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about sixty-five acres. Possibly the division was made prior to his death, for it appears that Christian, his son and grandfather of J. Mandus, took up soon after his marriage, which was in about 1835, the tract of land which was his share of the Yager estate, and which at his death passed into the possession of his son Nathan.
Christian Yager, grandfather of J. M., was born in about 1819, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania He married Martha Miller, and developed a substantial acreage in Canfield Township, Mahoning County. In the year of his father's death, or soon afterward, Christian built upon his sixty-five acres a substantial residence, which is still in fine repair and was occupied by Nathan, son of Christian, until the former's death in 1916. At the time it was built, in 1850, it was one of the best residences in the township. Christian Yager also built the barn still used. His sixty-five acres adjoined that of his sister Elizabeth, who married Philip Stitle, and after the death of his sister and her husband Christian Yager bought the Stitle farm from the heirs. He lived a long and useful life, death not coming until 1901, when he was eighty-two years old. For forty-five years he had been a widower, his wife, Martha Miller, having died in about 1856. Their surviving children were: William, father of J. M.; Nathan, who took over the operation of his father's original farm and lived upon it until his death ; George, who owns the Stitle farm, and also the Everett farm in Austintown Township, where he now lives in comfortable retirement.
William Yager, eldest son of Christian and Martha (Miller) Yager, was born in Canfield Township in about 1836. In 1896 he removed to Newton Falls, Ohio, and ten years later purchased the farm in Ellsworth Township upon which he has since lived. It is about one mile to the southward of the property of his son J. M., and was known as the Gee farm, the tract of 200 acres having been first settled by Nicholas Gee. It was from Joshua Gee, son of Nicholas, that William Yager bought the estate. However, within a year of his entering into possession of that property William Yager lost his wife, who died in February, 1907, and the past thirteen years of his life have to that extent been lonely. He has altogether retired from active pursuits on the farm, which is now occupied by his son Uriah, who is unmarried, and a granddaughter, Bertha Musser, attends to the housekeeping duties. William Yager has lived a long life, for the most part spent in useful agricultural effort. He is much respected in the township in which his family has lived for so many decades, in Canfield Township; and, like his father and grandfather, he has throughout his life been a conscientious observer of church responsibilities. He is one of the oldest members of the Zion Reformed Church, and in younger days was more active in church affairs. To him and to his wife, Magdalena Probst, were born eleven children, ten of whom reached majority, and seven of whom still survive. The eleven children were: Heman F., who now lives in Berlin. Township, Mahoning County, Ohio ; J. Mandus, of whom more follows ; Charles, who lives in Wood County, Ohio; Jeff, who also lives in Wood County; Isabel, who married John Kale, of Wood County ; Urias, who operates the home farm in Ellsworth Township; Dallas, who lives in Northwestern Ohio; Anna, who married John Berkey and lived at Cornersburg; Edward, deceased, lived in Wood County, but never married; Rachel, deceased, married William Musser, now of Youngstown, and their daughter Bertha is housekeeper for her grandfather, William Yager, and her uncle Urias; and Sherman, who was a farmer in Newton Falls, and whose death resulted from blood poisoning, developed from an injured hand.
J. Mandus Yager, second child of William and Magdalena (Probst) Yager, was born in 1859, passed his boyhood in Canfield Township, and since early manhood has been industriously and successfully farming. He owns the Stroup farm, which is about a mile distant from his father's farm and only a short distance west of the original site of Butler's mills. It is, of course, not far from the place of his birth, and he recalls going often as a boy to the creek alongside which the mills were located. The Stroup farm is a well-improved property of sal acres, and was originally owned by a pioneer named Wolfe, who ninety years ago built the brick dwelling which is still in excellent condition and is occupied by Mr. Yager. Pioneer Wolfe's only daughter married a farmer named Eckenrode, whom she survived, afterward marrying Nathan Stroup. Both died on the farm, and Mr. Yager bought the estate at sheriff's sale. He has rebuilt the barn, putting thereon a slate roof, and in many other ways has improved the property, which has yielded him good return for his labor and enterprise.
Mr. Yager has shown himself to be a good citizen, skillful and industrious in his business enterprises, and a useful and public-spirited resident. He has served on the school board, and is one of the township trustees. In politics he is of independent inclination. During the World war he co-operated in much of the local war effort, and throughout was keenly interested, having given his eldest son to the national service in one of the most dangerous branches of the army.
He was twenty-nine years old when he married Clara Ann Clay, daughter of Isaac Clay, of Green Township. Mrs. Yager was twenty-one years old when she married, and since then four children have been born to them. In order of birth the children are Howard Edward, Lulu May, Floyd Clay and Josephine Laura, all being still in the parental home.
Howard Edward, eldest child of J. Mandus and Clara Ann (Clay) Yager, is a veteran of the World war. He enlisted in the infantry branch of the United States Army, and was early in France, spending almost a year in the theatre of operations. He saw active service during the terrible Argonne drive, and was in the front line trenches on the day the armistice was signed and hostilities ended. Eventually he returned to America, and after receiving honorable discharge came home, and has since taken much of the burden of the farm operation from his father.
JOHN S. MALMSBERRY. For nearly thirty years a distinctive industry of the little town of North Benton in Smith Township of Mahoning County has been
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the Shetland Pony farm of the Malmsberry family. The industry was first established and cultivated to prosperous proportions by the late Joel Malmsberry, whose son, John S., is now proprietor of the Shady-side Farms, where the raising and handling of Shetland Ponies is the chief industry.
There must have been a strong love of children in the heart of the late Joel Malmsberry, since so many years of his life were given to the handling of the ponies which are the delight of boys and girls. Joel Malmsberry, who died January 9, 1915, was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1842, son of William and Maria (Solomon) Malmsberry. He was of English Quaker ancestry. In 1843 the Malmsberry family came to Ohio and settled in Goshen Township of Mahoning County. The land they first owned in that section is now included in the village of Garfield. Subsequently they moved to the northern part of the same township, where William Malmsberry died in 1865. The mother died at the home of her son Joel at the age of eighty years.
Joel Malmsberry was the only surviving son of his parents, as John S. is the only son of Joel. Joel was educated in Goshen Township and in 1876 moved to North Benton. During the Civil war he was a member of Company G of the Eighty-Sixth Ohio Infantry, participating in the West Virginia campaign under General McClellan. At North Benton he was a merchant for seventeen years, part of the time postmaster, and after that until his death he gave his attention to farming and stock raising. He owned over 400 acres and made his Smith Township farm the center of his Shetland Pony industry.
The first wife of Joel Malmsberry was Margaret Sproat, daughter of John Sproat, of Smith Township. She was the mother of two children: Mary, who died about a year and a half after her father, the wife of T. Bundy; and John S. Joel Malmsberry married for his second wife Sally Henry, daughter of Richard and Caroline Henry. The only daughter of this marriage, Ruth, is at home with her mother.
John S. Malmsberry was born at the farm where he now lives September 27, 1886, and finished his education with a commercial course at Mount Union College. In his father's lifetime he became interested in the Shetland Pony industry and while his father usually sold about fifty head of these ponies annually the industry is now built up and organized until the Shadyside Farms send more than 200 Shetlands to individual purchasers in a single year. Fully a fourth of the ponies are raised on the farm. The breeding stock comprises more than 100 head and many others are imported or bought from other breeders. There is in course of construction a barn representing a large amount of invested capital and with every equipment for the proper handling of the ponies. John S. Malmsberry is owner and proprietor of the home place of 100 acres, and has two other farms, one eighty-two and the other eighty-nine acres, giving him 260 acres for the growing of the feed required for his stock. He farms in the modern fashion, using two tractors, has automobile trucks and other modern equipment.
April 21, 1916, Mr. Malmsberry married May Lee, of Spring Arbor, Michigan. They have one son, Robert. Mr. Malmsberry for several years has been the republican member of the election board of his township, is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a Knight Templar Mason at Alliance. His father was also active in politics, serving on the school board and as township treasurer.
HARRY L. DAVIS, who with his father and later with his brothers Frank B. and Reuben E., known as Evan J. Davis Sons, built many miles of the modern streets and roadways in and around Youngstown, has in recent years given most of his time to the development and handling of real estate properties, chiefly those of the Davis family.
He was born in Youngstown in February, 1881, son of Evan J. and Priscilla (Lewis) Davis. His parents were both natives of Wales, and were children when the respective families came to Ohio. Ebenezer Davis, father of Evan J., went out to the California gold fields and acquired a modest fortune in that region. On returning to Youngstown he bought the lands now marked by the great steel plants of the Brown-Bonnell and Republic companies. The old family homestead stood on the ground now occupied by the Brown-Bonnell plant. Some of the streets marking the old Davis property are Federal, Front, Commerce and Hazel.
The late Evan J. Davis was a coal merchant, being at one time connected with the company that is now the Youngstown Coal and Ice Company, and gave his capital and enterprise to many other interests. For a number of years he maintained an extensive equipment and a large organization for handling contract work, and graded and built many of the streets in Youngstown and laid most of the sewers of the city. He was a member of the firm of Davis, Walker & Cooper, who built and operated a foundry on Decker Street. Evan J. Davis was a republican, was an Odd Fellow, and he and his wife were active members of the Welsh Congregational Church. He died in 1906, at the age of fifty-three, leaving a record of sound achievement and good citizenship. His widow, Priscilla (Lewis) Davis, who is still living, is a daughter of Ebenezer Lewis, who was also an early resident of the Mahoning Valley. Five of the seven children of Mr. Davis and wife are living, and all are residents of Chicago except Harry.
Harry L. Davis completed his education in the Rayen High School and took up the business of street contracting with his father, and after the latter's death constructed many miles of streets in the city. Members of the Davis family were among the first to discover the value of slag, a by-product of the steel plants, for road building, and Mr. Davis used immense quantities of slag to prepare the hard surfaced highways in the Mahoning Valley, one that illustrates the use of this material being the Austintown-Jackson Road. It was through the efforts of Harry L. Davis and his brother, Frank B. Davis, that the first slag crushing plant was installed in this vicinity, making possible the townsite called McDonald, between Girard and Niles.
Mr. Davis is a republican, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church. His real estate offices are in the Dollar Bank Building. He married in
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1914 Miss Belle Thomas, daughter of M. Thomas, of Coitland, Ohio. They have two children, Marlin and Dorothy Jean.
EDWARD THOMAS BUTLER, traffic manager of the Trumbull Steel Company of Warren, was born September 15, 1884, at Youngstown, the son of James and Mary Ann (Stotler) Butler. His father was born at Mineral Ridge, Ohio, while his grandfather, also James Butler, was a native of Ireland, and at one time a contracting carpenter at Youngstown, but later a farmer at Mineral Ridge. James Butler, Jr., is one of the veteran railroad men of the Mahoning Valley. For thirty-two years he has been connected with what is now the Baltimore & Ohio. He was also a prominent figure in the democratic party at Youngstown, he having been the nominee of that party for the office of mayor and served as city commissioner and as commissioner of public safety. He is now living retired. His wife, Mary Ann Stotler, was born at Mineral Ridge, daughter of Michael Stotler, who was born and married in Alsace-Lorraine, France.
Edward T. Butler spent his early life at Youngstown, is a graduate of the St. Columba Parochial School with the class of 1900, and from the Rayen High School in 1903. Immediately after finishing his high school course he entered the rating and accounting department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company at Youngstown, and was employed in a similar department of the Erie Railway and with the Lake Shore of the New York Central Lines. The training and experience he gained with these railways secured for him an opening in the accounting and traffic department of the Republic Iron and Steel Company at Youngstown in 1907. He was with that corporation about seven years. In January, 1914, he was appointed traffic manager of the Trumbull Steel Company at Warren.
Mr. Butler is also traffic manager and a director of the Warren Board of Trade and is a member of the Pittsburgh Traffic Association. He is affiliated with Warren Lodge of the Elks and the Knights of Columbus, and is a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. January to, 1906, he married Miss Nora A. Conroy, daughter of Marcus and Mary (Joyce) Conroy, of Youngstown. They have four children: Mary Louise, born March 18, 1907; Edward, born November 4, 1911; William, born May 16, 1913; and James, born August 6, 1918.
WILBUR H. GEESMAN. The successful man in the steel industry is never afraid of hard work, and he is not the type of man who allows any ordinary circumstances to interfere with his direct progress toward the goal of his ambition. A case in point is that of Wilbur H. Geesman, general superintendent of the Brier Hill Steel Company. It was on Friday, the 13th of August, 1901, that he began his career in and knowledge of the steel business. At that date he became a clerk in the accounting department of the Illinois Steel Corporation at South Chicago. He remained with that department long enough to fill every position in it and to work at every desk in the office.
His next promotion was to a place of harder work, as chief clerk to the furnace superintendent. This was a job requiring his presence 365 days of the year, with extra pay for continuous employment. From that he was made assistant to the superintendent. That position was especially created for him, On August 5, 1906, he began his duties, with eleven blast furnaces under his direction. April to, 1910, a little less than four years later, he was transferred to the great steel city of Gary, where he was made superintendent in charge of the blast furnace department, with twelve blast furnaces under his supervision.
Mr. Geesman came to Youngstown in February, 1917, and has since had the responsibilities of general superintendent of the steel works of the Brier Hill Company. Few men have made more satisfactory progress and have more real achievements to their credit within less than twenty years than Mr. Geesman.
Some of the facts of his early life and experience should also be noted. He was born at Canton, Ohio, October 22, 1878, and when two years of age was taken by his parents, Samuel F. and Mary Olive (Marks) Geesman, to Huntington County, Indiana. The father was a successful Indiana farmer, and he and his wife are still living. Wilbur H. Gees-man grew up near the banks of the Wabash River. His chief companion and associate of his boyhood was his brother Leroy 0., who met an accidental death at the old farm March 17, 1916. Wilbur H. Geesman had a country school education, also attended the Huntington High School, the Huntington Normal College and the Huntington Business University. After leaving school he was employed for three years by the American Express Company at Chicago, and left that to take his first clerical position in the steel industry at South Chicago. During the early years of his employment there he put in many hours at night and other intervals as a student of the Armour Institute of Technology, where he specialized in metallurgy, furnace parts and engineering.
Mr. Geesman is a member of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Blast Furnace and Coke Association of Chicago, and the Mining and Metal Engineers' Association of Chicago. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. October 16, 1901, he married Charlotta C. Duke, of Dayton, Ohio.
JOHN WESLEY MORRISON has been an important instrument in creating new development in the present City of Youngstown, and taking the facts of his own career in connection with those of other members of the family a great deal of interesting Youngstown history can be told through the introduction of his name.
His father was John W. Morrison, Sr., who was born near Wilmington in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, September 26, 1826, a son of Robert Morrison, who came to this country from the north of Ireland. The Morrisons for a number of years did a prosperous business as fishermen in the Delaware River. John W. Morrison, Sr., became a victim to the western gold fever. He went out to California around Cape Horn and returned by way of the Isthmus of Panama. In 1858 he removed to Cincinnati and later
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to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was engaged in the wholesale commission business, making large shipments clown the Mississippi by steamboat to New Orleans.
During his western career he met his future wife while she was visiting a sister whose home was in Jefferson, Wisconsin. They were married in 1858. She was Kate Everett, and as the Everett family was then living in Youngstown, John W. Morrison returned to this city. It was ever afterward his home except for the ten year period, from 1869 to 1879, when he lived at Brazil, Indiana, and operated an extensive group of coal mines in that great coal center. He also opened and operated mines in and near Youngstown, one of them being the Ardale mine, which he sold to Joseph G. Butler. He also did business as a contractor, grading a number of Youngstown streets and helped to promote the early street car lines.
John W. Morrison, Sr., was a blacksmith and machinist by trade. He had served his apprenticeship before going to California. During the Civil war he was employed in the shipyards where Ericson, the famous engineer, was constructing the Monitor, which revolutionized marine warfare. At one time he also worked with the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and was employed as a machinist while in California. His death occurred in 1907.
Kate Everett, his wife, was born at the Everett homestead between Griffith and Morrison Avenue, October 8, 1834, daughter of Peter and Mary Everett. Her parents were life long residents of the Mahoning Valley. She died May 30, 1906. She had a liberal education for the women of her time, attending Cooper Academy, and was a very successful teacher, at one time being superintendent of the West Avenue School and the Front Street School in Youngstown.
The great-grandfather of Kate Everett was Nathaniel Gardner Dabney, who has many claims to historic distinction at Youngstown. He came of a wealthy Massachusetts family and had ample capital behind his various enterprises. In the early part of 1796 he journeyed over the then West to Pittsburgh, and in the same spring came to the present site of Youngstown, where he made purchase of a large tract of land. It was his purpose to build a trading station, and he had made the preliminary arrangements for, a survey of the townsite. Had his plans matured it is very probable that the present City of Youngstown would be known as Dabney. While here he fell ill awl returned to Pittsburgh for medical treatment. Later on when he came back to resume his business in the Western Reserve he found John Young had come upon the scene and had supplanted the original settler in the historic distinction of being the founder of Youngstown.
However, more than a century later the descendants of Nathaniel Gardner Dabney, the first settler, have in a measure completed the work begun by him, and fully a hundred and twenty-five houses owned by John Wesley Morrison and his sister Mrs. Luce are located on part of the land where Dabney first settled.
Mrs. John W. Morrison, Sr., was a member of the Methodist Protestant Church on Front Street for a number of years and later was affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church. She was the mother of four children, the daughters Sallie and Kate dying when children. The only living daughter is Agnes, widow of Samuel W. Luce.
John Wesley Morrison was born March 17, 1859, at the Everett homestead, which is probably the oldest house in the city, having been erected in 1826. Mr. Morrison had the good fortune to acquire his preliminary education under the talented direction of his mother as his teacher. In 188i he graduated from the Rayen High School, and while still in that school he was looking after the management of a general store at 259 West Federal Street. In 1884 he moved his business to 759 West Federal. In 1888 Mr. Morrison started a foundry on East Federal near the present location of the Youngstown Young Men's Christian Association. From 1892 for a period of fifteen years he did an extensive business with an iron and brass foundry on North Avenue. After giving up his connections as a merchant and manufacturer Mr. Morrison devoted most of his time to the building and improvement of a district which extends from the lower Carnegie mills to Parmalee Avenue. The site of the lower mill was donated to Shedd & Cartwright by the Morrison family. Mr. Morrison has always lent his liberal co-operation in behalf of all affairs for the improvement and progress of his native city.
In 1893 he married Miss Adele A. Hyde, who was born at East Farmington in Trumbull County, October 12, 1864, daughter of Daniel Hyde. Mrs. Morrison died March II, 1899. She was the mother of four children: Daniel H., who died at the age of five years; Winifred, who died at, the age of seven; John W. III, who died in infancy ; and John W. IV, the only survivor. This son was in the Officers' Training Camp at Camp Gordon during the war and is now completing his education in Western Reserve University at Cleveland.
PAUL G. WILCOX, part owner of the Austintown Garage Company, and an active member of the centralized school board of that place, is a native of West Austintown, and has been in business in Austin-town for many years. He is an enterprising, optimistic tradesman, and is reaching substantial success in his latest business connection, which has been developed into a complete auto service, an appreciable business in auto supplies and satisfactory sales of Ford and Cleveland Six cars. He is recognized as one of those public-spirited citizens who brought to satisfactory consummation the project which sought to centralize the schools, and in recognition of such service to the community he was elected director of the new school system.
He was born in West Austintown, Mahoning County, Ohio, on August 31, 1881, the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Paynter) Wilcox, and grandson of Ira Wilcox, the pioneer ancestor of the family in the Mahoning Valley. Ira Wilcox came from "east of the mountains" of Pennsylvania when only a lad, and for a while found work in Youngstown. It is said that Ira Wilcox as a boy hoed corn on the land which later became the site of the McKelvey Store in Youngstown; but he appears to have soon settled
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in West Austintown, which at that time was almost wholly undeveloped. He acquired a tract of wild land in that place, and eventually brought it into satisfactory bearing. He married Rebecca Gilbert and had many children. In addition to farming a good acreage Ira Wilcox operated a saw mill at West Austintown, the lumber perhaps being from his own land. He was evidently a man of strong, self-reliant and steady character, for although cast upon his own resources early in life he made a good place for himself in Austintown, living an industrious, upright life in responsible citizenship. He died at a com- paratively early age, viewing his years by that of the average pioneer settler, but he lived sufficiently long to raise eight children, some of them to maturity. The eight children were: Ira, Anson, Daniel, and Isaac, sons; and Sarah, Christina, Ella and Celia, daughters. All are now dead excepting Ella, who is Mrs. Peasley, and Anson, both of whom are now living in California.
Isaac, son of Ira and Rebecca (Gilbert) Wilcox; and father of Paul G., was born in West Austin-town, and when he reached manhood was for some years associated with Chauncey Andrews in coal production. In young manhood he was a retail merchant, and for some years had a satisfactory store business at Mineral Ridge. It was while he was so employed that he met Elizabeth Paynter, who became his wife, and who has survived him, she now living in comfortable circumstances in Youngstown. Isaac Wilcox died on June 11, 1899. During his active life he was well known to many people in Trumbull and Mahoning counties.
Paul G., son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Paynter) Wilcox, and born in 1881, has one brother, Ralph Seth Wilcox and five sisters, Mabel R. Herrington, Ethel F. Chapman, Estella R. Holben, Grace Greenwood and Ann Guttridge, all living. Paul G. Wilcox attended the public schools of his native place, West Austintown, and when he entered business life was for three years in the employ of the Ohio Steel Company of Youngstown, after which he ventured into independent business in Austintown. He conducted a successful meat market in that place until 1919, when he formed a business association with four other Austintown residents, G. M. Schurrenberger, L. H. Young, Ross-O'Rourke and J. R. Dodd, the partners establishing the Austintown Garage Company; which has had a very satisfactory business. The partners have the local agency for the Ford and Cleveland Six cars, do a good repair and garage business and handle a wide general line of auto supplies. Mr. Wilcox is an aggressive young business, man, has a good reputation in his home town, and has good prospect of succeeding well in his latest enterprise.
While giving close attention to his own business he has, nevertheless, given some time to public duties in the community. He has been a member of the school board for five years, and showed good understanding of educational matters when he gave his active support to the movement which sought to centralize the schools, the accomplishment of that object bringing him and his co-workers much credit. In many other ways he has manifested practical and helpful citizenship.
He was married on March 11, 1903, to Martha B. Kling, of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. They have three children, Alda Jane, R. Donald and Ethel Margaret. Their home is a neat one, situated on the brick road about 800 yards to the westward of the village.
DAVID A. ALLEN, a successful farmer of Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, comes of a family which has had association with the history of that township since practically its earliest days, and his genealogy connects him with other pioneers of the Mahoning Valley. He himself has lived in the township practically throughout his life, and has taken appreciable part in the public affairs of the section. He has served as township trustee for two or three terms, and for eight years has been township treasurer. He is generally well regarded in the township, and has an enviable reputation for moral and material integrity.
He was born in Ellsworth Township, on part of the farm of his grandfather, Martin Allen, on September 7, 1859, the son of Lloyd and Fanny M. (Beardsley) Allen. The Allen family is of a leading Connecticut family of colonial days, scions of that family having prominent record in the history of the Revolution, among them Col. Ethan Allen, of distinguished record at Ticonderoga in 1775, the quick stroke of his. Green Mountaineers wresting from the English all the northern region. Again, Solomon Allen was one of the guards of Major Andre, and assisted in subduing Shay's rebellion. And in many other phases of colonial and early republican life, civic, legislative, juridical and commercial, the Allen family of Connecticut is of honorable record. Martin Allen, grandfather of David A. Allen, was born in Connecticut in 1807. His brother, Asa W. Allen, left his home in Connecticut about 1817 and journeyed into the Western Reserve of Ohio, settling in Ellsworth Township, where he bought a large tract. When Martin was eighteen years old he followed his brother into Ohio, and soon afterward acquired about 200 acres of wild land in Ellsworth Township, part of the Bradsworth estate. A few years later, in 1832, he married Lucy Fitch, daughter of Richard Fitch, who took up land in the township in 1804, and was also of an old colonial Connecticut family of good standing. Lucy Fitch was born in Ellsworth Village on May 6, 1811, and died there on July 3, 1904. Eventually part of the Fitch estate at Ellsworth passed into the possession of Martin Allen and his wife; and it was a good property, with an extensive apple orchard, which yielded heavily for sixty years. Martin and his wife at first lived in a small house built many years earlier by Richard Fitch, but eventually Martin built a larger and more modern house, which still stands, and is habitable. Martin Allen was one of the substantial men of the township, and was one of the original stockholders of the First National Bank of Youngstown, which connection added appreciably to the value of his estate. He was a man of strong personality, and withal conscientious and God-fearing. He ardently championed the cause of abolition, and at one time was alone in its advocacy in his neighborhood. He became a republican in politics, and was once ap-
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proached by party leaders who knew his influence in the district and were desirous of inducing him to stand for election to the House of Representatives. They did not succeed, however, for, in truth, Martin Allen was not a man of flexibility of opinions, and could not subscribe to some of the inconsistencies of political workings. In local affairs, however, he took part, was trustee of the township for some years, and was a life-long church worker. A Presbyterian by conviction, he was an elder of the local church of that denomination, and for thirty-five years was clerk of sessions. He died on July 15, 1882, aged seventy-five years. Martin and Lucy (Fitch) Allen were the parents of twelve' children, of whom four died in infancy. The other eight children were: Lloyd, father of David A., and a review of whose life follows; Mary, who married Robert Kirk, now president of the firm of Farnell, Osman & Kirk, wholesalers, of St. Paul, Minnesota, in which city they live; Jesse, a Civil war veteran, whose life is referred to elsewhere in this work ; Chester, who married Fanny Coit, only child of Joseph Coit, who was the agent in Ellsworth for the Connecticut Land Company when the settlement first began; William, now a retired farmer resident in Ellsworth Village, and more regarding whom has been written for inclusion elsewhere in this edition of Mahoning Valley history; Henry, who died July 31, 1919, was for the greater part of his life a hardware merchant in Jamestown, North Dakota; Lucy, who married John Hanson, of Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, and later resident in the State of Oregon; and Jettie, who married Robert Dickson and died in early womanhood, leaving one son, Allen, now of Berlin Township, Mahoning County.
Lloyd, eldest child of Martin and Lucy (Fitch) Allen, was born on his father's farm about two miles to the westward of Ellsworth Village, on January 14, 1833. He was not yet twenty-two years old when he married Fanny M. Beardsley, who was born March to, 1835, on her parents' farm in Ellsworth Township. Her parents were Almus and Amanda (Cogswell) Beardsley, who were both natives of Connecticut and settled in Ellsworth Township, Ma-honing County, Ohio, in about 183o. Almus Beardsley, son of Philo and Esther (Curtis) Beardsley, was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, on April II, 1799, and died in Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, on July 21, 1873. He married Amanda Cogswell on November 26, 182o, in Connecticut, where she was born on August 15, 1796. She died August 25, 1869. Their son Henry C., who later became of good record in Ellsworth Township, was born in Connecticut on December 2, 1823. The farm of the Beardsley family in Ellsworth Township was about 200 acres in extent, and situated about two miles to the westward of Ellsworth Centre. Their children were: Homer, who became a Civil war veteran; Henry Curtis, before referred to; Esther ; Birdsey; Josiah, who in early manhood was a teacher in Ellsworth Academy, but later entered the Congregational Church ministry and lived in Wisconsin; Fanny Maria, who married Lloyd Allen on January 7, 1855; and Amanda N., who lived for many years in Washington, D. C., was in the federal civil service, and died a spinster when about sixty years old.
After their marriage Lloyd Allen and his wife spent about a year in Connecticut with his uncle, but afterward returned to Ellsworth, and in 186o Lloyd Allen secured the farm which his son still owns and occupies. The farm is situated about 2,500 yards from Ellsworth Village, in a westerly direction. The Allen farm formed part of the original Ripley tract of land, was about 146 acres in extent, and upon it was a substantial dwelling, built some years previously by the former occupant, whose name was Edwards, and whose wife was of the Ripley family. The house is still in use, and in a good state of repair. In it Lloyd Allen and his wife lived for the remainder of their lives, and in it his son David A. still lives. Lloyd Allen died on April 22, 1898, and his wife, after a widowhood of twelve years, in February, 1911. Lloyd Allen was a man of considerable intellectual attainments. In his early manhood he was a school teacher, as were also his four brothers. But he, Like most of his brothers, took eventually to agriculture exclusively. He was characteristically strong, and, like his father, who took a leading part in "underground railroad" work during and prior to the Civil war, he was emphatically abolitionist in his opinions at that time. He was an active citizen; was much respected in the community ; was for many years a justice of the peace and township clerk ; and was an elder in the local Presbyterian Church. Of the children of Lloyd and Fanny M. (Beardsley) Allen only one has survived, their son David A.
David A. Allen was born almost within sight of his present home in Ellsworth Township, in which he has lived practically his whole life of sixty years. He attended the township school in his boyhood, and afterward took the course at the Lebanon Normal School, presumably with the intention of entering the teaching profession. He was, however, the only son, and eventually was drawn more and more into association with the management of the home farm, finally taking complete charge of it, so that his father's declining years should be without burdensome occupations. David married when he was twenty-six years old. His wife, whom he married on November 27, 1885, was Florence Ada Bowman, daughter of Comfort C., brother of Andrew Bowman. The Bowman family is of French-German ancestry, the home of the Bowman family being in Alsace, while a maternal line was from Wurtemberg, Germany. Comfort C. Bowman was a son of Christian and Elizabeth (Kreager) Bowman, and was born in Green Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, January 28, 1815, in which township Christian Bowman had settled in 18o6. Christian Bowman was an officer of militia during the War of 1812. Comfort C., son of Christian, married Susannah B. Rinehart on October 2o, 1852. She was the daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Bowman) Rinehart, and her daughter Florence Ada, who married David A. Allen in 1885, was born in Green Township on December 29, 1862, and was reared on the homestead now occupied by her brother, Ellis Bowman, that farm being situated about a mile south of Ellsworth Centre. Many more references to the Bowman family will be found in other sections of this present historical work.
For fifteen years after his marriage, David A. Allen was associated with his father in the manage-
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ment of the home farm, or, to be more strictly correct, David managed the farm for his father until the latter's death, after which David, in about 1900, rented out the farm and went to live in Ellsworth Village, and for fifteen years thereafter took clerical work in that place so as to be near his mother in her old age. His mother having died, and also his wife's mother, who had lived with them during her last years, David A. Allen in 1915 gave up his connection with the Ellsworth store and returned to his farm; but he had to suffer further bereavement for on November 15th of that year his wife also died. He has, however, since continued to reside on the farm, having near him their only child, their son Charles Comfort, who was born on August 13, 1888, on the same farm. The boy was given a superior education, eventually graduating from the Northeastern Ohio Normal College at Canfield, and later attending the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh. He was assistant to the county surveyor, George Montgomery, for two years, but returned to the home farm, and is now identified with the contracting firm of Allen & Brown. He has had much experience as a road builder, which is the specialty of his company. Charles Comfort Allen married Neva Hull, daughter of Frank Hull, a neighboring farmer. They have one child, a daughter, Ada Joyce.
David A. Allen does not now concern himself actively with the working of the farm; or rather, the burden of it does not rest heavily upon him, and he has more time now to attend to other matters of civic and communal connection. Politically he is a republican. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, with which his family has been so closely connected since one was erected in Ellsworth. His son, Charles C., is an elder, and one or more members of the Allen family have been connected officially with church work in Ellsworth Township since the early days of the church in the township.
WILLIAM FORRESTER BENEDICT. For more than 110 years the Benedict family has been identified with Trumbull County. Of the present generation, William Forrester Benedict is a prominent citizen of Warren, a well-known sales manager and an extensive real estate dealer, and also has important relations in other business affairs.
Mr. Benedict was born on the old Benedict homestead in Braceville Township, July 24, 1865. His great-grandfather, Hezekiah Benedict, was a native of Connecticut and in 1809 brought his family westward and after a toilsome journey in wagons settled in Braceville Township, where he acquired title to 64o acres. His first improvement was a log cabin for the shelter of his family. One of the younger members of this family was William Benedict, who was also born in Connecticut. He served for eighteen months as a soldier in the War of 1812. He lived a long and active life in Braceville Township, and became prominent in local affairs, serving for twenty-five years as a justice of the peace. He married Mary Lawson.
A son of William and Mary Benedict was Hiram Benedict, who was born on the homestead in Brace-vine Township January 7, 183o. After reaching manhood he bought the interests of the other heirs in the home farm, and continued to live there until his death on December 5, 1895. On January 4, 1863, he married Olive M. Bacon, who was born in Bazetta Township, Trumbull County, October 15, 1842, and is still living at Warren. Her father, Enos Bacon, was born at Bridgeton, New Jersey, in 1802, and was five years of age when his parents came to Trumbull County and settled at Cortland. Enos Bacon engaged for many years in the general lumber business, and also conducted a shop for the manufacture of wood novelties. He is credited with employing the first steam power in his locality. His wife, Kerren Happuch Brooks Bacon, was a native of Trumbull County. Hiram Benedict and wife had only two children, William Forrester and Maude Ione. The latter is the wife of Isaac H. Price, formerly of Braceville Township, and now superintendent and a member of the board of directors of the Warren Iron and Steel Company.
William Forrester Benedict grew up on the home farm. While the environment of his early life was a rural community he acquired a thorough education, beginning in the country schools, attending the Western Reserve Seminary at Farmington and also the Canfield Normal College. Three winters were spent teaching a country school and the summers at farming. In the meantime he learned telegraphy, and from 1892 to 1899 was in the service of the Erie Railway Company in that capacity, and for another two years was at Lowellville for the Baltimore & Ohio. Mr. Benedict has been identified with the Sterling Electric Lamp Division of the National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company at Warren since 1902. His first position was as cost man, and from one grade of responsibility to another he was promoted to foreman, then salesman, and since two has been district manager of sales.
For a number of years past he has also been in the real estate business. He began building homes in 1905, and has contributed much to the building activities of Warren. His specialty has been the improvement of property and selling complete homes to young married couples. Mr. Benedict was one of the organizers of the People's Savings Company, and is a director of that institution. He is actively identified with the Warren Board of Trade as a director, with the Automobile Club, and has served as a member of the Warren City Board of Health. He is affiliated with Old Erie Lodge No. 3, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a past senior councillor of the United Commercial Travelers. His church home is the Second Christian.
Mr. Benedict married Miss Harriet M. Ernst. She was born on a farm in Warren Township, Trumbull County, June 25, 1871, daughter of Comfort A. and Cornelia (Oviatt) Ernst, also natives of Trumbull County. Her paternal grandfather was William Ernst, of Warren, and her maternal grandfather was Lyman P. Oviatt, of Braceville. Comfort A. Ernst died April 1, 1907, at the age of sixty-five, and his wife died October 12, 1909.
The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Benedict is Ernest Hiram Benedict, who was born at Sherman, Summit County, Ohio, March 19, 1894. He graduated from the Warren High School. in 1913, received his Bachelor of Science degree from Hiram College in
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1917, and the degree Doctor of Dental Surgery from Western Reserve University in 1919. He is now succes fully practicing his profession at Cleveland. He married Ruth Homer, who was born at Warren, August 2, 1895, daughter of William and Anna Homer, the former a native of Greenville, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Holton, Kansas.
WILLIAM H. LOVELESS has had an active business career at Warren covering thirty years, and his name and enterprise are associated with some of the important phase, of the building movement which has transformed the city in recent years.
Mr. Loveless was born on a farm in Bloomfield Township, Trumbull County, May 15, 1869, and a few months later his parents moved to Warren, where they spent the rest of their lives. Mr. Loveless is in the fourth generation of two old Trumbull County families. His paternal great-grandfather came to Trumbull County from New England in pioneer times ,u located at Price's Mills. At that time the grandfather, David Loveless, was a boy. David married Hulda Martin, a daughter of another Trumbull County pioneer, who settled at Newton Falls. Martin Loveless, a son of David and Hulda, was born at Price's Mills in 1831 and married Malinda Wilson, ho was horn in Paris Township of Trumbull County in 1833. Her father, Ambrose Wilson, came to the Western Reserve from Connecticut.
William H. Loveless was reared and educated at Warren and for over twenty years was proprietor of a livery and transfer business. Since leaving that he has employed his capital and energies in the buying and development of real estate, and has added a large number of residences to the building program of the city. He was an associate with J. E. Heasley in the construction of the Loveless-Heasley business block on North Pine Street. Recently Mr. Loveless completed the "Square" business block at the corner of South Pine and East Clinton, a combined store and apartment house. Mr. Loveless is also identified in a practical way with farming, owning an eighty-acre farm on West Market Street, well within the city limits of Warren.
He is an active member of the Warren Board of Trade, and is affiliated with Mahoning Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Maccabees. He married Blanche M. Myers, who was born at Bourbon, Indiana. They have a very interesting family of two sons and two daughters, all of whom are graduates of the Warren High School. Henry W., the oldest, after attending preparatory school for one year was enrolled at the Ohio State University and was for nine months with the Expeditionary Forces in France, was on several fighting fronts and was gassed. He is now associated in business with his father. Ralph M., the second son, after leaving high school, spent a year in Washington and Jefferson College and six months in the Spencerian Business College at Cleveland. During the World war he was an ensign in the United States Navy and is now completing his education in the University of Wisconsin. Mildred, the older daughter, is now at Beechwood Seminary, a finishing school near Philadelphia. Edith is a fellow student with her brother at the University of Wisconsin.
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JACOB G. BRODY, M. D. Occupying a position of note among the successful physicians of Mahoning County, Jacob G. Brody, M. D., of Youngstown, has built up an extensive and lucrative practice, and established a fine reputation for professional skill and ability. A son of Joseph Brody, he was born January 17, 1877, in Ketovisky, Province of Vilna, Russia, where in 1855 the birth of his father occurred.
Having learned the trade of a miller, Joseph Brody followed it in his native village for several years. Moving to Zizmory, a larger place, having a population of 2,000 souls, he embarked in the dry goods business, which proved a losing venture, the city having more stores than customers. The oppression of his people, the Jews, became unbearable, and in 1899 he immigrated to the United States, locating first in Chicago, where he had friends. A few months later he went to Cleveland, Ohio, from there coming to Youngstown, where for seven years he was actively engaged in the iron and metal trade. Accumulating some means, he opened a shoe store, making a specialty of Douglas shoes, and, with "A Square Deal to the Public" for his motto, met with well deserved success. He had but a limited capital to start with, but recently he purchased his place of business, involving a sum of $92,000, and in addition has accumulated property valued at $150,000 in East Youngstown. In 1902 he sent for his family to join him in Youngstown, an invitation which was gladly accepted.
Joseph Brody married Esther Wolf, who was born in Wilkovisky, Province of Suvalky, Russia, and died in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1914, aged fifty-six years. Four sons and three daughters were born of their union, as follows: Jacob G., the special subject of this sketch ; Benjamin M., a veteran of the Spanish war, is engaged in mercantile pursuits in Atlanta, Georgia; Abraham, a member of the firm of J. Brody & Son; Arthur, who is studying law; Miriam, wife of Meyer Aronson, who is engaged in the manufacture of women's wearing apparel. in New York; Anna, wife of S. Robinolitz, a merchant in East Youngstown; and Laura, wife of Maxwell Harrison, a merchant in Youngstown. The Brody family are members of Temple Emanuel.
Jacob G. Brody acquired his early education through private training, the Jews not being received in the public schools of his native land. At the age of eighteen he was working as a bookkeeper in Vilna during the day, but devoted his evenings to the study of the Russian, German, French and English languages, and mathematics. His highest ambition, however, was to go to Berne, Switzerland, where he could have better educational privileges. Coming to Youngstown with his mother and her family in 1902, he successfully passed the examination for the high school, from which he was graduated nine months later. Subsequently; entering the Western Reserve University, he was there graduated with the degree of M. D., in 1908. Doctor Brody at 'once accepted the position of instructor of pharmacology at Cornell University, where he devoted- his time to scientific research. In 19i1 the doctor returned to Youngstown, where he has since been prosperously engaged in the general practice of medicine, being one of the leading physicians of his community.
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Doctor Brody married in 1911 Jennie Zupnik, a teacher in the public schools of Cleveland, where her father, Joseph Zupnik, was serving as city inspector. The Doctor and Mrs. Brody have two children, Elsa Louise, born in 1912; and Daniel, born in 1915. Doctor Brody is a member of the Mahoning County Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. He is examining physician for several life insurance companies, including among others the New York Life, the Canadian and the John Hancock. Doctor Brody and his wife are members of Rodef Sholom.
THEODORE O. JOHNS, proprietor of the wholesale candy business at 366 Emmerson Place, has for many years been identified with the business at Youngstown, as was his father before him.
His father was the late William E. Johns, a native of St. Clare's Wales, who came to the United States when a young man. He began to learn the tailoring trade, but left it to go to work in the iron mills of Cartwright & McCurdy. In 1872 he opened a stock of groceries at North Jackson, but nine months later moved to Youngstown. He opened a grocery store at 227 West Federal, and the family residence was over the store, where Theodore O. Johns was born in 1878. Later William E. Johns became proprietor of a noted establishment, known as the Old Country Tea House at 231 West Federal Street. He was regarded as the most expert judge of teas and coffees in this section of Ohio, and consequently his business enjoyed a large trade and he was very popular among his customers and citizens generally. For his- health he went west, and for a time conducted a cigar business in Denver. He was a stanch republican, was one of the oldest members of the First Baptist Church, and served as assistant superintendent of the Sunday school, his wife being a member of the same denomination until death. William E. Johns married Delia A. James. They were married in Paris, Ohio. William Johns made two trips back to Wales, but America was the place he loved. He died in 1902, at the age of fifty-six. His wife was born February 27, 1841, and died April 4, 192o. They were the parents of four children: Theodore O.; Gertrude M., wife of Fred V. Canning, of Youngstown; George A., an electrician at Detroit; and Warren, of Omaha, Nebraska:
Theodore O. Johns attended the Front Street School, but at the age of fifteen, on account of his father's ill health, left school and as the oldest son began assisting in the store. He continued this work until the death of his father, and was then employed by W. J. Moore at 329 West Federal and after a few months established a wholesale candy business at 253 Scott Street. For five years he sold a large volume of products throughout the valley. For three years after that he was a traveling representative of Cruickshank Brothers of Pittsburgh. He then entered the tea and coffee business at 366 Emerson Place, but has gradually displaced his other commodities and concentrated his attention upon the wholesale candy business. He is his own sales manager and has a large and profitable trade throughout the Youngstown District.
Mr. Johns is a member of the United Commercial
Travelers, was formerly associated with the Baptist Church, and is now a member of the board of trustees of the Plymouth Congregational Church. He is affiliated with Western Star Lodge of Masons and is an independent in politics. In 1902 he married Miss Sarah Reese, daughter of John D. Reese of Youngstown. They have two children, Dorothy Sarah and Catherine May.
MATTHEW A. HANNON, one of Youngstown's prosperous junior business men, who was educated as an engineer and followed that profession for several years, is now in the insurance business with the well-known firm of E. J. Deibel.
He was born in Youngstown, September 20, 1896, son of Thomas and Ann (Tighe) Hannon. Thomas Hannon, a native of County Sligo, Ireland, and a graduate of Dublin University, came to America at the age of twenty-three, and after a brief residence at Pittsburgh moved to Youngstown, where for several years he was employed as a boss puddler. In later years he was elected county appraiser, and performed all the duties of his office with credit to himself. He is now living retired. He and his wife had eight children, seven sons and one daughter named John, William, Mary Genevieve, Eugene Thomas, Edward, Matthew and Paul. The family are all devout members of St. Edward's Catholic Church.
Matthew A. Hannon attended the common and parochial schools of Youngstown and was a specia student of civil engineering under Clyde Miller, chief engineer for the General Fireproofing Company. For six years he remained with the engineering department of that company, and was then sent as it representative to Akron, where he also became identified with the Akron Building Material Company as manufacturers' agent. After two years at Akron he returned to Youngstown to become associated with Mr. E. J. Deibel as a representative of the New York Life Insurance Company, and has made a splendid record in the insurance field. He is a republican voter, is a member of the Youngstown Country Club, the Youngstown Club, Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, and he and his wife are active in St. Edward' Catholic Church.
November 14, 1917, he married Miss Amelia Deibel a daughter of E. J. Deibel and granddaughter of th late Christopher Deibel. Two children were bor to their marriage, Ted, born August 24, 1918, and died November 21, 1919, and Martha Jane, born December 3, 1919. What the little boy meant in th life of the parents was well expressed by Mr. Hannon in the following verses he dedicated to "My Teddy Boy":
To every man comes sorrow,
To every man comes joy.
To me, my greatest sorrow
When I lost my Teddy boy.
One bright day in August,
When the sun was shining bright
God, who is so good to all of us,
Sent us our shining light.
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When I looked into his crib
And first saw my baby boy
I bowed to God and thanked Him,
For him, my greatest joy.
He was a little angel
Loaned us from above,
Just to smile and make us happy,
And for everyone to love.
But God, who gives us everything
And also takes away,
Called our little darling
To Him, one saddened day.
Scarcely fifteen months had flown
Until He called him to His throne
To sing, praise and love Him,
Yes, to be His very own.
Oh! how we miss his baby chatter
And the rattle of his toys
And miss his heavenly laughter,
The chief among our joys.
As I sit and ponder,
And dream of my dear boy,
And how I dearly loved him
And how he was my joy;
I thank my Blessed Savior,
The Father of that boy,
For taking him to Heaven
Where he will know naught but joy.
And I want my God to hear me,
And well I know he can
How much that I appreciate
The loan of that baby man.
His passing—my greatest sorrow,
His coming—my greatest joy,
But God, oh God how I loved him
That angel, my own Teddy Boy.
ALLEN P. THOMPSON. It has been truly said that no corporation is bigger than the officials who administer its affairs, but this statement must be amplified so as to include the subordinates who bear, only in less degree, the burden of responsibility. Allen P. Thompson, chief clerk in the operating department of the Republic Iron & Steel Company, is an illustration in point and one well worthy of consideration. He has been connected with this corporation practically since its incorporation, and as assistant to the second vice president is rendering exceptionally valuable service.
Allen P. Thompson was born at Youngstown on March 17, 1879, a son of John and Elizabeth (Pinkerton) Thompson, both of whom were natives of Scotland, and came to the United States about the time of the termination of the war between the states in this country, and have resided in the Youngstown district practically ever since.
Growing up at Youngstown, Allen P. Thompson attended its excellent public schools and was well grounded in the essential fundamentals of education. For three or four years after leaving school he was employed by the Stambaugh-Thompson Company, and since then has been with the Republic Iron & Steel Company, rising through successive grades to his present very important position.
In 1910 Mr. Thompson was united in marriage with Miss Sarah E. Frease, and they have one daughter, Shirley Luella. Mr. Thompson is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is also an Odd Fellow. For some years he has belonged to the Episcopal Church, and takes a deep interest in its work. Faithful to the work entrusted to him, Mr. Thompson has devoted himself to his company, and its interests lie close to his heart. However, although never desiring to enter the public arena himself, he has recognized the necessity for securing good men for office, and has supported those whom he has deemed would be likely to carry out the most constructive policies and bring about further development of the city he loves so dearly.
WILLIAM MILTON CARTER. One Of the well-known and successful younger members of the Trumbull County bar is William M. Carter, of Warren, member of the law firm of Fillius & Fillius of that city.
William M. Carter was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, on September 13, 1877, a son of the late Rev. Charles Carter. Rev. Charles Carter was born at Deerfield, Portage County, Ohio, in 1812, the son of James and Elizabeth Carter, New Englanders, who settled in Portage County in very early days. He was practically a self-educated man, and at the age of twenty-five years he entered the Brethren ministry and was active and prominent in its work for over sixty years, serving continuously for fifteen years as presiding elder. The Sunday before he died, in 1895, he delivered three sermons at as many churches, all some distance apart, he driving from one church to the other. During the last twenty years of his life he made his home in Greene Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. He married Harriet Alexander, who was born in 1839, in Pennsylvania, just across the Ohio line, and she survives her husband.
Growing up in his native county, William Milton Carter attended New Lyme Institute of that county, but before he was graduated he left school and for the subsequent twelve years was engaged in teaching school continuously in Ashtabula and Trumbull counties. While thus engaged he read law, and was graduated from the Columbian Law College of Washington, District of Columbia, in 1909, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in 1913, and in that year was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Trumbull County, and he served in that office for 3 1/2 years. Upon leaving that office he formed an association with A. B. Clark, a Warren attorney, and practiced law with that gentleman for about two years, at which time he became associated with the law firm of Fillius & Fillius, one of the strongest legal organizations in Trumbull County, and of which he is now a member. Mr. Carter is a member of the Trumbull County Bar Association, the Warren Board of Trade, the Protective League Circle and is president of the Warren Board of Health. In his fraternal connections he maintains membership with the Odd Fellows and
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Knights of Pythias. During the World war he was generous in his contributions of time and money, and made many speeches all over the city and county in behalf of the different campaigns for the Red Cross, War Chest and Liberty Loans.
Mr. Carter was married to Bessie Brinkerhoff, a daughter of Dr. E. E. Brinkerhoff, of Bristolville, Trumbull County, and they have two daughters, namely: Helen Maxine and Dorothy May.
CHARLES M. PIERCE, general auditor of the Republic Iron & Steel Company, is a man of wide experience and thorough training, whose occupancy of his present position is the outgrowth of years of efficient work and natural ability. He was horn in Spencer County, Indiana, on December 7, 1859, a son of Rev. Richard R. Pierce, a Methodist clergyman, noted orator and vocalist, who became an eminent evangelist. He was married to Mary Jane McKassin, and during his early years was engaged in school teaching. When his son Charles M. was about eight years old he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and from there to Little Rock, Arkansas, and filled numerous charges in those cities and elsewhere in Missouri, returning to St. Louis for a time. It was, however, while he was a resident of Pleasant Hill, Missouri, that he made a trip to Kansas City, Missouri, and was there accidentally killed by a street car.
Charles M. Pierce moved about with his parents, attending school in the various places to which his father's ministerial duties took him, and then completed his educational training at the School of Mines and Metallurgy, a branch of the State University at Rolla, Missouri. As a student he visited a number of mines in Missouri. Mr. Pierce then took up the study of law, and was admitted to the bar, but shortly thereafter his plans were changed by the death of his mother and the consequent breaking up of the old home, and he went to St. Louis and became a clerk in the employ of the Missouri Furnace Company, a pioneer of the iron concerns of the Southwest, then operating six blast furnaces. Mr. Pierce continued with this company for a number of years, leaving it to become assistant auditor of the M., K. & T. Railroad. When the Republic Iron & Steel Company was organized in 1890, Mr. Pierce became assistant general auditor for the corporation, and continued with the company when the general offices were moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later came with them to Youngstown. In 1906 further recognition of his capabilities was given by his appointment to the position of general auditor, which he still holds.
On April 20, 1886, Mr. Pierce was united in marriage with Miss Margaret L. Turner, of St. Louis, Missouri, and they became the parents of six children, namely: Vivian I., Beulah V., Charles C., Stanley W., Harold M. and Dorothy M. Of them, Stanley W. and Harold M. were officers of the United States Army during the World war. Harold M. Pierce held the rank of a first lieutenant of infantry, but his activities were confined to this country. Stanley W. Pierce was a second lieutenant in the aviation branch of the service, and was stationed at Mount Clemens, Michigan.
Mr. Pierce is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the Royal Arch degree of the York Rite. In religion he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his connection with it coming through both inheritance and conviction. With reference to national matters Mr. Pierce is a republican, but locally oftentimes deems it expedient to give his support to the man and measures, rather than to be tied down by party lines. Mr. Pierce is one who has always been thoroughly prepared to take advantage of the opportune moment, and never being readily deceived by men or their motives, he has been able to surround himself with an admirable and effective organization, and to produce gratifying and satisfactory results for his company.
FOSTER M. CARDWELL, assistant general auditor of the Republic Iron & Steel Company, is one of the capable men this corporation has had in its employ since its organization, and one of the public-spirited citizens of Youngstown. He was born at Albany, New York, on March 20, 1865, a son of George Adams and Laura (Lee) Cardwell, both of whom are now deceased. George A. Cardwell was in the mercantile business at Albany during the greater part of his life, and was always held in high esteem.
Foster M. Cardwell secured a thorough grounding in the essential fundamentals of an education in the public schools of Albany, supplementing this knowledge by a course at Bryant & Stratton's Business College of Chicago. His business career opened when he secured a clerical position in a Chicago mercantile establishment, from which he went with the Minnesota Iron Company, which later became the Oliver Iron Company, and he continued with the latter for five years. Since January 15, 1900, he has .been with the Republic Iron & Steel Company in the clerical department, rising through the various grades to his present responsible position, which he is perfectly competent to fill.
On January 23, 1890, Mr. Cardwell was united in marriage with Miss Luan Beadles, a daughter of Dr. W. T. Beadles, who was a surgeon on the staff of General Grant during the war between the states. Mr. and Mrs. Cardwell are the parents of two children, namely : Foster M., Jr., who married Edna Messner, and has a daughter, Althea Mae; and Gertrude, who is the wife of George C. Tinsley, and the mother of two children, Charles William and George Foster.
Mr. Cardwell is a stanch republican, but his multitudinous duties have prevented his entering the public arena. The United Presbyterian Church of Youngstown has in him an active member. A ma possessing the broader sense of responsibility, he is recognized by his superior officials as useful and competent, while his tact, courtesy, intelligence and sound judgment have earned for him a reputation for good citizenship in the community of which he is so useful a member.
REV. VICTOR FRANCO. A man of broad culture, earnest convictions and deep consecration, Rev. Victor Franco, of Youngstown, pastor of Our Lady of
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Mount Carmel Church, is bound heart and soul to the good work in which he is engaged, and is not only a pleasant and effective speaker in the pulpit and out, but is a firm friend and wise counsellor to all who go to him for advice and consolation. A native of Italy, he was born February 5, 1881, in the City of Bella, south of Naples, in the Province of Potenza, in which his parents, Joachim and Rosa (Del Priore) Franco, still reside.
Joachim Franco, now a venerable man of four score years, was for a long time secretary, or clerk, of his municipality. In 1909 he was made city treasurer, being assisted in the discharge of his duties by his daughter, and he served in that capacity until 1917, when he retired from active pursuits. As a young man he served in the National Guard, which was organized as a protection against brigands. He was twice married. By his first marriage he had three sons, two of whom are living, one being a professor in the schools, and the other having succeeded his father as city clerk. The third son died while serving in the army. By his second marriage there are three daughters and one son, Victor, the special subject of this brief historical record.
Beginning his preparation for the priesthood as a lad of twelve years, Victor Franco studied for three years at Marsiconuovo, five years at Muro Lucano, one year at Salerno, and then returned to Muro Lucano. Two years later he was there ordained, and immediately stationed in Naples, where he remained two years, working and continuing his studies. Coming from there to Ohio in 1906, Father Franco located in Niles, and there organized the Italian congregation,. of which he had charge for five years, the church being called Our Lady of Mount Carmel. In 1911 he came to Youngstown to assume charge of the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, which was then in a rather disorganized condition.
After spending two years studying the situation, and becoming acquainted with his people, Father Franco found that he could have the full co-operation of such men as Marco Antonelli, Louis Adovasio, and others of equal prominence and influence, and he began building the present church edifice, which was dedicated by the bishop on November 4, 1916. The basement of this beautiful structure is used for the Sunday school, and as a meeting place for Saint Aloysius, a boys' organization; for ,the Society of Sacred Heart, the men's organization; and for the ladies' society, Mothers of the Crucifix. Father Franco has had but two weeks' vacation since he came to Youngstown, his entire time having been devoted to the work of his parish, his labor being in truth one of love. Although when he came to Ohio he could not speak a word of English, he can now speak it correctly and fluently, using it with the same ease that he does his native tongue.
HERBERT E. WHITE was for seventeen years chief engineer for the General Fireproofing Company at Youngstown. As an inventor and manufacturer he has contributed some of the most important and basic materials and principles now embraced in the various systems of fireproof construction.
Mr. White, who resigned his office as chief engineer of the General Fireproofing Company in the fall of 1919, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 22, 1873. He is the youngest of the six children of Alexander M. and Marie L. (Parker) White. His father was a contractor in business, and was also a gallant soldier and officer in the Civil war. He responded to the first call of President Lincoln at the beginning of the war, and served with the rank of colonel.
Herbert E. White grew up in his native city, attended public schools there, and in 1892 completed the mechanical engineering course of the University of Pennsylvania. At that time he was nineteen years of age, and was the youngest graduate up to that year from the university. His active career since leaving college has therefore covered more than a quarter of a century. Soon after he left the university he and a brother traveled all over South America securing patent rights for the Welsbach lighting interests. An incident of his stay in South America was learning the Spanish language. In 1894 he and his brothers secured the exclusive rights at Brooklyn, New York, for the Welsbach interests, and he continued in the lighting business until Iwo.
In the meantime, in 1896, he had become identified with the metal lath industry, an important feature of fireproofing. The raw material for the metal lath was acquired in sheets from the Falcon Iron and Nail Company at Niles, Ohio. The business for some years was conducted under the name International Metal Lath Company. Mr. White soon invented a new lath superior to all then on the market. This lath has since been extensively used, and builders everywhere know it under the name herringbone lath. Experts declare that its manufacture on a commercial scale was not possible, but Mr. White and associates designed machinery that overcame all difficulties, and the industry was established on a sound and prosperous basis.
In 1902 the General Fireproofing Company took over the plant and business of the International Metal Lath Company and Mr. White entered the larger corporation in February of that year as chief engineer. Since then Mr. White has taken out about fifty patents covering piny features of fireproof construction. He is the inventor and patentee of the "self-centering" principle, widely used in concrete construction.
Mr. White is a member of the Youngstown Engineering Society. In 1895 he married Grace V. Morris, of Philadelphia. They have three children: Herbert M., Clarence H. and Florence M. Both sons volunteered during the World war. Herbert enlisted in May, 1917, and was driver of an ammunition truck during five of the great campaigns in France. The son Clarence enlisted in June, 1918, in the Naval Reserves, but the armistice was signed before he was sent overseas.
WILLIAM B. HALL, president of the Realty Trust Company and the Realty Guarantee & Trust Company of Youngstown, was born April 21, 1867. He grew up and acquired his education in the public schools of Youngstown. For about ten years he was a clerk with the Youngstown Rolling Mill Company, and afterward a clerk in the office of Probate Judge
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George E. Rose. In 1903 he helped organize the Realty Trust Company, becoming its secretary and treasurer, and has since been elected president and also president of its subsidiary, the Realty Guarantee & Trust Company.
In 1898 he married Carrie H. McKinnie, daughter of George McKinnie. They have two children, Elizabeth and Helen.
ALBERT C. DALLESKE. The opportunities offered by the diversified interests of Youngstown have resulted in the retention here of some of the city's most talented native sons, who prefer to develop themselves among their home environment to seeking a field elsewhere. One of these alert young men who have met with deserved success is Albert C. Dalleske of A. C. Dalleske & Company, architects and builders, with offices at Nos. 814-815 Home Savings & Loan Building.
Mr. Dalleske was born at Youngstown in 1891, a son of F. J. and Louisa D. Dalleske, the former of whom is a blacksmith at No. 126 South Garland Avenue. After attending the Shehy public school and the Martin Luther parochial school, Albert C. Dalleske, when only fourteen years of age, began working in the Wilkins-Leonard hardware store for $12.00 a month, but kept up his studies by attending night school at the Young Men's Christian Association and the Hall Business College. He was a very ambitious youth, and having decided to become an architect, specialized on those studies which would bring about his training for that calling. By 1912 he was able to take a position as architect with O. E. Hawk, and in 1918 established his present business. Since 1912 he has designed hundreds of residences and other buildings, his annual output averaging something like 200, and his work it noted for its artistic merit as well as practicality.
In May, 1914, Mr. Dalleske was united in marriage with Mabel L. Howson, a granddaughter of the pioneer, Mr. Shehy, one of the founders of Youngstown. Mr. Dalleske and his wife belong to Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. of Youngstown and are active in its good work. He is a member of Youngstown Lodge No. 615 Free and Accepted Masons. For some time he has been a forceful factor of the Builders' Exchange, the Real Estate Board and other civic organizations, and maintains membership in the Kiwanis Club. Having spent his entire life at Youngstown, Mr. Dalleske is naturally interested in its progress, and is doing his part to see that in its new construction work it is getting the best and most modern ideas. His training his been a practical one, and he realizes the need of the people for comfort and efficiency in their homes, and sees to it that these are embodied in all of his designs. His progress has been a remarkable one and his success could not have been attained in so short a period, no matter what his training, if he had not possessed in marked degree considerable natural talent for this work and artistic perceptions of a high order.
HARVEY O. BROWN. The prestige of New Springfield as a business and trading center of Mahoning County is due to the enterprise of Harvey O. Brown, who conducts the only store in the village. That store is capable of satisfying the needs of all the residents, carrying a large and varied stock of groceries, dry goods, hardware and farm implements, and it is also the local postoffice, Mr. Brown being postmaster.
Mr. Brown was born in Springfield Township, Mahoning County, July 28, 1871, a son of Jeremiah and Sophia (Miller) Brown. His early life was spent on a farm, and he supplemented his training in the district schools with a course at Canfield and later attended a business college in Pittsburgh. For several years he was a successful teacher. After leaving business college he worked for a year in a pottery establishment in West Virginia, and then resumed teaching in his home township.
Mr. Brown began business as a merchant at New Springfield in 1896. The first year his stock was valued at not more than $2,000. He knew how to cultivate and stimulate trade, and has kept his business growing and prospering. In 1905 he erected a substantial building, two floors and basement, 55 by 60 feet, all used for stock and salesrooms. His stock has doubled in the last ten years, and the year 1918 saw the largest increase in his business, from 12 to 15 per cent over the previous year. His volume of business that year aggregated $4o,000. It now requires about $20,000 of capital to keep the stock required by his trade.
Mr. Brown has been local postmaster since 1909, and is also president of the local school board and justice of the peace.
Mr. Brown was reared on a farm and for the past six years has been operating a fine place of 167 acres on the edge of the village. His son, now attending the State Agricultural College, has the active management of the farm.
Mr. Brown is a democrat in politics and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at North Lima. For a number of years he has been an interested student of local archaeology, and has made a valuable collection of Indian relics.
August 25, 1898, he married Jennie Rinkenberger, who was born on a farm half a mile from New Springfield, a daughter of William Rinkenberger. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown are: Harvey Guy, who is taking the three years' agricultural course at the State College ; Helen and Pauline, students in the North Lima High School ; and Elbert and Burton, twins, attending the local schools at New Springfield.
JACOB H. GOOD. One of the old established families of Mahoning County is that one bearing the name of Good, and its representatives have, many of them, been connected with the agricultural development of this region. One of them, Jacob H. Good, owns a farm on the Boardman-Poland Road, two miles east of Boardman Center and one mile west of Poland, and is contemplating the division of this property into a number of small tracts for agricultural purposes.
Jacob H. Good was born at Morgantown, Beaver Township, Mahoning County, on October 2o, 1854, a son of Peter and Louisa (Coplenz) Good, whose parents were pioneers from Maryland to Mahoning County. Peter Good was born in Beaver Township,
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near North Lima, and became a farmer. With the outbreak of the war between the states he enlisted in the Union army and gave up his life for his country. His wife and their two children had remained on the farm he owned in Beaver Township, but after his death the farm was sold and his family went to New Middletown, Ohio, where the widow bought a small house and lived there with her children, Jacob H. and Susannah. The latter married Tobias Beard, of the Village of Columbiana, Ohio. Mrs. Good died at the age of seventy-two years, having been the mother of eight children, of whom but the two mentioned above survived, the other six having been swept away within a few weeks of each other during an epidemic of diphtheria.
Jacob H. Good worked for farmers and in a sawmill, the owner of the latter, E. B. Schiller, becoming so impressed with his reliability that he placed him in charge of it and Mr. Good remained with him for seven years as an employe. In the meanwhile Mr. Good was married and concluded to leave the mill and become a carpenter, thinking he could earn more money to meet his increased expenses. However, Mr. Schiller was not willing to lose him, and so agreed to sell him a third interest in the mill. This mill was a portable one and the owners used to take it into the woods and set it up wherever they were operating. When their contracts brought them to Boardman Township Mr. Good put up a rough house and took the men to board. In four years' time he was a half owner in two mills, and then made arrangements so that he owned the portable mill. He then bought some timberland and continued to run this mill for years, making considerable money. It was his plan to buy standing timber and cut and manufacture it into lumber. As the years went on he opened a lumber yard at Struthers, and this branch of his business developed to such an extent that in Igo1 he sold his mill and devoted himself to conducting his lumber yard, adding all kinds of builders' materials to his stock. When he began his stock carried averaged $3,000, but the business grew until he carried from $20,000 to $25,000 worth of stock. When a number of business concerns went down in 1907 Mr. Good found that his credit continued excellent and he weathered the storm without any serious difficulty. In 1917 he disposed of his lumber business so as to give all of his attention to his farm, which he had bought in Nor and conducted with hired help until he went on the farm himself. Aside from serving as school director and road supervisor he has kept out of public life.
When he was twenty-six years old Mr. Good was married to Eliza A. Kurtz, of Springfield Township, who lived in the same neighborhood as he. Mr. and Mrs. Good became the parents of four children, namely: Victor, who was in his father's lumber yard, is now engaged in a real estate business at Struthers with A. M. Lyon; George, who is engaged in a contracting and building business at Struthers ; Hattie, who is Mrs. Judson Beight, lives at Youngstown, where her husband is conducting a grocery; and Levi Paul, who married Pauline Gould, lives at home. The two elder boys prefer life in the city, while Levi Paul is interested in an agricultural life, conducting a threshing and ensilage outfit in addition to his farming. He operates his threshing and ensilage machines with a tractor and also uses it in other farm operations. These operations are carried on according to modern ideas, for he took a course at the State Agricultural College and is carefully trained in his calling.
ARTHUR M. LYON. The official postal guide for several years past has carried the name "Amlyon," designating a branch of the Struthers postoffice. Amlyon is the home of Arthur M. Lyon, and is in the center of one of the communities that illustrate to the best advantage the remarkable growth of housing facilities and modern municipal improvements in the Mahoning Valley. The postoffice is well named and is a significant tribute to the enterprise and public spirit of the man who has been chiefly responsible for the platting of the ground, its division into streets, improvement work and development, and the building of homes which now furnish modern shelter and conveniences for fully 3,500 people.
Mr. Lyon was born at New Waterford in Columbiana County, Ohio, November 23, 1875, son of Marcena and Hannah J. (Lewis) Lyon. His father was a building contractor of Columbiana County, where he died in 1894.
Arthur M. Lyon acquired a common school education, and for four years served an apprenticeship as a drug clerk at $8.00 a month, boarding himself. For one year he worked with the Averbeck Drug Company of Youngstown, and leaving there entered the Scio College of Pharmacy, where he spent two years and acquired the degree Ph. G. While in college he paid all his own expenses, working in the kitchen, waiting on table, sweeping out dormitories. For two years after leaving college he was manager of the Johnson Crystal Pharmacy at Butler, Pennsylvania, and in 1899 identified himself .with the little town of Struthers. Mr. Lyon had only a nominal capital, the knowledge of a profession, and an ambition to do well when he came to this town.
On April 12, 1899, at East Fairfield, Ohio, he married Grace Moore. On the l0th of October of that year he established a drug store at Struthers. There was one other store in the town conducted by a Mr. Parker. Mr. Lyon's first place of business was on Bridge Street. A destructive fire destroyed his first store, and on November 21, 1901, he completed a substantial brick block, and there continued in business until he had been the leading local drug merchant for ten years.
In the meantime, on November 19, two, Mr. Lyon was appointed postmaster, and kept the postoffice in his store. In February, 1909 he sold out his drug business to John Longnecker, and about that time his commission as postmaster also expired. Since then he has given all his time and energies and capital to real estate development.
His first achievement in this line was by the purchase of the E. B. Little farm, which he platted as the Arthur M. Lyon Addition. Since then other vacant tracts have come under his ownership and control, including the James A. Brownlee farm, the Marion Struthers farm, the lands of the Struthers-Youngstown Land Company, the Helen Thomas tract, and the William McCombs tract. He acquired
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the Edward Little farm, and after platting it sold it to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. From the Brownlee farm he platted Brownlee Heights, and the Grace Lyon plat was formerly the Thomas and Marion Struthers farms. During the, past ten years Mr. Lyon has built about a thousand homes, every one of them modern and comfortable, containing six or seven rooms. These he has sold on the easy payment plan, and this home building program has proved one of the chief means of supplying comfortable housing facilities and a means of satisfying the modern injunction "own your home." Mr. Lyon has developed every branch of his business, owning his lumber yard and planing mill, and keeps from fifty to sixty people employed. About half of the ground he has platted has been sold.
The Amlyon branch postoffice was established in December, 1918, at the corner of Elm and Fifth streets, a mile from the main Struthers postoffice. The postoffice is in a new business center, and the postmaster is George Schoenfelder. This community of Amlyon is practically enclosed by the City of Youngstown, by the 'plant of the Sheet and Tube Company, and the Village of Struthers. Mr. Lyon has not neglected to provide the community with educational and other facilities. The Poland Township ,Board has recently completed a large brick schoolhouse of eight rooms, and there area two other school buildings in the community, with a corps of eleven teachers. Amlyon also has a Congregational Church; with Reverend Mr. Pohl as resident pastor. There is a sewerage system, the streets are macadamized, many miles of cement sidewalk have been constructed, and in a few brief years nothing will be lacking to make this a modern and complete civic community.
Mr. Lyon has his own residence at the center of Amlyon. He also has a winter home in Alabama. Mr. Lyon is an active republican, a district committeeman of his party, a member of the Presbyterian Church at Struthers, and is affiliated with the Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He and his wife have two children: A. Marcena, Jr., and Mabel W. His son is a student in Culver Military Academy in Indiana.
CHARLES SEDERLAND. Many of the more thrifty and successful business men of the Mahoning Valley are of foreign birth and breeding, and have brought to this country those habits of industry and economy that have won them success in various lines of endeavor, prominent among the number being Charles Sederland, a well known and prosperous merchant of Youngstown. He was born August 4, 1853, in Sweden, and was brought up and educated in his native land. Securing passage for himself, alone, on a sailing vessel in 1871, he crossed the ocean, landing at Castle Garden with but one cent to his name.
His fellow-passengers kindly assisted him financially to. a limited extent. Making his way to Jamestown, New York, he worked in the timber camps for awhile, and then went to the Irishtown coal fields near Butler, Pennsylvania, where he secured work. Coming to the Youngstown District in 1874, Mr. Sederland dug coal at Fosterville and in nearly all the mines in the vicinity of Youngstown, always keeping busily employed. Going to Colorado in 1880, he was engaged in mining for two years, and then, in 1882, returned to Youngstown, which was then in its infancy, Mr. Sederland having witnessed its growth from a mining camp to a large manufacturing and commercial center, in the meantime having contributed his full share in the development and advancement of its prosperity.
Embarking in mercantile pursuits in 1890, Mr. Sederland was the first to establish a store of general merchandise on Poland Avenue, his first store having been located at 1607. Erecting his present building in 1894, at 1603, on the same avenue, he has built up a substantial business, his trade being extensive and remunerative.
Mr. Sederland has been twice married. He mar ried first, in Youngstown, April 3, 1882, Augusta Johnson, who died October 1, 1893, leaving five children: Clara, at home ; Ellen, wife of William Collins, of Youngstown ; Oscar in business with his father; Edna, wife of Frank Schrader, of this city; and Rhoda, living at home. Mr. Sederland married for his second wife, April 29, 1901, Christina Erickson, and they are the parents of four children Florence Anetta, Charles Marvin, Abbie Lenora and Nina Christina. Politically Mr. Sederland is a stanch republican, and was one of those loyal citizens that voted to have the county seat moved from Canfield to Youngstown. Fraternally he is a member of the Foresters of America. Religiously he is an active member of Grace Lutheran Church, while Mrs. Sederland belongs to the Swedish Lutheran Church On Ridge Avenue.
SETH LUCIAN BAILEY. On July 22, 1919, Mahoning County recorded the death of one of its oldest and most honored residents, Seth Lucian Bailey, who died at the age of eighty-six and Who had spent practically all his life in Coitsville Township.
He was born in Coitsville, January 19, 1833, son of David and Elizabeth "(Early) Bailey and grandson of David Bailey. David Bailey settled in Ohio as early as 1800, and as a pioneer acquired several hundred acres of land lying both in Mahoning and Trumbull counties. He died on his farm near Hubbard at the age of forty. David Bailey, Jr.,. was born in Con necticut about 1792 and was therefore eight years of age when his parents came to Ohio. His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Thomas Early, and they had ten children, seven of whom reached mature years. The son James K. Bailey died in September, 1918, at Garnett, Kansas, and had formerly been county recorder of Mahoning County. His son Thomas now lives at New Castle, Pennsylvania, and is road foreman of engineers and firemen on the Mahoning Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Rivias Bailey, who died only a few months before his brother James, was founder of the Town of Bailey in Pulaski County, Missouri, Thomas Bailey lived in Illinois and at one time was warden of the state penitentiary at Chester. Caleb was a prominent stockman, banker and citizen of Trumbull County, and his sons Oscar and James now live in Chicago. Miranda was the wife of Hudson Bentley, and died at her home near Hubbard at the age of ninety.
Seth L. Bailey grew up on the farm of his father,
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attended district schools and spent one term in a high school in Lawrence, Pennsylvania. His business reputation was largely based upon his success as a livestock breeder and dealer, and for many years he was also a wool buyer. At the age of twenty-three he went to Illinois, and spent part of his time on a farm and was also deputy county clerk of Piatt County. After his marriage in 1860 he moved to Sandy Lake in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where he owned several farms and operated in the oil district as a wool dealer. In 187o he bought his farm of ninety-three acres in section 19 of Coitsville Township, and thereafter during the rest of his active life specialized in the raising of fine stock. He introduced one of the pioneer herds of White Faced or Hereford cattle to Ohio. He was a familiar figure in the livestock markets of New York and Chicago. For many years he was affiliated with the Hopewell Presbyterian Church at New Bedford.
March 8, 1860, Seth L. Bailey married Maxilla Stewart, daughter of William Stewart. She received her education at Westminster College of New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, and was a teacher before her marriage. She is still living, and possesses unimpaired her splendid intellectual qualities and has long been known by her friends as a woman of unusual culture and attainments. Seth L. Bailey and wife had five children, and the four to reach mature years are Blanche, Inez, William Orrin and Clyde Lester. Blanche is a graduate of the Rayen High School of
Youngstown, was a teacher for several years in Coitsville and Hubbard townships, and afterward married David Black and now lives at New Bedford, Pennsylvania. Inez, the second daughter, is the wife of William G. Cowden and lives in Coitsville Township.
William O. Bailey was educated at Grove City, Pennsylvania, and Valparaiso College, Indiana, taught school at Haselton, Ohio, was in business at Beatrice, Nebraska, for a time, and is now a resident of New Bedford, Pennsylvania. He married Anna Moore, of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.
Clyde Lester Bailey, the youngest child, was also educated at Grove City, Pennsylvania, was a school teacher in early life and later became a commercial traveler, and for many years his interests have been centered at the Union Stockyards in Chicago. He is now an adjuster for Armour Company, but for the past sixteen years has lived at the old Bailey home and has kept the farm under his individual management. He is a successful breeder of Polled Angus cattle and in former years of Belgian and Percheron horses. Much of his livestock has been exhibited at fairs and other shows.
Clyde Lester Bailey married Brittomarte Roatch, who is widely known in Mahoning County as a woman of great charm and is presiding with the finest dignity over the model home in Coitsville Township. The Bailey home was remodeled and thoroughly modernized about ten years ago, but still incorporates the original house, which was built more than too years ago.
Mrs. Bailey is a daughter of Col. David E. and Alice D. (Sala) Roatch. The Sala family traces its remote ancestry to the German nobility, and members of the family came to the United States to escape, political persecution. Several men of the name have been distinguished in this country. One of Mrs. Bailey's relatives on her mother's side is Judge Frank N. Sala of Toledo.
Her father, Col. David E. Roatch, who died in 1897, was a distinguished officer of the Union army during the Civil war and one of the most prominent citizens claimed by Carroll County, Ohio. He was born in Carroll County in 1838 and joined a three months' regiment at the beginning of the Civil war, participating in the West Virginia campaign. He immediately re-enlisted and in September, 1861, was commissioned second lieutenant of the First Ohio Infantry. He was in the Shiloh campaign and the siege of Corinth, and resigned in May, 1862, and re-enlisted in the Ninety-Eighth Ohio Infantry. He was in the Chickamauga, the Atlanta, and other great campaigns. He was made second lieutenant in January, 1863, promoted to first lieutenant the same year, to captain in March, 1863, to major in 1864, and to lieutenant-colonel in May, 1865. He rejoined his command after a furlough and was in civilian clothes during the battle of Chickamauga, when he found his regiment dispersed and retreating, and after making himself known by his personal example rallied and revived his men and led them through two days and nights of ceaseless fighting. He was then put on the staff of General Mitchell, but was in command of his regiment at the close of the war. In 1867 he located at Malvern in Carroll. County, and in 1878 was elected sheriff and also performed the duties of that office during the term of his successor, who was prevented from performing the duty by ill health. Along in the eighties. Colonel Roatch bought a tract of clay land in Carroll County, manufacturing brick and sewer pipe, and thus established what is now the leading industry of that section of Ohio. He was a life-long friend of President McKinley, and for many years exercised an undisputed leadership in the republican bodies. Besides his daughter, Mrs. Bailey, his daughter Vinta is Mrs. John Kratz, also a resident of Youngstown.
JOHN ATKINSON, who is living in retirement at Thorn Hill, Coitsville Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, where the family is esteemed and has for long been associated, has lived an industrious life, entering extensively into truck and general farming on the Atkinson property of ninety-four acres.
He was born in Sunderland, England, on November 11, 1846, the son of- George and Ann (Solomon) Atkinson. He was only seven years old when he ' came with his parents to America, the family taking up residence at first at New Castle, Pennsylvania, where for some years George Atkinson was employed as a bookkeeper in the bank of the Hitchcock Company of that place. He eventually became manager of that bank, and later came to Thorn Hill in the same capacity and for the same banking house. George Atkinson lived the remainder of his life in Thorn Hill, death coming to him when he was sixty-eight years old. His widow, however, attained octogenarian age, her death not occurring until she was in her eighty-fifth year. They were the parents of the following children : John, the subject of this sketch; Mary, who married Charles Wardle, and their daugh-
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ter became the wife of John Rush, of a well-known Thorn Hill pioneer family; Hodgson, who married Lucy Rush, and now lives at Bedford, Pennsylvania ; Dorothy, who married Andrew Stevens, of Thorn Hill; Hannah, now Mrs. Curl, of Thorn Hill; George, who married Martha Rush, and like his brother is a farmer at Bedford, Pennsylvania ; and Ruth, who married William Dunlap, of Perkins Corner.
John Atkinson remained in Ohio, and for the greater part of his life farmed a substantial acreage in Mahoning County. He specialized in truck farming, and although laborious that branch of farming brought him into the possession of more than a competence. He is esteemed as a citizen of the most reliable type, a public-spirited resident, and a good churchman. He married Ruth Rush, daughter of Isaac and Lucinda (Eckman) Rush and a descendant of John Rush, who was the first settler on Flint Hill, Youngstown, only one log house, that of a surveyor for the New England owners of the Western Reserve, being on Flint Hill when John Rush and his wife, Amy Laycock, settled in the territory, in, or before, 1782. Further data regarding the Rush family has been specially written for this edition of Youngstown and Mahoning Valley history, and will be found elsewhere in this volume.
John and Ruth (Rush) Atkinson had four children, but an act of God suddenly ended the lives of two of their sons, lightning striking both. The four children, in order of birth, were: Anna, who married Thomas Roberts, whose business is ht Youngstown, but who resides with his wife at Thorn Hill; George, a responsible and energetic farmer at Thorn Hill, married Hannah Davies ; Isaac, one of the two sons killed by lightning, was born on August 16, 1881, and died on June 24, 1916; Ivan, who was killed at the same time, was born on July 28, 1891. Isaac and Ivan during a storm had sought shelter in a small building on the home farm. The building was struck by lightning, and the charred bodies of Isaac and Ivan were eventually recovered from the ruins of the building. Ivan had only about two months earlier married Margaret Strange, and had made a cosy home, in which his widow still lives with their posthumous son, Ivan. It was a tragic misfortune to come to Mr. and Mrs. John Atkinson in their declining years, and the esteem in which they and their sorts were held was amply manifested at the obsequies of the decedents, who both were good men of clean, upright life and industrious habits.
Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson have for many years been members of the St. John's Episcopal Church, and in earlier years they, took active part in church and social affairs. He, however, is characteristically a man who loves his own home circle, which by his industry he has been able to make so comfortable.
GEORGE L. HOPKINS, of 1411 Shehy Street, Youngstown, has been a resident of this city for twenty years, and as member of the firm Hopkins Brothers, contractors, has done a business whose extent and value can be illustrated by a number of interesting and conspicuous landmarks in the city and surrounding territory.
Mr. Hopkins was born at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1869, son of George and Mary (Lloyd) Hopkins. Both parents were natives of Wales George Hopkins was thirteen years of age when hi people came to this country, and as a youth he a quired a mechanical trade and eventually became builder. He was a veteran of the Civil war, serving in the engineering department of the Union Army, but after a second enlistment was a private in the infantry. George Hopkins, who died at the age of sixty years, was a republican, a member of the Baptist Church, and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His first wife, Mary Lloyd, died when a comparatively young woman. She had been brought from Wales at the age of three years. Her eight children include the members of the firm Hopkins- Brothers, George L. and Arthur R., and the only other survivor is Mary, wife of David B. Williams of Youngstown. George Hopkins married for his second wife Rachel Davis, who became the mother of two children, Jacob D. and Esther, who with their mother live in Philadelphia.
George L. Hopkins acquired his education in home schools, and under the skilled eye and with the encouragement of his father acquired a substantial knowledge of the building trades. Later he and his brother gave much of their time for three years to the various technical studies pertaining to all classes of building construction with the International Correspondence School of Scranton. Mr. Hopkins has kept his studious mind working harmoniously with the-results of experience and owes much of his success to this habit. He and his brother Arthur were employed as journeymen in Philadelphia and for three years after they came. to Youngstown in 1898. They then began taking contracts on their own account, and their business has enjoyed constant growth and their services have been in demand for the highest class of building construction. In recent years they have built a number of structures on real estate of their own.
Some of the more notable. buildings testifying to their work in past years are the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church on Himrod Avenue, the Baptist Church on Wilson Avenue, the Swedish Lutheran Church on Market Street, the Hartenstein Building on West Federal Street, the Page Building at Phelps and Commerce, the Frank Tucker residence, the C. H. Tod residence, school buildings at Coitsville, McKinley Heights and elsewhere, and very recently the modern home of Alfred Reinman of the Central Bank.
Mr. George L. Hopkins takes a prominent part in the affairs of the Builders Exchange at Youngstown, and is also president of the Building Trades Employers Association. He is a member of Western Star Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Youngstown, Ohio, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a deacon of the Himrod Avenue Baptist Church, of which his wife is also an active member.
In Philadelphia he married Sarah Ellis, whose father, Benjamin Ellis, was a coal miner. They have an interesting family of five children. Ben E., the oldest, who is associated with his father in business,. attended the Officers' Training Camp at Camp Grant and was due to have received a commission in two weeks when the armistice was signed. He married Miss Ruth Thomas, of Youngstown, and they have a
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son, George W. The daughter, Mary L., who was connected with the Home Community Service of Youngstown, is the wife of Edward Jones. Arthur, who married Miss Margaret Brush, is one of his father's lieutenants in business. Blodwin, employed in the office of the Young Men's Christian Association at Youngstown, is the wife of Kenneth Maltbie, who spent fifteen months with the American Expeditionary Forces in France with the Engineer Corps, and is now a student of dentistry at Western Reserve University. The youngest of the family is Elizabeth, a graduate of the Rayen High School and now a student at Denison University.
JOHN RUSH, of Thorn Hill, Coitsville Township, near Youngstown, Ohio, is the head of the present generation of the family of that patronymic which has such distinctive place among the pioneer families of the Youngstown district of Ohio. When John and Amy (Laycock) Rush came into the territory and settled on the southern side of Flint Hill, where Williamson Avenue now is, there was only one log house in Youngstown, that of the agent of the land company of New England which owned 3,300,000 acres of Ohio land, later known as the Western Reserve; and that man was only in the territory for surveying purposes, and therefore could hardly be considered a permanent settler, but as an emissary sojourning in the territory temporarily for a business purpose; whereas, John Rush and his wife came as legitimate and bona fide settlers.
John Rush, of Thorn Hill, great-grandson of John and Amy (Laycock) Rush, was born about two miles to the northward of Youngstown Court House on May 31, 1861, the son of Isaac and Lucinda (Eckman) Rush. The Rush family was originally of French extraction, but was early in the colony of Virginia, where John Rush, the pioneer Youngstown ancestor, was born in 1757. He married Amy Laycock, who was born in 1763 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. They were married in, or prior to, 1782, and all of their nine children were born at Flint Hill, Youngstown Township, Ohio, between 1782 and 18o6. The Rush property included the greater part of the south side and extended to the river. Of their nine children only two remained in the county, John and Abner. The latter died in Youngstown, and has one son, Abner, at Girard. Abner kept a tavern on the road between Warren and Youngstown. He died in Girard.
John Rush, son of John and Amy (Laycock) Rush, was born on Flint Hill, near Youngstown, May 22, 1794. He inherited the old Rush home on Flint Hill, married Elizabeth Babbitt, and had three children. His death came in middle life, as the result of an accident; a broken leg sustained when his team of oxen ran away brought complications which eventuated in his death. He left a widow and three children. The latter were : Ruth, who married Brown Carlton, and died in Girard, Trumbull County, Ohio, at the age of seventy-four years ; Isaac, of whom more is written below; Susannah, who before she married was a teacher. She married Homer Baldwin, but died when she was only twenty-seven years old, leaving one son, William, who is one of the present owners of the Baldwin Mill.
Isaac Rush, son of John and Elizabeth (Babbitt) Rush, was born in Youngstown Township, on what is now the Baldwin Mill property, and within the boundaries of the city, the date of his birth being November 6, 1823. He was twenty-four years old when on April 17, 1847, he married Lucinda Eckman, who was born on April 4, 1826, and died June 21, 1917. Isaac Rush's death came four years earlier, on January 8, 1913. Lucinda Eckman was of a colonial family, of some prominence during the Revolutionary war, and early settlers in Trumbull County, Ohio. The Eckman homestead was of 300 acres, situated in Wetherfield Township, Trumbull County, and the first Eckman to take up the development of that tract had much trouble with the Indians. Later he did much trapping and hunting with them.
Isaac Rush for the greater part of his life was a farmer. About six years after he had married Lucinda Eckman he bought the Baldwin farm north of Youngstown. That property he tilled until about 1860, when he removed to a farm of about 160 acres a short distance from the present farm of his son John on Thorn Hill. He died there, although for some years prior to his death he had been living in retirement in the home of his son. Isaac Rush was an active man, and of enterprising spirit. He had much success in the breeding and training of horses; in fact the Rush family generally had a wide reputation as horsemen, as breeders, trainers and drivers. Abner Rush especially had a national reputation among horsemen. Isaac Rush also was a man of strong personality, and interested himself in many public movements. He was one of the foremost public workers in his township, and held many local offices. Politically he was a republican, and by religious conviction a Universalist. Isaac and Lucinda (Eckman) Rush were the parents of seven children: Mary, who was born in 1848, married William Tidswell, and died when fifty years old; Ruth, who was born in 185o, and married John Atkinson, whose brothers, Hodgson and George, also married into the Rush family, and a daughter of whose sister, Mary, eventually became the wife of John Rush of Thorn Hill; Lucy, who was born in 1853, married Hodgson Atkinson, brother of John, and later removed to near Bedford, Pennsylvania ; Jessie, who was born in 1856, married Hugh Showalter, and died when thirty years old; Martha, who was born in 1858, married-George Atkinson, brother of John and Hodgson, and they live near Bedford, Pennsylvania ; John, who is the principal subject of this sketch; and Nora, who was born in 1867, married John McGuire, deputy sheriff. They live on part of the old Rush homestead.
John Rush, sixth child of Isaac and Lucinda (Eckman) Rush, was reared in the vicinity of Youngstown. His life has been lived almost wholly on Thorn Hill, Coitsville Township. He was twenty-two years old when he married Anna Wardle, daughter of Charles and Mary (Atkinson) Wardle, of Thorn Hill. Her father, Charles Wardle, was of English birth, and in early manhood, following the traditional characteristic of that hardy island people, became a sailor. Eventually he stayed in America and settled in the Youngstown district of Ohio, where for some time he worked as a miner. After his marriage John Rush applied himself energetically to truck gardening on a property of twenty-eight acres
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he owned on Thorn Hill. And as the years passed he took increasing and a more important part in that which had been the hobby, pastime and business of other members of the Rush family—horse breeding and training. He had much success in the breeding of trotting horses, and seemed to inherit a love of these animals, nothing seeming to give him greater pleasure than to be driving a "high stepper." He was an authority on the breeding and training of horses, having given the science extensive study. And he had undertaken deep research in all matters pertaining to horses, pedigrees and the like. He has also at times been busily employed as an auctioneer in the district, and as a judge of horses had a wide reputation. Latterly his farm products have been his main occupation, and his produce finds a ready market in the stores of the neighboring city.
Politically Mr. Rush has been inactive. He has never concerned himself greatly with political matters, and has never sought office. But throughout his life he has interested, himself in matters that pertain to his own township, and has supported many worthy local projects. He is a consistent Christian, a member of the Presbyterian Church of Youngstown. He and his wife are the parents of three children : Eunice, who married Archie Wilson, who is in business in Youngstown, but resides at Thorn Hill; John, who also lives at Thorn Hill, married Nana Hall, and is identified with the Youngstown Paint and Glass Company; and Ruth, who married George
M. Spencer, a plumber of Sharon, Pennsylvania.
As will have been gathered by the reading of the foregoing, the Rush family has a unique place in the history of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley.
JOHN EARLY GRAY. Recognized as one of the intelligent, wide-awake and progressive men of Ma, honing County, John Early Gray, of Coitsville Township, has hosts of friends and is representative of the best type of citizenship. He was born in Fowler Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, on January 27, 1839, a son of George and Jane (Early) Gray, and grandson of Amos Gray.
Amos Gray came from New Jersey to Ohio in 1804 and saw only three log cabins in what is now Youngstown. He moved to Seceders Corners in Liberty Township, five miles northeast of Youngstown in Trumbull County. Subsequently he bought sixty acres in Coitsville Township, one mile north of what is now Scienceville, which was covered with timber. On this land he built a log cabin and later a large hewed log house, and in the latter he died when fifty-six years of age. A stone mason by trade, he was able to make substantial improvements, and the stone chimney on his house was a marvel to his neighbors. Some of the cut stone is now in the cellar walls of the present residence of his grandson, John E. Gray. His wife bore the maiden name of Mary Hiles, and she was born in New Jersey of Holland ancestry; and his parents were also of Holland birth. The American founder was Adam Gray, and he settled in New Jersey, from which state the Grays scattered to all parts of the Union in subsequent years. Amos Gray served in the War of 1812, and because of his services he received a warrant for eighty acres of land. Their son George secured the original homestead, but later moved to the Early farm one mile distance, at what is now Science Hill, and included Scienceville within its boundaries. It is related that while in church one Sunday, a military officer instructed the able bodied men of the congregation to meet him the next morning at ten o'clock at Warren, and he took them to the southwestern shores of Lake Erie. Amos Gray was among the number. There the little command was surrounded by hostile Indians and British troops, and as their supplies were cut off, they nearly starved, but the officers managed to get word out by a scout and a rescuing party came to their relief. Had they not found that they were encamped on a field of beans, which they dug out from beneath the snow, they would have certainly perished before assistance could have reached them.
John Early Gray recalls many incidents of early times that are very interesting, among other matters being an instance when during the candidacy of James K. Polk for the presidency the democrats attended a rally in wagons decorated with pokeberries.
Thomas Early, the maternal grandfather of John Early Gray, owned 350 acres of land in one tract, about one mile south of Stop 18 on the Early Road, and Mrs. Gray purchased 156 acres of this farm, and after receiving it George Gray improved the land and made it into a valuable property. He was the eldest of his father's family, the others being as follows: David, who went to Wisconsin and died there; Jesse, who went to Michigan and settled on the Saint Joseph River; Stewart, who died at Brookfield Trumbull County ; Samuel, who went to Illinois and died there ; Amos Sutton, who went to Iowa, where he died; Catherine, who married Samuel Crahl, of Trumbull County ; Sophia, who married Oren Duns-comb, owner of the Salt Springs on the Salt Springs Road west of Girard, Ohio; Mary Ann, who married Rayen Kirk, removed to Iowa, and a sketch of whom I appears elsewhere in this work; and Margaret, who married Isaac Sippey, lived in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
George Gray was ruling elder in the Coitsville Presbyterian Church, of which his wife's father was a charter member, and Mr. Gray was much interested in church work. Mrs. Gray, who was his second wife, died in 1873. The first wife of George Gray bore the maiden name of Eliza Ziglor, and her sister was the wife of Seth Thompson, a partner of John Brown in a tannery at Meadville, Pennsylvania. By his first marriage George Gray had the following children : Aurilla, who married David Stewart and died leaving three children ; and Mary, who married Calvin Shook, and after his death was married to James Predmore. The children of the second marriage of George Gray were as follows : John Early, who is the eldest ; Lucinda, who married Jacob Wise and lived in Trumbull County, where she died; Minerva, who married Anthony Howell, of Youngstown, and later went to Colorado and Montana, but returned and died at Youngstown, and both she and Lucinda were school teachers prior to their marriage; Thomas, who married Hattie S. Donnelly, lived in Ohio, later in California and Cuba, and still later became a contractor at the Carnegie Works and died at Youngstown ; George, who married Ella Woy, went to Colorado, Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma on account of the poor health of his wife, returned to Iowa and
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there died, hut she survives. Their one son became a leading educator of Iowa. He died in California.
John Early Gray attended the district schools, the Youngstown High School and studied for one term at Westminster College, Wilmington, Pennsylvania. When only eighteen years old he began teaching in the district schools of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and also taught for three terms the school at Science Hill which he had formerly attended. The original school building was of logs, with a fireplace in one end, and everything very primitive. About 1857 Mr. Gray suggested calling the knoll on which the school was built Science Hill, and it met with popular favor, but when the Government established a postoffice the name Scienceville was accorded the little settlement. For four years Mr. Gray was a merchant at Waynesburg, Stark County, Ohio, and then came to his present farm. In addition to the four years he was engaged in merchandising in Stark County Mr. Gray lived there for two years previously, his attention being occupied with educational matters.
On June 12, 1868,. John E. Gray was married to Cornelia A. Slusser, a daughter of William and Harriet (Borland) Slusser, who lived near Massillon, Stark County, Ohio. Mrs. Gray was their only child, and they spent their last years with her and her husband. They died forty days apart, in 1908. Mrs. Gray's grandmother, Clarinda Hodley, taught the first school taught by a white woman west of Tuscarawas River. The farm of Mr. Gray contains tor acres, and he has been breeding thoroughbred stock for many years. He learned this business from his father, who was an excellent stockman, and he in turn has taught his son. They have exhibited very extensively in this and other counties, and their product is, sought by breeders in different states, they having established many herds. Some of their heifers have had no difficulty in coining up to the standard tests. Mr. Gray has found that thoroughbred breeding is a very profitable business. He was often called upon to act as a director of county fairs and was correspondent for the Ohio Farmer and the Wool Grower. He owns stock in various financial and manufacturing concerns in the county; has erected several residences at Youngstown ; and platted an addition to McGuffeys Heights, which has all been sold. The lots in this subdivision are all built upon and are occupied by a fine class of people. He has always been active as a voter and worker in the republican party, but has never sought public preferment. He is a charter member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scienceville, being just as sincere in his performance of his religious duties as he is in discharging the responsibilities of 'citizenship. Mr. Gray has but the one child, Eugene Slusser, who is in charge of the Federal Savings & Loan Bank at Hubbard, Ohio. He married Cynthia K. Duer, and they have no children. All of his life Mr. Gray has worked hard to maintain the solid agricultural foundation of his section, and has raised the standard of living for farmers in this part of the state.
JOSEPH W. LONG is a veteran in the iron and steel industry of the Mahoning Valley, and since 1902 has been manager of the Mahoning Foundry Company, which he organized in that year. This is one of the rapidly growing industries of Youngstown, and its special output of heating apparatus and furnaces has a wide distribution and use.
Mr. Long was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1861, son of Joseph B. and Nancy (Alexander) Long. His mother was a native of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and died at the age of forty-three. Joseph B. Long, who died in 1906, at the age of seventy-six, was a stone mason and contractor, and specialized in building stone work for various counties in Western Pennsylvania. From New Castle he removed to Greenville, which for many years was his business headquarters. He was noted for his sound patriotism, was a republican voter, and for many years an elder in the United Presbyterian Church.
Joseph W. Long acquired his early education in the schools of New Castle and Greenville, and at the age of sixteen commenced his career in the iron industry by serving an apprenticeship with the Pennsylvania Engineering Company at New Castle. From New Castle he came to Youngstown, and was first employed by the Brown-Bonnell plant and later worked as a moulder in the William Tod works. With other associates he organized the Mahoning Foundry Company in 19o2. They had a modest capital and started with a very small plant, but such has been the enterprise behind it that the business has almost doubled in capacity every year from the day of organization. As manufacturers and installers of heating plants, they have sent their goods to many sections of the country, but have gradually been concentrating on local business. Their yearly distribution in Youngstown alone is something over 800 furnaces. The company has developed its own patents and improvements, and manufactures one of the best types of furnaces on the market today.
Mr. Long, like his father, is a United Presbyterian, and is an elder in the South United Presbyterian Church at Youngstown. Politically he votes as a republican. In 1884, at Greenville, he married Mary M. Seiple. They have two daughters, Florence and Clara, both graduates of the Rayen High School. Florence had a musical education, being a graduate of the Dana Musical Institute. She married a man prominent in the musical world, Charles Lowry, and both of them formerly, taught music in the State Normal at Warrensburg, Missouri. Mr. Lowry is now in charge of the violin department of the Dana Musical Institute. The daughter Clara finished her education in the State Normal at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, taught school four years, and then after a business course became private secretary to Mr. Gallagher, manager of the Eastern Ohio Gas Company. She is now the wife of Thomas H. Summers, of Sharon, Pennsylvania, and they have a daughter, Mary Louise. Mr. Summers is an Agricultural College graduate, was formerly in Washington in the Department of Agriculture, and is now on the selling force of the Mahoning Foundry Company.
ANDREW KIRK. While the City of Youngstown in its remarkable growth and extension has practically swallowed up the old Kirk homestead farm and obliterated its former agricultural character, the home itself still shelters several of the present generation, though even the house has had to be removed several rods from its former location to conform to the new
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system of streets and thoroughfares now being constructed in that section.
The Kirks have been people of prominence in Ma-honing County for over a century. The founder of the family here was Andrew Kirk, a native of New Jersey. He was a blacksmith by trade, and came early in the nineteenth century to what was then Trumbull County, locating in Coitsville Township of what is now Mahoning County. He married Elizabeth Baldwin, and they lived on 4 farm given them by her father. Andrew Kirk enlisted in the War of 1812 and served under Colonel Rayen. Out of admiration for his distinguished colonel he named one of his children Rayen Kirk, who was born in Youngstown Township and also became a blacksmith by trade, and exemplified all the physical characteristics of the typical blacksmith. He was an all around athlete, and in the early days he was frequently challenged for running and jumping contests, and it is said that he was able to hold his own with the best of them. He also held the office of constable, and at one time was called upon to arrest Big Jim, a powerful Indian. Jim resisted arrest and Kirk had to throw him five times, the Indian rising from the ground after each fall, and at the sixth throw Kirk struck him a stunning blow, after which Jim meekly submitted to the power of the law. After his marriage Rayen Kirk moved to Hubbard, and for many years conducted a blacksmith shop. His skillful work caused teamsters with their strings of six or eight-horse teams to come many miles to Hubbard to have their horses shod. About the time of the outbreak of the Civil war Rayen Kirk and all his family except his son Andrew and his daughter Jane moved out to Delaware County, Iowa, where he established his home on a farm and again conducted a blacksmith shop. He died there at the age of eighty-eight, and his widow, Mary A. (Gray) Kirk, died at the age of ninety. They were the parents of nine children, and the only one now living is Calvin, at Edgewood, Iowa. His daughter Mary (Kirk) McClelland spent her last years and died at Coitsville. The daughter Jane, who remained in Ohio when the rest of the family went West, became the wife of William Kimmel, and lived and died at Hubbard.
The third generation of the Kirk family in Mahoning County was represented by the late Andrew Kirk, who was born at Hubbard, October 27, 1830. He acquired a good education, taught district schools at Hubbard and at Brookfield, but in the main his life was industriously spent in farming. From 1856 until 1861 he lived on his farm in Brookfield, and in the latter year moved to the Kirk farm on the McGuffey Road near Youngstown. Here in the same year he erected a large house, and twenty-two years later remodeled it into a modern residence. The farm land around this home originally comprised fifty-three acres, but is now practically all platted and is destined to be absorbed in the City of Youngstown.
Andrew Kirk lived to witness some of the important phases of development which encroached upon his farm and his vocation as an agriculturist. He died July II, 1914. He married in 1855 Letitia Mackey, daughter of James and Margaret (Early) Mackey, another old and well known family of the Mahoning Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk besides the place on which they lived owned the farm at Emma and Bond streets, now called Kirkwood Terrace, comprising part of the old Mackey homestead. This land was sold after the death of Andrew Kirk, and is now all platted and a part of the City of Youngstown. Mrs. Andrew Kirk died June 30, 1912.
The family were active supporters of the Presbyterian Church and the daughters are of the same denomination. Andrew Kirk spent some of his early years as agent for sewing machines, and he also taught singing school, and was a master among the "old time fiddlers."
The present generation of the family comprises four children besides one grandchild. The only son of the late Andrew Kirk is Eugene, who has followed a career as a civil engineer and is a resident of Youngstown. He married Grace I. Houston, and their living child is Helen I. One daughter, Mary Letitia, died at the age of twenty-one. The three daughters are Carrie L., Natalie and Emma, the last two twins. They all live together at the old homestead. Carrie was a primary teacher for thirty-one years in the McGuffey Street School, but retired from her profession in 1919. The other two daughters have always lived at home and both have been interested in church and other causes in their community.
WILLIAM BLACK MCCLURE, who is living on the Early Road just outside of Youngstown, was formerly one of the active agriculturists of Mahoning County, and is still regarded as an expert on matters pertaining to farming, although he is now retired. He was born in County Donegal, Ireland, on April I, 1837, a son of William and Mary (Black) McClure, of Scotch-Irish descent. In 1840 the family came to Youngstown, and among their neighbors were William and Caldwell Porter and Robert McClure, the latter being a nephew of William McClure, and having located in this city several years previously.
After looking about him for the best location, William McClure bought a farm in Jackson Township, seven miles west of Youngstown, and lived on it for six years, when he sold and bought a farm in Newton Township, twenty miles west of Youngstown in Trumbull County, and on it he died in 1879, at the age of eighty-seven years, his wife having died at the age of seventy-five years. Their family was as follows : John M., who died in Smith Township, near Alliance, Ohio, when about sixty-five years old, left a son, William, and a daughter, Mary, both of whom live on his old farm; Robert, who was a farmer, died at Freedom, Pennsylvania, when seventy-eight years of age, leaving no children, and his wife is also deceased; Moses, who continued to live near the old farm in Newton Township, Mahoning County, died in 1895, when sixty-three years old, and left four sons, Frank, an attorney of Newton Falls, Ohio, and Edward, Albert and Arthur, who are farmers; William B., whose name heads this review ; George, who lives at Newton Falls, Ohio ; Eliza, who died in her eighty-seventh year ; Matilda, who died many years ago, unmarried; Mary Jane, who married Morgan Dean, lived at Portage, Ohio; and Lodema, who died unmarried on the old farm in Trumbull County, she and Matilda having lived there together.
Until he attained his majority William B. McClure lived at home, but at that time came tc Youngstown
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and secured employment from William S. Parmelee, and for five years worked for him on the old Judge Rayen farm that is now included in the city limits of Youngstown, receiving $14.00 per month for his services in addition to his board and lodgings. Being a frugal young man, Mr. McClure saved nearly all of his wages.
His agricultural labors were interrupted, however, by his enlistment in 1862 as a member of the Eighty Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a three month: regiment, and in 1864 he re-enlisted in another thre months' regiment, the One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. During his first enlist meet he saw service in Maryland, and in the second was in Virginia and took part in the battle of Peters burg.
After his honorable discharge Mr. McClure returned to Youngstown and was employed in tilt Brown-Bonnell Rolling Mill, now the Republic Iron & Steel Company. Mr. McClure was in the rolling department, and for that hard work only received $2.50 per day and boarded himself.
In 1865 William B. McClure was married to Amanda Fusselman, born at Hubbard, Ohio, on March 26, 1843, a daughter of David and Agnes (McKinney) Fusselman. David Fusselman came of German stock, and was originally a resident of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and his wife, born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, came of Scotch parentage, and about 1840 the Fusselmans settled at Hubbard. Still later they bought a farm in Mahoning County that is now included in the City of Youngstown, their residence having stood on what is now Oak Hill Avenue on the south side. At that time John McKinney conducted a blacksmith shop on the present side of the courthouse. Mr. Fusselman did not long survive removal to Youngstown. Mrs. McCure began teaching school when nineteen years old and continued in that calling until her marriage, one of her pupils having been Julia Ann Thomas. Her principal was Reuben McMillan.
At the time of his marriage William B. McClure bought a farm in Hubbard Township, three and one-half miles north of his present home, and lived there from 1871 until 1895, increasing his original farm of fifty-seven acres to 117 acres. He improved his property, erected a nice house and carried on general farming until 1895, when he moved to Youngstown, trading his farm for his city house and his present farm of sixty-seven acres, which was the George Gray farm on the Early road. All but twenty-eight acres of this farm has been platted and is named McClure, and it is likely he will turn his remaining acreage into another subdivision, as it is admirably adapted for that purpose. His own residence is thoroughly modern and supplied with all conveniences, including electric lights. Mr. McClure has always been an advocate of good roads, but has never cared to into public notice by running for office.
Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McClure, as follows: George and David William. George McClure went to Kansas in 1886, learned the milling business with William Black, a cousin of his father, and is now superintendent of a large flour mill at Arkansas City, Kansas. His first wife, who was Carrie Fouts, died and left three children, Clara, Edna and William, and he was subsequently married to Bessie Conard. David William was employed by the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company for twelve years, but became disabled and died May 31, 1920. Mr. McClure has always had an affection for his land and been interested in the fundamental problem of production, and these qualities have naturally been an inspiration to the most substantial kind of citizenship.
DAVID POTHOUR. There have been three David Pothours in the Mahoning Valley, the first coming at the very beginning of the nineteenth century, and each has played a worthy part in the progressive development of this region from the earliest pioneer times. The present David Pothour for many years has been a successful dairyman and. Holstein cattle breeder at his old home farm a mile north of Coitsville Village and five miles east of Youngstown.
The first David Pothour was a native of Germany and came to America at the age of nineteen, in 1800. His place of settlement was in Hubbard Township of Trumbull County, and the farm he developed there was his home until his death, at the venerable age of ninety-six.
This pioneer had also acquired a tract of a hundred acres at a dollar an acre in Coitsville Township of Mahoning County. Fifty acres of this was inherited by his son, the second David, who was born in Trumbull County. At the time of his marriage he moved to the land given him by his father. All of this was covered by heavy timber, and he cleared out a space in which to erect his log cabin. He continued the work of clearing and development until he had a well proportioned farm of seventy-eight acres. In the summer of 1850 he hewed timbers in the woods and erected a barn, which is still standing on the farm, though it has .since been enlarged and improved. David Pothour, the second, died May 16, 1879, after having impressed his influence strongly upon the agricultural and civic life of Coitsville. He married Rachel Mariner, a native of Coitsville Township. Her father, Asa Mariner, was the first surveyor to locate in Mahoning County. He came from Hartford, Connecticut, walking the entire distance to Eastern Ohio. He married after coming to Ma-honing County, and spent the rest of his life there. David and Rachel Pothour had three children : Emmet, Nancy, who became the wife of William Mars, and David. The mother of these children died December 29, 1891. The son, Emmet, enlisted in the Seventeenth Ohio Light Infantry during the Civil war, but died in 1863, from hydrophobia as a result of being bitten by a mad dog the summer before he entered the army.
David Pothour, the third, was born in the log house built by his father on the present homestead in Coitsville Township September 11, 1859, and has always lived in that locality. He was well educated, and has successfully applied himself to the business of farming and the dairy cattle business. On November 16, 1881, he married Rose Emma Longstreet. Her father, Charles Longstreet, came from New York to Coitsville, and spent his life as a farmer here. He died at the age of eighty years. Charles Longstreet married Amanda Campbell, who died at the age of seventy-six. Mrs. Pothour is one of the nine children still surviving. Mr. and Mrs. Pothour had
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and secured employment from William S. Parmelee, and for five years worked for him on the old Judge Rayen farm that is now included in the city limits of Youngstown, receiving $14.00 per month for his services in addition to his board and lodgings. Being a frugal young man, Mr. McClure saved nearly all of his wages.
His agricultural labors were interrupted, however, by his enlistment in 1862 as a member of the Eighty-Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a three months' regiment, and in 1864 he re-enlisted in another three months' regiment, the One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. During his first enlistment he saw service in Maryland, and in the second was in Virginia and took part in the battle of Petersburg.
After his honorable discharge Mr. McClure returned to Youngstown and was employed in the Brown-Bonnell Rolling Mill, now the Republic Iron & Steel Company. Mr. McClure was in the rolling department, and for that hard work only received $2.50 per day and boarded himself.
In 1865 William B. McClure was married to Amanda Fusselman, born at Hubbard, Ohio, on March 26, 1843, a daughter of David and Agnes (McKinney) Fusselman. David Fusselman came of German stock, and was originally a resident of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and his wife, born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, came of Scotch parentage, and about 1840 the Fusselmans settled at Hubbard. Still later they bought a farm in Mahoning County that is now included in the City of Youngstown, their residence having stood on what is now Oak Hill Avenue on the south side. At that time John McKinney conducted a blacksmith shop on the present side of the courthouse. Mr. Fusselman did not long survive removal to Youngstown. Mrs. McClure began teaching school when nineteen years, old, and continued in that calling until her marriage, one of her pupils having been Julia Ann Thomas. Her principal was Reuben McMillan.
At the time of his marriage William B. McClure bought a farm in Hubbard Township, three and one-half miles north of his present home, and lived there from 1871 until 1895, increasing his original farm of fifty-seven acres to 117 acres. He improved his property, erected a nice house and carried on general farming until 1895, when he moved to Youngstown, trading his farm for his city house and his present farm of sixty-seven acres, which was the George Gray farm on the Early road. All but twenty-eight acres of this farm has been platted and is named McClure, and it is likely he will turn his remaining acreage into another subdivision, as it is admirably adapted for that purpose. His own residence is thoroughly modern and supplied with all conveniences, including electric lights. Mr. McClure has always been an advocate of good roads, but has never cared to come into public notice by running for office.
Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McClure, as follows: George and David William. George McClure went to Kansas in 1886, learned the milling business with William Black, a cousin of his father, and is now superintendent of a large flour mill at Arkansas City, Kansas. His first wife, who was Carrie Fouts, died and left three children, Clara, Edna and William, and he was subsequently married to Bessie Conard. David William was employed by the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company for twelve years, but became disabled and died May 31, 1920. Mr. McClure has always had an affection for his land and been interested in the fundamental problem of production, and these qualities have naturally been an inspiration to the most substantial kind of citizenship.
DAVID POTHOUR There have been three David Pothours in the Mahoning Valley, the first coming at the very beginning of the nineteenth century, and each has played a worthy part in the progressive development of this region from the earliest pioneer times. The present David Pothour for many years has been a successful dairyman and Holstein cattle breeder at his old home farm a mile north of Coitsville Village and five miles east of Youngstown.
The first David Pothour was a native of Germany and came to America at the age of nineteen, in 1800. His place of settlement was in Hubbard Township of Trumbull County, and the farm he developed there was his home until his death, at the venerable age of ninety-six.
This pioneer had also acquired a tract of a hundred acres at a dollar an acre in Coitsville Township of Mahoning County. Fifty acres of this was inherited by his son, the second David, who was born in Trumbull County. At the time of his marriage he moved to the land given him by his father. All of this was covered by heavy timber, and he cleared out a space in which to erect his log cabin. He continued the work of clearing and development until he had a well proportioned farm of seventy-eight acres. In the summer of 1850 he hewed timbers in the woods and erected a barn, which is still standing on the farm, though it has since been enlarged and improved. David Pothour, the second, died May 16, 1879, after having impressed his influence strongly upon the agricultural and civic life of Coitsville. He married Rachel Mariner, a native of Coitsville Township. Her father, Asa Mariner, was the first surveyor to locate in Mahoning County. He came from Hartford, Connecticut, walking the entire distance to Eastern Ohio. He married after coming to Mahoning County, and spent the rest of his life there. David and Rachel Pothour had three children: Emmet, Nancy, who became the wife of William Mars, and David. The mother of these children died December 29, 1891. The son, Emmet, enlisted in the Seventeenth Ohio Light Infantry during the Civil war, but died in 1863, from hydrophobia as a result of being bitten by a mad dog the summer before he entered the army.
David Pothour, the third, was born in the log house built by his father on the present homestead in Coitsville Township September 11, 1859, and has always lived in that locality. He was well educated, and has successfully applied himself to the business of farming and the dairy cattle business. On November 16, 1881, he married Rose Emma Longstreet. Her father, Charles Longstreet, came from New York to Coitsville, and spent his life as a farmer here. He died at the age of eighty years. Charles Long-street married Amanda Campbell, who died at the age of seventy-six. Mrs. Pothour is one of the nine children still surviving. Mr. and Mrs. Pothour had
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two daughters : Jessie, wife of Fritz Wilson, associated with Mr. Pothour in the dairy business; and Edna, now deceased, who was the wife of Edward Creed, of Coitsville Township. She died February 10, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have one daughter, Lourabell. Mr. and Mrs. Creed had two sons, Park and Dahl.
JAMES S. TAYLOR. The successful business represented in his plant and shop at Belmont and Covington streets, as a plumber and dealer in automobile accessories, is the result of many years of hard work, study and careful utilization of opportunities on the part of James S. Taylor.
At the age of fourteen he was a boy worker in coal Mines, but he never allowed the toils and necessities of the day to obscure his ambition for a really worthy place in the world of business. He was born at Palmyra in Portage' County, Ohio, January 28, 1884. His father, Simeon Taylor, who died December 25, 1916, was born at Oldham, England, in 1852, and was eleven years of age when he accompanied his parents to the United States, and after his marriage lived at Churchill, Ohio. The mother, Agnes (Cross) Taylor, who is still living at the age of fifty-five, was born in Scotland, and was a girl of sixteen when her people came to America. Her father was a coal miner, working in the mines of Western Pennsylvania and in Ohio. Simeon Taylor and wife had three sons and one daughter, Mrs. Alex Hamilton, of Vandergriff, Pennsylvania; James S. and William C., business partners, and. Thomas C., employed at the Ohio works of the Carnegie Steel Company.
James S. Taylor gained the fundamentals of his education in the schools of Scott Haven, Pennsylvania, and in night school at Warren, Ohio. He was twenty years of age before he was able to satisfy his ambition for a better education and to learn his trade. He took some special courses in trade schools at Denver, Colorado, and a course of bookkeeping at the Brown Business College of Youngstown. His period of apprenticeship at the plumbing trade, was spent with W. J. Scholl in Youngstown. His early work was done in different places, but for many years he was with A. F. Scott in the plumbing business and for two years kept books for C. J. Little, the plumber. Mr. Taylor in April, 1919, opened a plumbing establishment and garage at the intersection of Covington, Crandall Avenue and Belmont streets, where he owns valuable property and where his business abilities are equal to the handling of every type of contract in the plumbing business, and where he also has an extensive trade in automobile accessories.
Mr. Taylor has always made it a duty to vote at elections, but has always exercised an independent franchise. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Foresters. In 1912 he married Vesta Walp, daughter of John and Rachel Walp. Her parents live on a farm at the north extension of Fifth Avenue of Youngstown. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have two children, James B. and John W.
NATHAN BENTLEY FOLSOM is treasurer of the Brier Hill: Steel Company and has been associated with that corporation since its organization. It is a matter
of historic interest to note that the present site of the Western Reserve plant of the Brier Hill Steel Company is on ground formerly owned by one of the forefathers of Mr. Folsom.
This forefather was Jonathan Folsom, who with his wife, Betsy, and their children came from the Lake Champlain district of New York to Trumbull County, Ohio, in pioneer times. Jonathan was a farmer and acquired much of his land direct from the Government. A son of Jonathan and Betsy Folsom was Jonathan Folsom, grandfather of Nathan B. Folsom. The latter's parents were Omar W. and Luna (Bentley) Folsom, natives of Ohio. His father combined farming with school teaching for many years. At the outbreak of the Civil war he was a volunteer, he enlisting in Company C, Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, September 26, 1861, and serving until getting his honorable discharge December 3, 1862, on account of disability. He died in 1913, at the age of seventy-five.
Nathan B. Folsom, who was born at Shalersville in Portage County, Ohio, August 27, 1881, was one of the nine children of his parents, seven of whom are still living. When he was a small child his parents moved out to Kansas, where he grew up and received a public school education. As a young man he did newspaper work in Kansas City, and in 1901 returned to Ohio and worked as a printer on the Warren Chronicle. Soon afterward he found an opening in the great industries of Eastern Ohio as an employe of the Girard Boiler and Manufacturing Company. In 1905 Mr. Folsom was brought to Youngstown by L. A. Woodard as an employe of the William Tod Company. He joined the Youngstown- Steel Company in 1907, and when that plant was merged with the Brier Hill Steel Company he became assistant treasurer of the corporation, and since. July, 1919, has been its treasurer.
Mr. Folsom is a member of the Youngstown Club, is a republican in politics, and is affiliated with the Disciples Church. June 3, 1903, he married Miss Bertha Baldwin, a daughter of Willard E. and Jennie (Stacy) Baldwin. The Baldwins were among the early pioneer families of the Mahoning Valley. Willard E. Baldwin was engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Youngstown for many years, Mr. and Mrs. Folsom became the parents of the following children : George and Edward, both deceased, Ralph Bentley, Helen and Clay Rolland.
WILLIAM G. WILSON. With one of Youngstown's oldest and best known industries, the William B. Pollock Company, William G. Wilson has been actively associated continuously for many years.
Mr. Wilson, who is treasurer of the corporation, was born at Girard, Ohio, May 15, 1872, son of Dr. Joseph and Emily (Shepherd) Wilson, his parents now deceased. His father practiced in and around Youngstown more than half a century. William G. Wilson was ten years of age when his, parents removed to Youngstown, where he grew up and received his education in the public schools. In 1889, at the age of seventeen, he went to work for the William B. Pollock. Company, and for ten years was secretary and treasurer and since then has been treasurer of, the company.
Mr. Wilson is a member of the Engineers, Youngs-
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town, Youngstown Country, and Youngstown Automobile Clubs. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the First Presbyterian Church. October 5, 1898, he married Miss Cora D. Young, daughter of Arthur Young, of Youngstown. Their four children are Natalie, Arthur, William and Betty Jane.
CLYDE H. HAYNES is one of the busiest young officials in the great industrial life of Youngstown. He has been connected with the Brier Hill Steel Company and its predecessors for a period of years, in fact since the organization of the present corporation in 1912, and is now its traffic manager.
Mr. Haynes was born in Chicago September 14, 1886. When he was fourteen years of age his parents, John T. and Mary E. (LaRue) Haynes, moved to Niles, Ohio. John T. Haynes in Chicago was secretary of the Garden City Sand Company and later Chicago representative of the Kelley Island Lime and Transport Company. At Niles he was office manager of the Niles Boiler Company. In 19o5 the family moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, where John T. Haynes became manager of the Buckeye Fire Brick & Clay Company.
In the meantime Clyde H. Haynes had acquired a good education, beginning in the public schools of Chicago, continuing in the Niles High School, and finishing with a course in a business college at Portsmouth. His first regular employment was as clerk in the trainmaster's office of the Norfolk & Western Railroad at Bluefield, West Virginia. After about fifteen months he returned to Portsmouth, for a short time was with the Portsmouth Shoe Company, and then became bookkeeper of the Ideal Manufacturing Company, makers of gasoline engines.
Returning to Niles in 1908, Mr. Haynes became stenographer for the Niles Iron & Steel Company in the office of W. A. Thomas. He was with that concern and its successors, including the Brier Hill Steel Company, and when the latter business was organized he was made chief clerk of the traffic department. His evident abilities brought him promotion to assistant general manager of mining and transportation, and in 1916 he was given the post of traffic manager. He is regarded as one of the best posted traffic men in Youngstown.
He is a member of the American Iron & Steel Institution, the Pittsburgh Traffic Club, and is a member of the Traffic Committee of the Chamber of ommerce. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Christian Church and an independent republican. March 25, 1908, he married Miss Desse Stauss, of Greenfield, Ohio. Their three children are Ruth, John and Eleanor.
ALBERT C. GRAHAM was born in the village of Homewood, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1875, son of Samuel C. and Eliza (Chapman) Graham, natives of Pennsylvania, the latter now deceased. Samuel C. Graham for many years was superintendent of a coal company, and has spent the greater part of his active life in the coal business. He moved to Youngstown in 1890, but since 1901 has lived in Fayette County. He is a carpenter by trade, though his chief work has been in the coal industry. He is a veteran of the Civil war. He was
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in the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, of which Colonel Matt Quay was commander. He saw a great deal of active service, and at the battle of Fredericksburg was severely wounded in the side. He and his wife had six children, Albert being the third.
Albert C. Graham was educated in the public schools of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and at Youngstown. He was seventeen years old when in 1892 he began earning his own living as an employe of the Youngstown Iron and Steel Company. When this was merged with the Union Iron and Steel Company he continued his service, and subsequently was with the American Steel Hoop Company. He went with that corporation's general offices on their removal to Pittsburgh and continued there until 1902, after the merger of the industry with the Carnegie Steel Company.
Returning to Youngstown in 1902, Mr. Graham began his active association with the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company as an employe in the order department. Since 1907 he has been traffic manager, and that post of responsibility in one of the largest organizations of its kind in the country is sufficient evidence in itself of Mr. Graham's particular abilities in the field of transportation.
He is a member of the National Industrial Traffic League, the Traffic Club of Pittsburgh, the Traffic Club of New York, and is at the present time chairman of the committee on transportation in the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Graham is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and is a member of the Youngstown Club and the Youngstown Country Club.
December 6, 1899, he married Miss Martha M. Gaither, daughter of Richard and Caroline Gaither, of Youngstown. They have one daughter, Caroline.
CHARLES E. WENTZ, of the wholesale confectionery firm of Lytle-Wentz Company, exhibited strong commercial tendencies and abilities when a youth, and for thirty years has been a live and progressive factor in commercial fields.
He was born at Pittsburgh September 15, 1870, son of Louis and Adelaide (Snyder) Wentz. His parents were natives of Germany, but as children came with their respective families to the United States. Louis Wentz has been a window glass worker, and he and his wife are still living at Pittsburgh.
Charles E. Wentz, third in a family of seven children, acquired his education in the public schools of Pittsburgh. At the age of seventeen he was doing an independent but small business, peddling grocers sundries from a wagon. Later with a brother he formed a partnership jobbing cigars and stogies. After ten years he sold his interest to his brother, and then for about a year was located at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, selling goods for the confectionery house of the D. L. Clark Company. When the Clark Company established a branch at Youngstown, Mr. Wentz soon removed to this city and continued with the Clark Company until he and Mr. H. G. Lytle and Mr. Morrow formed a partnership to engage in the wholesale candy business. With their regular line and doing a profitable business in real estate the firm prospered to an unusual extent. After the
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death of Mr. Morrow, Lytle and Wentz continued the business, and from a modest beginning they have made it one of the leading wholesale establishments at Youngstown. The heads of the firm are still young and progressive and have been fortunate in their choice of energetic, virile young men to handle the various departments of the business. Their rule has been to make their word and contract good, and this principle has been the chief reason for their success. In private as well as public life Mr. Wentz and Mr. Lytle stand deservedly high in the community.
Mr. Wentz is affiliated with the Masonic Order, is a republican and a member of the Evergreen Presbyterian Church. In 1894 he married Miss Bird Gray, of Pittsburgh. Their four children are Kathryn, Helen, Dorothy and Winifred.
DAVID LEWIS HELMAN. The late David L. Helman was one of Warren's prominent citizens and successful business men. For many years he was active in the affairs of the city and few men contributed more to the development of the industrial and general business interests of the community, or enjoyed a higher reputation among his fellow citizens, all of whom were his friends.
Mr. Helman was not a native of Ohio, but he was descended from two old families of the state, his father and mother, David B. and Elizabeth (Smalley) Helman, having been born in this commonwealth, the father in Ashland County, the mother at Hayesville. The family removed to Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1866, where the parents died.
David L. was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, on August 10, 1866, and was reared and educated there. During the '80s he returned to Ohio, and in Ashtabula County he entered the employ of the late William C. Stiles, manufacturer of shipbuilding timber. Mr. Helman became foreman of the plant, and when it was removed to Warren in 1888 he came with it as foreman. Mr. Stiles died in 1899, and in 1904 Mr. Heiman purchased the plant and successfully operated the mills under the name of the Helman Ship Timber Company until his death and the business has since been operated under the same name by his estate. Mr. Helman's operations in timber gave him a wide acquaintance in the trade and he was well known all over the country and in Canada. In 1908 Mr. Helman was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Warren Iron & Steel Company, becoming its president and general manager, and so continuing until his death, and his estate retains his financial interest in the company. He was also for many years a member of the board of directors of the Western Reserve National Bank, and had many other financial interests.
On October 2, 1888, Mr. Helman was united in marriage with Wilhelmina Callander, who was born at Rome, Ashtabula County, the daughter of William and Jerusha (Hall) Callander. Her father was born in Scotland in 1831 and came to America in 1861, locating at Rome, where his brother was then residing. He purchased a farm at Paynesville, Ohio, in 1862, and in 1864 his parents, John and Wilhelmina (McLeod) Callander, joined him on his farm. William Callander died in 1915.
To. Mr. and Mrs. Heiman the following children were born : William Curtis, born at Warren on October 13, 1890, holds a responsible position with the Warren Iron & Steel Company ; Morris McLeod, born on February 11, 1893, served one year in Italy during the great war, with the Three Hundred and Thirty-Second Regiment, Ohio Infantry, and is now with the Warren Iron & Steel Company, and he married Pauline McCullough, of Warren; and Margaret M., who died in 1903, at the age of eight years.
Mr. Heiman was a member of Old Erie Lodge No. 3, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Warren Commandery No. 39, Knights Templar, and belonged to the First Presbyterian Church. He died at his residence on North Park Avenue on November 3, 1918.
Mr. Helman was in many ways a remarkable man, possessed of many sterling traits of character. He was a practical business man, far-seeing and enterprising and progressive, and his was a busy life, ye he never let his business prevent him from discharging his duties as a citizen, and he was at all time ready and willing to do anything that would promote the welfare of the city and its institutions. He was a self-made man in the truest sense of that term, yet his prosperity never stood in his way of helping those who, like himself, had been compelled to work their way up from the bottom of the ladder. He was warm-hearted, kind and genial in disposition, an loved his family and friends. But probably his chief characteristic was his dependability, and after all it is difficult to pay a man a greater tribute than to call him dependable, for in every phase of life people desire what is safe and secure, and they want to have men at the head of large concerns upon whom the utmost reliance may be placed. David Helman never betrayed a trust or a confidence. He was scrupulously upright in all of his dealings, and won and held the confidence of all with whom he held business transactions, and that is a heritage for his descendants far more precious than material wealth.
WILLIAM H. WELSH. Many years of active railroad service eminently qualified William H. Wels for the duties and responsibilities he has enjoyed with the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company for the past ten years. He is assistant traffic manager of that great corporation, one of the largest steel industries in the United States.
Mr. Welsh was born at Pittsburgh August 12, 1873. His father was the late William G. Welsh, for many years a greatly esteemed resident of Youngstown. At one time he was foreman of the old Pittsburg Car Works, and was sent to Youngstown in 1881 by that corporation when the local business was established as the Youngstown Car Manufacturing Company. He remained with that corporation, active in its affairs, until he retired full of years and active service. He died in 1907. He was of an optimistic nature, took a keen interest in sports and youthful pursuits, and maintained his boyish enthusiasm even in advanced years. While a member of no church denomination, he was a devout Christian and lived the principles of Christianity. He married Alice Horrocks, who survives him and resides at Youngstown. She is the mother of eight children.
William H. Welsh was eight years of age when