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MARGERY GAULT.
Mrs. Margery Gault is now eighty-seven years of age, and is one of the highly esteemed ladies of Mahoning county. Few can relate from memory and from personal experience events concerning the pioneer epoch of the county's history, but through a long period she has resided in this portion of the state, in fact, is one of the native daughters of the county, her birth having occurred in a log cabin about a mile and a half northeast of her present home, in Jackson township, on the 3d of June, 1816. Her father, John Ewing, was born in county Donegal, Ireland, in 1774, and came to America at the age of sixteen years in company with his widowed mother, one brother and two sisters; the mother died in old age. John Ewing was married to Miss Margaret Orr, who was born about 1787, and lived in Jackson township, Mahoning county. The wedding took place in 1803, and to them were born twelve children, nine daughters and three sons, the latter being Gibson, Alexander and John Ewing. The last named was the youngest of the family. He was born about 1826, and is now living in Youngstown, Ohio, at the age of seventy-seven years, a retired farmer. The father died in 1841, and the widow survived until she had reached the age of seventy- five years; for some six years prior to her death she was blind.
Mrs. Gault spent her girlhood days upon one of the pioneer farms of Mahoning county, living in a log cabin until she was about ten years of age. She attended the subscription schools, but educational privileges in this locality were then limited, owing to the unsettled condition of the district. At home she was trained in the various departments of farm work, and was thus well qualified to take charge of a home of her own at the time of her marriage. On the 9th of December, 1835, she became the bride of Robert Gault, who was born in Green township, Mahoning county, in 1814, and was then twenty-one years of age, while his wife was in her nineteenth year. They at once came to their farm and lived in the log cabin which Mr. Gault built in the midst of tall trees. His father gave to him one hundred and forty acres of the original tract, and he added to this until at his death he was the owner of a very valuable farm of three hundred acres. His father,
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Robert Gault, had died while serving in the American army, in the war of 1812, passing away in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was buried.
As the years passed, they became the parents of twelve children: John, who was born December 27, 1836; Alexander and Margaret Sarah, born May 26, 1838; Mary Ann, who was born December 14, 1839, and became the wife of J. A. Smith: Andrew, born November 13, 1841 ; Caroline, born March 9, 1843; Martha T., born November 9, 1845: Gideon, born November 6, 1846; Samuel, March II, 1848: William, March 28, 1850; Gibson, Decem- ber 6, 1852; Robert Ewing, March 7, 1855. Caroline died at the age of thirty-one years; Andrew died in 1863, while serving in the Union army during the Civil war; Martha, the wife of David Wilson, of Youngstown, died in 1898, at the age of fifty-three years. Mrs. Gault has fifteen living grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She is well preserved both phy- sically and mentally, and seems much younger than she is. She has been a noble and devoted mother to twelve children, who honor her and are also an honor to the family name. Endowed by nature with many excellent qualities, and cultivating the graces of character which lead to an upright life, she has gained friends by reason of her many kindly traits and her sterling worth, and she deserves honorable and prominent mention among the pioneer settlers of her native county.
JOSHUA KYLE.
One of the practical, up-to-date farmers of Canfield township, Mahon- ing county, Ohio, is Joshua Kyle, who not only derives a good revenue from the cultivation of one hundred and sixty-one acres of valuable land, but the rich stratum of bituminous coal which underlies the place is another source of considerable profit. If anyone has a right to enjoy the richness of Mahon- ing county soil, it is the members of the Kyle family, for grandfather Joshua Kyle was one of the very earliest settlers in this favored region, and his descendants enjoy the land almost as a birthright. Joshua came in 1801 and was one of the prominent citizens of the county and wielded considerable po- litical influence. He was one of the Nimrods of that early time and had the reputation of being a "crack" shot. He owned a large amount of land and distributed it among his twelve children in parcels of one hundred acres each.
One of Joshua's sons was Robert, who was born in Youngstown town- ship, this county, in 1805, and was known as one of the most upright and broad-minded men in the community. Like his father, he followed farming and was very successful. He was married about 1828 to Miss Dina Phillips, who was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ; they were members of the Dis-
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ciples church. He died in 1890 and she in 1895. Of their ten children eight are now living, as follows: Mary A., Catherine, Joshua, William, Lef- ford, Alace, Amanda and Ira.
Joshua, the grandson of the above named Joshua, was born at Kyles Corners in this county, December 14, 1834, and was reared and educated in his native township. He spent twenty-one years of his life in drilling for oil and coal in different parts of Ohio. In 1870 he made his first purchase of real estate, to the amount of one acre, but his father later presented him with fifty acres, and he added to his farm by gradual accretions until he has now one of the best estates in the township, and he is also a practical farmer and knows how to bring the best returns from his labor. On January 2, 1863, Mr. Kyle was married to Miss Candace Loveland, who was born to David and Lydia Loveland near Haselton, Ohio, July 9, 1838. She is a mem- ber of the Disciples church and has become the mother of the following chil- dren : Robert, Lulu, Emma C. and Clayton.
Mrs. Joshua Kyle belongs to an honored family of this county, and a few words may be said regarding them. Grandfather Amos Loveland, with his wife Jemima and four children, moved from Connecticut to Mahoning county in 1802. He had been a soldier in the Revolution, holding the rank of cap- tain, and when he came here he was a man of some means, becoming the owner of two hundred and fifty acres of land and other property. Ten chil- dren were born to him, but they are all deceased. One of them, David, was born in Mahoning county at Haselton, in 1807 and died in 1879; his wife was born in 1816 and died the same year that he did. Seven of their eight children are now living: Cynthia, Amos, Marietta, Candace, Keturah, David and Nancy; the last two were twins, and Mrs. Kyle and a deceased sister Sarah were also twins. The father of these children owned two hundred and fifty acres of land, and was one of the brightest and most capable men in the community. He was a captain in the militia and an expert in military tactics ; he belonged to the Democratic party and was an honored citizen in the town- ship throughout his life.
SAMUEL RIDDLE.
Samuel Riddle, who stands high in the estimation of neighbors and friends, and who is one of the leading farmers of Mahoning county, is also a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of the state. His an- cestry can be traced back to David Riddle, his great-grandfather, who was a farmer of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and the records show that he deeded to his son Samuel a farm. The latter was born about 1759, and
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served his country in the Revolutionary war as a defender of the rights of the colonists. He was a farmer of Washington county, and was also a mechanic of considerable natural ability. In 1803 he came to this county from his old home in Pennsylvania, being one of the first to establish homes in this section of the state. He found a wild, frontier region, in which the work of improvement had scarcely been begun and he aided in laying the foundation for the present development. He drove a team of horses from the Keystone state to his destination in Ohio, and in places where there were no roads he followed a trail made by blazed trees. In the midst of the forest he developed a farm, and he also built the first grist mill in Jackson township. He made the burrstones for the mill, which was operated by water power, furnished by Meander creek. That he was a man of considerable property is shown by the old tax records, as he was assessed as much as any resident of the locality. His death occurred in 1825, when he was sixty-six years of age. His wife, who bore the name of Martha Johnson, was also a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and when they came to Ohio they brought with them their five sons and two daughters, all of whom reached adult age. Their first born was Ann, the wife of Nicholas Van Eman, by whom she had twelve children, all of whom reached years of maturity, but all are now deceased with one exception. David Riddle, the second of the family, is a farmer of this locality. James and Catherine were the third and fourth members of the family and were followed by Samuel, the father of our subject. John, the sixth, became a physician and practiced in Wooster, Ohio, and Bluffton, Indiana. Andrew was a farmer of Ellsworth township. None lived to be over seventy years of age save Samuel, and the mother of these children passed away in 1830, at the age of sixty-two years.
Samuel Riddle was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1794, and he wedded Mary Campbell, who was born in 1792, a daughter of William Campbell, who was a native of Ireland and an early settler in Poland township; he was a farmer by occupation and reared a family of four sons and two daughters. The parents of our subject were married in Poland in 1818, and six children were born to them, of whom twin sons died in infancy. Of the others, William Riddle, born in 1819, died in Jackson Center, Ohio, in 1886, leaving to his widow both farm and village property. Martha, the second of the family, died at the age of thirty-three years. Mar- garet became the wife of Gibson Ewing, and died at the age of forty-nine years ; she had twelve children, but reared only four. Samuel completes the family. The mother died at the age of sixty-two years, and the father after- ward married again. He lived a life of industry, worked hard and cleared
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a farm of one hundred acres in the midst of the green forest. His first house was built of round logs, but in 1830 he built a brick dwelling, which stood for nearly seventy years, one of the landmarks of the locality. He died upon his home farm early in the spring of 1867, when nearly seventy-three years of age.
No event occurred to vary the routine of farm life for Samuel Riddle in his youth. He was born in Jackson township, May 27, 1827, on a farm two miles south of his present home, and he was reared upon the farm, work- ing as did most farm boys of that period. He attended subscription and public schools, but through most of the year was busy with the tasks of field or meadow. At age of eighteen years he began teaching and followed that profession through five winter terms. He remained at home with his father until his marriage, which was celebrated April 17, 1851, the lady of his choice being Miss Mary Spear, of Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio, where she was born August 12, 1824, a daughter of Alexander Spear, a wheelwright, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio, locating first in the town of Austin.
Samuel Riddle began his domestic life on the old home farm of his grand- father, Samuel Riddle, near the old mill site, but both the grist mill and the sawmill are now gone. He lived there for four years and then returned to his father's farm to take care of his father, and since the spring of 1857 he has lived here. His mother died at that time, and it became necessary that some of the children should return home and care for the husband thus bereft. He purchased seventy-one acres of the land at fifty dollars per acre and afterward bought fifteen acres more at forty-five dollars per acre. He re- modeled the house and built some of the outbuildings and has otherwise im- proved the property, keeping it equipped with all the accessories of a model farm. He planted one hundred and fifty apple trees, also peach and other fruit trees, and his orchard has yielded abundantly of its fruits. He has carried on general farming, and in addition to the production of grain he has usually kept from fifty to eighty head of sheep, raising them both for the wool and for the market. His business affairs have been well managed and have brought to him a comfortable competence.
In his political views Mr. Riddle is a stalwart Republican and has three times been elected township clerk. Long a member of the Presbyterian church, he has been one of its elders for more than thirty years, and both he and his wife have been active workers in the Sunday school, using their influence for the upbuilding of the Master's cause. On the IIth of March, 1899, Mrs. Riddle was called to her final rest. She was a consistent Christian woman and a noble, true and faithful wife, and after an illness of six weeks.
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caused by la grippe complications, she passed peacefully away. Mr. Riddle stands very high in the regard of his fellow men, and has so lived as to merit their entire confidence and good will. For seventy-six years a resident of this county, he has truly been a participant in its development and a witness of its growth, and as the years have gone by he has rejoiced in what has been accomplished here.
FRIEND JONES.
Not to know Friend Jones is to argue oneself unknown in the village of Jackson. He has spent his entire life there, and is to-day one of the lead- ing merchants of this part of the county, conducting a store which would be a credit to a city of much larger size. It is a monument to the enterprise and energy of the owner, a progressive business man, whose success is well merited.
Mr. Jones was born just across the street from his store, on the 30th of April, 1850. His father, Samuel Jones, was a native of Ellsworth township, Mahoning county, born May 1, 1812, a son of Thomas Jones, who was born in Maryland and came from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, settling in Ellsworth township, Mahoning county. The journey was made with teams in the emigrant fashion of the times. Almost the entire state was covered with a dense forest; few roads had been made, few homes built, and Mr. Jones' nearest neighbor was twelve miles and a half away, to the west. The Jones family camped in their wagon while, with the assistance of the settlers of this community, they built their cabin, which was constructed of logs, and had neither window glass nor doors. The family began life in the midst of the forest in a very humble way, but the grandfather, who was a farmer, gradually triumphed over pioneer conditions, becoming well-to-do; he owned one hundred and fifty acres of land. His wife bore the maiden name of Sarah Wilson and was of Scotch-Irish descent, and by her marriage she became the mother of fifteen children, ten of whom reached adult age, three daughters and seven sons. Their son Thomas was the first white male child born in Ellsworth township, his natal year being 1805.
Friend Jones is of Welsh, Scotch and Irish lineage. His father Samuel was reared amid the wild scenes of frontier life in Ellsworth township. On September 15, 1842, he married Elizabeth Calhoun, who was born in Jackson township, Mahoning county, March 18, 1817, a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Marshall) Calhoun, who were early settlers of this part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Jones became the parents of three children : Sylvester, born January 1, 1845, is a farmer of Brimfield, Portage county, Ohio, and is
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married but has no children; Renwick, born March 16, 1847, is a farmer of Jackson township and is married and has four children; the third member of the family is Friend. The parents came to Jackson from Rootstown, where they had lived for one year. The father learned the tanner's trade in early life and followed that pursuit for two or three years, at the end of which time he sold out to his partner, Mr. Marshall. He then established an ashery and engaged in the manufacture of potash for four or five years, or until 1852, when he purchased ten acres of land in Jackson township, paying al- together one thousand dollars for the property, which included a good resi- dence; in addition to that he bought sixty-two acres, paying twenty-seven dollars per acre. He became a prominent and influential citizen of Jackson township, was prominent in public as well as business affairs. In politics he was a Democrat and served as justice of the peace for twenty years. proving a most capable official. Both he and his wife were devoted members of the Presbyterian church, and he died in that faith September 28, 1892, while his wife passed away eight years later.
Friend Jones was reared upon the home farm, and at the age of eighteen years went into the tinshop here, which was conducted by the firm of Osborn & Jones, his father being one of the partners. The business was established about 1866, at which time a line of hardware and drugs was placed on sale. After five years the firm dissolved partnership, Mr. Jones retaining possession of the tinshop. The son, Friend Jones, began learning the trade in 1868 and has since followed it. He was an apt apprentice and within three months had largely gained a mastery of the business. The first store was built in 1880 and was twenty-one by forty feet and two stories in height, in addition to which there was a wareroom. Friend Jones becoming a part - ner, the business was carried on under the firm style of Samuel Jones & Son until 1885, when the junior partner purchased his father's interest. In 1897 he had built an addition to the original store, enlarging it until the present dimensions are forty-three by seventy feet. Under the entire building is a basement, and the three floors are completely filled with an excellent stock of goods, and the reserve stock is contained in three additional warerooms. Mr. Jones carries a large line of general hardware, stoves, furniture, china and other house furnishing goods, and does a large tin work, plumbing and furnace business. He likewise deals in farm implements, and the various branches of his business return a good income. The establishment is the largest and best of the kind that the writer has ever seen in a country town, and Jackson has every reason to be proud of this trade emporium.
Mr. Jones was married on the 27th of November, 1879, to Miss Grace
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Anderson, who was born at Mineral Ridge, Mahoning county, February 10, 1860, a daughter of James and Sarah (Bowman) Anderson, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. Jones have been born four children: Ivan Rue and Alvie Friend, who are as- sociated with their father in business, working with him in the most harmoni- ous business relations ; Essie May and Curtis Lee, at home; the last named was born March 26, 1893. The mother died August 27, 1893, her death being a great blow to the husband and children.
Mr. Jones has membership relations with the Maccabees and the Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a Democrat and has served as township treas- urer for five terms. His attention, however, is chiefly given to his business affairs, which are so capably managed that he is now enjoying an excellent and profitable patronage. He has built up a large business along safe, con- servative lines, and is also a progressive merchant, carrying a modern and attractive line of goods, which he disposes of at reasonable prices, never taking advantage of the necessities of his fellow men in his trade transac- tions.
GUSTAVE A. DOERIGHT.
The visitor to Youngstown who is introduced to the above named gen- tleman will realize at once that he is in the presence of what the Americans call a "live citizen." His open, genial countenance, bright eye and vigorous frame are all indicative of both mental and physical energy, and further in- quiry will lead to the information that appearances are not deceptive, as Mr. Doeright is generally recognized as one of the most progressive,-as he certainly is one of the most popular,-of Youngstown's business men. Though only thirty-two years old, he has been in business so long as to already be considered a veteran, and he has done more, in his little more than three de- cades of life, than the average man accomplishes in half a century. He is a son of Theodore Doeright, a native of Germany, who emigrated to this country in 1868 and followed the business of cabinet-making. Of his nine children the survivors are: Emily, wife of George Frondorf; Rose, wife of George Reimer; Gustave A., the subject of this sketch; Ralph Henry; Laura; and Clara, wife of Samuel McClemmons.
Gustave A. Doeright, third in age of the surviving children, was born at Youngstown, October 26, 1870, and gained all the academical education he was destined to receive by the time he was fourteen years old. At the age when most boys are preparing to enter high school, young Doeright be- gan to learn moulding with Claypool & Jones, and later was with the Vinton
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Steel Casting Company and Vinton Brass Works of Youngstown. In 1887 he was made superintendent of the Youngstown Brass Works, now the Youngstown Brass & Iron Foundry Company, on North avenue, and he re- tained this position for five years. April 2, 1893, he founded and started the Falcon Bronze Works on South Phelps street and next year took G. B. Booth as a partner; this firm continued until the fall of 1895, when the busi- ness was incorporated as the Falcon Bronze Company, with John Tod, G. B. Booth, R. Garlick and W. W. Bonnell as stockholders, and Mr. Doeright
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was chosen general superintendent. In this position he soon exhibited his excellent ability and resourcefulness, made an immediate success of the enter- prise and in April, 1901, was elected treasurer and manager of the company, which place he has since retained. Experts in this line of business say that Mr. Doeright conducts one of the best equipped modern foundries of the entire country and has no superior of his age in comprehension of all its details and possibilities.
Aside from business Mr. Doeright has found time to assist in the social and fraternal life of the city. His fondness for outdoor sports and their value as educational agencies have made him an enthusiast in baseball mat- ters, and he has been influential in advancing the interests of the Youngs-
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town team, and was also conspicuous in the interstate league. Quite promi- nent in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, he has served repeatedly as treasurer of Lodge No. 55 at Youngstown. He was chairman of the in- dustrial parade which was a principal feature of the Elks Carnival and In- dustrial Exposition, and superintended the Elks Carnival in 1899. He is a director of the Elks building company and was a member of the plans com- mittee during the erection of the Elks Building; he is also treasurer of the house committee of the Elks Club. In addition to which he is vice president of the Stags and a stockholder in several of the city's enterprises and also vice president of Youngstown Manufacturers' Association, and treasurer of the Youngstown Baseball League.
In 1891 he was married to Miss Anna, daughter of Harry Evans, of Youngstown, and resides in a handsome new home recently erected by him- self on Arlington street. He is a member of the Lutheran church and quite independent in local politics ; though in national affairs his influence is on the side of Republican principles. Mr. Doeright has traveled considerably, and during his tours combined business with pleasure, as he availed himself of the opportunity to inspect a large per cent of the iron industries of the United States. The information thus gained was valuable, not only in educating and informing himself personally, but in its bearing upon the business he has in charge and in increasing his equipment for its efficient management. Person- ally he is exceedingly popular with all classes in Youngstown, and no young man in the city has more friends than Gustave Doeright.
JOHN DOUGLAS ORR.
John Douglas Orr, at the age of threescore, is able to look back upon heroic services rendered our great nation, and upon the nation's reward to him in his appointment to a responsible office, and still more to the gratitude and admiration of both the country at large and its individual citizens. He is able to point with pride to the engagements in which he participated and to many victories in life, both as a soldier and citizen.
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