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Charles B. Loveless is the fifth child and the third son in his father's
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family. He was reared and educated in Warren and when aged eighteen years engaged in the hardware business with S. W. Park & Co., with whom he remained about three years. When about twenty-three years he engaged in the lumber business with the Warren Packard Co., and later became partner in the business. Subsequently, Mr. Loveless formed partnership with C. L. Wood, the firm being known as Wood & Loveless. This concern was later organized into the Western Reserve Lumber Company and taking the properties of the Warren-Packard Company, Mr. Loveless being the secretary. In 1901, he bought an interest in the Warren Manufacturing Company, and became secretary and treasurer as well as manager. He is now the president of this company, besides holding interests in North Carolina, where he has a large tract of timber land with the New Hope River Lumber Company of which he is secretary and treasurer. The lands comprise two thousand acres and upon the same is a large saw mill. Be- sides his interests already enumerated, he is one of the stockholders and a director in the Western Reserve National Bank.
The plant known as the Warren Manufacturing Company was incor- porated in 1890, with a capital of twenty thousand dollars. This .plant and vards covers over three acres of land, employs about twenty-five hands and has an enormous output of all things for which lumber is employed in all the various building lines, both exterior and interior furnishings.
Mr. Loveless belongs to the Masonie order, being a Knight Templar ; also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the U. C. T. at Warren. He is a lifelong Republican in politics.
He was married in 1885, to Irene Campbell, daughter of Jerome T. and Ellen D. ( Packhard) Campbell. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Loveless are four daughters and two sons : Gertrude I., Mary L., Ellen M., Charles C., Philip M. and Lucy P.
JAMES P. GARGHIILL, a well-known and highly successful real estate dealer of Warren, Ohio, was born at Mineral Ridge, Ohio, November 10, 1860, a son of Phillip Garghill, who was a native of Ireland, and came to America in 1852. locating in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania and going from there to Mineral Ridge, Ohio, locating in Ohio in 1858. He was superintendent of coal mines. His wife was Isabell (Daugherty) Garghill, a native of England, who came to America when young, with her father. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Garghill were the parents of seven daughters and two sons, all of whom reached mature years. The seventh child in the family was James P. Garghill.
He was reared in Mineral Ridge and educated in the schools of that neighborhood. He followed the coal mining business about ten years and sold coal at Warren five years. He then followed railroad and street rail- road business for about five years. The next position he held was that of member of the police force at Warren, in which he continued ten years. He commenced to deal in real estate in 1906, and is thus engaged at this time, with offices in Warren, Youngstown and Girard.
Mr. Garghill married in 1886, Margaret Stottler, by whom was born
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three children : Phillip H., aged twenty years; John, aged nineteen years ; Nellie, aged seventeen years. Politically, Mr. Garghill is a Republican. Mr. Garghill's sister, Isabell Garghill Beecher, is a well known and natural elocutionist.
DAVID L. HELMAN, proprietor of the Ship Timber Enterprise, located at Warren, Ohio, was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, August 19, 1867, a son of J. B. Helman, a native of Ashland, Ashland county, Ohio, where he was reared and became a farmer. He moved to Iowa in 1866, settling at Ot- tumwa, Wapello county, where he died in 1902. The mother, Elizabeth (Smalley) Helman, was a native of Haysville, Ohio, and died at the age of forty-two years. The children born of this union were five sons and one daughter, all of whom grew to maturity, David L. being the fourth child. In 1888 he went to Warren and became associated with W. C. Stiles in the manufacture of ship-timber, continuing with him until the latter's death in 1899. In 1904, Mr. Helman bought the property. He also has an interest in the North Carolina lumber trade, with Mr. Loveless; is also a director of the Western Reserve National Bank.
He is an extensive manufacturer of long ship plank and dredge tim- bers, in which business he has built up a most enviable reputation that ex- tends from Duluth to New York, as well as all along the New England Coast and in Canada. This enterprise was established in 1878 by Mr. Stiles.
Politically, it almost goes without saying, that Mr. Helman is a hearty supporter of the Republican party. In church faith, he is of the Preshy- terian denomination, while in his fraternal affiliations he is a member of the Masonic order, being a thirty-second degree Knight Templar; also a member of the U. C. T. of Warren.
In 1888 Mr. Helman was united in marriage to Wilhelmena Callander, daughter of William and Jerusha ( Hall) Callander. Two sons and one daughter were born of this union, namely: William C., Morace M. and Marguerite M. Helman, who died in 1903 at the age of seven years.
CHARLES A. ARCHER, M. D., one of the prominent practicing physi- cians and surgeons of Warren, is a native of Canada, born September 18, 1857. He is a son of William Archer, a native of England, by occupation a blacksmith, and who came to America when he was but a small boy. Dr. Archer's mother, Clarisa Foster, was a native of Canada, born at Thorn Hill. The father died in Canada and the mother in Warren, Ohio. They were the parents of seven children, four of whom are living now, the doctor and three sisters: Martha, married and resides in Cleveland : Clara, wife of A. D. Coe, of Cleveland; Emma, widow of the late Col. Eben Coe, of New York.
Dr. Archer is the sixth of the seven children in his parents' family, and he was nine years of age when he went to Cleveland, where he was edu- cated in the public schools. After graduating from the same, he attended
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the Western Reserve Medical College and graduated at St. Louis American Medical College. From 1890 to 1897 he practiced in Cleveland, then came to Warren and has been in medical practice here ever since. He is a member of the Trumbull County Medical Society; the State Medical So- ciety; also the American Medical Association. He is identified with the Masonic order, being a member of the chapter and commandery; also be- longs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, lodge No. 66; the Foresters, Odd Fellows and Eagles.
The doctor was married in 1881 to Agnes E. Maple, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Maple, of Elyria, Ohio. One daughter has blessed this union : Frances E., a graduate of the high school in 1908 and now at Oberlin. The family are members of the Christian church.
H. C. FARNHAM is a member of the law firm of Farnham & Hamilton and of the real estate firm of Farnham & Knox and is also an insurance writer. He was born in Wellsville, New York, in 1813, and is a graduate of the Alfred University. After the completion of his school days he went to California and became identified with the practice of law in the offices of Rogers & Rogers, of Los Angeles and San Francisco, and after his admission to the bar in that state he opened offices in Oakland. But after a time he returned to the east and was admitted to practice in the courts of New York in 1897, while later he was appointed by Congress as lieutenant of volunteers and served three months in Cuba during the Span- ish-American war. Rising to the rank of captain of volunteers, he was sent to the Philippines and served two years with that official rank.
At the close of that period Mr. Farnham returned to San Francisco, California, and once more took up the practice of law, but after the disas- trous fire of that city in 1896 he came east to Warren, Ohio, and became actively identified with the professional life of this city, connecting him- self, as above mentioned, with the firm of Farnham and Hamilton, attor- neys at law, and also with the real estate firm of Farnham and Knox, and in addition he carries on a large insurance business. He is the district man- ager of the American Casualty Company of Reading, Pennsylvania, for Ohio, and also for the General Accident Insurance Company of Perth, Scotland.
H. SAMUEL PEW, vice-president of the Union National Bank and otherwise connected with the business and industrial interests of Warren, is a native of Trumbull county, Ohio, born in Lordstown township, Febru- ary 13, 1841, a son of Simon Pew, also a native of Trumbull county, born on a farm in Warren township. He spent his entire life in this county and followed agricultural pursuits and was seventy-nine years of age at the time of his death. Politically, he was first a Whig and later a Republican. He was ever an active man in public affairs. The grandfather, Samuel Pew, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared
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and married. He then removed to Trumbull county, Ohio, as one of the early settlers, at a time when Warren had but three or four houses. He was a farmer, and was of Irish descent. H. Samuel Pew's mother, Sarah J. Snyder, was a native of Lordstown township, Trumbull county, a daughter of Peter Snyder, who came to Trumbull county among the pioneer band of settlers. He was a justice of the peace for many years, and was of Ger- man descent. This couple were the parents of three sons and four daugh- ters, all reaching maturity except one son, who died young.
Mr. Pew, of this memoir, is the eldest child of his parents' family, and was ten years old when his father located on a farm in Warren township. Reared and educated in his native county, H. Samuel Pew attended the schools at Warren, remained at home until twenty years of age, when he engaged as a clerk in a clothing store for some years. Later he was a traveling salesman for a drug house, continuing the latter named occupa- tion three years, handling drugs and notions. In 1866 he embarked in the crockery and house furnishings business, which he carried on for thirty- four years, at Warren, selling his stock to Kneeland Bros. He then en- gaged in the manufacture of pulp plaster and organized a stock company, of which he was secretary and treasurer, until sickness caused him to retire in 1906. This business is now conducted by his son, Kirt Pew. H. Samuel Pew is vice-president of the Union National Bank and was president of the Warren Savings Bank for fifteen years. This concern was merged into the Union National Bank, Mr. Pew being its vice-president. There are few men now doing business in Warren who were there when he first com- menced his career.
Politically, Mr. Pew is a Republican, and has served as trustee of War- ren township two terms; member of the city council two terms; and has ever taken an active part in the public enterprises of Trumbull county. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church and a trustee in the same; was an elder for thirty years, now being one of the oldest members in the church at Warren.
He was married in 1865 to Julia Elliott, daughter of Richard J. Elliott, of Champion, Trumbull county, by whom three children were born : Kirt E .; Fred C. Pew, of Steubenville, Jefferson county, and Adalaide L.
HENRY A. STRONG, deceased, whose widow resides at No. 201 North Park avenue, was born in Bristol, Trumbull county, Ohio, March 12, 1846, a son of David B. Strong, a native of New York, who went to Trumbull county, locating at Bristol. The mother of Mr. Strong was of a prominent family in Trumbull county named Kagy, who came from Pennsylvania. The family are in possession of a genealogy tracing back to Switzerland, from which European country they originated. Mr. Strong was reared and educated in Trumbull county and was by trade a blacksmith. He carried on a shop twenty years and up to his death, when he was one of the oldest business men in point of years in Warren. He was highly successful in his undertakings. He made his own way through life from early boyhood and
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he owned considerable real estate and was associated with Messrs. Laub and Wallace, of Warren. In his politics, he was a stauneh defender of Republican party principles. He was known as a hard working man and educated his family in a commendable manner. After having spent a useful life he died June 4, 1903.
His widow, Emma A. (Tovey) Strong, was born in England, but came with her parents to America when three years of age. Her father, George Tovey, was a native of England and upon coming to this country, settled at Cleveland, Ohio, where he was engaged in the work of a con- tractor and builder. and was a successful man. His death occurred in 1906 at Cleveland. His wife, Mrs. Strong's mother, Caroline Stevens, was also a native of England, who died in America in 1873. In their family were three daughters, Mrs. Strong being the second. She was reared and educated in Cleveland, Ohio, attending both the common and high schools of that city. She was united in marriage in 1879 and went to housekeeping at Warren. Three sons were born of this union : Harry, a graduate of Purdue University and is now in Cleveland; Clarence, a grad- uate of Western Reserve University and resides at Cleveland ; Warren A., a student at Western Reserve University.
COLONEL JOSEPH KNOWLES WING, whose home was at Bloomfield, was a notable figure of the Civil war from Trumbull county. He was born in Wilmington, Vermont, July 27, 1810, of Revolutionary antecedents. When sixteen years old he left Wilmington to become a elerk in a store at Rensel- aerville, New York, where he remained five years. During this time he served on the staff of General DeWitt, as the young quartermaster of the Twenty- fifth New York Infantry. In 1831 he accepted the offer of an Albany merchant to join him in a general merchandise business in the West, and Bloomfield, in Trumbull county, was selected as a promising location for the purpose. Mr. Wing, then but twenty-one years of age, was entrusted with the sole charge of this business, which occupied him until the development of the canal and railroad systems largely changed commercial conditions and diverted traffie to other channels.
The Civil war marked an important chapter in his life. President Lin- coln early commissioned him an assistant quartermaster in the service, with the rank of captain, and, later, he was promoted to major and lieutenant colonel by brevet. He was stationed at various points in Tennessee and Mississippi, under General Roseerans, and was soon made quartermaster of that distriet. Colonel Wing participated in the desperate and decisive bat- tle of Corinth. In the following year, when General Rosecrans was retired from the command of the Army of the Mississippi, Colonel Wing remained on duty, with headquarters at Corinth, attached to the staff of General Grenville M. Dodge. In 1864 the Union army erossed the Tennessee for the Atlanta campaign, and Colonel Wing accompanied it as chief-quarter- master of the Sixteenth Army Corps, and took part in all the movements of that body until Atlanta was reached and captured. During the cam-
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paign the command marched five hundred miles, was engaged in thirteen distinct battles, and was under fire for almost the entire time. In his re- port to the War Department, at the time, General Dodge expressly com- mended Colonel Wing for his efficiency through these historic operations. In November, 1864, under Special Order No. 61 of the War Department, he assumed control of the quartermaster's department for the district of North Carolina, and remained on that duty until the close of the war. August 10, 1865, he was honorably mustered out of the service.
The following letter, in the War Department, is of more than passing interest in this connection :
"No. 26 Nassau St., New York, December 9, 1866.
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War,
Washington, D. C.
Sir :
I have the honor to recommend, for Brevet Brigadier General, Captain J. K. Wing, A. Q. M.
Captain Wing was in my command for three years, first as Chief Quartermaster of the Sixteenth Army Corps. For four months, while I was in middle Tennessee, we were entirely dependent on his energy to sup- ply the command, of fifteen thousand men and ten thousand animals, with forage from the country, and I desire to say that in his department he re- ceived the commendation of all the officers for the ability with which he discharged his duties, and for his integrity and excellent habits. His ser- vices as chief-quartermaster of the Sixteenth Army Corps, during the At- lanta campaign, especially recommended him for promotion, but he could not attain it. as the command was not a full corps. After leaving the Army of the Tennessee, he was assigned to the Army of North Carolina, in which he served until the surrender of Johnston and the war's end.
I desire most earnestly and emphatically to recommend him for the promotion asked for and trust his valuable services will be acknowledged. I am confident it would have been done heretofore had his case not been overlooked.
I am, sir, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
G. M. DODGE, (Late Maj. Gen. U. S. Volunteers)."
Politically, Colonel Wing was a Republican of no uncertain convic- tions. In 1869 he was elected by his party from Trumbull county to the Ohio legislature and was re-elected as his own successor.
His death occurred January 1, 1898. He married Mary, daughter of Ephraim Brown, the founder of Bloomfield. The children of this marriage were: Mary Huntington, deceased, who married John S. McAdoo, in 1869; Elizabeth Brown, living in Bloomfield; Virginia Passavant, who died in 1871, the wife of Horace R. Cheney, of Boston; George Clary, a graduate
Gange J. Junho 1 9.
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of Harvard College, who for three years was employed as the attorney for the government to defend suits in the Court of Claims at Washington, was afterwards chief of the Diplomatic Bureau, in the United States Depart- ment of State, and is now an attorney at Cleveland; Francis Joseph, who also was at Harvard College, and practiced law at Cleveland. For a time he was the assistant United States Attorney there, and one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Cuyahoga county. While holding this latter position, he was appointed by President McKinley, in January, 1901, United States judge for the Northern district of Ohio; Julia King, whose home is at Bloomfield, and Annie MI., the wife of William S. French, of New Hartford, New York.
Colonel Wing's wife was born at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, May 28, 1812, and died December 15, 1887. After her family moved to Ohio in 1815, she attended a young ladies' school at Brattleboro, Vermont; after- wards, she was sent to the famous seminary at Troy, New York, founded and then presided over by Mrs. Emma Willard. Later she was a pupil at the Steubenville (Ohio) Seminary. During her school life she not only con- firmed her strong literary tastes, but became accomplished in music. Hers was the first piano brought to Trumbull county.
GEORGE J. SMITH. M. D., practicing physician and surgcon at the en- terprising city of Niles, Ohio, is a native of Cincinnati, where he was born May 8, 1815, a son of Harry Smith, a native of Ohio, who now resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where he is in business. The mother, Margaret (Lundy) Smith, was a native of Ohio. The doctor was only an infant when his parents removed to Birmingham, in which city he lived until fourteen years of age, when he was sent to the Pittsburg College and to the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He first graduated from the Birmingham high school at the age of fourteen years. He graduated from the Pittsburg Col- lege in 1894 and from the Western Pennsylvania University in 1898, the same being from the medieal department. He spent one year in St. Francis Hospital, at Pittsburg, coming to Niles, Ohio, in 1900, since which date he has been one of the leading medical practitioners of the city. He belongs to the American Medical Association, the Trumbull County Medical So- ciety and the State Medieal Society. In all that is praetieal and up-to- date, in medicine, Dr. Smith is well informed.
In his political views, the doctor is a Republican. He is the physician for the Automobile Club of America and is popular with all progressive classes. In business enterprises, he takes an active interest, so far as his profession will admit. He is a director in the Niles File Works at Niles, and president of the Ohio Boiler Company. He is the medical examiner for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York City; also for the Equitable Life of New York ; the Prudential; the Northwestern; the Etna and Hartford insurance companies; also New York Life Insurance Com- pany.
Dr. Smith was married in the month of July, 1900, to Kathryn Mc-
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Laughlin, daughter of Captain P. Mclaughlin, of Rochester, Pennsyl- vania, a railroad contractor, who constructed the Erie Railroad from Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania, to Girard, Ohio. He was also an extensive glass manu- facturer, and prominent in business generally. At Rochester, he served on the city council for twenty years, and was the first exalted ruler of the order of Elks, at Rochester, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Smith's mother was Matilda (McGinley) MeLaughlin, of Wheeling, West Virginia, but a native of Ire- land. Mrs. Smith is the fourth of nine children in her parents' family. She was born in Rochester, Pennsylvania, and received her education in the high school. At the age of fourteen years she entered St. Xavier's College in Pennsylvania, which institution is located in Westmoreland county ; also took a course at Duff's Business College at Pittsburg.
EDWIN FRANKLIN MOULTON, a retired educator, now a resident of Warren, Ohio, was born on Moulton Hill, Saint Francis River, Canada, April 7, 1836. His father, Calvin Moulton, was a native of West Randolph, Vermont. The grandfather, also Calvin Moulton, was born in Massachu- setts and later settled at West Randolph, Vermont, moving to Canada while still a young man, and for whom Moulton Hill was named. The mother of Edwin Franklin Moulton was Adaline Hudson, also a native of Massachusetts, and a daughter of Ruben Hudson. She was of English descent on both the paternal and maternal sides. Each branch was engaged in the Revolutionary war. The great-grandmother of Mr. Moulton was the daughter of General Blodget, who lived to the extreme age of one hundred and fourteen years. Mr. Moulton's parents were married in Canada in 1822. After the death of his mother the father returned to the States in 1846, locating in Wisconsin and living to the advanced age of eighty-one years. There were born of this union four sons and three daughters, of whom two sons are still living. Having received his early education in district schools, he prepared for college at Grand River Insti- tute, Austinburg, Ohio. The first two years of his college course were taken at Antioch, going from there to Oberlin, where he was graduated in 1865. Having chosen teaching as his profession, after a brief experience in Ohio, he was called to the principalship of the New England Christian Institute of New Hampshire. Two years later he returned to Ohio and accepted the superintendency of the public schools of Oberlin, four years after his graduation. After serving these schools successfully for seven years he accepted a similar position at Warren, Ohio, where he remained for twelve years. He then entered the public schools of Cleveland as super- visor, and soon became first assistant superintendent and later superin- tendent, which position he held until he retired from active work in his profession in the summer of 1906. He then took up his residence in Warren, having served as student, teacher and superintendent for fifty years. This record is seldom, if ever, surpassed. In 1863 Mr. Moulton was married to Ellen M. Reed, of Austinburg. She died in 1892 at Cleve- land, two children being born of this union, Maud L., deceased, and Mar-
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garet Hudson, wite of Dr. George Herbert Ormeroid, of Warren. In 1894 Mr. Moulton married Alice Davis Burton, of Cleveland. In early manhood Mr. Moulton joined the Masonic order. He is also a member of the Royal Arcanum, in which fraternity he has held high official positions, both state and national. In his church affiliations he is numbered among the worthy members of the Congregational denomination, having been identified with active church work in Oberlin, Warren and Cleveland. He is now specially interested in farming, having a beautiful little farm near his home.
Mrs. Alice Davis Moulton, wife of Edwin F. Moulton, was born at Vermilion, Huron county, Ohio, on a beautiful farm fronting Lake Erie. Her father, Daniel Nelson Davis, was a native of Long Island, and came with his parents to Ohio when a child. Her grandfather, Gilbert Davis, was a descendant of an English king. The mother of Mrs. Moulton was Sarah Prentiss, daughter of James and Betsey (Brooks) Prentiss, also of English descent. Her father died at an early age. This placed the home training of Mrs. Moulton largely in the hands of her mother, a woman of unusual strength of character and Christian fortitude. Mrs. Moulton was educated in the public schools, and chose teaching as her profession, for which she had rare natural attainments, which, with her fine training, made her a successful instructor. Since her marriage to Mr. Moulton she has devoted much of her time and thought in service for the uplift of humanity. She has been prominently identified with state and national organizations having for their aim and purpose the education and higher development of the people in civic beauty, in art, and in municipal improve- ment.
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