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Mr. Williams received a common school education at the schools of his native country. The family are members of the Disciples church, and
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politically he is a supporter of the general principles of the Republican party. He has never aspired to public position, but from sense of duty served as road supervisor one year in his road district. He belongs to the K. O. T. M. No. 511, of Bloomfield. Mr. Williams was united in marriage March 29, 1888, to Atarah Dunkerton, a native of Somersetshire, England, born February 17, 1872, daughter of George and Eliza A. (Green) Dunkerton.
GEORGE DUNKERTON, deceased, who in his lifetime was one of the active, earnest citizens of Bloomfield township, and whose family still resides within the township, was a native of Somersetshire, England, born October 3, 1842. He had the advantages of the common schools of his native country, and was reared in the faith of the Church of England (Episcopal). In his political views he was a believer in the principles of the Republican party. His parents were William and Kesiah (Dunker- ton ) Dunkerton. He was united in marriage January 10, 1867, to Eliza N. Green, born March 15, 1842, a daughter of Abram and Jane (Dunker- ton) Green.
Mr. Dunkerton being a laborer at whatever kind of honest toil he could secure continued at this until July 21, 1879, when he went to Bloom- field township, where he bought one hundred acres of land and set up a home in this new country. This place was within the forests, and Mr. Dunkerton set about clearing up the land suitable for cultivating. He erected the necessary buildings and succeeded in getting seventy acres under cultivation. He was injured by a horse and survived but three weeks, dying November 8, 1897.
The widow and children purchased seventy acres additional, joining on the west of the homestead, on May 13, 1907. There they carry on general farming, raise horses, cattle and hogs, and have a good dairy. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Dunkerton were as follows: Ernest A., died aged twenty-five years, in the autumn of 1892; Edgar, of Bristol township; Atarah, Mrs. Henry Williams, of Bloomfield township; Ithream Herbert. of Bloomfield township; Keciah J., Mrs. William Goodwin, of Coalbrook, Ohio; Emily M., Mrs. George Storry, of Coalbrook; John Abraham, of Rock Island, Illinois; Austin Frederick, on the home farm; George Edward, at home.
Mrs. Dunkerton has won the esteem of the community in which she resides by the manner in which she has cared for the family and looked after the estate left by her husband, and to which she has been able to add materially.
WILLIAM JOHN VENN, one of the painstaking agriculturists of Bloom- field township, Trumbull county, is a native of England, born in Somer- setshire, November 30, 1858, the son of William and Elizabeth (Hamery) Venn. The maternal grandparents were Thomas and Ann Hamery. Will-
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iam J. Venn was educated at the English common schools, and worked at the milling business in his native country until 1822, when he and his brother Noah went to Bloomfield township, Trumbull county, Ohio, and there was employed on a farm for one year. He then purchased a house and lot in the town of Bloomfield, and resided there a year, after which he rented a farm of J. K. Wing for fifteen years. At the end of his renting period he bought one hundred acres from Mr. Wing and became a true farmer, at the same time also conducting farming operations on one hundred and seventy acres of the Wing farm. As time went on Mr. Venn added forty acres more to his holdings. Here he carries on diversified farming and dairying business in a most truly successful manner. In 1901 he built the finest barn in the township. This building is forty by one hundred feet; it is for horses, cattle and grain, together with ample space for hay. He has also erected a spacious farm house containing fourteen rooms, with furnace heat and natural gas lights, all being planned on a modern scale of convenience and appointment.
Mr. Venn is a devoted Christian and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In benevolent. society affairs he is connected with the Protected Home Circle, and the Bloomfield Grange claims him as an active member. October 3, 1872, he was married to Martha Langdon, born in Somersetshire, England, daughter of James and Ann (Darch) Langdon, who came to Bloomfield township in 1873, Mrs. Venn having preceded them to the county the previous year. They resided in Mesopotamia town- ship with their children.
Mr. and Mrs. Venn are the parents of the following children : William J., of Bloomfield township; Della, Mrs. Albert Griffin, of the same town- ship ; Elva V., teacher at Amherst, Ohio; Ethel M., widow of Ralph Crooks, residing with the parents: Grace, Mrs. Leon Clark, of Mesopo- tamia township; Vern, at home; Mabel, at home; Helen Violet, music pupil at Cincinnati Conservatory, and Vesta Viola, high school student, at home.
DAVID ROBERT WEAVER was born in West Austintown, Ohio, August 23, 1864, and is a representative of a family that was identified with the interests of Mahoning county from the period of its earliest development. John and Gertrude (White) Weaver, his paternal grandparents, were from Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and from there they crossed the mountains in a covered wagon and journeyed on to West Austintown and established their home amid the forests of Mahoning county. With the advance of time the husband cleared his land, and Weavers Corners there was named in honor of this pioneer couple. The year of their arrival in Mahoning county was 1816, and at that time their nearest mill was at Akron, and Mr. Weaver made the trips to and from the mill on horseback, marking the trail with blazed trees. There he and his faithful wife carved ont a splendid home from the wilderness, reared their family and enrolled their names among the founders and upbuilders of the county.
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Among their children was Charles Weaver, who was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1814, ele the removal of his parents to the west. About the year 1858 he married, at West Austintown, Elizabeth Wagner, who was born in Hesse Cassel, Germany, in 1836, and, coming to America with her parents, they established their home first in Baltimore, Maryland, where they lived for a year. A short time after coming to this country Mr. Wagner was unforunate in breaking his leg, and as soon as he was able the family continued their westward journey to Jackson town- ship, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he bought a heavily wooded farm and spent the remainder of his life. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Weaver located at West Austintown, where he followed his trade of cabinet- making and died there on the 5th of September, 1898. He is still survived by his widow, and she yet maintains her home in West Austintown. In their family were four sons and a daughter, but the first born, a son, died at the age of one year; George, the second son, is a resident of Florence, Alabama ; David Robert is mentioned below; Catherine is the wife of William Ellis, of Mineral Ridge, Ohio ; and Charles M. is on the home farm.
David R. Weaver was born in West Austintown, and he received his educational training in the common schools and in the Canfield Normal. At the early age of fifteen years he left his parents' home, and during the following twenty-one years he worked for the Erie Railroad Company. He had previously taught school in Jackson township for one year, and in November of 1901 he came to Bloomfield township, in Trumbull county, and located on the farm of one hundred acres which he had purchased on the 8th of October, 1888. Soon after coming here he bought another tract of one hundred acres, on the opposite side of the road, and he has made all of the improvements on his land and has ninety aeres of the farm under cultivation. He follows general farming, and also has a large dairy and raises cattle and hogs.
Mr. Weaver married January 24, 1898, Annie Hossel, who was born at Sharon, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1880, a daughter of Christopher and Caroline (Hossel) Hossel, who came from their native land of Germany to the United States in 1846, loeating in Pennsylvania, where Mr. Hossel was a coal miner. He died in that state in April, 1901, and his widow is residing in Sharon. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver have five children, William D., Elizabeth, Florence, Annie and Leola.
JAMES HENRY ELDRIDGE, deceased, was born May 10, 1845, in Penn- sylvania. He was the son of Alfred and Alma (Foster) Eldridge, both natives of New York. James H. Eldridge's mother died when he was about six years of age, November 20, 1851, and he was bound out to a man who was by no means kind and considerate toward him, so at the age of ten years young Eldridge ran away from his unpleasant home, and from that time on took care of himself. He drifted to Trumbull county, Ohio, and was a teamster, and also worked at coal mining.
During the great Civil war he enlisted as a member of Company D,
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Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served as a brave soldier until he received an honorable discharge, July 17, 1865, at Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Eldridge was taken a prisoner and was confined in Ander- sonville prison for nine months, when he and a comrade succeeded in making their escape by tunneling out. They traveled by night and lay hid in negro cabins by day until they got back through the Union lines. After the close of the war he went to Texas and was employed as a govern- ment scout for three years, after which he returned to Ohio.
After his marriage James II. Eldridge resided in Liberty township, being employed four years by the Ohio Powder Company. IIe died August 26, 1887. He was united in marriage February 18, 1879, to Lura E. Partridge, born in Niles, Ohio, August 16, 1850, widow of John A. Clark, a native of Pennsylvania. After her marriage she resided in Liberty town- ship until the death of Mr. Clark, June 28, 1818. One child was born of the marriage-Francis S. Clark, March 29, 1848. Mrs. Eldridge was the daughter of Samuel and Harriet M. ( Stoddard) Partridge. He was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, while the mother was a native of Cayuga county, New York.
The children born to James HI. and Lura E. (Partridge) Eldridge were: Harriet A., Mis. Charles Kecker, of Bristol township; Eva May, Mrs. A. J. Brockett, of Bristol township; James J., of East Farmington, Ohio. After the death of Mr. Eldridge his widow and family moved to Vienna, Ohio, and from there to Fowler, where they remained until 1900, then removed to their present farm home in Bloomfield township, where the widow and her oldest son still live.
Of Mr. Eldridge, it may be said that he was a Democrat in his political views, and an enterprising, industrious man who was cut down in the prime of manhood. He had seen his full share of hardships in his youth, but developed into a man of character and worth to his community.
DELOS W. RUSSELL, favorably known both as a farmer and merchant of Bloomfield township, Trumbull county, was born in North Bloomfield, July 7, 1864, and educated in the public and high schools. His parents were Alonzo W. and Mary E. (Smith) Russell. The father, of St. Law- rence county, New York, was born April 27, 1839, and the mother, a native of North Bloomfield, Ohio, was born October 2, 1839. The grand- father, Anson Russell, born January 1, 1809, was a native of Killingly, Connecticut, and the paternal grandmother was Lavina ( Boynton) Russell, born September 10, 1812, at Potsdam. New York. The maternal grand- parents were John and Julia Ann (Wright) Smith, natives respectively of Gill and Northampton, Massachusetts-the former born February 2, 1800, and the latter September 4. 1806. The great-grandparents, Paul and Martha ( Montague) Wright, were born as follows: the former, August 1, 1280, and the latter, March 23, 1:83, both in Massachusetts. Grand- father Russell went to Orwell, Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1849, and located
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on a farm, where his wife died February 12, 1868. Some years later he went to Bloomfield. Grandfather Smith went to Bloomfield about 1820 and purchased a farm, upon which he resided until his death in 1868. His wife died April 16, 1870. Alonzo W. Russell, the father, was married April 30, 1862 ; settled on a farm and also operated a saw mill and a general store, the mill being his chief business enterprise. He died March 14, 1901, and the widow has since resided with her son, Delos W.
Delos W. Russell, an only child, resided with his parents, assisting his father in his mill and store until the date of his first marriage. On September 22, 1886, Mr. Russell married Clara H. Cook, born in Bloom- field, this county, February 2, 1867, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Dun- kerton) Cook, natives of England. There were four children born to this union : Cora M., May 22, 1889; Burt A., April 2, 1892; Helen M., May 10, 1894; and Ralph W., March 1, 1896. Mrs. Clara Russell, mother of this family, died January 5, 1899, and for his second wife Mr. Russell married, December 1, 1900, Mae D. Clapp, born in Huntsburg, Geauga county, Ohio, December 1, 1867, a daughter of Samuel E. and Sarah A. (Scott) Clapp, natives of Huntsburg, Ohio. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Russell were Thomas and Lydia ( Pomeroy) Clapp, natives of Massa- chusetts. The latter was the daughter of Stephen Pomeroy, the first settler in Huntsburg, who arrived August 19, 1808. The maternal grandparents were Frederick and Dolly (Wright) Scott, of Massachusetts. For about a year after his first marriage Mr. Russell was employed by his father and was postmaster three or four years; the following two years he served as clerk at Bloomfield station, on the Pennsylvania railroad. He next engaged in general merchandising, continuing thus until 1905, when he disposed of his business and for two years followed farming on his mother's place of two hundred acres. In the month of July, 190}, he again established a general store in North Bloomfield, which he is still successfully operating.
Mr. Russell affiliates with the Republican party, and has held the office of township treasurer for eight years. His first service in this capacity was from 1897 to 1906, and in 1907 he was elected for another term. The latter fact is sufficient evidence of faithfulness, honesty and ability, and is but one of the best tributes to Mr. Russell's unvarying integrity of character and the substantial quality of his reputation. He was also appointed postmaster again in July, 1908.
NELSON MIZNER, a farmer residing along the R. F. D. mail route out from Hubbard. Ohio (No. ? ), has been identified with agriculture in Trumbull county all of his active life. He was born April 9, 1849, at the old Mizner homestead, near where the Petroleum Iron Works are now located. His father was Adam Mizner, born in Hubbard township in 1814, the grandfather being Nicholas Mizner, who immigrated to Trumbull county in 1808 from New Jersey, locating in Hubbard township ..
Nicholas Mizner was married in New Jersey to Rhoda Hall, and they
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moved to Trumbull county by means of a lumber wagon-regular old- fashioned emigrant style-bringing all they possessed along with them in their covered wagon.
Adam Mizner was the youngest of twelve children born to Nicholas Mizner and wife, and was educated at the public schools of his native township. He married Mary Ann Hager, who was a daughter of Lawrence and Mary Ann Hager, who lived in Brookfield township, having formerly come from New Jersey. Adam T. Mizner and wife had eight children : Sarah Jane, now deceased; Louisa, who married George Baker and resides in Brookfield township; Ada, married J. C. Hand, now living at Farm- ington, Ohio; Colista, married F. G. Peck, living in Brookfield township; Austia, married Samuel D. Baer and lives at Dayton, Ohio; Nelson ; Mary, married N. E. Weisel, lives at West Mecca, Ohio; Frank, who lives in Wheatland. Adam T. Mizner was a Republican in politics and a member of the Presbyterian church at Brookfield, Ohio, where he served both as deacon and elder. He owned two hundred and fifty acres, on which he did a general farming business. He made this property by his own industry and economy. He died November 20, 1884, his wife sur- viving until August 31, 1899. He traced his ancestry to Germany.
Nelson Mizner, of this memoir proper, received his education at the public schools of his native township and began life's real work on his father's farm. He has continued until this time and has been successful in his undertakings. He does general farming and raises many cattle, which he ships to the market. His farm consists of one hundred acres. He has occupied his present place nineteen years and has a modern farm- house of seven rooms. His other buildings are of a good character, all showing thrift and good taste.
He married, September 4, 1889, Frances Luce, who was the daughter of Filo and Hanna Luce, of Hubbard. They were of German and Welsh descent. She was raised and educated at Hubbard. They have one child, Florence A., born September 4, 1892. Mr. Mizner is a Republican, but aside from taking his part in the election of good public officers, he takes no part in politics. He belongs to Sharon Lodge No. 347, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and holds liberal ideas as to religion, while his wife and daughter are connected with the Methodist Episcopal church at Hubbard.
CHARLES F. CORLL, one of the industrious farmers, whose farm home is situated in Hubbard township, Trumbull county, is a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, born August 8, 1849. He is the son of Isaac Corll, born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1821, and of German parentage. When ten years of age he went to Trumbull county, Ohio, where after ten years' residence he moved to Newcastle, Pennsylvania, where he married Harriet McClary, who was born February 20, 1823. They moved to Mercer county, where he engaged in farming. Four chil-
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dren were born of this union: William, now deceased; Charles F., of this notice; Lucinda, died at twelve years; Eliza, who married Peter Clark and now lives in Brookfield township, Trumbull county. The mother, Harriet (McClary) Corll, died in 1862, after which Isaac Corll married Esther Patterson, of Trumbull county, and to them were born three chil- dren : Ella, who married John Lett; she is now deceased; James C., who lives in Hubbard township; Ida M., who married Luther Hibler and resides in Hubbard township.
The father, Isaac Corll, was a Democrat in his political views, but never took an active part in politics further than to exercise the right of franchise. He belonged to the Methodist church, in which work he always took an active part. He followed the life of a sturdy, successful farmer, and died after a well-spent life, in 1886. His second wife died in 1875.
Charles F. Corll, son of Isaac and Harriet ( McClary) Corll, received his education at the public schools of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and came to Trumbull county in 1865. He carries on general farming on a farm comprising fifty acres, which is well cultivated. Mr. Corll is a con- sistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Hubbard, Ohio. He supports the Democratic party by his vote, but takes no active part in the deliberations of that organization. He has, however, held the office of school director of his township.
He was united in marriage May 16, 1815, to Alice Clark, daughter of Lester and Elizabeth Clark, who lived in Brookfield township. Their family came from New Jersey at an early day and located in Trumbull county, where Alice was born and educated. Mr. and Mrs. Corll have five children: Ford, who now resides at Sharon. Pennsylvania, a foreman in the iron mills; Rilla, who married James Strubble and lives in Liberty township; Plummer, who lives in Hubbard township; Susan, who lives at home; and Florence, at home.
CLYDE TAYLOR, of Liberty township, Trumbull county, farmer and dairyman, living on the R. F. D. Route No. 3, out from Youngstown, was born on the same farm on which he now resides, December 28, 1874. His father was William Allen Taylor, born in 1835 on the same farm. The great-grandfather settled on this tract of land more than one hundred years ago. John Taylor purchased the same from the Connecticut Land Company, or from members of that company. He was a school teacher and came from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Clyde Taylor now pos- sesses a letter of recommendation from the board of education of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, written in 1198. The Taylors are of Irish descent. John Taylor and wife had six children: Robert, who is now in his eighty- third year, lives at Greenfield, Pennsylvania; John, Eliza and George, all deceased ; Sarah, who married John Moore, resides in Vienna township, Trumbull county, Ohio; William Allen, who commenced life on his father's farm.
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William Allen Taylor married, November 20, 1866, Harriet Shannon, who was born July 30, 1837, the daughter of John and Jane (Wilson) Shannon. Her father was a major in the War of 1812. She was reared by her sister at Boardman, her mother dying when she was a small girl. Her brother, Thomas J., was Major Shannon, surgeon of the United States army, who was killed after a battle near Martinsburg, Virginia, by sharp- shooters. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had two children: William A., who now lives in Bergholz, Ohio, is married and has two children-Grace and Doro- thy; and Clyde, of this memoir. The father was politically a Democrat, leaning toward Prohibition. He was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church for fifty-one years, during which long period he served as steward, trustee and other officer of the church, almost continuously. He was a liberal contributor to the support of the church. For forty-one years he took charge of the communion service of the church at Church Hill. In his vocation he was a farmer and stock raiser, doing an extensive ship- ping business to Pittsburg and eastern markets. In 1883 he engaged in the coal mining business and had mines at Church Hill, Trumbull county; Paris, Stark county, and Bergholz, Jefferson county. He died March 10, 1908, honored and respected and known as an enterprising citizen.
Clyde Taylor owns a well-improved farm of eighty acres, on which he carries on general agriculture, making a specialty, however, of dairying. He operates a milk wagon route in Youngstown, where he has a paying line of customers. Mr. Taylor has never married. His mother, who is now seventy-one years of age, resides with him.
Politically, he is a supporter of the Republican party and takes an active part in all that tends to elevate his party's interests. He has been on the board of education, being its president one year and serving as clerk one year. He was appointed as township clerk of Liberty township to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Guy. In his religious faith he adheres to that of his fathers, and is a member of the Church Hill Methodist Episcopal church, where he takes active part in all church work. He is Sunday school superintendent and one of the trustees of the church.
MRS. PHEBE SHANNON. of Girard, Ohio, widow of John B. Shannon, is numbered among the highly intelligent and much respected women of Girard and Liberty townships. She is the daughter of Elmandoras and Eliza (Mason) Crandon, who were residents of Girard, Ohio, having come to Trumbull county from Connecticut at an early day. They made the journey overland in a wagon. Mrs. Shannon was educated in the public schools of Liberty township and at Girard. April 12, 1870, she married John B. Shannon, whose death occurred November 13, 1905. Mr. Shannon was born in the town of Girard, on the old state road, October 14, 1847. His father was James Shannon, of Irish descent, who came to Trumbull county with his father at an early day. The family settled on a farm now known as Briar ITill Farm. The father of James Shannon, Major John
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Shannon, of the war of 1812, was an intimate friend and business associate of Governor Tod. James Shannon was a civil engineer, and helped survey the Western Reserve. He was a teacher of considerable note in his day and generation, and a brother of Jefferson Shannon, surgeon-in-chief in the Civil war. James Shannon, member of the Disciples church at Girard, always took an active part in church work, being an elder and contributing liberally to the support of the cause of Christianity. He died at the age of eighty-six years. James Shannon was married to Lucy Whitten, daugh- ter of Lavinia Whitten, and she was an adopted daughter of John Barn- hisel. She was reared to know the value of friends and of an education, which she obtained at the public schools of Trumbull county. They had one child-John Barnhisel.
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