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DILLWORTH HENRY NEWHART, who owns and operates one of the many beautiful farms within that goodly portion of Trumbull county, known as Lordstown township, was born March 21, 1833, in Allentown, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, a son of Samuel Newhart, native to the same town and county, and he was the son of Abraham Newhart, of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. He was a cabinet maker, following his trade in Allentown, where he died aged eighty-seven years. His wife, before marriage, was Miss Maria Raver, who died when aged fifty years.
Samuel Newhart also mastered the cabinet makers' trade and lived in Allentown until 1837, then went to Ohio, accompanied by his wife and five children, going overland with a span of horses and a huge wagon, of the type known in the west as a "prairie schooner." He settled in Jackson township, Mahoning county, where he purchased a farm containing one hundred acres. On this farm stood a two story hewed log house, which at that time was weatherboarded. There was also a large building which he used for his shop, as he worked at his trade, at the same time superin- tending his farming operations. Several years later, he built a frame house, nearer to the highway, and there lived until his death, when he was aged eighty-five years. His wife's maiden name was Elizabeth Weaver, born in Whitehall township, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Jonas Weaver, native of Pennsylvania. She died in her eighty-seventh year, having reared five children: Samuel, William, Dillworth H., Ellen and Charles.
Dillworth H. Newhart was in his fourth year, when his parents re- moved to Ohio, and he remained with his parents until sixteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the blacksmith's trade, serving three years, after which he did journeyman work a short time, but soon formed a partnership with John Klinginsmith, and they two conducted a general blacksmith's shop until 1861, when he purchased his present farm in Lordstown township. Here he has made an excellent farm-home, with all the improvements which tend to make profitable and pleasant the vocation of a farmer. After reserving plenty of timber for home use, . he has put the remainder of his land under a high state of cultivation,
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erected fine buildings and surrounded the same with fruit and ornamental trees.
Mr. Newhart was married September 24, 1856, to Maria Grove, born in Jackson township, Trumbull county, September 20, 1829. She was a daughter of Andrew and Cathrine Grove. Mrs. Newhart died December 5, 1893. Two children were born to this pioneer couple : Etta MI., who died in infancy, and Silbie, who died at the age of four years. In politics Mr. Newhart is a Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Newhart lived as members and believers in Spiritualism.
CALVIN S. KIRK-An industrious farmer tilling the fertile soil of Lordstown township, Trumbull county, Ohio, was born in North Jackson, Mahoning county, Ohio, September 5, 1852, a son of Josiah Kirk, a native of Jackson township, the same county, born March 1, 1813, he being the son of Robert Kirkpatrick, born in the north of Ireland, of Scotch an- cestors. He there received his education and came to America when a young man, he being the only member of the family who came to this country. Upon his arrival here, he located for a time where Warren now stands and helped to clear away the forest from where now stands the courthouse. From there he went to Austintown township, Mahoning county, becoming an early settler in that section. He bought land, re- mained there a few years and then moved to Jackson township and there purchased timber land. He built a cabin home there within what was then little else than a wilderness and commenced to clear up a farm. About 1820, he built a brick house which structure still stands a monument to good masonry. It is now owned and occupied by his grandson. Subse- quently, he purchased four hundred acres of land in Ellsworth township, where his sons, Martin and Isaac, settled. He, however, continued to live on his Jackson township farm until his death. Before her marriage, his wife was Catherine Ewing, a native of county Donegal, Ireland, where her father was a lifelong resident. She came to America with her widowed mother and two brothers and a sister. For a time, the family remained in Pennsylvania, but later removed to Ohio, in either 1803 or 1804, settling in Austintown township. Her brother, Archibald, continued to reside there, while her brother John settled in Jackson township. When the Ewing family first located there, Indians still lingered about their old hunting grounds and deer and wild turkeys were very numerous. She lived to see the county well settled. She was the mother of three sons and two daughters: Martin, Isaac, Josiah, Martha and Eleanor. It was Josiah who shortened the name from "Kirkpatrick" to Kirk.
Josiah Kirk, the father, was reared midst the rural scenes of Jackson township, attending school, at first in a log house without any windows, but it had holes which were covered with oiled paper, which admitted sufficient light to enable the students to study the three "R's,," "readin', ritin', 'rithmetic." The seats were made of puncheon, without any backs to iean against and deskless. Josiah inherited a part of the old farm
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Charles W. Kyler
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the same state, who became a pioneer in Columbiana county. After residing there a number of years, he moved to Champion township, Trumbull county, where he died at an advanced age. His wife was Hannah Swan. Simeon Kelley was a natural mechanic, but never learned a trade. He came from Columbiana county to Trumbull county, purchasing a farm in the western part of Champion township, where he lived and finally died, at the age of eighty-three years. His wife's maiden name was Elizabeth Oswalt, born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Plumb) Oswalt. She died at the age of seventy-two years. She was the mother of six children : Mary, Jacob, Samantha, Elizabeth, Delila and David.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert are: Henry and Ahnen. Henry married Flora Cook and they have three children: Vaughn, Hiram and Walter. Almen married Grace Fansler and has five children : Joseph, Calvin, Ward, Agnes and Kent.
CHARLES W. TYLER .- Numbered among the oldest and most highly re- spected residents of Trumbull county is Charles W. Tyler, a prominent citizen of Warren, who is widely and favorably known as an upright, honest man, of sterling worth and character. The descendant of a New England family of prominence, he was born October 10, 1828, in Griswold, New London county, Connecticut, which was also the birthplace of his father, Thomas S. Tyler, and his grandfather, John Tyler. His great-grandfather, Brigadier General John Tyler, was an officer in the war of the Revolution. His earlier commissions were lieutenant in the Colonial troops, 1752, and captain in 1764. The general died July 4, 1804, aged 83. The maiden name of the wife of Thomas S. Tyler was Dolly Cogswell, born in New London county, of English ancestry, a daughter of John Cogswell, Jr., and grand-daughter of John Cogswell, Sr., natives of Connecticut. The five children born of their union all grew to years of maturity and three are now living : one in California and one besides Charles W. in Ohio.
The second son of the parental household, Charles W. Tyler was brought up and educated in his New England home, attending the common schools of Griswold and the Plainfield Academy and after teaching three terms near his old home came in the spring of 1850 to Ohio at the age of twenty-one years; worked on a farm in Hartford, this county, during the summer, attended school at the Hartford Academy, then superintended by Professor John Lynch; taught the advance classes in the Hartford dis- trict school the winter of 1850-51; returned to Warren in the spring of 1851 in the employ of Calvin G. Sutliff and commenced touring the coun- ty on horseback with a view to turning the old book accounts of M. and C. G. Sutliff, attorneys, into cash. The collections required some attention before justices of the peace and were continued about a year and a half in 1851-2, with headquarters in the office of the firm of Sutliff and Hutch- ins, attorneys. Mr. Sutliff's death occurred February 2. 1852. and late in the same season Mr. Tyler returned to his home in Connecticut and on December 20, sailed from New York for San Francisco, arriving there early
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in 1853. Without very much delay Mr. Tyler engaged in the book and stationery business in San Francisco, in which he continued until his re- turn to Ohio in 1863.
On January 28, 1863, Mr. Tyler married Mrs. Hannah (Bennett) Sutliff, widow of Calvin G. Sutliff, and remained at the Sutliff home on Elm street till they moved into the house Mr. Tyler built on Park avenue in 1872, where he now lives. In 1864-5 Mr. Tyler was assistant to Colonel W. H. Hutchins, paymaster in the army and stationed at different places ; mainly at Washington, Buffalo and San Francisco, with occasional trips to army headquarters in the field. Mr. Tyler was county surveyor nine years (1822-81), and has continued the work of his profession and choice to this time. Mrs. Tyler died August 24, 1886, and on October 3, 1888, Mr. Tyler married Miss Abbie L. Carpenter, daughter of the late Judge James S. Carpenter, of Akron.
SAMUEL H. BAILEY, an extensive farmer and stock raiser, of Lords- town township, was born in Canfield township, Mahoning county, Ohio, August 17, 1837, a son of Henry Bailey, born in Pennsylvania in 1811. The grandfather was Jacob Bailey, a native of the last mentioned state, who went to Ohio accompanied by his family, making the journey with teams and carrying all the earthly possessions they had. Members of the family walked nearly all of the way. There he bought land and engaged in farming in Canfield township. He resided there many years, spending his last days among his children in Lordstown, Trumbull county. He died at the age of eighty-three years. The maiden name of his wife, who died in Canfield township, Mahoning county, Ohio, was Catherine Kistler, a native of Pennsylvania.
Henry Bailey was a lad in his teens, when he came to Ohio; he re- mained with his parents until 1843, when he went to Lordstown township and bought a tract of land which was about half cleared from trees and had a log house on it. Here the family lived in the log cabin several years, till a frame building was provided. In those days Henry Bailey used to keep sheep and raised flax, and from these two sources the mother would card and spin the yarn from which the "homespun" cloth, which the father wove, was made. In this manner the family was provided with substan- tial clothing. Here the father lived and labored until overtaken by death when eighty-six years old. He spent the last few years of his life with his son, Samuel H., of this sketch.
Leah Baker, wife of Henry Bailey, was born in Lehigh county, Penn- sylvania, a daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Slaybach) Baker, natives of Pennsylvania. Philip Baker was a pioneer of Warren township, Trum- bull county, Ohio, in which section he cleared up a farm, remained until the death of his wife, after which for a short time, he resided in Lordstown. He died aged seventy-five years, while his good wife died at the age of seventy years. This worthy and venerable couple reared four children. Those living are, Samuel H. and Mary. She first married William Keefer,
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who met his death by lightning, and for her second husband, she married Levi Wannamaker, and she is now the wife of John Howard. Amos, the second child, died when about twenty-four years, and Andrew died aged five years.
Samuel HI. Bailey was reared in Lordstown, and was an apprenticed carpenter, serving three years, then went into such work on his own ae- count, following it for many years. The barns and fine residences one sees scattered here and there in his county, are specimen of his handicraft. After about twenty years he retired from his trade and devoted his time to farming. He purchased a farm in 1870, on which stood a log house, where his family lived about two years, when a better house was provided. This constitutes his present comfortable farm home, of one hundred and twenty-two acres, which he has finely improved and well stocked and equipped with good buildings.
Mr. Bailey was married, December 29, 1859, to Sarah Keefer, born in Liberty township, Trumbull county, Ohio, October 8, 1839, a daughter of Jacob Keefer, a native of Pennslyvania, and a pioneer of Liberty township. He farmed until the death of his wife, after which he resided with Mr. and Mrs. Bailey for four years, then returned to Liberty township and lived with his son for a time and later with his daughter, Mrs. Nier of Wood county, Ohio, until his death, at the age of eighty-seven years. His wife ( Mrs. Bailey's mother) was Rebecca Nier, born in Pennsylvania and died on the farm in Liberty township.
The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bailey : Celestia Ann, Odelia S., Sarah M., Alven S., Charlotte E., Charles E., Chauncey W., Perry C. and Walter S. Celestia A. married Stephen A. Kistler and they have six children-Nettie C., Charles Ernest, Theodore, Lela and Lila (twins). Odelia married John Sinn, whose four children are Edward H., Mabel, Earl and Wade. Sarah married Wallace Paul and their issue is Henry and Mabel. Alven married Olie Lawrence and they have five chil- dren-Valma, Lawrence, Howard, Floyd and Arthur. Charlotte married Nelson King and has Harold N. and Esther. Charles E. married Della DeCamp, and has one child, Bessie. Chauncey married Emma Wider and has two children-Ralph and Virginia. Perry married Mabel Bailey and has Pearl and Vernie. Walter married Catherine Stittle, has one child Seymore. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Bailey are members of the Reformed church.
WILLIAM OHL .- A retired farmer living at Warren, is a native of Lordstown township, Trumbull county, born May 2, 1842. His father, Charles Ohl, was a native of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, born June 14. 180%, and he was the son of Michael Ohl, born in the same county in 1783. The last named was a son of Henry Ohl, a native of Lehigh county, Penn- sylvania, born 1762, and from the best information now at hand Henry was the son of Michael, who was a lifelong resident of Lehigh county. Henry Ohl went to Ohio to make his home with his son Michael and died at Ohltown, September 7, 1849. His wife's maiden name was Abbie Lark.
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The grandfather, Michael Ohl, was reared and married in Lehigh county and went to Ohio in 1808, being one of the hardy pioneers at Aus- tintown, Mahoning county. He resided there a few years, then went to Weathersfield township where he purchased land and laid out the town of Ohltown. By trade, he was a cooper and followed it nearly all of his life. After locating Ohltown, he erected a grist mill and an oil mill, operating both himself. He also kept a hotel. He remained there until his death, April 21, 1857. His wife's name was Eva Meyers.
Charles Ohl, the father of William Ohl, learned the millwright's trade, and equipped mills at Ohltown, Warren, Cortland, Leavitsburg and the Baldwin Mills in Youngstown, as well as mills at many other points. This trade he followed throughout his entire life, practically. When he was a young man he bought a tract of timber land in the southeastern part of Lordstown township and hired others to improve the same, while he was at work at his trade, which brought him in more money. He had the land cleared and good buildings erected thereon. The first residence he built there was burned. He spent his days on that farm, as his real home place, dying in 1896, aged almost eighty-nine years. His wife's maiden name was Elizabeth Robb. Her father, John Robb, was a Pennsylvanian, who became a pioneer in Berlin and there resided several years, spending his last years in Lordstown and Niles. His wife's maiden name was Painter. William Ohl's mother died in 1843, having reared six children: Hiram, Laura, William, Lucy, John A., Alice, deceased.
The genealogical line to the present, as above shown, runs thus: (1) Michael Ohl, the great-great-grandfather; (2) Henry Ohl, the great- grandfather ; (3) Michael Ohl, the grandfather; (4) Charles Ohl, the father ; (5) William Ohl, of this sketch. William Ohl was reared and edn- cated in his native township, and in the month of October, 1861, enlisted in Company H, Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, among the "three years men" called out by President Lincoln, to suppress the rebellion in the southern states of this Union. He was with his regiment through all of its marches and campaigns and important battles, including Ft. Donelson, Shiloh, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, Black River, and also at the siege and capture of Vicksburg; was with Sherman on his famous "March to the Sea," and at the capture of Atlanta. He was stricken with typhoid fever after the battle of Fort Donelson, and was sent to St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained in the hospital until recovery. He was honorably discharged from the army November 8, 1864, at Chattanooga, and returned home. He then worked for his father two years and then purchased a thirty-acre farm adjoining his father's and worked that until 1872, then went to Austintown township, Mahoning county, locating on his father-in- law's farmn, where he remained until 1889, then purchased his father's farm -the old homestead-in Lordstown township and resided there until 1903, when he sold out and went to Warren and there bought a house and retired from active labors.
He was married, in 1867, to Eliza J. Maurer, born in Austintown
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township, Mahoning county, Ohio, a daughter of John and Lucy (Buck) Maurer, of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Mrs. Ohl died October 8, 1881, and for his second wife Mr. Ohl married, November 15, 1883, Irene Ken- nedy, born in Bazetta township, November 18, 1849. Her father was Thomas Kennedy, born in Pennsylvania, a son of Samuel and Jane Ken- nedy. The father, Thomas Kennedy, went to Ohio with his parents, who settled in Howland township and there resided until his marriage, then moved to Bazetta township, where he was engaged in farming until his death. The mother's maiden name was Phebe Casterline, born in Wash- ington county, Pennsylvania, and she died at her farm home. She reared five children : Parmelia, Philender, Adelia, Irene and Lucy.
By Mr. Ohl's first marriage were born : Ida A., Alvah M. and Charles F., an attorney at Youngstown, Ohio. Ida married Lewis Young and has children : William, Laverne, Lamar and Arthur. Alvah M., married Nellie Clinite. Mr. and Mrs. Ohl are members of the United Brethren church. Politically, Mr. Ohl is a supporter of the Republican party. He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, Bell-Harmon Post.
PRESTON ROBERT HARKLERODE, a farmer well known in Champion township, Trumbull county, has spent his entire life (except a short period) in that part of the county. He was born July 20, 1848. His father, Henry Harklerode, was a native of Ellsworth township, Mahoning county, Ohio, a son of a native of Connecticut who became a pioneer in Trumbull county, and bought a tract of timber land, hewing a farm from out the dense forest and spending the remainder of his days there, reaching an advanced age.
Henry Harklerode, the father, received his education in Ellsworth, and when a young man, he went to Champion township and purchased timber land in the northeast part of the township, which was at that time nothing but a wilderness. There in the solitude of the Ohio forests, he erected a log cabin in which he and his brother kept bachelor's hall for a time, and each Saturday walked home to Ellsworth, returning Mondays. At that date, deer and wild turkeys were very numerous in that section, and as he was an expert marksman, he always feasted on plenty of the choicest of wild game. For a number of years he had no horses and did his work about the farm with oxen. Upon his marriage, he brought his bride to his log cabin, and for two years this cabin was their abiding place. On his clearing, he raised flax and his wife used to card and spin and weave cloth with which she neatly clothed her children. This has almost come to be a lost art in these days of fast flying shuttles and factories with their tens of thousands of rapidly moving spindles. For years they had no stove, but cooked by fireplaces, bright and cheerful. No lamps illumin- ated their dingy rooms, but in the place of modern lamps and electricity, the good pioneer was content with some lard within a saucer pro- vided with a rag, which served as a wiek. This, with the flickering light from the fireplace, lighted up the cabin home of the parents of Preston R.
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in that long ago day. Here the hard working father cleared up a farm from the great forests, and here he labored, lived and died, age eighty-two years.
His wife was Mary Rose, a native of Milton township, Mahoning county, Ohio, and she was the mother of six children : Nancy Ann, Almira, Preston R., Laura, Warren and Oscar. Mary Rose was the daughter of Rob- ert Rose, a native of New England, who became a pioneer of pioneers in Wilton township. He served in the war of 1812. He purchased lands in Milton township. He had a large family and while clearing his land up he had to work for others to gain means with which to support his family. He worked nights many times, in burning the timber, after having walked four miles from his daily toil. There he worked and finally conquered his forest tract and made for himself and family a comfortable home. His last years were spent with a son in Berlin township. He died at the re- markable old age of one hundred and two years, his remains being buried in the Eiches Cemetery, near his old homestead in Milton township. His life and labors only proves that "more men rust out than wear out." The maiden name of his wife was Catherine Shafe. She died aged eighty- one years.
Preston R. Harklerode was reared and educated in Champion town- ship and, with the exception of two years spent in Bristol. has spent his entire life in his native township. In 1820 he settled on the farm he now occupies and owns. When he went there he found about seven acres under cultivation, but he has brought it all under a high state of cultivation and erected houses and barns in keeping with the time in which he lives. His farm now consists of one hundred and twenty-three acres, on which he does general farming and carries on dairving and raises sheep.
In July, 1868, he married Elizabeth MI. Osborn, born in Farmington, Trumbull county, Ohio, March, 1851, a daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Echman) Osborn, natives of Boardman township, Mahoning county, Ohio. By this union seven children were born : Thomas, married Maude Wood- ford, and they are the parents of Merlin and Laurence: Luella, married F. A. Cory, her children are Edna, Walter, Wade and Clarence; Lavern, married C. C. Chinnock, whose children are Herbert and Mildred ; Maude, married Emerson Cory, and they have Preston, Eva, Dallas and Arthur; Edwin, married Nina Weise: Eliza, married David Livingston ; and Myrtle. Mr. Harklerode and wife are members of the Disciples church, and politic- ally he is a Democrat.
In conclusion it may be of interest to those who read these historic pages to know that Preston R. Harklerode's mother, being the eldest in her parents' family, had the care of the same after the death of her mother, who died when she was but eleven years of age. In those days people went barefoot a part of the year, and this girl used to be very careful of her shoes, and when she attended divine worship she would take her shoes in her hand and go barefoot until she reached the meeting house, which was a rough log building, and before entering the holy place would stop and put on her shoes.
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JOHN L. KINCAID, a prosperous farmer of Champion township, Trum- bull county, Ohio, is a native of the township in which he now resides, born October 17, 1848, a son of Thomas Kincaid, who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1800. Thomas was the son of James and Ruth Kin- caid, life-long residents of Ireland and of Scotch lineage. Thomas learned the weaver's trade, which, with farming, he followed in Ireland. He and his brother Robert were the only members of the family who ever came to America. The latter settled in Canada, while Mr. Kincaid came to the United States, accompanied by his family, about 1830. He lived at Warren for a time, then purchased a tract of timbered land of seventy-five acres. upon which there was a log cabin. He came without means, save enough to purchase stock with. He began to clear off his forest land and two years later he sold his young stock and oxen to a Mr. Adams, who had a large farm in Warren township, and with the money made a part pay- ment on his land, and then was employed by Mr. Adams for one year, receiving one hundred and fifty dollars and his house rent with feed for two cows. At the end of the year he returned to his own land and there resumed work and remained there until his death in his ninetieth year. He was twice married. His second wife was Mrs. Mary (Lamb) Rafferty, a daughter of Alexander Lamb, a native of Tyrone. By this marriage union the following children were born : Laura, James, Thomas, Alexander, John L. By the first marriage the issue was one daughter, Mary J. The mother had two children by her first marriage-Nancy and Henry.
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