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Mr. Sloan's law studies were commenced at Elyria, Lorain county, in the office of Hon. John C. Hall, now circuit judge of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and, although he was admitted to the bar in 1873, he continued to teach until 1875, since which he has given his entire attention to the pro- fession of the law. In that year he located for practice at Niles, but in 1880 removed to Warren, which has since been his home and the scene of
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an active, progressive and highly meritorious career. He has been engaged in a substantial private practice; served as city solicitor of Warren from 1883 to 1900 ; was honored with the mayoralty from May, 1903, to January, 1906, and is now a member of the board of managers of the Ohio State Penitentiary. He is also among the most popular and prominent members of the Grand Army of the Republic in the state, having taken an active part in the promotion of the order for many years and advanced officially to the position of member of council of administration, judge advocate and junior vice commander of the Department of Ohio. He assisted in the organization of the Bell-Harmon Post No. 36, of Warren: has served as its adjutant for twenty years, and has also held the offices of officer of the day, senior vice commander and for four terms served as post commander. He is also a Mason, being a member of old Erie Lodge and of the com- mandery. In religion, he is a Baptist; is one of the deacons in the First Baptist church and has held many other official positions in the local body. In 1871 Mr. Sloan married Stella S. Fisk, and their only child, Lillian, is living at home. Mrs. Sloan died in 1907.
GEORGE H. TAYLER .- An influential citizen actively participating in the general development of the substantial little city of Warren, George H. Tayler has spent the bulk of his useful life within its limits, faithful in his allegiance to its interests, as was his father before him. He was born in Warren on the 5th of May, 1847, a son of Matthew B. and Adaline (Hapgood) Tayler, his father being a native of Pennsylvania and his mother, of this city. The paternal grandfather was born in Ireland, came to America when a young man and was married in the Keystone state. Thence Matthew B., one of his sons, migrated to Youngstown (now Mahoning county) at such an early day as to make him one of the pioneers of that locality. Upon his removal to Warren he became well known for his activity in business and his high and substantial character. He operated a warehouse for some time, was identified with the early growth of the First National Bank, and was especially prominent in connection with the good work of the First Methodist church, being identified with it both officially and as an active worker in the ranks. He was also an Odd Fellow in high standing. Both he and his wife died at about the same age, sixty-five years. The maternal family of Hapgoods is of old New England stock and was also ranked in the pioneer class of Trumbull county. The nine daughters and the two sons of this Tayler family all reached maturity, and nine of the family are still living, six in Warren.
George H. Tayler is the eldest son of this family, being the fourth child. He completed the common-school and high school curriculums at Warren and then pursued a course at the Alleghany College, from which he graduated in 1869. Soon afterward he went west and for about four years was employed as a civil engineer by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad in various localities of Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas. Returning to Warren he spent several years in various occupations
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at his home town, and in 1879 removed to Wisconsin, where he was again engaged as a civil engineer with the Chicago & North-Western Raihoad. He was then called to Warren by the death of his father, and he was at that time placed in charge of the gas works, and, as secretary and treasurer, is still their active manager. He was a director in the First National Bank before it was merged into the Union National, and is still a member of the Directorate. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Warren Opera House Company since organization, president of the Oakwood Cemetery Associa- tion, and holds other influential relations with leading city interests and institutions. Mr. Tayler is a thirty-third degree Mason. His wife, to whom he was married in 1888, was formerly Miss Roxie Wilcox. In politics he is a Republican. He is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church.
CHARLES L. WOOD, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Western Reserve Lumber Company, was born in Youngsville, Warren county, Pennsylvania, on the 20th of December, 1867. His parents, George R. and Rebecca (Culbertson) Wood, were also natives of the Keystone state. The father was born at Erie, where he was reared, educated and married, following his occupation as a pump manufacturer until his death in that city at the age of fifty-nine years. The mother's native town was Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and by her marriage to George R. Wood she be- came the mother of five daughters and three sons, who all reached mature years and seven of whom are still living.
Charles L. Wood was the sixth child and the second son in this family, and received both a common-school and a business education in various schools of Erie and Sheffield, Pennsylvania. He has been self-supporting since he was seventeen years of age, when he commenced clerking in a gen- eral store near Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, and continued to be thus engaged until he located at Warren, Ohio, in 1882. In that year, as a young man of twenty years, he entered the employ of the Warren Packard Company, lumber merchants and manufacturers, and continued with them until 1895, when he became connected with the Saginaw Bay Company, as travel- ing salesman, which position he filled until 1897, when he returned to War- ren and engaged in the retail lumber business with C. B. Loveless on West Market street as Wood and Loveless, and in 1899 he assisted in the organi- zation of the Western Reserve Lumber Company, of which he is now secre- tary, treasurer and manager. He is also one of the directors of the West- ern Reserve National Bank.
Mr. Wood is more than a leading business man of the locality, demon- strating his good American citizenship by applying his abilities to the pub- lic service, at the call of his fellows. He has served as a member of the city council for a period of eight years, during which he has been president of that body. In the fraternities he is a Mason and an Odd Fellow and his local religious affiliations are with the Tod Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Wood has been twice married- first, in 1891, to Miss Ida Tay- lor, who died in 1903, the mother of George, Harry, Doris and Charles.
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His present wife, whom he married in 1905, is a native of Kent, Ohio, and her maiden name was Miss Bertha A. Madole.
L. P. GILDER .- The senior member of the firm of L. P. Gilder and Son, of Warren, chiefly engaged as dealers in coal and coke, is one of the oldest native born citizens of Trumbull county. He is a native of Kinsman township, born on the 20th of March, 1836, and his father, Obed Gilder, was a native of Connecticut, whose birthday was March 29, 1793. In 1804, when eleven years of age, he came with the family on their ox-team journey to what is now Vernon township, Trumbull county. There he was married to Miss Betsy Gunn, also a native of Connecticut, and in 1816 bought the farm in Kinsman township, which during the succeeding years was im- proved into a comfortable homestead and became the birthplace of the eleven children of the family. The first home was a log house, but this gave place to a comfortable residence and finally to quite a commodious one. The mother died at the old homestead in 1864, at the age of sixty- eight, and the father many years afterward, aged ninety-three. Of their eleven children, eight reached maturity and five are living, L. P. Gilder being the tenth in order of birth.
In his earlier years Mr. Gilder assisted in clearing off the forest growths from the farm in the wilderness and doing all else which was in line with the duties of a farmer's faithful son. He attended the log school- house when his services were not required on the farm, and he remained at home until he had reached his majority, going then to Wisconsin, where for some time he plied his trade of carpentry and taught school. Upon re- turning to Warren he was employed in a planing mill and in a shop for the manufacture of oil tools until January 20, 1862, when he commenced his service in the Civil war.
Mr. Gilder first enlisted as a bugler in Company G of the Seventh Ohio Infantry, but was afterward transferred to the Fifteenth Ohio Inde- pendent Battery and in about a year was detailed to the captain's office. At the conclusion of the war and the expiration of his term of enlistment, he returned to Warren and worked as a machinist during the succeeding four years, and it was then that he engaged in the coal business, which has been his main occupation since. For twenty years he was manager of the Bell Telephone Company for Trumbull county. Mr. Gilder's business has been developed along various lines; for with his son, Frank B., he is not only a wholesale and retail dealer in coal and coke, but in lime, cement, sand and gravel and in sewer pipe, building blocks, fire brick, fire clay, flue linings and chimney tops.
Mr. Gilder has been an unfaltering Republican since his majority made him a voter, and his experience in the Civil war has always maintained his enthusiasm in all G. A. R. matters. He was one of the organizers of Bell-Harmon Post at Warren, and is also a prominent Mason, having at- tained the Knight Templar and the Shriner degrees. Mr. Gilder's mar- riage to Miss Augusta Bowman occurred September 1, 1858, and Frank
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Bowman Gilder (who is the junior partner in L. P. Gilder and Son) was born to them December 24, 1860. He was married in 1882, to Minnie R. Hart, of Warren, daughter of John O. and Amy J. Hart. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Gilder : Lamont H., secretary and treasurer of E. Fisher and Son Company, Youngstown, Ohio, and Justine C., at home. The family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Gilder has been steward and secretary of the board for the past seventeen years.
WILLIAM L. COALE, treasurer of the Sterling Electrical Manufacturing Company, of Warren, and also an extensive promoter of the real estate and building interests of the city, is a native of New Brighton, Pennsyl- vania, where he was born on the 15th of August, 1870. His father, Gar- rison Coale, was born in the same state, and now resides in Youngstown, Ohio, where he has lived for many years employed in railroad work. The mother (formerly Rebecca S. Parker), who is a native of Connecticut, is also living. Two children were born to them, the daughter being Mrs. H. M. Kelly, a resident of Youngstown.
Mr. Coale was educated in the Ohio town named above, but when seventeen years of age became a prominent resident of Warren. His first employment was with George T. Townsend, an upholsterer and manu- facturer of furniture, with whom he remained for three years, and then was identified for about a year with B. D. Hayes and Company, publishers at Warren, Ohio, as their general agent. Mr. Coale's next move was to pur- chase the business of C. W. Tyler Company, for many years known as the Camp & Randall Manufacturing Company, who were in the feed and build- ing material line. In partnership with William Kelly, he continued in that field for two years as a member of the firm of Kelly and Coale. Messrs. William H. and William E. Peffer were then admitted to partnership, and the business greatly enlarged by the purchase of the business of Van Gorder Brothers Milling Company, the firm thereupon becoming known as the Warren Milling Company, with Mr. Coale as general manager. After two years the company was incorporated as the Cereal Supply Company, its business being the operation of both a mill and a retail store at Warren and a mill and a retail store at Erie, Pennsylvania. Three years afterward his interest was purchased by Messrs. Peffer, and, with H. S. and John Pew, John Masters and others, he founded the Elastic Pulp Plaster Company, of which he was elected vice president. In 1901 the Sterling Electrical Manufacturing Company was incorporated by W. A. Smith, C. G. Dennison, Washington Hyde, Mr. Coale and others, and of this enterprise the last named was elected treasurer. The industry, which now employs some 300 people, is one of the most flourishing in Warren. Mr. Coale is also presi- dent of the Middlefield (Ohio) Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of hot air pumping engines; vice president of the Redifor Rod and Reel Company ; is a stockholder in the Western Reserve National Bank and the Trumbull Savings and Loan Company; president of the Cleveland (Ohio)
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Development Company; and president of the Home Building and Invest- ment Company, of Warren, the last named being one of the most extensive builders and improvers of resident properties in the city. In this con- nection and in his individual capacity, Mr. Coale is responsible for the erec- tion of twenty-seven houses in Warren to this date, and is considered one of the strongest agents in the upbuilding of the town as a desirable place of residence.
On June 22, 1899, Mr. Coale wedded Miss Clara B. Howard, of Chardon, Ohio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Howard, and they have two children-Donald H. and Lorena B. Coale. Mr. Coale is a member of the Elks (No. 295), Knights of Pythias, Independence No. 90, and U. C. T. of Warren. In politics he is a Republican and his religious con- nections are with the First Methodist Episcopal church.
JAMES E. BEEBE, president and general manager of the Western Re- serve Furniture Company, doing an extensive business at Warren, was born in Hartford, Trumbull county, June 2, 1848, a son of Robert M. Beebe, a native of Connecticut, who was reared in Connecticut and edu- cated at Yale, graduating in 1835. He came from that state to Ashtabula, Ohio. He later returned to Connecticut and married the mother of James E., in 1837. Her maiden name was Hulda Case, and she was born in Con- necticut. Her father was a member of the legislature of that state, at the same time as James Beebe, paternal grandfather of James E. Her people were from England. After marriage they settled at Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1837, and he was in constant practice as a physician until the time of his death in 1864. His father, James Beebe, was born in Litch- field, Connecticut, in 1779 and died at Hartford, Ohio, 1865. He was a prominent citizen in Connecticut and was a member of the senate. His father was Bezaleel Beebe, a Revolutionary soldier; was a captain in the Continental army and promoted to major and later ranked as a brigadier general. He, too, was born in Litchfield in 1741, and was a descendant of John Beebe, who came from England in 1650, locating in Connecticut that year and being active in the early days of the colony. Hence, it will be seen that James E. descended in the following line of genealogy: John Beebe, the American ancestor (1), Gen. Beebe (2), James Beebe (3), Robert Beebe (4), James E. Beebe, of this notice (5).
James E. is the second child and oldest son. He was reared at Hart- ford, Ohio, and attended school at that place; also at Farmington and Cleveland. In 1870 he went to Sharon and served his time in a machine shop, remaining there ten years, being connected with the iron works of that place. About 1880, he went to Union City, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the manufacturing business, making furniture and novelties. He sold out in 1899 and came to Warren, where he organized the Western Reserve Furniture Company, of which he is now president and general manager. This company employs about ninety men. He is also interested in the product of lumber from eighteen thousand acres of timber land
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in Mississippi. He holds stock in the Union National Bank of Warren, and has various other financial interests.
He was united in marriage in the month of April, 1877, to Catherine Camp, daughter of Lambert Camp, of Warren, Ohio. The child of this Union is Mary, at home. In religious faith Mr. Beebe is a Presbyterian. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to the Knights Templar and Shriners. He is councilman-at-large of the city.
His brother, Dr. Robert C. Beebe, is now at the head of the medical hospital at Nanking, China. He was sent there by the Methodist Episcopal church (Board of Foreign Missions) and established this institution, which he has had charge of for about twenty-five years. His oldest sister is Lizzie G., wife of James M. Jones, of Burghill, Trumbull county. The youngest sister of Mr. Beebe, Grace, is the wife of W. N. Ridge, of Brook- lyn, New York, where they now reside.
In conclusion, it may be of interest to mention something concerning the extensive plant of which Mr. Beebe is the president and general man- ager. Every bit of the stock of the Western Reserve Furniture Company is held by Warren men. It was incorporated for twenty-five thousand dol- lars in 1900, and later doubled, starting the factory on a large scale. The original floor space has nearly doubled and the output of special products such as ladies' desks in oak, bird's-eye maple and mahogany, and combina- tion bookcases and writing desks with wardrobes in solid oak is wonder- fully large. The officers of the company are: President and general man- ager, J. E. Beebe ; secretary and treasurer, H. Q. Stiles; vice-president, R. A. Cobb.
MRS. PHEBE LORD (MARVIN) SUTLIFF was born in Bazetta township, Trumbull county, Ohio, July 1, 1822, a daughter of Capt. Joseph Marvin, who was born in Lyme, Connecticut. The date of his birth was March 26, 1772. He came to Trumbull county in 1821, leaving the state above men- tioned, April 1, with an ox team. He purchased one thousand acres of land which he generously divided among his four sons. They were forty days on their journey. The first night they were within Trumbull county, they were in sight of Warren. The father survived the years of his pil- grimage until he had numbered the centenary mark and at his departure was one hundred and one years and six months and five days of age. From 1821 to 1864, he resided on the farm, but during the last named year, he went to live with his daughter. His wife before marriage was Temperance Miller, born June 14, 1781. They were united in marriage January 22, 1797, and were the parents of fifteen children. Mrs. Sutliff and her brother William (3) are the only survivors of this large family and the only ones born within Trumbull county.
Mrs. Sutliff was reared on the old homestead and attended school by walking two miles to a schoolhouse and the old family dog went with her as a protector from wolves. She was married October 1, 1840, to Levi Sutliff, who was born in Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, July 12, 1805.
ORLANDO M. CASSIDY
MRS. ORLANDO M. CASSIDY
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He was reared and educated in the same county and studied law, being ad- mitted to the bar and became one of the prominent attorneys of Trumbull county. He was a strong advocate of abolition of slavery and acted as conductor on the "Underground Railroad." He was eminent as a lawyer and well known as a pioneer. He died March 25, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Sutliff were the parents of eight children, two of whom survive: Phebe T. Sutliff, of Warren, and Lydia S., wife of Edward J. Brainard, of Toledo, Ohio. The venerable mother has lived in the place where she now resides for fifty-eight years and is the last person living on the street where she resides that was here when she moved into this residence. At that time there were but five houses on the north side of the street between her and the Fair Grounds. Mrs. Sutliff was a member of the Presbyterian church, having united when eleven years of age, but is now a communicant of the Baptist church. She was many years a teacher in the Sunday School and took an active part in the great Crusade Movement. Mrs. Sutliff's father was postmaster at Bazetta, Ohio, for fourteen years.
ORLANDO M. CASSIDY, farmer, of Weathersfield township, was born in Lordstown township, Trumbull county, March 23, 1855, of Irish de- scent. His father, John Cassidy, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, where he was reared and educated and where he married Elizabeth Hunt. When he came to Trumbull county, driving through in a wagon, he settled in Lordstown township, on a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, where he lived a number of years. Later he moved to Warren township, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a life-long Republican and a member of the Presbyterian church. This worthy couple had two children : Emma, wife of J. J. McClain, who resides in Warren township, and Or- lando M., of this sketch.
Orlando M. was educated at the common schools of Lordstown and Warren townships and had a business course at West Farmington, Ohio. After leaving school, he returned to his parents' home, where he worked on the farm until his marriage, November 6, 1884, to Ellen M. Wilson, the daughter of Dr. J. W. and Ellen ( Masters) Wilson, who were of Eng- lish descent. Mrs. Cassidy was reared in Weathersfield township and re- ceived her education in the public schools. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy, as follows: Grace W., who died in infancy ; Maude E. ; John J. and Florence E. The surviving children all live at home at this time-1908.
Mr. Cassidy carries on general farming and stock raising, making a specialty of sheep raising, keeping from one hundred and fifty to two hun- dred head at all times on his farm, which consists of three hundred acres and is of much value. He has been successful in his operations, in the main, and has the respect of all within his community. Politically, Mr. Cassidy has been a life-long Republican. but has never cared to seek or hold public office. He is a Presbyterian, while his family are members of the Christian church.
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WILLIAM C. PENDLETON, secretary, treasurer and manager of the Trumbull County Manufacturing Company, corner South and Park ave- nues, Warren, was born in Bethany, West Virginia, in 1849, a son of Prof. W. K. and Clarinda (Campbell) Pendleton. The mother was a daughter of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian church and Bethany Col- lege. Prof. W. K. Pendleton, the father, was connected with the faculty of this college for forty-five years. He reached the age of eighty-one years. His father was Edmund Pendleton, a native of Virginia, the ancestor coming from England to America in 1635, and was among the first settlers in Hanover county, Virginia.
William C. Pendleton is the only son of his mother. He was reared in Louisa county, Virginia, and was but two and one-half years of age when his mother died and he was taken by his grandmother Pendleton. He was educated in Bethany College, West Virginia, graduating with the class of 1872. He first worked with a civil engineer's corps on the Panhandle Rail- road, from which road he went to the Pittsburg-Connellsville Division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, where he served three years, when he was made assistant superintendent of transportation at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1872 he went to California for his health, but concluded to engage in sheep raising. He continued at that until 1876, when he returned to the east and resumed railroad work. He was made chief clerk in the superin- tendent's office of the Southwestern System of the Pennsylvania lines. In January, 1880, he married Miss Helen King Austin, of Warren, Ohio, a daughter of Harmon Austin. The Austins came to this county about 1800, hence were among the original pioneer band of settlers. Mr. Austin came to reside at Warren in 1882, at which time he purchased an interest in the Trumbull Manufacturing Company, which was then styled Spangenberg- Pendleton and Company, the name being changed to the Trumbull Manu- facturing Company without change of ownership, Mr. Pendleton becoming treasurer and manager. The business consists of general foundry and machine work, with a specialty of constructing oil tank car trimmings. He is president of the Jefferson Light and Power Co., at Jefferson, Ashtabula county. For about six years he was a member of the board of health at Warren.
CHARLES B. LOVELESS, president of the Warren Manufacturing Com- pany, at Warren, Ohio, was born in that city, January 14, 1864, a son of Martin D. Loveless, a native of Newton Falls, Trumbull county, who was many years engaged in stone pump manufacturing and later in the livery and hack business at Warren. He lived to the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, and the mother of Charles B., was Malinda Wilson, daughter of Aus- tin and Mary Wilson, pioneers of Portage county, Ohio, where she was born. She is still living in Warren. The children of this couple were eight in number-three daughters and five sons. At this writing (1908) three sons are living.
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