150 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY radical Republican, who gives a reason for his political views. He has served on the election board and been generally interested in politics. Mr. Spear is a member of the Odd Fellows order, and in church con-nection is of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, in which work he has taken an active part, serving as class leader and member of the official board. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Spear and two now survive —Anna, a teacher in the public schools of Warren, and Eva L., wife of G. F. Herrick, of Youngstown, Ohio, managing editor of the Telegram. CANFIELD L. WHITNEY, proprietor of the evergreen nursery (only one of its kind in the country), who resides at 116 Belmont avenue, Warren, Ohio, is a native of Geauga county, Ohio, born January 28, 1848, a son of John V. Whitney, a native of Granville, Massachusetts, who was born in 1818 and lived in Granville until seventeen years of age, when he went to Geauga county, Ohio, with his parents, Samuel P. and Lois (Buttles) Whitney. John V. Whitney was a teacher and married at Granville, Ohio, to Mary Lansing. She was the widow of J. Sylvester Graves. After his marriage Mr. Whitney located in Montville, Geauga county, and engaged in farming up to about 1863, when he began the nursery business. For a period of more than forty years he was school examiner, county commissioner and county surveyor, and held other public positions. He sur-vived until he was seventy-five years of age and his wife died aged about eighty years. The Whitneys were among the very early pioneers of this county, which is within the Western Reserve, and they became prominent in its history. They readily trace their ancestry back to the "Mayflower." Mr. Whitney has in his possession a genealogy of three volumes, of a thousand pages each, one of the most complete extant of any family in America. John V. Whitney was the ninth in a family of twelve children, all deceased but one, the widow of Horace B. Everitts. In the family of which Calvin L. was one of the children there were eight born, six of whom still survive and all grew to manhood and womanhood, he being the second child. Canfield L. Whitney was reared in his native place and received a good common school education, after which he attended Burton and Madison Academies, then taught school twelve terms during the winter in country districts, while he was employed on the farm during the summer months working for his father, up to the date of his marriage in 1872 to Roseltha White, a daughter of James White, by whom he had one daughter, Gladys. Mr. Whitney married for his second wife, in 1893, Emma L. Smith, of Montville, Ohio, and they have an adopted daughter, Dora Eloise 'Whitney. Mr. Whitney with his brother operated a nursery for some years. In 1885, however, he went to Warren, purchased one hundred acres just out-side the city limits, where he erected the necessary buildings, three houses in all, and made other improvements. Here he conducts the only evergreen HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 151 nursery of its kind in the country', east of Illinois. He does a large whole-sale trade, exclusively in evergreen stock, which he propagates from the seed. He also has a small fruit farm and does truck gardening. He has been very successful in his large business operations. He went in debt seven thousand dollars to install his nursery, but has long since paid it all and is in good financial circumstances, owning a tract of one hundred and seventy-six acres at Thomasville, Georgia, one hundred acres of which are planted to pecan trees and one thousand peach trees, also two hundred Japanese persimmon trees, together with other fruits. Mr. Whitney is a member. of the Masonic order, belonging to the commandery degree; is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a truly representative citizen of Trumbull county, of which he has been a resident for twenty-three years. Politically, he is a believer in Republican principles, but is independent, and not bound by any party platform or set of politicians. Mr. Whitney's mother's family came from east of the Allegheny mountains, traveling by means of ox-teams. These families have performed well their part in the subduing and developing of this portion of the Middle West. NELSON HOMER BAILEY.—Especially deserving of mention in this biographical record is Nelson Homer Bailey, who served bravely as a soldier of the Union Army during the Civil war, and is now carrying on a substantial business as a contractor in stonework, his home being at No. 521 East Market street, Warren, Trumbull county-, Ohio. A son of Russell Bailey, he was born, November 5, 1842, in Gustavus, this county, of honored New England ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Ido Bailey, was born and reared in Connecticut, and served as a soldier in the War of 1812. Coming from New England to Ohio in 1802, he took up land in Gustavus, having previously visited Gustavus in 1797, and the farm which he improved from its primitive condition is still in possession of the family. Born in Connecticut, Russell Bailey was but a child when he was brought by his parents to Trumbull county. He was brought up and educated in Gustavus, and was there employed in agricultural pursuits during his active life. He married Dorothy B. Hart, who was born in Gustavus township, this county, a daughter of Joseph H. Hart, who came from Connecticut, his native state, to Ohio in 1807, becoming a pioneer settler of that place. Of their union, three daughters and two sons were born, two of whom are living, namely : Nelson Homer, who was the fourth child and second son ; Huldah A., widow of the late Charles Herrick. One son, Am-brose J., served as a soldier in the Civil war, and died while in the army, in 1864, belonging to Company I, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; Malinda A., married Albert Farnsworth, of Mentor, Ohio, and Cornelia E., married Benton Whiston, of Gustavus. Reared and educated in Gustavus, Nelson H. Bailey was well drilled in agricultural pursuits while on the home farm, and until eighteen years of age 152 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY ably assisted his father in its care. In August, 1861, responding to his country's call, he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private, veteranized by enlisting in the same company and same regiment in 1863, and was discharged, two years later, as orderly sergeant of his company. With his comrades he endured all the hardships and privations incidental to life in camp and on the field, and for twenty days was in the camp hospital at Duval, Virginia. He was at the very front in many of the more prominent engagements of the war, in March, 1862, taking part in the battle of Winchester. On June 9, 1862, he -was taken prisoner, and was held for ninety-one days by the enemy, first at Lynchburg, and then at Belle Island. Being paroled, he was sent to Fort Delaware to recruit, and on February 15, 1863, rejoined his regiment. On May 1, 2 and 3 of that year Mr. Bailey took part in the battle of Chancellorsville, and just two months later was in the thickest of the fight at Gettysburg. He was subsequently sent, with the veterans of the Army of the Potomac, to New York City to quell the draft riots. In September, 1863, Air. Bailey's regiment was transferred to Hooker's command, and was sent south, where he participated in the battles at Wauhatchie and Lookout Mountain, and in the various engagements that -took place between Chattanooga and At-lanta, while with Sherman. As a part of the Twentieth Army Corps, Mr. Bailey marched with Sherman to the sea, thence through the Carolinas, Bentonville and Richmond to Washington, where he took part in the Grand Review. Receiving his honorable discharge July 22, 1865, he returned to the parental home, in Gustavus, and for a number of years was a resident of that place, being employed for seven years in the hotel business, and after-ward as a contractor. In 1891 Air. Bailey located in Warren, and as a contractor in stonework has since carried on a large and lucrative business. On March 5, 1872, Mr. Bailey married Minnie M. Roberts, who was born in Gustavus, Trumbull county, Ohio, December 14, 1852, a daughter of William and Electa (Humphrey) Roberts, natives of Connecticut, and early settlers of this county. She comes of patriotic stock, her great-grand-father, William Roberts, having served as a soldier in the &volutionary war. Her brother Frederick Roberts had the distinction of being the first man in Gustavus to offer his services 'to his 'country. He enlisted in Company H, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the end of two years was honorably discharged on account of physical disability. Mrs. Bailey's other brother Lorin Roberts, also served in the Civil war for more than two years, belonging to Company C, Second Ohio Cavalry. He was a graduate of Oberlin College, and for many years was a judge in the court of common pleas, in Traverse City, Michigan; and a man of much prominence in that locality. To Mr. and Mrs. Bailey two children have been born, namely: Nelson Burdette, born July 2, 1874, married Addie Mentzer, and Frances C., born February 21, 1878, wife of David R. Estabrook, of War-ren, has one child, Dorothy Ruth. Politically Mr. Bailey is a sound Republican. In 1900, he was elected county commissioner to fill a vacancy and served for six years, being chair-man of the board one term, and on November 3, 1908, was elected a director HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 153 of the county infirmary board. The infirmary was enlarged, improved and modernized while he served as commissioner. While living in his native town, he was township trustee for a number of years, rendering excellent service in that capacity. Fraternally he is a member of Bell-Harmon Post, No. 36, G. A. R., and of Prisoners of War Association. KENDRICK O. BRAINARD.—Living in retirement after an industrious and honorable mercantile career, deeply respected by all his associates and revered by his relatives and intimate friends, Kendrick O. Brainard, of Warren, Trumbull county, is reaping the rich harvest of his life-long sowings. Born at Watertown, Jefferson county, New York, on the 20th of April, 1831, he is a son of Obediah and Nancy (Pack) Brainard. The father, who was born in the same county as the son, in 1799, was a farmer, a wood-worker and a skilled general mechanic. At one time he operated a machine shop and woolen mills at Kent, Ohio, and while there built his first steam engine for Judge Spear, of Warren—his customer being the father of Hon. W. T. Spear, of Columbus, who now sits upon the supreme bench of Ohio. In 1847 Obediah Brainard located at Warren, where he applied his remarkable mechanic skill to various enterprises and lines of work. In fact, he founded the first machine shop in Warren, jointly occu-pying a building with Judge Spear, located on Market street, just east of the present marble works. Mr. Brainard had the first story and basement for his machine shop, in which he chiefly constructed steam engines and saw-mills, while the Judge ocupied the second story and attic with his sash, door and blind factory. After a highly useful and strictly honorable life he died in his seventy-fourth year. The deceased was one of the oldest and most active members of the Warren .Baptist church, of which he was deacon and chorister for many years. The Brainard family was established .in Vermont at a very early day, the paternal grandfather being a native of the Green Mountain state. Nancy Pack, as she was known before her marriage, who became the mother of Kendrick O. Brainard, was born in 1798. George Pack, the pioneer of her family to come to America, was one of the first settlers of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and his grandson, Job Pack, was the maternal great-grandfather of Kendrick O. Brainard. The former died when his son, George, was very young, and the boy was apprenticed to a man who, on account of his loyalty to King George, fled, at the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, to St. Johns, New Brunswick. The man also took with Mrn his apprentice, who grew to manhood in that city and married Philotte Greene as his first wife. Their twelve children, who were all born in St. Johns, were George, Rufus, John, Caleb, James Benjamin, Margaret, Sarah, Nancy, Phoebe, Mary, Harriet and Eleanor. The parents spent the remainder of their lives in Jefferson county, New York, where Nancy Pack met and married Obediah Brainard. Three sons and three daughters were born of their union, all of whom reached manhood and womanhood. Kendrick O. Brainard, of this biography, is the sixth and the only 154 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY surviving child. When the family located in Ashtabula county, at Jeffer-son, he was only four years of age, being reared in that section of Ohio and receiving his education in the district schools of Kent. Until he was twenty-five years of age he remained at home assisting his father in busi-ness. In 1856 he removed to Kansas, locating at Osawatomie, near the house of old John Brown and in the very hotbed of abolitionism and of the fierce border warfare which was then being waged. He warmly espoused the free-soil movement, his Kansas experience forming the most dramatic and vivid chapter of his life. Mr. Brainard did not leave Kansas until 1860, returning then to Warren, where after a time he built a store on Main street and established a business for the sale of harnesses, farm implements and kindred goods. Within the succeeding years he developed and held a large trade in these lines, and in 1890 retired from business with an honorable business record. Many years ago Ire joined the Methodist Episcopal church and has never been content to be a passive member, but has proved his faith by his activity in its behalf, as well as by his spiritual life and his works of charity. He has served for years as trustee of the Warren church and has otherwise been prominent in the work of its official board. Mr. Brainard married Miss Mary Ann Pew, a lady of gentleness and refinement and of exalted Christian character. Two sons and one daughter were born to their har-monious union, as follows: Edward, now manager of the American Lin-seed Oil Company, of Toledo, Ohio ; Carrie, who married John Van Wormer, also a resident of that city, and George Brainard, who died in Texas. Mr. Brainard's present wife was Jennie Lind Davis, a daughter of David Davis, a niece of Hon. Benjamin Stanton. Her family were all of Bellefontaine, Ohio. She is a relative of Hon. William Lawrence, who was a former Congressman from this state. Benjamin Stanton, as the older citizens will readily recall, was lieutenant governor with Governor Tod during the war, and also served in Congress many years. Mrs. Brainard's grand-father was Dr. William Hamilton, of Steubenville. GEORGE W. POND, who is numbered among the retired merchants of Warren, Ohio, residing at No. 404 East Market street, was born in Eng-land, January 25, 1841, and accompanied his parents to America in 1842, when he was about eighteen months old. The family located in North Bloomfield township, Trumbull county, Ohio. George W. was reared and educated in Bloomfield. When twelve years of age, he left home and remained with Dr. Howe, of Bloomfield, for about eleven years. April 6, 1863, he went to Warren and there clerked for Reed & Adams, dealers in clothing and furnishings for men. He continued with this firm for four-teen years and eleven months, then in 1878 he engaged in the clothing business with Mr. Camp, under the firm name of Pond & Camp, which partnership relation existed until 1899, when he was succeeded by his son under the firm name of Cottle & Pond. George W. Pond has been engaged in active business pursuits as a merchant for thirty-six years, in the city HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 155 of Warren, thirty years being within one store building. He has been a resident of the city forty-five years. During the war of the Rebellion, Mr. Pond served a hundred and twenty days and was taken prisoner of war by John Morgan, the raider. He was in what was known as the "Squirrel Hunters" in 1862, he being a fourth corporal in the One Hundred and Seventy-First Ohio Regiment. He is a member of Bell-Harmon Grand Army Post, No. 36, of Warren. Beginning at the bottom round, Mr. Pond has forged his way to the front rank among the business factors of his enterprising city. He was married in 1867 to Helen Hunt Camp, daughter of Alanson and Mary Camp, of Warren. Mrs. Pond died January 29, 1907. The children born of this union were Fra, George, Helen and William A. WILLIAM CODVILLE, D.D., of this biographical notice, and now residing in the city of Warren, Ohio, is a retired Baptist clergyman of about fifty years' standing in the ministry. He was born in the city of Quebec, Canada, March 13, 1841, and was the fourth son of John Codville, a merchant of that city. HIIis father born in 1800, was a native of Guernsey, one of the English channel islands; his mother, Ann Elizabeth Heron, born fifteen years later, was a native of Morpeth, a town in the north of England. Both of these in early life sought a new home in Canada and in 1834 were united in marriage, this, however, being Mr. Codville's second marriage, for, by a former wife, Lizzie White, he had two children, John of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Margaret Mowat, of Grand Rapids, Mich-igan. The former of these deceased in 1868, leaving a wife and two daughters, Mary and Lizzie, the former being the accomplished wife of ife. L. Briggs, dean of Harvard University. Mr. John Codville by his second marriage had eight children, six of whom are still living, viz.: James, Henry, William, Benjamin, Joseph and Annie Elizabeth, the wife of Samuel Martin of Toronto, Canada. The father of these, after a useful life in the church and community, suddenly died of cholera in 1849. He was followed by his wife in 1887. They were both active members of the 'Wesleyan Methodist church. In 1856 Widow Codville removed, with her family, to the city of Toronto, where she found a more desirable home for the education of her children. Dr. William Codville, though educated for the law, being from early childhood of a religious turn of mind, decided for the ministry, which he entered in 1861. As a student be received his theological education at the Woodstock (Canada) Institute, now merged with the McMaster University of Toronto. Having served as missionary pastor for seven years in Canada, in 1868 he received the unanimous call of the Calvary Baptist church of Philadelphia, which charge he held for five years with marked success. In 1873 he accepted the call of the First church of Altoona, and again in 1876 the call of the First church of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where he remained for fifteen years, being the longest and most successful pastorate in his ministq.ministry1 he began his labors as pastor of the First church 156 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY in Warren, Ohio, which charge he held for nearly seven years, during which time their new and beautiful house of worship was built. His last pastorate was with the Russell Street Baptist church, Columbus, where he remained for over eight years, resigning in 1905 against the protest of the congregation whom he had so long fed with the bread of life. Says the "Journal and Messenger," the Baptist organ of Ohio: "In exchange with the pastor of the First church of Columbus, Dr. Codville was heartily greeted by that congregation. Hon. B. J. Loomis, in behalf of the people, spoke some fitting words of recognition, and the congregation arose to testify its appreciation of the Russell Street pastor. Dr. Codville is greatly beloved by his brethren in the ministry, and he will leave a host of other friends in the Capital City, where he has been, as in other pastorates of his ministry, a faithful servant of Jesus Christ." Dr. William Codville in 1865 was united in marriage to Elizabeth Pulkinghorn, from which marriage eight children were born, three only of whom are yet living. The eldest, Annie Josephine Caughey, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, deceased in 1896. She died at the birth of her first born, another Annie Josephine, who twelve years later followed her mother to the great beyond. Four of Dr. Codville's children died in early childhood, viz., Lizzie, Herbert R., Harry K. and Clifford R. The living are William Kennard and Walter Judson, residing in Warren, and Ella May, who married Frank L. Page of Akron, Ohio. The beloved mother of these children, after years of patient suffering, peacefully closed her earthly life December 20, 1908. Dr. Codville, though loyal to his denomination, is in marked sympathy with Christian people of every name. Believing, too, that truth is truth, wherever you find it, he is an ardent admirer of the theological writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg, which give him great comfort in his declining years. He is living day by day awaiting the call of his Lord. CLINTON O. HART is a native son of Trumbull county, Ohio, born in Farmington September 23, 1839, the ninth of a family of thirteen children born to his parents. Joseph C. Hart, his father, was born in Avon, Connecticut, September 2, 1805, and died March 19, 1867. Rosanna (Goff) Hart, his mother, was a native of West Springfield, Massachusetts, born September 11, 1807. She died at West Farmington, Ohio, January 4, 1880. From the public schools of his home locality Clinton O. Hart passed to the Western Reserve Seminary at West Farmington, and after the completion of his educational training he taught school for several terms, teaching his last term in Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, during the winter of 1860-61. On the day following the close of that term, he returned to his home in Farmington, and while in the Union depot at Pittsburg news reached him of the bombardment of Fort Sumter. This was on Saturday, and on Wednesday of the following week he enlisted at President Lincoln's first call for seventy-five thousand troops, and became HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 157 a member of Company C, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Alter his return from the war he served as a clerk in the general store of H. Stiles & Son at Warren for two years, and for several years following was employed by the United States Express Company as their express messenger over the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad—now a part of the Erie System. During three years he was a traveling salesman for the wholesale grocery house of Gordon & McMillen of Cleveland. From 1872 to 1876 he was associated with his brother, Jan O. Hart, in a general mercantile business at Brookfield, Ohio. In 1878, with another brother, V. M. Hart, established the Hart Brothers clothing business in Warren, and that house is still con-ducted by Messrs. Goreing and Ohl. In 1881 Mr. Hart was chosen the treasurer of Trumbull county, serving for two terms as such, from 1882 to 1886. In 1890 he associated with R. G. Sykes, and established the busi-ness of the Sykes Steel Roofing Company at 611 South Morgan street, Chicago, and for twelve years served as the secretary and treasurer of that company. Disposing of his interest in that company at the close of that period, he moved in 1903 to Cleveland, Ohio, and since then has lived practically retired from active business life. Mr. Hart married on November 1, 1865, Elizabeth A. Belden, of Akron, Ohio. She too received her education in the Western Reserve Semi-nary at West Farmington. They have become the parents of three children : Harry E., who died May 17, 1876; Frank C., who died January 20, 1893; and Grace Edna, now the wife of Clarence A. Crane, of Warren, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Hart have recently purchased a small plantation on the Isle of Pines in the West Indies, one mile from Nueva Gerona, the chief port, and the capital of that Island. This little plantation is in plain view of the Caribbean sea. There they have built a pleasant and commodious bungalow, and have planted a large grove of orange, grape fruit and lemon trees. There they expect to make their winter home, and thus avoid the long, cold winters of the north. It is the hope of all that the months spent on that lovely little island, with its beautiful winter climate, will extend their span of life many years. JOHN W. TAYLOR, an attorney and real estate dealer, of Cleveland, is a native of Mecca, Trumbull county, Ohio, born November 10, 1851, a son of William D., a native of Ireland, who came to America in 1848, locating at Mecca, Trumbull county. He farmed in that county until 1880, then moved to Cortland, retired and died in 1906, aged eighty-seven years. Politically, he was well known as a Democrat in early life, but in 1880 voted for General Garfield for President, and ever afterward supported the Republican ticket. His wife was Mary A. Moran, a native of Ireland, in which country she was reared and where she was married. She died in 1854 and for his second wife William D. Taylor married Roxy Rhoades, who was born in New York state. By the first marriage there were born three sons, the youngest of whom was John W., who is the only one now living. 158 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY John W. Taylor was reared on the old homestead and there remained, teaching school winters until nineteen years of age. He was educated in the district schools and at the academy and later attended Western Reserve College. In 1871 he began clerking in C. S. Field's clothing store at Warren, Ohio, where he was employed for six years, reading law in the meantime. In 1875 be was admitted to the bar. He went to the University of Michigan, and graduated from the law department in 1878. He then set up practice in Warren and continued there until 1884, when he went to Cleveland, in which city he has resided ever since, following both law practice and real estate business. He has made additions to the city, including Ingelside, Douglas Park, South Bell Avenue and others; he also has made additions in Newark, Ohio, one in Mansfield, one in Massilon, two in Toledo, two in Elyria, one in Warren (Park Avenue), one in Painesville and one in Adrian, Michigan, and other lesser town additions. Mr. Taylor is identified with the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the Royal Arch degree; also belongs to the Ohio Society of New York and the Buckeye Club of New York; the Colonial Club of Cleveland and the Chember of Conflume. He is a director and honorary president of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, in which organization he is prominent. He is the president and treasurer of the Taylor Land and Improvement Company; also director and vice-president of the Land Title Abstract Company of Cleveland, and president and treasurer of the Euclid Avenue Investment Company. Mr. Taylor has been very successful in his realty operations and has accumulated a handsome competency through the law and real estate business combined.. FRED T. STONE, county auditor of Trumbull county, Ohio, is a native of that city, born August 11, 1863, a son of Henry R. Stone, born in the same place. The grandfather was Roswell Stone, who came from Bristol, Connecticut, locating in Warren in 1812. He was an attorney and prosecuting attorney at the time of the famous Morgan trial. He was prominent among his fellow countrymen and was the choice of the people for judge of the court of common pleas. He was an enthusiastic Mason. The mother of Fred T. Stone was Catherine L. Pew, daughter of Thomas Pew. Her grandfather, Pew, was one of the pioneers of Trumbull county. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stone were the parents of three children—one daughter and two sons: Henry M., residing in Denver, Colorado; Carrie L., who was Mrs. Harsh, now deceased ; Fred T., the youngest of the three children. Fred T. Stone was educated in the Warren public schools and com-pleted his education at Hiram College in 1880. He began his business career as a clerk in a store. He next was a bookkeeper for the Akron Milling Company at Akron, Ohio. After a year he returned to Warren, where he was employed in the Kneeland book store, remaining eight years, after which he embarked in business for himself, handling books, stationery and crockery. After six years of successful operation, he sold his stock and accepted the position of deputy county auditor in 1902 and in 1908 was HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 159 nominated for the office of auditor. Politically, Mr. Stone is a supporter of the Republican party, being an active factor in this political organization. In his religious faith, he is of the Christian denomination, He is -an elder of Central Christian church and has sung in its choir for the past twenty-two years. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, Knights Templar and the Odd Fellows. He, as well as other members of the Stone family, are and have years ago been prominent in the history of Trumbull county. He was united in marriage September 7, 1892, to Carrie A. Silliman, daughter of Addison and Lucy Silliman, of Warren. In all of his dealings with individuals and the public, Mr. Stone has proven his capability, as well as his honor and integrity as a man and citizen. BENJAMIN W. EDWARDS, secretary of the Warren City Boiler Works, is a native of Niles, Ohio, born in 1875, son of John Edwards, who virtually spent his life in that city, his native place. There he was born, reared, educated and married, and died at Warren at the age of sixty-three. His wife (nee Martin) also passed away at Warren, aged fifty-seven, and the five living members of her family, four sons and one daughter, are Jennie, William, John, George and Benjamin W. Benjamin W., who is the fourth born, received his education at Niles schools, common and high, and at the age of eighteen entered the race of business life, in which he has ever since been well in the running. Several years ago the Warren City Boiler Works, which had been established during the financial panic of 1895, came under the present management, the part-nership consisting of Alfred R. Hughes, manager ; B. W. Edwards, secretary, and William F. Edwards, assistant. Previously the company had depended on the manufacture and repairing of boilers, for which there was really little demand in the vicinity of Warren, but under the new management efforts have chiefly been confined to the manufacture of large oil tanks, grain tanks, water towers and standpipes, in which field a business has been established which has expanded from the United States into Canada, Cuba and Mexico. The buildings of the concern comprise a main structure 150 feet wide by 450 feet long, and a large boiler-house, engine-room and machine shop, tank shop and warehouse, the plant being located on North Park avenue. Some idea of the magnitude of the company's operations may be gained from the fact that 300 men are employed in the Warren fac-tory and about 1,500 in the field, the latter being engaged in the installa-tion of the products of the works. In his position of secretary, Mr. Edwards is entrusted with the task of being in constant touch with every detail of this vast business, whether relating to the manufactory at home or the works and workmen who are scattered over such a broad territory. These responsible duties he has performed faithfully, energetically and ably. He is also a stockholder in the Western Reserve National Bank. In 1898 Mr. Edwards married Miss Lottie A. Smith, daughter of Robert J. Smith, of Warren, and they have one child, Evelyn Edwards. Vol. II-11 160 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Mr. Edwards is a well-known Mason, being a Knight Templar and a Shriner, and is also identified with the Elks' lodge of Warren, No. 295. S. S. ERNEST.-A man of wise forethought, keen perceptive faculties, and of excellent judgment, S. S. Ernest is numbered among the citizens of good repute and high standing in Trumbull county, where his entire life has been spent. For many years he was prominently identified with the agricultural growth and progress of this section of the state, and having accomplished a satisfactory work in his chosen occupation, and acquired a fair share of this world's goods, he is now living retired from active labor, having a pleasant home at 108 North Elm street, Warren. He was born at 124 South Chestnut street, Warren, Ohio, March 10, 1844, a son of Henry Ernest. A native of Pennsylvania, Henry Ernest was born, in 1820, in Perry county, and in 1833 came with his mother and step-father to Trumbull county, settling in Warren, where he was brought up. Here he followed the trade of carpenter and joiner practically all of his life and at one time carried on a large farm with his other work. He was a man of integrity and worth, endowed with both mental and physical vigor, and lived to the advanced age of four score and four years. He married, in Warren, Trum-bull county, Harriet Southworth, a native of Mineral Ridge, being the daughter of one of its pioneer settlers. She, too, lived to a ripe old age, passing away at the age of eighty years. Of the nine children born of their union, eight are now living, all natives of Trumbull county, namely : S. S., of this sketch ; Olive, wife of S. R. Gifford, of Lordstown township; Nettie, wife of H. E. Dailey, of Warren; Dell M., wife of John Ligler, of Oklahoma ; George H., residing in Coffey county, Kansas; J. W., of Kansas; W. C., of Stanwood, Iowa ; and John H., of West Pullman, Illinois. Receiving his early education in Warren township, where his parents located when he was nine years of age, S. S. Ernest assisted his father on the farm, remaining at home until after the breaking out of. the Civil war. Enlisting at the age of eighteen years, in 1862, in Company C, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he served until June 9, 1865, in the meantime taking part in many of the important engagements of the war, among others being the battles at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. He was with Sherman through his Atlanta campaign, and at Lovejoy's Station, and at Nashville, besides being at the front in minor skirmishes and battles. Returning home, Mr. Ernest resumed farming, and in 1867 located in Niles, Trumbull county, where he was engaged in the lumber business for upwards of fourteen years. Going to Lordstown township, this county, in 1880, he bought the old Lamb homestead, and was there prosperously employed in general farming for several years. Buying then a farm in Warren township, he remained there for four and one-half years, being equally as successful in his agricultural labors. Selling his farming property in 1900, Mr. Ernest removed with his family to Warren, assuming possession of his present home. By energetic labor, wise HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 161 management, and good investments, he has acquired a competency, owning in Warren considerable city property, including among other things six dwelling houses and two store buildings, from the rental of these receiving a good annual income. Mr. Ernest married September 11, 1866, Emma A. Lamb, the youngest daughter of John Lamb, a pioneer settler • of Lordstown -township. Mr. Lamb was born in Ireland, and *as there reared and married, and on coming to the. United States located in Trumbull county, and on the farm that he improved, in Lordstown township, spent the remainder of his life. To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest three children have been born, namely : Bertha F., wife of J. E. Ohl, of Warren, Ohio; Emma L., wife of George B. Sawyer, of Warren; and Henry L., of Cleveland, Ohio. While in the Union Army, in Georgia, Mr. Ernest cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln, and since that time has been a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party. He has always taken an intelligent interest in local affairs, and while in Niles was a member of the city council for six years; was for nine years a school director in Lordstown township; and was, also, a school director while living in Warren township. Fraternally he is a member of Bell-Harmon Post, No. 36, G. A. R. WALTER E. KREITLER, who is one of the substantial farmers residing in Warren township, was born on the farm he now operates and owns, November 11, 1871, a son of Joseph and Josephine Kreitler, whose family sketch appears elsewhere within this work. Walter E. obtained a good common school education at the public schools of his native county and began when quite young, to assist his father about his farm work. He made his home with his parents until their death, when he succeeded to the ownership of the old home farm, where he now carries on general farming and raises considerable stock, having a fine herd of Jersey cattle. He is industrious and painstaking, hence a successful agriculturist. He was united in marriage, December 23, 1897, to Corie W. McNeilly, born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, a daughter of William and Lois (Beardsley) McNeilly. To this union have been born four children, two daughters and two sons, the latter only, now living, namely, Walter E. Jr. and Harold W. JOHN V. WALDECK —Noteworthy for his good citizenship, and for his many excellent traits of character, John V. Waldeck is carrying on a substantial business as one of the leading contractors and builders of Warren, where he has resided for almost half a century, his home being now at No. 21 West Franklin street. A native of Germany, he was born, March 5, 1846, at Hesse-Darmstadt, in the Rhenish province, being a son of Jacob Waldeck, who emigrated to this country with his family in 1860, locating first in Cleveland, Ohio, and a year later taking up his permanent residence in Warren; Ohio. 162 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Fifteen years old when he came with his parents to Warren, John V. Waldeck has since been a resident of this city, and an important factor in developing and advancing its industrial growth and prosperity. As a contractor and builder, he displays much skill and ability, his work being artistic and durable, and his patronage large and lucrative. Mr. Waldeck married, in 1871, Mary E. Koehler, a daughter of John Koehler, a thriving farmer. Three children have blessed their union, namely : Lillian ; Grace A., wife of C. A. Woatwood, of Youngstown ; and J. Fred, an optician, residing in Warren. In local politics Mr. Waldeck has always taken an active part, and for two terms served as a member of the city council. He was a Republican candidate for county commissioner in 1908. Fraternally- he belongs to the A. F. & A. M., being a member of Warren lodge and Warren commandery, and also of Warren Lodge, No. 295, B. P. O. E. RICHARDSON BROTHERS.—William John Richardson, deceased, and George Richardson, of Lordstown, were born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, sons of John Richardson, who was born near Belfast, Ireland. The grand-father, Alexander Richardson, was also a native of Ireland, of Scotch ances-try. He spent his active life in his native country, but his children all removed to America and were doing so well in this their adopted land, that the father, late in life, came here and spent the last years of his life in Lordstown, his remains being buried in the old cemetery on Mahoning ave-nue, at Warren. His wife, Mary Patterson, always remained in Ireland. She too was of Scotch lineage. The children of Alexander and Mary Rich-ardson were as follows: John, William, James, Alexander, Mary and Eliza, all deceased but the last named. John Richardson, father of William J. and George, was reared and educated in his native land and came to America when about twenty-five years of age. He had served a three year apprenticeship at the hardware trade, before coming to America, mastering the details of the business. Instead of receiving pay for such services, he paid the sum of fifty pounds ($250) to acquire the information he had gained. Upon his arrival here, he secured a position in a wholesale dry-goods house in Pittsburg, where he clerked a. few years, when the firm was dissolved and he formed a partnership with Thomas Jamison and James McCandless, who had been connected with the firm. He continued in business with these men until his death in 1856, when he was thirty-six years. His wife, Jane Lamb, was born in Belfast, Ireland. Her father, John Lamb, was a native of Ireland, but of Scotch ancestry ; he came to America, accompanied by his family, coming in a sailing vessel and en route they encountered severe storms and were repeatedly driven back. After a voyage of three weary months, they finally landed at Quebec. Their provisions had been consumed and much suffering ensued, while the ship was a wreck. He resided for a time, near Gault, Canada, then pushed on to Warren, Ohio, where he found employment on the construction of the canal, then being built. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 163 Subsequently, he bought a tract of partly improved land, in Lordstown township, upon which he devoted the remainder of his active days. He then went to Warren and there built a house and lived a rather retired life there, dying at the age of eighty-eight years. The maiden name of his faithful wife was Mary Richardson, born in Ireland, spending her last years in Warren, Ohio. She had twelve children, three dying in infancy, the others : John, James, Jefferson, William G., Jane, (Mrs. Richardson), Mary, Emma, Eliza and Margaret. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Richardson went to Lordstown, that she might be nearer her parents. She died there, January 25, 1902. Her children were two sons, William J. and George, of this memoir. William J. died September 19, 1908. These sons were aged one month and three years, respectively, when their father died. 'William J., the older of the two, attended the district schools of Lordstown and later was sent to the ward school of Pittsburg, after which entered the University of Pennsylvania. After completing his education, he entered upon a commercial life, continuing until prevented by failing health, since which time until his death had occupied the farm, with his brother George. George Richardson was educated in the public schools of Lordstown. About 1864 the mother purchased a farm and as soon as this son was old enough, he began farming and has continued up to the present time. From his mother, he had inherited a great love for flowers and about 1880, he commenced to cultivate water lilies and other aquatic plants. He has come to be known, far and near, as authority on such plants and is very successful in the culture and sale of the same. He ships to all parts of the world. In 1892, he supplied Biltimore, the Vanderbilt estate in North Carolina, with plants and had an exhibition at the great World's Fair Exposition, at St. Louis, for which he was awarded a silver medal. ALLEN A. HASHMAN, a farmer of Champion township, was born in , Southington, Trumbull county, Ohio, November 14, 1844, a son of Mathias Hashman, born in Washingtonville, 'Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1801. The grandfather Andrew Harshman was a native of Funktown, Frederick county, Maryland. His father was born in Germany and came to this country- in Colonial days and settled in Maryland. His descendants spell their name various ways--Harshman, Hershman, Hash-man, etc. Andrew Hashman worked on the National Pike, constructed by the government from Washington to St. Louis. He moved from Maryland to Washingtonville, Pennsylvania, and from there to Ohio, accompanied by his family, and settled in Austintown township, Trumbull county (now in Mahoning) in 1807, and bought land which he improved and resided on the remainder of his life. His wife's maiden name was Smith and she survived her husband and went to Lordstown to live with her son Andrew, dying when ninety-three years. She bore ten children, six sons and four daughters. 164 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Mathias Hashman, the father, was six years old when his parents emigrated to Ohio. He was reared in Austintown township and remained there several years after his marriage, then moved to Southington and lived on a farm which he purchased there. He sold soon, however at that point, and went to Parkman, Geauga county, where he purchased. a farm containing one hundred and two acres. There he resided until his death, December 5, 1876, when he was seventy-five years old. The maiden name of his wife was Phebe DeNeen, whose birthplace was either in Milton or Austintown township, the date being March 4, 1805. Her father was a native of France, who became a pioneer of Trumbull county, Ohio. His wife was named Nixon, and was from Ireland, but of Scotch ancestry. She survived until 1889, when she was eighty-seven years of age. She reared eight children : Sylvester, George, Alvah, Cynthia, Phebe, Loretta, Lydia and Allen A. Allen A. Hashman was reared in Parkman township and attended the district schools until seventeen years of age. February 12, 1862, he volunteered as a member of Company E, Fifth New York Heavy Artillery, going South and was with the regiment in all of its marches, campaigns and engagements, including the Shenandoah Valley campaign, where from July 4 to October 19, 1864, he was in eight different engagements and saw Sheridan when he made his famous Winchester ride. His regiment had been captured and Mr. Hashman was one of twenty-five who had escaped and on their retreat met Sheridan and the gallant cavalry commander ordered them back, saying, "There is not room for General Early and my-self this side of Cedar Creek." After the war, Mr. Hashman returned to Parkman, married and lived on the old homestead, carrying on farming operations, as well as a saw mill on Grand River. In 1872 he went to Champion township, where he has since been a worthy resident, having settled on the farm which he still occupies in 1875. He first bought fifty acres, to which he has since added until his place contains one hundred and twenty-five acres. He was matched first, December 21, 1865, to Caroline Pennell, a native of Austintown township, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Shafer) Pennell. Her father was a native of Ireland. Mrs. Hashman was a member of the Methodist church and died May 4, 1871, and for his second wife, Mr. Hashman married, March 14, 1872, Mary E. Murphy, born in Champion, a daughter of John and Laura (Shafer) Murphy. Mrs. Mary E. (Murphy) Hashman died December 4, 1899. She was a member of the United Brethren church. For his third wife Mr. Hashman married Mrs. Sarah E. (Jewell) Graves. She is a member of the Disciples church. The children born to Mr. Hashman were : By the first union—Elsie, wife of Andrew Musgrave, has one son, Charley. By the second marriage, six children were born—Ina, Irene, John A., Laura E., Verda, Emily. John A. married Belle Morey and their issue is a son—Wade. Laura, married Frank Elston and their son is named Vesner, and they also have one daughter not yet named. The present Mrs. Hashman reared two children by her farmer husband HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 165 —Emma and Abbie; one son, Charles died, aged fifteen years, being killed by the cars. Mr. Hashman is a member of Brooks Post No. 2, Grand Army of the Republic, and is connected with the United Brethren church. While serving in the army during the Civil war Mr. Hashman was promoted to corporal and later to sergeant. His maternal grandparents moved to Michigan, were pioneers in Lapeer county, locating in township 6, north of range 12 east, where they both died. SAMUEL JONES, deceased was born in Austintown township, Trumbull county (in territory now embraced within Mahoning county), on Sunday the 10th of January, 1810. His father, Edward Jones, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, his parents being pioneers of western Pennsylvania who settled in the wilderness when the Indians fully possessed it. Upon one occasion their children were picking berries and upon the approach of the savages all fled in terror for the fort, but the youngest, however, was caught and tomahawked. Edward Jones settled in Ohio when it was yet included in the great Northwest Territory, living for a time on the site of" the present city of Warren. While residing there, in February, 1800, his daughter Hannah was born, making her the first white child native to Trumbull county. She was married to William Dutchin about the year 1820. Later Mr. Jones removed to Austintown township and became one of its useful and popular pioneers. Both farming and fol-lowing his trade as a stone mason, he remained there until his death, at the age of seventy-two years. Before her marriage his wife's maiden name was Mary Price. She died on the old homestead, aged eighty-four years. Their children were as follows : Hannah, Nancy, Jane, Asa, Tina, Samuel, Edward, Mary, David, Seymour, Ann and Martha. Samuel Jones, of this sketch, lived with his parents until about eighteen years of age and then ventured into the untried world to seek a fortune for himself. True to her practical affection, his good mother cooked some corn cake for him and he sturdily walked to Ashtabula, a distance of fifty miles. He finally found employment on a farm, continuing at such work for seven years, and then with his savings purchased fifty acres of land in Lordstown township. Following the pioneer custom he married young, on Easter Sunday, March 30, 1836. He commenced housekeeping in a log house, subsequently removing to farms which he purchased at Fredericksburg and Lordstown Corners, moving to Lordstown in the spring of 1854. The latter purchase was a beautiful tract of land, situated on either side of the Warren and Niles roadway, upon which had been erected a good frame residence, and this properly became noted as a model country place of those days. Here Mr. Jones lived and labored until his death in 1903. He died Sunday evening, March 15, 1903, thin. the principal events of his life all occurred on Sunday. Long life was one of the blessings given to Mr. Jones and his wife, and had he lived until March 30th, they would have celebrated their „sixty-seventh wedding anni- 166 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY versary, he being ninety-three years and his wife almost ninety. His wife prior to her marriage was Miranda Westover, born in Connecticut, July 12, 1813. Her father, Luman Westover, settled at Palmyra, Ohio, in 1815. The family moved from the east with ox teams and one horse, bringing all the household goods and personal effects in the single wagon. It is related that upon their arrival at Palmyra the family treasury held but one shilling in money. The master of the house, however, possessed much hope and great industry, so that he soon found employment and in due time purchased a tract of land. He built a spacious two-story house, from brick which he burned himself and this remained his residence until his death, at the age of seventy-two years. His good wife, whose maiden name was Sabra Smedley, died aged seventy-eight years. Mrs. Jones passed from earth, February 26, 1904, the mother of Mary, Laura, Seymour, Zenas, Lucius, Martha, Ada, Alice and Minnie, four of whom are dead. JAMES R. LEACH, one of the enterprising and progressive farmers of Lordstown township, Trumbull county, is a native of Hubbard, Ohio, born May 14, 1852, a son of Benjamin Leach, who was born in Austintown township, Trumbull (now Mahoning) county, Ohio, December 1, 1816, his father being Abner Leach. The fifth person to settle within the limits of Austintown township, Abner Leach improved a farm and resided thereon until his death, when he had reached the extreme advanced old age of ninety-three years. Benjamin Leach was reared in his native township, and after reaching manhood, settled in Champion township, where he purchased land and resided several years, then removed to Hubbard and engaged in mercantile pursuits and also in the manufacture of potash. He sold out in 1864, and purchased a farm at Hake's Corner, Weathersfield township. This land he placed under a good state of cultivation and equipped his farm with good buildings. He left this farm in the fall of 1898 and moved to Niles, where he remained until his death, dying in his ninetieth year. He was a member of the Christian church at Niles, where he served as deacon and then elder for a number of years. His wife's maiden name was Mary Rayen. She was born in Austintown township and was the daughter of John F. Rayen and wife, who were pioneers of that township. She is still living, in her eighty-fourth year. She reared eight children : Laura, Sarah, Frank, James, Kittie, John, Caroline and Anna. James R. Leach, the fourth child Of Benjamin Leach and wife, attended the public schools of his native township, tbereby gaining a good common school education. Later, he attended that most truly excellent educational institution—Hiram College--for two terms. After leaving school he was a clerk in a hardware store for two years, later engaging in the dairy business, in Weathersfield, where he kept from twenty to forty cows, supplying customers at Niles with pure milk for twenty years. In HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 167 1906 he went to Lordstown, where he has since been engaged in farming on *the Samuel Jones homestead. When twenty--three years of age, he was married to Mary Bolin, born in Weathersfield, a daughter of John and Margaret (Dempsy) Bolin. John Dempsy was a native of Ireland, of Scotch descent, and coming to the United States, he settled in Ohio, where he became a coal operator and for a time operated a blast furnace at Niles, Ohio. He possessed much business ability and made an excellent citizen. He was an elder in the Disciples church for many years. He died aged seventy-seven years. Mrs. Leach died in 1902 and for his second wife James R. Leach mar-ried in August, 1906, Minnie Jones, a daughter of Samuel and Miranda Jones, whose sketch appears elsewhere within this work. By his first wife Mr. Leach had two children : Lewis and Anna. Lewis married Belle Kennedy. Anna married George Buchanon. CHARLES E. HASKELL, secretary and treasurer of the West Side Lum-ber and Coal Company, of Warren, Ohio, is a native of Lordstown, Trumbull county, Ohio, born June 24, 1870. His father was Moses Haskell, who died when Charles E. was but a mere babe. The father was an early settler in the county, coming from Massachusetts. The mother was Lucy Haskell, a native of Trumbull county, and she died when her son was fourteen years of age. Charles E. Haskell was the only child, and the only representative of this branch of the Haskell family now living in Trumbull county. Be-ing left fatherless and motherless, at the age of fourteen years, he had to battle alone, under many trying difficulties which boys with parents know not of. He made his home with D. K. Woodward, of Lordstown, with whom he remained about five years, and attended school at Hiram about two years. In 1890, Mr. Haskell was united in marriage to Sarah S. Johnson, the widow of Benjamin Pritchard. She was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Haskell located at Southington, Trumbull county, where he engaged in farming pursuits two years, then returned to Lordstown and again resumed work for Mr. Woodward, remaining three years, after which he returned to the farm from which he came. He remained there until he went to Warren in 1901. He was bookkeeper for the Warren Manufacturing Company one year and continued with the company as a. clerk about two years, at the end of which period he was made super-intendent of the factory, which place he occupied about a year, then became secretary and treasurer of the West Side Lumber and Coal Company. This company does a large lumber and planing mill business, both wholesale and retail, also an extensive coal trade. They employ. five men to care for the business. Mr. Haskell is a supporter of the Republican party and takes much interest in the affairs of his city, county, state and nation. He has been a. member of the Christian church, since Ile was fourteen years of age, and takes much interest in the work of the same. He is now prominently iden- 168 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY tified with the Second Christian church of Warren. He has held the office of deacon and is now elder and clerk, as well as assistant Sunday-school superintendent. In his society relations Mr. Haskell is connected with the Masonic and Knights of Pythias orders at Warren. In all of the social and business relations with which Mr. Haskell has been associated, during his life-long residence in Trumbull county, he has always held the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens and fraternal brothers. CHARLES FRANKLIN KREITLER is of the same Kreitler family as the others of the name whose sketches appear elsewhere in this work. Charles F. is the son of Joseph and Josephine (Kappler) Kreitler. He was born in Warren, Ohio, July 5, 1863, and received a good common school educa-tion at the district schools of his native neighborhood and an advanced education, supplementing this at the Western Reserve Seminary-, at West Farmington, Ohio. He began teaching school at the age of eighteen years and taught six years. The next twelve years he was superintendent of Oakwood Cemetery and in 1900 purchased the farm where he now resides and carries on farming, stock raising and dairying. This place is situated in Lordstown township and contains one hundred and fifty-eight acres, all equipped with excellent buildings, including large, well planned barns for hay, grain and stock. His large barn was erected in 1908 and is one of the most modern in the community. Mr. Kreitler has a fine herd of Jersey cattle and also breeds thoroughbred Berkshire swine. Besides this farm, he owns one hundred and twelve acres in Warren township. Concerning his domestic relation, it may be stated that Mr. Kreitler was happily united in marriage, March 4, 1886, to Rhoda H. Pearce, a native of Newton township, Trumbull county, a daughter of John N. and Mary (McConnell) Pearce. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Kreitler are as follows : Florence R., wife of Ralph W. Gordon of Youngstown, Ohio ; Charles F., Jr.; Eleanor J.; George W., and Robert E. Mr. and Mrs. Kreitler are both Members of the Christian church and he is connected with Lodge No. 90, Knights of Pythias, and also the Grange. MARTIN JESSE TYLER, who has been engaged in agricultural pursuits nearly all of his life, is a native of Freedom township, Portage county, Ohio, born September 13, 1850, and now residing in Champion township, Trumbull county. He is the son of Jesse Tyler, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in which place his parents were lifelong residents. Jesse learned the stone mason's trade and came to Ohio when a young man, following his trade for several years in Hiram, removing from that place to Freedom, where he lived until 1853, then moved to Omega, Marion county, Illinois. He remained there a short time and returned to Freedom, where he died in 1857. His second wife's maiden name was Lucetta Earl and she became the mother of Martin J. She was a native of Windham township, Portage county, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob and Mary Wilson Earl and the widow HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 169 of Mr. Wheelock. Jacob Earl was born in Essex county, New Jersey, and removed to Ohio, lived a short time in Braceville and in 1813 went to Windham township, in which he erected the first frame house. It was located a mile and a half west and a half mile south of the Center. In 1814 he removed his family thither. He was a devoted Christian and belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church, meetings being frequently held at his house. In 1849 he was again attracted west, and went to Marion county-, Illinois, settling near Omega he being among the pioneer band of that section of the state. There he died in 1853, aged seventy-two years. Mrs. Jesse Tyler survived her husband many years and died aged seventy-one years. The children born of this union were Martin Jesse and his sisters—Emma and Luna. The children by the mother's first marriage were Rachel, Alonzo, Stephen and Emels. Martin Jesse Tyler was but seven years of age at the time of his father's death, and a year later he commenced to face the hardships of a fatherless boy. For some years he was employed as a farm hand, but later took up the stone mason's trade. In 1877 he settled on the farm where he still resides. Before his going to this land it had been stripped of its timber, but little had been improved. In addition to working at his trade, he has placed this land under a good state of cultivation, planted fruit and ornamental trees and erected good buildings. August 22, 1876, Mr. Tyler was married to Florilla Carlton, born in Champion township, June 14, 1848, a daughter of Gideon Carlton, born in Austintown township, now in Mahoning county, Ohio. He was the son of John and Rachel (Trinara) Carlton. Her great-grandfather, Francis Carlton, was born in county Down, Ireland, and after coming to America, for a time resided in New Jersey, going from that state to Ohio, accompanied by his family. They made this long journey overland with ox teams. He located at Warren and bought a tract of land which included the Perkins homestead, in Mahoning avenue. His daughter Margaret was said to have been the first white girl of a marriageable age in Warren. He traded his Warren land for lands in Liberty township. He served in the Revolutionals war. Mrs. Tyler's grandfather settled in Austintown, lived several years there, then went to Brookfield, where he died. Mrs. Tyler's father was reared in Austintown, went to Lordstown and from there to Champion township, where he purchased a timber tract, upon which stood a log house in which Mrs. Tyler and her sister, Mrs. Mary E. Pren-tice, were born. Then wild game, including turkeys and deer were plentiful in this part of the Buckeye state. The father lived there until 1851, then sold and removed to Liberty township. He remained at the last named place until 1861, when he removed to Weathersfield township, purchasing land there and residing there until his death. He was very industrious and highly successful in his operations and was able to assist each of his children to acquire homes of their own. Mrs. Tyler was but two years of age when her mother died, and she was reared in the family of Joseph Ashburn. Mr. and Mrs. Tyler are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. 170 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Tyler are: Cleon G., married Naomi Martin; Joseph Nelson, married Dora Whetson, and they are the parents of Thomas; Alonzo P., married Daisey Mullitt, whose issue is Alphonso and Vera; Ethel, married Charles Belden; Edith, married Leslie Shafer ; Amine, married Theodore Smith and the issue is Paul M.; Lucetta, married Herbert Knox, whose issue is Scoville Emery; and Mals. Mrs. Florilla Tyler has developed considerable literary talent and has composed poetry of much worth, and some is of the type that displays much pathos and real soul thought, as will be seen by the following, which has been set to music and published : How oft I think of the scenes of my childhood; Of that dear little cottage, where hollihocks grew, When I wandered barefooted through pasture and meadow, Where sweet scented clover was sparkling with dew. I remember the days when I went with my father, With jug and with hoes, where we tended the corn, Until hungry and tired, I'd welcome the music, I heard mother play on the old dinner horn. At the sound of that born, I'd forget I was weary And think of the feast that awaited us there; Of chicken and dumplings, and strawberry short-cake That mother, dear mother, took pains to prepare. I'll always remember the day I went nutting, Got lost in the woodland and felt so forlorn, I might be there yet, had it not been that mother Came outdoors and called on the old dinner horn. I have traveled for miles to hear Adeline Patti ; I have listened to Gilmore's and Sousa's famed bands, Heard rapturous music at jubilee concerts And songs most enchanting in far away lands. But the sounds to my ear that were ever the sweetest, That thrilled me with pleasure on life's merry morn, Was the music I heard at that dear little homestead, The music that came from the old dinner horn. ALBERT D. PRENTICE, a veteran of the never-to-be-forgotten Civil war, and who since that time has been industriously engaged as a farmer, and who now owns a fine tract of tillable land within the bounds of Champion township, Trumbull county, Ohio, was born in Buffalo, New York, February 18, 1842, a son of Jacob Prentice, a native of Massachusetts, whose direct ancestors were among the number which came over in the Mayflower and planted the famous colony on the "wild New England shore." In New England the family have been prominent in affairs of both church and HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 171 state. One of its number was a prominent pastor in Charlestown for over fifty years. The grandfather of Albert D. was a lifelong resident of Massachusetts and lived to be one hundred years of age. He was twice married and reared twenty-two children. Josiah Prentice, the father of Albert D., mastered the shoemaker's trade early in his life, but later became a sailor and was in the whaling service. After he retired from the seas, he lived for a time in New York City and later at various places in New York state, before going to Buffalo, working at his trade all-the while. In 1843 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, which was then a small city, with but little promise of its future greatness. After two years there he went to Warren and followed shoemaking until about 1856, then bought a farm a mile or so from the center of Champion township, where he resided the balance of his days. His wife's maiden name was Mary T. Crawley, born in Norwich, Connecticut. Her father was a native of England and a sea captain, who came to America in Colonial times and owned large tracts of land in New Brunswick, which were confiscated by the English government at the time of the Revolutionary war. During that awful conflict for liberty and independence he sold a vessel to the Colonial government and took his pay in script which became worthless while he was absent, hence he lost all. His last years were spent at Norwich, Connecticut. His brother, Charles, was a resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and served as a selectman for many years. Maria Crawley, an aunt of Albert D. Prentice, was a promi-nent leader and lecturer on 'the question of Woman Suffrage. The children of Josiah and Mary T. Prentice were as follows: Elizabeth, deceased; Charles, deceased, the inventor of the gasoline stove now commonly used; Dwight S. a resident of Terre Haute, Indiana ; Hannah, deceased ; Mary J., deceased ; Edward A., resides at Horse Head, New York ; Albert D. Alfred D. Prentice attended school at Warren and after his removal to Champion township, assisted on the farm. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front at the South, participating in all the weary marches, extended campaigns and battles in which his command took part in the conflict. He served: two years, was detached and was a clerk at headquarters, at Covington, Kentucky, after the war, and was finally discharged in 1865. He had served in the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. He was under Generals Rosecrans and Grant. Upon his return home he resumed farming and in 1872 settled on a farm which he now occupies. But little of the land had been improved at the time, but he has cleared and brought all under a good state of cultivation. He has planted and cared for fruit and ornamental shade trees, erected a good set of buildings, making all in harmony with a first class Ohio farm of the early twentieth century. Mr. Prentice was married March 14, 1869, to Mary E. Carlton, a native of Champion township, a daughter of Gideon and Mary Carlton, a granddaughter of John and Rachel (Trianara) Carlton, and the great-granddaughter of Francis Carlton, the immigrant. Mr. and Mrs. Prentice 172 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY are the parents of seven children : Flora A., married Melvin Grove and they have Myron D. Albert D., Lawrence L., Raymond L., Rolland E. and Frank C. (twins) ; 'Charles J., married Mary Ella Baker and has Walter W. and Mabel B.; Newton A., married Myrtle Brown, children Pearl G., Marvin G., Carl N. and Francis E.; Nora E., married William S. Deerst and their children are Margery C., Edna L. and William M.; Albert, died aged seven years; Frank C., married Ethel Beach and has a son, Harry E.; Milton is a student. Mr. Prentice has been connected with the Methodist church since six-teen years of age; his wife is a member of the Disciples church since she was fifteen years of age. DILLWORTH HENRY NEWHART, who owns and operates one of the many beautiful farms within that goodly portion of Trumbull county, known as Lordstown township, was born March 21, 1833, in Allentown, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, a son of Samuel Newhart, native to the same town and county, and he was the son of Abraham Newhart, of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. He was a cabinet maker, following his trade in Allentown, where he died aged eighty-seven years. His wife, before marriage, was Miss Maria Raver, who died when aged fifty years. Samuel Newhart also mastered the cabinet makers' trade and lived in Allentown 'until 1837, then went to Ohio, accompanied by his wife and five children, going overland with a span of horses and a huge wagon, of the type known in the west as a "prairie schooner." He settled in Jackson township, Mahoning county, where he purchased a farm containing one hundred acres. On this farm stood a two stols hewed log house, Which at that time was weatherboarded. There was also a large building which he used for his shop, as he worked at his trade, at the same time superin-tending his farming operations. Several years later, he built a frame house, nearer to the highway, and there lived until his death, when he was aged eighty-five years. His wife's maiden name was Elizabeth Weaver, born in Whitehall township, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Jonas Weaver, native of Pennsylvania. She died in her eighty-seventh year, having reared five children: Samuel, William, Dillworth H., Ellen and Charles. Dillworth H. Newhart was in his fourth year, when his parents re-moved to Ohio, and he remained with his parents until sixteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the blacksmith's trade, serving three years, after which he did journeyman work a short time, but soon formed a partnership with John Klinginsmith, and they two conducted a general blacksmith's shop until 1861, when he purchased his present farm in Lordstown township. Here he has made an excellent farm-home, with all the improvements which tend to make profitable and pleasant the vocation of a farmer. After reserving plenty of timber for home use, he has put the remainder of his land under a high state of cultivation, HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 173 erected fine buildings and surrounded the same with fruit and ornamental trees. Mr. Newhart was married September 24, 1856, to Maria Grove, born in Jackson township, Trumbull county, September 20, 1829. She was a daughter of Andrew and Cathrine Grove. Mrs. Newhart died December 5, 1893. Two children were born to thi§ pioneer couple : Etta M., who died in infancy, and Silbie, who died at the age of four years. In politics Mr. Newhart is a Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Newhart lived as members and believers in Spiritualism. CALVIN S. KIRK —An industrious farmer tilling the fertile soil of Lordstown township, Trumbull county, Ohio, was born in North Jackson, Mahoning county, Ohio, September 5, 1852, a son of Josiah Kirk, a native of Jackson township, the same county, born March 1, 1813, he being the son of Robert Kirkpatrick, born in the north of- Ireland, of Scotch ancestors. He there received his education and came to America when a young man, he being the only member of the family who came to this country. Upon his arrival here, he located for a time where Warren now stands and helped to clear away the forest from where now stands the courthouse. From there he went to Austintown township, Mahoning county, becoming an early settler in that section. He bought land, re-mained there a few years and then moved to Jackson township and there purchased timber land. He built a cabin home there within what was then little. else than a wilderness and commenced to clear up a farm. About 1820, he built a brick house which structure still stands a monument to good masonry-. It is now owned and occupied by his grandson. Subse-quently, he purchased four hundred acres of land in Ellsworth township, where his sons, Martin and Isaac, settled. He, however, continued to live on his Jackson township farm until his death. Before her marriage, his wife was Catherine Ewing, a native of county Donegal, Ireland, where her father was a lifelong resident. She came to America with her widowed mother and two brothers and a sister. For a time, the family remained in Pennsylvania, but later removed to Ohio, in either 1803 or 1804, settling in Austintown township. Her brother, Archibald, continued to reside there, while her brother John settled in Jackson township. When the Ewing family first located there, Indians still lingered about their old hunting grounds and deer and wild turkeys were very numerous. She lived to see the county well settled. She was the mother of three sons and two daughters : Martin, Isaac, Josiah, Martha and Eleanor. It was Josiah who shortened. the name from "Kirkpatrick" to Kirk. Josiah Kirk, the father, was reared midst the rural scenes of Jackson township, attending school, at first in a log house without any windows, but it had holes which were covered with oiled paper, which admitted sufficient light to enable the students to study the three "R's„" "readin', 'rithmetic." The seats were made of puncheon, without any backs to iean against and deskless. Josiah inherited a part of the old farm 174 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY and purchased the remainder, living there until his death in 1883. The maiden name of his wife was Belinda Dunlap, born in Weathersfield township, Trumbull county, Ohio, a daughter of Josiah and Mary (Draper) Dunlap. She died in 1885, having reared nine children: Catherine, Mary, Anna, Mattie, Cynthia, Calvin, Warren, Homer and Ida. Calvin S. Kirk received a common school education and attended Poland Seminary, after which he commenced farming in company with his brother, on the old homestead, which they had inherited and farmed together for ten years, when it was divided. Calvin S. sold his interest in 1887 and bought the farm he now occupies, in Lordstown township, which contains ninety-seven acres, all in a good state of cultivation. This place, with its improvements, will rank well with any within the township. Mr. Kirk was married in December, 1884, to Anna Sophia Fenster-maker, born in Jackson township, a daughter of Adam and Louisa (Shoenberger) Fenstermaker. She has three sisters : Ellen, Mary and Loretta, also a brother named John, who has for the past fourteen years been superintendent of the schools at Dayton, Ohio. In politics, Mr. Kirk is a Republican. Mr. Kirk is a member of the Disciples church, and Mrs. Kirk of the Reformed church. HIRAM GILBERT, carrying on general farming operations within Champion township, Trumbull county, was born February 26, 1840, at his parents' home in Jackson township, Mahoning county, Ohio, a son of Joseph Gilbert and wife. Joseph Gilbert, it is believed, was a native of Jackson township and his father was John Gilbert, from eastern Penn-sylvania. He was an early settler of Jackson township, who bought a timber land tract which he cleared up and farmed there until his death. Joseph Gilbert, the father, learned the carpenter's trade. He moved from Jackson to Warren township about 1850 and bought land in the western part of the -township, on both sides of Eagle Creek ; be built a house and barn there and remained on the place a few years and then moved to Southington township, where he purchased an improved farm, where he lived the balance of his days, dying when forty years of age. His wife's maiden name was Mary Moyer, born in Eastern Pennsylvania, a daughter of John Moyer. She survived her husband many years. The children by this union were : Hiram, Aaron, Mals, Harriet and Austin. Hiram Gilbert, of this memoir, assisted his father at his trade and at the work of the farm. In the first year of the great Civil war, 1861, August 8, he enlisted as a member of Company K, Sixth U. S. Cavalry, and went south with his regiment and was with his command in all of its marches and battles, until he was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment. He returned and was variously engaged until 1891, when he purchased the farm on which he now resides in Champion township. Mr. Gilbert was married in 1869 to Elizabeth Kelley, born in Columbiana county, Ohio, May 18, 1849. Her father, Simeon Kelley, was born in Pennsylvania and his father was David Kelley, probably a native of