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John L. Kincaid began his career by farming his father's land on shares for a few years, and then bought a tract of land in Warren township, where he began to make necessary improvements. He built a small house at first and has from time to time added to his first land purchase, until he now owns one hundred and thirteen acres, all in a fine state of culti- vation.
He was united in marriage May 20, 1869. to Emma Blankenburg, born in Girard, Trumbull county, Ohio, a daughter of Henry Blankenburg, born in Germany, and left an orphan at the age of nine years, being reared among strangers. When a young man he came to America, locating at Girard, where he engaged in mining. He was industrious and saved his earnings. In 1854 he bonght a tract of land in the northwestern part of the township. There the improvements consisted of a small clearing around a small log cabin. He continued to work at the mines a part of his time for several years, and devoted the balance of his time to his farm. By thus vigorously working he became the owner of a good farm property and there resided until his death. His wife's maiden name ( mother of Mrs. Kincaid) was Dorothy Hardman, a native of Germany, and a daughter of Michael and Margaret Hardman. She came to America with her parents at the age of three years and was reared at Girard, where the father bought a farm and resided many years. Mrs. Kincaid's mother died on the farm. The children in this family were Emma, Alice, Mary, Lewis and Charles.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Kincaid are as follows: William HI., Mary Alice, Dora B., Nellie May, Clarence J. and Harvey G., born
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November 30, 1890, died May 3, 1892. William H. married Laura Neff and they have one son, Merle; Mary Alice married Josephus Stine and their son is named Harry; Dora B. married William Hulmes and their son is Harold; Nellie May married Bird Pangborn. The mother belongs to the Grace Evangelical church. In politics Mr. Kincaid is a Democrat.
HENRY A. CRUM, who now resides on his farm in Lordstown township, is known widely, both as a farmer and operator of a threshing machine which he has run for more than twenty seasons. He is a native of this township, born September 27, 1849, a son of Jonathan Crum, who was a native of Austintown township, Trumbull county, Ohio, born in October, 1807. The grandfather was Henry, born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and he was a son of John Crum, who came from Switzerland and settled in Pennsylvania, where he spent the remainder of his days as a resident of Lehigh county, where several of his descendants still reside. The sub- ject's grandfather was reared and married in his native county, and moved from there to Ohio, making the journey overland with teams. He settled in Austintown township, being among the early band of first settlers. He improved a farm from out the forest lands and remained there until his death, when he was eighty years old.
Jonathan Crum, father, was reared in the county in which he was born and was permitted to see the wild game of the forests, including deer, wolves and bear, and he became quite an expert with the gun and was fond of the chase. After moving to Lordstown township he killed the last wildcat which was seen within the vicinity. In 1834 he bought lands in Lordstown township of Mr. Lord, the original owner, buying from a squatter all the improvements, which consisted of a log cabin and a small clearing. This was before the county had any railroads and Warren was a mere handful of houses, so to speak, and was known as "the village." He had no horse for several years and hence did his farm work with oxen. He raised flax and sheep and from these two products was made the cloth from which the family were clothed comfortably. Grain was all cut by use of a sickle, one of which "reapers" Henry A. Crum now possesses, the same having been used by his mother in cutting grain. The husband had cleared a farm from out the heavy timber and erected suitable buildings. He lived there until claimed by death, when aged seventy-six years. His wife's maiden name was Catherine Rupright, born in Lehigh county, Pennsyl- vania, a daughter of Henry and Mary (Krecklove) Rupright. Her parents were both natives of Lehigh county and became quite early settlers in Austintown township, Trumbull county, Ohio. They moved there with teams, carrying all of their earthly effects along with them. Later the father moved to Stark county, Ohio, where they remained a few years, then went to Lordstown township, where they lived with their daughter. He died aged eighty-six years and the wife lived to the age of eighty-seven years. They reared the following children: Polly, Mary, John, Samuel, Matilda, Henry and Lucille.
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Henry A. Crum was reared and educated in his native township, and assisted his father at farm work until twenty-one years of age. He then operated a threshing machine outfit for about twenty years, during which time he purchased a portion of the old homestead upon which he resided until recently, when he bought other land, near by, and erected modern buildings thereon. His farm shows great thrift and care upon the part of its owner.
Mr. Crum was married May 22, 1870, to Alcena Hipple, born in Newton township, a daughter of Lawrence and Elizabeth Hipple, natives of Ohio. Politically, Mr. Crum is a supporter of the Democratic ticket and has held various local official positions, including that of treasurer three years ; also was a trustee and member of the school board.
CHARLES C. HOWARD .- As manager of the Freedom Oil Company, of Warren, Ohio, Charles C. Howard is connected with one of the leading industries of Trumbull county. A gentleman in the prime of life, active and energetic, with a clear head for business, he is fulfilling the duties devolving upon him in his official capacity in a noteworthy manner. He is a native of this city, the son of Charles Howard, and was born August 7, 1846. On the paternal side he is of English descent, his great grand- father having been born in England. His grandfather, George Howard, was a native of Connecticut, and his descendants have in a great measure inherited those habits of industry, honesty and thrift characteristic of the New England people.
A native of New York state, Charles Howard was born and bred in Chenango, and there grew to manhood. Coming to Trumbull county about 1842, he located in Warren, and was here for thirty years prosperously engaged in the marble and granite business, living here until his death, at the good old age of seventy and seven years. His wife, Olive A. Howard, spent her long life of ninety-two years in Trumbull county, her birth occurring in 1816, in that part of the county now included within the limits of Mahoning county. Her father, Camden Cleveland, was a brother of Moses Cleveland, the founder of the city of Cleveland, Ohio.
The eldest of a family of five children, three of whom are living, George C. residing in California, in Los Angeles, and Fred W. in Warren, Ohio, Charles C. Howard attended the Warren public schools during the days of his boyhood and youth, receiving a practical education in the fun- . damental branches of learning. Becoming of age, he first embarked in business as a druggist, and was afterwards for ten years employed, in com- pany with B. H. Fitch, in buying and shipping wool. Going then to Youngstown, Ohio, Mr. Howard was there similarly employed for about ten years, being connected with Homer Baldwin, in flour mills. Returning then to Warren, Mr. Howard accepted his present position with the Free- dom Oil Company, and has here built up a substantial business, the sales of oil under his wise management having increased with a remarkable rapidity, amounting now to $100,000 per annum.
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In 1888, Mr. Howard married Susie A. Peer, a native of Honeoye Falls, Monroe county, New York, a daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Peer. Fraternally Mr. Howard is a member of the United Commercial Travelers of Warren, and politically he votes for the best men and meas- ures, regardless of party restrictions.
HENRY A. SIMON, who is the independent owner of one hundred and sixty acres of fertile Trumbull county soil, and whose attractive farm home is situated within the bounds of Lordstown township, was born on the land which he now occupies, February 12, 1860. He is a son of George Simon, born in Boardman township (formerly of this county, but now of Mahoning county, Ohio), on the 1st of June, 1812. The grandfather, who was a native of Pennsylvania and of early German ancestry, migrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio and became a pioneer of Boardman township, where he purchased land in the big timber, about two miles from the center of the present city of Youngstown, but at that time in the midst of a desolate wilderness. The railroads and canals did not appear in the country for many years, and settlers had to rely solely on what they could secure from the soil and what game they might capture. The women, in those days, remained close beside their children's cradles, and carded, spun and wove the clothes for all the members of the family. The grandfather lived on the farm mentioned until his death at the age of ninety-seven years. He reared a large family and did honor to his name.
Among the children of this pioneer was George Simon, the father of Henry A., who was reared amid rural scenes and commenced to support himself very early in life. He worked by the month, at fifty cents per day, and his days far exceeded the modern eight-hour limit. He was industrious, saved his wages as far as possible and abstained from the use of tobacco and liquors, until he had secured a sufficient sum with which to purchase a considerable tract of land, upon which he resided about fifteen years. This he sold and, after renting land for a time, bought a tract of one hundred and one acres in Lordstown township, upon which stood a good set of buildings. In addition to farming he operated a stationary saw mill and made shingles and boards. He also ran a sorghum mill, the most extensive of its kind in Ohio, in one season manufacturing thirty-four hundred gallons of excellent molasses. He remained on this farm until his death, which occurred October 1, 1900. His wife's maiden name was Sarah Dustman, who became the mother of Henry A. Mrs. George Simon was born in Canfield, Mahoning county, Ohio, April 21, 1821, a daughter of Jacob Dustman, an early settler of Canfield, where for many years he conducted a hotel, spending the last years of his life at that place. The mother died in March, 1891, having reared five children-Jacob P., George W., Harriet, Clarinda and Henry A.
Henry A. Simon attended the district schools and early commenced farm work. When fourteen years old his father retired from the home farm, which he leased, and young Simon began working by the month and
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day for others ; later he became a farmer on his own account, then bought a portion of the old homestead, and eventually acquired the entire property. In addition he purchased a farm of sixty aeres, which makes his present holdings one hundred and sixty acres, with three sets of frame buildings thereon. This latest purchase is pleasantly situated on the Lordstown and Prieeton road.
On December 8, 1891, Mr. Simon was married to Louisa C. Kreitler, a native of Warren township, born February 5, 1862. She is a daughter of Joseph and Josephine ( Kaeppler) Kreitler, a biography of her father, who was long an honored resident of Trumbull county, being published in other pages. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Simon-Charles, who died at the age of seventeen months, and another, who died in earlier infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Simon are devout members of the Lutheran church.
SAMUEL H. Fox, who owns the old Fox homestead, on the pretty banks of the majestic Mahoning river, in Trumbull county, Ohio, was born February 6, 1854, in Warren township, this county, a son of John W. Fox, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and his parents, as far as can be learned, were life-long residents of that county. John W. Fox was reared in his native county and state, going to Ohio about 1831, aecom- panied by his wife and one child, making their removal overland and on horseback, the mother on horseback carrying her child in her arms. Mr. Fox bought a tract of land on the banks of the Mahoning river, all covered with heavy timber. It was located in Warren township. There he ereeted a round log house, which served well the purpose for which it was built. They were far from markets and provisions. Warren, then a mere village, was the nearest trading post. They subsisted on the products of the soil and made their own clothing from wool and flax which the young mother would spin and weave. For some years Akron was their nearest market town. Mr. Fox had fortunately learned the trade of a briek and stone mason, at which he worked and at the same time superintended the elearing up of his timber land to make it suitable for cultivation. There he died, June 16, 1858, aged fifty-nine years. His wife's maiden name was Mary E. Niblock, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 11, 1812. Her father, James Niblock, was also a native of Pennsylvania and a farmer, and was numbered among the pioneers of Trumbull county, where he improved a farm and died there, in Warren township. His wife's maiden name was Margaret Springer, native to Pennsylvania soil and who spent her last days in that locality, honored by the settlers of Trumbull county.
Mrs. John W. Fox was left a widow with eight children. Three years later the war broke out and three of her sons went into the Union army, leaving her alone with the balance of the family. Fortunately, she was a tireless worker and possessed perfect health. Thus she was able to provide and manage for her children and keep such as were old enough in the district schools until such times as they could care for themselves. She continued to reside on the farm until death called her from all earthly toil
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and care, September 4, 1896, when she was almost eighty-five years of age. She possessed her mental faculties up to the last, passing hence after a short illness. She reared nine of her thirteen children. The nine were as follows: Seba, Lewis, Nancy, Ellis, Carson, William, Mary, Alvira, and Samuel. Ellis, Carson and William served in the Union army in the days of the Civil war; all were wounded, and William lost an arm and is now deceased. Ellis and Carson reside in Warren, Ohio. Mrs. Fox was a devoted member of the Disciples church. She had seventy-eight lineal descendants, made up of thirteen children, forty-nine grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.
Samuel H. Fox, of this memoir, was only four years of age at the time of his father's death. He commenced at a very tender age to assist about the farm work, attending school in the meantime, a part of each year, always making his home with his mother and she with him, as long as she lived, when he succeeded to the ownership of the old homestead, which has never gone out of the family. The farmhouse is pleasantly situated on the west bank of the Mahoning river. Politically, Mr. Fox is a stalwart Republican, and takes interest in both local and national politics.
He was married December 15, 1881, to Jennie Caldwell, born in Vienna, Trumbull county, Ohio, March 17, 1858. Her father, William Caldwell, was a native of Liberty, Trumbull county, and his father, Hugh Caldwell, was born in Ireland, of Scotch descent. He came to America accompanied by his bride, and they located in Liberty township, this county, where he was a pioneer. He bought and improved land and there died. His wife's maiden name was Jane Anderson, of Ireland, of Scotch ancestry. She outlived her husband and spent her last years with her children. Mrs. Fox's father was reared on the farm, and when a man owned one which he cultivated. He also manufactured cheese, establishing a factory on his farm. He died in April, 1904. He married Abigail Hickox, born in Vienna township. Her father, Chauncey Hickox, was a native of Con- necticut and became a pioneer settler in Trumbull county. His wife's maiden name was Susan Scoville, a native of Connecticut. Mrs. Fox's mother died May 22, 1904. She reared five children: David, Leverett, William W., Mary E. and Jennie.
To Mr. and Mrs. Fox were born children as follows: John W., Carl, Leverett, Glen, Carson and Nellie. Both Mr. Fox and his wife are mem- bers of the Disciples church.
AUSTIN MILLER, a prosperous farmer of Trumbull county, whose fine farm home is on the Lordstown road, a mile and a half from the court house, is a native of Austintown, Mahoning county, Ohio, born May 31, 1846. He is the son of John Miller, a native of Canfield township, Mahon- ing county, who was born September 14, 1816. The grandfather was also John Miller, born in Northampton, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1781, and his parents were Jacob and Susanna Miller, natives of Germany.
The grandfather, John Miller, was reared and educated in Pennsyl-
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vania and emigrated to Ohio about 1813, moving thither by means of ox teams and one horse on the lead. A son, named Jacob, a lad of seven years, walked all of the distance leading a cow. They lived in what is now Canfield township, Mahoning county, Ohio, and it is certain they landed in the Buckeye state with but one dollar in money. Then all was yet a wilderness, and the savage red man roamed at will through the dense forests of Ohio. For a time a small tract of land was rented, and later timber land was purchased in Austintown township. At first they resided in the small log cabin which they erected, later they building a good frame building and a huge bank barn. A large amount of the place was cleared up by this hardy pioneer, who spent the remainder of his life there. He died in 1861, aged eighty years. He reared eight children : Jacob, William, Samuel, John, Levi, Susan, Lydia and Martha.
John Miller, the father, was reared and educated in his native township and inherited a part of the old homestead, which he had assisted in clear- ing up from its wilderness state. When he commenced housekeeping it was in an old log house which stood on the place when his father purchased it. There was no store near the place and the mother used to cook by the old-fashioned fireplace. The father raised sheep and flax, from which products the good mother used to make the homespun cloth the family were clothed with. Later a good frame house was erected, and there the father and mother both died, the mother in 1878 and the father in 1896. For many years the father served as a member of the state militia. The mother's maiden name was Maria Lanterman, born in Austintown town- ship, Mahoning county, Ohio. Her father, William Lanterman, was a native of Virginia, born in 1:99, and came to Ohio in 1812. He was an orphan and was bound out to a colonel in the United States army in 1812 and acted in the capacity of a messenger. He married at the age of nineteen years, Sophia Burnett, born in Warren in 1799; her parents were among the first settlers in Ohio territory. William Lanterman settled in Austintown township, made a farm and died there, after which his widow returned to Warren and spent the last years of her life with her son, who had a farm on the banks of the Mahoning river. John Miller and his wife reared five children : Austin, Sophia, Joseph, Laura and John Marcus.
Austin, of this notice, attended the district school and the high school in Cortland, later attending the school at Canfield, and also one term at Poland Union Seminary. He then commenced teaching school in Youngs- town township, winding up as a teacher in his home district in 1876. He went to Warren in 1877 and has been a resident of the place ever since, living since 1882 on his present farm, on the Lordstown road. He has provided his farm with a handsome set of farm buildings, has set out and cared for fruit and ornamental trees, and in various ways improved the place.
February 7, 1877, he was married to Isabelle Fee, born in Bazetta township, Trumbull county, December, 1857, a daughter of William and Mary Jane ( Best) Fee, both natives of Ireland, but of Scotch ancestry. The parents were early settlers in Trumbull county. Mr. and Mrs. Miller
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have three children : George B., Lewis W. and Eva J. George B. married Nora Cassidy and lives in Youngstown. In their church faith the family is Episcopal, while in politics Mr. Miller votes the Democratic ticket. He has been town assessor four terms and a member of the local board of education most all of the years since he resided in Warren.
EDWIN BROBST is one of the venerable and highly honored citizens of Trumbull county, whose handiwork as a carpenter in his earlier days and his good management as an agriculturist later in life have given him a wide circle of friends and acquaintances who vie with one another to do his name honor.
Mr. Brobst was born in Warren township, Trumbull county, Ohio, September 8, 1834, a son of John Brobst, a native of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared and married. He learned the shoe- maker's trade. A few years after his marriage he went to Austintown, Mahoning county, Ohio, remained a short time, and then went to Warren township, Trumbull county, and there bought fifty acres of timber land in the southern portion of the township. At that date the present city of Warren was but a hamlet of a few houses, while the surrounding country was little else than a wilderness. He built a log house in which his son Edwin was born. For several years this house had no stove, and the good housewife used to cook and do all of her baking by the use of the great fireplace, of which the present generation knows but little. After living there several years the father sold and bought on the north bank of the Mahoning river, in section 9. There he found an old log cabin and a few acres of cleared land. Shortly after he bought lands adjoining and erected a set of good frame buildings. He continued to reside there until a year before his death, dying at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. His wife's maiden name was Mary Kistler, a native of Pennsylvania, who died aged seventy-five years. This worthy couple had ten children, as follows: Mary, Edwin, Sarah, Priscilla, Aaron, Amanda, Daniel, Samuel, John and Ellen Louisa.
The son, Edwin, was reared and educated in his native township, attending the schools taught in the log school house, which was furnished with excellent plain slab seats but had no desks. A board was placed along one side of the wall for the more advanced pupils to write upon. It will be remembered this was prior to railroads and modern conveniences, but when boys studied and appreciated what few educational advantages they did have, perhaps, more than today. When he was about eighteen years of age the work of railroad building in Ohio commenced, and on such work, for a time, he was employed. When twenty years old he began to work at the carpenter's trade, and followed it many years. In the mean- time, however, he had bought land in section 9, where he now resides. There was a log house on this farm, and in it he resided several years-to him it was not a curiosity, for, indeed, he had first seen the light of day within a log cabin.
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Mr. Brobst was married in 1859 to Mary Craver, born in Warren township, Trumbull county, Ohio, a daughter of George and Polly (Ful- willer ) Craver. She died about three years after her marriage, after which Mr. Brobst married her sister, Sarah, and she died in 1891. In 1896 he married Ida Quinby, born in Lordstown. Her father, William Quinby, was a native of Lordstown also. His father, Samuel Quinby, was one of the early settlers of Warren, and prominently identified with its interests. His wife's maiden name was Catherine Boyd. The father was a farmer and lived in Lordstown until his death, when he was aged fifty- three years. The mother's maiden name was Catherine Bailey, born in Canfield, a daughter of Abraham Bailey. Mrs. Brobst's mother lives on the old homestead at Lordstown. By his first marriage Mr. Brobst had two children : Sarah Jane and Sylvester. Sarah J. married George Hewitt, and they have three children-Marilla, Daniel and Ernest. Syl- vester is a farmer and butcher, residing in Warren. The parents are members of the Reformed church.
GEORGE W. HUNTER, a prosperous farmer and a member of the board of trustees of Warren, was born in Hubbard township, Trumbull county, November 4, 1873, a son of W. L. Hunter, who was a native of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. He was born December 18, 1848, and attended school until thirteen years of age, and then started out for himself. He enlisted in the army when sixteen years old, under Capt. George Farmer, in an independent company, and served six months, when his time expired, and he was then honorably discharged. For some time after the war he fol- lowed his trade as a carpenter at Hubbard, this county, after which, in the fall of 1874, he removed to North Bristol, where he purchased a farm upon which there was water power and a saw mill. For about ten years he operated both farm and saw mill, then sold his property and resumed work at his trade. From Bristol he moved to Warren, and is now a resi- dent of Youngstown.
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