appreciable consequence. At the outset the brothers had a stock amounting to only $2,000. Latterly the stock has been held at about $20,000, and embraces practically all general lines of hardware, the company also doing much contracting work in allied lines, such as plumbing, roofing, the establishment of hot water and hot air furnaces, and such like undertakings that pertain to hardware, and the business today in its merchandising operations gives constant employment for two assistants, as well as Mr. Josiah Manchester's son Harry. In July, 1915, Mr. Manchester also entered the shoe business, acquiring the Wetmore store and stock at Canfield. That business is expanding satisfactorily, as may be realized when it is stated that in the five years, 1915-20, it has been necessary to raise the stock from $3,40o to $15,000, in order to accommodate the ever-increasing volume of trading, which is about ten-fold what it was four years ago. Mr. Manchester also owns the store building, and has proved himself to be a very enterprising and capable business man.
His business enterprises have not been confined solely to commercial business. He has entered quite extensively into matters of production and of farming connection. He owns a one-half interest in an extensive fruit farm of 191 acres situated in Washingtonville, Columbiana County, Ohio. The fruit farm is ideally situated, being the highest land in that section, its elevation, in great measure, eliminating the frost danger. Over 11,000 fruit trees have been planted, and apples and peaches of various varieties are in bearing, with 1,000 quince, cherry, plum and pear trees, and there is also much other small fruit Mr. Manchester also owns an agricultural estate of about 200 acres in Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County. On that property the farming is of general character, and Mr. Manchester, with hired help, operates that farm, which is about seven miles distant from Canfield. It will thus be seen that Mr. Manchester's business interests are many, varied, and important. But he is a man of much energy, and, notwithstanding his many business ties, he has managed to enter somewhat actively into public affairs. He was a member of the Board of Education at the time of the centralizing of the schools, which project he effectively furthered. He served one year as township trustee, by appointment, and was elected to that office three years ago; and during the period has been identified with bringing into effect much improvement of roads in the township, which now has much macadamized roadway. Five miles of macadamized roadway was laid in 1919, in different stretches. Politically Mr. Manchester is a democrat, and in state politics he has for many years been active, having a good deal of influence in his district. In 1918 he was the democratic nominee for state representative. He is a consistent Christian; in fact, he has been a valued church worker. By conviction he is a Presbyterian, and has been a member of the Canfield Church of that denomination since 1887 and for many years has been one of its trustees.
Josiah L. Manchester was married June 10, 1894, to Gertrude Stitle, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Harding) Stitle, who were well-known Canfield residents, but both of whom are now deceased. Mrs. Manchester grew to womanhood in the township, attending local schools in her girlhood. She is therefore, of course, well known in the township, and has many sincere friends, being of a kindly disposition, and an active church worker. They are the parents of a veteran of the World war, their eldest child, Harry S., having given voluntary service in the most dangerous branch of the army, the air service. There have been four children born to J. I. and Gertrude (Stitle) Manchester, namely : Harry S., of whom more follows; Robert A., Jr., and Anna E.; Elizabeth, the second child, died in infancy.
Harry S., son of Josiah I. and Gertrude (Stitle) Manchester, and ultimately a war veteran, was born in Canfield on September 2, 1895. After graduating from the Canfield High School he entered Wooster College, and in 1917 graduated therefrom with the degree of Bachelor of Science. At that time the United States was in the first excitement of being in
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a state of war. Young Manchester did not wait long. Barely a month after President Wilson had declared the nation to be in a "state of war" with Germany Harry S. Manchester enlisted, the exact date of his enlistment being May 10, 1917. He elected to give service in the most dangerous arm of the service, and was sent to a school of aeronautics, and was one of eight cadets or candidate-officers to be graduated with honors on August 13, 1917. He was in France very early—at a time when the American military force in that country was scarcely a division. He had crossed through the submarine zone at a time when the German submarine campaign was at its height, had passed through England to France, and on to Italy, returning to France on February 22, 1918. He was assigned to the First Signal Corps, was commissioned second lieutenant on December 22, 1917, and was promoted to first lieutenant on January 19, 1918. He was in France during the darkest period of the war, at the time when Germany appeared to be irresistibly sweeping on to Paris, and was again in Italy in May, 1918, to take the course in aerial gunnery at the Furbara Aerial Gunnery School. On July I, 1918, he returned to France as test pilot for the De Haviland plane, and was at the Romarantin station, France, until December 31, 1918, when, the war being over, to all intents and purposes, he was ordered home. He was honorably discharged eventually as first lieutenant.
PATRICK A. LYDEN. In considering the successful young men of Youngstown in a business way, the list discloses a goodly number of native sons to whose energy and enterprise the city owes much of its substantial development. One of these who has found contentment and abundant opportunity here is Patrick A. Lyden, who is president of the People's Furniture Company and on its directing board.
Patrick A. Lyden was born at Youngstown, Ohio, January 12, 1887, a son of William F. and Bridget E. (Burke) Lyden, the former of whom died in 1915. He was a man of great force of character and wielded a wide influence. A mill man from his youth, he was the oldest employe and foreman of the puddling department in the Valley Mill when it was dismantled. Possessing a sturdy personality and strong mind, together with a deep interest in the welfare of Youngstown, he became somewhat of a leader in public matters here and twice was elected on the democratic ticket as city councilman. He gave sincere attention to his duties and great credit is imputed to him in connection with the securing of the Market Street viaduct, which was a necessary factor in the development of the South Side.
Patrick A. Lyden attended the parochial schools of Youngstown until fifteen years of age, then went to work in the offices of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, where he remained two years. His next place of employment was with the Republic Iron & Steel Company, where he continued until January, 1919, during that time serving as foreman of various departments. On January 1, 1919, he became identified with the People's Furniture Company, since which time his energies have been directed to advancing its interests. Politically a democrat, he desires the success of his party because he believes in its principles, but is liberal in his views, and in many local matters, where the city's welfare is in the balance, exerts his influence irrespective of party ties. Mr. Lyden was reared in the Catholic Church.
THOMAS H. ROBERTS. The subject of this sketch early in life realized the fact that success never comes to the idler or dreamer, and he has accordingly remembered the aphorism and devoted himself to ardent toil along lines that cannot but insure success. The prosperity which he enjoys has been the result of energy rightly applied, and has been won by commendable qualities. In such men as Mr. Roberts there is special satisfaction in offering in their life records justification for issuing a work of this character—not necessarily that the careers of such men as his type have been such as to gain them wide reputation or the admiring plaudits of men, but that they have been true to every trust reposed in them, have shown such attributes of character as entitle them to the regard of all, and have been useful in their several spheres of action, at the same time winning and retaining the confidence and good will of all with whom they have come in contact.
Thomas H. Roberts, proprietor of the Roberts Department Store, at 136 East Federal Street, Youngstown, was born at Crab Creek, Ohio, on December 27, 1871, and is the son of Jeremiah and Jane (Harris) Roberts. Jeremiah Roberts was a native of Wales and was a worker in the mines there. At the age of twenty years he came to the United States and here also became identified with the mining industry, first. as a miner and later as a mine operator on his own account, having been associated with the Arms people in the operation of the Thorn Hill mines. He died in 1901, at the age of seventy-one years. Jane Harris was born in Wales, the daughter of Howell Harris. She was but a child when the family came to the United States, locating in the Mahoning Valley in the '50s. Howell Harris was also a miner, and was at various times connected with the Crab Creek, Thorn Hill and Weatherfield mines. Mrs. Roberts was a member of the Congregational Church and was a woman of fine character. By her union with Jeremiah Roberts three sons were born, all of whom are living, namely : Thomas H., the immediate subject of this sketch; John, who is secretary of the East Youngstown Savings and Banking Company ; and W. J., who is vice president of the Mahoning National Bank of Youngstown.
Thomas H. Roberts was reared under the parental roof and secured his education in the public schools at Crab Creek. He was working in the mines at the age of fourteen years, but soon afterward he went to work in the nail factory of Valley Mills, where he remained about a year, going from there to the Boston Carpet Company, where he was employed for twelve years. He was ambitious to be independent, however, and forming a partnership with F. C. Stanfbrd, they opened a store at No. 394 East Federal Street. When they started they had a cash capital of $800, but their reputations were good, which meant good credit, so they began business under favorable conditions. Two years later Mr. Roberts bought his partner's interest in the business
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and has since conducted it alone. During the period since then Mr. Roberts has passed through a number of trying experiences. After six years at his first location he moved to larger quarters, at 130 East Federal Street; after five years he was forced to again secure larger quarters and moved next door, to his present location at 136 East Federal Street, where he occupies two large rooms on the first floor and four rooms on the second floor. During his twenty-one years' business experience Mr. Roberts has passed successfully through several years of business depression, and in the spring of 1913 he was almost entirely wiped out by fire, but each time he has surmounted all obstacles and gone steadily forward, until today he is enjoying a large and prosperous business, standing high among the successful mercantile enterprises of this city, the name of the Roberts Department Store being a household word throughout the Mahoning Valley. The results thus attained prove Mr. Roberts to be the possessor of those sterling qualities of character which nothing can defeat and he is eminently deserving of the success which is his.
In 1899 Mr. Roberts was married to Anna Atkinson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Atkinson, of Thorn Hill, Ohio. To them have been born two children, Elizabeth and Ruth. The family are identified with the Westminster Presbyterian Church, to which they give liberal support. Mr. Roberts is an active member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, and in every way possible lends his support to every movement for the advancement and up-building of the city honored by his citizenship. Genial, courteous and accommodating, he enjoys a marked popularity with all with whom he has dealings.
PAUL H. HUBBARD. From the standpoint of general business management and sales direction Paul H. Hubbard is one of the most widely experienced and competent iron and steel men in the Youngstown district. Continuously since its organization he has been one of the officials of the Brier Hill Steel Company, and the value of his services to that cor poration is well described in his official title as general manager of sales.
Mr. Hubbard was born at Alliance, Ohio, July 12, 1870. His father, Marion W. Hubbard, and his grandfather, Horatio Hubbard, were veteran railroad men, both having served the Pennsylvania Company for many years in the capacity of locomotive engineer. Marion W. Hubbard, who died December 26, 1918, married Laura E. Canis.
Paul H. Hubbard when a small child moved with his parents to Niles, Ohio, where he attended grammar and high schools. His first employment was as office boy with the Falcon Iron and Nail Company. During the succeeding years he acquired a great deal of practical knowledge of that industry and was many times promoted. In 1900 he accepted a position with the American Sheet Steel Company of Pittsburgh. During the following eight years his duties required his presence in various localities. In 1901 he was in New York, in 1902 at Niles, Ohio, in 1904 at Struthers, and frequently spent months at a time in other plants.
When he left the Sheet Steel Company in 1908 Mr. Hubbard became secretary of the Empire Iron and Steel Company at Niles. This was one of the constituent plants merged into the organization of the Brier Hill Steel Company in 1912, at which time Mr. Hubbard was made assistant general manager of sales. Four years later, upon the resignation of J. D. Waddell, he was the unanimous choice of the officers and directors for general manager of sales. His previous work eminently schooled him for his duties as head of the sales department, and it is only appropriate to add that his efficiency and ability have been the chief contributing cause to the wonderful success made by the Brier Hill Steel Company during the past seven or eight years.
May 16, 1893, Mr. Hubbard married Miss Agnes May Lewis, of Niles, Ohio. He is a member of the Youngstown and Youngstown Country clubs, the Bankers Club of New York, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade at Niles.
J. ROSCOE STROH. The big industries of the Youngstown district furnish many examples of the rapid rise and promotion of extremely young men to posts of executive responsibility. One case is that of J. Roscoe Stroh, who at the age of twenty-eight is manager of the mining department of the Brier Hill Steel Company.
Mr. Stroh was born at Nashville, Illinois, January 11, 1891, son of Charles and Etta (Dahncke) Stroh, both now deceased. He grew up in Nashville, had a public school education, and at the age pf nineteen began winning life's first battles on his own responsibility. From the beginning he has been in the iron and steel business. He was first an employe of the Republic Iron and Steel Company in the Tudor Works at East St. Louis. He was in a clerical capacity there for three years. In April, 1912, he was transferred to Youngstown to a clerical position in the district office of the same corporation. A short time afterward he transferred his service to the Brier Hill Steel Company, about the time the new steel plant was being constructed.
Mr. Stroh has been with the Brier Hill Steel Company since June 26, 1912. For five years, until May 25, 1917, he was chief clerk in the office of the superintendent of transportation and labor, and then assistant general manager of the mining and transportation department. September 8, 1919, he was given the responsibilities of manager of the mining department.
Mr. Stroh is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. June 3, 1915, he married Miss Helen G. Brown, of Nashville, Illinois. They have one son, J. R., Jr.
GEORGE A. PARSONS. While he has been in business since he was thirteen years of age, and has had a wide and varied experience in different lines, George A. Parsons since coming to Youngstown in 1914 has been chiefly known as a master of the breadmaking art and has been the man chiefly responsible for the growth and wonderful development of the enterprise conducted by the Youngstown Bread Company at 1555 Mahoning Avenue.
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In 1914 he came to Youngstown, and as general manager of the Youngstown Bread Company and also as vice president he has built up one of the most prosperous establishments in the Mahoning Valley. The officials of the corporation are : Wade D. Holland, of Toledo, president, also president of several similar organizations; George A. Parsons, vice president and general manager ; F. C. Hoehler, of Toledo, secretary ; and W. C. Carr, treasurer.
The company bought ground at Youngstown in 1914 and built a large, sanitary and well equipped bakery. At the present time its product is distributed throughout Youngstown, East Youngstown, Lowellville, Struthers, Hubbard, Sharon, Girard, Warren, Niles and all the surrounding towns south as far as Salem. The annual volume of business has now reached the figure of $1,500,000.
Mr. Parsons is a member of the Youngstown Club and the Chamber of Commerce. August 12, 1902, he married Miss Cora Reynolds, of Cleveland. They have one son, George Clay.
EDWARD J. DEIBEL, member of the well known Deibel family of Youngstown, has earned a very conspicuous place among life insurance men not only in Eastern Ohio but in the entire country.
The New York Life Insurance Company is one of the oldest and largest organizations of its kind in the world. This company for some years has maintained a $200,000 club. Its membership is confined to representatives who produce at least $200,000 worth of business in a single year. For one year Mr. Deibel was honored with the position of vice president of this club. In 1919 came to him a signal honor when he was elected president of this club. This honor was' in recognition of one of the outstanding achievements in the life insurance business for that year. Mr. Deibel's record was in having written and produced more than $2,600,000 worth of paid insurance in a period of twelve months. No other life insurance man has ever produced such an imposing aggregate of service in a single year.
Mr. Deibel practically grew up in the insurance business. He was born in Youngstown July 9, 1867, son of Christopher and Anna (Gauff) Deibel. Youngstown has always been his home, and in that city he was educated in St. Joseph's parochial schools. He early became associated with his father in the insurance business, and finally succeeded to the agency founded by his father. Mr. Deibel is a member of the Youngstown and Youngstown Country Clubs, the Elks, the Knights of Columbus, the Young Men's Christian Association and the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce. On October 17, 1894, he married Miss Anna Huether, of Sharon, Pennsylvania. Their only daughter, Amelia, is the wife of Matthew A. Hannon, now associated with the Deibel Insurance Agency. Mr. and Mrs. Deibel also have a granddaughter, Martha Jane. They also had a grandson, Teddy Hannon, who is now deceased.
WENDELL D. MYRES was born at Deanville, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1880, one of the three children of Alexander J. and Nancy S: (Truitt) Myres. He was reared and educated in Pennsylvania, and in 1900 was admitted to the bar of Ohio. Soon after his admission he returned to Pittsburgh and was connected with the cost department of the United States Steel Corporation. On coming to Youngstown he was first associated with the Empire Iron & Steel Company and later spent several years as general auditor of the Brier Hill Steel Company. In 1920 Mr. Myres was elected secretary and treasurer of the Electric Welding Steel Company of Youngstown, Ohio, a position he now holds.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Youngstown Country Club, and is a republican in politics. June 19, 1912, he married Margaret E. Shade. She died August 10, 1918, the mother of three children: Robert W., Margaret I. and Janet L.
JOHN C. WICK. Among the half dozen or more family names that seem fundamental not only in point of time but in importance in the history of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, that of Wick has an undeniable place. As a family they were among the first in point of time in this part of the Western Reserve.
Youngstown was a very small settlement indeed when Hugh Bryson Wick was born there February 5, 1809. He was a son of Henry and Hannah (Baldwin) Wick, who had come into the Mahoning Valley from Washington County, Pennsylvania. Hugh B. Wick had several brothers who also became prominent in Ohio. Hugh B. Wick began his business career as a merchant in 1828, at Brookfield in Trumbull County. In 1839 he returned to Youngstown and in 1846, with other associates, built a rolhng mill, which subsequently became a part of the immense works of the Brown-Bonnell Company. Hugh B. Wick was for many years interested in merchandising, and was also a member of the H. B. and H. Wick Banking Company of Cleveland, and after 1857 of Wick Brothers & Company, bankers, of Youngstown. As a constructive business man he was interested in various industries, railroads, banks and other enterprises. He died April 22, 1880.
October 30, 1832, Hugh B. Wick married Lucretia G. Winchell, who was born in Connecticut, September 5, 1813, and died April 27, 1892. One of their children was Henry Wick, president of the Witch Hazel Coal Company. A daughter, Lucretia, became the wife of William Scott Bonnell.
The late John C. Wick, one of the ten children of Hugh B. Wick and wife, was born at Youngstown, December 9, 1836. He inherited and developed a strong financial genius, and during the greater part of his life was prominently identified with banking. After finishing his education at Cleveland he became an employe of the H. B. and H. Wick Banking Company of that city, and in 1859 returned to Youngstown and entered the bank of Wick Brothers and Company. He was with that institution over thirty years. August 1, 1894, he reorganized the old company as the Wick National Bank and became its president. In July, 1916, this bank was merged with the Dollar Savings and Trust Company, with Mr. Wick as vice president. He was also vice president of the Ohio Iron & Steel Company, and was interested in a business or financial way with other local industries. Like his father he was an earnest Presbyterian in religious faith.
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John C. Wick married Caroline H. Bonnell, a daughter of William Bonnell and a sister of William Scott Bonnell. Mrs. Wick died in Youngstown, Ohio, May to, 192o.
ALBERT JAMES HORTH, JR., is division engineer of the Erie Railroad Company, and has been in the service of that corporation continuously since he left university with his technical degree.
The Horth family has been connected in some capacity with the system for a long period of years. Mr. Horth was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, April 6, 189o, and is a son of Albert James and Lydia E. (Stebbins) Horth. His father is still living at Meadville and is master carpenter for the Erie Railroad.
The son grew up in his native city, attended the public schools, and took his technical education in Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana. He was graduated in 1915 with the degree Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. During his career as a railroad man he began at the very bottom as a day laborer with the Erie. Three months later he was made foreman of an extra gang, and on December 1, 1915, was called into the general office at Cleveland on engineering work. This particular department was moved to Youngstown in August, 1916, and that made Mr. Horth a resident of this city. In February, 1917, he was promoted to assistant division engineer and since December, 1918, has been division engineer, succeeding I. H. Schram.
Mr. Horth is a member of the American Railway Engineers Association and the Youngstown Engineering Club. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, is an independent democrat in politics and a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. September 28, 1918, he married Miss Mildred M. Murphy, of Meadville.
ALFRED LIEBMAN, head of the Liebman-Swaney Realty Company, also president of the City Park Commission, is one of Youngstown's most public-spirited citizens, and is a son of the late Lippman Liebman, of grateful memory, who for many years exemplified the most exalted character and service in Youngstown.
Lippman Liebman was born in Germany, was reared there and married Fanny Hess. He received his education in theology in his native land. In 1856 he and his wife came to the United States and located in Cleveland, where he became Rabbi of the Reformed Jewish congregation. From Cleveland Rabbi Liebman removed to Youngstown in 1861, and was the first Jewish rabbi in the city. While his salary was only $4o a month, he and his wife used it with marvelous thrift and reared a family of eleven children, giving them all educational advantages. His meager income was supplemented by teaching the German people to write and speak English. Many still living in Youngstown recall gratefully this service. Many years ago he bought a portion of the ground on which now stands the Dollar Bank Building. He paid $3,500 for the property, and twenty-five years later it was sold for $53,000. Now the same ground has a valuation of over $150,000. Rabbi Liebman retired from the pulpit about twenty years ago moved to Hamilton, Ohio, married again and died there March 5, 1918, at the age of eighty-three. Before leaving Youngstown he was engaged for several years in the real estate and insurance business. Aside from his business success, however, he is best remembered for the good works of which he was author, particularly among the poor foreign born element. He encouraged this class of people to buy homes, and both by his individual means and his influence with other capitalists he enabled these home owners to finance their plans.
Mr. Alfred Liebman was educated in the public schools of Youngstown. As one of a large family he began at an early age to contribute to the expenses of the household. He sold newspapers and dealt in other wares suitable to his experience and capital. At the age of fifteen he went to Cincinnati and for five years worked in a clothing factory. On returning to Youngstown he engaged in the insurance and real estate business, and in that line his success has been far above the ordinary. For several years he held the responsibilities of manager of the real estate department of the Realty Trust Company. He became associated with Mr. Hugh Swaney, former clerk of the courts, in 1914, organizing the Liebman-Swaney Realty Company.
October 19, 1904, Mr. Liebman married Selma Barth, of Mexico, Missouri. They have two children : Florence H. and Joseph B.
Mr. Liebman has been a member of the City Park Commission for ten years, and is now president of that body. During that time this commission has carried out many plans for the beautification of Youngstown and the increase of its recreational facilities. Most noteworthy, perhaps, of these improvements were the addition of Lincoln and Crandall parks. Mr. Liebman is an active member of the Rodef Sholem Temple and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason.
WARREN H. PALMER. While real estate development and home building have been his chief business only part of the time that Mr. Palmer has lived at Youngstown, this probably represents his chief contribution and service to the community. He is now an official in several organizations handling and developing real estate, and supplying the material and means of improvement.
Mr. Palmer, who has been a resident of Youngstown since November, 1876, and in that time has been a witness of and participant in many lines of its growth as an industrial center, was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1859, son of Henry B. and Rhoda M. (Pattison) Palmer, both now deceased. Agriculture was the chief occupation of his father.
Next to the youngest in a family of seven children, Warren H. Palmer grew up in his native county and had more or less experience on his father's farm. He also clerked in a country store. He was educated in both select and public schools. On coming to Youngstown in 1876, being at that time seventeen years of age, he served an apprenticeship at the tinner's trade. This trade furnished him his occupation and business for twenty-nine years. In the meantime he had begun his operations in real estate, and in
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1900 he organized the Palmer & Sinclair Land Company. Later this became the W. H. Palmer Company. The latter organization has to its credit the building of hundreds of homes on the East Side. The majority of these homes were sold on the partial payment plan, and formed an important nucleus in the great home owning community in that section. As the business grew new features were added, including a lumber department. Later the company carried a line of builders' supplies. In April, 1916, the Union Lumber Company took over the lumber end of the business. The W. H. Palmer Company has since continued its department in building supplies, and also in real estate. In March, 1918, the W. H. Palmer Company's interests were merged with the 0. E. Hawk Company, under the new corporate title of the Hawk-Palmer Company. Mr. Palmer is treasurer of the Consolidated Company and joint manager with Mr. 0. E. Hawk in the company's affairs. However, the W. H. Palmer Company is still continued as a separate organization, with Mr. Palmer as secretary-treasurer and manager. He is also president of the Realtors Building Company and maintains an interest in the lumber business as a director of the Union Wholesale Lumber Company.
Mr. Palmer is a trustee and member of the Second United Presbyterian Church. Politically he is an independent republican. December 23, 1882, he married Miss Addie M. Ballard. They had two children, Henry B. and Edith. The only son died at the age of thirty years.
ELIAS M. FAUST, who is now serving as auditor of Mahoning County, an office to which he was elected in November, 1918, is a citizen whose diversified services in his native county have been marked by distinctive ability and a fine sense of personal stewardship. He was long numbered among the representative figures in educational work in the county, has held various public offices of local order and has worked zealously for the promotion of high civic ideals. In short, his influence has been significantly benignant at all times and he is a man specially entitled to recognition in this history of the Mahoning Valley.
Elias Morgan Faust was born in Springfield Township, Mahoning County, July to, 1858, and is a son of. Elias and Catherine A. (Schroy) Faust. The founders of the Faust family in America came from Germany to this country in 1680 and settled in New England, that gracious cradle of much of our national history. Seven brothers of the Faust family served with the patriot forces in the War of the Revolution, and in all succeeding generations the family name has stood exponent of lofty patriotism. Philip Faust, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, became one of the early settlers in the Mahoning Valley of Ohio, as he settled near the old Lutheran-German Reformed Church in the vicinity of Canfield, Mahoning County, in 1798 or 1799. He was one of the colonists who came from Connecticut, which commonwealth instituted the development of the historic Connecticut Western Reserve, now one of the most opulent and beautiful sections of the Buckeye state. Early in the second decade of the nineteenth century the Government began the work of constructing roads along the forty-first parallel of latitude, and it was on the line of this parallel that Philip Faust was given a grant of land in what was then Columbiana County, the deed to this land having been signed by John Adams, who was then president of the United States. On his new tract of heavily timbered land on the south line of the Western Reserve, Philip Faust opened an old-time tavern or inn at New Middletown, and on the proposed line of the new Government highway. That highway, however, was not constructed, the building of canals as a medium of transportation having caused the abandonment of the original road project. At the wayside inn conducted by Mr. Faust entertainment was extended to the sojourners who traversed the old corduroy roads with teams and large wagons, and on this historic highway Mr. Faust continued to conduct his popular tavern or hotel for more than thirty years. Thus he was one of the influential pioneer citizens of what is now Mahoning County, and after closing his hotel as a place of public entertainment he there lived retired until his death in 1861, at the patriarchal age of ninety years, his remains being laid to rest in the old cemetery at Middletown. Mr. Faust was active in the state militia and influential in public affairs in his community. His wife died during their residence at Canfield, their sons having been John, George, Philip and Solomon. John continued his residence in Mahoning County until the time of his death, at a venerable age.
Solomon Faust, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, died at the age of eighty-five years, as one of the honored pioneer citizens of Mahoning County, where he had been a prosperous farmer, owner of a part of the land originally granted to his father. He took active part in the support and maintenance of the militia in Mahoning County, and assisted liberally in raising funds to pay for the bands that served on the training days of the militia. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Harman, died about 1879, and he passed away in 1881. Mary, eldest of their children, became the wife of David Fischel, who died when a young man, and later she became the wife of Anthony Whistler, their home having been established in Columbiana County. Elias was the father of the subject of this sketch. John and James died in childhood. Catherine attained to mature age and died unmarried. Sarah Ann has never married and remains on the old home place at New Middletown, as does also her sister Emma. Uriah, who is a farmer near the old homestead, had marked musical talent, and was a regimental fifer in an Ohio command in the Civil war. He gained no little fame as a teacher of bands, and as a violinist his services were much in demand at dancing parties, besides which he was called upon to play the fife and other instruments in connection with political campaign work. He still resides on his farm and is seventy-five years of age at the time of this writing, in 1920.
Elias Faust, father of the present auditor of Ma-honing County, passed his entire life in this county. He made good use of the educational advantage; afforded him in his youth and supplemented the same by diligent study and comprehensive reading. He
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taught in the schools of the county, and also gave service as a skilled surveyor. He finally settled on his farm in Springfield Township, this being a part of the tract granted to his grandfather, as noted in a preceding paragraph, and a portion of the land still remains in possession of the family. Mr. Faust was born in 1825 and thus was sixty-two years of age at the time of his death in 1887. His wife, Catherine A. (Schroy) Faust, was born in 1832, and she still resides at the old home, one of the venerable and revered women of Mahoning County. Elias Faust enlisted in a cavalry regiment at the inception of the Civil war, but after serving a few weeks he was discharged on account of organic heart trouble. His insistent patriotism led him to enlist again, in 1863, but his diseased heart again caused his rejection. Not to be denied expression of his loyalty, he hired a substitute so that he might render at least a vicarious service. In 1856 he was one of but seven abolitionists in his precinct, and he was unstinted in his opposition to human slavery, as he was loyal to the Union when the war was precipitated on a divided nation. He was a virtual invalid during the last fifteen years of his life, and as he was a republican in a strong democratic township he was never elected to public office other than that of member of the school board. He was a man whose sterling integrity and marked ability gave him high place in popular confidence and esteem, and he was frequently called upon to serve as executor of estates, guardian of minor children, etc. He was an active member )f the Evangelical Lutheran Church at New Middletown, of which his widow likewise is a zealous communicant. They became the parents of five children : Mary Malissa is the wife of David Richey, of Coitsville Township; Elias Morgan is the immediate subject of this review'; Stephen Monroe is a representative contractor in the City of Columbus, Ohio; Freeman Edwin has the active management of the old some farm; Elfrenda is the widow of William 3uttersby and resides at New Middletown.
Elias M. Faust received his early education in the district schools and the Union Academy at Poland, and in 1875 he initiated his pedagogic career by takng charge of a district school in his home township. He continued teaching at intervals during his youth, rid in the meanwhile he continued his studies in the seminary and high school at Lisbon, and finally en:ered the Northeastern Normal College at Canfield, n which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906. He was for a time a student in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, where le was active in athletic affairs, as had he been also it the University of Ohio. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the State University of Georgia. For three years Mr. Faust aught in the district schools near New Springfield, Mahoning County, and in 1887 he became principal )f the schools of that village. In 1889 he became principal of the Flint School in the City of Youngstown, an incumbency which he retained until 1895. Thereafter he taught in the Market Street School until 1903, and from the latter year until 1919 he aught in the Wood Street School—his successful service as one of the able and popular teachers in he public schools of Youngstown having thus cov ered a period of thirty years. For two year., he was chairman of the Mahoning County Teachers' Institute ; for three years he was chairman of the board of school examiners of the county; and he is actively identified with the Tri-County Teachers' Association —Mahoning, Columbiana and Trumbull counties—as well as with the Northeastern Ohio and the Ohio State Teachers' associations.
In politics Mr. Faust is a staunch advocate of the basic principles and policies of the republican party, and in 1910 he was elected justice of the peace in Coitsville Township, where he established his home in 1905. In November, 1918, he was elected county auditor, the duties of which office he assumed on the loth of the following October, and he is giving a characteristically careful and efficient administration. He made a specially admirable record during his service as justice of the peace, in that he made the office justify its name. In this capacity he swore out warrants for the arrest of more than 180 persons who took part in the riots at East Youngstown, and he passed judgment on many important cases touching closely the social welfare, his decisions being fearless, just and in consonance with the law, so that few of them ever met reversal in courts of higher jurisdiction. Mr. Faust has taken active part in. political affairs, has been a delegate to various conventions of his party, including the state convention, and has proved an effective campaign orator. He spoke earnestly and fearlessly in behalf of local option in the "wettest" township of Mahoning County, and he has been a zealous supporter of the cause which had led to national prohibition of the liquor traffic.
Mr. Faust is a stockholder in several manufacturing industries in his native county, was for eight years a member of the board of directors of the Youngstown Young Men's Christian Association, of which he was recording secretary also; for eight years he was a director of the Masonic Temple of Youngstown; and in the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has received both the York and Scottish Rite degrees, besides being affiliated also with the Mystic Shrine and with the Order of the Eastern Star. He is past master of Western Star Lodge No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons, and in 192o he is illustrious master of Buechner Council No. 107, Royal and Select Masters. In the Scottish Rite he is sovereign prince and past master of Youngstown Council of the Princes of Jerusalem; he has twice served as chancellor commander of his lodge in the Knights of Pythias; and he is past councillor of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics in Youngstown Council No. 51. He and his wife are active and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Science Hill, and he is a member of its board of trustees. While having his official headquarters at Youngstown, the judicial center of the county, he still maintains his home at Scienceville.
Mr. Faust wedded Miss Caroline Welk, of New Middletown, and she died in 1886. In 1891 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Flora Bossert, of New Middletown, and they have two children, Veda E., wife of Howard D. Jones, of Scienceville; and Homer Morgan, who is a member of the class of 1922, in the engineering department of the Carnegie
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School of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As an enlisted soldier at the Ohio State University Homer M. Faust there took the students' training course for military service in connection with the late World war, but he was not called into active service. When serving in the Students' Army Training Corps at Columbus his skill as a stenographer and typist won for him the place of chief stenographer in the personnel office in the command of Lieutenant Hughes. He excels as a cornet player, and displays unusual persistence in scholastic and mechanical pursuits. Veda E. (Faust) Jones followed the profession of teaching for a period of five years before her marriage, she having graduated from the Rayen High School and from the Kent State Normal School at Kent, Ohio, in the department of domestic science and home economics. She is a talented musician, excelling in performance on the piano, and is also showing talent of proficiency with the violin, pipe organ and ukelele.
LUDVIG T. PETERSEN, whose home has been in Youngstown since 1905, is vice president and in charge of manufacturing of the Republic Rubber Corporation. His early career was that of a chemical engineer, and as a chemist he acquired his first knowledge of the rubber business.
Mr. Petersen was born in Brooklyn, New York, September 15, 1876, a son of Christian L. and Thora C. (Lund) Petersen. His parents were both natives of Denmark. Christian L. Petersen was a draftsman and designer, and most of his work was the designing of clothing. As a young man he spent several years in Paris, was married there, and then came to the United States. While in New York he built up a. considerable business designing theatrical costumes, and also designed garments for the United States Army. About 1883 he moved to Boston, and lived in that city until his death. His widow now divides her time between Boston and Youngstown.
Ludvig T. Petersen, one of four children, was reared and educated in the public schools of Boston. For two years he studied medicine, but found that the chief attraction toward that profession lay in the subject of chemistry. He specialized in chemistry, and after his graduation accepted a place as chemist with the firm of Beach & Clarridge, manufacturing chemists of Boston. He next became chemist for the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Company, and from there moved to the great rubber city of Akron, Ohio, where he was chief chemist for the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company. In 1905 he came to Youngstown, as superintendent of the Republic Rubber Company, and has been the responsible head of its manufacturing department ever since.
Mr. Petersen is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. September 9, 1908, he married Miss Florence Brown. She is an active member of the Brown Memorial Church. They have two children, Thora Brown and Ludvig T., Jr.
LEE MORROW. In his brief but successful business career Lee Morrow spent ten years in Youngstown, where he earned and enjoyed the thorough esteem of the community.
He was born at Grove City, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1880, and died at Youngstown, December 25, 1915. His parents were David Milton and Jessie (Black) Morrow. His father for a number of years was a traveling shoe salesman, and was still on the road at the time of his death. He served at one time as postmaster at Grove City. Of five children all are living except Lee.
Lee Morrow attended the public schools of native town and as a boy learned business as an employe of an uncle, in a grocery store at Grove City. From there he removed to New Castle, and was for a time in the grocery business and later a candy manufacturer, learning all the fundamentals of the business. He was one of the three salesmen for the D. L. Clark Candy Company, who organized the firm of Lytte, Morrow & Wentz Company in 1905, and from that time until his death he successfully prosecuted this enterprise. He was also organizer and director of the Pardee-Ellis Company.
Mr. Morrow as a youth enlisted in a regiment raised for service in the Spanish-American war and was a member of the Spanish War Veterans at Grove City. He was independent in politics, and was a member of the Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Youngstown. He was affiliated with the Masons and Odd Fellows fraternities.
March 16, 19o5, he married Miss Lenna Johnson, daughter of Madison and Almira (Grant) Johnson who represented one of the old families in Eastern Ohio. Mrs. Morrow, whose home is at 47 West Princeton Street in Youngstown, is the mother of four children : Rachel, born January 25, 1906; Janet, born February 10, 1910; Leah, born October 3, 1911 and Elizabeth, born November 25, 1913.
WADE E. SIMON. For a number of years before his death, which occurred January 3, 1919, Wade E. Simon had been prominent in the commercial affairs of the Youngstown District. About 1904 he established the Simon Packing Company, his associatres in the organization being Henry Wick, J. C. Brownlee, William Creed, Judge Ewing and others. It was a $100,000 corporation, and Mr. Simon served as president and general manager. for several years until failing health compelled him to give over the heavier responsibilities. After that he merely looked after the buying.
Wade E. Simon was one of a very notable family in Mahoning County. His great-grandfather, Michael Simon, was probably a native of Switzerland, and as early as 1803 had bought 600 acres of land in the Ohio Western Reserve. Though he spent his last years and died in Ohio it was left to his son, Jacob Simon, to occupy and develop much of this land purchased. Jacob Simon came here from Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he was born, and was one of the first teachers in Boardman Township. In order to distinguish him from another Jacob Simon in the same locality he was always known as Schoolmaster Jacob. He built a log cabin on his land, and on January 13, 1811, married Elizabeth Stemple. She came to Ohio riding horseback and was a woman of the real pioneer type, bearing with constant cheerfulness the trials and hardships of the early days. She died in April, 1879, at the age of
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eighty-nine. Jacob Simon was drafted for the War of 1812, and in order to pay for a substitute it is said that he sold all his household possessions except the pewter plates which his wife had brought from the Pennsylvania home. Jacob Simon had to clear every foot of his land before it could be made productive, and in the early days the table was supplied largely with wild game, wild honey, maple sugar and corn meal mush. Jacob Simon died September 12, 1861, at the age of seventy-five. He and his wife had nine children, five sons and four daughters.
The youngest of these was Jesse Simon, who was born on the old Simon farm in Boardman Township, about four miles south of Youngstown, February 15, 1830. He grew up in a log cabin, attended a log cabin school, and spent his life on the old Simon farm. He lived a life of quiet industry, not distinguished by abnormal experiences or events, but at the same time marked by the greatest usefulness to his family and his community. He acquired by purchase a part of the old estate, improved it with a good home, and at all times was deeply interested in the welfare of his locality. He was a republican, served as township trustee, and was a member of the Christian Church. He married Betsy Williamson, daughter of Pyatt Williamson, who at one time owned a farm in the center of Youngstown. They had six children : Wilber C., Wade E., Eben N., Edith, Fitch and Della.
Wade E. Simon was born February 20, 1857, and as a youth he showed unusual skill and judgment in handling stock. He became a stock buyer and dealer, and after his marriage moved to the Flint Hill section of Youngstown, where he and his family resided for thirty-six years. In March, 1918, they returned to the old Simon farm, his birthplace, and at that time built the present residence, which he enjoyed only a few weeks. His death occurred at Battle Creek, Michigan. His family still occupy the fine home which he provided for their comfort. A number of years before organizing the Simon Packing Company Mr. Simon built a large new slaughter house on the site of the packing plant. His business was an active stimulus to the raising of cattle and other livestock in this section of Ohio. The Simon Packing Company, however, did not rely altogether upon the local supply, but went into the outside markets. Mr. Simon was also an individual stock grower, every year fed a bunch of cattle and hogs, and for several years had been a breeder and exhibitor of Percheron horses. He had inherited fifty acres of the farm of his grandfather and father, and he also bought 200 acres, which was part of the Hitchcock farm west of Boardman Center.
He showed the highest degree of public spirit, and 'interested himself in matters of schools, g00d roads, and any movement for general advancement. He was an elder in the Central Christian Church from the time it was established, and for several years was superintendent of the Flint Hill Union Sunday School.
September 28, 1880, Mr. Simon married Miss Mary Gilby. She came from Canada with her father, Charles Gilby, at the age of twelve years. Her father died in the same year, leaving her and her brother Frank, four years younger. Mrs. Simon grew up in Mahoning County. Since the death of her husband she has lived at the family home four miles south of Youngstown. She has two children, Walter G. and Ethel M. Ethel is a kindergarten teacher. For eleven years she did that work in the Christ Mission but is now in the psychological department in East Youngstown. At present her special work is with the subnormal children, most of whose home surroundings are bad.
Walter G. Simon is engaged in raising Holstein cattle on the farm purchased by his father, the latter starting the herd that is now being continued by the son. Walter G. Simon married Miss Lucy Stewart, of Youngstown, September 28, 1907. They have three children, Lucy Eleanor, Stewart Gilby and Mary Ethel.
G. V. HAMORY, a banker with prominent connections in the Mahoning Valley, both in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, has been a resident of Youngstown for twenty years, and the people of Hungarian birth and lineage regard him as their natural leader and spokesman.
Mr. Hamory was born in Hungary, June 2, 1869, and lived there until he was seventeen years of age. He had a public school education and had some natural talents and proficiencies that enabled him to overcome the handicap of poverty and lack of knowledge of American ways. He came to the United States in 1886, landing in New York City and going from there to Pittsburgh. He reached the Iron City with only $2.10. The first two weeks he worked as a common laborer unloading boats. He then found opportunity to work and learn the carpenter trade. He had one proficiency above the common lot of the foreigner. That was his ability as a linguist. He was able to speak the Hungarian, Slovak, German, Polish and Croatian languages. This made him a valued man in the employ of the Louis Moeser Exchange Bank, an institution with which he remained twelve years, beginning as clerk and finishing as bank manager.
Mr. Hamory next embarked in the coal business. He conducted the first co-operative mine in the Monongahela Valley. His experience as a banker, and his close touch with laboring men had given him a broader idea of co-operation and proper relationship between capital and labor. While others had strikes, he had none in his mines. At that time he himself put in every day in the week at hard work, and in the meantime had acquired a thorough knowledge of the English language. Mr. Hamory sold out his coal interests in 1899, and then for a time was superintendent of two other mines. In the fall of 1900 he came to Youngstown, where he established the International Bank, with a branch at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and still later another at East Youngstown. At Sharon Mr. Hamory owns the largest office building in the city. He has sold his bank at East Youngstown, but is vice president and director of the Peoples Trust and Savings Bank of that city. As .a banker he has specialized in foreign exchange and steamship agencies, and represents all the lines and passenger routes on all oceans.
Under his leadership the Hungarian people of the Youngstown District have been organized, a magnifi-
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cent church built and many social movments launched. for making these people prosperous and happy and thorough Americans. Mr. Hamory is a republican in politics. His father, Powell Hamory, was a soldier of the great apostle of freedom, Kossuth, during the Hungarian Revolution. Mr. Hamory is a member of the Hungarian Presbyterian Church, is an Elk and a member of the Elks Club.
June 2, 1894, he married Miss Mary Balczer, of Pittsburgh. She died June 1, 1919, the mother of three children. Mr. Hamory is proud of the splendid patriotism and good citizenship manifested by his children. His son Theodore was in the navy during the World war. His daughter is the wife of William C. Munn, who served with the rank of lieutenant in the Ordnance Department. The youngest, George, was in the Students' Army Training Camp at Washington-Jefferson College.
CARNICK BROTHERS. Youngstown has been favored with the enterprise of the Carnick Brothers since 1915, when Robert and Jacob Carnick came to this city from Franklin, Pennsylvania. They established themselves in the scrap iron and new iron material business on Tod Avenue, and in 1916 moved to their present place of business at 113 Oakhill Avenue.
This firm deals almost altogether with the large steel concerns, selling to them scrap iron, gathered in an extensive brokerage business and with connections all over the country, and buying in turn manufactured products which are sold to builders and other users of material.
Both brothers were born in Russia of Jewish parentage. Robert, the first to come to America, arrived in this country in 1899. He took out his naturalization papers in 1905. He first engaged in the scrap iron business at Franklin, Pennsylvania. Jacob joined him in 1903 at Franklin, and began the process of naturalization in 1908.
Both brothers are married, their wives being sisters. Robert's wife was Fannie Cohen, of Corey, Pennsylvania, and they have three children, Lyle, Arthur and Boyd. Jacob married Dora Cohen, and they have a son, named Albert.
Two other brothers, Abraham and Henry, subsequently came to this country and also live at Youngstown. All four of the brothers are loyal Americans, and have had many reasons to congratulate themselves on the freedom of their present lives from the restrictions of the eastern world. They came to the United States to better their conditions, and have manifested all the traits of loyal Americans and intend to bring up their children in the same allegiance.
JOSEPH M. IRONS. The worth of personality is being more and more recognized, and those fortunate enough to possess this quality in a strong degree are liable to be the ones who have risen high in the confidence and esteem of their fellow men. This trait of character enters into the successful prosecution of every line of business and the following of all of the learned professions, and no statesman ever came into power who did not possess it in marked degree. Through a strong and winning personality a man makes friends, inspires a confidence and creates a demand for what he is selling. The advice of older men to those seeking the secret of success is to cultivate a personality that will make a favorable impression and easily and readily convince the public of honest sincerity. One of the men who has risen to a high position in the real estate business at Struthers is Joseph M. Irons, and much of his prominence in his chosen field has come to him through his towering personality.
Joseph M. Irons was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, a son of one of the old-time school teacher of the Pittsburgh districts in Pennsylvania. Reared in Pittsburgh and vicinity, Joseph M. Irons attended its schools and after he reached manhood's estate, engaged in selling real estate. In 1913 he came to Struthers, and since then has been representing a general line of insurance and handling city property. Mr. Irons has also been interested in the manufacture of a gas from coal by a patented process. In order to make a satisfactory demonstration he built a plant at East Liverpool, Ohio. This patented process produces four times as much gas from a given amount of fuel as the ordinary one, and by means of it all of the by-products are converted into gas, thus giving a gas with a much greater heat than heretofore produced. Associated with Mr. Irons in this business is William Elliott, a mechanical engineer at this time with the Struthers Furnace Company, and his experiments with this gas have resulted in greater efficiency in the use of heat and light for both domestic and manufacturing purposes. The Gas Improvement Company of Pittsburgh was organized and taken over to extend the use of this process so as to secure greater efficiency in gas production, and important steps are being taken to get this system into general use. The process with several improvements reverted back to Mr. Irons and to Mr. Elliott, and patents have been obtained for the new improvements. One of the striking characteristics of the process is that other than bituminous coal can be used for fuel, including peat; lignite and cannel coal, this greatly facilitating gas production in large areas where such fuel only is abundant.
Mr. Irons was married at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Josephine Wilson, who died, leaving six children: Myrtle, who is Mrs. Wallace Cameron, of Rochester, Pennsylvania ; Clyde, who lives in Virginia; Jean, who is Mrs. John Wilson, of South Youngstown, Ohio, where her husband is in the life insurance business; Alice, who is Mrs. Charles H. Duffield, of Akron, Ohio; Flora, who is living with Mrs. near Steubenville, Ohio; and Ralph M., who lives at North Lima, Ohio. For his second wife Mr. Irons married Rosetta Mooney, of Racine, Ohio. They have no children. Both Mr. and Mrs. Irons are active members of the United Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Irons is prominent in the missionary society and church clubs. Mr. Irons is a member of the National Cooperative Realty Company. He is also interested in coal, gas and oil production, the former in Ohio and his gas interests are in Oklahoma and Texas.
JOHN BUEHRLE. The pioneer flour and feed merchant of Youngstown was the late John Buehrle, who died in this city in May, 1914. The small enterprise he started in 1869 has grown and prospered in a period of half a century, and now, under the owner-
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ship and direction of his son Albert, is one of the leading institutions of its kind in the Mahoning Valley.
Aside from his business record in Youngstown, Mr. Buehrle had a career that may be followed with interest. He was born in Germany and lived in that country to the age of nineteen. Besides a common school education he learned the sash maker's trade, and was a member of the German army when he determined to seek a home in America where so many of his compatriots had already established themselves. Coming to the new world in 1840, he went from New York to Philadelphia, also visited Milwaukee, and subsequently joined some friends at Youngstown. He was living in this city when the Civil war broke out. Not long afterward he enlisted as a soldier in Company I of the Thirty-Seventh Ohio Infantry. Part of the time he was in the brigade commanded by that famous soldier and officer, General Sigel, in Missouri. He was in the battle of Missionary Ridge, in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign and on the march to the sea. Altogether he took part in twenty-two pitched battles. He received an honorable discharge at the close of the war with the rank of corporal, having served three years and seven months. By the severest tests that could be made he proved amply his loyalty to his adopted country.
After the war he returned to Youngstown and for a time was engaged in the retail grocery business, and then in 1869 established the business which even with the marvelous growth of Youngstown is still one of the city's important industries. John Buehrle was a man of iron constitution, and that enabled him to follow out his industrious proclivity of working an average of sixteen hours out of the twenty-four. His work brought him prosperity, and as a whole he invested his income wisely, though he was not above making mistakes and acknowledging them. When he returned from the war he possessed $300 bounty money due him for his second enlistment. With this he made the initial payment to Paul Wick for a piece of property upon which now stands the Young Men's Christian Association Building. After some deliberation he felt that he had made a bad bargain, and at his request the money was refunded and the bargain cancelled. That property now has a probable valuation of $400,000.
Mr. Buehrle was a Lutheran in religion and a republican in politics. He married Wilhelmina Wellendorf, also a native of Germany. She died in 1913, the mother of thirteen children, six of whom are still living.
Albert H. Buehrle, youngest of the family, was born in Youngstown, December 8, 1879, and was educated in the grammar and the Rayen High schools. He began working for himself at the age of fourteen, his first employment being in the chinaware business. He was in that line for twelve years, and then bought his father's business, then located on West Federal Street. It occupied several other locations, and in 1900 Mr. Buehrle built for its accommodation a structure at the corner of Tod and West Avenue. This plant was burned in 1917, and was replaced by the present brick building, 45 by Ho feet, and additional buildings. The plant now has storage capacity for 100,000 bushels and 1,000 tons bag capacity. The annual volume of business is about $1,500,000, and some thirty people find employment. It is represented in Ohio, Virginia and New York, and the business is constantly expanding and the volume of trade increasing. In 1917 the business was incorporated with Albert H. Buehrle as president and general manager and he continues to the present time.
Mr. Albert H. Buehrle is an active member of the United Presbyterian Church and is serving as trustee of his church. September 14, 1904, he married Alma E. Ewing, of Youngstown. They have three daughters, Laura I., Jane E. and Esther L. Mr. Buehrle is a member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce.
CARL A. ILGENFRITZ. The adult life of Carl A. Ilgenfritz has been passed in connection with the steel industry of Ohio, in which he has been identified with several concerns of importance. At the present time he holds the position of purchasing agent for the Brier Hill Steel Company, and although still a young man in years is one of the best known men in the business at Youngstown.
Mr. Ilgenfritz was born at Youngstown, September 25, 1890, a son of George S. and Elizabeth (Hanni) Ilgenfritz, both of whom have been long-time residents of Youngstown. The public graded and high schools of his native city gave Carl A. Ilgenfritz his educational training, and when he started out in life upon his independent career it was as a youth of sixteen years working as storekeeper at the East Youngstown plant of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Subsequently he was transferred to the office of the general master mechanic, and then became assistant to the master mechanic in charge of the steel plant and blast furnaces. In all, he was with the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company for seven and one-half years. In February, 1913, Mr. Ilgenfritz came to the Brier Hill Steel Company, and was first employed in the engineering department as an inspector of construction. Upon the completion of the construction work he became assistant to the chief engineer, and then entered the purchasing department as an assistant to the purchasing agent. On October I, 1918, he was advanced to the post of purchasing agent, a position which he has since retained.
Mr. Ilgenfritz is a popular member of the Youngstown Club, and belongs to and takes an interest in the work of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Purchasing Agents' Association of Pittsburgh and the Youngstown Engineers Club. With his family he belongs to the Central Christian Church.
Mr. Ilgenfritz was married June 2, 1914, to Miss Lorretta Krichbaum, of Youngstown.
SIDNEY MORRILL MCCURDY, M. D. Chief surgeon of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, and for nine years a practicing physician of Youngstown, Dr. Sidney Morrill McCurdy is universally recognized by the people of this thriving community as a skilled practitioner and a strict observer of the highest ethics of his calling. He was born at Andover, Massachusetts, May 21, 1881, his parents, Matthew S. and Lydia (Morrill) McCurdy, being natives of
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Vermont, and are now residents of Andover. For many years Matthew S. McCurdy has been a teacher of mathematics at Phillips Andover Academy, and still follows the profession of an educator.
Sidney M. McCurdy grew up at his native city, where he attended the public schools and Phillips Andover Academy, graduating from the latterin 1898, when but seventeen years of age. Following this, he spent one year at Dartmouth, then matriculated at the Western Reserve Medical College at Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the class of 1903. Coming to Youngstown, for about two years he was an interne of the Youngstown Hospital, and in 1904 embarked in the general practice of his profession, to which he continued to devote himself until 1913. During this period he was also employed by the various large corporations, and in this way became widely known among the prominent employers of labor. In March, 1913, he became chief surgeon of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. With the exception of the time which he spent in the army he has since continued to serve in this capacity.
In October, 1916, Doctor McCurdy joined the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps of the United States Army, and from June 1, 1917, to September 5,. 1917, was in the training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. On April 25th of the same year he was commissioned captain, and in December following sailed for France as adjutant and detachment commander of Base Hospital 3i. He continued in this official position until April 21; 1918. On May 1, 1918, he was transferred as battalion surgeon of the Second Battalion, Eighteenth Infantry, First Division of the Regular Army, and in this capacity continued to serve until invalided hoine at the close of the war. He received his honorable discharge April 8, 1919. His war experience was unusual to the average medical officer, as practically his entire service was at the front. He participated in the battle of Cantigney, the first engagement in which the American troops participated, and after the capture of this position assisted in the repulse of nine German counterattacks. His next battle was on the Marne, at Soissons, and here received regimental citation for faithful services under great difficulties. Later he participated in the offensive at St. Mihiel, and his next important campaign was in the Argonne, where for twelve days his battalion was under continuous and heavy fire. For his services in this offensive he was given by Marshal Petain a citation and the Croix-de-Guerre. Ten days later, although he had been relieved, he returned for a second offensive, which ended so far as he was concerned by his being sent to the hospital, owing to illness. From that time until February 28, 1919, he was in hospital, and then sailed for home.
Doctor McCurdy is a member of the Mahoning County and Ohio State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, and is a director of the Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons. Socially he is identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was married June 30, 1908, to Miss Caroline Wilson, of Amherst, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of one daughter, Lydia.
FRANK R. CREED. Youthful ambition and determined purpose were brought to bear by Frank R. Creed when he became associated with S. J. McNabb in establishing what is now the oldest and most important grocery business in the thriving little City of Struthers, Mahoning County, and he is now the sole proprietor of the establishment, which controls a large and representative trade in the handling of staple and fancy groceries, provisions, meats and flour and feed. Mr. Creed occupies the same quarters in which he initiated the enterprise in 1901, and he and his partner, Mr.. McNabb, now city clerk of Struthers, had a capital of only $2,000 when they equipped and opened their store. Their personal popularity, their attractively displayed stock and their scrupulous care in tneeting the requirements of their customers, caused the business to expand rapidly, and on the 1st of January, 1917, Mr. Creed purchased his partner's interest, since which time he has conducted the business in an individual way and with unqualified success, the enterprise now representing a capitalistic investment of fully $15,000 and the establishment being essentially metropolitan in equipment and service. Mr. Creed is one of the progressive business men of the younger generation in his native county, is a member of the board of directors of the Struthers Chamber of Commerce, a member of the local board of health and a leading member of the Struthers volunteer fire department, with which he has been identified from the time of its organization. He holds membership in the Poland Country Club, is affiliated with the York and Scottis Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, as well as adjunct organization, the Nobles of the M Shrine, in which he holds membership in Al K Temple in the City of Cleveland. He takes speci deep interest in the affairs of the Knights Temp and has attended one or more of the national claves of this great Masonic body. He and his hold membership in the United Presbyterian Ch and are popular factors in the representative s life of their home community.
Frank R. Creed was born at East Youngstown Mahoning County, March 16, 1882, and is a son o William A. Creed, who still resides on his fine farm estate near Struthers, where the subject of this re, view was reared, he having been three years of age at the time of the family removal to this farm and his early educational training having been acquired in the public schools at Struthers. William A. Creed was born in Trumbull County, this state, March 5, 1849, a son of William and Harriet (Ames) Creed. He was reared on a farm of 600 acres belonging to the Rayen estate in Coitsville Township, Mahoning County, and was but fourteen years old at the time of his father's death. He remained with his widowed mother until the time of his marriage, and in the meanwhile continued his active association with farm enterprise. April 3o, 1874, recorded his marriage to Miss Susan W. Reed, daughter of the late John H. Reed, and in the following year he rented a farm near Warren, where he remained three years, the following seven years having been passed on a rented farm near Coitsville. In 1880 he purchased his present farm, situated about midway between Struthers and Poland, and he has made the best of improve-
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ments on this farm, including the erection of a modern house in 1903, the present fine barn having been built in 1889. Mr. Creed has made dairying an important feature of this farm enterprise, and is one of the substantial and representative citizens of his community. He is one of the interested principals in the company which has platted and placed on the market an attractive addition to the City of Struthers, and is a director of the Struthers Savings & Banking Company. Both he and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian Church. They have three children: Nellie J. is the wife of Enos Kumm, and they have four children, Harry, Roy, Alice and Frank. L. S. Creed, who resides at Struthers, married Etta Fieldhouse, and they have three children, Randall, Dudley and Jack. Frank R., of this review, is the youngest of the children.
William Creed, grandfather of Frank R., was horn and reared in England and became a resident of Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in the hotel business for a number of years prior to coming with his family to Ohio in 1848. He became a successful dairy farmer in Mahoning County, where he and his wife continued to reside until their death. He had served as a soldier in the English army in the War of 1812, was reared in the faith of the Church of England, and in America both he and his wife held membership in the Protestant Episcopal Church, representing the same faith. His death occurred in 1881. William and Harriet (Ames) Creed became the parents of nine children: Sarah, John A., Elizabeth, Mary, Thomas, William A., Henry, Ella and Harriet.
In 1904 was solemnized the marriage of Frank R. Creed to Miss Josephine Lauthers, whose father formerly served as mayor of the city of Youngstown, and the three children of this union are Wilson, Joe and Helen.
MICHAEL C. HANNAN, general manager of the Ohio Hotel Operating Company, has been a resident 0f Youngstown for the past sixteen years, during which time he has impressed himself favorably upon the general public and his associates as a man of thorough business acumen and capacity. He is a native of Virginia, having been born at the historic old city of Norfolk November 21, 1879, and is a son of William M. and Anna (Trenor) Hannan, natives of Ireland.
William M. Hannan came to the United States with an uncle and aunt when he was but six years of age, the party settling at Norfolk, Virginia, where the father has passed his entire life, and where he still makes his home at an advanced age. He has been prominent during his career in public affairs, and for twelve years or more was chairman of the board of control, his influence being far-reaching in its extent and his public record of the best.
Michael C. Hannan was reared at Norfolk, where he was primarily educated in the parochial schools, and subsequently attended St. Joseph's College near Baltimore, Maryland, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1898. Following this he was employed as timekeeper during the construction of the new East River Bridge, New York City, and later was made paymaster for a number of con-
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structions by the Ryan & Parker Construction Company. In 1903 Mr. Hannan came to Youngstown as an employe of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, but left that concern to become assistant manager for the Ohio Hotel. From that position he was advanced to manager of the same hostelry, and in 1916, when the Ohio Hotel Operating Company was organized and came into existence, he became its general manager, a position which he has since occupied. Mr. Hannan is admirably fitted for the responsible post which he holds, possessing executive capacity of a high order and being fully conversant with the hotel business in all its aspects. He has a wide circle of friends in Youngstown, where he is a popular and valued member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Elks Club and the Knights of Columbus, while his religious connection is with the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1907 Mr. Hannan was united in marriage with Miss Mary McElroy, of Youngstown, and they are the parents of three bright and interesting children: Mary Virginia, William E. and Ann Trenor.
GEORGE E. MITTINGER. In the successful conduct of his life George E. Mittinger has given to the world a number of useful inventions, known more intimately perhaps to the iron and steel industry. He is one of Ohio's native sons and was born on the site of the present Court House and City Hall at Cleveland, April 19, 1869, a son of George and Mary E. (Bressler) Mittinger. His father was the first metal spinner in the United States. He was a native of Baden, Germany, but had learned his trade in France, the inner workings of which were then considered a secret. It was during the German revolution of 1848, when Schurz and other well known characters were compelled to leave Germany owing to political troubles, that George Mittinger came to the United States, a land in which he gained success and made his presence felt in the world of manufacturing.
Taking up his abode in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Mittinger founded the George Mittinger Metal Spinning Works, and in the beginning of his manufacturing career here he made all kinds of copper cooking utensils and kindred articles, and was the patentee of the first self-righting cuspidor. He married in Cleveland, gained industrial prominence in that city, and there died in 1912.
George E. Mittinger was one of his four children, and was reared and educated in the city of his birth, supplementing the public school training which he received there by a course in the Spencerian Business. College. During a period of twenty-seven years he was associated with his father in business, and then for five years resided at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, where he was the manager of the Newcastle Stamping & Enameling Works, which was owned by the National Bank of Lawrence County. In 19o8 he removed to Youngstown, Ohio, and here he has ever since waged the battle of life, successfully and for the benefit of others. He was first employed by the Petroleum Iron Works Company of Sharon, Pennsylvania, to design and build a steel barrel, and after experimenting for two years the work was accomplished and a barrel was produced
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from a cold drawn metal sheet. The art and process of manufacturing this article are now protected at home and abroad by patents.
Mr. Mittinger has ever since continued his identification with the Petroleum Iron Works Company, and is now vice president and general manager and a member of its board of directors. His work is in connection with the pressed steel division, and he is constantly creating new devices. One of his more recent inventions is the open head barrel to contain liquids, crystals and other commodities. The barrel is so constructed that the head can be removed and entrance gained by a shovel for the removal of the contents. Another of his noteworthy devices is a steel nail and rivet case, and still others are a nested essential oil barrel, reversible faucets, ventilators and appliances for tank cars. These are only a few of his many essential devices, and his name has become a noteworthy one among American inventors.
Mr. Mittinger was married in 1895 to Miss Mary E. Raimer, a daughter of J. B. Raimer, a pioneer farmer of the vicinity of Newburgh, Ohio. Their three children are Eugene R., Marianne and Jerome B. Mr. Mittinger is a Roman Catholic in religion.
EDWARD F. CLARK has the initiative and administrative ability, the youthful vitality and optimism, and the resourceful energy that make for success and power in connection with modern industrialism, and he has become a prominent figure in connection with the great steel industry as represented in his native state. In view of his comparative youth, his advancement and prominence in connection with industrial enterprises of broad scope and importance have been specially noteworthy. He was formerly president of the Liberty Steel Company at Warren, and after the plant and business of this corporation were sold to the Trumbull Steel Company in 1918, Mr. Clark, in July of that year, effected the organization of the Newton Steel Company, which was incorporated with a capital stock of $3,000,000 and of which he has since been the president. At Newton Falls, Trumbull County, the new corporation purchased a tract of 150 acres of land, and here has been erected for its use a large and thoroughly modern plant for the production of high grade sheet steel. The construction and equipment of this plant involved an investment of $2,000,000, and here the company now gives employment to a force of 800 men. In furtherance of well defined policies the interested principals in the new company simultaneously organized the Newton Realty & Construction Company, with but few outside stockholders, and this company was incorporated with a capital of $500,000. This adjunct corporation purchased a large tract of land adjacent to that secured for the new industrial plant, and here was rapidly pushed forward the erection of modern houses to serve as homes for the steel workers. It can readily be understood that these two vigorous young corporations, with operations based on ample capital and authoritative and experienced control, serve as an important addition to the industrial precedence of the Mahoning Valley and the State of Ohio.
Edward Ford Clark was born in the City of Youngstown, Ohio, March 1, 1891, and is a son of
Dr. Addison Marshall Clark and Reinette (Ford) Clark, the former of Scotch and English lineage and the latter of English and Holland Dutch ancestry. Dr. Addison M. Clark was long engaged in active practice at Youngstown as one of the representati physicians and surgeons of this part of the state, he was one of the honored and influential citizens Mahoning County at the time of his death. Acquired ing his preliminary education in the public win, of his native city, Edward F. Clark thereafter to a collegiate preparatory course in the. Hotch School at Lakeville, Connecticut. He then enter historic Yale University, where he continued his studies. His initial business experience was gained in the operating and sales departments of the General Fireproofing Company at Youngstown, and in 1914 he entered the employ of the Trumbull Steel Company at Warren. There he worked in the mills for one year, and during the two succeeding years he was employed in the operating department. Thus he was enabled to realize his determined purpose—that of gaining a thorough knowledge of the practical details of the steel business and industry. From 1915 to 1917 he also served as treasurer of the Fort Smith Spelter Company at Fort Smith, Arkansas, this being a subsidiary of the Trumbull Steel Company. On the 1st of April, 1917, Mr. Clark resigned his position with the Trumbull Steel Company and in the same month organized the Liberty Steel Company, which established a well ordered plant at Warren and engaged in the production of tin plate as a specialty in connection with other products. Of this company he continued president until the plant and business were sold to the Trumbull Steel Company in 1918, as noted in the initial paragraph of this article. It was at this juncture that Mr. Clark organized the Newton Steel Company, of which he has since been the president, as has he also of the Newton Realty & Construction Company. He is a director of the Second National Bank of Warren, and a director of the First National and Dollar Savings & Trust Company of Youngstown Ohio. His record of achievement speaks for itself, and he is consistently to be designated as one of the representative figures in the industrial life of the Mahoning Valley.
Mr. Clark is a member of the American Iron & Steel Institute and of the National Marine League, of with latter he was one of the founders. During the progress of the World war he contributed Ube!, ally in a personal way and through the medium of his industrial plant to supporting the governmental agencies that upheld our national prestige in that great conflict. He holds membership in the Youngstown Club, the Youngstown Country Club and the Trumbull Country Club, besides being affiliated with. the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity of Yale University and the Yale Club of New York City. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he is essentially loyal and public-spirited as a citizen.
June 25, 1914, recorded the marriage of Mr. Clark to Miss Elizabeth Warner, daughter of Jonathan Warner, president of the Trumbull Steel Company, and the two children of this union are Mary Reinette 1: and Jonathan Warner.
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WARD F. PATTENGELL. About a month after the organization of the Brier Hill Steel Company of Youngstown, Ward F. Pattengell accepted the post of credit manager, and has been with the corporation in that capacity continuously.
Mr. Pattengell, who is a business man of wide experience, was born at Bristolville in Trumbull County, Ohio, April 10, 1880. His grandfather, Jacob W. Pattengell, moved from Western New York to Bristolville in pioneer times, and was actively identified with the development of that section. His wife was Laura N. Case, and among their several children was Francis N. Pattengell, who was born in Trumbull County, and has lived there for three quarters of a century. Francis N. Pattengell married Alice Foster, whose people came from Massachusetts. Of their four children Ward F. is the oldest.
Mr. Pattengell grew up at Bristolville, attended the high school there, was also a student in the Moody Preparatory School at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, and spent one year in Hiram College.
His business career began as clerk in the freight offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Youngstown. Later he was employed in a similar capacity at the joint offices of the Erie and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie roads. Mr. Pattengell became bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Youngstown in 1904. During the following six and a half years he filled almost every position in that institution outside of official service, and has a thorough and expert knowledge of banking detail. After leaving the First National Bank he was for about eighteen months in charge of the accounts of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company.
Mr. Pattengell entered the service of the Brier Hill Steel Company in March, 1912. He is a member of the Youngstown Club, the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Cleveland, Ohio. October 23, 1901, he married Miss Blanche Hill, daughter of William and Louise (Camp) Hill, of Warren, Ohio. They have one daughter, named Louise Alice in honor of her two grandmothers.
D. BLAIR MORROW. For a number of years D. Blair Morrow was an important cog in the clerical machinery which assisted in operating the huge plant of the Brier Hill Steel Company at Youngstown, having been identified with that concern from 1912 until the 15th of April, 192o, when he accepted a position with the General Fire Proofing Company in the clerical department.
Mr. Morrow was born in Wayne County, Ohio, August 8, 1891, a son of Horace S. and Emma Jane (Wilson) Morrow, natives respectively of Ohio and Pennsylvania On the paternal side he comes of pioneer stock of the Buckeye state, the family having been founded here by his great-grandparents at an early day in the history of Ohio. His grandfather, David Morrow, was born here, and followed farming all his life with the exception of the period of the Civil war, when he fought for the Union cause as a volunteer in an Ohio infantry regiment.
One of his parents' two children, D. Blair Morrow was reared on his father's farm in Wayne County, Ohio, and obtained his early education in the district schools in the vicinity of the home place. While he was reared in an agricultural atmosphere, he did not care for the life of a tiller of the soil, and accordingly took a commercial course at Valparaiso (Indiana) University. After his graduation he went to Gary, Indiana, where he secured a position as timekeeper for the Illinois Steel Company. Later he was made payroll clerk, then distribution clerk, later storeroom clerk, then freight clerk and finally production clerk. In 1912 Mr. Morrow severed his connection with that concern and came from Gary to Youngstown, Ohio, where he accepted a position as distribution clerk for the Brier Hill Steel Company. With this concern he next served as freight clerk, production clerk and assistant chief clerk, and in December, 1915, was made chief clerk, thus continuing until taking up his present duties. Since taking up his residence at Youngstown Mr. Morrow has been t00 busy to give attention to matters other than his immediate business. However, he has made numerous friends, and as a citizen has endeavored to discharge his responsibilities and to assist in the securing of beneficial legislation.
Mr. Morrow was married June 14, 1914, to Miss Cora Dell Smith, of Valparaiso, Indiana, and to this union there have been born two children : David Blair, Jr., and Marie J. Mr. and Mrs. Morrow are consistent members of the Presbyterian Church and are interested in its movements and enterprises.
CHARLES A. RICE is mechanical and electrical engineer for the Republic Rubber Company at Youngstown. His association with that industry has been the longest of any individual in point of continuous service.
The business was known as the Mahoning Rubber Company when he came to Youngstown, and the plant was under construction, the only feature fully completed being the smokestack.
Mr. Rice has won a place of prominence among the technical men in the industrial affairs of Youngstown, though his early life was spent on a farm and without particular opportunities. He trained and educated himself. He was born at Deerfield in Mahoning County September 13, 1875, one of the eight children of James E. and Ellen E. (Smith) Rice. His grandfather, Chauncey Smith, settled in Boardman Township of Mahoning County in the forties. James E. Rice has spent his active life as a farmer, though in earlier years he was also an employe of one of the iron mills of the Mahoning Valley. For the past forty-four years he and his wife have had their home in Ashtabula County.
Charles A. Rice was less than a year old when his parents moved to Ashtabula County, and he grew up on a farm and as soon as old enough was given a full share of its labors and responsibilities. Only in the winter months when there was no work in the fields did he have the opportunity to attend district schools. His natural inclination was for mechanics. Finally he invested in a correspondence course with the International Correspondence School of Scranton and was given a diploma for his work.
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In the meantime. he had left the farm, and for three years worked in a flour mill at Rock Creek, Ohio. On May 6, 1901, he came to Youngstown, and for about seven months was employed in the electrical department of the Ohio Works of the Carnegie Steel Company.
It was in November, 1901, he became assistant to the chief electrician of what is now the Republic Rubber Company. His promotion has been steady. He was made chief electrician in January, 19o2, in 5906 was made superintendent of power and light, and since 1912 has been the mechanical and electrical engineer for the industry. He has through his technical services contributed not a little to the many changes and expansions in this splendid industry.
Mr. Rice is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Association of Iron and Steel Electrical Engineers. He has attained the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, is a Knight Templar Mason and Mystic Shriner. September I, 1899, he married Miss Georgiana Hubbard, of Rock Creek, Ohio. Their five children are Vesta F., Harold C., Robert H., Paul and Isabel M. Mr. and Mrs. Rice are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
GEORGE LINCOLN FORDYCE. The commercial development of Youngstown for the past thirty-five years has included the activities of George Lincoln Fordyce to an unusual degree, for he has been active in public affairs as well as financial and charitable ones, and has achieved notable success as a merchant. His career is therefore interesting.
Mr. Fordyce was born September 29, 1860, at Scipio in Cayuga county, New York. He is of Scotch-English lineage, being a son of John Horton and Louisa (Close) Fordyce.
The Hortons came to the United States from England in 1636, and the founder of the American branch of the family was Barnabas Horton, who settled in Hampton, Massachusetts, later at New Haven, Connecticut, and finally on Long Island, New York.
Captain Nathaniel Horton, the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a descendant of Barnabas Horton, and was born in 1741. He served as a captain in the Continental Army during the war of the Revolution, and one of the privates in his command was Benjamin Fordyce, who married Rebecca Horton. This Revolutionary hero, Banjamin Fordyce, was the first of his branch of the Fordyce family in this country, and was the great-grandfather of George Lincoln Fordyce.
Benjamin Fordyce and his wife, who were married in 1790, lived for a time in New Jersey, afterward moving to Scipio, New York, where, after the custom of most of the people at that time, he engaged in farming.
John Fordyce, son of Benjamin, was born in New Jersey in 1795, and was united in marriage to Anna Wilkinson. John Horton Fordyce, their only child and the father of George Lincoln Fordyce, was born August 23, 1836. He was reared in the town of his birth, and during the early days of the Civil war enlisted as a private in Company E of the One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth New York Infantry, and although offered a captaincy, he chose to fight in the ranks. He died November 13, 1862, nine weeks after his enlistment.
George Lincoln Fordyce is an only son, and was born at the old homestead which was erected by his great-grandfather, Benjamin Fordyce. Mr. Fordyce's business career began in 1876. At the age of sixteen years he secured employment in a general store in Scipio, and later went to Auburn, New York. Here he was similarly engaged until his energy attracted attention and he became connected with the Cayuga County National Bank.
Mr. Fordyce left Auburn in 1883 and moved to Youngstown, where with others he became engaged in the retail dry goods business at the corner of Federal and Phelps streets. The enterprise grew and the interests of the then rising young business man expanded rapidly. Because he liked the city and its people, he determined to make Youngstown his permanent home. With his characteristic energy he threw himself wholeheartedly into his work, eventually becoming sole owner of the store. The establishment was later incorporated as. the Geo. L. Fordyce Company, and Mr. Fordyce is still active in its direction. He is the owner of the property at the corner of West Federal and Phelps streets, where the store is located.
His association with other commercial and civic affairs is indicated by his presence as a director of the board of the First National Bank, the Dollar Savings and Trust Company, as trustee and president of the Youngstown Hospital Association, and as president of the Young Men's Christian Association in 1912 and 1913. He is president of the Apartment House Company, vice president of the Realty Security Company, and a director in the Ohio Leather Company and other concerns,
In politics he is a republican and was president of the Republican County Executive Committee in 5894, when McKinley ran for governor of Ohio. Although he scored signal success as a campaign manager, he could in nowise be termed A politician. His activities were for what he believed to be the best interests of the state. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
On June 25, 1890, he was united in marriage with Miss Grace Walton, a daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Oyer) Walton. They were the parents of three children. Their only son, George Lincoln, was born August 18, 1892, and died October 11, 1900. Their daughters are Rebecca Walton, who is now Mrs. Oscar Francis Gayton, of Manila, Philippine Islands, and Louise Horton.
Despite all of his hard work and close application, which made him an unusually successful man in business and financial fields, Mr. Fordyce is as well and if not better known because of other interests to which he has given time and thought. He has always been an advocate of the out-of-door life, and for many years has made the field study of birds a specialty. He has reported bird migration for this locality to the Department of Biological Survey at Washington for the past sixteen years. He has done much to bring about the protection of -birds that are beneficial to farmers and fruit-growers. For many years he has given bird talks in schools of Youngs-
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town and vicinity. He has also given talks to clubs in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, illustrated by lantern slides, many of which have been made from photographs of wild birds taken by him.
The one feature that stands out most prominently in the varied activities of this successful merchant is an equally successful effort to be of use to his state, his community, and his fellow man.
LOUIS MILLER, an architect of distinction at Youngstown, is a man widely known for the artistic beauty as well as practical excellence of his work. He is a native of Copenhagen, Denmark, born December 8, 1876. His father, Anton Peter Miller, was city architect of the City of Copenhagen for years and always a man of prominence. He died at Copenhagen in 1890. Anton Miller married Regina Koch, and they had five children, all of whom are living except one, and of them all Louis Miller is the eldest born.
Louis Miller was reared to manhood's estate in his native city, and was primarily educated in private schools. In 1894 he was graduated from the Metropolitan Academy, a state educational institution, and then, following the custom of Denmark, in order to become a certified architect served four years as a bricklayer's apprentice and one year as a journeyman. While doing this Mr. Miller attended the night school of the technical society of his native city, this being a preparatory course to admittance to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He took a four-year course in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and was graduated from the department of architecture of this institution in woo. For the following five years he was employed as superintending architect in the office of the city architect of Copenhagen. In December, 1905, Mr. Miller came to the United States with the avowed purpose of making it his future home, and for a short time was a draftsman for the Hecla Iron Works of Brooklyn, New York. He then, until April, 1907, was employed by the New York Edison Company as architectural draftsman, but then went to Jamestown, New York, as bank designer for the Art Metal Construction Company. In 1915 Mr. Miller came to Youngstown, Ohio, which has since been his home. Here for a year he was bank designer for the General Fireproofing Company, but has since then been engaged in the practice of his profession, practically as an independent architect. During this period Mr. Miller has had his share of the architectural practice in Youngstown and its vicinity. As he learned his profession thoroughly and has a natural aptitude for it, he is conceded to be without a superior in his line in all of the Mahoning Valley.
On February 22, tow, Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Miss Oline Olesen, a native of Randers, Denmark, and to this union two children have been born, Louis and Esther.
DAVID NICHOLAS COOPER, while youthful in years, vigor and capabilities, is a veteran in the financial affairs of Youngstown. He has been associated in some capacity with the banks of this city thirty years, for the past ten years with the First National Bank.
The Cooper family was one of the first to establish homes in Coitsville Township of Mahoning County. His ancestor, David Cooper, was born in. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1762, and came from Maryland to Mahoning County in 1800, locating on a farm, where he lived until his death, at the age of ninety-four. He married Rebecca Armstrong, and they were the parents of twelve children. His son David was born on the old home farm in Coitsville Township and died in 1885, at the age of sixty-seven. He married Jemima Raney, a native of Mahoning County, who died in 1898.
The only son of this couple was James A. Cooper, who was born on the home farm in Coitsville Township October 11, 1845. He was well educated, and departed from the customary occupation of his ancestors, agriculture, and first engaged in the lumber business, and for many years was one of a company operating a plant for wood working and the manufacture of carriage parts. James A. Cooper served as one of the commissioners to erect the new Court House at Youngstown. He is still living in this city, at the age of seventy-five. In 1870 he married Alice Jacobs, daughter of Nicholas Jacobs.
David Nicholas Cooper, the oldest of his parents' four children, was born in Youngstown November 22, 1871, and acquired a public school education. At the age of seventeen he began his career as a messenger in the Wick Brothers Bank, and in subsequent years filled every subordinate position. When the Dollars Savings & Trust Company absorbed the Wick Bank he went with the former as receiving teller. Since 19o9 he has been with the First National Bank, at first as paying teller, then as discount clerk, and since 1911 as assistant cashier.
Mr. Cooper is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, and the Memorial Presbyterian Church. September 7, 1901, he married Daisy M. Dubes, of Sharon, Pennsylvania. Their three children are Alice J., James A. and David.
LEE R. FARRELL, associated with the Portage Silicia Company, has had a varied industrial, business and financial experience in the Youngstown District, and has been making his own way in the world since boyhood. He is one of several brothers prominent in Youngstown affairs.
He was born at Youngstown December 30, 1884, son of John and Ella (Young) Farrell. Except for 3 1/2 years his home has always been at Youngstown. In this city he attended the grammar schools, and at the age of fifteen started to work driving a grocery delivery wagon. Later he was employed in the Ohio works of the Carnegie Steel Company as weighmaster, then as clerk in the freight office of the Erie Railroad Company, and as yard clerk in the Carnegie Works at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, where he was promoted to chief clerk to the superintendent of transportation.
On returning to Youngstown Mr. Farrell after a few months as clerk in the freight office of the Erie Railroad went with the First National Bank, an institution in whose employ he remained four years, and rose to the position of teller. In February, 1913, he became a clerk to Mr. Joseph G. Butler, Jr., and in 1914 was made secretary of the Portage Silica
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Company and the Trumbull Brick Company. The brick business was sold in 1915. In 1916 Mr. Farrell was elected sales manager of the Portage Silica Company. June 12, 1914, he married Miss Pearl Gravel.
ORRIS R. GRIMMESEY. For a period of many years Orris R. Grimmesey has been closely identified with the industrial and civic growth of Warren, and as president of the Warren Board of Trade for the last eleven years he has contributed as greatly as any other one man to the remarkable development of the city during that time.
He is a son of John W. and Lucinda (Painter) Grimmesey. His father was a Union soldier, a car riage and wagon maker, and moved to Warren in 1885. The paternal grandfather, John Grimmesey, came from the north of Ireland to Montreal, Canada, in 1826, thence to Rensselaerville, near Albany, New York, and moved to Ohio in 1830. He traveled by canal boat to Buffalo, steamboat to Erie, Pennsylvania, thence by wagon to Pittsburg and by wagon to Columbiana County, settling in New Lisbon, but a few years later located at Salem in the same county, where he lived until his death in 1853. He was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. John W. Grimmesey grew to manhood at Salem in Columbiana County, and from his trade developed an important business in the manufacture of vehicles at Salem. When the Civil war came on he volunteered in Company D of the One Hundred and Forty-Third Ohio Infantry. In 1868 he moved to Alliance, Ohio, living there until 1885, when he moved to Warren, where his children were all located. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
His wife, Lucinda Painter, was born on the old Painter farm about two miles northeast of Salem, on what was known as the Painter Road. Both John W. Grimmesey and wife died in Warren. Jacob Painter, maternal great-grandfather of Orris R. Grimmesey, moved his family by wagon from Virginia into the almost unbroken forest-covered country in 1802, about a year before Ohio was admitted to the Union. He bought 64o acres of Government land. The northeast part of the City of Salem in Columbiana County is now spreading over this original tract of land. At the time of purchase there was an Indian encampment on what is now the western part of Salem. Mr. Painter and family were members of the Society of Friends or Quakers.
O. R. Grimmesey was born on the old Painter farm February 16, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of Salem and Alliance and at Mount Union College. Leaving college, he learned the architectural sheet metal business at Salem, and in 1880 he engaged in that business on his own account at Findlay, Ohio. The following year, however, he became associated with W. C. Winfield in organizing the Winfield Manufacturing Company, which was located in Warren in 1882. He served as vice president, director, superintendent and traveling salesman until 1904, at which time he resigned his positions except that of director, and is still a member of the board. His other business interests, both varied and important, are as follows: Director in the General Malleable Company of Warren, director in the American Block and Manufacturing Company of Warren, director in the Arthur Vulcanizing Machine Company of Warren, a director in the Warren Operahouse Company, director in the Trumbull and the Wick Securities companies of Warren, and a director in the Carlysle-Johnson Machine Company of Manchester, Connecticut.
Mr. Grimmesey was one of the organizers of the Warren Board of Trade and eleven years ago he was chosen its president, and since that time he has continued at the head of the board, its directors declining to accept his annual resignation and elect a successor. Both as president of the board and as an individual Mr. Grimmesey has rendered invaluable services to the city during its period of development from an agricultural city of less than 5,000 population into an industrial center of over 30,000.
Mr. Grimmesey served as a member of the Ohio River and Lake Erie Canal Commission, and during the World war he was one of Doctor Garfield's coal commissioners. For a number of years he has been treasurer of the Warren Associated Charities, and is otherwise active in civic affairs.
He is a member of Old Erie Lodge No. 3, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Warren Commandery, Knights Templar, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and of the Elks.
He married Miss Anna Spear, a daughter of Andrew and Martha (Dunn) Spear, of Warren, Ohio. Her father, a native of Pennsylvania, was for many years a merchant of Warren, where Mrs. Grimmesey was born.
CHARLES A. BAIRD is a native of Youngstown, and for a number of years has been identified with the business administration of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, serving as cashier of that corporation at present.
Mr. Baird was born on Wood Street in Youngstown, April 29, 1881. Dr. Charles A. Baird, his father, was a native of Ohio, a graduate of the dental department of the University of Pennsylvania, and located at Youngstown in 1876. He practiced his profession continuously for a period of thirty-two years,. until his death in 1908. He also rendered much useful service in public affairs and for thirty years was secretary of the Board of Teachers' Examiners. Doctor Baird married Miss Alice Agnew, who died in Youngstown in 1901.
During his youthful days in Youngstown Charles A. Baird attended local schools, graduating from the Rayen High School in 1900. After that for a number of years he was a traveling salesman in the Middle West. At his father's death he returned to Youngstown, and soon afterward determined to locate here permanently. His first regular position with the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company was as a timekeeper in the mill and later in the cost department of the mill. About three years later he was transferred to the cashier's office in the general offices, and since 1914 has held the position of cashier.
Like his father, he has taken an active interest in local educational affairs, and from 1913 to 1917 was a member of the Youngstown Board of Education, serving as president the last two years. He
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has the distinction of having been the youngest presiding officer of that board. He is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, a Royal Arch Mason and Odd Fellow, a member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and the Credit Men's Association.
April 4, 1907, Mr. Baird married Mary T. Bulmer. They have two children, William and Alice.
FRANCIS W. MCNAMARA. During the greater part of the war Doctor McNamara was in the service of the Government at a base hospital in one of the southern states. He is one of the prominent men in his profession at Youngstown, and has been in active practice for nearly ten years.
He was born at Oswego, New York, February 4, 1888, one of the seven children of Daniel J. and Mary (Wallace) McNamara. His parents now live at Warren, Pennsylvania.
Doctor McNamara was thirteen years old when his parents went to Pennsylvania, and he graduated from the high school at Warren. He then entered the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, graduating in 1911, and for three years had an intensive training as a hospital interne at Bridgeport, Connecticut, General Hospital, also in the the St. Elizabeth's Hospital at Youngstown and the St. Alexis Hospital at Cleveland. Doctor McNamara regularly engaged in general practice at Youngstown in 1914. He was a member of the surgical staff of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, and has been highly commended for his unusual capabilities as a surgeon.
After the declaration of war he attended the Medical Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, was given a first lieutenant's commission, and was assigned work at the base hospital at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas, where he remained on duty the greater part of the time until the signing of the armistice. Since then he has been in active practice at Youngstown.
April 28, 1915, at Youngstown, he. married Miss Helen Frances Reilly, daughter of W. C. Reilly, of this city. They have one daughter, Cecily Jane McNamara.
RICHARD BROWN, with the Realty Guarantee & Trust Company of Youngstown, has spent his life in this industrial center, and is a son of Reverend Wesley and Bridget (Sheridan) Brown, both residents of Youngstown. His father for a number of years was an active minister of the Methodist Conference in Ohio.
Richard Brown attended the public schools of his native city and began his career as a newspaper man. He was financial writer on the Youngstown Vindicator until he entered the service of the Realty Guarantee and Trust Company in 1916.
In 1911 he married Wavelet L. Craft, and their two children are Richard Martin and Esther May. Mr. Brown is a member of the Youngstown Club, Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, the Young Men's Christian Association, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order.
REV. F. J. SCHELLHASE came to Youngstown in 1917 to become pastor of the Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church. He has had the satisfaction of seeing the church and its parochial schools grow and prosper under his leadership, and through his work here and elsewhere in Ohio he has become widely known as a minister, teacher, editor and writer.
Mr. Schellhase was born on a farm in Darke County, Ohio, June 4, 1885, one of the seven children of August and Louise (Schutz) Schellhase. The parents were natives of Germany and were children when brought by their respective parents to this country. Rev. Mr. Schellhase is able to appreciate the lot of the hard working man, since most of his youth was given to the strenuous management of an Ohio farm. He was thirteen years of age when his father died, and after that for several years he had most of the responsibility involved in looking after the farm. During those years he got what he could from the local public schools, and at the age of sixteen entered the academic department of the Capital University at Columbus. At eighteen he was regularly enrolled as a student of the University and graduated with the A. B. degree in 1907. He prepared for the ministry in the Capital University Seminary, and was graduated and ordained in 1910.
During these years he had paid a large share of his expenses by tutoring in Latin and Greek, and in 1908, while pursuing his theological studies, he was instructor in. Latin and Greek in the Lutheran Seminary at St. Paul, Minnesota.
His first pastorate was the St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church at Pomeroy, Ohio, and while there he practically rebuilt the church and otherwise proved his worth as a constructive factor in the ministry. On leaving Pomeroy in November, 1913, he was assigned a rather difficult task at Mount Healthy, a suburb of Cincinnati. At that time this suburb contained a scattered number of Evangelical Lutherans, though without a distinct organization as a church. Mr. Schellhase gathered the members of the faith together and reorganized the Trinity Evangelical Church, continuing as its pastor until July, 1917, when he came to take up his labors in the Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church at Youngstown. Part of his duties here also comprised the principalship of the parochial schools, and he has greatly increased the efficiency of the school work. Mr. Schellhase was editor of the German Sunday School Monthly for 2 1/2 years, until 1919, when it was consolidated with that of the Iowa Synod.
Mr. Schellhase has some interesting literary gifts, and is author of a juvenile book on the World war entitled "The Savior in the Trenches," published by the Lutheran Book Concern at Columbus. Another work in preparation is to be entitled "Meditations on the Savior's Seven Words on the Cross."
June 16, 1910, he married Miss Minnie Althoff, of Darke County, Ohio. Four children were born to their marriage: Ruth Esther ; Marie Alberta, who died at the age of 3 1/2 years; Paul Henry; and Frederick Louis.
ALBERT N. RICHARDS. The Richards family has been prominent in the coal and iron industry of Eastern Ohio for about three quarters of a century. Morgan and Sarah Richards were born in England,