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there attended school also. He became a contractor in coal mines, and fol- lowed that several years, and then learned the stationary engineer trade, and followed such work for a number of years. In 1900 he was elected justice of the peace, and he served fifteen years on the school board, to which position he was again elected in 1908. He has served as a member of the town council and been active in political party matters, being an avowed Republican. For several years he served on the committee of this party in Trumbull county. Being a believer in the good to be accomplished by fraternalism, he is numbered among the worthy brothers of the Masonie order. In his church connection he is identified with the Christian church.
Of his domestic relations, let it be recorded that Mr. Pearce was united happily in marriage in the month of November, 1873, to Maggie M. Williams, born in Trumbull county, Ohio. The nine children born of this union are as follows: William, of Mineral Ridge; Lawrence, of Girard ; Solomon B., of Mineral Ridge; Daniel and Jay B., deceased ; Jay T., of Mineral Ridge; Martin, Howard and George, at home. A grand- child, Phoebe Pearee, child of William Pearee, is also a member of the family.
In all that pertains to publie enterprise, education and the general welfare of the county, Mr. Pearce has ever been foremost. He was one of the promoters of the Niles and Mineral Ridge street railroad ; also assisted in organizing the Mineral Ridge Manufacturing Company. He was one who set on foot the company now known as the Niles Mine and Mill Supply Company, he being its vice-president at the time of organization. Through his large and varied business acquaintance he is universally known in this section of Ohio, and is a man of much ability and strict integrity.
JOHN L. MCDERMOTT, proprietor of a clothing store and men's furnish- ing goods, doing business at Niles, was born in the city of Niles, October 12, 1873, a son of Charles MeDermott, a native of Ireland, who came to America in 1860. By occupation the father was an iron worker. He enlisted in 1861 in the U. S. Marine Service, being on the following boats : "Glorious" and "Ohio " and also on the "Gloucester." After five years' service he settled in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and subsequently in Niles, Ohio, going to the latter place about 1869. There he engaged in the iron mills. His death occurred when sixty-six years of age. His wife was Anna McClain, a native of Ireland, but who lived in England. She is now sixty-nine years old, and is residing in Niles. Nine children of the union are living-three daughters and six sons: Rose, wife of John MeGhinn : Charles, of Chicago; Sarah, wife of Henry Beidenharn, of Lansing, Michigan ; Kate, wife of George Dresch, of Sharon, Pennsylvania ; Steven, a mail carrier, of Niles; Frank, also a mail carrier, Niles, Ohio; Grant Peter, of Niles; Barnard, of Lansing, Michigan; and John L.
John L. McDermott is the fourth child in the family. He was reared and educated in his native place. For a time he was employed in the iron mills; was also in the newspaper business, and was the first man to arrange
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all the papers of Niles under one heading. In all, he was connected with the newspaper business nine years, and was city clerk of Niles at the time. In 1897 he formed a partnership with M. McGowan in the men's furnishing business. In 1904 Mr. Callinan succeeded him, and the firm of MeDermott & Callinan was established.
Mr. MeDermott takes an active part in the political affairs of his county, and has held local offices, including that on the sewer service com- mission. He received the nomination in 1908 for the office of clerk of the courts for Trumbull county at the hands of the Republican party. Mr. McDermott was married in 1900 to Minnie Callinan, by whom he has two sons and one daughter: John, Jr .; Frank and Helen.
GEORGE L. CAMPBELL, a pioneer settler and a real estate and insurance agent at Niles, Ohio, was born at Mineral Ridge, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1844, a son of George and Polly (McConnell) Campbell. The father was born in Liberty township, Trumbull county, and the mother in Weath- ersfield township, of the same county. The grandfather Campbell, one of the pioneers of this county, was a farmer, and was born in Ireland. The maternal grandfather, John McConnell, also a farmer by occupation, was a native of Scotland. George L. Campbell's parents were united in mar- riage in Trumbull county, and located at Mineral Ridge, where they reared the following family: John, Allen, Calvin, Alexander, George L., Martin and Nancy J., wife of John Leavitt, of Youngstown, Ohio.
George L. Campbell was the seventh child and sixth son. He was reared and educated in his native place, and remained at home assisting his parents until he embarked in the grocery business ; later he ran a livery barn at Sharpsville, Pennsylvania. In 1876 he engaged in the real estate business, coupled with insurance. Along with this he served for eight years as superintendent of the city water and light plant of Niles.
In his political choice Mr. Campbell favors Republican party principles. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being a Master Mason at Niles, and also belongs to the Elks of that place. He is a life-long resident of Niles and Trumbull county, and comes of pioneer stock.
In the month of October, 1868, Mr. Campbell was married to Mary Garside, daughter of Benjamin and Cordelia Garside, Canfield, Mahoning county, Ohio. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Campbell : James B., state agent for an insurance company; Charles L., residing in Niles; George E., connected with a wholesale grocery house; Nellie L., at home; and Cordelia, wife of L. J. Campbell, who has one child, Uretta Place Campbell, born in 1906, at New Haven, Connecticut.
C. W. UNGER, D. D. S., representing the dental profession at Niles, Ohio, is a native of Columbiana county, Ohio, born April 29, 1842. He is the son of Henry Unger, native of the above county. The grandfather was Jacob Unger, born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who became one
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of the early settlers in Ohio. He was of German descent. Dr. Unger's mother was Susan Beight, daughter of Jacob Beight, of German extraction. She was born in Cohunbiana county, Ohio, and was married to Mr. Unger in her native county, settling on a farm. She died when Doctor Unger was two years of age, and he was taken to the home of his grandfather, Jacob Beight, who reared him until he was of military age.
In 1861 Doctor Unger enlisted in Company G, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private soldier, serving from April 19, 1861, until August 18 the same year. He re-enlisted for three years' service, but was rejected on account of disability caused by injuries received in service in line of duty. He married Mary A. Longenecker and located at Canfield, Ohio, where he was in the practice of dentistry, having studied at Bucyrus, and graduated at the Philadelphia Dental College in 1872-3. He was in practice from 1869 to 1873 when he located at Niles, where he has since attended to his duties as a skillful dental surgeon. He has the distinction of being the oldest dentist in Trumbull county, in point of service, having been thus engaged for thirty-five years. In 1896 the Doctor took a post-graduate course at the Northwestern Dental College, Chicago, Illinois.
Politically he is a staneh Republican, and voted for President Lincoln in 1864. He is identified with the Grand Army of the Republic, McPherson Post No. 16, at Niles. The Doctor and his wife are the parents of the fol- lowing children : Harry, Fred, John, Dr. Ross, a dentist in Cleveland, and May, at home.
CLEMENT P. SOUDER, manager of the Souder Lumber Company, of Niles, Ohio, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1852, a son of Clement V. Souder, a native of Beaver county, Pennsylvania. The father was reared in this eounty, and was the son of a Scotehman. The grandmother was a native of Ireland. The mother of Clement P. Souder was Martha Patten, a native of East Liverpool, Columbiana county, Ohio, in which eounty she was united in marriage. Her father was James Patten, who was born about twenty miles east of Pittsburg, and was of German origin. There were eleven children in the family-nine sons and two daughters-four of whom died young.
Clement P. is the fourth child and fourth son. He came to Niles, Ohio, when about fourteen years of age, from Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He attended sehool in his native place and at Niles. When fifteen he began learning the trade of carpenter by serving an apprenticeship, and worked at it for some time, but subsequently took up architecture, following this for five years. In 1889 he formed a partnership with W. C. Allison in the general lumber business. They continued until 1901, then sold to the Niles Car Company, with which company Mr. Souder remained for three years, until January, 1905, when he established his present business, consisting of lumber yard and planing mill.
Politically, Mr. Souder takes an interest in the workings of the Repub-
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lican party, and has been a member of the board of education for sixteen years. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and is state district deputy, which position he has filled for the past twenty years. He is a progressive citizen, who has for thirty-nine years resided in Niles, and for many years been identified with her interests. In his business he now employs about twenty men.
He was married in December, 1874, to Mary Erwin, daughter of David Erwiu and wife, of Niles. Two children bless this union : May, wife of Ward Jones, of Warren, connected with the Peerless Electric Company ; and Nellie G., the wife of Chas. Strain, a ladies' tailor, of Warren, Ohio.
WILLIAM GEORGE DUCK, president of the school board of Niles, Trum- bull county, general merchant and substantial citizen, has always squared his life to the best traditions of his English nativity. While industrious, earnest, practical and therefore successful in business, he has never forgotten that real progress, whether of individual or community, can be founded only on intelligence. In consistently maintaining this attitude he is following the instincts of his English blood and conforming to American precepts and principles, which he has been absorbing since he was eight years of age.
Mr. Duck was born in Somersetshire, England, on the 21st of June, 1858, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Viney) Duck. In 1866 the parents brought their family to America, locating on a farm in North Bloomfield township, this county, where eight of their ten children were born and reared. William G. Duck was the second of the children, and spent the earlier years of his life in agricultural pursuits. Later he located at Niles as a clerk in the store of B. F. Pew, and continued in that capacity for seven years. The result was that when he engaged in the grocery business as proprietor he was a master of those correct commercial principles which invariably bring success of the substantial and honorable kind. In 1897 Mr. Duck added dry goods, notions and carpets to his grocery stock, and since that year has carried a complete and select assortment of household necessities and comforts. He is also interested in two other stores in Niles, and his entire business career has evinced the best traits of American enter- prise and English solidity. Besides his extensive mercantile interests, he is a stockholder in the Dollar Savings Bank, and is identified with other financial institutions.
Mr. Duck has never been a pronounced politician, but his citizenship has taken the direction of supporting all public matters which promise good to the community at large. In this line has been the deep and prac- tical interest he has shown in public education, and as president of the Niles Board of Education his course has met with general approbation. His fraternal connections are with the Royal Arcanum and the Knights of Pythias. In 1893 Mr. Duck was married to Miss Sadie E. Evans, daughter of John E. and Anna (Evans) Evans, and the two children born. to them are Howard and William Duck.
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CHARLES E. CLEMENS, farmer, contractor and bridge builder, comes of a family some of the members of which spell the name with an additional "m." Mr. Clemens of this notice was born in Jackson township, Mahoning county, Ohio, September 15, 1861, a son of Jared Clemmens, born on the same farm and the grandfather also was a native of the same place.
Jared Clemmens was born in North Jackson, Mahoning county, Ohio, April 27, 1835, a son of Daniel Clemmens, who was the son of Nicholas Clemmens, a native of Germany, who came to America, accompanied by his wife, the trip being made in Colonial days. He located in Pennsylvania and served in the interests of the Colony and for three years of such time was with General Washington. His descendants have a cane, which was presented to him by Washington. This was bestowed in recognition of faithful services. It is believed he settled in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, from which section he emigrated to Ohio, becoming a pioneer in Boardman township, Mahoning county. By trade, he was a miller, and followed this for his livelihood. He spent his last days in Boardman, passing away at an advanced old age.
Daniel Clemmens, the grandfather, mastered the blacksmith's trade, and settled down in North Jackson after his marriage. He there bought a tract of land containing one hundred acres and from out the dense forest cleared up a valuable farm, making the "wilderness to blossom like the rose." He continued to reside there fifty-two years, when death called him from the scenes of earth, at the good old age of eighty-five years. His wife's maiden name was Barbara Stumbach. She was born in Boardman town- ship and died on the old homestead farm, aged fifty-two years. Eleven of her children reached maturity, all were married and reared families.
Jared Clemmens was reared to agricultural pursuits and remained with, and assisted his father, until his marriage, then had full charge of the farm up to 1863, when he purchased the farm where he still lives, moving to the place in 1865. His wife was Laura J. Ohl, a native of Lordstown, born March 18, 1871, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Robb) Ohl (see sketch of her family). The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Jared Clemmens were: Charles E., Margaret E., Elizabeth A., Nancy B., Mary V. and John C.
Charles E. Clemens was five years of age when his parents moved to Lordstown township, and here he was reared and educated. He remained at the home of his parents until his marriage, when he began the life of an independent farmer, working land on shares up to 1890, when he pur- chased a farm in the southeast part of the township, which place he culti- vated until 1903, when he bought the farm which had been improved by his maternal grandfather, and which has not been out of the family since it was reclaimed from its wilderness state. It contains one hundred and thirty-five acres, with good buildings.
Mr. Clemens was united in marriage April 9, 1882, to Mary Hood, born in Liberty township. Trumbull county, Ohio, a daughter of Isaac and Angeline Hood. The children reared by Mr. and Mrs. Clemens are : Clarence and Bernice. Clarence married Jessie Young and has two chil-
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dren, Ralph and Arthur. In politics, Mr. Clemens is a supporter of the Republican party and both himself and estimable wife are consistent mem- bers of the United Brethren church.
WILLIAM GRISWOLD HURLBERT, for the past ten years president and treasurer of the Bostwick Steel Lath Company, of Niles, Trumbull county, has long been a successful business man of the west and middle west. He is a descendant of pure New England stock, founded by one Thomas Hurlbut, supposed to have been a Scotchman. It is known, however, that he crossed the Atlantic about 1635, set up a blacksmith shop at Wethersfield, Connecti- cut, which he conducted for many years, and that he served in some of the Indian campaigns under Lion Gardner, at Saybrook, that state. When various members of the family removed from Wethersfield, Connecticut, to Forestville, Chautauqua county, New York, in the early part of the nine- teenth century, the name was changed from Hurlbut to Hulbert, and after the death of John Hulbert (grandfather of William G.) in 1862 his wife established the present spelling-Hurlbert.
Thomas Hurlbut, the progenitor of the American family, was the father of six children, of whom Stephen, born in 1649, was the direct forefather of William G. His second child, Thomas, was born at Wethersfield, Janu- ary 23, 1681 ; was a farmer ; married Rebecca Meekins March 11, 1705, and died April 10, 1761. The seventh of his nine children was Elijah, born at Wethersfield December 9, 1719; married Elizabeth Belden, and became the father of ten children. Simeon, the second of this family, married Mary Forbes. They had five children, John, born at Wethersfield August 20, 1795, being their youngest and the grandfather of William G. He it was who changed the family name from Hurlbut to Hulbert. He was left an orphan at an early age by the death of his father. At the age of seventeen the youth enlisted in Captain Rockwell's company of Massachusetts infantry for service in the war of 1812. On March 3, 1823, he wedded Sarah Ann Perry, who was born July 24, 1808, and is known to have been related to Commodore Perry. After his marriage he emigrated to the west, stop- ping at Forestville, Chautauqua county, New York, and subsequently estab- lished the first wagon shop in the town of Hanover.
Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. John Hulbert, John Forbes Hurlbert being their second child and eldest son. Born at Forestville, New York, on the 26th of August, 1826, he married Ann Maria Griswold, at Portland, New York, on June 21, 1852. Of their three children, the second, William Griswold Hurlbert, was born at Forestville, Chautauqua county, New York, on the 11th of November, 1858, and at the age of twelve years, after attending the free academy of the village, moved with the family to Petroleum Centre, Pennsylvania, where the father conducted the "McClin- tock House" for three years, and followed that line of business, with but few interruptions, until his death in 1883. The sons, also, have followed in their father's footsteps, George F., the younger brother of William G., being at the present time proprietor of the "New Grand Hotel," Thirty-
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first street and Broadway, New York City, and the "New Sherman House," Jamestown, New York. For several years the brothers conducted the "Hurl- bert House" at Dunkirk, New York. In 1890 William G. engaged in the banking business at Bloomfield, Nebraska, but after about a year disposed of his interests and located at Niles, Ohio, where he assisted in the forma- tion of the Bostwiek Steel Lath Company, which now has a large plant devoted to the manufacture of such specialties as fireproof steel lath, expanded metal lath, galvanized conductor pipe, eave trough, metal corner bead, wire hangers, elbows, shoes, ete. Mr. Hurlbert was the secretary and treasurer of the original company, and since 1898 has served as its president, although for the past nine years he has been a resident of Warren.
Mr. Hurlbert is as widely known in fraternal as in business and indus- trial circles, being especially prominent in the Royal Areanum and Masonie fraternities. In 1904-5 he served as Grand Regent of the Royal Arcanum, in Ohio. his special connection being with Trumbull Council No. 1315. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, past commander of Warren Com- mandery No. 39, K. T., and is also member of the Knights of Maccabees, Modern Woodmen, etc.
On April 18, 1888, Mr. Hurlbert married Miss Jennie Urania Hayes, at Toledo, Ohio, and they have three children living-William Griswold, Jr., born at Hartington, Nebraska, November 3, 1889, is attending the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; Lois Baker, born at Niles June 13, 1896, and Jerome Forbes Hurlbert, born at Warren, Ohio, March 20, 1900, the two last named living at home, 420 High street.
WILLIAM C. WINFIELD, president of the Winfield Manufacturing Com- pany and the Day-Ward Company, of Warren, was born in Alton, Illinois, March 17, 1844, the son of John Winfield, a native of England, in which country he was reared and educated. He came to this country when a young man and settled in Philadelphia, where he worked at the trade of a white- smith, making dental tools, shears, knives and cutlery of all kinds. He went from Philadelphia to St. Louis, and from that eity to Alton, Illinois, and still later on to Canfield, Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1845. There he worked at his trade, but in 1868 moved to Hubbard, where he died at the age of sixty-eight years.
The mother of William C., Mary Campion, a native of England, where she was reared, was united in marriage to John Winfield in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and reached the advanced age of eighty-six years. They were the parents of three children of each sex, all of whom grew to maturity, and, with the exception of John R., are all living at this time. They are: Mary, widow of William Maharg, who lives at Northfield, South Dakota; Sarah, wife of W. J. Clark, of Los Angeles, California : Sophia, single, living at the last named city; Thomas A., of Niles, and William C.
William C. Winfield was the fifth ehild. He was about a year old when the parents moved to Canfield, Mahoning county, Ohio, where he spent his youthful days. He attended the common schools of that section,
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and also Hines Academy. He learned the tinner's trade, and was working at it when the Civil war broke out. He enlisted in 1862 as a member of Company F, Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private soldier. He served about eleven months, and received an honorable discharge at the expiration of that time, after which he returned to Canfield and there remained a short time. He also worked at Salem and Warren, Ohio, in 1864, for Fitch & Gerry, who ran a pioneer tin shop. During the year last named he engaged in business for himself at Hubbard, being in partnership with Hollis Brothers, of Canfield, Ohio. He remained there seventeen years, until 1881, when he came to Warren and engaged in the manufacture of oil cans and oil tanks, under the firm name of Winfield Manufacturing Company, which concern in 1888 was incorporated as above stated, Mr. Winfield being the president and manager. They are makers of sheet metal gods and family oil cans, tubular lanterns and lamps, stove-pipe elbows and rural mail boxes. They employ about one hundred and fifty men upon an average. During the year 1907 they made sixty thousand dozen stove-pipe elbows.
Mr. Winfield was united in marriage in 1865 to Amanda Grimmesey, of Salem, Ohio. Two daughters have been born of this union: Grace, wife of Grant W. Byard, of Warren, who is the secretary of the Winfield Manufacturing Company, and Luella, wife of A. G. Ward, of Warren, vice-president of the Day-Ward Company.
PATRICK J. SHEEHAN, superintendent of the Niles Fire Brick Com- pany, was born March 20, 1869, in Wales. His father was Jeremiah Shee- han, a native of County Kerry, Ireland, where he was reared, educated and married, after which he removed to Wales. He had charge of contracts for drawing coke for the great iron works. He came to Niles, Ohio, in 1870, and engaged in the iron working interests of that city, where he died, aged forty-nine years. His wife was Mary Hailey, a native of Ireland, who also died at Niles, Ohio, aged fifty years. This couple had six children born to them, three of whom still live. The oldest child was buried in Wales, while the other deceased children are buried in Niles, Ohio.
Patrick J. Sheehan is the eldest of the three children now living. He was thirteen months old when the family sailed from Wales. He was reared and educated in Niles, and his first real work was that of delivering groceries for a firm in Niles when a mere boy. He soon became strong enough to be a hand in the Niles Fire Brick Works, being about thirteen years of age at that time. He was an offbearer and later a moulder and presser in these brick yards. He also ran the engine of the extensive plant for about two years. Next he was made foreman of the entire works, which responsible position he held until 1897, when he was appointed superintendent of the plant, which place he has filled for eleven years. During this time most of the modern improvements of the plant have been made, and under his personal supervision.
When Mr. Sheehan began with the Niles Fire Brick Company they
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occupied a plant covering a floor space of 3,600 square feet, two kilns, and the output was 640,000 brick per year. The plant was moved to Langley street eighteen months afterward, and the output increased to 1,200,000. This Langley street works has been constantly added to each year, until now the output is 6,000,000, and in 1905 they built the "Falcon" plant on the site formerly occupied by the Langley street plant. It is now the most modern brick plant in the country, and has an output of 6,000,000, making a total output of 12,000,000 per year.
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