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but he has never sought or had solicitude for office. Since January I, 1919, he has been president of the Warren Board of Education. During the World sear lie was one of the earnest and sincere workers to support the policies of the administration. Mr. Buchwalter has other interests and is a director of the Trumbull Savings & Trust Company of Warren, and of the Trumbull Banking Company of Girard. He belongs to the Ohio Bar Association and the Warren Board of Trade. For some years he has a chapter Mason. The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Warren holds his membership.
Mr. Buchwalter married Matilda B. Gloeckle, daughter of George Gloeckle, one of Warren's well-known citizens and early merchants, and to their union one son has been born, George Wilbur, born June 5, 1905.
CHARLES H. KRAUTER. The record of business men who have achieved success solely as a result of their own ability and efforts would not be complete were made of Charles H. Krauter, the ex head of the C. H. Krauter Company of Youngstown, one of the city's leading drug and stationary houses. With no special advantages, and with only ordinary opportunities, he entered upon his career at the bottom of the ladder, content to make his own way and to shape his abilities to his needs. His present position in business circles of Youngstown indicates that his activities have been well directed, industriously advanced and capably managed.
Mr. Krauter, who has been a resident of Youngstown since January, 1884, was born at Bridgeton, New Jersey, in which state he was reared and where his business career was started in a drug store in his native town. Later he moved to Philadelphia, where he also engaged in drug store work, and while there pursued a course of study in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which institution he was graduated in 1881. About that time he turned his face to the West, journeying to Boise City, Idaho, where he secured a position as a pharmacist's clerk, and spent three years there and on the Pacific Coast. Subsequently he came to Youngstown. where, with a partner, under the firm name of Nagle & Krauter, he embarked in the retail drug trade in the old Town Hall on Federal Street. Two years later Mr. Nagle died, and Mr. Krauter became sole owner of the business, which he conducted alone until 1890, at that time forming a partnership with D. W. Clark, under the firm style of Krauter & Clark. This association engaged in the retail drug and stationery business at the present location, No. 25 West Federal Street, but after one year Mr. Clark retired from the business, when Mr. Krauter purchased his interests. In 1918 Mr. Krauter incorporated his business under the name of the C. H. Krauter Company, and this is now accounted one of the leading establishments in its line at Youngstown.
Mr. Krauter belongs to the Youngstown Club, the Youngstown Country Club and the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite and York Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine. With his family he belongs to the Memorial Presbyterian
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Church. Mr. Krauter has been identified with various movements for the betterment of Youngstown, contributed liberally to the success of American arms during the World war, and is a thorough-going, up-to-date American citizen. He has a beautiful home at 259 Park Avenue, artistically designed, and there amidst beautiful surroundings and home comforts his happiest hours are passed.
Mr. Krauter was married in 1895 to Miss Mary McCartney, daughter of A. J. McCartney, who was a pioneer coal operator of the Mahoning Valley, and they are the parents of one daughter, Clara Louise.
EDWARD W. RITCHIE, secretary-treasurer of the Homer S. Williams Company, first came to Youngstown over thirty-five years ago, and prior to his connection with his present mercantile organization had a varied experience and training as a printer, banker and in other lines of practical business.
Mr. Ritchie was born in Clinton, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1867, son of Wilson and Maria (Flower) Ritchie and grandson of David Ritchie. His grandfather, a native of the north of Ireland, came to the United States in 1821, and spent the rest of his life in Pennsylvania. Wilson Ritchie, one of thirteen children, was a carpenter by trade, and during the Civil war served as chief musician of the regimental band with the One Hundred and First Pennsylvania Infantry. He lived to a good old age, dying in 1914, at the age of eighty-six. His wife died at fifty.
Edward W. Ritchie was the second of three children. When he was five years of age his parents moved from Clinton, Pennsylvania, to Columbiana County, Ohio, where he was reared and received a public school education. When he first came to Youngstown in 1882 he was only fifteen years of age, and for a time he worked as a printer in the office of the Sunday Morning. After two years he returned home, but in 1885 was again at Youngstown as a printer with the Vindicator office. Realizing the need of a better education, he also used his leisure hours in attending the Rayen High School. His real business career began in 1887, when he became a collector for the Mahoning National Bank. He was with that institution thirteen years, finally resigning to become assistant treasurer of the newly organized Peoples Savings and Banking Company. That institution was merged with the Dollar Savings and Trust Company in 1902, Mr. Ritchie remaining with the latter organization as assistant secretary until 1906.
The mercantile establishment of Homer S. Williams Company has had the mature abilities and judgment of Mr. Ritchie, and he is its secretary and treasurer. He was a factor in financing the enterprise. He is a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce, belongs to the Youngstown Club, and is a Republican in politics. June 19, 1900, he married Miss Sophie Shattuck Robbins, of Niles, Ohio.
CHARLES N. MILLER. A prosperous business man of Youngstown, and a fine representative of the mercantile interests of the Mahoning Valley, Charles N. Miller, active manager of the Federal Stores, has attained success in life through his own efforts, his energy and ambition being unlimited. A son of
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W. E. and Rhoda Miller, he was born December 15, 1880, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was educated. His mother died a number of years ago, and his father, who was formerly a mechanic in the Pittsburgh District, is now living retired from active pursuits, his home being in Salem, Ohio. Leaving school at the age of eighteen years, Charles N. Miller began his mercantile career in the Woolworth Stores in the Pittsburgh District, and displayed so much ability that he was made manager of the Woolworth Store at Homestead. He subsequently filled a similar position in the Murphy establishment, which was also a 5, 10 and 25 cent store, located in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Still later he was for two years manager and buyer for the Grand Store, afterward known as the Metropolitan Store.
In 1912 Mr. Miller, in partnership with M. W. Meredith, opened the Meredith & Miller Store in Youngstown, a venture that proved successful. On February 5, 1916, the firm incorporated under its present name, the Federal Stores, and under the wise management of Mr. Miller is carrying on a large and constantly growing business, its increase in the last year or two having been wonderful. The firm on starting in business occupied but one floor and a part of the basement, but its volume of trade has increased to such proportions that four floors and a basement are required to comfortably handle the stock, and that in spite of the fact that the high cost of the stores' most expensive goods has forced the price from its limit of 25 cents to $1.00
Mr. Miller married in June, 1903, Georgiana Hall, a daughter of P. E. Hall, of Ohio Pyle, Pennsylvania, and to them three children have been born, Irene, Glenn and Thelma. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are active members of the Belmont Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Miller belongs to the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to lodge, chapter, commandery, and to the shrine.
JOHN M BENNINGTON. As superintendent of the skelp, plate and puddle mills of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, John M. Bennington became one of the oldest officials of the corporation. His experience with this industry, however, is only a small part of his long and practical career as an iron and steel worker. There are few developments in the iron and steel business during the last half century with which he has not been made acquainted by practical service.
Mr. Bennington, who in early years was an employe in some of the pioneer iron plants in the Mahoning Valley, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, March 3o, 1848, son of James and Margaret (Drake) Bennington. His father was a native of Kentucky, a carpenter and joiner by trade, and during his residence at Niles, Ohio, built many structures, some of which are now standing. Margaret Drake was reared at Weathersfield, Ohio, and lived for a number of years with the Heaton and McConnell families there.
The only son and second among four children, John M. Bennington, received a common school education. In March, 1865, a boy of seventeen, he had his first practical experience as a house carpenter. Along about that time he was employed by James Reno in helping survey the Fee farm at Niles, and drove the stakes for the survey. As a carpenter he worked around the old Harris and Davis mill. Better wages attracted him permanently to the mills as a worker. For a time he was employed under James Russell. Beginning as a millwright, he worked on the shears and in other departments of the mill, and continued with it during various changes of ownership until the plant was moved to Haselton. For one year he was shipping clerk in the Mount Hickory Iron Works in Pennsylvania. Then followed a number of years of employment in various mills in the Mahoning Valley. The industry at that time was by no means as stable a one as at present, operation being subject to many fluctuations and seasonal causes, so that a mill man could seldom remain long at one plant. Outside of the Mahoning Valley he worked at Findlay and at other points in Ohio and Pennsylvania. For a year he had charge of the finishing end of the old mill at Warren, and remained with that plant until 1903, during various changes of ownership, eventually becoming its general manager. In 1903 Mr. Bennington became superintendent of the skelp, plate and puddle mills at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. He gained a secure reputation of being one of the most capable men in his line in the country. In May, 1920, Mr. Bennington was placed on the retired list, but is often called in consultation regarding the iron business. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
December 24, 1891, he married Miss Hattie Garrett, of Jackson, Ohio. Her father, Albert Garrett, was a Union soldier and her mother was Sarah Woolum. As the orphan of a soldier she was educated in the Old Soldiers' Home at Xenia, Ohio. Her uncle John Woolum, was one of the Andrews Raiders during the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Bennington hve two children : Ruth, a teacher of art in the Yale School in Youngstown; and Adah.
EMIL CLYDE WOODS. As secretary and treasurer of the Vahey Oil Company, Emil Clyde Woods is actively and officially associated with one of the more prominent and prosperous industries of Youngstown, and is ably and faithfully performing the duties devolving upon him, being an active factor in developing and advancing the material and financial interests of the firm. A son of William R. Woods, he was born December 8, 1886, in Beloit, Mahoning County, and was there reared and educated.
William R. Woods spent the earlier years of his life in Columbiana County, Ohio, and there married Alverda Heacock, who passed to the life beyond several years ago. Coming to Beloit soon after his marriage, he was successfully engaged in business in that place for a long time, and was specially prominent in political circles, having served as mayor of the city, and as an active member of the school board for years was an ardent worker for better educational institutions and facilities. He now resides in Parkersburg, West Virginia, an honored and esteemed citizen of fifty-eight years. Fraternally he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons. He is not affiliated with any religious organization,
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but his wife was a consistent member of the Christian Church.
Having been graduated from the Beloit High School, Emil Clyde Woods taught a country school for a year, after which he completed the course of study at the Ohio Business College in East Liverpool. Going then to Cleveland, he was in the employ of the Telling-Belle-Vernon Company for ten years, gaining experience in business operations that has proved of inestimable value to him. When the Vahey Oil Company was organized Mr. Woods accepted his present position as its secretary and treasurer, and has since resided in Youngstown, where he is well known as a cultured and genial man and a valued citizen.
Fraternally Mr. Woods is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, being a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Council of Royal and Select Masters, and of St. John's Commandery, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is also a member of the Order of United Commercial Travelers of America, and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce.
JOHN L. MARSH. A man of eminent ability, energetic and progressive, John L. Marsh, of Youngstown, vice president and general manager of the Vahey Oil Company, is familiar with every phase of the oil business, knowing it from A to Z, and, having never allowed anything to escape him which might improve his methods of organization, has reduced his work to an art, as one might say. A native of Kentucky, he was born September 13, 1887, in Milford, where his parents, John H. and Martha H. (Hammond) Marsh, are still residents, his father being a retired tobacco planter.
Acquiring his elementary education in the public schools of his native town, John L. Marsh entered the University of Kentucky at Lexington, where he made a special study of finance, organization and commercial subjects. Locating then in Georgetown, Kentucky, Mr. Marsh engaged in the oil business, refining and marketing oil for the Indian Refining Company. Continuing with the same firm, he went to New York City as a salesman, marketing the oil productions of the company. Subsequently entering the employ of the Texas Oil Company, he was first station operator in Youngstown, and later in New York City. Being promoted, he was again sent to Youngstown, to take charge this time of the firm's station in this city. When the Vahey Oil Company was incorporated Mr. Marsh was made vice president and general manager, and under his able superintendence the business has grown rapidly and steadily.
Mr. Marsh married, October 26, 1915, Grace E., daughter of J. C. Murray. She is a woman of culture and refinement, and an active member of the Christian Church. Fraternally Mr. Marsh is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the chapter, council and commandery. Socially he is a member of Kiwanis Club, of the Order of United Commercial Travelers of America, and of the Chamber of Commerce.
STEPHEN DOUGHTON, a grandson of that Stephen Doughton who was one of the first settlers in Hubbard Township, was one of the most distinguished men of Trumbull County. His distinction rested not so much upon material achievements, though he had much ability and managed successfully diverse interests, as upon the qualities of his mind and character. He was a thinker, a student, almost a philosopher, a ready public speaker, a fluent and forcible writer. He wrote on economics and finance, was a supporter of Bryan, though not in exact accord with him on the silver question, and few men of his day surpassed him in the discriminating use of the English language. It is said that he had worn out several dictionaries. He was not fond of words for their own sake, but to express concisely his own clear ideas, and he studied language with a view to expressing varying shades and distinctions of meaning.
While he was able to meet and discuss economic questions with the leading politicians of the time, he was equally at home on theological and biblical topics. He was a Disciple from conviction based upon solid reasoning and Bible teaching. However, like many of that faith he resented the term "Campbellite." He had a tolerant spirit, based upon the practice of the golden rule. He insisted that his children respect the rights of others and avoid expressions that might wound or offend. Many incidents might be told illustrating these points of his character, but enough has been said to indicate the breadth of his character, and the impression he made on the community through his sincere, honest and tolerant nature.
The history of the Doughton family, running back for more than 200 years, indicates that their chief occupation has been iron working. In Wales they were iron workers. Three brothers of the name left that country in 1714. and came to America. Some of their descendants were employed in the historic plant at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The pioneer -of Trumbull County, Stephen Doughton, learned his trade at Valley Forge, and during the Revolutionary war he was employed in making arms for Washington's troops and afterward he was fond of relating incidents connected with the presence of the American troops at Valley Forge during the memorable winter. From Valley Forge he came to Trumbull County in 1804 and located on what is the present Porterfield farm in Hubbard Township. From his farm he walked over a blazed trail through the woods to the furnace of Isaac Heaton at Niles, seven miles away, and as a worker was thus identified with one of the first iron works in the Mahoning Valley. Cornelius Price, the son of another pioneer in that locality, and then a boy, frequently accompanied him on these walks, and when Doughton killed game in the woods young Price carried it home. Stephen Doughton lived the rest of his life in Trumbull County and achieved wealth in iron, coal and land. He married Margaret Farren, and from them descended a numerous family still found in Ohio and elsewhere.
A son, David Doughton, was born at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and was a boy of thirteen when he came to Trumbull County. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and was a courier under General Harrison at the west end of Lake Erie, carrying messages through the Maumee Swamp. About 1820
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he settled on a farm in the same neighborhood as his father, this farm being now the Bell farm. David Doughton l00ked on life as opportunity for adventure, and nearly forty years after his service as a soldier in the War of 1812 he started West to the gold fields of California with a party of men from Trumbull County. He had some trouble with the Indians and was forced off the trail, and losing his supply of salt acquired dysentery and died near Fort Laramie, Wyoming, in 1852. He had built the old brick house on his farm about 183o. He married Mrs. Mary E. (Bowers) Cramer. She was a sister of the mother of Jacob Stambaugh.
Stephen Doughton, a son of David, was born in Hubbard Township April 1o, 1822, and died April 3, 1908, at the advanced age of eighty-six. He was educated in the common schools, attended the Meadville Academy in Pennsylvania, and an academy at Vienna, Ohio. He early became interested in the coal business in Trumbull County, and established the coke ovens at Washingtonville, Ohio, and also was one of the founders of the iron works at Leetonia. He had the faculty of handling many affairs successfully. For a number of years he operated a 400-acre farm, and managed it on scientific principles, conducting an extensive dairy. Two railroads were built close to this farm, and each named a station in his honor, Doughton Station.
In politics he was a democrat, and several times was honored as a candidate of the minority party, being nominated for the State Senate and once for lieutenant governor. His reputation as a scholar was due not only to his intellectual powers, but to a persevering practice on the principle that there was nothing to be gained by absorbing information without thoroughly digesting it. To practice this he read and wrote alternately several hours a day, writing for his own enjoyment rather than for remuneration. Some of his writings are still preserved and indicate not only his command of language but also his profound and exact thought. Stephen Doughton was three times married. His first wife was Emeline Waldorf, who was born June 12, 1832, daughter of David Waldorf. The seven children of that union were Charles, Andrew, Calissa, Emeline, Harriet, Frank and John C. Stephen Doughton's second wife died s00n after their marriage, and his third wife was Jessie Cornwell, whose son, Stephen, Jr., became prominent as a newspaper artist.
John Clark Doughton, who lives retired at Hubbard, was born at Lisbon in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 12, 1865, son of Stephen and Emeline (Waldorf) Doughton. His life has been spent near Hubbard, and he owns the John Jewell farm which his father had bought in 186o. His father kept a home at Lisbon for some years, though he spent the latter part of his life on the farm with his son John. John Doughton acquired his high school education at Hubbard and for many years was identified with farming, and he also learned the machinist's trade at Youngstown. As a contractor he also built some of the modern highways in Hubbard Township. He has served as a member and president of the Hubbard School Board, is a democrat, a Knight of Pythias, and has been affiliated with the Grange and other progressive farmer organizations.
May 8, 1890, Mr. Doughton married Anna M. Duer, who was born May 8, 1870, twenty years before her marriage, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Moore) Duer. The Duers are an old family of Hubbard Township, and the homestead of Thomas Duer was on the site of the present roundhouse at Hubbard. Thomas Duer died in the Village of Hubbard.
Mr. and Mrs. Doughton have four children: Mary Azalia, a stenographer living at home; John Duer, a resident of Hubbard; Helen Keturah, employed in the office of the Petroleum Iron Works; and Robert Waldorf, a school boy.
MAJ. JOHN A. LOGAN, who is president of the Ohio Steel Products Company at Youngstown, is well entitled to the military distinctions associated with his name as well as his title. He is properly John A. Logan III.
He is a grandson of that brilliant soldier General John A. Logan, who was one of the few men appointed to responsibilities of leadership early in the Civil war who actually stood the test of military fitness. General Logan was an Illinois man, was appointed to his first command over Illinois troops in the Civil war, and after the war was prominent in Illinois politics. At one time he represented that state in the United States Senate, and was candidate for vice president on the ticket with Blaine in 1884.
The Logan family became identified with Youngstown in the person of John A. Logan, Jr., who also earned the distinction and gratitude of his nation as a soldier and lost his life while in the Philippines. John A. Logan, Jr., was born in Jackson County, Illinois, July 24, 1865. He spent three years in the West Point Military Academy, resigning before graduation, following which he was in the real estate business in the City of Washington and then came to Youngstown, where he married Edith Andrews. Her father, Chauncey Andrews, was one of the distinguished men of the Mahoning Valley. John A. Logan after his marriage was chiefly interested in farming and the raising of fine horses. He was the first importer from England of Hackneys in the country, and the noted Bonfire was a prize animals he imported. In 1897 Mr. Logan spent the winter in Chicago, and early in the next year raised a cavalry regiment for service in the Spanish-American. He was made divisional adjutant on the staff of Gen. John C. Bates, and was in Cuba during most of the fighting, being present at El Caney, San Juan and Santiago battles. After peace came he was made governor of Santa Clara Province. He carried President McKinley's proclamation through Cuba. The winter of 1898-99 he spent in the United States as provost marshal at Macon, Georgia. In January 1899, he again went to Cuba as adjutant to General Bates in the Army of Occupation. On account of ill health he returned to the United States in the summer of 1899. Soon afterward Aguinaldo began his insurrection in the Philippines, and Mr. Logan accepted the commission of major in the army and was put in command of the Third Battalion, Thirty-Third United States Volunteer Infantry recruited at San Antonio, Texas. He sailed for the Philippines in October, 1899, reaching the islands about the first
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of November. His command was at once attached to General Wheaton's expedition then starting for Northern Luzon against Aguinaldo. November 11, 1899, in the engagement at San Jacinto, while leading his battalion in a charge on the trenches of the enemy, he was shot through the head by a sniper concealed in a tree. For his service he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military award in the gift of the American people. His body was brought home from the East and laid to rest with military honors at Youngstown. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. Mrs. John A. Logan, Jr., is now a resident of New York City. She is the mother of three children: Marie Louise, now Mrs. Henri DeSincay; John A. III; and Edith Josephine, wife of Dewese W. Dilworth.
John A. Logan III was born at Youngstown February 12, 1890, and received his preparatory education in the Hackley School at Tarrytown, New York. He is a graduate with the Ph. B. degree from Yale University. In 1913 he married Margaret Powell, of St. Joseph, Missouri.
Major Logan entered the National Guard and served as first lieutenant and then as captain of Company H (the old Logan Rifles named in honor of his grandfather and of which his father had also been captain) of the Fifth Ohio Infantry. Early in 1916 he went with his command to the Mexican border and was in service until March of that year. When America declared war on Germany he raised a battalion for the Tenth Ohio Infantry and was commissioned major. This command became the 136th Machine Gun Battalion attached to the Thirty-Seventh Division. Major Logan went overseas in June, 1918, and was soon in the trenches along the Lorraine border. He was with the French at San Mihiel, was in the Meuse-Argonne phases, then in a sector at Thiacourt, following which he accompanied his division to Flanders as part of the two American divisions attached to King Albert's army. He participated in the first and second Ypres-Lys offensive and was on the line of the Scheldt River when the armistice was signed.
Major Logan returned to the United States in March, 1919, and received a discharge from active duty, but was placed on the reserve list. Since the war he has been devoting himself vigorously to business, and is president and treasurer of the Ohio Steel Products Company.
Major Logan is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Youngstown Club, Youngstown Country Club, Army and Navy Club, Yale Club, Order of Foreign Wars, and is a republican in politics and a member of the Episcopal Church.
Major and Mrs. Logan have three children: Edith Katharine, born January 7, 1915; Margaret, born March 8, 1916; and John A., IV, who was born November 3, 1918, just prior to the signing of the Armistice and while his father was in King Albert's army in Flanders.
CHAUNCEY H. ANDREWS. Among the interesting figures in the history of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley that of Chauncey Hummason Andrews is conspicuous because of his diversified activities, as well as because of the indomitable energy and forceful character of the man himself. He was born at Vienna, Trumbull County, December 2, 1828. His parents, natives of Connecticut, came to this locality in 1818 and engaged in farming, later establishing a general store at Vienna and still later removing to Youngstown, about 1842, and here conducting a famous old hotel, known as the Mansion House.
Chauncey H. Andrews was connected with his father's hotel in his earlier days and later, in 1842, was partner in a clothing store. In 1852 the development of the coal resources of the Mahoning Valley was in its infancy, and he turned his attention in that direction. After making several efforts to locate a coal seam, which could be worked with profit, he finally opened the Thorn Hill Mine, from which were taken during the nine years in which it was operated more than half a million tons. This mine, which was first worked in 1857, was the first of many large and successful enterprises of this kind.
In 1858 Mr. Andrews, with W. J. Hitchcock, formed the partnership known as Andrews & Hitchcock, which in 1868 opened the Burnet Mine, another of the largest operations, and the first to ship coal over the Hubbard branch railroad. In the same year this firm opened another large mine, known as the Hubbard Coal Company's operation. Later Mr. Andrews formed a partnership with his brother, W. C. Andrews, and opened the Oak Hill and Coal Run mines in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in connection with which four blast furnaces were erected at Wheatland, Pennsylvania, by James Wood & Sons. He acquired an interest in the Westerman Iron Company at Sharon, Pennsylvania, in 1865, in connection with which he operated the Br00kfield mines.
In 1865 the firm of Andrews, Hitchcock & Company was established and later furnaces erected at Hubbard. About 1868, with his two brothers, W. C. and Lawrence G., Mr. Andrews purchased the Stout Mine, near Youngstown. A short time later the firm of Andrews Brothers was formed and the blast furnaces operated by it for many years at Haselton were erected. Still later he formed the Stewart Coal Company and opened the Stewart Mine.
In 1889 Mr. Andrews, who had become one of the most prominent and successful coal operators in the Mahoning Valley, entered the railroad field, in which he was to achieve success and manifest much ability and a promoter and builder of railways. His first enterprise, undertaken in connection with his brother W. C. Andrews and the Erie Railroad Company, was the completion of the Niles and New Lisbon Railroad, only twelve miles of which had been built when the enterprise was abandoned by the original projectors. In this work he assumed active charge and pushed it with such vigor that twenty-two miles were constructed in ninety days. The building of this road was followed by the opening of a number of mines along its route in Columbiana County, this being done by the Ohio Coal Mining Company and the New Lisbon Coal Company, concerns in which Mr. Andrews was a heavy stockholder. These concerns opened mines at Austintown also. In 1872 the Vienna mines were opened and later proved to be large producers.
In 1872 the firm of Andrews Brothers bought the
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Harris & Blackford Rolling Mill at Niles, doubled its capacity and established the Niles Iron Company, later, however, removing the plant to Youngstown. During this same year an additional furnace was built at Hubbard and the Osborn mines at Youngstown opened to furnish coal for the iron works at that place. Among other coal operations in which he was actively interested at this time were the Foster Mine at Kyle's Corners, which was a shaft operation sunk to a depth of 160 feet, from which a large territory was mined, and which was also among the last large mines to be opened in the Mahoning Valley.
In 1871 Mr. Andrews helped to build the Mahoning Coal Railroad, which connected the Mahoning Valley with the Franklin branch of the Lake Shore, now the New York Central Railroad, at Andover, and thus gave an outlet to the east and also to the lakes at Ashtabula Harbor. Seven years later he was among the active promoters of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad. After the construction of this road he, with W. C. Andrews, William McCreery and others, built the Montour Railroad and established the Imperial Coal Company, now one of the large holdings of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. In 188o, with these same parties and a few others, he organized the Pittsburgh, Youngstown & Chicago Railroad Company, which afterward built the Pittsburgh, Cleveland & Toledo Railroad from New Castle Junction to Akron. These two roads were under construction for more than eight years, during which time Mr. Andrews was the most active man in their building. His last railroad enterprise was the construction of the Hocking Valley Railroad, in which he was a member of the syndicate having that work in charge.
Among his other enterprises was the opening of limestone quarries, and from this has sprung the large production of limestone at Hillsville and vicinity.
Chauncey H. Andrews did not confine his interests to business. He was an ardent politician and took a vigorous part in the local politics, which at that day were strenuous to a degree. In this connection 'he became interested in a number of newspaper properties in Youngstown, through which he made himself felt in the community for a number of years. He was a man of indomitable will and determination, allowing no interference with his plans. It is told of him that when he was constructing the Pittsburgh, Youngstown & Toledo Railroad through Youngstown he was unable to secure right of way through the yards of the Lloyd Booth Company. Accordingly he had sufficient track prepared by spiking the light rails to ties, loaded these on flat cars and at midnight of a Saturday night marshalled his forces and proceeded to lay the tracks over the disputed ground. Lloyd B00th, who was also of a determined nature, promptly gathered as many of his workmen as possible and opposed this high-handed proceeding, which had been timed so that it was impossible to secure a legal injunction. The result was a scrimmage in which these two captains of industry faced one another, each leading a small army equipped with shovels. The Andrews forces were superior in number and Mr. Booth finally introduced artillery in the form of a steam hose, but the railroad was laid, in spite of this vigorous opposition. It is also related of Mr. Andrews that during the construction of the Niles & New Lisbon Railroad he wore out two teams in driving up and down the right of way and speeding up the work. Many other interesting incidents are recalled by those who remember his activities, all of them serving to prove that Chauncey H. Andrews was a remarkable man from the standpoint of determination ability and vision. The Mahoning Valley owes much of its superiority in the matter of transportation facilities to him and his willingness to risk his means in the development of its early railroads.
Among the interests which received his attention was farming and stock raising. He introduced blooded horses and cattle into this section, and in his later years maintained a notable string of trotting horses. With all this he was exceedingly plain in his tastes and democratic in his ideas. Those who recall him say that he would drive the finest horses in an old, dilapidated buggy, and tie them on the public square with a piece of rope.
Chauncey H. Andrews was an ardent republican. He took much interest in national politics and enjoyed a wide acquaintance. He was a delegate to the national convention nominating Blaine and Logan in 1884, and it was probably to this incident that the connection between his family and that of the famous Indian fighter was due.
Chauncey H. Andrews died at his home in Youngstown after a long and extremely active career, during which he did much for the community in which he lived and in which he had been for many years regarded as its leading citizen.
ALEXANDER NEWTON ORMSBY, who lives in one of the very desirable homes at Newton Falls, has been a resident for the greater part of his life of Milton Township, Mahoning County, where the Ormsby family have a long and interesting history.
His great-grandfather, Alexander Ormsby, was one of the very earliest settlers in Jackson Township of Mahoning County. Alexander was a Scotch Covenantor, and even until old. age it is said that he made a practice of reading the Bible through every year. He knew most of it by heart, and the same was true of his son Joseph, with whom he spent his last years. Alexander Ormsby lived out his life in Jackson Township. His son, Alexander, Jr., moved to the State of Indiana in 1852.
George Ormsby, son of Alexander, Jr., was born in Jackson Township, as was also his wife, Nancy Ewing, a member of the prominent Mahoning County family of Ewing. She was a sister of Doctor Ewing. George Ormsby settled in Milton Township, on the bank of Milton Lake, acquiring a farm on which stood a stone house that had been built by Daniel Vaughn between 1825 and 1830. He spent his life on that farm and was also a contractor, building many bridges for the county. He served in all the township offices. George Ormsby was born in 1827 and died in 1906, at the age of seventy-nine. He built another story to the old stone house. His wife, Nancy, died at the age of thirty-seven. Her father had bought land in Hancock County, Ohio, for his seven sons, but all of them refused to occupy it. Years afterward these seven sons went to that locality and bought land and remained there. The matter is noted here as showing the ability of some men to
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foresee the future, and try to do their part by the younger generation. George Ormsby and wife reared four children: Mary Alice, who died in 1914 as the wife of George Yeagley; Alexander N.; Olive, Mrs. Warren Russell, of Milton Township; and Levi, of Newton Falls.
Alexander Newton Ormsby was born in Milton Township April 3, 1852, and grew up in the old stone house mentioned above. He attended school at Palmyra in Portage County, but even as a boy he worked out for monthly wages. He finished his education in the Union School at Canfield, and beginning at the age of twenty-two taught several winter terms in Milton Township. He was twenty-two years of age and the bride was of the same age when he and Lodema Russell, a sister of Warren Russell, were married. She is a daughter of Enoch and Sarah (Buck) Russell and was born at Orr's Corners in Milton Township. Mr. Ormsby continued to reside in Milton Township until election day in November, 1919, when he moved to Newton Falls. For thirteen years he lived on one of the Russell farms in Milton Township, and then bought fifty acres near Orr's Corners, and kept adding to his estate until he had 206 acres. Under his industrious and intelligent management this became one of the well improved farms of the township. He made the land pay for itself and enable him to buy other land. His farm lay in the Duck Creek neighborhood. While living in the country Mr. Ormsby filled practically every township office, being an assessor for several years, for many years a trustee and on the school board, and frequently was on the jury panel. He was reared in a democratic family, and has espoused the same politics for himself. His wife in early life was a Presbyterian, but after they helped build the Methodist Church at Pricetown they joined that congregation and still hold membership there.
Mr. and Mrs. Ormsby lost one child at the age of seven and their three living sons are all lawyers: Fred Russell, a member of the law firm of Anderson, Ormsby & Kennedy at Akron; Wallace Owen, an attorney and justice of the peace at Warren; and Robert Enoch, also an Akron lawyer.
In the early days the land owned by the Ormsby family was in the locality for the production of bog iron ore. Nancy (Ewing) Ormsby was a granddaughter of Mr. Battles, one of the firm of Battles & Heaton, who made iron at Niles from the bog ore. The iron product was hauled to Salem, twenty-five miles away, to the nearest railroad. A son of this iron manufacturer, John Battles, died at the age of about ninety, at Niles. Mr. Ormsby's father and his neighbors used their wagons and teams to haul the ore to the furnace at Niles and other furnaces in the valley.
FRENCH CLINGAN is active head of the oldest established business in Hubbard, a flour and feed business in which three generations' of the Clingan family have had an active interest.
The Clingans were pioneers in the Western Reserve, William Clingan,' a native of Ireland, coming as a young man to Mahoning County. His son, William Clingan, Jr., was born in Mahoning County, near the Trumbull County line, and in early life be came a carpenter and contractor, erecting many houses, mills and other buildings. Subsequently he took up the business of stock drover, and for a number of years bought stock on the Chicago market and shipped it to Hubbard and other points in Ohio. His business as a stock dealer became the foundation of the present establishment of his grandson, French Clingan. He died in his eighty-eighth year. His wife was Eliza Bell, a native of Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
The only son of this couple is Mr. C. N. Clingan, a retired business man of Hubbard. C. N. Clingan was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1843, and from the age of seven grew up on a farm a mile and a half west of Hubbard. He attended district and select schools, and in 1861, at the age of eighteen, enlisted in Company B of the Nineteenth Ohio Infantry. He served in the ranks and later as a non-commissioned officer. After nine months he received an honorable discharge on account of disability but two months later re-enlisted in the same company and regiment and had served three years and seven months at his final discharge at Nashville. He was in practically all the great engagements of the western army except Shiloh. When the war was over he became associated with his father in livestock at Hubbard, and 'incidental to that business handled seed. He was successively a member of the firm Clingan & Hadley, Clingan, Hadley & Company, Clingan & Matthews, Clingan & Son, and eventually continued the business under his own name. This business has now been in continuous existence for half a century. C. N. Clingan has also directed other interests successfully, having employed some of his means for the operation of coal mines. He is a staunch republican, having filled several local offices, is an ex-commander of his Grand Army Post, and an elder and leading member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1865 C. N. Clingan married Sarah J. Matthews, who was born in Hubbard Township, daughter of Thomas Matthews. To their marriage were born five children: Ada, who married William Pigott; May, wife of A. C. Van Ness; French; Scott; and Olive, who married Clyde Smith, of Hubbard.
French Clingan was born at Hubbard, September 9, 1871, and has spent practically all his life in the village. He finished his education in a business college at Cleveland, and t00k up his business career in Youngstown, where for four years he was secretary and treasurer of the Youngstown Ice Company. Later, in association with David Tod, he was manager of the Mahoning Builders Supply Company, handling a general line of building supplies. He was also secretary, treasurer and manager of the Lowellville Coal Company, whose headquarters were in Youngstown but whose mines were at Lowellville, working between twenty-five and forty men. Jacob Stambaugh was president of the coal company.
After the business was sold to the Youngstown Ice Company, Mr. Clingan returned to Hubbard and on January 1, 1917, succeeded his father in the old established business. The site of the business is still on the ground and the offices are in a building erected by his grandfather, William Clingan. Mr. Clingan has put new enterprise into the business and
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is now erecting a large elevator on the railroad half a mile from the main plant. On the average 150 cars of feed are handled annually, largely to supply the dairy farmers around Hubbard.
Mr. Clingan has also demonstrated his public-spirited citizenship. He is an active member of the school board, which now has under construction a $200,000 building. He assisted in consolidating the township sch00ls. Litigation starting in 1868 and continuing for half a century made impossible a satisfactory educational progress in Hubbard, due to contentions between the village and the outlying township. Finally the County School Board took decisive steps, solving the problem happily for school interests, and the community now has one of the best schools in the county. Mr. Clingan is a trustee of the Methodist Church. His favorite recreation is fishing, and usually once a year he gets away to the fishing grounds in Canada.
At the age of twenty-five he married Josephine Jacobs, only daughter of Millard Jacobs of Hubbard. They have one son, Millard Calvin Clingan, now twenty-one years of age. He is a graduate of the Rayen High School and is now in the First National Bank of Youngstown.
SAMUEL H. STILLWAGON. While three of his sons have become prominent bankers and business men, two of them in Trumbull County, Samuel H. Stillson wagon 'has remained satisfied with the responsibilities thrust upon him as a very young man on the farm, but as a farmer and stockman he has exhibited much of the enterprise characteristic of his sons, and has achieved a notable success. Perhaps the best evidence of this success is the farm itself, located three miles northeast of Niles, nine miles northwest of Youngstown and six miles southeast of Warren. It is a dairy and stock farm, and Holstein cattle breeders have appreciated the qualities of its fine herd for many years. This is one of the leading dairies of the county, and Mr. Stillwagon has instituted all the modern and most advanced equipment for handling cows and producing sanitary milk. Both in the home and barns there is a complete water system, and the place is electrically lighted throughout.
Mr. Stillwagon was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, December 26, 185o. He was a child when his father, Josiah Stillwagon, died in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and after that he and his mother lived with her brother, William Milford, first in Venango County, Pennsylvania, and about 1865 came to Ohio and to the location of the present Stillwagon farm at the corners of Howland, Liberty, Vienna and Weathersfield townships. The house is in Howland Township. Mr. Milford died about a year after coming to Trumbull County, and as he had no children the responsibility of l00king after the 199-acre farm devolved largely upon his sixteen-year-old nephew, Samuel H. Stillwagon. He ran the farm and also provided for his mother's comfort dttring her lifetime. Through all the years there has followed a record of progress and advancement. He has increased his land holdings to 267 acres and about twelve years ago erected a handsome country home. The main barn, though built in 1884, is still one of the largest and best equipped in the county, and at the time it was erected it ranked as the largest. It is a basement barn, and everything is in perfect system just as is found in a modern factory. For the most part he has sold his milk wholesale, though for two years he operated a retail route in Niles. Besides his herd of Holstein thoroughbreds he has always been interested in sheep, keeping a flock of the fine wool Merinos, and has been an exhibitor at fairs. For several years he was a buyer of wool and at one time had 80,000 pounds on hand. While he has seen his own affairs prosper and his sons become independent in business, Mr. Stillwagon still yields to the natural urge for work, and is busier today than many younger men. He has always been liberal of his means in promoting as a stockholder various industries, some of which failed, though some became creditable enterprises. He has never sought nor desired public office, and is a member of the Christian Church at Niles.
In 1872 he married Miss Kittie Hake, a daughter of Daniel Hake, who was of a pioneer family in Vienna Township, the Hake farm being just across the line in Vienna Township and in the same neighborhood as the Stillwagon farm. Daniel Hake died about 5900, when past fifty-six years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Stillwagon have four sons : Fred W., who has spent his active life as a banker and is president of the Union Savings & Trust Company of Warren; Arthur Paul, a resident of Niles and president and treasurer of the Storage, Transfer & Supply Company of Warren and Niles; Clyde S., who is planning manager of the United States Rubber Company at Naugatuck, Connecticut; and Roy A., the only one of the sons to remain on the farm, now sharing partnership responsibilities with his father..
ERNEST E. SWARTSWELTER, a native son of Youngstown, is one of the prominent young men in the financial affairs of the city, and is vice president and treasurer of the Youngstown Securities Company.
He was born at Youngstown May 11, 1887, son of John and Christina (Maxwell) Swartzwelter. His father was born in America of Scotch-Irish ancestry, while his mother was a native of Scotland. John Swartswelter moved with his family to Youngstown in 5875, and for the greater part of his active life was engaged in railroad work, but in later years conducted a hotel in Youngstown.
Ernest E. Swartzwelter received his education in the public and Rayen schools and his first employment was with the American Sheet & Tinplate Company. In 1906 he entered the services of the Dollar Savings & Trust Company, and remained with them until November, 1911, when together with the late George D. Wick and Philip Wick formed the Youngstown Securities Company, stocks, bonds and general investments.
He received most of his financial training with this concern and his own abilities have brought him the responsibilities he enjoys as its vice president and treasurer. He is also a member of the Cleveland Stock Exchange.
Mr. Swartswelter is a director in the Mahoning National Bank, the Mahoning Savings & Trust Company, the Homer S. Williams Company, the Standard Slag Company' and is a member of the Youngstown
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Club, Youngstown Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, Banker's Club of New York and Ohio Society of New York.
February 21, 1914, he married Miss Emma Westerman, daughter of Marcus Westerman of Youngstown. They have one son, Ernest E. Swartswelter, Jr.
HENRY REITZEL CALVIN, of Green Township, Ma-honing County, is a member of a family that was established here more than a century ago and has given many industrious and capable men and women to the citizenship of Ohio.
The original home of the Calvin family was in France. From there they went to England, and prior to the Revolutionary war settled in New Jersey. Joshua Calvin was born September 14, 1742, and died October 4, 1832. As a young man he moved to Virginia, settling in Hampshire County, and in 1816, when in advanced years, came to Ohio and settled on the land now occupied as the farm home of his great-grandson, Henry R. Calvin. Joshua Calvin married Sarah Updike. A brief record of their family is as follows: Samuel, born in 1767, came to Mahoning County in 1816; Benjamin, born in 177o, settled in Portage County, Ohio; Luther, born in 1772, also came to Mahoning County in 1816; David, born in 1775, Mahlon, born in 1777, and Robert, born in 178o, all established homes in Portage County; Joshua, born in 1782, died in Virginia in 1804; and John, born in 1784, died in infancy.
The death of the son Joshua in Virginia in 1804 is attested by the family records. That date helps to establish the first settlement of the family in Portage County, Ohio. While Joshua was on his death bed two of his brothers returned to the Virginia home from Portage County, traveling on horseback, and from this it is known that the brothers made their first investigations of the wilderness of Portage County only two years after Ohio became a state. When Samuel and Luther came to Mahoning County in 1816 they were accompanied by their families, Samuel settling on the same section as his father and Luther about a mile south. Samuel died in 1854 and Luther in 1839.
Joshua, who died in Virginia in 1804, married Sarah Tate. Twelve years later the widow accompanied other members of the family to Mahoning County. She was born June 16, 1779, and died January 29, 1847. She was the mother of one son, John T. Calvin, born December 7, 1803.
John T. Calvin was thirteen years of age when he came to Mahoning County. At the age of thirty he married Mary Keetch. He died June 20, 1866, and his widow survived him until 1890. John T. Calvin acquired his grandfather's farm and built the residence still standing there, in 1853 and the barn in 1861. His children were : Martin Luther, born in 1838 and died at the age of seventy-two on an adjoining farm; Rachel, born in 1839, is the widow of Philip B. Cool and lives close to the original family settlement; Rosanna, born in 1844, has never married; Henry Reitzel, next in age; Aaron, born in 1849, and died in 1913; Mary Jane, born in 1851, widow of Irving A. Bradley, of Beaver Township.
Henry Reitzel Calvin was born at the old homestead July 22, 1846, on his mother's thirty-second birthday. For nearly three-quarters of a century he has lived on the farm where he was born and all his associations are with that community. For many years he and his brother Aaron were closely associated in all their interests and business affairs, and their partnership continued until the death of Aaron. Henry R. Calvin married in 1878 Sarah E. Mussel-man, who vas born in Virginia and came to Ohio at the age of sixteen. To their marriage were born two children, one dying in infancy. The other, John Elmer, is a carpenter by trade but has spent most of his life on the home farm. He married Ethel Baker and has one son, Floyd Henry, now two years of age.
Aaron Calvin married in 1878 Angeline Ferney, and left one daughter, Mary Alice, now the wife of John Weikart and the mother of a son, Leroy Calvin. The Calvins almost without exception have been republican in politics, and the family, at home are members of the Locust Grove Baptist Church.
LEWIS D. COY, M. D. The family represented by Doctor Coy, whose home and professional interests have been at Canfield for many years, is one of prominence in Mahoning County.
His grandfather, Henry Coy, was a native of Alsace-Lorraine, and as a young man in 18o2 settled in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He had four children by his first marriage : Mary, who married Michael Huffman; Henry, Jr., who died at Salem, Ohio, in 1876; Catherine ; and Elizabeth, who married John Berlin and lived at Napanee, Indiana. Henry Coy married for his second wife Hannah Miller, who died in 1847. She was the mother of eight children : David, who died in Mahoning County in 1867; Peggy, who died at Silver Lake, Indiana, in 1851, the wife of David Stauffer ; Samuel, who died at Washington Court House, Ohio, in 1848; John, who died at Burbank, Ohio, in 1803 ; Hannah, who died in 185o, at Burbank, the wife of John Clinker ; Nancy, who died at Silver Lake, Indiana, in 1876, the wife of William Callahan ; Daniel, referred to below; and Susan, who died at Silver Lake, Indiana, in 1861, the wife of Henry McCrary. The first member of this family to come to Ohio was Henry Coy, Jr. His half brothers, Daniel and David, lived in Mahoning County, the former in Green and the latter in Beaver township.
Daniel Coy was born in 1800 and died in 1858. His first wife was Barbara Callahan and his second wife Elizabeth Roller. Daniel Coy spent his last days at Otter Creek, Pennsylvania. He was a man of gifted intellect, a great reader, and could always debate public questions. His farm in Mahoning County was on the hillside between Greenford and New Albany. He had seven children by his first marriage and one by the second. Jonas, the oldest, died in Green Township in 1896 and was the father of fourteen children. Wesley, who was born in 1827 and died in 1899, was a farmer a mile and a half northwest of Greenford. His first wife was Dorothy Bush and his second wife, Harriet Roller, his children being by his first marriage, namely: Lewis D.; Mary Alice, wife of David Dresell; Daniel, who died at the age of thirty-five; Jonas D., a retired resident of Salem; and Melissa, who died in childhood. Jesse, the third of Daniel's children, lived in Columbiana
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County, where he died an old man. David, the only survivor of his father's family, lives at Calla, Ohio. Reference to Silas Coy will be found on other pages of this publication. Susannah died in 1888, the wife of Lewis Bush. Sarah Jane was the wife of John Roller and moved West. Alice, the only child by Daniel's second marriage, married a Mr.,Roller and also went West.
Dr. Lewis D. Coy was born August 13, 1848. He Was twelve years of age when his mother died in 1860. At the age of fifteen years and six months he enlisted and was enrolled for the three years' service in Company C of the Sixth Ohio Cavalry. He joined his regiment at Warrenton, Virginia, and saw some active service during the last campaigns of the war, being under General Sheridan and under Colonel Steadman. Doctor Coy has served as president of his regimental association, and presided at the last reunion when forty of the old comrades assembled at Warren, Ohio, October 7, 1919.
In 1868 Doctor Coy married Laura C. Bowel!, of New Albany, Ohio. They had two children: Alice F., who died in 1912, wife of Dr. E. E. Dyball, of Salem, and the mother of two children, Mabel, who married B. M. Powers, of Canfield, and has two children, Gene and Jeanette; and Estella, wife of John Minor, of Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, the mother of four children. Doctor Coy's only son is Warren D. Coy, a prominent physician at Youngstown. He has been twice married, his first wife being Olive Fulweilder and his second Alma Schellenberger.
Dr. Lewis D. Coy began the practice of medicine in 1876 at Greenford, but since 1879 his home has been at Canfield. He is still active in the performance of his duties as physician to the County Infirmary and has served that institution thirty years, twenty years consecutively. Doctor Coy is deeply interested in a varied range of scientific subjects. As a diversion and pastime he has made a valuable collection of paleontological specimens. He enjoys hunting ad usually spends his vacations in his cottage at Ellsworth Lake, Ohio. He is a republican in politics. Mrs. Coy died February 24, 1917. She was a woman of artistic tastes and culture and some of her water color and china painting has been exhibited at the county fair. Her religion was doing good to the unfortunate.
HUGH W. GRANT was born in Youngstown on December 25, 1869. He is among the most widely known residents of Youngstown, and his reputation as banker and financier has extended to much wider territory than that covered by the institution of which he is president—the City Savings & Trust Company. Mr. Grant's parents, Arthur and Bridget (Brown) Grant, were natives of Belfast, Ireland, and came to this country in early life. Arthur Grant settled first at Warren, but later came to Youngstown, where he was engaged for many years in the retail shoe business.
Hugh W. Grant, the subject of this sketch, was a 'student in the public and parochial schools of Youngstown until he was about ten years of age, at which time he entered the employment of E. M. McGillin & Company, predecessors of the G. M. McKelvey Company, as a general utility boy. An index of his character is found in the fact that he remained with that concern about eighteen years, the greater portion of which he was employed in the accounting department. The next two years were spent as a traveling salesman for a Pittsburgh house, and two years more in the same capacity with the Youngstown Dry Goods Company.
In 1915, through the efforts of Mr. Grant and others, the City Trust & Savings Bank was organized, and he was elected vice president and treasurer of that institution, positions which he still holds, in spite of the remarkable growth of the bank, which has been such as to make necessary the lease of the Wick Building, in which it occupied only a small room at the beginning of operations.
Mr. Grant is an earnest student of financial affairs and is always thoroughly abreast of the latest developments in conditions likely to affect the business in which he is engaged. His broad information, good judgment and kindly disposition have made him popular and enabled him to render great service to his community.
Mr. Grant was married on May 1, 1900, to Mary C. Mullane. They have five children, Arthur J., Eleanor J., Lorretta C., Warren E., and Donald H. Of these Arthur enlisted in the unit raised by Harvard University at the outbreak of the World war.
Mr. Grant is a republican in politics. He has always taken a great interest in all public activities in the City of Youngstown and was one of the leaders in the movements which shed so much credit on that community during the World war, as well as in every other movement intended to benefit the city. He is a member of the Catholic Church, the Youngstown Club, the Knights of Columbus and other organizations.
JOHN MARTIN has resided upon and operated his present farm in Canfield Township for more than forty years, and he was a lad of about twelve years when lie came with his parents to Mahoning County, where the family home was established on the farm which he now owns and which was then but little improved. From this county Mr. Martin went forth to render loyal service in defense of the Union in the Civil war, and the same high spirit of loyalty and patriotism has characterized him throughout his life. He is one of the venerable and highly respected citizens of Canfield Township, and is especially entitled to recognition in this history.
Mr. Martin was born in County Down, Ireland, December 19, 1845, and is a son of Thomas and Esther (Bigham) Martin, natives of Ireland but representatives of staunch Scotch ancestry. In the early '5os Thomas Martin, in company with his wife and their two children, William and John, severed the gracious ties that bound him to the Emerald Isle and voyaged on a sailing vessel across the Atlantic to America. Landing in New York City, the family thence proceeded to Boston and joined friends who had located in the suburban Town of Brookline, where young John attended school, his rudimentary education having been received in his native land. In 1857 the family came to Mahoning County, Ohio, and established a permanent home on the farm now
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owned by the subject of this sketch. The native timber had been cleared away from the greater part of the tract, and here Thomas Martin continued his energetic work as a productive agriculturist during Ilse remainder of his active career. Here he died at the venerable age of eighty-eight years, and his wife likewise was well advanced in years when she too passed to the life eternal. Of their children the eldest was William, who was for a number of years a resident of Hanoverton, Columbiana County, and who now maintains his home at Alliance, Stark County; ohn of this review, was the next in order of birth; died in infancy; Mary Jane has never married and now resides at Salem, Columbiana County; Thomas, Jr., a carriagemaker by trade, is now living retired at Salem.
John Martin attended the district schools of his home township at intervals after the family removal to Mahoning County, and in the meanwhile he contributed his share to the work of the home farm. He was but fifteen years old at the outbreak of the Civil war, and as soon as possible thereafter he showed his youthful patriotism by enlisting, in the spring of 1864, as a private in Company E, Second Ohio Cavalry, which was a part of General Custer's Brigade. Mr. Martin joined his regiment at Annapolis, Maryland, and at Front Royal, on the 21 St of September, 1864, he was captured by the enemy. He was incarcerated a few weeks in the infamous old Prison at Richmond, Virginia, and thereafter was kept a prisoner of war at Belle Isle and Salisworth Libby Prison Carolina, where he was held until the close of the war, his release having been assured when Guard Sherman and his gallant forces ap Ott place on his famous march through the
of thirty neighborhood boys who served in Mr. Martin's regiment, he is the only one remaining in that same neighborhood. He has kept in touch with his old comrades, especially through affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic, and has attended a number of the national encampments of this great patriotic organization, including the encampment in the City of Boston, just fifty years from the time he accompanied his parents from Brookline to Ohio. Among the old comrades he found a number of his boyhood companions at Brookline, and the occasion was one of much gratification to him.
After the close of the war Mr. Martin and his brother Thomas established a carriage and wagon shop at Mineral Ridge, Trumbull County, and with this enterprise he continued to be identified until he returned to the old home farm to care for his parents. For more than forty years he has had charge of this farm, upon which he has made numerous improvements, and though he is now living virtually retired, he finds pleasure in still maintaining general supervision of the place, which is endeared to him by many gracious memories and associations. He has served as township assessor, and was elected township trustee, primarily because of his zealous advocacy of good roads. The movement, for road improvements in the county had but recently been initiated, and though Canfield Township had a normal democratic majority, Mr. Martin, the republican candidate, was elected by a gratifying majority, the opposing candidate having previously served as township trustee. He gave effective service as trustee and, incidentally, as road inspector, but refused to become a candidate fora second term. He has been influential in local politics, has been an effective oampaign speaker, and has been a delegate to various conventions of his party. His father likewise was a stalwart republican, and in the early days was the only Irish republican in Canfield Township. Mr. Martin has passed the official chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has been a delegate from his lodge to the Grand Lodge of Ohio. In his farming operations he has kept pace with modern ideas and methods, and has used scientific fertilizing, installed tile drainage, etc. Now venerable in years, he has found life sweet and good, and holds himself favored in having had a home in the famous old Western Reserve, known for its fine citizenship and its stable prosperity.
October 2, 1872, recorded the marriage of Mr. Martin to Miss Salome Schall, and of their children four are living: William A., long one of the substantial farmers of Canfield Township, now resides in the City of Youngstown. He married Gertrude McDonnell, and they have three sons, Cecil, Earl and Leo. Esther is the wife of J. Albert Everhard, of Youngstown, who has been for twenty-five years an engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and they have one daughter, Mrs. Edna Heine, who has one son. Anna is the wife of Monroe Hull and resides on a farm adjoining that of her father, but in Ellsworth Township, and she has one daughter. Rosa is the wife of Chauncey Jerome, a farmer in Austintown Township, and they have two children, Gladys and Ione.
J. ALLEN KLEIN, of Canfield Township, director of the Farmers National Bank and a well-to-do and enterprising farmer of that township, comes into Mahoning Valley history in good place because of the association of his family with the early pioneer days in Mahoning County, and because of his marriage into the Canfield family, which owned such vast tracts of land in the Western Reserve in the early part of the nineteenth century. Maud M. Canfield, wife of J. Allen. Klein, is a great-granddaughter of Judge Judson Canfield of Sharon, Connecticut, owner of thousands of acres in the Mahoning Valley, and in whose honor Canfield Village and township were so named.
J. Allen Klein was born on the farm upon which he still lives, the farm being the ancestral Klein homestead on which his father was also born, thirty-one years earlier. J. Allen was born on March 8, 1861, the son of Peter and Hannah (Beard) Klein. The Klein family is of colonial ancestry, and of record on the side of the republic during the Revolutionary war, George Klein, great-great-grandfather of J. Allen, having been a soldier in the army of General Washington. And five generations of the Klein family have now had residence in the Ma-honing Valley of Ohio, Abram Klein, great-grandfather of J. Allen, being one of the earliest settlers in Youngstown. When Abram Klein settled in Youngstown he lived upon what later was the site of the Ohio Steel Plant at the mouth of Mill Creek. Later he moved into Canfield Township, taking up the wild tract which has since been developed by the
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Klein family of successive generations into the rich agricultural property it is today. Abram bequeathed the Canfield Township farm to his son Jonathan, grandfather of J. Allen, and although the body of Abram was interred in Youngstown, it was subsequently taken to Canfield and buried there, the tombstone conveying the information that he was forty-six years old at the time of his death ; that he was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania; and that he was the son of George and Maria. He belonged to the Christian Church.
Jonathan Klein, son of Abram, lived in Canfield Township practically all his life from his seventeenth year." It is not clear in data presently available whether he was born in Youngstown or in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, before the coming of his father and. mother to Youngstown, but his school days were all spent in Youngstown, and one of his schoolmates was a boy named Tod, who eventually became governor of Ohio. At the age of seventeen years he came to Canfield, and applied himself energetically to the task of clearing the tract of land in Canfield Township his father had given him. He married in early manhood; lived an active useful life; and eventually became well circumstanced financially. During his life he was an enterprising farmer ; was a large breeder of cattle; and in early days he used to drive his cattle over the mountains to market. Politically he was a democrat, and as such he exerted some influence in his district, although he does not appear to have at any time sought political office. He died in Canfield in 1871. His wife, Elizabeth Arner, lived a widowhood of twenty-eight years, her death not coming until about 1899, she being then about ninety-three years old. They were the parents of four children, all sons, by name and in order of birth: Solomon, who settled in Berlin Township, Mahoning County, and one of his sons is Dr. C. M. Klein of Youngstown ; Gabriel, who died in Youngstown, leaving three daughters, Dorothy, Ora, and Hannah ; Peter, father of J. Allen, regarding whose life more follows; and Heman, who became a successful farmer in Berlin Township, where his. two sons, Charles and Warren, still live. His daughter, who became Mrs. Cobb, is now deceased.
Peter Klein, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Arner) Klein, was born in Canfield Township, in the parental home, in 1830. His whole life was spent in the township, and he entered extensively into stock farming. His father had given him part of the vast home farm, the portion, in itself, constituting a large farm, and on it Peter raised large flocks of sheep and many cattle, and became comfortably circumstanced. He was well-known throughout the county, and was l00ked upon as an enterprising, representative farmer. Politically he was a democrat, as was his father, but he gave his life mostly to matters pertaining to agriculture. He died on August 2o, 1896, aged sixty-six years, and was buried at New Buffalo. His wife, Hannah Beard, died about two years later, on August 7, 1898, she being then also about sixty-six years old. She was a member of the Lutheran Church of New Buffalo, and was buried there.
J. Allen Klein, only child of Peter and Hannah (Beard) Klein, was born in Canfield Township, and on the farm he still owns, but in the old dwelling, for the present substantial house was not built by his father until about 1867. His parents were married in 1853, and he, their only child, was born about eight years later, in 1861. In boyhood he attended school at Canfield, the school being about two and one-half miles from his home, and after his school days were over he began earnestly to assist his father in the work of the large home farm, 370 acres. He was about twenty-nine years old when, in 1890, he took over the farm from his father, and since that year he has had full possession of it. He has also during the forty years from then to the present, bought and sold other farms, but he has always held to his main property, in the farming of which he has had much success. With commendable enterprise he has entered largely into the wintering of stock, his method being to buy young cattle in the fall, winter them on ensilange and such fodder, pasture them on his extensive acreage of rich land through the summer, and in the autumn dispose of the fattened cattle. In that way he usually handles from 80 to 100 head of cattle yearly, buying in the open market. He has a large barn, 80 by 80 feet, which he erected in 1907, has adequate silo capacity, and has good basement stabling accommodation. He has reached an enviable state of material wealth, and also a wealth that is of greater worth, the respect of his neighbors, and he has shown throughout his life a consistent helpful interest in the general affairs of the community and county. He has never sought public office, although had he wished to participate in civic administration there is every reason for supposing that he would have had little difficulty in gaining office, for he personally has always been well-regarded in Canfield Township, and his family has of course had connection with it almost from the beginning or its settlement. Also through his wife he comes into the family which, perhaps, is placed first among the pioneer families of Canfield.
It was in 1887 that he married Maud M. Canfield, daughter of Judson and Betsy M. (Turner) Canfield, and great-granddaughter of Judge Judson Canfield, of Sharon, Connecticut, owner of vast estates in the Western Reserve, and one of the principals of the old Connecticut Land Company of Sharon. A review of the association of the Canfield family with the settlement of Canfield and with the Mahoning Valley has been specially written for this edition of Ma-honing Valley history. To J. Allen and Maud M. (Canfield) Klein have been born two children, daughters: Marjorie, who graduated from the Kent Normal College, and is now a teacher in Youngstown; and Dorothy, who married Leroy Anderson, and lives with her parents on the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Klein during their life-long connection with Canfield and Mahoning County have entered actively into communal affairs. Socially they have always been well-regarded, and have many sincere friends in Canfield, in Youngstown, and in other parts of the county. As a man of good moral and material integrity Mr. Klein has been drawn into identification with the administration of the Farmers National Bank of Canfield, being a director of that institution. In almost all ways he is well among the leaders of that section of Mahoning County.
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REV. JOHN P. BARRY. While a city of wonderful material development and prosperity, Youngstown appreciation for its institutions "not builded with ciation among these there is more than historical cance in the story of St. Ann's Roman Catholic Congregation and its pastor for thirty-two years, Rev. John P. Barry. It is not alone the present and former members of St. Ann's parish, but many hundreds of people outside the church who will read and read understandingly, the following brief sketch of Father Barry and his work in Youngstown.
He was born at Boston, Massachusetts, October 7, 1861. His father, Thomas Barry, and his mother, Ann (Ryan) Barry, came from County Cork, Ireland, and were married in Boston. They made their home there and were widely and favorably known in the Catholic social and business circles of the city. Mr. Barry died in 1894, at the age of fifty-six, and his wife died two years later at the age of fifty-eight. Six children came to bless and adorn this happy home: John Patrick; Thomas, who spent the last mouths of failing health with Father Barry, and died at his residence March 1, 1897, at the age of thirty-three; Joseph, who is in the employ of the Lake Shore Railroad; William, who died in infancy; Rose, who was the wife of Dr. George McEvoy, of Boston, died in August, 1919; Mary, wife of William Harper of Boston.
As a boy Father Barry attended the public schools of Boston and was graduated from the Boston High School at the age of thirteen. After two years in the Boston Jesuit College he entered Nicolet College at Nicolet, Province of Quebec, Canada, where he graduated in June, 1881.
Conscious of a divine call to the sacred ministry, he began his theological studies under the Sulpician Fathers in the Grand Seminary at Montreal, Canada, whence hundreds of priests have gone forth as zealous laborers throughout the United States, Canada and foreign missions. After his third year of Theology at Montreal, Father Barry awakened to the fact that he was completing his training before the required age, and that owing to the ample supply of priests in his own old, well-established and fully equipped Arch-diocese of Boston, it would be most difficult if not altogether impossible to get a dispensation to be ordained before the canonical age. Impatient as he was to begin his priestly career, he applied for and obtained permission to offer his services in the broader and less favored fields of the West. Accordingly he applied to the bishop of Cleveland, who eagerly adopted him as an ecclesiastical student for his diocese and sent him to complete his divinity course in the Diocesan Seminary of Cleveland, where he spent one year, and was ordained to the priesthood on July 9, 1885.
His first appointment was as assistant to Rev. E. Mears, pastor of St. Columba's congregation at Youngstown. In the short space of two years as assistant at St. Columba's, Father Barry manifested such decided evidences of initiative, earnestness and executive ability in school and parish affairs that he was called by his bishop, the Right Reverend Richard Gilmour, to the vacant pastorate of St. Ann's, and in the ever memorable words of his beloved superior to "rejuvenate the parish." On Christmas Eve, 1887, the Rev. John P. Barry assumed his duties as pastor of St. Ann's Catholic Congregation.
Here in his cherished charge at St. Ann's he has borne the burden and heat of thirty-three years—all the vicissitudes incumbent on the keeper of souls, training the young, comforting the aged, and in endeavoring to lighten and sweeten the trials of those laboring under the toils of the ills of life. Besides these spiritual phases of his sacred ministry Father Barry has during the thirty-three years encountered labors and difficulties in the temporal or material up-building of the congregation that have confronted few priests of his time. Commercial and laboring agencies have so affected the good, generous people of his parish that though pastor and -people have nobly striven together to model and build and economize, it is denied them to feel and say "we have finished our undertaking."
When Father Barry was called upon by Bishop Gilmour to assume the vacant pastorate of St. Ann's on that Christmas Eve of 1887, he found a debt of two thousand dollars and the need of a parish house. With characteristic energy he immediately set to work and in 1888 had a parish house, a frame building erected for $5,300, and the frame school was remodeled, enlarged and equipped. It was soon discovered that the location of the church building was undesirable, as people lived at such distances from the house of worship. In 1892 another site was secured and the four lots fronting for 200 feet on Federal Street and 142 on Jefferson Street, on which the present building is situated, were secured, a site one mile south of the original parish property.
In 1893 the foundation on the present site was commenced, and on July 3oth of the same year the cornerstone was laid. Owing to. lack of means, and the financial depression which then affected Youngstown, building activities progressed slowly. The basement was completed and used first on April 25, 1897, and its use was continued until 1906. The building itself was then completed and there was general rejoicing when it was formally dedicated, in June, 1906. Fashioned of brick and sandstone, its attractiveness has not been marred with the years. The interior was also attractively designed, with a color scheme which has not lost its pristine freshness. A two-story school and a very pleasing pastoral residence were erected in 1898.
There is a debt that weighs on the noble pride and ambition of Reverend Father Barry and his devoted people. The property and wonderful growth of the splendid city have so invaded the precincts of St. Ann's parish lines that the home element or residence quarter is no longer desirable and. parishioners are being forced to find homes elsewhere, thus leaving only the few to complete what many began. It is in this economy of the human trend of affairs that Father Barry is enabled to preach as eloquently by his example of submission and resignation to the at least "seeming" dispensations of Divine Providence as from the pulpit he voiced God's message of love, respect, obedience and reverence for all things pertaining to or leading to God.
Sincerity and practicability without tolerance for sham in any of its guises can be traced in his every utterance, and make the hearer to feel that he. is truly
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an anointed one, a priest—another Christ, bringing God's good message to the mind and heart. Father Barry always seems the personal embodiment of the spiritual when his theme is "The Love of God, or Obedience, or Respect for Legitimate Authority." Father Barry has been an indefatigable teacher of Christian doctrine, and not until his health failed two years ago was it known for him to absent himself from the regular Sunday aftern00n catechism, or daily lessons to special classes in school, or to arrive one second late. Rarely did any member of the class absent himself or arrive tardy. Children, the sick, and the aged are his special favorites.
All Father Barry's attainments, whether natural or acquired, fit him peculiarly for his sacred ministry, whether in the sanctuary where his wonderful voice lends a charm to the sacred psalmody, and his dignified bearing coincides with the requirements of the ritual, or in the school, at the bedside of the sick, or in the confessional where his intuitive knowledge of human nature has helped to make many a crooked way straight.
Besides being a priest, Father Barry is a social and public-spirited man. He has kept himself well informed upon all the leading questions and problems of the day, particularly those concerning his adopted city of Youngstown. He is fond of athletic sports, and in his day and turn has performed many a feat, whether in baseball, football or golf. Father Barry has derived much satisfaction and pleasure from his associations with the leading representative men of the municipality, and the more so that the pleasure appeared mutual.
On July 9, 1904, the nineteenth anniversary of his ordination, an anniversary dearer to him in each succeeding year, Father Barry was stabbed in the left eye and abdomen in two dreadful thrusts with a knife from the hands of an unfortunate demented former janitor. Father Barry thus lost his left eye. Expressions of sympathy, kindness and friendship were showered upon him from every source, including every creed and profession, every business and social center. By the middle of August Father Barry was about and ready to resume his duties. His silence in regard to his loss and the attendant suffering is eloquent of his matter of fact and sensible acceptance of the dispensations of Divine Providence in the events of his life, no matter what the agency. This was merely a personal inconvenience. Only those annoyances that hinder or warp the sphere of his labor or the interest of his pastorate charge have ever been able to disturb him or evoke any utterance of temper or pain. Such annoyances he has also weathered, and these are griefs that have traced their penciling on his brow.
Three years ago, the 21st of October, Father Barry suffered a partial stroke of apoplexy which has somewhat impaired his health and rendered him unable to attend to the details of parish work. His wonderful vitality or rather will power enables him to really live and act, where most others would succumb either virtually or in reality. Only those who know Father Barry intimately are in position to appreciate or fathom his wonderful composite individuality, his keen sense of humor, his only seeming severity, his kindness, thoughtfulness, appreciation of the true and the beautiful, and his sense of duty unmarred or warped by any enervating sentiments or false philosophy so often advanced in defense of evil or of good left undone.
JOHN L. RILEY, of Canfield Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, who owns one of the richest farms in that township, and one of the most desirable on the Canfield-Boardman Road, is a widely-known cattle breeder. He has shown sound business acumen in his agricultural operations, and has taken an equally effective part in public affairs. Generally, he has shown himself to be a man of strong characteristics alert, enterprising and capable, and in all public movements of local agricultural interest he has taken a leading part. He has been township trustee for many years, is an enthusiastic granger, and is a member of the official board of the Farm Bureau.
He was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, on April 20, 1873, the son of David and Mary E. (Miller) Riley. Through his mother, John L. Riley comes into notable American ancestry, for she was a second cousin of Abraham Lincoln, the immortal of American history, her mother having been of the Hanks family from which Nancy Hanks, mother of Lincoln, also came. David Riley, father of John L., was a man of active characteristics, a teamster for the greater part of his life, and it was in such an occupation that he eventually met his death. He was driving a six-mule team, and fell from the heavily-laden wagon, the wheels of which passed over him, causing his death. The tragic death of David Riley placed the widow and her large family in a serious predicament, for John L. was then only thirteen years old, yet he was the first born of their eleven children. As a teamster David Riley had for twenty years been in the employ of the same company, J. B. White and Company, but his earnings had been barely sufficient to meet the immediate expenses, month by month, of his large family. But his reliable, capable work for his employers did not go unappreciated, for soon after his death the company volunteered monetary assistance to Mrs. Riley, the widow, in the rearing of her large family. About one year after the death of her husband Mrs. Riley moved to Salem, Ohio, where for many years thereafter the family lived. Almost as soon as the family came to Salem,. John L., who felt his responsibility as the eldest child, set out resolutely to work so as to lighten the load of his mother. It would seem that at the outset his earnest endeavors brought but little monetary benefit to his mother, for during his first year, as a farm boy, he only earned $16, in addition to his board, that is. $4 a month for four months and his board in addition, but only his board and no cash remuneration for his labor during the other eight months. In the following year, being more experienced, he did somewhat better for his mother, earning $6 monthly, and later $8 monthly, almost the whole of which cash wage he delivered to his mother to help toward the maintenance of his younger brothers and sisters. So. the years passed until he was a man. He was only twenty-one years old when he became the business partner of George Campbell, who was a man of some experience in cattle breeding, haying, in fact been
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manager for a large breeder. The partners, Riley and Campbell, began their enterprise in a small way as dairymen and cattle breeders, and they continued in partnership for six years, during which John L. did well. He had worked hard, had saved his profits for the most part, and as the years passed their stock had accumulated, so that when in 1907 the partners disposed of their stock by public sale they found themselves with satisfactory banking accounts. They had a herd of about twenty head of boroughbred Jersey cattle, which they had raised themselves, and these were sold for breeding purposes at a very satisfactory prices. The partnership was, however, then dissolved, and John L. Riley bought the McGervan farm near Canfield Village. In his subsequent farming he has followed similar methods to that which brought him such satisfactory initial success. He gave first attention to the building of another herd of pedigreed Jersey cattle. Two years later, however, he sold the McGervan farm and formed a partnership with H. A. and J. A. Manchester, and in that connection took over the management of the H. A. Manchester farm. The three partners centered their efforts on stock raising, and by skillful selection the firm of Manchester and Riley owned at the end of three years a herd of more than sixty Jersey cattle, all pedigreed stock. In 1912, however, Mr. Riley again took to independent farming, purchasing in that year the John Suisenbacher farm of 12o acres, situated in Canfield Township, about one mile to the eastward of the village. He bought the farm from John Suisenbacher, who had owned it for sixty years, and who died only about a year ago. Since 1912 John L. Riley has lived on that farm, and has met with just as appreciable success as he formerly had experienced; indeed, his success has been even more substantial in connection with the breeding of Jersey cattle. Since 1912 he has sold to southern buyers two valuable herds, bred by himself, and sold one entire herd to a sanitarium in North Carolina. He has reached an enviable place among American breeders of Jersey cattle, and his stock realizes good prices, and the demand more than equals the supply. He has reached such a position by persistent effort and close attention to his business, and although the principal aim has been the raising of blooded stock, he has of necessity had a considerable dairying business, selling the cream in Youngstown. And accordingly he has to some extent also been a breeder of hogs, the breed he has specialized in being the Berkshire. He is generally esteemed in Canfield Township, and is quite representative of the progressive Ohio farmer of this generation, capable, responsible and enterprising. As a citizen he has shown a helpful public spirit, has been township trustee for six years, and has been an influential supporter of the movement for better roads. Politically he is a democrat, although he has not sought political office at any time. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow, and in all matters of consequence to agriculture in the county he has been interested, being a member of the local Grange, and also of the County Farm Bureau. He is closely identified with the functioning of the latter organization, being a member of its official board. Religiously he is a
Methodist, a member of the Canfield Methodist Episcopal Church.
On October 6, 1903, John L. Riley married Celia Harroff, of Lordstown, Ohio. They have one child, a daughter, Ruth Ellen, who is now a junior in the Canfield High School. Mrs. Riley's mother, Barbara (Brunstetter) Harroff, lives with them.
GEORGE DENNICK WICK, JR. One of the prominent members of the younger generation of the noted Wick family of the Mahoning Valley is George Dennick Wick, Jr., whose business is in Youngstown and whose home is in the beautiful country residence recently erected by his mother at Boardman Center.
Mr. Wick was born at Youngstown, March 19, 1897. He finished his education at the Choate School at Wallingford, Connecticut, and on May 5, 1917, at the age of twenty, enlisted in the naval service. He was stationed at Block Island, Rhode Island, and was on scout patrol duty and attained the rank of second class gunner. He received his honorable discharge January 28, 1919, and for a few months following his return home was connected with the Youngstown Securities Company. Since June 1, 1919, he has been identified with the Falcon Steel Company of Niles.
March 20, 1918, Mr. Wick married Miss Ruth Kuhn, of Pittsburgh. Her father is a Pittsburgh coal operator and also a member of the LeMoyne High Speed Steel Company, one of the independent steel concerns of Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Wick . have one daughter, Antoinette Mary.
NEWTON A. WOLCOTT, of Warren, is a leader in the industrial and business affairs of the Mahoning Valley, and the recording of his notable success is all the more interesting and appropriate because of the fact that he is a product of the valley, and it is of further interest because of the association of the Wolcott family with the history of Trumbull County since pioneer days. But in any case .the life story of Mr. Wolcott would merit inclusion in the history of the Mahoning Valley by reason of his intimate identification with the administration of important industrial and financial enterprises and because of the prominent part he has taken in the public affairs of the City of Warren.
Mr. Wolcott is a graduate of Lehigh University, holds the degree of Electrical Engineer, has been connected with The Packard Electric Company of Warren since 1903, has been general manager of that manufacturing corporation since 1906, and since 1916 has held the responsibilities of president, treasurer and general manager. As a technical man of marked administrative and organizing ability he has been asked to co-operate in many business enterprises, and among those with which he is officially connected are: The Akron Maderite Tire & Rubber Company of Newton Falls, Ohio, of which company he is the president ; The National Electric Welder Company of Warren, of which he is the president ; The Equipment Manufacturing Company of Conneaut, Ohio, of which he is the president; The William Coale Development Company of Warren, of which he is a director ; The Standard Transformer Company of Warren, of which he is secretary ; The Warren Guaranteed Mortgage Company, of Warren, of which he is president ; The
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Peerless Electric Company of Warren, of which he is a director ; The Park Land Company of Warren, of which he is the vice president; The Western Reserve National Bank of Warren, of which he is a director; the Packard Park Commission of Warren, of which he is chairman of the board of trustees ; The Warren Board of Trade, of which he is vice president ; and the Warren Rotary Club, of which he is a charter member.
These business associations clearly indicate the place of Mr. Wolcott among the representative men of affairs in the City of Warren. During the recent war he demonstrated his practical patriotism by taking a leading part in the war work in Trumbull County. He was chairman of the publicity committee formed for the purposes of the local effort in all the Liberty Loan campaigns, and gave his time unstintingly in like capacity to the local bodies responsible for the raising of all the other government agency funds for war purposes—the Red Cross and such auxiliary war agencies. The review of the activities of Mr. Wolcott during the seventeen years that have elapsed since he came to Warren indicate that he is a man of strong personality and of decisive and effective action. His success has been in a way remarkable, yet parallel with that of many of the men of our country who began at the bottom and, unaided, climbed to the top. He spent eight years in acquiring his higher education on his own resources, and when he came to Warren direct from the university he expended his last dollar for railroad fare. Yet in a decade and a half he has become the guiding genius of a large and growing industrial plant, and has attained a high position in a community noted for its successful men. And he has done this unaided.
Mr. Wolcott is still in the prime of life. He was born at the Wolcott homestead in Farmington, Trumbull County, Ohio, on June 17, 1875, a son of William and Hattie (Gillette) Wolcott and grandson of Newton Wolcott, a Mahoning Valley pioneer. The Wolcott family is prominent in colonial New England annals, having been for many generations resident in Connecticut. Several scions of this family gained leading places in the state administration and in military affairs. Roger Wolcott, 1679-1767, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, was commissary of the Connecticut troops in the expedition against Canada in 171i, became a major-general during the French war, was governor of Connecticut 1761-65, was a judge of the Superior Court of the state, and was also a poet of some distinction. Oliver Wolcott, 1726-97, was a Doctor of Law of Yale University, became a member of the judiciary, and came into national note as commander of the Connecticut forces. He enlisted in 1776 to co-operate with the army in New York, and comes even more notably into national records as a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was governor of Connecticut during the early days of the republic. His son Oliver eventually became secretary of the United States Treasury, and subsequently was also governor of Connecticut. Newton Wolcott, grandfather of Newton A., came from Connecticut to the Western Reserve in pioneer days, and was one of the founders of Farmington Township and the village of West Farmington, Trumbull
County, the township evidently being named in honor of the Connecticut place of that name. Newton Wolcott lived in Farmington during the remainder of his life, clearing a good acreage.
His son William, the father of Newton A., was born in Farmington, Trumbull County, Ohio, and married Hattie, daughter of Timothy Gillette, a native of Connecticut, who was also a pioneer farmer and blacksmith of Farmington, Trumble County. Mrs. Hattie Gillette Wolcott died in 1881, six years after the birth of her son, Newton A., dying at the age of thirty-eight years. The father of Newton A. Wolcott is still living, and is in his eighty-fourth year, residing at Warren, Ohio.
Newton A., son of William and Hattie (Gillette) Wolcott, attended the public schools of Farmington and Mesopotamia, Trumbull County. He was a hard-working farmer boy of serious purpose, and had early resolved to secure as complete an education as possible. He passed through both the preparatory school and university, and his collegiate terms were by no means easy of accomplishment, because the family had limited financial resources, and for funds with which to maintain himself he relied wholly upon his own efforts. After a preparatory course of four years in the Mount Hermon (Massachusetts) School, which institution was founded by D. L. Moody, the noted preacher and evangelist (and for whom young Wolcott worked), he entered Lehigh University, where he was graduated with the Electrical Engineer degree with the class of 1903, with class honors, he receiving the first prize of $100 for being the most representative and typical college man of the class.
Leaving college, Mr. Wolcott came direct to Warren to take a position as electrical engineer with The Packard Electric Company. Three years later he was promoted to the responsibility of general manager of that company, and in that capacity was perhaps mainly responsible for the marked expansion of the company's business during the next decade. In 1916, to cope with the continued expansion of business, the company was reorganized, and of the reconstructed corporation Mr. Wolcott acquired controlling interest and he was elected to the offices of president, treasurer and general manager. He thus has supreme direction of the business, which is a consequential one, controlling patented electrical devices which find a market in most of the civilized parts of the world. The many other business and financial interests of Mr. Wolcott have been previously stated.
As a vice president of the Warren Board of Trade he has upon many occasions shown his unselfish interest in the advancement of the city, and in very many ways he has shown a helpful public spirit.
Mr. Wolcott belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the United Commercial Travelers and the Country Club. He is essentially a man of business and has not actively concerned himself with politics excepting in questions of grave national consequence. He has never sought political office, but in matters pertaining to Warren and Trumbull County he has shown a close interest. He is a ready contributor to local charities, and is at all times a responsible, reliable neighbor. He has many sincere friends in Warren, is well regarded by those with
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whom he comes into contact, and as a successful man of business he is respected by the people in general.
On June l0, 1903, Mr. Wolcott was united in marriage with Blanche E., the daughter of Chauncey Bates, of Mesopotamia, Trumbull County. Mrs. Wolcott died on August 2, 1919, after having borne her husband two sons, Neal Newton Wolcott, who died in 1916, aged ten years, and Leslie Carl Wolcott, who is a student (1920) at St. Johns Military Academy at Delafield, Wisconsin.
THOMAS WEAVER, a well-known and respected resident of Green Township, Mahoning County, comes of one of the old families of the district, his parents having come into Ohio in 1834.
Thomas Weaver was born in Perry Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, on November 29, 1839, the son of James and Mary (Smith) Weaver. His father, James Weaver, lived in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and there married Mary Smith, both coming in about 1834 to Salem, Ohio, where James Weaver found employment at his trade, carpentry. Three years later he took title to a tract of wild timbered land in Perry Township, Columbiana County, and there Thomas was born, his earliest years being such as the children of most pioneer settlers have had to live through. In about the year 1844 his parents moved to the Middle Fork section, not far distant from the home now owned by Thomas, and for the remainder of his life James Weaver followed his trade. His death, which occurred when he was sixty-five years old, was caused by blood-poisoning. His wife, however, survived him for some years, being seventy years old when she died. They were the parents of twelve children, and had the satisfaction of seeing eleven of them reach manhood and womanhood. These eleven children were: Mary Ann, who married Laurence Webster, of Salem, and died when she was about fifty-five years old; Caroline, who married Eli Diehl, and lived until she was eighty years old ; Elizabeth, who married Ridgeway Shreve, their home being near Salem, where she died at the age of seventy-five years; Thomas, of whose life more is written hereinafter; Samuel, who is now living in retirement in Akron, Ohio, but who formerly was a successful farmer in Goshen Township, Mahoning County, for the greater part of his life ; Peter, who died in 1918 at Patmos, Goshen Township; Clarissa, who lived her married life in Pennsylvania, eventually dying in that state ; Lewis, who was a farmer in the district, but is now living retired in Salem ; Andrew, who went to a western state when about thirty years old, and of whom all trace has been lost; John, who lives in Dayton, Ohio; and Frank, who was a carpenter, latterly in Dayton, Ohio, where he died in 1918.
Thomas, fourth child of James and Mary (Smith) Weaver, has remained in his home neighborhood throughout practically the whole of his long life of eighty-one years, and he is now the oldest resident of the vicinity. When he was thirty years old he married, and then remained for about three years in Allen County, Ohio, where his wife's parents lived, but he after that period returned to his home county, and has remained in it ever since. He learned the trade of carpentry, and throughout his life has fol-
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lowed it mainly and has rarely been unemployed. He has been identified with the building of several well-known buildings, including the local Presbyterian Church. Latterly he has lived a retired life, and has many very old and very sincere friends. He is generally respected in the neighborhood, and although he has never sought public office, the respect in which he and his father have been held would have assured him office had he cared to seek it. He has, however, served as road supervisor, and in his younger days he took active part in community movements.
In 1869 Thomas Weaver married in Allen County, Ohio, Susan Smith, who was born in Hardin County, Ohio, October 19, 1844, daughter of Solomon and Hannah (Rayl) Smith. Her parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and when they came into Ohio they first settled in Wayne County, moving to Allen County a short while before the outbreak of the Civil war. Solomon Smith died in Allen County when seventy-four years old, and his wife when eighty-four years old. There were eight children, but Susan, who married Thomas Weaver, was the only one to come into the Mahoning Valley. Of the eight children four still live: John, who is a farmer in Allen County ; Prudence, also in Allen County, widow of Samuel Mack; William, who lives at McComb, Illinois; and Susan, Mrs. Weaver. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver have two children : Lizzie married Jesse J. Poage, city motorman at Lima, Ohio. They have no children. John S. is successfully farming in Green Township. He married Hattie Goodman, who has borne him four children, Wilber, Charles, Grace and Herbert.
A pleasurable association to which Mr. Thomas Weaver looks forward year by year is the gathering of members of the Beachwood Sporting Club, of which he was one of the founders about forty years ago. The members, who are real and enthusiastic sportsmen and hunters met annually in September-October for a hunt and dinner without a break until 1918, when influenza raged throughout the country, and of the eight founders of the club seven still live. The deceased original member is Edmund Burgett. The seven still living are : Robert Asa Manchester, of Canfield; Comfort Bowman, of Ellsworth Township; Morris Bowman, also of Ellsworth; John Miller, of Salem ; Thomas Weaver; S. 0. Manchester, of Niles, Trumbull County ; and Will Cessna, of Goshen Township. The wives of the members have also looked forward to the festive annual meet, which they have been privileged to attend, and the practice so long continued constitutes one of the most pleasurable events of each year to these old friends.
COY BROTHERS. The brothers, Irvin W., Wesley H. and Emerson W. Coy, of Green Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, responsible and progressive citizens, well-known among agriculturists and Mahoning County residents, especially in that part of the county centering in Green Township, are the sons of the late Silas Coy, a Civil war veteran of honorable record and a native of Green Township. The Coy family is one of the pioneer families of the county, and many other references to the family will be found elsewhere in this current history, and extensive reference in the sketch of Dr. L. D. Coy.
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Silas Coy was born in Green Township, Mahoning County, on April 4, 1841, and died at Calla, a hamlet in Green Township, on February 15, 1901. His life was passed mainly in the township, and was one of unselfish service and honorable living. When the Civil war came he enlisted in Company A of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which unit he saw only two months short of three years of strenuous war service. Later he was a farmer in Green Township, and for ten years was a merchant in Greenford, eventually going to live at Calla, where, about three-quarters of a mile east of the station, is the present farm of the Coy Brothers. There Silas Coy spent his last years. He was a man of strong religious conviction, and actively furthered the cause of the church. For many years he was an elder of the local church of the Disciples of Christ denomination, and was esteemed for his frank characteristics and his strong religious spirit. He married Anna Cool, whom he preceded in death by two years. She also was born in Green Township, near Calla, on the original Cool homestead, that family having been one of the first in the township, coming from West Virginia before any roads had been made through the woods. Anna Cool's father at the time of the coming of the family into Ohio was only a lad of sixteen years, but he was to an extent the head of the family, for his mother was widowed, and he was her eldest son. The county records, however, will show Philip Cool, Jacob's father's brother, as the first of the family to take up residence in the township, for he came with Jacob and his mother, and he cared for both of them until Jacob was self-sustaining. Philip Cool took wild land in Green Township, and in the developing of it passed the remainder of his life in the township, where he died in old age. In due course Jacob, who eventually owned the same farm, died, having lived a long and industrious life of more than eighty years. One of the children of Jacob Cool still survives, Lydia Messerly, who now owns and still lives on the original Cool farm near Calla. Silas and Anna (Cool) Coy were the parents of three sons, Irvin W., Wesley H., and Emerson W., who have held loyally together in almost all things, and have won joint success in business. They constitute the Coy Brothers Company, which has entered considerably into contracting enterprises in Mahoning County, undertaking many important contracts for road construction. During the last twelve years they have steadily operated as road contractors. They built the first good road in Canfield Township, that being from Herberts Corners to Beech Tree Corners, a distance of one and a quarter miles, the contract price for which was $5,400. They have undertaken road construction in many parts of the county, and have enviable reputations as contractors. It appears that they were the pioneers of the process now common in the district to use crushed slag as a foundation for the roadways; and it is stated that they laid the first road with such a foundation in the county, the particular section being a stretch on the Loveland Hill. The slag is obtained from various iron mills, and makes an excellent base; and by its use the Coy brothers gained much credit. They are considered to be among the most successful road builders in the county, and they might have extended their field operations beyond the limits of the county had t not other business ties. They operate an extensive farm in Green Township, one of 365 acres, and have all fatten beef cattle on their farm each year. They are well-known breeders of Duroc-Jersey swine, and have been successful exhibitors at agricultural fairs. The brothers are undoubtedly, progressive, alert business men, enterprising and capable. At one time they delt somewhat extensively in coal, supplying coal to Canfield for three or four years. And all are in good personal repute, as men of good moral and material integrity. Irvin W. has been a justice of peace for two terms and is a Mason ; Emerson W. was a prominent Odd Fellow, and all three brothers are staunch Republicans in local and national politics, are active members of the local Grange, and are consistent churchmen, members of the local church of the Disciples of Christ, in which their father was an elder.
Only one has married. Wesley H., married Belle Godward, who has borne him six children. The children, in order of birth, are: Carl G., Bessie Estella, Anna Catherine, Walter Emerson, Esther and Helen.
HON. HENRY W. DAVIS. A Youngstown business man and public leader of genuine distinction was taken from the community by death on September 28, 1919. Senator Davis was a comparatively young man, and his death was largely due to the exertions he had put forth during the last two or three years as a member of the State Senate and as an intense worker in many local patriotic campaigns.
His life was an inspiring one, not only for its important achievements in later years, but for his struggles and adversities he had to contend with as a boy. He was born at Youngstown, April 11, 1863, oldest of the six children of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Jones) Davis. His father was a native of Wales, came to the United States when a boy, and grew up near Mineral Ridge and Youngstown, Ohio. In 1849 he went overland to California, and on his return brought with him $6,000 in gold, then consider a large fortune. He used this largely to develop some coal fields in the Mahoning Valley. Death overtook him in his labors at an early age, in 1876. His window died in 1877. Only two of their children are now living: Mark E. Davis, of Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Mrs. Samuel P. Orth, of Ithaca, New York.
Henry W. Davis was only fourteen years of age when his parents died. At the age of thirteen he practically gave up his work in the public schools and any became the mainstay of his widowed mother and the five younger children. For a number of years he was an employe of the Brown-Bonnell mill, receiving 75 cents a day. He was at the furnace and in other departments of that mill for fourteen years, and when he left he was boss heater. In 1886 he engaged in the real estate business, operating individually as an agent. Not long afterward he secured some land at Steelton, and began the work with which his name is best associated, establishing an developing homes for working people. Subsequent! he organized his business as the H. W. Davis Lan Company, and that organization developed the Pleas-
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ant Grove community, now regarded as the finest suburb of Youngstown. He also organized the Banner Electric Company for the making of electric globes, and was chairman of its board of directors until the plant was taken over by the trust. Senator Davis always felt a high degree of pride in this business. The company furnished the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo with a million globes.
It was through Mr. Davis that the Town of McDonald was put on the map in 1916, his company buying the townsite for the United States Steel Company. He also organized the Mahoning County Abstract Company, which is now controlled by the Realty Trust Company of Youngstown. It is said that individually he built in Youngstown more than Soo homes for working people.
His first entry into politics was in 1889, when he was elected recorder of Mahoning County. He was defeated in the Cleveland landslide of 1892, but in 1895 was again chosen to that office. In 1916 he was elected a member of the State Senate and re-elected in 1918. During the first session he was chairman of the military affairs committee and was chairman of the finance committee in the second session. He probably had as much committee work assigned him as any other member of the State Senate. He was indefatigable in his labors, and his name is permanently impressed upon some of the best constructive legislation in recent years. He introduced and worked for the passage of the State Constabulary Bill, which, owing to the active opposition of the labor interests, was defeated. Senator Davis also supported amended Senate Bill No. 47, approved by Governor Cox, May 29, 1919, providing for the formation and reorganization of corporations with common stock without par value. This measure created fundamental changes in Ohio Corporation Law. He also introduced the Water Conservation Bill and the Sanitary District Bill, and was author of the bill providing for the raising of workmen's compensation, the final compromise figure becoming $5,000 instead of $3,500. An active and influential member of the Senate committee on banks and banking, he did much to bring about re-codification of the banking laws of the state and put on the statute books the present banking code, admittedly one of the best in the whole country. Of his work as a senator a Youngstown paper said : "He was known as one of the most fearless men who ever appeared on the floor of the Senate. He stood for what he believed was right no matter what the consequences, political or otherwise, might be for himself. Because of this he held a unique position, being respected and trusted by capital and labor alike."
Senator Davis was a member of the Youngstown Club, was a charter member and the first honorary president of the Youngstown Real Estate Board, was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and during the war had an active part on several war committees.
On September 10, 1889, he married Miss Leonora Thullen, of Youngstown. Mrs. Davis and two children survive: Mrs. Helen J. McDonald, of Freeport, Long Island, and Fred H. Davis.
Fred H. Davis now has active charge of the H. W. Davis & Son Company at Youngstown. He received a careful training from his father in the real estate business and spent much time in that line in San Francisco and other points in California. Fred Davis married Miss Florence Renner, of Youngstown, and they have one child, Henry W. Davis II.
LYMAN ZIMMERMAN, whose residence and farm are within 400 yards of the village of Greenford, Green Township, is one of the oldest and best known residents of that township. He was born about eighty years ago, on December 30, 1840, about 1 1/2 miles to the southward in Green Township, then in Columbiana County. His parents, John and Louisa (Roller) Zimmerman, lived the greater part of their lives in Green Township, and others members of the Zimmerman family are also of honorable record in Columbiana and Mahoning Counties of Ohio. The family formerly was resident in Pennsylvania, and Joseph Zimmerman, father of John R., moved from Lancaster County to Adams County of that state some years anterior to their coming into Ohio. In Adams County, Pennsylvania, Joseph Adams acquired a tract of 900 acres of farming land, although possibly when he secured it it was more or less in the wild state. He died when he was in the prime of life, being only thirty-nine years old. Three of the sons of Joseph Adams were John R., Peter and Henry. All three came into Ohio, although Henry did not stay long, returning to the parental farm in Adams County, Pennsylvania, where he spent the remainder of his life, and where Peter also died, while on a visit to his brother. John R. and Peter were both carpenters by trade, and in 1832 they erected a substantial farm barn on the old homestead. Lyman, son of John R., saw the barn in 1892, and it was then still in use in comparatively good condition. The farm is still in the possession of the children of Joseph, another brother of John R. Also, there were two daughters of Joseph Zimmerman, Esther and Elizabeth. Esther was in Ohio somewhat earlier than her brothers John R., Peter and Henry. She had taken up the responsibilities of housekeeper in the home of her uncle, David Wiekert, about two years earlier than 1834 or 1835, which is stated to have been the time when the brothers left Pennsylvania. Peter came to the village of Greenford, Green Township, where he lived for the greater part of his life, working industriously and profitably at his trade, carpentry, and also to some extent farming, having a small agricultural property in the township. Two of his sons, Keller and Joseph, both live now at Salem, Ohio. The daughter, Elizabeth, married John Henderson, a weaver, also of Green Township until about 1853, when the Hendersons removed to Allen County, Indiana, where Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Henderson died. Esther Zimmerman left her uncle Weikert's home eventually to marry William Roller, a successful farmer in Green Township. She died in the township at the age of fifty-nine years.
John R. Zimmerman, son of Joseph, married Louisa Roller, sister of William Roller, who married John R Zimmerman's 'sister Esther. Louisa Roller was a daughter of Judge Jacob Roller, a prominent jurist of Mahoning County, for many years a justice, and also at one time a representative in the State Legislature. John R. Zimmerman had a small farm
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situated in the northeast section of the township. In about 1857 he sold that farm and for the next seven years lived at Franklin Square, Columbiana County, during the period farming a property he had purchased in that neighborhood. At the end of that time, however, he sold the property and located near Salem, where he had a farm for some years, eventually retiring to the village of Salem, where he died at the age of seventy years. His wife, Louisa Roller, had, however, been dead for many years, her demise occurring when she was only thirty-nine years old. Later he was twice married, his second wife being Nancy Fugate, who died in Columbiana County, and his third wife, Mary Teegarden, a widow, survived him for many years. In fact, she lived to almost reach her moth year, and in her extreme old age was well cared for by a nephew and niece at Salem. The children born to John R. Zimmerman by his first wife, Louisa Roller, were : Lyman, whose life will be referred to later herein; Elizabeth, who married Dilworth Greenawalt, a neighboring farmer, and died in the township when seventy years old; Mary, who married Ellis Marshall, and lived at Franklin Square until her death, which occurred after she had passed the age of sixty years ; James M., who died in childhood; William, who remained in Columbiana County, dying at the early age of twenty-nine years ; and Joseph Ezra, whose death occurred when he was seven years old.
Lyman Zimmerman, the eldest and only surviving child of John R. Zimmerman by his first wife, Louisa Roller, was born in Green Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, on December 3o, 184o. He received what education was possible with the limited facilities of the public schools of his day, and lived with his parents until he was sixteen years old. At that time his father sold the old home in Green Township, and for seven years thereafter the family lived at Franklin Square, returning, however, to Greenford when Lyman was twenty-three years old. His uncle, William Roller, was a storekeeper in Greenford, and Lyman for a while lived with his uncle. During the three or four years he was with his uncle he farmed to some extent, and also hauled goods from Salem and hauled wool and other produce to that place. During those years he was a tenant farmer, operating the Lewis Baker farm, one of the best in Green Township, and 110 acres in extent. After some difficulty he was able to purchase it from the heirs, six daughters of Lewis Baker, who had bequeathed it in equal shares to the daughters, from whom Lyman had to buy it in sections. Eventually it all came into his possession, and since that time it has remained his property. He has very much improved it. All the buildings now used were erected by him, including the commodious house. Lyman Zimmerman has lived an industrious life, and has proved himself to be an enterprising man of good business ability. For thirty years he conducted a saw mill in the village. The stack of the mill still stands, and is a reminder of the busy days when the mill was in constant operation. Lyman Zimmerman was always able to find means to keep the mill in operation. Farmers at times would haul logs to the mill, and at other times Lyman would buy the standing timber and clear it. No tract was too extensive for him to handle, and throughout the thirty years during whic he operated the mill he had only one serious accident; that was in 1879 when the choking of a safety valve caused the boiler to explode, demolishing the building and brick stack. Within six weeks, however, a new boiler was in position, and sawing resumed. Mr. Zimmerman used a Buckeye engine, attached directly to the saw shaft, the engine running at 400 revolutions per minute. Lyman Zimmerman has shown that he is a very practical and capable man, and also a man of good public spirit and community interest. He has built several wooden bridges in the neighborhood, sawing the material necessary to construct them. He has given g00d service to the community in educational matters, for ten years having been a member of the school board. Religiously he is a Lutheran, a member for very many years of the local church of that denomination.
Lyman Zimmerman was married on June 17, 1866, to Dorothy Pregenzer, who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and who came to this country when she was seventeen years old. She was twenty-four years old in the year of her marriage. They have five children, the children by name and in order of birth being: Vernon Victor, who now lives in Youngstown; Raba Ritz, who is in the federal civil service, a mail carrier in the City of Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio; Emery Ellis, who lives in Youngstown, and has been a sch00l teacher for many years; Lillie Leila, who married Jonathan Shaffer, of Green Township; and John Carl, who lives at Castalia, Ohio. He has been in the teaching profession since leaving sch00l, and for two years was township school superintendent.
RAY CALEB ARNER, who owns a large farm in Canfield Township, about thirteen miles southwest of Youngstown, on the state improved road, is a man of wide experience and superior education. He comes of the well-known Arner family which was one of the first to settle in the Mahoning Valley. He is a great-grandson of Philip Arner, who was the first settler in Ellsworth Township, where the family has had residence and has owned land since 1803. Other and extensive reference is contained elsewhere in the present work as to Philip Arner and his pioneer efforts, and the family record is spread in detail, so that it will be unnecessary here to give more than a brief outline. Philip Arner married Susan Broadsword in Pennsylvania, and two of their children were born in that state. Philip Arner was the first settler in Ellsworth Township, and after him came his wife's brother. Philip owned 400 acres of wild land in Ellsworth' Township, which during the forty-eight years of his residence in Ellsworth Township he gradually brought into cultivation. He died in 1851, aged seventy-five years. His widow lived for a further fourteen years, dying in the township in 1865, aged considerably more than eighty years. Their son Daniel eventually came into possession, by purchase, of the parental estate, and l00ked after the comfort of his mother in her old age. His wife was Elizabeth (Harklerode) Arner, who preceded him in death by twenty-five years. She bore him four children, of whom Caleb B., father of Ray Caleb, was the third born.
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Caleb B. Arner, son of Daniel D. and Elizabeth (Harklerode) Arner, was born on the original Amer homestead in Ellsworth Township, on January 28, 1853, and there he has lived until the present, the farm eventually becoming his property. Throughout his life he has been mainly responsible for its cultivation, and has lived a useful, honorable life. He is much respected in his home township, and has many friends throughout the county. He married Winona, daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Cammert) Vesey, the former a Civil war veteran who died in Warren, Trumbull County, in 1906. Caleb B. and Winona (Vesey) Arner had nine children, of whom Ray Caleb was the third born.
Ray Caleb, son of Caleb B. and Winona (Vesey) Arner, was born in the old Amer homestead in Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, on September 2, 1889. When he was ten years old he went to live with Hugh Stewart in Canfield Township. He lived in that home for six years, during which he attended the "Dublin" School in the "Dublin" section of Canfield Township, the section being so named to distinguish it from an adjoining section, designated "German." Ray C. Amer was well educated. After he had passed through the public elementary and high schools he entered the North-Eastern Ohio Normal College at Canfield, taking the whole four-year course at that college, after which he was an undergraduate at Wooster University for two years. After leaving college he worked for about twelve months in the shops of the Buckeye Engine Works at Salem, Ohio. Then followed three years on the farm of S. J. Misner, after which for a year he was with Asher Manchester. He then spent two years in southwestern states, Arizona and California, after which he returned to his native state and took over the operation of the Misner farm in Canfield Township. About one year later he became connected with the farm he now owns, working for two years for Arthur Schermerhorn. On January 10, 1917, he married Dora (Frederick) Schermer-horn, widow of Arthur Schermerhorn. They have one daughter, Esther.
The farm is a good one, of 244 acres, and Mr. Amer is farming it intelligently and successfully. It is well adapted to the class of farming to which he puts it, that is, dairy and general farming. He has a large herd of thoroughbred Jersey cattle, and has a good Youngstown trade for the butter the farm manufactures. Mr. Amer is quite an agricultural student, has read deeply of modern scientific methods, has a comprehensive understanding of soil fertility and conservation, and has put his study into practice on his farm with marked success. He is a progressive farmer, well representative of the younger generation of Mahoning County agriculturists.
WILLIAM LOCKWOOD COALE, banker and man of affairs, is one of the progressive men of the Mahoning Valley and a potent factor in the development of the financial, industrial and commercial interests of the City of Warren, to which city he came as a poor boy in 1889.
He has been recognized as one of the progressive business men of Warren for more than a generation; he has actively participated in many of the more im portant public movements within the city ; and has throughout the period manifested a sincerity in his endeavors to advance the prosperity and welfare of the community, and to encourage thrift among the people. He organized and established the Peoples Saving Company of Warren, which institution is popularly known as "Bill Coale's Bank," and he has been its president since its incorporation. It was directly through his instrumentality that the Warren Guaranteed Mortgage Company came into being in 1918, with Mr. Coale as treasurer and general manager. He organized and is the president and guiding genius of the William Coale Development Company, the operations of which have been of great and lasting benefit to the city as regards its residential attractions.
Regarding the William Coale Development Company the Warren Daily Tribune of recent date said editorially : "More power to the William Coale Development Company and to Mr. Coale. In the past few years Mr. Coale has acquired vast interests in and about Warren. He owns several fine farms, a lot of blooded cattle, industrial and bank stocks, and perhaps a thousand acres of in-lying property, and in addition upwards of a thousand city building lots. It is Mr. Coale's desire that his holdings shall be developed for the g00d of the community, and that is the reason for the incorporation of the William Coale Development Company. Mr. Coale is a successful business man and a public spirited citizen. He has ever stood ready to place his energies and his abilities at the service of his city, and whenever called upon and wherever placed his labors for his home town have been efficient, successful and beneficial. Thanks for Mr. Coale."
Mr. Coale has been prominently connected with many important industrial enterprises, chief among them perhaps being the Sterling Electrical Manufacturing Company, of which he was one of the incorporators in 1901, and which eventually was sold to the General Electric Company, the plant in its reorganized state becoming the Sterling Division of the General Electric Company, of which Mr. Coale is treasurer and general manager. Mr. Coale's standing, therefore, among the industrial magnates of Warren, among the bankers and among the public workers is quite evident from the foregoing, which is but a brief review of his activities during the last few decades.
Mr. Coale was born at New Brighton, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1870, and is descended from two pioneer families of the Beaver Valley. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Coale, was a native of Maryland and a miller by trade. He settled at New Brighton when he was a young man. There he married Sarah, the daughter of William Townsend, a Beaver Valley pioneer who, among other things, was financially interested in the building of the old toll bridge which spanned Beaver River on the road from Beaver Falls to New Brighton.
Garrison Coale, son of Joseph and Sarah Coale and father of William Lockwood Coale, was born at New Brighton, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1844. He married Rebecca Parker, who died September 27, 1919. When he was in his seventeenth year Garrison Coale enlisted in Company C, Sixty-Third Pennsyl-
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vania Volunteer Infantry. He served through three years of campaigning, and after the war took up railroad occupation, which, however, he eventually had to give up, being incapacitated for such strenuous labors by injuries he had received during his military service. In about 1878 he moved into Ohio and settled in the Mahoning Valley at Youngstown, where he has since lived, and where during his long residence he has always been a responsible and reliable citizen, and where he has been honored with prominent duties in the functioning of the veteran corporation of that place. He has served as commander of Tod Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and for almost twenty-five years has been adjutant of that post.
William L. Coale was only about seven years of age when his parents removed to Youngstown. His education therefore had scarcely begun. He attended the Youngstown public schools until he was about eighteen years old. In N. he went to Warren in search of employment, reaching that city with not more than 3o cents in the pockets of a badly damaged suit of clothes. His frayed garments did not apparently handicap him in his search, for he promptly found employment with George Townsend, upholsterer, of Warren, in whose employ, however, he did not long remain. In 1890 he became general agent for B. D. Hayes & Company, publishers of Warren. He evidently did well in such commercial work, for in 1891 he was able, with another, to purchase the business of G. W. Tyler & Company, which business had for many years been generally known as the Camp & Randall Manufacturing Company and did a somewhat extensive business in milling, in the sale of feed and such allied commodities, and in another non-allied line, building materials. Mr. Coale continued in partnership with William Kelley in the operation of that business under the firm name of Kelley & Coale until 1893, in which year W. H. and W. E. Peffer were admitted into partnership, the business then including the Van Gordon Flour Mill, and the trading name was changed with the reorganization to that of the Warren Milling Company, of which Mr. Coale became general manager. In 1895 it became advisable, with increasing expansion, to secure corporate powers, and in that year the partners secured charter of incorporation, under which they traded as the Cereal Supply Company, and developed rapidly, operating mills and retail stores at Warren, Ohio, and Erie, Pennsylvania.
In 1898 Mr. Coale sold his interest in the company, having in view another business enterprise that promised greater benefit. Soon afterward he joined the brothers H. S. and John Pew, John Masters and some other Warren business men in organizing the Elastic Pulp Plaster Company, and after incorporation Mr. Coale was elected vice president of that company, and as such took a leading part in the direction of its affairs. He evidently had marked ability as an organizer and executive, for three years later he took a principal part in the organization of the Sterling Electrical Manufacturing Company, of which he became treasurer and general manager. Eventually the business was absorbed by the General Electric Company, to the advantage of the original owners. Mr. Coale was retained as treasurer and general manager, capacities he has ever since held in the local company, which is designated the Sterling Division of the General Electric Company. These business operations brought Mr. Coale into an enviable position among the substantial residents of Warren, and as a capitalist of public spirit he has been drawn into cooperation in many organizations of public and semi-public character or utility. He founded the Peoples Savings Company of Warren in 1916, has been its president since it was opened on January 15, 1916, and has been the main factor in bringing it into its present stability.
In the same year he organized the William Coale Development Company, the authorized capital of which is $1,000,000. Its operations have become extensive, the company having built more than 600 residences in the City of Warren, and entered actively in the development of about t,000 acres of land it owns in the City of Warren and its environs. For many years Mr. Coale has closely followed town planning subjects, and has directed his energies particularly to matters of development in and concerning Warren, in the future of which city he has unbounded faith. He is naturally constructive, and attention given by him to any matter has generally brought productive results. The part he has taken of late years in the development of Warren has admittedly and obviously been considerable.
Mr. Coale has given the subject of Warren's possibilities much thought and investigation for a number of years, with the result that he has unbounded faith in the future of the city and has shaped his activities accordingly. While engaged in operating mills he became deeply impressed by the value of riparian rights of Warren, also of its favorable situation on the highway between two great centers of natural wealth, the Pittsburgh coal fields and the Lake Superior ore deposits, and of the fact that in the comparatively little space between Cleveland and Pittsburgh there passes every transcontinental line of railway in the United States, conditions which encourage one to believe that the Mahoning Valley will continue to become more and more important as an industrial center. Holding such views, and possessing the courage of his convictions, Mr. Coale is devoting his life to the development of Warren both as an industrial center and as a homeowning city. And as he proceeds with his development work he becomes day by day more and more confirmed in his theoretical deductions as to the future of the Mahoning Valley. He has for a number of years been a director of the Warren Board of Trade, and is a charter member of the Warren Rotary Club, both of which organizations have been factors in the growth of the city. And his connections with corporate interests in Warren seem to embrace all phases of activity. For many years he has been a stockholder in the Warren Reserve National Bank and of the Trumbull Savings & Loan Company of Warren. He was perhaps the main factor which brought into being the Elliott Electric Company of Cleveland, of which he was vice president from its incorporation until 1918, when he was elected president. This company has a leading place among the distributors of electric power machinery in that city. Mr. Coale is also identified with another similar enterprise, the
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Miller-Seldon Electric Company of Detroit, of which corporation he is vice president, and he also holds the same office in the Guaranteed Motor Company of Chicago.
Fraternally he is an Elk, a member of Warren Lodge, in fact a life member, that honor having been voted him in recent years. Religiously he is a Methodist, a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Warren and for many years one of its trustees.
Perhaps one of the most illuminating proofs of the recognition by the people of Warren of the value to the city of Mr. Coale's endeavors within it was that contained in the circumstances surrounding his recent election to the city council. He had given proof of his good citizenship by serving as chairman of the finance committee of the Warren City Council, and the people of Warren, realizing that momentous questions in the civic improvement of the city were yet unsolved, and feeling the need of the advice and directing hand of an able man in council, elected him as member from the First Ward at the November, 1919, election. He did not seek a nomination, filed no certificate of candidacy, and his name did not appear on the printed ballot papers, but a sufficient number of the voters wrote his name in on the ballot to give him a gratifying majority. Surely a singular honor. Remembering the 3o cents with which Mr. Coale began his business career in Warren thirty-one years ago, his success has been truly notable and noteworthy.
On June 22, 1899, he was married to Clara B., daughter of William Howard, of Chardon, Ohio. They have two children, Donald H. and Lorena B.
ERNEST I. ROLLER. A large part of the fruit and vegetable produce consumed in the City of Youngstown is raised out along the southern edge of Mahoning County in Green Township. A number of successful truck growers, horticulturists and farmers live in that region, and one of the best informed men on the fruit industry is Ernest I. Roller.
Mr. Roller is a son of the late Samuel W. Roller, who has the historic distinction of being the first to propagate a commercial apple orchard in this section of Ohio. His enthusiasm as a horticulturist has been shared by several of his sons, including Ernest, who for a number of years has made a profitable business of fruit growing, though his orchards are conducted as part of the general farm.
The story of this notable family, which has been identified with Mahoning County since 1802, is recited on other pages so far as concerns the earlier generations. This story also refers to the late Samuel W. Roller, whose son Ernest I. was born March 13, 1869. He and a twin sister, who died in infancy, were the youngest of nine children. Mr. Roller grew up on his father's farm, attended the district schools, and had in his father a valuable and competent adviser to direct his efforts in all branches of farming, including stock husbandry and horticulture. For two years after his marriage he continued in the service of his father, and operated a wagon produce business between the farm and Youngstown. His father died in 1902, and soon afterward Ernest acquired sixty acres of a 176-acre tract owned by his father, and this has been the scene of his active labors in farming and fruit growing. About seven years ago he built a comfortable house and has generally improved the farm with buildings and other equipment. He has increased, the area devoted to fruit crops, having set out three acres, and now has an orchard of sixteen acres. His apple varieties are the Baldwin, Stark, Gates and Ben Davis. He has one block of t00 Baldwin trees. From his orchards Mr. Roller has produced over 4,000 bushels in a season, his average being about 2,000 bushels. Some of his fruit has been displayed at various fairs, and as an enthusiast on fruit growing he is an active member of the County and State Horticultural Societies. His orchard stands on an elevation 1,268 feet above sea level, and is ideal in every respect for fruit growing. He has a storage plant so that he can hold his apples until the market is just right. He is also an active member of the Mahoning County Farm Bureau, and he and his family are members of the Baptist Church.
At the age of twenty-two Mr. Roller married Mary Cool, daughter of Philip Cool, of Green Township, and a farmer. They are the parents of four children: Harry, born in 1900, a high school student; Lois, born in 1902; Ruth, born in 1907; and Theron, born in 1909.
JEFFERSON DIEHL, a respected resident of Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, and owner of a good farm in that township, has lived practically a retired life for the last twenty years, the farm being operated by his two sons-in-law. Three generations of the Diehl family have had residence in Mahoning County, Ohio, and the family formerly was resident in Pennsylvania and earlier in Virginia. The Diehl family of still earlier generations lived in Germany, Samuel Diehl, great-grandfather of Jefferson, having been born in that country, his home being somewhere in the region of the headwaters of the Rhine. Samuel Diehl was the progenitor in America of the branch of the Diehl family to which Jefferson Diehl of Ellsworth Township belongs. Samuel Diehl after crossing to America at first settled in Virginia, but because of his opposition to slavery his life in that state was not a happy one, and eventually for that reason he removed to Bedford County, Pennsylvania, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He had six sons, among them Philip, grandfather of Jefferson. Philip was the first of the family to come into Ohio. He took up a tract of undeveloped land bordering Meander Creek in Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County, the precise location of his farm being about 3,000 yards northeastward of the Village of Ellsworth, and about four miles above the old Butler mills, which Jefferson as a boy remembers having seen in operation. Jefferson was in early boyhood when his grandfather died, the latter having passed his seventieth year, and done much pioneer work in Ellsworth Township. His children, in addition to Henry, father of Jefferson, were: John, deceased, who passed his life on the Diehl farm in Ellsworth Township, and was a reliable resident and good farmer ; Samuel, who went into Trumbull County, Ohio, where he owned an agricultural property; William, who settled in Wells Coun-
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ty, Indiana; Adam, who died in Ellsworth Township, where he passed his life industriously and enterprisingly as a farmer and miller, for many years operating a grist and saw mill he had built on a branch of Meander Creek; and Elias, who went into Kansas.
Henry Diehl, son of Philip and father of Jefferson, married Sarah Bortz, sister of Elizabeth, the grandmother of James S. Harding, a retired and well-to-do farmer of Ellsworth Township, and until recently the owner of the main part of the Bortz estate. The life of James S. Harding and further data regarding the Bortz family of Ellsworth Township are elsewhere contained in this work. After their marriage Henry Diehl and his wife settled on undeveloped land that formerly was part of the Bortz tract. Upon it Jefferson Diehl still lives, his father having converted the wilderness into productive farming land by resolute application to hard work over a period of many years. It is situated about a mile from the old Diehl home which John Diehl, brother of Henry, operated, and to the southward it adjoins the Bortz farm. Henry Diehl cleared about forty acres of timber land before he died, in 1850, death coming to him before he had reached old age. He was about fifty-seven years old in the year of his death, and at that time Jefferson was only six years old, and there was a younger child. Sarah (Bortz) Diehl, widow of Henry, survived for a further fourteen years, by which time all their children were practically able to be self-reliant. The nine children of Henry and Sarah (Bortz) Diehl were: Philip, who died when sixteen years old; Sarah, who married Jacob Loiver, a near neighbor, whose son John still lives in the township; Elizabeth, who married John Cronick, and they lived on the west side of Ellsworth Township and both are now deceased; Solomon, who died at the age of sixty-two years, his farm adjoining that of the Cronick family; Elias, who owned the Diehl grist and saw mill, which since his death has passed into the possession of his son-in-law, Marvin Barnes, the mill being situated about three quarters of a mile south of Ellsworth, and derives its power from the Mahoning Lake, antl Elias Diehl reached the age of seventy years; Maria, who married Samuel Hoyle, of Berlin Township, and both are now deceased; Catherine, who is the widow of Joseph Wilson, and whose son Henry is a well-known excavating contractor in Youngstown, Ohio; Jefferson, regarding whose life more is written hereinafter; and Henry, who married Mary Boyer, spent part of his life in the state of Washington, but he now lives in comfortable retirement in Ellsworth Township, near the station.
Jefferson Diehl, the eighth born child of Henry and Sarah (Bortz) Diehl, was twenty years old when his mother died, and at that time he and his younger brother, Henry, were mainly responsible for the operation of the home farm. For four years after the death of their mother, they continued in business partnership, having bought the rights from the other heirs. At the end of that time, however, Henry sold his portion to Jefferson, and since that time the farm has wholly belonged to the latter, and until about twenty years ago it was operated by him. Jefferson Diehl has lived a more or less retired life during the last two decades, leaving the operation of the large estate to his children. The Diehl farm comprises 196 acres, and is largely pasture; a good property, well adapted to dairy farming. Mr. Diehl has always kept good stock, raising much cattle for beef, and also entering extensively into the raising of Merino sheep. The dwelling was that originally built by his father seventy-six years ago. It has been added to and remodeled during Jefferson Diehl's occupancy of it, but the main part is much as it was when built. It has many of the modern residential conveniences, including furnace heat, and is maintained in an excellent state. Jefferson was born in the house, and it has, therefore, been his home for practically every year of his life. He has executed many improvements on the farm, including a barn, which he built in 1890, and recently a silo was added, During his years of thoughtful farming he has kept the land in good fertility by the proper use of lime, and has laid much tile drain. Altogether he has by good farming and industrious, steady life prospered well, and is much respected in the neighborhood. He is politically a democrat, of independent views, and religiously he has been a faithful and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ellsworth for forty years.
Jefferson Diehl was twenty-three years old when he married Mary Ammon. She was born in Green Township, Mahoning County, but part of her girlh00d, between the years of nine and sixteen, was spent in Mercer County, Ohio. She returned to Ma-honing County then because of malaria she had contracted in Mercer County, and until she married she lived with relatives in Mahoning County. For the marriage she went home to her parents in Mercer County, and during the short time she and her husband spent in that vicinity the latter also contracted malarial fever, from which he did not recover for many months. Mrs. Mary (Ammon) Diehl died in 1913, esteemed and mourned by many friends she had made in Mahoning County. Jefferson and Mary (Ammon) Diehl were the parents of two children: Lottie married Emery A. Bunts, who operates part of the Diehl farm. They live in the Diehl home, and Mrs. Bunts affectionately and ably l00ks after the home comfort of her father. She has borne to her husband two children, Harry and Mabel Ruth; Nellie married Fred Kramer, of Canfield Township, who, although he lives about three miles away from the Diehl farm, operates about one-half of his father-in-law's property. They have no children.
OSBORNE MITCHELL is a Youngstown lawyer whose time is largely taken up with the special branches of law relating to corporations, federal trade relations, and the income tax laws.
Mr. Mitchell was born August 18, 1886, at 'Washington, Pennsylvania, where his father, James K. Mitchell, is a stock broker. Osborne Mitchell spent his early life at Washington, graduated from the public schools and took his college work in Washington and Jefferson College. He received his A. B. degree in 1910 and his Master of Arts degree in 1911. He had in the meantime diligently pursued the study of law in the office of the local district attorney and was admitted to the local courts in
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1910 and to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania the same year.
Mr. Mitchell practiced law at Washington for fire years and in 1915 came to Youngstown as general counsel for the Petroleum Iron Works Company. He has since become regarded as one of the most competent local authorities on his special branches of law and enjoys a large and important clientage.
Mr. Mitchell is a member of the Youngstown Real Estate Board, the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, the Young Men's Christian Association, the First Presbyterian Church, and the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity. An active republican, he served during the 1920 campaign as a member of the Ma-honing County Republican Central Committee and as chairman of the Harding Campaign Committee for that county.
ROBERT JOHN KEICH. Throughout the present generation and for many years to come the technical resources and talents of Robert John Keich as an architect will have abundant proof and evidence in the Mahoning Valley, particularly at Warren, where many of the finest modern buildings, including homes, office structures and public buildings, have been designed and completed under his direct supervision.
Robert John Keich was born at Youngstown, October 2, 1882. His parents, Charles and Minnie (Brombach) Keich, were natives of the Duchy of Luxemburg. His father studied for the profession
of mining engineer in the old country. The family came to the United States in 1880, and both parents are still living. Until he retired from active business Charles Keith was for many years connected with the Republic Iron and Steel Company's Mills at Youngstown.
Robert John Keich was reared and educated at Youngstown, attending the public schools. He possessed good natural qualifications for the profession he proposed to enter, but no doubt his success is attributable largely to the remarkable persistence and energy which he has devoted to his early training and subsequent work. At the age of eighteen he entered the office of Owsley & Boucherle, then the leading firm of architects at Youngstown. He finished his apprenticeship and remained with the firm until it dissolved partnership in the fall of 1912. Then for several years he was associated with Mr. C. F. Owsley. During that time Mr. Keich superintended the construction of many of the finest buildings and residences in Youngstown, including the South High School, the new County Courthouse and jail, and while with Mr. Owsley his work included the city hall, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Wood Street Public School, the beautiful residence of C. S. Robinson of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, and the Western Reserve National Bank at Warren.
Mr. Keich spent a great deal of time at Warren while the Western Reserve Bank Building was being erected, in 1914. At that time he realized the promising field there open for his profession, and in 1915 he located permanently at Warren and took up an individual practice with offices in the Western Reserve National Bank Building.
To suggest the value of his professional services at Warren it is necessary only to mention a few of the more important buildings designed and constructed by him. These include the residence of Fred W. Stillwagon, president of the Union Savings & Trust Company; the elegant home of W. D. Packard, known as Packard Place, one of the finest residences in Ohio; the residence of Oscar A. Caldwell. In business and factory construction he was the architect for the Hippodrome Theater, the Packard Electric Company's plant, the Borden Machine Company's plant, the pattern shops and foundry of the Trumbull Manufacturing Company ; the new plant at Newton Falls, Ohio, of the Akron "Maderite" Tire and Rubber Company; the McKinley School, the Frances E. Willard School, the Warren Township School at Leavittsburg, the Lordstown Township School, the Howland Township School, the Bolindale Township School at DeForest, the Community High School at Newton Falls, combining both a high school and City Hall Building, erected as a memorial to the soldiers and sailors of that community, the First National Bank Building of Newton Falls, and for the Griswold Block on South Park Avenue, and the Sherman Block in North Park Avenue and Porter Avenue, fine business buildings. In November, 1919, Mr. Keich was chosen architect and superintendent in charge of the two new junior high schools of Warren.
Mr. Keich is a member of the Warren Rotary Club, the Warren Board of Trade, is affiliated with Old Erie Lodge No. 3, Free and Accepted Masons, the Elks Lodge No. 295, Mahoning Lodge No. 29, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Emanuel Lutheran Church. September 15, 1909, he married Miss Pearl Elizabeth Eich, daughter of Simon J. and Rena (Cook) Eich, of Youngstown. They have two sons : Ronald Charles, born July 9, 1914, and Aubrey Robert, born October 27, 1917.
J. MANDUS YAGER, one of the most representative and progressive residents of Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, township trustee and a well-to-do retired farmer of that district, is in the fourth generation of Ohio residence of the Yager family, which is classed among the pioneer families of Mahoning County.
He was born in Canfield Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, on the Yager farm which adjoined the Infirmary Farm, on December 29, 1859, the son of William and Magdalena (Probst) Yager and great-grandson of Jonathan Yager, the pioneer in Ohio of that family. The Yager family was formerly resident in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and there Jonathan Yager married and lived for some years thereafter. Extensive reference to the Yager family will be found elsewhere in this edition of Mahoning Valley history—in the sketch of George Yager, uncle of J. Mandus, and therefore the genealogical references herein with be brief. Jonathan Yager acquired a large tract of wild land in Canfield Township, Mahoning County, and there lived until his death in about 185o, he then having reached old age. The property, which was mostly undeveloped at his death, was divided among his six children, Christian, John, Henry, Samuel, Elizabeth and Martha, each receiving