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IIe is a member of the Masonic order.
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In politics, Mr. Park is a Republican, and although not notably active in public affairs, takes a commendable interest in all matters affecting the welfare of his country. He has served his township as Trustee and repre- sented his party at several State Conventions, in all of which capacities, it is needless to say, he has discharged the duties incumbent on him with his customary efficiency, thereby strengthening the already high regard uni- versally entertained for him by his fellow man.
W ILLIAM STAMBAUGH, deceased,
was prominently identified with Trumbull and Mahoning counties nearly all his life. He was born in Pennsyl- vania, in the year 1818, of German parents, and when a inere child came to Ohio. His whole life was spent in the above named counties, with the exception of six years, when he was a resident of Iowa, and his oc- enpation was that of a general farmer. Politi- cally, he first gave his support to the Whigs, and subsequently to the Republican party. For many years he served as a Justice of the Peace. He was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his life was, in every respect, worthy of emulation. He married Sarah Wise, a native of Ohio, who has long since passed to her reward. They had a family of eight children, namne- ly: The oldest died in infancy; John, a merchant, of Crab creek; Jacob, a resident of Tacoma, Washington; Samuel, deceased; Calvin, also deceased; C. Homer, of whom further mention is made in this sketch; Milton, a resident of Youngstown, Ohio; and Charles, who resides in Demorest, Georgia.
Calvin Homer Stambaugh was born September 8, 1851, and was reared to farmn life, receiving his education in the public schools and at Hiram College. He was married July 29, 1874, to Miss Caroline Simon, daughter of Michael and Rosannah (Gentholtz) Simon, residents of Boardman, Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Stambaugh set- tled at his present location, where he owns twenty-three acres of land and devotes the same to the production of small fruits. In this business he is meeting with excellent success, his annual berry crop being from 500 800 bushels. Mr. and Mrs. Stambaugh's family is composed of four children: Ada, Edward, Lillie and Richard.
Mr. Stambaugh is one of the leaders in the Prohibition party in Trumbull county. He cast his first vote with the Prohibitionists and has been alı active worker in the temperance cause ever since. On various occasions he has served as delegate to Prohibition con- ventions, and the past two years has been a member of the State Committee. He is identified with the American Mechanics and also with the Good Templars, having been a prominent worker in the latter organization for a number of years. He and his family belong to the Disciple Church. They are among the most worthy and highly respected people of their community.
C LARK AND RADER, undertakers and funeral directors, are one of the leading business firms of Warren, Ohio. This firm is composed of W. N. Clark and James Rader, successors to G. T. Townsend, are lo- cated at No. 7. Park avenue, and have been in business here since 1886. Their estab- lishmentis well equipped with hearse, ambu-
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lance, etc., and is first-class in every respect. Mr. Rader has been in this line of business in Warren for the past twenty years, while Mr. Clark's experience covers a period of fifteen years.
W. N. Clark, the head member of the above firm, was born in Lorain county, Ohio, June 1, 1860, son of Warren Clark, who was reared near Poland, Mahoning county, this State, and who is now a resident of Altoona, Pennsylvania. The senior Mr. Clark is a carpenter by trade. His wife, whose inaiden name was Clarissa Eno, was born and reared in Trumbull county, Ohio, and died in Flor- ida, in 1890. They had a family of four children, as follows: Charles B., engaged in the practice of law at Altoona, Pennsylvania; Lenora, a professional nurse in Trenton, New Jersey; Hattie, wife of John C. Leech, Pitts- burg; and W. N.
Mr. Clark spent his boyhood days ou farms in the States of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsyl- vania, and at the age of seventeen entered upon an apprenticeship to the undertaking business. He also attended lectures and took advantage of every opportunity to thoroughly inform himself in every department of the work, being at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, under the instructions of the best under- takers of the State. He served one year as journeyman in Pennsylvania, and during the time he was engaged in undertaking there he also picked up the trade of upholstering. In 1881 he came to Warren and accepted a po- sition with Mr. Townsend, with whom he remained until he and Mr. Rader became partners in businesss. Mr. Clark is a self- made man, his success in life being due to his own pluck and perseverance.
He was married in Warren, May 4, 1888, to Miss Fra Pond, daughter of George W. Pond, and they have one child, Georgie K.
Mr. Clark and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a member of the following fraternal organiza- tions: I. O. O. F., A. F. &. A. M., A. O. U. W. and P. H. C. His residence is located at No. 222 East Market street. He believes in the Republican party.
OHN J. SULLIVAN was born in New York city October 25, 1860, and, his parents having died, he came to Trum- bull county when nine years of age, and was adopted by Lewis Pelton and wife of Gus- tavus. He received a common-school and classical education at the Gustavus Academy, and taught school until he was twenty-one, when he entered the law office of Senator John M. Steele at Warren. To assist him in his studies, he spent two years on the War- ren Daily Chronicle, as local reporter. In 1885 he was admitted to the bar, and since then has been in constant, lucrative practice. At the present time he is filling the office of Prosecuting Attorney, and has been nomi- nated for a second term.
In politics, he is an ardent Republican, and in the campaigns of that party is con- stantly on the stump. He represented the Nineteenth District of Ohio at the National League clubs in New York city, in 1886. In religion he is a Methodist. In fraternal re- lations he is identified with the Consistory of Scottish Rite Masons: he is president of the thirty-second degree class of 1893. He is a strong Knight of Pythias and an Odd Fel- low. As a speaker, and an after-dinner talker, he ranks high. At present he is vice- president of the Ohio Republican Leagne. In 1886, he was married to Olive S. Taylor, and from the union one child is living, Ada-
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line. His wife is a daughter of M. B. Tay- lor, deceased, who in life was a prominent banker. Mr. Sullivan is vice-president of the First National Bank of Girard and di- rector of the First National Bank of Cort- land.
In disposition he is genial, and he is a warm supporter of all worthy causes.
W ILLIAM DABNEY owns one of the best farms in Mecca township, Trum- bull county, Ohio. He is promi- nently identified with the agricultural pur- suits of the county, and of his life we present the following biography:
William Dabney was born in Bristol, Trumbull county, Ohio, June 19, 1839, son of Ebenezer Dabney, a native of Youngs- town, Ohio. His grandfather, Gardner Dab- ney, was one of the first settlers of Youngs- town, having come from Rochester, New York, to that place and settled on 200 acres of land. There Ebenezer Dabney was reared and educated, and at that place he was mar- ried to Martha Kincaid, also a native of Youngstown. Both are now deceased. They had nine children, five sons and four dangh- ters. Three of the sons were soldiers in the late war. Gardner and Robert were members of the Sixth Ohio Cavalry, and Channcy was in the Second Ohio Cavalry. Robert was wounded while in the service, and afterward died in Farmington, this county. Gardner is a resident of Defiance, Ohio. Following are the names of the other children: William, John, Mary, Wade, Eliza Jane (now Mrs. William Harklerode); Margaret, Eveline (Mrs. Isaac Hawsel); and Emma Jane, who was married to Charles Griffen.
William Dabney was reared on a farm near Bristol, and since 1865 has been a resident of Mecca township. He owns 200 acres of fine farming land well improved with com- modious barns, attractive residence, and everything pertaining to a well-regulated country home.
About the time he reached his majority, Mr. Dabney married Miss Lorinda DeCamp, a native of Champion, this county, daughter of Harvey and Isabelle DeCamp. Her par- ents are both dead. Mr. and Mrs. Dabney have two sons: Charles H., married Julia Park, and had three sons, Rolla, Bert and Jay; and William, who is interested in gas wells and is one of the successful business men of Cleveland.
Personally, Mr. Dabney is a man of fine physique, weighing 215 pounds. He is of a frank and jovial nature, is a man of the strictest integrity, and wherever he goes he has the happy faculty of making friends. Politically, he is a stanch Democrat, an active and earnest worker and radical in some of his views. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F. He has served most acceptably as Town- ship Trustee. Mrs. Dabney is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
JOSEPH ROGERS, deceased, was one of the early settlers of Vienna, Trumbull county, Ohio. He was born on Long Island, and learned the trade of tanner and shoemaker there, serving an apprenticeship of seven years. As soon as he had completed his trade he started afoot to Ohio, and upon reaching this State located in Vienna. Here he established a tannery and also engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes, conduct- ing a successful business here for many years,
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and employing a force of from eight to ten men. This was the first tannery in Trum- bull county. He also owns and cleared up a fine farm near Vienna. In the various pub- lic affairs of the county he took a prominent and active part, his political views being those advocated by the Whigs. He was also one of the prominent Masons in Ohio at that early day. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Lowry, had six sons and three daughters, a brief record of whom is as follows: Loren, the oldest, is more fully re- ferred to in the conclusion of this sketch; Royal, a resident of Warren, Ohio; Minerva, wife of John Levitt, is deceased; Austin, also deceased; Dr. Gilbert Rogers, deceased; Ad- dison, a resident of Warren, Ohio; Charles, who died in Bowling Green, Ohio; Lucy, wife of G. Andrews, is deceased; and Lucy, died in infancy.
Loren Rogers was born in Vienna, Ohio, May 1, 1827, and was reared in Trumbull county, assisting his father in the tannery, and also learning the trade of broom-maker. He was engaged in the manufacture of brooms for several winters. When a young man, and previous to his marriage, he took charge of the hotel at Vienna, having a fam- ily move into the hotel and do the cooking for him, and remaining for about two years. He continued in this business for seven years. In the meantime, in 1840, he mar- ried Betsey Chamberlain, by whom he had five daughters and three sons. Of his family we record that William is a resident of Cort- land, Ohio; Joseph lives in Niles, this State; Zachariah, who was a member of the Eight- eenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the war, died afterward from the effects of disease contracted while in the service; Lanra, wife of Lewis Kerr, of Brookfield, Ohio; Ella, widow of N. B. McKinley, resides with her
father in Vienna; Mary, wife of William Smiley, of Kansas; Martha, wife of Homer Dunlap, Vienna; and Lucy, wife of I. H. McGaughey, a druggist of Bedford, Ohio.
Mr. Rogers has been engaged in farming the greater part of his life, ever since he re- tired from the hotel business. He owns 114 acres of land near Niles, seventy-five acres at Vienna Center, and 160 acres in the southern part of this township. When he left home to make his own way in the world his father gave him $100, and with this exception he has inade every dollar he has. He has been an earnest temperance worker all his life, and now gives his support to the Prohibition party.
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A G. MINER, M. D., Niles, Ohio, is a very skillful and successful member of the medical profession, and has a high reputation throughout the State. He was born in Hartford township, Trum- bull county, Ohio, on the Roe farm near Brockway's mill, November 3, 1836. His father, Julius Miner, emigrated at an early day with his wife and three children to the western frontier from Connecticut, making the journey with an ox team and a one-horse wagon; he was a blacksmith by trade, and erected a shop at Burgh Hill, Trumbull county, where he followed his vocation for some time; later he built a shop on the Roe farm where he manufactured the old Bull plow for a great uminber of years, adding the wooden mould board as an improvement to the original invention. He was a good busi- ness man and accumulated a modest estate. He enlisted for service in the war of 1812, but at Erie it was decided to disband the new recruits, so he returned to his home. When the question of slavery became a po-
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litical one, he expressed his sentiments for abolition in no uncertain terms, and aided the movement as a conductor in the under- ground railway. He was a stanch support- er of Giddings and Wade, and at the time of his death was an ardent Republican. His death occurred in 1869. Julius Miner's mother was a Miss Ackley; she reared a family of six children: Christopher, Tempie, Joel, Hori, Whiting and Julius. Julius Miner married Lura Roe, a daughter of Titus Roe, a pioneer settler of Ohio who emigrated from Connecticut; he was twice married, the second wife being a Miss Bushnell; the children of the first marriage were Lura, Rudolphus and Albert; there was one son of the second marriage, Willis. Julius and Lura (Roe) Miner were the parents of eleven children: Titus R. died at the age of nine years; Ursula married Obed Jones; James A. died in 1872, he married Alcina Vinton, also deceased; Rudolphus R. resides at Payne's Corners; Brookfield married Paulina Lewis; Eliza J., deceased, married William Mc- Dowell; L. Lucinda is the wife of James Fowler; Pluma Maria is the wife of John Potter of Iowa; Ancil J., deceased, married Emma Bartlett; A. G. is the subject of this biographical sketch; Lucy D. is the wife of Robert C. Jones of Burgh Hill, Ohio.
Dr. Miner received his elementary educa- cation in the primitive pioneer schools of his district; at the age of twelve years he had the good fortune to be sent to the high school in Hartford township that was con- ducted by Prof. John Lynch, an educator of national reputation who had the honor to be appointed to the presidency of the Depart- ment of Education at the Centennial Exposi- tion at Philadelphia in 1876. The Doctor made the most of this opportunity, and was student and teacher by turn until he had at-
tained his twenty-first year. At that age he went to lowa, but six months sufficed to satisfiy his desire to "grow up with the country." He returned to his home, and then went down into Kentucky for the purpose of securing employment as bookkeeper; this effort was unavailing so he tried to get a school but in that also failed. He then went to Louisville with the intention of going within a few days to St. Louis. While wait- ing at the Gault house some one proposed to go down to the wharf to see a certain vessel come in; the Doctor went and there found a number of his boy acquaintances bound for Pike's Peak; he was soon induced to take the same vessel. Here he made the acquaintance of Horace Stephens and they were from that time boon companions. At Linn Creek the Doctor once more made an effort to secure a position as bookkeeper, and although he did not succeed in this endeavor he did secure a school; for ten months his scepter was the ferrule; the length of the school-day was from eight to six, being regulated not by law but the teacher's powers of endurance. The little leisure time he had here was diligently spent in the study of medicine. When the school closed he left Linn Creek and entered the office of Dr. J. L. Moore, at Lebanon, for the purpose of continuing his studies in medicine; in six weeks he left his preceptor, declaring in vigorous language against the conduct of the members of the profession to- wards each other. He was then induced to buy a third intrest in the drug business of Dr. Thrailkill, who was afterward a famous physician of St. Louis. At the end of the year the people of Linn Creek made him a flattering offer to take their school again, and he accepted the proposition. In the fall of 1860 he decided to return to the East, and on the journey to Raleigh, Missouri, there
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was a runaway which resulted in injury to some of the party, where the Doctor per- formed his first operation.
Arriving in St. Louis he visited the World's Fair, and saw H. R. H. the Prince of Wales and suite; he then started to Philadelphia, stopping at Indianapolis where he heard Douglas and Johnson speak; he stopped again at Harper's Ferry, visiting the old John Brown fort. He entered the Eclectic College of Medicine in Philadelphia and was graduated in the summer of 1861; the fol- lowing autumn he located in Conneautville, Pennsylvania, and thence removed to Mineral Ridge, Ohio, practicing there until he entered the service of the United States Government eighteen months later; he was first hospital steward but was soon made assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Johnson island; he was later on detached duty at Cleveland, and was then ordered to Camp Denison; he saw no service in the field; he was honorably dis- charged August 20, 1864. In May, 1865, he came to Niles, where he has since resided.
Ambitious to stand at the head of his pro- fession Dr. Miner has not neglected any opportunity that has been offered to broaden his understanding of the science of medicine. In 1873 he went to Philadelphia and entered Jefferson Medical College from which he was graduated. He has a large practice in this community and is the leading consulting physician in the majority of critical cases in Niles and neighboring towns. He has never lost the " student attitude," being a diligent reader of the scientific and medical publica- tions of the day.
Dr. Miner lias also some aptitude for com- mercial transactions; he is owner of the grist mill of this place, and was largely instru- mental in securing to Niles public water-
works and street lighting by electricity. He has been a member of the Board of Education and has done service on the City Council. In politics, he is a Republican; is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Masonic order and the Grand Army of the Republic.
On September 29, 1869, the Doctor was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Van Liew at Conneautville, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Miner is a daughter of Wycoff Van Liew, a de- scendant of Dutch ancestors. They have no children.
OHN S. DENNISON, a leading citizen of Liberty township, Trumbull county, is one of the oldest living representa- tives of his family in this county. His grandfather, John Dennison, was one of the very first settlers of this part of Ohio, locat- ing here in about 1800. He was a native of county Down, Ireland, came to America in about 1780, when a young man, at the time of the persecution; later moved to Hunting- don county, Pennsylvania, and shortly after- ward located on 640 acres of timber land in the easteru part of Liberty township, Trum- bull county, Ohio. He was one of those sturdy pioneers who had no fear of settling in a dense forest. Mr. Dennison was a stanch and faithful follower of the Presby- terian doctrine of the seceders, and was one of the first to organize that church in this section, of which he was an Elder. His wife, nee Mary McCullongh, was a native of Scot- land. Mr. and Mrs. Dennison had six chil- dren: Samnel, James, John, (father of our subject), Henry, David, and Peggy. The father died in 1821.
David Dennison was born in eastern Penn- sylvania, about 1794, came to Trumbull
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county, Ohio, with his parents when about five years of age, his boyhood days having been spent in the woods. He owned a farm when a young man, but afterward disposed. of the same and turned his attention to vari- ous pursuits. He served six months in the war of 1812, as Second Lieutenant, and was a stanch Democrat in his political views. Re- ligionsly, he was an active member of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Dennison was married Jannary 15, 1818, to Miss Rachel Scroggs, a daughter of Reverend Joseph Scroggs, of Ligonier, Pennsylvania. To this union were born twelve children, ten of whom grew to years of maturity: Mar- garet C., deceased, was the wife of A. J. Miers, of Iowa; Mary E. married David Ap- plegate, both now deceased; J. S., our sub- ject; David G., a resident of this county; Lemuel M., also of Trumbull county; James, of Knoxville, Marion county, Iowa; Aaron S., of that county; Robert H., deceased; Rachel, wife of John W. Stewart, of Red Oak, Iowa; and Arabella, deceased, was the wife of Philip Mosier, who resides near To- peka, Kansas. The father died March 15, 1875.
Jolın S. Dennison, the subject of this sketch, was born in Liberty township, Trum- bull county, October 28, 1824. At the age of twelve years he began working by the month, which he continued five years, for the following five years worked at the black- smith's trade in Youngstown, and during the next nine years conducted a shop of his own at Cedar Corners, Liberty township. Mr Dennison then bought forty acres of land one mile west of his present home, made many improvements of the place, and was engaged in farming and blacksmithing twelve years. About 1866 he purchased 110 acres of land, where he has devoted his time to farm-
ing and stock-raising. Mr. Dennison has bought and sold several tracts, but still owns 110 acres in Weathersfield township, as well as his home farmn.
December 5, 1848, he was united in mar- riage with Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Will- iam and Elizabeth (Hood) Hayes. Mr. and Mrs. Dennison have two children: Rosalia, wife of Charles Tibbits, of Weathersfield township; and William N. married Miss Ella Warren, of this county, and they reside at the old home farm. In political matters, Mr. Dennison was identified with the Deino- cratic party until about 1872, since which time he has cast his lot with the Prohibition party, having been the first to vote with that party in Liberty township. He has held thie of- fice of Township Trustee, etc. Our subject and wife have been life-long members of the Methodist Protestant Church, and have been one of its most stanch supporters. He gave $500 toward the erection of the church at Sodom, in which he has been one of the ofli- cials for the past thirty years.
D AVID G. DENNISON, a farmer of Hubbard township, Trumbull county, is a son of David Dennison, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1794. In 1801 he removed with his par- ents to Liberty township, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he remained until his death, in 1864. He was a farmer and mechanic by occupation, was a Democrat in his political views, was a member of the Seceder Church, was a man of good habits, and was respected by all who knew him. Mr. Dennison was a son of John and Mary Dennison, natives of Ireland and Scotland, respectfully. They subsequently located in Westmoreland county,
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Pennsylvania. In 1801, John Dennison sold his farm in that county, receiving one- half of the proceeds in cash, which he de- posited with a friend, and then bought a sec- tion of land in Ohio. On returning for his money lie found his friend had gone, and he then persuaded a Mr. Giddes to come to this State and take one half of his section. Mr. Dennison came to Youngstown when it was a small village, and after reaching a place owned by McClure, four miles from the town, he was obliged to cut his road through the timber for about one and a half miles to the place where he had settled. He cleared his entire farm. During the first summer here the family lived in a wagon, and in the fol- lowing fall he and his sons built a house out of posts and bark, where they lived two years. Indians were frequent visitors at their home, and wolves and bears were also plentiful. On one occasion Mr. Dennison was obliged to remain in a tree all night on account of wolves, and was found by his neighbors in the morning. David Dennison, the father of our subject, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his uncle, Samuel Dennison, served as Captain during that struggle. The family are of Irish descent. Three brothers, who were to be forced into the British service, ran away from that country and came to America. After reaching New York they separated, and nothing further is known of thein. The mother of our subject, nee Rachel Seroggs, was a daughter of Elijah Scroggs. The Seroggs family also came from Ireland to America, locating in Poland, Mahoning county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. David Dennison were married in 1818, and were the parents of ten children, namely: Margaret, deceased, was the wife of A. J. Mears, of Adair county, Iowa, and they had eleven children, all now living but one; Mary Ellen, wife of David Applegate, of
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