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Simon Goist, the father, was married to Mary Ann Shively, in 1858. She was the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Crumm) Shively. Her people came from Washington county, Pennsylvania. She was reared and educated in Trumbull county, Ohio, attending the common schools. Simon Goist and wife had children as follows: Alice L., who married Thomas Story and now lives at Youngstown, Ohio; William H. O., of this notice; Loia F., who married W. C. Monson and now resides in Vienna township. The father, it may be added, was a Democrat in his politics and held numerous local positions, including that of school director, which office he held several different terms. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Girard, Ohio. In church faith, he was of the Evangel- ical Association, and was superintendent and class-leader for many years and one of the most efficient the church ever had. He followed farming and lumbering for his livelihood, having a large saw mill and a planing mill. on his farm where he did a large business, for thirty years, at the end of which time he retired. This was on account of advancing years, and not because he lacked further ambition. He died at the age of sixty-eight years.
William II. O. Goist was born in a log house which stood on the site of his present spacious residence. He was educated at the public schools of the township in which he was born. He is a farmer and stock raiser, making a specialty of Percheron Norman horses and at this date (1908), has seven head of registered horses on hand. He also has on hand fifty head of regis- tered Jersey cattle and deals in registered Berkshire swine. He has exhib- ited his fine stock at the Ohio State Fairs, the West Virginia State Fair and at district and county fairs throughout the entire section of the state of Ohio, in which he lives. His stock has won prizes at the several state, dis- trict and county fairs. One season he was the heaviest winner at the Ohio State Fair. ITe also makes much fine butter, and one year his wife made
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five thousand two hundred pounds, all churned by hand. His farm com- prises ninety-five acres, all under a high state of cultivation.
Mr. Goist has shown himself competent to hold the office of director of the Trumbull County Fair for three years. Both Mr. and Mrs. Goist, are members of the Liberty Grange, No. 1557, at Church Hill. Politically, he is a Democrat, but prefers not to hold office.
He was married to Effie A. Cover, daughter of J. Harvey and Mary (Haun) Cover, who lived at Niles, Ohio, and came from Mahoning county, where she was reared. Mr. and Mrs. Goist have three children: Phares W., now a member of Company B, Twenty-eighth Infantry, United States Army, and is doing service in Cuba ; Claude E. and Lida May, who reside at home.
In conclusion, it may be added that the Goist family dates back to Wurtemburg, Germany, and is descended from the royal family. In the fifteenth century the name Gayst was the family name; in 1605 it was changed to Geyet, also Geist ; in 1667 to Geist, which was used until it was changed to Goist by William H. O. Goist's great-great-grandfather. Mr. Goist, of this narrative, has the coat-of-arms of this family dating back to the eleventh century, the same being a beautiful creation, as will readily be recognized.
SEPTIMUS E. SCOVILLE, who is now a retired farmer and dairyman, residing in the beautiful little village of Vienna, Trumbull county, is a native of Brookfield township, this county, born October 15, 1852, a son of William Wheeler and Lovira (Alderman) Scoville. Both parents were born in Trumbull county, the father in 1820 and the mother in 1826, she dying at Sharon, Pennsylvania, in 1881. The grandfather, Merrill Sco- ville, a native of Connecticut, came at an early day to Ohio and was a prosperous agriculturist. He at first located in Howland township, but subsequently removed to Vienna township, where he finally died. William W. Scoville was born in Howland township and there reached his maturity. He was also a farmer and later moved to Brookfield township, where he died in 1853.
The grandfather, Alderman, was born in Connecticut, and at an early day came west, driving an ox-cart through the wilderness. He located in Brookfield township and there purchased a good farm from the old Con- necticut Land Company and there developed his place to one of beauty and excellence. In all, he possessed about four hundred acres of choice land. There he continued to reside and cultivate his broad acres until called by death about 1856.
Septimus E. Scoville obtained his education chiefly at the schools of Brookfield township and Sharon, Pennsylvania, with two and a half years at Newton Falls. He remained with his mother until about nineteen years of age, then commenced the dairy business, in company witli his uncle, Dexter Alderman. After sixteen years of successful operation in this line of industry he moved to Wichita, Kansas, and there in the golden
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West engaged in farming and dairying, remaining there eighteen years and three months, when he disposed of his western property and retraced his steps to Ohio, after having accumulated a six hundred and forty acre tract of land. Upon his return to the state of his nativity he purchased a neat residence- one of the best in the pretty village. Here he expects to spend the remainder of his years in quiet. He belongs to the order of Maccabees at Vienna. In his political views he reserves the right of voting an independent Democratic ticket. At present he is a trustee and has served on the school board at various times. Both he and his estimable wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Scoville was united in marriage September 24, 1829, to Ada Lesher, born at Greenville, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1857, a daughter of Samuel and Amanda (Robinson) Lesher, both of whom were natives of Sheakleyville, Pennsylvania. The parents were Germans, who came from eastern Pennsylvania and are now deceased. The father was a carriage builder and worked at Sharon until his death, in 1877. The mother died October, 1906, at Vienna, Ohio, where she was making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Scoville.
JOB J. HOLLIDAY .- An industrious farmer and wool dealer, who owns considerable real estate, Job J. Holliday, of Vienna, Vienna township, Trumbull county, Ohio, was born at what was then known as Doan's Corners, six miles east of Cleveland, December 10, 1822. His father died when he was but a mere babe. The mother's maiden name was Rebecca Doan, born in Cleveland. The maternal grandfather came from Con- necticut and was by trade a blacksmith. He came west at a very early time and owned nearly all of what came to be known as East Cleveland. He continued to reside there until his death. On account of his father's early death, Mr. Holliday knows but little of his ancestry, which fact he greatly deplores.
Job J. Holliday attended school at the block school house near the village of Vienna ; also an academy at that place, which educational insti- tution has long since been discontinued. Mr. Holliday went to Vienna when about eight years of age, accompanied by his mother. She left him with a Mr. Rogers, with whom he lived until both Mr. Rogers and his wife were deceased. He then set forth alone to try the realities of life unaided by father's or guardian's hand. He purchased thirty-one aeres of land, all within the village limits. To this he from time to time added, until he now owns a large tract; he also owns a residence and lot in Girard, besides a similar property in Warren, Ohio. IIe has retired from the farming and wool dealing business, and is enjoying the fruits of his labor.
Though not a member of any denomination, he always attended the Presbyterian church, with which his wife is connected. Politically, Mr. Holliday is a supporter of the Republican party and has served as a trustee of Vienna township. During the Civil war he was drafted into the Union cause, but by hiring a substitute he did not serve. Mr. Holliday is a
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progressive citizen, and, believing in the wisdom of benevolent societies, long since became a member of the Masonie fraternity.
He was united in marriage November 23, 1849, to Mary A. Woodford, born in Vienna, Ohio, February 12, 1828, a daughter of Amon and Nancy ( Nelson) Woodford. Her father was born January 24, 1803, in Vienna village, his parents coming from Connecticut about 1801, locating on a farm about one mile south of the village, where he died. He was by occu- pation a farmer, and his death occurred at the close of the Civil war. The wife and mother was born in Liberty township, December 27, 1804; she died September 5, 1879. To Mr. and Mrs. Holliday were born two children : Ebenezer and Adell.
AYLMER BAZEL MCCLEERY, one of the up-to-date farmers of Bazetta township, Trumbull county, noted of late years for his potato culture, was born March 17, 1853, in Bazetta township, a son of William and Rebecca A. (Hank) McCleery. The father was born June 26, 1824, in Liberty township, Trumbull county, and died August 19, 1895. The mother, born in Howland township, April 8, 1827, died December 25, 1906. William McCleery followed farming throughout his entire life. He owned a farm containing one hundred and ten acres. In his political views he was a Republican. He was the son of William McCleery, Sr., and Margaret (Boles) McCleery, both natives of Ireland. They emigrated to America in 1819, being six weeks in crossing the Atlantic ocean. They landed at Philadelphia, remained there a short time, and then went on to the western part of Pennsylvania. There were several brothers who came about the same time, and a part of the family located in Pennsylvania, but William, Sr., came on to Trumbull county, Ohio, locating in Liberty township, where he established himself in the weaving business. After remaining there some time he moved to Bazetta township and there bought an eighty-acre farm, to which later he added and there spent the remnant of his days. He died April 15, 1846, aged sixty-three years, and his wife October 23, 1877, aged eighty-five years.
William and Rebecca A. (Hank) McCleery were the parents of the following children : Aylmer Bazel, of this memoir; Amanda, born June 8, 1854, and died January 6, 1863; third child died in infancy; Laura and Lena (twins), born December 15, 1862; Laura resides at West Farming- ton, married Mr. Niram Hyde and they have five children : William, Amer, Altha, Anna and Albert. Lena resides in Bazetta township on the home place : she married Leonard Hyde and they are the parents of four chil- dren : Blanche, Winfred, Luther and Oscar.
AyImer B. McCleery was educated in the common schools and spent one year at the Academy at Cortland, also had the advantage of six terms at that most excellent educational institution-Hiram College. For twelve years Mr. McCleery taught school. He taught and farmed with his father up to 1883, when he moved to the place he now owns, which contains one hundred and ten acres. For the last seven years he has paid special
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attention to the raising of potatoes, making it quite profitable. Politically he is a supporter of the Republican party and has been a trustee of his township for two terms. In fraternal relations he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 554, at Cortland, and has passed all chairs within his lodge. Ile is also identified with the order of the Patrons of Husbandry, he and his wife being charter members of Union Grange No. 1575, at Cortland.
He was married November 18, 1874, to Lucy Kennedy, born June 27, 1852, daughter of Thomas and Phoebe (Casterline) Kennedy, both now deceased. Three children bless the home circle of Mr. and Mrs. McCleery : Merle Adelia, horn August 2, 1875, resides in Bazetta township, wife of Ernest Shaffer, by whom she has five children : Lucy, Howard, Neva, Vera and Ethel ; Harry, born May 22, 1877, resides at home, unmarried, and is a rural letter carrier from Cortland; Wayne, born December 11, 1882, lives in Warren, Ohio, and is a member of the Griswold Company, department store. Mr. and Mrs. McC'leery are both members of the Christian church.
JOHN II. GOE, of Bazetta township, Trumbull county, Ohio, an exten- sive stock dealer and farmer, living on his excellent farm one mile to the north of Cortland, was born on the Goe road, north of Cortland, September 17, 1841, a son of John and Mary (Meek) Goe. The father was born August 3, 1798, in Ireland and died in Bazetta township, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1823. John Goe came to this country in 1819 at the age of twenty-one years. He first came to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he worked on the canal, then went to Ohio and located in Trumbull county, where he married and started farming and brick making, which he fol- lowed, however, but a short time. His farm was little else than a wilder- ness. He had secured one hundred acres and when he had cleared that all up he purchased seventy-seven acres more. He raised stock and followed dairying. Politically he was an old-fashioned Jacksonian Democrat. In his church faith he was of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. John Goe was the son of William and Mary Goe, who never came to this country. Mary ( Meek) Goe was the daughter of William Meek, a farmer who came from Washington county, Pennsylvania.
John H. Goe is one of the following six children in his father's family : William, who died in California ; Sarah Jane, living in Cleveland, Ohio, she married N. S. Cozad; Rebecca Ann, deceased, who died in Cort- land, was married to R. D. Larnard : Nann, deceased, in California, married to George Davis, also dead ; John H., of this notice; Mary A., deceased, married C. N. Noteware, of Carson City, Nevada.
John H. Goe was educated in Cortland, Ohio. At the age of twenty years he went to California by steamship, going via Panama. While in the far west he teamed from California to Nevada, crossing the mountain range, this before there was any railroad built to the Pacific, and his freighting brought extra good remuneration. He continued there five years and six months. After his return "to the States" he purchased the old
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home farm in Bazetta township and began farming. continuing until 1875, then went with H. J. Gilmore in the dry goods business at Cortland. After three years' trading Mr. Goe moved to the place where he now resides, and where he carries on general farming and deals in live stock, and up to 1907 he bought and sold wool. He now has a farm of one hundred and ninety acres, divided into three farms. Politically he is a Democrat.
Mr. Goe was united in marriage, first, January 21, 1868, to Mary L. Brooks, born in 1846 in Trumbull county, Ohio, and who died October 20, 1874. By this union two children were born : 1. Arthur M. of Cleveland, in the Society for Savings Bank, where he has been employed for seven years. He graduated from the Commercial College, at Oberlin, Ohio, and was bookkeeper for the Big Four Railroad Company three years. The next three years he was employed with the L. S. & M. S. Company, after which he went to Buffalo to the Fast Freight & Express Line, where he remained for five years and from that point went to Cleveland, to the bank in which lie now works; he married Elizabeth Drew. 2. Ray, who died at the age of fourteen months.
John Goe married secondly October 20, 1815. Adell M. Smith, born September 1, 1853, in Johnson township, Trumbull county, Ohio. She is the daughter of Rev. Calvin and Maria Smith. He is now deceased, but the mother is living with her daughter, aged over ninety-six years. By the second marriage Mr. Goe is the father of two children: Alice, born August 4, 1879, living in Monessen, Pennsylvania, married (. W. Kennedy and has two children-Thelma and Shirley; Frances A .. born August 24, 1889, now teaching in Kinsman, Ohio.
JOHN C. THOMPSON, a highly respected citizen of Trumbull county residing in Bazetta township, was born on the 14th of April, 1840, in Howland township of this county, a son of Jonathan and Jane (Mitchell) Thompson. Jonathan Thompson, a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, born in 1798, came to Howland township in 1820 and put in a "still" at Howland Corners, while later he rented a farm and died there in 1852, an old time Jacksonian Democrat. He and his estimable wife were the parents of ten children, born in the following order: Henry, deceased ; Rachael, deceased : Jane, the wife of William Craig, of Topeka, Indiana; Daniel, Celia and Jonathan, all deceased ; John C., who is mentioned below; Mary, residing in Warren, Ohio, the wife of Jerry Green ; and James and Abbie, also deceased. Jonathan Thompson, the father, was a son of Henry Thompson, also from Pennsylvania.
John C. Thompson received a common school education, and as his father died when he was but fourteen years of age, he thereafter lived with neighbors for five years, and he was just then at the age when a boy most needs the watchful care of a kind father to start him aright in life. After this he worked by the month on a farm, and as he advanced in age he engaged in buying and selling farms. He now has a fine twenty-acre
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tract of land situated on the Cortland road, and in addition has a good residence in Warren.
He married in 1864 Emily Wilson, who was born in Howland town- ship in 1842, and died in 1888, leaving no issue. In 1893 Mr. Thompson married Ettie Simpson, born in 1852 in Mahoning county, and she died on the 8th of May, 1907, without issue. In his religious faith he is a Free Will Methodist, and politically he is a Republican.
HENRY L. DRAY is known both as farmer and minister of the Gospel. Mr. Dray was born March 29, 1852, in Bazetta township, Trumbull county, Ohio, a son of Darius and Almeda (Bacon) Dray. His father was born September 9, 1826, and resided in this township. The mother was born in 1829, in Cortland, Ohio, and died in 1860. They were the parents of two children : Henry L. and Alice M., she now resides in New Waterford, Ohio, married to W. D. Scoville. After the death of Mrs. Dray Darius Dray married Grace T. Smith, by whom two children were born : Mamie, residing in Cortland, married Charles Gretsinger, and Myrtle, at home.
Darius Dray is an extensive stock raiser and farmer. As a cattle raiser, he is known over a wide area of territory. He owns a farm of more than three hundred acres, all finely improved. Politically, he is a stalwart Re- publican. He is a member of the Christian church. His father was Wil- liam and his mother Elizabeth (Cummings) Dray. William was a farmer and spent most of his life in Mahoning and Trumbull counties, Ohio. Edward Dray (or Drake as it is believed it was formerly spelled), the father of William, was a native of England and came to America in 1828, when an old man.
Henry L. Dray obtained his education at the common schools and this was supplemented by a partial course at Hiram College (the institution which President J. A. Garfield attended). His life was spent at home and in like manner to that of other Ohio boys, up to the time he was twenty- seven years of age, when he purchased a farm, in the northern part of Trumbull county. That was in the autumn of 1818, and at that period of his life he began preaching as a minister in the Christian church at Greens- burg, at which point he continued to dispense the Word of Life for thirteen years, every other Sabbath and the other Sabbathis at Mecca. In 1891 he sold his farm and went to Augusta, Ohio, where he became pastor, continuing there as such for two years. At the close of his pastorate there he returned to Bazetta township and bought a fifty acre farm, to which has been added, through the estate of Aaron Davis, until there is now one hundred and sixty- four acres. On this place there is a sugar grove which produces two hundred gallons of maple syrup annually. Besides attending to this farm and run- ning a dairy business, Mr. Dray preaches at Howland and Greensburg. Politically, he is a firm supporter of the principles set forth in the platform of the Republican party.
October 15, 1818, he was married to Eliza Davis, born in 1853, a daughter of Aaron and Mary (Johnson) Davis, both now deceased. Aaron
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was a son of William Davis, the son of Joshua Davis, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1809, who died March 6, 1895. He was a farmer and large landowner. Mr. and Mrs. Dray have two children living and one deceased, Lida B., born December, 1878, a graduate of Cortland high school and Warren business college, and now in Hiram College; Paul S., born 1885, died 1892 ; Mark M., born January, 1888, has graduated from the Cortland high school, and is now in Hiram College. .
LEWIS HUTTON, well known in Trumbull county, Ohio, is a veteran of the great Civil war, a business man and farmer, who also had the honor of casting his first vote for President Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Mr. Hutton is a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, born August 8, 1845, a son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Cooper) Hutton. The father died aged forty-eight years, when Lewis was but four years of age. He was a stone mason by trade, and a son of Lewis and Harriet Hutton, both of whom lived to an advanced age. He was a native of Chester county, and followed farming all of his life, dying in old age. The Huttons originally came from England.
Elizabeth (Cooper) Hutton was the daughter of Phineas and Ann Cooper, natives of Chester county, Pennsylvania, and by occupation Phineas Cooper was an agriculturist. The grandfather, Thomas Cooper, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving with credit to himself and his fellow-countrymen. The six children born to Lewis Hutton's parents were as follows: 1, Mary A., residing in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania; she married Constantine Strong, who is now deceased; 2, Lewis, of this memoir; 3, Lydia, a twin sister of Lewis, died in 1905, married Jacob Greig, who now resides in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania ; 4, Evan, now deceased, mar- ried Emily Brown, now lives at West Row, Pennsylvania; 5, Caleb, a resident of Chester county, Pennsylvania ; 6, Philenia, who lives in Gona.
Lewis, the twin brother of Lydia, the second and third of the children born to Caleb and Elizabeth (Cooper) Hutton, obtained his education at the schools of Avondale, Pennsylvania. When sixteen years of age, Mr. Hutton enlisted with Company B, Eighth United States Regulars, on August 18, 1861, and was discharged August 18, 1866, giving five years of the prime of his youth and young manhood to the service of his country during the Civil conflict. He received a wound in the ankle at the battle of Chancellorsville; was wounded at Gettysburg and participated in the battles of Yorktown, Seven Oaks, the seven days battle on the return to Harrisonburg, Virginia, second battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Get- tysburg, The Wilderness campaign, where there was a constant engagement with the enemy for thirty days, in 1864; was at Appomattox in April, 1865, and was sent to California the following autumn, being honorably discharged in the summer of 1866, at San Francisco. He returned to Philadelphia, remained in that locality four years, then went west to Iowa and Missouri, finally locating in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1871. There he engaged in milling business at Cortland for four years, after which he went to Saginaw, Michigan, stopped a year, returned to Trumbull county and purchased a
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mill at North Bristol, Ohio, where he was engaged six years. He sold out there and again went to Cortland, and in company with Mr. Kennedy, from 1886 to 1891, operated a grist mill.
In his political views he is a supporter of the Republican party. In May, 1907, he was nominated for mayor and elected in November to a two- year term. He is a stockholder and director in the First National Bank of Cortland, Ohio; also stockholder and director of the Telephone Company.
He was united in marriage, May 18, 1815, to Ella Post, born August 6, 1855, in Cortland, Ohio, a daughter of M. C. and Elvida Post, both now deceased. The father was a miller by trade. Mr. and Mrs. Hutton are the parents of: Olive O., born April 18, 1881, resides in Warren, Ohio, married Frank Musser and they have one child, Paul H .; Elvida E., born March 31, 1888, living in Cortland, Ohio, married John Hartman.
GEORGE A. GRISWOLD, who retired from the old homestead to Kins- man, Trumbull county, some twenty years ago, has enjoyed the longest continuous residence of any inhabitant in that section of the state. He is also the oldest living alumnus of the Western Reserve College, and a revered character whose life has been a happy combination of practical usefulness and high thought. Although he has been living with a daughter in Kinsman since 1888, he is still the owner of the old homestead, which was established in Gustavus and Kinsman townships by his father ninety years ago, when the family migrated to this region from Connecticut.
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