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sides in New York city; Rev. Joseph P. Graham, missionary to India ; John J. Graham, of the Beaver plant of the American Tin Plate Co., located at Lisbon ; Carrie L. Graham, of Bridgeport, Ohio, and Dr. Frank Graham, of Lisbon, Ohio.
One of the leaders of the early band of aboli- tionists of the community was John Frost, very ec-
JOHN FROST.
in 1806, and located in Lisbon when a young man. He vied with the strongest in physical prowess and frequently cut a hole through the ice of Little Beaver Creek that he might take a morning plunge.
Mr. Frost was of Scotch-Irish Covenanter stock and inherently opposed the doctrine that the black man, though made in the image and likeness of God, should be bought and sold as a chattel in the market place.
John K. Snodgrass, James Thompson, Erastus Eells, Enoch Harper, John Frost, Jacob Janney, Dr. Leonard Hanna and others made Lisbon one of the important stations in the " underground rail- way." It is recounted that Dr. Joseph Garretson, a man of wealth and distinguished bearing, seeing a slave ~orly clad, in winter. fleeing from his master through the streets of the village, removed his Prince Albert coat, gave it to the negro and bade him god- speed toward the North Star of Liberty.
Mr. Frost established " The Aurora " în 1832, a newspaper devoted to the abolition cause and the promo *~ ~~ temperance. It was vigorously edited and did much to mould the sentiment of the com- munity until 1856, when its publication was sus- pended. "The Aurora " was published in a small circular building on West Walnut Street, built round
centric, but ever courageous and unswerving in his convictions. He was born in Fayette County, Pa., as the editor said " so that the devil could not cor-
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ner him."
Mr. Frost lived to see liberty the watch-word of the nation and "the fanatics " of the 'forties the heroes of post-bellum days. He died poor in money but rich in honor on the 15th day of January, 1885.
Among other families of note who have had their residence in this place were the ancestors of Ohio's illustrious son and mourned martyr, President Will- iam Mckinley. The grandparents of the President were married in New Lisbon at an early date, in the old Vallandigham homestead on West Walnut Street. The grandfather, James Mckinley, was one of the pioneers in the iron manufacturing in- terests of the county, being connected as early as 1816 with the Rebecca furnace, which was erected by Gideon Hughes in 1808, of which mention has been made before in this history. The grandson who became President of the United States was probably never a bona fide resident of New Lisbon. His parents resided at one time in the old stone house which has been occupied for many years by Ed- ward Broughton, near the site of the old furnace a short distance northwest of the village. One of the President's relatives was an early school teacher in the village and other relatives now reside here. During all of his political career, the President was wont to make frequent visits to New Lisbon, where
he had an abundance of warm personal friends, who were very enthusiastic in his behalf in every political campaign in which he was a candidate.
In his first campaign for Congress in 1876, he enlisted many friends in his behalf at this place who never wavered in their fealty to him during all his public life. Each successive campaign brought to the front his old friends, whose enthusiastic efforts in his behalf induced many new ones to enroll them- selves under his banner. At every visit he made to this place he was received with cordial greeting, and in no other community in the entire country was his untimely death more sincerely mourned than at Lisbon. Among the old records are found sev- eral transfers of real estate made by his ancestors and our citizens point with pride to every local spot which has been connected with himself or his family.
The most notable figure to-day of all the natives of New Lisbon who have achieved distinction, is the Hon. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, United States Sen- ator from Ohio. The Hanna family traces their origin back to the thirteenth century when Patrick Hannay, a resident of the southwest coast of Scot- land, built and occupied a castle since known as "Castle Sorby." Many members of the family be- came prominent in affairs in Scotland, Ireland, and England in the centuries gone by, and in 1764 when
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Benjamin Franklin returned from England, where he had been to enter the protest of the American colonies against the infamous Stamp Act, Thomas Hanna, the great-great-grandfather of Hon. M. A. Hanna, sailed for the New World, enticed by the glowir~ descriptions given of this country by Ben- jamin Franklin, and rumor says that he sailed in the same vessel by which Franklin returned, and arrived in Philadelphia in the fall. Following the example of many Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who had preceded him. he at once pushed out into the wilds, and settled in southern Pennsylvania, where he found quite a number of his countrymen. About a year after his arrival in this country he died, leav- ing two sons, Robert and Thomas. According to the custom of that day, they were both bound out until of age, and Robert became a member of a fam- ily belonging to the Society of Friends, who taught him the art and mystery of farming and also the trade of tailor. He mct with that band of patriots known as the "Provincial Committee," which as- sembled in Carnenter's Hall in Philadelphia in July, 1774. and there passed those famous " Instructions " which demanded that the Pennsylvania assembly should appoint delegates to the First Continental Congress. These " instructions" were complied with by the assembly the next day after they were pre-
sented, and thus was begun the movement which culminated in the Declaration of Independence. Having married in southern Pennsylvania, he re- moved to Virginia, where he and Tohn Lynch laid out the town of Lynchburg and he continued to reside there during the Revolutionary War, taking no part in the war, however ~ account of his re- ligious convictions. In 1801 he, with his wife and nine children, the second of whom was Benjamin, the grandfather of Senator Hanna, who was born at Lynchburg June 14, 1779, came in the old-fash- ioned " Conestoga " wagons from Lynchburg and crossed the Ohio River at Smith's Ferry. Then pushing their way through the unbroken wilderness finally located in section 10 of Fairfield Township, this county. Robert Hanna was evidently some- thing of a politician himself, as he was chairman of the first election for township officers held in Fairfield Township, April 1, 1805. He was at that time elected township trustee and his son, Benjamin, was elected township clerk and treasurer, and the Hannas continued to hold some office in the township about every year up to 1810 or 1812. Some time prior to that date, Robert Hanna became inter- ested in some land in Middletown Township and erected one of the early taverns at the cross-roads where the village of Clarkson is now located. On
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HON. MARCUS A. HANNA.
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February 19, 1816, he planted the original town of Clarkson. His son, Benjamin, was married to Rachael Dixson on December 16, 1803, according to the Friends ceremony, and this was probably the first event of the kind celebrated in Fairfield Township. At the date of his marriage, Benjamin had located on the land now known as the Poulton farm, immediately south of the present village of Columbiana, and he made that his home until 1810 when he purchased a quarter section east of Colum- biana village and upon which the Columbiana Ceme- tery is now located. Having sold his land at Columbiana, he went to Salem in 1812, where he conducted a company store established by a number of Friends. After managing the company store with great success for a period of two years, he concluded to leave Salem, and purchased a farm near New Lisbon. At New Lisbon he opened and conducted a store of his own until the rage for canal building struck the State and he was made President of the Sandy and Beaver Canal Company, a position which he filled for twenty-five years, besides being a fore- most citizen in all that pertained to the progress and improvement of the village. Leonard Hanna, son of Benjamin Hanna, and father of the Senator, was born at Columbiana March 4, 1806, attended the common schools at New Lisbon and then went
to college where he prepared himself for the study of medicine. He was engaged for a number of years in the practice of his profession in New Lis- bon and the surrounding country. He was a man of fine presence and of high ability, an orator of the first order, the pioneers yet love to tell of his prowess in the anti-slavery and temperance causes. With the shrewdness inherited from his Scotch ancestors, he soon saw great possibilities for com- mercial enterprise in the City of Cleveland. Having disposed of his share in the New Lisbon store, he removed to Cleveland with his family in 1852. There he soon became a member of the wholesale grocery and forwarding house of Hanna, Garretson & Co. After ten years of prosperity as a Cleveland merchant, he died in 1862, honored and respected by all who knew him. Dr. Leonard Hanna's wife was a daughter of Porter and Rhoda Converse, of Ashtabula County, Ohio. She was born in Vermont and after her removal to Cleveland, in 1852, re- mained there until her death a few years ago; eroying a good old age, daily visited by friends with whom she had been engaged in religious and chari- table work for many years. Marcus Alonzo Hanna was born in New Lisbon September 24, 1837, the second in age of seven children: Helen Gertrude, Marcus Alonzo, Howard Melville, Salome Maria,
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Seville Samantha, Leonard Coulton, and Lillian Converse. He attended the public schools in the village of New Lisbon when presided over by that pioneer teacher, David Anderson, of honored memory. At the age of 15 years, he went with his father to Cleveland and attended the public schools in that city, where he prepared himself for a course at the Western Reserve College and spent a year there in scientific study. In 1857 he went into his father's wholesale grocery store, which was doing an extensive business in the Lake Superior trade. The entire management of the affairs of the concern soon devolved upon him, and after the death of his father he settled the estate, and managed all the affairs of the house. During the Civil War he served four months in Washington. In 1864 he married Miss C. Augusta Rhodes, daughter of Mr. Daniel P. Rhodes, one of the pioneer citizens and business men of Cleveland. At Mr. Rhodes' death, the firm of Rhodes & Co. was succeeded by M. A. Hanna & Co., dealers in coal, iron ore, and pig iron.
In this business which furnished employment to several thousand men, began the extensive relations of Mr. Hanna as a capitalist and employer of labor, with the workingmen, and the development of new ideas as to the proper attitude of each to the other. Observing that misunderstandings were constantly
arising between employer and employed, Mr. Hanna set about investigation to find a remedy for the differences existing where, in his opinion, they should not exist, and his careful observation and patient, diligent revolving of the momentous question in his own mind resulted in the formation of what is known as the National Civic Federation, an organization started four or five years ago in the city of Chicago. The object of the association, as Mr. Hanna has expressed it, was to bring together men of experience and ability to discuss economic questions. To quote his own words, "It is no new theory to me - no new idea of yesterday or of a year ago. It is the result of thirty years experience in dealing with this question of labor - dealing with it under all conditions and emergencies and embar- rassments which crowd the busy life of those who conduct the industries of our country." Prior to the great National political campaign of 1896, Mr. Hanna was comparatively unknown outside of the realms of trade and commerce. The knowledge that the world at large then had of him was that he was a shrewd, honest, careful and brainy Captain of Industry, engaged in iarge business enterprises which required the investment of much capital, the employment of an army of labor and the watchful far-seeing eye of the thoroughly intelligent business
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NACE PHARMACY.
In the year 1848, H. H. GREGG and G. S. NACE opened a Drug Store on South Market Street, in the room now occupied by Rosenthal Bros. H. H. Gregg in 1866 sold his inter- est to G. S. Nace, who took the present owner in as a clerk.
After working for nine years as a clerk, M. T. NACE bought the store from his employer ........
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man to bring them to a safe issue. But his friend- ship and love for the standard bearer of his party induced him to enter into that contest with all his ardor, and with his advent into politics no puny weakline entered the lists, but a full-grown gladiator sprang into the arena. The country was amazed at the spectacle of one who had devoted his whole life to arduous business pursuits suddenly appearing in a new field, and showing from that day his superb qualities of statesmanship. Untrained in the art of public speaking, he surprised his audiences with his oratory, for he is certainly an orator within the definition that "oratory is the art of convincing people." But with all that has been accorded to him in a political way, Senator Hanna is prouder of the part he has taken in the peaceful solution of the vexed labor question and his connection with the Civic Federation, than he is of mere political vic- tories, gratifying as they may be. In speaking re- cently of the bitter contest in the Tuscarawas Val- ley during the miners' strike in 1874, when the militia of the State had to be called out to uphold the law and preserve order, he says, "I had seen men actuated by passion and prejudice so that reason was dethroned, and I had seen the men on the other side fully aroused to what they considered the injus- tice of the demands of employes and determined to
resist it to the last. Like all other strikes, it came to an end, and after that experience, after final con- sideration of its origin and of its features, I made up my mind there was a better way to settle dis- putes of labor and capital, and from that day to this, that question has never been absent from my
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thoughts ; there never has been a time that I have not studied every feature of it, and when now in the opening of this new century we are in the midst of the greatest period of prosperity which we have ever known, when all the industrial interests of the coun- try are roused to conditions which inspire activity,
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and when the men, the captains of industry, control- ling these great industries, in their own selfishness, in their own desire to make the best of the oppor- tunities, have overlooked the importance of that other side of the question. *
The way to prepare to meet all contingencies is to lay the foundation of mutual benefit and mutual confidence, each with the other, one just as neces- sary and just as important as the other."
The leading question of the day from every point of view, a question of business, of society, of morals, even of the life of our Republic, is the question upon which the Civic Federation is engaged and to which the leading minds of the country are asked to contribute whatever of thought or experience they may have for a proper and just solution of the great economic problem. When such men as M. A. Hanna and his associates combine to procure harmony out of discord and industrial peace out of the conflict between labor and capital, we may feel assured that their efforts will be successful. The period of financial depression and business apathy in New Lisbon which followed the collapse of the Sandy and Beaver canal, continued until the break- ing out of the Civil War. Many who had suffered financially themselves, or had seen their neighbors meet with reverses through the failure of that enter-
prise, were cautious to the extreme in the matter of making investments and New Lisbon became a dull country village, depending almost entirely upon the trade of the farmers in the surrounding country and upon those who might have business in the village during the brief sessions of Court. The War of the Rebellion, however, created new demands, and the farmers obtaining better prices for their products put more money into circulation. An era of inflated prices, with a larger volume of currency in circula- tion, gave an opportunity for the less conservative ones to speculate some in various commodities and the county seat threw off some of its listlessness and showed signs of improvement. Immediately, on the close of the war, prospects brightened when ground was broken for the construction of the Niles and New Lisbon railroad which would give the citi- zens a new outlet and inlet for communication with neighboring towns and cities. This occurred during the summer of 1865, Judge Newton, of Canfield, conducting the ceremonies. The road was com- pleted in 1866, and the advent of the locomotive with its attendant noise reverberating among the hills adjoining the village, was hailed with pleasure by the citizens, and after the railroad was in full opera- tion the town seemed to take a new start and forge again to the front with various business enterprises.
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After railroad communication was established, the great deposits of fire clay in the vicinity of the village began to be utilized and immense factories using that material were established near the town, in which sewer pipe, chimney tops, fire brick, fire- proofing and other articles were manufactured and numerous workmen found employment, thus adding materially to the substantial progress of New Lis- bon, and a large cement works, producing an excel- lent quality of that article, was also put in operation a short distance outside the village limits. An extensive stone quarry contiguous to the railroad was opened and the railroad and manufacturing concerns created a demand for fuel which encour- aged the coal trade at the various small mines in the surrounding country. The building of the Pitts- burg, Marion and Chicago, afterwards known as the Pittsburg, Lisbon and Western railroad, and now a part of the Wabash system, furnished another outlet toward the east, made more direct connection with Pittsburg, and improved the opportunities and stimulated the enterprise of the people.
In 1894 a bonus of $50,000 was raised among the citizens and an extensive tin mill was erected and put in operation, employing a large number of skilled workmen at very remunerative wages. A fine pottery establishment which furnishes situations
for many workmen at that business, is being con- ducted in the village. A pad and harness factory which has been growing steadily for several years, has now assumed large proportions and is a source of income to many persons engaged in work there. The numerous Dry Goods, Grocery, Hardware and other stores in the town are up to date and supply their patrons with many articles seldom sold out- side the larger cities.
A few years ago many of the citizens deemed it a misnomer to call the old town "New" Lisbon, and after some agitation of the matter, application was made to Common Pleas Court for a change of name, and on the 17th day of January, 1895, a decree of Court was entered abandoning part of the name under which the town was founded and by which it had been known for nearly a century, and ordering that henceforth it should be known only as Lisbon.
Looking backward, Lisbon has much to be proud of. From a small settlement of a few cabins and primitive houses in 1803, it has grown to be a small city with numerous elegant public structures and beautiful homes. The common dirt roads have been replaced by durable paved streets. Commodious and comfortable schoolhouses have taken the place of the old log structure with its rude and uncom-
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fortable furniture.
The small tanneries, distilleries, harness shops, and other concerns which would appear insignificant at the present day, are gone and great manufactur- ing interests are centered here. The weak congre- gations which met for worship in the old log court- house, or in small, rude structures and private dwellings, have grown large and strong, and now attend services in magnificent church edifices, and during the past one hundred years the village has produced numerous eminent men who have attained great distinction in all the walks of life, men whose names have been known and honored throughout the State and Nation and in foreign lands.
Looking forward, Lisbon has much to hope for. The natural resources of the place cannot be over- estimated. Beautifully located on the banks of a pleasant stream. in the midst of most delightful scenery, where the rugged hill, the pleasant valley, the dark ravine, the purling brook, the forest shade and the cultivated field charm the eye and fill the
mind with purest and noblest thoughts, surrounded by one of the richest agricultural districts in a State noted for its fertility of soil; with a practically inexhaustible field of the best bituminous coal under- lying the town and adjacent country ; with an abund- ance of an excellent quality of fire clay ; with large and valuable quantities of cement and limestone easily accessible ; with a wealth of the finest building stone in the neighboring hills . with plenty of water for manufacturing purposes ; with good transporta- tion facilities, about to be improved by the intro- duction of electric lines ; with the purest of water for household use; with good sanitation and noted for its freedom from disease, and with the best of schools and superior church advantages and lastly with a people who are ambitious, cultured, church- going, energetic, hospitable, intelligent, lawabiding, progressive, tolerant, and who are optimistic in their faith in the future of Lisbon, make it one of the most desirable places known for the investment of capital and the securing and enjoying of a home.
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