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Dr. William Codville, though educated for the law, being from early childhood of a religious turn of mind, decided for the ministry, which he entered in 1861. As a student he received his theological education at the Woodstock (Canada) Institute, now merged with the MeMaster University of Toronto. Having served as missionary pastor for seven years in Canada, in 1868 he received the unanimous call of the Calvary Baptist church of Philadelphia, which charge he held for five years with marked success. In 1873 he accepted the call of the First church of Altoona, and again in 1876 the call of the First church of Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, where he remained for fifteen years, being the longest and most successful pastorate in his ministry. In 1891 he began his labors as pastor of the First church
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in Warren, Ohio, which charge he held for nearly seven years, during which time their new and beautiful honse of worship was built. His last pas- torate was with the Russell Street Baptist church, Columbus, where he remained for over eight years, resigning in 1905 against the protest of the congregation whom he had so long fed with the bread of life. Says the "Journal and Messenger," the Baptist organ of Ohio: "In exchange with the pastor of the First church of Columbus, Dr. Codville was heartily greeted by that congregation. Hon. B. J. Loomis, in behalf of the people, spoke some fitting words of recognition, and the congregation arose to testify its appreciation of the Russell Street pastor. Dr. Codville is greatly heloved by his brethren in the ministry, and he will leave a host of other friends in the Capital City, where he has been, as in other pastorates of his ministry, a faithful servant of Jesus Christ."
Dr. William Codville in 1865 was united in marriage to Elizabeth Pulkinghorn, from which marriage eight children were born, three only of whom are yet living. The eldest, Annie Josephine Caughey, of Mckees- port, Pennsylvania, deceased in 1896. She died at the birth of her first born, another Annie Josephine, who twelve years later followed her mother to the great beyond. Four of Dr. Codville's children died in early child- hood, viz., Lizzie, Herbert R., Harry K. and Clifford R. The living are William Kennard and Walter Judson, residing in Warren, and Ella May, who married Frank L. Page of Akron, Ohio. The beloved mother of these children, after years of patient suffering, peacefully closed her earthly life December 20, 1908.
Dr. Codville, though loyal to his denomination, is in marked sympathy with Christian people of every name. Believing, too, that truth is truth, wherever you find it, he is an ardent admirer of the theological writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg, which give him great comfort in his declining years. He is living day by day awaiting the call of his Lord.
CLINTON O. HART is a native son of Trumbull county, Ohio, born in Farmington September 23, 1839, the ninth of a family of thirteen children born to his parents. Joseph C. Hart, his father, was born in Avon, Con- necticut, September 2, 1805, and died March 19, 1867. Rosanna (Goff) Hart, his mother, was a native of West Springfield, Massachusetts, born September 11, 1807. She died at West Farmington, Ohio, January 4, 1880.
From the public schools of his home locality Clinton O. Hart passed to the Western Reserve Seminary at West Farmington, and after the com- pletion of his educational training he taught school for several terms, teaching his last term in Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, during the winter of 1860-61. On the day following the close of that term, he returned to his home in Farmington, and while in the Union depot at Pittsburg news reached him of the bombardment of Fort Sumter. This was on Saturday, and on Wednesday of the following week he enlisted at President Lincoln's first call for seventy-five thousand troops, and became
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a member of Company C, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After his return from the war he served as a clerk in the general store of II. Stiles & Son at Warren for two years, and for several years following was employed by the United States Express Company as their express messenger over the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad-now a part of the Erie System. During three years he was a traveling salesman for the wholesale grocery house of Gordon & McMillen, of Cleveland. From 1872 to 1876 he was associated with his brother, John O. Hart, in a general mercantile business at Brookfield, Ohio. In 1878, with another brother, V. M. Hart, established the Hart Brothers clothing business in Warren, and that house is still con- ducted by Messrs. Goreing and Ohl. In 1881 Mr. Hart was chosen the treasurer of Trumbull county, serving for two terms as such, from 188? to 1886. In 1890 he associated with R. G. Sykes, and established the busi- ness of the Sykes Steel Roofing Company at 611 South Morgan street, Chicago, and for twelve years served as the secretary and treasurer of that company. Disposing of his interest in that company at the close of that period, he moved in 1903 to Cleveland, Ohio, and since then has lived practically retired from active business life.
Mr. Hart married on November 1, 1865, Elizabeth A. Belden, of Akron, Ohio. She too received her education in the Western Reserve Semi- nary at West Farmington. They have become the parents of three chil- dren : Harry E., who died May 17, 1876; Frank C., who died January 20, 1893; and Grace Edna, now the wife of Clarence A. Crane, of Warren, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Hart have recently purchased a small plantation on the Isle of Pines in the West Indies, one mile from Nueva Gerona, the chief port, and the capital of that Island. This little plantation is in plain view of the Caribbean sea. There they have built a pleasant and commo- dious bungalow, and have planted a large grove of orange, grape fruit and lemon trees. There they expect to make their winter home, and thus avoid the long, cold winters of the north. It is the hope of all that the months spent on that lovely little island, with its beautiful winter climate, will extend their span of life many years.
JOHN W. TAYLOR, an attorney and real estate dealer, of Cleveland, is a native of Mecca, Trumbull county, Ohio, born November 10, 1851, a son of William D., a native of Ireland, who came to America in 1848, locating at Mecca, Trumbull county. He farmed in that county until 1880, then moved to Cortland, retired and died in 1906, aged eighty-seven years, Politically, he was well known as a Democrat in early life, but in 1880 voted for General Garfield for President, and ever afterward supported the Republican ticket. His wife was Mary A. Moran, a native of Ireland, in which country she was reared and where she was married. She died in 1854 and for his second wife William D. Taylor married Roxy Rhoades, who was born in New York state. By the first marriage there were born three sons, the youngest of whom was John W., who is the only one now living.
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John W. Taylor was reared on the old homestead and there remained, teaching school winters until nineteen years of age. He was educated in the district schools and at the academy and later attended Western Reserve College. In 1871 he began elerking in C. S. Field's clothing store at Warren, Ohio, where he was employed for six years, reading law in the meantime. In 1875 he was admitted to the bar. He went to the University . of Michigan, and graduated from the law department in 1878. He then set up practice in Warren and continued there until 1884, when he went to Cleveland, in which city he has resided ever since, following both law practice and real estate business. He has made additions to the city, includ- ing Ingelside, Douglas Park, South Bell Avenue and others; he also has made additions in Newark, Ohio, one in Mansfield, one in Massilon, two in Toledo, two in Elyria, one in Warren (Park Avenue), one in Painesville and one in Adrian, Michigan, and other lesser town additions.
Mr. Taylor is identified with the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the Royal Arch degree; also belongs to the Ohio Society of New York and the Buckeye Club of New York; the Colonial Club of Cleveland and the Chem- ber of Commerce. He is a director and honorary president of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, in which organization he is prominent. He is the president and treasurer of the Taylor Land and Improvement Company; also director and vice-president of the Land Title Abstract Company of Cleveland, and president and treasurer of the Euclid Avenue Investment Company. Mr. Taylor has been very successful in his realty operations and has accumulated a handsome competency through the law and real estate business combined.
FRED T. STONE, county auditor of Trumbull county, Ohio, is a native of that city, born August 11, 1863, a son of Henry R. Stone, born in the same place. The grandfather was Roswell Stone, who came from Bristol, Connecticut, locating in Warren in 1812. He was an attorney and prose- euting attorney at the time of the famous Morgan trial. He was prominent among his fellow countrymen and was the choice of the people for judge of the court of common pleas. He was an enthusiastic Mason. The mother of Fred T. Stone was Catherine L. Pew, daughter of Thomas Pew. Her grandfather, Pew, was one of the pioneers of Trumbull county. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stone were the parents of three children-one daughter and two sons: Henry M., residing in Denver, Colorado; Carrie L., who was Mrs. Harsh, now deceased ; Fred T., the youngest of the three children.
Fred T. Stone was educated in the Warren public schools and com- pleted his education at Hiram College in 1880. He began his business career as a clerk in a store. He next was a bookkeeper for the Akron Milling Company at Akron, Ohio. After a year he returned to Warren, where he was employed in the Kneeland book store, remaining eight years, after which he embarked in business for himself, handling books, stationery and crockery. After six years of successful operation, he sold his stock and accepted the position of deputy county auditor in 1902 and in 1908 was
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nominated for the office of auditor. Politically, Mr. Stone is a supporter of the Republican party, being an active factor in this political organization. In his religious faith, he is of the Christian denomination, He is an elder of Central Christian church and has sung in its choir for the past twenty-two years. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, Knights Templar and the Odd Fellows. He, as well as other members of the Stone family, are and have years ago been prominent in the history of Trumbull county.
He was united in marriage September ?, 1892, to Carrie A. Silliman, daughter of Addison and Lucy Silliman, of Warren, In all of his dealings. with individuals and the public, Mr. Stone has proven his capability, as well as his honor and integrity as a man and citizen.
BENJAMIN W. EDWARDS; secretary of the Warren City Boiler Works, is a native of Niles, Ohio, born in 1875, son of John Edwards, who virtually spent his life in that city, his native place. There he was born. reared, educated and married, and died at Warren at the age of sixty-three. His wife (nee Martin) also passed away at Warren, aged fifty-seven, and the five living members of her family, four sons and one daughter, are Jennie, William, John, George and Benjamin W.
Benjamin W., who is the fourth born, received his education at Niles schools, common and high, and at the age of eighteen entered the race of business life, in which he has ever since been well in the running. Several years ago the Warren City Boiler Works, which had been established during the financial panic of 1895, came under the present management, the part- nership consisting of Alfred R. Hughes, manager : B. W. Edwards, secretary, and William F. Edwards, assistant. Previously the company had depended on the manufacture and repairing of boilers, for which there was really little demand in the vicinity of Warren, but under the new management efforts have chiefly been confined to the manufacture of large oil tanks, grain tanks, water towers and standpipes, in which field a business has been established which has expanded from the United States into Canada, Cuba and Mexico. The buildings of the concern comprise a main structure 150 feet wide by 450 feet long, and a large boiler-house, engine-room and machine shop, tank shop and warehouse, the plant being located on North Park avenue. Some idea of the magnitude of the company's operations may be gained from the fact that 300 men are employed in the Warren fac- tory and about 1,500 in the field, the latter being engaged in the installa- tion of the products of the works. In his position of secretary, Mr. Edwards is entrusted with the task of being in constant touch with every detail of this vast business, whether relating to the manufactory at home or the works and workmen who are scattered over such a broad territory. These responsible duties he has performed faithfully, energetically and ably. He is also a stockholder in the Western Reserve National Bank.
In 1898 Mr. Edwards married Miss Lottie A. Smith, daughter of Robert J. Smith, of Warren, and they have one child, Evelyn Edwards.
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Mr. Edwards is a well-known Mason, being a Knight Templar and a Shriner, and is also identified with the Elks' lodge of Warren, No. 295.
S. S. ERNEST .- A man of wise forethought, keen perceptive faculties, and of excellent judgment, S. S. Ernest is numbered among the citizens of good repute and high standing in Trumbull county, where his entire life has been spent. For many years he was prominently identified with the agricultural growth and progress of this section of the state, and having accomplished a satisfactory work in his chosen occupation, and acquired a fair share of this world's goods, he is now living retired from active labor, having a pleasant home at 108 North Elm street, Warren. He was born at 124 South Chestnut street, Warren, Ohio, March 10, 1844, a son of Henry Ernest.
A native of Pennsylvania, Henry Ernest was born, in 1820, in Perry county, and in 1833 came with his mother and step-father to Trumbull county, settling in Warren, where he was brought np. Here he followed the trade of carpenter and joiner practically all of his life and at one time carried on a large farm with his other work. He was a man of integrity and worth, endowed with both mental and physical vigor, and lived to the advanced age of four score and four years. He married, in Warren, Trum- bull county, Harriet Southworth, a native of Mineral Ridge, being the daughter of one of its pioneer settlers. She, too, lived to a ripe old age, passing away at the age of eighty years. Of the nine children born of their union, eight are now living, all natives of Trumbull county, namely : S. S., of this sketch; Olive, wife of S. R. Gifford, of Lordstown township; Nettie, wife of H. E. Dailey, of Warren; Dell M., wife of John Ligler, of Oklahoma ; George H., residing in Coffey county, Kansas; J. W., of Kansas; W. C., of Stanwood, Iowa : and John H., of West Pullman, Illinois.
Receiving his early education in Warren township, where his parents located when he was nine years of age, S. S. Ernest assisted his father on the farm, remaining at home until after the breaking out of the Civil war. Enlisting at the age of eighteen years, in 1862, in Company C, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he served until June 9, 1865, in the meantime taking part in many of the important engagements of the war, among others being the battles at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. He was with Sherman through his Atlanta campaign, and at Lovejoy's Station, and at Nashville, besides being at the front in minor skirmishes and battles. Returning home, Mr. Ernest resumed farming, and in 1867 located in Niles, Trumbull county, where he was engaged in the lumber business for npwards of fourteen years. Going to Lordstown township, this county, in 1880, he bought the old Lamb homestead, and was there prosperously employed in general farming for several years. Buying then a farm in Warren township, he remained there for four and one-half years, being equally as successful in his agricultural labors. Selling his farming property in 1900, Mr. Ernest removed with his family to Warren, assuming possession of his present home. By energetic labor, wise
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management, and good investments, he has acquired a competency, owning in Warren considerable city property, including among other things six dwelling houses and two store buildings, from the rental of these receiving a good annual income.
Mr. Ernest married September 11, 1866, Emma A. Lamb, the youngest daughter of John Lamb, a pioneer settler of Lordstown township. Mr. Lamb was born in Ireland, and was there reared and married, and on coming to the United States located in Trumbull county, and on the farm that he improved, in Lordstown township, spent the remainder of his life. To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest three children have been born, namely: Bertha F., wife of J. E. Ohl, of Warren, Ohio; Emma L., wife of George B. Sawyer, of Warren; and Henry L., of Cleveland, Ohio. While in the Union Army, in Georgia, Mr. Ernest cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln, and since that time has been a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party. He has always taken an intelligent interest in local affairs, and while in Niles was a member of the city council for six years; was for nine years a school director in Lordstown township; and was, also, a school director while living in Warren township. Fraternally he is a member of Bell-Harmon Post, No. 36, G. A. R.
WALTER E. KREITLER, who is one of the substantial farmers residing in Warren township, was born on the farm he now operates and owns, November 11. 1871, a son of Joseph and Josephine Kreitler, whose family sketch appears elsewhere within this work. Walter E. obtained a good common school education at the public schools of his native county and began when quite young, to assist his father about his farm work. He made his home with his parents until their death, when he succeeded to the ownership of the old home farm, where he now carries on general farming and raises considerable stock, having a fine herd of Jersey cattle. He is industrious and painstaking, hence a successful agriculturist.
He was united in marriage. December 23, 1897, to Corie W. Mc- Neilly, born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, a daughter of William and Lois (Beardsley) McNeilly. To this union have been born four children, two daughters and two sons, the latter only, now living, namely, Walter E. Jr. and Harold W.
JOHN V. WALDECK-Noteworthy for his good citizenship, and for his many excellent traits of character, John V. Waldeck is carrying on a sub- stantial business as one of the leading contractors and builders of Warren, where he has resided for almost half a century, his home being now at No. 21 West Franklin street. A native of Germany, he was born, March 5, 1846, at Hesse-Darmstadt, in the Rhenish province, being a son of Jacob Waldeck, who emigrated to this country with his family in 1860, locating first in Cleveland, Ohio, and a year later taking up his permanent residence in Warren, Ohio.
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Fifteen years old when he came with his parents to Warren, John V. Waldeck has since been a resident of this city, and an important factor in developing and advancing its industrial growth and prosperity. As a contractor and builder, he displays much skill and ability, his work being artistic and durable, and his patronage large and luerative.
Mr. Waldeck married, in 1871, Mary E. Koehler, a daughter of John Koehler, a thriving farmer. Three children have blessed their union, namely : Lillian ; Grace A., wife of C. A. Woatwood, of Youngstown ; and J. Fred, an optician, residing in Warren. In local politics Mr. Waldeck has always taken an active part, and for two terms served as a member of the city council. He was a Republican candidate for county commissioner in 1908. Fraternally he belongs to the A. F. & A. M., being a member of Warren lodge and Warren commandery, and also of Warren Lodge, No. 295, B. P. O. E.
RICHARDSON BROTHERS .- William John Richardson, deceased, and George Richardson, of Lordstown, were born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, sons of John Richardson, who was born near Belfast, Ireland. The grand- father, Alexander Richardson, was also a native of Ireland, of Scotch ances- try. He spent his active life in his native country, but his children all removed to America and were doing so well in this their adopted land, that the father, late in life, came here and spent the last years of his life in Lordstown, his remains being buried in the old cemetery on Mahoning ave- nue, at Warren. His wife, Mary Patterson, always remained in Ireland. She too was of Seoteh lineage. The children of Alexander and Mary Rich- ardson were as follows: John, William, James, Alexander, Mary and Eliza, all deceased but the last named.
John Richardson, father of William J. and George, was reared and educated in his native land and came to America when about twenty-five years of age. He had served a three year apprenticeship at the hardware trade, before coming to America, mastering the details of the business. Instead of receiving pay for such services, he paid the sum of fifty pounds ($250) to acquire the information he had gained. Upon his arrival here, he seeured a position in a wholesale dry-goods house in Pittsburg, where he clerked a few years, when the firm was dissolved and he formed a partnership with Thomas Jamison and James McCandless, who had been connected with the firm. He continued in business with these men until his death in 1856, when he was thirty-six years. His wife, Jane Lamb, was born in Belfast, Ireland. Her father, John Lamb, was a native of Ireland, but of Scotch ancestry ; he came to America, accompanied by his family, coming in a sailing vessel and en route they encountered severe storms and were repeatedly driven back. After a voyage of three weary months, they finally landed at Quebec. Their provisions had been con- sumed and much suffering ensued, while the ship was a wreck. He resided for a time, near Gault, Canada, then pushed on to Warren, Ohio, where he found employment on the construction of the canal, then being built.
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Subsequently, he bought a tract of partly improved land, in Lordstown township, upon which he devoted the remainder of his active days. He then went to Warren and there built a house and lived a rather retired life there, dying at the age of eighty-eight years. The maiden name of his faithful wife was Mary Richardson, born in Ireland, spending her last years in Warren, Ohio. She had twelve children, three dying in infancy, the others : John, James, Jefferson, William G., Jane, (Mrs. Richardson), Mary, Emma, Eliza and Margaret.
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Richardson went to Lordstown, that she might be nearer her parents. She died there, January 25, 1902. Her children were two sons, William J. and George, of this memoir. William J. died September 19, 1908.
These sons were aged one month and three years, respectively, when their father died. William J., the older of the two, attended the district schools of Lordstown and later was sent to the ward school of Pittsburg, after which entered the University of Pennsylvania. After completing his education, he entered upon a commercial life, continuing until prevented by failing health, since which time until his death had occupied the farm, with his brother George.
George Richardson was educated in the publie schools of Lordstown. About 1864 the mother purchased a farm and as soon as this son was old enough, he began farming and has continued up to the present time. From his mother, he had inherited a great love for flowers and about 1880, he commenced to cultivate water lilies and other aquatic plants. He has come to be known, far and near, as authority on such plants and is very successful in the culture and sale of the same. Ile ships to all parts of the world. In 1892, he supplied Biltimore, the Vanderbilt estate in North Carolina, with plants and had an exhibition at the great World's Fair Exposition, at St. Louis, for which he was awarded a silver medal.
ALLEN A. HASHMAN, a farmer of Champion township, was born in Southington, Trumbull county, Ohio, November 14, 1844, a son of Mathias Hashman, born in Washingtonville, Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1801. The grandfather Andrew Harshman was a native of Funktown, Frederick county, Maryland. His father was born in Germany and came to this country in Colonial days and settled in Maryland. His descendants spell their name various ways-Harshman, Hershman, Hash- man, etc. Andrew Hashman worked on the National Pike, constructed by the government from Washington to St. Louis. He moved from Maryland to Washingtonville, Pennsylvania, and from there to Ohio, aceompanied by his family, and settled in Austintown township, Trumbull county (now in Mahoning) in 1807, and bought land which he improved and resided on the remainder of his life. His wife's maiden name was Smith and she survived her husband and went to Lordstown to live with her son Andrew, dying when ninety-three years. She bore ten children, six sons and four daughters.
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