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Allen was born in Green township, Mahoning county, on August 19, 1842, and was reared there; he was a studious lad and made good use of all his opportunities. When he had reached his majority, having learned all the ins and outs of farming on his father's place, he went to Illinois and was engaged in the conduct of part of his father's large estate there. While there he turned his attention to milling and became part owner in a large concern, in which relationship he did a thriving business up to the time of his parents' death in 1880; he then returned to his native county and, as we have mentioned, began his career as a miller in partnership with Mr. Stafford.
In 1868, while still a resident of Illinois, Mr. Calvin was married to Miss Julia Reese, and two of the three children born to this union are now living, J. V., and Eva, who is the wife of Mr. Ewing. Mrs. Calvin died in November, 1874, and on September 10, 1885, he was married to Mrs. Mary E. Fowler; they have had no children. Mr. Calvin is a supporter of the Democratic party. He is a popular and public-spirited citizen and has been the incumbent of various offices, fifteen years on the school board and is now a member of the Union school board, and has also been council- man of the borough of Canfield.
GEORGE G. McKAY.
Opportunity is often credited with the making of great men. Perhaps a man may sometimes create his own opportunities, but there is no doubt but what environment and association with certain men are largely respon- sible for success in great enterprises. These broad opportunities open only to a favored few, but to all alike, in our land of freedom, is presented the chance of building up a comfortable competence by thrift and frugality. George G. Mckay is an example of a man who, in the common walks of life, has followed the old maxim of "carpe diem," and has improved his opportunities and husbanded the returns of his toil until to-day he is happy in a prosperous and ever-growing machine shop, in which ready and com- petent service and prompt work at fair prices have won for him the respect and esteem of all.
Born in Nova Scotia, in the Dominion of Canada, in 1864, he remained in his birthplace until arriving at the age of seventeen, in the meantime going to school at the country schools of that district. At the age named he quit school and came to the United States, locating in Ashtabula, Ohio, where he started in to learn the machinist trade. After eleven years' ex- perience in this thriving town and another year at Warren, Ohio, he came,
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in 1893, to Youngstown and opened up a small shop of his own. At first his business and income were small, but hy his foresight and faithful work he rapidly increased both, building up the business each year to greater proportions.
In 1888 he was married in Ashtabula to Lillian Way. His father, John McKay, was born in Nova Scotia in 1808. He is still living at an ad- vanced age, having retired from active work. His business was that of blacksmithing. His wife was Mary Chislom, and by her he had thirteen children, of whom eleven grew to maturity, as follows: Alexander D .; Margaret A., wife of James R. McDonald; William H. D. Mckay; James R .; Lavinia W., wife of J. A. Spencer; Helen M., wife of W. F. Jones ; George G .; John G .; Elizabeth, who is still unmarried; Ethel V., wife of Alexander Chislom; and Walter D. The mother of Mr. Mckay died in the year 1899. His grandfather was Alexander McKay, and was born in Scotland, but afterwards came to Nova Scotia. He was a farmer by occupation and died in the country of his adoption. He served under Gen- eral Wolfe and made a splendid record for himself, and he was in the city of Quebec when it was captured.
Mr. Mckay has been a life-long and enthusiastic Republican, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias, also of the Presbyterian church, in both of which organizations he is highly esteemed for his integrity and honest principles. While still a young man, Mr. Mckay has made increasing prog- ress in his business, and we must predict that a score of years hence will see him at the head of a large industry, which it is assured he will control with the same watchful eye and carefulness in detail, always keeping the old reputation for honesty and integrity.
WILLIAM V. BURNETT.
Mr. Burnett now occupies the responsible position of president of the Brockaway-Allen-Burnett Company, a corporation in Youngstown which does an extensive wholesale business in the importation and sale of fruits, grain and produce of all kinds. This he has developed and enlarged to a very great extent since he became connected with it, some years ago and before its incorporation.
He was born in Hubbard, Trumbull county, Ohio, in the year 1862, and there grew to manhood, obtaining an unusually broad education in the higher and common schools of that place. At the age of eighteen he be- gan work on a farm, which he continued some two or three years, then entering the Pennsylvania Railway's office at Wheatland, Pennsylvania, where
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he learned telegraphy, and worked for the road at various places along the line, as an extra man, in that capacity.
In 1890 he came to Youngstown, Ohio, again in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway, and assumed the duties of clerk in the freight office of that road and so continued until 1898, when he resigned to accept a posi- tion as bookkeeper in the Brockaway & Allen Company. Here, on account of his grasp of the business and faithful service, he was taken into the firm, which in 1898 was incorporated as the Brockaway-Allen-Burnett Com- pany, and of this he was made president. In November, 1902, this com- pany opened a branch house in Sharon, Pennsylvania, which is meeting with much success.
His father, James M. Burnett, was also born in Hubbard, Ohio, in the year 1848. He carried on business as an agriculturist all his life and was rewarded with much success. His wife was Hannah Draper, daughter of Joseph Draper, and to them were born three children, of whom one, Luna Belle, wife of L. M. Dennison, of Youngstown, Ohio, is living, beside Mr. Burnett.
His paternal grandfather, James Burnett, was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, where he died. He, also, was a farmer all of his life and was very highly esteemed by all who knew him. His wife was Margaret Leonard, and they had six children, as follows: William R .; Margaret M., wife of George Randall, now deceased; Marilda, wife of John Cole; Emmeline, wife of Seldon Scoville, now deceased; James M., also deceased; and Laura, now Mrs. G. W. Veach, of Newcastle, Pennsylvania.
In 1890 Mr. Burnett was married in Hubbard, Pennsylvania, to Alice L. Kerr, daughter of Samuel L. Kerr, now deceased. Two children came to bless their household, Josephine K. and Margaret S. Mr. Burnett has long been a supporter of Republican measures and administrations, and is an influential and highly esteemed member of the Westminster Presbyterian church. Personally he is a man of high principles, indomitable energy and splendid business foresight and judgment. He ranks as one of the ablest merchants among the many successful ones of Youngstown, and all who meet him, whether in business or in private life, entertain a very high regard for his personal qualities as well as for his ability.
ORLIN U. CASSADAY.
The subject of this sketch is prominently connected with the business and social life of the city of Youngstown, Mahoning county, and possesses those qualities of genuine worth which everywhere command respect. He is manager of the finely equipped establishment of the Averbeck Drug
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Company, is honorable in all trade transactions, thoroughly reliable in the discharge of all duties, courteous and kindly in social relations, and is one of the popular and valued citizens of Mahoning county, of which he is a native son, while he also has the distinction of being a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the state.
Mr. Cassaday was born in the village of Georgetown, Mahoning county, Ohio, on the 2nd of September, 1863, being a son of Abraham S. and Rachel (Crispin) Cassaday, the former of whom was born in Alliance, Stark county, Ohio, in 1832, while the latter was also a native of this state, their marriage being solemnized in 1862. Of their three children the subject of this sketch is the eldest, the others being Frank V .. and Clyde B. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Samuel Cassaday, who was born in the state of New Jersey, and who emigrated to Ohio in an early day and here passed the remainder of his life, his death occurring in Mahoning county. The father of our subject now retains his home in Alliance, Ohio, where he is engaged in the drug business.
In the public schools of his native town Orlin U. Cassaday received his early educational discipline, and in making choice of a vocation in life he determined to prepare himself for the profession of pharmacy, one of the most exacting and responsible to which a man can devote his attention, and one which demands a most scrupulous technical training and marked and mature judgment. At the age of twenty-two years Mr. Cassaday ma- triculated in the celebrated Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, in the city of Philadelphia, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887, receiving his degree of Ph. G., and also having the distinction of securing the Proctor gold medal, conferred each year upon the member of the class who has shown the greatest proficiency in all branches. After his gradu- ation Mr. Cassaday went to the city of Pittsburg, where for two years he was employed in the wholesale dry goods house of George A. Kelly & Company, resigning this incumbency in 1889 to devote his attention to the profession for which he had prepared himself. In March of that year he assumed his present position as manager of the business of the Averbeck Drug Company of Youngstown, of which corporation he is a stockholder. He has been a dominating factor in insuring the growth and success of the enterprise, being thoroughly skilled as a pharmacist and having that execu- tive and administrative ability which is so essential in conducting an enter- prise involving so great detail as does that of which he has charge. The concern is one of the largest and best equipped in this section of the state and enjoys a representative supporting patronage.
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Though never aspiring to public office, Mr. Cassaday has ever shown a distinctive interest in all that concerns the progress and material prosperity of his home city, while he has given his unqualified support to the Repub- lican party from the time of attaining his legal majority. Fraternally he holds membership in the Masonic order and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are members of Trinity Methodist Epis- copal church. At Alliance, Stark county, on the IIth of September, 1888, Mr. Cassaday was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Heer, the daughter of Henry Heer, a representative citizen of that place, and they are the parents of two children, Waldean and Margaret.
HENRY KLEIN.
Henry Klein, superintendent of the Andrew's works of the Republic Iron & Steel Company, has for many years been numbered among the valued and honored citizens of Youngstown. He is of German ancestry, and in the progress of our Union there is no element which has been of more practical strength than that furnished by the sturdy, persevering and honorable sons of Germany. His paternal grandfather, Daniel Klein, lived and died in the fatherland, and there Henry Klein, the father of him whose name intro- duces this review, was born in 1824. About 1844 he left his native land for America, and in Pomeroy, Ohio, he was united in marriage to Susannah Kalb, and their union was blessed with five children, only two of whom survive, Henry and Lewis, the latter of Greenville, Pennsylvania. The father was called to his final rest in 1897.
Henry Klein, of this review, was born at Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1847, and there lived until he was thirteen years of age. At that early age he enlisted for service in the Civil war, entering the ranks at Pomeroy in June, 1861, and being assigned to Company K, Twenty-eighth Ohio Volun- teer Infantry. On the expiration of his three years' term of enlistment he re-enlisted for service, and Company K then became known as Company C, in which he served until he was mustered out at Wheeling, West Vir- ginia, on the 4th of July, 1865, and was discharged at Columbus, Ohio, September 19, 1865, for the war had ended and the country no longer needed his services. During his career as a soldier boy he participated in the fol- lowing engagements: Carnifex Ferry, Frederick City, South Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, second battle of Cold Harbor, Fredericksburg, second battle of Bull Run, Droop Mountain, Ruth's Hill, Piedmont, Fisher's Hill, in all the fights in Hunter's raid and was in the celebrated march with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. During his army career he was ever
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found faithful to the duties imposed upon him, and his military record is one of which he has every reason to be proud.
After the close of hostilities Mr. Klein returned to the Buckeye state, and for the following seven or eight months was a resident of Cincin- nati, from which place he removed to Clifton, West Virginia, where for a time he was employed as a puddler's assistant in a rolling mill. Since the year 1886 he has been a resident of Youngstown, Ohio, and for a time after his location here he was employed as a puddle boss for Andrew Brothers & Company. In 1901 he became superintendent of the works, which have since been incorporated with the Republic Iron & Steel Company. He is a man of excellent business and executive ability, of keen discrimination, sound judgment and capable management, and his reputation in all trade transactions is above question.
In Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1867, Mr. Klein was united in marriage to Elizabeth Jones, and five children were born to brighten and bless their home, U. S .; Susan A., the wife of John E. Jones; Naomi K .; Margaret L., the wife of David Evans; and Isabelle E. The wife and mother of this family was called into eternal rest in 1890, and in January, 1900, Mr. Klein was again married, Mrs. Kate (Hildebrand) Wright, the widow of Frank Wright, becoming his wife. In political matters our subject affiliates with the Republican party, and in his fraternal relations he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Tod Post No. 29, G. A. R. In 1876, at its organization, he became a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, and from 1883 until 1886 he served as its vice president. He was also an officer in the old United Sons of Vulcan, the original iron organization. In an unusual degree he enjoys the confidence and regard of those with whom he has been brought in contact through business dealings, and in all his relations of life he is true to his duties of citizenship.
JOHN W. SMITH.
Among the merchants of Youngstown few have been in business so long, and none are more widely known than the subject of this sketch. Mr. Smith opened business as a shoe merchant thirty-eight years ago and has continued uninterruptedly up to the present time. His name, therefore, is a familiar one, not only in the city, but throughout Mahoning and sur- rounding counties. He is of German parentage, his father being Michael Smith, who was born in Bavaria in 1787, followed farming all his life and died in 1838. He married Eva Bates, by whom he had six children, five
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boys and one girl, but the only survivor of these is the subject of this sketch.
John W. Smith, senior member of the firm of John W. Smith & Sons at Youngstown, was born in Rhenish Bavaria, Germany, September 13, 1828. Seventeen years later he landed from an emigrant ship at New York city, where he remained from June, 1845, until April of the next year, and then went to Allenville, New York, and worked at his trade as a tanner for a few weeks. His next move was to Strasburg, Pennsylvania, where he obtained employment in his line about a year, later spent an equal amount of time at Warren, Ohio, and in 1848 bought a small tannery at Windham, in Portage county. This business he conducted until 1854, when he dis- posed of his plant and located in Lenawee county, Michigan, where he carried on farming for nine years. In the spring of 1864 Mr. Smith came to Youngstown and opened a grocery store in partnership with his brother- in-law, but six months later the business was destroyed by fire. October 19, 1864, he started the shoe business, which under various fortunes but steady growth he has continued up to the present time. Mr. Smith, during his long residence in Youngstown, has taken a prominent part in the public as well as commercial affairs of the city. He served one year as trustee of Youngstown township, and for several years held the position of town- ship treasurer. In 1888 he was elected treasurer of the city and county and held that office for one term.
In 1850 Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Catherine Fisher, and the five survivors of his seven children are named as follows: Mary G., wife of John L. Trauger; Henry W., Caroline, William A. and Catherine H. The two sons are now in partnership with their father in the shoe business, under the firm name of John W. Smith & Sons, and are leading young busi- ness men in the community. Mr. Smith is a member of the German Luth- eran church, and his political affiliations are with the Democratic party.
JAMES MACKEY.
The family of which the subject of this review is an honored representa- tive has been long and prominently identified with the annals of the Buckeye state and of Mahoning county, and from the early pioneer epoch to the pres- ent day the name has stood as the exponent for sterling character and distinc- tive usefulness in connection with the practical affairs of life and the higher duties of citizenship. The immediate subject of this sketch is one of the most prominent civil engineers in the state, and that his professional work has been of varied and extensive order will be well understood when we take
James Mackay
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cognizance of the fact that he has devoted his attention to the same for more than half a century, gaining prestige and high reputation in his chosen voca- tion, while through his efforts much has been done to further the progress and material prosperity of this section of the state, even as his father con- tributed to the development and founding of an organic division of a great and prosperous commonwealth.
The Mackey family is of stanch old Scottish lineage, being representa- tive of the clan Mackey of the highlands of Scotland, in which country the paternal grandfather of our subject was born, and whence he came to America in the Colonial epoch, founding the family in Pennsylvania, in the eastern part of which state his death occurred. In Chester county, that state, occurred the birth of James Mackey, Sr., the father of our subject, in the year 1776, ever memorable as that which marked the signing of the declaration of in- dependence. Of his early life but little data, unfortunately, is available, but it is known that he had enjoyed superior educational advantages, as he was a skilled and practical surveyor, a good mathematician and an excellent ac- countant. About the year 1805 he emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio, settling near Poland, thus becoming one of the pioneers of Trumbull county, afterward Mahoning county, with whose public and civic life he was to be so conspicuously identified as the years passed. He was associated with Rob- ert Montgomery, Sr., in the building of a furnace on Yellow creek, and was bookkeeper for the managing company until the outbreak of the war of 1812, when he enlisted for service in the Fourth Division of the Ohio militia, in which he was promoted to the office of adjutant. He was also assistant pay- master of the division, and was accorded the rank and title of major, and he was ever afterward familiarly known by that title. About 1816 he be- came associated with Colonel William Rayen in the mercantile business in the little hamlet of Youngstown, their place of business being a primitive log structure. Here the enterprise was continued for several years, and in the meanwhile the Major purchased a large tract of land northeast of the town. He was married in 1823 to Margaret Early, of Coitsville, her parents, Thomas and Jane Early, having been pioneers of that locality and both having been natives of Ireland. Soon after his marriage Major Mackey removed to his farm, which he reclaimed and developed, and there he passed the remainder of his life engaged in farming and stock-growing, and also devoting more or less attention to the work of his profession as a surveyor. He died August 15, 1844, aged sixty-eight years, and was long survived by his devoted wife, who died May 14, 1870, aged seventy-two years. They became the parents of eight children, of whom three died in childhood, Thomas, Jean and John ;
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those who lived to years of maturity being David, who died at the age of seventy-six years; Nancy, who became the wife of William Braden and was about seventy-four years of age at the time of her death; James, the fourth in order of birth and the subject of this review; Robert, whose death occurred at the age of nearly sixty-one years; and Letitia, the wife of Andrew Kirk.
Major Mackey was a conspicuous figure in the political history of Ma- honing county in the early days. He served as township clerk, township trustee, justice of the peace and county commissioner, while he was also given a still greater tribute of public confidence and esteem, as in 1822 he was elected a member of the state legislature to represent Trumbull county, of which Mahoning was then a part. In 1830 he was elected treasurer of Trum- bull county, and a previous memoir has thus spoken of him: "He was chief arbitrator among his neighbors, his decisions always being accepted, as it was known that a thorough investigation preceded the rendering of his judg- ment." The name of Major Mackey is one which will ever merit a high place on the list of the founders and builders of this section, and his record is one to which his descendants will ever be able to point with just pride.
James Mackey, Jr., to whom this sketch is dedicated, was born in Youngs- town, in a dwelling not far distant from his present home, on the 7th of Feb- ruary, 1829. His preliminary educational discipline was secured in the some- what primitive schools of the locality and period, but he had the advantage of being reared in a cultured and refined home, while the means left him by his father also afforded him favorable opportunity to broaden his fund of knowledge under the most effective direction. Thus he became a student in the academy at Poland and later was matriculated in the University of Cleve- land, of which Rev. Asa Mahan, of revered memory, was then president, and there he effectively supplemented his former discipline. Under the tutorship of this eminent divine and mental philosopher, for whom he entertained the highest admiration, he gave especial attention to his favorite study of mental philosophy. He had studied the classical languages before entering the uni- versity and had also done practical work in surveying, having defrayed much of his incidental expense by his work in this line. When he had finished his studies Mr. Mackey turned his attention to the work of the profession for which he had fitted himself, and which has figured as his vocation during all the long intervening years. His novitiate was of brief duration, since he soon established a reputation for skilful, rapid and accurate work. Together with five representative citizens of Pennsylvania and Ohio, he was appointed to establish the boundary line between these two states, this work being insti- tuted in the fall of 1878 and being satisfactorily completed in the spring of
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the following year. For sixteen years prior to 1875 Mr. Mackey gave his attention almost exclusively to the surveying of coal lands and mines and the railroads to and from the mines. In this line he has had a wider and more varied experience than any other surveyor in the state, having surveyed over one hundred and twenty different mines, surveying in most of them many times, so that his mine surveys run far up into the hundreds. In 1875 he began to devote more particular attention to the surveying and platting of town sites and the resurveying of the boundary lines of disputed territory. From the inception of his professional work he kept records of the same, and these have proved of great value to himself and others in the later years. He and his brothers David and Robert were the projectors and promoters of the first street railway in the city of Youngstown, the line being constructed in 1875 and being operated with horses until the installation of the electric line. He was its first president for seven years, when his increasing professional duties forbade his acting in that capacity longer. He has ever been recognized as a progressive and public-spirited citizen, and has ever been ready to lend his aid and influence in the furtherance of every legitimate undertaking or project for the general good of his city, county and state. 'On the family escutcheon has rested no blot or blemish, and our subject has added to the honors gained by his noble father in connection with the history of this fav- ored section of the Buckeye commonwealth.
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