Century history of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Ohio, and representative citizens, 20th, Part 68

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

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shore. Here he made extensive studies in natural history, examining and describing all the fishes of the Ohio lakes and rivers, and collecting varieties of fresh water shells. He examined and classified the native wild plants, and also examined and studied the geological formation of the state. He also gathered specimens of birds, and investigated the habits of the honey bee, during all of which time he superintended his large farm. His discoveries in conchology and ichtology attracted unusual attention. In 1848 he was given charge of the natural history department of the survey of the state of Ohio, and his works on the subject were published in Boston and else- where. In 1827 he was elected to the Ohio legislature and was subsequently re-elected for several terms. He was elected professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Medical College of Ohio; was offered and accepted the same position in Willoughby Medical School and afterward held the same position in the Western Reserve College at Cleveland, which he resigned in 1864. He was at one time president of the Ohio State Medical Society.

Of a generous, unselfish nature, he freely distributed his new varieties of fruits and flowers among his friends. His fund of anec- dote and information made him a most charm- ing conversationalist, and so interesting were his remarks that even the children eagerly listened to him. He took great pleasure in extensive correspondence with people of cul- ture and kindred tastes.

Dr. Kirtland was first married, May 22, 1815, to Caroline Atwater, who died at Dur- ham, Connecticut, September 18, 1823. He married (second) in 1824. Hannah Toucy, who died December 24. 1857. Of the first marriage there were three children, as fol- lows : Mary Elizabeth, born August 4. 1816, died in Washington, D. C.,: Jared Potter, born in September, 1818, died August 15. 1829: Caroline, born in 1821, died September 22, 1822.

Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Jared P. and Caroline Kirtland, married, July 24. 1832. Charles Pease, son of Judge Calvin and Laura

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(Grant) Pease of Warren, Ohio. They had (I) Jared P. Kirtland, born July 18, 1833, died December 17, 1836; (2) Charles, born August 17, 1835; married Hester Hotchkiss, September -, 1859; died January 9, 1875: had two sons. (3) Caroline Atwater, born at Poland, Ohio, September 23, 1838; married October 5, 1859, William L. Cutler, son of Orlando and Sarah H. Cutler. (4) Fred- erick K., born at Warren, Ohio, March 17, 1843; died in infancy.

Caroline Atwater Pease, daughter of Charles and Mary (Kirtland) Pease, was born at Poland, September 23, 1838; married William L. Cutler. They had (I) Kirtland Kelsey Cutler, now a prominent architect at Spokane Falls and Seattle, who married, first, Miss Corbin (one son by this marriage), late Mrs. Phillips. (2) Caddie, who is deceased. (3) Lulu, who married a Mr. Hoyt, of Cleve- land. They have one son now in Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut.

Mary Beech Kirtland, the third child of Turhand and Polly Kirtland, was born Sep- tember 12, 1798, married Richard Hall, and died November 1I, 1825. They had children : Mary Potter, Turhand and Lucy. Mary Pot- ter, born May 2, 1816, married Hon. Edward Wade and still survives at the time of writ- ing, 1907.

Turhand Kirtland Hall, born January 25, 1818, married Elizabeth Stewart, at Poland, Ohio. He was a merchant at that place for many years, when he removed to Warren and engaged in banking. They had the following children: Fannie Corinna, born December 22, 1856; Richard Turhand, born September 2, 1858, deceased; Mary Kirt- land, born March 5, 1860; Charles Stewart, born November 26, 1861; Lucy Boardman, born January 18, 1864, deceased; Elizabeth Matilda, born February 22, 1866, deceased ; and Nellie, or Cornelia Wade, born in Febru- ary, 1869.

Lucy Hall, daughter of Richard and Mary. (Beech) Hall, was born November 19, 1819, and died in 1906. She married Judge William Boardman, son of Elijah Boardman, of New Haven, Connecticut. He died, leaving a large property in her care, which she used for the

good of many and with such wisdom and judgment as to meet with the commendations of those ably prepared to judge of such mat- ters. Among her many objects of public benevolence was the building of the Boardman Memorial School at New Haven, a manual training school, and also a scientific building for Yale College as a memorial to her uncle, Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland.

Nancy Kirtland, fourth child of Turhand and Polly (Potter) Kirtland, was born Jan- uary I, 1801, and married Elkanah Morse, and they had three children: Lois, Henry and Edwin. Lois Morse was born August 6, 1819, and was married to Isaac K. Mansfield, February 1, 1835, and they had two children : Ira Franklin, born June 27, 1842, at Poland, Ohio, and Mary Kirtland Mansfield, born November 18, 1845, also at Poland. Ira F. Mansfield married Lucy E. Mygatt, Decem- ber II, 1872, and they had : Kirtland M., born January 29, 1874; Mary L., born January 28, 1877; Henry B., born April 3, 1886, married in Beaver, about 1905. Mary Kirtland Mans- field became the wife of Col. Samuel Moody, and they have had children: Lucy Boardman, born June 16, 1877, and Olive Blakelee, born in October, 1881. Colonel Samuel Moody is general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad system west of Pittsburg.

Hon. I. Franklin Mansfield, for many years has represented Beaver County at Har- risburg, Pennsylvania. He is president of the board of trustees of Beaver College, is promi- nent in the Beaver Presbyterian Church and is largely interested in agriculture and fruit growing. His love of nature and its buried treasures has made him known among col- lectors of fossils which abound in various parts of his large possessions. He is also connected officially with business firms and financial in- stitutions of Beaver County.

Henry Kirtland Morse, eldest son of El- kanah and Nancy (Kirtland) Morse, was born May 4, 1822, and married (first) Mary L. Wick, widow of Henry Kirtland Wick, and (second) Eliza Blakelee, November 2, 1881, who for many years was a teacher in Poland Union Seminary.

Edwin Morse, second son of Elkanah and

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Nancy (Kirtland) Morse, was born May 18, 1824, and died in June, 1853. He married Eliza Cook, who still survives him. She sub- sequently married Judge Charles E. Glidden, and since his death has resided in New Hamp- shire, with her son, Charles Erastus Glidden.

Billius Kirtland, fifth child of Turhand and Polly (Potter) Kirtland, was born Au- gust 29, 1807, at Poland, Ohio, and died Au- gust 21, 1901. On April 16, 1829, he married Ruthanna Lindley Frame, born at New Gar- den, Chester County, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1809, a daughter of William and Rebecca (Marsh) Frame. They had the following children : Caroline, born February 22, 1831, died June 27, 1836; Rebecca, born January 4. 1835, died June 15, 1842; Mary Potter, born February 5, 1837, died June 17, 1842; Turhand Kirtland, born March 9, 1839, died July 8, 1849; Emma Caroline, born August 16, 1841; Alfred Potter, born May 24, 1844; Edgar, born January 15, 1847, died May 30, 1849; Lucy Hall, born April 22, 1849; and Kate Frame, born November 10, 1851, died November 20, 1851.

Emma Caroline Kirtland, the fifth member of the above family, married Samuel Hine, who was a son of Homer and Mary S. Hine.

Alfred Potter Kirtland married Lucy Shields, daughter of Alexander and Caroline (Graff ) Shields, October 12, 1876. She was born August 7, 1852, and died Easter day, April 13, 1887, while en route to her home in Blairsville, Pennsylvania. from Winter Park, Florida. They had two children : Ruth Caroline, born January 20, 1880, who attend- ed Miss Baldwin's school at Bryn Mawr, and later graduated at the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics; and John Shields, born Jan- uary 3, 1886.

Alfred Potter Kirtland, after preparing at Poland Union Seminary, entered Troy Poly- technic Institute and graduated in June, 1871. After some experience in surveying, he be- came resident engineer at Blairsville, Penn- sylvania, on the West Pennsylvania Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, later became superintendent, and after seventeen years of railroad life, became interested in stone quar-

ries and coal lands, residing at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Lucy Hall Kirtland, daughter of Billius and Ruthanna F. Kirtland, married Dallas V. Mays, October 4, 1871. At that time he was a clergyman stationed at Paola, Kansas, and later filled pastorates at Fairview, North Ben- ton, Ohio; Corry, North Sewickly, Springdale and Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, and during his last pastorate at Dell Rapids, South Dakota, his health failed. He died October II, 1903. His children were: Ruth Emma, born April 15. 1873; Kate Frame, born October 2, 1875, married October 19, 1891, James Harsch; Lucy Eloise, born January 25, 1880, died May 4, 1890; Charles Frederick Riggs, born Sep- tember 15, 1882, died October 19, 1891, and Paul Kirtland, born October 4, 1887.

Ruth Emma Mays was married June 10, 1896, to Dr. J. Hartley Anderson, a son of Edwin S. and (Hartley) Ander- son, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, born April 15, 1868. Dr. Anderson confines himself en- tirely to surgery, and is a member of the staff of the West Pennsylvania Hospital at Pitts- burg, and is also a lecturer in the Carnegie Institute.

Billius Kirtland, son of Turhand and Polly Potter Kirtland, was sent by his father to Warren, Ohio, to a private tutor, later to Canonsburgh, and subsequently to Yale Col- lege. He was a close student and had such a retentive memory that later he was able to assist his children greatly in mathematics, Latin and Greek. His cheerful, happy Chris- tian life was a constant benediction to all with whom he associated. Chemistry was his fav- orite study, and in order to pursue it he built a laboratory on his grounds, in which he spent much time; he also carried on experiments in horticulture. The study of astronomy was to him of lifelong interest. He accumulated great knowledge, but cared little for money and cheerfully responded to calls for contribu- tions to philanthropic enterprises.

William Frame, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. E. K. Hine, was born June 29. 1776. and died February 11, 1842. He married Rebecca Marsh, February 20, 1802, born Oc-

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tober 22, 1775, died July 20, 1842. William Frame came to Struthers, Ohio, early in 1800, where he erected a mill for Mr. Clendennin, which he first operated; later he operated a mill near Bloomfield. Before coming to Ohio he had resided in both Pennsylvania and Maryland, and was conducting a hotel in Baltimore, where he entertained General La- fayette when the latter revisited America.

George Marsh, a brother-in-law, was a man who had great skill in machinery, and built a spinning jenny at Poland, where he lived at the time of his death.

Thomas Frame, son of William and Re- becca (Marsh) Frame, was born at Poland, Ohio, January 5, 18II, and married Mary Brackin, of Kinsman, Ohio. They had three children : James B., Rebecca and Clara. Rebecca Frame married Fred Swisher, and they have three children : Clyde, who has one child and resides in Chicago, and Walter A., and Mary, both of whom live at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Thomas Frame was a justice of the peace in Poland township, and from his books it would appear that his time was much broken in upon by the duties of this office. In asso- ciation with Billius Kirtland he put fine im- provements on the farm, including the plant- ing of the best variety of fruit trees and vines. They established a nursery which contained almost all the varieties of fruit and ornamental trees to be found in this section. Thomas Frame was active in all public matters, no one doing more than he to arouse proper interest in the Civil War. His only son was wounded in the service, this wound still almost dis- abling one arm. Through his influence the first fine brick public school house was erected in this district.

RANK BARBER, president of the board of trustees of Goshen town- ship, is proprietor of Fruit Hill Farm, which is situated in section 22, and is one of the representative farmers, stock raisers and fruit growers of this part of Mahoning County. He was born

on the farm where he now lives in Goshen township, Mahoning County, Ohio, September 26, 1854, and is a son of John and Nancy (Venable) Barber.

The parents of Mr. Barber were natives of Goshen township, but the paternal grand- father, Jacob Barber, was born in New Jersey and accompanied his parents at a very early day, to Salem, Ohio, settling in that vicinity about 1810. Later, Jacob Barber came to Ma- honing County and secured 160 acres of Gov- ernment land, on which he erected a log cabin in the forest, where he engaged in clearing and developing his property until within a few years of his death, when he moved to near Salem. His son, John Barber, spent the greater part of his life on this same farm, but he also moved to near Salem, in his later years, where he died in 1892.

Frank Barber was reared on the farm in Goshen township and attended the district schools, after which he learned the carpenter trade and worked at the same for a number of years. For eight years he was a member of the Youngstown Paving Brick Company, an incorporated organization, and during this time he was local manager of the plant, at Beloit, Ohio, residing at that point for that length of time. Mr. Barber owns a good farm of eighty-two acres and devotes twenty-five of these to apple orchards, giving special at- tention to growing the Baldwin variety, and since 1893 he has been engaged in storing and shipping apples, at Salem. His land seems particularly well adapted to the growing of fruit and his apple crop is abundant, close study and care having made Mr. Barber well acquainted with the treatment necessary to ensure success in this industry. Blossoming . time on Fruit Hill Farm is only equalled in beauty by fruitage time in the autumn. He owns also a farm of seventy acres situated in Berlin township, and is justly considered one of the substantial men of this section.

On October 6, 1875, Mr. Barber was mar- ried to Sarah A. Cronick, who was born in Berlin township, and is a daughter of Michael Cronick. They have two children, namely : Nora, who married Rev. J. A. James, resid-

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ing at Limestone, Pennsylvania, where he is pastor of the Presbyterian Church; and Hom- er F., residing in Smith township, Mahoning County.

Politically Mr. Barber is a Republican, and since 1903 he has been serving as township trustee and now fills the responsible position of president of the board. He is a member of Amity Lodge, No. 124, Odd Fellows, at Salem.

Б ENRY TOD. For many years the late Henry Tod stood at the head of a number of the most important busi- ness interests of Youngstown, Ohio, and he was also a man of such ster- ling character and possessed such high civic and personal ideals, that his loss to his com- munity was in every way a calamity. Henry Tod was born at Warren, Ohio, June 14, 1838, and died at his beautiful home at No. 152 Lin- coln avenue, Youngstown, on February 20, 1905. He was the third of seven children born to his parents, David and Maria ( Smith) Tod, the former Ohio's great war governor.

Gov. David Tod was born at Youngstown, Ohio, February 21, 1805, and was a son of Judge George and Sally (Isaacs) Tod, who were pioneers from Connecticut to Ohio. In 1827 David Tod was admitted to the bar at Warren, where he engaged in practice until 1843. when he took up his residence on a prop- erty which his father had acquired, Brier Hill Farm, near Youngstown, and which subse- quently came into his possession. Often called from its peaceful shades, this property re- mained his chosen home when he was permit- ted to retire from public life, and here he died on November 23, 1868, one of the most distinguished citizens of the Commonwealth. In 1848 he was appointed minister to Brazil, by President Polk, and there he remained an honorable representative of the United States Government until 1853. In all his diplomatic relations with the Brazilian government, he retained the personal regard of the ruler of that country, and the confidence of the people at home.

At Warren, Ohio, on July 24, 1832, Mr. Tod was married to Maria Smith, who was a daughter of one of the early settlers of the Western Reserve. Their children were: Char- lotte, who died in 1868, was the wife of Gen- eral A. V. Kautz of the United States army ; John, who died at Cleveland, in 1898; Henry, who is the subject of the present biography ; George, a resident of Tod Lane, a sketch of whom will be found in this volume, is presi- dent of the Brier Hill Iron and Coal Com- pany ; William, a sketch of whom will be found in this work, died April 27, 1905, one of Youngstown's most prominent men ; Grace, who is the wife of Hon. George F. Arrel, a sketch of whom will also be found in this volume; and Sallie, who is a resident of Youngstown.

The late Henry Tod was but ten years old when his father became United States Minis- ter to Brazil, and the family accompanied him to Rio Janeiro. After a year's residence there, however, the parents decided that in the inter- ests of the children's education on the line of making them good American citizens, of which their father was a type, the old home schools offered better advantages, and, this being the case, the mother brought them back to Youngstown.

Henry Tod continued in school at Hiram and Poland, and he was also afforded private tutors, subsequently developing into just the young man of bright intelligence and untiring industry that met with his father's hearty ap- proval. When but 21 years of age he was made manager of the Brier Hill Iron and Coal Company. Other successful business enter- prises with which he was closely concerned were : the Biwabik Mining Company, of which he was president ; the Youngstown Steel Com- pany; the Youngstown Carriage and Wagon Company; the Ohio Leather Company: the Republic Rubber Company, and many others, while his financial affiliations were : a director in the First National and the Mahoning Na- tional Banks, and for twenty-nine years he was president of the Second National Bank. until it was merged with the First National Bank in May, 1904.

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In 1869 Henry Tod was married first, to Dillie Pollock, who died at Pueblo, Colorado, December 28, 1878, leaving two sons, John and Henry. John Tod is president of the Amer- ican Belting Company, vice-president of the Falcon Bronze Company, and secretary of the Republic Rubber Company, with office at No. 35 Central Square, the same location being the office of the Henry Tod estate, of which he is one of the executors. The youngest son, Henry Tod, Jr., was killed on October 8, 1902, in an automobile accident. In 1891 the late Henry Tod was married, second, to Lu- cretia Van Fleet, who is a daughter of John Van Fleet, a sketch of whom will be found in this volume. Mrs. Tod still occupies the fam- ily home on Lincoln avenue.

The late Henry Tod was largely instru- mental in bringing to the vicinity of Youngs- town, a number of its important industries. It was through his influence, to a considerable degree, that the county seat was removed from · Canfield to the more central location at Youngstown, and the building of the court house resulted from his agitation of the sub- ject. The history of the rise and successful development of one of the city's financial in- stitutions, the Second National Bank, forms an interesting part of the story of his life and is connected with the expansion of many of Youngstown's prosperous enterprises. He was elected its first president and for 29 years, as has already been mentioned, he continued to serve in that capacity. He was notably in- terested in the advancement of every project by which Youngstown could be substantially improved, and in this connection may be men- tioned his activity in the building of the pres- ent large Opera House.

The late Henry Tod was a man of Chris- tian living, and although he never identified himself with any particular sect or advocated any one creed, he was confident that there was good in all and was ready to contribute to the benevolent enterprises of every denomination. He was charitable, lavishly so, but to him it was as a simple every-day duty, nothing to herald abroad. to make himself conspicuous · among men. He was a man of personal cour-

age and of indomitable will. Long he con- trolled others and when mortal sickness came upon him, he no less was able to control him- self, and calmly awaited a summons he was able to see before him in the immediate future. Henry Tod died as he had lived, a worthy son of a worthy father. Mr. Tod's portrait accompanies this sketch.

J ONAS GOODMAN, president of the board of trustees of Green township. and one of the representative men of this part of Mahoning County, re- sides on his well-cultivated farm of 182 acres, which is situated in section 8. Mr. Goodman was born January 31, 1845, in Green township, Mahoning County, Ohio, and is a son of William and Julia A. (Smith) Goodman.

The parents of Mr. Goodman were natives of Ohio and his father was an early settler in Green township, where he died in 1851. Of the children born to William and Julia Good- man, five survive, as follows: Hannah, who married Joseph Knauf, residing in Ellsworth township; Catharine, who married Jacob Dustman, residing in Berlin township; Amelia, residing in Ashtabula County, Ohio; Jonas, whose name begins this sketch; and Eli, re- siding in Green township.

Jonas Goodman attended the public schools of Green township in his boyhood and enjoyed equal advantages with children of his own age in this section. From youth he per- formed the tasks that usually fall to boys on a farm, and became thoroughly trained in all that pertains to practical farming. For a number of years following his marriage, he farmed in Butler township, Columbiana Coun- ty, and then returned with his family to Ma- honing County, and settled on the farm on which he has resided for over a quarter of a century.

On February 5. 1874, Mr. Goodman was married to Sarah M. Woolf, who was born July 5, 1853, in Columbiana County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Metz)

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Woolf, the former of whom was born in Co- lumbiana County and the latter in Stark County, Ohio. Adam Woolf, the grand- father of Mrs. Goodman, was born in Butler township and was a son of Jacob Woolf, who was a pioneer in Columbiana County.

Mr. and Mrs. Goodman have had five chil- dren, the four survivors being as follows : Hattie C., who married John Weaver, resid- ing in Green township; Celesta B., who is a teacher in the public schools of Green town- ship; Belva M., who married Richard God- ward, residing in Green township; and Rachel, residing at home.

In his political convictions Mr. Goodman is a stanch Republican. He has always taken a prominent part in township matters pertain- ing to education and good government, has served on the school board and for some years has been a township trustee, at present being the presiding officer of the board.

ASON EVANS, president of the Commercial National Bank of Youngstown, and formerly junior member of the law firm of Sander- son & Evans of this city, occupies a very prominent position in the business and social life of Youngstown. He was born No- vember 27, 1849, at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, and is a son of Owen and Sarah ( Roe) Evans.

Owen Evans, who came of Welsh ances- try, was born in Montgomery County, Penn- sylvania, and was a resident of Philadelphia for many years, where he was a man of sub- stance and standing. He died in that city in 1859, when his son was 10 years of age. He is survived by his widow, a native of Cincin- nati, Ohio, who still resides in the city of Brotherly Love.

Mason Evans enjoyed excellent education- al advantages in his native city. He read law with Aaron Thompson, a prominent prac- titioner of Philadelphia, prior to entering the law department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, where he was graduated in the class of

1869. Mr. Evans chose Youngstown, Ohio, as a favorable field for the exercise of his profession, coming to this city September 19, 1871. In 1875 he was admitted to the Ohio bar, at Warren, and began practice. The law firm of Sanderson & Evans, composed of Gen- eral Thomas W. Sanderson and Mason Evans, controlled during its existence a large part of the important business before the various courts. Mr. Evans now stands at the head of one of the largest financial institutions of Mahoning County, the Commercial National Bank of Youngstown. He is justifiably rec- ognized as a most useful citizen, whose finan- cial and professional ability, combined with his noted public spirit, have contributed largely to the upbuilding of the city and to bringing it to the favorable notice of the out- side world.

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Century history of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Ohio, and representative citizens, 20th, Part 68

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