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Mathias Hashman, the father, was six years old when his parents emigrated to Ohio. He was reared in Austintown township and remained there several years after his marriage, then moved to Southington and lived on a farm which he purchased there. He sold soon, however at that point, and went to Parkman, Geauga county, where he purchased a farm containing one hundred and two acres. There he resided until his death, December 5, 1876, when he was seventy-five years old. The maiden name of his wife was Phebe DeNeen, whose birthplace was either in Milton or Austintown township, the date being March 4, 1805. Her father was a native of France, who became a pioneer of Trumbull county, Ohio. His wife was named Nixon, and was from Ireland, but of Scotch ancestry. She survived until 1889, when she was eighty-seven years of age. She reared eight children: Sylvester, George, Alvah, Cynthia, Phebe, Loretta, Lydia and Allen A.
Allen A. Hashman was reared in Parkman township and attended the district schools until seventeen years of age. February 12, 1862, he volunteered as a member of Company E, Fifth New York Heavy Artillery, going South and was with the regiment in all of its marches, campaigns and engagements, including the Shenandoah Valley campaign, where from July 4 to October 19, 1864, he was in eight different engagements and saw Sheridan when he made his famous Winchester ride. His regiment had been captured and Mr. Hashman was one of twenty-five who had escaped and on their retreat met Sheridan and the gallant cavalry commander ordered them back, saying, "There is not room for General Early and my- self this side of Cedar Creek." After the war, Mr. Hashman returned to Parkman, married and lived on the old homestead, carrying on farming operations, as well as a saw mill on Grand River. In 1872 he went to Champion township, where he has since been a worthy resident, having settled on the farm which he still occupies in 1875. He first bought fifty acres, to which he has since added until his place contains one hundred and twenty-five acres.
He was married first, December 21, 1865, to Caroline Pennell, a native of Austintown township, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Shafer) Pennell. Her father was a native of Ireland. Mrs. Hashman was a member of the Methodist church and died May 4, 1871, and for his second wife, Mr. Hashman married, March 14, 1872, Mary E. Murphy, born in Champion, a daughter of John and Laura (Shafer) Murphy. Mrs. Mary E. (Murphy) Hashman died December 4, 1899. She was a member of the United Brethren church. For his third wife Mr. Hashman married Mrs. Sarah E. (Jewell) Graves. She is a member of the Disciples church. The children born to Mr. Hashman were: By the first union-Elsie, wife of Andrew Musgrave, has one son, Charley. By the second marriage, six children were born-Ina, Irene, John A., Laura E., Verda, Emily. John A. married Belle Morey and their issue is a son-Wade. Laura, married Frank Elston and their son is named Vesner, and they also have one daughter not yet named.
The present Mrs. Hashman reared two children by her farmer husband
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-Emma and Abbie; one son, Charles died, aged fifteen years, being killed by the cars.
Mr. Hashman is a member of Brooks Post No. 2, Grand Army of the Republic, and is connected with the United Brethren church. While serving in the army during the Civil war Mr. Hashman was promoted to corporal and later to sergeant. His maternal grandparents moved to Michigan, were pioneers in Lapeer county, locating in township 6, north of range 12 east, where they both died.
SAMUEL JONES, deceased was born in Austintown township, Trumbull county (in territory now embraced within Mahoning county), on Sunday the 10th of January, 1810. His father, Edward Jones, was born in Wash- ington county, Pennsylvania, his parents being pioneers of western Penn- sylvania who settled in the wilderness when the Indians fully possessed it. Upon one occasion their children were picking berries and upon the ap- proach of the savages all fled in terror for the fort, but the youngest, how- ever, was caught and tomahawked. Edward Jones settled in Ohio when it was yet included in the great Northwest Territory, living for a time on the site of the present city of Warren. While residing there, in February, 1800, his daughter Hannah was born, making her the first white child native to Trumbull county. She was married to William Dutchin about the year 1820. Later Mr. Jones removed to Austintown township and became one of its useful and popular pioneers. Both farming and fol- lowing his trade as a stone mason, he remained there until his death, at the age of seventy-two years. Before her marriage his wife's maiden name was Mary Price. She died on the old homestead, aged eighty-four years. Their children were as follows : Hannah, Nancy, Jane, Asa, Tina, Samuel, Edward, Mary, David, Seymour, Ann and Martha.
Samuel Jones, of this sketch, lived with his parents until about eighteen years of age and then ventured into the untried world to seek a fortune for himself. True to her practical affection, his good mother cooked some corn cake for him and he sturdily walked to Ashtabula, a distance of fifty miles. He finally found employment on a farm, con- tinuing at such work for seven years, and then with his savings purchased fifty acres of land in Lordstown township. Following the pioneer custom he married young, on Easter Sunday, March 30, 1836. He commenced housekeeping in a log house, subsequently removing to farms which he purchased at Fredericksburg and Lordstown Corners, moving to Lordstown in the spring of 1854. The latter purchase was a beautiful tract of land, situated on either side of the Warren and Niles roadway, upon which had been erected a good frame residence, and this properly became noted as a model country place of those days. Here Mr. Jones lived and labored until his death in 1903. He died Sunday evening, March 15, 1903, thus the principal events of his life all occurred on Sunday. Long life was one of the blessings given to Mr. Jones and his wife, and had he lived untit March 30th, they would have celebrated their sixty-seventh wedding anni-
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versary, he being ninety-three years and his wife almost ninety. His wife prior to her marriage was Miranda Westover, born in Connecticut, July 12, 1813. Her father, Luman Westover, settled at Palmyra, Ohio, in 1815. The family moved from the east with ox teams and one horse, bringing all the household goods and personal effects in the single wagon. It is related that upon their arrival at Palmyra the family treasury held but one shilling in money. The master of the house, however, possessed much hope and great industry, so that he soon found employment and in due time purchased a tract of land. He built a spacious two-story house, from brick which he burned himself and this remained his residence until his death, at the age of seventy-two years. His good wife, whose maiden name was Sabra Smedley, died aged seventy-eight years.
Mrs. Jones passed from earth, February 26, 1904, the mother of Mary, Laura, Seymour, Zenas, Lucius, Martha, Ada, Alice and Minnie, four of whom are dead.
JAMES R. LEACH, one of the enterprising and progressive farmers of Lordstown township, Trumbull county, is a native of Hubbard, Ohio, born May 14, 1852, a son of Benjamin Leach, who was born in Austintown township, Trumbull (now Mahoning) county, Ohio, December 1, 1816, his father being Abner Leach. The fifth person to settle within the limits of Austintown township, Abner Leach improved a farm and resided thereon until his death, when he had reached the extreme advanced old age of ninety-three years.
Benjamin Leach was reared in his native township, and after reaching manhood, settled in Champion township, where he purchased land and resided several years, then removed to Hubbard and engaged in mercantile pursuits and also in the manufacture of potash. He sold out in 1864, and purchased a farm at Hake's Corner, Weathersfield township. This land be placed under a good state of cultivation and equipped his farm with good buildings. He left this farm in the fall of 1898 and moved to Niles, where he remained until his death, dying in his ninetieth year. He was a member of the Christian church at Niles, where he served as deacon and then elder for a number of years. His wife's maiden name was Mary Raven. She was born in Austintown township and was the daughter of John F. Rayen and wife, who were pioneers of that township. She is still living, in her eighty-fourth year. She reared eight children: Laura, Sarah, Frank, James, Kittie, John, Caroline and Anna.
James R. Leach, the fourth child of . Benjamin Leach and wife, attended the public schools of his native township, thereby gaining a good common school education. Later, he attended that most truly excellent educational institution-Hiram College-for two terms. After leaving school he was a clerk in a hardware store for two years, later engaging in the dairy business, in Weathersfield, where he kept from twenty to forty cows, supplying customers at Niles with pure milk for twenty years. In
C. E. Haskell
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1906 he went to Lordstown, where he has since been engaged in farming on the Samuel Jones homestead.
When twenty-three years of age, he was married to Mary Bolin, born in Weathersfield, a daughter of John and Margaret (Dempsy) Bolin. John Dempsy was a native of Ireland, of Scotch descent, and coming to the United States, he settled in Ohio, where he became a coal operator and for a time operated a blast furnace at Niles, Ohio. He possessed much business ability and made an excellent citizen. He was an elder in the Disciples church for many years. He died aged seventy-seven years.
Mrs. Leach died in 1902 and for his second wife James R. Leach mar- ried in August, 1906, Minnie Jones, a daughter of Samnel and Miranda Jones, whose sketch appears elsewhere within this work.
By his first wife Mr. Leach had two children: Lewis and Anna. Lewis married Belle Kennedy. Anna married George Buchanon.
CHIARLES E. HASKELL, secretary and treasurer of the West Side Lum- ber and Coal Company, of Warren, Ohio, is a native of Lordstown, Trumbull county, Ohio, born June 24, 1870. His father was Moses Haskell, who died when Charles E. was but a mere babe. The father was an early settler in the county, coming from Massachusetts. The mother was Lucy Haskell, a native of Trumbull county, and she died when her son was fourteen years of age. Charles E. Haskell was the only child, and the only representative of this branch of the Haskell family now living in Trumbull county. Be- ing left fatherless and motherless, at the age of fourteen years, he had to battle alone, under many trying difficulties which boys with parents know not of. He made his home with D. K. Woodward, of Lordstown, with whom he remained about five years, and attended school at Hiram about two years.
In 1890, Mr. Haskell was united in marriage to Sarah S. Johnson, the widow of Benjamin Pritchard. She was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Haskell located at Southington. Trumbull county, where he engaged in farming pursuits two years, then returned to Lordstown and again resumed work for Mr. Woodward, remaining three years, after which he returned to the farm from which he came. He re- mained there until he went to Warren in 1901. He was bookkeeper for the Warren Manufacturing Company one year and continued with the company as a clerk about two years, at the end of which period he was made super- intendent of the factory, which place he occupied about a year, then became secretary and treasurer of the West Side Lumber and Coal Company. This company does a large lumber and planing mill business, both wholesale and retail, also an extensive coal trade. They employ five men to care for the business.
Mr. Haskell is a supporter of the Republican party and takes much interest in the affairs of his city, county, state and nation. He has been a member of the Christian church, since he was fourteen years of age, and takes much interest in the work of the same. He is now prominently iden-
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tified with the Second Christian church of Warren. He has held the office of deacon and is now elder and clerk, as well as assistant Sunday-school superintendent. In his society relations Mr. Haskell is connected with the Masonic and Knights of Pythias orders at Warren. In all of the social and business relations with which Mr. Haskell has been associated, during his life-long residence in Trumbull county, he has always held the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens and fraternal brothers.
CHARLES FRANKLIN KREITLER is of the same Kreitler family as the others of the name whose sketches appear elsewhere in this work. Charles F. is the son of Joseph and Josephine (Kappler) Kreitler. He was born in Warren, Ohio, July 5, 1863, and received a good common school educa- tion at the district schools of his native neighborhood and an advanced education, supplementing this at the Western Reserve Seminary, at West Farmington, Ohio. He began teaching school at the age of eighteen years and taught six years. The next twelve years he was superintendent of Oakwood Cemetery and in 1900 purchased the farm where he now resides and carries on farming, stock raising and dairying. This place is situated in Lordstown township and contains one hundred and fifty-eight acres, all equipped with excellent buildings, including large, well planned barns for hay, grain and stock. His large barn was erected in 1908 and is one of the most modern in the community. Mr. Kreitler has a fine herd of Jersey cattle and also breeds thoroughbred Berkshire swine. Besides this farm, he owns one hundred and twelve acres in Warren township.
Concerning his domestic relation, it may be stated that Mr. Kreitler was happily united in marriage, March 4, 1886, to Rhoda H. Pearce, a native of Newton township, Trumbull county, a daughter of John N. and Mary (McConnell) Pearce. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Kreitler are as follows: Florence R., wife of Ralph W. Gordon of Youngstown, Ohio : Charles F., Jr. ; Eleanor J. ; George W., and Robert E. Mr. and Mrs. Kreitler are both members of the Christian church and he is connected with Lodge No. 90, Knights of Pythias, and also the Grange.
MARTIN JESSE TYLER, who has been engaged in agricultural pursuits nearly all of his life, is a native of Freedom township, Portage county, Ohio, born September 13, 1850, and now residing in Champion township, Trum- bull county. He is the son of Jesse Tyler, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in which place his parents were lifelong residents. Jesse learned the stone mason's trade and came to Ohio when a young man, following his trade for several years in Hiram, removing from that place to Freedom, where he lived until 1853, then moved to Omega, Marion county, Illinois. He remained there a short time and returned to Freedom, where he died in 1857. His second wife's maiden name was Lucetta Earl and she became the mother of Martin J. She was a native of Windham township, Portage county, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob and Mary Wilson Earl and the widow
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of Mr. Wheelock. Jacob Earl was born in Essex county, New Jersey, and removed to Ohio, lived a short time in Braceville and in 1813 went to Windham township, in which he erected the first frame house. It was located a mile and a half west and a half mile south of the Center. In 1814 he removed his family thither. He was a devoted Christian and belonged to the 'Methodist Episcopal church, meetings being frequently held at his house. In 1849 he was again attracted west, and went to Marion county, Illinois, settling near Omega, he being among the pioneer band of that section of the state. There he died in 1853, aged seventy-two years. Mrs. Jesse Tyler survived her husband many years and died aged seventy-one years. The children born of this union were Martin Jesse and his sisters-Emma and Luna. The children by the mother's first mar- riage were Rachel, Alonzo, Stephen and Emery.
Martin Jesse Tyler was but seven years of age at the time of his father's death, and a year later he commenced to face the hardships of a fatherless boy. For some years he was employed as a farm hand, but later took up the stone mason's trade. In 1877 he settled on the farm where he still resides. Before his going to this land it had been stripped of its timber, but little had been improved. In addition to working at his trade, he has placed this land under a good state of cultivation, planted fruit and ornamental trees and erected good buildings.
August 22, 1876, Mr. Tyler was married to Florilla Carlton, born in Champion township, June 14, 1848, a daughter of Gideon Carlton, born in Austintown township, now in Mahoning county, Ohio. He was the son of John and Rachel (Trinara) Carlton. Her great-grandfather, Francis Carlton, was born in county Down, Ireland, and after coming to America, for a time resided in New Jersey, going from that state to Ohio, accompanied by his family. They made this long journey overland with ox teams. He located at Warren and bought a tract of land which included the Perkins homestead, in Mahoning avenue. His daughter Margaret was said to have been the first white girl of a marriageable age in Warren. He traded his Warren land for lands in Liberty township. He served in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Tyler's grandfather settled in Austintown, lived several years there, then went to Brookfield, where he died. Mrs. Tyler's father was reared in Austintown, went to Lordstown and from there to Champion township, where he purchased a timber tract, upon which stood a log house in which Mrs. Tyler and her sister, Mrs. Mary E. Pren- tice, were born. Then wild game, including turkeys and deer were plentiful in this part of the Buckeye state. The father lived there until 1851, then sold and removed to Liberty township. He remained at the last named place until 1861, when he removed to Weathersfield township, purchasing land there and residing there until his death. ITe was very industrious and highly successful in his operations and was able to assist each of his children to acquire homes of their own. Mrs. Tyler was but two years of age when her mother died, and she was reared in the family of Joseph Ashburn. Mr. and Mrs. Tyler are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Tyler are: Cleon G., married Naomi Martin; Joseph Nelson, married Dora Whetson, and they are the parents of Thomas; Alonzo P., married Daisey Mullitt, whose issue is Alphonso and Vera ; Ethel, married Charles Belden; Edith, married Leslie Shafer ; Amine, married Theodore Smith and the issue is Paul M .; Lucetta, married Herbert Knox, whose issue is Scoville Emery ; and Mary.
Mrs. Florilla Tyler has developed considerable literary talent and has composed poetry of much worth, and some is of the type that displays much pathos and real soul thought, as will be seen by the following, which has been set to music and published :
How oft I think of the scenes of my childhood ; Of that dear little cottage, where hollihocks grew, When I wandered barefooted through pasture and meadow, Where sweet scented clover was sparkling with dew. I remember the days when I went with my father, With jug and with hoes, where we tended the corn, Until hungry and tired, I'd welcome the music,
I heard mother play on the old dinner horn.
At the sound of that horn, I'd forget I was weary And think of the feast that awaited us there; Of chicken and dumplings, and strawberry short-cake That mother, dear mother, took pains to prepare. I'll always remember the day I went nutting, Got lost in the woodland and felt so forlorn,
I might be there yet, had it not been that mother Came outdoors and called on the old dinner horn.
I have traveled for miles to hear Adeline Patti; I have listened to Gilmore's and Sousa's famed bands, Heard rapturous music at jubilee concerts And songs most enchanting in far away lands. But the sounds to my ear that were ever the sweetest, That thrilled me with pleasure on life's merry morn, Was the music I heard at that dear little homestead, The music that came from the old dinner horn.
ALBERT D. PRENTICE, a veteran of the never-to-be-forgotten Civil war, and who since that time has been industriously engaged as a farmer, and who now owns a fine tract of tillable land within the bounds of Champion township, Trumbull county. Ohio, was born in Buffalo, New York, February 18. 1842, a son of Jacob Prentice, a native of Massachusetts, whose direct ancestors were among the number which came over in the Mayflower and planted the famous colony on the "wild New England shore." In New England the family have been prominent in affairs of both church and
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state. One of its number was a prominent pastor in Charlestown for over fifty years. The grandfather of Albert D. was a lifelong resident of Massachusetts and lived to be one hundred years of age. He was twice married and reared twenty-two children.
Josiah Prentice, the father of Albert D., mastered the shoe- maker's trade early in his life, but later became a sailor and was in the whaling service. After he retired from the seas, he lived for a time in New York City and later at various places in New York state, before going to Buffalo, working at his trade all the while. In 1843 he moved to Cleve- land, Ohio, which was then a small city, with but little promise of its future greatness. After two years there he went to Warren and followed sboemaking until about 1856, then bought a faim a mile or so from the center of Champion township, where he resided the balance of his days.
His wife's maiden name was Mary T. Crawley, born in Norwich, C'onneetient. Her father was a native of England and a sea captain, who came to America in Colonial times and owned large tracts of land in New Brunswick, which were confiscated by the English government at the time of the Revolutionary war. During that awful conflict for liberty and inde- pendence he sold a vessel to the Colonial government and took his pay in script which became worthless while he was absent, hence he lost all. His last years were spent at Norwich, Connecticut. His brother, Charles, was a resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and served as a selectman for many years. Maria Crawley, an aunt of Albert D. Prentice, was a promi- nent leader and lecturer on the question of Woman Suffrage. The children of Josiah and Mary T. Prentice were as follows: Elizabeth, deceased; Charles, deceased, the inventor of the gasoline stove now commonly used ; Dwight S., a resident of Terre Haute, Indiana : Hannah, deceased ; Mary J., deceased : Edward A., resides at Horse Head, New York ; Albert D.
Alfred D. Prentice attended school at Warren and after his removal to Champion township, assisted on the farm. In August, 1862. he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front at the South, participating in all the weary marches, extended campaigns and battles in which his command took part in the conflict. He served two years, was detached and was a clerk at headquarters, at Coving- ton, Kentucky, after the war, and was finally discharged in 1865. He had served in the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. He was under Generals Rosecrans and Grant. Upon his return home he resumed farming and in 1872 settled on a farm which he now occupies. But little of the land had been improved at the time, but he has cleared and brought all under a good state of cultivation. He has planted and cared for fruit and ornamental shade trees, erected a good set of buildings, making all in harmony with a first class Ohio farm of the early twentieth century.
Mr. Prentice was married March 14, 1869, to Mary E. Carlton, a native of Champion township, a daughter of Gideon and Mary Carlton, a granddaughter of John and Rachel (Trianara) Carlton, and the great- granddaughter of Francis Carlton, the immigrant. Mr. and Mrs. Prentice
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are the parents of seven children: Flora A., married Melvin Grove and they have Myron D., Albert D., Lawrence L., Raymond L., Rolland E. and Frank C. (twins) ; Charles J., married Mary Ella Baker and has Walter W. and Mabel B .; Newton A., married Myrtle Brown, children Pearl G., Marvin G., Carl N. and Francis E .; Nora E., married William S. Deerst and their children are Margery C., Edna L. and William M .; Albert, died aged seven years ; Frank C., married Ethel Beach and has a son, Harry E .; Milton is a student.
Mr. Prentice has been connected with the Methodist church since six- teen years of age; his wife is a member of the Disciples church since she was fifteen years of age.
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