400 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY and Claude, and the daughter is the wife of Edward St. Peters, of Corey, Pennsylvania. Claude Greiner received his educational training in the high school of Columbus, Ohio, of which he is a graduate with the class of 1890, and in the Agricultural and Commercial College of that city. During three years he served as a member of the State Militia of Pennsylvania as a member of Company A, Tenth Regiment, from which he has an honorable discharge. He married in 1892 Lucy C. Parker, a native daughter of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of its high school. She is of English parentage, a daughter of Henry and Harriet Parker, of Monongahela City. The only child of this union is a daughter, Naomi, fifteen years of age. Mr. Greiner is in politics a Republican, and his fraternal relations connect him with Henry M. Phillips Lodge No. 337, F. & A. M., of Monongahela City, and with the Star of Valley Council, Junior Order of United American Mechanics. WILLIAM McMAHAN.—A substantial farmer of Johnson township, William McMahan comes of a family of Ohio pioneers, his parents coming from Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1842, and settling on a farm in Trumbull county, where they passed the remainder of their lives. He, himself, was born in Lowell, Mahoning county, March 22, 1832, and attended the district schools of his native place until the removal of the family to Trumbull county. His parents were Moses and Margaret (Shoff) McMahan, the father a native of Ireland'and the mother of Germany. Moses McMahan came with his parents to Mahoning county, Ohio, when quite a young boy and his future wife accompanied her parents to a locality near New Castle, western Pennsylvania. After their marriage they settled on a farm in Mahoning county where they resided until their removal to Bazetta township, Trumbull county. William McMahan was the sixth in a family of seven children, three boys and four girls, and resided with his parents until his marriage to Miss Harriett Chatfield, September 1, 1862. His wife was a native of Holland township, this county, born January 28, 1834, daughter of John and Eunice (Percy) Chatfield, both natives of Connecticut, born respectively October 15, 1793, and February 2, 1797. After their marriage in Connecticut, Mr. and Mrs. Chatfield came to Vienna township, this county, and in June, 1825, located in Holland township, fixing their home on an eighty-acre tract of timber which the husband immediately commenced to clear and improve. Some years later the family removed to Mecca township, Trumbull county, where they resided several years, subsequently residing with their children until their removal to Platteville, Wisconsin. There the father worked at his early trade as a shoemaker and after some years they moved to Trenton, Missouri, and made their home with their oldest daughter, Mrs. Wise. There Mrs. Chatfield died October 25, 1869, her husband passing away on the following 18th of Decem- HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 401 ber, at Platteville, Nebraska. There were eleven children in their family, ten daughters and one son. After his marriage Mr. McMahan located on a farm of sixty-eight acres in Johnson township to which he added from time to time until he owned one hundred and forty-four acres. At different times he sold portions of his estate and is now the owner of seventy-five and one quarter acres of thoroughly cultivated and improved land, the increase in its value and its attractiveness being due entirely to his own industry and practical labors. When he first moved upon the place the few buildings thereon were all constructed of logs, those which he has erected being all modern farm buildings. He has chiefly confined himself to general farming and dairy operations, in both of which he has been entirely successful. He has become the father of three children : Daniel T., born April 20, 1864, and now a resident of Johnson tdwnship ; Robert, born January 21, 1866, and died January 8, 1895, in an accident on the Erie Railroad; and Floyd J., born December 23, 1872, who was also killed in an accident on the same road, March 13, 1903. EMERY DE FOREST, a well known general farmer and dairyman of Johnson township, Trumbull county, was born in Brookfield township, November 7, 1847, a son of Abram and Mary Ann (Wheeler) De Forest., the father being a native of New Jersey and the mother of Erie County, Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents, Gersham Vanderburg and _____ (Dunham) De Forest, were both natives of New Jersey, while the maternal grandparents, William and Margaret Wheeler, were born in northeastern New York. After his marriage, Abram De Forest located in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, where for twenty years he conducted a saw and grist mill, and then in 1872 removed to his father's old home in Brookfield township,. Ohio. He resided here until 1883 and then again moved to Pennsylvania, this time locating in Sharon, where he remained until his death in 1894, at the venerable age of eighty years. His wife then made her home with her son, Emery, until her death in March, 1896, at the age of eighty-seven years. The two children born to them were: Byron, now a resident of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and Emery, of this sketch. Emery De Forest received his elementary education in the common schools of Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and afterward attended the state normal at Edinboro, Pennsylvania. He then returned home and learned the milling business and later was with the Powell Bros. & Smith nursery, of Syracuse, New York, for one year. Then, after working on a farm for about one year he returned to his father's home and remained there until his marriage, on September 9, 1875, to Miss Emma Weir, a native of Bazetta township and a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Arthurholt) Weir. The father was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the mother in Brookfield township. For four years following his marriage he 402 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY conducted his father's mill and at the conclusion of this period sold his interest and removed to Newton Falls, Ohio, where he conducted a rented farm for three years. In 1882 Mr. De Forest purchased a farm of one hundred and seventy-eight acres, one mile south of Johnston Center, this farm being one of the oldest in the township, and was first owned by Colonel Johnston, for whom the township was named. He still resides here and besides general farming also conducts a modern and well improved dairy. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. De Forest all died in infancy, but they have adopted a child, Belva Anna, who is at home. In politics, Mr. De Forest is a Republican, and has always been active in the local affairs of his party, having served as township trustee for three terms and has been a member of the school board for over nine years. He is a member of the Methodist church. CLEMENT L. VESEY, one of the enterprising factors in the agricultural interests of Trumbull county, whose excellent farm home is within Bloomfield township, was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1847, a son of John and Esther (Crow) Vesey, natives of Clarion county. The grandparents were John and ' (Pierce) Vesey, on the one side and William and Esther (Wilson) Crow on the other side; they were also Pennsylvanians. In 1850 the parents went to Champion township and purchased fifty-seven acres of land, upon which they lived several years. They were financially prosperous and added to their landed estate another farm containing eighty-seven acres and one of seventy-six acres. The father died there in 1893, since which his widow has resided at Warren, Ohio, with L. L. Clark, aged eighty-one years. Clement L. was the next to the eldest of the nine sons and four .daughters in his parents' family. All except two of this large family are still living. Clement L. resided with his parents until his marriage, September 12, 1876, to Emma Pierce, born in Warren, Ohio, a daughter of Johnson and Mary J. (Corbett) Pierce, natives of Clarion county, Penn sylvania. After his marriage Mr. Vesey resided one year on the four hundred acre farm in northern Mesopotamia township. He then purchased seventy acres in Bloomfield township, to which he has since added thirty-one acres. All but thirty acres of this farm is under a high state of cultivation, the thirty-acre tract being in pasture and woodland. Mr. Vesey has a large dairy of Holstein cows, and carries on successful farming operations. He has a splendid orchard and does custom work at cider-making and the production of choice apple butter, which business he has been engaged in since 1887. He was educated at the common schools of Ohio. In politics, he is independent in the vote he casts, not being bound by the platform of any one of the several political organizations. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and has been a steward in the church since 1905. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 403 Believing in the great amount of good accomplished by the Grange movement, he is identified with this farmers' society, in North Bloomfield. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Vesey are as follows: Ellis J., of Bloomfield township; Charles, at home. JOHN NELSON CURTISS. —One of the most prominent and best known business men whose worth and merit graces the history of Trumbull county is to be found in the personnel of John Nelson Curtiss, the Owner of a beautiful farm homestead in Farmington township. He is also numbered among the native sons of this township, born on the 5th of September, 1852, a son of Louis and Harriet (Lewis) Curtiss, born respectively on the 22d of April, 1805, and on the 16th of May, 1811, and a grandson of Ethan and Ann (Sedgwick) Curtiss, from Connecticut, born respectively on the 2d of February, 1783, and in 1782. His maternal grandparents, Dennis and Jane Lewis, were also from Connecticut. and both families moved from there to Brunswick in Medina county, Ohio, in 1808. In 1827 they established their home in Farmington township, Trumbull county, where they located in the dense woods, and there began clearing their land and erected log buildings. Mrs. Curtiss was the second white child born in Farmington township. Louis Curtiss and Harriet Lewis were married on the 2d of June, 1831, and they then took up their abode on one of his farms in this township, for he owned several here, and was one of the community's most prominent agriculturists. He was a stanch Republican in his political affiliations, and he died on his farm here on the 31st of March, 1874, his wife surviving him until the 26th of October, 1892. Of their family of eleven children seven are now living, as follows: Silas, of. Farmington township : Nancy, the wife of Elmer Mills, of Nelson township, Trumbull county ; John N., Martha A., now Mrs. John Cleland and a resident of Nelson township ; Mary Jane, whose home is with her brother John N.: Harriet Ellen, the wife of Albert Morrison, of Farmington; and Alfred Amelia, the wife of Wesley linear, of Cleveland. John N. Curtiss received his educational training in the public schools of Farmington township and in the Western Reserve Seminary, and the farm which his father cleared and developed has been his home throughout his life. After his father's death he bought the homestead of one hundred and fourteen acres, fifty acres of which is under cultivation and the remainder is timber and pasture land. The home was built by the father in 1852, a beautiful dwelling of sixteen rooms and supplied throughout with running water. On this farm Mr. Curtiss maintains a large dairy and is engaged in diversified farming and the raising of thoroughbred Holstein cattle, Pereheron horses and Chester White hogs. His politics are Republican, and he has served as the trustee of his township since 1898. He is a member of the Grange and of the fraternal order of Knights of Pythias, lodge No. 333 of West Farmington. On the 16th of January, 1873, Mr. Curtiss was married to Victoria 404 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY M. Symes, a daughter of John and Martha (Hatch) Symes, from Farmington, and the only child of that union is Verna. Victoria, who is now the wife of Bert Hart, a farmer in Southington township, Trumbull county. Mrs. Curtiss died on November 8, 1875, and on the 1st of May, 1877, Mr. Curtiss married Nettie Lord, who was born in Vineland, Winnebago county, Wisconsin, February 21, 1853, a daughter of John and Charlotte (Rowland) Lord. John Lord was born in Oneida county, New York, but his parents, William and Mary (Jones) Lord, were born respectively in England and Wales, and coming to America they located in Farmington township, Trumbull county, Ohio, and later in Wisconsin. The -children of Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss are: Vinnie May, born April 10, 1878, is the wife of Milo Thompson, of West Farmington ; Freda Maud, born November 2, 1880, died September 26, 1899; Elsie Belle, born December 5, 1882, died October 26, 1900; Angie Lynn, born September 11, 1884, is the wife of F. W. Reiter, a mail clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and a resident of Ashtabula, Ohio; and Eva June, born June 11, 1884, is the wife of Fred Estlack, an agriculturist in Farmington township. WILLIAM THOMAS WEBB.—The agriculturists of Trumbull county include among their prominent representatives William T. Webb, whose valuable homestead lies in both Mesopotamia and Farmington townships, but principally in the former. He is a native son of old England, where he was born in Worcestershire on the 15th of August, 1864, a son of James and Elizabeth (Haden) Webb, and a grandson of Thomas Webb and William Haden. Locating in Springfield, Ohio; in the spring of 1869, James Webb, the father, worked at his trade of shoemaking there until his busy and useful life was ended in death in the year of 1903, long surviving his wife, for she died in the year of 1898. In their family were two sons and two daughters, Alice, whose home is in Springfield, Ohio; William Thomas, mentioned below; and Anna and Harry, who are also residents of Springfield. William T. Webb was but fourteen years of age when he left home to work at farm labor for others, having previously attended the public schools of Springfield, and after two years he left the farm to return to Springfield and learn the plumber's trade. He worked for three years at his trade there, and at the close of the period in 1888 came to Mesopotamia township and worked as a farm hand by the month until his marriage. With his bride he then located on his present homestead, all of which lies in Mesopotamia township, with the exception of nine acres in Farmington township, and there he follows general farming and dairying. He married on the 15th of September, 1897, Melissa Reynolds, who was born in Mesopotamia township, as were also her parents, Henry and Amoret (Smith) Reynolds. Her paternal grandparents, Job. and Elizabeth (Arnold) Reynolds, were from Connecticut, and her maternal grandparents, Edmond and Polly (Lee) Smith, were from Oneida county and HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 405 Montgomery county, New York, respectively. The only child of the union of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Webb is Altha, born on the 19th of January, 1906. Mr. Webb votes with the Republican party, and he is a member of the fraternal order of Odd Fellows, No. 789, of Mesopotamia, and of the Episcopal church. SOLOMON WARTMAN. one of the leading agriculturists of Vienna township, Trumbull county, was born on the old homestead where he now resides, April 18, 1842, a son of -Solomon and Louise (Whitton) Wartman. His father was a native of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, born in 1815, and accompanied his parents to Ohio in 1822, the family locating on the place now owned by the grandson, Solomon. The grandfather, a tanner by trade, remained there until his death. His son, Solomon, who followed the paternal trade, left home when a young man, but at his marriage returned to the old homestead and there continued to reside until his death, February, 1892. His wife passed away in April, 1901. In the Wartman family were eight children, of whom the following four are living: Cline, a farmer of Vienna township; Mary, widow of Charles Porter, who resides in Youngstown; Elizabeth, wife of Eby Hultz, of Cortland, and Solomon, of this sketch. Mr. Wartman attended the district schools in his native township and gained a fair common school education. In his religion he is a Presbyterian. being connected with the church at Vienna village. He remained at home until the death of his father, when he assumed the management of the estate. This includes one hundred acres of most excellent land to which he has added many valuable improvements, making it a homestead of both beauty and value. Mr. Wartman was married September 6, 1884. to Miss Mary Pfeil. born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1858, a daughter of Casper and Margaret (Graves) Pfeil. natives of Germany, who came to the United States and located at New Castle. Pennsylvania. The father was a cabinet-maker, but after some years' residence at that place he engaged in farming and died as an agriculturist. The mother still survives. Mr. and Mrs. Wartman have three children : Jessie C., born in September, 1886, is unmarried and resides at home, being an artist Mary Louise, born in 1889. a music teacher, is also single, and lives with her parents; and Sarah Margaret, born in September, 1900, is attending school. SHELDON STORM, a farmer and business factor of Liberty township, was born at Crab Creek, Liberty township, Trumbull county, Ohio, August 29, 1844. He is the son of Abram and Jane (Swager) Storm, both natives of the above mentioned locality. The father was born December 3, 1810, and the mother in 1811. The grandfather was Michael Storm, who came from east of the Allegheny mountains, in Pennsylvania, to Ohio when 406 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY young and located on a farm. He served in the war of 1812 and made his home on the old farm until his death, about 1858. Sheldon Storm's father left home when a young man and purchased a small farm of about five acres in the big woods, of Liberty township, where Sheldon was born. Later the father added five acres more, which, however, he sold, and went to Sodom where he bought sixty acres of land, and there the family resided for fourteen years. During this period coal was found beneath the surface of this land in large quatities. In the spring of 1871 he sold this place (the surface portion) and then leased the mineral rights. He then purchased one hundred and fifty-five acres of land where his son Sheldon now lives. Here the father remained until his death, October 3, 1893. The faithful wife and mother died March 28, 1890. This worthy couple was the parents of three children : Sheldon and two sisters. Ann, became the wife of Levi Beaver, and both are now deceased, she dying of a cancer of the stomach, after long suffering. Her husband died of heart failure, only six weeks before his wife's death. The other sister is Lucinda C., who married Sidney W. Wood, and they reside in Liberty township, on a farm. Sheldon, the brother, is the youngest of the three children. Sheldon attended the common school at the Mansel district for about four years, then at Murry Corners and still later at Sodom. He remained with his parents until their death, and. being of a domestic and steady disposition, he ably managed and looked after the interests of the farm for twenty years or more before his father died. The family lived at Sodom and the father followed the shoemaking business. Young Storm also followed drilling for some seven years. He was married May 21, 1890, to Lida A. Adams, born at Girard, April 3, 1863, a daughter of Augustus Avery and Jemima (Crandon) Adams. The mother was born at Ballston, Saratoga county, New York, November 30, 1830. The father was born on a farm in Weathersfield township, Trumbull county, July 31, 1826, and died on that farm September 19, 1908. His father, David Adams, was born at Canterbury, Connecticut, February 10, 1784. He came to this county at an early day. locating in Weathersfield township, where he became the owner of five hundred acres of valuable land and he and his wife resided there until their death. The maternal grandparents, grandfather Elemadoris and Eliza (Mason) Crandon, were natives of New York. Grandfather Mason and wife were pioneers at Niles, Ohio, where they remained many years, then went to live with a daughter at Girard, where they died. Mrs. Storm attended school at Girard, where she graduated in 1881. Both of her parents are living. Mr. and Mrs. Storm have no children. Mr. Storm is connected with the Odd Fellows order—the old Hebron lodge at Youngstown, Ohio. In his political views he is a supporter of the principles laid down by the Republican party, though he is an independent voter. Both he and his good wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, at Girard. He HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 407 is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Girard and also in the Niles (Ohio) Car Works. ALMON GREENE McCORKLE, who has been identified with the best interests of Trumbull county, is a native of Lordstown township, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he was born February 1, 1842. He is a son of Archibald McCorkle, born March 9, 1809, at Boardman, Mahoning county, Ohio. In 1799, three brothers, William, John and Archibald McCorkle, came from Ireland to the United States. One settled in Niagara, where his descendants have been prominent in public affairs. John McCorkle, grandfather of Almon, G., and the brother Archibald, stopped a short time near Philadelphia, then went on to Ohio, settling near the present site of Youngstown, where both purchased timber lands from which they hewed out good farms for themselves. The descendants of these two brothers are very numerous and can be easily found in many states and territories. The maiden name of the grandmother was Isabella Montgomery, a native of Ireland, who became the mother of children, as follows : William, Margaret, Sarah, Deborah, Archibald, John, Andrew and James. Archibald McCorkle was reared to agricultural pursuits. He came to Lordstown township directly after his marriage and bought a tract of timber land, a half mile east of the center. He there provided himself and family with a rude log house, in which Almon G. was born. This was long before there were any railroads or carriage drives in the country. There were few, if any, stores, and the few hardy settlers subsisted upon what the native soil afforded, together with such game as the man of the house might kill with his trusty rifle. The good housewife employed much of her time at carding, spinning and weaving cloth, which was known as "home-spun," for the making of the clothing needed by the family. In later years the father dealt in live stock in which he was successful and accumulated a sufficient sum to enable him to purchase more land, until he possessed three hundred acres, well improved and finely equipped with all necessary buildings to carry on a farm in that day. There he lived and labored, dying March 9, 1861, being killed in the timber while felling a tree. He was united in marriage to Mary Jones, born in Austintown township, Mahoning county, Ohio, March 29, 1814, and who died October 27, 1894. Her father was John Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald McCorkle were the parents of six children : Seymour, died aged forty-two years; Martha, died aged eighteen years of age; Miranda, died aged twenty-two ; Almon G., John Alva and Samantha J. John Alva studied at Hiram and graduated from the medical department of the State University at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He took a post graduate course at Long Island College, was elected a member of the faculty and is now president of that college. Almon G. McCorkle attended the district school and the Lordstown Academy, later graduating from Duff's Business College of Pittsburg, 408 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Pennsylvania. When eighteen years of age he commenced teaching school, beginning in Warren and later teaching in the graded schoOls of Georgetown and North Jackson. He then engaged in farming, purchasing a part of the old home place, and later bought the remainder of it and now owns two hundred and seventy acres. He has two good sets of buildings, including the handsome and spacious residence which he built a few years since. This house is built in modern style and provided with many a convenience not hitherto known in farm houses. In 1886, upon the advice of physicians. Mr. McCorkle went to far away Arizona and there he purchased a ranch and engaged in cattle raising, subsequently establishing a ranch in Dakota, to which the younger stock were shipped and there made ready for the market. This business he successfully carried on several years. When he recovered his health he sold his ranch property and returned to his old home in Ohio, where he now resides, practically a retired man. November 15, 1865, he was married to Martha M. Leitch, a native of Ireland, born in county Donegal, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Leitch. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McCorkle are as follows : Lydia, born January 28, 1867, married John M. Metts and they lived in Ossian, Indiana, and have three children—Mary; Isabelle and John A.; Mary B., born July 12, 1870, married Charles E. Rose, of Niles, and their issue is—Martha ; Archie, born May 9, 1872, married Buie Pardee and has three children : Thelma, Helen and Martha ; Robert, born June 8, 1879, married Ann Eaton and has one son—J. Almon; Charles, born October 10, 1886, is now a student at Cornell University. Mr. and Mrs. McCorkle, with their family, are members of the Christian church. Politically, he is a supporter of the Democratic party, having cast his first vote for Gen. George B. McClellan for president, when he ran against Mr. Lincoln in 1864. WILLIAM S. GUY, of Church Hill, Liberty township, Trumbull county, farmer and dairyman, was born where he now resides, May 8, 1879, a son of Thomas Guy, who was born in Cadiz, Ohio, September 22, 1845. The grandfather was Thomas Guy, Sr., born in Tanderagee, county Armagh, Ireland, and he came to America in his early manhood and setling first in the vicinity of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a Methodist minister, being attached to the Pittsburg, the Old Erie, the Ohio Methodist conferences. Thomas Guy, Jr., was reared and educated at the various places where his father was stationed as a minister, receiving two terms at Berea, near Cleveland, Ohio. He started life as a young man, by clerking. He located at Church Hill in 1874, and purchased the Old Company store there, which he conducted for a number of years, retiring to look after his farm interests, which he was connected with up to the time of his death, March 25, 1897. He served during the Civil war in the Union army, in Company C, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Infantry. He belonged to HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 409 the advanced degrees in Masonry, holding his membership at Youngstown, and was an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic, at the last named city. In politics, he was a Republican. Mr. Guy was married to Hattie J. Sampson, the daughter of William B. Sampson, of Church Hill. Mr. Sampson was of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to this place when a boy. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Guy, Jr., had two children. The eldest was William S. and the younger, Thomas J., born in 1894. William S. Guy received his education in the public schools of Liberty township and had one term in the preparatory school at Jefferson City, Ohio, but his father's death necessitated his return home to look after the interests of the family. Mr. Guy was married to Augusta J. Applegate, on June 17, 1903. She was the daughter of John and Orpha (Campbell) Applegate, who lived in Liberty township, and she was educated at the common schools of her native township. One child blesses the union of Mr. and Mrs. Guy : Harriet Elizabeth, born June 28, 1904. In politics, Mr. Guy is a Republican. GLENN C. WEBSTER, secretary of the Sterling Electrical Manufacturing Company of Warren, is a native of Portage county, Ohio, born June 9, 1872, a son of W. D. Webster, a native of Cleveland, whose occupation is that of a salesman. He married at Solon, Ohio, Polly Cannon, a native of Solon, Cuyahoga county, and now residing in Warren. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Webster : Glenn C. and Minnie, wife of Del Ray Waller, of Warren. When Glenn C. was eight years old his parents removed to Wellsville, Ohio, then to Geneva, Ohio, where he attended the Normal school and then came to Warren where he graduated from the high school. He entered the employ of S. W. Park and Company, wholesale and retail hardware, and one year later accepted a position with the Warren Electric Specialty Company. as a coal shoveler and ash tender, remaining there about nine years. He worked his way up until he became general manager, having charge of five departments. After leaving this he organized the Sterling Electrical Manufacturing Company, of which he became secretary. This is an extensive plant. wherein are employed about three hundred men. He reorganized the Denison Manufacturing Company, buying the controlling interest in the company, and was made president of the company. Here hardware articles and electric sunnlies are made in great quantities, twenty-five men being employed. Mr. Webster is also vice president of the King Furniture Company of Warren, another prosperous enterprise. In 1908 he was elected secretary of the board of directors of the Cleveland Furniture Company, Cleveland, Ohio. During the past year Mr. Webster and Isaac H. Price purchased and removed from Youngstown, Ohio, the Specialty Manufacturing Company, for the manufacture of electrical specialties. 410 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Aside from the special attention he pays to his extensive business operations, Mr. Webster finds time for his duties as a member of the Masonic order, he being advanced to the thirty-second degree in this fraternity and is also a Knight Templar and Shriner. In church relations, he is a member of the First Presbyterian church, of which he was treasurer two years. He was married in the month of June, 1896, to Olive M., born in Trumbull county, a daughter of S. L. and Grace (Ewalt) Love. Mr. and Mrs. Webster have one daughter—Ruth Webster. Their residence is 400 Mahoning avenue, and they have a summer residence two miles from this city. JACOB WHITE, one of the enterprising farmers of Weathersfield township, Trumbull county, residing on Mineral Ridge along rural mail route No. 1, was born in the old log house which stood for so many years on the site of his present home May 4, 1835. James White, his father, was a Virginian, and his father came to this country from Ireland. The former came to Trumbull county in the early days when this part of the country was yet a boundless forest, and he married Elizabeth Irwin, also from Virginia and of Dutch descent. The fourteen children born to them were as follows : Frances, who married Joseph Shaw, now deceased ; Mary, who married Phill Upp, now deceased ; John, deceased ; William, who was killed in battle in the Civil war James, who died in an army hospital of small pox; Robert, Andrew, Margaret J., and Esenith, all deceased ; Elizabeth A., who married David Ohl, deceased ; Joseph, deceased ; Thomas A., deceased; Jacob, mentioned below; and Christopher, who lives in Southington. James White, the father, was educated in the common schools of the Old Dominion state, where he received the practical training of pioneer times. In politics he was a Jacksonian Democrat, but was never active in political work, although as a soldier in the war of 1812 he served his country with credit. He was a farmer throughout life, and coming to Trumbull county in an early day in its history, he cleared away the forest primeval to make for himself a home, and with his family passed through the thrilling experiences of pioneer life. In those days wolves, bears, deer and small game were plentiful. He died in 1862, at the age of seventy-five years, and his good wife passed away nine years later, at the age of seventy-four years. He was the grandfather of eighty-eight grandchildren. In the public schools of his home neighborhood and at Ohltown, Ohio, Jacob White received his educational training, and on the 1st of March, 1862, he enlisted as a soldier in the Union army, becoming a member of Company C, Nineteenth Ohio Regiment, with which he served for two years and nine months, principally under the command of General W. T. Sherman. He was in the Georgia and Tennessee campaigns, where during four months the regiment was in almost continuous battle, but the enemy HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 411 finally retiring they were pressed on to Atlanta. Mr. White served as a private, and he was never wounded throughout his entire military service, though once captured at Altoona mountains by bush-whackers, but he made his escape in the night and made his way to the Union camp. Politically he is an ardent, uncompromising Republican, and is now numbered among the members of the General John A. Logan PosSince A. R., of Mineral Ridge. Sinee returning from the war he has followed agricultural pursuits, and in his farm, the old homestead, he has about fifty acres under an excellent state of cultivation. Mr. White married in 1868 .Jane Parker, a daughter of William and Jane Parker, who came to this country from Wales in an early day. Mrs. White was also born in Wales, but she was only two years of age when brought to this country, and her education was received in the public schools of Weathersfield township and at Ohltown. She died in 1899, the mother of ten children : William J.; A. Edwin; Elizabeth A.; Alvira J., Franklin; Charley P.; George H., Nebraskaives in Grand Island, Nebraskh; Evan C., whose home is in Cleveland, Ohio; Anna Estella, at home ; Wilbert A., at home; and one grandchild, W. Wilmer White, of Grand Island, Nebraska. JOHN S. MCADOO, an honored resident of Bloomfield, Trumbull county, since 1886, has served the community as justice of the peace virtually. since he became a fixture in it. Until two years ago he was also an active farmer, but, although he has leased his land, he still resides in the residence which he first occupied and which is now situated within the corporate limits of Bloomfield. Judge McAdoo has been prominent in the establishment and development of various financial institutions of the locality, which have been substantial factors in its progress, and in every sturdy trait of manhood and citizenship has proved his reliability and ability. Mr. McAdoo is a native of LaPorte county, Indiana, born on the 2nd of July, 1842, and educated in the common and high schools of his native section. His parents were .James and Nancy (Goodhue) McAdoo, and he has in his veins the good blood of Scotland, England and Ireland, being most literally a true son of Great Britain and America. The father was born in Londonderry, Ireland, and the mother in Windsor, Vermont, the former dying in LaPorte, Indiana, in 1844, where he had been a prosperous and honorable merchant for some fourteen years. Upon emigrating to this country, he had first resided for a short time in New York City, and thence (in 1828) removed to Richmond, Virginia, where he had engaged in mercantile pursuits until locating at LaPorte. His wife, who survived him until 1883, was the mother of John S., of this sketch, and Mary, who died at Bloomfield in. August, 1905. The McAdoo family is patriotic to the core. Its first American representatives were settlers of Massachusetts, and seven of the family served in the Revolutionary war, 412 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY while Justice McAdoo himself has sustained the ancestral honor by his participation in the hardships, defeats and triumphs of the Civil war. John S. McAdoo remained at home, as his mother's mainstay, until August, 1861, when (three months after the firing upon Fort Sumter) he enlisted in the Fourth Indiana Battery of Light Artillery, and was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, under General Sherman. He participated in all the fierce battles and glorious campaigns of the southwestern armies, receiving his honorable discharge in September, 1865. All his company comrades had been either killed or badly wounded, he alone being unscarred. Upon his return from the war, Mr. McAdoo located in Michigan City, Indiana, where he was employed as a clerk in a store and in the service of a United States engineering corps. In 1873 he went to Boston, Massachusetts, where for nine years he was in the employ of the State Secret Service. He then removed to Bloomfield, Ohio, where he purchased the tract of land known as the Lester, King and Brown farms. This property consists of one hundred acres and was actively developed by him until 1906, when he leased it, but still resides in the farm house. Mr. McAdoo was also one of the organizers of the North Bloomfield Banking Company, a substantial state institution with a capital of $25,000. He is a Republican, and a member of Brooks Grand Army Post at Bristolville, Ohio. He has held the office of justice of the peace since 1886, which, with his duties as notary public, give him congenial, useful and honorable employment. In August, 1868, Mr. McAdoo was united in marriage with Miss Mary H. Wing, who was born in Bloomfield, Ohio, and was a daughter of J. K. and Mary H. (Brown) Wing. Her grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier. Mrs. Mary W. McAdoo died in March, 1891, and left one son, Joseph J., now ticket agent at Pittsburg for the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad Company. On October 27, 1895, Mr. McAdoo married at his second wife Miss Margery Leach, born in Austintown, Mahoning county, Ohio, daughter of Jacob and Adeline (Eckman) Leach. Her father was born in Mendon, New Jersey, and the mother, in Weathersfield, this county. The grandparents were Benjamin and Hannah (Rayner) Leach, of New Jersey, and John and Elizabeth (Reigel) Eckman, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. The great-grandfather, Abram Leach, was of the Continental troops from Mendon, New Jersey, engaged in the Revolutionary war. CHARLES G. MILLER, who for many years carried on farming in Trumbull county, but at present is operating saw mills which cut light barrel staves, extensively, is a native of Bristol township, Trumbull county, Ohio, born there December 29, 1855, a son of Nathaniel and Maria (Reader) Miller. The paternal grandparents were Isaac and Sophia (Dabney) Miller, natives of Germany. The maternal grandparents were HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 413 Hezekiah and Betsy Reader, natives of Connecticut. This family, with the Miller family, were early settlers in Trumbull county, locating in Farmington and Johnson townships. Grandfather Reader lived and died in Farmington township. Nathaniel and Maria (Reader) Miller, were united in marriage in Farmington township, about 1848, and settled in that part of Trumbull county, on a farm, but in 1852 removed to Bristol township and bought a farm upon which the family resided until their death. He died June 29, 1861, and the faithful wife, in June, 1886. The children born of this marriage, four in number, were Jefferson, deceased ; Frank R., of Warren, Ohio; Charles G., of this biography; Clinton, deceased. Charles G. attended school at White Oaks and remained at home with his parents until eighteen years of age, when he was employed at work on the farm of others, up to the date of his marriage, October 10, 1877, to Ida E. Dilley, of Bristol township, who was born December 18, 1860, a daughter of Thompson and Ann Eckenrode, who now reside in Farmington township. After his marriage, Mr. Miller followed the butchering business, at the village of Vienna, Ohio, for a year, and continued in the same line, at Coalburg, Hubbard township, another year, then moved to the R. K. Lewis farm in Farmington township. After one year there, he took charge of the F. N. and L. A. Pattengell farm in Bristol township, the same containing two hundred and fifty acres, and continued with them until the spring of 1904. During this time, however, he had purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land about a mile west of Bristolville, and resided on the place from 1889 until 1904. He then purchased a residence in Bristolville, where he now resides. He established himself in the saw mill business and soon drifted into the manufacture of light barrel staves, operating under the name of C. G. Miller & Co. They have two mills, one located at Spokane, Bristol township, and another fine plant at Stoneville, Windsor township, Ashtabula county, Ohio. The members of this firm are : A. L. Dilley, S. B. Clegg, of Youngstown, Ohio, and Mr. Miller. During the last fifteen years Mr. Miller was on the farm, he was the largest hay shipper and dealer in Trumbull county, shipping chiefly to Youngstown. He is widely known in the hay trade, having furnished hay and feed to Clegg Bros., heavy dealers at Youngstown. He bought timber for the American Cooperage Company, of Youngstown, for three years. In all of his business changes Mr. Miller has been a success and has. won the esteem of his fellow citizens and neighbors. Three children have blessed the marriage union of Mr. and Mrs. hiller : Flaud. E., Mrs. Ward H. Anderson, of Stoneville, Ashtabula county, Ohio ; Ward C., hay and grain dealer at Bristolville ; Clara G., at home. In church relation Mr. Miller is a Methodist, and a steward in the church. Politically, he is a Democrat and held the office of town trustee three terms. He is connected with the order of K. O. T. M., No. 181, at Bristolville. 414 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY HENRY E. NORTON, who is an industrious and highly successful farmer, of Bristol township, is a native of this township, which is within Trumbull county, Ohio. He was born April 20, 1833, a son of Zacheriah and Lydia (Hammond) Norton, natives of Virginia. The grandfathers, Jacob Norton, native of Germany, and John Hammond, of the same country, went to Bristol township, settling about 1810. They purchased timber land and made the same into excellent farm tracts. Henry E. Norton's parents were united in marriage in Ohio. The father bought land where North Bristol is now situated, which at that time was within the heavy timber, which he cleared away and placed under cultivation. At first he had one hundred acres, but later owned one hundred and fifty acres. At first, the family lived in a log house, but subsequently they built the frame residence which still stands on the farm, and which the son Franklin now occupies, he owning a portion of the old homestead. The parents resided there until their death. Lydia (Hammond) Norton, mother of Henry E., came to Ohio with her parents in 1802, traveling by ox teams, and settling in Bristol township, the year in which Ohio was admitted to the Union as a state. They found a home within the dense forest, which was felled and a good farm made. All was new and wild ; Indians were to be seen on almost every hand. Bears and other wild animals made it their home, and panthers were common enemies to the settlers, while deer abounded in abundance, and provided the pioneer with excellent meat for his family to subsist upon. Henry E. Norton was the seventh of four sons and six daughters in his parents' family. Four are now living : Rebecca, Mrs. Charles Lamberson, of Farmington, Ohio ; Franklin, of North Bristol; Sarah, Mrs. Stephen Whitmore, a widow of Bristolville, Ohio; Henry E., of this sketch. Henry E. Norton resided with his parents until his marriage, having received a common school education. He worked out on a farm for others for several years. He was married August 30, 1862, to Catherine Parker, born in Bloomfield township, Trumbull county, Ohio, December 31, 1838, a daughter of William and Margaret (Barb) Parker. Her father was a native of Ireland and her mother was born in Woodstock, Shenandoah county, Virginia. Of the grandparents on the paternal side, James and Sally (Buchanan) Parker, the grandmother was a cousin of James Buchanan, who was President of the United States. James Parker was born in England, while his wife was from Scotland. The maternal grandparents were John and Maria (Seger) Barb, natives of Isle of Jersey. The latter carried a baby in her arms -on horseback from Virginia to Bristol, Ohio. Mrs. Norton's parents were married in Bloomfield township. Her father was born January 27, 1783, and came from Ireland to New York State with his parents, leaving Londonderry, June 19, 1797, on the sailing ship "Augusta," arriving at New York harbor, September 13 of that year. They went to Montgomery county, New York, where he married Sallie _Hyde, March 25, 1807. She was his first wife and bore him nine children. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 415 He eventually moved to Ohio, settling in the southwest part of Bristol township, where his wife died. July 2, 1831, he was married to Margaret Barb, Mrs. Norton's mother. He later owned eight hundred acres of land in Bloomfield township, where he died January 22, 1877. The wife died January 24, 1888. After his marriage, Mr. Norton took up his residence in North Bristol, where he conducted a mercantile business for a year, and for three years at Bristolville. Then he followed the same business three years in West Farmington, from which place he went to Bloomfield and cared for his wife's parents until their death. He then purchased thirty acres of land in Bristolville, in 1880. This land is all under a good state of cultivation. It had suitable buildings thereon, but to these he has made several changes and additions. In 1892, he rented his land and moved to Mount Union. Ohio. This move was made for the better school advantages to be had at that place, they wishing to give the children as good an education as possible. They having carried out this purpose, returned to the farm in August, 1899, since which time they have remained there and carried on the farm. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Norton were as follows: Clarence H., born in 1867, and died aged eight years; Harold F., born May 4, 1873, circulating manager of the Toledo News Bee; Albert Jacob, born May 4, 1875, vice-president of the Goldfield Mining Company of Nevada, with an office in New York City. JEFFERSON H. HYDE. deceased, was well known as one of the industrious and painstaking farmers of Bristol township, Trumbull county. He was a native of Farmington township. born June 3. 1848, a son of Ira and Mary (Housel) Hyde, also born in the county. Mr. Hyde was educated in the public schools and the Western Reserve Seminary, residing at home until his marriage in 1869. After residing with his mother-in-law on the home farm for some time, he purchased the interests of the Palmer heirs and secured the property, whcre he afterward conducted a general farm as well as a large dairy, much of the milk being shipped to the Pittsburg market. In May, 1905, while at work in the fields, Mr. Hyde fell from a load of hay, dislocating his neck. Although he was at once sent to Dr. Palmer's hospital, the shock to his system was so great that he steadily grew worse and two weeks previous to his death was taken to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Morrison. of Painesville, Ohio, where he died February 20. 1906. In his religious faith the deceased was long a leader in the Disciples church. Since his death, the widow has resided on the home farm, with her youngest son, Jay, and her youngest daughter, Carol. Jefferson H. Hyde was married May 19, 1869, to Ellen Palmer, who was born in Bristol township, Trumbull county, July 24, 1848, a daughter of Ezra and Esther (Bates) Palmer. Her father was a native of New Hampshire and her mother was born in New York, the former coming Vol. II-27 416 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY to Bristol township when twenty-one years of age, and purchasing a farm from his brother, Benjamin. The place consisted Of two hundred acres, nearly all of which was timber land. This he thoroughly cleared and cultivated and also became a large raiser of stock. He died in the month of October', 1860, and his wife, February 2, 1876. Their three children were : Dr. 0. A. Palmer, of Cleveland, Ohio; Ellen (Mrs. Hyde) and Eudora, deceased. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hyde are as follows : Louisa E., now Mrs. Charles Norton, of North Bristol, this county ; Minnie B., Mrs. Almond Lew, of East Farmington, Ohio; Austa M., Mrs. Frank Morrison, of Painesville, Ohio; Frank G., of Lindsey, Tulare county, California ; Lena E., Mrs. Joshua Burton, of North Bloomfield, Ohio ; and Jay L. and Carol AL, living at home. MARK NELSON HYDE, one of the native-born farmers of Trumbull county, Ohio, was born in Bristol township, November 17, 1877, a son of John and Elizabeth (Mahan) Hyde. The mother was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, and the father in West Farmington. Of the grandparents it may be said that they were Eli and Hannah Hyde, born in England, and John and Cynthia (Hill) Martin, the former florn in Ireland, and the latter in Trumbull county. The grandfather Hyde went to Farmington, Ohio, about 1816, settling on timber lands, which by much labor he succeeded in clearing off and made into an excellent farm. The parents of Mark N. were united in marriage, in Bristol township, and settled on a farm which the father had owned since 1840. In all, he owned about hundred and fifty acres, two hundred and fifty of which is within Bristol township and the remainder is in Mesopotamia township. John Hyde died May 19, 1904, aged eighty-six years. His wife still resides with her son, aged sixty-eight years. John Hyde was married first to Adeline A. Green, by whom six children were born, three of each sex. By the last marriage, Mark N., of this memoir, was the only child, and he has always resided on the farm where he was born. He now owns all the land his father possessed and works the home farm of one hundred and thirty-nine acres, renting out the balance. This tract of excellent farm land was all entered by the father and by him improved. He raises cattle, horses and swine. February 7, 1906, Mr. Hyde was married to Gladys Prime, born in Clinton county, Ohio, a daughter of Eugene and Rose (Hodgson) Prime. Her father was born in West Virginia and the mother in Clinton county, Ohio. The issue by this union is : Eugene Nelson, born October 1, 1907, and Gladys Thelma, born November 5, 1908. JAMES P. SAUNDERS, who is numbered among the industrious and highly successful farmers who cultivates the fertile soil of Vienna township, is a native of Newport, Kentucky, born March 31, 1862, a son of William D. and Julia Ann (Barber) Saunders. His father was born in HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 417 Bullitt county, Kentucky, in 1838, and the mother in Newport, of that state, in 1840. The grandfather was a native of Kentucky and died there when William D. was a. small boy. His wife was a native of England and remained in Kentucky until her death, which occurred about 187i. The father remained in that vicinity and operated a rolling mill, then located at Niles, Ohio, where he was employed in a rolling mill several years, then removed to Warren. Later he was employed as a railroad man, but since 1888 has practically been retired. He served a year in the Fifty-third Kentucky Infantry in the Civil war. The maternal grandparents came from England and settled in Kentucky. where they continued to reside until their death. The grandfather was killed in time of the Civil war. He was doing guard duty when killed. His wife died about 1874. James P. Saunders was one of seven children in his parents' family, two of whom survive. His sister, Nellie B., widow of John F. Latimer, resides with her brother. James P. is the oldest in the family. He attended district school in Kentucky and for a time at Niles, Ohio. At the age of sixteen years, Mr. Saunders was working as a farm hand and so continued until his marriage, after which he was employed in the rolling mills at Niles for a period of about fourteen years. He then purchased a farm of one hundred and ten acres, upon which he now lives and to which he removed in 1900. Here he has carried on, in a successful manner, general farming as well as stock raising. He is identified with the best interests of the farmers within his community and appreciates his broad acres, having accumulated every foot of the soil he owns by hard labor performed in the best years of his manhood. At one time he belonged to the order known as the American Mechanics and expects to unite with the Masonic fraternity, of which fraternity his oldest son is a worthy member. In his political views Mr. Saunders affiliates with the Republican party. While never seeking office, he has served as supervisor of his township. He was married September 17, 1881, to Hattie R. Partridge, who was born in Trumbull county in 1860, a daughter of Samuel and Harriet (Stoddard) Partridge. Her father was born in Trumbull county, and the mother was a native of Niles, Ohio. The father died Easter morning, 1904, and the mother the same year. The father was a shoemaker, and later was a farmer till his death. Mrs. Saunders passed from the scenes of earth in 1887, the mother of the following children : Chauncey Elton, born December 18, 1882, unmarried and resides with his father James Lee. born June 11, 1885, married Minnie M. Newton, a native of Michigan, born near Detroit, (her parents later becoming residents of Trumbull county, Ohio, and now living at Bethelem, Pennsylvania) ; Hattie Ethel, born November 16, 1887, now wife of Arthur Wilson, born in Champion, is a farmer and is the father of one child—Emerson, born March 18, 1908. 418 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY WILLIAM C. MUNSON, the venerable man who is so well known in Trumbull county, as farmer and mill owner, and now retired by reason of age and infirmities, is a native of Vienna township, this county, born October 6, 1826, a son of Rilman and Betsy (Sowers) Munson. The father was a native of Waterbury, Connecticut, born January 25, 1799. The good mother was born in Germany and came with her parents to America when three years of age, the date of her birth being September 26, 1801. The grandfather, Calvin Munson, was a native of England, as was his wife, Sarah Hungerford. They came to Connecticut at an early day. He was both a tanner and shoemaker by trade, following this until he went to Ohio, in 1804. He bought one hundred and forty-six acres of land, unimproved. There he built a small cabin, but by mistake got it on another claim, as he did his first clearing. He finally cleared up and finely improved his own land, living there until his death in either 1846 or' 1847. He built the first sawmill in the township of Vienna. He was married and had two sons who divided the farm, William's father taking the east half. By trade William C. Munson was a mason, which he followed for a considerable time in building up Warren, after the first great fire there. William C. remained on the farm with his father until the latter's death in March, 1870. The mother died June 2, 1887. William C. Munson attended school first, at Methodist Corners, about two miles away, but later a school house was built nearer. He remained at home with his parents until seventeen years of age, when in partnership with his father he built a mill which they operated for three years. Later, in 1845, William C. erected another mill on his own land. This he operated until 1864, then put up a steam mill on a two hundred and thirty-four acre tract of land, which he purchased at that date. This mill and his farm, he continued to operate until he retired in 1900. He was afflicted with rheumatism, hence gave the mill property to his son John, who still conducts the same. His son Jesse R. now conducts the farm. When thc father conducted the place, he made a specialty of raising Holstein cattle, in which he was very successful. At the date of the Civil war Mr. Munson had raised a company of troops to enter the Union cause, but on account of his parents was compelled to remain at home. He was personally acquainted with the late President William McKinley, as he was also with his venerable father, William McKinley, Sr. Mr. Munson was married Mar 13. 1851, to Miss Elinor Mackey, born in Vienna township, a daughter of Andrew and Jane (Scott) Mackey, both of Irish descent. The father was born in Ireland and the mother probably in Maryland. They were farmers and early settlers in Trumbull county, Ohio, and both are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Munson have been born the following children : John W., married first Mary Goyst, who became the mother of one child, Ellenor ; he married secondly Mary Elert, a native of Pennsylvania, he resided in Vienna township on a farm ; Elizabeth, wife of Wesley Meeker, residing near Tyrrell Hill, Fowler township ; Jesse R., who manages the home farm ; Lavina, wife of Lucius Greenwood, HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 419 residing in Fowler township; Willis J., a wagon salesman for the Studebaker Company, married Emma Smith, of Poland, Ohio, and resides in Warren, Ohio. While not a member, William C. Munson always attends the Methodist. church. In his politics, he is Republican, but has never desired, and would not accept public office. JAMES J. WINANS, a retired farmer of Mecca township, Trumbull county, comes of a family whose patriotic services covers several generations. The grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, according to the best possible evidence, the father served in the Ohio militia during the war of 1812, and Mr. Winans, himself, has a creditable record of four years' service in the Civil war. Born in Milton township, Mahoning county, Ohio, February 12, 1838, James J. Winans is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (McAdams) Winans. The father was a native of that township and the mother was a New Jersey woman. James Winans, the grandfather, was born in New Jersey and George McAdams, the maternal grandfather, was also a native of that state. All of the grandparents were early settlers of Ohio. Jacob Winans, the father, was an industrious farmer and also a patriot who, like others of a like tendency, offered his services during the war of 1812. He was enrolled as a member of the company commanded by Captains Dull and Vannatti, of the Ohio militia. He died in September, 1839, and his wife by second marriage resided with James J. until her death in 1880. For the last two years of her life she enjoyed a pension granted her in consideration of her husband's services in the war of 1812. There were five children by the first marriage and two by the second. James J. Winans spent his boyhood days with his mother until September 28, 1861, when he enlisted in Company C, Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Kinsman, Ohio. He experienced his active service in the Indian Territory, and upon his discharge in September, 1865, he had traveled twenty-eight thousand miles in the campaigns of the west and southwest. The regiment was transferred to Kansas and Missouri to maintain order among the so-called "bad men" of that country, and Mr. Winans received his honorable discharge at St. Louis, Missouri, September, 1865. About a year prior to the termination of his services he received a severe injury at the battle of Winchester by being thrown from his horse, which had been shot from under him. After his discharge from the military service Mr. Winans returned to Mecca township where he purchased land and continued farming until about 1897, when he removed to Warren, Ohio. There he established a lumber yard which he conducted for several years, then sold the property to the Freedom Oil Company. In September, 1904, he returned to Mecca township, where he has since resided in retirement on an attractive little homestead of two acres. Mr. Winans married, March 20, 1861, a few months before joining the army, to Miss Lovira Huntley, a daughter of Calvin and Louisa (Fair- 420 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY child) Huntley. The children born to them are as follows : James, who died at the age of twenty-two years; Sidney, a resident of Johnston township, this county; Venloo, now Mrs. William Armstrong, of Warren, Ohio; William, .who lives in Greene township; Nelson, a resident of Mecca township ; Vernie, who died at the age of nineteen years; and Julia and Bird V., who died at the respective ages of eighteen and twenty-nine; Maud, now Mrs. John Downs, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; and Todd, who lives at home. NEWTON CHALKER.—The history of the Chalker family in America, according to the best information now attainable, dates back to about the year 1650, when according to an unauthenticated tradition three brothers of that name emigrated from England and located in the then Colony of Connecticut, where, ever since that time, people bearing that name have continued to reside. There are people of that name also residing in Plymouth, England, at this time, 1908. The following genealogy is furnished by Samuel Alfred Chalker, of Saybrook, Connecticut, 1908, aged eighty years : Alexander Chalker married Patience Post, September 29, 1649, in Saybrook, Connecticut. Their children were Stephen, Samuel, Mary, Abraham; Patience, Sarah, Jane and Alexander. The above named Samuel Chalker, who was born April 27, 1651, married Phoebe Bull, October 31, 1676. Their children were : Stephen, Samuel, Phoebe (deceased), and Phoebe. The last named Samuel, who was born October 6, 1679, married Rebecca Ingram, June 24, 1711. Their children were : Samuel, Alexander and Gideon. The last named Samuel, or Samuel III, was born probably about the year. 1712. He married and had the following children: Daniel, Selden and Sarah. Newton Chalker, of this sketch, furnishes the following supplement to the above: The above named Daniel was born probably about the year 1740, and was married probably about the year 1765. His children were Samuel, Sarah, Daniel, Anna, Patty, Phoebe and James (twins), Joseph, Charles and Nathaniel. All of the above, except the immigrant Alexander Chalker, are supposed to have been born in or near to Saybrook, Connecticut. The above named Daniel Chalker, Sr., his wife and several of their children, about the year 1800, removed from Connecticut and settled in Choconut township, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, where the parents passed the remainder of their lives and their children married and reared families. The history of the Chalker family in Ohio begins with the settlement in Southington township, Trumbull county, of the above named James Chalker, the grandfather of Newton. In his youth he emigrated from Saybrook, Connecticut, in the year 1805, bringing with him by means HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 421 of an ox team and wagon, his young wife Mercy (Norton), an infant son Orrin, and all of his earthly belongings which then consisted only of his faithful ax, his trusted gun and a few household utensils. In the summer of that year he moved upon a tract of woodland one-half mile west of the center of Southington, where, out of the dense forest which confronted him in every direction, inhabited only by bears, wolves, deer and other wild game, he carved for himself and family a home which he continuously occupied until his death in the year 1867 at the age of about ninety years, his faithful wife preceding him in the year 1860. They and Luke Veits and wife Hannah Norton were the first families who settled in Southington. In that home, which consisted at first of a rude log cabin but later of a convenient frame dwelling, taken down in the year 1906 to make room for the present commodious home of his grandson Lewis Chalker, that pioneer couple reared to manhood and womanhood a family of nine sons and four daughters, viz.: Orrin, Joseph, Edmond, James, Phoebe, Anna, Polly, Daniel, Calvin, Philander, Harrison, Allen and Mercy. All of whom except Polly and Mercy, who removed to the State of Indiana, and Anna, who removed to Nelson, located in Southington and reared families. There in that early wilderness home with neighbors few and far between that couple and their large group of rugged children braved and endured the privations and hardships known only to pioneer life. In the graveyard at the center of Southington their ashes and those of all of their sons but one (Philander) who is still living(1908), and of all of their sons' wives are now reposing. James Chalker, Jr., the father of Newton, was born in Southington, June 15, 1811. He received but a very limited education having attended school only about three winter terms during the whole of his childhood and youth and that was in a log schoolhouse one mile east of Southington Center. But by much reading in after years he became well informed in history and a thorough student of the Bible. During many years of his life he frequently engaged in public debate upon various religious and secular questions and was always regarded as a formidable antagonist in the forensic arena. Early in life he purchased, on credit, fifty acres of land located two miles west of Southington Center, where like his father before him, with only an ax, a strong body and a resolute mind, he carved out of the forest a home for himself and family. From time to time he added to his first purchase and eventually became one of the largest land owners and one of the most thrifty farmers of his township. He first married Miss Eliza Jane Hyde, of Farmington, October 27, 1836. To them were born Benson, who died in childhood; Byron, who became a farmer and died in Southington, 1892, aged fifty-two; Newton; and Columbus who also was a farmer in Southington and died in 1876, aged twenty-seven. Mr. Chalker having lost his wife, December 24, 1849, married Miss Adeline Timmerman, of York state, 1851. To them were born Mary Jane, subsequently the wife of A. J. Morris, of Southington, where she died 1888, aged thirty-six, and Bertha, now Mrs. Thomas McConnell 422 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY of Youngstown, Ohio. Mr. Chalker was a Republican in politics and he and both of his wives were members of the Methodist church. He departed this life September 23, 1893, aged over eighty-two years. Newton Chalker was born in Southington, Trumbull county, Ohio, September 12, 1842, the third son of James Jr. and Eliza J. Chalker, referred to above. He remained on his father's farm in Southington most of the time until twenty years of age, attending the district schools of his neighborhood until fourteen years of age. At the latter age he began and continued for six years to attend at irregular intervals the Western Reserve Seminary at West Farmington, this county. At that school Mr. Chalker, without encouragement and with but little assistance, made his greatest efforts to obtain an education. Some of the time he worked for his board but most of the time boarded himself ; at one time when but fifteen years old chopping his own firewood and hauling it with ox team to his school, a distance of more than six miles; at other times doing the janitor work of the Seminary building for his room rent and tuition, and most of the time walking home, a distance of six miles, at the end of each school week to help on the farm on Saturday, then returning to school on foot carrying the following week's supply of provisions. At the age of sixteen he began teaching the winter term of a country district school, teaching successively in the townships of Braceville, Southington and Champion in Trumbull county, and Parkman in Geauga county, and in the state of Michigan. In the spring Of 1862 he enlisted in COmpany B, Eighty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was in the hard fought battle of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, which began on the 12th and terminated on the 15th of September of that year. In that battle the Union forces were under command of Colonel D. H. Miles and numbered about 14,000. The rebel forces were under command of General "Stonewall" Jackson and numbered two or three times as many. After three days' hard fighting, the Union forces were surrendered by their commander and 12,000 infantry were taken prisoners, the 2,000 cavalry having made good their escape during the preceding night. These prisoners, among whom was Newton Chalker, were soon paroled and sent North. Later in the same year, by reason of expiration of term of enlistment, this regiment was mustered out of service and Mr. Chalker returned to his home. In the spring of 1863 Mr. Chalker entered Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and graduated therefrom in June, 1866, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and later Master of Arts. The year 1866-7 he was principal of Dixon Seminary, at Dixon, Illinois, and the following year he was superintendent of the public schools at Darlington, Wisconsin. In September, 1868, he entered the Law School of Albany, New York, and graduated therefrom the following year and was at once admitted to practice at the bar of that state. After passing a few months in a law office in the city of New York he located, in the autumn of 1869, in Cameron, Missouri, and there began the practice of his profession. He remained in Cameron nearly five years but not realizing his expectations which he entertained of the West he returned, in 1874, to Ohio and on the HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 423 14th day of August of that year he located in Akron, where he resumed the practice of law and continued therein the ensuing twenty years. As a lawyer Mr. Chalker's fellow members of the bar readily accord to him the reputation of being able, industrious and honorable. In addition to his profession Mr. Chalker has engaged in various lines of business. He was one of the founders of the People's Savings Bank of Akron and during the entire time of his connection therewith he was a member of the board of directors and also of its advisory board. He was one of the founders and for a long time a stockholder of the Savings Bank of Barberton, Ohio. He is a charter member and a stockholder of the Central Savings and Trust Company Bank of Akron, one of that city's largest and most prosperous financial institutions. Mr. Chalker has dealt extensively in real estate, his principal transactions being the purchase of a tract of land within the limits of the city of Akron and also the purchase of twenty-one acres in the north suburb of that city, known as "North Hill," and allotting them into more than a hundred residence lots and selling to individual purchasers. He has dealt largely also in real estate in the island of Cuba since the Spanish-American war there, his holdings at one time amounting to more than two thousand and two hundred acres of the most fertile lands in the province of Puerto Principe of that island. These with other enterprises in which Mr. Chalker has at various times engaged, together with a lucrative practice at the bar, have constituted for him a life of varied labor and much activity which he has ever enjoyed far more than he ever did the trivial pleasures of life. At the close of the year 1893 Mr. Chalker practically retired from the practice of law and his other business, and devoted several years thereafter to travel. Seven times he crossed the continent visiting nearly every state and territory of our Nation. He traveled extensively in Canada, Alaska and Mexico. In June, 1895, he started on a tour abroad and visited the chief places of interest in Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, India, Burmah, China, Japan and the Sandwich Islands, making a complete tour around the world in one year. In February, 1905, Mr. Chalker made his second tour abroad visiting the Azores Islands, Morocco, Algeria, the island of Sicily, Italy, southern France and Spain, returning the following June. Notwithstanding the busy life which Mr. Chalker has led he has never lost his interest in education, nor forgotten his native township. In the year 1907 he completed and equipped, at a cost of over twenty thousand dollars, and presented to the board of education of Southington, a high school building which for beauty of design, completeness of equipment and commodiousness of appointments is scarcely equalled in any other rural township of the state. It contains a public auditorium with checkroom, dressing-rooms and stage; assembly and recitation rooms for the high school students of the township; a public library of the choicest books, and a banquet hall and kitchen fully equipped to accommodate one hundred guests. The building is lighted with gas and heated by furnace 424 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY throughout. Its dedication on August 22, 1907, was the most notable event in the history of Southington. The assembly of people was the largest that had ever convened within the borders of that township, being estimated at two thousand, and was addressed by the most distinguished speakers that had ever spoken there, viz. : United States Senator Charles Dick. of Ohio, President A. B. Riker of Mt. Union College, and President C. C. Rowlinson of Hiram College. In the year 1878 Mr. Chalker inaugurated the "family reunion" among the descendants of the pioneer James Chalker and wife. Later the descendants of the pioneer Norton and Viets families united with them. These descendants have continued to hold their reunions annually ever since. The reunion in the year 1905 was made the occasion for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement in Southington of those pioneers. Next to the dedication of Southington's high school building that celebration is the greatest event in the history of Southington. It was held at the old home of the deceased pioneer James Chalker and wife. A thousand people were present, coming from five different states. A most fitting program for the occasion was successfully carried out. In politics Mr. Chalker is a Republican. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and was commander of Buckley Post of Akron when that post had a membership of about five hundred comrades, which was not equalled by more than one or two other posts of the state. GEORGE M. SMITH, the leading real estate dealer of Warren, Trumbull county, is still of early middle life, as he was born in Geauga county, Ohio, as late as 1862. He attended school at the Western Reserve Seminary in West Farmington, and became interested in landed property many years ago. But to say that Mr. Smith is the leading dealer in real estate by no means defines the scope of his business ; for, although his annual sales of farm property in Trumbull county reach many thousand acres and his transactions in city real estate amount to several hundred thousand dollars every year, he is an extensive dealer in bonds and local securities. There are always several conclusive reasons to account for pronounced success in any chosen field, and those which apply to Mr. Smith's case are as follows : Generous and discriminating advertising, in both the daily press and in farm journals; a complete equipment, both of trained assistants and modern office furnishings, and business dealings which are universally accepted as "square and above board." Mr. Smith's domestic and social relations are the American type of harmony and breadth. His wife, to whom he was married in 1885, was Miss Grace L. Wolcott, and he is the father of two children, a son, Howard Wolcott, who is a reporter on the Youngstown Telegram, and a daughter, Martha Kibbee, now in school. Mr. Smith is an active member and an officer of the Presbyterian church. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 425 SETH L. LOVE.—No finer representative of the self-made men of our day can be found in Trumbull county than Seth L. Love, of Warren, who began life at the foot of the ladder of achievements, and by sturdy toil, excellent judgment, and wise management has attained a noteworthy position among the prominent and influential men of his community. He was for many years identified with the agricultural growth and prosperity of Trumbull' county, but having acquired a competency is now retired from active labor, enjoying all of the comforts of life at his pleasant home, No. 309 Porter Avenue, Warren. A son of Wilkins Love, he was born, February 15, 1839, in Cayuga county, New York. He is Of English descent, and comes of Revolutionary stock, his great-grandfather Love having served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary Army. Wilkins Love was born in Vermont, which was the birthplace of his father, John Love. Leaving New England when a young man, he bought land in Cayuga county, New York, and there resided until his death, about 1850. He married Sarah French, who was born in New York state, where the emigrant ancestor of her family settled on coming to this country from France. Their union was blessed by the birth of eight sons and two daughters, all of whom grew to years of maturity. Five of these brave sons, including Seth L., served in the Civil war, and another was anxious to do so, but was not accepted by the examining officer. Three enlisted when but sixteen years old, one in 1861, one in 1862, and another in 1863. One was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville, but the others all returned home. The Love family has always been famed for its patriotism, and in every national conflict from the time of the Revolution has been represented in the army, two of Mr. Love's sons having served in the Spanish- American war. Brought up in New York state, Seth L. Love received excellent advantages in his youth, completing his education in Ithaca, at Cornell University. He subsequently learned the trade of a harnessmaker in Knoxville, Pennsylvania, and was there working at his trade when the Civil war broke out. His patriotic ardor being aroused, he enlisted, in 1862, in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served until May, 1863, when he was honorably discharged. Returning to Knoxville, Mr. Love resumed work at his trade, continuing there until 1871. Coming then to Warren, Ohio, Mr. Love was connected with Dana Institute for a year or two. After his marriage, in 1873, he bought land lying four and one-half miles from Warren, and was there extensively and prosperously engaged in general farming for twenty-three years, when, in order to give his children better educational advantages he moved to Warren, and has since resided here. Mr. Love married, in 1873, Grace J. Ewart, who was born in Trumbull county, the only daughter of Jacob Ewart, one of the early pioneers of this part of Ohio, and prominently identified with its early history. He married Maria Sefingwell, who was born in Connecticut, of English ancestry, and was a direct descendant of John Knox, who was burned at the stake, a martyr to his religion. She was an accomplished and talented woman, and 426 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY a graduate of Dana's Musical Institute. Of the five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Love, one died in infancy, and four are now living, namely : Olive M., wife of Glenn Webster, of whom a brief sketch may be found on another page of this work; Frederick R., of Cleveland, a member of a wholesale firm; John, connected with the Western Electric Company, of Chicago, Illinois; and Jacob W., who has charge of the order department of the Sterling Works. Mr. Love is active and prominent in fraternal circles, being a member of Bell-Harmon Post, No. 36, G. A. R., in which he has filled all Of the offices, including commander, and of which he has for many years been chaplain. For forty-one years he has been identified with the Masonic order, and is an active member of the Royal Arcanum. Both Mr. and Mrs. Love united with the First Presbyterian Church of Warren thirty-four years ago, and for twenty-two years he has served as elder. A life-long Republican, Mr. Love has been active in party work, and is now assessor of the second ward of Warren. ALFRED REA HUGHES.—The name of Alfred R. Hughes is well known in connection with the Warren City Tank and Boiler Company, of which he was the founder and is now the president. He is a native son of the mother country of England, born at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire on the 24th day of July, 1862. He married at Niles, Ohio, September 4, 1888, Miss Jennie Edwards, a daughter of John Fletcher and Nancy (Martin) Edwards, and their two children are Master Raymond Edwards Hughes, born at Warren on October 22, 1893, and Miss Margaret Elizabeth Hughes, also born at Warren, Ohio, September 2, 1906. Mr. Hughes is a Republican voter, and is identified with both the fraternal orders of Masons and Elks. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. HON. THOMAS KINSMAN, who has represented Trumbull county in the seventy-fourth and seventy-fifth general assemblies and the twenty-third senatorial district in the seventy-sixth and seventy-seventh sessions of the upper house, is of the old, prominent and historic family, whose members were among the founders of the state. His father was one of the first white children born in Ohio and his grandfather gave his name to both the township and the town of Kinsman, while representatives of every generation have materially added to the professional, agricultural and financial progress of Trumbull county and the Buckeye state. Thomas Kinsman was born at Kinsman, this county, on the 21st of May, 1857, and is the third of the five children born to Thomas and ,Sophia (Burnham) Kinsman. His father was the son of John and Rebecca (Perkins) Kinsman, the former (known as Judge Kinsman) having removed from Lisbon, Connecticut, with, his family, in 1804—less than two years after the admission of Ohio is a state. The homestead was HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 427 fixed on land now included in Kinsman, where 'Thomas was born on the 26th of August, 1804, being the second son of the family. There he resided all his life, chiefly engaged in farming, and leaving behind him a name bright with Christian and kindly deeds. At his death, April 26, 1875, he had entered his seventy-first year, and was the oldest native inhabitant of Kinsman. 'The deceased was not only a Christian and benevolent gentleman. but buoyant in spirit, social, genial and eminently hospitable, and all who came under his influence were cheered, elevated and benefited by it. He was a loving and faithful husband and father, and alike true to his Christian professions and to the church of which he was a member and constant attendant. His wife (nee Sophia Burnham), to whom he was married December 29, 1847, was a daughter of Jedediah and Sophia (Bidwell) Burnham. Thomas Kinsman, Jr., received his education in the public schools of Kinsman, and at the Western Reserve College, then at Hudson, Ohio. The sudden death of his father made it necessary for him to leave' college and assume the management of the home farm and estate, and since that time, either in the development of his private interests as a general farmer, a dairy man or a raiser of livestock, he has kept in close touch with the country's fundamental industry. He has been especially prominent in dairying and the raising of cattle and the thoroughbred trotting horse, and for the past dozen years has been secretary of the Kinsman Stock and Agricultural Society. Further, he is president of the Kinsman National Bank, and his influence with the entire agricultural and business community of this section of the state is strong and fully merited. The fact that he is a Western Reserve Republican is positive proof of the stanchness and continuity of his fealty. While he has never posed as an orator in either house of the legislature Mr. Kinsman has always been classed with the working, alert, practical members—a man of action and sound counsel, rather than one of flighty words and dramatic effects. Inheriting his father's geniality and sociability, he is also able to accomplish more in the way of personal influence than if he relied upon brilliant oratory. Senator Kinsman was married November 16, 1904, to Mrs. Bertha Wilson Smith. of Columbus. Ohio, eldest daughter of ex-Congressman George W. Wilson, of London, Madison county, Ohio. JAMES G. LEWIS.—During many years the Lewis family have been honored residents of Trumbull county, and during later years have been conspicuously identified with the public life of Girard. Edward J. Lewis, the father of James G., was born in Weathersfield township of Trumbull county January 20, 1860, but his father, J. E. Lewis, was from Wales. On coming to America in 1836 he established his home in Pennsylvania, and later became numbered among the early pioneers of Trumbull county, Ohio, where he found employment as a bookkeeper and was also associated with Todd and Morris in the mining business. He lived to the age of 428 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY sixty-four years, and was laid to rest among others of the honored early pioneers of Trumbull county. His politics were Democratic and his fraternal relations were with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his early life J. E. Lewis married Sarah Perry, who was of Welsh descent, but a native daughter of Pomeroy, Ohio. Edward J. Lewis is the younger of the two sons born to J. E. and Sarah Lewis, and in his native township of Weathersfield he grew to mature years and received his educational training. When but a lad of ten he started out for himself, working for a time at any honorable occupation that presented itself and thus became familiar with many lines of work, principal among which was the milling business, which he followed for sixteen years. From 1892 until 1899 he was engaged in the coal business, and in 1898 he was appointed by President Lincoln as the postmaster of Girard, and is now serving his third term in that office. He is a stanch and true Republican, an efficient worker for his party's interest, and he is well known in the county in which his life has been spent. In 1880 Edward J. Lewis was married to Elizabeth Williams, whose birth also occurred in the township of Weathersfield, but her father, Richard W. Williams, was born in Wales. Coming to the United States he established his home in Weathersfield township, Trumbull county, Ofio, during the early history of this community, and soon became one of its well known residents. Six children were born to Edward J. and Elizabeth Lewis,—James G., Bessie, Adessa, John T., Richard W. and Edna. James G. Lewis is a native born son of Girard, his birth occurring on the 22nd of September, 1881, and here he was reared and received his elementary educational training, this being supplemented by a course at Hall's Commercial College at Youngstown. He is now serving his ninth year as the assistant postmaster of Girard and his second term as the city treasurer. Like his father, he is an active party worker in the interest of Republican politics, and in addition to his official duties he is an able newspaper correspondent for several journals. He is a member of the Masonic order, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Royal Arcanum. JOSEPH KREITLER, father of Mrs. Henry A. Simon, and long honored as a sturdy and industrious pioneer of Lordstown township, Trumbull county, was born in Diesen Hohenzollern, Germany, December 9, 1829. He was the youngest son of John and Bridget (Rebholtz) Kreitler, both natives of Germany, and there the mother spent her active years. The father came to America late in life, spending his later days with his son at Warren, Ohio. Joseph Kreitler received a good common school education in the fatherland and afterward was apprenticed to learn the trade of a millwright, which he followed in Switzerland until 1853. He then Came to America, settling in South Dedham, Massachusetts, where he worked at the cabinet-making trade until 1860, when he settled at Warren, Ohio. The next year he purchased a small tract of land, cultivating it and working at his trade until HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 429 1876. His sons were in the meantime doing all they could toward clearing up the land their father had bought. From that year (1876) he engaged in farming, although it was a vocation in which he had no experience, but he made a success of it and remained on the place until his death, April 25, 1895. He married, July 31, 1855, Josephine Kaeppler, a native of Baden, Germany, who came to this country with her widowed mother, brother and sisters, who settled near Boston, Massachusetts, where some of the descendants still live. Mrs. Kreitler died June 15, 1903. She had reared eight children : Joseph, George, Josephine, Louisa, Charles Franklin, Albert, Reinhart and Walter Edwin. Mr.. and Mrs. Kreitler were devout Christians and reared their children in habits of morality and industry. In closing this memoir, it may not be amiss to state by what process Mr. Kreitler carved out his successful life. He landed upon our shores, a stranger in a strange land, unable to speak or read the English language. His earthly possession was a five-franc piece and at the time of his coming times were very dull. Had his money been sufficient, he would have returned to his native land. There was no demand for other than skilled labor and that at low wages. Fortunately, he secured work in a woodworking shop, where handles were turned out in large quantities. He remained there a year, receiving but sixty dollars for his work. He then found employment in a furniture factory of Truesdale and Townsend, in which he continued until he went to Ohio. Before his death he had well mastered the English language, and was an extensive reader, well informed on current events throughout the world. He was thoroughly Americanized, loved the Stars and Stripes, and, in view of his early advantages, reached a plane of life most creditable alike to himself, his family, and his adopted country. C. I. CLENITE.--A man of energy, industry and perseverance, endowed with much mechanical ability and ingenuity, C. I. Clinite, of Warren, is busily and successfully engaged in business as a contractor and builder, his home being at No. 68 West Market street, Warren. A son of John Clinite, he was born April 29, 1852, in Fowler, Trumbull county, coming from substantial pioneer stock, his Grandfather Clinite having located in Trumbull county on coming to the United States from Germany, in the early part of the last century. Born in Germany, John Clinite was but two years old when he was brought to Ohio. He was reared to agricultural pursuits, and when ready to establish a home of his own located in Warren township, where he carried on general farming for some time. He subsequently moved with his family to Fowler, and there spent his last years. He married Lucy Baker, who was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, of German ancestry, being a daughter of Philip Baker, who was born in Germany. With the exception of a few years spent in Union City, Randolph county, Indiana, C. I. Clinite has always. been a resident of Trumbull county. He was educated in Warren, attending the graded and high schools. At 430 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY the age of eighteen years he began learning the trade of a brick layer, and after becoming proficient in it almost the first work that he did was on the present Methodist Episcopal church edifice. For thirteen years Mr. Clinite was in the employ of J. R. Sealy, and was afterwards foreman, in Youngstown, for Thomas Connell. Forming then a partnership with R. S. Elliott, he was associated with him for six years, carrying on a lucrative business as a contractor and builder. Since the death of Air. Elliott, Mr. Clinite has conducted the business alone, in his operations being uniformly successful, being one of the leading contractors of the city. Mr. Clinite married, in 1874, Rebecca Mesmer, and to them two daughters have been born, namely : Mary, wife of C. L. Schoroer, of Warren, and Helen, wife of A. L. Ohl, of Warren. A zealous advocate of the principles of the Republican party, Mr. Clinite has acceptably filled many local offices, serving in the City Council, and on the City Board of Health. He is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and takes great interest in promoting its welfare. He is widely known throughout Trumbull county, and has erected many buildings of note. among them being the Christian Church building. the First Church building. the Wallace and Parker blocks, and other buildings in Warren. INDEX