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interests is difficult to determine. Charles R. Hood, the head of the Hood Electric Company of Youngstown, is one of the enterprising spirits who have contributed to the recent growth and prosperity of the city and community. With a mind capable of planning, he combines a will strong enough to execute his well formulated purposes, and his great energy, keen discrimination and perseverance have resulted in material success.
Charles R. Hood was born on November 12, 1883, and is the son of Charles A. and Carrie (Shurtleff) Hood. Charles A. Hood, who died on December 16, 1916, at the age of fifty-six years, was born and reared in Pennsylvania, whence he came to Youngstown in 1889. In his native state he had been engaged in the operation of a general country store, but after, coming to Youngstown he became a member of the firm of Hood & St. Clair, and engaged in the lumber business, their plant being located on Watt Street. Later they moved to Decker Street, at which time the firm was reorganized under the new title of Hood, Beard & Company. In 1906 he organized the Electric Wiring Company, which was the nucleus of the present Hood Electric Company, now operated by his son, the subject of this sketch. Politically he was a stanch supporter of the republican party. He married Carrie Shurtleff, the daughter of Roswell Shurtleff, and she survives him, making her home in Youngstown. Their union was blessed by the birth of a son, Charles R., who has spent practically his entire life in Youngstown. He received his education at the Elm Street School and the Rayen High School. From his boyhood days he was deeply interested in everything pertaining to electricity and kept closely in touch with the latest developments in that science. He has been associated with the Hood Electric Company from its inception, first as secretary and later as president. This company has done a vast amount of contract work in all parts of the United States and enjoys a wide spread reputation because of the high quality of their work. However, of late they have reduced their territory to a radius of fifty miles from Youngstown, in which they have found all the work they can. possibly attend to. Their work is found in many of the larger buildings here, including business blocks, schools, churches and private homes. They are equipped to do any work for which they may be called upon, and their record is one of which they have just reason to be proud.
Mr. Hood was married to May Hughes, the daughter of Isaac Hughes, and their union has been blessed by a daughter, Caroline. The family are members of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, while fraternally Mr. Hood is a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Loyal Order of Moose. He is also a member of the Builders Exchange. He is a man of absolute honesty, always on the advance and manages his business with a skill and prudence which comes of practical knowledge of every branch of the business. He is regarded as one of Youngstown's useful citizens and he has abundantly justified the high opinion which has been held of him by those who know him.
C. O. BRANDEL since 1910 has lived in Warren, Ohio, and has there been connected responsibly with important industries of that place. He holds the degree of Bachelor of Science of the University Wisconsin, and for a time had professorial at that university. Since 1909 he has been connected with the General Electric Company, and in the following year took charge of the Warren Electric and Specialty Company, now known as the Peerless-Brilliant Lamp Division of the General Electric Company. So that his association with Warren affairs has been continuous since 1910.
He was born in Jefferson, Wisconsin, July 17, 1884 the son of the Rev. John C. and Elizabeth (Robish) Brandel. The latter was a native of Wisconsin. The former was born in Germany, but he lived in the United States continuously from his second year and was a naturalized citizen. For forty-two years John C. Brandel was in the ministry, and was active almost until his death, which occurred on October 13, 1919.
C. O. Brandel was educated in the public schools of Wisconsin, and having decided to qualify for a business or engineering career he entered the School of engineering of the University of Wisconsin, graduating with the class of 1908, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electric Engineering. For one year after graduation he remained at the university as instructor in the school of engineering. In June, 1909, he went to Cleveland to take up a satisfactory appointment in the engineering department of the National Lamp Works. In September 1910, he was sent to Warren, Ohio, to take a supervising position with the Warren Electric and Specialty Company, a subsidiary of the National Lamp Works. On January 1, 1911, he was appointed manager of the company, and in that capacity has remained at Warren ever since, being now general manager of the enlarged business, which since 1912 has been known as the Peerless-Brilliant Lamp Division of the General Electric Company.
Mr. Brandel has come into contact and co-operation with the leaders of Warren's industrial affairs, and has shown a ready spirit of cooperation in public projects affecting the city. He takes an active interest in the endeavors of the Warren Board of Trade, and also of the Warren Rotary Club.
In 1914 Mr. Brandel married Elizabeth N., daughter of O. H. Thomas. The home of the Thomas family was at Frankfort, Kentucky, prior to the removal to Louisville, that state, when Mr. Thomas became connected with the Louisville and Nashville Railway Company. Mr. and Mrs. Brandel have made many good friends in Warren and they have entered much into community life. They are members of the First Presbyterian Church.
ENSIGN YAGER, who died March 2, 1920, was a enterprising, energetic and prosperous citizen of Youngstown. A son of Edwin Yager, he was born January 3, 1868, in Canfield Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, and was there reared to man's estate. His paternal grandfather, David Yager, for many years engaged in general farming in Canfield Township, spent the closing years of his life in Kansas.
Edwin Yager spent the entire period of his comparatively brief life in Canfield Township, his birth occurring in 1837 and his death in 1876. He was a
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faithful member of the German Lutheran Church, and as a man and a citizen was held in high respect. He married Maria Brobst, who survived him many long years, passing away in 1911, at an advanced age. She belonged to a family noted for its longevity, her grandfather, Henry Brobst, who migrated with his wife from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Mahoning County, was ninety years old when he died, while wife attained the venerable age of ninety-three years. The Brobst family were prominent in the affairs of the German Reformed Church, and among its active members.
Ensign Yager, the only son of the parental household, had one sister, Clara, who married John Crum, a native of Four Mile Run, Austintown Township, Mahoning County. Having completed his early education in the Canfield High School, Ensign obtained a minor position in the mercantile establishment of J. H. Fitch, receiving for his first year's work not only his board but the munificent sum of $75 to cover his all expenses, including the purchase of his clothing. Desirous of bettering his financial condition he started in the meat business on his own account in 1885, opening a shop on Himrod Avenue. From the first he handled first class products, buying all of his live stock, and doing his own butchering, his slaughtering plant at first having been located on the lot now occupied by the Rhodes Distilled Water Plant, and later on Hazel Street, from there moving to 31 North Phelps Street. Disposing of his meat market, Mr. Yager embarked in the garage business, and for the last seven years was very successful in handling the Auburn car, his annual sales comparing very favorably with those of any other automobile dealer in the city.
In 1899 Mr. Yager was united in marriage with Miss Minnie Lane, a native of Ohio. Fraternally Mr. Yager was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has taken the thirty-second degree; he is also a member of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Cleveland. He belonged to St. John's Episcopal Church, as does also his widow and they were liberal contributors towards its support.
J. HOWARD PARKER has spent all his life in Youngstown and in point of service is one of the oldest officials of the First National Bank of that city.
He is a son of the late William Parker, whose usefu1 and kindly life has been sketched elsewhere. J. Howard Parker was born in Youngstown, September 23, 1873, and attended the grammar and the Rayen High Schools. He was sixteen years of age when he was taken into the First National Bank as a messenger boy. In subsequent years he was given increasing responsibilities in other positions and in 1911 stepped into his present duties as cashier of the bank. He has held that office now for eight years.
Mr. Parker is affiliated with the Masonic and Elks orders, is a member of the Youngstown Club, Chamber of Commerce, Poland Country Club, is active in the Plymouth Congregational Church, with which his father was so long identified, and in politics is a republican.
September 24, 1898, he married Miss Matie E.
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Streeter, daughter of J. H. Streeter of Youngstown. Their two children are William Horace and John H., Jr.
FATHER EDWARD MEARS for forty-two years has been pastor of St. Columba's Catholic Church, the mother church of a score of prosperous parishes in the Mahoning Valley. On May 6, 1919, the new St. Columba's Church was consecrated by the bishop of Cleveland, Rt. Rev. John P. Farrelly, and on the following day very appropriately was celebrated also in the presence of the bishop a solemn high jubilee mass marking the fiftieth year of Father Mears' priesthood.
Edward Mears was born at Balina, County Mayo, Ireland, July 18, 1844, and came to America in 1853 with his parents, Patrick and Hannah Mears. The family settled at Toledo, where Father Mears in 1857, at the age of thirteen, began his collegiate education and in 1859 enrolled as a student in Notre Dame University in Indiana. He was at Notre Dame until 2862, and in 1866 entered the Theological Seminary at Cleveland. He was ordained March 7, 1869, by Bishop Amadeus Rappe of the Cleveland diocese. Father Mears celebrated his first mass in St. John's Cathedral. One of his altar boys was James E. Burke, for many years a parishioner of St. Columba's and a neighbor of Father Mears today, living on West Wood Street. His first appointment as a priest was at the Cleveland Cathedral, and he was transferred from there to the parish of Bellevue and Clyde, later to Crestline, and just before coming to Youngstown was at St. Augustine's parish in Cleveland and secretary to Bishop Gilmour. In July, 1877, he succeeded Rev. P. H. Brown as the pastor of St. Columba's, thus opening up to him a work which has been greatly prospered and blessed in forty odd years. At that time Youngstown had only three Catholic churches, while today more than twenty testify to the sturdy growth of the Catholic faith in the valley.
Many eminent men, not only in his own church, but in official station, deemed it a privilege to congratulate Father Mears on the occasion of his jubilee. Later members of his parish gathered together many of his tributes and published them in a handsome book dedicated to Father Mears "For Remembrance." It is fitting that a few of the expressions of personal esteem contained in that book should be quoted here.
The first is from Judge John J. Clarke, a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who said: "I cannot, however, refrain from expressing to you (Rev. R. P. Gibbons of Youngstown) something of the high esteem in which, non-Catholic though I am, I have long held Father Mears. I am happy to think that he has been my personal friend now for more than thirty years. I remember him first as a young man, going modestly about among the members of his flock by night and by day, ministering to the sick, encouraging the heavy laden, comforting the dying—just as he has been doing all through the many years since. His devotion to duty has always been unstinted and unselfish. It is a wise and beautiful custom, this of your church, to make of these jubilee periods occasions for giving expression while they still live to the reverence and love and honor which you feel for men who have lived unselfish lives of
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Still another came from the general headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces, written by Maj.-Gen. James W. McAndrew, who said : "It has been my privilege and my happiness to have known Father Mears intimately for more than thirty-five years. Even when a young man I appreciated his nobility of character, his absolute unselfishness in all his relations with his fellow men, and his whole souled devotion to his life's work, that of a priest of God. With the passing of the years, and with my own broadening vision of the world and of its peoples, my admiration and my love for him have steadily deepened. I need not dwell here on the traits that have endeared him to all who know him, even to those who are not of his faith. Father Mears' charity and christianity are not bounded by sect or creed but embrace all those with whom he comes in contact. An American in the very best sense of the word, his sturdy patriotism has ever been an incentive to all about him. He has done well his part in the support of our beloved country and its cherished institutions in times of stress or of calm."
Another honor of his golden jubilee was the conferring by Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost at Pittsburgh of the degree Doctor of Laws, conferred by virtue of services enumerated in the following language: "In admiration of his noble qualities of mind and heart; of his high ideals of the priestly character as manifested in his own life and influencing the lives of the clergy with whom he came in contact; of his having lovingly erected in St. Columba's Church a magnificent temple to the glory of God, and through the generous co-operation of his people liquidated the debts contracted in its construction and decoration; of his having zealously ministered to the members of a model congregation from the days of their infancy ; of his having been largely instrumental in the founding of a hospital for the relief and cure of corporal and spiritual ills; of his having consistently encouraged Catholic education in an admirably organized parochial school and academy ; and of his having effectively fostered the ambition of youth to aspire to activities in the learned professions, especially in sacerdotal, religious and missionary spheres."
In conclusion should be noted briefly some of the history of the church at Youngstown, with particular reference to Father Mears' activities of forty years. During the early years of the nineteenth century the Catholics at Youngstown were occasionally visited by traveling missionary priests from other localities. Youngstown became a mission attached to a parish in Columbiana County in 1835. The first steps toward the building of a church were taken in 1849 by Father Magann, but the church was not completed until 1853. Prior to that date mass was said in the homes of some of the early pioneers of the faith. The first church stood on the site of old St. Columba's, at the corner of Wood and Hazel streets. The first resident pastor of Youngstown was Father William O'Connor, who came in 1858. He was followed by the distinguished Rev. Eugene M. O'Callaghan, who left a deep impression on his time and his associates and in the early years of his ministry had the entire territory between Cleveland and the Pennsylvania state line for his field of labor. In 1863 he laid the cornerstone of old St. Columba's, still standing after fifty
years as a monument to his rugged character. Father O'Callaghan began the erection of the present parochial school at the corner of Elm Street and Rayen Avenue in 1871. In that year he was succeeded as pastor by Rev. W. J. Gibbons, who a year later was succeeded by Father Patrick H. Brown the immediate predecessor of Father Mears.
When Father Mears assumed the pastorate he faced an enormous debt, but his business ability and untiring zeal soon cleared away the financial embarrassment of the parish. In 1889, in recognition of service and worth, he was made irremovable rector by Bishop Richard Gilmour of Cleveland. And as old St. Columba's stands as a monument to Father O'Callaghan, so the beautiful new St. Columba’s is the monument in lines of architecture to Father Mears. During his pastorate he was also influential in securing the remodeling of the parish school building, the erection of the Ursuline convent the establishment of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, and these material achievements, together with that steady influence for good radiating from his personal character, fully justify the enthusiasm of his many admirers and friends.
HUGH ALEXANDER MANCHESTER. It was the inner character more than the material achievements, important though they were, that gave to the late Hugh Alexander Manchester his significant position in Mahoning County.
The Manchesters were among the first families of the Mahoning Valley. The American ancestry goes back to Thomas Manchester, who came to this country in 1638, and was identified with the original settlement of Rhode Island. A later descendant, Isaac Manchester, in the closing years of the eighteenth century came west and established a home in Washington County, Pennsylvania. His son Benjamin married Nancy Doddridge, and about 1804 came to Mahoning County. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. His son Isaac Manchester was born in Canfield Township, December 20, 1810, and married Ellen Wilson. She was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, but all the previous generations of the Manchester family had preserved the purity of their English blood.
The late Hugh Alexander Manchester was the oldest son of Isaac and Ellen (Wilson) Manchester and was born on the old homestead in Canfield Township, March 5, 1837. He acquired a good education, though his advantages were those of the common schools. At the age of eighteen he began teaching, farming in the summer, and successive years brought him steadily increasing responsibilities and honors in his community. In 1867 he was first elected to the office of justice of the peace, was a county school examiner, and for twenty-three years clerk of the county board. He organized and served as cashier of the Farmers National Bank at Canfield from its inception in 1887 until 1907. He was elected to the Legislature in 1899, and in 1902 became mayor of Canfield.
Mr. Manchester died at his old home in Canfield October 24, 1919. An old friend after his death wrote a tribute to his life and character from which the following paragraphs are extracted:
"In the passing of H. A. Manchester to his long
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home, Mahoning County loses one of its oldest and best known citizens. He was an active participant in much of the primitive work of this section of Ohio, upon which the happiness and general welfare of posterity largely depended. Like many other strong characters, it was in the country, in the field of agriculture, where his tutelage began. Successful as an agriculturist, he never lost his interest in that occupation. In the business and commercial world his name was a synonym of honor and integrity. As a banker he inspired confidence in the institution which he represented. His methods of business were always just, safe and conservative.
"By nature he possessed a legal turn of mind, which was matured by a large experience in the field of jurisprudence. His legal decisions were invariably correct and documents emanating from his pen were masterpieces of thought and diction. He served the people of this county at the state capital as a legislator with ability, and all his constituents felt that their best interests were safe and secure in his hands. It was as an educator that I first knew him, out of which grew that friendly relation which was alwAys helpful. Through . his liberal education he possessed that broadness of vision which rose beyond the mist and fog in public duty and in private thinking. He had a long and successful experience as a teacher in the public schools and for more than twenty years was a member of the Mahoning County Board of School Examiners. As a member of the Board of Trustees of the North-Eastern Ohio Normal College he was untiring in his efforts to make this institution what it was."
Mr. Manchester was one of the four original trustees of the Glenwood Children's Home and was next to the last survivor. He was a very active member of the Presbyterian Church, was a Knight Templar Mason and Odd Fellow, and in all the varied relations of a busy life he acquired hosts of friends, who especially respected him for his sterling integrity and high mindedness.
November 8, 1859, Mr. Manchester married Rose A. Squire, who died April 16, 1918, after their marriage companionship had continued for nearly half a century. Their children were : Mary E., who died in 1888; Laura E. Mrs. E. P. Tanner, of Canfield, in whose home Mr. Manchester died; Fannie C., wife of Ellis Bowman, of Ellsworth; Isaac Asher, who operates the old homestead farm; William Charles, a lawyer of Detroit, Michigan; and Curtis A. and Leroy Manchester, Youngstown lawyers. Isaac Asher Manchester was born July 22, 1867, on the old homestead and in the house where he now lives and has spent all his life in Canfield.. He attended the Canfield district schools and normal college and read law under A. J. Woolf, but never applied for admission to the bar, instead taking up agriculture and remaining with it. His farm contains 206 acres devoted to general agriculture. Mr. Manchester is a Mason and past master of Argus Lodge No. 545, at Canfield. He has been an elder in the Presbyterian Church for some time, was trustee of his township for many years and justice of the peace until the work became irksome. He was interested in the hardware business for three years and was assistant cashier of the Farmers National Bank at Canfield.
Isaac A. Manchester married, June 15, 1899, Stella May Stuart, a native of Canfield and daughter of Hugh and Chenie W. Stuart, farmers of Canfield and of Irish descent.
CURTIS A. and LEROY A. MANCHESTER. The character of a community is determined in a large measure by the lives of a comparatively few of its members. If its moral and intellectual status be good, if in a social way it is a pleasant place in which to reside, if its reputation for the integrity of its citizens has extended into other localities, it will be found that the standards set by the leading men have been high and their influence such as to mould the characters and shape the lives of those with whom they mingle. In placing in the .front rank of such men the gentlemen whose names appear at the head of this paragraph, justice is rendered a biographical fact universally recognized throughout the locality long honored by their citizenship. Able and successful members of the legal profession, they have contributed much to the civic and moral advancement of the community, while their admirable qualities of head and heart have won for them the esteem and confidence of the circles in which they move.
Curtis A. and Leroy A. Manchester are descended from sterling old Colonial stock, the family being of English origin. Thomas Manchester, the first American progenitor, came to this country in 1638, and with a number of others formed the first settlement of Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay. His son Thomas married a Miss Woods, also of English descent, end they had one son, named William, who like his parents, lived and died in Rhode Island. John Manchester, a con of William, fought with the colonies against the mother country during the war for Independence. He was married to a Miss Crandell and both died in Rhode Island. Their son Isaac, unwillingly aided the British in the Revolutionary war, for when about fifteen years of age he was captured and was forced to haul wood to the British soldiers' camps. He married a Miss Taylor, who bore him twelve children, some of whom in 1797 left for the West in covered wagons, with the intention of establishing their future homes. The first of the family to make this trip was Isaac Manchester, who, crossing the Alleghany Mountains, located in the fertile valley of what is now Independence Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He there engaged in farming and fruit growing, becoming a man of means and of considerable importance in that community. He died in 1851, leaving many descendants.
Benjamin Manchester, a son of Isaac, married Nancy Doddridge and about the year 1804 came to what was then Trumbull, but is now a part of Ma-honing County, Ohio, where he'established his home. She died in 1813 from an epidemic of what was then called bloody flux, which greatly decimated the population of the township. He served in the second war with England in 1812 and was well fitted for the rugged duties and the dangers of frontier life. To him and his first wife were born four children, the third in order of birth being Isaac, who was born in
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Canfield Township on December 20, 1810. With the exception of four years he passed his entire life in his native township. His wife, whose maiden name was Ellen Wilson, was of Scotch-Irish extraction, and it is noteworthy that this was the first admixture of other than pure English blood in the family.
Hugh Alexander Manchester, the eldest son of Isaac and Ellen (Wilson) Manchester, was born on the old homestead in Canfield Township on March 5, 1837, and died October 24, 1919. He was there reared and secured his educational training in the common schools. At the age of eighteen years he began teaching public school during the winter months, devoting his summers to working on the farm, continuing this program of labor about thirty years and acquiring a most excellent reputation as an able and conscientious educator. In 1867 he was elected a justice of the peace; was also made county school examiner, and for twenty-three years served as clerk of the county board. In 1887 he became cashier of the Farmers National Bank at Canfield, serving until 1907, when he resigned. He took a deep interest in public affairs and was elected to the seventy-fourth General Assembly of Ohio in 1899. In 1902 he was elected mayor of Canfield. Religiously he was a member of the Presbyterian Church and fraternally was affiliated with the Masonic order, in which he attained the degree of a Knight Templar, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On November 8, 1859, Hugh A. Manchester was married to Rose A. Squire, and to them there were born the following children : Mary E., who died in 1888; Laura E., the wife of E. P. Tanner ; Fanny C., the ,,wife of Ellis Bowman; Isaac Asher, who lives on and operates the old home farm; William Charles, a lawyer in Detroit, Michigan; Curtis A. and Leroy Alexander, the immediate subjects of this sketch. Hugh Manchester's protracted residence in this county has made his name widely and favorably known. His life and the history of this locality for a long period of years were pretty much one and the same thing, and he lived to see and take a part in the later-day growth of the community. He was universally recognized as a splendid citizen, of lofty character, sturdy integrity and unswerving honesty. Curtis A. Manchester was born November 6, 1876, on the old family homestead near Canfield, and there he was reared. After attending the common schools he completed his studies at the Northeastern Ohio Normal College at Canfield, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1896. During the ensuing three years he was engaged in teaching school in Mahoning County, after which, having determined to take up the practice of law as his life work, he entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated in 1902. Immediately afterward he was admitted to the bar of Ohio and, locating in Youngstown, became a member of the law firm of Hine & Kennedy, now Hine, Kennedy, Manchester, Conroy & Ford. He has devoted himself indefatigably to the demands of his profession and has attained a place of relative distinction, having been connected with much of the important litigation in the local courts. He is a democrat in his political views and at the present time is a member of the Board of Education of the City of Youngstown. He and his
wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church, while socially he is a member of the Youngstown Club and the Youngstown Country Club.
On June 10, 1903, Mr. Manchester was married to Leona Eckis, and they are the parents of two living children, namely: Hugh Wallace, born on March 25, 19o5, and Curtis A., Jr., born on October 5, 1912.
Leroy Alexander Manchester was born on May 6, 1883, and remained on the home farm near Canfield until eighteen years old. He attended the common schools and was a student in the Northeastern Ohio Normal College, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1902. He then entered the law department of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated in 1905. For a year thereafter he was associated with a brother, William C., in the practice of law at Detroit, Michigan, but at the end of that period he came to Youngstown and was admitted to the law firm of Arree, Wilson & Harrington. Since September 1, 1907, he has been a member of what was then the firm of Hine, Kennedy, Robinson & Manchester, now Hine, Kennedy, Manchester, Conroy & Ford, one of the best known and most successful law firms in the Mahoning Valley. On December I, 1917, Mr. Manchester became general attorney for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, which position he still occupies.
Politically Mr. Manchester gives his support to the republican party and in religion is a Presbyterian. In the Masonic order he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is also a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Socially he is a member of the Youngstown Club, the Youngstown Country Club and the Rotary Club.
On August 4, 1909, Leroy Manchester was married to Josephine Schaaf, the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Schaaf, of Canfield, and to them has been born a daughter, Flora Rosanna.
As representatives of an honored family which has been closely identified with the Mahoning Valley for more than a century, the subjects of this review have ably sustained the family escutcheon and have proven worthy descendants of their forebears. Not only have they honored the profession to which they belong, but as private citizens they have contributed their quota to the upbuilding of Youngstown and the maintaining of a high standard of morals and education. They are popular members of society and enjoy to a marked degree the confidence and esteem of the entire community.
HENRY A. BUTLER, a son of Joseph G. Butler, Jr., and Harriet Voorhees Ingersoll Butler, was born at Youngstown October 8, 1872. He attended the public schools, graduating from the Rayen High School in 1893, and in the autumn of the same year he entered Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1897, being the first native of Mahoning County to receive a degree from that institution. During his high school years he traveled extensively in Europe, spending eighteen months as a student in Berlin.
His business career began as paymaster and purchasing agent of the Youngstown Steel Company.
Several years later he became superintendent of the
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Shenango Furnace Company at Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, and still later assistant to the general superintendent of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. In 1913 he was appointed manager of the order department of the latter company, a position lie filled until Ocober, 1918, when he obtained t leave of absence in order to enlist for Red Cross work in France.
Upon his arrival in Paris in October, 1918, Mr. Butler was placed in charge of the Home Service Section of the American Red Cross in France, with the rank of captain in that organization. In this capacity he rendered exceptional service, reorganiding many departments and introducing methods that greatly improved the efficiency of the large force under that section. His work abroad gave him opportunity to visit the French, Belgian, English and American fronts during the closing days of the war, is well as to render splendid service to the soldiers In France and their relatives and dependents in America. It also enabled him to view the great conflict in a manner not possible to those whose activities were confined to a single organization or a single font.
Mr. Butler returned to America during the summer 1919, after the special work in which he was engaged was practically completed. He then reigned his position with the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company in order to devote his attention to his her business interests. He is president of the Valley Investment Company, president of the Mahoning Valley Mortgage Company, and a director of the Bessemer Limestone Company and the Portage Silica Company.
He is also actively interested in all movements of a public character in his native city, being vice president of the Youngstown Board of Education, a member of the Youngstown Club, the Youngstown Country Club, the Poland Country Club, the Harvard Cub of Youngstown, the Elks Club, the American Iron & Steel Institute, the Memorial Presbyterian Church and other social and business organizations. He is a trustee of the Youngstown Young Men's Christian Association and a director of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Butler was married October 18, 1900, to Miss Sarah Grace Heath, daughter of Elisha and Mary (Cochran) Heath. He resides on Wick Avenue, Youngstown, with his family, which consists of his wife, one son, Joseph Green Butler, III, and one daughter Mary Grace Butler.
CLARENCE J. STROUSS, secretary and treasurer of the Strouss-Hirshberg Company, is the son of the old reliant, merchant Isaac Strouss, and has inherited many of the qualities which have made his father successful and respected. He was born at Youngstown, Ohio, September 4, 1886, and was reared in this city, which has always been his home.
After completing the course at the Wood Street Grammar School, Mr. Strouss attended the Rayen High School, and was graduated therefrom in 1902. The year following he attended the military school of Mount Pleasant Academy at Ossining-on-the-Hudson. Graduated there in 1903, he entered the Strouss-Hirshberg store and has been identified with the business ever since, working up through various positions to his present office.
Mr. Strouss is a member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been a vice president and a member of the board of directors; and belongs also to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Rodef Sholem Temple, of which latter he served a number of years as a member of the board of trustees. On October 23, 1916, Mr. Strouss was united in marriage with Miss Elaine A. August, of St. Joseph, Missouri, and they are the parents of one son, Clarence J., Jr.
JUDGE WILLIAM SHAW ANDERSON, who is in his second term as judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Mahoning County, has achieved practically every dignity, honor and success in the legal profession, and has been active as a lawyer for nearly half a century.
Judge Anderson was born in the Village of Jackson in Mahoning County December 31, 1848, son of David and Hannah (Shaw) Anderson. Judge Anderson now makes his summer home on the farm in Jackson Township which came into the possession of his father in 1863. An old stone house stood on the land, built fully a hundred years ago. Tradition and local history say that this old house was in frequent use as a station on the underground railway during ante-bellum times, where many an escaped slave found refuge on his way to Canada.
David Anderson was born in the north of Ireland, and came alone to the United States when a boy of fifteen years. He landed at Philadelphia, and for a time worked in the building trades and as a teamster. From Philadelphia he moved to Brookfield, Ohio, and formed a partnership with Jonathan Wick, conducting a small store. Later David Anderson moved to Jackson and was active in business until his death on March 4, 189o, at the age of seventy-three. He was a merchant, farmer and cattle raiser, and during the war was intensely interested in the success of the Union cause. He was a republican, was always in politics though not as a candidate, merely to help his friends and because he loved a political fight. In Mahoning County he accumulated goo acres of land. However, as a result of his willingness to go security on the notes of friends he was called upon so heavily that eventually his financial prosperity was seriously embarrassed. Two days before his death he called his oldest son, Judge Anderson, to his bedside and asked that the old farm place be saved when sold by the sheriff. Judge Anderson responding to the request bought 475 acres of the old homestead. This is widely known as Oak Grove Farm. It has since been increased to 600 acres, and Judge Anderson has found a great deal of pleasure in its ownership. In order to fulfill the request of his dying father, Judge Anderson had to go heavily into debt, but he paid for the land largely from the proceeds of his then flourishing law practice.
David Anderson was a Presbyterian and took an active part in the building of the church of that denomination at Jackson. His wife was a daughter of Dr. William Shaw, a prominent physician of Newcastle, Pennsylvania. She died in 1879, at the age of fifty-six. David Anderson and wife had four
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children : Judge William S.; Elizabeth; Margaret, who at the time of her death was the widow of Charles Phillips of Austin Township; and D. F. Anderson.
William S. Anderson grew up on his father's farm, attended schools at Jackson, Canfield and Poland, and lived on the farm until 1869, the year he was admitted to the bar. He had read law with Hutchins & Glidden at Warren, then one of the ablest law firms in Ohio. He began practice at Canfield in 1870, and when the county seat was removed from Canfield to Youngstown in 1876 he followed it, and has been a resident of Youngstown nearly forty-five years. His first partner was Judge L. W. King, which continued until the election of Judge King to the bench. He was also in practice with A. J. Wolfe, and for twentybutwo years was associated with A. W. Jones. Finally his son William N. Anderson became his partner.
Judge Anderson since becoming a lawyer has played a very small part in politics. He was never a candidate for office until he was chosen to his present place of honor and responsibility as judge of the Common Pleas Court in 1912. He was reelected for a second term in 1918.
In 1868, before his admission to the bar, Judge Anderson married Louise M. Shields, daughter of Andrew Shields of Boardman Township. Judge and Mrs. Anderson had five children. The son, Eddie, died at the age of seventeen. The son William Noble Anderson, who died September to, 1915, was for several years one of the leading lawyers and men of affairs of Youngstown. He was a graduate of Hudbuson Academy, and after reading law with his father was admitted to the bar in 1894. The three living children of Judge Anderson are Blanche, Randall H. and Anna. Randall H. Anderson has served in the State Legislature and is now managing the Oak Grove Farm, specializing it in dairy and fine stock. The daughter Anna is the wife of F. R. Hahn.
Judge and Mrs. Anderson are members of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, of which he is one of the deacons. He is a republican. Judge Anderson was comparatively a poor man at the time of his marriage. His father had made his own way in the world and expected his sons to do likewise. Judge Anderson first came into prominence as a lawyer in the criminal branch of practice. He has been attorney on the defense in 1o9 homicide cases in Western Pennsylvania, and has also assisted in many prosecutions. In later years he was equally successful in civil practice.
GEORGE F. ALDERDICE. A due measure of success invariably results from clearly defined purpose and consecutive efforts in the affairs of life, but in following out the career of one who has gained success by his own efforts, there comes into view the intrinsic individuality which has made such accomplishment possible. Such attributes are evidently possessed by George F. Alderdice, who during all his mature years has been closely identified with the iron and steel industry, and who has left the impress of his personality on every position which he has occupied. The success which has come to him is not the sequence of a lucky stroke, but is simply the outcome of hard, persistent and consecutive toil and study. It has been said of Mr. Alderdice that he knows as much, or more,, concerning the steel industry as any other man in the Mahoning Valley, a compliment well merited. And it is equally true that he has been a very important factor in the operations of the steel companies here in recent years, and is therefore justly entitled to specific mention in a work of the character of the one in hand.
George F. Alderdice was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 18, 1876, and is a son of Samuel and Essie (Ker) Alderdice, the latter whom was of Scotch parentage. Samuel Alder was born in Ireland, of English-Scotch parent and came to the United States shortly after the close of the Civil war, locating at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he spent the remainder of his days, his death occurring in 1917.
There was nothing monotonous about the early years of George Alderdice's life. He attended school, and excelled in mathematics; but he had a great desire to be at some kind of work. He had an instinctive liking for the iron industry and was persistent in his determination to work. He secured employment in the mechanical department of the Carnegie Steel Company, Upper Union Works, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His next step was to obtain employment in the operating department of the Park Steel Company. With the all absorbing desire to learn all there was to learn about the steel industry, he lost no opportunity to accumulate knowledge along that line, and it was not long until that fact became known to his associates and his superiors. He was transferred to the general offices of the company, which was a tactful appointment, as it gave him the opportunity to learn the commercial side of the steel business. Next, Mr. Alderdice was made manager of the general office. About that time thirteen steel companies were merged into one, under the name of the Crucible Steel Company, among them being the Park Brothers, but the latter continued to maintain their old offices, of which Mr. Alderdice continued as manager at the mill on Thirtieth Street, Pittsburgh. Eventually he was transferred to the general offices of the Amalgamated Companies and put in charge as assistant to the general auditor. Here he introduced new methods that soon became copied by a number of other big corporations. Later he was transferred to the sales department as assistant to the general sales manager, where he remained for nine years, or a total of fourteen years with the Crucible Steel Company.
In 1910 Mr. Alderdice left the Crucible Steel Company and became associated with the Republic Iron and Steel Company as assistant to the vice president, being located at Pittsburgh. Later for eighteen months he was at St. Louis as manager of that district, and at the end of that period he returned to Pittsburgh as assistant general manager of sales for the Republic Company. About 1913 he came with the latter company to Youngstown, but in 1915 he allied himself with the Brier Hill Steel Company as assistant to the president. A few months later he was made first vice president and director of that company, and still holds those positions. He is also vice president and director of the Biwabik Mining Company, is a director of the Brier Hill Coke Com-
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pany, is a director and president of the Brier Hill Steel Company of Chicago and of the Brier Hill Steel Company of New York, and vice president of the Brier Hill Steamship Company, all of the last named corporations being subsidiary to the Brier Hill Steel Company. He is also a director of the Youngstown Steel Car Company and the Powell Pressed Steel Company of Youngstown, Ohio.
Fraternally Mr. Alderdice is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has attained to the degree of a Knight Templar and of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Socially he is a member of the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh; the Bankers Club and the India House, New York City ; the Youngstown Club, of which he is president, the Youngstown Country Club, the Ohio Society of New York, while his religious affiliation is with the First' Presbyterian Church of Youngstown, of which he is a trustee. Aside from his steel industry interests he is a stockholder and director of the Mahoning National Bank.
Mr. Alderdice was married to Winona Barbara Crawford, of Pittsburgh, and they are the parents of two sons, William Howard and George Frederick, Jr. Viewing his life in its perspective, none can fail to have an appreciation of Mr. Alderdice's accomplishments at a time when such powers as his are at a premium. The qualities of keen discrimination, sound Judgment and executive ability have entered very largely into his make-up and have been contributing elements to the material success which has come to him.
WALTER F. MACQUEEN has been one of the busy lawyers of Niles for the past ten years, and at different times has done his part as a working member of several organizations and business enterprises in the city.
Mr. MacQueen was born on a farm near Wellsville, Ohio, January 6, 1887. His father is John F. MacQueen, one of the best known citizens of Wellsville. Many of his years have been spent at farming, though he has also followed school teaching and the newspaper business, and for a number of years past has served as auditor of the city.
The early life of Walter F. MacQueen was spent at Wellsville. He graduated from the high school in 1905, then for two years was a clerk in the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, and prepared for his profession in the law department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He graduated in 1910 with the degree of LL. B., and since early in 1911 has been engaged in a general practice at Niles. He is now serving his third term as solicitor of the city, and is a director in several local industries and financial institutions.
Mr. MacQueen is a director of the Niles Chamber of Commerce, is a Royal Arch Mason and a republican. He is also a member of the Trumbull County and State Bar associations, and the Niles Club.
June 18, 1914, he married Martha Mae Stephenson, daughter of R. L. Stephenson. They have one son, James Robert.
HERBERT GRANT DOWNS, representing the fourth generation of his family in Trumbull County, has built up a highly prosperous and artistic business as a photographer and conducts one of the leading photographic studios in Warren.
Mr. Downs was born in Warren, Ohio, October 11, 1893. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Downs, was a boy of three or four years when he came over the Alleghany Mountains with his parents in 1814, the family settling in Bloomfield Township, Trumbull County. After his marriage Samuel moved to Hardscrabble, Trumbull County, where his son Lewis H., grandfather of Herbert G., the eldest of seven children, was born in 1835. Lewis H. married Salome Fuller Lewis, who was born in 0838, and later in life they came to Warren and settled in what is now the William Coale farm in Parkman Street. Lewis H. was a pattern maker by trade, and he and his wife died in Warren, the former in 1914, the latter in 1917.
Fred B. Downs, son of Lewis H. and father of Herbert G., was born in Warren on March 4, 1869. He served an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade with the Trumbull Manufacturing Company, and for seven years traveled as an erecting engineer for the Harris Automatic Press Company. He married Ada Thayer, who was born on July 1, 1870, the daughter of Solon C. and Adelia (Penneman) Thayer, both of whom are still living. Solon C. Thayer is still active as a consulting architect at Rochester, Pennsylvania.
The children born to Fred B. Downs and wife are as follows : Lucy May, now a student at Phillips University at Enid, Oklahoma; Herbert G.; Mina Arline, wife of Levi B. Springer, of Warren; Blanche Salome and Gertrude Adelia.
Herbert G. Downs was educated in the public schools of Warren. At the end of his third year in high school he went to work in the drafting department of the Harris Automatic Press Company, remaining there two years. This was followed by two and a half years of other experience in the sales department of the Sterling office of the National Electric Lamp Association of Warren. He left that company in July, 1915, and in the following month took up the profession of photography, for which his special talents and inclination peculiarly fit him, opening his first studio at 22 1/2 Main Street. In April, 1917, he moved his studio to his present location at 5 1/2 East Market Street.
September 11, 1916, Mr. Downs married Hilda A. Faunce. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, May 1, 1896, daughter of Fred A. and Sarah Electa (Adams) Faunce. Her father was born in Greene Township, Trumbull County, and her mother in Warren. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Downs are Herbert Mont, born January 15, 1918, and Eleanor Lucile, born April 17, 1920.
HON. JOHN H. CLARKE. Youngstown naturally feels a deep interest in the career and achievements of Justice John H. Clarke because of the residence in the city for seventeen years of his young manhood. He first gained prominence as an Ohio lawyer while at Youngstown, and while here he made the beginning in a career which has brought him to his present distinction as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Justice Clarke, the son of John and Melissa
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(Hessin) Clarke, was born at Lisbon, Ohio, September 18, 1857. His father was a noted lawyer and a prominent democrat of Northeastern Ohio. John H. Clarke is a graduate of Western Reserve University, taking honors in the class of 1877. That university bestowed upon him the Master of Arts degree in 1880 and that of LL. D. in 1916.
Admitted to the bar in 1878, he practiced at Lisbon for two years, and his active membership in the Mahoning County bar dated from 1880 to 1897. While living at Youngstown in addition to his practice as a lawyer he wrote editorials for the Youngstown Vindicator, and eventually he and four others bought that paper and began the publication of a daily edition. His work and influence is seen today in the fact that the Vindicator is the leading democratic paper of Northeastern Ohio. From 1897 to 1914 Justice Clarke practiced law at Cleveland and for thirteen years was general counsel for the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company. He was a member of the law firm of Williamson, Cushing & Clarke for several years, and subsequently practiced without any partnership connections. During those years he became a recognized leader of the Cleveland and Ohio bar and enjoyed a very extensive practice.
In public affairs Justice Clarke always ranked as a progressive, and frequently entertained views in advance of his time, many of which he has had the satisfaction of seeing incorporated later on in the laws and practices of the state and nation. In 1892 he served as chairman of the Congressional Con-vention of the Eighteenth District, and was tendered a unanimous nomination to Congress, which he declined. In 1894 at the State Convention at Columbus he made an argument favoring the election of United States senators by the people, which arrested the attention of the country. He was also a pioneer in advocating the publication of expenditures of candidates for office, a reform finally brought about under federal and state law, and he was the first candidate for an important office in Ohio to publish a statement of his campaign expenses. Justice Clarke was nominated by the Ohio State Convention for United States senator in 1903, and made a notable campaign against the incumbent, the late M. A. Hanna. He was a delegate at large to the National Convention at Baltimore in 1912, when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for president. In 1914 he was appointed United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and served from 1914 to 1916, when by choice of the President he was called to the Supreme Court as an associate justice, and took the oath of office on August 1st of that year.
While living at Youngstown Justice Clarke served as president of the Board of Trustees of the Youngstown Public Library from 1892 to 1897, and from 1903 to 1906 served as a trustee of the Cleveland Public Library. He was chairman of the committee in charge of the short ballot movement in Ohio, was vice president for Ohio of the Anti-Imperialist League, and served as president of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commission of Ohio. While Justice Clarke has spent much of his life in close association with practical men of affairs, he has always maintained a deep and abiding interest in literature and the arts. He is a member of the University and Union clubs of Cleveland and of the University clubs of New York and Washington.
ALBERT H. SEIPLE is One of the oldest executive officials in the service of the Warren City Tank & Boiler Company, having spent more than a quarter of a century as assistant superintendent of the plant. He was born at Niles, October 11, 1871, son Adam H. and Emma (Smith) Seiple. His fa was born in Pennsylvania and his mother in West Virginia. The family were early settlers at Niles, where Albert H. Seiple grew up, attended public schools, and completed his education with a course in the M. J. Caton Business College at Cleveland. Soon afterward, in 1888, he entered the service of a Mahoning Valley industry as timekeeper for the Reeves Brothers Boiler Works at Niles. Subsequently he was shipping clerk for that firm, but in 1894 came to Warren, and continuously since that year has been assistant superintendent of the Warren City Tank and Boiler Company. While his official title has not changed, the industry has grown and expanded until his responsibilities are vastly greater than when he began.
Mr. Seiple married Anna Harvey, of Niles. They have five children, Adelbert, Harvey, Irene, Theodore and Roberta.
ROSCOE SCOTT WINNAGLE. One of the younger members of the Trumbull County bar is Roscoe Scott Winnagle, of Warren, who has been successful both as an attorney and as a business man. Like many of the worth-while citizens of the present-day Warren, Mr. Winnagle is comparatively a new-comer in the community, but it is generally conceded that the "new-comers" to the city have in many instances given greater impetus to its growth and development during the present decade than have many of those who have lived here all their lives.
Roscoe Scott Winnagle was born in Bazetta Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, on February 4, 1881, a son of Byron R. and Eunice M. (Hall) Winnagle. Byron R. Winnagle was born in New York State in 1840, and his parents were also natives of that state. He was a successful farmer of Bazetta Township, Trumbull County, for many years and died in that township in 1907. His wife was born in Fowler Township, Trumbull County, in 1841, and is descended direct from the Mayflower Pilgrims. The Halls came into Trumbull County at a very early date. Mrs. Winnagle survives her husband and lives at Warren.
The boyhood days of Roscoe Scott Winnagle were spent on the home farm in Bazetta Township. He attended the district schools and spent one year in the Warren High School, and then entered Hiram College, working his way through college by teaching public school every other year until 1905. In 1905 he went to Kansas and entered the law department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence, and was graduated therefrom in 1906 with the degree of Doctor of Laws, and that same year was admitted to the Kansas bar. It was his intention to enter into practice in Kansas, but the illness of his brother and death of his father in 1907, changed his plans and he returned home. Later he re-entered Hiram College
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and was graduated from that institution in 1909 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. In 1911 he was admitted to practice in the State of Ohio, and in that same year established himself in a general practice at Warren. In 1918 Mr. Winnagle was admitted to practice in the Federal courts.
Aside from the law, Mr. Winnagle is otherwise prominent, being interested in real estate, and is president of the Home Lumber Company of Warren, which he assisted in incorporating. He is a member the Trumbull County Bar Association and of the wren Board of Trade. Fraternally he is an Odd low and Knight of Pythias. The Trumbull Country Club holds his membership. He is active as a member of the Central Christian Church of Warren.
Mr. Winnagle was married to Grace A. Marvin, a daughter of David D. and Alicia A. Marvin of Trumbull County, extensive farmers, and Mrs. Winnagle s born on the homestead of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Winnagle have a son Homer Lee, who was n April 30, 1914. Mr. Winnagle is an able attorney, and an authority on public questions, and is oftentimes called into counsel with his fellow citizens on matters of moment to the community.
GEORGE WASHINGTON ALLOWAY. In one of the most exacting of all callings the subject of this sketcfh attained distinction, being recognized as one of most successful educators in the Mahoning Valley. He is a well educated, symmetrically developed man, his work in the educational field having brought him prominently to the notice of the public, result of which has been a continued demand his services in a position where a high standard professional excellence is required. He is a gentleman of scholarly tastes and studious habits, steps abreast of the times in advanced educational methods, and his general knowledge is broad and comprehensive.
George W. Alloway, one of the veteran teachers Youngstown and now the principal of the Haselton and Roosevelt schools, is a native son of the Keystone state, having been born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, on May 20, 1855, and is a of Eli and Mary (Horton) Alloway. The Horton family came from England, as Pilgrims, in 1623 settled on Long Island. One of the descendants this family, and the grandfather of Mary Horton, was disguised as an Indian and took part in the historic tea party in Boston Harbor. Eli Alloway, father of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, and spent his tire life there, dying in 1867, when thirty-five years age. He was a mining contractor. After his death his widow became the wife of Joseph Ramsey, of Saxton, Pennsylvania, and she now resides there, the age of eighty-eight years. She is the mother of seven children, one son and six daughters.
After his father's death, George W. Alloway was reared by his father's uncle, John Alloway of New Grenada, Pennsylvania, and secured about four months' schooling each year in the district school of his neighborhood. When not in school his was time was mostly spent in the work of the farm. However, he was ambitious to learn and lost no opportunity at that presented itself to add to his stock of knowledge, so that at the age of seventeen years he became a teacher in the country sch00ls of Huntingdon, Fulton and Mifflin counties. Some time afterward James A. Leonard, a young man of Huntingdon County, who had taught school in Youngstown, induced Mr. Alloway to come to this place. That was in 1880, and his first school was at Brier Hill. While teaching he pursued the required studies and passed the examinations which enabled him to graduate from the Northeastern Ohio Normal College at Canfield ten years later, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Mr. Alloway has been a teacher in the schools of Youngstown for thirty-nine years. He was principal at Brier Hill, Oak Street, and now serves as principal of the two schools, Haselton and Roosevelt. During all these years his service to the schools has been of such a character as has entitled him to deservedly conspicuous attention. No one is more entitled to the thoughtful consideration of a free and enlightened people than he who shapes and directs the minds of the young, adds to the value of their intellectual treasures and moulds their characters. Mr. Alloway's record has been replete with duty faithfully performed, and his career as a teacher has always been characterized by a keen desire to not only aid the students under him in mastering their textbooks but in getting also the right perspective of what life really means of its possibilities, privileges and responsibilities. Thus he has had the pleasure of seeing many who have sat under his guidance go out into the world and become not only good wage earners, but also leaders in thought and action in the leading professions and vocations. Mr. Alloway's hobby, if such it might be called, is patriotic songs, of which he is a great lover and student, and he has himself composed several very meritorious songs of that nature. He is a lover of Nature, and many of his classes are favored by trips through the woods and fields of the neighborhood under his guidance. Every year, at Idora Park, he is the central figure at a dinner given by the alumni of his schools.
In 1882 Mr. Alloway was married to Jennie E. Morrison, who was born in Decatur, Illinois, the daughter of Henry and A. A. Morrison, and whose death occurred on January 4, 1919. Two children born to them are living, Raymond E. and Nellie E., the latter the wife of Chauncey E. Hayes, a farmer of Cortland, Ohio. Raymond E., who is now engaged in the practice of law in Detroit, attended the public schools of Youngstown, graduating from the Rayen High School, after which he was a student in and graduated from the Detroit Law School. He worked as an electrician and as office clerk to pay his way through school. Early in the World war he volunteered his services, and served at various camps, receiving a lieutenant's commission. He served as judge advocate at Camp Funston, and was also located at Camp Custer and Camp Lee.
Fraternally George W. Alloway is a member of Western Star Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He is an active member of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, being secretary of its official board and recording steward of the church, as well as teacher of the Stambaugh class in the Sunday school. His long and useful life as one
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of the world's workers has been one of devotion, almost consecration, to the noble profession of which he is so worthy a representative, and well does he merit a place of honor in every history touching upon the lives and deeds of those who have given the best of their powers and talents for the aiding and betterment of their kind.
GEORGE O. BRUCE. While he had some youthful experiences in other lines, for twenty-one years Mr. Bruce has concentrated his energies upon the insurance field, and has made the Bruce Agency Company at Youngstown one of the most adequate organizations to any general insurance service in this section of Ohio.
Mr. Bruce was born at Sharon, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1881. His parents, George Ovens and Annie (Paul) Bruce, were born near Edinburg, Scotland, grew up and married there, and his father was a stone mason contractor. In 188o the parents came to the United States, living at Sharon, Pennsylvania, for, a time, and later going to Brookfield, Ohio, and about 1889 to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and finally to Pittsburgh, where the father died. The widowed mother is still living.
The third in a family of five sons, George 0. Bruce acquired his early education at Brookfield, Ohio, in Westmoreland County, and in the old Eighth Ward School in Allegheny. The advantages that came from school ceased when he was about fourteen years of age, and soon afterward with his mother he moved to the vicinity of Vienna in Trumbull County, and after two years went to Warren. He worked in a glove factory at Warren, and for a time was employed in his native city of Sharon by the Morgan Engineering Company of Boston, which at that time was erecting a cantilever crane for the South Sharon Steel Company.
In 1899 Mr. Bruce became a local representative at Youngstown for the Prudential Life Insurance Company. After a brief experience he became satisfied that he had found his real vocation, and the business he wrote for the company was of such satisfactory volume that in 1906 they made him state manager for Indiana, with headquarters at Indianapolis. In 19o7 Mr. Bruce removed to Cleveland to become a special agent in charge of the Life and Accident Department of the Travelers' Insurance Company of Hartford. In the fall of 1908 he returned to Youngstown and became associated with John H. Middleton, then county clerk of Mahoning County, and Charles Foster, son of Lemuel T. Foster, one of the best known pioneers of the city. These men organized the firm of Bruce, Foster and Middleton, general insurance. Mr. Foster never took an active part in the firm, and his interest was subsequently sold to William Bence. In 1911 the Bruce-Middleton Company was incorporated to conduct a general insurance agency and a real estate business. At that time the late David Tod became a stockholder and director in the company. Mr. Bruce in 1915 secured the controlling interest, at which time F. A. Parmelee became secretary of the company, and continued as such one year. Mr. Parmelee retired in 1916, and on the 30th of September of that year articles of incorporation were amended and the name. changed to the Bruce Agency Company.
Mr. Bruce is president, treasurer and general manager of this company, which maintains offices in the Stambaugh Building, and has every facility for the handling of general insurance.
Mr. Bruce has a number of other affiliations with social and other organizations, including the Youngstown Club; Youngstown Country Club; Youngstown Chamber of Commerce; Hillman Lodge No. 481, Free and Accepted Masons ; the Order of Elks, Youngstown Rotary Club; Trumbull County Count Club; and is a non-resident member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. He is a Presbyterian and republican. October 17, 1907, he married Mabelle Ewalt, of Youngstown. They have a and daughter : Robert, born October 16, 1908, and Jean Louise, born April 25, 1915.
BERTRAM G. PARKER. A young man, full of the energy that invariably commands success in the industrial world, Bertram G. Parker is prominently associated with the promotion of the iron and steel interests of Mahoning County, as secretary and treasurer of the Youngstown Foundry and Machine Company holding a position of responsibility and trust. He was born in Youngstown October 7, 1880. His parents, John and Mary (Cook) Parker, came from Troy, New York, to Youngstown upwards of forty years ago, and here spent the remainder of their lives, his father having been a steel worker throughout his active career.
Having acquired a practical education in the common schools of Youngstown, Bertram G. Parker in 1896 entered the employ of the Youngstown Foundry & Machine Company as shipping clerk. His interest in the company, and his adaptability to any kind of work entrusted to him, won him rapid promotion from one department to another until in 1905 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the firm, positions that he has since ably and faithfully filled.
Mr. Parker married in September, 1902, Miss Daisy Shanks, of Youngstown, and into the household thus established three children have been born, Bertram. Howard and Barbara. Socially Mr. Parker is a member of the .Rotary Club, the Youngstown Club and the Youngstown Country Club. During the World war he was team captain of the War Chest Committee, having charge of one-half of Youngstown. Religiously he is a valued member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder.
FRANK L. BROWN, who represents the old and prominent Brown family long associated with the Brown-Bonnell industries of the Mahoning Valley, is a well-known resident and business man of Pittsburgh.
He was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, August 6, 1878, and as a young man entered the service of the Brown-Bonnell Iron Company at Youngstown, with which he was identified from 1897 until 1899. From the latter date until 1911 he was connected with the Republic Iron & Steel Company of Youngstown and Pittsburgh, from 1911 to 1913 with the Standard Welding Company of Chicago, and since 1913 has been active in the Columbia Steel & Shafting Company of Pittsburgh, of which corporation he is vice president and general manager. This company is the largest producer in America of cold finished
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steels. He is also a director of the Pittsburgh Shafting Company of Detroit.
Mr. Brown is unmarried and lives at the Iroquois Apartments in Pittsburgh. He is a member of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Union Club of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Athletic Association.
SAMUEL. PATRICK MANGO, a well-known and successful attorney of Warren, was born at Niles, Ohio, on April 5, 1890, and is the son of Vincent and Rose (Bellitti) Mango. The parents are natives of Italy, the father coming to the United States in 1878, the mother coming over in 1887. For many years Vincent Mango was engaged in general contracting in the Mahoning Valley, and in association with Louis Adorasio he built the Milton dam.
Samuel P. Mango attended the Niles public schools, took the academic course at Baldwin-Wallace College, Ohio, and was graduated from the law department of the Ohio Northern University with the degree of LL. B., class of '13. He was admitted to the bar in 1913, and in that year entered the practice of law at Youngstown. In August, 1918, he entered practice at Warren, with offices in the Western Reserve Building, where he has since continued.
Mr. Mango is a member of the Trumbull County and Ohio State Bar associations; of Hebron Lodge No. 55, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Niles; and of the Youngstown Lodge of Elks. He is also a member of the Delta Theta Phi college fraternity. Mr. Mango married Alice M., daughter of Edwin Osborne, deceased, of Youngstown.
JOSEPH W. PARKIN is one of the older business men of Youngstown, where he has had his home since 1878. He has supplied the city with one of its indispensable services, the local transportation and handling of commodities on the streets and between shop and store, railway stations and factories. Mr. Parkin personally developed and created an important business in this line, and with the exception of two years, while he was a retail grocer on North Avenue, he has been identified with the draying industry for thirty years.
Mr. Parkin started the local transportation business with a one-horse express wagon. He made other acquisitions, began hiring men to help him, and at one time his equipment was measured by thirtyfive head of horses. A notable change in the business was compelled by the introduction of motor trucks. At the present time his establishment operates. a fleet of five trucks, and he still retains six head of horses.
Mr. Parkin was born at Bradys Bend, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1857, son of John and Alice (Trice) Parkin. His father, a merchant tailor, moved to Youngstown with his family about 1878 and was in business on West Federal Street for many years. He and his wife are now deceased.
Joseph W. Parkin, one of the two survivors of seven children, grew up in his native state and to the age of fourteen attended country school. His father had a place of business in one of the cities of the oil region. Young Parkin was entrusted with the collection of a bad debt due his father and when he secured its payment the money was turned over to him. He used it as his original capital in his business career. He laid out his money in a stock of peanuts, and soon installed a peanut booth on one side of his father's store. He handled other similar commodities, and did a flourishing business considering his resources, though several times he suffered from fire, a destructive enemy in the mushroom oil towns of that period. Mr. Parkin relates how he introduced dice as a means of entertainment in his little store. His father burnt the dice in the open store, and read the boy a lesson he never forgot. From Pennsylvania Mr. Parkin came to Youngstown, the family driving overland and being four days on the journey. His first temporary employment in this city was hauling stone for James Caldwell from Brier in for the foundation of the first courthouse in Youngstown.
Mr. Parkin is a republican in politics, a member of the Northside Improvement Club and is a charter member of the Plymouth Congregational Church of which his family are also members. In 1882 he married Miss Sophia B. Butler, a daughter of Richard Butler. Their two daughters are Gertrude Elizabeth and Laura Belle. Both were liberally educated, the older being a graduate of the Rayen High School and the Kindergarten Training School of Oberlin College. Laura Belle, who is now the wife of Jay W. Hornberger, is a graduate of the Guilmont Piano and Organ School of New York City and is organist of the Westminster Presbyterian Church and the Jewish Synagogue at Youngstown.
GEORGE P. BARD. Among the men whose names are associated most prominently with the industrial life of the country is numbered George P. Bard, the president of the Petroleum Iron Works Company of Sharon, Ohio, a title in itself sufficient evidence of his business ability, for the men having charge of the conduct of large interests are almost without exception especially fitted for the positions they occupy.
George P. Bard was born in Rockford, Vermont, August 24, 1865, and is descended from an English family. He is a son of George I. and Jerusha G. (Parker) Bard, and his father was a Congregational minister. The son grew to years of maturity in the various places in which his father was located in his ministerial work, and completed his education at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1889 with the degree of B. S. During his college training Mr. Bard had specialized in civil engineering, and after his college days were over he took up the work as a vocation and spent two years as field engineer for the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company, followed by a similar period on the Pacific Coast as construction engineer for the South San Francisco Land & Development Company. Returning at the close of this period to the East, he became a draftsman in the Allentown, Pennsylvania, Rolling Mills, was later with the Riter-Conley Company of Pittsburgh as Eastern sales engineer for nine years, and at the close of that period became the president of the New Jersey Boiler Company at Boonton, New Jersey, where the first iron in the United States was manu-
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factured. Mr. Bard spent five years at the head of this old eastern manufacturing concern, and in 1908 he was selected to open the New York office of the Petroleum Iron Works Company, and served the corporation as the New York sales manager for a number of years. In 1913 he was transferred to Youngstown, Ohio, to succeed C. J. McDowell, who was made sales manager for this company at Sharon, Pennsylvania. A few years afterward, in 1916, he was placed at the head of the Petroleum Iron Works Company in the office of president, and has since been a conspicuous factor in extending the business of the corporation and in making its influence felt in the country: Mr. Bard holds membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers, is a member of the executive committee of the governing board of the National Steel Fabricators' Association and is a member of the Youngstown Country Club. In political matters he supports the principles of the republican party, and is a protestant in his religious affiliations.
Mr. Bard was married on the 25th of March, 1896, to Miss Jessie F. Joslin, of Walpole, New Hampshire. One son has been born to them, Robert J. Bard, now employed in the field erection department of the Petroleum Iron Works Company.
GILBERT BECKWITH HALL. The large and. well equipped music and musical merchandise stores in Warren at 3436 Main Street and at 8 Franklin Street, give little hint of the modest scale on which Gilbert B. Hall began the business over twenty-two years ago.
Mr. Hall, who is one of the leading business men of Trumbull County, was born on the Hall farm in Gustavus Township of that county September to, 1866, son of Sylvester G. and Joanna (Beckwith) Hall. His father, who was born in Connecticut in 1829, was a boy when he accompanied his parents to the Western Reserve. The family settled on a farm in Gustavus Township, Trumbull County, and Sylvester was reared and educated there, attending country school, and for a time taught school and became wellknown as a teacher, and then bought land and for many years was actively identified with the progressive agricultural element in Trumbull County. He became known all over the Mahoning Valley as a dealer in horses, and also as an agent for farm machinery and implements. He sold and put up the first one-wheel Allen mowing machine in Trumbull County. His fellow citizens also honored him with several township offices. Joanna Beckwith, his wife, was also a native of Connecticut, daughter of Elijah Beckwith, who settled in New Line Township, Ashtabula County, in pioneer days, the family coming from Connecticut in an oxcart. Joanna Beckwith was also a country school teacher. She was left a widow, and six years after the death of Sylvester Hall became the wife of Dwight Roberts, of Gustavus Township.
Gilbert Beckwith Hall lived with his mother and stepfather to the age of fourteen, and then left home and thenceforth made his own way in the world. He acquired a limited country sch00l education, and various occupations gave him a living during his youth. .He laid the foundation for his present business as an agent for sewing machines, organs and pianos, and finally, in 1898, established a small store for musical merchandise at Warren. He has kept that business growing until it is now one of the largest establishments of its kind in the Mahoning Valley, occupying double store room.
Mr. Hall is a member of the Warren Board of Trade, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, the Knights of the Maccabees, the Modern Woodmen of America, and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church. In 1886 he married Miss Jessie Shafer, daughter of Jeremiah Shafer, of Champion Township, Trumbull County. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have three children: Hazel, the oldest, is the wife of William J. Cox, of Warren, and they have one son, William J., Jr. Ernest has gained distinction as an aviator in the Government service. He was one of the chief instructors in the Aviation Corps from the beginning of the World war, and in March, 1920, was still in the Government service at the aviation field at Wichita Falls, Texas. The other son, Wade, associated with his father in the music business, married Margaret Fisher, daughter of Rev. E. J. Fisher, of Warren. They have one daughter, Marie Jeane.
JOHN INBERG, M. D. is the founder and active head of the QuimbyHill Hospital, the only hospital in the City of Warren under private management. Associated with him are a number of the leading' physicians and surgeons of Warren, and the splendid service accomplished by the hospital since it was opened is a distinctive tribute to the wisdom of Doctor Inberg in providing for the institution.
Doctor Inberg comes of a family of physicians and surgeons. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather earned honored names in that profession in their native country of Finland. Dr. John Inberg was born at Whittis, Finland, January 23, 1879. His father, the late Dr. Carl Emil Inberg, held the Royal Degree of medicine and surgery in Finland, and was a successful practitioner in that country. He was born in 1837 and died July 4, 1894. He married Ida Rosen, whose father, Bondani Rosen, was for many years a postmaster in the Government service in Finland. Mrs. Ida Inberg is still living, making her home in Helsingfors.
Dr. John Inberg was liberally educated, attending grammar school, the Lyceum at Helsingfors and taking a classical education in the Imperial University of Finland. In 1902, at the age of twentythree, he came to the United States, and for several months was employed in the copper mines of upper Minnesota. The same fall, however, he entered Valparaiso University, pursued his studies for two years, and for two years was a student of medicine in the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, and completed his medical work in the Bennett Medical College of the same city, graduating M. D. with the class of 1906. While attending medical school he worked for the Wells-Fargo Express Company at Chicago for four years, thereby earning the money to defray his expenses while in college. For a year he was an interne in the Jefferson Park Hospital of Chicago, and began his professional career at Monessen, Pennsylvania, where he remained until coming to Warren in April, 1918.
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private practice in medicine and surgery, but most of his time has been given to the hospital. June 6, 1918, he opened the Quimby-Hill Hospital, having tired for that purpose the old Quimby residence at 201 West Market Street. This old home has been throughly remodeled and refitted, and meets the most exacting standards of a modern hospital. It contains eighteen rooms, four private rooms and the rest wards. The hospital is essentially devoted to surgical cases. The staff numbers sixteen of the leading physicians and surgeons of Warren. Though he has been identified with the city only two years Doctor Inberg ranks high both as a citizen and professional man of Warren, and has given the city one of its most important institutions. Doctor Inberg is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio Medical Society and the Trumbull County Medical Society. He is also a member of First Presbyterian Church of Warren.
JOHN CARLO GUARNIERI. The many tributes of respect and esteem paid at the time of his death only a just merit to the long and active business career and civic usefulness of the late John Carlo uarnieri, of Warren. He was one of the most successful and honored Italian merchants and highly esteemed men of the city
He was born at Neirone, near Genoa, Italy, January 11, 1857, oldest of the children of John Carlo miner, and was the first of the family to come to America. Reaching New York at the age of twenty-one, he went direct to Cleveland, where he in business for a short time, and where he tied Natalina Roscaco, who was born at Gattorna, Italy, December 25, 1863, and came with her parents direct to Cleveland at the age of thirteen.
Some time after his marriage Mr. Guarnieri removed to Warren and engaged in the fruit business is a modest way on the present site of the Second National Bank Building. Subsequently he established another fruit store where the Western Reserve National Bank now stands. When building construe-began on that building he removed to Main Street, and also continued his other store until 1900. He then bought a storeroom on North Park Avenue, and later moved his business to the Franklin Block at 108 East Market. With his son James he built an ice cream factory, and the John Guarnieri Cream Company was incorporated. It was a heavry loss to the elder Guarnieri when his son James, his active associate in business, died in May, 1915, at the age of thirty-one. At that time the Main Street store was sold, but the other business establishment was continued until January, 1919, when it, too, was sold and in the following April the family disposed of the ice cream factory. Mr. Guarnieri died in 1917, and since 1919 the family has had no active commercial connections. Mr. Guarnieri was a charter member of Warren Council, Knights of Columbus, and a very active member of St. Mary's parish.
Mr. and Mrs. Guarnieri's children the oldest, Cathryn T., was born at Cleveland, was educated in Warren public schools and Dana Institute, and It several years abroad as a student of music. possesses a voice of rare charm, thoroughly cultivated, and for the past ten years her art has
been much appreciated in many cities. Since 1919 she has held the position of voice director in the faculty of the Dana Musical Institute. The second child was James, also born at Cleveland, who was educated in the Warren public schools and by private study, and at an early age began business with his father, and developed splendid qualifications, both as a business man and citizen. His death occurred May 12, 1915. The third child was Teresa, who died in infancy. Lyda, the fourth, was educated in the public schools of Warren and died at the age of twentyone. The fifth was Isabella, educated in public schools at Warren and married John Jones Griffith, formerly of Pittsburgh, now of Warren. The sixth child, John, Jr., was educated in the public schools of Warren, in St. Jerome's Academy and Assumption College in Canada, and in 1917, at the age of nineteen, enlisted in the United States Navy. He died at the Great Lakes Training Station, September 24, 1918, being one of the first victims of the influenza epidemic. The youngest child, Salvini, graduated from the Warren High School with the class of r918 and is now a student of art in the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh.
FRED LAMBERT GEIGER. About the oldest contracting business handling g00d roads construction with headquarters at Warren is that built up by Fred Lambert Geiger. While Mr. Geiger's organization and capital have been extensively devoted to road building, he has also done a great volume of business within recent years in street paving and excavation work, all directly an index of the remarkable growth and expansion of the City of Warren.
Mr. Geiger was born in Jackson County, Michigan, December 3o, 1868, and is a brother of Daniel A. Geiger of Warren, whose career is elsewhere reviewed. Mr. Geiger spent his early life in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, the family on moving from Michigan locating at West Farmington in Trumbull County, moving to Cortland in the same county, thence to Union City, Pennsylvania, and in 1883 to Warren.
Mr. Geiger began his education at Cortland, attended public school at Warren, and graduated from the commercial department of Mount Union College in 1891.
The first four years after leaving college he was with the Western Reserve National Bank of Warren, then spent seven years with the Warren Water Company, and for a time was connected with the office of the county engineer. He began contracting in 1906, and in the past fourteen years has steadily increased his equipment, his force of men, and has the capital and other resources for the handling of the largest contracts within his line. Among more important highways which he has built are the old State Road, the Parkman Road, the Palmyra Road, and the Leavittsburg Road to Braceville. At Warren his paving contracts include Park Avenue, Atlantic Street, Belmont Street, Adams Street, Tod Avenue, Buckeye Street, Mulberry Street, Hunter Street, Logan. Avenue, First Street, North Elm Street, Niles Avenue and the Perkins Road (now in course of building). He performed the excavation work for the Western Reserve Building, the Braden, Wick and March blocks, the City Market House, Ohio Lamp
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Works, Mahoning Lamp Works, the Jonathan Warner Hotel, the large business and office block at the corner of Park and Porter Avenue, and many lesser buildings.
Mr. Geiger is a member of the Warren Board of Trade, Rotary Club and Christ Episcopal Church. February 18, 1908, he married Mabel C. Holloway, daughter of J. W. and Cora (Bennett) Holloway. They have one daughter, Katherine Irene.
JOSEPH BUCHHEIT. While twelve years is not a long time in the history of nations or individuals, it has been sufficient to enable the enterprise of Joseph Buchheit to achieve an imposing aggregate of work as a builder and contractor in the Youngstown district.
The imposing extent of his present business relations presents a striking contrast with the first years he spent in the Mahoning Valley. Joseph Buchheit was born in one of the Rhine provinces of Germany, March 22, 1876, son of Bernhart and Mary Buchheit. His people were honest and self-respecting farmers, though they never attained a high degree of material fortune. During his early life on the farm Joseph Buchheit attended school and received other instruction and influences which have materially helped him in later years.
At the age of seventeen he left Germany with an uncle, Nicholas Wagoner. When Mr. Wagoner established his home on a farm near Niles the nephew worked for him a time. Later Mr. Buchheit began learning the brick and stone mason's trade with Christ .Mauler. Seven or eight years as a wage worker preceded his modest entrance into the field of contracting.
Since then in twelve years many notable buildings in Youngstown and adjoining territory may be properly credited to Mr. Buchheit's personal energy and the work of the organization he has built up. A few of these should be mentioned, including the W. G. Thomas residence, the Logan residence, the Monroe _School, Adams School, Tod School, an addition to the South Side Avenue School, the schools of Hubbard, East Youngstown and Struthers, Rodef Sholem Temple, church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Kay Building at Spring Common, Tod Building on Federal Street, Youngstown Carriage Works, Sanitary Mattress Plant and many others. A contract recently completed was the stone and brick work of the Washington School, and also the Lincoln School.
Mr. Buchheit's success has been due not only to an extraordinary amount of business energy but his constant effort and study to familiarize himself with all the technical processes involved in building construction. He was an expert mechanic before he took his first contract, and has a practical familiarity with nearly all the trades involved in building construction. Mr. Buchheit and family enjoy one of the beautiful homes of Youngstown on Catalina Avenue. He is a republican in politics and his family are members of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
In 1899 he married Mary Wilhelm, a native of Youngstown. Their family of children consists of Bernard, Carl, Angela, Marian, Earl, Alma and Margaret.
GEORGE GLOECKLE is a retired manufacturer and business man of Warren who became identified with that city nearly fifty years ago, and in business and private affairs has exercised a worthy influence in the development of the community.
Mr. Gloeckle was born in the Kingdom of Wuertemberg, Germany, December 4, 1846, son of George and Dorothy Gloeckle, who spent all their lives in the old country. His father was a forester by occupation, and for nearly forty years was in the employ of the Wuertemberg Government.
After a common school education George Gloeckle served an apprenticeship at the shoemaker's trade. In 1866, in his twentieth year, he came to America, and his first employment was in a shoe shop at Oil City, Pennsylvania. In July, 1867, he removed to Russell, near Warren, Pennsylvania, was married and then for several years was in business for himself.
Mr. Gloeckle came to Warren, Ohio, in the spring of 1872 and established a manufacturing plant on Main Street. Here he employed from six to ten shoemakers, and did a large business making boots and shoes. His manufacturing business flourished until the widespread introduction of machinery for shoemaking, and he then discontinued his factory operations and entered the retail boot and shoe business. He conducted one of the old and reliable concerns of that kind at Warren until 1895, when he sold out to W. B. Stone & Company. Following that for five years he was a retail grocer, and then turned his business ability and much of his capital to the development of an important Warren industry, the wholesale rubber business. He became one of the stockholders and general manager of the Warren Rubber Company, and continued active in that corporation until 1918. While he resigned as manager he still continues as a member of the board of directors.
Mr. Gloeckle married at Russell, Pennsylvania, Jennie B. Moll. She is a native of that town and her parents, John and Margaret Moll, died there. They were natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Gloeckle have two daughters : Carrie D., widow of Irving E. Hershey, of Cleveland, who died in February, 1919, is now living with her parents, and her two daughters, Esther Leonora and Linnie Eleanor, are also with their grandparents. The other daughter, Matilda, is the wife of Jay Bookwalter, a Warren attorney. Mr. Gloeckle is affiliated with Independence Lodge No. 9o, Knights of Pythias, and with the United Commercial Travelers, and his family are members of the Methodist Church.
CHARLES MYERS. Two facts might he mentioned as especially noteworthy in the career of Charles Myers of Warren. One is that he is vice president of the Vautrot-Myers Jewelry Company, one of the leading firms of its kind in Trumbull County. The other is that he gave up a relatively high wage as a mill worker to learn the jewelry business as an apprentice. The latter fact is indicative of his character, showing his independence and his willingness to take a chance.
Mr. Myers was born in Warren, June 4, 1872, son of Frederick and Catherine (Buckstiner) Myers. His father, who was born in Germany in 1834, came to the United States in 1855. After a number of
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years as a farmer in Lordstown Township, Trumbull County, he became a brick manufacturer at Warren, where he died in 1906. His wife, Catherine Buckstoiner, was born in Germany in 1833, and came as a young woman to the United States. She was married in Trumbull County and died at Warren in 1897.
A life-long resident of Warren, Charles Myers was ed and educated in the city and as a boy he did of the strenuous manual labor in his father's yard. Later he went into the Warren Tube ks, and was a puddler in the Warren Rolling Mills. Being unable to look forward with compliancy to a life time role as a mill hand, he abandoned a position which was then averaging him $5 a day, a very high wage for that time, and began apprenticeship at watchmaking with the firm of Vautrot & Siddell. The arrangement was that he should receive $1 a week the first year, $2 the second year and $4 for the third year. He rapidly mastered the technical craft of watchmaking, and also promoted himself to larger responsibilities in the firm, which in time put him in charge of the buying and selling department in addition to the watch department. Upon the death of Mr. Siddell he was admitted to partnership with Mr. Jules Vautrot, and subsequently the business was incorporated as the Vautrot-Myers Company, with Mr. Myers as vice-president.
Mr. Myers is a member of the Warren Board of Trade, is affiliated with Old Erie Lodge No. 3, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Warren Commandery No. 39, Knights Templar, Mahoning Lodge of Odd Fellows, Independent Lodge No. 90 of the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Myers married Miss Elsie Watson, daughter of Richard and Anna (Brown) Watson of Warren. They have one son, Leslie Watson Myers, born in 1907.
WILLIAM W. HERON, well-known in Warren, Ohio, as secretary of the Warren Acreage Investment Company and of the Perkinswood Building Company, is an executive of commendable record, and has shown marked energy and much business ability. He has been in responsible business in the Mahoning Valley since 1912, when he came from Cleveland to me assume the management of a machine shop and foundry at Mineral Ridge, four years later reorganizing that business, which took the name of the Ohio Steel Products Company.
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 27, 1875, the son of Christopher and Lydia F. (Slocum) Heron. The Heron family is of Scottish origin. Christopher Heron was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of Samuel Heron, a native of Albany, New York, and son of Andrew Heron, who came from Scotland to Canada, where he settled. Christopher Heron was is his boyhood when his father, Samuel Heron, came back to the United States. The family settled in Mechanicsville, near Albany, New York, and there Samuel Heron, whose business had always been that of a printer and publisher, became editor of the Freeholder, a weekly political paper, and later of The Hudson River Chronicle. His son Christopher associated with his father in this literary work until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he volunteered and became a member of the Fifth Regiment of the New York Volunteer Cavalry. He was actively in the field for three years and ten months, and by merit in action gained rapid promotion, rising from the grade of trooper to that of captain and acting major. Some time after he had been honorably discharged from the army he settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and in that city became well established as a printer. He was married in 1867 to Lydia F. Slocum, daughter of Aaron Slocum, of Northville, New York, whose lineage connects with the English family of that name.
William W. Heron was educated in the public schools of Cleveland. In 1890 he left Cleveland, and for the next eighteen months lived in Denver and other western cities. Returning to. Cleveland he gained his business experience in the offices of the Chase Machine Company and the Cleveland Ship Building Company, now known as the American Ship Building Company. From the drafting department he went to the office and later he became cashier for Denison Prior & Company, of Cleveland, and remained with that company for six years. In 1906 he and others organized the first exclusive souvenir postcard store in Cleveland, possibly the first in America. Their establishment, which was located in the Colonial Arcade, became a wholesale concern of considerable business. Two years later, however, Mr. Heron was elected secretary of the Advance Lumber Company of Cleveland, one of the principal owners of which company was Abner Grant Webb. He proved himself a capable executive, and in 1912, came to the Mahoning Valley to take charge of an engineering plant and foundry at Mineral Ridge, with which Mr. Webb was also connected, continuing until the reconstruction of that business four years later. Mr. Heron resigned the above connection to engage in real estate operations in Warren. He has since that time been secretary of the Warren Acreage Investment Company and of the Perkinswood Building Company, and as a member of the Warren Real Estate Board has taken his place among the leading real estate men of the vicinity.
He has always been interested in church work, and has been a member of the First Presbyterian Church since he took up residence in Warren. He has actively assisted in choir work, and also on the concert platform. He is a lover of music, and uses his talent in the best possible way.
He married Blanche E., daughter of Samuel and Helen (Ellsworth) Luster, of East Cleveland, to whom have been born his three children : Philip Ellsworth, William Slocum and Malcolm Luster.
ARTHUR HENRY READY had a struggling boyhood, earned his way as a farm laborer and mill worker for a number of years, but eventually became established in business at Warren, and has multiplied his interests and connections with the larger life and affairs of the Mahoning Valley.
He was born at Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio, October 31, 1861. His parents, Michael and Margaret (Dalton) Ready, were both born in Ireland. The grandfathers, Arthur Ready and Edward Dalton, spent all their lives in Ireland. Michael Ready was
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early orphaned, and at the age of eleven accompanied an older brother to America, their location being at Painesville, Ohio. Margaret Dalton was left an orphan at the age of nine years, and also came to America with her brother, who likewise settled at Painesville. In that city Michael Ready and Margaret Dalton were reared and married, and soon afterward moved to Chardon. A number of years later they returned to Painesville, where both of them spent their last years. Michael Ready was in early life a farmer, but the last fifteen years of his life was connected with the Painesville Gas Works. He died in 1875. Arthur Henry at that time was fourteen years of age. The widowed mother then took her eight children to East Claridon in Geauga County, kept a hotel for a time, then removed with her family to Youngstown and six months later to Warren, where she is still` living.
Arthur Henry Ready remained in East Claridon when his mother left that town, and for two years was employed on the farm of Senator I. U. Hathaway and another two years on a farm at Middlefield in Geauga County. While working on the farm he managed to attend district schools in the winter seasons, and made good use of his limited opportunities to secure a substantial education.
Mr. Ready first came to Warren in 1879, and was an employe of the Warren Rolling Mill. For about sixteen years he was a worker in the iron and steel industries in the Mahoning Valley and also at Troy, New York.
While at Troy he married Amelia L. Bean, a native of that city and daughter of Franklin and Agatha (Dibble) Bean. After leaving Troy Mr. Ready returned to Ohio, was a mill worker at Cleveland two years, and then located permanently at Warren. After one year in the mills he bought a small farm. The land comprising that place is now within the corporation limits, and when Warren began its rapid expansion and required many new home and indusbutrial sites he platted his farm as A. H. Ready's Allotment and much of it has already been sold. Many years ago Mr. Ready engaged in the sawmill business, and operated mills in several Northern Ohio counties. For several years he was an exporter of rough lumber and logs to Europe. He also t00k many contracts to supply piling for dock and harbor construction around the Great Lakes. In partnership with James V. Waldeck he was extensively engaged in contracting for the construction of good roads in the Mahoning Valley. They constructed many miles of modern highways at Youngstown, Niles, Girard, Portland and Warren. During all these years Mr. Ready has continued the operation of saw mills, and still has one plant running every season. Since 1914 his chief business at Warren has been builders' supbuplies and coal, and he is a member of the Warren Builders Exchange and the Ohio Builders Supply Association and a member of the Warren Board of Trade, of which he is a director. He has been a member of the Warren Automobile Club since it was organized. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Elks, the Maccabees and the United Commercial Travelers, and is a member of the board of trustees of the Second Christian Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Ready became the parents of six children: Viola, wife of Joseph Viney, of Bloomfield, Ohio; Hazel, wife of Ward Van Wye of Warren; Arthur E., a contractor at Warren, who married Alice Dunlap ; Minnie, an elocutionist and now assisting her father as a stenographer ; Harry E., manager of the A. H. Ready Company, who married Helen Kerr ; and Josie A., who is attending the Warren High School.
CORIDON EDWIN STEPHENS. Since establishing himself as a lawyer at Warren in 1913 Mr. Stephens has not only had abundant work in the routine of his profession, but has enjoyed many favorable and influential connections with civic and business affairs.
Mr. Stephens was born in Venango County, Pennsylvania, June 3o, 1883, son of James Shively and Sarah Ellen (Ohl) Stephens. His paternal grandparents were George Washington and Sarah (O'Neil) Stephens, natives of Pennsylvania and of Scotch-Irish ancestry. James S. Stephens, who was born in Venango County, March 3, 1859, is well and favorably known in practically every district where petroleum oil has been produced in this country. As an oil well driller, his experience has comprehended practically every great field of operations in the United States. He learned the business as a youth in Western Pennsylvania, has operated in Ohio and Indiana, and at present his principal work is in the Mid-Continent field in Oklahoma, where during 192o he was engaged in drilling in one of the most productive fields in that territory. In 1878, while he was drilling an oil well in Mecca Township of Trumbull County, he met his wife, Ellen Ohl, who was born in that township, a daughter of David Ohl, an early settler of Trumbull County.
Coridon Edwin Stephens acquired his early education in Pennsylvania, attending country schools, the grade schools of Emlenton and graduating from the common schools of Cooper Edwin. His high school work was taken at Cortland, Ohio, where after the four year course completes in three years he graduated in 1903. After that he taught school in Mecca Township, and following a summer course at Mount Union College in 1904 he was principal of the grammar school at Vernon, Ohio, during the next fall and winter. In the fall of 1905 he re-entered Mount Union College, and took the regular course, graduating Ph. B. in 1909. The same year he began the study of law in Western Reserve University at Cleveland, where he graduated with the LL. B. degree in 1912. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in June of that year, and for six months prior to his graduation had been employed in a Cleveland law office. Mr. Stephens began his professional work at Warren on January 16, 1913. From September, 1913, to November 13, 1919, he was secretary of the Merchants League at Warren. He was also the first secretary of the Warren Automobile Club, and is now secretary-treasurer of the Warren Real Estate Board, and is secretary of the Trumbull Land Company. He is now in his second term as chief deputy of the deputy state supervisors of elections for Trumbull County. He is also the legally qualified examiner of titles under the Torrens Land Law. For four years he served as secretary of the Republican Executive Committee of Trumbull County, being chairman of the committee the last two years. Mr. Stephens is a member of the Beta Iota Chapter of the Sigma
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Nu at Mount Vernon College, and was a member of the Delta Zeta Chapter of the same fraternity at Western Reserve and also a member of the law fraternity Phi Alpha Delta. He is affiliated with Old Erie Lodge No. 3, Free and Accepted Masons, is also a chapter and council degree Mason, a member of Commandery No. 39 of, the Knights Templar and Mahoning Lodge No. 29, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Trumbull Encampment of that order and Warren Lodge of Elks. He is a member of the Masonic Club at Warren, the Warren Board of Trade and the Warren Real Estate Board.
August 18, 1917, Mr. Stephens married Mary Amelia Hapgood. She is a native of Kansas. Her father, George W. Hapgood, for many years was a member of the Hapgood & Van Gorder Drug Company of Warren, but is now retired from active business. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens are members of the Warren First Methodist Episcopal Church. They have two daughters, Ruth Adaline, born July 18, 1918; and Mary Amelia, born July 18, 1919.
PAUL WICK is a son of Myron C. and Elizabeth (Bunnell) Wick, a grandson of Paul and Susan A. (Ball) Wick and a great-grandson of Henry and Hannah (Baldwin) Wick. This brief statement indicates his relationship with one of the oldest and most prominent families of Eastern Ohio, the complete story of the family and many of the individuals therein being told on other pages.
Individually Paul Wick at the age of thirty has achieved a leading place in the industrial and financial affairs of his native district. He is vice president of the Falcon Steel Company of Niles, but resides at Youngstown, where he was born November 30, 1890. He acquired a primary education in his native city, spent five years in the Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1909, and then entered Yale University and graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1912.
Only a brief interval separated his university career and his working association with the industries of the Mahoning Valley. In October, 1912, he entered the Trumbull Steel Company at Warren, and was with that concern until June I, 1919, at which time he was assistant general manager of sales. In June, t919, he helped organize the Falcon Steel Company at Niles, and besides being vice president of that business is a director of the First National Bank, of the Dollar Savings and Trust Company at Youngstown, and the Second National Bank of Warren.
For nearly two years Mr. Wick was in the service of his country during the World war. November 22, 1917, he enlisted in the United States Naval Resene as a seaman, second class. Most of the time he spent at Norfolk, Virginia. He was commissioned ensign July 10, 1918, and after that until the signing of the armistice was on a submarine chaser. After the signing of the armistice he was transferred with his boat to the Naval Proving Grounds on the Potomac River.
Mr. Wick is a member of the Youngstown Club, the Youngstown Country Club and the Youngstown and Niles Chambers of Commerce. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church at Youngstown. April 29, 1915, he married Almira vol.
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Arms, daughter of Myron I. Arms of Youngstown. Their three children are Paul Myron, born February 9, 1916, William Arms, born June 27, 1918, and Peter Arms, born May 17, 1920.
WILLIAM RITEZEL. The late William Ritezel of Warren was long one of the best-known newspaper men of the Mahoning Valley, and indeed of Ohio. He was born at Claysville, Washington County, Pennsylvania, on July 11, 1828, and died at Warren, Ohio, on January 3, 1901. He was a son of John Ritezel, a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, of German stock, who in 1831 was commissioned a lieutenant in the First Brigade, Tenth Regiment, Fourteenth Division of the militia of Washington and Greene counties by, the governor of Pennsylvania. John Ritezel married Martha Hodgens, who was born in County Armagh, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish ancestors.
William Ritezel went into the office of the Washington, Pennsylvania, Examiner in 1845 and served an apprenticeship of four years at the printer's trade. By 1851 he was one of the owners of that newspaper and also of the Washington, Pennsylvania, Review. Four years later he disposed of his newspaper interests in Pennsylvania and purchased the Trumbull Democrat of Warren, Ohio, in partnership with James Mills. Six months later, however, he became sole owner of the Democrat. He supported through his paper President Lincoln's opposition to secession and disunion, and as the Western Reserve newspaper of Warren also was a supporter of the President in those and other issues of the day it was deemed advisable to merge the two papers, which merger was consummated in February, 1861, Mr. Ritezel continuing editor of the consolidated papers. He was a supporter of the principles of the republican party from the time of Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, and was a prominent factor in that party, and by that party he was elected county treasurer in 1862 and reelected in 1864; was elected to the Ohio Legislature in 1867 and re-elected in 1869; and while in Columbus he met and became intimate with many of the leading men of the state. He and James A. Garfield became fast friends while the latter was still a professor at Hiram College, and when Mr. Garfield was a candidate for the presidency he had no more staunch and unyielding supporter than Mr. Ritezel. He was likewise a warm friend of William McKinley, and as a delegate from his district to the national republican convention at Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1896, he was an ardent and influential supporter of McKinley for the presidential nomination. Mr. Ritezel married Annie E. White, of Washington, Pennsylvania, who died in March, 1879.
FRANKLIN MOORE RITEZEL, son of William and Annie E. (White) Ritezel, was born at Washington, Pennsylvania, on February 15, 1853. His education was acquired in the public schools of Warren, Ohio, and Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1875, and he began his editorial career on the "staff of the Daily Beacon of Akron, Ohio, returning to Warren in 1877 to become a member of the firm of William Ritezel & Company,
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owners and publishers of the Western Reserve Chronicle.
Mr. Ritezel was instrumental in establishing the Warren Daily Chronicle, and following the death of his father he became editor of the paper, and still holds that office. The Chronicle firm publishes the weekly and daily papers. In political life he has been and continues very active and prominent. He was Virtually at the head of the republican party in Trumbull County in the presidential campaign of 1896, and his organization and efforts resulted in Trumbull County giving William McKinley the largest majority of any county in Ohio. In 1892 he was elected postmaster of Warren, and served in that office for four years. There were nine applicants for the position, and it was mutually agreed by the candidates that an election be held and the recommendation of the majority of the voters of the City of Warren determine the appointment. In the two days' contest Mr. Ritezel was overwhelmingly successful. In 1896 Mr. Ritezel was chosen by Governor Bushnell as one of seven members of the Ohio Centennial Commission, of which he was later appointed secretary. Associated with him were such well-known men as R. F. Dawes of Marietta ; Samuel Maths of Cleveland ; Guy G. Major of Toledo; Frank T. Huffman of Dayton; and Ralph Peters of Cincinnati. Mr. Ritezel served as assistant sergeant-at-arms of the national republican convention held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and also of the national republican convention held at Chicago, Illinois, in 1916.
At the time of the declaration of war between the United States and Spain Mr. Ritezel enlisted a company of volunteers and was elected by the company its captain, and commissioned as such by Governor Bushnell. The company was unattached to any command and participated in no active service outside of the state. At the re-organization of the Ohio National Guard at the close of the above mentioned war Mr. Ritezel was commissioned captain in the Fifth Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and in 1899 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and assigned to the Division Staff, Ohio National Guard, Maj.-Gen. Charles Dick commanding. He holds a life commission as lieutenant-colonel, and until the great war served as chief signal officer of the Division of Ohio.
For forty years Mr. Ritezel has been a member of Independence Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Warren, which he served for five years as grand trustee, one year as special grand chancellor and ten years as captain of the Pythian Military Company. He is also a member of the Warren Lodge of Elks, and is a Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity.
In 1879 Mr. Ritezel was married to Isabella Graeter, a daughter of Augustus and Sarah (Hoffman) Graeter, early residents of Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Ritezel became the parents of the following children : William A., who is city editor of the Daily Chronicle, served as a corporal with the American Expeditionary Force during the, great war ; Fred G., who is associate editor of the Chronicle, served on the Mexican border.
During all of his career Mr. Ritezel has shown himself earnest and purposeful in everything he has entered into, and all who have the honor of his acquaintance feel that his presence and association act as a mental tonic and a bracing inspiration. An authority on public questions and a student of politics, Mr. Ritezel has the distinction of possessing a practical experience and an intimate friendship with so many of the leading men of his times that he is able to shape the policies of his newspapers so as to render a service to the general public not easily discounted, and has worthily filled the place left vacant by his honored father.
CURTIS L. BAILEY, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Park Hardware Company at Warren, and one of the alert business men of the city, was born at Bailey's Corners, named for the family, in Lordstown Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, December 14, 186o. His parental grandfather, Isaac Bailey, together with his brothers, came from Pennsylvania to the Mahoning Valley in pioneer days, settling on the farm at Bailey's Corners on which in 1840 was born Samuel E. Bailey, father of Curtis L. Bailey.
Samuel E. Bailey learned the harness-making trade, and in 1867 removed the family to Vineland, New Jersey. Ten years later he returned to Trumbull County and located at Newton-Falls, where he continued in the harness business until he retired from active business. The maternal grandfather, Anthony Luke, came across the mountains of Pennsylvania on foot when a boy of fourteen years and settled at Warren, where he was in business for a number of years as a shoemaker. The mother of Curtis L. Bailey was born at Warren in 0844, and she died there in 1884.
Curtis L. Bailey was reared on a farm until he was eight years old. He attended the district schools and the Newton Falls High School and Mount Union College, and following the completion of his collegiate course he became a clerk, in 1884, in a hardware store at Newton Falls. Three years later he purchased the store, but in 1896 sold it and became a clerk for the S. W. Park Hardware Company at Warren. During the ensuing period he became .0 valuable an adjunct to the business that when .Mr. Park retired from the company in 1906 Mr. Bailey reorganized and incorporated it into the Park Hardware Company, of which Mr. Bailey has since been secretary, treasurer and general manager. To show in a few words the success of this company under Mr. Bailey's management, it may be stated that at the time of the re-organization the annual volume of business amounted to $100,000, and in 1919 it had reached $300,000.
In addition to his interest in the above named company Mr. Bailey is a member of the board of directors of the Trumbull Savings & Loan Company, belongs to the Warren Board of Trade, and is otherwise active in the business life of the community. He is a Mason and Odd Fellow, and belongs to the Masonic Club. During the World war Mr. Bailey rendered a valuable service to his country by acting as a member of the Trumbull County Draft Board.
Curtis L. Bailey was married to Eva Kistler, who was born at Newton Falls, Ohio, a daughter of Samuel Kistler, who also was born at Newton Falls, the son of pioneer parents. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have had the following children born to them : Curtis L. Jr., now in the gas engine business at Lansing, L., married Martha Bransfield, of Warren, and they
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have three children, Eva, Eleanor and Frances ; and Frances, who married George Carlisle, of Warren. They reside at Detroit, Michigan, where Mr. Carlisle is engineer of standards for the Packard Automobile Company. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle have two sons, George, Jr., and Curtis L. Mr. Bailey is a hardworking, hard-headed man of affairs, deeply immersed in intensely practical matters, but at the same time he has found time to be a valuable private citizen, doing far-reaching work for his community and his country when the need arose, and he will continue to render the same quality of service for this is the nature of the man.
JOHN LYNN SMITH, The late John L. Smith was long identified with the business and civic life of Warren, and was prominent alike in the public life of the city and county. He was born at Port Patrick, Scotland, on August 31, 1841, the son of Johnson and Susan Smith. In 1845 the parents moved to Grimsby, England, where the father was a contractor on Government docks ; he was later killed at New Holland. Johnson and Susan Smith were the parents of the following children : James, Johnson, Hugh, William, John L., Thomas, and a daughter, the latter dying in the old country. All the above children are now deceased. Hugh Smith preceded the widow and the other children to the United States and located at New Orleans. The widow and four sons came to this country in 1853 and located in Cleveland, Ohio.
John L. Smith grew up in Cleveland and in his young days followed the occupation of a gardner until he learned the trade of stone cutter. On August 31, 1862, he enlisted at Warren, Ohio, in Company C, Nineteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was at the battle of Stone River, and was one of three men of whom special mention was made for bravery in that battle. On September 19, at the battle of Chickamauga, he was captured and was confined in Libby and other prisons, finally escaping from Danville prison with other prisoners, was recaptured in the Blue Ridge Mountains, bucked and gagged, and returned to Danville. From there he was taken to Andersonville prison and he experienced all of the horrors of that prison for seven months. Upon the approach of General Sherman's army he was removed to Florence, South Carolina, where he was paroled on December 9, 1864, and returned to his home on furlough. He rejoined his regiment early in 1865, and was finally discharged, the war having ended.
Returning from the army Mr. Smith located in Warren and engaged in contracting and building, and continued successfully in that line until 1885, when he retired from active business.
Mr. Smith served as chief of the Volunteer Fire Department of Warren for over twenty years; he served as mayor of the city through two terms ; he was a member of the City Council for four years, and was a member of the Board of Commissioners of Trumbull County for eight years. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Independent Order Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Royal Arcanum. His death occurred on November 25, 1899.
On March 25, 1869, Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Caroline G. Tovey, who was born in England, the daughter of George Tovey, who brought his family to this country and settled in Cleveland when Mrs. Smith was a girl. She died at Warren in 1892.
The biography of Al-Bert C. Smith, son of the late John Lynn Smith, follows:
ALBERT CLARENCE SMITH. One of the prominent men of Warren is Albert C. Smith, who for nearly thirty years has been active in the business, civic and social affairs of Warren, and has won a place among the popular and worth-while citizens of the community.
Mr. Smith was born in Warren on February 19, 1870, the son of the late John Lynn Smith. He attended the Warren public schools and studied civil engineering at Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland. At college he was very active and prominent in athletics. He was playing-manager of the 1893 baseball team, and he was largely instrumental in placing college athletics on, a, sound financial footing for the first time in the history of Case. He organized and financed the equipment of Case's first gymnasium. The last class field day in which he participated, in 1893, saw his individual achievement honored with three first and one second prizes. Returning to Warren in the spring of 1893, Mr. Smith was appointed assistant city engineer, and held that post for six years. In 1899 he became construction engineer in charge of the Ohio and Pennsylvania district of the New Castle Asphalt Block Company, and gave his time to that industry for eight years.
In 1908, at the urgent request Of the Warren City Board of Public Service, Mr. Smith accepted the appointment of city engineer, and remained active head of that department until February, 1913, when he resigned and with his brother William T. organized the Smith Engineering and Construction Company. The chief feature of this business is municipal engineering and construction.
Both as an official and private citizen A. C. Smith has rendered many distinguishing services to Warren. When the city determined to install the Tungsten Lighting System to Mr. Smith was delegated the task of making all the technical plans, including the placing and distribution of the lighting units, and providing for the ornamental system in the business district. Warren was the first city in the world to install an entire system of Tungsten street lighting, and the perfection of the service is largely a personal credit due Mr. Smith. For several years Warren has had the reputation of being one of the best-lighted cities in the country, and its system has been patterned after by many other municipalities.
In any public enterprise the people of Warren turn readily to Mr. Smith as a leader. During the World war he served as chairman of the Liberty Loan campaign parade committee, whose activities were responsible for the numerous elaborate and successful demonstrations during the war period which served to help stimulate the patriotic interest of the community. And as chairman of that committee, Mr. Smith had charge of the arrangements for the great parade held in honor of the home-coming of the soldier
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boys, when over 5,000 people marched to the music of thirteen bands in welcoming the veterans home from overseas. He was assistant precinct chairman of the Liberty Loan drive and was president of the West Porter Avenue War Stamps Sales Club, it being the first club of the kind organized in Warren.
Mr. Smith is president of the Trumbull County Civil Engineers Club and is a certified member of both the Ohio Engineering Society and the American Association of Civil Engineers. He is a member of Independence Lodge No. 90, Knights of Pythias, and has been honored with election as chancellor commander of that lodge on two different occasions. He is president of the board of trustees of that lodge, and it is due to his efforts and foresight that the lodge is now considered one of the wealthiest Pythian lodges in the state. He holds also the rank of colonel in the Uniformed Rank as brigade engineer in the order. He is past exalted ruler of Warren Lodge No. 295, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of Old Erie Lodge No. 3, and Mahoning Chapter No. 66, Royal Arch Masons, in Masonry. He is also a member of Warren Council No. 222, United Commercial Travelers, and of the Warren Board of Trade. He is also a member of the Warren Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Smith is a former president of the Giddings Republican Club and is prominent in republican politics, yet in 1919 he was honored by Mayor McBride, democrat, who selected Mr. Smith as one of the six members of the mayor's board of advisors.
On May 7, 1896, Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Ida May Warren, who was born in the City of Warren, Ohio, on January 15, 1875, the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Dennis) Warren, natives of England, who were well-known residents of Warren.
To Mr. and Mrs. Smith the following children have been born. Albert Clarence, Jr., born February 18, 1897, is a graduate of Case School, class of '20. In June, 1918, while a student at Case, he entered the Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps, which corps was provided by special act of Congress, the selection of its members being restricted to students having especial fitness for that particular service. In. October, 1918, he was ordered to the Students Army Training Corps, from which he was honorably discharged following the armistice. Vera May, born April 19, 1898, was an art student in Pennsylvania Normal School at Indiana, Pennsylvania, and is now art instructor in the Warren public schools. Thelma Elizabeth, born November 25, 1901, is a student in Warren High School ; Jean Warren, born October 9, 1903, a student in Warren Junior High School ; Carolyn Warren, born September 15, 1905; Jack Warren, born June 3o, 1909; and Hugh Junior, born February 17, 1913.
Mr. Smith's residence, at io8 Porter Avenue, is one of the beautiful homes in Warren. A commodious semi-bungalow, covered with ivy, set in a large, well-kept lawn dotted with flowers and shrubbery, the home and grounds present a most picturesque and pleasing picture. The home was completed in 1904, and is the first stucco house built in this city.
WILLIAM TOVEY SMITH, of the Smith Engineering & Construction Company, and a well-known and popular citizen of Warren, was born in this city on November I, 1875, and is a son of the late Jo Lynn Smith. He was educated in the Warren public schools, and as a school boy learned the fundamentals of electric engineering by working during mornings, nights and holidays with the Warren Electric Light & Power Company.
After leaving school young Smith was employed as an electrical engineer for a number of years in Warren, then went to Cleveland, where he was superintendent of the I. H. Moses Company, electrical engineers and contractors. While in Cleveland he installed the first electrical plant at the Ohio State Hospital at Newburg. After spending three years in Cleveland he returned to Warren and became chief electrician for the old New York & Ohio Electrical Company, and was subsequently with the Packard Electrical Company in the same capacity. Four years later he engaged in electrical engineering contracting on his own account, and in 1905 he became a general municipal contractor and handled large contracts for paving, sewerage and construction work. He was the first contractor in Warren to put his workmen on a nine-hour schedule, and still later on an eight-hour work-day. In 1913 he, with his brother Albert C., organized the Smith Engineering & Construction Company.
Mr. Smith has for a number of years taken an active part in civic and social affairs, and has always been found willing to give his support to all public movements having for their object the promotion of the city and her welfare. When the United States entered the great war he, being over draft age, volunteered and applied for Government ship-yard work, but he was not called on. However, his patriotism found expression in local war work, and he took active part 'in the different campaigns for the raising of war funds. Especially was he active in the work in District No. 8, Precinct B, Ward No. 4 (his own), where a larger amount of liberty bonds was sold than in any other district in the city, notwithstanding that it is a workingman's district.
Mr. Smith is prominent in republican politics, and for a number of years he served as a member of the Trumbull County Central Committee and took active charge of the committee work in his district. He is a member of the Warren Board of Trade, of Warren Lodge of Elks No. 295, and is past worthy president of Warren Aerie of Eagles, No. 311. He was a member of the Warren City Volunteer Fire Department for two years, and is a member of the Camp, Sons of Veterans.
Mr. Smith married May L., daughter of Samuel and Julia Fenton, of Warren, and to their marriage the following children have been born: Georgene May, who graduated from Warren High School, class of 1919, and is a student at Oberlin College, class of '23; and William Aubrey, a student in the Warren High School, class of '21.
JOSEPH JOHN ZIPPERER. One of the men who has reached an enviable position among his fellow citizens as an honorable and dependable merchant and public-spirited man is Joseph John Zipperer of Warren, and his personal popularity is recognized throughout the Mahoning Valley. He was born in the City of
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Vienna, Austria, on March 1, 1871, a son of Alexander A. and Josephine (Rabas) Zipperer. The family sailed for the United States on June t, 1871, landed at New York City, from whence they went to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where they remained until 1883, and then removed to Ashland, Wisconsin. Alexander A. Zipperer was a flour and grist miller by trade, but at Ashland he was engaged, and very successfully, in the manufacture of mineral waters for sixteen years. He had a fine mineral spring on his property, from which he bottled the water which had such excellent medicinal qualities that a ready market was found for his output. From Ashland the family moved to South Bend, Indiana, where the father died in 1914. The mother survives and makes her home at Warren with her son.
Joseph John Zipperer began his business career at South Bend as a salesman in a hardware store, where he spent ten years. He then became a traveling salesman for the Michigan Stove Company of Detroit, his territory being the State of Ohio, with headquarters at Columbus. Among the cities he visited regularly was Warren, and desiring to leave the road and establish himself in a business of his own, and having faith in Warren's future, he, in 1908, bought a small hardware store, which he opened for business on January 1, 1909. In July, 1915, he disposed of his hardware business, and forming a business association with G. E. Besanceney of Newark, Ohio, he organized the Zipperer Furniture Company, opening the largest furniture house at Warren, which business is conducted by Mr. Zipperer, his partner being at the head of a store in the same line at Newark.
Mr. Zipperer is a man of affairs, and is a director of the Warren Guaranteed Mortgage Company, of the Warren Board of Trade and of the Rotary Club. He is a member of the executive committee of the Warren Charity Association and is a leading member of the Warren Council of the Knights of Columbus, in which order he is a fourth degree knight. Mr. Zipperer is a member of the council of Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, and an official of the local organization of the Boy Scouts of America. During the World war he gave freely of his time to war work, and is serving as one of the seven members of the War Board of Trumbull County, which had charge of all of the war work. He was chairman of the Warren Merchants Committee, which had charge of all Red Cross, Young Men's Christian Association and other organized campaign work, and he was a member of the executive committee of the Warren Red •Cross, as well as chairman of the Knights of Columbus campaign drive.
Mr. Zipperer was married to Mayme Keefe, a daughter of Bernard Keefe of Kankakee, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Zipperer have the following children : Clement S., Leo J. and Bernard E., and all of them are living. It would be difficult to find a better citizen anywhere than Mr. Zipperer, and he has won confidence and respect through his energy, his uprightness and his steadfast devotion to the best interests of the land in which he has been reared and the only one he has known.
WILLIAM J. KENEALY. Keen-witted, clear-minded and well versed in legal lore, William J. Kenealy holds a noteworthy position among the active and successful attorneys of Youngstown, where he has spent his entire life, his birth having occurred in this city October 23, 1883.
Daniel Kenealy, his father, was born in Ireland, and as a lad came with a Mr. Struthers to Youngstown, locating here in 1854, and was thereafter engaged in milling until his death, at the early age of fifty-five years. His wife, whose maiden name was Bridget Shields, survived him, passing away in 1917, at the venerable age of four score and four years. Of the thirteen children born of their union ten are now living, the subject of this brief sketch being the youngest child of the parental household.
Acquiring his preliminary education in the Youngstown schools, William J. Kenealy, a bright and ambitious student, read law with E. H. Moore of this city, applying himself so faithfully to his studies that he was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 191o. Immediately entering upon his chosen profession, he met with encouraging success and in 1915 formed a partnership .with David G. Jenkins, with whom he was associated until Mr. Jenkins was appointed judge. In 1919 Mr. Kenealy entered into partnership with Edmund Drake, and as head of the legal firm of Kenealy & Drake is carrying on a large and thriving business, his professional skill and ability having won him an extensive and profitable clientele.
In 1908 Mr. Kenealy was united in marriage with Miss Catherine McFadden, a daughter of John F. and Mary (Blanchard) McFadden, and they have two children, Ruth, born in 1911, and Virginia, born in 1915. Prominently identified in politics with the republican party, Mr. Kenealy served as Mr. Bald-win's secretary during the recent campaign. He was very active in war work, devoting his time during the draft to the questionnaires. Fraternally he is a member of Youngstown Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
JOSEPH W. VAN WYE, who is now living virtually retired on his fine farm in Weathersfield Township, Trumbull County, has the distinction of being one of the oldest native-born citizens of this township, his birth having here occurred April 16, 1837. His parents, Abram and Charity (Laird) Van Wye, were born and reared in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1834, accompanied by their children, seven of the number having been born in Pennsylvania and five more having been born after the removal of the family to Ohio. James, a brother of Abram, had come earlier to Trumbull County; but later he removed to Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life. As the names clearly indicate, the Van Wye family is of staunch Holland Dutch lineage, and the Laird family is of Scotch origin. After the war of the Revolution representatives of the Van Wye family moved from Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, to Washington County, that state, where members of the family took part in the famous "Whiskey Rebellion" during the first presidential election of. General George Washington. Members of the family had come to Ohio in the early period of its history, but, owing to Indian troubles incidental to the War of 1812, they returned to the Keystone state. Abram Van Wye established his home on a pioneer farm
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on the Mahoning River, and he reclaimed his land from the virgin forest, his activities as a farmer having here continued until his death, in his fifty-eighth year, his widow passing away at the age of sixty years. The old homestead farm was that on which the subject of this review was born, and a portion of the property lies within the corporate limits of the City of Niles, so that upon the sale of a part of the tract in recent years it commanded a price of $1,000 an acre. A part of the old homestead is now owned by the widow and children of Abram Van Wye, a grandson of Abram. The old canal crossed this farm, as did also the first railroad to enter Niles, and Joseph W. well recalls the time, when he was a boy of about three years, that the first canal boat passed through the new canal, in 1839. He also witnessed the passing of the last boat through this early waterway in 1866, at .which time he was still residing on the old home farm.
Concerning the twelve children of Abram and Charity (Laird) Van Wye brief record may consistently be given at this juncture : Charles continued to reside in Weathersfield Township until his death, at the age of sixty-six years, and his son Abram inherited the old homestead; John died in Howland Township, at the age of eighty-six years ; Lydia, wife of Hiram Dunlap, was a resident of that Township at the time of her death ; Mary Jane and her husband, John A. Hunter, both died in Trumbull County ; Nancy became the wife of Theodore De-Forest, and they were residents of the State of Virginia at the time of their death ; Catherine died in girlhood; Amanda died in young womanhood ; William, a member of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war, was killed in an engagement at Ringgold, Georgia, November 27, 1863; Joseph W., of this review, was the next in order of birth ; Darthula is the wife of Charles P. Moore, of Bristolville, Trumbull County ; Almira died at the age of twenty-two years ; Sabina H., the wife of Thomas Radcliffe, died at Warren in 1919.
Joseph W. Van Wye gained his early education in the common schools of his native county and was seventeen years of age at the time of his father's death. His eldest brother was nineteen years old at the time, and all of the brothers maintained a virtual partnership in the operation of the home farm until their ranks were broken by William's enlistment for service in the Civil war. After the death of his brother William Joseph W. took the latter's share in the farm, and he continued to be associated with his other brothers in its operation until he was thirty-two years of age. By purchasing the interests of the other heirs he and his brothers Charles and John came into full ownership of the farm, and at the age noted above Joseph W. sold his interest to his brother Charles and the latter's sons. He then made a trip through various western states, and upon his return to Trumbull County he purchased a farm just north of Niles, in Howland Township, but about a year later he sold this property, and in the spring of 1870 he purchased his present farm, eligibly situated near the city limits of Niles on the west, and four miles south of the county courthouse at Warren. The original purchase comprised 263 acres, but about eighty acres were sold for railroad use, both the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio railroads crossing the farm. The well improved place yields large annual crops of corn and hay, to the production of which special attention has been given, but other crops are raised in minor degree, as well as live stock. From the farm Mr. Van Wye has sold a very appreciable amount of valuable timber. One-half mile distant from the home place he owns another farm of sixty-three acres, improved with good buildings. He has never sought public office, but has served as a member of the School Board of his district, of which he was clerk for some time. He cast his first presidential vote at the first election of President Lincoln, and has continued his loyal alliance with the republican party since that time. He enlisted in the Civil war as a private in June, 1862, in Company B, Eighty-Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,-and was out four months in this service. He attends and supports the Methodist Episcopal Church at Niles.
December 22, 1877, recorded the marriage of Mr. Van Wye to Mrs. Ella K. (Troxell) Van Wye, widow of Elihu Van Wye, who died when a young man and who was a son of Charles Van Wye, thus having been a nephew of the subject of this review. Elihu D. is survived by one son, Fred, who married Anna Law, of Niles, their home being now in the City of Cleveland, and their four children being Harriet E. (wife of Willard Tucker), Joseph C., Frederick Herbert and William J. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Van Wye have two children: Almira E. is the wife of James W. Cox and they reside on her father's smaller farm, previously mentioned in this sketch; William Joseph, who has the active management of his father's home farm and occupies a portion of the spacious parental home, married Alta Beck, of Champion Township. William J. Van Wye is vice president of the Trumbull County Fair Association, and is actively identified with the local Farm Bureau, whose prime function is the improving of general farm conditions in the county.
VICTOR G. LUMBARD. His technical knowledge of leather manufacture makes Mr. Lumbard a recognized authority both in this country and abroad. For years he has given his time to investigations covering every branch and process of leather making. His association with the Mahoning Valley industrial field is comparatively recent, and as general manager of the Ohio Leather Company at Girard he has been instrumental in the rebuilding of that institution.
Mr. Lumbard was born at Geneva, Illinois, May 23, 1868. He was liberally educated, and as a young man studied medicine. He was chiefly attracted, however, to the subject of chemistry, and before graduating as a physician he took up the technical study of leather and its manufacture.
His investigations have taken him to nearly all the great leather producing plants in the world, including England, Germany, France, Austria, Russia, China, Japan, Australia and South America. Many companies and business organizations have employed his expert services in an advisory capacity.
During the early part of 1914 Mr. Lumbard was in Germany. On July 29, 1914, the date of the outbreak of the World war, he was in Russia.
Mr. Lumbard became general manager of the Ohio Leather Company in January, 1917. Under his super-
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vision the industry has been rebuilt and transformed and is now one of the best known leather plants in the world.
LOU CAREY VAN NESS, president of the Hubbard Banking Company, is a member of a family that for nearly a century has been identified with Trumbull County. They have been substantial farmers, good business men, and have impressed their influence upon many of the developments that have transformed the pioneer wilderness into one of the greatest industrial districts in America.
The founders of the family in Ohio were Peter and Susan (Mattison) Van Ness. Susan Mattison was born in Sussex County, New Jersey, in 1780, and was a granddaughter of John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Peter Van Ness was born at Fishing Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in 1783. In 1790 he was taken to New Jersey, where he was reared to manhood and where in 1807 he married Susan Mattison. A few years later they moved to Muncy, Pennsylvania, and finally they came to Hubbard Township, Trumbull County. At that time Coalburg was a place of much more importance than at present, and Peter Van Ness became an employe in the old carding mill at that point. He then settled a mile north of Hubbard Village on the Gleason farm, along the stage road between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. For several years he made his house a tavern for the entertainment of passing traffic. On leaving that farm he removed to Jamestown, Pennsylvania, where he died about 1870, at the age of eighty-seven. Peter Van Ness and wife had six children : Catherine, who became the wife of John Lancaster and lived in Holmes County, Ohio; John, who was never heard of by his people after young manhood ; Aaron M.; Sarah, who married Adelbert Chilson, and had seven children; Samuel, who moved to Iowa, where he died; and Robert, who died as a Pennsylvania farmer.
Aaron M. Van Ness, father of the Hubbard banker, was born at Trenton, New Jersey, in 1812, and from the age of two years lived in Trumbull County. While his parents were living at the old tavern he and a neighbor boy left home, and at Franklin, Pennsylvania, he learned the blacksmith's trade. He was employed as a tool sharpener during the building of the old Pennsylvania Canal. On returning to Hubbard he bought a farm near what is now Stop 44 on the interurban, a mile and a half northeast of Hubbard. While clearing his land he also set up a shop. His ambition to provide a home for his family and achieve success led him to over exertion, and he literally worked night and day, between the farm and the forge. He was worn out by the time he reached middle life, and his last years were spent as a semi-invalid. About 1898 he moved to Hubbard, and died April 2o, 1900.
On February 28, 1833, Aaron M. Van Ness married Pamelia Price, who died leaving six children. On May 12, 1859, he married Sally Ann Price, a sister of his first wife. She was horn in Hubbard Township November 29, 1830, and is now in her ninety-first year, living with her son Lou.
Her grandparents were Samuel and Mary (Stinson) Price. The former was born in New Jersey
August 5, 1750, and died December 20, 1827, in Hubbard. In company with other New Jersey colonists he came to Ohio in 1807 and acquired 400 acres of land, part of which is now covered by the yards of the New York Central at Coalburg. He was buried in the northwest corner of the old North Cemetery. The children of Samuel Price and wife were : James Stinson; Archibald, who lived and died in Brookfield Township of Trumbull County ; Sally, David, Betsey, John, Susan, Jacob and Richard.
James Stinson Price, father of Mrs. Aaron M. Van Ness, was born at Trenton, New Jersey, November 7, 1783, and spent the greatest part of his life on the old Price farm in Hubbard Township, where he died when past seventy. His first wife was Betsy Clark, who was the mother of two children : Polly, who lived in Vienna Township and whose first husband was Stephen Burnett and the second Abel Truesdale; and Clark, who never married and died in Hubbard Township. James S. Price married for his second wife Sally Duer, and by that union there were the following children : Pamelia, first wife of A. M. Van Ness ; Euphema, who married Lawrence Hager and lived in Hubbard Township; Eli, whose farm was at Stop 46, where he died; Jonathan, who died on a farm adjoining that of his father ; Stinson, a tailor who went to Bedford, Pennsylvania, where he died; John Duer Armstrong Price, who lived on part of the old Price farm ; and Sally Ann Van Ness.
As noted above A. M. Van Ness by his first marriage had six children : Stephen H. was a farmer in Hubbard Township and died April 13, 1879, at the age of forty-five; Charlotte is the widow of R. W. Jewell and lives at Stop 46; Susan Eveline is a dressmaker and lives with her sister ; Peter, who died in childhood; James Stinson, who died in childhood; and Jasper Price, who died at the age of twenty-two. Mrs. Sally Ann Van Ness had three children : James Eli, who began his career as an insurance man at Warren and afterwards was a drug salesman in Chicago, leaving that city when his health failed, and he died at Hubbard July 12, 191o; Wilbur Augustus, who died in childhood; and Lou Carey, now the only survivor of his mother's family.
Lou Carey Van Ness was born at Hubbard September 1, 1866, acquired a good education in the local schools, and would probably have devoted the greater part of his life to agriculture had not an injury obliged him to give up that vocation. In November, 1892, he entered the Hubbard Banking Company as bookkeeper, and in January, 1899, was elected assistant cashier and in 1904 became cashier. He was at that post of duty for five years, and resigned in 1909 to handle his important real estate interests in Hubbard. Three years later he was recalled to a post of responsibility in the banking company as vice president, succeeding E. C. Gething. In May, 1920, at the time of the death of S. G. March, Mr. Van Ness succeeded to the presidency of the bank.
For the past ten years Mr. Van Ness has been a constructive factor in the development of real estate in and around Hubbard, and has used his capital and enterprise to provide some of the housing facilities required by the rapidly increasing industrial
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population. He owns the old homestead at Stop 44, and for several years past has been platting portions of it, building homes and selling them on the installment plan to employes of the different nearby manufacturing plants. At Hubbard he is engaged in a similar service, and has erected more than twenty homes. A demand for homes in this section comes from many workers in the industries of Youngstown and Sharon.
Mr. Van Ness has never sought the honors of politics, and has rather concerned himself with making his private business work for the good of the community. He has filled such honorary offices as member of the Board of Public Works and member of the School Board. He is an independent democrat, and for many years has been an active member and official of the Baptist Church.
June 5, 1890, Mr. Van Ness married Miss Mary Emily Kerr, youngest daughter of Samuel L. and Sarah J. Kerr. The Kerr family is an old and prominent one of Trumbull County.
Mrs. Van Ness grandfather was David Goble Kerr, a son of William Hampton Kerr. David G. Kerr was born November 5, 1786, and in 1807 married Sarah Lain. About 1825 they came to Ohio by wagon, traveling in company with other neighbors from New Jersey, and they settled and lived on the old Kerr farm. Samuel L. Kerr, father of Mrs. Van Ness, was born in Sussex County, New Jersey, January 8, 1821, and grew up in the homestead in Trumbull County and was a practical farmer until he removed to Hubbard as president of the Hubbard Banking Company, an office he filled until his death. He died October 31, 1900, having returned to the old homestead after the death of his wife. December 21, 1854, Samuel L. Kerr married Sarah Jane Jewell, who was born February 17, 1831, in Hubbard Township, and died November 17, 1899. Their three children were : Albert Jewell, who lives on the old Kerr farm ; Alice Louise, wife of William Burnett, of Youngstown; and Mary Emily Van Ness.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Ness have two children : Alice H., born October 14, 1891, and Leonard K., born September 6, 1901. Alice is the wife of Raymond H. Tracy, of Hubbard, and they have three children, Virginia, Robert L. and Paul W. Mr. Tracy is a graduate and post-graduate of Harvard University, was formerly in the real estate business and with the Hubbard Banking Company, and is now connected with the City Savings Bank of Youngstown. The son, Leonard K., graduated from the Hubbard High School in 1919 and is now completing his education in Dennison University at Granville, Ohio.
LLOYD BOOTH, the elder, who died in August, 19o1, might by every valid reason be associated with that group of men who laid the foundation of the present eminence of Youngstown as a great industrial center. On the foundation of an expert skill as a machinist he developed the technical judgment and executive ability to manage men and direct a large institution, and for over thirty years was one of the leading manufacturers of Youngstown.
Born near Albany, New York, May 10, 1834, son of Arza and Phoebe (Beardslee) Booth, he spent his early life on his father's farm, was educated in Albany, and learned the machinist's trade there. For a time he was a master mechanic with the Erie railroad shops at Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. Later he moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, and for a time was locomotive engineer on the East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad. Before coming to Youngstown his home was at Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he was a partner in the firm of Dick, Fisk & Company, manufacturers of engines and oil well equipment.
When he came to Youngstown in April, 1867, Mr. Booth bought a small foundry and machine shop. His skill and knowledge made him technically familiar with every detail of the plant, and as a keen judge of men he rapidly selected subordinates and gave the business a reputation for reliable work by no means confined to the immediate locality. As good judgment dictated he expanded the industry, and eventually it was conducted as Lloyd Booth & Company, and afterwards incorporated as the Lloyd Booth Company. Mr. Booth in 1901 sold the plant to the United Engineering & Foundry Company, but died soon after, thus relieving himself of the cares and responsibilities of business and had little opportunity to enjoy the richly deserved leisure he contemplated.
Lloyd Booth was also a director of the Mahoning National Bank and was a thirty-second degree Mason. While his friends admired his business judgment and the ability that had enabled him to achieve a striking success from small beginnings, they also esteemed his keen sense of humor, his companionableness. the zest he took in a good joke. He was also accustomed to the outdoor life, taking great pleasure in hunting and fishing.
At Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1858, he married Nan C. Gilbert. They were the parents of three children, Charles H.; Gilbert B., who died May 5, 1896; and Grace B., who is the wife of John T. Harrington and has one daughter, Florence.
Charles H. Booth, who for many years was actively associated with his father's business and with other important concerns in the Mahoning Valley, was born at Knoxville, Tennessee, January 17, 1861, and has lived in Youngstown since he was six years of age. He attended the public schools, and finished his education with two years in the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio. After college he became his father's bookkeeper and eventually became vice president of the United Engineering and Foundry Company and general manager of the Lloyd Booth Branch at Youngstown. While in recent years he has relaxed somewhat his strenuous business effort, he is still vitally interested in a number of important concerns. He is a vice president and director of the First National Bank, the Dollar Savings & Trust Company, a director of the General Fireproofing Company, the Ohio Leather Company, the Youngstown Sheet .& Tube Company, the Realty Security Company and the Real Estate Securities Company, He contributed materially to the splendid record made by Youngstown during the World war, and in that period was chairman of the Mahoning Chapter of the Red Cross.
June 15, 1887, Charles H. Booth married Harriet Arms, daughter of Myron I. Arms of Youngstown. The two children born to their marriage were Lloyd and Jane Arms.