Youngstown City (part 29 of 33)

George Clemmens was Ixmi in Jackson township in i8j«S. and diet! in 1903, aged 75 years. He married Elizabeth Lipkey, who survives and is in her 75th year. They had four sons Ixim to them, namely : Wesley, who died aged 19 years; Charles A.; Shannon J., who is a memlier of the school board of Jackson township, married Bertha McMahon, a daughter of John McMahon, of Jackson township; and Elmer E.. who is a resident of Jackson township, married Dora Moody, whose parents came from Maryland.

Charles A. Clemmens grew to manhood on his father's farm and attended the district schools of the township. Mr. Clemmens owns a valuable property of S5 acres, and has followed general farming alt of his life and is considered one of the most successful fanners in the township. He was married in 1873 to a daughter of Benjamin and Anna (Tod) McMahon. Three daughters and one son were born to Mr. and Mrs. Clemmens: Maud. I who married Allxrt Bagnell. of Youngstown. has two children. Helen, aged two years, and Eugene, aged three months; Gertrude, who married Rue Jones, of Jackson township, has one child. Charles; Atlanta, residing at home; and Ernest, who attends the public schools.

Mr. Clemmens is a Republican in politics and all of his ancestors were of the same political faith. Since 190J he has served continuously as township trustee. He is a member of Lodge No. 343. Knights of Pythias, at North Jackson.

1892. He was a son of Robert Gault, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and came to the Western Reserve in 1800. Robert, second, married Marjorie Ewing. who was born in June, 1816, and who still survives at the age of 91 years. Extended mention of both the Gault and F.wing families may be found in the sketch of John Gault. published elsewhere in this volume.

Gibson J. Gault attended the public scliools of Jackson township. Youngstown and Canfield until about 19 years of age. when he settled down to farming on the jold place which has been the home of his venerable mother inr 72 years. He owns a valuable farm of 140 acres and devotes his main attention to the raising of horses, sheep, cattle and hogs, making a specialty of the latter. For eight years, from 1883' until 1891, he was engaged in sheep-raising in Coffee County, Kansas, but then returned to the homestead and resides in the comfortable old residence which has weathered the storms of 60 years.

Mr. Gault was married Septenilier 17. j 879, to Harriet Duncan, who is a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Osborne) Duncan, who formerly resided in Berlin township. Mahoning County. Joseph Duncan was bom in Pennsylvania and died in Ohio, in 1873, aged 52 years. In about 1840 he was married to Mary Oslxirne, of Trumbull County, who died in 1899, aged 73 years. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Gault. James Duncan, died in Pennsylvania. The maternal grandparents were John and Isabella Osborne. Mr. and Mrs. Gault have two children, viz: Paul M.. who is in the signal department <*i the Pennsylvania Railroad, and is a graduated electrical engineer of the Ohio State University; and Mary Marjorie. who is a memtK-r of the graduation class of 1908, at the Rayen School, at Youngstown.

Politically. Mr. Gault is affiliated with the Republican party and is a valued memlwr of the school Itoard of Jackson township. His attitude toward higher education is shown in the unlimited advantages he is offering his children. He belongs to Lodge No. 343, Knights of Pythias, at North Jackson, both he and wife arc members of the Presbyterian Church. The venerable mother of Mr. Gault is the oldest resident of Jackson township. Her 91 years have bridged a vast cixxrh in the Nation's history. She continues her little self-appointed daily tasks ami enjoys meeting old friends to whom she can talk of the days, of long ago.

<TIN C. HIGGINS. president of the city council of Youngstown, Ohio, and one of the most prominent labor leaders of the Mahoning Valley, was horn in 1875, at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Martin J. Higgins.

Martin J. Higgins was one of the pioneer iron men of the country and was known in various sections. In association with A. J. Moxam, he opened up and subsequently developed the great iron industry at Birmingham. Alabama. At one time he was superintendent of the manufacturing plant of the Coleman-Shields Company, at Niles. Ohio. He was well known in labor circles and was the peisonal friend of many advanced thinkers on social questions, notably Hon. Tom Johnson, of Cleveland.

Alter completing his education. M. C. Higgins entered the employ of the Coleman- Shields Company, at Niles, Ohio, as a shipping clerk and went from there to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he was connected for one year with large motor works, and then came to Youngstown. Here he became interested in theatrical matters and has been an organizer of a numljer of successful companies now on the road, For the past two years he has been manager of the Eagle club.

Mr. Higgins is prominently identified with the laljor organizations of the Mahoning Valley. He is president of the Central Labor Union and has been a delegate from the Stage Hands' Local Union. For a number of years he was secretary of the United Labor Congress. As the I-abor candidate, he was elected president of the city council, of Youngstown^ in N'ovemlier, 1905. and his administration of the office has made so favorable an impression on all parties that he is being urged to consent to a nomination for mayor.

Mr. Higgins is a member of the fraternal order of Eagles and belongs also to the Knights .of Columbus, the Knights of St. John and the Ancient Order of Hilwrnians. He is also a member of the International Order of Stage Employes and of the I'nited I^alior Congress. Mr. JHggins is a memlnrr of the Catholic Church.

LM AN HALL, a substantial citizen ntiil well-known agriculturist of Govlu-n :nvMiship, residing <>n his valuable fann of 126 acres, situated in section 19. has lieen located here since j 8f if). He was lx)rn in Jefferson County. Ohio, May 18. 1 83 1 . and is a son of W illiam and Hannah (Wharton) Hall. The Halls settled in Jefferson County at a very early date. The father and grandfather were horn there, but the mother of Mr. Hall was born in Pennsylvania.

Tilinan Hall was reared in his native county and attended school there and subsequently at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, where the Society of Friends conducted a boarding school at that time. His main business in life has lieen farming, but in his earlier years he taught school for a time in Jefferson and Harrison counties. For some years alter marriage. Mr. Hall resided on a farm near Mount Pleasant, but in i860 he moved to Mahoning County and established his home in Goshen township. Mr. Hall placed his land under a good state of cultivation and it proved fertile and productive, and after the discovery of a fine vein of bituminous coal running through it. its commercial value was greatly enhanced. This \ein has lx-on successfully worked and for a numlxT of years has been producing coal.

On March -'9. 1 S55, Mr. Hall was married to Mary Eliza Kinsey, who was Iwrn January 22, 1837, at Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of Charles ami Sarah < Binns) Kinsey. the former of whom was born in Ohio and the latter in Kngland. She was an infant when her parents settled in Harrison County, where she was reared and married. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have had six children, namely: Alice A., deceased: Fzra. deceased; Charles H.. residing at Washington, D. C. an employe in the I". S. Treasury I)c]xirtment; Ktnmor W., residing at Portland, Oregon, where he is connected with the i>ostoffice department; Ira K., residing at Cleveland, where he is foreman of the Wire and Steel Company; and (icorge B., a resident of Alliance, Ohio, connected with the Alliance Banking Company. At the time of the celebration of their golden wedding anniversary, on March 29, 1905, in Goshen township, Mr. and Mrs. Hall had the pleasure of gathering their children once more beneath the home roof, beautiful, peaceful Sunuyside Farm.

Mr. Hall has lieen '.nc of the elders in the Friends' Church for over a quarter of a centurv and he has served in the various church offices, as clerk and as Sunday -school superintendent. Mrs. Hall is a very interested mem- Ikt of the Foreign Missionary Society connected with the Fast Goshen Friends' Church, the whole family having been prominent in the affairs of this religious lnwly lor many years. Politically, a Prohibitionist. Mr. Hail has "served his township in office at various times, having been lx>th treasurer and trustee.

IM'hFCS F. WOODMAN', one of V -nngstown's pn minent business men, who resides at jo Scott street, v, -1- b.rn in New York St ite. and r une to Ohio with his parents when Inn one ye;ir old. He came to Youngstown in 1N00 and engaged in the mercantile business ;n which he continued until iSSS, when he went to Chicago and her -me secretary a-i.l treasurer of the l.akisi'e Niil Companv.

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which w-'s Incited at Hammond, Indiana. He afterwards hecame president of this concern and in i< 03 sold out and returned to Youngstown. Ohio. He is director of the Mahoning National Hank, and is also director of the Ohio Iron and Steel Company. Mr. Woodman also has other business interests, lieing a stockholder in various other enterprises. He is a member of the Youngsb wn Chamlier of Commerce, also (he Yoitngstown Club and the Mahoning Coif Club.

The paternal grandfather was Samuel Mc- Kinney, who died in Ireland, but three of his sons came to America. Samuel and William, settling at Rraddoek. Pennsylvania. The third, who located in Texas, was one of the 72 who fell in the kittle of the Alamo. He had previously served as a soldier in the British Army in the East Indies.

John McKinney, father of John, was born in Ireland on a farm on which he was reared and on which lx>th he and his wife died. They were the parents of rive sons: Koliert. Andrew, James. John and Samuel. Robert went to New Zealand, where he died. He was a Presbyterian minister and pastor of one church for 48 years. His daughter visited the Ohio relatives, in icxA remaining six months. Andrewresides at Ckirksville. Mercer County. Pennsylvania. Jamei died in Ireland, in 1007. Samuel practiced medicine at Mineral Ridge. Mahoning County, for a number of years prior to his death.

John McKinney. subject of this notice, came to this country in 1 S=;f and located first in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained for three years, coming to Mahoning Count v in 1850. and settling in Ellsworth township, Tn this year. Mr. McKinney cmharked in the mercantile business at Ellsworth and continued in same until 1874, when he invested in 145 acres of land about one-quarter mile south of Ellsworth, but he has resided in the village of Ellsworth for the i»st 48 years, mainly engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was one of the most successful farmers of the township. For a numl>er of years he has been retired from active business. Mr. McKinney has seen a great many changes take place since locating here, and he has alwavs shown a deep interest in the progress and material development of this section. In 1862, Mr. McKinney returned to Pittsburg, and married Martha Hare, who was a daughter of James Hare, who died in Ireland. Mrs. McKinney died February 7. 1907, at the age of 72 years. They had one child who died in infancy. Mr. McKinney is a Republican in politics, and was serving as postmaster under President Lincoln at the time of his assassination. For many years he has l>een a memher of the Presbyterian Church at Ellsworth.

FORCE B. KINSEY, who, for the past 30 years has resided on his present farm of 82 acres, which is situated in section 20, Goshen township, is one of the leading men of this locality, in all that pertains to good citizenship. He was born in Harrison County, Ohio. August <>. 1845, and is a son of Charles and Sarah fHinns) Kinsey.

The father of Mr. Kinsey was I>orn in Jefferson County, Ohio, and was a son of Aaron Kinsey. who was of English extraction. The mother was Ixirn in England and was six years of age when she accompanied her parents to America. They resided for a time in Fayette County. Pennsylvania, and then came to Ohio and settled in Harrison County.

George R. Kinsey was reared in Harrison Ouinty. Ohio, and for a short time attended a most excellent private srlnxil conducted by the Society of Friends, to which religious liody his parents l>e!onged. Prior to coming to Mahoning Countv, he taught sc'n nl for a short time. On May I. 1879. Mr. Kinsey was

In politics, being identified with the Republican party, he was elected clerk of Goshen township, for several years, on that ticket. Like the other inemlwrs of his family. Mr. Kinsey is a memher of the Society of Friends. Possessing the sterling qualities of mind and character that he dries, it is not remarkable that he enjoys, in large degree, the confidence and esteem of those with whom he has lieen associated so long.

§ I.BERT R. SHIXW proprietor of Maple Grove Su>ck Farm, consisting of jJs acres of land located in Ixttii Mahoning and Columbiana Counties, has resided at N'o. 108 East Sixth street. Salem, since the fall of ioo.>. He was ljnrn in Perry township. Columbiana County, Ohio, May 3, 1S41. and is a son of Abraham and Susanna (Phillips) Shinn.

The Shinn family was founded in Columbiana County by William It Shinn, the grandfather of Albert R.. who came to Ohio in I Hi 1, from New Jersey, when Abraham was a small b'V. William Shinn settled on the spot which is now the site of the Met/ger House, it then Wing in the dense woods which covered all tins land. At that time Salem had but a few indifferent buildings. Mr. Shinn can trace a tine military ancestry. Abraham Jones, a great grandfather, was a Revolutionary soldier, an<! Robert P. Phil'ips, the maternal grandfather, was a soldier in the War of iSu and was a son ><i Rolxrrt Phillips, w ho was aNo a soldier in tlte great war f. .r independence.

Abraham Shinn was ly.ru 111 New Jersey. For a mimlicr of sens during his active life, he operated a grist and sawmill in Petrv tow 11- shi]>. a short distance from Sa'cm. anil later engaged in fanning He was a very familiar figure in this section and was a man wh. sr

Allien R. Shinn w as reared in Perry township ami attended the district schools. He s|>ent some lime at Moore's Academy, at Salem, and later a year at Hiram College. ; during the period when the late James A. ! Garfield. President of the I'nited States, was at the head of the educational institution, having been educated there himself. During the time of the Civil War, Mr. Shinn was heavily engaged in the stock industry, buying cattle for the I'nited States Government and was a partner with Webb & Phillips, a firm then having headquarters at Chicago. From 1.858 until 1S05. Mr. Shinn continued this partnership, since then lieing engaged in farming and stockraising 011 his own account.

On the Maple Grove Stock Farm may I*' found a fine herd of Shorthorn and Holstcin cattle, many of them being registered. They are animals worth going far to see and whose money value is to l>e figured in thousands of dollars. In his efforts to introduce stock of this kind. Mr. Shinn is to l»e set down as a public benefactor. The business is conducted under the linn name of A. R. Shinn & Sou. Harry A. Shinn lieing the partner and the manager of the farm.

married to Eliza Schilling, who was bom in Stark County. Ohio, and is a daughter of Jacob ami Sarah A (Lewis) Schilling, the latter of whom was born in Delaware, and the former in Win teml>erg, Germany. F'l' a number of years Mr. and Mrs. Schilling lived in Stark County, Jacob Schilling l>eing proprietor of a general store at Limaville. but iK.th died at Salem. Mr, and Mrs. Shinn have the following children: Donna A., wife of T. J, Thomas, residing at Greenville. Pennsylvania: Mt.ry E . wlu> married John W. Lease, residing at Salem: Lucy II.. who married Frank J. Ytngling. residing at Salem : Ana E. residing at home: Ham- A. residing on the fa-m.

Maple Grove Stock Farm, anil while located in Perry township he was a member of the school lx>ard. Politically he is a Republican. Mrs. Shinn is a member of the Disciples Church at Salem.

J. FITZ SIMON'S, general manager of the Finished Steel Company, at Voungstown. Ohio, occupies a very imjiortant i>osition with one of the great corporations of the times.

The Finished Steel Company, of this city, was organized on May 15, 1895. and 011 June ]. following, the plant was sold to the Fitz Simons people, of Cleveland. The officers are : T. G. Fitz Simons, president; R. F. Fitz Simons, of Chicago, vice-president : James R. Fit* Simons, treasurer; and W. J. Fitz Simons, general manager. T. G. and J. R. Fitz Simons are in charge of the plant at Cleveland, and R. F. Fitz Simons is the Western agent and is located at Chicago. The company manufactures all special shapes of drawn steel products, the four staples being round, flat, hexagon and square. They have 50 employes at the Voungstown plant.

W. J. Fitz Simons was married in 1899, to Helen G. Conley. of Cleveland, and they have three children. Helen. Susan and W. J.. Jr. Mr. Fitz Simons is connected with various business organizations and he belongs to the fraternal order of Elks.

KB {OSSKK S. CAMPBELL, president 1 SJ <>f the Campbell Bros. ComjKuiy. at I £$j Voungstown, dealers in coal, stone. |bL£B. iCC(] and builders' supplies, and owners of a valuable stone quarry, is < ne of the city's representative and successful business men. He was born at Hubbard. Trumbull County. Ohio, in 1869.

years after completing his education, he was connected with the Hazelton postoffice and then was employed in the shipping department of the Andrews Brothers rolling mills. He remained at the mills about eight years, going then to the Voungstown Engineering Company tor 18 months l>efore engaging, in May, 1902, in his present enterprise. The Campbell Bros. Company was incorporated in May, 1905. with a capital stock of $10,000, with P. S. Campl^ll as president, and R. R. Campbell, a brother, as secretary and treasurer, the title of the firm hav ing formerly been Campbell Brothers. The business is one* of large scope. Employment is given 20 men and ten teams are kept busy. Mr. Camplwll is also interested in the Pennsylvania Fuel Company.

In 1899, Mr- Campbell was married to Lida Davis, of Voungstown. They have two children. Mary Ionise and Elizabeth. With his family. Mr. Campbell belongs to the Presbyterian Church.

H IS HFLLER, president of the Heller Brothers Company, president of The ! liwannec l.tnuW Company, di- Ba^Ml rector of The Home Savings & Loan Company, of Voungstown, Ohio, is one of the leading business men and public spirited citizens of this community. Mr. Heller was born in .Switzerland in the year 1855, and was reared in the planing mill anil lum- Ih.t business, his father being an extensive contractor and mill operator.

In 1880 the name of Heller first became prominent in the business circles of Youngstown, two brothers. Louis and Adolph Heller, establishing a general contracting business here. In 1888 they bought out the planing mill and lumlwr yard of Ellis & Cunningham, at the foot of Market street. Their business increasing every year, they acquired the plant formerly known as the Mower & Rea|>er Works, and in 1902 selling the same to The Win. Tod Company, they bought the place known as the Eagle Furnace Company's prop- city at the end of the West Raven avenue and Furnace street, on which they built their present large jilaniny mill, equipping same with all modern appliances, establishing an np-to date lumber yard, and placing them selves in a p.sition to dr. the largest contractinuc business in die Mahoning V alley. The Keller Brothers C> «mpany was incorporated in i S< j i . with a capital stock of $40,000.00. which has been increased to $200,000.00. The officers of the company arc: Louis Heller, president; Adolph Heller, vice-president : and Joseph T. Murphy, secretary and treasurer.

" Ijouis Heller was married in Switzerland to Lla (iraack. aurl they have four children, namely: Louis, Jr.. with the Heller Brothers Company : Rosiua. Walter and F.rnesl, still in school. Mr. Heller and family belong to the First Reform Church. A portrait of Mr. Heller may be seen on an adjoining page of this v- .lunie.

!| § J years, is one of the most successful IbBB* and prominent memtiers of the Mahoning County l'.ar. He was born in 1S7;. Mr. Steiner is a self-made man in the truest sense of the word. Having the mis fortune to lose an arm when a boy. be started in life as a newslw.y in Young-town, and later ut New York Chy. His parents moved to Yoiim^town when he was a lad of ten years, lie was educated in the public schools and graduated from the High School in iN-A He at once entered the New York Law school from which he graduated in iSi/X Returning to Youngstowtt he studied tor two years :n the office of M. A. Norris & Wirt and was admitted to the bar at Columbus in December, ,,,(«. He immediately located in Youngstown and w ith the exception of a few months w hefl he " 'Is associated with Mr. Esterly. has practiced alone. His reputation is that of a lawyer of ability am) a counsellor whose ad- \ ice mav lie safely fo' lowed. Mr. Sterner lias long- taken an active interest in politics. He is a member of the Modern Maccaltees. the

Fraternal Order of Eagles, and o: the I'atbii'.idci's. He is also a member of the Youngstown ChamlHT of Commerce. Mr. Stciner's parents, who are still Ihing. are residents of Youugstowu. where his father is cngage<l in the tailoring business.

LI AM MARI.i )W. deceased, was one of tile 1-est known and highly emed c-"i ei 1: < . .-hc-.i I .unship, and was an honored survivor 1 f the great Civil War. He was England. June v 18^ 1. and died at

August 17. 1000. in his 75th year at this time. Thomas Marlow. father of William, emigrated with his family from England to the I'm ted States, in 1841. his father. William Marlow . having emigrated still earlier and settled in what is now Goshen township. Mahoning County, His log cabin w as one of the first to lit- built in the dense forest that then covered all this present smiling agricultural expanse. For a time. Thomas Marlow and family lived alone in (iosben township, ami then moved to an ii|uallv uiwttled portion of Ashtabula C untv. and there the late William Marlow was mainly reared and lived until he entered the Federal army. His father had purchased a great deal of land and he assisted in its clearing. The w hole family endured many pioneer hardships and were deprived of all the luxuries and main of the necessities which make m> :<l<Tti life ci nnfi >rtable.

for service in the Civil War. becoming a member of Company F. Sixth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, a part of the Army of the Potomac, and remained in the service until he was honorably discharged. June J?. \W>iat Petersburg. Virginia. During this long period in the army, Mr. Marlow participated 111 a nnmljer of (lie greatest battles of the war, fighting at Fredericksburg, Stoneman"s Raid, Gettysburg, Mine Run. Cold Harbor. Malvern Hill, anil numerous other engagements of min. r importance, and was at Appomattox, at tin- lime of Central Lee's surrender. At ail time* he was a brave and cheerful soldier, doing his full duty. He was a valued memler ...1 the Treseou Lost. Crand Army of the Republic, at Salem, Ohio,

At the close of his niilitarv service, Mr. Marlow returned to Ohio, and" later went to Michigan, where he resided for several years, a " Iiicl he n tin ned , .1 0 11:. : e M .', --- ing County and settled iti Goshen township, where lie resided tor a number of years. His death removed one of Goshen ' tow nship's valued citizens.

Mr. Marlow was married twice and the two surviving; children of his first marriage are: John, residing in California, and Dora, residing near Cleveland. He was married <*w t" Maty A. IliiH-hman. wk, was hom m doshen township. April 14. 1833. aml is a daughter of Henry and Tamson | S]x-ncer) Hinchman. Her father was 1x >rn in New Jersey and came to Mahoning Cunty with his father, Henry Hinchman, among the very early settlers. Mr> Marlow still survives and is a lady well known and most highlv esteemed. She is a memU-r of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

i:\RYO. liOXNELl.. Closely idemilied with all of the prominent business interests of Youngstown, and of the whole Mahoning Yallev, the late Henry O, llonnell attained 'his emirent jmsition in the business world through force of merit, rising step by step fn.ni the lowest position in his father's mill, to the control , f thousands of employes and immense industries which influence the markets of the world. He was l»,ni January 11. iS.vj. at New Lay, Yorkshire. Lngland. and wa- a son of William and Sarah A. 1 Scott 1 Iloimell. Biographical mention of his father, ami aNo of his brother. W Scott Bontiell. may he )- imd elsewhere in this volume.

lislied himself in a mill business at Youngs- I..W11. Henry was the eldest child and his educational opportunities were meager. Iieing practically c< mined to a little desultory instruction in the neighborhood schools and one term at Youngstown. W hen he entered his father's mill, there were other lads of the same age admitted, but few of these dispkned Henry's ability or fidelity and very few were as rapidly promoted for merit. C|>on the death of his father he was in a position to take a prominent place m the recognized linn of Brown, llonnell & Company. Iiecotuing its vice-president. This position he retained until 1K70,. when the company dispised of its interests but only to reorganize under different o nditions. Later in the same year. Mr. H. O. llonnell. in association with a numtier of Mahoning County capitalists, purchased what ' was known as the Valley mill plant, situated in Crab Creek. The new firm, of which Mr. Bunnell was a senior memlicr. operated this plant under the tinn name of the Mahoning Valley Iron Company until 1886. when the company was incoqx. rated. Mr. llonnell becoming president and general manager. This responsible position he continued to till until his death, which took phec on lanuarv 16, ! |S<>3'

Although Mr. Council's name was probably most prominently connected with the above named great corporation, he was equally efficient in many other great enterprises. Ikwas president of the Hubbard Rolling Mill Company, president of the Mahoning and Shenaugo Valley Manufacturing Association, chairman of the Youngstown Coke Company, a director in the Ohio Steel Company, a director in the Lakeside N'ail Company, of Hammond. Indiana, and a director in the hirst National Hank at Youngstown. Wherever placed, Mr. llonnell proved himself a forcible, keen.

1 judicious business man, abreast of the times in ail tilings and an authority in all matters '.wth w hich he had to ileal. His dev. .(ion to work was phenomenal, and probably to this, in ricil to Mary Julia Botsford. who was a daughter <>f Archibald and Kliza (Lynn) Botsford. old residents of Poland. Four children were lx>rn of this marriage, three daughters and one son. The son died in New York C ity. .March J, 188/1. The eldest daughter Marv. resides with her mother at the beautiful 'family home. No. (189 Wick Avenue. Youngstown.

Mr. Bunnell was never a politician. His interest in public affairs was constant and intelligent, hut never centered in the advancing < t a political party without reference to the <|ualincatioi)s of the candidate. lie was too broad-minded for that. Youngstown has great cause to recall him as one of its libera! benef actors. He was interested in art. in literature and in many of the higher things of life, to which he gave attention in his later years, and his city profited thereby. To philanthropic objects of all kinds he was generous but it was not the character of the man to herald his benefactions abroad. Personally he was genial, sincere, kind and appreciative and. while the whole Mahoning Valley l*>re testimony to his virtues, at his death, only those who'knew him best, realized his real worth.

II RUECHXER, M. I)., surgeon to the Youngstown City Hospital and to the Erie Railroad Company, is one of the city's best qualified surgical practitioners. He was born at Youngstown, Ohio, in May, 1864, and is a son of the late Or. W. L. Buechner. who died at Youngstown in September, 1904. In the latter' s death Mahoning County lost a valued citizen, and a skilled physician and surgeon who was known and trusted all through this section of the State. Born in Germany, he was educated in his own land, coining in 1854 to Youngstown. where the rest of his life was spent.

W. H. Buechner spent his boyhood attending school at Youngstown. and completed his literary education in the Raven High School. He read medicine with his distinguished father and then entered the medical department i f the Western Reserve University, where he was graduated in 1885. After a post-graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania, he spent four years in Europe, during three years of this time being assistant to Professor V on Volkman, the celebrated surgeon at Halle. Germany. Here at the University Hospital he had exceptional advantages for study. 10.- 000 surgical cases being treated annually, in 1890 he returned to Youngstown, and since then has devoted himself to the practice of his profession. He is a valued membe.- of the Mahoning County, the Ohio State and the American Medical .Associations. He is very prominent in Masonry, Iwing a 32nd degree Mason and is affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, at Youngstown. and to the other branches at Cincinnati. Heal so l>elongs to the Elks.

H 1 :i:d and leading fanners of Canfield aM a 1 ''Unship, and owner of 21834 acres iKrafalj 1 land in Mahoning County, was born August 18. 1844, in Goshen township. Mahoning County. Ohio, and is a son of Benjamin and Catura (Peterson) Lloyd.

j very early period. Benjamin had one sister. Benjamina, who married Joshua Stevenson, both of whom are deceased. YVhei. a young man. Benjamin came to Ohio with his parents who settled in the timber lands of Goshen township, Mahoning County, in a log cabin. He was married in this township to Catura

] son. They reared a family of seven children : namely: Joel, a resident of Texas; David, who died in the Civil War; John, who reside* in Goshen township; Abel is the subject of this sketch; Eliza, married Robert Campbell, both being now deceased; William, resides in Goshen township; James is a resident of Michigan. I'.enjamin was one of the roost successful ami pros|>eroiis farmers of (ioshen township and at the time of his death, which occurred when in his K4th year, was the owner of 150 acres of valuable farm land. His wife died at the age of 80 years.

.\l)cl Lloyd was burn in an old log house on his father's farm in Goshen township, w here he was reared. He attended school at Goshen Center, it being one of the first frame schools erected in this locality. He remained at home until his marriage in 1875 and four years later lxmght his present farm of i/y'/i acres from the Phillip Lynn estate, where he has since resided, engaged in general farming. Mr. Lloyd resides in a large eight-room frame house which he had built in i(>02, and be also owns a tract of 122 acres in Boardman township, just opposite from his home.

Mr. Lloyd was married in 1875 on Christmas day to Lueinda I'rouick. who was born in 1 S57 in lierliu township, and is a daughter of Michael and Margaret iKnaurT i Cro«nck. Ik 'tli of whom are deceased, the latter dying when her children were all tptite young. Mrs. Lluyo was ue of a famile of seven children: Lydia \ttti (Mrs. William Walker I ; Sarah, who married I rank P.arhrr; David: Knviumd . Lu cinda. now Mrs. Lloyd; Joseph, and Wnamla (Mr-. |ohn Ueckert. Tw o children were burn

N'e!he first married ?-- seph Shatter, hy whom she had one child. Pearl; she subsequently married Marcus Uice and lives at home with her parents; Kmc died in ior>_> aged 18 year* Political!} Mi. Llo}d is a Republican ami Ins serve.! as supervisor f I'anl'u .,! township.

general contractor and fanner, re- 011 his \ahriMe fa mi "> acres, which is situated in Austi.itown township, almul eight miles southvvesi of YfHlllgStnWn. was horn on his

The Ripple family was established in Mahoning County by John Ripple, the grandfather oi George W'., who came to this section from Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he had formerly owned a large farm. His first settlement was made in Poland township, but in i8.'- he sold his farm there and moved to Austintow n township, he. Mr. Russell and Mr. Kirkpatrick lieing the first three settlers. They had many hardships to meet and ov ercome, the country then being in such a wild state that often, in clearing their land they had to protect themselves from wolves which roamed in great hands through the forests. John Ripple married Susan Harroff, who, with him lived to old age, their lives having been tilled with the events which all pioneers encounter. They died in Austintow 11 township, good and worthy people. The}' had a family of eight children, as follows: Samuel. William. George. John. Amanda. Lydta. Betsey and Leah, all of whom are deceased, with the exception of Leah, who is the widow of Daniel Craver,

Samuel Ripple, father of George W *.. was lh.ru in Poland township. Mahoning County. Ohio. April 1 1. 1 S 1 4. and he grew to manhood on the Austintow u township farm. He followed agricultural pursuits and did considerable contracting at van us times, in the line of stone work lor hridges. lie assisted his lather gi'eath . being the eldest, in clearing -tp the ps'-iccr farm, and his son remembers one mt thud used. Instead of cutting down trees -I'd cx'rieting the great roots U h ind I d or. there Ik rig lio machinery yet invented for that purpose, tile workers would so deaden the trees that :- s:r> -- g wind would h!< -w them down. \ long t:me would freuneutly pass before the biacl-e-n- i stumps 0 old W l iken out of the in lyoi ; Angeline, who married Jacob Oh); Catherine, who is the widow of John Piantoii ; Susan, who married Newton Pctrv; Maty, who married Peter C. Sehrum; Sarah, deceased, who married Nicholas Harder; and Lydia Margaret, deceased. Samuel Ripple was married (second) to Mary Ann Rorak, who was I*. 'Hi in Austintown township, and died October jo,, Ufiih. Tliere were seven children Imjiu to this union, namely : ( "irant, who died in infancy; Emery Dow, Sankey S.. Moody; William, deceased; Hattie, who mar ned William Green ; and Lonnda. who died in childhood. Samuel Ripple died mi his home farm. April ly, 1888.

George W. Ripple attended school during his hoyltiK.nl, walking a distance oi two and one-bait" miles, but lioni the time he was ,,ld enough to share in the labors i>f the farm, his work was laid out for him. and as his lather was a verv practical man. lie carefully attended to it, growing into manhood thoroughly prepared for future usefulness, lie has engaged in general farming and for many years lias done a large amount of contracting, especially stone work, in Mahoning and other counties, lie started out in life for himself with very little, but be has always l>een tno-t industrious and an excellent manager, lie is a stockholder m the Dollar Hank. S'otmgstown, Ohio, and a Stockholder in the Mineral Ridge Manufacturing 1'oinpany. "i Mineral Kidge.

In October. lSf.4. Mr. Kipp'-e was inarms'. ( first ) to Elizabeth Miller, who came to » 'trio with her parents from Pennsylvania, 'i'licr^- were live children b- on to this ruirrvige. a~ foil.. us-. Orpha. ulv died :n infancy; Sbei man, decease*!, who married Minnie Premier and left t' -nr cbilibeti, t ic. Harry. Laura ami b'lorcivc; Cornelia, who married Chamuv lirobs] ami lias mil- child. Merman: Mia. who died in infancy; and llirdie. who married Grant I- Crum, and they have one son. Myron George Mr. < nun has resided with Mr. Ripple since he was 1.- years of age and is his partner in the contracting business. The mother of the above mentioned family died 111 Septem!>er. 1K78.

E. Rorak, who was turn in Austintown township July 18, 1850. and is the only child of lames and Mary E. ( Pcnnell ) Rorak. lames Rorak was Iv.rn in Ireland and came to America in his youth, settling; 111 Austintown township, w here he married. He enlisted ior service in the Civil War and fought bravely through many battles, but was subsequently captured by the Confederates and confined in Andersoiu ille Prison, where this gallant soldier, with thousands of his unlucky comrades, perished from starvation and privation, His widow survived some years and died at Youngstowu.

Mr. Ripple has always resided in Amain- I town township and is one of its most reliable and prominent men. He is chairman of the I". K. Church board of trustees, having been a member for a number of years. Politically, he is a Republican and has been township trustee for a long period. He belongs to the order of Knights of Pythias at Jackson.

J. HAMILTON, attorney at law. at Yottngstow n. is also one of the very prominent business men oi this city. U'ing president of the Valley Investment Company, president of the Auditorium Company, secretary of the Mahoning Lumber ( ompai'iy and asvKjiated with several other ci rporalioiis both as stoekho'alcr and ot'ticer. Mr. Hamilton was lx>rn m Plair County, Pennsylvania, His parents came to Mahoning County. Ohio, when he was quite young ami this locality has l>ee» his home ever since He was untidy educated at the Washington and letters.:! College, coming to Youngstowu in iSSS. After a short period of clerking in the office of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company, lie began the studv of law. under the preceptordrip of A W. .loves and \v. S. Anderson, ar.d was admitted (o the bar on June 4. '-*>>- immediately entering into practice. Early in i.iiij. Mr.' Hamilton became associated with the linn of Wilson. McNab \ Hamilton and so continued for three vears. On June 1. i<jo«i, this partnership was dissolved and since then Mr. Hamilton has practiced alone. He enjoys the reputation of being a very able attorney. He is identified with numerous important business interests in addition to those already named.

On June 26, 1895, Mr. Hamilton was married to Sarah Louise Fownes, a daughter of the late Benjamin Fownes, who was a prominent hardware merchant at Youngstown. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton have two children. Margaret Fownes and William. Mr. Hamilton belongs to the Elks, the Youngsiown club and to the Mahoning (k»lf club. His business location is in the Dollar Bank Building.

PTjl >SKI'H HOFFMAN, one of the g9fi, members of the Fred Hoffman Sons, H H dealers in lumber and proprietors of a pinning mill at Voungstown, was born in this city August 19. i860, and is a son of Fred and Theresa ((ieidner) Hoffman.

The father was a native of Germany, who came to America in 1850 when alwjut u> years old. He was reared to manhood in Youngstown and early in life engaged in the lumber business in which he continued for a period of 40 years. He originated and established nearly all 'of the lumlxr and planing mill plants in the city of Youngsiown. A short time previous to his death, which occurred in 1905. lie established the business now conducted by his sons at their present location. His wile is still living.

Joseph Hoffman, our .subject, was reared in Youngstown. his native city. Here he was educated and was practically brought up in the lumber business. On the death of his father, he and his two brothers. Frank C. and Louis J., succeeded to the business of their father, Fred Hoffman, under the firm name of Fred Hoffman Sons.

Mr. Hoffman was married in 1901 to Margaret Ryan and they have one son. Herbert J. Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman is a member of the Chatnlier of Commerce, and is religiously

<>[.. LEMCF.L T. FOSTER, one of the best known and most highly reflected citizens of Youngstown. who is almost the oldest continuous resident here, has liecn very prominently identified with the agricultural development ami the political affairs of this section. He was born near Rochester. New York, October 23, 1824, and is a son of Jonas and I-avina (Pierce) Foster.

The Foster family is of English extraction and its founder in the American Colonies was Timothy Foster, who settled in the vicinity of West Salem. Massachusetts, prior to the Revolutionary War. in which he took part, with six of his stalwart sons.

Richard Foster, son of Timothy, who is distinguished as having l>ecn a "minute man" at Lexington, was l*>rn either at Boston or Salem, Massachusetts. After the close of the Revolutionary struggle, he removed to the eastern part of the State of New York, locating in Washington County, where he bought 1. 000 acres of land. A part of this estate is still held by the family. In Massachusetts he had married a memher of the Titus family and they reared nine children. The sons, on attaining manhood, scattered to different |xiints, one establishing his home in Canada.

Jonas Foster, son of Richard, was born I at Hebron, Washington County. New York, j May 18, 1792. He was reared on his father s large estate and lived to the unusual age of 02 years, dying January 8, 1883. at the resi- I deuce of his son. Col. Lemuel T. Foster. I When the War of 1812 broke out, Jonas Fos- , ter entered the army as a fife major and was 1 later promoted. After the close of the naval ; campaign on Lake Chaniplain. he returned home and accepted from his father the gift of a 250-acrc tract of land, married and settled down to farming. Later he removed to the vicinity of the home of his brother Titus, in the Black Riser Valley, disposing i>f a pirturn of his Ian«l. In 1X23 he located near Rochester. New York, where he lived a short time. He soon liecamc interested in the tales told of the wonderful richness of the still unsettled lands in Ohio and of the business opportunities offered in tiic great lumtar regions then surrounding the little hamlet of Youngs- 1 n.

On August 31. tS'Js. Mr. Foster's emigrant wagon reached Ynungstown. and with Mahoning County his interests remained throughout the rest of his long life. He located in Yonugstown township near where his son now resides. He ran sawmills. taught and sold pro]>crty and was a t\|>c of the energetic, enterprising man. whose example is a stimulus most desired in any new locality. In i?<5> lie taught a tract of land not far from Youngstown, containing 1 5 1 4 acres of land, for which he ]>aid the sum of $5.1x10. Here he carried on extensive farming and stock-raising until the close of his active life. Early in his manhood he was an old line Whig and later became a stanch sttpp.rtcr ..f the principle1- of the Republican parly.

On June 29, 1820, Jonas Poster was married to Lavina Pierce, who was born December 13, 1707. in Otsego County, New York, and wa> a daughter of Abraham and Lavina 1 Stoddard* l'ierce. who were marrieil in 170.4 at Norwich, Connecticut, and had tw children: Stoddard and Lavina. Abraham l'ierce was an uncle of Franklin l'ierce. w)io became President "I the United S:

Mrs, Lavina (Stoddard) fierce, mother of Mrs. Jonas KoMer, was a sister of Mrs. Elizabeth (Stoddard) Sherman, the grandmother of Hon. John Sherman and his no less distinguished brother, (icuera! \\ imam Tccumseh Sherman. Mrs. Pierce's brother. Major Amos Stoddard, it w ill be remembered, was appointed by I 'resident Jefferson to the high office of commissioner, with powers to exchange treaties with Nap>leon Bonaparte in the matter of the purchase of Louisiana in

1803. Upon his return to America after performing this mission with great diplomacy, he was made the first Territorial Governor of Louisiana. During the war of 181 2 he was major of artillery; in 1813 he was ordered to transport the troops under his command to the eastern tarder of the State of Ohio, and in the journey camped in Boardman township and then proceeded to Fort Meigs. It is sad to relate that so brave a man anil so distinguished a statesman should have been lellcd i>y a splinter from the wall of the fort, which had been struck by a cannon ball. Lockjaw followed. In many ways he was a remarkable man, possessing a marvelous memory ami standing mentally far atave his contemporaries. The family of Colonel Foster lias many interesting article- connected with their Stoddard kindred, and one of these is an original deed, made "n parchment, which conveys to Philip Stoddard a grant of land; it tail's date oi August jo, i6<>j. and the signature o! King Charles II. of England. Another object ot interest is a letter from Major Stoddard to lus mother. Mrs. Foster, while he was Coventor of Louisiana. This letter, dated June i<>.

57th Regiment. Pemisvlvania \ 1 Innteers. and fought at Vnikt.iHi',, I .a - < 1..;,-. Seven Pines, the -ran da'.-' tight bet". -re Richmond. White

Oak Swamp and Malvern Hill); Sarah Stoddard, bom in iXjg. and now residing in Boardman township, who married (first) James W. Fckmrm, and is now the widow of Benjamin McNutt; I^aura Amanda. liorn in 1831. who married Clark Wood and died in 1886; and Orinda S., born Novemlier 18, 1841, who is the wife of James Crandon, of Nilcs, Ohio.

Lemuel T. Foster was 10 months old when his parents came to Mahoning County, where he was reared under the same conditions, and as a boyhood companion, as was the late President McKinley, with whom a cordial friendship lasted through the latter' s hie. At the outbreak of the C ivil War Mr. Foster became immediately concerned in military affairs, and ably assisted in organizing the First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and w as elected colonel of this regiment, but a change of plan caused the regiment to be withdrawn. l.atcr he was made captain of Company E, 17th Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participated in many of the serious engagements of the war, notably the taking of Island No. 10. and spent a large part of his time in successfully recruiting for the colored regiments.

After his return tV-m the army he engaged exlen-ively in agricultural pursuits and in developing the resources of his large property in the vicinity of Voungstow 11, on which Inraised many fancy Shorthorn cattle, lie organized the Foster Coal Company, which has mined many thousands of tons of coal from his laud and is still a rich dep'sil. |-"r. .111 youth Mr. Foster has U-en an interested factor in pihticai life, and probably has known personalty as many public men in Ohio as any other citizen, lie lias fre<|Ucnlly been a delegate at conventions and assisted in the noii:i natii n oi < U-rieral I rem- rit for 1 'resilient, and "i Salmon I'. ( 'has!' for (ii.vei'iior. In 1X77 he was n..mir.ated f. .r congress by the ( '.rccnback pirty. was a candidate in '8;S and in (880. and again was prominent in 1S.1! as ihe Populist partv's ch >k e i..r the Mate senate. In local ofi'.ces he served nine years as a justice of the peace and six years a- t 'A-i-ln;i trustee.

March it, 1869, to Florence E. Lanterman, who was liorn near Voungstown in 1843. and died June 19. 1873. leaving two children. L'na L.. who married (first) Hosea W. Simon, ami (second) William Bakody, of Voungstown township; and [ua Wood, who married John Kennedy, of Voungstown township. Colonel Foster was married (second) Scptcmlier 11, 1878. to Susanna B. Alexander, liorn March >X. 1848. a daughter of William W. and Elizabeth (Baird) Alexander, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The children of this marriage are: Charles L.. an expert electrician, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, who is with the Wcstinghouse Company, at Cleveland: I.ida I., and Alice W< od, both oi w hom w ere educated in Boston and later at Obcrlin College: Cracc A., who is a student of Vassar College, class 1908; and Bessie B., a student at Raven High School.

)L'IS CLUCK, a prominent citizen of Mahoning County and an ex-county commissioner, resides in a beautiful modem home which stands on the corner of Wilson avenue and Pearl street. Voungstown. Mr. Cluck was bom in Wittenberg, Cerniany, in the town of Ituoch. Ol-crant Waihlingen. August 7. 1841, and is a s."i of Christian and Caroline (Frank) ' 1 . I.

Christian Cluck was a blacksmith by trade md owned ins own shop at Ihtoch. ( tbeiant Waihlingen, and when his son Louis was 14 years of age. he t. mk the latter in a - his hel)>er and taught him the business. When l.oilis w « n> years old his father died and the mother then rented the shop 1 . a inisu-r black- Tl:e property I'ui.ilK passed out of tlie family, as all the members subsequently came I - \nierica. following I.0111-. who was the lirst one to try his f, irtnues in tin's country. The mother died in t8S_\ at V- mngst.-wn. The children. m'H'H in nutuber. Were as follows: Christiana, who married lohn D'cppmg: I.ouis. subject i»f this sketch: Frederica. the -irst f the daughters to cross the Atlantic.

who married David Weimer; Caroline, who married Philip Shantz : Frederick, residing- in San Jose. California, a carriage manufacturer. who followed his hrother Louis, to the I'nited States: Christian, who died at Pitts- Inirir : and Paulina, who married George Haum. of Allegheny.

As mentioned above. Mr. (duck was instructed by his father in liis trade, which was manufacturing plows, axes, stone-cutting tools and like implements, no horseshoeing lieing included, as there were no horses in the village in which the shop was located. After working for three years at his father's forge, he worked out as a Ixmnd hoy for two years, being apprenticed to a practical horse shoer. He not only received no pay, hut his father had to pay the horse-sheer a premium of $10 in gold. He worked for the two years contracted, and then had to take an examination and make new horse shoes, before what is called in Germany, the boss or master blacksmith, there lieing one of these officials in every o nnty appointed to examine workers and liud out the full extent of their ability. It is this system of thorough education which has frequently been called to the attention of American employers.

Mr. Gluck had now reached the age of army service and he complied with the law and entered a regiment in which he was drilled for six weeks, when he was relieved of further duty on account of l>eing the eldest &m of a widow. Mr. Gluck then went out as a journeyman blacksmith and worked at ! laden and W'ertemherg. and also in Switzerland tip to September I. I Sf .r -. when he returned to his home and t- ok charge of his father's old shop fir a few month*.. He s< -on found that he knew too much and was tini good a workman to spend the rest of his life in the little mountain village, and in a few months he closed up his affairs and started for America, promising to pave the way for the re-t of the family, which he s'.iliM'|iicntl\ diil.

Mr. Gluck landed 0:1 American soil in December. 1N0O. and went to Rochester, New York. It is probable that he was sadly disap| .i::tol at lir-t. a- the cty which he selected

I had no opportunities tr» offer him in the way of employment, and after fruitlessly searching for four weeks, he came on to Youugstnwn, Ohio. In this city he found his first employer in Charles Grade, who was located on the corner of Champion and Front streets, with whom he remained for two months, and then entered the machine shops of Homer Hamilton, as a blacksmith, working there for two months. Mr. (duck then moved to llrier Hill and for four years was employed at the Middle furnace there and became prosperous, but the exjHisnre and exhausting work subjected him to a heavv c'd that resulted in illness and i his physician gravely cautioned him concern- : iug his subsequent following of his trade. Mr. Chick went then to Pittsburg, where he married and then took charge of a garden owned by his father-in-law. David Plieniger. at Allegheny, where he continued for six years. At the close of this period he returned to Youngsand o]xMied up a grocery store at Prier Hill, in 1N77, which he successfully conducted until 1 NX 1. when he gave up mercantile business, but still retained his proticrty at that [xiint. and then moved to his farm in Gatsville township. In 1XN0 he purchased 10X acres of choice farming land to which he has added until his farm now- includes iNj acres, and is recognized as one of the best improved pieces of agricultural property in ti e township. All the buildings "ii his property he has erected himself and they are up to the highest standard of farm structures, not excelled in any way hv any < ther in Coitsville township, Mr. Gluck devotes some of his land to general agriculture and raises much live stock. He continued to reside on this farm until Xovem- Ikt. 1903. when he built his handsome residence on the corner of W il-on and Pearl -Tee's. Youngs-own, where he has re-nled until the present. Mr. Gluck owns considerable ' ti er prnpcrl>. including a -ecmid residence oil I 'earl street and three desirable v acant residence Cts He has other busme-s interests and at present is en -a'-ed in closing up the e-iate of the late George lb Dingledy. of which be is one of the executors.

And Representative Citizens 909

ried 1 first) to Louisa Plienigen, who died Fel>- niary 15. 1874, while residing at Allegheny. She was a daughter of David Plienigen. a prominent citizen and capitalist of that section. There were two children horn to this marriage, namely: Alhert and George. The former married Emma Kurz and they have one child. Ernest. The latter married Ida Spatholt. of which union there are two children. Carl and George. Mr. Cluck's older sons are prominent business men at Youngstown. partners in the well known hardware linn of Gluck Brothers Company, situated on Market street.

Mr. Gluck was married (second) September 2(1. 1875. to Caroline Ijenz, who is a daughter of Jacob ami Christina I. em. They have four children, namely: Lucy, who married John Spatholt. ami has two children, Margaret ami Dora: Mary; Anna, and Louis. Mr. Gluck and family are among the leading members of the German Lutheran Church at Youngstown. He has always taken an active interest in the benevolent and charitable work of this religious IhkIv.

During his whole period of American citizenship. Mr. Gluck has been a supporter of the Republican party and for many years has l>een identified with its councils in Mahoning County. In 1884 he was elected to the im- [lortant office of county commissioner, and served so creditably and satisfactorily that he was re elected and served a second term, the whole peri4xl covering six years and two months. His personal |x>pularitv and the public confidence in his ability and integrity resulted in his running ahead of his ticket, leading by over 1.000 votes. Since retiring from ti e office of commissioner, Mr. Gluck has consented to serve in no other. He has come to the time of life when he feels like taking relaxation and he proposes that in the summer of too- it shall take the form of a visit, in company with his wife, to his old home in Gernrmy. returning as a man of substance and prominence to the village he left forty years ago. a youth with but little capital beyond his trade and his enterprise. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Cluck are presented with this biographical mention.

D. C. KROECK, a leading M * §; business man at Austintown Center, 'MM I; where he is engaged in the nimiu- 1 wagons and is a dealer in hardware, farm implements and i Catherine Hood and comfortably prov ided for his family until his death at the age of 05 years. His widow came to America in March, 1870. but died in the following February, aged 65 years. They had six children, namely : Andrew, decease* 1 ; August: Charles: \Yilhelm. residing in Germany; and Philip and

113 years he attended school. He was then apprenticed to a local wagonmakcr. with whom he worked for three and one-nuarter ' years, receiving no comiiensation except his I board. After this he was paid one dollar a week, and he continued to work at the trade ; until he started to America in 1808.' After a voyage of twenty-three days he landed in the United States ami came immediately to I Youngstown. Finding himself hampered ) more or less by his ignorance of the English language, he made the learning of it one of his first interests. He worked in different 1 lines, as a mason, in a rolling mill and a lumlicr yard, and thus met many workmen from whom he soon acquired a speaking knowledge of the stratige tongue. After this he came to Austintown. where he went to work al his trade in the big shop then located at Taylor's I Corners. W hen it burned down he returned to Youngstown anil worked up to the spring of 1870 in that city and at Sharon and Berlin. After his marriage he settled at Austintown, owning a shop, although he had no ready capital. Fvidcntly he presented a very honest apjiearance, as he was able to secure a bill of goods on credit from a business house at Warren, and thus was able to begin in a small way

Mr. Kroeck met all his bills, and thus kept his credit pood, and as his mechanical skill Wcame known, his trade increased until he found it necessary to enlarge his accommodations, and from repairing go into manufacturing wagons. He liad the business foresight to start a store for the sale of his wagons and for goods along the same line, as harness, farm implements, factory buggies and other goods of like nature, and now his trade territory rovers Mahoning County and distant points, a few years since he having sold a large bill consigned to Cuba. Mr. Krocck's success marks the progress of a self-made man. In addition to his shop and store, he owns a '.'-room hotel building and a line 10- room residence at Austintown. His place of business is well known all through this section, as he handles all the standard makes of agricultural implements, including the Syracuse. Oliver. Gale and Imijeria! plows, cultivators, planters, mowing machines and modern larnt tools of every kind. There is still another reason, ami that is that Mr. Kroeck has established as good a name for honesty and fair dealing as he has for the excellence of his j^iods.

On March (3, tf>~o. Mr. Kroeck was married to Suvinna Smith, who was horn December 1. 1 S j<». Her father died in ( ,ei many as the resu't of an accident in a coal mine, and her mother <i;h-ei|;icutly married Henry Young, with whom she came America; later lliev Imth die<! in Au-tmt' u 11 township. Mr. : » 1 1 * I Mrs. Smith hid two children, Philip and Susanna. ' >i Mrs. Smith's sulisei|iietft marriage \ J r. Voting there were seven children, as follows: August, Lewis. Elizal>eth. |n!ia. Lena arid lv se (deceased), and Wiliiam I deceased I.

Mr. and Mis. kroeck have live eriiMren. naniclv : Catherine, w ho married Orvil llarroif. residing at Alliance: William, who assists his father in the carriage shop and alconducts the hotel, married Daisy Diamond, and thev have one s, n, U andall ; \tidrew. residing at I - ",\ eilvf lie, mimed Jennie * .t :

Charles and Lewis, both of whom work in the shop, all of the sons being practical men and good citizens, Mr. and -Mrs. Kroeck 1*- iong to the Reformed Church.

JOHN' S. ORR, one of the old business 1 men of Youngstown, a funeral dircc- I tor and emUalmer for the last thirty- 8 six years, with business location at Xos. Phelps street, was bom in

Mr. Orr was reared in his native place and at Xcw Brighton until he was 17 years of age. In 1N50, he came to Youngstown and began work as a carpenter, having previously learned this trade, lie continued thus employed until tSf._>. when he enlisted for service in the Civil War, becoming a member of Company A. l^.'ud Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which lK.-c.une a part of the Army of the Potomac. Mr. ( >rr was seriously wounded at the lust battle of Fredericksburg, after which he was made division foragemaster and served m that capacity until the close of the war. Upon his return to Youngstown he resumed work at his trade and so continued until 1800. when he embarked in a furniture business and also I >egan that of nude! taking. Ab ut three years later his furniture store was binned and since then he has given his exclusive attention to undertaking and embalming.

In t Si h Mr. Orr was marncd to Sarah Montt.'oniery. a daughter of Joseph and Nancy Montgomery. Thev have four elnllren : Fdith Maud, who is the wife of t H. Ken nedy, cashier of the Commercial National Hank : Sarah liessie. who is residing at home; Nettie V. who is the wife of Dr. James C.

Orwig. of Glcr.vdle. Ohio; and Fred Montgomery. The latter is his father's associate in business I le is a graduate of several embalming imdiniions, including lite Massachusetts ( Villege of Kmb.alniing.

Ma si 1 a; fraternity . He is a .s-'nd degree Mason and has passed through all the ofliccs 111 the ( oti-tiiandery. He belongs to the foli

J. GILLESPIE, atloniey-at-lavv. at Youiigstown, practicing in the United States District. Circuit and Supreme courts, and a member of the Mercer County, the Allegheny, and the Philadelphia Par Association*, was born March o. 1K61, at Greenville. Mercer County. Pennsylvania, and is a son of the late A. D. ( iillespie.

A. 1). (iillespie was lxirn in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, ami was reared on the paternal farm. His educational o|»portumties were only tlu.se afforded by the district sell, nil, but be prepared himself for the law and was admitted to the Uur in young manhood. For a number of years he practiced his profession, subsequently taking his two sons into partnership under the firm name of A. D. ( iillespie & Sons. He was more or less of a jxilitical factor in Mercer County, though he did not aspire to ]>ohtical honors, In 1SX5 his friends urged his candidacy for judge. For ten years he served as one of the burgesses at Greenville. His death occurred there in loo.', at the age of No years.

Eugene P. (iillespie, brother of A. L. and for a numl>er of years, up to the time of his death, a meml>er of the Mercer County l»ar. was educated in the University of Toronto. Canada, and at Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, then studied Jaw in his father's office. In i8i>o he was elected to congress from the Greenville district, which was coursed of Mercer, Heaver. P.utlcr and Lawrence counties, and served with distinction. His death was caused bv an accident on the Bessemer Railroad in \X<)<).

A. J. Gillespie was reared 111 his native place and was educated in the University of Toronto, Canada, and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter institution in 1SK0. For two years he practiced law in Philadelphia ami then returned to Greenville and entered into partnership with his lather and brother, in the firm mentioned. He continued practicing law al Greenville until November, 1905, when he located at Youngstown and formed a partnership with Mr. Guthman, under the style of (iillespie & Guthnian. which still continues.

Mr. (iillespie is the kind of citizen who is deeply interested in public affairs and local interests. For seven years he served as city solicitor of the borough of Greenville, and in HJ04 his friends insisted on his accepting the nomination for judge in the 35th judicial district of Pennsylvania. After due consideration, however. Mr. (iillespie declined the honor.

In lSKS Mr. Gillespie was married to Ida M. Murray, who is a daughter of the late Henry <J. Murray, of Hartstown. Crawford County. Pennsylvania. Fraternally he belongs to the Masons and has passed all the chairs in the Mine Lodge. Chapter, Council and Commander v.

Although Mr. Gillespie has removed from Greenville to a wider field of business at Youngstown. he is still largely interested in real estate in the former city, is a stockholder 111 the People";; Electric Light, Heat & Power Company, ami owns a magnificent farm of joo acres in Mercer County. His present residence is at No. 154 Warren avenue. Youngstown.

0AMUEL A. McNF ILLY, a prominent citizen of Ellsworth township, residing on his valuable farm of J25 acres, was I >orn in the northern part of Ellsworth township, two miles north of his present home, in Mahoning County. Ohio. NovemlKM- 15. i8,?o, and is a son of

The parents of Mr. McNcilly were bun in C< unity Down. Ireland, abmt iSoa, and Ix >t h died in Ellsworth town-hip. tin* father in 1848 ami tlie mother in the fall of 18/18. They were married in Ireland and wlien they came to this section they were am»ni; the earliest settles. The tiniU-r on the land was so dense that James McNcilly could not build his log cahin until he had felled some trees. During the earl\' days on the farm, wolves howled around the cahin at night so that the inmates could scarcely sleep. Later Mr. McNcilly lmilt a frame house, and with the assistance of his sons, cleared up a farm. Might children were horn to James McNcilly and wife, tour sous and four daughters, namely: Robert, who died in 1 Soo ; Margaret, deceased, who married F. P. Miller, residing in Ellsworth township; William, residing in Wayne township. Ashtabula County, who married Lois Beard-ley. now deceased; Eliza, deceased, who married Ward Dean, residing in Ellsworth township; Samuel A.; and three others, who are deceased.

Samuel A. McNcilly was reared on the home farm and attended the district schools, lit i8'»r lie was married (first) to Mary Smith, daughter of Walter and Mary Ann Smith, the latter U'iug of Scotch extraction. Walter Smith was bun in Connecticut and came to Ellsworth township in liSoO. where he purchased 15 acres of land and Parted the lust tannery in Mahoning County. Mr. and Mr-. Smith had four daughter- and three sons, namely: Kliza, Lama. Martha and Mary. Fitch, Samuel and Walter, Filch died while -tmbing lor <he ministry. Samuel Smith, deceased, was sheriff oi Mahoning County in 18'n. Walter Smith was either the second or third volunteer 1" enter the Federal army from Ellsworth township and was the tir-t to Ire brought home dead in" the

Mr. and Mrs \lr\ciPv had children as follows: Walter. ,vh. - has been a railroad mail- clerk at Chicago -inec the election of President Harrison. married F.va Price, of Youngstown. and has three children. Ruth,

Donald and Lenora; Helen, w ho married John Schaffer, residing in Ellsworth township, has one child, Pauline: Mary 1-1., who married I -rink Kes-ler, residing in Ellsworth, has one daughter. Elizalieth: and Charles, whose business is that of a steel blower, resides at Yourigstown, and married Gertrude W'ehr.

During the Civil War Mr. McNcilly was a niemlier of the military organization known as the Home Guards. He has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and since t8<)-> has resided on his present farm. He owns two farms, and lxith are valuable on account of their productiveness and also hecause on one of them Ixjth oil and gas liave 1'een found. At prc-cut he is mostly interested in raising horses, cattle and sheep. He is regarded as otfe of the township's most substantial men.

Mr. Mc.Neilly's first wife died in J897, and he was married (second), in KJ05. to Mrs. Susan Grelsinger, who is a daughter of the well-known and lieloved evangelist. Rev. Excel!, who still survives, aged 85 years. Hotli Mr. and Mrs. McNcilly are meml>ers of the Presbyterian Church, of w hich he has been a trustee for twenty -seven years. Politically a Republican, he cast his first vote for President Lincoln.

IILLIAM HONNELL MeELE- \'EY, dealer in real .estate, stocks and binds and insurance, with I quarters in the Dollar Bank building, at Young-town, is one of the city's representative business men. He was b>ni in 1 16. at Xew Castle, Pennsylvania, and was 1; years of age when he came to Yi >ung-t« iw 11.

Mr. McElevey was educated at the public sch< « >!s and was a student in the Raven School. During the early years of Ids business life he was in the iron trade for a time and for live year- was a - i-lant superintendent of the Mahoning \ alley Iron Comprmv. He then went to 1 Incago as scerctarv and treasurer oi the Lake Side Nail Company, at Hammond, Indiana, and later was a broker in coal, coke and pig iron. lie S]>eiit ten busy business years in Chicago and then left that great metropolis and returned to Yoimgstown. Here he embarked in a general insurance and real estate business. He deals also in stocks and lx>nds and handles safe investments. In his insurance risks he represents these companies : North British and Mercantile, of New York; the Girard, of Philadelphia; the New Brunswick, of New Brunswick, New Jersey; the Providence Life and Trust Company, of Philadelphia ; the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, of London; the American Surety Company, of New York; and the Etna Indemnity Company. Mr. McElevey is also interested in other business enterprises of this locality.

For a number of years Mr. McElevey lias been a member of the First Presbyterian Church of this city. He Wongs to the Yoimgstown Club and to the Mahoning Golf Club.

OR DEC A I L. PETTIT, a prominent citizen and well-known and successful agriculturist, who has M-rvcd Goshen township for three consecutive years as assessor, resides on his excellent farm of about 50 acres, which is situated in section 30. Mr. Pettit was born January 29, i860, at Damascus, Ohio, and he is a son of Daniel R. and Rcliecca W. (Garretson) Pettit.

Daniel R. Pettit was born in Ohio and was a son of Daniel Pettit, who came to Mahoning County from Pennsylvania. The former was a merchant and kept a general store at Salem and Damascus, removing late in life to his farm near Garfield, Ohio, where he died in 1876. He married Rebecca W. Garretson, who was liorn in Pennsylvania, and they had eight children, the survivors being: Atinie E., who married George B. Kinsey, residing in Goshen township; William H.. residing in Goshen township; Joseph E., residing at Salem; Adella B.. widow of Otto Bechtold, residing at Cleveland; and Mordecai L. and Lama, residing in Goshen township..

Mordecai L. Pettit was about seven years of age when the family moved from Damascus to the (arm near Garfield, which is now the property of H. W. Spear. He continued to reside there until the death of his parents, about ten years later, attending the Garfield schools, and, for three years, the Damascus Academy. He then began to teach school, a useful field of activity he worked in for the next twenty-two years, during a part of the time teaching only in the winter seasons. Since his marriage he has resided on his wellkept farm and has taken much interest in its development.

On March 28, 1895, Mr. Pettit was married to Mrs. Anna \V. Malmsbcrry, who was the widow of the late Charles B. Malmsberry, of Goshen township. She is a daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Morgan) Pidcock, formerly of this township. Mr. and Mrs. Pettit have one daughter, Rebecca. Religiously they belong to the Society of Friends. Their circle of social connection is very wide and their hospitable home is the scene of many pleasant gatherings. Mr. Pettit is one of the township's progressive but also thoughtful citizens. He is always ready to assist in furthering enterprises which he is assured will be of permanent value to the community at large, but l<x>ks with little favor on schemes of a speculative character. In political sentiment he is a Republican.

F. THOMPSON, architect, with offices at No. 225 East Federal street. I VM Youngstown, has been a resident of jM^aJ this city for over a quarter of a century and has lieen interested in the material development of a large part of its most attractive portion. He was born in 1844, at Cleveland. Ohio.

Mr. Thompson learned the carpenter's trade, in early manhood, with his brother. William G. Thompson, in Illinois, where he remained three years, in the meantime acquainting himself with the rudiments of his present profession. During the Civil War. he served

Upon his return to Cleveland. Mr. Thompson was ma<ie superintendent oi const ruction lor R. R. Merrick & Horace Fuller, and remained with them lor five years, during which time he continued his study of architecture. Me then entered upon architectural work, w ith Joseph Ireland, oi Cleveland, and three year> later, came to Youugstown to superintend the construction of the Commercial National Bank and also the magnificent residence of the late C. 11, Andrews, lie decided to locate here permancntlv and opened an oil ice 111 which he remained alone until i8q_\ when lie admitted his son, F. R Thompson, to partnership. The work of this firm extends all over this portion oi Ohio and the larger number of the ornate, beautiful residences and substantial business blocks at Youn^stown, have been erected from their designs.

In iWi(>, Mr. Thompson was married in bmisiana. to Mary DeAntagnan. who was bom in France, and they have three children, namely: John J., of liutTalo, New York; Anna M.. wife of M. Jewett Megown, of Youngstown: and F. R., who is associated with his father.

As an enterprising citizen. Mr. Thompson has always taken an active interest in city affairs. Me has served for four years on the board oi city commissioners. Fraternally lie is a Knight Templar Mason. Me is a memlxM' of the Fpiscopal Church.

liSfcwU pioneer developer of the great coal industry- of the Mahoning Yalley. has lieeu identified with several jjreat companies during his residence in Ohio. He was horn on January t. i«'-_>, at Brooklyn. New York, and is a son of the late I.indsey I. Wells, who was an architect and engineer at Brooklyn, w here he died in iSq- at Brooklyn. In young manhood he came io the mines at Mineral Ridge, Mahoning County, w here he was an employ of the T< d- W ells Company , until i8*s<>. when he removed to Ntles and then was employed lor one year, with Henry W ick. Thence he went to t lie Ohio Steel Company as cashier and chief clerk. In Octolicr, 11)05, he resigned his position in order to accept his present responsibilities awl to better look after a number of other enterprises 111 which he is interested, both at Youngslown and at Niles. He is a niemlier awl an elder in the Presbyterian Church in the latter city. He has established his business <|uartcrs at No. 213 Federal Building. Youngstow 1 :

Mr. Wells was married October jd. 1887. to Miss FUa I. Jones of Mineral Ridge, a daughter of David 1'. Jones, grandfather of Isaac Malford. Her mother was Sophia (Halford) Jones. The father was a native of W ales and the mother of England.

>BF.KT A. MANCHESTER, a leading business man at Canfield. dealing in hardware, stoves, farm implements, paint and furniture. Iiciongs lo one of the old pioneer families of this section. Mr. Manchester was born August 13. 1838, in a hewn log house in Dublin, two miles southwest of Canfield, Canfield township. Mahoning County, Ohio, and is a son of Isaac and Eleanor (Wilson) Manchester.

Benjamin Manchester, the grandfather of Rolicrt A., was bmi in Pennsylvania and was a son of Isaac Manchester, awl was the first of the family to come to Ohio. He settled i" the deej) wis- wis in Canfield township, which was then in Trumbull County, and there reared children by two marriages, those of the first being: Mary Ann. Philip, James and Isaac. Mis second marriage was to Margaret MeCowen, and the children born to that marriage were: Eliza. Phclxr, Martha and Robert, all of whom are deceased. Benjamin Manchester died in 1857. For many years he had

Isaac Manchester was young when his father settled in Canfield township. an<l he grew to manhood on the home farm and was educated in the best schools the neighborhood afforded, He was twice married, and after the death of his first wife he went to Indiana, where he was married a second time and subsequently returned to Ohio and died in Canrielil township in 1886. His six children were all I >orn to Ins fust marriage, as follows: Hugh A., who is serving as mayor of Canticle!; Koliert Asa ; Margaret, deceased, who was the wife of Isaac Fury; John; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Frank Smalt/; and Benjamin O.

Robert Asa Manchester remained at home until his marriage, assisting on the farm and going to school as occasion offered, and when he was 19 ye^irs old he taught a term in Green township Ijefore joining his uncle, George Rank, in Indiana. The latter owned a farm of 1.260 acres, all in one tract, and Mr. Manchester remained working there for one year, when he returned to the home farm in Canfield tow nship and also assisted his uncle. Robert Manchester, in sawing shingles. After his marriage he worked for his father-in-law lor a number of years on the farm and then invested in partnership w ith his brother-in-law, Edward Burgctt, in a sawmill, which they operated until it was accidentally burned down. The owners did not rebuild and Mr. Manchester returned to agricultural pursuits, renting land until 180,5. In this year he moved to Canfield and went into partnership with his two sons, who had established the present business two years previously. The firm is known as the Manchester Company and it is located on West Broad street, where a large room is utilised to show their goods of which they carry a large stock. A sjiecialty is made of rooting and plumbing.

On November 14. 1861, Mr. Manchester was married to Anna E. Bowman, who was bom March 10. 1844. in Goshen township. Mahoning County. Ohio, and who is a daughter of the late Col. Josiah and Sarah (Strong)

Bowman. Colonel Bowman secured his title as a member of the State militia. He was an early settler in Goshen township and there both he and his wife died. Their children 1 were: Allen; Elizabeth, who married Joseph Cessna: Anna E. : Amelia, who married Edj ward Burgett : and Jefferson L).

Manchester have had the Seymour O. (residing at Niles, Ohio, where he is in the hardware business), who married Mary Bloxom am! has two children. Carl and Sarah; ( lenient, residing in Ellsworth township, engaged in tanning, married Mary Lower and has four children. Warren. John. Fern and an infant ; S trail Ella, who married Clement Tate, and has six children. Robert, 'I'hela, Clara. Eli/alieth. Bryan and Orrin; Josiah Isaac, residing in an elegant residence on West Main street. Canfield, in partnership with his father, married Gertrude Stitle and has three children. Harry S.. Robert Asa and Anna; and Allen, also associated with his father, who marriel l.ulu Spaulding and has two children. Charlotte and Pearl.

Politically. Mr. Manchester is a Democrat and on numerous occasions his fellow-citizens base called him to office. He server 1 as township clerk of Ellsworth township ami has also been assessor and township trustee. With his family, .Mr. Manchester lielongs to the Presbyterian Church, of which he has served as trustee.

RS. HETT1E J. CLARK. In Mrs. Ilcltie I. Clark, of Youugstown, is found a lady who has been closely connected with the works of charity ami philanthropy during the larger part of her life, and who is nowhere more thoroughly admired, respected and l>eloved than in thi scity, Mrs. Clark was bom April to, i8.y>. at Red Stone, Fayette County. Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of the late Rev. John Tune Smith, who formerly was one of the most prominent ministers of the Christian Church in ( >hio.

Ti e ]>aternal grandparents of Mrs. Clark were natives of Fngland. Their two children, a si«n ami daughter, were early left orphans an<i were adopted by goo,] families in Marxlaud. John Turn-, the son. was reared at MaluniMie In 1H4J. at which time lie was minister m the Disciples, or Christum Church, he hri nght his family to Ohio and trom that time <iii, until (lie close "t a saintly life, was, a faithful minister and evpoundcr ><f the teachings i>f Christ as expounded hy Alexander Campbell Dr. Smith died in tile spring of 1S01, at Hiram. Ohio, aged 57 veats. M this ])oiut centered many of (he interests of this church in the state and here its largest educational institution flourished, lit later years it 1 came into the limedight of the world as the j former home of James A. (iartield. President of the United States. It was Klder (Iartield | who 1 (reached the funeral sermon over the re- ; main- of his fnend and former 01 worker. Dr. Smith The mother of Mrs Clark survived until the summer <>f 1S74.

Of the seven children h>rn to Rev, John T. Smith and wife, these survive: Mrs. Fdith Ri. Whins, who has survived her hushand and three children, Joseph Tnmhle, physician and surgeon, who scrvcl tour years in the Civil War: Frances, who conducted a large business of her own. at Akron. Ohio, and now resides in I.011;; Heach. California; Clayton Cheyney. a distinguished clergyman if the Christian Church: ai d M-s lletlie J. ( lark, the es]>ccial subject hi this biography. William Hayes w > lieutenant >>i the 14th Ohio I'.attery. and died shortiv alter hi< resignation, 111 iS'^, from disabilities received in the service. John Henry was a corpora! ,,f the oth h. S. Infantry and was honorably discharged after three wars" service, having fought i-i thirlyt"ue battles : his <'eath t. » >k place uiM 1 >tie m> -nth after his discharge.

Hettie J. Smith v.ms rnaiilh educated at I lirain l 'oilege, and while there came tinder the ilnect 111 struct ion of James \. (iartield. at that she be^an to teach school, subsequently lsecoming a successful and popular educator. Her career in the school room was terminated hy her marriage, but she has never entire!} retired to the privacy of domestic life, her talents, inclinations and ambitions having led Iter along more conspicuous paths.

On May (). irSO-. Hettie J. Smith was united in marriage with Dr. M. S. C lark, wh" has Ions,' been an eminent medical practitioner in Mahoning County. The three children of this marriage were: Clayton A., Wn September _>;. 1S-4. who died February m. 1KK7: James A., lsorn June 10. 1S7S. who died Scjrti miser 1S71). and Louis P.. who was born July 'j, 1SK0.

Since the age of u years Mrs. Clark has been a member of the Christian Church ami through all the succeeding years she has iseetl one of the active and cthctcm workers in the cause of Christianity. In her own religious connection she has been of the greatest service and many responsibilities have Iseen placed upon her willing shoulders. For some years she served as chairman of the First Christian Church finance committee; was secretary of the missionary society and served as its president for several years; served one year as president and also as secretary of the JJitd district; and was superintendent of children s work in Ohio for s.,me yens, during which period she made many admirable and effective addresses. Since the organization of Central Christian Church she has served as secretary and. piesident of the auxiliary of the C. W . I! M.. and i- at the present time its superintendent She ha- taught 111 the Central Christian Sunday school since its inception and has .iNo taught id the First Christian Church Sunday school. In Yotmgstowu her work among the city p or ?s will known . s|j«. has long been a welcome and familiar figure at the City Hospital, at the Voting Men's Christian Association, anil w herever there is need of a woman $ svmpathv or understanding help. She has always been an active member of the Woman? Rebel Cotp, ;.ii,l :1:1s held almost all of the local oflices. Her life is filled with the per f ori'iaace of helpful duties for others and H" name is held in greater reverence in this city, where it is best known. She attends to the many calls made on her time and to the deminds Di an immense corrcs|>ondcncc, incident to Iter many interests, at the office and lumie of herself and Dr. C lark. Xos. S 1 0-8 1 K F.lm street. Voungstown. A portrait of Mrs. llettie J. Clark is presented on a neighboring pige of this volume.

The father of Mr. Knesal was horn in W'urtemlutrg. < iennany. in i8_>8. and was brought to America in 1832. In 1856 he married Sarah E. Moure, who was Ixirn just across the Pennsylvania line, w ithin three miles of Petersburg. Both |virent* survive and Mr. Knesal had the privilege of attending their gulden wedding. October 9. h>oo. Of their eleven children. Ceorgc E. is the youngest.

Ceorge E. Knesal attended the Petersburg schools and before entering into business he took a course at the Iron City Commercial College at Pittsburg, where he was graduated in 1802. When the firm of Knesal Bros, was organized, in December, hjo^. Mr. Knes-il became a partner and has lieeti identified prominently with tins successful business ever sinc.\ He has interests in the I :rst National Bank at I-'.a-t Palestine, and in the t'mty Township Telephone Com]>any. With his brother. John M.. he has been a member of the Petersburg orchestra ami the Petersburg band since their organization, the family I icing one of marked musical talent.

On February 10. \n<>j. Mr. Knesal was tinrried to Jennie C Miller, who was h< m at Petersburg May 17. 1874. and who is a daughter of John P. 'and Mary i/.ieger) Miller, the former of whom conducts the leading general store at Petersburg. She is a granddaughter

' and a great-granddaughter of Henrv and Elizabeth (Seidncr) Miller, the former of whom was one of the earliest settlers in Springfield township. Mr. and Knesal are members of the Presbyterian Church.

In national affairs. Mr. Knesal supports the candidates and policies of the Democratic party, but in local politics he considers frequently the man. rather than the party. I. ike other members of his family, he is alwavs ready to work for the best interests of the tow n. He is a member of Starlight lodge. No. .'-'4. Knights of Pythias, at Petersburg."

g=ij] 1 : V I .ST I X K, pr. .prietor of the I.uml>er Company, is one of the city's leading business men and is identified with many of the prospering concerns which handle large capital and serve to bring this city into great prominence as an industrial center. Mr. Van Alstine was bom in Canada, w here he was reared and educated.

When about 10, years of age, Mr. Van Alstine went to Connecticut and after two years went to the Pennsylvania oil fields, where he remained about two years longer, during the greater part of this time working at the car- IHMiter's trade. In the fall of iKt>6 he came to Voungstown and worked at his trade and as a general contractor until the fall of 1875. when he went into the lumber business. He liccame associated with three others and they bought a planing mill and lumlnrr yard and established the Voungstown I.umlier Company. Since then various changes have been made in the eotii|w>sition of the firm, but Mr. Van Alstine has always retained his interest, and since iX<)8 he has been sole proprietor. He does a general planing mill business on a large scale, has immense lumber yards and gives employment to from twenty to twenty-five employes.

director, and in the Voungstown Foundry and Machine Company, in which he is a stuck holder, as he is also in the South-West Land Company and in other business concerns. An astute and honorable business man, he is a valued member of the Voungstown Chamber of Commerce.

In 1868 Mr. Van Alstine was married to Susanah Wehr, of Voungstown, and they have three children, Blanche W., Jessie and Ruth. The family lielong to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Van Alstine l>eing a member of the board of trustees.

WARD LOUIS KNESAL. On acc 'tint of the large distilling interests < -entered at New Middletown, the portion of storekeeper and gauger for the government is a very responsible and important one. Since March. 1001. this office has been held by Edward I-ouis Knesal, who was born at Petersburg, Ohio, July 31. 1S67, and is a son of John George and Henrietta ( Whitmyre) Knesal.

John George Knesal was born in Germany and was eight years old when he was brought to America by his parents, who located at New Springfield, Ohio. Of their eleven children , seven survive, as follows: Henrietta, who married Samuel Koch, residing in Detroit, has a daughter who is older than our subject; Charles, residing at Greenport, Long Island. New York, who is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church; Alice, who married C. M. Morse, who was engaged in ministerial work until his health failed and then learned stenography and is now court stenographer at Bea- | ver, Heaver County, Pennsylvania: Emma, who married Dr. Joel Cooperrider. residing at Brownsville. Ohio; Lizzie, who married John Shiller. residing at Petersburg; Edward Louis, and Nora, who married Duncan Livingstone, residing at New Middletown.

After completing his education in the schools of Petersburg, Edward L. Knesal learned shoemaking. a trade he followed for fifteen years in connection with conducting a shoe store. For three years prior to coming to New Middletown, in January, 1901. he was in business at Newcastle, Pennsylvania. He was officially connected with the government offices at New Springfield lie fore he was transferred to New Middletown, but this place has been his home ever since he entered the service. His territory includes the 18th District of Ohio.

On April 21. 1890, Mr. Knesal was married to Kate Shillinger. who was born at New Middletown, and is a daughter of Jonathan and Louisa (Halm) Shillinger, the former of whom conducted a store at New Middtetown for many years and for twenty years was a justice of the peace. Mrs. Shillinger still survives and resides with Mr. and Mrs. Knesal. The latter have had three children, the one survivor being Charles Morse, who was born June 22, 1895. The two older children were twins, who died at birth.

Mr. Knesal and family are meml>ers of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Petersburg. He has always lieen interested in Sunday school work and at one time was su|>erintcndent of this Sunday school, lieing the youngest official of that kind in the conference. He has also been church trustee. In j>olitics he is an ardent Republican. He is a member of Starlight Lodge, No. 224, Knights of Pythias, at Petersburg. Mr. Knesal is one of the city's energetic and reliable citizens. He is serving as a member of the board of education.

J. PARRY, one of Youngstown's successful business citizens, who is engaged in a general r< iofing and s|K>uting business, was born in Pennsylvania in 1863, and was reared both in Mercer County, that state, and in Trumbull County, Ohio. Early in life he worked in the coal mines, in which occupation he continued for about five or six years. In 1880 he came to Voungstown and learned the slater's trade, at which he worked for a period of 13 years with Mr. Blunt. He then followed this trade for some time in various other places, nml finally engaged in the general roofing Imsiness, locating on Oak Hill avenue, where he remained until March. 1904. Afterwards he moved to 738 Mahoning avenue, where he is at present located. Mr. Parry was married in 1884 to Lillie J. Dando, of Youngstown. Ohio, and they have three children : Edward P., who is in Imsiness with his father; Lorinda and George. Mr. Parry is a member of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal C hurch and was for two years district steward, and for live years a member of the finance committee. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Golden Eagle, of the Foresters, and of the Maccabees.

|EWIS J. JACOBS, court constable at Youngstown, and one of the older continuous residents of this city, was horn in i8p in Coitsville township, Mahoning County. Ohio, and is a son of Xicholas and ls.dK.-Ha (Hrown) Jacobs.