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Both Mr. and Mrs. Moulton are progressive and abreast of the age, largely spending their lives in broadening and elevating all classes of people and thus exalting the nation. Their motto is the greatest good to the greatest number, and "Love your neighbors as yourself."
HENRY HARRISON PIERCE, an ex-soldier of the Civil war and well known as having been connected with various public positions within Trum- bull county, Ohio, was born June 1, 1839, at Troy, Vermont, the son of Thaddeus and Harriet Pierce, natives of Massachusetts, born near the city of Boston. Henry H. was reared on a farm and early taught the need and usefulness of industrious habits and hard work. He worked at farming and received a limited education. When sixteen years of age he was set to work and expected to perform a man's labor. He was only permitted to attend school three months a year and one term at Farmington, in addition to the country district schools he had attended. In 1854 he accom- panied his father to Ohio and located on a farm a half mile north of Bris- tolville, where he was employed on the farm and at the carpenter's trade, continuing this until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he enlisted in 1861 as a member of Company H, Seventh Ohio Volunteers, and served his country faithfully for over three years. He was taken a prisoner of war at Chancellorsville and sent to Libby prison and Belle Island, He
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participated in every engagement in which his regiment took part save the battle of Gettysburg. After his honorable discharge he returned to Bristol- ville, Ohio, when his father sold out and purchased a farm in Austinburg, upon which he worked and followed the carpenter's trade up to 1870, when he returned to Bristol and bought the stock of goods belonging to F. H. Coreys and operated that store for twenty-four years. During that time he was assessor, township clerk and a justice of the peace, serving in the latter capacity for eight years. He was also a county commissioner six years, and in 1894 took charge of the county infirmary, where he remained five years, then moved to Warren and was elected president and manager of the Warren Rubber Company. After establishing a good trade he was taken sick, as the labor connected with the business was too hard for him; hence he sold out his interest and in 1903 was elected member of the board of public service, holding the office of president until January 1, 1908.
Politically he has ever been a true defender of Republican party prin- ciples and active in party work. In his retirement from every public posi- tion he has been called upon to fill he has left his seat with a clean, praise- worthy record. Mr. Pierce was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, commander of Brooks Post ; was connected with the K. O. T. M., and is now the R. K. & F. K. of that order, having held this position four years ; was secretary of the Soldiers' Relief Commission six years, and holds present membership with Harmon Post, G. A. R., of which he was lieutenant-commander one year.
Mr. Pierce was married in 1871 to Ellen R. Gilkerson, by whom were born two children : Harry E. and Harriet M.
ALBERT GUARNIERI, a business man of Warren, Ohio, whose establish- meut of wholesale and retail fruits, ice cream, cigars and tobacco has jumped to the front rank and become one of popularity within a short time, is a native of Genoa, Italy, in which sunny clime he was born January 1, 1866. He was reared and obtained his education in his native country, coming to America in 1886, arriving at New York on September 19 of that year. The year of his arrival in this country he commenced business in a small way at Warren, where he has continued for the last twenty-two years.
As an ice cream manufacturer he is acknowledged as a leader in his community, and the people are ready and willing to give him due praise by extending to him a liberal patronage. He is also an expert candymaker, with many years of experience behind him. His entire fruit and confec- tionery business is one of prosperity and success.
Mr. Guarnieri was united in marriage October 23, 1887, to Mary Basso, a native of Italy, born and reared in the same locality as was her husband. Five children have blessed this union: Louisa, Fred, Louis, Albert and Lena. Mr. Guarnieri is a supporter of the Republican party, and in church relations is a member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church. He is also identified with the Knights of Columbus. He has by good
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judgment and manly treatment to all with whom he has dealings made a wide eirele of friends and well-wishers.
S. E. WANAMAKER, V. S .- A man of versatile talents and excellent business qualifications, S. E. Wanamaker, V. S., of Warren, Trumbull county is succeeding well in his professional career, having an extensive patronage in the city and in the surrounding country. A native of this county, he was born September 21, 1859, at Bailey's Corners, Lordstown township, being the grandson of Jacob Wanamaker, who was born in Pennsylvania, of German ancestors, and was one of the very early settlers of Trumbull county, coming here when this part of the state was in its primitive wildness.
John Wanamaker, the Doctor's father, was born in Pennsylvania, and as a boy eame with his parents to Trumbull county. He subsequently bought land, but followed his trade, carpentering, and engaged in the flax mill business until his death, when but forty-nine years of age. He mar- ried Mary M. Fusselman, who spent her sixty-three years of earthly life in Trumbull county, where her parents settled in pioneer days, coming here from the Keystone state.
The youngest of a family of nine children, of whom five are living, S. E. Wanamaker was educated in the district schools of his native town- ship, and until thirteen years old remained on the home farm. Thrown then to some extent upon his own resources, he worked by the month for four years. Going then to West Salem, Wayne county, he worked for his oldest brother for three years, being employed in his flax mill and ware- house. Buying an interest in a livery stable in that town, he continued in that business about six months and then went to Jeromeville, Ashland county, Ohio, where he operated a flour mill for eight years. Selling his interests in that locality, Mr. Wanamaker returned to West Salem, and during the years of 1887 and 1888 attended the Ontario Veterinary Col- lege, at Toronto, Canada. Beginning the practice of his profession at Carlton, Dr. Wanamaker remained there three years, after which he was located at East Liverpool, Columbiana county, until 1898. Coming in that year to his native county, the Doctor has since been located at Warren, where he has a very large and lucrative practice, his skill and knowledge as a veterinary surgeon being widely and favorably known throughout this part of the state.
Dr. Wanamaker married, in 1880, in West Salem, Ohio, Addie Aliee Neal, a daughter of John B. and Jemima ( Plank) Neal. Four children have been born of the union of Dr. and Mrs. Wanamaker, one of whom, Neal Alford, the only son, died at the age of three years. They have three daughters living, namely: Belva; Fern, wife of Arlington H. Barbe, of Cleveland, Ohio; and Mary Ethel, who is employed in the Western Reserve National Bank. The Doctor is fraternally a member of the Knights of Maceabees, belonging to Warren Lodge No. 162.
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THOMAS MURRAY .- Actively engaged in mercantile pursuits, Thomas Murray is a well known business man of Warren, Trumbull county, being extensively engaged in the sale of coal, fuel and building supplies at 505 Mahoning avenue. A son of Michael Murray, he was born January 2, 1855, in Genesee county, New York, but was reared and educated in Ohio.
Born in Ireland, Michael Murray there grew to manhood, and there resided for a number of years after his marriage. In 1848, turning to America as the field of promise for a successful career, he came to the United States, and at the end of five years had labored to such good purpose that he was enabled to send for his wife and children. A few years later he migrated with his family to Ohio, and after spending seven years in Geauga county, moved to Portage county, locating on a small farm in Windham, where he resided until his death, at the age of seventy-four years. He married, in Ireland, Mary Rouse, a native of the Emerald Isle. She died in Geauga county, Ohio, in 1857. Of the ten children born to their union three are now living, Thomas, the youngest child, being the only one born on American soil.
Receiving a practical education in the public schools of the village of Windham, Ohio, Thomas Murray began life for himself at the age of sixteen years, being first employed as a track laborer, or section hand, on what is now known as the Erie railroad. He was afterward foreman for four years on the same road, and in 1895 was made road supervisor of Division No. 3, a position which he held a number of years. He is now, as above stated, dealing in coal, fuel and building material in Warren, his office being advantageously located on the Erie Railroad.
In 1873 Mr. Murray married Margaret Farrell, who was born in Genesee county, New York, and came with her parents, Edward and Mary Farrell, to Garrettsville, Portage county, Ohio, when young. Eight chil- dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Murray, namely: Mary, died when a year and a half old; Maggie C., wife of B. T. Borden, of Toronto, Canada, who organized the Borden Company in Warren, Ohio; Mary, living at home; Michael E., holding a high position with the General Fire Proofing Company at Youngstown, Ohio, married Mattie J. Newton ; Thomas W , having charge of the branch office of the General Fire Proofing Company at St. Louis, Missouri, married Ellen Hatfield; Ella, wife of Frank Nerocher, who is connected with the Fire Proofing Company at Youngstown ; Theresa G., studying music in Toronto, Canada, will graduate with honors in the fall of 1909; and Francis B., a student. Fraternally Mr. Murray is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and religiously he belongs to the Catholic church.
WILLIAM W. DRAY .- The representative of an honored pioneer family of Trumbull county, and one of the brave, patriotic and gallant soldiers who did such heroic service during the troublous times of the Civil war, William W. Dray, of Warren, Ohio, holds a firm position among the highly esteemed citizens of this place, and is widely known as quartermaster of
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Bell-Harmon Post No. 36, G. A. R. A son of the late Thomas Dray, he was born September 22, 1843, in Wellsville, Columbiana county, Ohio. His grandfather, Charles Dray, and his great-grandfather, Edward Dray, were both natives of County Antrim, Ireland. The surname was originally spelled Drake, but after Edward, the emigrant ancestor, came to this country it was changed to its present form.
But five years of age when, with his parents, he crossed the broad Atlantic, Charles Dray first stepped upon American soil at Baltimore. He subsequently lived near Boston, Massachusetts, for a short time, then in Braddock, Pennsylvania, from there coming to Trumbull county, Ohio, in pioneer days, and here spending the remainder of his long life, dying at the remarkable age of one hundred and four years.
Thomas Dray, born on the Dray homestead, in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1804, lived in Trumbull and Columbiana counties, Ohio, until 1865. Moving then to Orange township, Allen county, he there spent his remain- ing years. passing away in 1892. He was first married by John Carlton on September 24, 1829, to Hannah Williock, who was born February 29, 1812, and died July 4, 1848. She bore him five children, as follows : Martha Jane, horn January 24, 1834, in Knox tonship, Columbiana county : Lemuel, born June 2. 1837; Mary, born Angust 29. 1840, died August 17, 1844; William W., of this sketch, born September 22, 1843; and Hannah L., born May 24, 1848, died August 28, 1848. Mr. Dray subsequently mar- ried for his second wife, May 12, 1853, Malissa Sheffelton, born Angust 24, 1824, the marriage ceremony being performed by Thomas Duncan. By this union there were four children-John S .. born Febraury 28, 1854; Charles H., born June 22, 1856; James W., born February 17, 1858 : Eliza F. J., born November 13, 1863, died September 5, 1866,
Reared and edneated in Niles, Ohio, William W. Dray remained at home until eighteen years of age, when, according to a certified statement, he enlisted in the service of his country, August 27, 1861, and on September 7, 1861, was mustered into Company (, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Intan- try, under Captain Henry Stratton and Colonel Samuel Beatty, at Alliance, Ohio, for a term of three years, or until the close of the war. He was hon- orably discharged at Flatt Creek, eastern Tennessee, January 1, 1864, and on the same day, and at the same place, re-enlisted, and was mustered in as a private in the same company and same regiment, under Captain F. Chamberlain and Colonel Charles F. Manderson. The regiment went first by rail to Cincinnati, arriving there November 16, 1861, thenee by steamer to Louisville, Kentucky, and was the first to occupy Camp Jenkins. five miles from that eity. It was subsequently attached to the Eleventh Brigade, commanded by Gen. J. T. Boyle, and was stationed at Columbia, where much sickness prevailed and many deaths occurred. The regiment was later assigned to Beatty's Brigade, Crittenden's Division, Fourth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and participated in the following engagements : Shiloh, occupation of Corinth, Perryville, Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chicka- manga, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca. Cassville, Dallas, Pickett's Mills, Kenesaw Mountain, Pine
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Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Chattahoochie River, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy Station, Franklin and Nashville. From the latter place the regi- ment followed in pursuit of Hood's defeated and demoralized army to the Tennessee river, and afterward did duty at Huntsville, Alabama, Nashville, Tennessee, and at Green Lake and San Antonio, Texas, remaining at the latter place until mustered out of service October 24, 1865. On February 3, 1864, for meretorious service, Mr. Dray was promoted to the rank of corporal. He was wounded in the left hand June 22, 1864, at the battle. of Kenesaw Mountain, but remained with his regiment. From June, 1862, until September, 1862, he was confined to the hospital, first in the field hospital, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and later at Hospital No. 1, in Nashville, otherwise always being with his command.
Mr. Dray married, first, December 31, 1868, Austa Freas, who died June 10, 1871. He married, second, in Warren, Ohio, April 2, 1873, Mary J. Raudon, by whom he had one child, George, born May 14, 1874. Mrs. Dray died July 10, 1874, and their son, George C., died July 31 of the same year. On October 14, 1875, at Southington, Ohio, Mr. Dray married for his third wife Rebecca Long, and of this union three children have been born, namely : Blanche C., born July 30, 1876: Emma May, July 14, 1878, and Thomas L., September 14, 1881. Fraternally, Mr. Dray is a member and qaurtermaster of Bell-Harmon Post No. 36, G. A. R., in which he has held all of the offices, including that of commander.
CHARLES C. CHRYST .- Endowed by nature with keen mental faculties, and possessing the energy, ability and tact necessary to insure business suc- cess, Charles C. Chryst is an important factor in promoting the material interests of the city of Warren, being widely known as the secretary and treasurer of the Warren Provision Company. A native of Trumbull county, he was born September 12, 1856, in Weathersfield township, a son of S. R. Chryst, and is the eldest of a family of three children, the others being Judge F. S. Chryst, and a sister, Blanche, now deceased.
Receiving his elementary education in the Warren schools, Charles C. Chryst completed his early studies in Meadville, attending the Alleghany College. Embarking in business for himself when young, he was for twelve years proprietor of the Park Hotel. He has for thirty-four years been actively employed in business in Warren, and since the organization of the Warren Provision Company, in 1904, has served as its secretary and treas- urer, his father being president of the company. Mr. Chryst holds, also, other positions of trust and responsibility, being secretary and treasurer of the Realty and Trust Company, president of the Riverside Recreation Com- pany, a member of the Warren Board of Trade, and proprietor of the Hotel Topliff, of Elyria, Ohio. Public-spirited and enterprising, he has ever taken an interest in promoting and advancing beneficial projects, and was secretary of the Good Roads Committee, and the originator of the move- ment that resulted in the building of sixty miles of macadamized roads in this locality, one of the greatest possible benefits to the community.
HENRY HOOD
MRS. HENRY HOOD
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Mr. Chryst married, in 1901, Elizabeth Tuohy, a native of Trumbull county. Fraternally Mr. Chryst is a member of Warren Lodge No. 295, B. P. O. E., and of the Knights of Pythias.
HENRY HOOD, retired farmer, of Mineral Ridge, Trumbull county, was born on the farm where he now resides in Weathersfield township, De- cember 6, 1821, a son of Simon Hood, who came to Liberty in 1804 from Pennsylvania. He was of English parentage, his father coming from Eng- land and locating in Washington county, Pennsylvania, when a boy. Simon Hood was born at that place, and came to Trumbull county when a boy of six years. There he was educated at the public schools of Liberty town- ship. He began life's career as a carpenter, at which trade he worked for a number of years. He married Louisa Bricker, daughter of Henry Bricker. Mrs. Simon Hood was born near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where she received her education in the common schools and at Columbiana county, near Washingtonville. Nine children were born to this worthy couple : John Hood, deceased; Elizabeth, who married John Penal, now deceased ; Dorathea, who married David Hake, now living in Wisconsin, at the age of eighty-five years ; Henry Hood, of this memoir; N. C. Hood, who died from diseases contracted in the Civil war; William B. Hood, de- ceased ; David E., deceased ; Levi, deceased ; Mary C. Hood, who died at the age of nine years.
Simon Hood was in the war of 1812, serving as a captain under Colonel Cotgrave. In politics, he was a Jeffersonian Democrat up to 1860, when he joined the ranks of the Republican party and voted for President Lincoln. He was a member of the German Reformed church.
Henry Hood commenced life by working at the cooper's trade and on various farms. He enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Seventy- first Ohio Infantry Regiment, April 27, 1864, having been a member of the Ohio State National Guard, for five years. He was mustered out of service August 20, 1864. He was in the battle of Kellar's Bridge, Ken- tucky, where six hundred Union troops were attacked by three thousand Confederate soldiers. The Union soldiers were armed with condemned arms and, being outnumbered, were forced to surrender after a sharp en- gagement. After being a prisoner twenty-four hours, he, with his com- rades, were paroled, on account of the Union army pressing the Confed- erate troops. Then they were compelled to march fifty miles to the Ohio river, where, at Augusta, they captured a boat and compelled the crew to transport them to Cincinnati, where they were again sent to the front. In that first engagement he was wounded in the knee; also a bullet struck his belt buckle and glanced off, the buckle doubtless saving his life.
For a number of years, he followed the cooper's trade, but of late years engaged in general farming. On account of age, he is now retired from active work, abandoning such in 1905. He has a farm of nineteen acres upon which he resides, and owns three hundred and seventy-five acres in Kentucky.
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He is a Republican and has several times held local office, including supervisor. He was at one time a member of the Mineral Ridge Grange. He is one of the honored members of the Grand Army of the Republic, McPherson Post, at Niles. In his church faith, he adheres to that of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, in which he has been a Sunday School teacher. He has also held the church offices of steward and trustee, of which board he is now an honorary member. He is one of the oldest mem- bers in the church to which he now belongs.
March 29, 1849, Henry Hood was married to Julia A. Hake, daughter of George Hake and Susanna (Miller) Hake, of York, Pennsylvania. Her father came to Trumbull county when she was a child of six summers, her mother dying while en route to Ohio in a covered wagon. Mrs. Hood died in 1907. The children born to Mr. Hood and wife were as follows: Mary C., who married W. H. Price, a member of the Sixth Ohio Cavalry; she lives with and keeps house for her father; Doratha P., married David E. Meeker, a member of the Sixth Ohio Cavalry, and lives in Braceville, Ohio; Susanna, married Wallace Reel and both are now deceased; Orlando D., deceased; Emmery G., residing at Ohltown, Ohio; Lydia A., married Edwin L. Clay, of Braceville; Lou, who married O. W. Rose, and lives in Weathersfield township; Louisa, who died in infancy.
FRANK A. MILLIKAN .- Prominent among the foremost business men of Trumbull county is Frank A. Millikan, who has contributed in a large measure towards the development and advancement of the manufacturing interests of this part of the state, being at the head of two manufacturing plants in Warren. A native of Ohio, he was born, October 29, 1860, in Windham, Portage county, which was also the place of birth of his father, Henry A. Millikan. He comes of good old New England stock, his grand- father, Alexander Millikan, having been born in New Hampshire, of Scotch- Irish ancestors.
Henry A. Millikan enlisted during the Civil war in the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed while bravely serving his country. He married Julia Merwin, who was born in Braceville, Trumbull county, Ohio, where her father, Lewis Merwin, located on coming to this state from Connecticut, his bride accompanying him on horseback on the long journey made across the country. She died in 1900, aged sixty- seven years. Four children were born to Henry A. and Julia Millikan, namely: Edwin, a farmer in Braceville, Ohio; Ella, living in Mentor, Ohio; Frank A., of this sketch, and Eugenia, who married F. B. Wads- worth, and died in 1905.
Having completed his early education in the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Frank A. Millikan was for four years engaged in the mercantile business at West Farmington, Trumbull county. He was subsequently employed for fifteen years as a traveling salesman in furniture line. Set- tling in Warren, Mr. Millikan began the manufacture of display racks for furniture stores, and under the name of the Eureka Manufacturing Com-
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pany has established a well-paying business, his factory being located on Dawson street. Enterprising and active in resources, he afterwards began the manufacture of sticky fly paper, and met with such success that his business has been incorporated and enlarged. The company of which Mr. Millikan is president was capitalized at $25,000, and is destined to become one of Warren's important industries, the factory in which the paper is made being located on the main line of the Erie railroad.
In 1883, in West Farmington, Ohio, Mr. Millikan married Emma Wolcott, who was born in Warren, a daughter of Orlow Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. Millikan have one child, Louise, who was in charge of the Free Kinder- garten schools of Warren, and now is wife of E. S. Good, of Lexington, Kentucky, a professor in the state university. Fraternally, Mr. Millikan is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and religiously he is prom- inent in the Presbyterian church, in which he is an elder, and is active in its Sunday school.
EDWARD A. BIERY .- A life-long resident of Trumbull county, and a man who has ever been interested in the development and advancement of its resources, Edward A. Biery, residing at 220 Scott street, Warren, is well and favorably known throughout the county as a former sheriff. In his official capacity he was wide-awake, keen and alert, doing his duty promptly and faithfully, and with perfect justness. A son of Reuben Biery, he was born in Weathersfield township, Trumbull county, December 28, 1855.
Of German descent, Reuben Biery was born in Lehigh county, Penn- sylvania, and was there reared and educated. Coming to Ohio in pioneer days, he settled in Trumbull county, living first in Howland township, then in Weatherfield, then in Niles. He was a farmer by occupation, and was engaged in the prosecution of his independent calling until his death, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Hartzell, was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and died in Trumbull county, Ohio, aged sixty-one years. They were the parents of seven children, five of whom are living, Edward A. being the youngest of the family.
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