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In 1877 Mr. Gipner was united in marriage at Zelienople with Sophia J., daughter of James Copp, of Rock Island, Illinois, and has three children : Bailie D., Charles C. and Bertram H. The family are connected with the First Presbyterian church, in which Mr. Gipner holds the position of deacon, and he is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.
THOMAS ROBERTS.
Thomas Roberts, an industrious and well known citizen of Struthers, Mahoning county, Ohio, was born in the county of Durham, England, Jan- uary 15, 1856, and is a son of Richard and Sarah (Watson) Roberts. The father, Richard, was born in Forest of Dean, England, about in 1810, and died in Bilston, Staffordshire, at the age of seventy-two, while his mother died in West Bromwich, December 15, 1872, aged thirty-six, and both were buried in Staffordshire. The following family was born to these parents : Thomas, John, Watson, Alfred, Albert, Matilda, Sarah Ann and Fannie, all of whom grew to maturity and married. Three sons, Alfred, Watson and Thomas, came to America, although the two former returned on account of poor health and died in their native land. Grandfather Roberts was a soldier in the English army and participated in the battle of Waterloo, coming out of the fight with five bullet wounds, from the effects of which he finally died at one hundred and seven years of age, while his wife died at the age of one hundred and five years.
The father was a worker in tin, but was a poor man, and Thomas began to earn his own living when only seven and one-half years of age, so had no educational advantages and is entirely a self-made man. He learned his present occupation of shearman when he first started to work, and has con- tinued in this line ever since. At first he received twenty cents a day, and from that worked up to ninety-six cents per day in England, and his re- muneration has been higher in this country. On July 28, 1881, Mr. Roberts landed in Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, where he was employed for eighteen months, and in February, 1883, he located at Struthers and entered the iron and steel mill of that place, where he remained for five years, and after several changes he returned to Struthers in 1894 and resumed his former position.
On July 28, 1877, Mr. Roberts was married to Miss Sarah Jarvis, a daughter of Samuel and Anna (Bennett) Jarvis. Ten children were born to them, of whom four died in infancy, and the remaining ones are as fol- lows: Sarah, who is her father's housekeeper; Fannie; Katie graduated from the Youngstown schools and is now taking a teacher's course there;
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May is taking a business course at Youngstown; Annie; and Thomas Albert, who was born in February, 1892. On September 1, 1898, Mrs. Roberts died at the age of thirty-eight years, leaving a mourning husband and family. Mr. Roberts resides in his own home, which he erected in 1885, and owns another house which he put up in 1892. In politics he is a stanch Republican and for six years served on the school board. In 1902 he had the honor of being elected the first mayor of Struthers, in opposition to a most worthy and popular opponent, and in March, 1903, was nominated for a second term. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is deservedly popular. During his residence in England he was a member of the Congregational church. Although deprived of all oppor- tunities of securing an education, Mr. Roberts has carefully garnered all information he could secure ; he has read and studied by himself, and deserves unqualified credit for his patience and the success which has attended his efforts. Not content with improving himself, Mr. Roberts has given his children the advantages he lacked, and takes a deep pride in their achieve- ments. Industrious, hard-working, public-spirited and genial, Mr. Roberts numbers his friends almost by the inhabitants of the municipality over which he is now presiding, and the respect in which he is held is but the just reward . of a lifetime of honest endeavor.
RUSSELL C. HEDDLESTON.
Russell C. Heddleston is one of the enterprising young business men of East Liverpool, where he is now conducting a grocery store. He is a native of this city, born in the year 1877. His paternal grandfather was Robert Heddleston, a native of Illinois, and the father of our subject is William D. Heddleston, whose birth occurred in Grandview, Washington county, Ohio, in 1849. The latter is a farmer and followed that occupation throughout many years and then came to East Liverpool, and until 1893 was engaged in the pottery business. He then returned to the farm, where he now re- sides. He wedded Margaret Dorff, and they became the parents of eight children, seven of whom are yet living. Mr. Heddleston is at the present time serving as justice of the peace in Washington county and is a leading and influential citizen of this community, highly respected because of his fidelity to office and his upright life.
Mr. Heddleston of this review was reared and educated in East Liver- pool and acquired his elementary education in the public schools. At the age of sixteen, however, he put aside his text books to learn the more diffi- cult lessons in the school of experience. He first worked in a pottery for a
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short time and then secured a position as a salesman in a grocery store, where- by he gained the practical experience that has proved of value to him in his own career as a merchant. In 1900, associated with his brother, he opened a grocery store in East Liverpool, which he is yet conducting. The store is well equipped with a large line of staple and fancy groceries and because of the excellent goods carried, the honorable business methods of the part- ners and the earnest desire to please their customers, they have secured a large patronage, which renders their enterprise a profitable one.
On the 20th of August, 1899, Mr. Heddleston was united in marriage to Ella L. Laughlin, a daughter of John T. Laughlin, and they now have one interesting little daughter, Sarah Margaret. Mr. Heddleston is quite prom- inent in political circles as a supporter of the Republican party. He was elected in April, 1900, to represent the first ward in the city council, and served as vice president of the council for two years. Socially he is identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order, and is now serving his second term as president of the East Liverpool Grocers' Association. He belongs to the Christian church. Interested in everything belonging to the general good, he has given his co-operation to many measures of benefit, along moral, social, intellectual and material lines in his native city.
JAMES CLEMENT McQUILKIN.
Three generations of the McQuilkin family have lived and died in eastern Ohio, and they are therefore surely deserving of a place in this history. The grandfather of our subject, John McQuilkin, was born in the northern part of Ireland, came to America in the early years of the last century and died in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1863. His occupation was farming. His wife was a Miss Laughlen, and their children were: William, James, Robert, John, Harvey, Isaac and Margaret, of whom only Harvey and Isaac survive.
The line of descent in which we are interested is through John A., who was born on his father's farm in Columbiana county in 1826. In early life he was engaged in the interesting occupation of steamboat captain on the Ohio river; he left the river in 1862 and farmed until his death in 1885. In 1856 he took as his wife Sarah Binsley, daughter of John Binsley, and ten children were born, all reaching maturity: Mary Agnes, wife of William Hull; Margaret; James C .; Homer S .; Harmon H .; Walter C .; William Chester, who died in 1898, aged twenty-six years; Alice A .; Charles B .; and Earl F.
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James Clement McQuilkin, whose life we shall now record, was born in Hanoverton, Columbiana county, in 1862, and in his infancy was taken to Summitville, in the same county, where he received his education and lived until twenty-eight years old. In 1892 Mr. McQuilkin opened a livery and undertaking establishment in Salineville, Ohio, and the next year came to Liverpool. There he and Mr. Burns started the same business; in 1902 Mr. Burns retired, and the concern has since been conducted by Mr. McQuilkin alone, and he is now the leading undertaker in this city.
Mr. McQuilkin's first marriage was celebrated in 1890 in Columbiana county, Emma J., daughter of James Hanlon, becoming his wife. She died soon after without leaving children, and in 1900 he married in East Liverpool Mary Andrews, daughter of Mathew Andrews. They have twins, named John A. and Harriet A. Socially Mr. McQuilkin is connected with the Knights Templar, the Knights of Pythias, and the Woodmen of the World; he belongs to the First Presbyterian church.
CHARLES EVERSON MACRUM.
The name of the above mentioned gentleman, whose career constitutes the subject of this brief biography, has long been familiar in Ohio politics, owing to his activity as manager of campaigns and prominence as a federal official. It was his fortune to spend some time as consul at the capital of the Boer republic in South Africa, since rendered so famous by reason of its life and death struggle for existence against the powerful British Empire. Preferring business to politics, however, Mr. Macrum, after his return from Africa, devoted his time to commercial pursuits and is at present treasurer of the Pottery Association. His family is of Irish origin and was founded in this country by his grandfather, William Macrum, who was born in county Armagh in 1787, and emigrated to the United States in 1848. With him came his son N. G. Macrum, who located with his parents at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and there grew to manhood while being educated in the public schools. His first employment was as clerk in the store of F. H. Eaton at Pittsburg, and later he became a member of the firm which, as Eaton, Macrum & Company continued in business for ten years. At the end of that time a re-organization took place, which brought into existence the firm of Macrum & Carlisle, which carried on business until 1878, when Mr. Macrum retired and came to East Liverpool to become cashier of the First National Bank, which position he has retained up to the present time. He married Amelia Everson, and their five living children are Charles E., Bertha, Mary, Edward K. and George H.
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Charles Everson Macrum, eldest of the above enumerated children, was born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1865, and when fourteen years old came with his parents to East Liverpool. He attended school in that city until the nineteenth year of his age, when he connected himself with two pottery companies in the capacity of bookkeeper. In 1887 he retired from this position and went to southeastern Missouri, where he spent a few months in the office of a coal company, but returned in March, 1888, to his Ohio home to enter the employment of the Specialty Glass Company as secretary. He retained this position until 1897, when he joined the clerical force of the First National Bank and remained in that institution until May, 1898, re- signing to accept appointment as United States consul at Pretoria. Mr. Mac- rum remained at the capital of the South African Republic until December, 1899, when he returned to East Liverpool, and in July of the following year became traveling salesman for the National Glass Company of Pittsburg. He remained with this concern about one year and then engaged in the real estate business at East Liverpool, which occupied the principal part of his time and attention until January of 1903, when he became identified with the Pottery Association.
In 1890 Mr. Macrum was married at East Liverpool to Miss Dora, daughter of the late Samuel McHenry, and by this union has one daughter named Natalie. The family hold membership in the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Macrum is quite prominent in Masonry, having reached the thirty- second degree in that ancient order. His first conspicuous service in politics was during the campaign of the late President Mckinley for the governor- ship of Ohio, during which heated contest Mr. Macrum was the efficient chairman of the Republican city committee at East Liverpool. He is regarded as a man of superior business qualifications, and these have been repeatedly displayed in the various important positions he has held, both of a business and political nature.
EMANUEL HARTZELL.
The history of our country contains many characters of worth and ex- cellence, furnishing such practical illustrations of the distinct value to society of the cardinal virtues in business life, as to make it desirable to record the more prominent examples of personal commercial integrity and success, for the high purposes of instruction and honorable commendation. Men in business life can rise into prominence and become objects of high considera- tion in public estimation only by the development of the nobler attributes of manhood, in enterprises that largely affect the well-being of the community.
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The accidents of birth and fortune can do little to give those men position whose resources are within the limits of their brains and hands. Among those who have attained high reputation in the business circles of eastern Ohio and gained a success which is worthy the name, stands Emanuel Hartzell, a member of the firm of Hartzell Brothers & Company, dealers in clothing and men's furnishings in Youngstown, Girard and Brier Hill, the finely equipped establishment which figures as the headquarters of the concern being located in the attractive city first mentioned.
Mr. Hartzell is a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where he was born on the 18th of October, 1848, and where he was reared to the age of seventeen years, within which time he received excellent educational advan- tages. He then emigrated to America in company with his brother Isaac, and they came to Girard, Trumbull county, where their uncle, Emanuel Hart- zell, had previously located and established himself in business, and the subject of this review continued in the employ of his uncle at that place until 1871, when he opened a small general store in Sodom, a hamlet located in Liberty township, Trumbull county, his associates in the establishment of this enterprise being his brother Isaac and Homer Hood, the business being con- ducted under the firm name of Hartzell & Hood. This store was thus carried on until February, 1872, when the firm disposed of the same, and our subject and his brother continued their business relations by opening a general store in Girard, under the firm name of Hartzell Brothers. In 1884 Mr. Hartzell, in connection with his brothers, Isaac and Henry, opened, in addition to their general store at Girard, a general store at Brier Hill, Mahoning county, Ohio, which they carried on until March, 1901, when they sold to Mr. Ike Sigel. In 1894 they likewise disposed of their Girard business. Under the name of Hartzell Brothers & Company, in 1889, our subject opened the present large and metropolitan clothing establishment in the city of Youngstown, being the founder of an enterprise which has grown to magnificent propor- tions under his able and discriminating direction, the interested principals being Emanuel and Isaac Hartzell. They also conduct branch clothing houses in Brier Hill and in Girard.
Of the establishment a previous publication has well said that it "is known throughout the Mahoning valley as the leading enterprise in the clothing trade in this section. In addition to clothing, the firm carries also the largest stock of hats, caps and men's furnishing goods of all kinds, be- sides jewelry, umbrellas, fancy goods and endless variety of small wares. In the broadest sense in which the term can be applied this establishment is the representative one of its character in the Mahoning valley. It is appreciated
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accordingly and is in command of an ever increasing patronage. Emanuel Hartzell is recognized as a broad-minded, liberal business man, whose success in life may be traced to clearly defined and carefuly worked out methods. Every movement looking toward the material development of the city has his earnest support and personal assistance." These are warm words of commendation and are thoroughly deserved.
Emanuel Hartzell commands the highest regard and confidence in the city of his home and the unqualified respect of all who know him. In poli- tics he is a stalwart adherent of the Republican party and has served as a member of the county central committee of Mahoning county. For eight years he has been president of Rodef Sholem congregation, in Youngstown, and fraternally he is a Royal Arch Mason and is also identified with the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, the encampment and the canton, also a member of the Knights of Pythias, enjoying marked popularity in each of these organizations. He is a man of inflexible integrity of purpose, of fine business and administrative ability and is well entitled to consideration in this publication as one of the representative business men of Mahoning and of the state of Ohio.
In the year 1871 Mr. Hartzell was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Hood, who died in 1873, leaving one daughter, Anna, who is now the wife of Michael C. Samuel. In 1874 Mr. Hartzell consummated a second marriage, being then united to Miss Jennie Mayer, and they have five children, namely : Rose, the wife of Louis Meyer, of Sharon, Pennsylvania; and Isaac M., Dr. Sol. M., Nate M. and Edgar M.
MARK H. LIDDLE.
The careers of some men are marked with especial interest because they have risen to their present position through many grades of promotion, and if fickle fortune may be said to have smiled on them, it is due to their own individual efforts, and they are conscious of owing little to luck. The small but rapidly growing town of Struthers, Mahoning county, is proud to own one of this class of men in the cashier of the Struthers Savings and Banking Company. Mark H. Liddle is a prosperous young business man who may be counted upon to rise to still greater prominence and assist in developing his town to become one of the most flourishing in the county. A sketch of Mr. Liddle's parents and more distant connections will be found on other pages of this work, and it is necessary merely to mention that his father was James Liddle and was a native of this county.
Mark H. Liddle was born near Poland, May 6, 1864, and received his
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education in the Poland Union Seminary and later graduated from Duff's Mercantile College at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He began his business. career as a bookkeeper in the bank of Poland, this being fifteen years ago. He re- mained in this position for two years, and then went to Girard, where he held the place of teller and bookkeeper for four years; he was next in a similar position in the First National Bank of Youngstown, but in 1894 he was called to accept the office of cashier in the Poland Bank, which he held for eight years. He had begun with no capital and had already risen to an en- viable place in the business world, but he was now determined to make use of his previous experience and organize an institution in which he should have a more controlling interest. So on January 1, 1902, he completed the formation of the Struthers Savings and Banking Company, whose president is D. C. Cooper, vice president J. Arrel Smith, second vice president Charles S. Thomas, and secretary and treasurer Mr. Liddle, who is also acting as cashier and is managing the bank with the aid of one bookkeeper. The capital stock of the institution is fifty thousand dollars, and is housed in a new brick building, equipped with improved furniture, and with a modern burglar- proof steel vault. The bank is affording a great impetus to business in Struth- ers and will certainly prove a very successful undertaking.
On May 12, 1891, Mr. Liddle was married to Miss Daisy E. Seabury, who was born in Girard and is the daughter of Frank and Sylvia (Ramsey) Seabury. They have four children: Ethel May, who is twelve years old ; Eugene Mark, nine years old; Carl Lester, a healthy little fellow of five; and Ruth Elizabeth is three years old. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Liddle lived one and a half years in Girard, then kept house in Youngstown, and in April, 1902, took up their residence on their nice farm of forty-five acres near Struthers, where they have a delightful country home. Mr. Liddle is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to the Lake Erie Consistory at Cleve- land, and St. John's Commandery No. 20, at Youngstown. He is a Repub- lican, but has never aspired to office, and is a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church in Youngstown.
THOMAS J. DUFFY.
The Duffy family, as might be inferred from the name, was of Irish origin, but by emigration became citizens of England, and later of the United States. Michael Duffy, who was born in county Roscommon in 1853, at an early age realized the necessity of leaving his native land to seek a betterment of his fortune in foreign countries. In early manhood, therefore, he crossed the Irish Channel and later found employment in Staffordshire, England.
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When quite young he was married to Mary McGarry, and after the family had increased by the birth of several children, and prospects in England not being of the brightest, he determined to try his chances across the Atlantic. The voyage was undertaken in 1883, and upon arrival Michael took up his abode at Trenton, New Jersey, where he succeeded in finding employment. This lasted five years, when a move farther west was deemed advisable, and in 1888 the Duffys, with their cluster of little children, made their way to Wheeling, West Virginia. Michael got work as a potter in that city and lived there until the time of his death, which occurred in September, 1901 ; when that event took place he had become the father of fifteen children, of whom only twelve are now living.
Thomas J. Duffy, who was the second of this large family and is now the eldest survivor, was born at Burslem, Staffordshire, England, in 1877, and was consequently but six years old when the voyage to America was un- dertaken. Such education as he was able to obtain in early youth was re- ceived at Wheeling, but this, owing to the exigencies of the family, was so meagre as to be of little use. He was compelled to leave school when eleven years old to join the all too large army of children who labor for a living. Securing such work as he could do with the West Virginia China Company, now the Riverside Pottery, he was with that firm and the LaBelle Pottery until March, 1892. In November of that year he entered the Wheeling Business College, with a determination to repair as much as possible the edu- cational deficiencies of his childhood. He could only attend at night, but this he kept up studiously for three years, working meantime during the day in the Warwick Pottery and so continuing until 1899. In that year, being elected secretary of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, he came to East Liverpool and has since retained his residence in that city. He is a young man of good habits, ambitious to succeed and attentive to business, and as these qualities are prime factors in success it is safe to pre- dict a prosperous future for their possessor. Mr. Duffy is unmarried, his politics are Democratic, and his fraternal connections are with the Knights of Columbus and the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and is a member of the Catholic church.
ROBERT WEASNER.
In presenting the history of the men who have been prominent in the development of Mahoning county and who have carried on its agricultural and commercial interests, thus producing its present prosperity and progress, prominent mention should be made of Robert Weasner, one of the leading agriculturists of this part of the state. He is the owner of a very fine farm
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of four hundred acres, in the midst of which stands an attractive two-story frame residence, commodious and substantial. Other improvements and well- tilled fields are indicative of his life of industry and thrift, and he deserves much credit for what he has accomplished, his success coming to him as a logical result of his own labors.
For forty-six years Robert Weasner has lived on his present farm in Milton township. He was born in Hardison township, Sussex county, New Jersey, December 31, 1836, and comes of good old Revolutionary stock. His paternal grandfather, Fada Weasner, was born about 1764, and during the latter part of the war for independence, he joined the continental army, being then a youth of seventeen years. He was an able farmer and died in New Jersey about 1841. William Weasner, the father of Robert Weasner, the subject of this sketch, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1784. and he also devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits. He had one brother and two sisters who reached mature years and came to Ohio. Uncle Robert Weasner, the brother of William, located in Milton township, Mahoning county, prior to 1840. He settled near Price's mills on the west bank of the Mahoning river, developed a good farm there and reared a son, Horace. Sarah Weasner, one of the aunts of our subject, became the wife of John P. Simpson, of New Jersey, and had a large family ; the other aunt, Hiley Winfield, also reared a family.
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