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In 1861 he was married at Youngstown to Mary A. Davis, and they have had seven children, of whom the five surviving are as follows: Thomas B., Jr .; Richard M .; J. Arthur ; Ella, wife of Lewis Jones ; and James Emlyn, who is now a chief clerk in the bureau of plant industry in the agricultural department at Washington. Like his family for generations, Mr. Jones be- longs to the Congregational church, in which he holds the position of trustee, and he is also treasurer of the Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania conference. For quite a number of years he has been an active worker for the principles of the Republican party.
FRANK M. MOORE.
It was Francis Moore, the great-grandfather of the above named gentle- man, who was the progenitor of this family in America. He was a native of Ireland and came to this country before the Revolutionary war, but returned to the old country before that event, dying there. Mr. Frank Moore has in his possession an old book with a thick leather cover, which contains
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this old gentleman's name written in gilt letters, a precious heirloom. His only son William came to Poland township, Mahoning county, and selected a site for his future home in the woods in 1804. Two years later, with his wife carrying her youngest child in her arms and with the oldest riding behind him, he made the tedious horseback journey through the wilderness and by the devious trails and unbroken ways out to the place where he had determined to establish his abode. He came without means, but his pioneer pluck soon put him in comfortable circumstances. He had married Mary Smith, of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and they reared four of their seven children, three having died within a week from dysentery. The son Francis was born December 3, 1802, and died in the old home here, June 13, 1833; he was engaged to be married and had built a house of his own on the farm when death took him away. The next child was James S .; Mar- tha, the wife of David Arrel, died leaving three sons and one daughter; Rebecca, born February 28, 1813, died in 1886, unmarried.
James S. Moore was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1804, being but two years old when his parents came to Ohio. He was married on what is now the Kennedy farm, on May 3, 1838, to Hannah Truesdale, who was born in this township, April 2, 1816, and was the only child of Hugh and Ann (Riley) Truesdale. Born to Mr. Moore and his wife were: Rachel A., wife of John Stewart in Washington, Iowa, and they have two living children; William B. served in the Eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry for eight months and now lives in Lowellville, Mahoning county ; Hugh R. was also in the same regiment as his brother, was a physician, was born January 24, 1842, and died in Poland in 1895, leaving his widow and two children; Frank M. is the next in order of birth; Mary E. is the wife of Dr. E. L. Mckinney, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has five chil- dren; Rebecca J. is the wife of E. J. McComb, in Los Angeles, California, and has one son and one daughter; Julia A. married a Mr. Crawford, but both are now deceased. These children lost their devoted mother on Jan- uary 16, 1883; their father and his sister Rebecca spent their lives here and died within a few hours of each other, being buried by one funeral service.
The birth of Frank M. Moore occurred in the house his grandfather had built many years before, on September 28, 1843. He was reared to the labor of the farm and enjoyed a good education in the common schools and later at Westminster College at Wilmington, Pennsylvania. On June 16, 1886, he was married to Ella J. Bell, of Youngstown, who was born in Niles, Ohio, May 24, 1857, and is the daughter of J. S. and Caroline (Barnhisel) Bell. The latter is a widow residing in Youngstown and was born at Tibbets Cor-
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ners about sixty-eight years ago; her husband was a farmer and died at the age of fifty-five, in 1888, leaving his widow and three children in com- fortable circumstances, the latter being: Ida, the wife of W. J. Whitworth in Youngstown, four children; Ella J .; and Albert L. Bell lives with his mother in Youngstown and has a wife and two children. The oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Moore is Charles C., who was born in 1887, and is in school in Poland; Belle was born April 4, 1897. The family reside in the comfortable old house built by grandfather Moore, with its characteristic windows with panes seven by nine inches. In 1836 his father built an addi- tion, but half of the dwelling is nearly one hundred years old. Mr. Moore is a Republican, has served as land appraiser and in 1900 was the decennial appraiser of Poland township; he served seven years as one of the four jury commissioners, twenty years as a member of the board of agriculture and three years as its president ; he is a trustee in the Presbyterian church, and in many ways has evinced his interest in the public weal.
A. E. ALBRIGHT.
There is probably no parallel in the history of the great state of Ohio to the rapid growth of the city of Sebring, Mahoning county. In July, 1899, there was no sign of habitation on the site of the town; today it is a hustling little city of sixteen hundred souls, with hundreds of tasteful homes and blocks of well built business houses, with street cars, electric lights, sewers, water works and every modern convenience known to civilization. This is all the result of careful planning by the eastern Ohio pottery kings, the Sebring brothers, from whom the town takes it name. One of the very first men on the ground after the town was platted, and before a single nail had been driven, was the gentleman whose name appears above, and who carried in his pocket his commission as the first postmaster of the town of Sebring, to be. Mr. Albright's commission was signed by the late President Mckinley, and was dated July 29. The following November Mr. Albright was elected mayor of the city, there being only forty-four legal voters in the town. In the following spring he was re-elected, this time with a total vote of four hundred, and in the spring of 1902 the vote was nearly six hundred. Mr. Al- bright has been wide awake to the interests of the town, and has been among the very first to organize the different public utilities. Being an earnest worker in the Methodist Episcopal church, one of the first institutions to which he gave his attention was the organization of that society, and of which he is a working official. He was also immediately interested in the organization of the Buckeye Building and Loan Association, being its first
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secretary, and also receiving appointment from the Adams Express Company as its first agent in the town. He was connected with the land company that laid out the town, up to the first of January, 1902, when he formed a partnership with Mr. E. L. Hammond in the real estate and insurance busi- ness, and this firm is now one of the leading real estate firms in the city.
Mr. Albright built and is living in the second house that was built in the city. He has passed his life in eastern Ohio, never having resided outside of Columbiana county until his removal to Sebring. He was born in Home- worth, Columbiana county, and spent most of his adult years in the city of East Liverpool, where he was constable of that corporation for four years. The Albrights came to Ohio from the Keystone state, our subject's grand- father, Daniel Albright, settling in Columbiana county in the early part of the nineteenth century, where he continued to engage in agriculture until his death at the age of eighty-two years. Mr. J. W. Albright, the son of Daniel, was also born in Columbiana county, and has lived in the city of Liverpool for the past nineteen years.
Mr. Albright is a gentleman whose suave and kindly manner attracts friend and stranger alike, and the sterling quality of his integrity breeds faith in his honesty of purpose in the hearts of all who know him. He is a man of strong friendships and many of them, and is a most popular official.
ERASTUS E. EELLS.
Erastus E. Eells, funeral decorator and graduated embalmer of Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, is one of its esteemed citizens. He is a descend- ant of one of the prominent colonial families, which still has many members in the state of Connecticut. The early records tell that one John Eells came to America in 1628, but returned to England in 1640, taking with him his son Samuel, who was born in 1639. In 1661 this son came back to America, was a brilliant lawyer and held the rank of major in the colonial army during King Philip's war. From this Major Samuel Eells our subject directly de- scended, and one of his forefathers was Rev. John Eells, who was the first minister of the church in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1733. Great-great- grandather Jeremiah Eells was born in New Canaan, and his son, Nathaniel Eells, came to Columbiana county in 1817 and settled on a farm in Elk Run township, and died in August, 1823.
Grandfather Erastus E. Eells came to Columbiana county in 1817 and to Lisbon in 1824, from Clapboard, Connecticut, where he was born August 9, 1808. After locating in Lisbon, Ohio, he became an apprentice to Joseph Ledlie, but began the business of cabinet-making for himself in 1828. In
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1834 the only hearse in Lisbon came into the possession of Mr. Eells. It was a large coffin-shaped affair on cross bars, joined with long wooden springs, and was drawn by one horse, while the driver's seat was a chair placed one-third of the way back from the front. The records do not show the final disposition of this strange and ghastly piece of furniture, although its present location may be in some museum, where it would doubtless attract interest in comparison with modern vehicles of the kind. Few may realize how important were the services rendered the community by Erastus E. Eells in those early days. Until 1866 he constructed all the coffins, except the metallic ones, which were used in Lisbon or vicinity. During his sixty- three years of business life there he buried over five thousand bodies, drove fifty thousand miles personally, and never missed an engagement, or was be- hind the appointed time, although he conducted funerals as far away as Cleveland, Cadiz, Newcastle and Canton. During this time he interred three persons who were over one hundred years of age. His death occurred April 18, 1892, at the age of eighty-three years, eight months and five days. It was a sudden collapse, Mr. Eells having been attending to business on the day of his death.
Thus passed away one of the prominent and useful citizens of Colum- biana county. He was one of the original abolitionists of eastern Ohio and became one of the most active promoters of the underground railway, work- ing for twenty-five years prior to the Civil war to assist escaping slaves. In 1859 he was elected treasurer of the county and served the office with that strict integrity which made him notable in every relation of life. Probably no man in eastern Ohio was more highly respected. Possessing a strong character, he was kind, gentle and charitable. His most unselfish devotion was given his friends, his family and the oppressed. For very many years he was an elder in the United Presbyterian church and was active in all its good work.
The first marriage of Erastus E. Eells took place on March 12, 1829, to Mary Ann Ramsey, and four children were born to them: Susan R., who married John Arter; Robert G., who resides in Lisbon; Elizabeth, who married David Sterling, now resides at Los Angeles, California; and Leonard H. The mother of these children died November 14, 1837. The second wife of Mr. Eells was Janet S. Briggs, who died July 13, 1840. The third marriage was to Nellie Bell McKarg, who died July 24, 1843. Mr. Eells was married the fourth time to Catherine Figley, and the children of this union were: Hannah H., who married William Johnson, of Lisbon, and Martha R., who married Robert Armstrong, of Lisbon.
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Leonard H. Eells, son of Erastus E., was born in Lisbon in 1836, and attended the village schools. He learned the furniture and undertaking business and was associated with his father until the latter's death, carrying on the same and later associating his son with him. Leonard H. Eells was first married to Miss Crowe. His second marriage was to Miss Lizzie Her- man, who was born in Lisbon, and is a daughter of David Herman, one of the well known citizens. The children born to this union were: David, who holds the position of city marshal of Lisbon; Mary, who is the wife of William Farmer, of Elk Run township, Columbiana county. The third mar- riage of Mr. Eells was to Minerva J. Chain, who is the daughter of Henry and Lizzie (McCormick) Chain, of Elk Run township. The children born to this union were: Effie Louella, who is deceased; Leonard H., Jr., who resides in Lisbon; William Clyde, who is deceased; Clara, who is Mrs. Warren Wolfgang, of Columbiana; Elizabeth, who is Mrs. William Wright, of Elk Run township; Henry S., who is a resident of Lisbon; Erastus E .; and Susan R., who is Mrs. Jesse Davidson, of Wellsville, Ohio.
Erastus E. Eells, who bears the honored name of his grandfather, was educated in the public schools of Lisbon and learned the undertaking business with his father. On February 17, 1899, he graduated from the Massa- chusetts College of Embalming and does all the business in that line in this section. He was married to Miss Jennie B. Rees, who is a daughter of Elias Rees, of Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Eells is an educated lady, and prior to marriage was a trained nurse, having graduated from the Youngstown Hospital. One child has been born to this union, Myron. Mr. and Mrs. Eells are valued members of the Presbyterian church.
LAURENCE H. COONEY.
The old Keystone state of the Union has contributed in no small measure to the personnel of the populace of Youngstown, Mahoning county, and one distinctive cause of this fact is that involved in the prosecution at this point of conspicuous industries of a sort which had given Pennsylvania prestige in an early period of its history,-enterprises touching the manufacture of iron and steel. Pennsylvania has thus developed many experts in the various branches of manufacture, and their services have later been in requisition in Mahoning county, so that many natives of that state are to be found identified with the leading industrial activities of Youngstown. One of this number is the gentleman whose name initiates this sketch and who is incumbent of the position of superintendent of the finishing department of the Ohio works
Alooney
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of the National Steel Company. He is one of the able young business men of the city and is entitled to representation in this work.
Laurence H. Cooney was born in Bellefonte, Center county, Pennsylvania, on the Ist of December, 1869, and in the public schools of his native town he received excellent educational advantages, completing a course in the high school, in which he was a member of the class of 1885. Shortly afterward he went to Braddock, Pennsylvania, where he entered upon the duties of assistant ticket agent in the office of the Pennsylvania Railroad, retaining this position about two years, after which he was in the employ of the Braddock Wire Company for six months, and then secured a position in the Edgar Thompson Steel Works, in that city, with which concern he continued to be identified until June, 1900. His marked business capacity and faithful service secured him advancement, so that at the time of his resignation he was in tenure of the office of assistant superintendent of the finishing department. Upon leaving Braddock, in the month noted, Mr. Cooney came to Youngstown for the purpose of accepting his present position as superintendent of the finishing department in the Ohio works of the National Steel Company, the office being one that implies distinctive trust and responsiblity and one whose duties are being discharged with signal facility and discrimination by Mr. Cooney.
His religious faith is that of the Catholic church, in which he was reared, and his political proclivities are indicated in the stanch support which he ac- cords to the Republican party ; fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Royal Arcanum and the National Union. In Braddock, Pennsylvania, on the 19th of April, 1894, Mr. Cooney was united in marriage to Miss Clara C. Baughman, a daughter of Hiram and Catherine Baughman, of that city, and of this union two sons have been born, Laurence E. and Chauncey.
Reverting to the genealogy of our subject, we record that he is a son of Laurence Cooney, who was born in county Galway, Ireland, in the year 1820, and who came to America in 1834, when a young man of twenty years, in company with his parents. The latter first located in Vermont, where they remained but a short time and then removed to Bellefonte, Center county, Pennsylvania, where the father of our subject passed the remainder of his long and signally useful and worthy life, his death occurring in May, 1901. He was a stonemason by trade, and to this he devoted his attention through practically his entire business career. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary Flynn, who likewise was a native of the Emerald Isle, and they be- came the parents of eight children, of whom six survive, namely: Mary, the
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widow of Joseph Fox; Martin L., a resident of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; Bridget, the wife of William L. Dillon; Michael, a resident of Bellefonte; Alice, the wife of Thomas Brennan; and Laurence H., the immediate subject of this sketch. The devoted wife and mother, who was a sincere and con- sistent communicant of the Catholic church, died in 1888, when the subject of this review was a young man of about nineteen years.
JOHN A. ROACH, M. D.
For a period of sixteen years this gentleman has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Alliance, Ohio, where he is regarded as one of the best practitioners of medicine in the city. Dr. Roach is a native of Carroll county, Ohio, born in 1858. His father, who is still living in Alliance, but has now retired from active practice, is Dr. J. B. Roach; his mother was Delila Ashbrook. Their family consisted of four children, all living : William M. Roach, an attorney at law, in Alliance; Olive, wife of D. B. Turnipseed, a merchant in Alliance; John A .; Eva M., wife of M. D. Mc- Eniry, government land office, Crookston, Minn. The father was born in Stark county, Ohio, at the little town of Robertsville, in 1828. He began the practice of medicine in 1865 at Augusta, Carroll county, where he con- tinued to follow the profession for thirty-six years. He retired from active practice in 1891. Dr. Roach was exceedingly active in public affairs, having held the office of justice of the peace for a continuous period of twenty-eight years, and when quite a young man served two terms in the state legislature, in 1858 and 1860. He was a staunch Whig in the early days, and became one of the organizers of the Republican party in his section. In 1861 he en- listed in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a private soldier, and afterwards received appointment as surgeon of the regi- ment. In this position he continued to serve to the end of the war. His wife was a native of Carroll county, also, and was the daughter of John and Katherine (O'Neil) Ashbrook. The Ashbrook family were originally from Little Washington, Pennsylvania.
Dr. John A. Roach was reared amidst the refining influences of a splendid home, his early education having been acquired in the public schools of Carroll county. He applied himself with such diligence to his books that he was able at a very early age to enter the schoolroom as a teacher, and that constituted his occupation for the first five years of his adult life. Re- solving to adopt the profession of his father for a life work, he matriculated in the Western Reserve Medical College of Cleveland, and in 1884 received a diploma from this institution. He first settled in the practice of his pro-
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fession in Sherodsville, Ohio, where he remained for two years, then came to Alliance and has since been engaged in active practice at this point.
Dr. Roach married Miss Maggie Dunlap, of Carroll county, a daughter of Daniel Dunlap, and of a family which was among the earliest settlers of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Roach have one child, a daughter, Rhea. He keeps in touch with the medical fraternity, being a member of the State Medical Society, and also of the Union Medical Society of northeastern Ohio. So- cially he is connected with the Masonic fraternity, being a Knight Templar and a Shriner, and at the present time holding the office of high priest in the chapter. Dr. Roach and his family are members of the Disciples church, in which they are greatly esteemed.
No branch of human endeavor approaches the medical profession in the responsibility assumed. The price of health cannot be measured in dollars and cents, let alone setting a value upon life itself. The personality of Dr. Roach seems to breathe forth this idea, and having such a high conception of his profession, he gives to his cases the most profound and painstaking study. He is a genial, whole-souled gentleman, and he and his family occupy an admirable place in the society of their little city.
ORVILLE AUGUSTUS RHODES, M. D.
Though a resident of Salem only three or four years, Dr. Rhodes has been connected with Columbiana county since 1887 and has long enjoyed an extensive medical practice, especially in general surgery. Before coming to Ohio he had practiced some in his native state of Pennsylvania, and he neg- lected no opportunity to qualify himself for the highly responsible and hon- orable profession to which he has devoted his life, by long and thorough study in the best schools, supplemented by those indispensable agencies of young physicians, known as the post-graduate courses.
The Rhodes family, to which our worthy subject belongs, has long been identified with the social, professional and religious life of Pennsylvania. For many generations they have been known in that state, especially in the counties of Blair and Butler, and various members of the family have risen to eminence in the Evangelical Lutheran church in different sections of the Union. Peter Rhodes, grandfather of the Doctor, lived for an ex- tended period in Butler county, Pennsylvania, where he labored through most of his life in the cause of religion, morality and a high order of living. His son, Rev. M. Rhodes, D. D., of St. Louis, is one of the most prominent min- isters of the Lutheran church, having been president of the general synod and also holding the presidency of the educational board of his denomination.
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Dr. Orville Augustus Rhodes is a native of Butler county, Pennsyl- vania, and son of A. B. Rhodes, who was a merchant by occupation and well known in the business circles of his section. He married Rheuamy, daugh- ter of David Patterson, of Butler county, and member of a family whose ancestors were pioneers of Pennsylvania and numerously represented by their descendants throughout their native state and other portions of the Union Orville Augustus Rhodes began the study of medicine at an early age, and when properly fitted entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Bal- timore, where he received his degree in the class of 1882. After leaving that institution he located at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, and after practicing in that city several years, came to Columbiana county and took up his residence in the town of Washingtonville. This was in 1887, and Dr. Rhodes re- mained in that place twelve years, during all of which time he was busy in his profession and steadily growing both in business and reputation. Desir- ing a wider field and a more populous community, he came to Salem in 1900 and since that time has enlarged his territory so as to include both Mahoning and Columbiana counties in the range of his professional employment. He en- joys a large practice and excellent standing, having met with especially flatter- ing success in medical cases, his skill in that line being universally acknowl- edged. In 1894, for the purpose of availing himself of the latest discoveries and improvements in surgical science, Dr. Rhodes took a course at the New York Post-Graduate College, and he loses no opportunity to perfect himself in his profession by reading and close study of its best literature. As aids in the same direction, and for the purpose of keeping in touch with the most emi- nent and efficient of his professional brethren, he helds membership in both the National and State Medical societies, and attends the regular meetings of those bodies and takes an active part in the discussions.
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