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Born near Mount Jackson, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, on the 22d day of September, 1842, he there passed the first twelve years of his life, and then his family removed to Shenango township, Lawrence county, where he received his principal education, and where he remained until he entered the army in the Civil war. This was on August 13, 1862, and was a memor- able day in his history. He served as a private in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, until the 26th of May, 1863, when he received an honorable discharge and returned to his home in Newcastle,
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Pennsylvania. Here he found it impossible to settle down while the war was still raging, and he again enlisted, on September 1, 1864, in Company I, Sixth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, where he served as a private until June 21, 1865, when he was mustered out at Pittsburg.
During all his term of service he rendered valiant services, actively par- ticipating in the engagements at Shepherdstown and Fredericksburg, Vir- ginia, at which latter place he was shot and badly wounded in the left fore- arm. But he was nothing daunted by this injury and continued in active service until he was discharged in 1865, when he returned to Youngstown and there learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked until September,
. 1889, when he was appointed deputy collector of internal revenue in the fourth division of the eighteenth revenue district of Ohio. For four years and four months he discharged his duties in this capacity with great ability, and then resuming his trade, he engaged in general carpenter work until February, 1902, when he was appointed to his position as superintendent of the Mahoning Cemetery Association. In this responsible position he has acquitted himself to the complete satisfaction of the association, and has done much toward the improvement of the cemetery. Mr. Orr was married on September 5, 1867, to Rebecca Armstrong, and two children were born to them, George W., and Mary B., wife of Idwald Hughes.
Mr. Orr was one of six children born to Charles Orr and Margaret White, the former of whom was born in West Newton, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and died in 1881. Of those six children, five grew to maturity, as follows: John D .; Mary E. wife of William M. McMillen; Margaret J., who is still unmarried; Herman P .; Henderson W. died on February 28, 1888.
The grandfather of Mr. Orr was John Orr, and was born in Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, on May 29, 1791, and died on August 14, 1867.
The great-grandfather of Mr. Orr was Charles Orr, born also in the same county and state in 1754, dying in February, 1827. His great-great- grandfather was William Orr, born in Scotland about 1730; he came to America in his early manhood, locating in Westmoreland county, Pennsyl- vania, where his children were reared, and he lived to the advanced age of ninety-three years.
Mr. Orr is a staunch Republican, also an active and influential member of the Tod Post No. 29, G. A. R., and a member of the Tabernacle United Presbyterian church. He served from the year 1881 to 1887 as a member of the board of education, and has rendered many services to the city of Youngstown, where he is held in high esteem by all who know him.
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THOMAS PARROCK.
Among the efficient and successful artisans whose skill, judgment and expert talent have been factors in building up the great iron industry at Youngstown, none are more deserving of mention than he whose lifework constitutes the material for this brief memoir. He comes of a family of mill men, and from earliest childhood was made familiar with matters con- nected with various branches of the metal trades. From small beginnings, learning details as he went along until eventually prepared for larger respon-
THOMAS PARROCK.
sibilities, he rose by degrees until fitted for positions of the highest import- ance in great industrial establishments. None but skilled mechanics and men possessed of organizing and executive talent can show records of this kind, and that made by Mr. Parrock will compare favorably with that of any who have filled positions similar to those achieved by himself. His father, Joseph Parrock, was a fine sample of the English mechanic, being trained in the establishments which are famous for their thoroughness and the skilled work- men which they contribute to the mechanic arts throughout the world. He was born in Shropshire in 1820, but passed much of his active life in Staf- fordshire, where he followed the business of millwright and patternmaker,
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lines of work in which he attained great proficiency and success. He ended his days in 1870, at the comparatively early age of fifty, and just at the time when he gave promise of many years of further usefulness. He married Ann Tranter and by her had twelve children, of whom six are now living, but the only ones residing in America are Thomas and Harry Parrock, the latter being mill superintendent of the Republic Iron and Steel Company at Youngs- town.
Thomas Parrock was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1852, and emigrated to the United States in the twenty-seventh year of his age. Shortly after his arrival, in 1880, he found employment in the rolling mill at Catasau- qua, Pennsylvania, and remained there during the next two years. Removing then to Ohio, he obtained a position with the Iron Company at Girard, re- mained with them until 1884 and then came to Youngstown. In this city he was given charge of the roll turning department in the Cartwright & Mc- Curdy Mill, and did his work so satisfactorily that he was retained, under various changes in proprietorship, until 1900. Within a few months after his first engagement, Mr. Parrock was made superintendent of the entire plant and held that place until the year last mentioned, when he was made general superintendent of the Republic Iron and Steel Company at Youngs- town. He has remained with this extensive establishment for two years, which fact it is only necessary to state as proof of the entirely acceptable ser- vice he has rendered to his employers.
In 1876, before leaving England, Mr. Parrock married Miss Fanny Wil- liams, a Staffordshire lady, by whom he has had four children: Harry P., James D., George R. and Mary Gladys. Mr. Parrock is not a member of any church or order. His political affiliations are with the Republican party.
DAVID J. BOLENDER.
This worthy citizen of northeastern Ohio is filling the responsible and difficult position of superintendent of the large plant of the National Fire Proofing Company, which it situated in the village of East Palestine. He entered the employ of this company in 1889, since which time he has had entire charge of the working force of some eighty men. The plant covers a tract of about twenty-one acres, and burns twenty-eight kilns. The output of building blocks is three thousand five hundred tons per month. Besides this, the product of the works consists of conduits, fireproofing, ornamental tiling. etc. Prior to taking service with the National Fire Proofing Company, Mr. Bolender had been with the Beatty Fire Clay Company at Magnolia, Ohio. His whole business life has been passed in works of like character. He is looked upon as a most efficient and skillful manager in this line of business.
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Mr. Bolender is a native of Canton, Ohio, and is the son of Josiah Bolender, who was also reared in Canton. He was for a long period of years a trusted employe of the Caultman Company. Grandfather David Bolender was a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and brought his family to Canton, Ohio, in the early part of the nineteenth century. Our subject's mother was Susan Uplinger, who was also a native of Lancaster, Pennsyl- vania.
The marriage of Mr. David J. Bolender was solemnized in Canton with Miss Charlotte Winschencker, this lady being a native of Germany. She has become the mother of an interesting family of eight children. Fraternally Mr. Bolender is a worthy member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also of the Knights of Pythias. His large and ripe experience in the particular industry of which he has charge, coupled with his faithfulness to duty and the happy faculty he has discovered of handling and managing large bodies of men, with so little friction, makes him a most valuable aid in the conduct of the business. He deserves the universal respect accorded him by his large circle of friends.
JOHN McKEEFREY.
Leetonia, Columbiana county, Ohio, has kept pace in these latter years with the rapid development of the manufacturing industry in northeastern Ohio, and has good reason to be proud of the part she has played in the industrial world. One of the most prosperous of her manufacturing insti- tutions is the Salem Iron Company, of which the gentleman whose name initiates this paragraph is president and general manager. It is now twelve years since Mr. McKeefrey first became connected with the Salem Furnace, and in that time he has increased its working capacity to a point almost double that at which he found it. The furnace was first erected in 1866, and in 1892 Mr. McKeefrey with others purchased the property, and or- ganized the Salem Iron Company. At the time the Salem Iron Company was organized, the subject of this article was made president, coming from Pittsburg to Leetonia at the time mentioned. Two sons, Mr. W. D. Mc- Keefrey and Mr. N. J. McKeefrey, are vice president and secretary, re- spectively, of the company. The McKeefreys have been the life of the concern, it being in a rather run down condition at the time of their assuming control. They operate one furnace, and make Bessemer, Foundry and Grey Forge for the general market.
Since Mr. McKeefrey located in Leetonia, he has taken a prominent
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part in everything that is calculated to advance the interests of the com- munity, and is a stirring, energetic and public-spirited citizen. He is a native of the county of Londonderry, Ireland, and came to America when but a child, with his parents, who located in the city of Pittsburg, where Mr. McKeefrey as he came to manhood engaged in the iron industry, and where his skill and executive ability advanced him to the position of an officer in the Star Mill of that city, which position he was holding at the time of his removal to Leetonia. Mr. McKeefrey was married to Miss Mary A. McFar- land in Pittsburg, and they are the parents of the following children: Wil- liam D., Neal J., Margaret E. Kearney, Katherine Kunzler, Ellen B. and Sarah.
JAMES A. MARTIN.
A representative citizen of Lisbon, Ohio, is James A. Martin, one of the leading attorneys of Columbiana county. He was the fourth of a family of eleven children, is of Scottish parentage and was born in Jefferson county, Ohio. His father, William McIntosh Martin, came with his parents, James and Janette Martin, to the United States in 1834, locating in Brush Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, upon a farm obtained by patent from the United States, which is still in the possession of the family. The mother of our subject was a daughter of Robert and Isabel (Ogilvie) Urquhart, who prior to 1830 came from the Scottish highlands to Columbiana county and located near Highlandtown, where the mother, Isabel U. Martin, was born. William McIntosh and Isabel U. Martin were people of sterling char- acter, originating from the old Seceder stock, and were prominently identified with church work, the father for many years being a ruling elder in the Grant Hill United Presbyterian church. Both the Martin and Urquhart families have been prominent in their communities, many members at various times occupying positions of large responsibility, influence and usefulness. Dr. Alexander Martin, first president of the West Virginia State University and for many years prior to his death president of De Pauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, a man distinguished as an educator and high in the councils of the Methodist Episcopal church, was an uncle of James A. Martin.
James A. Martin was early thrown upon his own resources, yet he succeeded, by industry and economy, laboring on farm, in mill and mine. and by teaching school in winter, in working himself through college, gradu- ating from Mount Union in 1876. For five years he superintended union schools, three years being spent at Salineville, Columbiana county, and two in West Salem, Wayne county, Ohio. He read law in the office of Wallace
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& Belingsley at Lisbon, this state, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio at Columbus in the spring of 1882. For twenty years he prac- ticed his chosen profession at Lisbon, with distinguished success, filling such positions as justice of the peace, mayor of Lisbon and deputy supervisor of elections of Columbiana county. In the spring of 1902 he was nominated without opposition to the office of probate judge of Columbiana county, Ohio, by the Republican party and elected by thirty-six hundred majority in the November election following. Mr. Martin's reputation as a forcible and eloquent public speaker is such that for years his services have been in large demand for addresses on public occasions. Upon the hustings, in every important campaign for twenty years, his voice has been heard preaching the gospel of Republicanism.
On the 21st of August, 1883, Mr. Martin was united in marriage with Lillie, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Shearer, of Lisbon, Ohio, and one daughter, Edith L., has come to them to bless their union. Mr. Martin is an influential member of the United Presbyterian church of Lisbon, Ohio, and his interest in church and philanthropic work has been constant and his support liberal.
SAMUEL J. CRAWFORD.
This gentleman, who is the well known insurance agent at East Liver- pool, has had one of those quiet and unobtrusive lives which are, however, not the less useful because comparatively uneventful. Aside from the years employed with a pottery firm, Mr. Crawford has devoted practically all his time to the insurance business, in which he has been quite successful, the com- panies he represents carrying at the present time well up toward a million and a half dollars of insurance in the city. Few names have been better known in Ohio than that of Crawford, and it was especially conspicuous during the pioneer period. Not only our subject himself but his father and grand- father were natives of Ohio and spent all their lives within the borders of this state. John Crawford, the grandfather, was born in 1788. fourteen years before his native state was admitted to the union, and hence his boyhood was spent amidst the wild and constantly exciting area which closed the last quar- ter of the eighteenth century. His subsequent career embraced more than three quarters of the following century, and he was a witness of all the greatest events in the history of the nation, including all but the last of its wars. He did not die until 1884, and hence was ninety-six years old, and during that extended period his chief occupation was farming, which pursuit engaged his attention up to the time when the feebleness of age prevented any strenuous exertion on his part. His son Joseph Crawford was also an
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old-timer, being born in Columbiana county, Ohio, as far back as 1813, and his death occurred in 1885, just a year after that of his venerable father. During all the years of his active life Joseph was steward of steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In 1847 he married Mary E. Jones, who died in 1878, after having become the mother of four sons: John, Joseph, William and Samuel J .; of these the two first mentioned died in infancy, and William passed away in 1898, leaving three children : Elmer E., Arena and Clifford C.
Samuel J. Crawford, the youngest and only surviving child of his parents, was born on a farm in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1858, and remained at home until sixteen years old. He then quit school for the purpose of working in the pottery of Knowles, Taylor & Knowles, with which firm he remained eighteen years. In 1892 he retired from the pottery business to accept the agency of the New York Life Insurance Company and has had charge of the affairs of that large concern at East Liverpool for the last ten years. That he has done an extensive business in his line will be realized from the statement that at the present time his company is carrying $1,300,000 in life insurance at East Liverpool.
In 1886 Mr. Crawford was united in marriage with Mary E., daughter of Robert Sheville, of East Liverpool, and the three children resulting from this union are Charles DeWitt, Emmett H. and Ethel M. Mr. Crawford's religious affiliations are with the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics he is a Republican.
JOHN W. MOORE.
"The hope of the republic is in her common schools, and the hope of the common school is in the personnel of its teaching force," is a statement by one of our prominent political writers, which is fully endorsed by a large majority of the intelligent citizenship of our country. The continuation of America's free institutions depends upon the intelligent character of those who make the laws governing those institutions. Ignorance in the masses is therefore a menace to our government, and every effort possible should be made to correct the evil. The history of Ohio will compare favorably with that of any other state in the Union in matters of education, and the last quarter of a century has seen marvelous development and improvement in the public school system. In this advancement the gentleman named above has had an honored part, his ripe scholarship and splendid pedagogical training having made him a prominent figure in the educational circles of northeastern Ohio.
Professor John W. Moore has been superintendent of the public schools
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of Leetonia, Ohio, since 1891. The population of the town during this period has increased but little so that the growth in the number of school children has been but small. The character of the schools, however, has been made more efficient, and Leetonia has reason to be proud of her school facilities. Professor Moore has had an honored and extensive experience in school work, his first active service having been in the district schools of Columbiana county. He accepted the superintendency of the Washington- ville public schools in 1887, where he remained for a period of four years, and, as stated, came to Leetonia in 1891.
Professor Moore was educated in the schools of Columbiana county, Ada Normal School, and Mount Union College. He was born near Wil- mington, Delaware, in 1861. In 1864 his parents, William and Anna (Mul- len) Moore, moved to Ohio and settled on a farm in Wayne township, Columbiana county, where they remained until five years ago, when they moved to Lisbon, Ohio. The members of their family still living are six, three daughters and three sons. Of the other sons, Judge J. G. Moore, a prominent and leading citizen of Lisbon, whose sketch will be found else- where in this volume, and L. C. Moore, a prominent attorney of Salineville, Columbiana county. The Moore family is of Irish extraction, the father having been a native of county Donegal, Ireland.
Professor Moore was married to Miss Lizzie Zuck of Leetonia, who has become the mother of one child. He is very actively and helpfully inter- ested in the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken all of the degrees except the thirty-third, and for the past seven years has been the official lec- turer of the order for the Twenty-fourth district, composed of Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson and Carroll counties. In his own profession he is re- garded as a man of fine attainments. He has been one of the county school examiners for the past twelve years.
He is an earnest student and conscientious toiler for the uplifting of humanity about him. His efforts along these lines are deserving of the most unstinted praise. In the schoolroom his genial and earnest personality makes itself felt alike with teacher and pupil, and with all he is deservedly popular.
JOSEPH BARLOW.
Joseph Barlow is the manager of the Wallace-Chetwynd Pottery, of the East Liverpool Potteries Company, at East Liverpool, and throughout his entire business life he has been connected with the branch of labor which he now represents. He is numbered among the worthy citizens of Columbiana county that England has furnished to this section of Ohio. He was born
Joseph Barlow
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in Staffordshire, England, in 1852. The grandfather, Samuel Barlow, was born and reared there and throughout his business career carried on farming in Staffordshire. Samuel Barlow, Jr., was born in Staffordshire in 1819 and for about half a century remained in the land of his birth, but at length crossed the "briny deep" to the new world, locating in Trenton, New Jersey, about the year 1866. There he remained until 1870, when he returned to his native country, spending his remaining days there. He, too, was a potter and followed the business for a long period. He was united in marriage to Lucy Bath, and they became the parents of fourteen children, nine of whom reached the adult age, while seven are yet living: Helen, the wife of Isaac Mountsford; Sarah A., the wife of Elijah Bennett; Joseph, of this review; Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John. Of these, Mathew, Joseph and Luke are residents of East Liverpool. The father departed this life in 1882, while the mother passed away in 1901.
Joseph Barlow was reared in Norton, England, and there acquired his education. He afterward learned the potter's trade in Fenton, Staffordshire, and in 1873 came to America. In 1873 he became a resident of East Liver- pool and secured a position in the pottery of Taylor, Knowles & Rijby with whom he remained continuously until 1883, a fact which indicates his fidelity to duty as well as his capable workmanship. When that decade had expired, he entered the employ of the Dresden Pottery Company, now the Co-opera- tive Company, with which he remained for eighteen years. In 1890 he came to the Wallace-Chetwynd Pottery as manager and has since served in this important capacity.
In 1870, in England, Mr. Barlow was, united in marriage to Elizabeth Massey. Their union was blessed with five children, three of whom are living, as follows: William J., Jethro M. and Maude E. The parents hold mem- bership in the Episcopalian church and their lives are in harmony with its teachings. Mr. Barlow is quite prominent in fraternal circles and belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men, to the Knights of the Golden Eagle, to the Sons of St. George and to the Mystic Circle. As a stanch Republican he was elected a member of the city council from the second ward and in April, 1903, he was elected councilman at large. In matters pertaining to the gen- eral good he is deeply interested and puts forth every effort in his power to promote the welfare of his community along lines of substantial progress and improvement. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to make America his home, for he has found good business opportunities and has proved that merit will win advancement and that success will reward earnest, capable labor.
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HYRUM WELLS HULL.
Hyrum Wells Hull, who is engaged in general farming and stock-rais- ing, owns and cultivates eighty acres of land in Milton township, where well tilled fields give evidence of his careful supervision and progressive methods. He was born in Berlin township, Mahoning county, on the 15th ,of April, 1844. His father, Michael Hull, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and a son of Emanuel Hull, whose wife bore the maiden name of Eve Study. About the year 1825 the grandparents came to Ohio and cast in their lot with the pioneer settlers of this county. The grandfather was born October 9, 1791, and served his country as a loyal soldier in the war of 1812; he died March 17, 1848. To him and his wife were born ten children, six sons and four daughters, and with the exception of one daughter, Mary, and a son, George, all were married. The grand- mother died in 1879, at the age of eighty-five years.
Michael Hull had a family of five children, four of whom reached years of maturity. The mother, whose maiden name was Frances Swartz, was a daughter of Martin Swartz, of Stark county, Ohio, who worked on his farm during the week and preached on Sundays, and she died when thirty-five years of age. Mr. Hull afterward married Sophia Burkey, and had two children by the second wife, one of whom reached adult age. Hyrum W. Hull is the eldest of his father's family; Lucretia died in childhood; Mary Alice became the wife of Samuel Shafer, and died at the age forty years, and her only child has also passed away; Olive Minerva became the wife of Dennis Hahn, a resident farmer of Berlin township, and has two children; Eddy Monroe is a resident of Ellsworth township and has three children; Minnie D., the wife of George Keeler, of Berlin township, resides on the old homestead farm, and has four children. Michael Hull died October 3, 1890, and his second wife passed away on the 13th of November, 1902.
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