Century history of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Ohio, and representative citizens, 20th, Part 67

Author: Sanderson, Thomas W., comp
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1074

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Probably the late Mr. Wick was best known as a financier, having been prominently identified with the H. B. & H. Wick Banking Company of Cleveland, and, after 1857, with Wick Brothers & Company, Bankers, at Youngstown. He had large coal and other interests, was a director in the Mercer Mining & Manufacturing Company, the Shenango & Allegheny Railroad Company and many other successful interprises. He was essentially a business man and seldom undertook responsi- bilities unless he clearly saw his ability to bring them to a successful issue. With other members of his family, and also individually, he stood for years at the head of great com- binations of capital and industry, and during the many years of such prominence enjoyed unlimited confidence and universal esteem.

On October 30, 1832, Mr. Wick was un- ited in marriage with Lucretia G. Winchell, who was born September 5, 1813, at Walling- ford, Connecticut, and was a daughter of Or- rin and Laura C. Winchell. Being left an orphan when young, Mrs. Wick was reared in the home of her uncle, Dr. Charles Cooke, at Youngstown. Her death occurred on April 27, 1892, when in her 79th year. Of the ten children of Hugh B. Wick and wife, four sur- vive, viz. : John C., vice-president of the Dol- lar Savings & Trust Company, whose sketch appears in this work; Lucretia H., wife of William Scott Bonnell, president of the Ma- honing National Bank, of whom biographical mention will be found elsewhere in this vol- ume; Henry, president of the Witch Hazel Coal Company, residing at No. 416 Wick av- enue, and Emily W., residing at No. 315 Wick avenue, widow of the late John M. Bonnell, of whom a sketch may be found on another page of this work.

From early manhood the late Hugh Bry-

son Wick was a consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown. He was a willing and liberal contributor to all regulated charities. Although he belonged to a family which took a more or less im- portant place in the city's varied interests and thus commanded a large measure of public at- tention aside from his individual prominence, he was notably simple and unassuming, to the close of his life being a practical business man who liker best to stand before his fellow-citi- zens on his own merits. He was a man who was devotedly loved in the domestic circle, was trusted and revered by a large number of personal friends and was admired and respec- ted by his fellow-citizens.

AMES MACKEY, one of Youngs- town's leading citizens, whose profes- sional work as a surveyor has kept his name before the public for many years, was born at Youngstown, Ma- honing County, Ohio, February 7. 1829, and he is a son of James and Margaret ( Early) Mackey.

As the name indicates, the Mackeys orig- inated in the Highlands of Scotland, and the founder of the family in America was the grandfather of James Mackey, who settled in Pennsylvania and there reared a family. James Mackey, Sr., father of James, was born in 1776, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and in 1805 he came to Ohio and settled in that part of Trumbull County which later became Mahoning County. He was a man of edu- cation, a mathematician and a surveyor, and. with other enterprises, he became associated with Robert Montgomery in the building of one of the first furnaces on Yellow Creek. He kept the accounts of the firm until the begin- ning of the war of 1812, when he joined the Fourth division of Ohio militia, in which he was paymaster and also adjutant, and was ac- corded the rank of major, by which title he was subsequently known.

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In 1816 Major Mackey entered into part- nership with Colonel William Rayen in a mer- cantile business at Youngstown, which con- tinued for several years. Prior to 1823, when he was married, Major Mackey purchased a large tract of land northeast of the village, and on this he settled, making it his home during the remainder of his life, and carrying on farming and stock-raising. His death oc- curred August 15, 1844, when he was 68 years old. During the whole of his active life he had done surveying, and his son's pro- ficiency as a civil engineer may be a direct heritage from the father. September 10, 1823, he married Margaret Early, who survived until May 14, 1870. Her parents, Thomas and Jane Early, who were born in Ireland, settled in Coitsville township, Mahoning County, Ohio. Major Mackey and wife had eight children, three of whom died in child- hood. There are but two survivors, namely : James and his youngest sister, Letitia, who is the wife of Andrew Kirk.

Major Mackey was the type of pioneer whose value to a community cannot be over- estimated. He served as township trustee, justice of the peace, township clerk, county commissioner, a member of the legislature and treasurer of Trumbull County, while in his immediate neighborhood there was no necessity to elect or appoint by law, for he was naturally fitted to be a leader and safe adviser.

James Mackey, Jr., was afforded common school and academic training before he entered the Cleveland University. Here he prepared himself for the work for which he felt him- self especially fitted, and proved himself so competent and accurate, that he had filled but a few contracts before he was invited to be- come a member of a commission made up of five representative engineers and surveyors of Ohio and Pennsylvania, to establish for all time the boundary line between the states. Mr. Mackey has probably had as much ex- perience in the surveying of coal lands and mines as any man in his profession, his work being marked with the certainty and accuracy which precluded all kinds of litigation. About

1875 he began also to survey and plat town sites and his work in this line has been vast. With his brothers, the late David and Robert Mackey, he promoted and constructed the first street railroad in Youngstown, the old horse- car line, which was then an enthusiastically welcomed public utility. Of this enterprise he served for seven years as president, when the pressure of professional work made it seem advisable that he resign this office, as well as curtail his activities in a number of other directions.

Mr. Mackey, like other members of his family, has always been identified with the Democratic party, but he has never been con- vinced that his duty as a good citizen necessi- tates his acceptance of public office. Neither has he accepted many positions on directing boards of business or other enterprises, his tastes lying more in the direction of a private life and close attention to his professional work. Large demands have come to him in this line, and these he has met with the effi- ciency which has made his name one of note in civil engineering all over the state. He spent upwards of fifty-three years in and about Youngstown in his profession.

On October 30, 1862, Mr. Mackey was married to Mary H. Ruggles, who was born in Canfield, Ohio, a daughter of Azor and Adeline M. Ruggles. Mr. and Mrs. Mackey have had five children, namely : Robert M., who died in infancy, Charles L., Grace, Margaret H. and Nellie. The beautiful family home, which is the center of much social life, is situ- ated just east of the city limits, on McGuffey street. Mr. and Mrs. Mackey are members of the Episcopal Church, worshipping with the congregation at St. John's, of which Mr. Mackey was a member of the vestry for a number of years.

Mr. Mackey was a member of the original board of trustees of the Rayen School, and after serving continually for twenty years, he refused to accept the position longer on ac- count of his professional duties. His portrait is published on a neighboring page of this volume.

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h ENRY ISREAL, proprietor of Beaver Dale Farm, a magnificent tract of 206 acres of fertile land, extending through the best part of Goshen township, which he devotes to gen- eral farming and fruit-growing, is also an ex- perienced railroad man, having been identi- fied with various great transportation lines since he was 16 years old. He has been engine inspector at Alliance, Ohio, since the fall of 1899, for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany. Mr. Isreal was born June 30, 1838, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Greabing) Isreal.

The parents of Mr. Isreal were born in Germany. When he was II years old his fa- ther died and he remained with his mother until her second marriage, when he started out to make his own way in the world, turning his attention to railroad work. For a number of years he worked as brakesman with the Ohio & Pennsylvania system; then one year as fireman; then for 14 years as locomotive engineer for the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, three years of the time as freight engineer, and II years as passenger engineer. On July 3. 1873, when the Ashta- bula and Pittsburg Railroad opened service, he became engineer and yardmaster at Ashta- bula, in which capacity he continued to serve until September 1, 1862, when he was ap- pointed road foreman of engines of Division B. on the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, which position he filled for nine con- secutive years. He then became assistant road foreman on the Eastern Division between Crestline and Pittsburg, a position he held for eight years. In the fall of 1899, he assumed the duties of his present office.

In 1878, Mr. Isreal acquired Beaver Dale Farm, on which he settled in 1882, and re- sided there until the fall of 1900, when he re- moved to his present place of residence, which is known as the Ezra French farm on the Gar- field road, near Damascus. Mr. Isreal had few educational opportunities in his youth, having never entered a school room after he was HI years old, but nevertheless his educa-

tion, of a thoroughly practical kind, has made him a well-informed man.

On May 29, 1861, Mr. Isreal was married to Mary A. Hartje, who was born in Colum- biana County, Ohio, April 13, 1838, and is a daughter of Lorenzo and Wilhelmina ( Herbst) Hartje. Her father was born in Germany and served seven years under Napoleon Bona- parte. He was in the campaign in Russia, also taking part in the battle of Waterloo. With pardonable pride he wore the decoration of the Black Eagle, which he had won by his bravery. Mr. and Mrs. Isreal have had six children, namely: Frank, deceased; Charles A., residing in Smith township; Elizabeth, who married John King, residing at Salem; Wilhelmina, who married Louis Doane, re- siding at Alliance; and Frederick W., and Homer W., both residing at Alliance.

Mr. Isreal cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln and has supported the principles and candidates of the Republican party ever since. He recalls a most interesting incident in his life, one which went far to make him an Abolitionist. This was at Alle- gheny City, Pennsylvania, in 1853, when he was instrumental in securing the freedom of a slave woman and her six children, from her pursuing master. He was reared in the Lu- theran faith and his wife is a member of the Society of Friends, both being consistent in their views. He is a member of the Masons, having united with the fraternity in 1873 at Allegheny City, and is now connected with the Blue Lodge at Alliance.

ILLIAM W. BONNELL, secretary of the Falcon Bronze Company, of Youngstown, and also treasurer and general manager of the Leather Shop Company, is one of the most progressive and enterprising young business men of this city. He was born at Youngstown, Ohio, in 1875, and is a son of W. Scott Bonnell, a full sketch of whom ap- pears in this work.

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William W. Bonnell was reared in Youngs- town, but was mainly educated in Boston, Massachusetts. He entered into business with the Mahoning Valley Iron Company, with whom he remained for six years, and was then connected with the Finished Steel Company for about five years, after which he was with the Truss and Cable Fence Company of Cleve- land, Ohio, for one year. Mr. Bonnell then built the plant of the Concrete Sand & Stone Company, and for about one year and a half was with the Morris Hardware Company, which is one of the largest concerns of its kind in this section of Ohio. He is also in- terested in several other large business enter- prises and is a stockholder in several of the Youngstown Banks.

Mr. Bonnell was married in May, 1898, to Julia F. Garlick, a daughter of H. M. Gar- lick, and they have one daughter, Sara-Cree Bonnell. He is a member of the Youngstown club and Golf club and belongs to the First Presbyterian Church.

ICK TAYLER, one of Youngs- town's leading business men, who is prominently identified with in- surance and real estate interests in the city and vicinity, was born at Youngstown, Ohio, October 2, 1855, and is a son of Hon. Robert Walker and Rachel K. (Wick) Tayler.

The late Robert Walker Tayler, a separate sketch of whom may be found in this volume, was one of the distinguished public citizens of Ohio for almost forty years. He served Youngstown in many official positions, his county in responsible offices, his state in the halls of legislation, and his nation as comp- troller of the United States treasury. His whole life was passed in association with mak- ers of history, and his services stand with those of the greatest for fidelity to the charges entrusted to him. He died February 25, 1878. His second marriage, to Rachel Kirtland Wick, united him to one of the most promi-

nent families in the Mahoning valley, in point of wealth, age and culture. Of the seven chil- dren of this union, the subject of this sketch was the eldest born.

During the period of the Civil War, Wick Tayler, then a child, resided at Columbus, where he enjoyed superior educational advan- tages. In 1876 he engaged in teaching, in which occupation he spent several years, but subsequently accompanied his father when the latter was called to Washington. There, for a number of years, he filled an important Gov- ernment office, but when released returned to his native city to pursue a business career and enjoy a home among the beautiful surround- ings of his early childhood. After his return, he took up the study of law under the pre- ceptorship of General Thomas W. Sanderson. Subsequently, in 1897, it was General Sander- son who nominated him for the state legis- lature, to which he was duly elected and served with distinction.

Mr. Tayler is probably the best-informed insurance and real estate man in Mahoning County, his close attention having been given to this branch of business for many years. He has the handling of a large amount of valuable property, both in city and country, and makes investments for outside parties. A large amount of capital has been placed in this city through his representations. His commod- ious offices are located at No. 30 West Fed- eral street, Youngstown.

June 14, 1900, Mr. Tayler was married to Anna C. Canfield, who is a daughter of James Canfield, and they have one child, Elizabeth Rachel. Mr. and Mrs. Tayler enjoy a beautiful home at No. 1356 Emma street, Youngstown. They are members of the Pres- byterian Church.

Politically Mr. Tayler has been a lifelong Republican and takes a very active part in politics. He has been very active in military affairs, having belonged to the National Rifles of Washington, D. C.

Mr. Tayler is the author of the ballot vot- ing machine law, which he introduced in the Ohio house of representatives in 1898.

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ILLIAM TOD. Among the promi- nent citizens of Youngstown, Ohio, none stood higher in public esteem than did the late William Tod, who not only reflected the virtues of an eminent parentage, but in his own per- sonality displayed the noble qualities which Americans reverence in their public men. Wil- liam Tod was born at Warren, Ohio, July 30, 1843. and was the youngest son of David and Maria (Smith) Tod and a grandson of George and Sally ( Isaacs) Tod.

The Tod family was already one of prom- inence in Connecticut as early as 1773, the date of the birth of Judge George Tod, the grandfather of the late William Tod. Judge Tod became an eminent jurist in the Western Reserve. and the father of Governor David Tod, one of the most notable in a long line of distinguished chief executives of Ohio.

David Tod, father of the late William Tod, was born at Youngstown, Ohio, Feb- ruary 21, 1805. In 1827 he was admitted to the bar at Warren, Ohio, and there engaged in the practice of his profession until 1848, when he was appointed by President Polk. United States minister to Brazil. He remained in South America for five years, returning to his native land covered with diplomatic hon- ors, and in 1861 was elected governor of Ohio. The larger part of his life was given to emin- ent services to his state and country at large, and when he passed away in 1868, at his quiet home, Brier Hill farm, he was a man of na- tional fame.

On July 24, 1832, David Tod was united in marriage with Maria Smith, and the chil- dren born to them were: Charlotte, who died in Mississippi, in 1868, and who was the wife of General Kautz, of the United States army ; John, formerly a prominent resident of Cleve- land, but now deceased; Henry, who died February 20, 1905, and a sketch of whom will be found in this volume, who was promi- nent in the manufacturing world and was vice- president of the Brier Hill Iron & Coal Com- pany ; George, a sketch of whom will be found in this work, who is president of the Brier Hill Iron & Coal Company; William, who is , volume.

the subject of the present sketch; Grace, who is the wife of Hon. George F. Arrel, of the well-known law firm of Arrel, Wilson, Roland & Harrington, a sketch of whom will be found in this work; and Sallie, a resident of Youngs- town.

William Tod was mainly educated at Co- lumbus, and after completing a collegiate course, entered the foundry business. This was the opening of an opportunity for the ac- cumulation of a large fortune, and led to his becoming so closely identified later with the iron and steel industries of the Mahoning Val- ley. He was one of the original partners of the company which organized and built the foun- dry which stood on the present site of the Youngstown Steel Casting Works, and later he became a partner, with John Stambaugh, in the Hamilton foundry. In 1900, when that business was incorporated, he withdrew from partnreship, but continued to be interested in the building of engines and in related in- dustries, was a director in the Brier Hill Iron & Coal Company and was president of the William Tod Company. His death occurred April 27, 1905.

In 1869 Mr. Tod was married to Frances Barnhisel. Mrs. Tod has two sons, David and Frederick. Mrs. Tod and son Fre:ler- ick reside at the spacious old family mansion at No. 238 Lincoln avenue, Youngstown. David married Anna Stambaugh and they re- side at their country home in Trumbull county.

Although William Tod was first and fore- most a business man, he found other avenues of enjoyment and usefulness, for he was a lover of books, fond of congenial social com- panionship and found pleasure in occasional travel. He was a valued member of the order of Elks and was in hearty accord with the ob- jects of the Young Men's Club, with which he was long identified. To public affairs he gave the attention which an intelligent, public- spirited citizen deems his duty, and was a staunch Republican. His friends were legion and they knew him as a loyal, generous and considerate companion. A\ portrait of Mr. Tod may be found on a neighboring page of this

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HE KIRTLAND FAMILY. From that authentic source, Savage's Gen- ealogy of New England, it is found that Philip Kirtland was first a shoe-

maker at Lynn, where, in 1638, he

had ten acres of land allotted him by the town. His name was derived from the German Cort- landt or Lackland. He was born in Sherring- ton, in Buckinghamshire, England. His two sons were Philip, born in 1614 and Nathaniel born in 1616, the latter of whom at the age of 19 years embarked on board the Hopewell of London, Captain Burdock, master, April I, 1635. It appears that he went to Long Island, but later returned to Lynn, where evidently he had first landed. He died in 1686. At Lynn, by his wife Parnell, he had children : Anna, Martha, John, Hannah, Mary and Eliz- abeth.

John Kirtland, or Kertland, commonly called Kirkland, John of Saybrook, Connecti- cut, was married in 1679 at Saybrook to Lydia Pratt, daughter of Lieutenant William Pratt, born in 1659, and they had the following chil- dren : John, born January 11, 1681 ; Priscilla, born February 1, 1682, married Jones; Lydia, born October 11, 1685, married Guffin; Eliza- beth, born in 1685, married Conklin; Nathan- iel, born in 1690, married Shipman; Philip, born in 1693; Martha, born in 1695, married Wills; Samuel, born in 1701 ; Parnell, born in 1704, married Tully. John Kirtland died January 20, 1716, heir to Wethall, except £500. The ninth of these children, Daniel, was the first minister to the Third Church at Norwich and had ten children. Samuel, the eighth child, was the celebrated missionary to the Six Nations. He was father of the still more distinguished John Tlfornton Kirtland, who became president of Harvard College.

That the early members of this family were prominent in the military affairs of their communities may be proved by consulting the Colonial Records, where is found in 1736 the following statement :

"This assembly do establish and confirm Philip Kirtland Lieutenant of North Company of Saybrook." In the same volume, on page 426, he found the following.

"Appointed John Kirtland to be Captain of Troop of Horse in Seventh Regiment of this Colony, May, 1749."

On page 274 of Colonial Records is found the statement that Philip Kirtland was ap- pointed captain of the Eighth regiment of this colony, and on page 552, that Constant Kirt- land, of Wallingford, was made conservator of the person and establishment of L. Brock- ett, this member of the family evidently be- ing a man of prominence in the colony.

John Kirtland, eldest son of John and Lydia (Pratt) Kirtland, married (first) Tem- perance Buckingham. He had twelve chil- dren as follows: Hester, born March 10, 1704, married Chapman; John, born July 5, 1708, died in March, 1787; Temperance, born March 10, 1710, married Southwarts. By his second wife, Lydia Belden or Belding (mar- ried March 29, 1716; died 1749), he had: Elias, born July 2, 1718; Elisha, born' August 17, 1719, was killed at Fort Edward in March, 1756; Lydia, born October 28, 1721, died in Nova Scotia, June 30, 1770; Parnell, born January 28, 1724; Constant (I), born Janu- ary 24, 1726, died young; Constant (2), born December 24, 1729; Ezra, born October II, 1730; Elizabeth, born October 13, 1732, and Dorothy, born September 21, 1735.

Constant Kirtland, ninth son of John Kirt- land, married Rachel Brockett, of Northford or Northfield, Connecticut, May 23, 1732. Constant Kirtland died February 3, 1792, and his wife died February 17, 1812. They had ten children : Isaac, born March 9, 1754, married Sarah Ives; Turhand, born 1755, married (first) Mary Beech, (second) Polly Potter; Mary, born December 23, 1757, mar- ried Samuel Cook; John, born December 20, 1759, married (first) April 10, 1788, Lucy A. Burbank, and (second) June 7, 1829, Mary Tyler Beecham; Billius, born June 29. 1762, married Sarah Potter; Rachel, born July 9, 1764, married Colonel Edward Barker; Jared, born August 8, 1766, married Lois Yale; George, born July 2, 1769, died at Walling- ford, Connecticut, April 20, 1793; Lydia, born February 27. 1772, married Jonathan Fowler, of Guilford, Connecticut, died at Po-

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land, Ohio, August 16, 1850; and Sarah, born March 19, 1775, died at Northfield, Connecti- cut. September 28, 1842, married Captain William Douglass.

Turhand Kirtland, second son of Constant Kirtland, was married (first) January 2, 1780, to Mary Beech, daughter of Moses Beech, and she died at Wallingford, Connecticut. No- vember 24, 1792, Turhand Kirtland was mar- ried (second) January 19, 1793, to Polly Pot- ter, born at New Haven, Connecticut, Febru- ary 10, 1772, and died at Poland, Ohio, March 21, 1850. She was a daughter of Dr. Jared and Sarah Potter. The children born to this marriage were the following: Jared Potter, born at Wallingford, Connecticut, November 16, 1793, died at Cleveland, Ohio, December 10, 1877; Henry Turhand, born November 16, 1795, at Wallingford, Connecticut, died February 29, 1874, at Poland, Ohio; Mary Beech, born September 12, 1798, married Richard Hall of Poland, died at Poland, No- vember II, 1825; Nancy, born January I, 1801, married Elkanah Morse; Billius, born August 29, 1807, married Ruthanna Frame, died August 21, 1891; George, born November 5, 1809, married Helen Cook, of Wallingford, Connecticut; and Charles died in infancy.

In the Potter genealogy mainly may be found the following facts in regard to Jared Potter Kirtland: Jared Potter Kirtland, M. D., LL. D., was born at Wallingford, Con- necticut, November 10, 1793, and died at East Rockport, Ohio, December 19, 1877. His literary education was acquired in Chesh- ire and Wallingford Academies. He studied medicine with Dr. Eli Ives and others of New Haven, and in 1812 entered the medical col- lege at Yale, being the first student to matric- ulate at that institution. In 1814 he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. Until 1817 he practiced medi- cine in Wallingford, Connecticut. In the lat- ter part of that year he removed to the town of Durham, Connecticut, where he practiced medicine until 1823. He then removed to Poland. In 1837 he removed to a farm five miles west of the city of Cleveland, on the lake

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Century history of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Ohio, and representative citizens, 20th, Part 67

Author: Sanderson, Thomas W., comp Publication date: 1907 Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1074

Author: Sanderson, Thomas W., comp
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1074