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of twenty-one he married, and then began life for himself, for six months on a home farm, as a tenant for three years in one of his father's houses, and in 1846 he bought a hotel in North Lima, and on May 18, began keeping tavern in that town. He was the genial landlord for twenty-four years, and for fourteen years dispensed drinks over the bar, but was himself never under the influence of liquor. Mr. Ruhlman, besides other property, owns a farm of fifty-five acres two miles north of North Lima, which he rents. and two houses and lots in the village. He was reared in the Democratic faith, but is now a stanch Republican, and has cast his vote that way since the candidacy of John C. Fremont, his first presidential ballot having been given to James K. Polk. He was township assessor four terms, township trustee two terms, and was school director for thirteen years. He was brought up in the faith of the German Lutheran church, and later he and his wife became members of the Evangelical church.
In 1842 Mr. Ruhlman was married to Miss Rebecca Buzzard, who was also born in York county, Pennsylvania, in March, 1821, and was a daughter of Jacob S. Buzzard. Jacob, the oldest son of Ephraim and Rebecca Ruhl- man, died in North Lima, May 12, 1903, aged two days over sixty years; Elizabeth Ritten, his first wife, died in middle life, having lost a son, Ephraim, at the age of four, and leaving three children, Henry Ruhlman, of St. Louis, Clarke, in Kansas City, Missouri, and Ella, also in Kansas City; Jacob had a second wife, and she survives with her one daughter, Emma, a child of ten years. L. B. Ruhlman, the second son, is a physician of North Lima, and was educated in Poland Academy and received his technical training at the John Scudder School in Cincinnati, where he graduated at the age of twenty, in 1877; he practiced at his native town for one year, for five years was in Austintown, and in 1883 returned to North Lima and has been in successful practice ever since; he was a teacher for eight terms, studied law in his own office, but did not apply for admission to the bar, and was justice of the peace for six years. George W. Ruhlman is a farmer and contractor near North Lima. John Ruhlman is interested with the latter in the Telephone and Trolley Suburban Railroad, and is also in the real estate business in Youngs- town. All this interesting family are numbered among the most influential citizens of Mahoning county.
JOHN GAULT.
John Gault, who follows farming in Jackson township and has served as county commissioner of Mahoning county, was born in the southwestern part of the township on the old home farm, where his mother is now living at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, and where his parents began house-
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keeping in 1835. His father, Robert Gault, was born there, and it was upon that farm that the grandfather, Robert Gault, Sr., settled when he came to Mahoning county from Washington county, Pennsylvania, with his father, Andrew Gault, about 1800. In 1814 the grandfather was drafted for service in the second war with England and reported at Cleveland, where he was taken ill. He started, however, with his command for Detroit, but died and was buried near Rocky river, about eight miles from the public square in Cleveland. He died in October, and his son Robert Gault was born the following Decem- ber. His wife bore the maiden name of Charlotte Bowman, and after being left a widow she married a Mr. Hudson and reared a family in the west.
Robert Gault, the father of our subject, having arrived at years of maturity, was married on the 9th of December, 1835, to Marjorie Ewing, who was born in Jackson township, Mahoning county, June 3, 1816, a daugh- ter of John and Margaret (Orr) Ewing. Her father was a native of Ireland, and landed in New York in 1800, after which he went to Pennsylvania and thence came to Ohio. Robert Gault, from the age of two years, had been reared by his grandfather, whose farm adjoined that which Robert's father had left him, and when twenty-one years of age he began farming on his own land, living there until his death, which occurred January 20, 1893, caused by a falling tree, which he went out to see felled. He was a prosperous and progressive farmer, and owned at one time five hundred acres of land. He possessed great energy and enterprise, and was always honorable and straight- forward in his business dealing.
To Robert Gault and his wife were born twelve children, all of whom reached adult age with the exception of one daughter, Caroline, who died in early girlhood. All of the others married with the exception of Andrew, who entered the Union army, and lost his arm near Dallas, Georgia, and then died of blood poisoning. He was then but nineteen years of age, and his re- mains were brought back to Mahoning county and interred in the southeastern part of Jackson township. The others of the family are John; Margaret S., the wife of Thomas H. Belland, of Ashtabula county, Ohio, and the mother of three children; Alexander, of Struthers, twin brother of Margaret, and the father of one living daughter; Mary Ann, the wife of J. A. Smith, of Struth- ers; Martha Jane, who became the wife of David A. Wilson, and died in Youngstown in 1893; Gideon, who was born November 6, 1846, and is a far- mer of Trumbull county, and has two sons; Samuel S., who was born March JI, 1848, a farmer of Ellsworth township, Mahoning county, who had four children, of whom a son and two daughters are now living; William, who was born March 28, 1850, and is living upon land that his father owned, and
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has one child and lost one; Gibson, who is an enterprising farmer living on the old homestead, which has been in possession of the family for a century ; and Robert E., who lives upon a farm adjoining the old homestead, has been twice married.
John Gault obtained an academic education, and at the age of nineteen years began teaching, which profession he successfully followed through four successive winters. He was married September 5, 1861, to Miss Louise M. Johnston, who was born on the farm where he now lives, a daughter of John and Caroline (Roberts) Johnston. Mrs. Gault became the mother of three children : Joseph G., a farmer of Union county, Ohio, who is married and has two living sons and a daughter; Lula O., the wife of Rev. J. Elwood Lynn, a minister of the Disciples church of Springfield, Illinois, by whom she has a son and a daughter ; and George F. A., who is a civil engineer for the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company and resides in Allegheny, is married but has no children. The mother of these children was killed in a railroad wreck at Rittman, Ohio, September 10, 1888. On the 30th of September, 1890, Mr. Gault married Mrs. J. P. Sampson, who died June 21, 1899, at the age of sixty-one years. On the 5th of March, 1901, Mr. Gault wedded Mrs. Mar- garet J. Armstrong, the widow of John Armstrong and a daughter of Joshua and Matilda (Fife) Copeland, the former a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Columbia county. Mr. Copeland was born in 1813, his wife in 1815, and her death occurred when she was sixty-two years of age. In their family were two sons and five daughters, Mrs. Gault being the eldest. She has one living brother, Calvin Copeland, a farmer of Trumbull county, Ohio.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Gault are devoted members of the Presbyterian church, and he is Republican in his political views. He served as county commissioner for two terms, was re-elected almost without opposition, running three hun- dred ahead of his ticket, a fact which indicates his personal popularity and the confidence and trust reposed in him by his fellow citizens.
CHARLES F. HARRIS.
Among the leading city officials of Youngstown is Charles F. Harris, who now occupies the important position of city commissioner. Beginning his public service in the humble vocation of a patrolman, he soon established a reputation for attention to duty and ability in its discharge, and after sev- eral years' service was advanced to the rank of lieutenant, where he showed great discernment and competence in the direction of his subordinates. Lately being installed as city commissioner, he has maintained his former reputation for energy and efficiency.
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He was born on a farm in Poland township, Mahoning county, Ohio, in the year 1856, and there remained until arriving at the age of twenty years, attending the local schools of the township. His first work on entering the business world was for the Pennsylvania Company, constructing telegraph lines for about five years. Leaving this he opened a retail coal yard at Hasel- ton near Youngstown, which he conducted very successfully until in June, 1895, when he left this business to accept a position as patrolman on the Youngstown police force, attaining to the position of lieutenant in May, 1901, and in June, 1902, he accepted his present position as city commissioner. In 1878 he was married in Bedford, Ohio, to Jeanette, daughter of T. Percy, and to them five children were born, as follows: Clyde C., Clara, Hugh H., and twins, John and Annie.
His father was Theodore Calvin Harris, born in Coitsville, Ohio, in the year 1826. He was by trade a carpenter, and spent the declining years of his life upon a farm as an agriculturist. His wife, Sarah, was the daughter of Samuel Stambaugh, and they had three children besides Mr. Harris of this review : Henrietta, widow of John Aughenbaugh; Benjamin F .; and Lucy, wife of Samuel Dillon. The grandfather of Mr. Harris was Nehemiah Harris, and he was born in Virginia, while his father was a native of Wales, who came to Maryland later in life, where he died.
Mr. Harris has long been active and prominent in Democratic circles, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, where he is highly esteemed. Throughout his business and political career Mr. Harris has ever won the respect and admiration of all about him.
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