50 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY city and county. For years he has been an active promoter of Republican interests. He is a Knight Templar in the Masonic order, and a Methodist in religious faith. In 181'2 Mr. Clawson married Miss Mary Silliman, daughter of Addison Silliman, and their children were as follows: William H.; Maude, now the wife of Dr. J. J. Hammond, of Galesburg, Illinois; Carolyn May, deceased, who was an actress. GEORGE C. BRADEN.—For years a leader in the Republican journalism and the practical affairs of Trumbull county, Georgee C. Braden has also been its recorder for the past four years and for two years has served as the private secretary of Hon. W. Aubrey Thomas, congressman from the nineteenth Ohio district. There is probably no man in this locality who has a more precise knowledge of the people and community affairs, or has done more to influence public opinion, than Mr. Braden. He was born in Greene township, this county, on the 18th of August, 1868, his father, James Braden, being a native of the same township and identified with the pioneer farmers of Trumbull county, and now, at the age of seventy, resides at the original place of his birth. The mother (formerly Miriam Cory) was also a native of Greene township, daughter of Silas Cory, and died within its limits at the age of sixty-seven. Her people also came to the locality when it was virtually a western frontier region. The Braden family comprised four sons and four daughters, seven of whom are living, and in the order of birth George C. was the fifth child and the second son. The township schools and Cortland and Warren high schools furnished him with the education which enabled him to become a teacher himself. He was engaged in that work for about four years in the district schools of Trumbull county, and in 1890 became city editor of the Warren Tribune, being also appointed secretary of the publishing company. With the exception of his short identification with the Ohio Sun, of Youngstown, Mr. Braden held this position with the Warren Tribune for thirteen years. In 1904 he was elected county recorder on the Republican ticket, was re-elected in 1906 and is still in office. About the time of his election to succeed himself he was offered the position of private secretary to Hon. W. Aubrey Thomas, of Niles, who had succeeded General Charles Dick as representative to Congress from the nineteenth Ohio dis-trict upon the election of the former to the United States senate. He had already served as clerk of Warren township for six years and for two terms acted as clerk of the county board of election supervisors. Mr. Braden re-tains his interests in the finances of the county as stockholder in the Western Reserve National Bank of Warren and the Dollar Bank at Niles. He is also a director of the Niles Printing and Publishing Company, which issues the Daily News of that place. In 1887 Mr. Braden was married to Miss Elizabeth Meredith, daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Thomas) Meredith, and they have one son, Frank C. Braden. Mr. Braden is connected with the fraternities, as a member of the Masonic order, Elks (No. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 51 295) and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Braden has been recommended as postmaster at Warren at the expiration of the present incumbent's term, which takes effect in January, 1909. HENRY Q. STILES.--Noteworthy the leading citizens of Warren, Trumbull county, is Henry Q. 'Stiles, who, as secretary and treasurer of the Western Reserve Furniture Company, is prominently identified with the manufacturing and mercantile interests of the city and the county. He is recognized as a man of integrity and enterprise, whose word and whose ability can ever be relied upon in all matters of business. He was born, May 19, 1870, in Warren, which was likewise the birthplace of his father, the late William R. Stiles. The descendant of a pioneer family of prominence, William R. Stiles was born, bred and educated in Warren, and here spent his entire life. A capable business man, he was here engaged in mercantile pursuits for a number of years, having a substantial trade, and during his earlier life was for a time cashier of the First National Bank. He married Elizabeth Quimby, who was born in Warren, of pioneer ancestry, and they became the parents of three children, one of whom died in childhood, the others being Henry Q., of this sketch ; and Lucy P., wife of R. A. Cobb, of Warren. Having acquired his elementary education in the public schools of Warren, Henry Q. Stiles attended the Peekskill Military Academy and Eastman's Business College, becoming well fitted for an active career. When eighteen years of age, he became a clerk in his father's store, remain- ing thus employed until 1899, when his father sold out his business. In 1900 the Western Reserve Furniture Company was organized, with a capital of $25,000, which has since been doubled, and Mr. Stiles was made its secretary and treasurer, a position which he has since filled most acceptably to all concerned. The company employs about ninety men, and manufactures furniture of all descriptions, the productions of the factory being widely known, and meeting a ready sale in the domestic markets. Mr. Stiles is also officially connected with other organizations, being a director in the Union National Bank, and of the Winfield Manufacturing Company, of Warren. Mr. Stiles married, in 1891, Belle Thayer, a daughter of Rev. I. A. Thayer, now of Newcastle, Pa. Four children have been born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Stiles, of whom two are living, Henry T. and Rollin C. William R. died at the age of two years, and Harold lived but thirteen months. Politically Mr. Stiles is a straightforward Republican, and fraternally he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons. MARCELLUS O. MESSER.—Among the well-known residents of Warren, Trumbull county, is M. O. Messer. Coming from a long line of thrifty New England ancestry, he was born, November 2, 1842, in Guilford, New Hampshire, where he lived during the days of his boyhood. His father, 52 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Loren S. Messer, was born in the same state, and married Chastina Cook, a native of Vermont. Coming with his family to Warren, Ohio, in 1856, he spent the remainder of his seventy-five years of earthly life in this city, as did his good wife, who passed away at the age of seventy-five years. They were the parents of three children, namely : George W., deceased; Marcellus O., of this sketch; and Charles A., of Hutchinson, Kansas. Coming with the family to Warren in 1856, Marcellus O. Messer has, with the exception of four years spent in Duluth, Minnesota, been a continuous resident of the place. For some time he was engaged in the manufacture of rakes, and other implements and tools. Mr. Messer married, December 31, 1873, Frances M. Dickey, who was born, October 10, 1851, in Warren, Ohio, a daughter of Samuel F. Dickey, Jr., and grand-daughter of Samuel F. Dickey, Sr., both of whom were early settlers of Warren. Samuel F. Dickey, Sr., was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, May 25, 1777: In 1843, he came with his family to Trumbull county, Ohio, locating on the banks of the Mahoning river, taking up land in that part of the Western Reserve that is now included within the limits of Warren, and here spent his remaining years. Samuel F. Dickey, Jr., was born, June 11, 1820, in Londonderry, and was there reared and educated. On June 22, 1846, he married Mary A. Parker, who was born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, July 8, 1825. Locating in Warren, Ohio, he soon became influential in public affairs, and for twenty-five years served most acceptably as city engineer, during which time valuable improvements were made, sewerage being established, and many of the streets paved under his supervision. He was for a long time a member of the Warren School Board, and for forty years was an elder in the Presbyterian church, to which both he and his wife belonged. He died January 28, 1900, having survived his wife many years, her death occurring in 1885. They were the parents of three children, namely : Edward P., deceased; Frances D., wife of Mr. Messer; and Lizzie D., wife of J. E. Pickering, of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1861, Mr. Messer enlisted in Company C, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served for four years and three months, going into the army as a private, and being subsequently promoted to the rank of sergeant. As a soldier he had a fine record, and during the time was not ill for even a day, and never missed a battle. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Messer, Samuel F. Messer married Elizabeth Hovard, of Niles, Ohio, and they have one son, Hovard Pickering Messer. 'Mr. Messer has been active in public affairs, for five years being a member of the city council, and now serving on the city board of review. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of Bell-Harmon Post No. 36, G. A. R. ERNEST L. KING, secretary and manager of the King Furniture Company, of Warren, was a leading figure in the progress of scientific business education before he demonstrated the soundness of his theories by marked success in the practical field. As secretary of the local board of trade he has also been instrumental in the establishment of various enterprises at HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 53 Warren which have materially added to its standing as a commercial and an industrial center. He is also one of the strongest Democrats in this section of the state, having served for several years as secretary of the central committee of the county and being elected, in 1901, as the first and only Democratic councilman from the First ward of Warren. The most signal mark of his standing with the party, however, was his selection as a delegate from the Nineteenth congressional district to the Kansas City convention of 1900 which nominated Bryan to the presidency. Mr. King is a native of Warren and, with the exception of the comparatively short periods when he was engaged as a commercial educator in Cleveland,- Ohio, and Los Angeles, California, has been a continuous factor in the development of the institutions of Trumbull county. He is a son of Horace M. King, a native of Portage county, Ohio, who was a stone mason in his earlier manhood, afterward became a contractor and, before his marriage, settled at Cortland, where he wedded Miss Lucy Larnard. For several years he was in the service of the Erie road. Mrs. Horace M. King is a daughter of Amos J. Larnard, who journeyed from Springfield, Massachusetts, by ox-team and located at Cortland as one of its pioneers. He there established a sawmill and a box factory, was long a useful citizen of the place and died there at the age of eighty-five years. Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Horace M. King, of whom Ernest L. was the elder; the younger, Merritt J. King, was a telegraphic operator and assistant train dispatcher at Youngstown, Ohio, and died at the age of twenty-seven years. Ernest L. King received his education in the common schools of Trumbull county, in the Cortland High School, at the Mount Union College (where he took a general course) and at Oberlin University (in which he pursued a business course) then located in Warren, where he started a business college, but after conducting it for a year sold the establishment in order that he might accept the position of manager of the shorthand and typewriting department of a business college at Los Angeles, California. Mr. King remained there two years, when he returned to Warren and purchased a one-half interest in a fire insurance business, known as the King Company, continuing in that field from 1893 to 1903. Relinquishing the management of the business and selling his interest in it, he then assumed charge of the Warren Furniture and Fixture Company, which, after he obtained a controlling interest in it, became the King Furniture Company. The factory makes a specialty of turning out dining room and living room furniture, although it does not exclude anything in its line. At the present time fifty-five men are employed in the manufacturing department, but such arrangements are in process for an expansion of its. facilities that the number of employees will doubtless soon be doubled. Mr. King has been the founder and promoter of not a few of the important industries of Warren. He was one of the organizers of the Warren Rubber Company, of which he has served as a director for seven years past ; is a member of the managing board of the Trumbull Saving and Loan Company. and in his relations to the municipality is president of the board of public safety. As 54 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY secretary of the Warren Board of Trade in 1901-3 he was a strong factor in the growth of the city, being especially instrumental in bringing from Cleveland the Malyler Manufacturing Company, whose plant is now one of the most important in the city. In November, 1891, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Della B. Burnett, daughter of A. C. Burnett, of Warren, and the children born to their union are Paul L., Karl and Florence. In his fraternal connections Mr. King is a prominent Knight of Pythias, being a past chancellor com-mander, and he also belongs to the order of Elks. His religious faith is Methodism. DAVID R. GILBERT.—One of the leading lawyers of Warren, Trumbull county, David R. Gilbert has for about thirty-five years been a resident of that place, and whether known as a student, an attorney or a judge, has been respected for his ability and honored for his uprightness. He is a son of David and Sylvia (Haynes) Gilbert, the father born in Connecticut -May 15, 1818, and the mother in Trumbull county on the 17th of October, 1823. After obtaining a preparatory education at the common schools, Gustavus high school and under private tutors., David R. Gilbert entered Oberlin College. He remained there four years, when (in 1869) on account of his father's death he was obliged to leave school and commence practical preparation for the practice of the law. Upon coming to Warren the Judge entered the law office of Taylor and Jones; in 1873 he was admitted to the bar and a year later established himself in independent practice. Later he occupied the same office with Hon. E. B. Taylor, still later became his partner, the association continuing until 1885, when Mr. Gilbert became Judge Gilbert of the probate court. He occupied this bench for two terms, retiring in 1891, and was also a justice of the peace for some time, as well as a member of the city council for some eight years. In his outside business and financial relations he is a director of the Union National Bank of Warren, Ohio. On July 20, 1887, Judge Gilbert married Miss Agnes B. Biggar, daughter of George and Anna Biggar. His wife is a native of Canada, born February 26, 1861, and completed a thorough education by taking a four years' course in Lake Erie Seminary. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert are the parents of one son, David .Alva Gilbert, a promising youth in his twentieth year. W. GEORGE LANE, sales manager of the Economy Electric Company, of Warren, was born in Yorkshire, England, on the 16th day of November, 1861. He was reared and educated in his native shire, attending the gram-mar school of which the well-known educator, Dr. Jackson, was principal, and also King's College, London. Mr. Lane commenced his business training in early youth, and after engaging in various lines as an employe drifted into newspaper -work. In 1887 he came to the United States, spending the succeeding seven years in HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 55 Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1894 he became a resident of Warren, and was in the service successively of the old rolling mill company and the Trumbull Specialty Company. In 1907 he became identified with the Peerless Electric Company, first taking charge of the pay-roll of the establishment, his services earning him a steady advancement until, in 1907, he was appointed to his present position as sales manager of the Economy Electric Company. In 1900 Mr. Lane was married to Miss Alverna Hudson, a native of West Farmington, Trumbull county, Ohio, and the child of this union is George Cooke Lane. Mr. Lane is a prominent member of the Episcopal church, having had a long official connection with its local work, which includes service as superintendent of its Sunday-school and lay reader since 1895. His connection with the fraternities makes him a director of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. ANDREW MORFORD, one of the pioneer farmers of Kinsman township, who died January 3, 1908, was born in West Salem, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1833, and received his early education in the schools of Mayville, Pennsylvania. His parents were Richard and Polly (McLaughlin) Brown Morford, both natives of New Jersey of Scotch-Irish descent. When about seventeen years of age, Andrew came to Vernon township and worked on a farm there until his marriage to Matilda Jewell. He afterward bought a place in Vernon township, upon which he conducted general farming and dairying until 1896, when he gave the property to his son, W. E. Morford, and moved to the town of Kinsman. There he purchased a comfortable residence and resided there until his death. The deceased was a Republican, was honored with the township offices, and died a faithful Baptist, to which faith he had been reared. Mr. Morford's wife was a native of Venango township, Pennsylvania, daughter of Moses and Keziah (Rutledge) Beeman Jewell, and died in September, 1891. They were the parents of one child, William E. In September, 1896, Andrew Morford married for his second wife Miss Orilla Trunkey, born in West Salem, June 24, 1836, daughter of Frances and Rachael (Fell) Trunkey. The father of Mrs. Orilla Morford was born in Hartland township, Hartford county, Connecticut, while her mother was a native of West Salem. The grandparents, Charles and Mary (Gangyard) Trunkey, were natives respectively of France and Connecticut and the grandparents on the opposite side of the family, John and Catherine (Campbell), Fell, were both born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Morford's parents resided in Mercer county until death, her father, who was born in December, 1803, dying in 1875, and her mother, who was born in 1807, passing away February 15, 1892. There were seven children in the family, of whom the widow of Andrew Morford is the youngest and the only one now living. Her eldest brother was Judge Trunkey, a well known jurist of Pennsylvania, who died in London, England, *June 24, 1888. 56 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY HON. M. J. SLOAN, of Warren, a leading attorney of the city and state, is also a veteran Republican and soldier, and has been for many years very active and prominent in the fraternal work of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was born in Greene township, Trumbull county, Ohio, on the 23rd of September, 1844, son of Isaac Sloan, a native of Madison county, New York, who came to Greene township with his parents when he was a boy of nine years. There he passed the remainder of his life, dying at the age of seventy-four. The American ancestors on the paternal side were of Scotch descent and located at Pelham, Massachusetts, in 1764, where John Sloan, the grandfather, was born and reached manhood. The day after his marriage he started on his trip to New York and located in Madison county, that state, where he remained for some years. Later he settled with his family in the wilderness of what is now Greene township and taught its first school in the log house which he himself erected, becoming widely honored in the after years for his useful and honorable activities. The mother, known in her native Massachusetts as Martha C. Cooley, when about five years of age accompanied her parents from Palmer to Cattaraugus county, New York. The family afterward removed to Greene township, Trumbull county, where her marriage to Isaac Sloan occurred. Nine children were born to their union, eight of whom are living. The mother, who is eighty-eight years old, has retained her activity of mind and body to a remarkable degree. She takes just pride in her New England ancestry, her family having established itself in the old Bay state as early as 1640, its members, as well as those of the paternal side, acquitting themselves as true patriots at the later period of the Revolutionary war. M. J. Sloan is the eldest son and the second child born to the above mentioned couple, receiving his education on his father's farm and in the log schoolhouse of the vicinity. In 1863, when in his nineteenth year, he enlisted for the six months' service in Company G, Sixty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and at the conclusion of his term joined Company G of the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteers, serving as sergeant and corporal in that command until the end of the war. He was in several noteworthy engagements and saw active service of nearly two years. At the conclusion of the war he returned to Greene township and, while self-supporting, finished his education sufficiently so that he secured a teacher's certificate. After several years of this work he took a course at the Orwell Normal Institute, in Ashtabula county, and was afterward a member of its staff. In 1868 he entered Oberlin College and continued to teach while pursuing his course at that institution, from which he received the degree of M. A. Mr. Sloan's law studies were commenced at Elyria, Lorain county, in the office of Hon. John C. Hall, now circuit judge of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and, although he was admitted to the bar in 1873, he continued to teach until 1875, since which he has given his entire attention to the profession of the law. In that year he located for practice at Niles, but in 1880 removed to Warren, which has since been his home and the scene of HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 57 an active, progressive and highly meritorious career. He has been engaged in a substantial private practice; served as city solicitor of Warren from 1883 to 1900; was honored with the mayoralty from May, 1903, to January, 1906, and is now a member of the board of managers of the Ohio State Penitentiary. He is also among the most popular and prominent members of the Grand Army of the Republic in the state, having taken an active part in the promotion of the order for many years and advanced officially to the position of member of council of administration, judge advocate and junior vice commander of the Department of Ohio. He assisted in the organization of the Bell-Harmon Post No. 36, of Warren; has served as its adjutant for twenty years, and has also held the offices of officer of the day, senior vice commander and for four terms served as post commander. He is also a Mason, being a member of old Erie Lodge and of the commandery. In religion, he is a Baptist ; is one of the deacons in the First Baptist church and has held many other official positions in the local body. In 1871 Mr. Sloan married Stella S. Fisk, and their only child, Lillian, is living at home. Mrs. Sloan died in 1907. GEORGE H. TAYLER.—An influential citizen actively participating in the general development of the substantial little city of Warren, George H. Tayler has spent the bulk of his useful life within its limits, faithful in his allegiance to its interests, as was his father before him. He was born in Warren on the 5th of May, 1847, a son of Matthew B. and Adaline (Hapgood) Tayler, his father being a native of Pennsylvania and his mother, of this city. The paternal grandfather was born in Ireland, came to America when a young man and was married in the Keystone state. Thence Matthew B., one of his sons, migrated to Youngstown (now Mahoning county) at such an early day as to make him one of the pioneers of that locality. Upon his removal to Warren he became well known for his activity in business and his high and substantial character. He operated a warehouse for some time, was identified with the early growth of the First National Bank, and was especially prominent in connection with the good work of the First Methodist church, being identified with it both officially and as an active worker in the ranks. He was also an Odd Fellow in high standing. Both he and his wife died at about the same age, sixty-five years. The maternal family of Hapgoods is of old New England stock and was also ranked in the pioneer class of Trumbull county. The nine daughters and the two sons of this Tayler family all reached maturity, and nine of the family are still living, six in Warren. George H. Tayler is the eldest son of this family, being the fourth child. He completed the common-school and high school curriculums at Warren and then pursued a course at the Alleghany College, from which he graduated in 1869. Soon afterward he went west and for about four years was employed as a civil engineer by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad in various localities of Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas. Returning to Warren he spent several years in various occupations 58 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY at his home town, and in 1879 removed to Wisconsin, where he was again engaged as a civil engineer with the Chicago & North-Western Railroad. He was then called to Warren by the death of his father, and he was at that time placed in charge of the gas works, and, as secretary and treasurer, is still their active manager. He was a director in the First National Bank before it was merged into the Union National, and is still a member of the Directorate. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Warren Opera House Company since organization, president of the Oakwood Cemetery Association, and holds other influential relations with leading. city interests and institutions. Mr. Tayler is a thirty-third degree Mason. His wife, to whom he was married in 1888, was formerly Miss Roxie Wilcox. In politics he is a Republican. He is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. CHARLES L. WOOD, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Western Reserve Lumber Company, was born in Youngsville, Warren county, Pennsylvania, on the 20th of December, 1867. His parents, George R. and Rebecca (Culbertson) Wood, were also natives of the Keystone state. The father was born at Erie, where he was reared, educated and married, following his occupation as a pump manufacturer until his death in that city at the age of fifty-nine years. The mother's native town was Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and by her marriage to George R. Wood she became the mother of five daughters and three sons, who all reached mature years and seven of whom are still living. Charles L. Wood was the sixth child and the second son in this family, and received both a common-school and a business education in various schools of Erie and Sheffield, Pennsylvania. He has been self-supporting since he was seventeen years of age, when he commenced clerking in a general store near Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, and continued to be thus engaged until he located at Warren, Ohio, in 1887. In that year, as a young man of twenty years, he entered the employ of the Warren Packard Company', lumber merchants and manufacturers, and continued with them until 1895, when he became connected with the Saginaw Bay Company, as travel-ing salesman, which position he filled until 1897, when he returned to War-ren and engaged in the retail lumber business with C. B. Loveless on West Market street as Wood and Loveless, and in 1899 he assisted in the organi-zation of the Western Reserve Lumber Company, of which he is now secretary, treasurer and manager. He is also one of the directors of the West-ern Reserve National Bank. Mr. Wood is more than a leading business man of the locality, demon-strating his good American citizenship by applying his abilities to the public service, at the call of his fellows. He has served as a member of the City council for a period of eight years, during which he has been president of that body. In the fraternities he is a Mason and an Odd Fellow and his local religious affiliations are with the Tod Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Wood has been twice married—first, in 1891, to Miss Ida Taylor, who died in 1903, the mother of George, Harry, Doris and Charles. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 59 His present wife, whom he married in 1905, is a native of Kent, Ohio, and her maiden name was Miss Bertha A. Madole. L. P. GILDER.—The senior member of the firm of L. P. Gilder and Son, of Warren, chiefly engaged as dealers in coal and coke, is one of the oldest native born citizens of Trumbull county. He is a native of Kinsman township, born on the 20th of March, 1836, and his father, Obed Gilder, was a native of Connecticut, whose birthday was March 29, 1793. In 1804, when eleven years of age, he came with the family on their ox-team journey to what is now Vernon township, Trumbull county. There he was married to Miss Betsy Gunn, also a native of Connecticut, and in 1816 bought the farm in Kinsman township, which during the succeeding years was improved into a comfortable homestead and became the birthplace of the eleven children of the family. The first home was a log house, but this gave place to a comfortable residence and finally to quite a commodious one. The mother died at the old homestead in 1864, at the age of sixty-eight, and the father many years afterward, aged ninety-three. Of their eleven children, eight reached maturity and five are living, L. P. Gilder being the tenth in order of birth. In his earlier years Mr. Gilder assisted in clearing off the forest growths from the farm in the wilderness and doing all else which was in line with the duties of a farmer's faithful son. He attended the log schoolhouse when his services were not required on the farm, and he remained at home until he had reached his majority, going then to Wisconsin, where for some time he plied his trade of carpentry and taught school. Upon returning to Warren he was employed in a planing mill and in a shop for the manufacture of oil tools until January 20, 1862, when he commenced his service in the Civil war. Mr. Gilder first enlisted as a bugler in Company G of the Seventh Ohio Infantry, but was afterward transferred to the Fifteenth Ohio Independent Battery and in about a year was detailed to the captain's office. At the conclusion of the war and the expiration of his term of enlistment, he returned to Warren and worked as a machinist during the succeeding four years, and it was then that he engaged in the coal business, which has been his main occupation since. For twenty years he was manager of the Bell Telephone Company for Trumbull county. Mr. Gilder's business has been developed along various lines; for with his son, Frank B., he is not only a wholesale and retail dealer in coal and coke, but in lime, cement, sand and gravel and in sewer pipe, building blocks, fire brick, fire clay, flue linings and chimney tops. Mr. Gilder has been an unfaltering Republican since his majority made him a voter, and his experience in the Civil war has always maintained his enthusiasm in all G. A. R. matters. He was one of the organizers of Bell-Harmon Post at Warren, and is also a prominent Mason, having attained the Knight Templar and the Shriner degrees. Mr. Gilder's marriage to Miss Augusta Bowman occurred September 1, 1858, and Frank 60 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Bowman Gilder (who is the junior partner in L. P. Gilder and Son) was born to them December 24, 1860. He was married in 1882, to Minnie R. Hart, of Warren, daughter of John O. and Amy J. Hart. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Gilder : Lamont H., secretary and treasurer of E. Fisher and Son Company, Youngstown, Ohio, and Justine C., at home. The family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Gilder has been steward and secretary of the board for the past seventeen years. WILLIAM L. COALE, treasurer of the Sterling Electrical Manufacturing Company, of Warren, and also an extensive promoter of the real estate and building interests of the city, is a native of New Brighton, Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 15th of August, 1870. His father, Garrison Coale, was born in the same state, and now resides in Youngstown, Ohio, where he has lived for many years employed in railroad work. The mother (formerly Rebecca S. Parker), who is a native of Connecticut, is also living. Two children were born to them, the daughter being Mrs. H. M. Kelly, a resident of Youngstown. Mr. Coale was educated in the Ohio town named above, but when seventeen years of age became a prominent resident of Warren. His first employment was with George T. Townsend, an upholsterer and manufacturer of furniture, with whom he remained for three years, and then was identified for about a year with B. D. Hayes and Company, publishers at Warren, Ohio, as their general agent. Mr. Coale's next move was to purchase the business of C. W. Tyler Company, for many years known as the Camp & Randall Manufacturing Company, who were in the feed and building material line. In partnership with William Kelly, he continued in that field for two years as a member of the firm of Kelly and Coale. Messrs. William H. and William E. Peffer were then admitted to partnership, and the business greatly enlarged by the purchase of the business of Van Gorder Brothers Milling Company, the firm thereupon becoming known as the Warren Milling Company, with Mr. Coale as general manager. After two years the company was incorporated as the Cereal Supply Company, its business being the operation of both a mill and a retail store at Warren and a mill and a retail store at Erie, Pennsylvania. Three years afterward his interest was purchased by Messrs. Peffer, and, with H. S. and John Pew, John Masters and others, he founded the Elastic Pulp Plaster Company, of which he was elected vice president. In 1901 the Sterling Electrical Manufacturing Company was incorporated by W. A. Smith, C. G. Dennison, Washington Hyde, Mr. Coale and others, and of this enterprise the last named was elected treasurer. The industry, which now employs some 300 people, is one of the most flourishing in Warren. Mr. Coale is also president of the Middlefield (Ohio) Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of hot air pumping engines; vice president of the Redifor Rod and Reel Company; is a stockholder in the Western Reserve National Bank and the Trumbull Savings and Loan Company; president of the Cleveland (Ohio) HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 61 Development Company; and president of the Home Building and Investment Company, of Warren, the last named being one of the most extensive builders and improvers of resident properties in the city. In this connection and in his individual capacity, Mr. Coale is responsible for the erection of twenty-seven houses in Warren to this date, and is considered one of the strongest agents in the upbuilding of the town as a desirable place of residence. On June 22, 1899, Mr. Coale wedded Miss Clara B. Howard, of Chardon, Ohio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Howard, and they have two children—Donald H. and Lorena B. Coale. Mr. Coale is a member of the Elks (No. 295), Knights of Pythias, Independence No. 90, and U. C. T. of Warren. In politics he is a Republican and his religious connections are with the First Methodist Episcopal church. JAMES E. BEEBE, president and general manager of the Western Reserve Furniture Company, doing an extensive business at Warren, was born in Hartford, Trumbull county, June 2, 1848, a son of Robert M. Beebe, a native of Connecticut, who was reared in Connecticut and educated at Yale, graduating in 1835. He came from that state to Ashtabula, Ohio. He later returned to Connecticut and married the mother of James E., in 1837. Her maiden name was Hulda Case, and she was born in Connecticut. Her father was a member of the legislature of that state, at the same time as James Beebe, paternal grandfather of James E. Her people were from England. After marriage they settled at Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1837, and he was in constant practice as a physician until the time of his death in 1864. His father, James Beebe, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1779 and died at Hartford, Ohio, 1865. He was a prominent citizen in Connecticut and was a member of the senate. His father was Bezaleel Beebe, a Revolutionary soldier; was a captain in the Continental army and promoted to major and later ranked as a brigadier general. He, too, was born in Litchfield in 1741, and was a descendant of John Beebe, who came from England in 1650, locating in Connecticut that year and being active in the early days of the colony. Hence, it will be seen that James E. descended in the following line of genealogy: John Beebe, the American ancestor (1), Gen. Beebe (2), James Beebe (3), Robert Beebe (4), James E. Beebe, of this notice (5). James E. is the second child and oldest son. He was reared at Hartford, Ohio, and attended school at that place ; also at Farmington and Cleveland. In 1870 he went to Sharon and served his time in a machine shop, remaining there ten years, being connected with the iron works of that place. About 1880, he went to Union City, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the manufacturing business, making furniture and novelties. He sold out in 1899 and came to Warren, where he organized the Western Reserve Furniture Company, of which he is now president and general manager. This company employs about ninety men. He is also interested in the product of lumber from eighteen thousand acres of timber land 62 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY in Mississippi. He holds stock in the Union National Bank of Warren, and has various other financial interests. He was united in marriage in the month of April, 1877, to Catherine Camp, daughter of Lambert Camp, of Warren, Ohio. The child of this Union is Mary, at home. In religious faith Mr. Beebe is a Presbyterian. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to the Knights Templar and Shriners. He is councilman-at-large of the city. His brother, Dr. Robert C. Beebe, is now at the head of the medical hospital at Nanking, China. He was sent there by the Methodist Episcopal church (Board of Foreign Missions) and established this institution, which he has had charge of for about twenty-five years. His oldest sister is Lizzie G., wife of James M. Jones, of Burghill, Trumbull county. The youngest sister of Mr. Beebe, Grace, is the wife of W. N. Ridge, of Brooklyn, New York, where they now reside. In conclusion, it may be of interest to mention something concerning the extensive plant of which Mr. Beebe is the president and general manager. Every bit of the stock of the Western Reserve Furniture Company is held by Warren men. It was incorporated for twenty-five thousand dollars in 1900, and later doubled, starting the factory on a large scale. The original floor space has nearly doubled and the output of special products such as ladies' desks in oak, bird's-eye maple and mahogany, and combination bookcases and writing desks with wardrobes in solid oak is wonderfully large. The officers of the company are : President and general manager, J. E. Beebe; secretary and treasurer, H. Q. Stiles ; vice-president, R. A. Cobb. MRS. PHEBE LORD (MARVIN) SUTLIFF was born in Bazetta township, Trumbull county, Ohio, July 1, 1822, a daughter of Capt. Joseph Marvin, who was born in Lyme, Connecticut. The date of his birth was March 26, 1772. He came to Trumbull county in 1821, leaving the state above mentioned, April 1, with an ox team. He purchased one thousand acres of land which he generously divided among his four sons. They were forty days on their journey. The first night they were within Trumbull county, they were in sight of Warren. The father survived the years of his pilgrimage until he had numbered the centenary mark and at his departure was one hundred and one years and six months and five days of age. From 1821 to 1864, he resided on the farm, but during the last named year, he went to live with his daughter. His wife before marriage was Temperance Miller, born June 14, 1781. They were "united in marriage January 22, 1797, and were the parents of fifteen children. Mrs. Sutliff and her brother William (3) are the only survivors of this large family and the only ones born within Trumbull county. Mrs. Sutliff was reared on the old homestead and attended school by walking two miles to a schoolhouse and the old family dog went with her as a protector from wolves. She was married October 1, 1840, to Levi Sutliff, who was born in Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, July 12, 1805. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 63 He was reared and educated in the same county and studied law being ad-mitted to the bar and became one of the prominent attorneys of' Trumbull county. He was a strong advocate of abolition of slavery and acted as conductor on the "Underground Railroad." He was eminent as a lawyer and well known as a pioneer. He died March 25, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Sutliff were the parents of eight children, two of whom survive: Phebe T. Sutliff, of Warren, and Lydia S., wife of Edward J. Brainard, of Toledo, Ohio. The venerable mother has lived in the place where' she now resides for fifty-eight years and is the last person living on the street where she resides that was here when. she- moved into this residence. At that time there were but five houses on the north side of the street between her and the Fair Grounds. Mrs. Sutliff was a member of the Presbyterian church, having united when eleven years of age, but is now a communicant of the Baptist church. She was many years a teacher in the Sunday School and took an active part in the great Crusade Movement. Mrs. Sutliff's father was postmaster at Bazetta, Ohio, for fourteen years. ORLANDO .M. CASSIDY, farmer, of Weathersfield township, was born in Lordstown township, Trumbull county, March 23, 1855, of Irish de-scent. His father, John Cassidy, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, where he was reared and educated and where he married Elizabeth Hunt. When he came to Trumbull county, driving, through in a wagon, he settled in Lordstown township, on a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, where he lived a number of years. Later he moved to Warren township, where he spent the remainder of his life. He \vas a life-long Republican and a member of the Presbyterian church. This worthy couple had two children: Emma, wife of J. J. McClain, who resides in Warren township, and Or-lando M., of this sketch. Orlando M. was educated at the common schools of Lordstown and Warren townships and had a business course at "West Farmington, Ohio. After leaving school, he returned to his parents' home, where he worked on the farm until his marriage, November 6, 1884, to Ellen M. Wilson, the daughter of Dr. J. W. and Ellen (Masters) Wilson, who were of English descent. Mrs. Cassidy was reared in Weathersfield township and received her education in the public schools. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy, as follows: Grace W., who died in infancy; Maude E.; John J. and Florence E. The surviving children all live at home at this time-1908. Mr. Cassidy carries on general farming, and stock raising, making a specialty of sheep raising, keeping from one hundred and fifty to two hun-dred head at all times on his farm, which consists of three hundred acres and is of much value. He has been successful in his operations, in the main, and has the respect of all within his community. Politically, Mr. Cassidy has been a life-long Republican, but has never cared to seek or hold public office. He is a Presbyterian, while his family are members of the Christian church. Vol. II-5 64 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY WILLIAM C. PENDLETON, secretary, treasurer and manager of the Trumbull County Manufacturing Company, corner South and Park avenues, Warren, was born in Bethany, West Virginia, in 1849, a son of Prof. W. K. and Clarinda (Campbell) Pendleton. The mother was a daughter of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian church and Bethany College. Prof. W. K. Pendleton, the father, was connected with the faculty of this college for forty-five years. He reached the age of eighty-one years. His father was Edmund Pendleton, a native of Virginia, the ancestor coming from England to America in 1635, and was among the first settlers in Hanover county, Virginia. William C. Pendleton is the only son of his mother. He was reared in Louisa county, Virginia, and was but two and one-half years of age when his mother died and he was taken by his grandmother Pendleton. He was educated in Bethany College, West Virginia, graduating with the class of 1872. He first worked with a civil engineer's corps on the Panhandle Railroad, from which road he went to the Pittsburg-Connellsville Division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, where he served three years, when he was made assistant superintendent of transportation at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1872 he went to California for his health, but concluded to engage in sheep raising. He continued at that until 1876, when he returned to the east and resumed railroad work. He was made chief clerk in the superintendent's office of the Southwestern System of the Pennsylvania lines. In January, 1880, he married Miss Helen King Austin, of Warren, Ohio, a daughter of Harmon Austin. The Austins came to this county about 1800, hence were among the original pioneer band of settlers. Mr. Austin came to reside at Warren in 1882, at which time he purchased an interest in the Trumbull Manufacturing Company, which was then styled Spangenberg-Pendleton and Company, the name being changed to the Trumbull Manufacturing Company without change of ownership, Mr. Pendleton becoming treasurer and manager. The business consists of general foundry and machine work, with a specialty of constructing oil tank car trimmings. He is president of the Jefferson Light and Power Co., at Jefferson, Ashtabula county. For about six years he was a member of the board of health at Warren. CHARLES B. LOVELESS, president of the Warren Manufacturing Company, at Warren, Ohio, was born in that city, January 14, 1864, a son of Martin D. Loveless, a native of Newton Falls, Trumbull county, who was many years engaged in stone pump manufacturing and later in the livery and hack business at Warren. He lived to the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, and the mother of Charles B., was Malinda Wilson, daughter of Austin and Mary Wilson, pioneers of Portage county, Ohio, where she was born. She is still living in Warren. The children of this couple were eight in number—three daughters and five sons. At this writing (1908) three sons are living. Charles B. Loveless is the fifth child and the third son in his father's HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 65 family. He was reared and educated in Warren and when aged eighteen years engaged in the hardware business with S. W. Park & Co., with whom he remained about three years. When about twenty-three years he engaged in the lumber business with the Warren Packard Co., and later became partner in the business. Subsequently, Mr. Loveless formed partnership with C. L. Wood, the firm being known as Wood & Loveless. This concern was later organized into the Western Reserve Lumber Company and taking the properties of the Warren-Packard Company, Mr. Loveless being the secretary. In 1901, he bought an interest in the Warren Manufacturing Company, and became secretary and treasurer as well as manager. He is now the president of this company, besides holding interests in North Carolina, where he has a large tract of timber land with the New Hope River Lumber Company of which he is secretary and treasurer. The lands comprise two thousand acres and upon the same is a large saw mill. Besides his interests already enumerated, he is one of the stockholders and a director in the Western Reserve National Bank. The plant known as the Warren Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1890, with a capital of twenty thousand dollars. This plant and yards covers over three acres of land, employs about twenty-five hands and has an enormous output of all things for which lumber is employed in all the various building lines, both exterior and interior furnishings. Mr. Loveless belongs to the Masonic order, being a Knight Templar; also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the U. C. T.. at Warren. He is a lifelong Republican in politics. He was married in 1885, to Irene Campbell, daughter of Jerome T. and Ellen D. (Packhard) Campbell. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Loveless are four daughters and two sons : Gertrude I., Mary L., Ellen M., Charles C., Philip M. and Lucy P. JAMES P. GARGHILL, a well-known and highly successful real estate dealer of Warren, Ohio, was born at Mineral Ridge, Ohio, November 10, 1860, a son of Phillip Garghill, who was a native of Ireland, and came to America in 1852, locating in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania and going from there to Mineral Ridge, Ohio, locating in Ohio in 1858. He was superintendent of coal mines. His wife was Isabell (Daugherty) Garghill, a native of England, who came to America when young, with her father. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Garghill were the parents of seven daughters and two sons, all of .whom reached mature years. The seventh child in the family was james P. Garghill. He was reared in Mineral Ridge and educated in the schools of .that neighborhood. He followed the coal mining business about ten years and sold coal at Warren five years. He then followed railroad and street railroad business for about five years. The next position he held was that of member of the police force at Warren, in which he continued ten years. He commenced to deal in real estate in 1906, and is thus engaged at this time, with offices in Warren, Youngstown and Girard. Mr. Garghill married in 1886, Margaret Stottler, by whom was born 66 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY three children : Phillip H., aged twenty years; John, aged nineteen years; Nellie, aged seventeen years. Politically, Mr. Garghill is a Republican. Mr. Garghill's sister, Isabel' Garghill Beecher, is a well known and natural elocutionist. DAVID L. HELMAN, proprietor of the Ship Timber Enterprise, located at Warren, Ohio, was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, August 19, 1867, a son of J. B. Heiman, a native of Ashland, Ashland county, Ohio, where he was reared and became a farmer. He moved to Iowa in 1866, settling at Ottumwa, Wapello county, where he died in 1902. The mother, Elizabeth (Smalley) Heiman, was a native of Haysville, Ohio, and died at the age of forty-two years. The children born of this union were five sons and one daughter, all of whom grew to maturity, David L. being the fourth child-. In 1888 he went to Warren and became associated with W. C. Stiles in the manufacture of ship-timber, continuing with him until the latter's death in 1899. In 1904, Mr. Heiman bought the property. He also has an interest in the North Carolina lumber trade, with Mr. Loveless; is also a director of the Western Reserve National Bank. He is an extensive manufacturer of long ship plank and dredge timbers, in which business he has built up a most enviable reputation that extends from Duluth to New York, as well as all along the New England Coast and in Canada. This enterprise was established in 1878 by Mr. Stiles. Politically, it almost goes without saying, that Mr. Heiman is a hearty supporter of the Republican party. In church faith, he is of the Presbyterian denomination, while in his fraternal affiliations he is a member of the Masonic order, being a thirty-second degree Knight Templar; also a member of the U. C. T. of Warren. In 1888 Mr. Heiman was united in marriage to Wilhelmena Callander, daughter of William and Jerusha (Hall) Callander. Two sons and one daughter were born of this union, namely : William C., Morace M. and Marguerite M. Heiman, who died in 1903 at the age of seven years. CHARLES A. ARCHER, M. D., one of the prominent practicing physicians and surgeons of Warren, is a native of Canada, born September 18, 1857. He is a son of William Archer, a native of England, by occupation a blacksmith, and who, came to America when he was but a small boy. Dr. Archer's mother, Clarisa Foster, was a native of Canada, born at. Thorn Hill. The father died in Canada and the mother in Warren, Ohio. They were the parents of seven children, four of whom are living now, the doctor and three sisters: Martha, married and resides in Cleveland : Clara, wife of A. D. Coe, of Cleveland; Emma, widow of the late Col. Eben Coe, of New York. Dr. Archer is the sixth of the seven children in his parents' family, and he was nine years of age when he went to Cleveland, where he was educated in the public schools. After graduating from the same, he attended HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 67 the Western Reserve Medical College and graduated at St. Louis American Medical College. From 1890 to 1897 he practiced in Cleveland, then came to Warren and has been in medical practice here ever since. He is a member of the Trumbull County Medical Society ; the State Medical Society; also the American Medical Association. He is identified with the Masonic order, being a member of the chapter and commandery; also belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, lodge No. 66; the Foresters, Odd Fellows and Eagles. The doctor was married in 1881 to Agnes E. Maple, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Maple, of Elyria, Ohio. One daughter has blessed this union: Frances E., a graduate of the high school in 1908 and now at Oberlin. The family are members of the Christian church. H. C. FARNHAM is a member of the law firm of Farnham & Hamilton and of the real estate firm of Farnham & Knox and is also an insurance writer. He was born in Wellsville, New York, in 1873, and is a graduate of the Alfred University. After the completion of his school days he went to California and became identified with the practice of law in the offices of Rogers & Rogers, of Los Angeles and San Francisco, and after his admission to the bar in that state he opened offices in Oakland. But after a time he returned to the east and was admitted to practice in the courts of New York in 1897, while later he was appointed by Congress as lieutenant of volunteers and served three months in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. Rising to the rank of captain of volunteers, he was sent to the Philippines and served two years with that official rank. At the close of that period' Mr. Farnham returned to San Francisco, California, and once more took up the practice of law, but after the disastrous fire of that city in 1896 he came east to Warren, Ohio, and became actively identified with the professional life of this city, connecting himself, as above mentioned, with the firm of Farnham and Hamilton, attorneys at law, and also with the real estate firm of Farnham and Knox, and in addition he carries on a large insurance business. He is the district manager of the American Casualty Company of Reading, Pennsylvania, for Ohio, and also for the General Accident Insurance Company of Perth, Scotland. H. SAMUEL PEW, vice-president of the Union National Bank and otherwise connected with the business and industrial interests of Warren, is a native of Trumbull county, Ohio, born in Lordstown township, February 13, 1841, a son of Simon Pew, also a native of Trumbull county, born on a farm in Warren township. He spent his entire life in this county and followed agricultural pursuits and was seventy-nine years of age at the timb of his death. Politically, he was first a Whig and later a Republican. He was ever an active man in public affairs. The grandfather, Samuel Pew, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared 68 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY and married. He then removed to Trumbull county Ohio, as one of the early settlers, at a time when Warren had but three or 'four houses. He was a farmer, and was of Irish descent. H. Samuel Pew's mother, Sarah Snyder, was a native of Lordstown township, Trumbull county, a daughter of Peter Snyder, who came to Trumbull county among the pioneer band of settlers. He was a justice of the peace for many years, and was of Ger-man descent. This couple were the parents of three sons and four daugh-ters, all reaching maturity except one son, who died young. Mr. Pew, of this memoir is the eldest child of his parents' family, and was ten years old when his father located on a farm in Warren township. Reared and educated in his native county, H. Samuel Pew attended the schools at Warren, remained at home until twenty years of age, when he engaged as a clerk in a clothing store for some years. Later he was a traveling salesman for a drug house, continuing the latter named occupation three years, handling drugs and notions. In 1866 he embarked in the crockery and house furnishings business, which he carried on for thirty-four years, at Warren, selling his stock to Kneeland Bros. He then en-gaged in the manufacture of pulp plaster and organized a stock company, of which he was secretary and. treasurer, until sickness caused him to retire in 1906. This business is now conducted by his son, Kirt Pew. H. Samuel Pew is vice-president of the Union National Bank and was president of the Warren Savings Bank for fifteen years. This concern was merged into the Union National Bank, Mr. Pew being its vice-president. There are few men now doing business in Warren who were there when he first commenced his career. Politically, Mr. Pew is a Republican., and has served as trustee of War-ren township two terms; member of the city council two terms; and has ever taken an active part in the public enterprises of Trumbull county. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church and a trustee in the same; was an elder for thirty years, now being one of the oldest members in the church at Warren. He was married in 1866 to Julia Elliott, daughter of Richard J. Elliott, of Champion, Trumbull county, by whom three children were born: Kirt E.; Fred C. Pew, of Steubenville, Jefferson county, and Adalaide L. HENRY A. STRONG, deceased, whose widow resides at No. 201 North Park avenue, was born in Bristol, Trumbull county, Ohio, March 12, 1846, a son of David B. Strong, a native of New York, who went to Trumbull county, locating at Bristol. The mother of Mr. Strong was of a prominent family in Trumbull county named Cagy, who came from Pennsylvania. The family are in possession of a genealogy tracing back to Switzerland, from which European country they originated. Mr. Strong was reared and educated in Trumbull county and was by trade a blacksmith. He carried on a shop twenty years and up to his death, when he was one of the oldest business men in point of years in Warren. He was highly successful in his undertakings. He made his own way through life from early boyhood and HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 69 he owned considerable real estate and was associated with Messrs. Laub and Wallace, of Warren. In his politics, he was a staunch defender of Republican party principles. He was known as a hard working man and educated his family in a commendable manner. After having spent a useful life he died June 4, 1903. His widow, Emma A. (Tovey) Strong, was born in England, but came with her parents to America when three years of age. Her father, George Tovey, was a native of England and upon coming to this country, settled at Cleveland, Ohio, where he was engaged in the work of a contractor and builder, and was a successful man. His death occurred in 1906 at Cleveland. His wife, Mrs. Strong's mother, Caroline Stevens, was also a native of England, who died in America in 1873. In their family were three daughters, Mrs. Strong being the second. She was reared and educated in Cleveland, Ohio, attending both the common and high schools of that city. She was united in marriage in 1879 and went to housekeeping at Warren. Three sons were born of this union: Harry, a graduate of Purdue University and is now in Cleveland ; Clarence, a graduate of Western Reserve University and resides at Cleveland; Warren A., a student at Western Reserve University. COLONEL JOSEPH KNOWLES WING, whose home was at Bloomfield, was a notable figure of the Civil war from Trumbull county. He was born ink Wilmington, Vermont, July 27, 1810, of Revolutionary antecedents. When sixteen years old he left Wilmington to become a 'clerk in a store at Renselaerville, New York, where he remained five years. During this time he served on the staff of General DeWitt, as the young quartermaster of the Twenty-fifth New York Infantry. In 1831 he accepted the offer of an Albany merchant to join him in a general merchandise business in the West, and Bloomfield, in Trumbull county, was selected as a promising location for the purpose. Mr. Wing, then but twenty-one years of age, was entrusted with the sole charge of this business, which occupied him until the development of the canal and railroad systems largely changed commercial conditions and diverted traffic to other channels. The Civil war marked an important chapter in his life. President Lincoln early commissioned him an assistant quartermaster in the service, with the rank of captain, and, later, he was promoted to major and lieutenant colonel by brevet. He was stationed at various points in Tennessee and Mississippi, under General Rosecrans, and was soon made quartermaster of that district. Colonel Wing participated in the desperate and decisive battle of Corinth. In the following year, when General Rosecrans was retired from the command of the Army of the Mississippi, Colonel Wing remained on duty, with headquarters at Corinth, attached to the staff of General Grenville M. Dodge. In 1864 the Union army crossed the Tennessee for the Atlanta campaign, and Colonel Wing accompanied it as chief-quartermaster of the Sixteenth Army Corps, and took part in all the movements of that body until Atlanta was reached and captured. During the cam- 70 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY paign the command marched five hundred miles, was engaged in thirteen distinct battles, and was under fire for almost the entire time. In his report to the War Department, at the time, General Dodge expressly commended Colonel Wing for his efficiency through these historic operations. In November, 1864, -under Special Order No. 61 of the War Department, he assumed control of the quartermaster's department for the district of North Carolina, and remained on that duty until the close of the war. August 10, 1865, he was honorably mustered out of the service. The following letter, in the War Department, is of more than passing interest in this connection : "No. 26 Nassau St., New York, December 9, 1866. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. Sir :- I have the honor to recommend, for Brevet Brigadier General, Captain J. K. Wing, A. Q. M. Captain Wing was in my command for three years, first as Chief Quartermaster of the Sixteenth Army Corps. For four months, while I was in middle Tennessee, we were entirely dependent on his energy to supply the command, of fifteen thousand men and ten thousand animals, with forage from the country, and I desire to say that in his department he received the commendation of all the officers for the ability with which he discharged his duties, and for his integrity and excellent habits. His services as chief-quartermaster of the Sixteenth Army Corps, during the Atlanta campaign, especially recommended him for promotion, but he could not attain it, as the command was not a full corps. After leaving the Army of the Tennessee, he was assigned to the Army of North Carolina, in which he served until the surrender of Johnston and the war's end. I desire most earnestly and emphatically to recommend him for the promotion asked for and trust his valuable services will be acknowledged. I am confident it would have been done heretofore had his case not been overlooked. I am, sir, respectfully, Your obedient servant, G. M. DODGE, (Late Maj. Gen. U. S. Volunteers)." Politically, Colonel Wing was a Republican of no uncertain convictions. In 1869 he was elected by his party from Trumbull county to the Ohio legislature and was re-elected as his own successor. His death occurred January 1, 1898. He married Mary, daughter of Ephraim Brown, the founder of Bloomfield. The children of this marriage were : Mary Huntington, deceased, who married John S. McAdoo, in 1869; Elizabeth Brown, living in Bloomfield; Virginia Passavant, who died in 1871, the wife of Horace R. Cheney, of Boston; George Clary, a graduate HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 71 of Harvard College, who for three years was employed as the attorney for the government to defend suits in the Court of Claims at Washington, was afterwards chief of the Diplomatic Bureau, in the United States Department of State, and is now an attorney at Cleveland; Francis Joseph, who also was at Harvard College, and practiced law at Cleveland. For a time he was the assistant United States Attorney there, and one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Cuyahoga county. While holding this latter position, he was appointed by President McKinley, in January, 1901, United States judge for the Northern district of Ohio; Julia Cing, whose home is at Bloomfield, and Annie M., the wife of William S. French, of New Hartford, New York. Colonel Wing's wife was born at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, May 28, 1812, and died December 15, 1887. After her family moved to Ohio in 1815, she attended a young ladies' school at Brattleboro, Vermont; afterwards, she was sent to the famous seminary at Troy, New York, founded and then presided over by Mrs. Emma Willard. Later she was a pupil at the Steubenville (Ohio) Seminary. During her school life she not only confirmed her strong literary tastes, but became accomplished in music. Hers was the first piano brought to Trumbull county. GEORGE J. SMITH, M. D., practicing physician and surgeon at the en terprising city of Niles, Ohio, is a native of 'Cincinnati, where he was born May 8, 1875, a son of Harry Smith, a native of Ohio, who now resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where he is in business. The mother, Margaret (Lundy) Smith, was a native of Ohio. The doctor was only an infant when his parents removed to Birmingham, in which city he lived until fourteen years of age, when he was sent to the Pittsburg College and to the University of ''Pennsylvania. He first graduated from the Birmingham high school at the age of fourteen years. He graduated from the Pittsburg College in 1894 and from the Western Pennsylvania University in 1898, the same being from the medical department. He spent one year in St. Francis Hospital, at Pittsburg, coming to Niles, Ohio, in 1900, since which date he has been one of the leading medical practitioners of the city. He belongs to the American Medical Association, the Trumbull County Medical Society and the State Medical Society. In all that is practical and up-to-date, in medicine, Dr. Smith is well informed. In his political views, the doctor is a Republican. He is the physician for the Automobile Club of America and is popular with all progressive classes. In business enterprises, he takes an active interest, so far as his profession will admit. He is a director in the Niles File Works at Niles, and president of the Ohio Boiler Company. He is the medical examiner for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York City; also for the Equitable Life of New York; the Prudential; the Northwestern; the Etna and Hartford insurance companies; also New York Life Insurance Company. Dr. Smith was married in the month of July, 1900, to Kathryn Mc- 72 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Laughlin, daughter of Captain P. McLaughlin, of Rochester, Pennsylvania, a railroad contractor, who constructed the Erie Railroad from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Girard, Ohio. He was also an extensive glass manufacturer, and prominent in business generally. At Rochester, he served on the city council for twenty years, and was the first exalted ruler of the order of Elks, at Rochester, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Smith's mother was Matilda (McGinley) McLaughlin, of Wheeling, West Virginia, but a native of Ireland. Mrs. Smith is the fourth of nine children in her parents' family. She was born in Rochester, Pennsylvania, and received her education in the high school. aAt the age of fourteen years she entered St. Xavier's College in Pennsylvania, which institution is located in Westmoreland county; also took a course at Duff's Business College at Pittsburg. EDWIN FRANKLIN MOULTON, a retired educator, now a resident of Warren, Ohio, was born on Moulton Hill, Saint Francis River, Canada, April 7, 18:36. His father, Calvin Moulton, was a native of West Randolph, Vermont. The grandfather, also Calvin Moulton, was born in Massachusetts and later settled at West Randolph, Vermont, moving to Canada while still a young man, and for whom Moulton Hill was named. The mother of Edwin Franklin Moulton was Adaline Hudson, also a native of Massachusetts, and a daughter of Ruben Hudson. She was of English descent on both the paternal and maternal sides. Each branch was engaged in the Revolutionary- war. The great-grandmother of Mr. Moulton was the daughter of General Blodget, who lived to the extreme age of one hundred and fourteen years. Mr. Moulton's parents were married in Canada in 1822. After the death of his mother the father returned to the State's in 1846, locating in Wisconsin and living to the advanced age of eighty-one years. There were born of this union four sons and three daughters, of whom two sons are still living. Having received his early education in district schools, he prepared for college at Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio. The first two years of his college course were taken at Antioch, going from there to Oberlin, where he was graduated in 1865. Having chosen teaching as his profession, after a brief experience in Ohio, he was called to the principalship of the New England Christian Institute of New Hampshire. Two years later he returned to Ohio and accepted the superintendency of the public schools of Oberlin, four years after his graduation. After serving these schools successfully for seven years he accepted a similar position at Warren, Ohio, where he remained for twelve years. He then entered the public schools of Cleveland as super-visor, and soon became first assistant superintendent and later superintendent, which position he held until he retired from active work in his profession in the summer of 1906. He then took up his residence in Warren, having served as student, teacher and superintendent for fifty years. This record is seldom, if ever, surpassed. In 1863 Mr. Moulton was married to Ellen M. Reed, of Austinburg. She died in 1892 at Cleveland, two children being born of this union, Maud L., deceased, and Mar- HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 73 garet Hudson, wife of Dr. George Herbert Ormeroid, of Warren. In 1894 Mr. Moulton married Alice Davis Burton, of Cleveland. In early manhood Mr. Moulton joined the Masonic order. He is also a member of the Royal Arcanum, in which fraternity he has held high official positions, both state and national. In his church affiliations he is numbered among the worthy members of the Congregational denomination, having been identified with active church work in Oberlin, Warren and Cleveland. He is now specially interested in farming, having a beautiful little farm ,near his home. Mrs. Alice Davis Moulton, wife of Edwin F. Moulton, was born at Vermilion, Huron county, Ohio; on a beautiful farm fronting Lake Erie. Her father, Daniel Nelson Davis, was a native of Long Island, and came with his parents to Ohio when a child. Her grandfather, Gilbert Davis, was a descendant of an English king. The mother of Mrs. Moulton was Sarah Prentiss, daughter of James and Betsey (Brooks) Prentiss, also of English descent. Her father died at an early age. This placed the home training of Mrs. Moulton largely in the hands of her mother, a woman of unusual strength of character and Christian fortitude. Mrs. Moulton was educated in the public schools, and chose teaching as her profession, for which she had rare natural attainments, which, with her fine training, made her a successful instructor. Since her marriage to Mr. Moulton she has devoted much of her time and thought in service for the uplift of humanity. She has been prominently identified with state and national organizations having for their aim and purpose the education and higher development of the people in civic beauty, in art, and in municipal improvement. Both Mr. and Mrs. Moulton are progressive and abreast of the age, largely spending their lives in broadening and elevating all classes of people and thus exalting the nation. Their motto is the greatest good to the greatest number, and "Love your neighbors as yourself." HENRY HARRISON PIERCE, an ex-soldier of the Civil war and well known as having been connected with various public positions within Trumbull county, Ohio, was born June 1, 1839, at Troy, Vermont, the son of Thaddeus and Harriet Pierce, natives of Massachusetts, born near the city of Boston. Henry H. was reared on a farm and early taught the need and usefulness of industrious habits and hard work. He worked at farming and received a limited education. When sixteen years of age he was set to work and expected to perform a man's labor. He was only permitted to attend school three months a year and one term at Farmington, in addition to the country district schools he had attended. In 1854 he accompanied his father to Ohio and located on a farm a half mile north of Bristolville, where he was employed on the farm and at the carpenter's trade, continuing this until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he enlisted in 1861 as a member of Company H, Seventh Ohio Volunteers, and served his country faithfully for over three years. He was taken a prisoner of war at Chancellorsville and sent to Libby prison and Belle Island. He 74 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY participated in every engagement in which his regiment took part save the battle of Gettysburg. After his honorable discharge he returned to Bristol-vile, Ohio, when his father sold out and purchased a farm in Austinburg, upon which he worked and followed the carpenter's trade up to 1870, when he returned to Bristol and bought the stock of goods belonging to F. H. Coreys and operated that store for twenty-four years. During that time he was assessor, township clerk and a justice of the peace, serving in the latter capacity for eight years. He was also a county commissioner six years, and in 1894 took charge of the county infirmary, where he remained five years, then moved to Warren and was elected president and manager of the Warren Rubber Company. After establishing a. good trade he was taken sick, as the labor connected with the business was too hard for him; hence he sold out his interest and in 1903 was elected member of the board of public service, holding the office of president until January 1, 1908. Politically he has ever been a true defender of Republican party principles and active in party work. In his retirement from every public position he has been called upon to fill he has left his seat with a clean, praiseworthy record. Mr. Pierce was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, commander of Brooks Post; was connected with the K. O. T. M., and is now the R. K. & F. K. of that order, having held this position four years ; was secretary of the Soldiers' Relief Commission six years, and holds present membership with Harmon Post, G. A. R., of which he was lieutenant-commander one year. Mr. Pierce was married in 1871 to Ellen R. Gilkerson, by whom were born two children : Harry E. and Harriet M. ALBERT GUARNIERI, a business man of Warren, Ohio, whose establishment of wholesale and retail fruits, ice cream, cigars and tobacco has jumped to the front rank and become one of popularity within a short time, is a native of Genoa, Italy, in which sunny clime he was born January 1, 1866. He was reared and obtained his education in his native country, coming to America in 1886, arriving at New York on September 19 of that year. The year of his arrival in this country he commenced business in a small way at Warren, where he has continued for the last twenty-two years. As an ice cream manufacturer he is acknowledged as a leader in his community, and the people are ready and willing to give him due praise by extending to him a liberal patronage. He is also an expert candymaker, with many years of experience behind him. His entire fruit and confectionery business is one of prosperity and success. Mr. Guarnieri was united in marriage October 23, 1887, to Mary Basso, a native of Italy, born and reared in the same locality as was her husband. Five children have blessed this union : Louisa, Fred, Louis, Albert and Lena. Mr. Guarnieri is a supporter of the Republican party, and in church relations is a member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church. He is also identified with the Knights of Columbus. He has by good