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Dr. Booth, of this notice, passed the earlier years of his life in Green, Ohio, where he at- tended the common schools, later going to
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the Grand River Institute, at Austinburg. where he enjoyed the superior advantages of that excellent school under the able super- vision of the well-known educator, Profes- sor Tuckerman. So industriously did yonng Carlos pursne his studies that in the fall of the year in which he was seventeen he began to teach school, and was thus occupied for five successive terms with very good success, in Mesopotamia. In his eighteenth year, while teaching, he commenced the study of medicine, under the instruction of Dr. O. M. Bailey, of Green. He afterward attended lectures at the Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio, at which institution he graduated February 28, 1883. He began his practice in Green, remaining there a few months attending to the practice of his pre- ceptor while he was away, when, in July, 1883, he removed to North Jackson, Maho- ning county, Ohio, where he continued or five years. He was then elected Coroner of Mahoning county, and in April, 1888, re- moved to Youngstown, the county seat. He served two terms as Coroner, being re-elected to that office in 1890. He was elected a member of the medical staff as attending snr- geon of the Youngstown City Hospital, in June, 1892, in which capacity he has ever since ably served. He is a successful practi- tioner and surgeon, and enjoys a large and lucrative patronage, the result of widespread confidence in his skill and conscientious work.
September 10, 1884, Dr. Booth was mar- ried to Miss Pluma E. Shaffer, an estimable lady of Bristol, Ohio. Her father, Jacob H. Schaffer, and a sister, Ida M., were instantly killed by the cars, a mile and a quarter north of Warren, while they were going by carriage to the county fair. Another sister, Ella, escaped with a broken limb and broken neck,
but still lives. This was one of the most startling calamities that ever occurred in the county, and was felt as a personal loss by all who knew the deceased and appreciated the many excellencies of the noble father and worthy daughter. Luna is married and has four children: Norman, Nora, Pluma and Earl. Alice J. is the wife of F. P. Russell, a hardware merchant of Youngstown, and they have two children: Gracie and Blanche. Mrs. Booth's mother died March 15, 1885. Dr. Booth and his worthy wife are active members of the Disciples' Church.
In politics, the Doctor is stanchly Repub- lican, although not a partisan. Fraternally, he belongs to the Knights Templar, being a member of the blue lodge, of Youngstown chapter and St. John's Commandery, No. 20. Socially, he is genial and kind; as a physi- cian, thorough and painstaking; and as a citizen and man, enterprising, honorable and public-spirited.
EORGE E. ROSE, a prominent at- torney of Youngstown, was born in Lorain county, Ohio, December 9, 1857, a son of Elijah and Lucy A. (Bacon) Rose. The father was born and reared in Ohio, and his father was of German descent. The mother of oursubject, a native of Grafton, Vermont, traces her ancestors to early New England settlers, of English de- scent. Mr. and Mrs. Rose were married in Ohio, and they now reside at Oberlin, this State, where the father is engaged in farm- ing.
George E. Rose, the only survivor of his parents' three children, remained on the farm until about sixteen years of age. Ile re- ceived his early education in the district
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schools, prepared for college at Oberlin, and afterward took a four-years course at Dart- mouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he graduated in 1881. While pre- paring for college he taught school. Mr. Rose had previously studied law, and after leaving college took up that study at Elyria, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1883, at Columbus, this State. Since 1883 he has followed his chosen pro- fession in Youngstown. He has always taken an active part in the Republican party, and in the spring of 1888 was elected city solici- tor for Youngstown, to which he was re- elected in 1890.
In October, 1890, he was united in mar- riage with Louise H. Baxter, a native of South Dennis, Massachusetts, and a daughter of Herman Baxter.
E MERY F. LYNN, an attorney of Youngstown, was born in Canfield township, Mahoning county, Ohio, February 9, 1858. His father, David Lynn, Jr., was born on the same farm as his son in Canfield township, December 31, 1828, and his death, the result of an accident, occurred on March 29, 1885, on the old homestead, the farm on which he was born, and on which he resided since his birth. He was a son of John Lynn, a native of Berks county, Penn- sylvania, whose father was Nicholas Lynn, who came to this country from Germany shortly before the beginning of the war of the Revolution, and, enlisting as a soldier, served during the entire war in the Colonial army. He was the only son of a wealthy family, but left behind him pleasant surroundings and bright prospects of an ample fortune, and never returned to the land of his birth, but
remained in the land where he saw fit to cast his fortune. After the close of the war lie located in Berks county, Pennsylvania, and became wealthy, married, and reared to man- hood and womanhood eleven children. The youngest son, John Lynn, the grandfather of our subject, came to Ohio about the begin- ning of the eighteenth century, locating in Canfield township, where a large family of Lynns have lived.
The mother of our subject was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1830, and in her youth came to Ohio and still resides on the old homestead in Canfield township. Mr. and Mrs. David Lynn, Jr., had four children: Willis S., of California; Emery F., our subject; Homer S., who died while in the senior year of the Medical Department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1885; and Alfred A., who was killed in the same year by a runaway team.
Emery F. Flynn attended the district schools of his native county, and afterward attended the Union School at Canfield during the fall, and taught in the district schools . during the winter for four years. Having accumulated some money by teaching, in the spring of 1880 he entered Heidelberg Col- lege, now Heidelberg University, at Tiffin, Ohio, and graduated in June, 1882, and re- ceived the honor of valedictorian in a class of ten. He next spent two years in the Cin- cinnati Law College, graduated in May, 1884, and since the fall of that year has actively followed the practice of law in Youngstown. Mr. Lynn by his business thrift, paid his way through the several colleges with money by himself earned.
In the fall of 1884 he was nominated for Probate Judge of Mahoning county, and made a creditable race, but was defeated in
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consequence of being the Democratic candi- date in a then decidedly Republican county.
Mr. Lynn was married May 25, 1886, to Hattie B. Crooks, a native of Tiffin, Ohio. They have one child, Donald Justin.
In the early part of 1893, Mr. Lyun took an active part in organizing " The Hood and Sinclair Company," a company organized to deal in lumber and operate a planing mill, of which company he was elected a director, president and attorney.
E LDER LEVI OSBORNE, a prominent merchant of Youngstown, Ohio, and a widely and favorably known minister of the Disciples' Church, was born in Dan- bury, Connecticut, January 28, 1824. He comes of patriotic American stock, his pater- nal grandfather, also Levi Osborne, after whom the subject of this sketch is named, having been a faithful soldier in the Revolu- tionary war three years and drew a pension for liis services thus rendered. He is, how- ever, best known as one of the original work- ers and for many years a minister in the Dis- ciples' Church, possessing the stern qualities of a spiritual leader as well as the determined will of a Revolutionary soldier. He was a man of marked ability, religious zeal and practical goodness, enjoying great popularity, his influence being far-reaching and effective. He commenced his religious work by going to New York city and being baptized, and on his return baptized his wife, Miriam, and they practically worshiped in their own home as a church. They gathered others around them, until there was a large and de- vout congregation, and a church of the most primitive kind was the result. This was the first church of the kind in New England, and
it has now become a powerful organization, owning a large, pretentious church, and numbering many members. Levi and Miriam continued devont members of that church until their death, her demise occurring ten years previous to his. They were leaders of their organization, in which benevolence to the poor was taught as never before. Miriam, who was a most saintly, devont woman, of the Dorcas type, and possessing rare intelligence and Christian character, was appointed by the church to go once a week to distribute the contributions of the church among the poor, entire confidence being reposed in her wis- dom and fairness in the distribution. They were contemporaries of Alexander Campbell. This worthy couple were the parents of six children, but one of whom now survives, Lucy M., an unmarried lady, aged eighty-six. White Osborne, father of the subject of this sketch, and his wife, Margaret (Shepherd) Osborne, were natives of Connecticut, the latter a daughter of Israel Shepherd, a man of worth and local renown. White Osborne was engaged in the hat-manufacturing busi- ness in Danbury, that State, in which city was made the first hat ever manufactured in the United States, that business being the principal enterprise of the place. White Os- borne was a zealous member of the Disciples' Church, imbibing all the enthusiasm of his godly parents. He died in March, 1850, at the age of sixty-five, sincerely mourned by all who knew him. This good couple had seven children, four of whom survive: Mary F. is a resident of Danbury, Connecticut, more than eighty years of age. She has liad a private school for many years and has spent a useful, though not conspicuous life, and is the personification of goodness. Edward B., a Senator of New York State, resided in Al- bany: he died in July, 1893; William, for
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many years Government cotton inspector in Mobile, Alabama, died suddenly in that city, at the age of forty-five; Harvey, in the mer- cantile business in Danbury, Connecticut, is seventy-eight years of age; Levi, whose name heads this sketch; and Harriet, deceased.
The subject of this sketch was reared in his native city and educated in the common schools and the Danbury Academy. His first practical business experience was in the printing office of the Danbury Times, which was owned and managed by his brother Ed- ward B., who, until his death in July, 1893. was a Senator of New York. Edward pub- lished this paper twelve years, after which he removed to Poughkeepsie, New York, and there published the daily and weekly Press for eight or ten years, when he was elected to the State Legislature for two terins. He was afterward County Clerk for three years and was then elected to the State Senate of New York, in which he was serving his sec- ond term. The subject of this sketch and his brother Harvey bought Edward's interest in the Danbury paper on the latter's removal to Poughkeepsie, New York, and these two pub- lished that journal during the war. It was then sold to James M. Bailey, familiarly known as the " Danbury News Man," who is still publishing it, as the Danbury News. Mr. Bailey wrote " The Sunny South in Slices," a special work, and many other interesting publications. After selling his interest in the paper, Mr. Osborne, of this notice, was elected by the Disciples' Church in Danbury to preach in that edifice, the members of which had greatly increased in numbers. He was afterward called to Troy, New York, to take charge of church work there, where he re- mained two years, meeting with excellent success, the result of his nnwearying and energetic efforts. He then went to Williams-
ville, New York, where he filled the pulpit for three years, having among his parishioners sixteen teachers, most of whom were from a local academy. He subsequently went from that city to Buffalo, the same State, where he remained two years. From there he went to the lumber city of Tonawanda, New York, in which he remained ten years, and this was the great work of his life in the ministry. Here he unfortunately lost his voice, through un- remitting and arduous exertions; but of all the places in which he has worked this has the strongest attraction for him, and to this day the people there look to him as their spiritual guide. In March, 1886, he came from Buffalo to Youngstown, accompanied by his son, George, and shortly afterward started the store of L. Osborne & Company, in which he is senior member. This is one of the large dry-goods and notion stores in the vicinity, and is conducted on the strictest business principles and in the most system- atic manner. The result of this excellent management is a large and growing patron- age, founded on the confidence of the people, with its attendant prosperity.
April 15, 1850, Elder Osborne was mar- ried to Miss Mary Einma Moffat, a lady of culture and refinement, the fourth in a family of five children, and the only surviving mem- ber. Her father, Captain Anthony Moffat, was for thirty years commander of a mer- chantman and was afterward Port Warden in New York city for fifteen years. He later became paralyzed and was removed to the home of the subject of this sketch in Dan- bury, Connecticut, where he died at the age sixty-seven years. Captain Anthony Moffat's father, John Moffat, was a Major in the Revo- lution under General George Washington. His wife, whose maiden name was Julia Cur- tis, also died at Mr. Osborne's home some
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time later, at the same age, sixty-seven. They were a worthy couple and left many friends to mourn their loss. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have four children: Julia, doing excellent service as cashier in her father's store; George, who started as clerk in Danbury, Connecticut, at fourteen years of age, serving there for eight years, when he went to Buffalo and was in the estalishment of Barnes, Bancroft & Company. Here he went from the lowest counter to the position of manager of the cloak department, where he had more than 200 ladies under his charge in the manufac- ture of cloaks. He is now junior partner of the Youngstown firm. He married Ollie Bellinger, of Tonawanda, New York, and they have three children: Eugene, Norman and Marion. Gussie is the wife of Arling- ton Bellinger, a receiver and forwarder of lumber, of Tonawanda, and they have two chil- dren, Geneva and Kenneth. Mr. Bellinger had three children by a former marriage: Eva, Daniel and Frank.
The whole family are members of the Dis- ciples' Church, as were Mr. Osborne's par- ents and all their family, except three chil- dren. Mr. Osborne is president of the family reunion of Osbornes, which occurs every Au- gust, more than 100 families being repre- sented. He is president of the Youngstown Bible Society, which is an auxiliary of the American Bible House, and he is Elder in the Disciples' Church in Youngstown. His active years have all been earnestly given to the promotion of divine goodness, and the re- sult has been a most glorious reward. His commercial career testifies to his worth, such men being those who help to make a flour- ishing city and give character to a community. He has baptized and buried many people and married many couples, his agreeable manner of performing the latter ceremony rendering
him in great demand for that pleasant serv- ice. His path through life lies amidst hosts of earnest friends, who will cheer and sustain him to the last.
P ETER LOFTUS, deceased, formerly a merchant by occupation, was born in county Mayo, Ireland, in 1830, a son of James and Ellen (Barrett) Loftus, natives also of that country. The parents came to America about 1856, locating in Briar Hill, Ohio, where the father died in January, 1868, aged seventy years, and the mother in 1877, at the age of seventy-three years. They were life-long members of the Catholic Church.
Peter Loftus, third in a family of nine children, six of whom are still living, - came to Ohio from Scotland, where his parents had lived for a number of years. He engaged with his father and brothers in the manu- facture of furnaces at Briar Hill, but later embarked in the mercantile business, which he followed successfully until his death, July 16, 1875. He was a devout member of the Catholic Church.
November 5, 1848, Mr. Loftus was united in marriage with Miss Ellen Scannell, who was born May 4, 1840, a daughter of John and Mary (Brown) Scannell, natives of county Cork, Ireland. They came to America about 1854, where the father worked on the locks in Delaware. His death occurred in 1877, at the age sixty-five years, and his wife de- parted this life May 1, 1873, aged sixty-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Scannell had eight chil- dren, viz .: Dennis, Patrick and Cornelius, deceased; Mrs. Loftus; Catherine, Mrs. P. Rouchford; Maggie; Mary; and Margaret, Mrs. Thomas Trowly. Only four of the chil-
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dren are now living. Mr. and Mrs. Loftus had seven children, namely: James, born May 8, 1859, married Ann Hagarty, deceased, and they had two children: James and Mary Ellen; John, born October 4, 1861, married Catherine McGratton, and their children are: Charles, Thomas and Jolin; Mary Ellen, born Jannary 8, 1863, was married June 10, 1882, to Eugene Cassady, of this city, and their children are: Charles, Mennette and Helen; Dennis, born May 18, 1865; Michael, born January 4, 1868, died May 15, 1872; Thomas, born April 10, 1870, is proprietor of the En- terprise steam laundry, of Youngstown, in which he is doing a successful business; and Patrick, born February 14, 1871, is a mem- ber of the hotel firm of Loftus Bros. Mrs. Loftus is a member of the Catholic Church.
T OD FORD, president and manager of the Youngstown Steel Company, and one of the most active and competent business men of the city, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 24, 1854, a son of the late General James H. Ford, whose bio- graphical sketch will be found in this work. Our subject received a good high-school edu- cation in Youngstown and Akron, Ohio. At the former place he also read law with Sid- ney Strong, and was admitted to the bar at Columbus, this State, in 1876. He remained in the practice of his chosen profession only a short time, having been called into impor- tant business relations and positions. He is interested in several enterprises, among the most important of which may be mentioned the Youngstown Steel Company, of which he has been manager for over ten years, and president over three years. Mr. Ford is also
vice-president of the Falcon Iron & Nail Company, and a director of the First Na- tional Bank of Youngstown. These business relations are pointed out as evidence of the active part which he takes in business circles. He is no less popular in social and political circles. He affiliates with the Republican party, and is a member of the Loyal Legion, in which he takes an active and appropriate interest.
Mr. Ford was married May 15, 1878, to Miss Caroline L. Arms, a daughter of Free- man O. Arms, of Youngstown. Mrs. Ford died in 1889, leaving two sons,-Freeman A. and Tod. She was a life-long member of the Episcopalian Church.
SAAC WALKER, of Poland township, Mahoning county, Ohio, is ranked with the wealthy men of the county. He has a fine farm of 700 acres and a most charm- ing rural liome. The following facts in re- gard to his life and parentage have been gleaned for publication :
Isaac Walker was born in the county in which he now lives, in the year 1819, No- vember 11, his parents being Josiah and Nancy (Polk) Walker. They had a family of five children who grew up: Joseph, Maria, Alex., Agres Jemima, and Isaac, he being the only survivor. Josiah Walker came from Pennsylvania to Ohio as early as 1802. As one of the pioneers of this part of the coun- try, he was prominently identified with its early history. During the war of 1812 he was Captain of a company. He owned 300 acres of fine farming land, and was for many years engaged in farming and stock-raising. He and his wife were active members of the
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Presbyterian Church, and were liberal in their support of the gospel and all worthy canses.
The subject of our sketch grew up on his father's farm, and has been identified with the agricultural interests of this county all his life. He was married March 22, 1860, to Miss Edna Stewert, of Brookfield, Ohio. Their only child, Della M., is now at Phila- delphia, being educated as a physician.
Mr. Walker affiliates with the Republican party, and he and his wife are prominent members of the Presbyterian Church.
C N. KIRTLAND, who is extensively engaged in farming in Poland town- ship, Mahoning county, Ohio, is ranked with the wealthy and enterprising men of the county. He owns 600 acres of fine farming land, and is engaged in stock-raising in con- nection with his agricultural pursuits, making a specialty of the sheep business. At this writing he has 250 fine sheep.
Mr. Kirtland was born in the township in which he now lives, November 22, 1839, son of Henry and Mary Kirtland, one of a fam- ily of four children. He was reared on his father's farın, and received a high-school edu- cation. In 1866 he married Julia Fitch, daughter of William and Julia Fitch. She was one of two children, lier brother. Elmer being now deceased. Her grandfather Fitch was one of the earliest pioneers of Boardman township, this county. She was born Sep- tember 8, 1846, and died in 1881, leaving two children: Elmer F., a promising young civil engineer, born in 1869; and May J., an accomplished young lady, born in 1873. September 18, 1883, Mr. Kirtland married Martha Fawcett, his present companion.
They have had two children: William Faw- cett, born December 13, 1884, died in in- fancy; and Louis Augustus, born November 30, 1891. Mrs. Kirtland 'is a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Test) Fawcett. Her parents had a family of ten children, namely : Emina, Isaac, Elmina, Zaccheus, Hannah, Thomas, Esther, Jonathan, Samuel and Mar- tha. Mr. Fawcett was born in 1799, and died July 4, 1851; and his wife, born in 1805, died May 12, 1873. He was brought by his parents from Virginia to Ohio about 1800, and when he grew up became one of the leading and influential men of his vicin- ity. For many years he dealt extensively in wool. He and his people were Quakers.
D T. MOORE, who has been engaged in the lumber business, at Haselton, Mahoning county, Ohio, for the past eight years, is a native of this place, born in 1848. He is one of the five children of William and Mary (Stewert) Moore.
Mr. Moore was married in 1872, to Miss Martha Vail, sister of Mrs. J. A. Creed. They have nine children, all of whom are living except one. A record of their names with date of birth, is as follows: George T., born in 1873, died in 1890; Mary E., born March 26, 1873, she being a twin of George T .; Jessie, July 1, 1875; Clark, August 23, 1877; Arthur, August 25, 1878; Anna, March 22, 1883; Emaline, June 16, 1885; Grover C., May 18, 1887; Minnie, June 24, 1889.
Mr. Moore owns fifty acres of land in Coits- ville township, this county, and for a number of years engaged in farming, but for the past eight years, as above stated, has given his attention to the lumber business, in which he
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has met with good success. Some time ago he had interests in the oil regions of the county, where he was engaged for four years, and was also successful in the enterprise. He has served six years as Trustee of his township and three years as County Comis- sioner, being elected to these offices by the Democratic party, with which he has affili- ated all his life. He and his wife and three of their oldest children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is an ac- tive Sunday-school worker, serving both as superintendent and as teacher. He is a mem- ber of both the I. O. O. F., and the K. of P., having taken three degrees in both lodges. He is a man of general information, broad and progressive views, is generous and pub- lic-spirited, and on the whole is one of the most popular men of his vicinity.
D S. LOVELAND, a wealthy farmer of Coitsville township, Mahoning county, Ohio, was born at this place August 23, 1843.
The Lovelands are of English extraction. Grandfather Loveland was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war. David Loveland, the father of D. S., was born in 1801, on the same farm our subject lives on; he owned 317 acres of land and was engaged in farın- ing and stock-raising. He died in 1877. He and his wife were members of the Disciple Church. Her maiden name was Lydia Pilles. They had eight children.
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