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In 1804 the father and mother of Sarah Reeves, Samuel and Ascha Park Quinby, bought the farm now owned by Frederick Kinsman's sons. The children in this family were all grown and with them came Mrs. Quinby-Quick, the mother of Ephraim and Samnel Quinby and Mrs. Reeves. She lived but two years and spent her time between her two sons.
Samnel Quinby was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and his wife enjoyed a pension for his services. He died in 1840, and had a military funeral. The troops who were going to celebrate Perry's vietory assisted in the services.
The Ewalt family was another one identified with the early history of Howland. In 1803 John Ewalt rode a fine English
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mare from New Jersey to Warren, exchanging it for one hun- dred and sixty acres of land near the edge of Warren. Mrs. Ewalt eame a year later. They stayed in the family of John Reeves until their house was finished. The Ewalt family were always interested in the cultivation of erops and were among the few to grow sweet potatoes.
Zachariah Tannehill Ewalt lived at Howland Corners for many years. He was well up in the eighties when he died, and he and his wife occupied a substantial place in the community. Mr. Ewalt remembered historical events. No citizen was bet- ter known than he. He was an ardent Republican and of social nature. He served as treasurer of the county for some time. His wife died a few years before he did, and their place, which was the center of hospitality, has just been sold. He had four children, the oldest Jolm, a minister; Zachariah, who married a Greenwood; Olivia, Mrs. E. H. Peek, and Florence, Mrs. Reid of Chicago.
Jacob Ewalt lived in the northwest portion of Howland, and like the rest of his family was old when he died. His two children, Grace Love and Jacob Ewalt, now reside in Warren, and he has great-grandchildren. His granddaughter, Olive Love, married Glenn Webster.
Harris Ewalt, who lived on the home farm, married Mar- garet True. He had a number of children, but only Henry Clay, of Pittsburg, and Charles, of Howland, now survive. Charles lives on the home farm, his wife being Ida Hoyt, of the Warren Hoyt family.
David Ewalt was a half-brother of John. He married Azuba Dally in 1816. She was a daughter of Isaac Dally and Effie Lane Dally. who were among the first settlers in Trumbull County and who are referred to in other parts of this history. The land which David bought is now occupied by three of his grandchildren, Helen, Winifred and George. They were the children of Isaac and Lorinda Ewalt. The oldest of Isaac's children, Harry, is a resident of Vienna, having married Ency Baldwin.
The Kennedy family lived in that part of Howland known as "Over the Creek." Samuel Kennedy and his wife came to Howland in 1814. They had ten grown children, and the youngest one was born in August after their arrival. Mr. Ken- nedy died three years afterwards and the mother brought up this whole brood. She suffered all kinds of privations. Her
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cattle were sick and strayed away, rattlesnakes were thick, but nevertheless she was optimistic, taught her children the shorter catechism. asked the blessing upon their daily food and lived to see all her children settled within a few miles around her. They married into the families of Kings, Battles. Scott, Caster- line and lddings.
George Hunter and his wife, Mary Thayer, the former from Worcester, Massachusetts, and the latter from Poland, lived their married life in Howland. They had a goodly family of children, most of whom are living. George P. was a lawyer of Warren, dying a few years ago. LaFayette still practices here; his wife was Mattie Sigler. Cleopatra married Mr. Troxel and now resides in West Warren; Mary married Henry Christy. of Brookfield, Warren, and they now live in Cleveland ; Alice is Mrs. Murray, whose husband was for a long time con- nected with the Erie Railroad.
Howland was organized as a separate township in 1812.
The first schoolhouse was built on the 4th of July, 1804. It was built of logs and the desks were made of boards laid on pins stuck in the floor. One of the early log schoolhouses was in the northwest section of the township, and another in the King neighborhood. Ruth Alford was one of the early teachers, and John Ewalt abont 1812 taught in the northwest district, while Montgomery Anderson taught in the King district. The school distriets were at first small, but after a while were made larger, and better buildings were erected. Most of the pupils in How- land now attend the Warren schools.
The first marriage was in 1803, Jack Legg and Conny Ward.
The first frame barn was erected in 1822 by Barber King and the second in 1526 by John Ratliff.
The first store was kept by John Collins at the Corners. Mr. Cadwalader had the first grist mill in the neighborhood of the present Cadwalader Gulch, and Sam Kennedy the first saw- mill.
One of the largest farms in Howland belongs to the H. B. Perkins estate. Here for many years Austin Andrews lived. He later moved to Youngstown. where he became a successful business man. associated more or less with his cousin, Chancey. He had several sons, among whom Upson became a leading citi- zen of Cleveland. He married Harriet Warmington and died recently. It was on the Perkins farm that Hon. Thomas Webb
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became so injured in.a barn raising as to have to be obliged to have his leg amputated.
The flag-stone furnished by lowland is among the very best used anywhere. It is hard, and withstands all sorts of weather and wear. Few towns of the size of Warren have so many miles of good flagging, and all of it came from the quar- ries on the Austin, Kinsman and Ewalt farms. Mr. Harmon Austin made a goodly part of his fortune in selling this stone.
As mentioned elsewhere, many of the early services of the early Baptist Church were held in the home of John Reeves. In 1815 Rev. Joseph Curtis of the Presbyterian church of Warren organized a church of thirteen members. Five years later a log building in the northeast part of the township served for both church and school. In 1821 a Methodist class of ten members was organized in this same building. The Pres- byterian organization was kept alive as long as Mr. Curtis was in Warren. The Methodist class never became a regular church.
The year of the coming of Scott and Mitchell to Warren saw the organization of a church in Howland. In 1830 a church edifice was built costing $3,000, on the road near Simeon Drake's farm. In 1862 the Christians erected a church at the center which cost $1,700. For many years this was well at- tended. As Warren City takes in part of Howland township, the people of the latter township attend Warren churches, and are, and always have been, identified more with the county seat than any other town.
CHAPTER XLI .- HUBBARD.
SAMUEL TYLEE .- WILLIAM BURNETT .- OTHER EARLY FAMILIES. -ASAEL ADAMS' SCHOOL .- IRON AND COAL .- RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS .- COALBURG.
Range 1, township 3. was sold by the Connecticut Land Company to Nehemiah Hubbard Jr. His agent was Samuel Tylee, who was one of the most influential Masons in the early history of the county. He used to drive from Hubbard to at- tend the meetings of Old Erie Lodge No. 47. He and his tam- ily reached the township in 1801 and were the first settlers. Their cabins stood a little north of the present corners of the village. His wife was Anna Sanford, and they had five chil- dren when they came to the township, and five were born after- wards. After her death he married Elizabeth Ayers and they had one child. He died in 1845. He was the first justice of the peace in the township, and was so careful in business and possessed so much integrity that not a little of the prosperity of that township in the early days was due to him. He had a brother. Sylvester, who came a year later and settled near him. This part of the township was sometimes called Tylee's Corners.
William Burnett came the same year that Samuel Tylee ‹lid. He left his home in the fall, but reached Beaver so late that he did not come on to Trumbull County until spring. He found Indians in his neighborhood and had the usual struggle of the pioneer. Like Samuel Tylee, and most of the pioneer fathers Mr. Burnett had two wives. This was such an ordinary thing that we only find expression of surprise when there were three or four. In 1813 he married Barbara Huff, his second wife. ITe had eleven children and lived to be 91 years old. His son, Joseph Burnett, was early engaged in the distillation of liquor, but after a time he went into the lumber business and was pro-
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prietor of the property which was later known as Brockway's Mills. It is situated in Hartford township.
Among the other early settlers was Jeremiah Wolf, who came from New Jersey. He was a nail-maker and made the nails which Samuel Tylee used in erecting the early frame houses in the township.
Jesse Hall came from New Jersey, as did Jolm Avers and Martin Shwartzwelter. In fact, so many of the settlers who came at that time were from New Jersey that a road which ran north from the center was called Jersey street.
John Jewell came from Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. He died in Hubbard in 1859, while his wife, Jane Miller, lived to be 92 years old. His son, A. M. Jewell, married Rebecca Love and settled in Hubbard. A. M. Jewell was an active and successful business man from the beginning, being a farmer, a trader in live stock, and in 1870 he sold out and retiring moved to Warren, where he lived up to the time of his death. He was a stockholder in the First National and Mahoning banks in Youngstown and in the Trumbull Bank in Warren. He was also interested in the banks in Hubbard. His children were universally successful. William A. moved to Mississippi and died there.
Stephen Doughton was one of the early settlers and his relatives have lived in that vicinity for these many years. Doughton Station was named for one of the descendants; a daughter, Mrs. Marcus Wallace, now resides in Youngstown.
A. R. Cramer was another New Jersey man who came to Hubbard and who had two wives. He was justice of the peace for two terms and county clerk for thirty successive years. He lived to be 77 years old. dying in 1873. His sons, S. P. and A. K., were both justices of the peace, the latter being mayor at one time and the former township clerk.
Matthew Mitchell, a native of Ireland, came to Ohio in 1805. He settled in Hubbard, where he resided until 1827, and then moved to Liberty, living there until he died in 1831. His wife lived to be 96 years old, dying in 1874. Nathaniel Mitchell was born in 1805 and was probably brought into the township as an infant. He married Elizabeth Murdoch of Coitsville. He was justice of the peace for 36 years or more and probably served in that capacity longer than any other Trumbull County man. He was also township trustee, town elerk and treasurer.
Cornelius Price was born in Hubbard in 1812. His father
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also was from New Jersey. He was a farmer, married a daughter of William Burnett, Anna, and was long identified with the town's interests.
Judson R. Noble, who came with his father David to Boardman, lived there until twenty-five years of age, when he went to Youngstown to work at his trade. He was a carpenter. He moved to Niles, where he resided until 1870. Ile married Mary Ann Robins, a daughter of Josiah Robins. He was jus- tice of the peace of his town, was court erier for 24 years, and constable several years in Niles.
Hubbard, like other towns, had a number of schoolhouses in the beginning, all made of logs. The first was probably on the farm of Jolin Gardner in the southwest part of the town- ship. Whittlesey Adams has furnished the following :
Memorandum of the country school kept by Asael Adams in Hubbard, Trumbull County, commenced Nov. 2, 1804.
The following is an account of the number of pupils sent by each subscriber and amount paid by each sub- scriber :
No. Pupils Amt. P'd
Samuel Tylee
4
$10.52
Sylvester Tylee
5.11
Hugh Dunn
1 3.85
Timothy Roberts
4.13
Timothy Roberts Jr
1
3.29
Iddo Bailey
1
2.55
James Frazier
7.41
Samuel Frazier
5.00
William Parrish
1
1.44
Thomas Kennedy
1
2.55
Edward Hanna
.)
3.84
David Bailey
1
2.55
William Smith
1
3.70
Giles Clark
5.11
.Jeliyel Roberts
1 2.85
William Veach
1 2.55
William Randall
1
4.98
John Cleaver
1 4.60
It is of loeal interest to know that direct descendants of nearly every one of the aforesaid patrons of the Asael
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Adams school are living today in Hubbard and Youngs- town.
Asael Adams came from Canterbury, Connecticut, with his father to Trumbull County in 1800. He was then 14 years of age. When 18 he opened a private school in Hubbard, November 2, 1804. The next year he taught a school in Cleveland. Some of the grandsons of the pioneer school teacher are Asael E. Adams, president of the Dollar Savings & Trust Company of Youngstown, Fred W. Adams of Warren, George Dana Adams, president of the Cleveland Bag Company, with branches at Akron, Detroit and Buffalo; Comfort Avery Adams, professor of electrical engineering, of Harvard University.
That teacher this term of school boarded 27 days at John Cleaver's and 27 days at William Randall's, and 27 days at Edward Hanna's.
That Adams, the young teacher, governed his school by kindness and gentleness is shown by the following writ- ten note sent by Samuel Tylee, the leading patron of the school and business man of the town, to the teacher.
To Mr. Asael Adams, Feb. 11, 1805, 35 minutes after 2 o'clock.
Sir-1 have sent my son Sanford to school and would request you would be as tender to him as the nature of governing a school will admit.
If he cannot be kept in school without disturbing it, be pleased to let me know and I will withdraw him from school.
From your friend and humble servant, SAMUEL TYLEE.
When life was simpler parents took more personal interest in the schools. They visited them. They upheld the hands of the teachers in various ways. They took the school into the home life and the child did not find, as it does now, that its affairs are apart.
The district schoolhouse of Ohio has served its pur- pose well. For nearly a hundred years it has been an in- stitution of the state. Three-fourths of the great men of Ohio had their early training at the little one room school- honse near their homes.
There they were taught reading, writing and arithme- tic. The long walk across the fields to school made them hardy, and the birch rod inculcated in them the spirit to achieve success and reach the hall of fame.
General Cyrus Bussey was born Oct. 5, 1833, in Ilub-
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bard, Trumbull County, O. De was a grandson of Samuel Tylee. General Cyrus Bussey made a proud record in the Civil war of 1861-5, and was a state senator and also assistant secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Harrison.
Hubbard was one of the last towns to be organized in Trumbull County. It was as late as 1861 before the village was anything but a country crossroads.
This township had more coal deposit than any other in the county and the business which arose therefrom made it a flourishing place. Many of the men who are now in business in Youngstown began their business life at Hubbard. Iron was manufactured there. Andrews and Hitchcock were two of Youngstown's men who accumulated property from Hubbard coal fields, and G. M. MeKelvey of Youngstown began busi- ness in that place.
The bank at Hubbard has always had fine standing and the newspapers have always been well patronized.
In 1868 plans were made for establishing a free high school. A building costing $10,000 was finished in 1870. Among the early superintendents were S. Q. March, Alexander Campbell, JJ. L. Gillmer and D. A. Wilson. The schools at the time the village was incorporated became union schools.
Unlike the history of the churches of most townships, the Methodist was one of the earliest in Hubbard. A class was formed by Rev. Noah Fidler in 1803. The members were Rev. Amos Smith, his wife; William Veach, his wife; Mr. Parish, his wife; Mr. Frazee, his wife: Amos Thomas, Joshna Snyder, Wil- liam and Enos Burnett. After a little time another class was formed. The first was west of the center. The second was east of the center. Both were merged into the Hubbard church and in 1810 there were fifty members. In the early '50s these two churches dwindled in membership and a new building was erected at the village, costing $2200. Rev. S. K. Paden was the minister at that time, riding that cirenit. The west church be- came a schoolhonse. The other was for many years used on occasions. The Methodist church of Liberty at this date has a goodly membership and is in a live condition.
The Presbyterian church came soon after the Methodist, being organized the next year. As a rule, the Presbyterians have kept their records while the Methodists have not, but in
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the case of Ilubbard the Presbyterians have been quite as remiss as were the Methodists. Rev. James Satterfield was one of the early Presbyterian preachers and for fifty years he was an oc- casional preacher in the township. Among the early members were the families of Tylee, Clingham, McMoran, Porterfield, Jewell, Stewart, Love. John Jewell, Sylvester Tylee and Wil- liam Clingham were the first elders. Their first church was a log one and stood near the graveyard. It was replaced by a frame building and in 1857 a new house was erected.
There was a few Baptists from the beginning in Hubbard, but they did not grow and it was not until 1870 that they had any church building worth mentioning. This cost $7,000.
The parsonage which belongs to the Lutherans now was once the property of the Baptists and was used by them for public worship. In 1819, at the house of Jesse Hall, a Baptist association was formed. Mr. Hall was an influential man. When the Christian Baptists began their work and Scott, Mit- chell and others came to Warren the people in Hubbard became interested in the new doctrine and formed a Disciple church. Jesse and John Applegate were overseers and served in that capacity for twenty-five years. Mr. Applegate was one of the early preachers and besides serving the church at home, trav- eled very much abroad. The same men whose names have been mentioned as preaching in almost every township in Trumbull County might be mentioned here. They were Scott, Bosworth, Lamphear, Smith and I. A. Thayer. In 1837 a yearly meeting was held in Hubbard which was the largest assembly of the kind ever held on the Western Reserve. The Rev. Mr. Campbell was there and a large number of converts were made. The church has always been in a prosperous condition.
The Roman Catholics built a church in 1868 costing $3000. Revs. E. O'Callahan, Peter Becker, John T. Schaffield and J. Klute are among some of the priests who have served this par- ish. In 1870 a parish school was organized and this was en- larged in 1880 and given over to the sisters. The church is called St. Patrick's and the congregtaion is largely Irish, al- though there are a few Germans and some Italians.
Because of the mines in Hubbard many of the residents were Welsh, and in 1865 a Welsh church was organized. Five years before this forty people organized a Welsh Baptist church. They held their meetings in the Protestant Methodist building, and in the late '70s bought the building for church pur-
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poses. At one time the congregations of this denomination were very large.
St. John's church, German Lutheran, was organized in 1867. Meetings had been held, however, earlier. A church was erected in 1871 costing about $3000, and at one time a German school was held in connection with the church.
Coalburg is a hamlet in Hubbard township which was a lively place when coal was plenty. Here the principal cemetery of the township was located and many of the early residents were buried here. In the northern part of the township the Disciples had another graveyard. In Coalburg the Methodists, Welsh Baptists and Welsh congregations at different times held meetings.
The son of William Burnett, Silas, was the first white child born in Hubbard.
Jeremiah Wolf's daughter was the first white female child born in the township of Hubbard.
Samnel Tylee was the first justice of the peace and he also built the first frame honse.
George Frazer built the first brick house in the town- ship.
Dr. Mitcheltree, of near Sharon, was the first phy- sician.
Sylvester Tylee was the first postmaster. The first distillery was also on his farm.
The first carding mill was run by William Elliot.
The first tannery was built by Jehiel Roberts.
Dr. JJohn Mitcheltree was the first merchant. His store was partly in Pennsylvania and partly in Ohio, but as he lived in the Ohio end it was right for that state to claim him. He was a physician and by combining his business with his profession he acenmulated a good deal of money.
CHAPTER XLII .- JOHNSTON.
CAPTAIN BRADLEY'S FAMILY .- TWO MECHANICS .- THE HINE PARTY .- SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
Nathan Moore surveyed number 6, in the second range, in 1802. Later this portion of the county was called "Johnston," after Captain James Johnston, of Salisbury, Connecticut, who originally purchased the tract from the Connecticut Land Company. It was not until 1816 that the first township election was held. Before that Mecca and Bazetta were attached to Johnston.
Johnston was one of the earlier towns settled, James Brad- ley and his family arriving there in 1802. They came from the town of the proprietor, Salisbury, and were five or six weeks making the journey to Canfield, where they stopped. The fam- ily consisted of Captain Bradley, his wife, Asentha, three sons, Thaddeus, Moore Bird and Ariel. They proceeded from Can- field to Quinby's (Warren), and then stopped occasionally where there was an opening or a settlement. They had to cut a way in many places in order to let the wagons through, and camped in unbroken forests, finally settling west of the center, where they lived for many years, although in the last years of their lives they moved to the western part of the township. Mrs. Bradley lived to be eighty years old, dying in 1832. When they came to the township she was the only woman for many miles around, and it was over a year before she saw a woman, after coming into her new home.
The oldest son, Thaddeus, spent part of the time on the farm, and later was employed in some nearby towns, where he tanght and sold goods, finally returning to Johnston and set- tling on the home farm, where he died in 1865. He left about six hundred acres of land, and his oldest son lived upon the home farm.
The second son of Captain Bradley bore the peculiar name
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of " Moore Bird." the middle name being the family name of his mother. He was born in Vermont in 1790. He assisted the family as soon as he was old enough, in elearing away the for- est, but early began the study of medicine. His preceptor was Dr. Peter Allen. Dr. Bradley removed to Mansfield where he practiced, later settling in Pennsylvania. His wife survived him. He was the father of eight children.
Ariel Bradley was nine years old when his family reached Johnston. He was a strong youth, was one of the finest chop- pers in the county, and felled the first tree, so far as known, cut by the white settlers. He was not able to stand such hard labor and studied medicine, and was the first physician to practice in Johnston township. In 1828 he married Laura Barstow, who lived to good old age. They had one danghter, Renmah. She married Buell Pelton, had two daughters, Emma A. and Ren- malı, dying when the latter was one year old and the former three.
After the Bradley family came two young men, both me- chanies. They were Jared Hill and James Skinner. They ar- rived in the summer of 1804, built a sawmill, and went away during the winter. They married two women in Canfield, and although this was two years after the coming of Captain Brad- ley, they had to ent roadways wide enough to allow the wagon with their goods to go through. As these men were handy with tools (both were carpenters and one a mill-wright as well),. their services were songht from all directions, and their wives were sometimes left alone in this alnost Eveless Eden. The Indians camped near them, and they had to summon all their courage to be able to stand their life. In a little time, however, the men finished their sawmill, built a grist mill, and after that people brought work to them and they were at home.
In 1804 Mr. Jaqua, with his wife and five children, arrived. A daughter of this family, Charity, married Solomon Brainard and this was the first wedding in the township. Mr. Jagna was the first justice of the peace. Although Mr. Jaqua and his family labored hard, were more or less successful and interested in the welfare of the community, they later moved to Pennsyl- vania.
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