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D. S. Loveland was reared on his father's farm and has been engaged in agricultural pursuit all his life. He owns 110 acres of fine land, carries on farming and stock-rais ing in the most approved manner, and is ranked with the most successful men of the
county. He was married in 1866 to Alice Kile. They have had four children: Charles M., Frank, Della and Cecil, all living except one: Frank is deceased. Charles M. was married in 1892, to Miss Minnie From. Mr. Loveland and his wife are members of the Disciple Church, are generous in the support of the same, and are popular in social circles. Mr. Loveland is a member of the Masonic order and takes an active interest in lodge work.
EWIS BUSH, a progressive and suc- cessful agriculturist of Mahoning county, Ohio, is a native of this State, and worthy of the space that has been ac- corded him in this volume. His father, John Bush, was born in Germany, in 1797, and lived in the " Fatherland " until twenty years of age; he learned the weaver's trade of his father, which he abandoned on coming to America. He emigrated to this country in 1817, accompanied by a cousin, John Bush; he first located in New York, where he was employed in a meat market; thence he came to the west, and settled in Green township, which was then in Columbiana county. Two years after his arrival he was joined by his parents, John and Dorothy (Dressel) Bush, who settled on a tract of eighty acres in Green township, where they passed the re- inainder of their days. The father gave his al- legiance to the Democratic party, and in his religious faith was a Lutheran, being a Deacon of that church; both the father and mother were born in Germany. John Bush, father of our subject, married Mary Baker, in 1820: she was born in Maryland, in 1798, and came to Kentucky, and thence to Ohio, with her parents; she was the daughter of Lewis and
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Elizabeth Baker, who emigrated to America the latter part of the eighteenth century. John and Mary (Baker) Bush had born to them a family of five children: the oldest, Lewis, the subject of this notice; Jacob mar- ried Rebecca Robbins, and died in 1883; Dorothea, deceased, was the wife of Wesley Coy and the mother of five children: Dr. L. D .; Daniel, deceased; Jonas; Alice, wife of David Dressel; one child, who died at the age of five years; Sarah is the wife of Cyrus Rhodes; and Samnel, deceased.
Lewis Bush was born in 1822, and received only a meager education. At the age of twenty-one years he married Susanna Coy, a native of Green township, and the daughter of Daniel and Barbara (Callahan) Coy; six children have been born to them: Daniel K. married Mary A. Cool, by which he had six children; he was married a second time, and one child was the result of this union. He en- listed in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Voluntary Infantry, during the late civil war, and served until the close of tlie conflict; he is now a pension agent of Canton, Olio; John D. married Mary Myers, now deceased, and two children were born to them ; he married Lydia Brown for his second wife, and they had a family of three children; Aaron W. married Myra Wansetler, and they are the parents of four children; Thomas L. married Lizzie Houtz, aud they have a family of three children; Mary B. married William Miller, and they had one child, who is now the wife of Calvin Shofner, and they have two children ; Salathiel J. is the youngest of the family.
In 1843, Mr. Bush rented his father's farm, and for seven years cultivated this place, sharing the crops for rent; he then purchased the farm on which he now resides. At the time lie was married he exhausted his
capital excepting twenty cents when he bought his marriage license. Endowed with energy, thrift and industry he has made a success of life, and is now the owner of a beautiful farm of two hundred and twenty acres. Politically he is identified with the Republican party; soon after the war he was elected Assessor and Treasurer of the township and served to the satisfaction of the public. Mr. Bush was called to mourn the loss of his wife, who passed to her reward in 1888; she was a loving and faithful wife, and a devoted mother, worthy of the grateful remembrance in which she is held.
D R. M. S. CLARK, one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Youngs- town, Ohio, a man of sterling worth and great popularity, was born in Gallipolis, that State, October 9, 1840. He is of New England ancestry, both of his parents, P. P. and Sarah E. (Barber) Clark, having been natives of Massachusetts, the former born August 3, 1813, and the latter, January 12, 1820. The mother of the Doctor came to Portage county, Ohio, in 1824, while his father removed to Mesopotamia, Ohio, in 1834. In 1840 his father went to Gallia county, Ohio, where he taught school for one year, wlien, in 1841, he returned to Mesopotamia, and re- mained on a farm for eight years. At the end of that time, in 1849, he went to Port- age county and settled on a farm, remaining there until 1883, when he removed to Wau- seon, Fulton county, Ohio, where he now re- sides. The mother of the Doctor diel in 1859, at the early age of thirty-nine years. She was a worthy member of the Congregational Church and active in all good work. The father of Dr. Clark was married, in 1859, to
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Henrietta Birge, an estimable woman, who proved a worthy helpmeet. She died in 1886, aged fifty-three years, leaving many friends to mourn her loss. She also was a useful member of the Congregational Church. The children of these two marriages were: M. S., whose name heads this. sketch; Amy B., deceased in 1848, aged five years; Prof. A. A., the able principal of penmanship in the public schools of Cleveland; Edgar L., deceased in infancy; Sereno J., editor of the Maumee Sentinel, of Toledo; and Edgar and Ettie E., children of the second marriage, the former deceased in 1867, aged six years, and the latter at home with her father.
Dr. Clark received his early education in the common schools of his vicinity and later took a course in the academy at Freedom, Ohio. When fifteen years of age, he went to the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, now called Hiram College, which was then under the presidency of the martyred president, James A. Garfield. Here he remained five years, and feels that he owes muchi to that noble man, whose memory he reveres next to that of his own father. He was at Hiran until the breaking out of the war, in 1861, in the fall of which year he opened an academy, or select school, at Windham, Portage county, Ohio, and had just completed a half term, when his patriotism overcame his love for the school room, and he enlisted October 21, 1861, as Corporal of Company K, Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This regiment was ordered to Gallipolis, Ohio, to look after General Buckner of the Confederate army, and from there sent forward, December 1, to Green river, Kentucky, to guard bridges around Mumfordville, that State. He there contracted disease, being first afflicted with measles, the first case in the regiment, which was followed by diphtheria and typhoid pneu-
monia. He lay in the field hospital from December, 1861, to about the first of Febru- ary, 1862. This hospital was a very uncom . fortable place for a sick soldier, so poorly protected from the outer weather that the winter winds whistled through the building, and was supplied with no conveniences of any kind. About the first of February, he was removed from there to Planters' Hospital, in Louisville, Kentucky. On his arrival in the latter place, the surgeons said he could not live three weeks, and his father was sent for, who arrived the last of that month and took the invalid home on a discharge furlough. He remained at home during the spring and summer of 1862, where, in what was pre- sumed to be his last illness, he received the inost tender care of the "girl he left behind him," who is now his affectionate and devoted wife. October 28, 1862, lie received his final discharge from the army, at Columbus, Ken- tucky, on account of general debility. That winter (1862-'63), he taught a select school, and, in March, 1863, began the study of medicine at Windham, Ohio, under the pre- ceptorship of Dr. F. C. Applegate, a promi- nent practitioner of that place. In October, 1863, he entered the medical department of the Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, where he remained until the first of April, 1864, when he returned to Windham to pur- sue his studies.
In the course of that inonth, however, Governor Brough, of Ohio, made a call for recruits for 100 days, to which Dr. Clark re- sponded, enlisting as a private in Company I of the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was inustered into service at Sandusky, Ohio, and accompanied his regiment to Johnson's island, where they were detailed to guard rebel prisoners, Dr. Clark being immediately commissioned hos-
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pital steward by the Governor of Ohio. On May 9, 1864, this regiment was ordered to Kentucky, to intercept General John Mor- gan, who was headed toward the Ohio river, and on June 11 the battle of Kellar's Bridge ocenrred, at which time the Doctor acted as assistant surgeon. After six honrs' engage- ment, the Union forces, which numbered 1,000 to the enemy's 3,000, surrendered, the Union regiment losing on that day thirteen killed and fifty-five wounded. The surgeon and Dr. Clark, his assistant, were made pris- oners of war, but they were, on the following day, recaptured by the Union forces under General Burbridge, at the battle of Cynthiana, in which engagement General Morgan's forces were nearly annihilated. Dr. Clark had the sorrowful duty of taking a carload of General Hobson's wounded men to the hos- pital at Covington, Kentucky. In the mean- time, the One Hundred and Seventy-first Regiment, to which the Doctor belonged, on being captured by General Morgan, had marched back twenty miles on the double quick and been paroled, the Union forces interpreting the parole as " not too binding." The regiment then went into camp at Denni- son, Ohio, where it remained a short time and where Dr. Clark and his superior officer joined the command. From there, the regi- ment returned to Johnson's island, where it remained until the expiration of its term of service, receiving its discharge the last of Angust, 1864, at which time the Doctor ended his war experience.
On October 1, 1864, the Doctor re-entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, at which he graduated March 28, 1865. He at once began his practice in Anstintown, Ohio, where he remained until fall, at which time he removed to Warren, the same State, continuing in the latter place
nntil the spring of 1868. At this time, he went to Bristolville, Ohio, and, in the fall of 1873 to his present location at Youngstown, Ohio, where he has ever since remained, meet- ing with a large and lucrative patronage, the deserved reward of skillful and conscientious work.
May 9, 1867, Dr. Clark was married, at Hiram, Ohio, to Miss Hettie J. Smith, the ceremony being performed by Dr. L. L. Pinkerton, of Lexington, Kentucky, assisted by General James A. Garfield, at that time President of Hiram College. Mrs. Clark was a daughter of Elder John T. and Esther (Cheney) Smith, old and respected residents of Hiram, both now deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Clark have had three children: Clayton A., born September 25, 1874. died February 10, 1887; James A., born Jnne 10, 1878, died Septem- ber 23, 1879; and Louie P., born July 9, 1880, is a promising boy, now attending the gram- mar grade of the public schools.
In politics, the Doctor is staunchly Repub- lican, being enthusiastic in the support of those principles which appear to best subserve the interests of the country. He is promi- nent in medical and educational matters, to both of which he lends the aid of his infin - ence and ability. He is ex-President of the Mahoning County Medical Society, and at present belongs to the Ohio State Medical Society and to the American Medical Associa- tion. He has served efficiently for several years as a member of the Board of Health, greatly advancing by wise counsel the hygi- enic condition of the connnunity. He has also been for several years an active member of the Board of Education of Youngstown, of which he was president for one year. He is official examiner for a number of insurance companies and other organizations. He is Past Commandant of the Patriarchs Militant
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or Uniform rank of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Canton Royal, No. 61, and is permanent Secretary of the subordinate lodge of the same order in Youngstown. He is Past Grand Chief Ranger of the Grand Court of Ohio, in the Ancient Order of For- esters of America, and was Representative from the State to the Supreme Court of this order, which convened at New Haven, Con- necticut, in September, 1893. He has been a State and district delegate at various su- preme conventions, and acted as Representative at the supreme convention in Minneapolis, in August, 1889, when the order passed the declaration of independence from the Eng- lish order, in which 683 yeas to 5 nays were cast for seceding. He is now acting Presi- dent of Tod Court, No. 685, Independent Or- der of Foresters; also Past President of the Star of Albion Lodge, No. 58, Sons of St. George. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R., being Past Surgeon of Tod Post, No. 29, of Youngstown.
Notwithstanding the fact that Dr. Clark was reared under the teaching of the strict Presbyterian faith, yet, under the preaching of James A. Garfield, he confessed his faith in Christ, and was immersed by Garfield in the winter of 1858, uniting with the Christian Church, at Hiram, Ohio. Dr. Clark was elect- ed, in 1875, and ordained Elder of the Chris- tian Church at Youngstown, Ohio, in which offi- cial capacity he is still acting. His entire life has been one of irreproachable honesty and rectitude, much of his valuable time having been devoted to the welfare of the church. In his home, as husband and father, he is provident, affectionate and faithful, being most indulgent to his wife and son. The community is for- tunate in possessing one so active in good works, whose worth is reflected in the esteem in which he is universally held by his friends.
M RS. DR. M. S. CLARK .- Possessing all the attributes of a noble Christian woman, Mrs. Hettie J. Clark is justly entitled to the admiration and esteem of all who know her. She was born April 10, 1839, at Red Stone, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of Rev. John Tune Smith, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, while her mother was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania, their marriage having occurred in Philadelphia in 1824. Elder John T. Smith was a clergyman of the Christian Church and filled several pulpits throughout Western Pennsylvania, being a friend and a colaborer with that eminent divine, Alexander Camp- bell. In 1842 Mr. Smith removed with his family to Ohio, where he spent the remainder of his life laboring for numerous churches on the Western Reserve. His last sermon was preached at Hiram, Ohio, his death occurring in the spring of 1861, when he was fifty-seven years of age, his devoted wife surviving him until June, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were born in the same year, 1804, and throughout their married life were typical examples of earnest Christian people. Mr. Smith was throughout his ministry a zealous worker for his church. His funeral sermon was preached by General James A. Garfield, who was a prominent member of the Christian Church. Mr. Smith's parents came from England, bringing with them two children: Frances and John Tune. The parents died soon after their arrival in this country, and John Tune was reared by a Mr. George, of Baltimore, Maryland, while his sister was adopted by another family. The death of Mr. Smith was deeply mourned throughout a large territory, his labors having gained for him the esteem and confidence of all who knew him, while his Christian character and upright, honor- able life, won for him the admiration of all
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his parishioners. His earnest endeavors in behalf of his church are the best heritage he conld leave it, his name being inseparably connected with its history.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith had seven children: Edith, Dr. J. T. Smith, William H., Frances, Hettie J., John Henry, and Rev. C. C. Smith. Edith married when nineteen years of age and had three children, two sons and one daughter. Her son, J. W. Robbins, accom- panied U. S. Grant on his memorable trip across the continent, and all have preceded her to " the land that is fairer than day." Dr. J. T. Smith married Maria Ramsey. He was a surgeon in the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and spent three years in the service, a portion of which time he was on General Custer's .staff. He was engaged in almost every battle in which his regiment partici- pated, and was at one time almost continu- ously in his saddle for seventeen days and nights, while after Morgan in his raid through Ohio and Indiana. His record as a brave and valiant soldier was one of which any man might well be proud. He had the misfor- tune, in March, 1892, to lose his wife, who had been faithful throughont so many years. The third child, Lientenant Williani H. Smith, enlisted in the summer of 1861, in the Fourteenth Ohio Battery, leaving his sick-bed to take charge of the battery at l'ittsburg Landing, which proved his last ser- vice, as he came home after that battle on a sick furlough and died at the age of twenty- eight of quick consumption, brought on by exposure. The date of his death was Septem- ber 2, 1863, and he was deeply mourned by his friends and associates, to whom he had endeared himself by his many noble qualities. He was in the Army of the Cumberland throughout his term of service, and yielded up his life in the prime of manhood for the
benefit of his country. He proved himself a true patriot in every sense of the word, and his memory will long be cherished by those who knew him, not only because of his social qualities, but also and more especially by reason of his earnest Christian character. Frances, after finishing her course at Hiram, became a teacher, in which calling she was very successful. She was later made the matron of the Staten Island Hospital, where she re- mained several years, but is now operating a large millinery establishment in Akron, Ohio. John Henry enlisted in the summer of 1861 in the Sixth United States Cavalry of the regular army, and, after serving in thirty- five different battles, was discharged in front of Richmond, his term of service having ex- pired. One month after his return to his home, he died of quick consumption, giving, like his brother, his life in the service of his country. During the three years of his ser- vice, he lost but one month from his com- maud. The youngest, Rev. C. C. Smith, of Massillon, Ohio, is a clergyman of the Chris- tian Church, and has filled many pulpits throughout the State, having been at one time pastor of the church in Youngstown for seven years, during which the beautiful edifice now occupied by that denomination, was erected. He was also stationed at Akron, Ohio, for the same length of time, after which he was sent by the General Christian Missionary Society to Milwaukee, where he labored for three years, and was then stationed in southern California for ten months. He subsequently returned to Ohio, and was placed in charge of the church at Massillon, where he labored about three years, during which time a beau- tiful church was built. He was then en- ployed as Secretary of the Board of Negro Education and Evangelization, with headquar- ters at Massillon. During the war, he served
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his country for one year, enlisting, in 1863, as Hospital Steward in the Second Ohio Cav- alry, and at the end of that time was dis- charged on account of ill health. His mar- riage occurred in the spring of 1869 to Miss Florence Dennison, who has proved a worthy wife to a good and noble man.
Hettie J. was educated at Hiram under James A. Garfield, completing her course in the spring of 1861. She commenced teach- ing at the age of sixteen, and from that time until the date of her marriage to Dr. M. S. Clark, May 9, 1867, she spent the largest part of her time in the school room, either as pupil or teacher. She taught in the public schools of Warren, Ohio, two winters in the sonthern part of the this State, in a select school at Parkman, this State, and in various districts in Portage county, being a popular and successful teacher.
Mrs. Clark united with the Christian Church at the age of twelve, and throughout her life has embraced every opportunity to advance the interests of the church. Not content with giving financial support, she has been a zealons worker in the church, teaching in the Sunday-school for years and taking an active part in all church societies. She was for several years chairman of the church finance committe, secretary of the Mis- sionary Society ; president of the same society ; secretary of the Twenty-second district one year; president of the same district two years; superintendent of children's work in Ohio for two years, during which time the children in that State raised more than $1,600 for mis- sions and put a window in the church at Mis- soula, Montana, in memory of her son, Clay- ton A. Clark. During this time, Mrs. Clark visited various churches and delivered ad- dresses on missionary work. She is a well known figure in all channels of work in the
city, having labored in city mission work among the poor, in the industrial school for the Y. M. C. A., for the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union, and the City Hospital, and she has not forgotten the " boys in blue." Sheis a member of Tod Woman's Relief Corps, No. 3, and Past Corps Treasurer, in which ca- pacity she has served two years. She is Past Corps President and President of the Corps at this time, and also Past Department Chap- lain of Ohio.
Mrs. Clark's name is a synonym for all that is good and true in womankind. In her home she has ever been faithful and most helpful to husband and children. She fitted her boys for the fourth-reader grade, when they first entered school, and was ever ready to assist them as they advanced in their studies. Her purse is to open to all demands made upon her, and her Christian sympathy and loving kindness are freely given to all. It is to such women as Mrs. Clark that the na- tion owes its present prosperity, for throngh the influence of such as she the world is made better and purer, and men are turned from the paths of wickedness and vice into those of virtue and deeds of nobleness.
AMES W. VAIL is one of the success- ful farmers of Coitsville township, Ma- honing county, Ohio. He owns forty- three acres of land and also rents other land which he cultivates, operating all together about 150 acres. He is also engaged in stock- raising, giving special attention to the breed- ing of fine cattle. Formerly he was engaged quite extensively in buying and selling stock.
Mr. Vail is a native of the vicinity in which he lives. He was born here in 1847, one of the family of ten children of William and
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Elizabeth Vail. He was married in 1875 to Jane Miller, who was born in 1848, daugh- ter of H. and Elizabeth B. Miller, who came to Ohio from Canada. Her father is a farmer and stock-raiser, and her parents are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had a family of thirteen children. Mr. and Mrs. Vail have four children: Anna, George, Nettie and William.
Mr. Vail is a stanch Republican and an active worker in the ranks of his party. He is a member of the Board of Education and has served as Township Trustee one year. He is a generous and public-spirited man and a liberal supporter of the gospel, and he and his wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
JOHN EWING, who is a native of Aus- tintown township, Mahoning county, Ohio, and who has been an honest tiller of the soil here all his life, is one of the rep- resentative men of his township.
Mr. Ewing was born in 1816, the youngest child of Archibald and Sarah (Pauley) Ewing, the other members of the family being Alex- ander, Thomas, John, Archibald, Anna, Sarah and William. His father was one of the prominent pioneer farmers of Mahoning county, owning and operating 320 acres of land. He and his wife were both members of the Reformed Church, and were devoted Christian people. He died in 1842, and his wife survived him ten years, her death occur- ring in 1852.
John Ewing was reared on his father's pioneer farm, and received an ordinary edu- cation. He owns 157 acres of land, where he is comfortably situated, and where he is spending his declining years.
He was married in 1839 to Miss Eliza Russel, who is a native of this township, and who is still living. They have had two chil- dren, one of whom died in infancy. The other, Clark, born in 1840, was married in 1863, to Miss Mary McNealy, and they have three children: Frank, Minnie and Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Ewing are members of the Christian Church, and in politics he affiliates with the Republican party.
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