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Clement L. was the next to the eldest of the nine sons and four daughters in his parents' family. All except two of this large family are still living. Clement L. resided with his parents until his marriage, Sep- tember 12, 18:6, to Emma Pierce, born in Warren, Ohio, a daughter of Johnson and Mary J. (Corbett) Pierce, natives of Clarion county, Penn- sylvania. After his marriage Mr. Vesey resided one year on the four hundred acre farm in northern Mesopotamia township. He then pur- chased seventy acres in Bloomfield township, to which he has since added thirty-one acres. All but thirty acres of this farm is under a high state of cultivation, the thirty-acre tract being in pasture and woodland. Mr. Vesey has a large dairy of Holstein cows, and carries on successful farm- ing operations. He has a splendid orchard and does custom work at cider- making and the production of choice apple butter, which business he has been engaged in since 1887.
He was educated at the common schools of Ohio. In politics, he is independent in the vote he casts, not being bound by the platform of any one of the several political organizations. He is a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church and has been a steward in the church since 1905.
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Believing in the great amount of good accomplished by the Grange move- ment, he is identified with this farmers' society, in North Bloomfield. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Vesey are as follows: Ellis J., of Bloomfield township : Charles, at home.
JOHN NELSON CURTISS .- One of the most prominent and best known business men whose worth and merit graces the history of Trialmil county is to be found in the personnel of John Nelson Curtiss, the owner of a beautiful farm homestead in Farmington township. He is also num- bered among the native sons of this township, born on the 5th of Septon !- ber. 1852, a son of Louis and Harriet ( Lewis) Curtiss, born respectively on the ?2d of April, 1805, and on the 16th of May, 1811, and a grandson of Ethan and Ann ( Sedgwick) Curtiss, from Connecticut, born respec- tively on the 2d of February, 1783, and in 1282. His maternal grand- parents, Dennis and Jane Lewis, were also from Connecticut. and both families moved from there to Brunswick in Medina county, Ohio, in 1808. In 182; they established their home in Farmington township, Trumbull county, where they located in the dense woods, and there began clearing their land and erected log buildings. Mrs. Curtiss was the second white child born in Farmington township. Louis Curtiss and Harriet Lewis were married on the 2d of June, 1831, and they then took up their abode on one of his farms in this township, for he owned several here, and was one of the community's most prominent agriculturists. He was a stanch Republican in his political affiliations, and he died on his farm here on the 31st of March, 1814, his wife surviving him until the 26th of October, 1892. Of their family of eleven children seven are now living, as follows : Silas, of Farmington township: Nancy, the wife of Elmer Mills, of Nelson. township, Trumbull county; John N., Martha A., now Mrs. John Cleland and a resident of Nelson township; Mary Jane, whose home is with her brother John N .: Harriet Ellen, the wife of Albert Morrison, of Farm- ington ; and Alfred Amelia, the wife of Wesley Rinear, of ('leveland.
John N. Curtiss received his educational training in the public schools of Farmington township and in the Western Reserve Seminary, and the farm which his father cleared and developed has been his home throughout his life. After his father's death he bought the homestead of one hundred and fourteen acres, fifty acres of which is under cultivation and the re- mainder is timber and pasture land. The home was built by the father in 1852, a beautiful dwelling of sixteen rooms and supplied throughout with running water. On this farm Mr. Curtiss maintains a large dairy and is engaged in diversified farming and the raising of thoroughbred Holstein cattle, Percheron horses and Chester White hogs. His politics are Republican, and he has served as the trustee of his township since 1898. He is a member of the Grange and of the fraternal order of Knights of Pythias, lodge No. 333 of West Farmington.
On the 16th of January, 1813, Mr. Curtiss was married to Victoria
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M. Symes, a daughter of John and Martha (Hatch) Symes, from Farm- ington, and the only child of that union is Verna Victoria, who is now the wife of Bert Hart, a farmer in Southington township, Trumbull county. Mrs. Curtiss died on November 8, 1875, and on the 1st of May, 1877, Mr. Curtiss married Nettie Lord, who was born in Vineland, Winnebago county, Wisconsin, February 21, 1853, a daughter of John and Charlotte (Rowland) Lord. John Lord was born in Oneida county, New York, but his parents, William and Mary (Jones) Lord, were born respectively in England and Wales. and coming to America they located in Farmington township, Trumbull county, Ohio, and later in Wisconsin. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss are: Vinnie May, born April 10, 1878, is the wife of Milo Thompson, of West Farmington; Freda Maud, born Novem- ber 2, 1880, died September 26, 1899; Elsie Belle, born December 5, 1882, died October 26, 1900; Angie Lynn, born September 11, 1884, is the wife of F. W. Reiter, a mail clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and a resident of Ashtabula, Ohio; and Eva June, born June 11, 1884, is the wife of Fred Estlack, an agriculturist in Farmington township.
WILLIAM THOMAS WEBB .- The agriculturists of Trumbull county in- clude among their prominent representatives William T. Webb, whose valuable homestead lies in both Mesopotamia and Farmington townships, but principally in the former. He is a native son of old England, where he was born in Worcestershire on the 15th of August, 1864, a son of James and Elizabeth (Haden) Webb, and a grandson of Thomas Webb and William Haden. Locating in Springfield, Ohio, in the spring of 1869, James Webb. the father, worked at his trade of shoemaking there until his busy and useful life was ended in death in the year of 1903, long surviving his wife, for she died in the year of 1898. In their family were two sons and two daughters, Alice, whose home is in Springfield, Ohio; William Thomas, mentioned below ; and Anna and Harry, who are also residents of Springfield.
William T. Webb was but fourteen years of age when he left home to work at farm labor for others, having previously attended the public schools of Springfield, and after two years he left the farm to return to Springfield and learn the plumber's trade. He worked for three years at his trade there, and at the close of the period in 1888 came to Mesopotamia township and worked as a farm hand by the month until his marriage. With his bride he then located on his present homestead, all of which lies in Mesopotamia township, with the exception of nine acres in Farmington township, and there he follows general farming and dairying.
He married on the 15th of September, 1897. Melissa Reynolds, who was born in Mesopotamia township, as were also her parents, Henry and Amoret (Smith) Reynolds. Her paternal grandparents, Job and Eliza- beth (Arnold) Reynolds, were from Connecticut, and her maternal grand- parents, Edmond and Polly (Lee) Smith, were from Oneida county and
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Montgomery county, New York, respectively. The only child of the union of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Webb is Altha, born on the 19th of January, 1906. Mr. Webb votes with the Republican party, and he is a member of the fraternal order of Odd Fellows, No. 189, of Mesopotamia, and of the Episcopal church.
SOLOMON WARTMAN, one of the leading agriculturists of Vienna township, Trumbull county, was born on the old homestead where he now resides, April 18, 1842, a son of Solomon and Louise (Whitton) Wartman. His father was a native of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, born in 1815, and ac- companied his parents to Ohio in 1822, the family locating on the place now owned by the grandson, Solomon. The grandfather, a tanner by trade, remained there until his death. His son, Solomon, who followed the paternal trade, left home when a young man, but at his marriage re- turned to the old homestead and there continued to reside until his death, February, 1892. His wife passed away in April, 1901. In the Wartman family were eight children, of whom the following four are living : Cline, a farmer of Vienna township; Mary, widow of Charles Porter, who resides in Youngstown ; Elizabeth, wife of Ehy Hultz, of Cortland, and Solomon, of this sketch.
Mr. Wartman attended the district schools in his native township and gained a fair common school education. In his religion he is a Presby- terian, being connected with the church at Vienna village. He remained at home until the death of his father, when he assumed the management of the estate. This includes one hundred acres of most excellent land to which he has added many valuable improvements, making it a homestead of both beauty and value.
Mr. Wartman was married September 6. 1884, to Miss Mary Pfeil. born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1858, a daughter of Casper and Margaret (Graves) Pfeil, natives of Germany, who came to the United States and located at New Castle, Pennsylvania. The father was a cah- inet-maker, but after some years' residence at that place he engaged in farming and died as an agriculturist. The mother still survives. Mr. and Mrs. Wartman have three children: Jessie ( .. born in September, 1886, is unmarried and resides at home, being an artist : Mary Louise, horn in 1889, a music teacher, is also single, and lives with her parents; and Sarah Margaret, born in September, 1900, is attending school.
SHELDON STORM, a farmer and business factor of Liberty township, was born at Crab Creek, Liberty township. Trumbull county, Ohio, August 29, 1844. He is the son of Abram and Jane (Swager) Storm, both natives of the above mentioned locality. The father was born December 3, 1810, and the mother in 1811. The grandfather was Michael Storm, who came from east of the Allegheny mountains, in Pennsylvania. to Ohio when
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young and located on a farm. He served in the war of 1812 and made his home on the old farm until his death, about 1858. Sheldon Storm's father left home when a young man and purchased a small farm of about five acres in the big woods, of Liberty township, where Sheldon was born. Later the father added five acres more, which, however, he sold, and went to Sodom where he bought sixty acres of land, and there the family resided for fourteen years. During this period coal was found beneath the surface of this land in large quatities. In the spring of 1811 he sold this place (the surface portion) and then leased the mineral rights. He then pur- chased one hundred and fifty-five acres of land where his son Sheldon now lives. Here the father remained until his death, October 3, 1893. The faithful wife and mother died March 28, 1890. This worthy couple was the parents of three children : Sheldon and two sisters. Ann, became the wife of Levi Beaver, and both are now deceased, she dying of a cancer of the stomach, after long suffering. Her husband died of heart failure, only six weeks before his wife's death. The other sister is Lucinda C., who married Sidney W. Wood, and they reside in Liberty township, on a farm. Sheldon, the brother, is the youngest of the three children.
Sheldon attended the common school at the Mansel district for about four years, then at Murry Corners and still later at Sodom. He remained with his parents until their death, and being of a domestic and steady disposition, he ably managed and looked after the interests of the farm for twenty years or more before his father died. The family lived at Sodom and the father followed the shoemaking business. Young Storm also followed drilling for some seven years.
He was married May 21, 1890, to Lida A. Adams, born at Girard, April 3, 1863, a daughter of Augustus Avery and Jemima (Crandon) Adams. The mother was born at Ballston. Saratoga county, New York, November 30, 1830. The father was born on a farm in Weathersfield township, Trumbull county, July 31, 1826, and died on that farm Septem- ber 19, 1908. His father, David Adams, was born at Canterbury, Con- necticut, February 10, 1284. He came to this county at an early day, locating in Weathersfield township, where he became the owner of five hundred acres of valuable land and he and his wife resided there until their death. The maternal grandparents, grandfather Elemadoris and Eliza ( Mason) Crandon, were natives of New York. Grandfather Mason and wife were pioneers at Niles, Ohio, where they remained many years, then went to live with a daughter at Girard, where they died. Mrs. Storm attended school at Girard, where she graduated in 1881. Both of her parents are living.
Mr. and Mrs. Storm have no children. Mr. Storm is connected with the Odd Fellows order-the old Hebron lodge at Youngstown, Ohio. In his political views he is a supporter of the principles laid down by the Republican party, though he is an independent voter. Both he and his good wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, at Girard. He
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is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Girard and also in the Niles (Ohio) Car Works.
ALMON GREENE MCCORKLE, who has been identified with the best interests of Trumbull county, is a native of Lordstown township, Trum- bull county, Ohio, where he was born February 1, 1842. He is a son of Archibald MeCorkle, born March 9, 1809, at Boardman, Mahoning county, Ohio. In 1499, three brothers, William, John and Archibald McCorkle, came from Ireland to the United States. One settled in Niagara, where his descendants have been prominent in public affairs. John McCorkle, grandfather of Almon G., and the brother Archibald, stopped a short time near Philadelphia, then went on to Ohio, settling near the present site of Youngstown, where both purchased timber lands from which they hewed out good farms for themselves. The descendants of these two brothers are very numerous and can be easily found in many states and territories. The maiden name of the grandmother was Isabella Montgomery, a native of Ireland, who became the mother of children, as follows: William, Margaret, Sarah, Deborah, Archibald, John, Andrew and James.
Archibald MeCorkle was reared to agricultural pursuits. He came to Lordstown township directly after his marriage and bought a tract of timber land, a half mile east of the center. He there provided himself and family with a rude log house, in which Almon G. was born. This was long before there were any railroads or carriage drives in the country. There were few, if any, stores, and the few hardy settlers subsisted upon what the native soil afforded, together with such game as the man of the house might kill with his trusty rifle. The good housewife employed much of her time at carding, spinning and weaving cloth, which was known as "home-spun," for the making of the clothing needed by the family. In later years the father dealt in live stock in which he was successful and accumulated a sufficient sum to enable him to purchase more land, until he possessed three hundred aeres, well improved and finely equipped with all necessary buildings to carry on a farm in that day. There he lived and labored, dying March 9, 1861, being killed in the timber while felling a tree. He was united in marriage to Mary Jones, born in Austintown township, Mahoning county, Ohio, March 29, 1814, and who died October 2. 1894. Her father was John Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald McCorkle were the parents of six children : Seymour, died aged forty-two years; Martha, died aged eighteen years of age; Miranda, died aged twenty-two; Almon G., John Alva and Samantha J. John Alva studied at Hiram and graduated from the medieal department of the State University at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He took a post graduate course at Long Island College, was elected a member of the faculty and is now president of that college.
Almon G. McCorkle attended the district school and the Lordstown Academy, later graduating from Duff's Business College of Pittsburg.
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Pennsylvania. When eighteen years of age he commenced teaching school, beginning in Warren and later teaching in the graded schools of George- town and North Jackson. He then engaged in farming, purchasing a part of the old home place, and later bought the remainder of it and now owns two hundred and seventy acres. He has two good sets of buildings, in- cluding the handsome and spacious residence which he built a few years since. This house is built in modern style and provided with many a convenience not hitherto known in farm houses. In 1886, upon the ad- vice of physicians. Mr. MeCorkle went to far away Arizona and there he purchased a ranch and engaged in cattle raising, subsequently establishing a ranch in Dakota, to which the younger stock were shipped and there made ready for the market. This business he successfully carried on several years. When he recovered his health he sold his ranch property and returned to his old home in Ohio, where he now resides, practically a retired man.
November 15, 1865, he was married to Martha M. Leitch, a native of Ireland, born in county Donegal, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Leitch. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McCorkle are as follows : Lydia, born January 28, 1861, married John M. Metts and they lived in Ossian, Indiana, and have three children-Mary, Isabelle and John A .; Mary B., born July 18, 1870, married Charles E. Rose, of Niles, and their issue is-Martha; Archie, born May 9, 1872, married Ruie Pardee and has three children : Thelma, Helen and Martha ; Robert, born June 8, 1879, married Ann Eaton and has one son-J. Almon; Charles, born October 10, 1886, is now a student at Cornell University. Mr. and Mrs. McCorkle, with their family, are members of the Christian church. Politically, he is a supporter of the Democratic party, having cast his first vote for Gen. George B. Mcclellan for president, when he ran against Mr. Lincoln in 1864.
WILLIAM S. Gry. of Church Hill, Liberty township, Trumbull county, farmer and dairyman, was born where he now resides, May 8, 1819, a son of Thomas Guy, who was born in Cadiz, Ohio, September 22, 1845. The grandfather was Thomas Guy, Sr., born in Tanderagee, county Armagh, Ireland. and he came to America in his early manhood and set- ling first in the vicinity of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a Methodist minister, being attached to the Pittsburg, the Old Erie, the Ohio Methodist conferences.
Thomas Guy, Jr., was reared and educated at the various places where his father was stationed as a minister, receiving two terms at Berea, near Cleveland, Ohio. He started life as a young man. by clerking. He located at Church Hill in 1824, and purchased the Old Company store there, which he conducted for a number of years, retiring to look after his farm inter- ests, which he was connected with up to the time of his death, March 25, 1892. He served during the Civil war in the Union army, in Company C, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Infantry. He belonged to
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the advanced degrees in Masonry, holding his membership at Youngstown, and was an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic, at the last named city. In politics, he was a Republican.
Mr. Guy was married to Hattie J. Sampson, the daughter of William B. Sampson, of Church Hill. Mr. Sampson was of Scotch-Irish descent. and came to this place when a boy. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Guy, Jr., had two children. The eldest was William S. and the younger, Thomas J., born in 1894.
William S. Guy received his education in the public schools of Liberty township and had one term in the preparatory school at Jefferson City, Ohio, but his father's death necessitated his return home to look after the interests of the family. Mr. Guy was married to Angusta J. Applegate, on June 1:, 1903. She was the daughter of John and Orpha (Campbell) Applegate, who lived in Liberty township, and she was educated at the common schools of her native township. One child blesses the union of Mr. and Mrs. Guy: Harriet Elizabeth, born June 28, 1904. In politics, Mr. Guy is a Republican.
GLENN (. WEBSTER. secretary of the Sterling Electrical Manufac- turing Company of Warren, is a native of Portage county, Ohio, born June 9, 1872, a son of W. D. Webster, a native of Cleveland, whose occupa- tion is that of a salesman. He married at Solon, Ohio, Polly Cannon, a native of Solon, Cuyahoga county, and now residing in Warren. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Webster: Glenn C. and Minnie, wife of Del Ray Waller, of Warren.
When Glenn C. was eight years old his parents removed to Wellsville, Ohio, then to Geneva, Ohio, where he attended the Normal school and then came to Warren where he graduated from the high school. He entered the employ of S. W. Park and Company, wholesale and retail hardware, and one year Jater accepted a position with the Warren Electric Specialty Company, as a coal shoveler and ash tender, remaining there about nine years. He worked his way up until he became general manager, having charge of five departments. After leaving this he organized the Sterling Electrical Manufacturing Company, of which he became seeretary. This is an extensive plant, wherein are employed about three hundred men. He reorganized the Denison Mannfacturing Company, buying the controlling interest in the company, and was made president of the company. Here hardware articles and electrie sunnlies are made in great quantities, twenty- five men being employed. Mr. Webster is also vice president of the King Furniture Company of Warren, another prosperous enterprise. In 1908 he was elected secretary of the board of directors of the Cleveland Furni- ture Company, Cleveland, Ohio. During the past year Mr. Webster and Isaac H. Price purchased and removed from Youngstown, Ohio, the Specialty Manufacturing Company, for the manufacture of electrical spee- ialties.
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Aside from the special attention he pays to his extensive business operations, Mr. Webster finds time for his duties as a member of the Masonic order, he being advanced to the thirty-second degree in this fra- ternity and is also a Knight Templar and Shriner. In church relations. he is a member of the First Presbyterian church, of which he was treasurer two years.
He was married in the month of June, 1896, to Olive M., born in Trumbull county, a daughter of S. L. and Grace ( Ewalt) Love, Mr. and Mrs. Webster have one daughter-Ruth Webster. Their residence is 400 Mahoning avenue, and they have a summer residence two miles from this city.
JACOB WHITE. one of the enterprising farmers of Weathersfield township. Trumbull county, residing on Mineral Ridge along rural mail route No. 1, was born in the old log house which stood for so many years on the site of his present home May 4, 1835. James White, his father, was a Virginian, and his father came to this country from Ireland. The former came to Trumbull county in the early days when this part of the country was vet a boundless forest, and he married Elizabeth Irwin, also from Virginia and of Dutch descent. The fourteen children born to them were as follows: Frances, who married Joseph Shaw, now deceased ; Mary, who married Phill Upp, now deceased ; John, deceased ; William, who was killed in battle in the Civil war; James, who died in an army hospital of small pox; Robert, Andrew, Margaret J., and Esenith, all de- ceased : Elizabeth A., who married David Ohl, deceased ; Joseph, deceased ; Thomas A., deceased : Jacob, mentioned below ; and Christopher, who lives m Southington.
James White, the father, was educated in the common schools of the Old Dominion state, where he received the practical training of pioneer times. In politics he was a Jacksonian Democrat, but was never active in political work, although as a soldier in the war of 1812 he served his country with credit. He was a farmer throughout life, and coming to Trumbull county in an early day in its history, he cleared away the forest primeval to make for himself a home, and with his family passed through the thrilling experiences of pioneer life. In those days wolves, bears, deer and small game were plentiful. He died in 1862, at the age of seventy-five years, and his good wife passed away nine years later, at the age of seventy-four years. He was the grandfather of eighty-eight grandchildren.
In the public schools of his home neighborhood and at Ohltown. Ohio, Jacob White received his educational training, and on the 1st of March, 1862, he enlisted as a soldier in the Union army, becoming a member of Company (, Nineteenth Ohio Regiment, with which he served for two years and nine months. principally under the command of General W. T. Sherman. He was in the Georgia and Tennessee campaigns, where during four months the regiment was in almost continuous battle, but the enemy
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