900 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY ried to Mary Julia Botsford, who was a daughter of Archibald and Eliza (Lynn) Botsford, old residents of Poland. Four children were born of this marriage, three daughters and one son. The son died -in New York City, March 2, 1886. The eldest daughter Mary, resides with her mother at the beautiful family home, No. 689 Wick Avenue, Youngstown. Mr. Bonnell was never a politician. His interest in public affairs was constant and intelligent, but never centered in the advancing cf a political party without reference to the qualifications of the candidate. He was too broad-minded for that. Youngstown has great cause to recall him as one of its liberal benefactors. He was interested in art, in literature and in many of the higher things of life, to which he gave attention in his later years, and his city profited thereby. To philanthropic objects of all kinds he was generous but it was not the character of the man to herald his benefactions abroad. Personally he was genial, sincere, kind and appreciative and, while the whole Mahoning Valley bore testimony to his virtues, at his death, only those who knew him best, realized his real worth. W. H. BUECHNER, M. D., surgeon to the Youngstown City Hospital and to the Erie Railroad Company, is one of the city's best qualified surgical practitioners. He was born at Youngstown, Ohio, in May, 1864, and is a son of the late Dr. W. L. Buechner, who died at Youngstown in September, 1904. In the latter's death Mahoning County lost a valued citizen, and a skilled physician and surgeon who was known and trusted all through this section of the State. Born in Germany, he was educated in his own land, coming in 1854 to Youngstown, where the rest of his life was spent. W. H. Buechner spent his boyhood attend-frig school at Youngstown, and completed his literary education in the Raven High School. He read medicine with his distinguished father and then entered the medical department of the Western Reserve University, where he was graduated in 1885. After a post-graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania, he spent four years in Europe, during three years of this time being assistant to Professor Von Volkman, the celebrated surgeon at Halle, Germany. Here at the University Hospital he had exceptional advantages for study, 10,000 surgical cases being treated annually. In 1890 he returned. to Youngstown, and since then has devoted himself to the practice of his profession. He is a valued member of the Ma-honing County, the Ohio State and the American Medical Associations. He is very prominent in Masonry, being a 32nd degree Mason and is affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, at Youngstown, and to the other branches at Cincinnati. He also belongs to the Elks. ABEL P. LLOYD. one of the substantial and leading farmers of Canfield township, and owner of 218 1/2 of land in Mahoning County, was born August 18, 1844, in Goshen township, Mahoning County, Ohio, and is a son of Benjamin and Catura (Peterson) Lloyd. Benjamin Lloyd, who was born and reared on his father's farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was a son of David Lloyd, whose father came to America from Scotland at a very early period. Benjamin had one sister, Benjamina, who married Joshua Stevenson. both of whom are deceased. When a young man, Benjamin came to Ohio with his parents who settled in the timber lands of Goshen township, Mahoning County, in a log cabin. He was married in this township to Catura Peterson, who was born in New Jersey and who came to Ohio with her father, Abel Peterson. They reared a family of seven children : namely : Joel, a resident of Texas; David, who died in the Civil War; John, who resides in Goshen township; Abel is the subject of this sketch ; Eliza, married Robert Campbell, both AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 901 being now deceased; William, resides in Goshen township; James is a resident of Michigan. Benjamin was one of the most successful and prosperous farmers of Goshen township and at the time of his death, which occurred when in his 84th year, was the owner of 150 acres of valuable farm land. His wife died at the age of 80 years. Abel Lloyd was born in an old log house on his father's farm in Goshen township, where he was reared. He attended- school at Goshen Center, it being one of the first frame schools erected in this locality. He remained at home until his marriage in 1875 and four years later bought his present farm of 96 1/2 acres from the Phillip Lynn estate, where he has since resided, engaged in general farming. Mr. Lloyd resides in a large eight-room frame house which he had built in 1902, and he also owns a tract of 122 acres in Boardman township, just opposite from his home. Mr. Lloyd was married in 1875 on Christmas day to Lucinda Cronick, who was born in 1857 in Berlin township. and is a daughter of Michael and Margaret (Knauff) Cronick, both of whom are deceased, the latter dying when her children were all quite young. Mrs. Lloyd was one of a family of seven children : Lydia Ann (Mrs. William Walker) ; Sarah. who married Frank Barber ; David ; Emanuel; Lucinda, now Mrs. Lloyd ; Joseph, and Amanda (Mrs. John Recker). Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, Nellie and Effie. Nellie first married Joseph Shaffer, by whom she had one child, Pearl ; she subsequently married Marcus Rice and lives at home with her parents ; Effie died in 1902 aged 18 years. Politically Mr. Lloyd is a Republican and has served as supervisor of Canfield township. GEORGE WASHINGTON RIPPLE, general contractor and farmer, residing on his valuable farm of 235 acres, which is situated in Austintown township. about eight miles southwest of Youngstown. was born on his father's farm in Austintown township, Mahoning County, Ohio, October 7, 1843. His parents were Samuel and Eve (Gilbert) Ripple. The Ripple family was established in Mahoning County by John Ripple, the grandfather of George W., who came to this section from Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he had formerly owned a large farm. His first settlement was made in Poland township, but in 1827 he sold his farm there and moved to Austintown township, he, Mr. Russell and Mr. Kirkpatrick being the first three settlers. They had many hardships to meet and. overcome, the country then being in such a wild state that often, in clearing their land they had to protect themselves from wolves which roamed in great bands through the forests. John Ripple married Susan Harroff, who, with him lived to old age, their lives having been filled with the events which all pioneers encounter. They died in Austintown township, good and worthy people. They had a family of eight children, as follows : Samuel, William, George, John, Amanda, Lydia, Betsey and Leah, all of whom are deceased, with the exception of Leah, who is the widow of Daniel Craver. Samuel Ripple, father of George W., was born in Poland township, Mahoning County, Ohio, April 11, 1814, and he grew to manhood on the Austintown township farm. He followed agricultural pursuits and did considerable contracting at various times, in the line of stone work for bridges. He assisted his father greatly, being the eldest, in clearing up the pioneer farm, and his son remembers one method used. Instead of cutting down trees and extracting the great roots by hand labor. there being no machinery yet invented for that purpose, the workers would so deaden the trees that a strong wind would blow them clown. A long time Would frequently pass before the blackened stumps could be taken. out of the soil. Samuel Ripple was married (first) to Eve Gilbert, who was a daughter of Jacob Gilbert. who was also a pioneer of this township. She died in 1863. The children born to this marriage were : John, George W., Samuel. deceased ; Jacob. Jeremiah, who was never heard from after starting for the Klondyke regions 902 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY in 1901 ; Angeline, who married Jacob Ohl; Catherine, who is the widow of John Planton ; Susan, who married Newton Petry ; Mary, who married Peter C. Schrum; Sarah, deceased, who married Nicholas Harber ; and Lydia Margaret, deceased. Samuel Ripple was married (second) to Mary Ann Rorak, who was born in Austintown township, and died October 29, 1906. There were seven children born to this union, namely : Grant, who died in infancy ; Emery Dow, Sankey S., Moody ; William, deceased; Hattie, who married William Green; and Lorinda, who died in childhood. Samuel Ripple died on his home farm, April 19, 1888. George W. Ripple attended school during his boyhood, walking a distance of two and one-half miles, but from the time he was old enough to share in the labors of the farm, his work was laid out for him, and as his father was a very practical man, he carefully attended to it, growing into manhood thoroughly prepared for future usefulness. He has engaged in general farming and for many years has done a large amount of contracting, especially stone work, in Mahoning and other counties. He started out in life for himself with very little, but he has always been most industrious and an excellent manager. He is a stockholder in the Dollar Bank, Youngstown, Ohio, and a stockholder in the Mineral Ridge Manufacturing Company, of Mineral Ridge. In October, 1864, Mr. Ripple was married (first) to Elizabeth Miller, who came to Ohio with her parents from Pennsylvania. There were five children born to this marriage, as follows : Orpha, who died in infancy ; Sherman, deceased, who married Minnie Brenner and left four children, Cleo, Harry, Laura and Florence ; Cornelia, who married Chauncy Brobst and has one child, Herman ; Ella, who died in infancy ; and Birdie, who married Grant I. Crum, and they have one son, Myron George. Mr. Crum has resided with Mr. Ripple since he was 15 years of age and is his partner in the contracting business. The mother of the above mentioned family died in September, 1878. Mr. Ripple was married (second) to Sarah E. Rorak, who was born in Austintown township July 18, 1859, and is the only child of James and Mary E. (Pennell) Rorak. James Rorak was born in Ireland and came to America in his youth, settling in Austintown township, where he married. He enlisted for service in the Civil War and fought bravely through many battles, but was subsequently captured by the Confederates and confined in Andersonville Prison, where this gallant soldier, with thousands of his unlucky comrades, perished from starvation and privation. His widow survived some years and died at Youngstown. Mr. Ripple has always resided in Austin-town township and is one of its most reliable and prominent men. He is chairman of the U. E. Church board of trustees, having been a member for a number of years. Politically, he is a Republican and has been township trustee for a long period. He belongs to the order of Knights of Pythias at Jackson. J. J. HAMILTON, attorney at law, at Youngstown, is also one of the very prominent business men of this city, being president of the Valley Investment Company, president of the Auditorium Company, secretary of the Mahoning Lumber Company and associated with several other corporations both as stockholder and officer. Mr. Hamilton was born in Blair County, Pennsylvania. His parents came to Mahoning County, Ohio, when he was quite young and this locality has been his home ever since. He was mainly educated at the Washington and Jefferson College, coming to Youngstown in 1888. After a short period of clerking in the office of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company, he began the study of law, under the preceptorship of A. W. Jones and W. S. Anderson, and was admitted to the bar on June 4, 1891, immediately entering into practice. Early in 1902, Mr. Hamilton became associated with the firm of Wilson, McNab & Hamilton and so continued for three years. On June 1, 1906, this partnership was dissolved and since AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 903 then Mr. Hamilton has practiced alone. He enjoys the reputation of being a very able attorney. He is identified with numerous important business interests in addition to those already named. On June 26, 1895, Mr. Hamilton was married to Sarah Louise Fownes, a daughter of the late Benjamin Fownes, who was a prominent hardware merchant at Youngstown. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton have two children, Margaret Fownes and William. Mr. Hamilton belongs. to the Elks, the Youngstown club and to the Mahoning Golf club. His business location is in the Dollar Bank Building. JOSEPH HOFFMAN, one of the members of the Fred Hoffman Sons, dealers in lumber and proprietors of a planing mill at Youngstown, was born in this city August 19, 1869, and is a son of Fred and Theresa (Geidner) Hoffman. The father was a native of Germany, who came to America in 1850 when about io years old. He was reared to manhood in Youngstown and early in life engaged in the lumber business in which he continued for a period Of 40 years. He originated and established nearly all of the lumber and planing mill plants in the city of Youngstown. A short time previous to his death, which occurred in 1905, he established the business now conducted by his sons at their present location. His wife is still living. Joseph Hoffman, our subject, was reared in Youngstown, his native city. Here he was educated and was practically brought up in the lumber business. On the death of his father, he and his two brothers, Frank C. and Louis J., succeeded to the business of their father, Fred Hoffman, under the firm name of Fred Hoffman Sons. Mr. Hoffman was married in 1901 to Margaret Ryan and they have one son, Herbert J. Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and is religiously connected with the St. Joseph's Catholic Church. COL. LEMUEL T. FOSTER, one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of Youngstown, who is almost the oldest continuous resident here, has been very prominently identified with the agricultural development and the political affairs of this section. He was born near Rochester, New York, October 23, 1824, and is a son of Jonas and Lavina (Pierce) Foster. The Foster family is of English extraction and its founder in the American Colonies was Timothy Foster, who settled in the vicinity of West Salem, Massachusetts, prior to the Revolutionary War, in which he took part, with six of his stalwart sons. Richard Foster, son of Timothy, who is distinguished as having been a "minute man" at Lexington, was born either at Boston or Salem, Massachusetts. After the close of the Revolutionary struggle, he removed to the eastern part of the State of New York, locating in Washington County, where he bought 1,000 acres of land. A part of this estate is still held by the family. In Massachusetts he had married a member of the Titus family and they reared nine children. The sons, on attaining manhood, scattered to different points, one establishing his home in Canada. Jonas Foster, son of Richard, was born at Hebron, Washington County,. New York, May 18, 1792. He was reared on his father's large estate and lived to the unusual age of 92 years, dying January 8, 1883, at the residence of his son, Col. Lemuel T. Foster. When the War of 1812 broke out, Jonas Foster entered the army as a fife major and was later promoted. After the close of the naval campaign on Lake Champlain, he returned home and accepted from his father the gift of a 250-acre tract of land, married and settled down to farming. Later he removed to the vicinity of the home of his brother Titus, 904 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY in the Black River Valley, disposing of a portion of his land. In 1823 he located near Rochester, New York, where he lived a short time. He soon became interested in the tales told of the wonderful richness of the still unsettled lands in Ohio and of the business opportunities offered in the great lumber regions then surrounding the little hamlet of Youngstown. On August 31, 1825, Mr. Foster's emigrant wagon reached Youngstown, and with Mahoning County his interests remained throughout the rest of his long life. He located in Youngstown township near where his son now resides. He ran sawmills, bought and sold property and was a type of the energetic, enterprising man, whose example is a stimulus most desired in any new locality. In 1852 he bought a tract of land not far from Youngstown, containing 151¼ acres of land, for which he paid the sum of $5,000. Here he carried on extensive farming and stock-raising until th.e close of his active life. Early in his manhood he was an old line Whig and later became a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party. On June 29, 1820, Jonas Foster was married to Lavina Pierce, who was born December 13, 1797, in Otsego County, New York, and was a daughter of Abraham and Lavina (Stoddard) Pierce, who were married in 1794 at Norwich, Connecticut, and had two children : Stoddard and Lavina. Abraham Pierce was an uncle of Franklin Pierce, who became President of the United States. The Stoddard family traces its ancestry as far back as the time of William the Conqueror. The founder of the family in America was Anthony Stoddard, who came to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1639. He became a man of large affairs and great importance. He was a member of the General Council at Boston in 1650, 1659 and 1660, and for the following consecutive twenty years. Mrs. Lavina (Stoddard) Pierce, mother of Mrs. Jonas Foster, was a sister of Mrs. Elizabeth (Stoddard) Sherman, the grandmother of Hon. John Sherman and his no less distinguished brother, General William Te cumseh Sherman. Mrs. Pierce's brother, Major Amos Stoddard, it will be remembered, was appointed by President Jefferson to the high office of commissioner, with powers to exchange treaties with Napoleon Bonaparte in the matter of the purchase of Louisiana in 1803. Upon his return to America after performing this mission with great diplomacy, he was made the first Territorial Governor of Louisiana. During the war of 1812 he was major of artillery; in 1813 he was ordered to transport the troops under his command to the eastern border of the State of Ohio, and in the journey camped in Boardman township and then proceeded to Fort Meigs. It is sad to relate that so brave a man and so distinguished a statesman should have been felled by a splinter from the wall of the fort, which had been struck by a cannon ball. Lockjaw followed. In many ways he was a remarkable man, possessing a marvelous memory and standing mentally far above his contemporaries. The family of Colonel Foster has many interesting articles connected with their Stoddard kindred, and one of these is an original deed, made on parchment, which conveys to Philip Stoddard a grant of land; it bears date of August 20, 1662, and the signature of King Charles II. of England. Another object of interest is a letter from Major Stoddard to his mother, Mrs. Foster, while he was Governor of Louisiana. This letter, dated June 16, 1804, at St. Louis, gives a description of the $600 dinner given in honor of the Spanish and French ambassadors and officers. The children of Jonas and Lavina (Pierce) Foster were seven in number, as follows : Abby Phebe, born at Johnstown, New York, in 1821, and now residing at Portland, Oregon, who is the widow of George H. Haskell, whom she married in 1839: Delia L., born in 1823, at Johnstown, who married Josiah Dunlap, and died December 10, 1860; Lemuel T.: Adaline D., born at Youngstown, in 1827, who married E. W. Wood— both now deceased—(E. W. Wood was a colonel of the 57th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and fought at Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, the seven days' fight before Richmond, White AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 907 Oak Swamp and Malvern Hill) ; Sarah Stoddard, born in 1829, and now residing in Boardman township, who married (first) James W. Eckman, and is now the widow of Benjamin McNutt; Laura Amanda, born in 1831, who married Clark Wood and died in 1886; and Orinda S., born November 18, 1841, who is the wife of James Crandon, of Niles, Ohio. Lemuel T. Foster was 10 months old when his parents came to Mahoning County, where he was reared under the same conditions, and as a boyhood companion, as was the late President McKinley, with whom a cordial friendship lasted through the latter's life. At the outbreak of the Civil War Mr. Foster became immediately concerned in military affairs, and ably assisted in organizing the First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and was elected colonel of this regiment, but a change of plan caused the regiment to be withdrawn. Later he was made captain of Company L, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participated in many of the serious engagements of the war, notably the taking of Island No. 10, and spent a large part of his time in successfully recruiting for the colored regiments. After his return from the army he engaged extensively in agricultural pursuits and in developing the resources of his large property in the vicinity of Youngstown, on which he raised many fancy Shorthorn cattle. He organized the Foster Coal Company, which has mined many thousands of tons of coal from his land and is still a rich deposit. From youth Mr. Foster has been an interested factor in political life, and probably has known personally as many public men in Ohio as any other citizen. He has frequently been a delegate at conventions and assisted in the nomination of General Fremont for President, and of Salmon P. Chase for Governor. In 1877 he was nominated for congress by the Greenback party, was a candidate in 1878 and in 1880, and again was prominent in 1891 as the Populist party's choice for the state senate. In local offices he served nine years as a justice of the peace and six years as township trustee. Colonel Foster was united in marriage on March 11, 1869, to Florence E. Lanterrnan, who was born near Youngstown in 1843, and died June 19, 1873, leaving two children, Una L., who married (first) Hosea W. Simon, and (second) William Bakody, of Youngstown township; and Ina Wood, who married John Kennedy, of Youngstown township. Colonel Foster was married (second) September 11, 1878, to Susanna B. Alexander, born March 28, 1848, a daughter of William W. and Elizabeth (Baird) Alexander, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The children of this marriage are: Charles L., an expert electrician, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, who is with the Westinghouse Company, at Cleveland; Lida L. and Alice Wuod, both of whom were educated in Boston and later at Oberlin College; Grace A., who is a student of Vassar College, class' 1908; and Bessie B., a student at Rayen High School. LOUIS GLUCK, a prominent citizen of Mahoning County and an ex-county commissioner, resides in a beautiful modern home which stands on the corner of Wilson avenue and Pearl street, Youngstown. Mr. Gluck was born in Wittenberg, Germany, in the town of Buoch, Oberant Waiblingen, August 7, 1841, and is a son of Christian and Caroline (Frank) Gluck. Christian Gluck was a blacksmith by trade and owned his own shop at Buoch, Oberant Waiblingen, and when his son Louis was 14 years of age, he took the latter in as his helper and taught him the business. When Louis was 19 years old his father died and the mother then rented the shop to a master blacksmith. The property finally passed out of the family, as all the members subsequently came to America, following Louis, who was the first one to try his fortunes in this country. The mother died in 1882, at Youngstown. The children, seven in number, were as follows: Christiana. who married John Doepping; Louis, subject of this sketch ; Frederica, the first of the daughters to cross. the Atlantic, 908 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY who married David Weimer ; Caroline, who married Philip Shantz; Frederick, residing in San Jose, California, a carriage manufacturer, who followed his brother Louis, to the United States; Christian, who died at Pittsburg; and Paulina, who married George Baum, of Allegheny. As mentioned above, Mr. Gluck was instructed by his father in his trade, which was manufacturing plows, axes, stone-cutting tools and like implements. no horseshoeing being included, as there were no horses in the village in which the shop was located. After working for three years at his father's forge, he worked out as a bound boy for two years, being apprenticed to a practical horse-shoer. He not only received no pay, but his father had to pay the horse-shoer a premium of $10 in gold. He worked for the two years contracted, and then had to take an examination and make new horse shoes, before what is called in Germany, the boss or master blacksmith, there being one of these officials in every county appointed to examine workers and find out the full extent of their ability. It is this system of thorough education which has frequently been called to the attention of American employers. Mr. Gluck had now reached the age of army service and he complied with the law and entered a regiment in which he was drilled for six weeks, when he was relieved of further duty on account of being the eldest son of a widow. Mr. Gluck then went out as a journeyman blacksmith and worked at Baden and Wertemberg, and also. in Switzerland up to September 1, 1866, when he returned to his home and took charge of his father's old shop for a few months. He soon found that he knew too much and was too good a workman to spend the rest of his life in the little mountain village, and in a few months he closed up his affairs and started for America, promising to pave the way for the rest of the family, which he subsequently did. Mr. Gluck landed on American soil in December, 1866, and went to Rochester, New York. It is probable that he was sadly disappointed at first, as the city which he selected had no opportunities to offer him in the way of employment, and after fruitlessly searching for four weeks, he came on to Youngstown, Ohio. In this city he found his first employer in Charles Grude, who was located on the corner of Champion and Front streets, with whom he remained for two months, and then entered the machine shops of Homer Hamilton, as a blacksmith, working there for two months. Mr. Gluck then moved to Brier Hill and for four years was employed at the Middle furnace there and became prosperous, but the exposure and exhausting work subjected him to a heavy cold that resulted in illness and his physician gravely cautioned him concerning his subsequent following of his trade. Mr. Gluck went then to Pittsburg, where he married and then took charge of a garden owned by his father-in-law, David Plieniger, at Allegheny, where he continued for six years. At the close of this period he returned to Youngstown and opened up a grocery store at Brier Hill, in 1877, which he successfully conducted until 1881, when he gave up mercantile business, but still retained his property at that point, and then moved to his farm in Coitsville township. In 1880 he purchased T o8 acres of choice farming land to which he has added until his farm now includes 182 acres, and is recognized as one of the best-improved pieces of agricultural property in the township. All the buildings on his property he has erected himself and they are up to the highest standard of farm structures, not excelled in any way by any other in Coitsville township. Mr. Gluck devotes some of his land to general agriculture and raises much live-stock. He continued to reside on this farm until November, 1903, when he built his handsome residence on the corner of Wilson and Pearl streets, Youngstown, where he has resided until the present. Mr. Gluck owns considerable other property, including a second residence on Pearl street and three desirable vacant residence lots. He has other business interests and at present is engaged in closing up the estate of the late George H. Dingledy, of which he is one of the executors. On January 30, 1870, Mr. Gluck was mar- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 909 ried (first) to Louisa Plienigen, who died February 15, 1874, while residing at Allegheny. She was a daughter of David Plienigen, a prominent citizen and capitalist of that section. There were two children born to this marriage, namely : Albert and George. The former married Emma Kurz and they have one child, Ernest. The latter married Ida. Spatholt, of which union there are two children, Carl and George. Mr. Gluck's older sons are prominent business men at Youngstown, partners in the well known hardware firm of Gluck Brothers Company, situated on Market street. Mr. Gluck was married (second) September 26, 1875, to Caroline Lenz, who is a daughter of Jacob and Christina Lenz. They have four children, namely : Lucy, who married John Spatholt, and has two children, Margaret and Dora ; Mary ; Anna, and Louis. Mr. Gluck and family are among the leading members of the German Lutheran Church. at Youngstown. He has always taken an active interest in the benevolent and charitable work of this religious body. During his whole period of American citizenship, Mr. Gluck has been a supporter of the Republican party and for many years has been identified with its councils in Mahoning County. In 1884 he was elected to the important office of county commissioner, and served so creditably and satisfactorily that he was re-elected and served a second term, the whole period covering six years and two months. His personal popularity and the public confidence in his ability and integrity resulted in his running ahead of his ticket, leading by over 1,000 votes. Since retiring from the office of commissioner, Mr. Gluck has consented to serve in no other. He has come to the time of life when he feels like taking relaxation and he proposes that in the summer of 1907 it shall take the form of a visit, in company with his wife, to his old home in Germany, returning as a man of substance and Prominence to the village he left forty years ago. a youth with but little capital beyond his trade and his enterprise. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Gluck are presented with this biographical mention. AUGUST D. C. KROECK, a leading business man at Austintown Center, where he is engaged in the manufacture of wagons and is a dealer in hardware, farm implements and harness, was born near the Rhine River, in Germany, October 7, 1847. His parents were Wehunt and Catherine (Hood) Kroeck. The father of August Kroeck was born in Germany and became a farmer. He married Catherine Hood and comfortably provided for his family until his death at the a.ge of 65 years. His widow came to America in March, 1870, but died in the following February, aged 65 years. They had six children, namely : Andrew, deceased; August; Charles; Wilhelm, residing in Germany; and Philip and Minnie, twins, the latter of whom married Carl Brandt. The boyhood of August D. C. Kroeck was passed on the home farm, and up to the age of 13 years he attended school. He was then apprenticed to a local wagonmaker, with whom he worked for three and one-quarter years, receiving no compensation except his board. After this he was paid one dollar a week, and he continued to work at the trade Until he started to America in 1868. After a voyage of twenty-three days he landed in the United States and came immediately to Youngstown. Finding himself hampered more or less by his ignorance of the English language, he made the learning of it one of his first interests. He worked in different lines, as a mason, in a rolling mill and a lumber yard, and thus met many workmen from whom he soon acquired a speaking knowledge of the strange tongue. After this he came to Austintown, where he went to work at his trade in the big shop then located at Taylor's Corners. When it burned down he returned to Youngstown and worked up to the spring of 1870 in that city and at Sharon and Berlin. After his marriage he settled at Austintown, opening a shop, although he had no ready capital. Evidently he presented a very honest appearance, as he was able to secure a bill of goods on credit from a business house at Warren, and thus was able to begin in a small way 910 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY a business which he has developed into one of large proportions. Mr. Kroeck met all his bills, and thus kept his credit good, and as his mechanical skill became known, his trade increased until he found it necessary to enlarge his accommodations, and from repairing go into manufacturing wagons. He had the business foresight to start a store for the sale of his wagons and for goods along the same line, as harness, farm implements, factory buggies and other goods of like. nature, and now his trade terries tory covers Mahoning County and distant points, a few years since he having sold a large bill consigned to Cuba. Mr. Kroeck's success marks the progress. of a self-made man. In addition to his shop and store, he owns a 22-room hotel building and a fine 10-room residence at Austintown. His place of business is well known all through this section, as he handles all the standard makes of agricultural implements, including the Syracuse, Oliver, Gale and Imperial plows, cultivators, planters, mowing machines and modern farm tools of every kind. There is still another reason, and that is that Mr. Kroeck has established as good a name for honesty and fair dealing as he has for the excellence of his goods. On March 13, 1870. Mr. Kroeck was married to Susanna Smith, who was born December I, 1849. Her father died in Germany as the result of an accident in a coal mine, and her mother subsequently married Henry Young, with whom she came to America ; later they both died in Austintown township. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had two children, Philip and Susanna. Of Mrs. Smith's subsequent marriage to Mr. Young there were seven children, as follows : August, Lewis, Elizabeth, Julia. Lena and Rose (deceased), and William (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. Kroeck have five children, namely : Catherine, who married Orvil Harroff, residing at Alliance ; William, who assists his father in the carriage shop and also conducts the hotel, married Daisy Diamond, and they have one son, Randall ; Andrew, residing at Lowellville, married Jennie Foot Charles and Lewis, both of whom work in the shop, all of the sons being practical men and good citizens. Mr. and Mrs. Kroeck belong to the Reformed Church. JOHN S. ORR, one of the old business men of Youngstown, a funeral director and embalmer for the last thirty-six years, with business location at Nos. 25-26 Phelps street, was born in 1842. at Mt. Jackson, Pennsylvania. Mr. Orr was reared in his native place and at New Brighton until he was 17 years of age. In 1859 he came to Youngstown and began work as a carpenter, having previously learned this trade. He continued thus employed until 1862, when he enlisted for service in the Civil War, becoming a member of Company A, 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which became a part of the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Orr was seriously wounded at the first battle of Fredericksburg, after which he was made division foragemaster and served in that capacity until the close of the war. Upon his return to Youngstown he resumed work at his trade and so continued until 1869, when he embarked in a furniture business and also began that of undertaking. About three years later his furniture store was burned and since then he has given his exclusive attention to undertaking and embalming. In 1863 Mr. Orr was married to Sarah Montgomery. a daughter of Joseph and Nancy Montgomery. They have four children : Edith Maud, who is the wife of C. H. Kennedy, cashier of the Commercial National Bank : Sarah Bessie, who is residing at home; Nettie A., who is the wife of Dr. James C. Orwig, of Glenville, Ohio; and Fred Montgomery. The latter is his father's associate in business. He is a graduate of several embalming- institutions, including the Massachusetts College of Embalming. Mr. Orr is identified prominently with the Masonic fraternity. He is a 32nd degree Mason and has passed through all the offices in the Commandery. He belongs to the fol- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 911 lowing representative bodies : Western Star Lodge, No. 21, A. F. & A. M.; Youngstown Chapter No. 93, R. A. M. ; St. John's Commandery, No. 20, K. T. ; Lake Erie Consistory, A. A. S. R. ; Royal Order of Scotland ; and Al Koran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Mr. Orr belongs also to the order of Odd Fellows, to the United Workmen and to Tod Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Youngstown. A. J. GILLESPIE, attorney-at-law, at Youngstown, practicing in the United States District, Circuit and Supreme courts, and a member of the Mercer County, the Allegheny, and the Philadelphia Bar Associations, was born March 9, 1861, at Greenville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of the late A. D. Gillespie. A. D. Gillespie was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and was reared on the paternal farm. His educational opportunities were only those afforded by the district school, but he prepared himself for the law and was admitted to the bar in young manhood. For a number of years he practiced his profession, subsequently taking his two sons into partnership under the firm name of A. D. Gillespie & Sons. He was more or less of a political factor in Mercer County, though he did not aspire to political honors. In 1885 his 'friends urged his candidacy for judge. For ten years he served as one of the burgesses at Greenville. His death occurred there in 1902, at the age of 80 years. Eugene P. Gillespie, brother of A. J., and for a number of years, up to the time of his death, a member of the Mercer County bar, was educated in the University of Toronto, Canada, and at Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, then studied law in his father's office. In 1890 he was elected to congress from the Greenville district, which was composed of Mercer, Beaver, Butler and Lawrence counties, and served with distinc tion. His death was caused by an accident on the Bessemer Railroad in 1899. A. J. Gillespie was reared in his native place and was educated in the University of Toronto, Canada, and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter institution in 1886. For two years he practiced law in Philadelphia and then returned to Greenville and entered into partnership with his father and brother, in the firm mentioned. He continued practicing law at Greenville until November, 1905, when he located at Youngstown and formed a partnership with Mr. Guthman, under the style of Gillespie & Guthman, which still continues. Mr. Gillespie is the kind of citizen who is deeply interested in public affairs and local interests. For seven years he served as city solicitor of the borough of. Greenville, and in 1904 his friends insisted on his accepting the nomination for judge in the 35th judicial district of Pennsylvania. After due consideration, however, Mr. Gillespie declined the honor. In 1888 Mr. Gillespie was married to Ida M. Murray, who is a daughter of the late Henry Q. Murray, of Hartstown, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Fraternally he belongs to the Masons and has passed all the chairs in the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery. Although Mr. Gillespie has removed from Greenville to a wider field of business at Youngstown, he is still largely interested in real estate in the former city, is a stockholder in the People's Electric Light, Heat & Power Company, and owns a magnificent farm of 200 acres in Mercer County. His present residence is at No. 154 Warren avenue, Youngstown. SAMUEL A. McNEILLY, a prominent citizen of Ellsworth township, residing on his valuable farm of 225 acres, was born in the northern part of Ellsworth township, two miles north of his present home, in Mahoning County, Ohio, November 15, 1839, and is a son of 912 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY James and Elizabeth (Trimble) McNeilly. The parents of Mr. McNeilly were born in County Down, Ireland, about 1800, and both died in Ellsworth township, the father in 1848 and the mother in the fall of 1868. They were married in Ireland and when they came to this section they were among the earliest settlers. The timber on the land was so dense that James McNeilly could not build his log cabin until he had felled some trees. During the early days on the farm, wolves howled around the cabin at night so that the inmates could scarcely sleep. Later Mr. McNeilly built a frame house, and with the assistance of his sons, cleared up a farm. Eight children were born to James McNeilly and wife, four sons and four daughters, namely : Robert, who died in 1890; Margaret, deceased, who married E. P. Miller, residing in Ellsworth township; William, residing in Wayne township, Ashtabula County, who married Lois Beardsley, now deceased; Eliza, deceased, who married Ward Dean, residing in Ellsworth township; Samuel A. ; and three others, who are deceased. Samuel A. McNeilly was reared on the home farm and attended the district schools. In 1861 he was married (first) to Mary Smith, daughter of Walter and Mary Ann Smith, the latter being of Scotch extraction. Walter Smith was born in Connecticut and came to Ellsworth township in 1806, where he purchased 15 acres of land and started the first tannery in Mahoning County. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had four daughters and three sons, namely : Eliza, Laura, Martha and Mary, Fitch, Samuel and Walter. Fitch died while studying for the ministry. Samuel Smith, deceased, was sheriff of Mahoning County in 1861. Walter Smith was either the second or third volunteer to enter the Federal army from Ellsworth township and was the first to be brought home dead in the following fall. Mr. and Mrs. McNeilly had children as follows : Walter, who has been a railroad mail clerk at Chicago since the election of President Harrison, married Eva Price, of Youngstown, and has three children, Ruth, Donald and Lenora; Helen, who married John Schaffer, residing in Ellsworth township, has one child, Pauline; Mary E., who married Frank Ressler, residing in Ellsworth, has one daughter, Elizabeth; and Charles, whose business is that of a steel blower, resides at Youngstown, and married Gertrude Wehr. During the Civil War Mr. McNeilly was .a member of the military organization known as the Home Guards. He has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and since 1862 has resided on his present farm. He owns two farms, and both are valuable on account of their productiveness. and also because on one of them both oil and gas have been found. At present he is mostly interested in raising horses, cattle and sheep. He is regarded as one of the township's most substantial men. Mr. McNeilly's first wife died in 1897, and he was married (second), in 1905, to Mrs. Susan Gretsinger, who is a daughter of the well-known and beloved evangelist, Rev. Excell, who still survives, aged 85 years. Both Mr. and Mrs. McNeilly are members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he has been a trustee for twenty-seven years. Politically a Republican, he cast his first vote for President Lincoln. WILLIAM BONNELL McELEVEY, dealer in real estate, stocks and bonds and insurance, with quarters in the. Dollar Bank building, at Youngstown, is one of the city's representative business men. He was born in 1866, at New Castle, Pennsylvania, and was 15 years of age when he came to Youngstown. Mr. McElevey was educated at the public schools and was a student in the Rayen School. During the early years of his business life he was in the iron trade for a time and for five years was assistant superintendent of the Ma-honing .Valley Iron Company. He then went to Chicago as secretary and treasurer of the Lake Side Nail Company, at Hammond, Indiana, and later was a broker in coal, coke and AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 913 pig iron. He spent ten busy business years in Chicago and then left that great metropolis and returned to Youngstown. Here he embarked in a general insurance and real estate business. He deals also in stocks and bonds and handles safe investments. In his insurance risks he represents these companies : North British and Mercantile, of New York; the Girard, of Philadelphia ; the New Brunswick, of New Brunswick, New Jersey; the Providence Life and Trust Company, of Philadelphia ; the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, of London; the American Surety Company, of New York; and the Etna Indemnity Company. Mr. McElevey is also interested in other business enterprises of this locality. For a number of years Mr. McElevey has been a member of the First Presbyterian Church of this city. He belongs to the Youngstown Club and to the Mahoning Golf Club. MORDECAI L. PETTIT, a prominent citizen and well-known and successful agriculturist, who has served Goshen township for three consecutive years as assessor, resides on his excellent farm of about 50 acres, which is situated in section 30. Mr. Pettit was born January 29, 1860, at Damascus, Ohio, and he is a son of Daniel R. and Rebecca W. (Garretson) Pettit. Daniel R. Pettit was born in Ohio and was a son of Daniel Pettit, who came to Mahoning County from Pennsylvania. The former was a merchant and kept a general store at Salem and Damascus, removing late in life to his farm near Garfield, Ohio, where he died in 1876. He married Rebecca W. Garretson, who was born in Pennsylvania, and they had eight children, the survivors being : Annie E., who married George B. Kinsey, residing in Goshen township; William H., residing in Goshen township ; Joseph E.. residing at Salem : Adella B., widow of Otto Bechtold, residing at Cleveland ; and Mordecai L. and Laura, residing- in Goshen township. Mordecai L. Pettit was about seven years of age when the family moved from Damascus to the farm near Garfield, which is now the property of H. W. Spear. He continued to reside there until the death of his parents, about ten years later, attending the Garfield schools, and, for three years, the Damascus Academy. He then began to teach school, a useful field of activity he worked in for the next twenty-two years, during a part of the time teaching only in the winter seasons. Since his marriage he has resided on his well-kept farm and has taken much interest in its development. On March 28, 1895, Mr. Pettit was married to Mrs. Anna W. Malmsberry, who was the widow of the late Charles B. Malmsberry, of Goshen township. She is a daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Morgan) Pidcock, formerly of this township. Mr. and Mrs. Pettit have one daughter, Rebecca. Religiously they belong to the Society of Friends. Their circle of social connection is very wide and their hospitable home is the scene of many pleasant gatherings. Mr. Pettit is one of the township's progressive but also thoughtful citizens. He is always ready to assist in furthering enterprises which he is assured will be of permanent value to the community at large, but looks with little favor on schemes of a speculative character. In political sentiment he is a Republican. R. F. THOMPSON, architect, with offices at No. 225 East Federal street, Youngstown, has been a resident of this city for over a quarter of a century and has been interested in the material development of a large part of its most attractive portion. He was born in 1844, at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Thompson learned the carpenter's trade, in early manhood, with his brother, William G. Thompson, in Illinois, where he remained three years, in the meantime acquainting himself with the rudiments of his present profession. During the Civil War, he served 914 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY three years, mainly in the South and South West. Upon his return to Cleveland, Mr. Thompson was made superintendent of construction for R. R. Herrick & Horace Fuller, and remained with them for five years, during which time he continued his study of architecture. He then entered upon architectural work, with Joseph Ireland, of Cleveland, and three years later, came to Youngstown to superintend the construction of the Commercial National Bank and also the magnificent residence of the late C. H. Andrews. He decided to locate here permanently and opened an office in which he remained alone until 1892, when he admitted his son, E. R. Thompson, to partnership. The work of this firm extends all over this portion of Ohio and the larger number of the ornate, beautiful residences and substantial business blocks at Youngstown, have been erected from their designs. In 1866, Mr. Thompson was married in Louisiana, to Mary DeAntagnan, who was born in France, and they have three children, namely : John J., of Buffalo, New York; Anna M., wife of M. Jewett Megown, of Youngstown; and E. R., who is associated with his father. As an enterprising citizen, Mr. Thompson has always taken an active interest in city affairs. He has served for four years on the board of city commissioners. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar Mason. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. CHARLES B. WELLS, executor and trustee of the estate of Thomas H. Wells, a large capitalist who was a pioneer developer of the great coal industry of the Mahoning Valley, has been identified with several great companies during his residence in Ohio. He was born on. January 1, 1862, at Brooklyn, New York, and is a son of the late Lindsey J. Wells, who was an architect and engineer at Brooklyn, where he died in 1897. Charles B. Wells was reared and educated at Brooklyn. In young manhood he came to the mines at Mineral Ridge, Mahoning County, where he was an employ of the Tod-Wells Company, until 1889, when he removed to Niles and then was employed for one year, with Henry Wick. Thence he went to the Ohio Steel Company as cashier and chief clerk. In October, 1905, he resigned his position in order to accept his present responsibilities and to better look after a number of other enterprises in which he is interested, both at Youngstown and at Niles. He is a member and an elder in the Presbyterian Church in the latter city. He has established his business quarters at No. 213 Federal Building, Youngstown. Mr. Wells was married October 26, 1887, to Miss Ella I. Jones of Mineral Ridge, a (laughter of David P. Jones, grandfather of Isaac Halford. Her mother was Sophia (Hal-ford) Jones. The father was a native of Wales and the mother of England. ROBERT A. MANCHESTER, a leading business man at Canfield, dealing in hardware, stoves, farm implements, paint and furniture, belongs to one of the old pioneer families of this section. Mr. Manchester was born August 13, 1838, in a hewn log house in Dublin, two miles southwest of Canfield, Canfield township, Mahoning County, Ohio, and is a son of Isaac and Eleanor (Wilson) Manchester. Benjamin Manchester, the grandfather of Robert A., was born in Pennsylvania and was a son of Isaac Manchester, and was the first of the family to come to Ohio. He settled in the deep woods in Canfield township, which was then in Trumbull County, and there reared children by two marriages, those of the first being : Mary Ann, Philip, James and Isaac. His second marriage was to Margaret McGowen, and the children born to that marriage were: Eliza, Phebe, Martha and Robert, all of whom are deceased. Benjamin Manchester died in 1857. For many years he had AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 917 been a man of consequence in his neighborhood and served as township trustee. Isaac Manchester was young when his father settled in Canfield township, and he grew to manhood on the home farm and was educated in the best schools the neighborhood afforded. He was twice married, and after the death of his first wife he went to Indiana, where he was married a second time and subsequently returned to Ohio and died in Canfield township in 1886. His six children were all horn to his first marriage, as 'follows : Hugh A., who is serving as mayor of Canfield ; Robert Asa ; Margaret, deceased, who was the wife of Isaac Fory ; John ; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Frank Smaltz; and Benjamin 0. Robert Asa Manchester remained at home until his marriage, assisting on the farm and going to school as occasion offered, and when he was 19 years old he taught a term in Green township before joining his uncle, George Rank, in Indiana. The latter owned a farm of 1,200 acres, all in one tract, and Mr. Manchester remained working there for one year, when he returned to the home farm in Canfield township and also assisted his uncle, Robert Manchester, in sawing shingles. After his marriage he worked for his father-in-law for a number of years on the farm and then invested in partnership with his brother-in-law, Edward Burgett, in a sawmill, which they operated until itwas accidentally burned down. The owners did not rebuild and Mr. Manchester returned to agricultural pursuits, renting land until 1895. In this year he moved to Canfield and went into partnership with his two sons, who had established the present business two years previously. The firm is known as the Manchester Company and it is located on West Broad street, where a large room is utilized to show their goods of which they carry a large stock. A specialty is made of roofing and plumbing. On November 14, 1861, Mr. Manchester was married to Anna. E. Bowman, who was born March 10, 1844, in Goshen township, Mahoning County, Ohio, and who is a daughter of the late Col. Josiah and Sarah (Strong) - 47 - Bowman. Colonel Bowman secured his title as a member of the State militia. He was an early settler in Goshen township and there both he and his wife died. Their children were : Allen; Elizabeth, who married Joseph Cessna ; Anna E. ; Amelia, who married Edward Burgett ; and Jefferson D. Mr. and Mrs. Manchester have had the following children : Seymour 0. (residing at Niles, Ohio, where he is in the hardware business), who married Mary Bloxom and has two children, Carl and Sarah; Clement, residing in Ellsworth township, engaged in farming, married Mary Lower and has four children, Warren, John, Fern and an infant ; Sarah Ella, who married Clement Tate, and has six children, Robert, Thela, Clara, Elizabeth, Bryan and Orrin; Josiah Isaac, residing in an elegant residence on West Main street, Canfield, in partnership with his father, married Gertrude Stitle and has three children, Harry S., Robert Asa and Anna; and Allen, also associated with his father, who marriel Lulu Spaulding and has two children, Charlotte and Pearl. Politically, Mr. Manchester is a Democrat and on numerous occasions his fellow-citizens have called him to office. He served as township clerk of Ellsworth township and has also been assessor and township trustee. With his family, Mr. Manchester belongs to the Presbyterian Church, of which he has served as trustee. MRS. HETTIE J. CLARK. In Mrs. Hettie J. Clark, of Youngstown, is found a lady who has been closely connected with the works of charity and philanthropy during the larger part of her life, and who is nowhere more thoroughly admired, respected and beloved than in thi scity. Mrs. Clark was born April 10, 1839, at Red Stone, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of the late Rev. John Tune Smith, who formerly was one of the most prominent ministers of the Christian Church in Ohio. 918 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Clark were natives of England. Their two children, a son and daughter, were early left orphans and were adopted by good families in Maryland. John Tune, the son, was reared at Baltimore. In 1842, at which time he was minister in the Disciples, or Christian Church, he brought his family to Ohio and from that time on, until the close of a saintly life, was a faithful minister and expounder of the teachings of Christ as expounded by Alexander Campbell. Dr. Smith died in the spring of 1861, at Hiram, Ohio, aged 57 years. At this point centered many of the interests of this church in the state and here its largest educational institution flourished. In later years it came into the lime-light of the world as the former home of James A. Garfield, President of the United States. It was Elder Garfield who preached the funeral sermon over the remains of his friend and former co-worker, Dr. Smith. The mother of Mrs. Clark survived until the summer of 1874. Of the seven children born to Rev. John T. Smith and wife, these survive : Mrs. Edith Robbins, who has survived her husband and three children, Joseph Trimble, physician and surgeon, who served four years in the Civil War; Frances, who conducted a large business of her own, at Akron, Ohio, and now resides in Long Beach, California; Clayton Cheyney, a distinguished clergyman of the Christian Church; and Mrs. Hettie J. Clark, the especial subject of this biography. William Hayes was lieutenant of the 14th Ohio Battery, and died shortly after his resignation, in 1863, from disabilities received in the service. John Henry was a corporal of the 6th U. S. Infantry and was honorably discharged after three years' service, having fought in thirty-five battles; his death took place just one month after his discharge. Hettie J. Smith was mainly educated at Hiram College, and while there came under the direct instruction of James A. Garfield, at that period. president of the college, for whom she always entertained feelings of esteem and veneration. She was a young woman of unusual promise, and was but 16 years of age when she began to teach school, subsequently becoming a successful and popular educator. Her career in the school room was terminated by marriage, arriage, but she has never entirely retired to the privacy of domestic life, her talents, inclinations and ambitions having led her along more conspicuous paths. On May 9, 1867, Hettie J. Smith was united in marriage with Dr. M. S. Clark, who has long been an eminent medical practitioner in Mahoning County. The three children of this marriage were : Clayton A., born September 25, 1874, who died February 10, 1887; James A., born June 10, 1878. who died September 23. 1879 ; and Louis P., who was born July 9, 1880. Since the age of 12 -rears Mrs. Clark has been a member of the .Christian Church and through all the succeeding years she has been one of the active and efficient workers in the cause of Christianity. In her own religious connection she has been of the greatest service and many responsibilities have been placed upon her willing shoulders. For some years she served as chairman of the First Christian Church finance committee ; was secretary of the missionary society and served as its president for several years; served one year as president and also as secretary of the 22nd district ; and was superintendent of children's work in Ohio for some years, during which period she made many admirable and effective addresses. Since the organization of Central Christian Church she has served as secretary and president of the auxiliary of the C.. W. B. M.. and is at the present time its superintendent. She has taught in the Central Christian Sunday school since its inception and has also taught in the First Christian Church Sunday school. In Youngstown her work among the city poor is well known ; she has long been a welcome and familiar figure at the City Hospital, at the Young Men's Christian Association, and wherever there is need of a woman's sympathy or understanding help. She has always been an active member of the Woman's Relief Corps and has held almost all of the local offices. Her life is filled with the performance of helpful duties for others and no AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 919 name is held in greater reverence in this city, where it is best known. She attends to the many calls made on her time and to the demands of an immense correspondence, incident to her many interests, at the office and home of herself and Dr. Clark, Nos. 816-818 Elm street, Youngstown. A portrait of Mrs. Hettie J. Clark is presented on a neighboring page of this volume.G GEORGE EVELYN KNESAL one of Petersburg's leading citizens, and a member of the prominent hardware firm of Knesal Bros, was born April 23, 1873, in Springfield township, and is a son of Andrew and Sarah E. (Moore) Knesal. The father of Mr. Knesal was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1828, and was brought to America in 1832. In 1856 he married Sarah E. Moore, who was born just across the Pennsylvania line, within three miles of Petersburg. Both parents survive and Mr. Knesal had the privilege of attending their golden wedding, October 9, 1906. Of their eleven children, George E. is the youngest. George E. Knesal attended the Petersburg schools and before entering into business he took a course at the Iron City Commercial College at Pittsburg, where he was graduated in 1892. When the firm of Knesal Bros. was organized, in December, 1903, Mr. Knesal became a partner and has been identified prominently with this successful business ever since. He has interests in the First National Bank at East Palestine, and in the Unity Township Telephone Company. With his brother, John . M.. he has been a member of the Petersburg orchestra and the Petersburg band since their organization, the family being one of marked musical talent. On February 19, 1902, Mr. Knesal was married to Jennie G. Miller, who was born at Petersburg May 17, 1874, and who is a daughter of John F. and Mary (Zieger) Miller, the former of whom conducts the leading general store at Petersburg. She is a. granddaughter of John H. and Elizabeth (Ilgenfritz) Miller, and a great-granddaughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Seidner) Miller, the former of whom was one of the earliest settlers in Springfield township. Mr. and Knesal are members of the Presbyterian Church. In national affairs, Mr. Knesal supports the candidates and policies of the Democratic party, but in local politics he considers frequently the man, rather than the party. Like other members of -his family, he is always ready to work for the best interests of the town. He is a member of Starlight lodge, No. 224, Knights of Pythias, at Petersburg. T. B. VAN ALSTINE, proprietor of the Youngstown Lumber Company, is one of the city's leading business men and is identified with many of the prospering concerns which handle large capital and serve to bring this city into great prominence as an industrial center. Mr. Van Alstine was born in Canada, where he was reared and educated. When about 19 years of age, Mr. Van Alstine went to Connecticut and after two years went to the Pennsylvania oil fields, where he remained about two years longer, during the greater part of this time working at the carpenter's trade. In the fall of 1866 he came to Youngstown and worked at his trade and as a general contractor until the fall of 1875, when he went into the lumber business. He became associated with three others and they bought a planing mill and lumber yard and established the Youngstown Lumber Company. Since then various changes have been made in the composition of the firm, but Mr. Van Alstine has always retained his interest, and since 1898 he has been sole proprietor. He does a general planing mill business on a large_ scale, has immense lumber. yards and gives employment to from twenty to twenty-five employes. In addition to the above mentioned business; Mr.. Van Alstine is interested in the Pfau & Faunce Realty Company, of which he is .a 920 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY director, and in the Youngstown Foundry and Machine Company, in which he is a stockholder, as he is also in the South-West Land Company and in other business concerns. An astute and honorable business man, he is a valued member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce. In 1868 Mr. Van Alstine was married to Susanah Wehr, of Youngstown, and they have three children, Blanche W., Jessie and Ruth. The family belong to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Van Alstine being a member of the board of trustees. EDWARD LOUIS KNESAL. On account of the large distilling interests centered at New Middletown, the position of storekeeper and gauger for the government is a very responsible and important one. Since March, 1901, this office has been held by Edward Louis Knesal, who was born at Petersburg, Ohio, July 31, 1867, and is a son of John George and Henrietta (Whitmyre) Knesal. John George Knesal was born in Germany and was eight years old when he was brought to America by his parents, who located at New Springfield, Ohio. Of their eleven children seven survive, as follows : Henrietta, who married Samuel Koch, residing in Detroit, has a daughter who is older than our subject; Charles, residing at Greenport, Long Island, New York, who is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church; Alice, who married C. M. Morse, who was engaged in ministerial work until his health failed and then learned stenography and is now court stenographer at Beaver, Beaver County, Pennsylvania Emma,. who married Dr. Joel Cooperrider, residing at Brownsville, Ohio ; Lizzie, who married John Shiller, residing at Petersburg; Edward Louis, and Nora, who married Duncan Livingstone, residing at New Middletown. After completing his education in the schools of Petersburg, Edward L. Knesal learned shoemaking, a trade he followed for fifteen years in connection with conducting a shoe store. For three years prior to coming to New Middletown, in January, 1901, he was in business at Newcastle, Pennsylvania. He was officially connected with the government offices at New Springfield before he was transferred to New Middletown, but this place has been his home ever since he entered the service. His territory includes the 18th District of Ohio. On April 21, 1890, Mr. Knesal was married to Kate Shillinger, who was born at New Middletown, and is a daughter of Jonathan and Louisa (Hahn) Shillinger, the former of whom conducted a store at New Middletown for many years and for twenty years was a justice of the peace. Mrs. Shillinger still survives and resides with Mr. and Mrs. Knesal. The latter have had three children, the one survivor being Charles Morse, who was born June 22, 1895. The two older children were twins, who died at birth. Mr. Knesal and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Petersburg. He has always been interested in Sunday school work and at one time was superintendent of this Sunday school, being the youngest official of that kind in the conference. He has also been church trustee. In politics he is an ardent Republican. He is a member of Starlight Lodge, No. 224, Knights of Pythias, at Petersburg. Mr. Knesal is one of the city's energetic and reliable citizens. He is serving as a member of the board of education. W. J. PARRY, one of Youngstown's successful business citizens, who is engaged in a general roofing and spouting business, was born in Pennsylvania in 1863, and was reared both in Mercer County, that state, and in Trumbull County, Ohio. Early in life he worked in the coal mines, in which occupation he continued for about five or six years. In 1880 he came to Youngstown and learned the slater's trade, at which he worked for a period of 13 years with Mr. Blunt, He then followed this trade for some time in various other AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 921 places, and finally engaged in the general roofing business, locating on Oak Hill avenue, where he remained until March, 1904. Afterwards he moved to 738 Ma-honing avenue, where he is at present located. Mr. Parry was married in 1884 to Lillie J. Dando, of Youngstown, Ohio, and they have three children : Edward P., who is in business with his father; Lorinda and George. Mr. Parry is a member of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church and was for two years district steward, and for five years a member of the finance committee. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Golden Eagle, of the Foresters, and of the Maccabees. LEWIS J. JACOBS, court constable at Youngstown, and one of the older continuous residents of this city, was born in 1832 in Coitsville township, Mahoning County, Ohio, and is a son of Nicholas and Isabella (Brown) Jacobs. Nicholas Jacobs was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and came to Mahoning County shortly before the birth of his son, Lewis. His wife, Isabella, was born in Virginia. Nicholas Jacobs was a ship carpenter in early life, but after settling in an agricultural district, became a farmer and continued one until his death. L. J. Jacobs was mainly reared in Coitsville township, but in his boyhood had, on various occasions, lived in Youngstown. acting as a clerk in his uncle's store. In 1861 he settled at Youngstown and worked as a carpenter until the spring of 1864, when he enlisted in Company B, 155th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for service in the Civil War and was out four months. mostly in Virginia and North Carolina. Upon his return from the army, Mr. Jacobs worked on the farm in Coitsville township for two years, but in the spring of 1867, he returned to Youngstown and resumed work at his trade. Later :he accepted a position on the police force and remained in official life for two years, when he again returned to his trade. working at it until he was appointed superintendent of the city market.. He served in this capacity from 1888 to 1891, again returning to his trade for some years. In 1900 he was appointed to his present office, that of court constable. In December, 1854, Mr. Jacobs was married to Sarah J. Armstrong, who died in May, 1870, four of her children surviving, as follows : W. L. Jacobs, manager of the Stambaugh-Thompson Company, of Youngstown; Carrie L., wife of John Heasly, of California; Elmer E., of Birmingham, Alabama; and Mark B., who is in the plumbing business at Youngstown. On April 9, 1874, Mr. Jacobs was married second, to Agnes Irons, of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, who died in September, 1903. The three surviving children of this union are: Guy, who is clerk for the chief of police at Youngstown; Ralph I., who is employed at the Youngstown Post Office; and L. J., who is in the plumbing business. Mr. Jacobs has always been considered a good citizen, one who has taken an active interest in public affairs and one who, on being placed in official position, has faithfully performed his duties. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and has belonged to the Youngstown lodge for thirty-eight years. He is also a member of Tod Post, Grand Army of the Republic. JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, one of the leading citizens of Youngstown, Ohio, who has now retired from business activity, belongs to one of the old and influential families of this part of the county. He was born on the old Williamson farm in Youngstown township in 1827 and is a son of Pyatt Williamson, and a grandson of Joseph Williamson. Joseph Williamson came to Mahoning County in the spring of 1800, and cleared a tract of lend, then bringing his family here from Washington County, Pennsylvania. Pyatt Williamson, the father, was born in 922 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY Youngstown township, Mahoning County, in 1801 and was one of the most prominent farmers and stock raisers in the county. At the time-of his death he was the owner of 225 acres of fine farm land. Joseph Williamson, the subject of this notice, was reared on his father's farm and acquired his education in the old pioneer school house of Youngstown township. Early in life he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked in connection with farming: He was married in the fifties to Belinda Detchon, a daughter of Elijah Detchon, one of the old settlers of Boardman township, Mahoning County. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Williamson : Warren P., manager of the Youngstown Carriage and Wagon Works; Martha B., and Mary. B., who are twins. Politically, Mr. Williamson is a Republican. He is a member of the Central Christian Church. MAHLON KIRKBRIDE, commander of the Asher Kirkbride Post, No. 600, Grand Army of the Republic, at Berlin Center, resides on a farm of 46 acres located on the township line between Berlin and* Goshen. He was born in Berlin township, Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1846, and is a son of Robert and Sarah (Shaw) Kirkbride. Robert Kirkbride, a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was married and came to Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1832, and was one of the earliest pioneers in Berlin township. He settled on a farm of 46 acres in Berlin township, which is now owned by John Hoyle. He remained on this farm the remainder of his life, dying in 1878 at the age of 78 years. His wife survived until 1883, dying aged 78 years. There were nine children born to Robert and Sarah Kirkbride : Nancy, Ferdinand, Mary, Frank, Watson, James, Joseph, Asher and Mahlon. Nancy married K. Morris. Ferdinand enlisted in Company D, 104th Ohio Volunteeer Infantry, and served from 1862 until the close of the Civil War. Mary married John Morris. James, who enlisted at Berlin Center August 11, 1862, was wounded at the battle of Perryville, but served until the close of the war. Joseph, who enlisted at Berlin Center August 11, 1862, in Company H, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was discharged alter the battle of. Perrysville for disability. Asher, for Whom the -Grand Army Post at Berlin Center was named, was born in this township and at the age of 18 en-' listed in Company H, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killedat Missionary Ridge.. Mahlon Kirkbride passed his boyhood clays on the farm and at the age of 18 enlisted in Company G, 155th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served four months during the Civil War, when he was mustered out at Camp Dennison, and returned to Berlin township. Since then he has been engaged in farming on his present farm of 46 acres, the original purchase having been 30 acres. Mr. Kirkbride was married in 1867 to Mary E. Botaw, a daughter of Thomas and Elma (Hutton) Botaw, the former of whom was a native of Goshen township, and the latter of Marlborough. Both the parents are deceased. Thomas Botaw, the grandfather of Mrs. Kirkbride, came to Goshen early in the 18th century with his future wife, Elizabeth Baum. They walked from Salem to Lisbon, there Were married, and walked the distance back the same day. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkbride have had four children : Asher V., who married Mary Weaver ; Chester T., who married Elizabeth Weaver ; Sarah E., who died aged 27 years, and one an unnamed infant. Mr. Kirkbride is a Republican in politics, and has held various minor offices in both Goshen and Berlin townships. GRANT S. WHITSLAR, one of the leading real estate men of Youngstown, was born in that city in 1864 and is the son of Dr. F. S. Whitslar, a pioneer dentist of Youngstown, who is now in his 82nd year. Mr. Whitslar was reared and educated in his native town, receiving a common school education. After AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 923 leaving school he did considerable reportorial work on the Telegram and Vindicator, after which he was in the railroad mail service for four years, being the youngest clerk in charge on the Pennsylvania Railroad. For six years he was general passenger agent of the Graham & Morton Transportation Company, of Chicago, Illinois, was manager of the Whaleback Steamship Company, of Chicago, for two years. After this he located in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was connected with the Times-Democrat, after which. he returned to Youngstown, Ohio, and has since been engaged in the real estate business on an exten-. sive scale. For the past five years he has been identified with the W. H. Park Land Company, and is also identified with various other enterprises of the city. In 1901 Mr. Whitslar was united in marriage with Minnie B. Welsh. He is a member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic order. J. G. HANEY, of the firm of Rice, Haney & Medbury, general insurance, at Youngstown, is one of the representative business men of this city and is connected with a number of its important enterprises. Mr. Haney was born at Youngstown, Ohio, in 1857, and is a son of the late Joseph G. Haney. When Youngstown was but a straggling village, with entirely undeveloped resources, Joseph G. Haney came here and embarked in a shoe business, which he continued during the active years of his life. He became a man of local prominence and for years was a justice of the peace in the growing city. In 1871, J. G. Haney accompanied the family to Cleveland and there he completed his education, but in 1882 he came back to Youngstown. While in Cleveland he had been interested in the telephone business to some extent and was cashier for a time of the Cleveland Telephone Company. After returning to Youngstown, Mr. Haney embarked in the insurance business, in which he has continued until the present. In 1891 the firm of Rice, Haney & Medbury was established and it has become the leading insurance firm of this section. The companies represented by this firm include these standard corporations : Insurance Company of North America ; Home Insurance Company, of New York ; Phoenix, of Hartford; Continental, of New York ; Germania, of New York ; Phoenix and Sun, of England; North British and Mercantile and Commercial Union, of England; Fidelity and Casualty Company, of New York ; Fidelity and Deposit Company, of Maryland ; and the Northwestern Life, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On September 18, 1895, Mr. Haney was married to Grace Mervin. Mr. Haney is a member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Elks and to the Youngstown and Rayen clubs. His business location is at No. 509 Dollar Bank Building, Youngstown. PAUL WICK was the youngest son of the family of twelve children born to Henry and Hannah (Baldwin) Wick. He was educated in the old Youngstown Academy, which stood on the site of the present public square. His first business enterprise was in the joint operation of a coal mine with his brother, John D. Wick. Later he was associated with other members of the family in the management of a mercantile establishment at Cleveland and still later devoted his attention to the developing of the resources and extending the trade of Youngstown. He was one of those who laid the foundation for the great iron industry; which has spread the fame of Youngstown throughout the world. Until 1866 he was concerned in a mercantile business at Youngstown as senior member of the firm of Wick & Goble. He then turned his attention to private banking, organizing the firm of Wick Brothers & Company, a banking house which has continued to the present time, having safely passed through every commercial crisis and gaining strength with each succeeding year. 924 - HISTORY OF MAHONING COUNTY Mr. Wick continued to be the head of this business until his death, which occurred June 13, 1890. He was also interested in the Ohio Iron & Steel Company, the Youngstown Rolling Mill Company and the Paul Wick Real Estate Company. In 1846 he was married to Susan A. Bull, a native of Vermont, who died in Youngstown in 1852, aged 56 years. To this marriage six children were born, among whom may be mentioned Myron C., George D. and Fred Wick, prominent business men of the city of Youngstown, and Harriet, the widow of John S. Ford. 'In 1885 he was married second to Mrs. Margaret L. Haney, of Youngstown. In his political sentiments Mr. Wick was always a stanch adherent of the Republican party, and as a man of high standing, known public spirit and large business interests, was more or less influential in shaping public movements in Youngstown. He served for some years as a member of the city council and for nineteen years was a member of the board of education. In church membership he was a Presbyterian, but his religion was wide enough and broad enough to cover other denominations, and in the dispensing of his charities he knew neither creed, color nor condition. Like most men of affairs, he was a man of practical views, but he was also keely alive to all that is beautiful and elevating in life. John S. Ford is survived by his widow and one daughter, Helen, who reside in a beautiful home at No. 509 Wick avenue. Mrs. Ford is a member of the Presbyterian Church, to which Mr. Ford also belonged and in which his Christian character was most highly appreciated.N NICHOLAS KNAUF, who resides on his well-improved farm of 55 acres, which is situated in one of the best sections of Ellsworth township, has long been considered one of the leading men of his community. Mr. Knauf was born July 14, 1854, on a farm in Ellsworth township, some miles west of his present home. in Mahoning County, Ohio, and is a son of Joseph and Hannah (Goodman) Knauf. Joseph Knauf, father of Nicholas, was born in Green township, Mahoning County, and was a son of Nicholas Knauf, who came to this section of the country with Henry Beard, when pioneer conditions still prevailed. Nicholas Knauf married a member of the Seachrist family and they became well-known residents of Green township. Among their children were : Joseph, Samuel, Jacob, Eli, John, Elizabeth, Lydia and Sarah, and of these Mrs. Elizabeth Bair, Mrs— Lydia Ewing, Mrs. Sarah Unger and Eli Knauf are living at the present time. Joseph Knauf settled on the farm of which his son Nicholas now owns a part when the latter was small. In early manhood he married Hannah Goodman, who was a daughter of William and Julia Goodman, residents of Green township, and- they had children, namely : Isaac, residing in Geauga County, married Tillie Webb; Nicholas; Frank, farming and operating a nursery and greenhouse, married Mary Winans; Martin, residing in the state of Washington, married Mary Kenreich ; Elizabeth, who was married (first) to a Mr. Hively, and (second) to Jacob Toot; Lydia, who married John H. Lower, residing in Ellsworth township ; and Alice, who died aged 20 years. The mother survives, but the father died in 1882. Nicholas Knauf was educated in the district schools and the Union School at Canfield, attended an institution at Washington, Ohio, and completed his studies at Mt. Union College. For some years after attaining manhood he alternated farming and school teaching, according to the seasons, but after his marriage devoted himself entirely to agricultural pursuits. In addition to carrying on general farming, he is much interested in raising strawberries, peaches and apples. He has made many improvements on his property, building a substantial barn and later his comfortable and attractive nine-room residence. In 1896 Mr. Knauf was married to Lulu Esterly, who is a daughter of Eli and Clara Esterly, formerly of Green township. Mahoning County, and they have had five children. namely : Ethel M., a little miss of nine years ;