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Mr. Burnham was born June 8, 1839, son of Jedediah and Sophia (Bidwell) Burnham, both pioneers of Trumbull county. He received the bulk of his education in the neighborhood, although he enjoyed a short term in college. His life was spent upon the farm and in the conduct of agri- cultural matters and at his death he was the proprietor of an estate of three hundred and thirty acres. The effective support which he gave to temperance was not his only signal work in the cause of morality. From his early youth he was actively connected with the local charities and reli- gious work of the Presbyterian church and he was not only energetic and active in furthering this work, but his advice was constantly sought and highly valued on all matters connected with the development of the church. He was also a member of the local post of the G. A. R., his membership being the reward of one hundred days' service as captain in command of Company G, One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At his death, December 23, 1903, he held the position of president of the Kinsman National Bank and was esteemed a leading citizen in material, moral and religious activities.
On January 30, 1868, Mr. Burnham wedded Miss Marjorie Birrell, daughter of George and Nancy (Bouthrone) Birrell, both parents being natives of Scotland, from whence they came directly to Trumbull county in the early days of its history. Mrs. Burnham was born in Gustavus town- ship, this county, September 19, 1841, and has resided within its limits her entire life, forty years of which have been spent in the house where her hus- band was born. Their three children are as follows: Andrew B., residing at Butte, Montana; Frank L., who lives in Ashtabula, Ohio, and Dr. Marjorie B. Burnham, who resides with her mother. The widow has the general supervision of the fine estates of three hundred and thirty aeres, the farm being rented to tenants.
ARTEMUS A. TIDD has spent many years of his life within the borders of Trumbull county, Ohio, and bears a name that is honored wherever known. His father was James Tidd, a native of New Jersey, and a potter
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by trade. During his early manhood he went to Pennsylvania, and was there married to Sarah Allen, a native daughter of that state, and shortly afterward they went to Ohio. They were pioneers in that state, and there the husband worked at the potter's trade, first at Salt Springs for two years and then at Holland Corners. During many years he was engaged in the manufacture of what was known at that time as "red ware." Removing in later life to Niles in Trumbull county, he spent the remainder of his life there, surviving his wife for two years.
Artemus A. Tidd, their son, and during many years a well known agri- culturist in Vienna township, Trumbull county, was born in Deerfield, Portage county, Ohio, August 5, 1834. His educational training was re- ceived in the schools of Holland Corners and in the Vienna district schools, and remaining under the parental roof until reaching his twenty-second year he then began farming on his mother-in-law's farm. After five years there he purchased twenty acres adjoining that place, and there he lived and labored for twenty-five years. It was at the close of that period that he became heir to forty-one acres of his father-in-law's estate, and in 1885 he erected thereon the splendid residence in which he now resides. He bas followed general farming, and at one time made a specialty of the raising of berries and other small fruits. On account of rheumatism he is not now able to perform heavy work, but continues the management of his estate.
Mr. Tidd was married on February 21, 1856, to Sarah A. Wilmot, born on the farm on which she now resides in Vienna township, Trumbull county. Her parents, Ransom and Hannah (Plumb) Wilmot, were born in Water- bury, Connecticut, but in 1802 they drove through to the west in an ex cart andl located at William's Corners, Fowler township, Trumbull county, but after a year they continued their journey to Vienna township and located on land then in the dense wilderness. Their names are thus enrolled among the earliest of the pioneers of Trumbull county, where they lived and labored as did so many of the first hardy settlers of the now goodly Buckeye state, the father passing to his final reward in 1848, and his wife many years afterward. in about 1870.
The following children have been born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Tidd : George E., the eldest, born February 21, 1859, married Mary Whitten, horn in New Castle, Pennsylvania, January 2, 1861. Her father was a native of Ohio, born in October, 1830, but her mother was from Pennsyl- vania, born April 21, 1834, and both are now deceased. The children of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Tidd are eight in number: Sadie, born December 19, 1885, and now the wife of John T. Forest, a hotel proprietor in Douglas, Wyoming; Serena, born July 19, 1887, became the wife of David S. Logie and resides in Vienna township; Clarence, born July 25, 1890, is at home with his parents; Carlton, born in February, 1894; Howard, February 21. 1892: Robert, January 10, 1899; Charles, November 12, 1902, and Paul, July 18, 1903, are also at home with their parents. Addie, the second child of Mr. and Mrs. Artemus A. Tidd, was born on the 22d of October, 1862, and was first married to Charles Whetten, by whom she had one child,
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Ernest, born June 20, 1886. By her second marriage there is no issue. The third born was Ranson, who was born January 23, 1866, and died in June, 1880. Florence, born April 23, 1876, married Leslie Sheldon, a farmer, and they have five children, Lawrence, Herman, Charles, Marie and Harold. Rubie, born in April, 1877, died March 2, 1880. Through his son, George E., Mr. Tidd is the great-grandfather of three children.
Artemus A. Tidd is a Republican in politics, and for five years he has served in the office of supervisor. Both he and his wife are grandchildren of Revolutionary heroes, and he is a member of the Presbyterian church.
ELMER A. LEWIS, who is a retired farmer living on his farm in Vienna township, Trumbull county, Ohio, was born in Fowler township, December 20, 1850, a son of Abraham and Lucia (Vahn) Lewis, both of whom were natives of Trumbull county. The father was born in 1817 and the mother in 1824. The paternal grandfather, Abraham Lewis, was a native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and among the early settlers in this township. He located on a farm, and there cultivated the soil until his death. Abra- ham Lewis remained at home until he had nearly reached his majority, then engaged in business at Youngstown, Ohio, doing a machine business for about two years, when he went onto a farm in Fowler township. Here he remained for the long period of sixty years, then sold and moved to Vienna township. Subsequently, he moved to Brookfield township and there he died about 1900. His wife died in 1905; she was then residing near Warren.
Elmer A. Lewis remained at home with his parents until twenty-one years of age, working on the farm on shares for about four years, after which he removed to a thirty-three acre farm, where he now resides, which was given his wife at the death of her father. To this they have added about as much more land, and here Mr. Lewis carries on general farming. He has been in ill health for several years and does not attempt to do hard manual labor. His two youngest sons carry on the farm, under their father's management. In his political views, Mr. Lewis is a Republican.
He was united in marriage, October 4, 1875, to Hellen Boys, born in Liberty township, January 9, 1854, a daughter of Hiram G. and Elsie (Wellman) Boys. The father was born in Liberty township in 1827 and the mother in Vienna township in 1834. He was of Irish descent, and an early settler in this township, following farming for a livelihood. He died in Vienna township. He married at the age of twenty-one years, and moved to the Perkins farm in Howland township, where he resided until the death of his wife, after which sad event he engaged in the butchering business for a year or so. He then married again and went into the hotel business in Sharon, Pennsylvania, continuing there for four years, when he went to Youngstown, Ohio, and followed the same business two years longer. He next moved to a farm in Liberty township, where he farmed successfully for about eight years, after which he engaged in teaming and transfer work,
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at Youngstown, Ohio, where he was killed by a passing train, about one year later.
To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were born nine children : Elsie L., born June 9, 1876, married A. W. Ferry, residing at Phalanx, Ohio; Fred, born June 6, 1880, married Grace Burlingame, and is engaged in the grocery trade at Warren, Ohio; Mina Olera, born January 16, 1884, wife of Jess Williams, residing in Vienna, and he is engaged there in the saw mill business and is a mechanic; Mary Susan, born April 6, 1885, wife of Floyd Ward, residing in Warren, a machinist by trade; Katherine, born August 22, 1886, un- married and resides at Dixmont, Pennsylvania; Ruth Helen and Roy (twins) ; Hiram G., born March 28, 1892, at home. Edna, the second born in this family, was born in 1879 and died in 1890.
DR. JEREMIAH HAWLEY LEAMING, a representative of the medical profession at the village of Vienna, Ohio, was born February 27, 1869, a son of Henry and Abigail (Beecher) Leaming. The mother was born in Vienna township in 1838 and the father in Hartford in 1829. The paternal grandfather was Isaac and the grandmother Elizabeth (Tucker) Leaming. He came from Massachusetts to Ohio, about 1818, locating in Hartford and becoming a farmer. At an early day he was a distiller. He spent the end of his days on the farm near Hartford. Henry Leaming remained on the farm as long as he was able to perform active duty in such work : he still owns the property, but leases it. He now resides with his daughter, Mrs. James Stewart, in Hartford. The wife and mother, Abigail (Beecher) Leaming, laid down life's burdens in 1900.
Dr. Jeremiah Hawley Leaming is one of two children born to his parents-Julia, wife of James Stewart, being his sister and the eldest of the two children. Dr. Leaming attended school near Hartford, and later at Hartford Center, graduating from New Lima in 1891. He was admitted to the Mahoning county bar in 1893. He had entered the law office of Congressman James Kennedy, at Youngstown, with whom he remained two years as a clerk and also did collecting for others. Having changed his plan and deciding to enter the medical profession, he entered the Cleve- land Medical College at Cleveland, graduated in 1898 and practiced four years at Niles, Ohio, then sold out and located at Vienna, his present home. Politically, Dr. Leaming is an independent Republican, and in church faith, holds to that of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. In fraternal in- terests he is associated with the Masonic and Maccabees orders, being the examining physician for the latter society.
April 23, 1903, he was united in marriage to Emma Cutler, of Sharps- ville, Pennsylvania, born February 17, 1875, a daughter of John and Esther (Hedges) Cutler. The parents came from England early in the seventies, locating in Sharpsville. The father was a carpenter, but after losing an arm, by accident, he engaged in gardening, which he has ever since followed. The wife and mother died December 14, 1892.
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DANIEL M. HORNER, who is one of the more recent settlers of Trum- bull county, Ohio, is a native of Mt. Pleasant township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, born near the town of Mt. Pleasant, October 2, 1853, a son of Samuel and Anna ( Mohler) Horner, both of whom were natives of Somerset county, Pennsylvania. The father was born in 1803 and the mother in 1822. The grandfather, Jacob Horner, was born east of the mountains in Pennsylvania and came to Westmoreland county at a very early day, continuing to reside on his farm until his death. The maternal grandfather, William Mohler, was a native of Switzerland and came to America, locating at Myersdale, Pennsylvania. He was by occupation a distiller and followed it for the Myers Bros. of Myersdale for several years, and indeed up to the date of his death. Samuel Horner, the father, became a land owner in Pennsylvania, not far from the old homestead, where he operated a farm up to 1820, then retired, keeping a portion of his farm upon which he resided until overtaken by death, August 13, 1885. His wife died December 23, 1891.
Daniel M. Horner was the youngest of two children born to his father, by a second marriage. He obtained his education at the schools of West- moreland county, where Tarr station now stands, on the electric line, be- tween Mt. Pleasant and Greensburg. When twenty years of age Mr. Horner set out in the world to make for himself a place among his fellow- men. The first six years he farmed on his father's land, then moved to Wood county, Ohio, and there purchased forty acres of land. After living there one year his first wife died, after which he exchanged his farm for a larger tract of land, which later he sold and went back to Pennsylvania and farmed there a year. He then embarked in the shoe business at Bloomdale, Ohio, continued one year, then sold out and again went to Pennsylvania and worked on the farm another year for his father. The following two years he was variously engaged, but unsettled. He then married again and continued to farm on his father's lands until after the latter's death. Mr. Horner then remained on the homestead with his mother until the spring of 1890, when he engaged in the lumber business in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, making his home at Scotdale until 1900, when he went to Indiana county, Pennsylvania, and purchased a fifty acre farm, upon which he remained until 1906, then sold and again moved to Westmoreland county. He resided there about one year, then removed to Trumbull county, Ohio, settling in Vienna township in the month of November, 1907, on a farm of a fraction less than one hundred aeres, which land he had bought in 1906. and where he expects to remain permanently. Here he follows general farming and dairying and expects to make a specialty of the milk business.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. as is also his wife. Politically, Mr. Horner is in accord with the principles of the Republican party, but has never sought or held local office.
He was united in marriage, first on May 18, 1812, to Esther Louisa Tarr, born in Bethany township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, May, 1855, a daughter of Daniel B. and Hester Tarr, both natives of Westmore- land county. The father was a manufacturer of earthenware, also a cooper
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by trade, and followed these two occupations until he became disabled. He served three years as a soldier in the Union cause, during the Civil war and drove the headquarters' wagon. After the close of the war he followed his trade several years. He died at the Soldier's Home in Erie, Pennsylvania, in the winter of 1893, sometime during the month of February. His wife died in August, 1889, at her old home in Bethany. By this union two children were born: William Wellington, born March 2, 1877, married Ida Koser of Fayette county, whose two children are William and Ruth; Anna May, wife of Bert Mauck, residing near Warren on a farm, is the mother of four children-Blanch, born in December, 1896; Grace, in January, 1898; Maud and Mabel (twins), born in December, 1904.
Mrs. Horner died January 31, 1878, and for his second wife Mr. Horner married Anna Belle Schaffer, born at Laurel Run, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1862, a daughter of Peter and Maggie (Nichol- son) Schaffer. The mother was born in Fayette county, as was also the father, and the maternal grandparents resided in Fayette county all of their lives. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Horner were born twelve children : One child died in infancy ; Harry Akin, born February 8, 1883, is employed by the Warren & Niles Telephone Company ; Lillian, born October 24, 1885, at home; Margaret, born November 25, 1887, at home; Amelia, born No- vember 24, 1889; Ethel, born April 6, 1891, at home; one who died in infancy ; Roy Samuel, born January 17, 1894, at home; Russell, born June 23, 1898 ; another who died in infancy ; Idessa D., born November 25, 1902; one who died in infancy.
O. B. HASSON, a farmer of Vienna township, Trumbull county, is a native of Venango county, Pennsylvania, born September 22, 1855, a son of John and Clara (Wright) Hasson. His father was born in Venango about 1825 and the mother in New York state, some years later ; she died at the age of thirty-four years in 1869.
The grandfather, John Lindsay Hasson, was a native of Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, and came with his parents to Venango county when a small boy. He frequently pushed boats up the Allegheny river, by means of a pole. He served as a soldier in the war of 1812, and later became a farmer in Venango county, continuing until his death. His son purchased the old homestead farm and there he resided until his death, July 6, 1898. The grandmother's name on the maternal side was Duffield. She was of Irish descent and died on the old homestead in Pennsylvania.
O. B. Hasson attended school at Canal two terms and remained at home with his people until twenty-one years of age, then learned the trade of making iron suckers at Bradford, Pennsylvania, and was variously employed by others until twenty-seven years old, at which time he married and commenced farming in Vienna township, continuing on a farm north of the center until 1903, when he sold there and bought fifty acres of land where he now resides. In 1900 Mr. Hasson went to the famous Klondyke gold mining district and followed mining. He was on the dividing moun-
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tain between the Behring sea and the Arctic ocean and washed out gold on the beach. He now possesses a ring which he had fashioned from gold taken from his last day's "wash" while mining there. He was more for- tunate at mining than many another man who went to that far away country in search of gold. His mining partner and himself had a narrow escape from freezing to death and would not have returned so soon but for sickness. He was among icebergs seventeen days, and did not see water in that time, these icebergs being as high as thirty feet above the water level and the ice itself thirty feet thick. The winter he came back from mining he remained in Youngstown all winter. In the spring he returned to his farm, which he sold later and moved to the place he now occupies, and where he does general farming and raises considerable stock.
Mr. Hasson was married December 26, 1883, to Mrs. Kate Andrews, born in Vienna township, this county, March 20, 1853, a daughter of Gad and Lucy (Rogers) Andrews, both born in Vienna township, he on April 22, 1822, and the mother October 24, 1831. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Hasson were natives of Connecticut and died of yellow fever when her father was but six years of age. Their deaths occurred on the Ohio river and Mrs. Hasson's father was the only survivor of the family. He was a farmer, though he did not conduct his farm himself, but drove cattle to the eastern markets for many years, continuing until death, which occurred October 6, 1877. His wife died January 21, 1892.
The grandfather, Joseph Rogers, was also from Connecticut and came to Ohio when yet a young man. He was a tanner and shoemaker by trade and at first located where now stands the city of Youngstown. He spent a short time there and went to Vienna, where he followed his trade until his marriage, then kept a hotel several years, but later became a farmer. Becoming blind, he resided with his son the latter years of his life, living to the advanced age of ninety-four years.
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Hasson have no children. Previous to her mar- riage to Mr. Ilasson his wife had been married to Frank Andrews on August 5, 1873. By this union there was one child, Daisy, born March 1, 1875; she married George MeCrum and they reside in Kansas City and have one child, Donna, born December 17, 1893.
February 12, 1908, Mr. Hasson graduated as a veterinary dentist from the Veterinary College at Detroit, Michigan, and this profession he expects to follow hereafter. He is in the true sense of the term a "self- made man." Politically, he is a Republican. The only order to which he belongs is the Maccabees, at Vienna. He is a member of the Baptist church.
OVID ORR WILSON, one of the thrifty farmers who pays special attention to sheep raising, and whose beautiful farm-home is within the bounds of Bazetta township, Trumbull county. Ohio, is a native of the township in which he still resides, born there October 24, 1852. He is the son of James G. and Olive (King) Wilson. The father was born August 16, 1800, in Springfield, Vermont, and died 1884. The mother was born in
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1816, in Howland township, Trumbull county, and died in March, 1900. James G. Wilson went from Vermont to Canada with his parents during the time of the war of 1812, but subsequently came back to New York. He then went to Pennsylvania, remained a short time, and went on to Ohio, arriving in that state in 1821. He made another short sojourn in Penn- sylvania and located then in Howland township, where he purchased a farm. Shortly thereafter he disposed of that place and bought in Bazetta township, where he purchased land in the big woods, amounting to seventy- five acres. There he reared a log cabin and cleared up his land and added thereto, until he possessed two hundred acres. In his latter years he kept a herd of twenty-five cows and made his own cheese, which he placed on the market. He was the father of seven children. By his first wife, Isabell Stevens, he had one child, Ithiel Wilson, who died in the army during the Civil war. The others are: Amine, who died at the age of twenty-four years, leaving a husband, Byron Taylor, and two children ; he now resides at Vienna; William W., of Bazetta township, married Mahala Starner; James B., died when but one year of age; Samuel H., died aged fourteen years ; Ovid O., of this sketch; Thomas K., died aged forty-four years, leaving a wife, whose maiden name was Julia Daugherty.
Ovid O. Wilson, of this notice, was educated in the common schools and supplemented by one year at Cortland, Ohio. When twenty-two years of age he set out in life for himself, purchased a part of the old homestead, the remainder being given him by his father. He now owns one hundred and fifty acres, which he devotes largely to sheep raising. In 1899 he started a saw mill, which in 1905 he turned over to his son. Politically Mr. Wilson is a Republican.
March 24, 1875, Mr. Wilson was married to Adell Gibson, born Sep- tember 21, 1855, at Warren, Ohio, daughter of Uriah Parvin and Amanda (Dray) Gibson, both natives of Trumbull county. By trade her father was a plasterer and was born in Howland township, Trumbull county, January 24, 1829, and died October 17, 1898. The mother was born May 13, 1824, in Bazetta township and died July 22, 1887. Uriah P. was the son of James and Susan Gibson, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio at an early day. By this union five children were born: Charles H., born April 8, 1876, unmarried and at home, now operating a saw and cider mill on his father's farm ; Walter R., born April 8, 1878, in Warren, Ohio, a pattern maker, and married to Charity Taylor; James E., born June 5, 1880, residing in Howland township, first married Lucy MeCleary, who is now deceased, leaving one child, Lucy, who is now with her grandfather; for his second wife James E. married Ella Cochran, by whom one child was born: Arthur J., born August 12, 1882, resides in Champion township, Trumbull county, married Ethel Saunders, and their issue is one child, Clarence: Alta May, born August 20, 1886, married Frank Allard, and resides in Warren, where he follows carpentering.
Of the maternal side of Mr. Wilson's ancestry it may be stated that Olive King, the mother, was a daughter of Samuel and Nancy ( Kennedy) King. Her father was born in Connecticut and accompanied his parents
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to Ohio in 1298. Ile was the son of Barber and Irene ( Scoville) King. Nancy ( Kennedy) King was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and in 1814 came to Trumbull county, Ohio, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kennedy. They made the journey on foot and by wagons hauled the few goods they possessed. Nancy, being almost a woman grown at the time, walked nearly all of the way, besides carrying her younger brother on her back. Samuel Kennedy was a native of Ireland.
WILLIAM H. O. GOIST, farmer and stock raiser, in Liberty township, Trumbull county, who resides along the rural free delivery out from Girard, No. 1, is a native of the township and was born on the farm upon which he now resides, February 24, 1863. His father, Simon Goist, was born on a farm in Liberty township. The grandfather came to Trumbull county at an early day, having to chop his road through the country. His nearest postoffice was Enon Valley, Pennsylvania, where they had to go to do their trading, milling, etc. The great-grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812.
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