HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 325 Warren physicians. His native place was Grove City, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1871. He attended the district school of Pine township, Mercer county, and Grove City College. At the latter place he received the degree of A. B. in 1894 and of A. M. in 1898. He studied two years in the University of Michigan and two years in the University of Illinois school of medicine. A few years since Dr. Simpson married Miss Lulu Conzett, one of the successful teachers of the Warren schools. C. C. Tidd, M. D., of Mineral Ridge, was a native of Clarksville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania. He was born in 1875. He has been in general practice in Mineral Ridge for eight years. His general education was obtained in the Clarksville public schools and high school. He graduated from the Western Reserve Medical College in Cleveland in 1899. He spent three years at Oberlin College. He practiced one year in Clarksville, his home town, and six months he was physician in charge of the Children's Fresh Air Camp at Cleveland. Dr. L. G. Leland has practiced in Trumbull and Ashtabula counties, and now resides at Newton Falls, where he is in active practice. He was born in Windsor, Ohio, in 1860. Aside from his common-school education, he studied at Grand Prairie Seminary, Onarga, Illinois, and at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from the medical department of the last named university in 1883. Dr. Clarence S. Ward, who was born in Geneva, Ashtabula county, in 1854, attended school there during his early childhood. His father having moved to Warren, he attended the high school, graduating in the class of 1871. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Henry McQuiston. He graduated from the University of Michigan medical department, having received the degree ad eundem from Bellevue Hospital Medical College. In the early years of Dr. Ward's practice he was associated with D. B. Wood, and did post-graduate work repeatedly in New York and the Philadelphia Polyclinic. He did hospital work in New York City, but his practice has been entirely in Warren. Although he has been much interested in surgery and performed some very delicate operations, he considers himself a general practitioner only. Dr. John I. King was born in Harrison township, Grant county, Wisconsin, in 1848. He spent his early life in California, Washington and Ohio. He attended the district schools, 326 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY was five years at Allegheny College, at Meadville, beginning the study of medicine in 1867. His preceptor was David Best, M. D. He attended two courses of lectures, six months each, at the medical department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his degree of Doctor of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1873. That same year he began practice in Greece City, Butler county, Pennsylvania. The next year he located in Burghill. He married Emoinda C. Brown in 1882 she died in 1889 leaving one child, Eliza Jane. He again married in 1894, his wife being Mrs. Addie J. Fitch. That same year lie went to Martel, Marion county, Ohio, returning to Burg-hill five years ago, where he resumed his practice of medicine. Dr. John McCartney has practiced medicine in Girard for many years. He studied with Isaac Barclay and graduated from the Cleveland Medical College in 1861. In 1872 he married Sarah Packard, daughter of John Crum. Later lie married Sophia Hauser, and she too died a few years since. Dr. Charles W. Thomas, one of the most successful of the younger doctors of Warren, was born in Cleveland in 1877. His education was had in his home town, having attended the public schools, the high school, and Adelbert College. He received the degree A. B. from the latter institution, and his medical degree from the Western Reserve University. He came to Warren to have charge of Dr. Hoover's office, when the latter spent a year in Europe, and he has since resided here. He was married soon after settling here, and has three little children. Dr. Martin S. Mayhew is one of the oldest doctors in Trumbull County, being a year younger than Dr. Latimer, and a year older than Dr. Stewart. His whole life has been spent in this county and his education had here, except his medical education. He attended the Bristol district schools, the seminary at Farmington. He studied medicine with Dr. C. T. Metcalf of Bristol, and in 1865 graduated from the University of Michi gan. His practice has been in Trumbull County, first in Bristol, then in Johnston, and then in Cortland. Dr. and Mrs. Mayhew have both been interested in and identified with the welfare of Cortland. Dr. M. L. Williams is a Trumbull County man in every sense of the word. He has practiced in Warren twenty-one years. Before that he spent seventeen years in his profession at Vienna. He was born in the latter town in 1849. attended HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 327 school there and at Warren, his college education being had at Hiram. He studied medicine with R. P. Hayes, M. D., who prac- ticed so long in Vienna, and graduated at the University of Michigan in' 1871. Dr. J. Ward of Cortland has practiced fourteen years in that town. He is a Pennsylvanian by birth, having been born in Venango county in 1859. His common-school education was had in Crawford county. He studied medicine in Meadville, graduating from the medical department of the Western Reserve University in 1885. He began his practice in his native state, first in Crawford county, then six years at Alton, one year in Randolph, New York. From Alton he removed to Cortland, where he has since resided. Dr. E. E. Brinkerhoff of Bristolville was one of ten sons. He was educated in the common-schools of Grand View, Illinois, attended the high school at Lebanon, Illinois, Eureka College, read medicine in Dudley, same state, and graduated from the Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1886. He practiced for a year and a half in Youngstown, when he moved to Bristolville, where he has since resided. Dr. Brinkerhoff's practice is necessarily rural, but he gives special attention to diseases of women and children. Dr. Archibald F. Swaney is one of the few doctors in Trumbull County who were born in a Southern state. His native town was New Cumberland, West Virginia. Here he attended the common-schools, graduating from the high school in 1893. He graduated from Ohio Medical University at Columbus in 1903. He studied medicine and surgery under T. M. Haskins, at Haskins Hospital, Wheeling, West Virginia, and located at Niles, Ohio, where he enjoys a lucrative practice. Charles T. Swaney, a brother of A. F. Swaney, was likewise born in New Cumberland, West Virginia, in 1871. He was educated in the common-schools of New Cumberland, studied medicine with A. D. Mercer, M. D., of his home town. Graduated at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in 1897. Took a post-graduate course in medicine at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School in 1903. Has practiced in Niles since 1897. Frederick Kinsman Smith, M. D., was born in Warren in 1858. He belongs to one of the oldest families of the city, has been identified, himself, with its interests. His father, Edward 328 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Smith, is the oldest merchant in Warren, and his mother was a member of the celebrated Pease family. Dr. Smith graduated from the public schools, from the Western Reserve dollege, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He spent some time in Europe pursuing his studies, and was in general practice in Allouez, Michigan ; Calumet, Michigan ; Cleveland, Ohio, and some years since removed to Warren. Although he is in general practice, he has specialized in diseases of the eye, ear and throat, giving particular attention to the eyes. He is the only physician in Warren, practicing at this time, who was born here. C. L. Moore, M. D., was born in Beaver, Mercer county. Pennsylvania, in 1873. Aside from his common-school education, he attended the McElwain Institute two years, received the degree of B. S. from the Fredonia Institute in Mercer county in 1893. Studied his profession under Dr. E. H. Jewett, of Cleveland, and received his medical degree from the Cleveland Homeopathic Society in 1899. Did post-graduate work in the New York Homeopathic Medical College in 1905, and at Cleveland City Hospital in 1908. He practiced six months in Guernsey county, since then at Burghill, Ohio. Dr. C. W. Lane, now residing in West Warren, was a native of Michigan, having been born at Caro. He obtained his school education at Vassar City, graduating from New Lyme Institute. His collegiate work was done at the Western Reserve University, from which he graduated. He received his medical diploma from the Western Reserve College. He first practiced in Cleveland, and since then in Warren. Dr. W. A. Werner was born in 1856 in Lordstown ; went to district school in North Jackson for a little time. When he was eight years old his parents moved to Youngstown, and he finished his education in that city, graduating at the Rayen high school in 1873. He attended Western Reserve College, then at Hudson, graduating in 1877; taught school for five years, four years in Youngstown. Studied his profession at the Cleveland Medical College, graduating in 1885. Began his practice in Youngstown, lived at Austintown later, and his practice was of course rural ; then moved to Niles, where his business has since been. Dr. J. H. Learning began practicing his profession in Niles but is now in Vienna. His whole life has been spent in Trumbull county. Born at Hartford in 1869, he received his common- HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 329 school education in that town. He attended college at Cleveland and studied in the Cleveland Medical College, graduating in 1898. Although Dr. George E. Minnich is not an Ohio man by birth, he has lived in the state most of his adult life. His birthplace was New Wilmington, Pennsylvania; his birth year 1871. His education was received in the New Wilmington public schools, and Westminster College. His preceptors were Dr. F. E. Bunts and Surgeon G. W. Crile of Cleveland. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Wooster in 1893. He practiced one year in Cleveland, two years in Congo, twelve years in West Farmington, where he still resides. Jesse E., Thompson naturally chose the profession of medicine because his father was a physician. The latter acted as his preceptor. He was born in Cortland in 1876, received his early education in the Cortland and Bristol schools. He studied at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, and Ohio State University. Like most of the doctors of Trumbull county, he received his medical training at the Western Reserve University, graduating in 1904. He enjoys a good practice at Bristolville. Albert W. Thompson has practiced during his professional life entirely in Trumbull County. He was born in 1845 at Bristol and has practiced there and in Cortland: At present his son is associated with him in the former place. He was educated in the Bristol schools and West Farmington Seminary. His first studies were conducted under the supervision of Dr. A. J. Brockett of Bristolville, and were finished at the medical college in Cleveland, now the Western Reserve University. Dr. George J. Smith is a native of Ohio, having been born in Cincinnati, May 8, 1875. His early life was spent in Birmingham, Alabama, where he attended school. Later he attended the Pittsburg high school, graduated at the Pittsburg College, and attended the University of Western Pennsylvania, graduating from the medical department in 1898. He was house physician at St. Francis Hospital one year, since which time he has been practicing in Niles. Dr. D. R. Williams, of Girard, is a native of Iowa. He was born in that state in 1864. He had a common-school education in the Hubbard district and high school, attended Mount Union College; received his medical education at the Western Reserve University, graduating in 1891 at the Starling Medical School, 330 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Columbus, Ohio. He began practice in Iowa, stayed there three years, but for the last fifteen years has resided in Girard. Dr. Andrew J. Rathburn is a native of Trumbull County, having spent most of his professional life here also. He was born in Hartford in 1835; attended common-schools in Hartford. He studied medicine with Dr. F. F. Donaldson, Greenville, Pennsylvania ; also with Dr. Daniel B. Woods of Warren, and J. Y. James of Sharon. He attended lectures at the Buffalo Medical College in 1865 and 1866, Western Reserve College in 1866-67, and passed the medical examination by the Ohio state medical examining board. He took a post-graduate course in therapeutics and surgery in Chicago. He followed his profession thirty-four years in Brookfield and Hubbard. He practiced twelve years in Youngstown and the last nine years in Hartford. He is a member of the Ohio Eclectic Association. Dr. L. M. Wright is a native of Pennsylvania. Since the formation of the township of Brookfield many of the residents have come from the state directly on the east. Dr. Wright's home town was Bakerstown, where he was born in 1875. He received his common-school education in Philadelphia and Bethel, Pennsylvania. He attended Westminster College at New Wilmington, where he received his degree of A. B. Graduated from Marion-Sims Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri, and began practicing at Mendon, of that state. His later practice has been at Brookfield, Ohio. One of the young doctors of Warren is John C. Henshaw, whose native town is Coalport, this. state. He received his common-school education at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and his degree B. S. from Hall Institute. He entered Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1893, receiving his degree of M. D. in 1896. The first ten years of his professional life were spent at Vienna, and three and one-half years in Warren. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. L. S. Moore Jr. is one of the younger doctors of the county. He was born in Kinsman, attended common and high school in that town, afterwards going to Stanford University. His medical education was received at the Western Reserve University. Dr. Moore graduated from the University in 1906 ; spent fifteen months in the Cleveland City Hospital, and in 1907 HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 331 began practice in Kinsman, where his father had long been one of the leading physicians. Dr. T. M. Sabin, one of the oldest practitioners in Warren, was born at Mayfield, Cuyahoga county, in 1850. He received his education in the Mayfield common-schools, and in the academy of that town. His home was in the section of the township now known as "Gates Mills." He received his collegiate education at the Western Reserve University, graduating from the medical department in 187.5. Before that he had studied medicine with Dr. A. H. Davis, of Willoughby. He began his practice at Willoughby, spent three years in Iowa recruiting his health, took up practice in Bedford, and then came to Warren, where most of his professional life has been spent. He is a Mason, a member of the Methodist church, was at one time on the board of pension examiners, and enjoys a lucrative practice. Dr. J. P. Claypole of Niles is a native of Kentucky, having been born in Marysville in 1869. He graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1893, having received his common-school education in Youngstown and his medical education under the instruction of Dr. McGranagan. He practiced in Youngstown from 1893 to 1896, then removed to Bedford, Pennsylvania, where he stayed three years, and settled in Niles in 1899, where lie continues to practice. Dr. G. B. McCurley, who was born in the centennial year. has spent his life in Cortland. Here lie was born, educated, and practices his profession. He attended the Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago, graduating in 1899. For a time he studied with Dr. 0. A. Palmer, of Warren, since which time he has practiced in Cortland. Dr. S. C. Clisby is a Trumbull County man, having been born in Gustavus in 1872. His first education was obtained in the district school of that township. He prepared for college at New Lyme Institute, receiving his A. B. degree at Adelbert College, and his doctor's degree at the Western Reserve University of Cleveland. He began practicing in 1901 in Kinsman and has continued to reside there. Dr. Hubert L. Root, a native of Kinsman, was born in 1867. He attended the Kinsman schools, the Kinsman Academy, and graduated at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. He began his practice in Kinsman and continues there. Dr. Herbert A. Sherwood has been the longest in practice 332 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY of any doctor in Warren. He was born on a farm in Fredericks-town in 1851. Like most rural residents, lie attended district school and the Fredericktown high school. He also studied medicine in the same town, his preceptor being Dr. E. M. Hall. He graduated in 1876 from the Cleveland Homeopathic College. He located in Warren the same year, where lie has enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio Medical Society, the American Institute of Homeopathy, and the Ohio Homeopathic Society. Dr. W. F. Horton is a native of Trumbull County. He was born in Cortland in 1865. His primary education was had at Fowler Center. Later he studied in the schools in Cleveland. and for a short time at Hiram College. He had no preceptor, but studied medicine as he taught school. Three different years he attended the Medical Institute at Cincinnati, graduating in 1893. His professional life has been spent at Cortland, where he enjoys a good practice. Dr. C. M. Rice of Newton Falls not only stands well in his profession but as a citizen as well. He was born in Palmyra in 1857 ; obtained his common-school education at Newton Falls, Cleveland, and New York. Graduated from the Western Reserve Medical College in 1884, and has spent his professional life in Newton Falls. His father was his preceptor, and the fact that lie was associated with him was of great assistance to Dr. Rice. Dr. James McMurray was born in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, in 1848. He was educated in the Sharpsville schools and in the State Normal School at Edinboro, Pennsylvania. He studied medicine under the direction of his father in Sharpsville and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1875. His professional life has been spent in Hubbard. Dr. W. S. Thompson of Girard is a native of Ohio, having been born at Harland Springs in 1870. He is now practicing at Girard and has been since 1892. He received his education in his home town, taking, at the end, a three years' course in the college located at Harland Springs. He graduated at seventeen, and taught four years thereafter. Studied with Dr. A. P. Albaugh of Kilgore for a year and a half. Took a three years' course in the Starling Medical College of Columbus, graduating in 1896. Practiced in his home town a little more than six years and then moved to Girard. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 333 Dr. G. A. Huntley, now practicing in Greene, is a Trumbull County man. He was born in Bloomfield in 1871, and received his common-school education in that town. He attended Hiram College, studied with 0. A. Huntley, and in 1895 graduated from the Western Reserve University. He practiced for a little time in Copley, Summit county, before going to Greene. Dr. W. S. Bond, of Hubbard, is a native of Ashtabula county, having been born at Rock Creek in 1861. His early education was obtained in that town and in 1900 he graduated from the Starling Medical College at Columbus. That same year he began practice at Hubbard, where lie continues to reside. Dr. O. A. Huntley, who has spent most of his professional life in North Bloomfield and who has been identified with the business interests there as well, was born in Sharon, Medina county, Ohio, in 1842. He received his early education in the district school, and the academy at Granger, Medina county. He studied medicine with Rufus Randall, of Bath, Summit county, Ohio, and at the medical college in Columbus, finishing in 1866. Dr. Harlan M. Page, the junior partner of Sabin & Page, was born in Ross, Michigan, in 1864. He was educated in the high school at Bedford, went to the University of Michigan, and graduated at Hiram College in 1890. He studied medicine at the Western Reserve University at Wooster, and at Jefferson Medical College, graduating from the latter place. He taught his profession in Hiram College, after his graduation, and practiced in that town with great success. He married Addie Zollars, the daughter of President Zollars of Hiram College. A few years since he came to Warren, where he has engaged in general practice, specializing in certain diseases of the eye. Dr. Page is a member of and an officer in the Disciple church. Alfred L. Albertson was born in 1848 in New Jersey. His parents were Pennsylvanians, and in 1868 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Kerr in Philadelphia, and took a course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College. He also had a course in Cincinnati. He early practiced in Newton Falls, then removed to Cleveland. He married a daughter of Dr. Rice of Newton Falls, and they reside in Warren, although the Doctor continues his practice in Cleveland. The following are also members of the Trumbull County Medical Society, but the author has been unable to obtain any information in regard to their lives and work : 334 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Dr. David S. Lillibridge, Mesopotamia. Dr. H. S. Brown, Niles. Dr. F. J. Ritterspach, Niles. Dr. Henry V. Ormerod, Niles. Dr. Thomas O. Clingan, Niles. Dr. H. McA. Mealy, Newton Falls. Dr. Charles A. Martin, North Bloomfield. Dr. C. S. Fenton, Orangeville. Dr. W. C. Holbrook, Orangeville. Dr. E. M. Bancroft, Phalanx. Dr. E. L. Wrentmore, West Farmington. Dr. Wesley P. Arner, Fowler. Dr. John F. Keene, Gustavus. Dr. Charles W. Banks, Hartford. Dr. John M. Elder, Mineral Ridge. Dr. C. A. Archer, Warren. Dr. M. I. Hatfield, Warren. Dr. J. M. Scoville, Warren. Dr. G. N. Simpson, Warren. Dr. W. D. Cunningham, Girard. Dr. F. C. Hunt, Girard. Dr. G. R. Stevenson, Hubbard. Although Dr. Dudly Allen of Cleveland is not a Trumbull County man, we like to claim him, as we do Dr. Benj. Millikin, the well known eye and ear specialist of Cleveland. The following are clippings from old newspapers which may interest readers : Trump of Fame, June 16, 1812. "In conformity to the laws of the state of Ohio, regulating the practice of physic and surgery, a number of the members of the Medical Society of the Sixth District, convened at Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, on Monday, the 1st day of June, when-- "Doct. John W. Seely was chosen chairman Doct. David Long, secretary, and Doct. Shadrack Bostwick, treasurer. "The society then proceeded to elect members to meet the general convention at Chillicothe, on the first Monday of November next, and the following persons were chosen, vii. : Docts. Charles Dutton, Peter Allen, and Joseph De-Wolf. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 335 "The following question was then propounded for the discussion of the society at their next meeting, viz.: ' From whence and in what manner does the blood issue that is expectorated in pleurisy that terminates favorably 7' "The meeting then adjourned to meet again at Warren on the first Monday of February next. "JOHN W. SEELEY, Chairman. " DAVID LONG, Sec." Dr. B. Austin advertises in the Chronicle in 1840. Advertisement, Jan. 28, 1840, J. H. McBride, Indian physician. Office one door south Charles Smith's store. Dr. S. Woodin, dentist, advertises March 2, 1841. Dr. J. S. Kuhn, eye specialist, Feb: 23, 1841. Doct. J. Lloyd of Liberty, Trumbull County, Ohio, proposes to cure the following diseases : hydrophobia, epilepsy. No cure, no pay. (1844) Trumbull County Medical Society, 1840, A. Hartman, see. Dr. D. B. Woods, married to Miss Phebe L. Halliday, by Rev. A. G. Sturges, on May 12, 1842. Daniel Wannemaker writing from Albert Lea, Minn., July 31, 1885, to the Chronicle, says : "He (old Dr. J. B. Harmon) more than fifty years ago pulled a tooth for me, in the summer of 1834. I found him at the old court house. Then he took an old dull jacknife and cut around the tooth. That hurt some, but I was a boy then and had not learned to chew tobacco, but I could take a pretty stiff horn of whisky, a common article in every family." Meeting of doctors, in October 27, 1818, Jno. B. Harmon, sec. Notice of medical meeting for the last Tuesday in October, 1827. Meeting of Medical Society of May 27, 1828. John M. Seely was elected president; C. C. Cook, vice president; Charles Dutton, treasurer, and John B. Harmon, secretary. Homer Tylee received a diploma. Dr. Haney Manning was appointed delegate to attend a convention held in Columbus, and John. Truesdale a beneficiary to attend a course of lectures for the year 1828. Thomas Sherwood, M. D., had poem in Chronicle in 1840. 336 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY In 1861 filled teeth "with gold for 50c, with tinfoil for 25c. “ Medical Society met at Howland Springs with Dr. J. Harmon as secretary, Aug. 2, 1876. Wm. Heaton commenced practice of medicine in Warren, 1819. Medical Notice. Dr. Ashael Brainard and Geo. R. Espey were examined Nov. 2, 1820. Dr. Brainard's theme was on Fever ; Espey's on Dysentery. They were given diplomas. John M. Seely, pres. ; John B. Harmon, sec.; Charles Dutton, treas. In 1860 Dr. Warren Iddings allowed patent for improvement on embalming of dead bodies. The Chronicle wishes him to reap a rich harvest from his invention. 1861, Drs. Harmon and Smith of Warren offer services free to the families of all who go to fight for the maintenance of the government. CHAPTER XXI. MASONS.—ODD FELLOWS.—KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. In the year 1803 a number of "Free and Accepted Ancient York Masons" residing in Trumbull County determined to establish a lodge of the order in Warren. Samuel Tylee, Martin Smith, Tryal Tanner, Camden Cleveland, Solomon Griswold, Aaron Wheeler, John Walworth, Charles Dutton, Arad Way, Gideon Hoadlay, Ezekiel Hover, Turhand Kirtland, John Leavitt, William Rayen, George Phelps, James B. Root, James Dunscombe, Samuel Spencer, Joseph DeWolf, Daniel Bushnell, Calvin Austin, and Asael Adams petitioned the Grand Lodge of Connecticut (most of these men had come from that state) for authority to "congregate as Free and Accepted York Masons" and to form a lodge under the Connecticut jurisdiction and protection. Samuel Tylee carried this petition to the city of New Haven, presented it to the Grand Lodge then in session. The charter which was granted at this time bears the date of October 19th, A. L. 5803, A. D. 1803. Samuel Tylee was appointed deputy grand master, directed to proceed to Warren to dedicate the new lodge and install its officers. On March 16, 1804, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Deputy Grand Master Tylee, together with the grand officers whom he had appointed pro tempore, went in procession to the room provided and opened the Grand Lodge in the first three degrees of Masonry in the proper form. The following men were proposed as officers of the new lodge: Right Worshipful Turhand Kirtland, master; Right Worshipful John Leavitt, senior warden ; Right Worshipful William Rayen, junior warden; Calvin Austin, treasurer; Camden Cleveland, secretary; Aaron Wheeler, senior deacon; John Walworth, junior deacon; Charles Dutton and Arad Way, stewards ; Ezekiel Hover, tyler. Being fully satisfied with their character, skill, and qualifications for the government of the new lodge, and having also Vol. I-22 - 337 - 338 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY received the entire and unconditional consent of the brethren present, the deputy grand master, with the other grand officers, acting under the authority given by the Grand Lodge of Connecticut, then proceeded to "constitute, consecrate, and solemnly install the said petitioners and their said officers by the name of Erie Lodge No. 47, Ancient Free and Accepted York Masons, agreeably to the ancient usages, customs, and laws of the craft, under the protection and jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut." And now, having in proper form solemnly erected this lodge to God and dedicated it to the holy Saint John, it now being legally empowered as a lodge of Free and Accepted Masons to work and act as such in strict conformity to the ancient charges of the fraternity, the usual rites and ceremonies performed, the Grand Lodge at three o'clock closed in form, "with great harmony." At five o'clock on the same day Erie Lodge convened in the lodge room in Warren, and meetings were held from that date at varying intervals. In 1807 George Tod, John Leavitt, and William Rayen were appointed a committee to correspond with other lodges in the state in regard to the formation of a grand lodge for the state of Ohio. The following fall, George Tod and John Seeley were chosen delegates from Erie Lodge No. 47, to a convention to be held in Chillicothe the first Monday in January, 1808, at which time the state legislature would be in session. Credit is therefore due to old Erie Lodge for being the first to take steps in the formation of a grand lodge in Ohio. Five other lodges were represented at the conference in Chillicothe, which resulted in a resolution to form a grand lodge, and measures to render the resolutions effective by completing the organization. George Tod was secretary of that convention. Rufus Putnam was chosen Rt. W. Gr. M., and George Tod of Erie Lodge, Rt. W. S. G. W. The delegates appointed in December, 1808, from Erie Lodge to the Grand Lodge, "at their grand communication to be held in January thereafter" were George Tod, Samuel Huntington, and John H. Adgate. These representatives carried the original charter granted them by the Grand Lodge of Connecticut, and surrendered it to the Grand Lodge of Ohio, receiving in its place "a warrant of dispensation." Under this warrant the same by-laws which were in force under the charter of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut were adopted, and the lodge continued to work under its authority with the same designation HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY -339   as before, "Erie No. 47," until 1814, when the Grand Lodge issued a charter of constitution, constituting and appointing "Samuel Tylee, Francis Freeman, Elisha Whittlesey, Seth Tracy, William W. Cotgreave, John Leavitt, Calvin Austin, and their successors forever, a regular lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, to be hailed by the name of Erie Lodge No. 3." The several lodges were numbered in accordance with their order of precedence as determined by the dates of original establishment. Erie Lodge -was antedated by lodges in Marietta and Cincinnati, but was the eldest on the Reserve, that is, in Old Trumbull County.   George Tod was not only one of the most prominent men in the early history of Trumbull County, but he was prominent in many different directions. He was initiated and passed in 1804, raised 1805, elected master of the lodge in 1811, was prominent in establishing the Grand Lodge, secretary of the convention at Chillicothe, was the first grand senior warden of the Grand Lodge, and served the local lodges in every capacity. The members forming the lodge were from Cleveland, Youngstown, Canfield, Poland, Hubbard, and other points.   Among the early members who have descendants in Trumbull County were John H. Adgate, Edward Scoville, Elisha Whittlesey, Seymour Austin, Lyman Potter, Richard Iddings, Isaac Ladd, Asael Adams, George Tod, Lewis Hoyt, John B. Harmon, Cyrus Bosworth, Rufus P. Spaulding, Jacob H. Baldwin, Isaac Heaton, Jeremiah Brooks, Edward Spear, Benjamin Towne, Henry Stiles, David Webb, Adamson Bentley, Robert Bentley, Samuel Wheeler, William Andrews, Elderkin Potter, John Shook, Ebenezer Thompson, Reuben Case, James Goe, John Harrington, Benjamin and Horace Stevens.   Some of the early members of Erie Lodge No. 47 were members of the Connecticut Land Company. They were all of them strong men. No one knows the location of the room in which the lodge was instituted, nor where the first meetings were held. "Tradition, having a foundation, no doubt, says they met in 1810 in the gambrel-roofed, red frame building in which the Western Reserve Bank was first organized, that stood on the east side of Main street." From 1812 Benjamin Stevens served nearly all offices of the lodge and presided in the oriental chair. In 1810 to 1815 they met at Hadley's Tavern, which stood where the Wallace-Gillmer block now stands. "From this room they   340 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY   marched in procession, on the celebration of St. John's day, in June of those years, to a log building then used as a schoolhouse, standing on the northwest corner of the park, west of Main street, and north of the present city building." Soon after this, probably in 1816, they removed to "Castle William," afterwards known as "Pavilion Hotel." In 1823 the lodge paid rent to Benjamin Towne, who presumably kept the hotel and perhaps owned the building. They continued to occupy this building until 1829, when, under the great excitement of anti-Mason feeling, the lodge became weakened, and sometime between that and 1833 Erie Lodge No. 3, as did many others of the Grand Lodge, suspended. The charter of this lodge was consumed by fire when the house of Edward Spear, father of Judge William T. Spear, was burned in 1835. This house stood on the wound now occupied by the First Methodist church.   In 1854 a number of Masons who were connected with the old lodge, that is, No. 3, met at the home of one of the members as they had done more or less during the interval, and made application to the grand master for a new charter. The warrant and dispensation of June 21st was issued to Richard Iddings, Jacob H. Baldwin, J. B. Buttles, William H. Holloway, Henry Stiles, J. Rodgers, H. Benham, Garry C. Reed, J. Veon, Benjamin Stevens, Edward Spear, John B. Harmon, Alexander McConnell, and H. McManus, under the title of "Western Reserve Lodge." The first communication under this dispensation was held July 7, 1854. During the lapse of Erie Lodge No. 3, another lodge had been established by that name, but in the same year when a charter was granted by the Grand Lodge at its annual communication the former title was restored, with the name "Old Erie." The lodge was constituted, under the new charter, in the lodge rooms of the I. 0. O. F. in Iddings' Block, on January 30, 1855, by John M. Webb, of Canfield Three months later they moved to rooms in the Gaskill House (now the Austin House), when the officers were, Edward Spear, W. M.; Charles R. Hunt, S. W. ; Jacob H. Baldwin, J. W.; Henry Stiles, treasurer; John M. Stull, secretary ; William Greene, S. D.; Edward Spear Jr., J. D. Ebenezer H. Goodale, tyler. Early in 1862 they removed from Gaskill House to a hall built for them in the third story of the present Second National Bank building. In 1869 the third story of the present Union National Bank was fitted up for them in a very elegant   HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 341   way. In 1904 the Masonic Temple Company purchased a building at the northeast corner of Market and Pine streets, remodeled it, and this was occupied by the various Masonic bodies October 1, 1904. On the evening of March 16, 1904, Old Erie Lodge celebrated, in a quiet way, a centenary of the organization of Masonry in the Western Reserve.   In the early days of the Trumbull County Masons the meetings were always at the time of full moon. There was nothing mystic about this, but it was done because the members many of them came on horseback. There were no artificial lights, and traveling through the woods was not only lonesome but often perilous.   The past masters of Old Erie Lodge No. 3, are Turliand Kirtland, Edward Paine, Martin Smith, George Tod, John Leavitt, Samuel Tylee, Francis Freeman, Adamson Bentley, Benjamin Stevens, Edward Flint, Rufus P. Spaulding, Cyrus Bosworth, Edward Spear, R. A. Baldwin, Charles R. Hunt, Thad Ackley, E. C. Cady, H. B. Weir, S. F. Bartlett, W. A. Reeves, George H. Tayler, C. F. Clapp, George A. Mitchell, T. H. Gillmer, B. J. Taylor, H. H. Sutherland, William T. Fee, C. M. Wilkins, W. C. Ward, D. W. Campbell, W. A. Spill, Alva M. Ohl, Dan G. Simpson, F. K. Smith, Fred T. Stone. Present master, Fred C. March.   There are a number of active Masonic lodges in Trumbull County : Jerusalem Lodge No. 19, of Hartford, was chartered in 1814. H. K. Hull is worshipful master. Mahoning Lodge No. 394, Niles, chartered in 1867, George S. Brown, master. Gustavus Lodge No. 442, Kinsman, chartered 1870, F. A. Roberts, master. Newton Falls Lodge No. 462, chartered 1872, W. K. Gardner, master. Western Reserve Lodge No. 507, West Farmington, chartered 1875, F. S. Hart, master. Cortland Lodge No. 529, Cortland, chartered 1882, Jay E. Miller, master. Mahoning Chapter No. 66, R. A. M., Warren, originally chartered 1824, re-chartered 1855, C. M. Oliphant, M. E. H. P. Warren Council No. 58, R. & S. M., Warren, chartered 1871, C. Harry Angstadt, T. I. M. Warren Commandery No. 39, K. T., chartered 1884, C. M. Wilkins, E. C.   (NOTE.—The details regarding organization and early history of the original lodge as here given have been compiled from the records in the possession of the Old Erie Lodge).   342 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY   Odd Fellowship.   On May 21, 1844, a charter was issued to Mahoning Lodge No. 29, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with the following members : Charles Pease, James Benson, Josiah F. Brown, L. P. Lott, and E. W. Weir. The charter was signed by Samuel W. Corwin, M. W. G. M.; H. N. Clark, R. W. D. G. M., and Daniel S. Shelbacker, R. W. G., secretary and counselor, signed by Albert G. Day, G. C. secretary.   The lodge was instituted May 24, 1844, in the hall of Daniel Gilbert's block, on the corner of Market and Liberty streets, by D. D. G. M. Gideon E. Tindall, assisted by P. G. Brother E. T. Nichols, both of Cleveland. The following officers were elected and installed into office : Lewis P. Lott, N. G.; Josiah F. Brown, V. G.; Charles Pease, secretary E. W. Weir, treasurer. Meetings were held on that evening and on the afternoon and evening of the following day. The following persons were initiated at these meetings : Sullivan D. Harris, William H. Newhard, Arthur Pritchard, A. F. Hunt, William L. Knight, Charles R. Hunt, 0. P. Tabor, A sael E. Adams, Levi M. Barnes, and A. W. Bliss. At the end of the year the membership was fifty-four.   The fire of 1846 destroyed Mr. Gilbert's block, and most of the furniture, regalia, emblems and wardrobes which were in the lodge room were lost. A special meeting called by the noble grand, at the request of thirteen members, was had in the hall room of the American House, now Dana's Musical Institute. William H. Newhard, one of the charter members, was proprietor of this hotel. At this meeting the hall committee was instructed to gather the scattered property belonging to the lodge, and a special committee, consisting of Brothers William Williams, Alanson Camp, and F. K. Hubbard, was appointed to ascertain the amount of loss of each individual member. If this committee ever reported, no record was made of it.   On June 30, 1846, a circular, issued by the authority of the lodge, was sent out to lodges of this and adjacent states, telling of the disastrous fire, and asking assistance. The response was liberal, and this timely help assisted in re-establishing the lodge. Brothers T. J. McLain, M. B. Tayler and Zalmon Fitch, were the committee appointed to distribute the funds. Brothers Alexander McConnell, A. P. Lott and A. W.   HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 343   Bliss were appointed on a committee to procure a new meeting place, and they secured for thirty dollars a year a room in Asael Adams brick block on Main street, later known as the King block. This was done and the lodge met here until July 12, 1847, at which time it moved into the Empire block, which had been erected on Samuel Chesney's land by Lewis Iddings, the first floor of which is now occupied by Albert Guarnieri. It remained in this building for nearly forty years. Its next home was in the Masters & Myers block on Main street.   Mr. William Stiles, either by will or by instructions to his trustees, planned for the erection of a block, provided the Odd Fellows would occupy the third story. This they gladly did, moving into its handsome, new, spacious quarters, May 1, 1906.   The war had its effect upon the I. 0. 0. F., as it had upon everything. The membership fell from one hundred and twenty-five, to fifty. Capital and invested funds were materially diminished by individual loans and deposits. Recovery was gradual, and the membership at present is about four hundred with invested funds of $12,000.   A number of lodges in the county and in the vicinity have grown out of this lodge. All told, the Warren lodge has initiated over four hundred members, some of whom have become very prominent in national and state politics, professions and trades.   Few lodges have been honored with so many Grand Lodge officers as has Mahoning Lodge. General T. J. McLain was elected grand patriarch of the Encampment Branch of the order in 1852, and served as representative to the Sovereign Lodge from this branch in 1850, 1853 and 1854. He was elected grand master of Ohio in 1855.   D. M. Lazarus was elected grand patriarch of the Grand Encampment in 1878; grand warden of the Grand Lodge in 1874, and grand conductor of the Grand Lodge in 1877.   Charles R. Hunt was grand conductor in 1853.   Benjamin Cranage was grand guardian in 1855.   Charles S. Field served as representative to the Grand Lodge of Ohio for six years, and was then elected grand master in 1887.   M. S. Clapp served as representative to the Grand Lodge of Ohio for eight years ; was elected grand master in 1892 ; and   344 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY   served as representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge for two terms.   F. J. Mackey was elected representative to the Grand Encampment of Ohio for twelve years and in 1906 was elected grand patriarch of the Encampment of Ohio.   The following named members have been elected and served as noble grand and for such service received the rank and title of past grand :   1844, Levi P. Lott, J. F. Brown and Chas. Pease. 1845, Jacob Benson, E. W. Wier and L. P. Lott, (2d term). 1846, Wm. H. Newhard and Charles R. Hunt. 1847, Charles Pease (2d term) and A. W. Bliss. 1848, Alex. McConnell and D. Hitchcock. 1849, L. J. McLain and F. K. Hurlburt. 1850, James D. Watson and Robert W. Ratliff. 1851, S. D. Harris and Joel F. Asper. 1852, C. M. Patch and M. D. Leggett. 1853, Peter Gaskill and D. B. Gilmore. 1854, James Hoyt and M. McManus. 1855, E. H. Allison and Benjamin Cranage. 1856, Warren Packard and John M. Stull. 1857, Joel F. Asper (2d term) and E. H. Goodale. 1858, J. Goldstein and J. C. Johnson. 1859, B. C. Jameson and Leonard Burton. 1860, Rufus Thomas and William R. Stiles. 1861, L. Burton (2d term) and Joel F. Asper (3d term). 1862, Thomas McCormick and James G. Brooks. 1863, Josiah Soule and Daniel Bishop. 1864, L. Burton (3d term) and J. G. Brooks (2d term). 1865, C. C. McNutt and H. D. Niles. 1866, B. Goehring and C. M. Patch (2d term). 1867, W. Y. Reeves and M. C. Woodworth. 1868, Alonzo Trusdell and J. G. Brooks (3d term). 1869, J. W. Hofstie and D. M. Lazarus. 1870, J. W. Hofstie (2d term) and E. A. Burnett. 1871, John B. Hardy and Michael Parker. 1872, R. S. Elliott and E. W. Moore. 1873, M. B. Deane and John L. Smith. 1874, James D. Hoone and Wilson Downs. 1875, Geo. B. Kennedy and John Buchsteiner.   HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 345   1876, D. S. Jackson and Robert S. Wilkins. 1877, William Dennis and John L. Smith (2d term). 1878, C. N. Van Wormer and John W. Masters. 1879, F. J. Mackey and J. W. McMurray. 1880, A. R. Hunt and James McCormick. 1881, Charles Holman and S. W. Park. 1882, H. P. Bassett and A. L. Jameson. 1883, F. P. Izant and V. C. Jeans. 1884, Dr. J. Harmon and D. H. Hecklinger. 1885, F. W. Merrian and W. F. Angstadt. 1886, E. D. Kennedy and F. C. McConnel. 1887, W. H. Peffers and S. B. Craig. 1888, Samuel Cosel and James G. Baldwin. 1889, F. F. Little and E. A. Voit. 1890, W. L. Christianar and B. F. Wonders. 1891, Alonzo Weaver and T. U. Wilson. 1892, Zack Long and C. H. Struble. 1893, James McCracken and H. B. Drennen. 1894, John Biggers and H. A. Voit. 1895, H. J. Vogley and C. B. Kistler. 1896, John H. Slater and A. C. Burnett. 1897, F. S. Christ and C. B. Loveless. 1898, R. W. Elliott and H. W. Van Nye. 1899, Charles F. Jones and C. B. Wood. 1900, Jacob Brenner and William Nesbit. 1901, J. W. Slater and J. M. Gledhill. 1902, J. C. Wilhelm and D. G. Simpson. 1903, W. A. Spill and John H. Rarick. 1904, George R. Watson and Edward Owens. 1905, George T. Hecklinger and Fred B. Downs. 1906, J. A. Bartholomew and R. T. McCoy. 1907, Frank Daum and N. A. Wolcott. 1908, M. S. Clapp and Guy Dillon. 1909, E. B. Truesdell and D. A. Bradley.   Mahoning Lodge has paid to its members since its organization, for benefits and charitable purposes, about $75,000.   The Grand Lodge of Ohio has under its jurisdiction about 900 subordinate lodges, with a membership of over 85,000. These subordinate lodges have an invested fund of over $3,000,000, with an annual revenue of about $800,000, and paid for the relief of its members during the past year over $250,000.   346 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY   The present officers are :   Mahoning Lodge No. 29.   N. G., Earle B. Truesdell. V. G., D. A. Bradley. Rec. Sec., J. M. Gledhill. Fin. Sec., F. H. Alexander. Treas., C. B. Kistler. Trustees, M. S. Clapp, S. B. Craig, Chas. E. Kistler.   Odd Fellows' Club.   Pres., M. S. Clapp. Vice-Pres., Theo. Herlinger. Sec., J. M. Gledhill. Treas., E. A. Voit. House committee. F. J. Mackey, Chas. Holman, Geo. T. Hecklinger.   Canton Warren No. 97, P. M.   Commandant, F. J. Mackey. Lieutenant, J. X. Wadsworth. Ensign, E. A. Voit. Clerk, .T. M. Gledhill. Accountant, F. P. Izant.   Trumbull Encampment 147, I. O. O. F.   C. P., A. H. Denny. H. P., Clarence H. Case. S. W., Chas. Wilson. .T. W., Dana Baldwin. Scribe, F. J. Mackey. Treas., E. A. Voit. Trustees, John Buchsteiner, J. N. Thompson, W. F. Angstadt.   Knights of Pythias.   Independence Lodge, No. 90, Knights of Pythias, of Warren, was instituted July 27, 1875. Among the charter members were Dr. C. S. Ward, Azor R. Hunt, James McCormick, F. M. Ritezel, George H. Tayler, L. H. Thayer, George B. Kennedy, H. A. Potter, and S. A. Corbin. The lodge was instituted in the quarters on the third floor of the Second National Bank, which was occupied by the order for twenty-four years, when the present Castle Hall in the Trumbull Block was taken.   The membership is nearly 300. The meetings are held on Thursday nights of each week and the quarters are furnished with clubroom accommodations, with dining, billiard and card room and dance hall features.   The present corps of officers is : Chancellor commander, B. F. Parsons, Jr. ; vice chancellor, Thomas Lewis ; prelate, E. J. Fusselman ; master at arms, Frank Small; master of work. Ed. Finn; inside guard, Jay Quackenbush; outside guard, M. B. Small ; keeper of records and seals, William Fields ; master of finance, Monroe Van Gorder ; master of exchequer, W. B. Patton ; trustees, William Eatwell, J. R Davis, J. J. Dietz.     CHAPTER XXII—BANKS.   OLD WESTERN RESERVE BANK.-FIRST NATIONAL BANK.-WESTERN SAVINGS BANK.-COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK.-UNION NA- TIONAL BANK.-SECOND NATIONAL BANK.-TRUMBULL NA- TIONAL BANK.-WESTERN RESERVE NATIONAL BANK.- FARMERS' BANKING COMPANY OF WEST FARMING- TON.-DOLLAR SAVINGS BANK COMPANY OF NILES. -FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CORTLAND.- -NORTH BLOOMFIELD BANKING COMPANY.   Old Western Reserve Bank.—The first bank chartered on the Western Reserve was the Western Reserve Bank in Warren, Ohio, and it existed from 1811 to 1863. It had a long and honorable history. Although it was the first bank organized, it was also the only one to remain solvent to the end of the state bank organization. The incorporators were Simon Perkins, Robert B. Parkman, Turhand Kirtland, George Tod, John Ford, S. C. Mygatt, Calvin Austin, William Rayen, and John Kinsman. General Simon Perkins was the first president, Zalmon Fitch, the second, George Parsons, the third, and last. At the beginning of the organization this bank did business in a store situated on Main street, between South and Franklin streets, on the east side. In 1816 and '17 the old Western Reserve Bank was erected on the lot where the Union National Bank now stands. This lot was purchased of Mrs. Charlotte Smith. The capitalization of the bank in the beginning was $100,000. Twice this organization was forced to suspend payment until the New York banks were able to resume business. In 1816 its charter was extended to 1843. It then went into liquidation but in 1845 it was reconstructed under the Independent Banking law, its charter running to 1866.   The names of the people connected with this early bank are of special interest to the readers of this history. We are therefore giving the list of the subscribers to the original stock.   - 347 -   348 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY