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His father, John Maline, was born on the Rhine, near Zweibrucken, in 1808, and migrated to America in 1832, in the health and enthusiasm of young manhood, which qualities speedily obtained him success in his adopted home. After looking around for some time he finally selected Canton, Ohio, as a good location and was engaged there in the grocery business until 1865. In that year he removed to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he em- barked in the manufacture of agricultural implements, but this business was interrupted by his death, which occurred the next year after his arrival. During his long residence at Canton he became quite prominent in the busi- ness life of the city, serving as president both of the board of education and of the city council. In 1835 he was married at Canton to Catherine Pirrong, who is still living at the age of eighty-five years. They had eleven children, of whom the six survivors are: John J .; Charles D .; Frances, widow of James J. Foley ; George F .; Augusta, widow of James Rush; and William A.
William A. Maline was born at Canton, Ohio, September 1, 1852, and remained in the city of his nativity until his twenty-third year. He attended school until fifteen years of age, and during the next seven years was employed variously as clerk, teacher or in such other occupation as came convenient. Meantime he had decided to make a lawyer of himself and in 1875 commenced the preliminary study necessary as a preparation for that arduous profession. He entered the office of Henry Wise at Canton, con- tinued his reading later at Youngstown in the office of M. W. Johnson, Esq., and was admitted to the bar March 17, 1877. Immediately thereafter he opened a law office and with his usual promptness and energy proceeded to work up a practice.
Almost from the beginning he has been a very busy man and soon found recognition in connection with the official life of the city. In 1882 he was elected city solicitor on the Democratic ticket and held that responsible posi- tion until 1884. After an intermission of two years he was again called to the same office by the suffrages of the people and discharged its duties with efficiency from 1886 to 1888. During the last campaign he was en- trusted with the principal management of his party as chairman of the Demo- cratic city committee.
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June 27, 1880, Mr. Maline was united in marriage to Miss Mary L., daughter of George Rudge, of Youngstown, and they have had ten children, of whom the following named still survive: Mary L., John F., Paul, William E., Helen, Ruth, Julian and Frederick Eugene. The family are members of the Catholic church, and Mr. Maline has been quite prominent in connection with the Knights of Columbus, of which society he has long been a member. and of which he has been the organizer and leading spirit in Ohio and ad- joining states. This society was first organized in 1882 at New Haven, Con- necticut, as a fraternal insurance order. In 1895 an associate rank was added, so that the order has now become national in its scope and has a membership of more than one hundred thousand. In 1898 Burrows Brothers of Cleveland published from the pen of Mr. Maline a volume entitled "The Nineteenth Century and Other Poems."
GEORGE L. FORDYCE.
George Lincoln Fordyce was born in Scipio, New York, September 29, 1860. He lived in this township during the period of boyhood. He made the best use of his opportunities to acquire an education and at the same time prepare himself for business. At the age of fourteen years he com- menced helping in the country store at Scipio Centre, outside of school hours, for which he received no pay. In 1876 he contracted for a year in this store, for which he received one hundred and fifty dollars. His duties were varied and many, from sweeping and scrubbing the store, waiting on customers, assisting with the mails,-the postoffice being in the store,-and taking care of his employer's horse and barn. This kept him busy from six o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock, and sometimes later, in the evening, but the arduous duties which he performed while employed in and about this country store had much to do with fitting him for his greater business responsibilities in later life.
When his year was finished he had a position offered him in a large grocery establishment in Auburn, New York, which he accepted and filled for some time. This experience fitted him for a position which he secured in the Cayuga County National Bank of Auburn, in which he served until 1883, acquiring an experience in financial matters that accounts, to some extent, for his business success.
In 1883 Mr. Fordyce came to Youngstown and embarked in the dry- goods business at the corner of West Federal and Phelps streets, having two partners who remained with him for a time, but for several years he has been the sole owner of the business, which is being carried on under
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the name of George L. Fordyce & Company. Beginning with the corner store, room space has been added in the rear as well as the adjoining store room, so that the business now occupies more than three times the area it did for the first few years. Mr. Fordyce now employs about fifty people, many of them having been with him for a number of years. To their faith- fulness, ability and development he attributes much of the reason for his success, especially to those at the heads of departments.
He is a member of the Methodist church and has been superintendent of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school for the past five years. It is a well organized Sunday-school, having the largest enrollment and greatest average attendance of any Sunday-school in eastern Ohio. He is president of the Young Men's Christian Association and a trustee of the Youngstown Hospital Association. His business interests outside his dry-goods store are quite extensive, he being a stockholder in several of the banking and manu- facturing institutions of the city. He is first vice-president of the Peoples Savings and Banking Company, a director of the First National Bank, also director of some of the manufacturing corporations. He has taken some interest in political affairs, having been chairman of the Mahoning county Republican executive committee two terms and a member of the city council for one term.
He was married in Youngstown, June 25, 1890, to Grace Walton, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Oyer) Walton. To them have been born one son and two daughters: George Lincoln, Jr., born August 18, 1892, died October 1I, 1900: Rebecca Walton, born May 20, 1894; Louise Hor- ton, born August 3, 1898. The family reside at 40 Lincoln avenue in a residence which was built during the year 1899.
His earliest ancestor in America on the Fordyce side was Benjamin Fordyce, who served as a private in Captain Nathaniel Horton's company, Western Battalion, Morris County, New Jersey Militia, during the Revolu- tionary war. Benjamin Fordyce married in 1790 Rebecca Horton, daugh- ter of Nathaniel Horton. In 1795 the family moved from Chester, New Jersey, to Scipio, New York, and settled on the farm on which the subject of this sketch was born. The country at that time was a wilderness and they had to cut a road for nearly a mile into the forest to reach the place where they built their house. John Fordyce, their eldest son, was born in Chester, New Jersey, in 1791. He married Anna Wilkinson in Scipio, and to them was born John Horton, August 23, 1835, he being their only child.
John Horton Fordyce married Louisa Close, January 12, 1859, and to them was born a son whom they named George. John H. Fordyce en-
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listed in the service of his country in August. 1862, going to the front with Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, New York Volun- teers. He was tendered the captaincy of his company, but declined to accept it. He died near Washington, November 13, 1862. of typhoid fever, only nine weeks after he enlisted. When he was leaving home he said: "If Lincoln proves to be a good president, I want George's middle name to be Lincoln." This accounts for the subject of this sketch being named George Lincoln.
Beginning now with the Horton side, Rebecca Horton having been his great grandmother, there is an unbroken line back to his (George L. For- dyce's) tenth generation :
Barnabus Horton, son of Joseph Horton, born in Mousley, Leicester- shire, England, July 13 (old style), 1600, emigrated to America about 1635, landed at Hampton, Massachusetts, came to New Haven in 1640. He set- tled permanently on the east end of Long Island, now Southold, in October, 1640. He built a house in 1659-60 at Southold that is still standing and in good condition. Caleb, the third son of Barnabus, born 1640, married Abigail Hallock, lived at Cutchogue, Rhode Island. Barnabus, their first son, born in 1666, married Sarah Hines and moved to Southold. Caleb, their first son, born December 22, 1687, married Phebe Terry, and they moved to Roxbury, now Chester, New Jersey, in 1748, and settled there. Nathaniel Horton, their second son, was born October 13, 1719, married Mehetabel Wells, and their son Nathaniel, who was born in 1741, married Rebecca Robinson, was captain of the company in which Benjamin Fordyce served as a private during the Revolutionary war, and the latter married Rebecca, Captain Horton's daughter. George L. Fordyce, as can be seen, would be entitled to membership in the Sons of the Revolution on account of the service of his great-grandfather Benjamin Fordyce and his great-great- grandfather Captain Nathaniel Horton.
JOHN SCHAEFFER.
John Schaeffer, a successful and worthy farmer residing in Green town- ship, Mahoning county, on his pleasant and fertile farm of sixty-seven acres of well tilled land, was born in Green township, January 9, 1835, and has been reared, educated and has made his home in his native township. the farm he now owns adjoining the one upon which he came into the world. His farming is of a mixed character, and his crops are prolific as a result of his good management and knowledge of his calling. All of his buildings are modern in construction, commodious and convenient. The stock shows
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the result of good care and feeding, and the entire premises indicate that a man of energy and foresight is at the head of affairs.
In 1863 Mr. Schaeffer was united in marriage with Miss Nina Krauss, and they have had four children; Josephine, born in 1864, married Conrad Thumb; Lydia A., born in 1866; Jonathan, born in 1868; and Sarah, born in 1875. Mrs. Schaeffer was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1843, and is a most estimable lady. Mr. and Mrs. Schaeffer, as well as their family, are all consistent members of the Evangelical Lutheran church, in which he has served as deacon for a number of years. Prior to his marriage, he removed to his present home from the farm owned by his father, and had a pleasant place to which to take his bride.
John Schaeffer is a son of Christian Schaeffer, who was born in Wuer- temberg, Germany, in 1800. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Magdeline Wooster, and he was married to her in Germany. Seven chil- dren were born to these parents, namely: Joseph, John and Manuel, Christ- ian and Jacob, and two now deceased. In 1832 Christian Schaeffer with his wife and three children emigrated to America, locating on section 22 in Green township, their farm consisting of thirty-five acres, but they soon added ninety-seven acres more. Christian was a hardworking man who took a pride in his farm and his family, and all of them were members of the Luth- eran church, of which he was deacon for many years. His death occurred in November, 1867, and his wife passed away in 1877. John Schaeffer occupies a high position in the confidence and respect of his neighbors, and the success which has attended his efforts is well merited.
MYRON S. CLARK, M. D.
There are probably few men in the city of Youngstown who are more actively connected with the various public utilities and the fraternal and social life of the community than Dr. M. S. Clark. For thirty years he has been one of the most honored and active members of his profession, his reputation in medical circles being unquestioned and extending beyond the narrow limits of the community. The sketch here given, though somewhat imperfect and rambling, will serve to record the data for preservation as family history.
The family of which Dr. Clark is a worthy member dates back to the days of the Puritans, the line being clear to the seventh generation. The first member of the family of whom we have authentic record in this country was William Clark, who was born in Scotland, and came to America about 1650, first settling in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and later removing
MYRON S. CLARK.
MRS. HETTIE J. CLARK.
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to Northampton, Massachusetts. He was prominently connected with the religious life of that day and was one of the eight charter members of the first Congregational church organized there, June 18, 1661. The family is of great longevity, the six grandsons of this emigrant ancestor averaging in age ninety-four years. Timothy Clark, a son of this first member of the family, was born in Southampton, Connecticut. He lived his days out in that town. The next in line was Noah Clark, who was born, lived and died in the old Bay state. His son John, also born in Massachusetts, was the next member of the family. The great-grandfather of M. S. Clark was Noah Clark, born in Southampton, Massachusetts, in 1761, where he tilled a farm during his life, and died in 1844. He married Eunice Strong, and to the marriage nine children were born. The grandfather of our subject was the eldest child. This gentleman married Tirzah Miller, who bore him nine children, the father of our subject having been the fourth. The name of this member of the family was Parmenas P. Clark, and he also was born in Southampton, Massachusetts, in 1813, where he was reared to man's es- tate. In 1834 he came to Ohio, locating in Trumbull county, where he re- sided for a short time on a farm, and then removed to Galena, Illinois, where he lived for some two years and then returned to Trumbull county, Ohio. In the spring of 1840 he removed to Gallipolis, Ohio, where he re- mained for some eighteen months, and then returned to Trumbull county, Ohio, where he remained until 1849. Later he went to Portage county, Ohio, where he remained until the year 1873. At that date he removed to Fulton county, Ohio, and died in the city of Cleveland in May, 1898. He followed farming as an occupation. He was married in 1839 to Sarah E., the daughter of Myron Barber, and they reared a family of five children, of whom three survive: Dr. Myron S., Ansel A. and Sereno J. The mother of this family died in 1859. Of the Barber family there were two brothers and a sister, Myron Alphonso Barber, deceased in 1848; Amy Ataresta, who married Giles Kneeland, and Sarah E., our subject's mother, who was born on the 12th of January, 1820, and died on the 8th of February, 1859. The Barbers were also an old Massachusetts family, our subject's grand- father, Myron Barber, having been born in New Marlboro in 1789, and died at Freedom, Ohio, September 2, 1855.
Dr. Myron S. Clark, the present vice president of the city board of health, was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1840. He removed with the family to Portage county, Ohio, where he was reared and educated, receiving the ordinary common school education in the district schools of his section. At fifteen years of age he entered what was then known as the Western Re-
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serve Eclectic Institution, now Hiram College, of which the martyred Gar- field was for a number of years president. When the war for the preserva- tion of our Union came on, he enlisted, in October, 1861, in Company K, Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, entering the service as a corporal, serv- ing one year as such, when he was honorably discharged for disability. Re- covering, he began the study of medicine in the spring of 1863 and in the fall of 1863 he entered the University of Michigan. Again, in April, 1864, he responded to a call of duty, and was appointed by Governor Brough as hospital steward of the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio National Guards. His regiment was sent to Kentucky, where he answered as assist- ant surgeon at the fight that occurred at Cynthiana. Here he was unfor- tunate enough to be captured by the enemy, but remained a prisoner but three days, when he was recaptured by General Burbridge. He received his second discharge from the army in August, 1864. Dr. Clark re-entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, October 1, 1864, where he graduated in medicine in 1865. His first location was in Warren, Ohio, where he remained for three years, and then located in Bristolville, Ohio. where he remained for five years. On January 1, 1874, he came to Youngs- town and has continued in active practice since that time.
The public life of Dr. Clark has been an active one. He has served as president of the city council, president of the board of education, and is now vice president of the board of health. He married, in 1857, in Portage county, Ohio, Hettie J., daughter of John T. Smith, and to them have been born four children, of whom but one, Louis P., survives. The doctor is a member of a large number of the fraternal and social orders of his city. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is past grand. He is assistant surgeon general of Ohio, on the staff of Major General B. O. Eddy. He belongs to Patriarchs Militant and has held all the chairs in the lodge and camp. He is also past president of the Sons of St. George, and is supreme medical examiner of the Foresters of America, in which order he has held the office of Grand Chief Ranger in the state court. He is also an honored member of Tod Post No. 29, G. A. R., of which he is past surgeon. In medical circles Dr. Clark is a well-known figure. He is past president of the Mahoning Medical Society, is a member of the Ohio State Medical Association, of the American Medical Associa- tion, is one of the staff of the Mahoning Valley Hospital, and is examiner for several insurance companies.
It will also be of interest as a part of this sketch to note some of the points in the family history of Mrs. Clark. Her father, John Tune Smith, was
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born in 1804. near Baltimore, Maryland, at a place called Lazaretto. His parents died when he was about seven years of age, and he was reared by rel- atives in the city of Baltimore. Here he married on August 4, 1827, Esther Stroude Cheyney, daughter of Clayton Cheyney, and to this marriage there were born seven children: Edith Ann Eliza, widow of David Robbins; Jo- seph Trimble, who was a surgeon of the Second Ohio Cavalry and was later brigade surgeon on General Custer's staff; William Hayes, who was a lieutenant in the Fourteenth Ohio Battery, serving until his death in : 1863 ; Frances Cheyney Smith ; Hettie J., Mrs. Dr. Clark; John Henry, who was a corporal in the Sixth Regiment United States Army, and served throughout the Civil war, later in the summer of 1864 dying at Hiram, Ohio; Clayton Cheyney, who is now a minister in the church of the Disciples, as was his father before him. The maternal ancestors of Mrs. Clark go back to the old English family of Smedley, which was related to King George III. Mrs. Clark's father, John Tune Smith, was very prominently connected with the early history of the church of the Disciples, having been associated with Rev. Alexander Campbell in its founding. Mrs. Clark is a woman of great activity in social and fraternal circles. She is a member of Tod Corps No. 3, of which she is past president, having served in that position two full terms, and is now past department chaplain for the state of Ohio. She belongs to the Daughters of Rebecca, Fern Leaf No. 464, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which she is a past grand; and has a life membership in the Christian Woman's Board of Missions of the Christian church, in which society she has served several terms as president, also serving as secretary and district president of the district of Ohio. She has been very active in mis- sion work, having had charge of the children's department of the State Chris- tian Woman's Board of Missions for several years, and is now an active worker in the Sunday-school attached to the local church.
Mrs. Clark was a student at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute at Hiram, Ohio, now know as Hiram College, when the late President Gar- field was at the head of that institution. It was President Garfield who bap- tized Dr. Clark and preached the funeral sermon of Mrs. Clark's father. Dr. and Mrs. Clark are charter members of the central Christian church of Youngstown.
COOPER F. McBRIDE, M. D.
Among the able and honored representatives of the medical profession in Mahoning county stands Dr. McBride, whose home is in the attractive city of Youngstown. For a full score of years he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession in this county, and the years have told the
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story of a successful career-a success due to innate talent and the applica- tion of acquired and specific talent along the line of one of the most im- portant and exacting avenues of endeavor to which man can devote his energies. This is an age of progress in all lines of professional as well as industrial and commercial achievement, and Dr. McBride has kept abreast of the advancement that has revolutionized methods of medical and surgical practice, rendering the efforts of the physician of much more avail in the alleviating or warding off of pain and suffering than they were even at the time when he entered upon his professional career.
Dr. McBride was a native of the old Keystone state of the Union, in whose capital city, Harrisburg, he was born, on the 23d of March, 1851, while his parents were temporarily residing there, their home being in Butler, Butler county, Pennsylvania. Alexander Struthers McBride, the father of the Doc- tor, was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, on the 3d of March, 1814, his parents having been numbered among the early pioneer settlers in this section, having located here at a time when but little had been accomplished in the way of clearing the land from the heavy forests, and when the work of development and progress was in its initial stage. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, whence they emigrated to Ohio, and here Alexander S. was reared under the discipline of the pioneer farm until he had attained the age of fourteen years, when he went to Warren, Pennsylvania, where he learned the printer's trade. He later took up his residence in Butler, that state, which continued to be his home until his death, on the 5th of September, 1865. He was long and prominently identified with the newspaper business in Pennsylvania and wielded no slight influence in public affairs, having been a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies of the Democratic party and having served for a number of years as clerk of the house of representatives in the state legislature.
On the 30th of April, 1839, Alexander S. McBride was united in mar- riage to Miss Maria A. McKee, of Butler, Pennsylvania, where she was born on the 5th of April, 1821, and where her death occurred on the 18th of May, 1881. Of the seven children of this union we enter a brief record at this point. Hugh Walker McBride, who was born on the 9th of February, 1840, died on the 20th of September, 1884. In May, 1865, he was united in marriage to Miss Antonia Baca, of New Mexico, member of one of the distinguished old families of that territory, and she survives him. Samuel Foster McBride was born on the 15th of May, 1842, and his marriage to Susan Young was solemnized on the 24th of June, 1865. George A. McBride, who was born November 25, 1844, died on the 7th of April, 1883. His mar-
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riage to Miss Jane Miller occurred on the 27th of November, 1873. Isaiah J. McBride was born on the 19th of January, 1848, and on the 13th of July, 1871, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane McIntosh. Cooper F. McBride is the immediate subject of this sketch. Robert Dunbar McBride was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, on the 13th of April, 1853, and on the 25th of February, 1893, he was united in marriage to Miss Amanda Anderson. Stephen Howard McBride was born on the 23d of July, 1862.
Samuel F. McBride, the eldest of the brothers now living, enlisted in 1861 in the One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, for a term of nine months, during which he was in active service, and at the expiration of this period he veteranized and served two years and then joined the regular army of the United States and was made hospital steward at Frederick City, Maryland, where he was stationed until the close of the war. . Finally he removed to Hinton, Summers county, West Virginia, where he was for a number of years editor and publisher of a Republican paper and where also he was incumbent of the office of postmaster. Later he was given a position in the government printing office, in the city of Washington, and he is now assistant superintendent in this department.
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