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finally retiring they were pressed on to Atlanta. Mr. White served as a private, and he was never wounded throughout his entire military service, though once captured at Altoona mountains by bush-whackers, but he made his escape in the night and made his way to the Union camp. Poli- tically he is an ardent, uncompromising Republican, and is now numbered among the members of the General John A. Logan Post, G. A. R., of Mineral Ridge. Since returning from the war he has followed agricultural pursuits, and in his farm, the old homestead, he has about fifty acres under an excellent state of cultivation.
Mr. White married in 1868 Jane Parker, a daughter of William and Jane Parker, who came to this country from Wales in an early day. Mrs. White was also born in Wales, but she was only two years of age when brought to this country, and her education was received in the public schools of Weathersfield township and at Ohltown. She died in 1899, the mother of ten children: William J .; A. Edwin ; Elizabeth A. : Alvira J., Franklin : Charley P .; George H., who now lives in Grand Island, Ne- braska; Evan C., whose home is in Cleveland, Ohio; Anna Estella, at home; Wilbert A .. at home; and one grandchild, W. Wilmer White, of Grand Island, Nebraska.
JOHN S. MCADOO, an honored resident of Bloomfield, Trumbull county, since 1886, has served the community as justice of the peace vir- tually since he became a fixture in it. Until two years ago he was also an active farmer, but, although he has leased his land, he still resides in the residence which he first occupied and which is now situated within the corporate limits of Bloomfield. Judge MeAdoo has been prominent in the establishment and development of various financial institutions of the locality, which have been substantial factors in its progress, and in every sturdy trait of manhood and citizenship has proved his reliability and ability.
Mr. MeAdoo is a native of LaPorte county, Indiana, born on the 2nd of July. 1842, and educated in the common and high schools of his na- tive section. His parents were James and Nancy (Goodhue) Me Adoo, and he has in his veins the good blood of Scotland, England and Ireland, being most literally a true son of Great Britain and America. The father was born in Londonderry, Ireland, and the mother in Windsor. Vermont. the former dying in LaPorte, Indiana, in 1844, where he had been a pros- perons and honorable merchant for some fourteen years. Upon emigrat- ing to this country, he had first resided for a short time in New York City, and thence (in 1828) removed to Richmond, Virginia, where he had en- gaged in mercantile pursuits until locating at LaPorte. His wife, who survived him until 1883, was the mother of John S., of this sketeh, and Mary, who died at Bloomfield in August, 1905. The MeAdoo family is patriotic to the core. Its first American representatives were settlers of Massachusetts, and seven of the family served in the Revolutionary war,
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while Justice MeAdoo himself has sustained the ancestral honor by his participation in the hardships, defeats and triumphs of the Civil war.
John S. McAdoo remained at home, as his mother's mainstay, until August, 1861, when (three months after the firing upon Fort Sumter) he enlisted in the Fourth Indiana Battery of Light Artillery, and was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, under General Sherman. He participated in all the fierce battles and glorious campaigns of the south- western armies, receiving his honorable discharge in September, 1865. All his company comrades had been either killed or badly wounded, he alone being unscarred.
Upon his return from the war, Mr. MeAdoo located in Michigan City, Indiana, where he was employed as a clerk in a store and in the service of a United States engineering corps. In 1873 he went to Boston, Massachusetts, where for nine years he was in the employ of the State Secret Service. He then removed to Bloomfield, Ohio, where he purchased the tract of land known as the Lester, King and Brown farms. This prop- erty consists of one hundred acres and was actively developed by him until 1906, when he leased it, but still resides in the farm house. Mr. MeAdoo was also one of the organizers of the North Bloomfield Banking Company, a substantial state institution with a capital of $25,000. He is a Repub- lican, and a member of Brooks Grand Army Post at Bristolville, Ohio. He has held the office of justice of the peace since 1886, which, with his duties as notary public, give him congenial, useful and honorable em- ployment.
In August, 1868, Mr. McAdoo was united in marriage with Miss Mary H. Wing, who was born in Bloomfield, Ohio, and was a daughter of J. K. and Mary H. (Brown) Wing. Her grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier. Mrs. Mary W. McAdoo died in March, 1891, and left one son, Joseph J., now ticket agent at Pittsburg for the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad Company. On October 27, 1895, Mr. MeAdoo married at his second wife Miss Margery Leach, born in Austintown, Mahoning county, Ohio, daughter of Jacob and Adeline (Eckman) Leach. Her father was born in Mendon, New Jersey, and the mother, in Weathersfield, this county. The grandparents were Benjamin and Hannah (Rayner) Leach, of New Jersey, and John and Elizabeth (Reigel) Eckman, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. The great-grandfather, Abram Leach, was of the Continental troops from Mendon, New Jersey, engaged in the Revolution- ary war.
CHARLES G. MILLER, who for many years carried on farming in Trumbull county, but at present is operating saw mills which cut light barrel staves, extensively, is a native of Bristol township, Trumbull county, Ohio, born there December 29, 1855, a son of Nathaniel and Maria (Reader) Miller. The paternal grandparents were Isaac and Sophia (Dabney) Miller, natives of Germany. The maternal grandparents were
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Hezekiah and Betsy Reader, natives of Connecticut. This family, with the Miller family, were early settlers in Trumbull county, locating in Farmington and Johnson townships. Grandfather Reader lived and died in Farmington township.
Nathaniel and Maria (Reader) Miller, were united in marriage in Farmington township, about 1848, and settled in that part of Trumbull county, on a farm, but in 1852 removed to Bristol township and bought a farm upon which the family resided until their death. He died June 29, 1861, and the faithful wife, in June, 1886. The children born of this marriage, four in number, were: Jefferson, deceased ; Frank R., of War- ren, Ohio; Charles G., of this biography; Clinton, deceased.
Charles G. attended school at White Oaks and remained at home with his parents until eighteen years of age, when he was employed at work on the farm of others, up to the date of his marriage, October 10, 1877, to Ida E. Dilley, of Bristol township, who was born December 18, 1860, a daughter of Thompson and Ann Eckenrode, who now reside in Farmington township. After his marriage, Mr. Miller followed the butchering busi- ness, at the village of Vienna, Ohio, for a year, and continued in the same line, at Coalburg, Hubbard township, another year, then moved to the R. K. Lewis farm in Farmington township. After one year there, he took charge of the F. N. and L. A. Pattengell farm in Bristol township, the same containing two hundred and fifty acres, and continued with them until the spring of 1904. During this time, however, he had purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land about a mile west of Bristolville, and resided on the place from 1889 until 1904. He then purchased a residence in Bristolville, where he now resides. He established himself in the saw mill business and soon drifted into the manufacture of light barrel staves, operating under the name of C. G. Miller & Co. They have two mills, one located at Spokane, Bristol township, and another fine plant at Stone- ville, Windsor township, Ashtabula county, Ohio. The members of this firm are: A. L. Dilley, S. B. Clegg, of Youngstown, Ohio, and Mr. Miller.
During the last fifteen years Mr. Miller was on the farm, he was the fargest hay shipper and dealer in Trumbull county, shipping chiefly to Youngstown. He is widely known in the hay trade, having furnished hay and feed to Clegg Bros., heavy dealers at Youngstown. He bought tim- ber for the American Cooperage Company, of Youngstown, for three years. In all of his business changes Mr. Miller has been a success and has won the esteem of his fellow citizens and neighbors.
Three children have blessed the marriage union of Mr. and Mrs. Miller: Flaud E., Mrs. Ward II. Anderson, of Stoneville, Ashtabula county, Ohio; Ward C., hay and grain dealer at Bristolville; Clara G., at home. In church relation Mr. Miller is a Methodist, and a steward in the church. Politically, he is a Democrat and held the office of town trustee three terms. He is connected with the order of K. O. T. M., No. 181, at Bristolville.
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HENRY E. NORTON. who is an industrious and highly successful farmer, of Bristol township. is a native of this township, which is within Trumbull county, Ohio. He was born April 20, 1833, a son of Zacheriah and Lydia ( Hammond ) Norton, natives of Virginia. The grandfathers, Jacob Norton, native of Germany, and John Hammond, of the same country, went to Bristol township, settling about 1810. They purchased timber land and made the same into excellent farm tracts. Henry E. Norton's parents were united in marriage in Ohio. The father bought land where, North Bristol is now situated, which at that time was within the heavy timber, which he cleared away and placed under cultivation. At first he had one hundred acres, but later owned one hundred and fifty acres. At first, the family lived in a log house, but subsequently they built the frame residence which still stands on the farm, and which the son Franklin now occupies, he owning a portion of the old homestead. The parents resided there until their death.
Lydia (Hammond) Norton, mother of Henry E., came to Ohio with her parents in 1802, traveling by ox teams, and settling in Bristol town- ship, the year in which Ohio was admitted to the Union as a state. They found a home within the dense forest, which was felled and a good farm made. All was new and wild; Indians were to be seen on almost every hand. Bears and other wild animals made it their home, and panthers were common enemies to the settlers, while deer abounded in abundance, and provided the pioneer with excellent meat for his family to subsist upon. Henry E. Norton was the seventh of four sons and six daughters in his parents' family. Four are now living: Rebecca, Mrs. Charles Lam- berson, of Farmington, Ohio; Franklin, of North Bristol; Sarah, Mrs. Stephen Whitmore, a widow of Bristolville, Ohio; Henry E., of this sketch.
Henry E. Norton resided with his parents until his marriage, having received a common school education. He worked out on a farm for others for several years. He was married August 30, 1862, to Catherine Parker, born in Bloomfield township, Trumbull county, Ohio, December 31, 1838, a daughter of William and Margaret (Barb) Parker. Her father was a native of Ireland and her mother was born in Woodstock, Shenandoah county, Virginia. Of the grandparents on the paternal side; James and Sally (Buchanan) Parker, the grandmother was a cousin of James Buchanan, who was President of the United States. James Parker was born in England, while his wife was from Scotland. The maternal grand- parents were John and Maria (Seger) Barb, natives of Isle of Jersey. The latter carried a baby in her arms on horseback from Virginia to Bristol, Ohio.
Mrs. Norton's parents were married in Bloomfield township. Her father was born January 27, 1783, and came from Ireland to New York State with his parents, leaving Londonderry, June 19, 1797, on the sailing ship "Augusta," arriving at New York harbor, September 13 of that year. They went to Montgomery county, New York, where he married Sallie Hyde, March 25, 1807. She was his first wife and bore him nine children.
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He eventually moved to Ohio, settling in the southwest part of Bristol township, where his wife died. July 2, 1831, he was married to Margaret Barb, Mrs. Norton's mother. He later owned eight hundred acres of land in Bloomfield township, where he died January 22, 1877. The wife died January 24, 1888.
After his marriage, Mr. Norton took up his residence in North Bris- tol, where he conducted a mercantile business for a year, and for three years at Bristolville. Then he followed the same business three years in West Farmington, from which place he went to Bloomfield and cared for his wife's parents until their death. He then purchased thirty acres of land in Bristolville, in 1880. This land is all under a good state of cultivation. It had suitable buildings thereon, but to these he has made several changes and additions. In 1892, he rented his land and moved to Mount Union, Ohio. This move was made for the better school advantages to be had at that place, they wishing to give the children as good an edu- cation as possible. They having carried out this purpose, returned to the farm in August, 1899, since which time they have remained there and carried on the farm.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Norton were as follows: Clarence H., born in 1867, and died aged eight years ; Harold F., born May 4, 1873, circulating manager of the Toledo News Bee; Albert Jacob, born May 4, 1875, vice-president of the Goldfield Mining Company of Nevada, with an office in New York City.
JEFFERSON H. HYDE, deceased, was well known as one of the indus- trions and painstaking farmers of Bristol township, Trumbull county. He was a native of Farmington township, born June 3. 1848, a son of Ira and Mary ( Housel) Hyde, also born in the county. Mr. Hyde was educated in the public schools and the Western Reserve Seminary, residing at home until his marriage in 1869. After residing with his mother-in-law on the home farm for some time, he purchased the interests of the Palmer heirs and secured the property, where he afterward conducted a general farm as well as a large dairy, much of the milk being shipped to the Pittsburg market. In May, 1905, while at work in the fields, Mr. Hyde fell from a load of hay. dislocating his neck. Although he was at once sent to Dr. Palmer's hospital, the shock to his system was so great that he steadily grew worse and two weeks previous to his death was taken to the home of his daughter. Mrs. Frank Morrison, of Painesville, Ohio, where he died February 20, 1906. In his religious faith the deceased was long a leader in the Disciples church. Since his death, the widow has resided on the home farm, with her youngest son, Jay, and her youngest daughter, Carol.
Jefferson H. Hyde was married May 19, 1869, to Ellen Palmer, who was born in Bristol township, Trumbull county, July 24, 1848, a daughter of Ezra and Esther (Bates) Palmer. Her father was a native of New Hampshire and her mother was born in New York, the former coming
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to Bristol township when twenty-one years of age, and purchasing a farm from his brother, Benjamin. The place consisted of two hundred acres, nearly all of which was timber land. This he thoroughly cleared and culti- vated and also became a large raiser of stock. He died in the month of October, 1860, and his wife, February 2, 1876. Their three children were : Dr. O. A. Palmer, of Cleveland, Ohio; Ellen ( Mrs. Hyde) and Eudora, de- ceased. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hyde are as follows: Louisa E., now Mrs. Charles Norton. of North Bristol, this county; Minnie B., Mrs. Almond Lew, of East Farmington, Ohio; Austa M., Mrs. Frank Morrison, of Painesville, Ohio; Frank G., of Lindsey, Tulare county, California : Lena E., Mrs. Joshua Burton, of North Bloomfield, Ohio; and Jay L. and Carol M., living at home.
MARK NELSON HYDE, one of the native-born farmers of Trumbull county, Ohio, was born in Bristol township, November 17, 1877, a son of John and Elizabeth (Mahan) Hyde. The mother was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, and the father in West Farmington. Of the grandparents it may be said that they were Eli and Hannah Hyde, born in England, and John and Cynthia (Hill) Mahan, the former born in Ireland, and the latter in Trumbull county. The grandfather Hyde went to Farmington, Ohio, about 1816, settling on timber lands, which by much labor he suc- ceeded in clearing off and made into an excellent farm. The parents of Mark N. were united in marriage, in Bristol township, and settled on a farm which the father had owned since 1840. In all, he owned about four hundred and fifty acres, two hundred and fifty of which is within Bristol township and the remainder is in Mesopotamia township. John Hyde died May 19, 1904, aged eighty-six years. His wife still resides with her son, aged sixty-eight years. John Hyde was married first to Adelia A. Green, by whom six children were born, three of each sex. By the last marriage, Mark N., of this memoir, was the only child, and he has always resided on the farm where he was born. He now owns all the land his father pos- sessed and works the home farm of one hundred and thirty-nine acres, renting out the balance. This tract of excellent farm land was all entered by the father and by him improved. He raises cattle, horses and swine.
February 7, 1906, Mr. Hyde was married to Gladys Prime, born in Clinton county, Ohio, a daughter of Eugene and Rose (Hodgson) Prime. Her father was born in West Virginia and the mother in Clinton county, Ohio. The issue by this union is: Eugene Nelson, born October 1, 1907, and Gladys Thelma, born November 5, 1908.
JAMES P. SAUNDERS, who is numbered among the industrious and highly successful farmers who cultivates the fertile soil of Vienna town- ship, is a native of Newport, Kentucky, born March 31. 1862, a son of William D. and Julia Ann (Barber) Saunders. His father was born in
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Bullitt county, Kentucky, in 1838, and the mother in Newport, of that state, in 1840. The grandfather was a native of Kentucky and died there when William D. was a small boy. His wife was a native of England and remained in Kentucky until her death, which occurred about 18:5. The father remained in that vicinity and operated a rolling mill, then located at Niles, Ohio, where he was employed in a rolling mill several years, then removed to Warren. Later he was employed as a railroad man, but since 1888 has practically been retired. He served a year in the Fifty-third Ken- tucky Infantry in the Civil war.
The maternal grandparents came from England and settled in Ken- tueky, where they continued to reside until their death. The grandfather was killed in time of the Civil war. He was doing guard duty when killed. His wife died about 1874.
James P. Saunders was one of seven children in his parents' family, two of whom survive. His sister. Nellie B., widow of John F. Latimer, resides with her brother. James P. is the oldest in the family. He at- tended district school in Kentucky and for a time at Niles, Ohio. At the age of sixteen years, Mr. Saunders was working as a farm hand and so continued until his marriage, after which he was employed in the rolling mills at Niles for a period of about fourteen years. He then purchased a farm of one hundred and ten acres, upon which he now lives and to which lie removed in 1900. Here he has carried on, in a successful manner, general farming as well as stock raising.
He is identified with the best interests of the farmers within his com- munity and appreciates his broad aeres, having accumulated every foot of the soil he owns by hard labor performed in the best years of his man- hood. At one time he belonged to the order known as the American Mechanies and expects to unite with the Masonic fraternity, of which fra- ternity his oldest son is a worthy member. In his political views Mr. Saunders affiliates with the Republican party. While never seeking office, he has served as supervisor of his township.
He was married September 12, 1881, to Hattie R. Partridge, who was born in Trumbull county in 1860, a daughter of Samuel and Harriet (Stoddard) Partridge. Her father was born in Trumbull county, and the mother was a native of Niles, Ohio. The father died Easter morn- ing, 1904, and the mother the same year. The father was a shoemaker, and later was a farmer till his death. Mrs. Saunders passed from the scenes of earth in 1887, the mother of the following children: Chauncey Elton, born December 18, 1882, unmarried and resides with his father : James Lee, born June 11. 1885, married Minnie M. Newton, a native of Michigan, born near Detroit, (her parents later becoming residents of Trumbull county. Ohio, and now living at Bethelem, Pennsylvania ) : Hat- tie Ethel, born November 16, 1887, now wife of Arthur Wilson, born in Champion, is a farmer and is the father of one child-Emerson, born March 18, 1908.
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WILLIAM C. Mussox. the venerable man who is so well known in Trumbull county, as farmer and mill owner, and now retired by reason of age and infirmities, is a native of Vienna township, this county, born Oc- tober 6, 1826, a son of Rilman and Betsy (Sowers) Munson. The father was a native of Waterbury, Connecticut, born January 25, 1799. The good mother was born in Germany and came with her parents to America when three years of age, the date of her birth being September 26, 1801. The grandfather, Calvin Munson, was a native of England, as was his wife, Sarah Hungerford. They came to Connecticut at an early day. He was both a tanner and shoemaker by trade, following this until he went to Ohio, in 1804. He bought one hundred and forty-six acres of land, un- improved. There he built a small cabin, but by mistake got it on another claim, as he did his first clearing. He finally cleared up and finely im- proved his own land, living there until his death in either 1846 or 1847. He built the first sawmill in the township of Vienna. He was married and had two sons who divided the farm, William's father taking the east half. By trade William C. Munson was a mason, which he followed for a considerable time in building up Warren, after the first great fire there. William C. remained on the farm with his father until the latter's death in March, 1870. The mother died June 2, 1887.
William C. Munson attended school first, at Methodist Corners, about two miles away, but later a school house was built nearer. He remained at home with his parents until seventeen years of age, when in partner- ship with his father he built a mill which they operated for three years. Later, in 1845, William C. erected another mill on his own land. This he operated until 1864, then put up a steam mill on a two hundred and thirty-four aere tract of land, which he purchased at that date. This mill and his farm, he continued to operate until he retired in 1900. He was afflicted with rheumatism, hence gave the mill property to his son John, who still conducts the same. His son Jesse R. now conducts the farm. When the father conducted the place, he made a specialty of raising Hol- stein cattle, in which he was very successful. At the date of the Civil war Mr. Munson had raised a company of troops to enter the Union cause, but on account of his parents was compelled to remain at home. He was personally acquainted with the late President William MeKinley, as he was also with his venerable father. William MeKinley, Sr.
Mr. Munson was married May 13. 1851, to Miss Elinor Mackey, born in Vienna township, a daughter of Andrew and Jane (Scott) Maekey, both of Irish descent. The father was born in Ireland and the mother probably in Maryland. They were farmers and early settlers in Trumbull county, Ohio, and both are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Munson have been born the following children: John W., married first Mary Govst, who became the mother of one child. Ellenor ; he married secondly Mary Elert, a native of Pennsylvania, he resided in Vienna township on a farm; Eliza- beth, wife of Wesley Meeker, residing near Tyrrell Hill, Fowler township; Jesse R., who manages the home farm ; Lavina, wife of Lucius Greenwood,
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residing in Fowler township; Willis J., a wagon salesman for the Stude- baker Company, married Emma Smith, of Poland, Ohio, and resides in Warren, Ohio. While not a member, William C. Munson always attends the Methodist church. In his politics, he is Republican, but has never desired, and would not accept public office.
JAMES J. WINANS, a retired farmer of Mecca township, Trumbull county, comes of a family whose patriotic services covers several genera- tions. The grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, according to the best possible evidence, the father served in the Ohio militia during the war of 1812, and Mr. Winans, himself, has a creditable record of four years' service in the Civil war. Born in Milton township, Mahoning county, Ohio, February 12, 1838, James J. Winans is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (MeAdams) Winans. The father was a native of that township and the mother was a New Jersey woman. James Winans, the grand- father, was born in New Jersey and George McAdams, the maternal grand- father, was also a native of that state. All of the grandparents were early settlers of Ohio. Jacob Winans, the father, was an industrious farmer and also a patriot who, like others of a like tendency, offered his services during the war of 1812. He was enrolled as a member of the company com- manded by Captains Dull and Vannatti, of the Ohio militia. He died in September, 1839, and his wife by second marriage resided with James J. until her death in 1880. For the last two years of her life she enjoyed a pension granted her in consideration of her husband's services in the war of 1812. There were five children by the first marriage and two by the second.
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