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Company, Salem, Ohio; Joseph died in infancy ; Dora, a single lady of Salem; James C., a successful practicing dentist in Omaha, Nebraska; Dr. C. E .; and Olivia, the wife of L. B. Nixon, residing in Washington, D. C.
Dr. C. E. Whinnery is a graduate of Boston Dental College, and has been engaged since 1880 in the practice of his profession in Salem, except for a period of six years which he passed in Omaha. He married Miss Eliza- beth Allen, of Salem, daughter of William W. Allen, a prominent merchant and pioneer of this city for long years. They have three interesting children, Robert, John and Virginia.
The life of the deceased subject of this sketch was one which was most beautiful in many respects, his influence having been cast for every good work that was meant for the advancement of his local community. His death was a distinct loss and was mourned by a large number of admiring friends. The younger members of the family are highly respected and es- teemed citizens, and merit the esteem in which they are universally held.
E. M. PETERS.
This enterprising and industrious representative of the iron and steel industry of Leetonia, Columbiana county, has been superintendent of the Cherry Valley Iron Company since its organization in 1900. At that date the company was reorganized, the following being the personnel of the officers : President, Joshua W. Rhodes, of Pittsburg; vice-president, E. N. Ohl, of Pittsburg; secretary-treasurer, R. W. Fleniken, also of Pittsburg; Mr. E. M. Peters being the superintendent. The Cherry Valley Iron Works had been in operation for a number of years previous to the new company's taking hold, but it was thoroughly rejuvenated and placed on a sound basis, and the capacity of the plant doubled in extent; the improvements and equip- ment being overhauled in a very thorough manner. The capacity of the plant is now seventy thousand tons of pig iron per year. In connection with the plan there is a coal mine operated at Washingtonville, Ohio, which has a capacity of three hundred tons of commercial coal per day. Part of the output of this mine was formerly consumed in the manufacture of coke, there being ovens near the iron works with a capacity of three hundred tons per day. The whole plant employs a force of three hundred and twenty- five men, and is the largest works of its kind in northeastern Ohio.
Mr. E. M. Peters came to Leetonia from Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where he had been identified for a number of years as superintendent of the leading coke works near that city. He was also for a period of six years superintendent of the Atlanta Iron and Steel Company, at Newcastle, Penn-
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sylvania. His whole life has been spent in different branches of the iron industry, and he is therefore thoroughly qualified for the responsible position which he holds. He is a native of Steubenville, Ohio, where he was born in 1865, the son of Mr. C. H. Peters, of Steubenville. His grandfather before him, Joseph B. Peters, was a pioneer settler of that section of Ohio. Fraternally Mr. Peters is a prominent and worthy member of the Masonic order, not only of the blue lodge, but of the chapter and commandery. He is married, his wife's maiden name having been Miss Annie A. Lytle, of Her- mitage, Pennsylvania ; she was a daughter of Mr. W. S. Lytle, a farmer liv- ing in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Peters takes a lively interest in the local political life of his community, having been, in 1902, the Republican candidate for mayor of the city. He is a gentleman whose many genial qualities attract to him a large number of friends, who hold him in the highest esteem.
JOSEPH KING.
Joseph King, one of the leading farmers of Berlin township, located two miles north of Berlin Center, was born July 13, 1829, and is a son of Jona- than and Lydia (Kecke) King. Jonathan King was one of the early settlers of Berlin township, coming to Mahoning county as early as 1820. He was one of the pioneer settlers who will long be remembered for his high char- acter, for the estimable family he left at death, and for his long and useful life. He was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1804, and in early life became the only support of his widowed mother. Although he was denied educational advantages in his youth, later in life he studied with his own children, and became proficient both in German and English. In 1825 he married Lydia Kecke and in 1826 settled in Berlin township, a poor man, and there resided during the rest of his life. His energy and in- dustry were rewarded by the accumulation of a large property. In addition to being a farmer, he operated one six-horse team on routes from Pittsburg to Cleveland, and to the mouth of the Huron river, and was known as a reinsman. Until the disbanding of the local guardsmen, he acted as the captain of that organization. He was the father of ten children, although but five grew to maturity. At his death in 1896, when ninety-two years old, the survivors were: David King, of Berlin; Joseph King, of this sketch; and Mrs. Susan Shively. The mother of these children was born in 1806 in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and came with her parents to Springfield town- ship, Mahoning county, in 1808, where she died in 1868. Both she and husband belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran church, of which they were zealous and liberal supporters. Jonathan King voted for Andrew Jackson, but later
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adopted abolition views and was identified with the Republican party until 1881, at which time he joined the Prohibition party. His death occurred in Berlin Center, at the home of his son David, after an illness of ten days. He had lived there seventy years and was the oldest resident of the township, and to the last possessed wonderful vigor of mind and body.
Joseph King has resided in his present residence for the past fifty years, this house standing on the site of the old log house constructed here more than eighty years ago. In 1852 he purchased one hundred and ten acres of land of his father, and in 1858 bought twenty-five more and later thirty- three acres more, the whole cost of the property being six thousand seven hundred dollars. The land is all worth at least sixty dollars an acre. Mr. King has moved all the buildings on the place, but still keeps the original frame of the old barn, where can be seen the heavy hewn timbers. He has carried on a general line of farming and has engaged in considerable stock- raising, and has invested in a fine grade of sheep and cows. He also oper- ates a small dairy. He has prospered and is regarded as one of the substantial men of his township.
On May 6, 1852, he married Lucinda Greenamyer, who was born March 29, 1830, and after a lingering illness died May 29, 1902, in her seventy- third year. She was most highly esteemed by all who knew her, and much beloved by her family and friends. Early in life she united with the Lutheran church at Berlin and was always faithful and consistent in her membership. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. King were: Warren H., who is a resi- dent of New London, Ohio, and has three daughters; Samantha, who remains at home with her father; Orvie, who is a farmer and stationary engineer re- siding in North Jackson, has two daughters and one son; Luella E., an ac- complished teacher, a graduate of a college at Wooster, Ohio, has been an instructor in music since her twenty-first year, and now resides at Lima, Ohio; and Alberta, who is also an accomplished musician, is a typewriter in an in- surance office in Youngstown. Mr. King's politics identify him with the Republican party, and he is a strong supporter of Prohibition principles. He and his children belong to the Lutheran church.
EMERY FRANCIS LYNN.
This gentleman, who is a well known member of the Youngstown bar, belongs to a family whose representatives have been identified with the his- tory of Ohio from the pioneer period. His grandfather, John Lynn, came from his native state of Pennsylvania in the first quarter of the nineteenth century and located in Mahoning county, where he spent the remainder of
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his days. His son, David Lynn, was born in Mahoning county in 1829, be- came a farmer at maturity, followed that business all his life and died in 1885. He was united in marriage with Mary A. Peters, by whom he had four children, the survivors being Willis S. and Emery F. Lynn.
The latter, who is the subject of this sketch, was born on his father's farm in Mahoning county, Ohio, February 9, 1858, and remained there until he reached the age of twenty-two years. He attended the schools in his na- tive township of Canfield and in 1880 entered Heidelberg College at Tiffin, Ohio, where he was graduated in June, 1882. After completing his academ- ical course, he matriculated in the Cincinnati Law School, where he spent two years and was graduated with the class of 1884 and in which city he was admitted to the bar. Immediately thereafter he located at Youngstown, and entered upon the practice of his profession. After the usual term of probation, which awaits every young professional man, he gradually came into a good practice, which he has retained and increased as the years pass by. At the present time he has a good business and enjoys high standing at the Youngs- town bar.
In 1886 Mr. Lynn was united in marriage with Miss Hattie B., daughter of Henry Crooks, of Tiffin, Ohio, and they have two children: Donald J. and David E. Though an adherent of the Democratic party, Mr. Lynn has neither sought nor held office, preferring to avoid the entanglements of poli- tics and devote his entire time to his business, and he stands well both socially and professionally.
ENOS COOK.
Enos Cook, a retired farmer of Beloit, and an old resident of Smith township, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1821, and is a son of Caleb Cook, who was born October 15, 1788, also in Chester county. In 1829 Caleb Cook moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware, whence, in 1835, he removed to Columbiana county, Ohio. The latter removal was made by a four-horse team, in emigrant style, the company consisting of eleven per- sons, his seven children and his two nephews being of the party. Although he was never a man of wealth, he accumulated enough means to give each of his living children three hundred dollars. A family of eleven children was born to him, namely: Phoebe, born February 1, 1811, married Joel Baker, had nine children and died in Chester county; Mary Ann, born Decem- ber 19, 1812, still survives and has one son; Louisa, born December 6, 1814, married, first Samuel Hendershott, and, second, Charles Brosius, had two children and died aged eighty-eight years; Eliza, died an infant; Lydia, born February 15, 1819, married Pleasant Coppoc, reared eleven of her thir-
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teen children, and died July 4, 1873; Enos is the subject of this sketch; Sarah, born July 4, 1823, married Eli Garrettson, reared three of her five children and died August 22, 1864; John died young; Elizabeth, born April 23, 1827, married Thomas Cobb, and died September 15, 1850; Francina, born September 22, 1829, married Joseph Ladd, and had three children; and Hannah, born April 11, 1833, married Henry Pickering, had one daugh- ter and one son, and died January 25, 1880. The mother of this family died June 14, 1864, and the father September 20, 1870. They are buried in the churchyard of the Hicksite Quaker Society, which was then known as Quaker Hill, but is now known as the West Meeting.
On April 25, 1844, Enos Cook married Miss Ann E. Michener, who was born January 8, 1827, and is a daughter of James and Eliza Michener, the former of whom was born March 18, 1802, in Chester county, and the latter. April 18, 1801, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. In 1826 they removed to Ohio, where Mrs. Michener died November, 1841, leaving eight children, the youngest but one and one-half years old. At this time the wife of our subject was not yet fifteen years old, and much of the responsibility of the family fell upon her. The father married again, but outlived the stepmother and died in Kokomo, Indiana, June 22, 1893, in his ninety-second year. Both belonged to the Society of Friends.
Enos Cook and wife began life as farmers on property belonging to Mrs. Cook's father. Two years later Mr. Cook bought ninety acres of land, going into debt for the same and settling in a log house, which continued their home for some time. Mrs. Cook was entitled to five hundred dollars when she was twenty-one years, but as she was but eighteen when she was married, she could not claim her dowry at that time. They resided on the farm until March, 1880, when they removed to Beloit, where Mr. Cook had purchased a whole block of the most desirable part of the town with streets already laid out on four sides. Here he erected a fine residence, which continues to be the best one in the village. It is beautifully located, stands well back from the street, from which it is separated by an ornamental evergreen hedge, and is a very attractive home. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cook: Eliza, who was born March 20, 1845, is the wife of Jackson Grove, a retired farmer of this township, and they have three sons and three daughters ; and Howard, who was born March 17, 1856, owns the old farm on the state road and is engaged in a large dairy and stock business, in which he is assisted by his one son, Berton, a fine young man of twenty- three years ; Howard married Margaret Harold, a member of one of the old families.
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For many years Mr. Cook was one of the leading stockmen of this section. Although a successful agriculturist, he thinks a more satisfactory business can be done in the raising of stock than in farming, and his son is of the same opinion. Their choice of dairy stock is of the Ayershire breed. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cook are well known in this locality and are very much esteemed. They belong to the Society of Friends, in which they have a birth- right membership.
DAVID CRUMRINE.
One of the much esteemed and successful farmers of Goshen township is David Crumrine, who was born August 23, 1831, in Berlin township, and is a son of John and Susan (Burgett) Crumrine, and a grandson of one of the very first settlers of Ellsworth. His grandfather was of German extraction, a man of thrifty habits, and both in Pennsylvania and in his new home accumulated property. He died about 1843, his widow surviving a short time. The father of David Crumrine was born in 1795 and died at Berlin Center in 1870. He and wife had six children, five of whom were reared to maturity, as follows: Sarah Ann, born in 1817, married Daniel Hartshorn, had one son, and died in 1865; Fanny died at the age of fifty-six ; J. M. died in 1851 in Hancock county, Ohio, and his only child died soon after; Elias is a blacksmith in Logan county, Ohio, and has five surviving daughters; and David.
David Crumrine had but meager schooling, in the old log schoolhouse of pioneer days. On January 26, 1854, he married Aseneth Cook, who was born in 1833, in this township, on the farm of her maternal grand- father, and is one of five children born to Job and Mary Ann (Swem) Cook these being : Mathias, who lives at Council Bluffs and has one daughter ; Mrs. Crumrine; Caroline is deceased; Louisa is also deceased; and John A., who lives on the farm and has five sons. Job Cook died aged eighty-nine years, and his wife lived to be almost ninety. Mr. and Mrs. Crumrine have four children, as follows: Carrie, Mrs. Wolf, who lives at Atwater station and has three children; Mary, Mrs. Smith, lives in Trumbull county, Ohio; Eva is the loving nurse of her invalid mother ; and J. L. lives at Wellsville, Ohio, and has two sons and one daughter.
In 1864 Mr. Crumrine volunteered for the one hundred day service and was out four months, a member of Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, mostly engaged in garrison duty, and was on picket duty within hearing of the battle of Petersburg. For eight years he and his wife were tenant farmers in Berlin township, eight years in Goshen township, and then for some ten years he was engaged in selling
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pianos and organs at Ravenna, Ohio. In 1873 he returned to Goshen town- ship and since then the family has occupied two different farms, residing on the present one since the spring of 1899. This contains eighty-three acres, and the other one eighty-six acres, both devoted to general farming. In politics he has always been a Republican, but has not sought office. As one of the prominent and worthy members of Kirkwood Post No. 600, G. A. R., he has been elected commander on several occasions. With his wife and children, he has been connected with the Methodist church for a long period and has been an interested worker in the Sunday-school.
Mr. Crumrine has a relic of other days in his possession which is of great family interest. It is a small Bible, bearing date of 1791, and was the property of Miss Mary Eddy, who became the wife of one Smith, the maternal great-grandmother of Mrs. Crumrine. She was born in Oneida, Madison county, New York, May 21, 1762. The record in its tells that her daughter Aseneth was born April 16, 1790, and became the wife of John Swem. This time-worn, calf-bound book has come to the fifth generation and is now claimed by Miss Eva Crumrine, by whom it is much valued.
JOHN H. BLOOM, M. D.
The longest established and best patronized physician in New Middle- town, Mahoning county, Ohio, is the above named gentleman, who has been here since 1880 and has built up such a large practice that he finds it difficult to attend to it although he is going night and day. His father was John Bloom, who was born in what was then a part of Columbiana county on February 27, 1826, and he and three brothers and two sisters were left at an early age by the death of their parents. John was a well-to-do farmer and added forty-eight acres to the sixty which he had inherited; he had a sorghum mill on the farm, and from this and other sources made good profits. His wife was Harriet Margaret Wealand, of this county, and she was the mother of five children: Daniel M. is a physician at New Water- ford, Columbiana county; the second is John H .; Nathan W. is a German Reformed minister at Fort Wayne; Caroline C. is also at Fort Wayne; and George E. is a farmer at North Lima. The parents of these children were members of the Evangelical Association and lived to a good old age, the father dying on August 6, 1896, and the mother on January 25, 1899, re- spected and honored citizens of the county.
The birth of John H. Bloom occurred at North Lima in this county, February 1, 1855, and he enjoyed with the rest of the children a good edu- cation. After completing his studies at the Poland Union Seminary he en-
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tered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1878, and he has been an ardent exponent of the eclectic school all his life. He opened up his first office in Hillsville, Pennsylvania, from there went to Leetonia, Ohio, and established himself here in 1880. He had small means when he started, but he has been constantly building up his patronage, and about sixteen years ago erected his fine home and office and barn, and later purchased the old homestead farm at North Lima, Ohio, and is now also interested in a number of other industries. He owns his own horses and is often called out for long drives into the country. In the time that he has been here two competitors have appeared on the scene, but they remained only a short time, and Dr. Bloom now has such a large country practice that he is seriously thinking of selling out and moving to the city of Youngs- town, Ohio, to follow his profession, where the practice will be devoid of a great deal of the exposure he now has to contend with.
Dr. Bloom was married on August 14, 1879, to Mary A. Burt, who is the daughter of Jehu Burt and his wife Rebecca Jane Taylor, farmers of Columbiana county, the former of whom died in 1891 at the age of sixty- eight and the latter in 1897, aged sixty-four; these worthy people reared all their six children, who are all married and have families: Joseph S. Burt is at Alliance, Ohio; James C. is a farmer at Middleton, Ohio; Sylves- ter is a core-maker and a foreman in the Morgan Engineering Works at Alliance, Ohio; the fourth is Mrs. Bloom; Ella is the wife of Jefferson Hayes; William Jefferson is a foreman in the Harris Automatic Press Company at Niles, this state. The first child born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Bloom was Ida Mae, who is a graduate of the normal college at Canfield, Ohio, and is a teacher of music, being at the present time a student in the conservatory of Oberlin College; Clark H. is an industrious student at the Canfield nor- mal, going there from the school at Poland; Raymond is a bright fellow of twelve years and in school at home. Dr. Bloom is a member of the Knights of Pythias, votes the Republican ticket, and he and his wife are both members of the English Lutheran church, and being still in the prime of their life are energetic and useful members of society.
R. MELVILLE SCRANTON.
Three generations of this worthy family have lived near the town of Alliance, Ohio, so that no name could sound more familiar to its inhabitants than that of Scranton. Grandfather Scranton was an old settler in Lex- ington township and located on a farm about four miles north of where Al- liance now stands, for this village was not yet on the map, nor were there
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any railroads within fifteen miles of the farm. His son Edwin E. is now the secretary of the Standard Bolt and Manufacturing Company at Alliance, one of the principal industries of the thriving town.
R. Melville Scranton is the son of Edwin E. and Hannah Scranton and was born four miles north of Alliance on July II, 1867. He attended the Alliance public schools until reaching the high school, and then entered Mount Union College, where he studied nearly two years in the literary de- partment, and then completed the full commercial and business courses. With this educational equipment he began his career by learning the printing business, and after working as a journeyman at the trade for several years he went into business on his own account. For the last thirteen years Mr. Scranton has conducted a printing and publishing establishment. About four years ago he started in the real estate and insurance business with Colonel George R. Gyger, and has been a partner in said business ever since, the firm name now being Scranton & Cole, Mr. Gyger having been succeeded by Mr. A. M. Cole.
Mr. Scranton is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, but is not connected with any lodges or secret organizations. He is a young busi- ness man of much capability, and as he has been successful so far, there is doubtless a good future before him. On October 20, 1890, he was married to Miss Jessie Horton, of Atwater, Ohio, and they have two children, Grace, aged twelve, and Evangeline, aged two years.
THOMAS B. JONES.
Long identified with the public and industrial life of Youngstown and at present serving as one of the commissioners of Mahoning county, Thomas B. Jones is one of its best known and most esteemed citizens. Coming to this country without means, a stranger from a distant land, he set to work bravely to meet his new responsibilities, and by industry, good management and popular traits of character has achieved an enviable position in his adopted community. He is descended from an old Welsh family, long settled in Wales and connected influentially with the industrial and religious life of that historic country. John Jones, grandfather of our subject, was born in South Wales in 1760 and died there in 1844. He left a numerous family, and seven of his sons were ministers of the Congregational church. Benjamin Jones, the eldest child, was born in Cardiganshire, South Wales, in 1776, married Mary Evans and by her had nine children, of whom the following named four are survivors : Samuel; Ellen, wife of Thomas Thomas; Thomas B .; and William.
Hot Bi Jones,
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Thomas B. Jones, third in age of his father's living children, was born at Hawen, Cardiganshire, South Wales, August 13, 1836, and grew to man- hood in the place of his nativity. In 1856, when he reached his twentieth year, he determined to come to America, where two of his brothers were already located, and this resolve was successfully carried in the year above mentioned. As soon as he landed in New York harbor, he proceeded inland to Ohio and without accident arrived in Youngstown, where he found his brothers doing well in business. He had learned the shoemaker's trade in his native country, which furnished him a livelihood for some time, but event- ually he abandoned this occupation as he found more satisfactory employment. He soon "caught on," to use the American term, and his popularity and ap- titude secured him positions of trust and profit. He served twice on the decennial state appraising board and discharged his duties in that connection to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. He was also for seven years a member of the board of education, in which position he did much for the cause of public instruction, which he has always had at heart. At the No- vember election in 1901 Mr. Jones was chosen by the people as one of the members of the board of commissioners of Mahoning county and entered up- on his term of service in September, 1902, He is one of the best judges of real estate in Youngstown. For forty years Mr. Jones was engaged in the manufacture, in Youngstown, of boots and shoes, and for twenty-five years he employed from twelve to fourteen workmen. He was extensively known for his custom work.
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