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Socially Dr. Cone affiliates with the Masonic fraternity, and is a promi- nent and active member of the church of the Disciples of Christ. He mar- ried, in 1880, in Youngstown, Ohio, Lucy A., the daughter of David Simon, ex-auditor of Mahoning county, Ohio, and to the union have been born three children, as follows: Edith L., Rena C., Jared F. Dr. Cone is keenly, alive to everything that benefits his profession. He is a member of the Ameri- can Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Association, and is an
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ex-president and now treasurer of the Mahoning County Medical Society. He is surgeon in chief of the staff of the Mahoning Valley Hospital at Youngstown, and is examiner for the following life insurance companies : The United States Life of New York, the Michigan Mutual, the Pacific Mu- tual of San Francisco, the Equitable of Iowa. In politics he is a Republican. He is a Mason, a member of St. John's Commandery No. 20, K. T., and Youngstown Chapter No. 93.
The family of which our subject is an honored member goes back to the sixth generation, beginning with his father, Beebe S. Cone, who was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, in 1812, and died in 1885. He married, in 1836, Lucinda, daughter of William Davidson, who was a native of West Virginia, and was a major under William Henry Harrison in the war of 1812. His grandfather was Major James Robinson, who was a major in the Revolutionary war and is mentioned in "Jefferson's Notes," Thomas Jef- ferson, author.
The family born to the parents of our subject comprised seven children, of whom three grew to maturity, as follows: William D., who died in 1899, leaving one daughter, Edna, wife of Samuel Field; James W .; and Dr. Jared E. Cone. The mother of this family passed away in 1889. William D. Cone, the eldest, was a private in the Thirty-fifth Iowa Infantry, in which he served three years. He was with General M. P. Banks in the famous Red River expedition, and also in the Pleasant Hill fight. James W. Cone is an attorney at Sioux Falls, S. D. Beebe S. Cone, the father, was one of the original directors of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway. His father was Jared Cone, born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, in 1781. He died in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1856. He removed to Ohio in 1818 and entered a farm in Muskingum county, which is still in the family. Passing back now to the great-grandfather Mathew Cone, this gentleman was born at Haddam, Connecticut, in 1740. The great- great-grandfather, who was also Jared Cone, was born in 1715 at Haddam, Connecticut, where he died. The next in line of succession was Daniel Cone, known as Deacon Daniel Cone, who was born in the same town in Con- necticut in 1666. He married on the 14th of February, 1694, Mary Gates, and died June 5, 1725. We now arrive to the original immigrant ancestor, Daniel Cone, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1626, and came to America about twenty years later, locating in Connecticut, where he died in 1706. By occupation he was a farmer, as were also most of the family follow- ing him. He married Mehitable, the daughter of Jared Spencer. In passing we note also that the maternal grandfather of our subject, Stewart Beebe, was a soldier in the war for independence.
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GILBERT M. DILL.
Mr. Dill is a representative farmer and business man of Mahoning county, who has been active in various concerns during the major portion of his career, but now combines the pleasures of country and town life by his resi- dence on his farm, part of which is in the corporate limits of Poland. The Dills have been tillers of the soil for many years, and grandfather Dill was a farmer in Orange county, New Jersey, where he lived for the greater part of his life and reared four sons and a daughter. His son George E. was born in New Jersey in 18II, and lived to the advanced age of eighty-seven, tenderly cared for by his son, who provided him a pleasant home for his old age. George E. Dill was married in 1833 to Esther Garrett, who was born in Canada, May 13, 1813, and, although ninety years of age. still retains the use of most of her faculties; her father, Mott Garrett, was a farmer in Canada and in Wayne county, New York, was himself a member of a large family, the youngest of whom at one time was seventy years old, and he, too, reared a large household. There were two children born of this union, and the daughter, Sarah, is the wife of William Roe in Wayne county, New York.
Gilbert M. Dill was the only son and was born on his father's farm in Wayne county, New York, May 30, 1834. He had a good common school ed- ucation and at the age of sixteen began clerking in a store. In 1868 he left his native place and came to Youngstown, Ohio, where he was one of the prosperous merchants of that city for twelve years. In 1873, in company with Robert Jewel, he opened up a savings bank in Hubbard, of which he acted as cashier for three years. He then returned to Youngstown, where he re- mained till 1884, at which date he removed to his present home and farm of sixty acres at Poland. He has placed all the modern improvements on this place, and he bought the charming cottage as a quiet home for his aged parents, for whom he has always had such solicitous care. He runs the farm more as a recreation than as a source of profit, and a faithful colored man attends to its details. He has other real estate in the vicinity, and continues his business of former days by loaning money.
In 1869 Mr. Dill was married in Youngstown to Miss Caroline Jacobs, who is a native of this county and is the daughter of Nicholas Jacobs. Their first child, Alice, is the wife of Alfred Stewart, of Poland; George E. is a young man of eighteen and a promising machinist in Youngstown; both children are graduates of Poland Seminary, formerly Poland College. Mr. Dill is nominally a Democrat, but in practice he votes for the man who best represents his political ideals; he has never held office, but at one time he was the unsuccessful candidate for the mayoralty of Youngstown.
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WILLIAM H. KYLE.
The first of the name of Kyle to take up a permanent residence within the present limits of Mahoning county was Joshua Kyle, who came here when the country was almost in its primitive state and got possession of a large amount of land, as is shown by the fact that at his death he gave eaclı of his twelve children a farm of one hundred acres. He was a man of con- siderable influence in the community, was a Whig in politics, and one of his principal diversions was hunting. One of his sons was Robert, whose birth occurred in Mahoning county in 1805. He became a farmer, and was especially known for his rigid honesty and his kindness of heart to his family. He was married about 1828 to Miss Dina Philips, who was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They were both members of the Disciples church, and in that faith they passed away, he in 1890 and she in 1895. Their family consisted of ten children, eight of whom are now living, and all in this county.
William H. Kyle is one of the last mentioned family, and was born at the place known as Kyles Corners, in Mahoning county, October 8, 1836. After he had finished his schooling he turned his attention to the cabinet- maker's trade, but the confinement in the shop was not congenial to him and was detrimental to his health, so he sought the freer pursuit of carpentering, in which he was engaged for fifteen years. This was only interrupted by the Civil war, as in 1862 he enlisted in Company I, Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served to the close of the struggle. He participated in the battles of Nashville, Knoxville and Franklin, Tennessee; Resaca, Atlanta, and Lovejoy Station, Georgia; and in many minor engagements. He was honorably discharged and returned to his work, but in 1878 he took up farm- ing in connection with his trade. He is now engaged in the management of his two hundred and forty acre farm in Canfield township, and he is one of the farmers who make the business pay.
Shortly after returning from the army, in 1867, Mr. Kyle was married to Miss Mary H., the daughter of Eli and Lydia A. Hill. She was born Septem- ber 7, 1842, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, whence her parents removed to Youngstown in 1848 and purchased one hundred and fifty acres; they had a family of seven children, five of whom are living in Mahoning county : Eli Hill died in 1890 and his wife in 1895. Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kyle, of whom Melvin C. is deceased, and Arthur E. married Miss Ina L. Warick. Mr. Kyle is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has evinced his public spirit by serving his township as school director and supervisor. Mrs. Kyle is a member of the Disciples church.
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MARGARET KENNEDY.
This lady is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, resident in Poland town- ship, and she is not only highly respected for her own character, but is the widow of one of the prominent citizens of Mahoning county for many years, and mother of children who have since gained high place in their respective spheres of activity. She is the daughter of Hugh and Rachel (Walker) Truesdale. The latter was born in Pennsylvania in 1781 and died in Poland township, Mahoning county, Ohio, at the age of eighty-six years. She was first married to Captain Isaac Walker, who was a captain in the war of 18.12 and died at Fort Meigs, leaving his wife and a daughter who was the wife of John Stewart and the mother of the Rev. Albert Stewart of New- burgh, New York. Her husband's mother, also named Rachael, has often related to Mrs. Kennedy many interesting episodes of the Revolutionary days.
Mrs. Margaret Kennedy was born in Poland township over seventy- eight years ago, July 3, 1824, only a few rods from the site of her present residence, and throughout her long life has never made a move except from her old home to a new one, the latter being, however, no longer a modern, but still an attractive residence. On June 25, 1849, she was married on this old place to Walker Kennedy. He was a man of moderate means at that time, but was very industrious and was possessed of a great mechanical genius, which put him to the forefront in the iron industry, which was then develop- ing at such rapid strides. He assisted in this devolpment by inventing the modern blast furnace, which not only cheapened but increased the production of iron. He was the builder of the first blast furnace in this vicinity, and his sons were brought up to this business and inherited their father's inven- tive genius to a great degree.
The oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy is Julian, who resides in Alle- gheny, Pennsylvania. He was educated in Poland and in Yale University, and now stands at the head of the engineers in the steel manufacturing busi- ness ; he is the author of several valuable inventions and has acquired great wealth, being now listed among the millionaires; he married Miss Jennie Breneman and they have three sons and two daughters. James Kennedy is an attorney at Youngstown and was elected to Congress ; he married Phebe Erwin. Hugh Kennedy, of Buffalo, New York, has nine children, and is a builder of steel furnaces, being a prominent man in this business and having taken out several patents. Rachael, who was for several years a successful teacher, married John Becker and resides on the old farm here in Poland township; they have three sons and one daughter. Walter Kennedy resides
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at Allegheny, has built a number of furnaces in the south, and was in the business for a year in China, but returned before the Boxer riots; he has three children. John Kennedy lives at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and has one son and a daughter; he is a very successful operator of furnaces and well-off for a man of his years, being forty years younger than his mother. The son Samuel is a furnace man in Chicago and has one daughter and two sons. Thomas Walker Kennedy is at present building a furnace at Dubois, Pennsylvania, and has one daughter.
Mrs. Kennedy lives on the farm, which is one of the oldest and best known in the country. It consists of one hundred acres of very fertile soil, and part of it was owned by her husband, while the old log cabin of her parents was placed in the dense woods a short distance from the present house. The first house was of logs, but this was replaced about forty years ago by a dwelling which is still one of the most attractive in the country. Here Mrs. Kennedy makes her home during the remaining years of her life, in happy memories of the past, proud of her children who have so well filled their places in the world, and devout in her faith and membership in the Pres- byterian church; she is known as one of the best neighbors in the county : she is a well preserved woman for her age, retains her faculties almost un- impaired, and her only affliction is the asthma, which has troubled her for many years.
ELIZABETH (LINN) BRENEMAN.
Mrs. Breneman is one of the old residents of Poland township, Mahon- ing county, and she has resided on her farm for the past forty-two years. Although over seventy-five years old, she is hale and active, and with most of her life behind her she is still cheerful, and is one of the most respected citi- zens of the community. Her father, Samuel Linn, was born in 1797 and died at the age of seventy-five in 1872. He married Barbary Bouchman, who was born in 1793 and died at the age of eighty-four. They reared six of their seven children, and these in turn all married and had families. Susan was the oldest child and lived to eighty years old. John died at the age of four years; Julia Ann Whittenberger died when thirty-two years old and left three children; Henry lived to be sixty and had a family of five children; Frank was born in 1828 and died in 1891, left one daughter, who is now deceased, and his son had three children; Lydia was the wife of Adam Whittenberger, and died at the age of seventy-two, leaving four of her six children.
Elizabeth Linn was born in Maryland, April 6, 1826, and when she was fourteen years old came with her parents to Middletown, Ohio. Five years
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later, on February 24, 1845, she was married to Joseph Breneman in Law- rence county, Pennsylvania. He was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, May 2, 1823, and was one of twelve children, his parents being early pioneers and farmers from York, Pennsylvania. There were five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Breneman: Samuel died at the age of three months; Taylor L. lived to be thirty-two, but the last eleven years of his life were passed in suffering; Joseph was the first born, has a wife and two children, and makes his home in Lowellville; Jenny E. Kennedy lives in Pittsburg and has five of her six children, and her husband is a man of much business ability and is a large contractor and builder of iron and steel mills; Harry Isaac is at home, a bookkeeper for the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad, and was married in 1896 to Alberta, the daughter of Elias Lomax.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Breneman began life at Middletown, Ohio, on his father's farm, but in 1862 he bought the present farm of fifty acres for eighteen hundred dollars; it had very few improvements to begin with, but now there is a nice two-story and basement house, and excellent barns and out-buildings. Mrs. Breneman managed her two farms for twenty- five years and still exercises her supervision over her interests as few women of many years her junior could hardly do.
BURKHARDT P. BUSH.
Burkhardt P. Bush, a successful and practical farmer of Greenford, Green township, Mahoning county, Ohio, was born in this township in 1827. B. P. Bush, his grandfather, was a native of Germany and emigrated in 1817 to America to join his son John in Columbiana county, Ohio, where he purchased a quarter section and built on it a little log house, where the family resided until they were able to erect a more comfortable dwelling. The children of this excellent man were as follows: John, George, Christian, Christiana and Doratha. Of these John was born in Germany in 1797 and married Mary A. Hoelich, and they had six children, as follows: Elizabeth, B. P., Frederick, Ellen, Mary and Doratha. John served under the great Napoleon in the French army, and about 1816 he and a cousin, who also bore the name of John, emigrated to America ; after many discouragements they made friends and located in Green township, Columbiana county, Ohio, and John secured sixty acres of land, upon which he resided until his death in 1881, his wife having died in 1873. He was a practical farmer, an upright man and loyal citizen. While a resident of Green township, he served very acceptably as justice of the peace, trustee of the township, and at one time was the candidate of his party for treasurer, and was defeated by only eight
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votes. Politically he was a Democrat and in his religious convictions he was a Lutheran.
Burkhardt P. Bush, son of John Bush, was born upon the farm he now owns, and was here reared and educated, and has spent his entire life in his native township. In early life he taught the district schools of the county for twenty-three terms, giving satisfaction not only to the school board but also to. the patrons of the school and the children themselves, a somewhat difficult task, the accomplishment of which testifies to his ability and tact.
In 1873 he was married to Miss Christiana Wiedmayer, of which union there was no issue. Mrs. Bush was born in Germany in 1831 and was brought to America by her parents in 1832. Mr. Bush operates his fine farm of one hundred and seventy-two acres with ability, and devotes it to stock-raising for the greater part. His stock is carefully selected from the best strains. His sheep are the best merinos, the cattle shorthorn, and his horses of the Percheron strain. Mr. Bush has served his township in various capacities, and is now justice of the peace, which office he has held for several years. Both he and his wife are consistent members of the Lutheran church, in which he has held several offices of honor, and he has been both deacon and elder .. Few men stand higher in the community than Mr. Bush, not only on account of his success as a farmer, but also because of his upright- ness of life and purity of living.
BARNABAS REED.
One of the most interesting gentlemen in Poland township is Mr. Reed, who has lived a life of blameless integrity, has had perhaps more than his share of the reverses of life, but these have only accentuated his worthy char- acter and made him universally respected throughout the community. He is a descendant of one of the old settlers, his grandfather William Reed having come from Pennsylvania, where he had previously been engaged in farming, and settled in Poland township as early as 1801. He had come alone in the preceding year and bargained for a hundred acres of land, on which he cut away the trees and built his log cabin. He survived his wife and died at the age of eighty-five on the farm which is now owned by his grandson Barnabas. He reared three sons and four daughters, and all had children, and scattered to different parts of the Union and are now dead. The son Samuel was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, about 1793, and died in Poland township in 1852. He married Margaret Slaven, who was born about 1793, and they were married about 1815, ten children being born to them: Elizabeth, born in 1816, died a maiden lady in her eighty-
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fifth year; William Reed died in Boardman township, December 19, 1895, leaving one son and three daughters; John, born in 1820, died unmarried in 1858; George, born January 21, 1823, died June 26, 1859, unmarried; Sam- uel, born December 14, 1824, died March 12, 1897; Mary, born December 24, 1826, is the widow Marshall, and has three sons living in Allen county, Ohio, and one daughter; Margaret, born December 24, 1828, died in Allen county in 1900, and was the wife of Ephriam Bowen, and had one son and three daughters; Nancy Jane, born February 15, 1831, died in 1833: Harvey, born February 1, 1833, was in the Civil war in the same company with Wil- liam Mckinley, was honorably discharged on account of disability, and died May 14, 1866; Barnabas is the youngest of the ten.
Barnabas Reed was born in Poland township, Mahoning county, March 2, 1835. He had only a common school education and never left home, but began farming when old enough to drive the oxen to the harrow. He also recalls how he peddled apples to the merchants in the town, driving two calves to his cart. He has two hundred acres which made up his father's farm when the latter took up his home here in 1821, and several parcels of land besides, on which he carries on a mixed husbandry, raising some fine live-stock. On February 10, 1898, he had the misfortune to lose by fire the fine, large, two- story and a half dwelling which had been erected by his father in 1842, and which was the finest house in the township. And the injury from which he still suffers was caused only a year before, for "evils come not singly but in troops." His horse stepped on his foot and broke down the instep, but this caused him little pain at first and he neglected it until necrosis of the foot set in; he was confined in the hospital in Youngstown from January 2, to May 6, 1897, and surprised his despairing physicians by living through it all and surviving several amputations. He is now a permanent cripple and moves around only in his wheel chair, but he is bright and cheerful, showing his fortitude and brave nature in every calamity. But most of all does he give credit to his loving and devoted wife, without whose care and unfailing courage he says he would long since have been numbered with the silent majority.
The lady who has for over a quarter of a century been his companion was Elizabeth Miller, to whom he was married September 1, 1874; she was born in Poland township, February 26, 1853, and is the daughter of James Miller and his wife, Miss McGowan .. Mr. and Mrs. Reed's three children are all at home, and their names are Mary, Margaret and George, the last being in his seventeenth year and in school. Mr. Reed has always voted the Republican ticket. No people in Poland township are more highly esteemed, and they are by all means worthy of the highest regard.
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WILLIAM O. LOGAN.
This well known business man of Poland, Mahoning county, Ohio, is of Irish ancestry, his grandfather John Logan having been born in Belfast, Ireland, October 1, 1767. He came to America when he was only sixteen years old; his father, who was a man of means, a bleacher of Irish linens, supplied his son with plenty of money for his new venture across the At- lantic. Soon after coming to this country John was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and he met with good success. He married a native of his own country, Elizabeth Buck, and six of their children grew up and were married. One of their sons, William, was born in the village of Springfield, Virginia, on June II, 1806, and came to this part of Ohio with the rest of the family in 1816. On October 16, 1828, he married Mary McNabb, the daughter of James and Mary (Lattimer) McNabb, who were married November 23, 1793, both being from the north of Ireland or Scotland, and of their thirteen children they reared eleven, five sons and six daughters. William Logan and his wife had ten children: Eliza, born September 26, 1829, died in infancy ; Homer Lloyd, born October 26, 1831, died in infancy; Horatio Craig, born November 26, 1833, died young; Homer Craig, born December 24, 1835, died in August, 1902, leaving one daughter; Miranda E., the wife of John H. Clark, died May 19, 1900, when on a visit in Tennessee; Thalia E., the wife of Rev. E. B. Cummings of the Methodist church, died at Little Valley, New York, October 28, 1865; Albert B., born March 29, 1842, is an attorney at Warrensburg, Missouri, and has a family; Sabra L. is the wife of O. P. Shaffer, the postmaster of Youngstown; William O. is the ninth in order of birth; Clinton F., born April 26, 1849, has been the city clerk of Xenia, Ohio, for the past twelve years, and has four daughters. The mother of this large family, who was born May 18, 1807, died on March 1, 1892.
William O. Logan was born in the town of Poland, August 17, 1846. He enjoyed liberal schooling up to July, 1863, but he was then carried away by patriotic ardor, and without his parents' consent enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio, and on March 4, 1864, was discharged ; but he at once re-enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment, for one hundred days' service. At the end of this period he enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment, the regiment in which Mckinley and Hayes were both officers, and the only regiment which can boast of two presidents, two governors of Ohio and two lieutenant governors. Mr. Logan also had the distinction of being in school with William McKinley several years. After coming home from the war Mr. Logan took up the carpenter's trade, but soon found the work too hard for him, and he has since been engaged in the real estate and insurance business, in which he has been successful.
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