(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 357 Representative citizens ALEXANDER WELLS. The venerable subject of this review, whose portrait is shown on the opposite page, is distinguished as the oldest white resident of Columbiana County. He has spent his long and useful life in Wellsville, where he was born June 3, 1808. A very remarkable fact also about Mr. Wells is that he is the younger of twins born to his parents, William and Ann (Clark) Wells, his sister Rachel being some 30 minutes older than himself. Both children from infancy were unusually robust and the sister lived to the age of 90 years while our subject is within but a short period of attaining the century mark. Our subject’s grandfather, George Wells, who was of English ancestry, was born in Maryland and settled as a pioneer in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. In Bedford County, William Wells, the father, was born, February 10, 1765, and as his mother died in his infancy he was reared by his grandmother and they lived successively in Summit and Washington counties, Pennsylvania. In the latter county William was mainly reared and there he married and during his residence there five of hiS children were born. He was a farmer in comfortable circumstances and must have been a man of considerable prominence as he was elected sheriff and filled the office for some years. When he resigned that position he removed to Steubenville. Ohio, where he lived for one year and then removed to Hancock County, Virginia ( now West Virginia), just across the river from what is now the city of Wellsville. At that time the Indians in Columbiana County were still considered dangerous and Mr. Wells settled his family where he did on account of there being a couple of block-houses in which they could be safely housed while he was obliged to leave them without his protection. Just across the river, his father-in-law, James Clark, had cleared several acres of land which Mr. Wells purchased and every day he would swim on horseback across the river to cultivate his land. This continued until his first crop of corn was ripe and conditions had a little improved, when he brought his family to Wellsville where they have lived ever since. He served in the military and our subject has in his possession a very valuable document, this being his father's commission received from Governor Arthur St. Clair, which bears the date of July 15, 1798, the place being Cincinnati, which city it will be remembered was given its name by this same first Governor of the Northwest Territory. It is recorded that William Wells took the oath of office from his cousin. Basil Wells, of Steubenville, on the above date and served in this office until Ohio became a State. William Wells was a farmer all his life but he was a man of excellent business perceptions and, as hiS early efforts showed, of resolute nature and great personal courage and perseverance. In 1823 settlers had come in such numbers to locate in the favored localities 358 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY along the river, that Mr. Wells, with great foresight, platted a part of his farm of 304 acres, and named the new place "Wellsville." It soon grew from a farm into a hamlet, a village, a town and now is a thriving city, one in which the name of its founder is not forgotten. Mr. Wells with a man named Heath discovered the possibilities of a salt-spring near Hibbitt's mill on Little Yellow Creek and they were the first white men to ever engage in the manufacture of salt in Columbiana County. Mr. Wells was foremost in all educational and religious progress and was not only the founder of the city but was the originator and promoter of many of its earliest and most important enterprises. He died in 1853. The year previous he had the pleasure and enjoyed the honor of being selected to drive the last Spike when the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad was completed to Wellsville. It was seemly that he should have been selected for this duty and one can but wonder if, when his eye ran along the shining rails which meant so much to this locality, a vision of himself returned. swimming the angry currents of the river, when he worked with his flint-lock musket across his wooden moldboard plow, on the very site of this great engineering achievement. William Wells married Ann Clark who was born in 1765, and died in 1814. She was a daughter of James Clark, one of the earliest pioneers of Columbiana County, and certainly one of the most remarkable. He lived to the age of 103 years and it is related of him that he retained his faculties to the end and his eyesight was so perfect that at the age of 95 years he could read without glasses and even on one occasion, shot a squirrel from the top of a 40-foot tree. William and Ann Wells reared nine of their to children, the members of the family bearing these names : Mary who married David Watts and lived and died in Wellsville: James and George. deceased : Margaret. who married William Pritchard. both now deceased : William and Joseph. deceased ; Ann. who married O. P. Sherman. both now deceased : Sarah. who married Joseph Benson, both now deceased: and Rachel and Alexander, (twins), the former of whom married A. G. W. Stevens and is deceased, as previously mentioned in this article. The family has been a noted one for longevity. Among the many interesting recollections of our esteemed subject. one pertaining to his school days is especially interesting. He describes the old log house as being substantially constructed. An opening 14 inches wide ran around two sides and one end of the building, which space was covered with greased paper, in lieu of glass, to let in light and keep out the elements. There was no necessity to provide for ventilation, the interstices between the logs supplying all the air necessary. The name of his first teacher he recalls as Richard Boyce. In 1827 he went to work in a general store, clerking for his hoard and clothes, according to the custom of the time, but in 1829 he went into business for himself in partnership with his brother George, the firm name being G. & Wells, which continued until 1844. This business was conducted before the completion of the railroad and a main feature was the loading and sending out through the country of wagons full of merchandise. This was a wonderful convenience to the outlying villages and farm houses. In addition the firm did a very large storage and forwarding business In 1844 George Wells retired from the firm and our subject continued alone. but after the completion of the railroad in 1852 the forwarding feature was dropped. Mr. Wells remained in the mercantile trade, however. until after the close of the Civil War. when he was succeeded by his sons. Alexander R. and Emmett H. Wells, but lie remained a silent partner until 1901, when he retired at the age of 93 years. after a business life of 72 years. Mr. Wells has been concerned more or less with almost all the important movements which have served to promote the commercial prosperity of Wellsville. From its organization he has been a director of the First National Bank. and he was very active in securing the excellent transportation facilities which the city enjoys. His early political sympathies were with the Whig party and then he became a Republi- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 359 can and continued to be thus identified until 1885, when he became a Prohibitionist. As a member of this party lie is a Strong advocate, for scarcely could a better example of the value of temperance principles be found than in this hale, hearty, clear-brained nonogenarian, whose life has bridged such a great gulf of history, and who still looks out on life with happy interest, keeping in touch with local, national and world movements. Almost daily he can be seen mingling with hiS fellow-citizens by whom he is regarded with feelings of esteem and veneration. Mr. Wells was married September 13, 1836, to Esther Kemble, who was born January 5, 1819, and died April 29, 1873. She was a daughter of Samuel and Susanna (Blizzard) Kemble, old residents of Elkrun township. They had 10 children, the eldest born on his father's birthday and the second on his mothers’ birthday. They were : William G., of Lisbon, Ohio ; Kemble, who served as a lieutenant in the Civil War; Homer C., of Wellsville; Margaret, widow of E. S. Taylor, of Wellsville ; Clark. who died in infancy ; Helen Mar, widow of Clarence R. Arnold, of Wellsville; Alexander R.; Marcellus, of Charleroi. Pennsylvania ; and Emmett H., of Wellsville. Mr. Wells, like his late wife, has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, his father and mother having been charter members when it was organized in 1807. WILLIAM CLARK CHAMBERLIN. who enjoys the distinction of being the oldest Settler in East Palestine in point of time, and the oldest merchant and banker, is a citizen who has been closely identified with the development of the northeastern section of Columbiana County during the progressive changes wrought by the passage of more than a half century. Mr. Chamberlin was born on the present site of East Palestine, the family estate then being known as the Taggart place, 20 on July 11, 1837, and is a soil of Dr. Robert and Rebecca ( Taggart ) Chamberlin. Within the easy memory of many residents of East Palestine, this section of the country was a large body of rich farming land, comprising some 640 acres, which had been entered by John Taggart, Mr. Chamberlin's maternal grandfather. The home of R. F. Taggart, east of the present town, is in the original plat of East PaleStine as is another, portion of the. homeStead to the west. The original name selected for the growing hamlet was Mechanicsburg but the mother of Mr. Chamberlin desired a more euphonious appellation and desired it called Palestine, the quiet beauty of the little town and the earnest virtuous, simple life of its people suggesting to her a name recalling holy memories. On account of there being already a Palestine in Ohio, the government, in granting a postoffice, gave the prefix "East" and East Palestine it has been ever since. Dr. Robert Chamberlin, pioneer physician, first merchant and first postmaster at East Palestine, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1798, and died March 22, 1876, aged 77 years, at his home in East Palestine. From Delaware County, Pennsylvania, he came in boyhood, to Ohio, and worked at farming in Fairfield County, coming to Columbiana County at the age of 20 years. Here he read medicine under Dr. Towne, and Subsequently was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Prior to this he had been a student at Mount Airy Academy, near Philadelphia, and for a time he was instructor in English at this institution, spending some years as an educator. Had he not turned his attention particularly to medicine, he would in all probability have been a distinguished man of letters. He prepared a work on English grammar, which, although never published, received the approbation of competent critics aS an excellent treatise on the English language. After settling permanently in Ohio, Dr. Robert Chamberlin served several years as surveyor of Columbiana County and he was also the surveyor for the Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad. now the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago line, from the Ohio River to Salem, 360 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY Ohio. In addition to an extensive medical practice which extended over a period of 30 years, he established the first store and the only one of importance for many years, and when the Legislature changed the name of the little hamlet to East Palestine and the government established the post office, he, as the most important man of the place, was chosen postmaster. He laid out the first addition to the town and in fact, for years, was one of its dominating characters. Our esteemed subject was equally fortunate in having a mother of more than usual intellect and business capacity. Rebecca Taggart was born February 25, 1810, and died January 9, 1895. She not only mothered and reared a family of seven children, but capably met every exigency which arose during her husband's enforced absences, conducting the affairs of the store with as much discretion as he could have done. To his mother Mr. Chamberlin attributes his business success, she having given him his early training. Her children were : John Taggart, deceased, formerly of East Palestine; Rebecca Ann, who married Enos Goble and had two daughters,—Mary Ann, deceased, and Nancy Duira, of New York City ; Calvin Forbes, who met death in a railroad accident and left a family in East Palestine ; William Clark, of East Palestine ; James Horace, who is now a retired merchant in Philadelphia, where he has a family ; Nancy Duira, deceased in 1867, who was the wife of Albert Augustine, —they are survived by one son. Albert. who is a resident of Salem, Ohio ; and Robert Sydenham, deceased, who is survived by a widow and four children, who live in East Palestine. William Clark Chamberlin assisted in his father’s store from boyhood and for a number of years acted as assistant postmaster while his father was driving over the country attending to his medical practice. When his eldest brother, John Taggart Chamberlin, started a mercantile business under the firm name of Robert Chamberlin & Sons. he entered into the business. This house still exists, the name being retained although at different times its partnerS have been changed. The business was that of a general store, of which the stuck in the early days comprised everything that was in demand in the locality,—staple groceries, clothing, boots, shoes, millinery, harness, furniture, etc. A vast amount of business was done, the annual amount being as much as $100,000. In 1884 a private bank was organized as Chamberlin Brothers & Company, which is still doing business, and our subject has been connected with it since its first board of directors was elected. Mr. Chamberlin was married September 8, 1864, to Lydia J. Brittain. who is a daughter of Joseph and Belinda (Clark) Brittain. The Brittains were very early settlers in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, from which section they came to Columbiana County. The father died February 19, 1900, aged 84 years, and the mother in August, 1887, aged 78 years. Mr. and Mrs. Brittain were the parents of five children, namely : Jeremiah, William Clark, Elizabeth Esther, Lydia J. and Joseph I. Rev. Jeremiah Brittain, the eldest, was pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Greenville, Pennsylvania. For 22 years he was an active worker in the anti-saloon movement and at the time of his death, on December 24, 1903 was state superintendent for New Jersey and Delaware. He was a man of noble character whose influence will be felt for untold years. The second son, Dr. William Clark Brittain, is a well-known physician in Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Esther Brittain married J. N. Andre. formerly a carriage manufacturer at New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, who is now a missionary in Kentucky. The youngest of the family, Hon. Joseph I. Brittain, is at present American consul at Kehl, Germany. He was born in Beaver County. Pennsylvania, and was educated in the local schools. Brighton High School and Beaver Academy. For 30 years he was a citizen of Ohio. formerly was in the mercantile business and for three years was editor of the Echo, at East Palestine. He was elected to The loth General Assembly. serving from 1890 to 1892, and again, from 1893 to 1894. A man of brilliant intellect he was selected for diplomatic service and on October 15. 1897, he was sent to France where he served so acceptably for four years that on AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 361 June 6. 1902, President Roosevelt appointed him to his present consulate at Kehl, near Strasburg, Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin have five children, viz : Frank Brittain, a graduate of the East Palestine High School and of Geneva College. Pennsylvania, who married Annie Orr, of Ocean Grove, New Jersey : Nancy Maria, a graduate of the East Palestine High School and of Monmouth College, Illinois, who is the wife of Rev. R. M. Little. pastor of the Sixth United Presbyterian Church, of Chicago : Elizabeth Florence, a graduate of the East Palestine High School and of Westminster College at New Wilmington, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, who is the wife of Rev. C. W. Eldredge. a clergyman in Evanston, a suburb of Cincinnati ; Joseph Clark, a graduate of the East Palestitne High School and of Westminster College: and Lydia Elma, also a graduate of Westminster College. Aside from his business interests, Mr. Chamberlin has been a useful citizen of East Palestine. with the other members of his family taking a deep interest in all movements which have had for their object the improvement of the town’s utilities or the advancement of its culture. He has served on the Board of Public Affairs. on the Board of Education and at various times in the Town Council. He is a man who bears the reputation of being honorable and trustworthy, kind and generous, just and public spirited. ROBERT V. HAMPSON, president of the Farmerssi National Bank of Salem, Ohio, secretary and treasurer of the Salem Gas Company, is one of the leading business citizens of Columbiana County. His whole business life of 45 years has been connected with the interests of Salem and vicinity. Mr. Hampson was born in 1836, at Carrollton, Carroll County. Ohio, and is a son of George Y. and Catherine ( Frush) Hampson. George Y. Hampson, father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, and for many years was a prominent citizen of Huntingdon County. In 1831 he removed to Carroll County, Ohio, where the remainder, of a long and useful life was spent. His death took place in 1876, at the age of 82 years. He was an old-time Democrat and was honored on numerous occasionS by his party, being elected sheriff and also treasurer of Carroll County. Robert V. Hampson became a resident of Salem in young manhood and has been in the banking business practically all his life. He was only 22 years old when he became cashier of the State Bank of Salem, in 1858, being at the time the youngest cashier in a similar institution in the United States. He continued in this position until 1865, when the State Bank of Salem was merged into the present institution. the Farmers' National Bank. and occupied the same relations with the latter organization until the death of Hon. J. Lying Brooks, whom he succeeded as president. The history of the Farmers’ National Bank of Salem is as follows : On March 25, 1865, a certificate of incorporation was issued by the bank department of the State of Ohio to 12 incorporators, namely : J. Twing Brooks, L. W. Potter. George England, Joel Sharp, Allan Boyle. Robert Tolerton. James Binford, Alfred Wright. Lewis Schilling. R. V. Hampson, James Fawcett and J. A. Kerr. The charter of this bank was dated April 1, 1865. and its capital was $200,000. The officers in 1879 were : J. Twing Brooks (now deceased), president. and R. V. Hampson, cashier. Since the death of Mr. Brooks. Mr. Hampson has been at the head of this old, sound and conservative institution. In March, 1885, the charter of the bank was extended and 20 years later it was again extended. The present officers are the following : President, Robert V. Hampson ; cashier. W. B. Carey ; directors,—Robert V. Hampson. James R. Carey, W. F. Deming, M. L. Young and L. I. Gibbert. The capital stock of the bank is still $200,000: a surplus of $55,000 has been accumulated, after paying stockholders substantial dividends for 40 years. Mr. Hampson was married at Salem to Elizabeth Beatty, a member of an old New Jersey family which has been established at Salem 362 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY for a long time. Mr. and Mrs. Hampson have four children, viz : Carrie, who is the wife of James R. Carey, senior member of the law firm of Carey & Mullins, of Salem, attorneys for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the Fourth District of Ohio; Helen, who is the wife of George B. Shephard, treasurer of the Cleveland Malleable Iron Company, of Cleveland; Effie, who is the.wife of J. R. Thomas, assistant secretary in the service of the American Steel Wire Company; and Lucy, who resides at home. The family occupy a beautiful home at No. 349 Franklin.avenue, Salem. Mr. Hampson is recognized as one of the city's progressive and public-spirited men, one whose interests are coincident with those of his city. For many years he has been and is now president of the School Board and has given time, attention and aid to numerous civic organizations. For some years he has been treasurer and secretary of the Salem Gas Company. Fraternally he belongs to the higher branches of Masonry, and has attained the 33rd degree. He is past grand commander of Ohio of the Knights Templar and is present grand treasurer of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Ohio, haying served as such for the past 20 years. HON. S. J. FIRESTONE, president of Firestone Brothers' Bank at Lisbon, one of the soundest financial institutions in this part of the State, has attained distinction as lawyer, soldier, judge and banker. For nearly a half century he has actively participated in the affairs of the county seat and has been identified with its most important enterprises, public and private, giving to the development of the city the energetic support of a patriotic and public-spirited citizen. S. J. Firestone wag born in Knox township, Columbiana County. Ohio. October 2. 1833, and is a son of Daniel and Nancy (Lower) Firestone. His father was born in Pennsylvania in 1797 and moved to Knox township prior to his marriage. He engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death in 1864, aged 67 years. His wife, Nancy Lower, born in West township, Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1811, came of a pioneer family of this county, her father haying located a section of land in West township in 1803, most of which property is still owned in the family. Our subject is one of 12 children born to his parents, seven of whom grew to maturity as follows : John L.. deceased, who lived and practiced medicine at Salem; Leander, also a physician. located at Wooster, Ohio, but now deceased: Daniel J.. for 20 years in partnership with our subject in the banking business, who died in Lisbon in 1896. aged 60 years. S. J.; Mrs. A. B. King, of Salem; Mrs. Jason King, of North Georgetown ; and Mrs. Dan Bartges, of North Georgetown. S. J. Firestone attended the common schools of his native district, and in later years entered Mount Union College at Alliance, Ohio, where. he continued until 1858. He then entered up rn the study of the law in the office of McSweeney & Given, of Wooster, one of the most successful firms in Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1860 and immediately thereafter located in practice at Lisbon, where he has remained continuously since with the exception of the time spent in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was one of the first to respond to Lincoln’s call for volunteers and was mustered in as a private August 26, 1861, in the19th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant December 16th, the commission bearing date of August 26, 1861. His regiment was with the Fourth Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and participated in 22 of the principal engagements of the war, among them the siege of Corinth, battle of Nashville, Pittsburg Landing, the pursuit of General Bragg. the defense of Louisville, and the battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga. Orchard Knob. Mission Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and Franklin. He served through the Atlanta campaign with credit, being present through the siege and fall of that city. He was later in the service in Texas, and was mustered out November 21, 1865. In recognition of his courageous con- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 363 duct and valiant services he was promoted the rank of captain on August 7, 1862, to that of major on March 29, 1865, and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel May 31, 1865. Returning home at the close of the war, Colonel Firestone resumed the practice of law, and was in 1866 nominated and elected to the office of probate judge of Columbiana County. He was reelected in 1869 and served a period of six years in that capacity. Possessing a high sense of justice and fairness and a comprehensive knowledge of the law, his career on the bench was one which gained for him the highest respect and confidence of the people, so that when his term expired and he resumed practice he found a greatly increased clientage. in 1873 he formed a partnership with Judge William A. Nichols under the firm name of Nichols & Firestone, a firm which was probably the best known and most successful in the county during its existence. In 1878, in partnership with his brother, Daniel J., Judge Firestone established Firestone Brothers’ Bank, which has done the largest banking business of any institution at Lisbon. Since the death of Daniel J. Firestone, our subject has devoted his entire attention to his banking business and his extensive real estate holdings in the county. The officers of this institution are : Hon. S. J. Firestone, president; Ed, Firestone (son of Daniel J.), cashier ; and Ross W. Firestone, assistant cashier. Judge Firestone owns considerable city property and farming land throughout the county, all highly improved, and has in the neighborhood of 80 tenants. He has acted as trustee of several very large estates, including the Leetonia Iron & Coal Company, in the failure of which he represented creditors to the amount of $1,000,000. He was administrator of the Robert Patterson estate, executor of George S. Nace, who was at the time of his death one of the wealthiest citizens of the county, and was also executor of the estate left by Mrs. Nace. He is in robust health and has the vigor and strength of a man many years his junior. He has had very little sickness in his life, and served throughout the four years of the Civil War without an injury or a day of sickness. Judge Firestone was in 1860 united in marriage with Annie E. Williams, who was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, where her people were pioneers, residing in the vicinity of Damascus. Three sons and one daughter blessed this union, namely : Clark B., W. S., Ross W. and Flora: Clark B., who is on the editorial staff of the New York Mail and Express, was graduated from Oberlin College, where his first editorial work was on the college paper. He has spent considerable time in Europe as correspondent for hiS paper. W. S. is engaged. in the life insurance business at Cleveland. Ross W. is assistant cashier of Firestone Brothers' Bank. Flora is the wife of Dr. A. P. Howland, a prominent physician of Cleveland. Religiously, Mrs. Firestone is a member of the Disciples Church. The subject of this biography has always been an enthusiastic supporter of the Republican party, whose principles he has defended and advocated on the stump in his home county. Although he has never sought for office since leaving the bench, he has served as a member of the Lisbon Council many years, on the School Board many years and as treasurer 15 years. Fraternally he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a Royal Arch Mason. He is numbered among the county’s most substantial men, and can with pride look upon his record in business, his rise from obscurity to prominence and affluence having been wholly through his own efforts. He has always identified himself with the best interests of the community, whose progress has kept pace with his own. HON. DANIEL W. CRIST, member of the State Assembly from Columbiana County, and the owner of a finely improved farm of 130 acres, which is situated in sections 8 and 9, West township, is also extensively engaged in music publishing at Moultrie. He was born in West township, Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1857, and is a son of Robert and Mary (Ruff) Crist. The Crist family is of English extraction 364 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY and was founded in Maryland by John Crist, the great-grandfather of our subject. He located at a very early slay on land now covered by a large part of the city of Baltimore. It was leased to the county and this lease haS but recently expired and, did the family wish to go into litigation, there iS no doubt but their claim could be established to an immense estate. The grandfather, Robert Crist, moved to Ohio in 1827 and settled near Canton. Stark County, where he first rented a farm and later purchased a quarter section of land near Marlboro. He had nine children. Robert Crist, son of Robert and father of Daniel W., was born in Maryland in 1825, and was brought to Ohio when a babe of two years. He grew to manhood in Stark County and began to teach school when only 16 years of age. After his marriage he located in West township, which was his home until his death in 1898. He married Mary Ruff. who was a daughter of Daniel and Barbara (Bair) Ruff. The Ruffs came to America from Germany in 1760 and settled in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where the family to this day is numerous and prominent. No less so is the Bair family. Mr. Cristsis great-grandparents were Rudolph and Anna Mary (Sailor) Bair. the latter of whom was a daughter of Michael who was an aide-de-camp to General Washington during the Revolutionary War. Rudolph Bair was the first Representative to the General Assembly from Jefferson County. Ohio, of which Columbiana County was then a part. in 1893 and was the one who laid out the State road which runs from Canton to Lisbon, Ohio. Daniel W. Crist received his primary education in the county schools and then took a course in the Northwestern Ohio Normal School. Owing to a breakdown in his health. he abandoned his chosen profession, that of school teaching, and took up the study of music, for he is a natural musician. His talents developed in childhood and had Mr. Crist given his sole attention to music alone, it is probable the world would have numbered him as one of the most eminent figures in the world of music. He took up the teaching of music at first, and kept on studying and ere long began musical composition. He found here a congenial field of work and in the years intervening since then, he has composed the music for many Sunday-school song-books and several day-school song-books not to mention over t00 piano conpositions. a number of these having at present a national reputation. In addition to composing music, Mr. Crist publishes it, having probably the largest music publishing house in Ohio. It is located at Moultrie where he also has his business office. He has been in public life for a number of years and is one of the leading Republicans of the western section of Columbiana County. He was elected a member of the General Assembly in 1901 and was reelected in 1903, and his popularity is on the increase. His fine rural home is situated on section 8, West township. In 1882 Mr. Crist was married to Mary Reed, who is a daughter of James and Nancy (Newcomer) Reed. The Newcomers were natives of WeStmoreland County. Pennsylvania. Three children have been born to this union, viz : Mvrtie M., born April 18, 1885: James R.. born August 4. 1887. and Arthur D.. born March 17. 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Crist belong to the Christian Church. Mr. Crist is prominent in Masonry, being a Knight Templar. JOEL SHARP. With the death of Joel Sharp. on July 28. 1898. there passed. from Salem one of its venerable and most honored citizens. His birth took place in Goshen township. Columbiana County, Ohio. February 22. 1820. and he was the youngest child of Joel and Rebecca (Tyrrel) Sharp. There are few families of Columbiana County which deserve more extended mention than that of Sharp. not only on account of its commercial achievements, but also for the high personal character of its members. The father of the late Joel Sharp was born August 13, 1779, at Little Egg Harbor. New Jersey, where in early life, he was adopted by Aaron Stratton and reared as the latter's son until manhood. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 365. He married Rebecca Tyrrel, who was born in New Jersey, November 17, 1783. When Mr. Stratton moved to Ohio in 1806. Joel Sharp accompanied him, and they located in Goshen township, Columbiana County, where they established a sawmill and operated it in partnership for some years. The Strattons belonged to the Society of Friends and Joel Sharp and wife joined the meeting of that sect on May 11, 1813. Joel Sharp died in the month following the birth of our subject, on March 8, 1820, but his widow was spared to her children for many years, passing away at her home in Salem, June 12, 1875, aged 91 years. They were parents of these children : Ruth. who died unmarried; Martha, who married Daniel Bonsall; Thomas, born in 1808, who died at Salem, in 1896; Clayton, who died at Olmstead, near Cleveland, Ohio : Mary Ann, who married Caleb Hunt, of Salem; Aaron, who died in infancy ; Simeon, of whom extended mention will be found in this work ; and Joel, of this sketch. When Joel Sharp was seven years old, he was considered of sufficient age to begin to earn his own living. and with Spartan firmness his mother apprenticed him to farmer Daniel Bonsall, with whom he remained until he was 14 years old. He then joined his mother at Cleveland, Ohio, she in the meantime having married Nathan Hunt. Joel spent the following five years as a clerk in Cleveland, using a part of his earnings to pay for one year's tuition at a Friends’ school at Mount Pleasant, Ohio. In 1841 he went to work for his brother Thomas, who was operating a sawmill at Cleveland, and four years later he began to learn the trade of a machinist with the Cuyahoga Furnace Company. In 1848 Mr. Sharp returned to Salem and entered into a business partnership with his brothers, Thomas. Clayton and Simeon, in the establishing of the Sharp Brothers' foundry, this being really the nucleus of what later developed into one of the greatest industrial plants in this section of the State. All the brothers, except the late Thomas Sharp. subsequently entered into a partnership under the firm name of Sharps. Davis & Bonsall, which, in 1871, was incorporated as the Buckeye Engine Company, with these officers : Joel Sharp.. president ; J. C. Boone, secretary and treasurer Milton Davis, vice-president: Joel Bonsall. .1nperintendent ; and Simeon Sharp, assistant superintendent. From this date until his demise, our subject continued as the president of the company and much of its success came from his businesS capacity and judgment. Other large and important business enterprises claimed his attention also. In 1885 he was one of the organizers of the Salem Wire Nail Company and later became its president. filling that office until it was absorbed by the American Steel & Wire Company in 1898. He. was mainly instrumental in forming the Salem. Coal Company and became one of its directing board and it was through his efforts in great degree that the Salem Railroad became an established fact. He was also lately interested in the First National Bank of Salem, one of its directors and at all times a careful conservative. adviser. During his long life in Salem, he was closely identified with her many public-spirited movements, accepted civic offices in order, to. lend influence to wise and judicious movements for the city’s welfare and tool as conscientious care in guarding public interests aS he did in. caring for his own affairs. He was a man of progressive spirit and was one of the first members of the City Council to favor city waterworks and electric lighting. As far back as 1856 he identified himself with the Republican party and actively supported its principles until his death. Mr. Sharp was united in marriage on November 21, 1844, to Angeline Lee, who is a daughter of Josiah and Hannah (Boone) Lee, members of old and well-established families of Pennsylvania, where the names are held in great respect. Josiah and Hannah Boone were. both born in Berks County and were married there iii September, 1818. and moved from there to Salem, Ohio. where the family resided permanently. Josiah Lee died in 1844 while on a business trip to Memphis, Tennessee. He was survived many years by his widow, who died in 1890, when within eight years of completing a century. From the same stock came- 366 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA. COUNTY Daniel B00ne, the great Kentucky pioneer and Indian fighter. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp had two children : Frances and Herbert H. The former was born at Salem, Ohio, August 31, 1843, and was married to Charles H. Ellis on August 22, 1872. She resides with her venerable mother. Herbert H. Sharp was born at Salem, January 9, 1860. He was educated irtthe public schools, at Andover Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied mechanical engineering. After leaving school, he served an apprenticeship with the Buckeye Engine Company and in 1886 he entered the employ of the Salem Wire Nail Company as shipping clerk. In 1892 he became superintendent and continued in this position until the sale of this plant to the American Steel & Wire Company was consummated. After. the death of his father, he became a director of the Buckeye Engine Company and this was followed by his election to the presidency in January, 1903. Herbert H. Sharp was married September 26, 1888, to Bessie Church Rush. They have one son, born April 8, 1896, who was named Joel Herbert. The name of Sharp is so closely connected with the leading enterprises of Salem that, as a family, it commands more than the usual amount of notice. Investigate the community’s commercial interests, its philanthropic movements, its quiet charities. its educational advancement, and the refined social enjoyments, and it will be discovered that in very few of these the members of this old and honored family have not been either leaders or promoters of all that is best in the city’s life. It may be justly claimed that in business. public and social life here, the name is a household word. J. F. STODDARD, one of the active and self made business men of East Palestine, Ohio, was born in 1868, in Sewickley. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and resided in that county until 12 years old, when he came to East Palestine. Columbiana County. Mr. Stoddard left school when 16 years of age, having enjoyed the advantages of the public schools and the Polytechnic Institute of Allegheny. Then he turned his attention to the acquisition of a self-supporting trade, entered a pottery and thoroughly learned the business. For five years he was employed in the office of the East Palestine Pottery Company, when it was operated by the Sebring brothers. Since the incorporation of The Continental China Company, on March 16, 1904, he has been its treasurer, and is also actively interested in the affairs of The East Palestine Pottery Company. Mr. Stoddard was married at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, to Myrtle M. Patterson, of Columbiana, Ohio. and they have two sons,— Robert and Donald. The family residence is a modest and well-appointed little home on West Martin street. E. F. MOORE, postmaster at Lisbon, by President McKinley, who was a was appointed to that office in 1898 cousin of Dr. William Moore, father of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Moore was born in Elkton, this county, in 1852, and was reared and schooled here. He spent a short time in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. completing his preparation for the trade of a printer, and with the exception of this period has always resided at Lisbon. Mr. Moore secured the sole control of the newspaper, Buckeye State, in 1876, and continued as its owner and editor until 1901. He entered the office of this paper, as an apprentice, in 1871, and became its proprietor and literary head within five years. Mr. Moore was married in Lisbon. to Eva I. Young, a native of Lisbon, and a daughter of B. S. Young, who was born in Columbiana County, arid still survives at the age of 75 years. Mr. Young was postmaster at Lisbon from 1872 to 1880. In later years he was engaged in the hardware business, from which he retired in the fall of 1904. Mr. Moore and his wife have had 10 chil- PAGE - 367 PAGE - 368 - PICTURE OF SIMEON SHARP AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 369 dren, all born in Lisbon. Seven of these are living, namely : W. B.; Eva I., who is her father’s assistant in the post office; Mary E., who is teaching in the Lisbon schools ; Frank E. ; Fitz-Randolph; Charles and Ralph. W. B. Moore is now practicing law at Clarksburg, West Virginia. He took a special course of study at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1903, and then entered the senior, class of the University of Cincinnati in 1904, being admitted to the bar in June of that year. Mr, Moore is a stanch Republican in politics. Fraternally, he is a Mason and a Knight Templar, being a member of Salem Commandery, K. T. He is also an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias. In religious views, he favors. the Christian Church. SIMEON SHARP, one of the most venerable as well as most highly esteemed citizens of Salem. now living retired from all business care. was long identified with one of the largest industries of the State and for many years a leading factor in its development. Mr. Sharp was born May 30. 1817, on his father’s farm near Salem. and is a son of Joel and Rebecca (Tyrrel) Sharp. The settlement of the Sharp family in Columbiana County dates back to about 1806, when the parents of our subject came here from Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey. The journey had been long and wearying and during a good part of the trip the mother, with her children in her lap, drove the one-horse wagon over the roads the father cut through the forest. Joel Sharp was a carpenter and soon after locating on a tract of wild land constructed a rude home for his family. His death took place in 1820 but his wife survived until 1873, dying at Salem on June 12th of that year, being then nearly 92 years old and haying preserved all her faculties to a remarkable degree. In New Jersey they were members of what were known as the Orthodox Friends, but they found the branch of Hicksite Friends in the majority at Salem and they entered into communion with them. Our subject was the fourth soil and sixth child of Joel Sharp and very early in life began to take care of himself, being but seven years old when he was bound out to a neighboring farmer. His inclinations led him in an entirely different direction and by the age of 14 his boyish patience was exhausted and he ran away to join his brother Thomas, at Salem, with whom he learned the carpenter’s trade, one which he followed for some years. In 1847 he and his three brothers. Thomas, Clayton and Joel, established a business at Salem for the building of enoines and this was the foundation of the works which later developed into the great industry of the Buckeye Engine Company. When the Pennsylvania Railroad was being built through Columbiana County, the Sharp brothers took a contract to furnish 11 miles of ties and stringers, and for this purpose bought 100 acres of timber land on which they erected a sawmill. Thomas-Sharp took charge of the mill, while the other brothers continued work at the shops. Owing to an unfortunate disagreement, the partnership was dissolved in 183i and a new company was formed consisting of Joel Sharp. Milton Davis, Joel Bonsall and Simeon Sharp. who took over the shop and its appurtenances and for the succeeding 20 years conducted the Buckeye Engine Works, In 1871 the business was incorporated as the Buckeye Engine Company, of which Joel Sharp was made president Milton Davis, vice- president ; J. C. Boone, secretary ; Joel Bonsall, superintendent : and Simeon Sharp, assistant superintendent. Thomas Sharp acquired the land and mill in lieu of his interest in the engine works. He lived on this place until his death in 1896, in his 89th year. In his positron of assistant superintendent, our subject had much to do with the development and improvement of the engines and was one of the leading factors in the subsequent success of the business. He traveled all over the country, setting up machines in numerous 370 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY localities throughout the South and West and transacted a vast amount of company business. In 1847 he visited Chicago, then a village scattered through a great marsh, offering little inducement to Mr. Sharp as a paying location for one of his energy. After 40 years of continued devotion to the interests of the company, he retired from active participation in its affairs in 1892. This great industry, which has made the name of Sharp known all over the globe where machinery is found, employed in its early days a force of 12 workmen, including the four brothers. Now a force of 300 skilled workmen is required to turn out the latest improved "Buckeye" power engine. Originally, Mr. Sharp was an old line Whig, but became affiliated with the Republican party in 1856, voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and continued an adherent of this party until 1898. He could not feel justified in supporting a party which was in favor of war, under any conditions, having always entertained conscientious convictions relating to peace. His uprightness of character, his frankness in his intercourse with men of high and low degree, his integrity in every situation of life have attracted many to him in friendship and the evening of life finds him enjoying all that makes that period one of quiet contentment and repose. Mr. Sharp married Lydia S. Taylor. of New Brighton, Pennsylvania. and they have three daughters : Lucy S., who is the widow of Hon. Samuel White. a well-known bridge builder at New Brighton, Pennsylvania. and a member of the Senate of that State: Ora. who is the wife of Demorest Davis ; and Helen, who is the wife of William Silver, at present treasurer of the Silver Manufacturing Company, of Salem. Through marriage relationships with the prominent Davis, Bonsall and Silver families, the Sharp family belongs to a social connection which is paramount in Columbiana county, equaled only by its identification with the county's business interests. The venerable subject of this review, whose portarit accompanies this sketch, resides at No. 88 Depot street, Salem. SHARP WILSON HEMPHILL, M. D., although but a comparative newcomer in East Liverpool, is recognized as one of the leading physicians and has a lucrative and constantly increasing practice in this city. He was born in Hancock County. Virginia (now West Virginia ). on the old Finley farm, just across the river from East Liverpool, March 3, 1854, and is a son of Charles H. and Priscilla (Wilson ) Hemphill. The grandfather, James Hemphill, is supposed to have been a native of Pennsylvania; the greater part of his life was spent in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1838. Charles H. Hemphill was born in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, March 8. 1822, and took to the river when but a lad. His uncle, Sharp Hemphill, was captain of a steamboat and Charles went with him. He continued to work on the river, making the trips back and forth between New Orleans and Northern points, until the opening of the Rebellion. Previous to this he had been in sympathy with the South but when hostilities actually began he hastened to Virginia and enlisted in Company E. 11th Reg., Virginia Vol. Inf., to fight for the "Stars and Stripes." He was in the service over two years and was wounded. though not seriously, but the privations and hardships endured at that time undermined his constitution and wrecked his health so that he was not able to work and died from the effects of the exposure in 1870. He was married to Priscilla Wilson. daughter of Daniel and Jennie (Ralston ) Wilson, residents of Fairview, West Virginia. They were the parents of nine children, three of whom died before reaching mature years. Those living are Richard R., of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania ; Sharp W. ; Ann Eliza, wife of James Murray, of Beaver Falls. Pennsylvania ; Loretta, wife George Melwood. of East Liverpool ; Rosanne. widow of Thomas Cartwright : and William. of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. The mother passed away in 1884 at the age of 66 years. They were members of the Roman Catholic Church. Sharp Wilson Hemphill lived with his parents as long as they lived. He read medicine AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 371 with Dr. T. G. McPherson of Beaver Falls, entering his office in 1879. In 1884 he took a complete course in the medical department of Wooster University at Cleveland and at once began practicing at Beaver Falls. A few years later he went to New York City where he took a post-graduate course in the New York Clinical School, receiving the degree of M. D. The following seven or eight years he was physician for the Wheeling. Lake Erie & Pittsburg Coal Company, in Stark County, Ohio, and after that he practiced at Irondale. Jefferson County, from 1896 until he located in East Liverpool in 1903. He opened an office in the East End and has already built up a good practice and has been well received by the profession. Dr. Hemphill married Lizzie Merick, daughter of John and Gertrude (Denny) Merick. deceased, by whom he has three children, J. William. A. Edward and Cora Elizabeth. They are devoted members of the Christian Church and take air active interest in the work of that organization. The Doctor is a Republican in politics. He was made a Mason in Jenkins Lodge. No. 471, F. & A. M., of Hammondsville. Ohio. HON. JOHN H. LOGAN, one of the prominent members of the East Palestine bar, and one of the city's esteemed citizens, was born January 3, 1868, in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Mathew and Eliza J. (Banks) Logan. John Logan, the grandfather of our subject, reared a family of five sons and three daughters, three of whom still survive, the youngest of these being the father of John H. The Logan homestead is situated five miles west of Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in a rich farming district, and there the parents of our subject live in retirement and comfort. They had 12 children, three sons and nine daughters, the survivors being seven daughters and two sons. John H. Logan, who bears the name of one of Illinois' most distinguished soldiers and statesmen, came possibly from the same sturdy stock. He grew up on the Clarion County farm until eight years old and then accompanied the family in its removal to Beaver County. There he attended school and subsequently taught, alternating teaching and farming, according to the season, for some two years, and then entered upon the study of the law at East Palestine, Ohio, with C. P. Rothwell. He was admitted to the bar, October 3, 1892, began practice on January 3, 1893, and soon entered into politics. In the spring of 1893 he was elected mayor of East Palestine and held the office through 1894, 1895 and 1896,—important years of the city's development. In 1897 he was made city Solicitor, but since that time has devoted himself entirely to the practice of his profession which is one of the best established in the county. Although Mr. Logan never had collegiate advantages, he enjoyed academic training and this, with natural ability, wide reading and constant association with the best minds of the State, has given him thorough equipment for every demand of his profession or call made upon him in business and social life. Mr. Logan was united in marriage with. Ella Foster. who is a daughter of the late William and Sarah Foster, formerly of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. She is a highly accomplished. cultured lady, a graduate of Grove City College, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Logan have had three children, of whom the one survivor is Harold S., who is probably the brightest student for his age in the East Palestine schools. Although he has only passed his ninth birthday, he has already completed the fifth grade, his marks in his studies last year being either 90 or over ; when he returns to school in the fall, he will enter the seventh grade, having "jumped" a class every year. In addition to his brilliancy of intellect, he is a manly youth, fond of sport and possessing attractive, courteous manners. His memory has always been remarkable. The family belong to the United Presbyterian Church. and Mr. Logan is one of the valued teachers in the Sunday-school. They enjoy the comforts of one of the citysis most attractive homes, which is situated on North Market street. 372 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY WILLIAM D. SIGLER, D. O., the leading physician of the osteopathic school in Columbiana County, has been located in Salem since April 1, 1901. Dr. Sigler was born at Memphis, Missouri, October 11, 1869, and is a son of William D. Sigler, formerly a prosperous farmer and latterly a merchant at Memphis. Dr. Sigler secured his literary education first at Memphis, Missouri, and later in the university at Quincy, Illinois, where he was graduated in 1888. He became interested in medical science early in young manhood, but discovered that, with all the learning and experiences of the leading schools, many of the ills that afflict humanity could not be subdued. This led to his investigation of the claims of osteopathy and subsequently to his entering upon its study at the American University of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, where he was graudated in June, 1900. Dr. Sigler began the practice of his profession in Central Kansas. where he remained eight months and then came to Columbiana County, Ohio. He practiced one year at East Palestine and then came to Salem, a year later. His skill is generally acknowledged and his services are in demand all over the county. Dr. Sigler married Sarah W. Glenn, who is a daughter of Dr. D. D. Glenn. She is a member of the Christian Church, but the Doctor was reared a Methodist. Politically, he is a stanch Republican. His fraternal associations are with the Elks and the Sons of Veterans. His well-appointed offices are on East Main street, Salem. THE PEOPLE'S SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION COMPANY of Lisbon. has been an important factor in the building up of the county seat. With its capital of over $200,000. it operates all over Columbiana County. This company was organized in March, 1889, the incorporators being these well-known capitalists : George H. Huston. Nicholas Way. Augustus J. Volker, P. B. Young, Richardson Arter, George L. Miller. W. W. Jones and Allen A. Ramsey. The first officers of the newly organized company were : George H. Huston, president ; Nicholas Way, vice-president; Allen A. Ramsey, secretary, and George Miller, treasurer. These gentlemen, with the exception of the secretary and treasurer, composed the board of directors. The present official board is as follows : George H. Huston, president; Nicholas Way, vice-president ; and Allen A. Ramsey, secretary and treasurer. The directors are : George H. Huston, Nicholas Way, P. M. Armstrong, E. M. Crosser, G. F. Adams, C. V. Gaskill and A. J. Volker. This carefully managed company has been. the means by which much of this locality has been developed and improved, homes and business blocks have been erected and important industries have been promoted. with increased prosperity to all concerned. FRANK HOMER SCATTERGOOD, one of the leading stock farmers of Columbiana County, resides on a farm of t to acres in section 32, Butler township. He is a native of the county and was born near Winona, July 22, 1836, and is a son of Daniel and Rachel (Walton) Scattergood. The father of our subject was born in Jefferson County and the mother in Columbiana County. The former xvas a son of David Scattergood, whose father was one of the first settlers at Salem, where he died aged 103 years. The family is undoubtedly of English descent. The father of our subject was a farmer and stock dealer in Butler and Hanover townships. He died at the age of 68 years. His widow survives, aged almost 80 years. They had five children, viz : Mrs. Sallie E. Ingram, of Mahoning County ; E. A., of Sebring, Ohio : Frank Homer, of Butler township : William, of Butler township : and Mrs. Mattie Oliver, of Michigan. When the subject of this sketch was five years old, his parents removed from Butler to Hanover township and he lived there until 1882 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 373 when he returned to Butler township, which has been his home ever since. He deals extensively in live stock, buying, selling and shipping ; sheep, hogs, calves and cattle. He disposes of his stock principally at Pittsburg and is well known in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Scattergood was married November 2, 1882, to Mary Llewella Mercer, who was born in Butler township and is a daughter of Daniel and Eliza Mercer. They have two children : Leora and Maud. Maud is the wife of Edward. Webster. of Hanover township. Politically. Mr. Scattergood is identified with the Democratic party and he has been more or less prominent in this section for many years, frequently officiating as a delegate to important conventions. He was postmaster at Winona from 1885 until 1889, under Grover Cleveland’s administration. In addition to his large stock interests, Mr. Scattergood is a stockholder in the Central Telephone Company of Winona. EDWIN J. SMITH, president of The Standard Pottery Company, of East Liverpool, is one of the substantial business men of the city. He was born in East Liverpool on August 30, 1857, and is a son of Charles and Emma (Perkes) Smith. Joseph Smith, paternal grandfather of our subject, was born in Rushshall, Staffordshire, England, and spent most of his life at Tipton, where he died April 11. 1833, aged 37 years. He was engaged at the butcher business during the greater part of his life, having learned the trade from his father. His wife. Ann Smith, was born in Bromwich parish, Staffordshire, England, in 1800: while she had the same name she was not a blood relative of her husband. She died about 1862 having given birth to nine children, seven of whom grew to maturity : William ; Elizabeth; Benjamin ; Charles ; Thomas, who went to Australia ; Ann; and Sarah Jane, who also went to Australia. Religiously, Mr. Smith was an Episcopalian and his wife was a Methodist. Charles Smith was born at Tipton, Staffordshire, England, August 28, 1826, and learned the trade of a butcher in early life. With his wife he came to America, landing in New York on November 18, 1850, and immediately went to Buffalo with the intention of proceeding by lake to Chicago. The "Lady Elgin," on which they expected to sail, was sunk, and our subject went to Pittsburg instead, taking his wife with him. He had relatives there and also chanced to run upon an old friend, Benjamin Harker, who lived in East Liverpool. He was persuaded to visit Mr. Harker and was so impressed with the country that he decided to make it his future home. He took up his residence at what was known as Koontz' Landing May 5, 1851, and started in the butcher business. He remained until the following year then for three years was in business at Wellsville. In October, 1855, he again took up hiS residence in East Liverpool and entered the butcher business and continued with much success until 1890, when he moved upon a farm in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. He engaged in selling stock until 1896, since which time he has been retired from business activity. He was joined in marriage with Emma Perkes, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (;Adams) Perkes, of Tipton, England, and they had nine children, seven of whom grew up, namely : George, of East Liverpool; Edwin J.; William, of Salem : Charles, of East Liverpool ; James, of East Liverpool ; Sarah Jane, wife of James McClure, of East Liverpool; and Emma, wife of William Foster, of Sebring, Ohio ; Mrs. Smith, who waS born in May, 1826, died August 31, 1885. Edwin J. Smith attended the public schools of East Liverpool and upon leaving school entered the employ of Croxall & Cartwright, potters, with whom he continued until 1889, acquiring a thorough understanding of the business in all its details. He was in that year chosen president of the Standard Pottery Company, one of the most flourishing in the city. He is also a director of the Citizens' National Bank. Mr. Smith married Anna Hill, a daughter of Robert Hill, of East Liverpool, and they 374 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY have two children : Ella A. and Harold G. Religiously, she is a member of the First United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Smith is a member of the Mystic Circle. He is a Republican in politics, but has steadfastly refused to become a candidate for, office. He is of retiring disposition, but has many friends throughout the county. HIRAM GREINER. For more than half a century the name of Greiner has been connected with the banking and financial interests of Columbiana County, where it has always stood also for business integrity and personal worth. The late Hiram Greiner, the founder of the banking house at Salem which so long bore his name, was born in 1820 in Berks County. Pennsylvania, and was a son of John and Esther ( Klein) Greiner. Hiram Greiner came of German ancestry and possessed in marked degree many of the sterling characteristics of that race. His education was obtained in Berks County, but as a youth of 19 years he came to Ohio, first locating at Washingtonville and shortly after removing to Salem, where he accepted a position as clerk in a general store. Subsequently he engaged in a general mercantile business with Zachariah Bertolett and two years later with Joseph G. Thomas, both of whom were his brothers-in- law. He and Mr. Thomas continued in the mercantile business together until 1853. when conditions appeared favorable for the establishing of a banking business. The firm had the capital and also the public confidence. which ensured the success of the enterprise. The banking business. which in later years was carried on as the private bank of H. Greiner & Son, was started on January 1. 1833, when the private bank of Thomas & Greiner was organized. Upon the death of Mr. Thomas in August, 1864, the business was continued by Mr. Greiner for one year and a half. In 1866 Col. T. C. Boone became associated with Mr. Greiner. On January 1, 1871. Colonel Boone retired and the business passed into the hands of H. Greiner & Son, Joseph O. Greiner entering the firm at this time. Hiram Greiner continued at the head of the firm until his death on November 6, 1874. H. Greiner & Son occupied a building erected for this banking business in 1858. Hiram Greiner married a daughter of John W. and Sarah (Garrison) Thomas, old residents of Salem, and three children were born to them, viz: Mary, deceased; Joseph O. and Mrs. Sarah Metzger. Mr. Greiner is recalled aS one of the most reliable, honorable and valued citizens of Salem. JOSEPH O. GREINER, president of the Citizens’ Bank & Trust Company, of Salem, is one of the prominent citizens and leading financiers of Columbiana County. He was educated in the schools of Salem and grew to manhood, under his father’s supervision, in preparation for the banking business. The officers of the bank are as follows: Joseph O. Greiner, president; L. H. Kingsberry, vice-president; and Hiram A. Greiner, cashier. In 1904 the bank built a handsome building, in which to conduct its business. It cost $28.000 and is the finest of its size in the State of Ohio. Joseph O. Greiner was married on May 12, 1874, to Adella J. Campbell, who is a daughter of Angus and Susan (Cook) Campbell. They have two children, Hiram A. and Helen A., the former of whom is cashier of the Citizens’ Bank & Trust Company, of Salem. Mr. Greiner is a prominent Republican and he takes an active interest in all that pertains to his community and State. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity. The family home is handsome. substantial residence located at No. 46 Lincoln avenue. Salem. AI.LEN A. RAMSEY, a prominent member of the bar, at Lisbon. and secretary and treasurer of the Peoples’—Savings & Loan Association Company, was born in 1852 in Hanover township, Columbiana County, Ohio. and is a son of William and Elizabeth (King) Ramsey. Robert Ramsey, the paternal grandfather, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 375 who was a native of Westermoreland County, Pennsylvania, came to Columbiana County at an early day. He married a lady by the name of Campbell, from whose ancestors was also descended the late President McKinley. Robert Ramsey lived in Madison township, where he served as a justice of the peace. William Ramsey, father of Allen A.. was born in Columbiana County in March, 1816, and died here in 1893, aged 77 years. In the early part of the Civil War, he raised Company K, 115th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., of which he was captain for one year, resigning his commission finally on account of sickness. He settled on a farm in Hanover township and became a man of affairs in that section, serving as county commissioner from 1866 to 1869, an office his father had held from 1829 to 1832. He married Elizabeth King, who was born in 1820 in Franklin township, Columbiana County. and died in 1872, at the age of 52 years. Her father, Hugh King, was one of the old settlers and well-known farmers. Our subject is one of six survivors of a family of children, the other five being as follows : S. W.. an attorney at Salem; Mrs. Belle Brown, a widow residing at Lisbon : Mrs. Ella Crawford, who lives in Perry township. near Salem; and P. C. and Walter. both of Alliance. Ohio. Allen A. Ramsey was reared in Columbiana County and secured his literary education in the local schools. He read law with J. :W. & H. Morrison. was admitted to the bar in 1879. and located at Lisbon in 1880, where he has practiced his profession ever since and has become more or less identified with the cityls various interests. During his administration as mayor of the city, long strides were made in its growth and development and he has always been a promoter of those enterprises which offer substantial civic improvement. He has served as justice of the peace and has held other local offices. Mr. Ramsey has a most delightful home circle. He married Mary A. Pritchard. a daughter of R. B. Pritchard. of Lisbon. and they have three children.—Helen. Hugh and Marie.—all attending school. The family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically Mr. Ramsey is a Republican. For the past 10 years he has been clerk and manager of the city waterworks. He is one of the busy men of the town, one who personally impresses a stranger as competent, reliable and conservative. Fraternally he is a Mason and formerly was active in the Knights of Pythias. J. N. HANLEY, who has been the efficient clerk of the courts of Columbiana County since August, 1903, was born at East Liverpool. Ohio, in 1863, and is a son of Charles and Susan (Curbv) Hanley. The father of Mr. Hanley was born at Belfast, Ireland, and came to America in 1856 and subsequently made his home in Columbiana County, married and reared a large family. The mother of Mr. Hanley was born in Columbiana County. J. N. Hanley was reared and educated at East Liverpool. In early manhood he became connected with public affairs and served 10 years as city clerk at East Liverpool prior to accepting his present position. His administration of the duties of the office has been most satisfactory to all concerned. Mr. Hanley married Cora E. Gorby, a lady of East Liverpool, and they have a son and daughter. The family is identified with the United Presbyterian Church. Fraternally Mr. Hanley belongs to the Elks of East Liverpool; the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Mystic Circle. JAMES CLARK, a prominent citizen and retired capitalist of East Palestine. a self-made man in every respect, was born in England. April 19, 1831, and is a son of John and Ann Clark. The parents of.,Mr. Clark were natives of England and both came to America and passed their last days with our subject. Four of their children reached maturity. viz : Benjamin. residing at New Waterford. Ohio, who is 87 376 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY years of age; Sally and Nathan, both deceased ; and James. James Clark obtained his education in his native land and was a young man of 23 years when he started for America in order to better his fortunes. By trade he was a coal miner. He secured passage on the old sailing vessel "Wyoming," and was landed at Philadelphia after a voyage of six weeks and three days. From that city he went first to Pittsburg, landing there just when the cholera scourge was at its height, when people were dying of the disease by scores, but he escaped and in August, 1854, went to the great Pennsylvania coal region of Homestead. Although, during his three years of residence in Pennsylvania, he worked as a miner and was always and is still interested in coal interests, he did not confine his energies to this one branch of industry. He acquired farming property in Darlington township, Beaver County, has dealt largely in stock and three times has built his fortune up from the bottom. The most of hiS money, however, has been made in mining, in the great coal fields. The Sterling mine in Darlington township, opened in 1857, was a mine in which he was very much interested. He hauled the greater portion of the coal mined in this mine to a branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Clark came to East Palestine in 1857 when Joseph Youngls store was the only one here. At that time game was still plentiful and he remembers occasions when the sun was darkened by immense flocks of wild pigeons. He has seen the town grow from its beginning. Early investments proved profitable and he is still a large property owner. On May 5, 1851. Mr. Clark married Mary Ann Bumby, an English lady, and a very happy occasion was the celebration of their "Golden Wedding" in Igor. They have seven children, namely : William, Helen, Emma, Elizabeth, Jane, Edward and Mary William married Dora McCowan and to them have been born three sons and three daughters of these, Irwin married Jane Flinn and has two children. and Lilly became the wife of Jesse Warren and has one child. Helen married Thomas Voker. of Waterford, Ohio. and has three sons and three daughters of these, James married a Miss King, of Columbiana County, and has two sons, Emma married William Wallace and has two daughters and two sons ; of these, Mary married John Bradshaw, of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth married John Gray, of East Palestine, and has a son and daughter. Jane became the wife of Henry Lawrence, a merchant of East Palestine, and has three children; of these, Gertie is now the wife of William Owen, of West Virginia. Edward, who resides at Rogers, is married and has four children. Mary married Abel Franklin and has two sons and a daughter. Mr. Clark has reared a most estimable family to whom le has been particularly kind and generous. He was a dutiful son, sending to the old home for his aged parented and also for his father-in-law to come and live in comfort under his roof and protection. Like many business men he has had ups and downs but he has never been discouraged, knowing that the same qualities which built up one fortune could acquire another. His life has been one of industry. WILLIAM S. GEORGE, SR. For many years the late William S. Geoite. Sr., was connected with the mercantile, manufacturing and agricultural interests of Columbiana County, and through a long life of 82 years sustained the reputation of a man of business integrity and personal honor. He was born October 13. 1821, in Allegheny County. Pennsylvania. and died at East Palestine. Ohio. in 1903. He was a son of John and Elizabeth (Shaw) George. John George, father of William S. George. Sr., combined the trades of chair-making, wagon-making and cabinet-making, working at all three as occasion demanded with the primitive tools in use in the early days. Later in life he settled down to agricultural pursuits and died on his farm at the age of 77 years. He was a stanch old Presbyterian, connected with the body formerly known as the Associate Re- PAGE - 377 - BLANK PAGE - 378 - PICTURE ALBERT CARLILE AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 379 form Church but subsequently as the United Presbyterian. For many years he was an elder in the church. Of the 12 children, William S. was the eldest and all have passed away. William S. George, Sr., continued to farm from 1847 until 1855 and then became a partner in a steamboat, of which he became commander and he continued connected with this enterprise until 1839, when the mutterings of the coming war caused a change in his plans and resulted, in 1862, in his coming to Columbiana County, Ohio. He engaged in farming until about 1869 and then embarked in a manufacturing business, turning out casks for the potteries, having a large steam factory at East Liverpool. He continued in this business for about 12 years and was secretary of the West-Hartwig Company. After concluding this business, he conducted a mercantile business until 1874 and then retired to a farm operated by one of his sons. Here he became deeply interested in the breeding of tine draft horses. Mr. George was married December 1, 1848, to Mary G. Cavett, and they became the parents of these children : Frank, assistant manager of plant No. 3 of the Continental China Company, of East Palestine, who married Anna Swallow and has two daughters, Stella and Edna; Mary E.. who died aged 21 years ; John. assistant manager of plant No. 2, of the East Palestine Pottery Company, residing at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. who married Lovina Calvin and has four children,—Mary, Carrie, Willard and Nellie; Agnes, who died in infancy; Jennie. the widow of Joseph A. Ouay. who has two children.—James K. and Greer A.; and William S., whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work, who married Anna Campbell, of Philadelphia, and has three children : W. Campbell, Marguerite, John, Frank, Dorothy, Lois and Robert. ALBERT CARLILE, mayor of Salem and one of the leading men of Columbiana county, whose portrait accompanies this sketch, was born in this city in January. 1846. and is a son of James and Elizabeth (McDevitt) Carlile. The boyhood and youth of Mr. Carlile were passed in Salem, where he attended the public schools. At an early age he began to depend upon his own efforts, his first business attempt being as an attendant in a lunch room in his native place. He then drifted to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and soon after accepted a position as superintendent of a billiard hall in that city, honestly earning his living and gaining the esteem of the proprietors and the patrons. The opening of the Civil War and the call of the President of the United States for troops found in Mr. Carlile a ready and loyal soldier, one who was willing to give up the promise of a business career in order to give support to the government. He enlisted in Company D, 19th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., under Col. Samuel Beatty and remained in active service for three years and five-months. During much of this period he Was detailed and served at the headquarters of Generals Stanley, Thomas and Rosecrans. Upon the close of the Civil War, Mr. Carlile returned to Salem, Ohio, where he became connected with the Buckeye Engine Company and subsequently became the superintendent of the Buckeye flouring mills and was assistant postmaster under Daniel Lupton in 1865. In 1867 he returned to Pittsburg and until 1892 was there engaged in a grocery business from which he retired in order to accept a government position under a personal appointment of President Cleveland. This was United States government inspector of furniture and furnishings for United States government buildings, under control of the Treasury Department. Although appointed under a Democratic administration his services were retained for 15 months by President McKinley, when the position was taken out of the classified service and the incumbent separated from his position. Mr. Carlile again returned to Salem and entered actively into politics. He later became the Democratic nominee for mayor, in 1903, and was elected mayor over J. B. Baker by a majority of 177 votes. Mr. Carlile enjoys being called an old-fashioned Democrat, his principles being those of the founders of the party. His administration of the 380 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY municipal affairs of Salem has met with the hearty approval of all parties. It is a long Step from the humble position of lunch-room boy to the highest position in the gift of the city and this change has been brought about through Mayor Carlile’s own efforts. In early life he was handicapped in many ways, his education was comparatively slight, but one cannot be in his presence long, at the present day, without realizing that in their chief executive the good people of Salem have a man of high intellectual attainments and general information, Superior judgment and settled convictions as to civic management. Mayor Carlile resides with his aged mother in a pleasant home at No. 347 Lincoln avenue. He is president of the Salem Board of Health, is an honorary member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and belongs to the Salem post of the Grand Army of the Republic. He has friends all over the United States whose good will he secured while making inspecting tours and their esteem only equals that in which he is held by his fellow-citizens who have known him from boyhood. Mr. Carlile was for a number of years one of .the most prominent patrons of the trotting turf, following the same for pleasure and recreation. In "Life with Trotters," written by John Splan, the noted driver, Mr. Carlile is referred to in the following complimentary Manner : "Al. Carlile is always considered Ira McBride's running mate, a position which he is amply able to fill, not only for his size, as he and Ira are considered the heavy weights of the turf but for other traits of character. They have both often lost their money on a horse race, but when it comes to ordering and eating a good dinner, their speed and staying qualities are acknowledged by everyone who knows them. As a merchant Carlile has proved himself a man of rare ability— very temperate in habits. never having smoked a cigar or taken a drink of liquor under any circumstances. Always ready to back his opinion with his money on anything from the presidential election to a hundred-yard foot race. As a friend he is true blue, as many a man on the turf to-day has reason to know from the fact that at some time in his career Carlile has bridged him over a financial difficulty." THE KNOWLES, TAYLOR & KNOWLES COMPANY, of East Liverpool, Ohio, is one of the most important of the many great manufacturing concerns of this section of the State and it operates a plant second to none, in the ceramic line, in the United States. The works were established in 1834, started in a small way by Isaac W. Knowles. who made . yellow ware in a single kiln which was used alternately for bisque and glost ware. In 1870 the firm of Knowles, Taylor & Knowles was formed. Isaac W. Knowles being joined by John N. Taylor and Homer S. Knowles. The manufacture of white granite ware was commenced and the capacity of the plant was increased from time to time. Vitreous hotel china and semi-porcelain were added to the line in separate factories built for the purpose. In 1888 Joseph G. Lee and Willis A. Knowles were admitted to the firm and in January, 1891, a stock company was formed and incorporated under the title of The Knowles, Taylor & Knowles Company. with a paid-up capital of $1,000,000. A disastrous tire on November 18, 1889, had destroyed their china works and some of the grades of china previously produced were discontinued. but the progress made since the erection of the new plant is something marvelous. The works were immediately rebuilt and the stock company formed as mentioned above. with John N. Taylor, president and Joseph G. Lee. secretary and treasurer. The plant of The Knowles. Taylor & Knowles Company covers 10 acres of ground and 900 workmen are employed. The equipment of the plant thoroughly up-to-date in every particular, no effort haying been spared to place every department in such a condition as to secure the best of results. The company's own electric plant furnishes the current for AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 381 1,000 incandescent lamps in various parts of the immense establishment, and also provides the power by which the elevators and electric fans are operated. Private railroad switches and sidings are so constructed as to make the several factories of the plant inter-communicating and to connect all of them with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Among the numerous conveniences that aid in the expediting of business is a private telephone system which connects the various departments and it, in turn, is connected with a public system. That the plant will a second time fall a victim to fire is a very remote possibility, for an automatic sprinkler system has been installed throughout the vast establishment.' While every department is complete in its utility and convenience, a most interesting section is the decorating room. This has been arranged with every device and facility for doing work of any kind to suit the fads and fancy of even the most critical art lover, and what exquisite things are turned out! In recent years great attention has been given to the production of art ware, but the hotel trade is still supplied with the semi-vitreous ware which has proven to be so satisfactory. The products of the four separate and distinct potteries and two decorating establishments include white granite ware, semi-vitreous porcelain dinner and toilet wares and semi- vitreous hotel ware. These wares are justly celebrated on account of their genuine worth. The present kiln capacity, by which the production of a pottery is measured, is 32 ware kilns and 20 decorating kilns. One of the factories, consisting of nine kilns, is used exclusively for the manufacture of the white granite product, and the other three for the finer wares. In addition to the factories is the sample room, to which thousands of visitors have come to view the beautiful creations of this industry. They have gone away filled with amazement at the evidences of progress made by this company in the ceramic art. Visitors to the World's Fair at Chicago. in 1893, can scarcely forget the exquisite products of this company there on exhibition, especially the pieces of "Lotus" ware. The company was given a medal for the specific worth of their exhibit. The trade-mark, which is a familiar one to almost every one in these days, is "K. T. & K." which will be found on every piece of goods produced by the company. COL. JOHN NESSLY TAYLOR, one of the leading citizens of East Liverpool, Ohio, who is prominently identified with some of its most important business enterprises; was born June 23, 1842, near Port Homer, Jefferson County, Ohio, and is a son of Thomas B. and Roxie Ann (Brainard) Taylor. Colonel Taylor's ancestry in America is traced in one of the oldest families of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, two of the oldest families of the Western Reserve, Ohio, two of the oldest families of New England, and also, to one of the oldest knights of England. On the paternal side his great-grandparents with their children and grandchildren came from Ireland and settled in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, about 100 years ago. Thomas Berry Taylor, the Colonel's father, was born in the latter place in the year 1807, and died in East Liverpool, Ohio, in August, 1865. In religion they were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. Colonel Taylor’s mother was born of the union of Solomon Brainard and Charity Jaques, which marriage was the first one recorded in Johnston township, Trumbull County. Ohio. Both the Brainard and the Jaques families came from Connecticut to Ohio in the year 1804. These families are conspicuous in the records of New England since the years 1662 and 1640, these being the respective dates of their coming to the New World from England. The religion on the maternal side. also, was Presbyterian, but, owing to convenience, Colonel Taylor's parents united with the Methodist Church and were active in its service. The Taylors, the Brainards and the Jaques have all been loyal to America and have fought in her wars. The latter two branches of the family have been represented in every war of this country, from the Revolution to the late 382 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY strife with Spain. Family lore is thrilling all down the line, from olden tales of English prison ships to modern warfare in the Philippines. Thomas Berry Taylor married Roxie Ann Brainard, whose mother was named Jaques and was of Huguenot ancestry. She survived her husband and a number of her children and her beautiful life extended to 93 years, her death taking place in 1900. Mrs. Taylor was a gifted poetess and, had not her exceeding modesty prevented, her name would have been numbered with the sweet American singers. She never consented to write for a remuneration but frequently contributed to the magazines during her active life and these productions show a delicacy of sentiment and a conception of the beautiful. which could emanate only from one with the gift of true poesy. Of the family of nine children. five members grew to maturity, viz.: James M., John N., Mary Jane, Arthur B. and Elizabeth C. James M. Taylor, the eldest survivor, went to the South in the '50's and became identified with that section. When the Civil War broke out, his interests and sympathies were with the Southern cause and he entered the Confederate Army. It is a coincidence worthy of note that the first battle in which he was engaged was that at Dranesville, Virginia. in December, 1861, in which he was in the Confederate ranks, while our subject, Col. John N. Taylor, his own brother, was in the Union ranks. neither knowing of the presence of the other until long afterward. James M. served first in the First Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and was then commissioned 1st lieutenant and transferred to the Medical Corps in which he served until the surrender at Appomattox. John N. Taylor was educated in the public schools at East Liverpool where he remained until his father thought the time had arrived for him to learn a self-supporting trade, as was the general custom of the day. He started to learn to be a carpenter when 15 years old and served out his apprenticeship. When the Civil War broke out, he was one of the first, in 1861, to enlist in Battery B. First Pennsylvania Artillery, with which portion of the service he remained two years, only leaving when discharged for disability. After a season of recuperation, he assisted materially in the organization of Capt. William Brunt's company in the 143rd Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf., in 1864, and was commissioned 2nd lieutenant. Early in 1864, Colonel Taylor was appointed postmaster : the office, however, was conducted principally by his sister until 1868 when it passed into other hands. In 1867 Colonel Taylor became identified with Isaac W. Knowles, who, at that time, owned a 2 kiln rock and yellow ware factory. In 1870 a partnership was entered into, consisting of Isaac W. Knowles. John N. Taylor and Homer S. Knowles. under the name of Knowles. Taylor & Knowles. and the manufacture of white ware was started and the name to-day is world-wide known. In 1891 the company was incorporated with a paid-up capital of $1,000,000, at which time Colonel Taylor became its president, which responsible office he still holds. Colonel Taylor was one of the organizer, of the Potters' National Bank. and served as its first vice-president. He was one of the organizers and became vice-president of The Knowles Taylor & Anderson Company, manufacturers of sewer-pipe. whose plant was sold to The American Sewer Pipe Company in 1900. Another important enterprise in which he was one of the organizers and of which he is the president is The Taylor, Smith & Taylor Company. manufacturers of pottery at Chester. West Virginia. and he is the vice-president of The H. C. Fry Glass Company, of Rochester. Pennsylvania. He was also one of the organizers of the Riverview Cemetery Company, and has been connected with its management ever since. In all civic matters he has been so generally connected that his value as a citizen has been many times proven. For 20 years he served on the School Boartl; and vas a member of the construction committee which built the handsome Central School Building, which is reputed the finest in the State. During his numerous terms as a member of the City Council he was notable in his support of measures for careful financial management. and for the effi- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 383 cient carrying out of laws in connection with all measures pertaining to the city's welfare. He is at present the president of the Board of Public Service of the city. Colonel Taylor was united in marriage with Bellvina Catherine Knowles. To Colonel Taylor and wife were born four sons, viz. : Edwin Knowles. who died at the age of two months: William Llewellyn, who is the manager of The Taylor, Smith & Taylor Company Homer John, who is the secretary and treasurer of The Taylor. Smith & Taylor Company: and Harold Smith, who died in childhood, aged four years and seven months. While Colonel Taylor has never united with a particular religious body, he has, from youth up. been interested in all the means of Christian work. and in his younger days was very active in the Sunday-school, serving as its secretary and for a period as superintendent. His gifts to religious bodies and to benevolent objects have been l00ked upon by him as manly duties, and he has taken no credit to himself for at all times lending a helping hand to those less fortunate in the world than himself. Mrs. Taylor is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is ever concerned in some charitable duty or religious task. They occupy one of the notable mansions of the city, which has also the reputation of being one of the most hospitable. Politically a Republican from his youth up. Colonel Taylor early came into close personal friendship with the late beloved President William McKinley. The latter, prior to his election as Governor of Ohio, made his first campaign speech of that year, speaking from the veranda of our subject's residence. Both were interested in tariff reform, and, as intelligent men. they frequently discoursed together upon it. and the result of Congressman McKinley's convictions had much to do with his elevation to the presidency. When he was made Governor, he appointed his friend John N. Taylor as a member of his staff, on which our subject served four years. During the remainder of Mr. McKinleyls life, notwithstanding the enormous demands made upon his leisure time, he made it his pleasure to spend several weeks in the year at East Liverpool, as the guest of Colonel Taylor. On several of these occasions after he became President, the citizens were invited by our subject to meet the distinguished guest at his home, where they had an opportunity to grasp that firm, friendly hand and to win a kind and interested smile. The memory of these occasions are treasured not only by Colonel Taylor, who indeed has lost a friend, but by all who were permitted the honor of being present. Colonel Taylor’s fraternal relations are with the Masons and Odd Fellows. In the former he belongs to Riddle Lodge, No. 315, F. & A. M.; East Liverpool Chapter No. 100, R. A. M.. and Pilgrim Commandery No. 35, K. T., of East Liverpool. Today he is the only surviving charter member of East Liverpool Lodge, No. 379. I. O. O. F. Colonel Taylor is also a member of General Lyon Post. No. 44, G. A R.. and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He is also a member of the Duquesne Club and of the Americans Club. of Pittsburg. GRANT HILL. The mining industry is no inconsiderable one in Columbiana County, giving, as it does, employment to a vast army of men and bringing large sums of money into the county to be disbursed in various ways. The man in charge of a mine needs to be a man of discernment, with a complete knowledge of the business. No better choice could have been made than that which placed the subject of this sketch in his present position as superintendent of the Prospect Coal Company’s mine in Unity township. Mr. Hill was born August 19, 1869, in Leechburg, Pennsylvania. The great-grandfather of our subject, John Hill, was captured by the Indians and left by them on the Allegheny River to die by starvation. His son, also, named John Hill, the grandfather of our subject. was a man of considerable property, owning 1,000 acres of rich land in Pennsylvania. This he divided among 384 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA. COUNTY his seven children, all of whom are now passed to their reward. Grant Hillsis father, Shiloh Hill, owned and operated a dour mill at Leech- burg, at which place he died about 1888. The wife and mother survived until 1904 when she died very suddenly, leaving eight children to mourn her. They are as follows: Mrs. Laura Stull, of Leechburg, Pennsylvania; John A., a merchant of Leechburg, Pennsylvania ; Mrs. Jesse Swank, a resident of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania ; J. R., a roller, employed by the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company; Grant; Fred E., manager of the Stull-Hill-Coulter Company; C. S., secretary of the same company; and Hattie C. Grant Hill completed the school course of Leechburg and at once entered the employ of Capt. Alfred Hicks. with whom he has remained ever since. He began as weigh-master for the Bagdad Coal & Coke Company. of which Captain Hicks was president. He continued in that position until 1892 when he was sent as assistant manager to East Palestine to look after the Prospect coal mine. It might be incidentally remarked here that when Mr. Hill first entered the service of Captain Hicks that gentleman owned one coal mine. while today and he owns and operates 40, besides large iron mills and gold mines. In 1902 Mr. Hill was placed in entire charge of the business as superintendent and general manager and his subsequent efforts have shown him to be the right man in the right place. The company own four mines in Columbiana County. only one of which is in active operation at this time. while a second is being developed just west of the city. There are 150 men employed here with a monthly pay-roll of $8,000, most of which is spent, of course with the merchants of East Palestine. The output is 350 tons per day. The mine is equipped with mining machines. air pumps. a compressed air system, rope haulage. etc.. but what appeals most strongly to the visitor are the precautions taken for the safety of the men by the installation of electric signals which, in case of accident in the mine, at once notify the engineer. Mr. Hill is thoroughly familiar with every detail of the work from the digging of the coal and loading it fur hoisting to the clerical work in the office, and has an able corps of men under him to carry out his instructions. Notable among them is Thomas Stackhouse, mine foreman. Mr. Hill owns the most complete hardware store in Leechburg, Pennsylvania. This is conducted by his brother, Fred E. Hill, who runs a general merchandise store in connection with it. Mr. Hill is also interested in Missouri property where he has stock in lead and zinc mines. Mr. Hill married Grace Todd, daughter of Thomas food and granddaughter of the late Samuel Todd, of Fairfield township. Two daughters, Martha, and Catherine, have been born to them. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church and Mr. Hill is president of the board of trustees. He is a fine musician, having taken voice culture from one of the best teachers in Pittsburg and his rich bass voice is an acceptable addition to the church choir, of which he has been leader for years. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and is a prominent Mason. being a member of the Blue Lodge of East Palestine: Chapter of Lisbon : Council of Salem and Commanders of Salem. WILLIAM H. SEBRING. deceased. formerly secretary and treasurer of The Ohio Pottery Company, of East Palestine. Ohio and subsequently treasurer of the four great pottery companies of Sebring, was born in East Liverpool, Ohio. December 29, 1869. and was a son of George and Elizabeth A. (Larkins) Sebring. The parents now reside at Sebring. surviving their son whose accidental death on December 9. 1904 at Sebring, shocked the community and brought grief to family and friends innumerable. William H. Sebring was educated in the public schools of East Liverpool and became an expert bookkeeper. As maturity approached. he became associated with his brothers in pottery interests and later took up work in this line at East Palestine. When the city of Sebring AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 385 was established, he accompanied his brothers thither, in every way possible forwarding their interests and later. on account of his ability, became their accountant. He was made treasurer of The Sebring Pottery Company, of The Limoges China Company. and the other potter plants and also of The Sebring Land Company, taking upon himself much of the onerous clerical work of the varied enterprises. His brothers always recognized their indebtedness to his faithful, careful business habits. In a family noted for its close personal affection, he was especially considered. Mr. Sebring was married in 1897 to Evelyn Huston, who was born at East Liverpool, Ohio. She still survives with their two children, Earl and Virginia. Mr. Sebring was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and took a deep interest in the upbuilding of the religious and educational organizations of the city of his home and family name. While he never was so prominently identified with the business affairs of Sebring as his brothers, Oliver H., George E.. Elsworth H. and Frank A.. he nevertheless was a very important and necessary factor in the successful development of their great enterprises. The personal esteem in which he was held at Sebring was abundantly testified to at the time of the sad accident which terminated his life. ROBERT B. SHARP. one of the representative agriculturists of Washington township, who owns 240 acres of fine land in section 17, was born September 1, 1839, at West Point. Columbiana County. Ohio. a place made historic on account of its nearness to the spot where Morgan. the raider, surrendered. His parents were John and Agnes (Roseberg) Sharp. John Sharp, father of Robert B., was born at Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia). but his father. Robert Sharp, was a native of Pennsylvania. The great-grandfather of Robert B. Sharp was born in England. came in colonial days to America and served as an officer under General Washington. in the Revolutionary War. The mother of our subject was born near Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of Thomas Roseberg, a pensioner of the War of 1812. For his gallant services in that war he was awarded government. land and owned property in Missouri and Wisconsin, as well as in Ohio. He died on his Ohio homestead, aged 72 years. His daughter, the mother of Robert B. Sharp, almost rounded out a century of life, her death taking place when three days past her. 98th birthday. She retained her faculties to a remarkable degree and enjoyed life to its close. She survived her husband, who died in his 8ist year. They left but one child, Robert B., of this Sketch. Our subject was reared and educated in Washington township. The farm he owns was a gift from his father who bought it in. the son's name prior to his death. It is a very valuable body of land. Upon the death of his mother, he fell heir to a tract of 65 acres, which formerly belonged to her. He carries on general farming. Mr. Sharp has lived in this county all his life with the exception of the period of his army service. In 1864 he enlisted in Company A, 143rd Reg.. Ohio Vol. Inf., and was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. September 15, 1864. His service was at Washington and Petersburg, mainly in the line of guard duty. His regiment was ordered from the latter city just prior to the battle there. He is a member of Thompson Post, Grand Army of the Republic. In 1869 Mr. Sharp was united in marriage with his cousin, Belle Sharp, who is a daughter of William Sharp, of Carroll County. Ohio. They are members of the United Presbyterian Church at Grant's Hill. In politics. Mr. Sharp has always been a Republican. NICHOLAS WAY, a leading citizen of Lisbon, general manager of the New Lisbon Gas Company and connected with a number of other important and successful business enterprises of the State, was born at Sewickley, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1844. 386 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY When a schoolboy of 17 years, Mr. Way enlisted in the Union Army, as a private and served four years in Company G, 28th Reg., Pennsylvania Vol. Inf. He was rapidly promoted for gallantry, in 1863 was commissioned 1st lieutenant and later was made captain, serving as such until the close of his service. Although he participated in all the serious battles of the loth Army Corps, he returned home uninjured. He then accepted a position with a business house at Pittsburg, as bookkeeper, and remained there until 1870, when he came to Lisbon. After locating in Ohio, Mr. Way became connected with the New Lisbon Woolen Company and this connection lasted until 1896. when the mill was destroyed by fire. He then embarked in a feed and grinding-mill business at Lisbon and personally conducted it until 1901, when he was called to the position of general manager of the New Lisbon Gas Company by the death of the former manager, Mr. Smith. having previously been associated with this enterprise as one of its incorporators. The New Lisbon Gas Company was incorporated in 1886 by R. W. Tayler, president : A. G. Smith, deceased, vice-president: M. J. Childs. treasurer ; and Nicholas Way. secretary. Mr. Smith was the active manager until the time of his death in 1901. The company was incorporated with a capital of $50.000, first as a gas company to engage in the drilling of wells and disposing of the results. In. 1890 a plant was built for the manufacture of gas and it was utilized until 1901, when the National Gas Company began furnishing natural gas. In 1892 the New Lisbon Gas Company installed an electric light plant and has since been furnishing the city with electric light and power for a few motors. It has prospered from the beginning. The present officers of the company are well-known capitalists of the State. viz: Charles Baker, of Alliance, president: E. B. Rawson, manager of the Ohio Cement Company, vice-president: and Nicholas Way. treasurer, secretary and manager. The company’s plant is located on East Washington street. Mr. Way was married in Allegheny County. Pennsylvania. to Hattie R. Johnson. of Sewickley, and they have three daughters, namely: Mrs. Ira C. Bean, of Lisbon, Mr. Bean being the manager of the feed and grinding-mill of Mr. Way; Jennie, a competent young lady clerk in a local insurance office; and Mrs. H. L. Cook, Mr. Cook being manager the Aetna Standard steel mill at Bridgeport, Ohio. Mr. Way has been a life-long Republican, but he has not been particularly active in politics and, beyond serving a term as councilman and as a member of the School Board, he has accepted no office. Like many other prominent business men of the city, he is conspicuous in the various Masonic bodies, being a member of the Lisbon Lodge and Chapter ; Salem Commandery ; Cleveland Shrine and Pittsburg Consistory and is a 32nd degree Mason. He belongs also to Star Post, Grand Army of the Republic. For the past 40 years Mr. Way has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a man of large means and generous impulses, one whose many charities are quietly bestowed. Personally he is held in the highest esteem in every circle. JOSEPH A. KERR. Among the prominent residents and hig-hly esteemed citizens of Salem. whose honorable business career of more than 40 years entitled him to the confidence and respect of all those with whom he associated. was the late Joseph A. Kerr. who passed out of life on August 31, 1900. Mr. Kerr was born near Mechanicsburg, Carroll County, Ohio. September 15, 1828. Mr. Kerr’s boyhood, youth and early manhood were spent in his native county, after which the greater part of his life was passed in Columbiana County. He spent one year at Pittsburg and a year or more at Canton and then located at Salem. where he first became a clerk for L. Schilling & Company and later. for Joshua Boone. In 1858 he became teller of the Farmersl National Bank, at Salem. a position he faithfully filled for 41 years, still being PAGE - 387 - BLANK PAGE - 388 - PICTURE MR. AND MRS. ALBERT R. SILVER AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 389 an incumbent at the time of the distressing accident from which he never recovered. Mr. Kerr was married in April, 1860, to Carrie E. Grisell, of Salem, and they had two sons : Willis W., who has been with the Standard Oil Company for over 20 yearS and is now the company's representative at Hong Kong, China: and J. Frank, of Salem. The latter is one of the rising young men of Salem and is now serving in the office of justice of the peace in this city, with quarters at No. 63 1/2 East Main street, hiS home being with his mother at the family residence at No. 233 Lincoln avenue, which waS built by Mr. Kerr and has continued to be the family home for 45 years. Willis W. Kerr married Flora Dale, of Du Bois. Pennsylvania, and haS two children : Rachel Margaretta and Marion. J. Frank Kerr was married to Juliet Durham. of Attica. Kansas. and has two children : Fannie and Robert Trimble. The late Joseph Kerr was a man known for his upright character. He was one of the old members of the Presbyterian Church and whose life was entirely in accord with his professions. With business ability he combined a pleasing courtesy. In his domestic circle he was dearly beloved, in his immediate neighborhood he was esteemed and by his fellow-citizens he was looked upon as one who represented the best in civic representation. According to his own request. Salem Commandery, No. 42, Knights Templar, took charge of his remains after his spirit had passed to its Maker, and, with the beautiful and impressive services of the organization. all that was mortal of one who had been a Sir Knight with not a blot on his escutcheon waS laid away in its last resting place. ALBERT R. SILVER. The Silver family was one of the first to become permanently established in Columbiana County. The rich farming lands of Ohio attracted many home-seekers in the early part of the 19th century from every settled community, and the Silvers —father, mother and several children—came from Maryland. The father purchased a tract of land from the government, which was located two miles south of the present city of Salem. This virgin land, of which the Silvers took possession in 1804, remained the family home for generations. William Silver, the father of the esteemed subject of this sketch, was 12 years of age when the family removal to Ohio was made and was his father's right-hand man in the clearing and cultivating of the new farm. He married a daughter of the Spencer family which had settled just west of Salem, and shortly afterward left the farm and removed to the village, but subsequently purchased a farm of his own on the Deerfield and New Lisbon road, three miles west of Salem, built a blacksmith Shop on his land and carried on a prosperous business. Albert R. Silver was born in 1823 at Salem, but grew up on the farm and assisted his father in the farm work. He remained with his father and assisted as a dutiful son should, but when he was about 19 years of age he left home and went to Salem to learn the trade of blacksmithing with Henry Rankins and later went into the establishment of David Woodruff who was a pioneer in carriage blacksmithing in the village. He soon became foreman of the establishment, and then served in the same capacity in the Sheets’ carriage manufactory. He then bought a shop of his own, and took in, as a partner, Robert Campbell, who remained with him a short time. He was a man of practical ideas and thoroughly understood the business in which he was interested and at the same time had the enterprise and progressive spirit which looked forward to the improvement of the old methods of construction then employed. Thus Mr. Silver was prepared to listen to the exploitation of an invention made by a fellow-townsman, Levi A. Dole. This invention was one of many made previously by Mr. Dole. Mr. Silver was quickly convinced of its practical character and was ready to furnish the capital for the manufacture of the machine which was designed to take the place of the old hand chisel, in boring out wagon 390 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY and carriage hubs. The partnership was formed, a shop was rented, a lathe bought and the firm was soon turning out the new machines. An invention of such obviously great utility could not fail to soon attract attention and the firm was enterprising enough to place its merits before the public through the leading newspapers, and ere very long the capacity of the little plant was strained to turn the machines out fast enough to meet the demand. It is interesting to remember, in view of the great transportation facilities now commanded by the Silver Manufacturing Company, that in the early days of the business it was a familiar sight to see Mr. Silver trundling a wheelbarrow load of his finished product to the railroad station for shipment. As the business continued to grow beyond expectations. it became necessary for Mr. Silver to confine his attention to office work, including a vast amount of correspondence, but Mr. Dole remained in personal charge of the mechanical department. He was a natural genius and his inventions continued to be made use of in the development of other machines and the perfecting of those in use. Many of the labor-saving machinist tools of the present clay are inventions of Mr. Silver and Mr. Dole and were first used by the Silver Manufacturing Company. They patented a hollow auger, for cutting the tenon on chine, and other huh-boring devices ; the water tuyere iron and press saw-glimmer, both of which are till in use, although the invention of the circular saw replaced the saw-gummer to some extent. They invented other articles in other lines which proved of practical use. The death of Mr. Dole in 1868 was regarded as an irreparable loss. Shortly before death of Mr. Dole, John Deming had been admitted to partnership and in 1873 the business was incorporated under the name of the Silver Deming Manufacturing Company. removal was made to more commodious quarters and the manufacture of feed-cutters commenced, and in 1882 the manufacture of pumps was added, and an addition was made to the firm. John Humphrey entering into partnership and becoming general superintendent. The company had enjoyed a long season of prosperity up to July 3, 1883, when a disastrous fire deStroyed the plant. The company immeditely rebuilt on a larger scale. and in 1890 W. L. and W. F. Deming purchased the Silver interest in the establishment and have carried on the manufacture of pumps under the name of The Deming Company. The above business changes brought about the organization of the Silver Manufacturing Company, which erected the present commodious and well-equipped factory. The Silvers retained all the original patents and the entire line of goods, previously manufactured, with. the exception of pumps. The business has continued to be conducted along the Same lines upon which it was directed in the early days of its founding, and its development into one of the greatest industries of the State is largely the result of the persevering industry and sterling integrity of the father of the present officers. At the time of the organization of the present company, the officers were: Albert R. Silver, president: H. M. Silver vice-president ; William Silver, treasurer: A. O. Silver. secretary: and E. W. Silver, Superintendent. In 1905, H. M. Silver was made superintendent. succeeding E. W. Silver. In 1901 the sales of the company amounted to half a million dollars and trade relations have been established with every civilized country in the world. Albert R. Silver married young, being united with Mary A. Dunn, who is a daughter of Robert and Helen (Chaters) Dunn, of Salem. A happy married life of a half century was celebrated by a "Golden Wedding” in 1898. Mrs. Silver's parents, who were natives of Yorkshire, England, immigrated to America when She was four years old, coming, in a sailing vessel which took eight weeks and four days to complete the voyage. A family of seven children was born to this union. five of whom till survive and are prominent in business and social life. Emmor W., who 1903 was superintendent of the Silver Manufacturing Company, married Anna Bishop, of Salem. Charles R. married Jessie F. Steele. of Salem, and left two children at his death, which occurred at Portland. Oregon, in 1900, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 391 Esther married Frank Brainard, of New York City, and they have two sons—Frank and William, students at Yale University. Helen, twin sister of Esther, died at the age of four years. William, who is treasurer of the Silver Manufacturing Company, married Helen Sharp, a daughter of the well-known capitalist, Simeon Sharp, and they have one child, Helen Louise. Homer M., who is vice-president of the Silver Manufacturing Company, married Josephine King, of Salem, and they have one son,. Albert R. Albert Otis, who is secretary of the Silver. Manufacturing Company, married Lizzie Walton, of Salem, and they have three children, Rebecca, Esther and Mary. Mr. Silver's death took place in 1900, after a long and useful life of 77 years. While his early life had been that of a young man struggling with limited means and held down by inadequate resources, his later clays were filled and running over with all of the comforts and blessings of life. It was a source of pleasure to him to see his sons grow into men capable of carrying on the great business to which he had devoted so long a period of his active life and to see his name recognized as a synonym for business integrity the world over. He is survived by his venerable widow, the cheerful partner of his early privations. She resides in the old family home in Salem which is the Mecca to which children and grandchildren turn with love and reverence. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Silver accompany this sketch. ABRAHAM R. LEHMAN. the owner and proprietor of one of the best improved farms in Fairfield township, is a lineal descendant of John Lehman, one of the early and most prominent ministers of the Mennonite faith in Pennsylvania. Mr. Lehman was born in an old frame house which formerly stood on the present farm and is a son of David and Margaret (Rohrer) Lehman. Mr. Lehman is a descendant of men of strong character, his ancestors having been members of that Swiss colony which settled in and about Lancaster, Pennsylvania, years prior to the Revolutionary War. Like many others of the early colonists, they were refugees from religious persecution. These sturdy ancestors handed down to their descendants many of their most sterling qualities. Rev. John Lehman was born in 1702 at Eberstonhoff, near Sweibrucken, Switzerland. He was a farmer by occupation. He married Anna Hege in 1725 and they, with his wife's brother, Hans Hege, sailed from Rotterdam, in the ship "James Goodwill," with David Crockett as captain, and landed at Philadelphia, September 27, 1727. He was required to sign the British declaration, promising to bear allegiance to King George II. From Philadelphia they went to Lancaster County and settled in Rapho township, near Manheim, its former name having been Sticklestown. The party contained a number of the founders of the Mennonite faith, the Lehmans. the Heges and the Leschers all having strict ideas of religious observance according to their own faith. In 1730 John Lehman was installed pastor of the congregation and he preached until his death in 1778, being a man of mighty power in the community. The children of Rev. John Lehman and wife were : Mary, Jacob, Anna, Peter, Daniel and John. The only records kept refer to Daniel, the fifth child. He was born in 1742 in Lancaster County and from this ancestor came the Lehmans who have scattered all over Eastern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and other parts of the United States and also Canada. Their characteristics are all the same, integrity and thrift making them desirable members of any community. Daniel Lehman was the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He married Susannah Shelley and they reared a family. John Lehman, son of Daniel Lehman and the grandfather of our subject, married Gertrude Huber, and they removed from Bedford County, Pennsylvania. to Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1828 and settled on section 15, Fairfield township. The family came here in a covered wagon and at that time there were 12 children—six sons and six daughters—as fol- 392 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY lowS : Barbara, Elizabeth, Daniel, Nancy, John, Samuel, Jacob, Susannah, David. Christian, Magdalena and Mary. John Lehman bought a tract of land on which stood a log cabin; a few acres had been cleared. His children all reached maturity and all had families except Magdalena, who died single. David Lehman, father of our subject, was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1814, and died March 11, 1889. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and attained a prominent position as one of the most successful men of his time and accumulated a large estate. His example had force, as his children are all prosperous citizens of their respective communities. He married Margaret Rohrer, who was born in Washington County, Maryland. November 22, 1817. She still survives and resides with our subject in her home on the old homestead, to which her husband brought her after marriage. She is one of a family of 11 children ; the youngest of the family was over 60 years of age before a death occurred among the brothers and Sisters. The children of David Lehman and wife were : Mary, Abraham R., Sarah, Elizabeth and Margaret. Mary still resides on the old homestead. Sarah married Allen Rickert. of Mahoning County. Ohio, and has six children, viz : Edwin L., a graduate of Wooster College, who is a popular teacher: Lizzie, who married Ira Johns, lives near Goshen. Indiana, and has two children : Edith, wife of Harvey A. Metzler, who manages the home farm.—they have two children: Harvey L., a popular school teacher at Massillon, Ohio and Margaret Isaiah. the latter of Mahoning County. Elizabeth married John J. Ward and at her death left two children : D. Lawrence and John L., the latter of whom was reared on the old homestead. Margaret married Calvin W. Holihaugh and has three children : Lloyd. Ralph and Edward. all at home. Abraham R. Lehman our immediate subject was reared in Fairfield township and was educated in the district schools. He continued to operate the home farm until the spring of 1897 and then turned his attention to managing a brokerage business but still retains his home on the farm, which is but one mile nut of the town. The present home residence was erected in 1858 and modern improvements were made by Mr. Lehman in 1887. In 1862 he built his commodious barn and he has yearly added some improvement until now he has one of the most valuable as well as attractive places in the township. The residence stands on a slight elevation which gives a fine view of the surrounding landscape. Mr. Lehman naturally takes pride in this beautiful home and can recall the planting of many of the trees. Since 1897 he has devoted his attention to a deposit and loan brokerage business with a large clientage. JOSEPH THORP. who is postmaster at Washingtonville, and in charge of the grammar department of the village schools, is a native of Yorkshire, England, where he was born June 16. 1860, being a son of Rev. David and Jane (Ridge) Thorp, the former being a coal miner and a local preacher in the Methodist Church. The maternal grandfather of our subject was in the battle of Waterloo. Joseph Thorp was four years of age when his parents came to this country. They made their home for a short time at Bartley, Pennsylvania, Hammondsville, Jefferson County, Ohio, Salineville and then took up their residence at Washingtonville. Joseph attended the public schools but soon began work in the Cherry Valley mine and as he worked his mind was active in planning out schemes to better his condition and rise to something more than could be obtained at the mines. In 1890 he entered the Washingtonville schools as a student and followed that with two years at Volant, Pennsylvania and never did pupil strive harder for knowledge than did he. Seeing the value of improving every moment he did it and his advancement was rapid and permanent. he then returned to Washingtonville and secured a place as teacher in the village schools where his successful methods were noted and he was made principal. At the present time he ins charge of the grammar department. Mr. Thorp was married in 1882 to Celia AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 393 Tetlow, whose father, Zachariah Tetlow, was superintendent of the Cherry Valley Coal Company for over 30 years and the best-posted mining engineer for coal in the State of Ohio. He was of English descent. To Mr. and Mrs. Thorp have been born six children: Chester, who is employed by the Erie Railroad; Leora, who assists her father in the postoffice; John, a student; Helen ; Martha and Donald. They are attendants of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his wife is a member. Mr. Thorp is a Republican and has taken rather an active part in local politics, having served four years as clerk of the village, one year. as a member of the Council and four years as mayor, while he is now in his ninth year as postmaster. He was appointed to this office by the late lamented President McKinley, was reappointed by him and is one of the most satisfactory, courteous and accommodating officials ever in charge of the office. Mr. Thorp is a prominent Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias and is a member of a labor organization. CHARLES J. ALBRIGHT, the efficient secretary of the Sebring Pottery Company, of Sebring, Ohio, was born July 31, 1871, at Franklin Square, Columbiana County, Ohio; and is a son of John W. and Anna (Mercer) Albright. The father of Mr. Albright was born at Elkton, Ohio, and the mother in Indiana. The latter still survives but the former died on April 13, 1903. Our subject's brothers and sisters are: Morris F., treasurer of The Carrollton Pottery Company, of Carrollton Ohio, who married Belle McCoy and has three children, Elma, Harold and Dorothy ; Allen E., of Carrollton, a gospel evangelist, who is at present entertaining a proposition to spend two years of evangelical work in California,— married Tillie McNutt, and they have three children, Ethel, Lela and Catherine: Louie, who is the wife of E. L. Henderson. of Carrollton; Percy D., connected with The Carrollton Pottery Company, who married Ida Barth and has three children, Darletta, Hazel and John; and Harry L., who is employed in the wareroom of The Carrollton Pottery Company. In his earlier days John W. Albright drove mules on the old Sandy and Beaver Canal which formerly ran from Elkton to the Ohio River. Later be was general agent in this section for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Charles J. Albright was io year old when he removed from Franklin Square to East Liverpool, ivhere he attended school until 1883, when he entered the employ of the firm of Knowles, Taylor & Knowles, as office boy. His faithful attention to duty was rewarded by the company and he was soon promoted, being first given charge of the shipping room and later advanced to more responsible positions. In January, 1897, he accepted the offer of The Ohio China Company of East Palestine and became their manager, and Still later became secretary of The Sebring Pottery Company, a position he still continues to fill. On November 26, 1901, at East Liverpool, Ohio, Mr. Albright was married to Emma Sebring, who is a daughter of George and Elizabeth A. (Larkins) Sebring. They have four children, viz : Lucile, Mildred, Donald and Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Albright have a very pleasant home. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, Mr. Albright is a Republican. In business life he is respected and admired by his associates. He has always maintained a reputation for fairness. and integrity and his opinion carries weight. TOM B. MARQUIS, M. D., one of the most successful practitioners of medicine and surgery in Columbiana County, was the moving spirit and is the present head of Riverside Hospital at Lisbon, the only institution of the kind in the vicinity. It is an institution of importance and benefit to the community and one of which the people are justly proud. Dr. Marquis was born at West Point. Columbiana County, Ohio. February 6, 1834, and is a son of Dr. David and Margaret (Mc- 394 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY Cartney) Marquis. His father was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where he was reared and in early life followed the trade of a carpenter, thereby earning the necessary funds to take him through school. He was wholly a self-made man and gained a place of prominence in his professional work. He was graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, March 6, 1845, and soon after entered into practice, locating at West Point in 1846. Two or three years later he was married and in 1849 went West overland to Pike's Peak and Sacramento City to seek his fortune. After spending two years in the West, he returned to Ohio subsequent to the destruction of Sacramento by fire and resumed practice at West Point. Amid the tragedies of Morgan’s raid through Ohio. an amusing incident befell Dr. David Marquis. He was captured by General Shackelford and his men, while riding horseback near West Beaver Church on his way to see a patient. Not knowing him personally, the General thought possibly he was a spy and would accept no explanation of his presence there. At the point of a pistol he was made to retrace his steps, but soon was able to establish his identity and his loyalty to the Union cause. He continued in practice at West Point until April, 1867, and then moved with his family to Lisbon, where he lived until his death, which occurred January 21, 1881, when he was about 67 years old. Dr. David Marquis was joined in marriage with Margaret McCartney, who was born on a farm near West Point, Columbiana County. Ohio, and died in Lisbon. in 1892 aged 68 years. Five sons and three daughters blessed this union, all but one of whom are living. Tom B. Marquis was reared at Lisbon, where he attended public and high schools. He took a course of study in the medical department of the University of Michigan and Subsequently in Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York City. graduating from the latter in March, 1877. He has been in practice in Lisbon continuously since that time and has built up a large practice. He has been a constant student of medical science during these years. both in and out of schools. He haS completed post-graduate work in five or six institutions, including the New York Polyclinic, the New York Post-Graduate and the Chicago Polyclinic. In connection with his two sisters who are professional nurses, he established Riverside Hospital at Lisbon late in the '90's, an institution which they still conduct with remarkable success. The Doctor has held the office of president of the Union Medical Society, now defunct, composed of members of the profession from Columbiana and adjoining counties ; and is a member of the Columbiana County and the Ohio State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. In May, 1882, he was 4ppointed a member of the U. S. Board of Pension Examiners at Lisbon, and is now president of that board. In the fall of 1904, he was elected a member of the Board of Education of Lisbon. Dr. Marquis was joined in marriage with May Frost, who was born in Lisbon and is a daughter of Ezra and Catherine (Cooney) Frost. Her father, now deceased, was a pioneer grocer of Lisbon, where his widow still resides. Two children have been. born to this union: Mabel and Catherine. Mrs. Marquis for the past several years has been an able assistant to the Doctor in difficult surgical operations that require help. She has also been an earnest worker in the church and a leader in the charity work of the city. Fraternally. the Doctor is a member of Lisbon Lodge. F. &  A. M.. also of the Royal Arch Chapter and Salem Commandery, Knights Templar. Religiously, he and his family are Methodists, although he was reared a Presbyterian. WILLIAM C. SMITH was born on the farm on which his widow now resides in Yellow Creek township, Columbiana County. Ohio. His Parents. Philip and Janet Smith. from the Highlands of Scotland. had located on this farm about 1805. The mother died in 1834, and the father in 1861. at the age of 87 years. William C. Smith was married in 1847 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 395 to Janet Bailey, daughter of Alexander and Margaret Bailey, of Yellow Creek township. Both were natives of the Highlands of Scotland. William C. Smith died in 1899, in his 83rd year, leaving his widow, who is still living on the home farm. She is in her 79th year. Five children were born on this farm to William C. and Janet (Bailey) Smith, all of whom are still alive: Katharine. residing on the homestead with her mother; Philip M., attorney-at-law and ex-judge of the Court of Common Pleas in this district; Margaret M., wife of William Jenkins, of Madison township, to whom two children were born,—Alexander and Janet ; Alexander G., attorney-at-law, Wellsville, who married Anna M. McIntosh. of Madison township and William E., engaged in the coal business. who married Jennie Paul, of Iowa, and has one son,—Cecil. The farm has been in the family ever since its first settlement. William C. Smith was one of the founders of the Oak Ridge Presbyterian Church, and served as an elder in this church for so years and is now succeeded by his son. Alexander G. Smith. HON. PHILIP M. SMITH, son of William C. Smith, was born in 1852 on the home farm in Yellow Creek township. He read law under Judge W. A. Nichols, of Lisbon, and began the practice of the law in Wellsville in February, 1879, succeeding Hon. W. G. Wells upon the election of the latter as probate judge of the county. He served as prosecuting attorney of the county from 1885 to 1891, making an exceptionally good record in that office. He was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court in 1895 by Governor McKinley. to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge N. B. Billingsley. He was elected to the same position in 1896, and resigned in 1900 to resume the practice of law in Wellsville. where he is now located as a member of the firm of Smith & Lones. As a jurist his decisions have been universally regarded as just and his rulings fair, while as an attorney at the bar he has been eminently successful. Judge Smith was married in 1880 to Ida McKeehan. Daughter of Dr. B. F. McKeehan. of Clarksburg, West Virginia. who with their two children is still living. The children are : Zana S., wife of Edward F. McCrea, of Cleveland; and Sidney McKeehan, now a student at Harvard University. In politics, the family, in all its branches, have been Whig and Republican, and are possessed of the usual Scotch characteristics of thrift, honesty and regard for the law of God and man. CAREY E. GREENAMYER, secretary of the People’s Savings & Loan Association, at Leetonia, where he is also engaged in a real estate and insurance business, is one of the town's enterprising and successful men. Mr. Greenamyer was born February 5, 1872. in Mahoning County Ohio, and is a son of Joshua S. Greenimyer. After completing the common school course at Leetonia. Mr. Greenamver was with the Cherry Valley Iron Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad for about three years. In 1893 he and his father became associated in a general real estate and insurance business under the firm name of Greenamyer & Son. their operations being mainly restricted to this locality. Mr. Greenamyer proved his business capacity to such effect, that in 1897 he was elected secretary of the People's Savings & Loan Association, a position which he still fills. This is one of the important business enterprises of Leetonia. its president being a well-known capitalist. S. M. Garlach. Mr. Greenamyer was married in 1895, to Mary E. Burgham. who is a daughter of Thomas Burgman, of Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Greenamyer are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Leetonia. He is connected with the local lodge of Odd Fellows. JOSHUA BRANTINGHAM. In taking a review of the representative men of Columbiana County. many residents of Butler township merit notice and among these Joshua Brantingham a prominent position, for he belongs to 396 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY an old and honorable family and possesses all the attributes of a man of sterling character. Mr. Brantingham resides on a fine farm located in the southwest quarter of Section 26, in township 16, range 4, where he was born July 4, 1852, and is a son of Alfred and Ann (Dean) Brantingham. The family to which Mr. Brantingham belongs originated in England, where George and Joseph Brantingham, sons of Joseph and Sarah Brantingham, were born. The birth of George Brantingham occurred at Iverson, Durham County, on November 7, 1770. Both he and his brother Joseph emigrated to America and settled in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. Joseph removed at a later date to the neighborhood of New York City. George Brantingham was married March 9, 1801, to Phoebe Boulton, of Burlington, Mansfield County, New Jersey. They had issue as follows : William, Joseph, Hannah, George and Sarah. Joseph Brantingham was born at Baltimore, Maryland, January 27, 1807, and married Lydia Whinnery, and they had these children : Rachel, William, Alfred, Elizabeth, Cyrus and George L. His second marriage was to Anna M. Stratton and they had two children : Lydia and Sina. The family was established in Ohio by our subject's great-grandfather, George Brantingham, who seems to have been a man of great energy and enterprise. Joshua Brantingham has in his possession a journal which was kept by his ancestor in which are related the occurrences of the tong voyage across the Atlantic. It is a remarkable account and is in every way interesting. When George Brantingham came to Columbiana County, he was prepared to invest in property and it is recorded that on June 5, 1824, he bought 120 acres of land of Christian Shade. paying therefor the sum of $1,550. On October 22, 1838. his son Joseph bought the above farm of his father for the sum of $3,000. On August 23. 1852. Joseph Brantingham sold 114 acres of the foregoing farm to James Whinerv, for the sum of $3,500. The next change was when James Whinery sold 110 acres of the farm aforesaid, on April 11, 1871, to George Gilbert, for the sum of $11,000. At the public sale of the estate of his father-in-law, George Gilbert, held on April 2, 1883, Joshua Brantingham purchased for $10,052 the above mentioned farm, which then contained 109 58-100 acres. After disposing of the farm in 1852, Joseph Brantingham, our subject's grandfather, headed a company, composed of three of his married children and their families, namely : William Brantingham, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Dean and Alfred Brantingham, together with Edwin Holloway, Michael Stratton and Ezra Hall, which set our for Minnesota, with the intention of taking up government land near the site of the. present city of St. Paul. The journey was a hard one, all of it being accomplished by stage and boat through many localities where roads were scarcely more than cut. In the vicinity of Freeport, Illinois, Mr. Brantingham was attacked with cholera, to which he soon succumbed. Left without a leader, the company became discouraged and most all of the pioneers returned to their former homes in Columbiana County. Alfred Brantingham, father of Joshua, was born on this farm in August, 1830, and died here in August, 1904. He was a farmer, carpenter and merchant and was a man who was successful in his business enterprises. After returning to Columbiana County, following the death of his father: he resumed his old occupations and remained in the county the remainder of his life. He always gave hearty support to the Republican party. From 1876 until 1885 he was postmaster at Winona. He belonged to that branch of the Society of Friends known as the "Willburites." and by example and precept sustained a reputation for integrity and Christian spirit. The mother of our subject, Ann (Dean) Brantingham. was born in Carroll County. Ohio. and was a daughter of Barton and Hannah (Jackson) Dean. natives of New York and Virginia, respectively. The children of Alfred and Ann (Dean) Brantingham were : Joshua. of this sketch : Elizabeth. wife of Joseph C. Stratton, of Butler township Hannah D., wife of Abraham Stratton. of Philadelphia : PAGE - 397 - BLANK PAGE - 398 - PICTURE OF HON. J. A. MARTIN AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 399 William, superintendent and treasurer of the Winona Creamery Company, of Winona; and Mary, wife of Daniel Test, who is superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital at Philadelphia. Joshua Brantingham was educated in the local schools of Butler township and worked on the farm until the age of 48 years and then learned the carpenter’s trade at which he was employed for seven years. Then, in association with his father, he bought a store at Winona and this was conducted for seven years under the firm name of Brantingham & Son. His brother, William Brantingham, and his brother-in-law, Abram Stratton, were associated with him, as partners in the firm, for several years. In 1883 he purchased the ancestral home and here took up his residence in 1884. The farm now contains 144 acres. Mr. Brantingham found the property much run down and at first he, devoted the land to the raising of sheep. For the last 16 years. however, he has made it a dairy farm and keeps as many as 40 head of Jersey cows, milking 30 head at a time. Almost all of these are high grade, either registered or eligible. The beautiful, modern home was built in 1893. Large barns and other buildings including a good tenant house, are found here, with all the necessary equipment in the way of machinery and appliances necessary for the successful carrying on of an extensive business. It is one of the most attractive as well as one of the most valuable places in the vicinity of Winona. Mr. Brantingham was married, first, to Sarah Gilbert, who was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and died at Winona. in 1884, aged 44 years. Mr. Bratingham was married, second, to Rachel Kirk, who was born at Mount Pleasant ; they have two sons, viz : Joseph C. and Wilson J. The family belong to the Society of Friends. Mr. Brantingham has been identified with the Republican party all his life and has always taken more or less interest in public matters. He is one of the substantial business men of his section, one of the principal stockholders and one of the directors of the Winona Creamery Company of Winona, and is also a director in the Winona Central Telephone Company. In a number of his business enterprises, our subject has been associated with his brother William, who is now superintendent and treasurer of the Winona Creamery Company. This is one of the county’s very successful industries. It was organized in 1890, when a stock: company was formed. At the time of incorporation there were 18 stockholders but the number has since been reduced to 13. Like many other prosperous concerns, it was started in a small way, handling but 900 pounds of milk per day; the business has grown steadily and at the present time 23,000 pounds of milk are used each day. Four experienced hands are constantly employed and the company's fine creamery butter and excellent quality of cheese find a ready market in Salem and in Pittsburg. William Brantingham, our subject's brother. was born in Winona, January 4, 1860, and has always resided in Butler, township. In addition to his creamery interests, he owns a fruit farm of 18 acres near Winona and is a stockholder in the Winona Central Telephone Company. In 1881 he married Anna Cope, a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. and a daughter of Edward Y. and Alice G. (Gilbert) Cope. They have two children,. viz : Alice A.. a normal school teacher, add Elma. Like his older brother, Mr. Brantingham is a Wilburite Friend. He is also identified with the Republican party. Both are men. of substantial worth and good citizenship. HON. J. A. MARTIN, the present probate judge of Columbiana County, formerly mayor of Lisbon, and one of the city's representative citizens, was born in the northern part of Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1852. Judge Martin, Whose portrait accompanies this sketch, was educated in the common schools of Jefferson County and at the Hopedale Normal School, and subsequently entered Mount Union College, where he was graduated with the class of 1876. Judge Martin's ambi-