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The seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt MeKay were as fol- lows : Myrtilla J .; now deceased : Samuel A., who resides in Sharon, Pennsylvania ; Francis M., of this sketch, and Frank, who were twins, the latter now residing in Lassen county, California; Naney, deceased; James N., who resides in Youngstown, Ohio, and is secretary of the Home Sav- ings Company ; and Almira, who died in infaney.
Francis M. MeKay was reared in Brookfield township and received his preliminary education in its schools, completing his studies at the Orwell Normal Institute, in Ashtabula county, Ohio. For several years thereafter he taught school in the winter and farmed during the summer months. His career as a teacher covered three terms in Liberty township and five terms in Brookfield township. He has been engaged in, farming the rest of his mature life and his present homestead consists of a farm of two hundred and eighty acres, scientifically cultivated and thoroughly improved. He makes a specialty of raising stock for the market. Mr. MeKay has always been an active Republican and has a record for useful service in connection with the administration of local public affairs, having held the office of township trustee and president of the school board. In 1892 he was elected justice of the peace and has thoroughly proven his ability in that office, his party continuously electing him as his own sue- cessor. He is a Mason in good standing and a member of Jerusalem Lodge No. 19, of Hartford, Ohio. In his religions faith he is a Presbyterian and has long served as one of the elders of the church at Brookfield Center.
On April 8, 1880, Franeis M. MeKay married Miss Arie Long, a daughter of John and Emma J. Long, both natives of Ohio, where they passed their early years and afterward removed to Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. By his first marriage Mr. MeKay had three children : Myrtilla, who now resides in Poland, Ohio; Bertha, who lives at home; and John, who is attending the National University at Lebanon, Ohio,
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where he is preparing for, the legal profession. Mrs. Arie Mckay died June 4, 1889, and on January 1, 1896, Mr. Mckay married Miss Jessie McMullin, a daughter of Benjamin and Fannie McMullin. The grand- father of Mrs. McKay, Captain James McMullin, was the first white settler in Brookfield. One child, Benjamin Wyatt Mckay, has been born to them.
JOIIN M. STEWART, engaged in farming and coal mining in Brook- field township, Trumbull county, is a native of Liberty township, Trum- bull county, Ohio, born April 15, 1852. His father, David Stewart, was born at Cortsville and in his early life learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed for many years. When quite a young man he came to Trumbull county, where he both followed his trade and for many years of his later life engaged in farming, but returned to Mahoning county, Ohio. After engaging in farming for a total period of forty years, he has retired from active life and returned to Trumbull county, living at the present time with his son, John M. David Stewart married Miss Aurilla Gray, a daughter of George Gray, who came from New Jersey and settled at Cortsville, Ohio. Mrs. Stewart was there reared and educated. To the marriage were born three children: George H., who resides at Hubbard, Ohio ; Ella, who married T. A. Barber and lives at Brookfield Center ; and John M., of this sketch. The mother of this family died in 1878, but the father, although venerable in years, enjoys remarkable health, is still living and is a faithful member of the United Presbyterian church at Cedar Corners, Ohio.
John M. Stewart was educated in the public schools of Trumbull county and has always farmed in this vicinity, residing now on a well improved tract of sixty-seven acres. On his property is also quite pro- ductive coal land, and for a number of years past he has engaged in mining to some extent. In October, 1878, Mr. Stewart married Miss Mary Hines, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hines. Her father was long a resident of Johnson, Ohio, and here Mrs. Stewart was also reared and educated. The children of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Stewart are: Pearl, now the wife of Frank Saxon, residents of Brookfield township; Raymond Guy, who married Sarah Edwards and lives near his father in Hubbard township ; Hardine, who married Robert Brewer, a son of J. W. Brewer, of Hubbard, Ohio, and who resides at Coalburg, Ohio ; and Beloss Buhl, who resides at home. In politics Mr. Stewart is a Republican, and both he and his family are identified with the work of Corner Disciple church, of which he has been one of the overseers for a number of years.
EDWIN J. TINAN is now a resident farmer of Brookfield township, on one of the rural postal routes running out of Sharon. Until ten years ago he was an active and widely known commercial traveler over the Western Reserve and the territory of western Pennsylvania. In 1898 he
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retired to the profitable farm of one hundred acres, and has since enjoyed the pleasures and revenues of country life.
The Tinan family has been identified with northeastern Ohio for nearly a century. Samuel M. Tinan and Richard Tinan, respectively the grandfather and father of Edwin J., were natives of Maine, but located at Rome, in Ashtabula county, Ohio, in the early part of the last century. Samuel M. Tinan and his wife, Anna E. Wandell, who was a native of Palmyra, New York, were parents of eight children. Richard Tinan, who was fifteen years old when he came to Ashtabula county, married Mary Ann Tinker, who was born and reared in that county. Their six children were : Edwin J., Samuel M., of Rome; Orlando W., deceased; Washington B., of Painesville, Ohio; Clarence, of Kimball, South Dakota, and Mary, de- ceased wife of W. H. Osborne. Richard Tinan was a well known citizen of Ashtabula county. During the existence of slavery he supported the "underground railroad" through Ashtabula county. He was a Whig and Republican in politics, and a colonel of the state militia. At the town of Rome he owned and conducted a general merchandise store, and for thirty years had a dairy business at his farm near by. He was a deacon in the Presbyterian church, of which he was a lifelong member.
Edwin J. Tinan was born at Rome, Ashtabula county, January 3, 1835, and received his early education in his native town. When twenty years old he began a two years' course in a school at Painesville, and after- wards moved to Cleveland, where he began his career in the employ of Edwards, Townsend and Company, wholesale grocers. He represented this firin on the road for five years in the Western Reserve and for thirty years in western Pennsylvania. Since becoming a permanent resident of Trum- bull county he has identified himself to some extent with public affairs, and has been trustee of Brookfield township. He is a member of the Meadville (Pa.) Lodge of Elks, and his wife is a member of the Disciple church. Mr. Tinan married in 1864 Miss Elizabeth H. Kates, who was born and reared at Pittsburg. They had five children: Richard E., who died aged four years: J. Burton and Ralph M., who died in infancy; Fred B .; Edwin, Jr., who died when thirty years old; and Mary, who married H. Robbins and lives at Niles, Ohio.
JAMES W. BREWER, of Hubbard, is one of the oldest and most promi- nent citizens of this part of Trumbull county who have been engaged in the developing of its coal industries. He was born July 24, 1846, and is a native of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. His father, Wilson Brewer. passed the entire period of his life in that state, and his mother, formerly Sarah Greer, was also a native of the Keystone state. James W. Brewer was the second of five children, and after his father's death, in the early fifties, he moved with other members of the family to Johnson, Trumbull county, Ohio. He lived in that locality from 1855 to 1859. when his widowed mother again removed her family to East Hubbard, Hubbard
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township. There James W. has since resided. He was educated in the district schools of that locality, and in 1865, when only nineteen years of age, he commenced the business of coal drilling, which occupation he followed for twenty years, or until 1885, when he established a retail coal business which he has developed continuously ever since. Of late years he has dealt not only in coal, but has founded a prosperous trade in builder's supplies. In 1902 he received his son, James L., into partnership with him, at which time the branch of building supplies was added to their business. The firm name since that year has been J. W. Brewer & Son.
Mr. Brewer was married to Miss Catherine Mackey, daughter of David and Jane (Braden) Mackey, natives of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Her parents removed to Mahoning county, where Mrs. Brewer passed her girlhood days and received her education. Mr. and Mrs. Brewer have become the parents of three children: Fred M., who resides in Niles, Ohio, and is its city engineer; James L., who resides with his father and has a partnership in his business; and Robert G., married and lives at Coalburg, Ohio. Mrs. Brewer died in 1901, but the mother still lives and resides with her son, being now in her eighty-ninth year. Mr. Brewer's influence has extended from the business field to public affairs and he has efficiently served both as trustee of his township and as a member of the city council of Hubbard, being at present a member of the latter body. He is also an active worker in Methodism, being one of the stewards of the church at Hubbard.
JOHN A. ANDERSON, a well-known undertaker and funeral director of Hubbard, Trumbull county, is a native of Mahoning county, Ohio, and was born February 25, 1853. His father, David C. Anderson, is a native of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, where he passed his earlier years, but is now a resident of Mercer county, Pennsylvania. The elder Anderson married Rebecca Robinson, a daughter of John and Rebecca Robinson, both of whom were also Pennsylvanians. His wife died in 1874, but he still lives as a substantial farmer of Mercer county.
John A. Anderson is the second child in a family of six children and passed the years of his youth and early manhood in various farming occupations in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. In 1890 he came to Trum- bull county and settled on a farm east of the town of Hubbard, where he not only conducted his farm but became interested in the saw mill business. In 1905 he engaged actively in this field, although he retained a fine and productive farm of one hundred acres near Hubbard. In 1900 Mr. Anderson took a course in embalming in the well-known Myers school, Youngstown, Ohio, and established an undertaking business at that point. In 1901 he enlarged the scope of his enterprise by becoming a funeral director, conducting this business at first from his farm, but in 1905 his enterprise had so prospered that he located in the town of Hubbard. He
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is now thoroughly equipped to conduct this line of work according to the most modern plan, and as noted is thoroughly educated as to scientific embalming.
Mr. Anderson was married, October 14, 1814, to Miss Sadie Bently, a daughter of Hudson and Miranda Bently, of Mercer county, Pennsylvania. His wife spent her girlhood days in this locality, where she was also educated. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Anderson have four children: Orville L., who is married and lives in Hubbard; Mary Grace, now Mrs. Raymond Mathews, also a resident of that place; and Charles H. and Dale L., who live at home. The family are active and influential members of the Presbyterian church of Hubbard, Mr. Anderson having been one of the elders of the local organization for the past six years.
JOHN WALTERS, who is the proprietor of a modern livery at Hubbard, Ohio, was born in that town, December 7, 1882. He is a son of William and Jane (Jefferies) Walters and comes of an old English family. His grandfather, Thomas Walters, was a native of that country and one of the pioneer coal miners of Trumbull county. The father was reared and educated in Hubbard, and his family of four children consists of the following members: Mary, who married Charles Smith; William, who is associated with his brother in the livery business; John, of this sketch ; and Deedie, unmarried, who lives at home. William Walters, the father, followed the occupation of a coal miner during all his active life, but for several years has been retired on account of his age and failing health. He has not only been an active worker in the mines, but has filled several important positions as superintendent. In politics he is a Republican, and has long been an active worker in the Methodist church at Hubbard.
John Walters has always resided in the town of Hubbard, where he is as highly honored as he is widely known. He is unmarried and makes his home with his parents. In 1904, with his brother William, he engaged in the livery business. The extent of their original capital may be inferred from the fact that they started business with but one horse, but their honorable and energetic methods have resulted in the establishment of a prosperous business. They have now ten horses, and their equipment of buggies, carriages and other vehicles is both complete and modern. Mr. Walters is a Republican in politics and an earnest member of the Methodist church.
NOAH J. POUND. a prominent farmer of Hubbard township, Trumbull county, is a native of Warren township, where he was born in December, 1839. He represents the substantial German-American element in this sec- tion of the country, both of his parents being natives of the Fatherland. His father, George Pound, emigrated to America about 1819, and his future wife (Mary Loupe) came to this country during the following year.
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The father first located at Philadelphia, but after a few years migrated westward and located in Trumbull county. For several years he was engaged as an ash maker at Warren, but later located on a farm of eighty-five acres, where for many years he engaged in general agricultural operations. As a resident of Warren he was a leading member of the local Methodist church, and died at that place in 1853, at the age of fifty-six years, his wife having preceded him by only a few months.
Noah J. Pound was reared and educated in the public schools of Warren township, and for many years became widely known in this vicinity as an industrious and expert painter. About twenty-seven years ago he abandoned his trade in favor of agriculture, and located on his present farm of one hundred and five aeres one mile and a half from Hubbard. This property he has since improved until it is a very valuable and attractive estate, being widely known as Meadow Brook Farm. Although he has engaged in general farming, he is also quite a large dealer in live stock. He is interested in the educational affairs of his township, and for four years has served as a member of its board of education.
Mr. Pound served in the war of the rebellion with bravery and faith- fulness for nearly three years. He enlisted August 8, 1862, in Company B, One Hundred and Fifth Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. Among the twenty-eight battles in which he took part may be mentioned : Perryville, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Ringgold, Buzzard Roost, and he also participated in the siege and battle of Atlanta. He was wounded at Chickamauga, was honorably discharged at Washington, D. C., and mustered out of the service at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Pound is one of the early members of the G. A. R., being now identified with Todd Post, G. A. R., at Youngstown. He has always been an active Republican, and although a useful worker in the interest of his party, has never sought reward in the shape of public office. Both he and his family are active members of the Presbyterian church at Hubbard.
Mr. Pound's wife was formerly Miss Sarah J. Kerr, a daughter of Hampton and Mary Kerr, residents of Brookfield township, where the wife was reared and educated. They have one son, Charles Clinton, who married Miss Grace Quigley and resides on the old homestead and has general super- intendency of his father's farm. Charles C. has been thoroughly educated, having pursued course at the Northeastern Ohio Normal University at Canfield, Ohio, and also at the Ohio Normal University, located at Ada, Ohio. His energetic and successful conduct of Meadow Brook Farm has proven that a liberal education and practical success are not incompatible.
MRS. JOSEPH HEAD, of Coalburg, furnishes a striking example of what women may practically accomplish in business lines, as for a number of years she has been at the head of a successful general mercantile estab- lishment. Her husband, Joseph Head, represents the third generation of his family to be identified with the founding and development of the coal industries of Mahoning county. Abel Dore, his maternal grandfather,
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opened the first coal mine in the county for C. HI. Andrews, the pioneer in that field. He afterward became superintendent of a number of coal mines, and did much in the development of the infant industries. George Head, his father, was also a general superintendent of various coal indus- tries, and met his death in a mine accident.
Joseph Head is a native of Pennsylvania, being born near Middlesex October 23, 1863. He came to Trumbull county at an early age, and was educated in the various district schools, and from boyhood was trained as a coal miner. On November 18, 1906, Mr. Head married Mrs. Elizabeth Head, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Morris, both residents of Youngstown, Ohio. At the time of this union she was the widow of William Head, a brother of Joseph, whom she had married October 7, 1818.
In 1902, prior to her second marriage, Mrs. Head had established a general store in Coalburg, and she has since developed a large and profit- able business, the style of the business being Mrs. J. Head, General Mer- chant. Mr. and Mrs. Head occupy a comfortable and modern home which adjoins her place of business. They have no children.
JAMES S. HOVER, of Hubbard township, a prosperous farmer of this section of Trumbull county, is a native of the township named, to which his father came in 1802, before the creation of Ohio as a state. The family is therefore one of the founders of the commonwealth, and it is also to their great honor that various members of the family have always offered services to their country in times of war. Isaac V. Hover, the father of James S., served in the war of 1812. and the son participated in the war of the rebellion.
James S. Hover was born March 25, 1834, in Hubbard township, Trumbull county, his father being a native of New Jersey, born July 25, 1793. The paternal grandfather, Henry Hover, was a native of New Jersey, born April 4, 1740. Isaac V. Hover, the father, was the seventh child by a second marriage, and lived in his native state until he was about eleven years of age, when he came with his father to western Penn- sylvania and located with other members of the family in the vicinity of South Sharon. Shortly afterward the family migrated to Trumbull county, where Isaac V. was reared and educated. He married Margaret Hall, and the eight children of their union were as follows: Harrison, now deceased : Mary M., George W., Belinda, Jessie H., all deceased; Celestia, who lives with James S .; James S., himself: and William H., who also resides with Mr. Hover. In his early days the father of this family operated a wool carding plant and tannery at Coalburg, but in his later years he purchased a farm and followed that avocation and cultivated and improved his property until his death, December 15, 1855. His wife survived him until the year 1874.
James S. Hover as a young man followed the trade of a gunsmith, but like his father, the latter part of his life has been devoted to agriculture. and he is now the owner of a fine farm of thirty-five acres in Hubbard
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township. He is a Civil war veteran, his services commencing April 1, 1864, with Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the battle of Cynthiana, Kentucky, where he was captured by Morgan's forces, but later paroled. The problem then was how to reach the Union lines, and for that purpose Mr. Hover and his comrades captured a boat, which they forced the crew to take up the river to Cincinnati, with themselevs as passengers, and at this point the ex- prisoners joined the Union army.
In religion Mr. Hover has been identified with the Disciple church at Corner House. Fraternally he is connected with the Reynoldsville Lodge No. 461, Knights of Pythias, and in politics is a Democrat. Mr. Hover's wife was formerly Miss Caroline Hibler, a daughter of Jacob S. and Mar- garet Hibler, both residents of Hubbard township. Five children have been born to them, as follows: Almond H., deceased: Mary E., who lives at home; James B., a resident of North Dakota; Louisa J., who married Edwin J. Howe, and Alice M., now the wife of Barris H. Long and resides near her parents.
William H. Hover, a younger brother, was born January 11, 1837, and was reared and educated in his native township of Hubbard. Like James S., he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, and saw service in the Civil war at the battle of Cynthiana, where he was wounded and taken to the hospital. He has had a successful career as a farmer and land investor. His extensive travels in the west have enabled him to become the owner of several valuable properties, among which is a fine farm of four hundred and eighty acres in Towner county, North Dakota. He is now making his home with James S., of this sketch.
LEANDER W. BURNETT .- The Burnett family, of Coalburg, is a pioneer representative of both the agricultural and building interests of Trumbull county, since both Leander W. Burnett and his father, James Burnett, were for many years engaged in these lines of work. They were also both born in Hubbard township, so that the continuous family history in this locality, which is so prominently identified with the development of these important industries, dates back for a period of fully one hundred and six years. Leander W. Burnett was born September 22, 1842, and his father in the vear 1818. Enos Burnett came from Sussex county, New Jersey. It was in the spring of 1802 that the family journeved from Beaver Falls, New Jersey, to Hubbard township, the first portion of the trip being made by water on a raft which the head of the family pushed up the river to Middle- sex, Pennsylvania, a distance of twenty-five miles.
James Burnett was the youngest child of the family, and received his education in Hubbard township, after a location had been made on the old homestead which was occupied for so many years. In 1839 he married Elizabeth Parker, a daughter of Samuel Parker and wife, residents of Greenville, Pennsylvania. The Parkers were of German ancestry, and
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Mrs. James Burnett was reared and educated in the Pennsylvania town mentioned. The family of Mr. and Mrs. James Burnett consists of eleven children-Mary E., now deceased; Leander W., of this review; Esther A., who became the wife of William C. Reese, and resides at Greenville, Penn- sylvania ; Martha A., now married to Rev. William Branfield, a Methodist clergyman, and resides at South Sharon, Pennsylvania; John 1. N., a resident of Spokane, Trumbull county; Lucy J. (Mrs. Fred C. Keighley), who resides at Uniontown, Pennsylvania; James A., who lives in Green- ville, Pennsylvania; A. O., who lives in Oakfield, Ohio; Bertha A., who married Robert Murray and resides in this county; Job .J., who occupies the old homestead in Hubbard township; and Alice, who died in infancy. The father of this large and honorable family is now in his ninety-first year, and is living in comfort and retirement with Leander W., in the enjoyment of remarkable health for one of his years. His wife died in 1891. The elder Burnett thoroughly mastered the trade of a carpenter when a very young man, and became a prominent builder and contractor during the many years of his residence in Hubbard township. With the profits of his trade in business he invested largely in land, and at one time owned some eight or nine hundred acres of timber property, as well as a thoroughly improved farm, which, after cultivating and operating for some years, he rented to other parties. James Burnett also has been a leader both in public affairs and in the development of the local Methodist church. He has been a member of that faith since he was twenty years of age, and while a resident of Coalburg has served as trustee, steward, class leader and Sunday school superintendent. In politics he has always been a Whig or Republican, but has never taken active part in partisan affairs.
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