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Mr. Beatty is a Republican, belongs to no church and no societies. He has risen solely through his own efforts. He has never sought the aid of church or lodge, or of any fraternal organization, preferring always to meet the demands of business and society untrammeled with obligations of this character. He has, however, shown himself at all times loyal to his country and its best interests, and has made a record for himself that few can even approximate.
BURDETT O. EDDY.
In the history of the business interests of Youngstown the name of Burdett O. Eddy occupies a prominent place, and he is also an honored hero of the Civil war. In the paternal line he is descended from a prominent old Connecticut family, his great-grandfather, Othniel Eddy, having been born in that commonwealth, and he, too, nobly aided his country, serving as a valiant soldier in the war of 1812. His death occurred about 1854, when he had reached the eighty-eighth milestone on the journey of life. His son, Moore Eddy, became the grandfather of our subject, and in the city of Tol- land, Connecticut, he was born, in 1794, while his death occurred in 1876. His son, Lorenzo Shipley Eddy, also claimed Tolland as the city of his
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nativity, his birth occurring there in 1817. About 1834 he left his ancestral home for Ohio, and in the Buckeye state he followed agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his life. He was called to the home beyond in 1899.
Burdett O. Eddy, an attorney and the efficient court stenographer of Youngstown, is the immediate subject of this review. He was born in Wind- sor, Ashtabula county, Ohio, on the IIth of April, 1846, and was reared to the quiet pursuits of the farm. Remaining at home until the period of the Civil war, he then, in June, 1862, entered the Trumbull Guards, a state organization, which proceeded to Gallipolis for garrison duty. He entered the guards under the mistaken idea that they were being organized for inde- pendent scouting service, and on learning that their duty would be simply to guard government stores he became dissatisfied, and three weeks later, with the consent of the officers, he began special scouting service under the com- mand of William Hickox, better known as "Wild Bill." The latter was dangerously wounded in a hand-to-hand fight with bushwhackers in Arkan- sas, and Mr. Eddy soon afterward started on his return journey home. On reaching Springfield, Illinois, the spirit of patriotism again prompted him to en- list, and on September 4, 1863, he entered Battery G, Second Illinois Light Ar- tillery, which was attached to the Sixteenth Army Corps and took part in the engagements at Union City, Coffeeville, Brownsville, Tupelo, Old Town Creek, Hurricane Creek, Nashville, the siege of Vicksburg, the siege of Span- ish Fort and Fort Blakeley, near Mobile, Alabama. While a scout, Mr. Eddy participated in over fifty running fights and skirmishes. He was mus- tered out of service at Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois, on the 4th of September. 1865, after which he spent some time on the plains of Nebraska, Dakota, Colorado and what is now Wyoming. While in the west he was for three years train commander for various trading parties and was for over a year captain of the vigilance committee of the Laramie valley. In August, 1868, he was wounded in the right knee in a single-handed combat with a party of Indians at Cooper Creek, Wyoming, and he then returned to his home in Ohio, where he taught in the district schools during several winter terms.
In 1872 General Eddy entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was graduated therein in 1874. While there he took up the study of shorthand, and in this line of work he became very proficient. In 1874 he was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Michi- gan, and in the same year was admitted to the bar of the United States district court at Detroit, and also to the Ohio bar at Canfield. Towards the
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close of that year he began the practice of law at Youngstown, but at that time it was necessary to send to Cleveland or Pittsburg for official reporters when such were needed, and General Eddy was soon devoting all his time to the work of reporting. In May, 1878, when the Ohio legislature passed an act providing for the appointment of official stenographers, he was ap- pointed to his present position on a petition signed by every member of the bar of Mahoning county. Youngstown is an important manufacturing and railroad center, and the vast amount of damage litigation arising makes it necessary that the reporter be able to take all kinds of expert testimony, medi- cal, mechanical, etc., and General Eddy's work has never failed to give the utmost satisfaction.
In his political relations our subject is allied with the Republican party. From 1884 to 1888 he was a member of the Youngstown city council, being for two terms its president, and from 1888 to the present time he has been a member of the board of education, having been its efficient president during three terms. He belongs to all the leading social orders and societies, and has held the most responsible positions in them all, being now the commanding officer of the Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F., department of Ohio. He is a man of strong constitution and great vitality, and many successive days and nights of reporting and transcribing notes have no power to ruffle an un- commonly even temper and unfailing good spirits.
Mr. Eddy was united in marriage September 18, 1874, to Miss Sarah Day, who died December 3, 1878, one child living by this union, Burdette S. He married again, August 19, 1890, Miss Vella I. Sunderlin, of Youngs- town, and there are two children of this marriage, William C. and Jessie. .
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON.
The annals of Mahoning county, Ohio, give distinctive evidence that the Williamson family have been identified with its history from the early pioneer epoch, and thus added interest attaches to the consideration of the career of the honored subject of this sketch, who is one of the prominent and now venerable citizens of the county, in which he has passed his entire life of more than threescorce years and ten, commanding that same confidence and esteem as did his venerated father, who likewise was a life-long resident of the county ; and also his grandfather, who located here when this section of the state was essentially an unbroken wilderness, the virgin forests stand- ing where now are valuable farms and thriving cities and villages. The early period when the name thus became identified with Mahoning county may in a measure be understood, when we revert to the fact that the grand-
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father of our subject took up a tract of land and developed a farm which is within the present corporate limits of the city of Youngstown, now one of the important industrial and commercial points in the state. After a life of signal activity and honor in connection with practical business affairs, Mr. Williamson is now living retired, in the city of Youngstown, and it is a pleasure to here offer a brief review of his career, with incidental reference to his genealogy and to the pioneer days in this section. The strenuous life of the pioneer has been the theme of many a writer, and yet never can too much be written concerning those who have blazed the way for progress and prosperity in the various sovereign states of our great republic, and have thus been the founders of our enlightened commonwealths.
Joseph Williamson was born on a farm which is now included within the city of Youngstown, on the 3Ist of July, 1827, and here he was reared to years of maturity, having attended the schools of the locality and period, as opportunity afforded, until he had attained the age of eighteen years, and having thus laid the secure foundation of that wide and varied fund of in- formation and knowledge which he has since gained by personal application and association with men and affairs in the busy walks of life. He con- tinued to devote his attention to farm work until he was nineteen years of age, when he began an apprenticeship at the trade in connection with which his energies and abilities were directed during the remainder of his long and successful business career. He learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, becoming a skilled mechanic, and he eventually secured prestige as one of the representative contractors and builders of this section of the state, carry- ing on a large and successful business in the line and also continued farm- ing, this in connection with carpenter work, until 1876, when he retired, and since that time he has been enjoying the rewards of his former toil and endeavor, while his name has ever stood as a synonym of impregnable honor and integrity.
In politics he has given an uncompromising allegiance to the Republican party from the time of its organization, and during the period of the war of the rebellion he was a stanch advocate of the Union cause, though physical disabilities prevented his rendering active service as a soldier in the ranks. His religious faith is that of the Christian church, of which he has been a devoted member for many years, as has also his wife. In the year 1856 was solemnized the marriage of Joseph Williamson to Miss Belinda A. Detchon, and they became the parents of three children, namely: Warren P., of whom further mention is made in appending paragraphs : and Mary B. and Martha B., twins.
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Pyatt Williamson, the father of our subject, was born on the same old homestead in Mahoning county as was his son, and as the date of his nativity was the year 1801, it becomes evident that the family located here before Ohio was admited to the Union. He was here reared to maturity and here devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits, his death occurring in the year 1876. He married Anna Knox and they became the parents of eight children, of whom six are living at the present time, namely: Joseph ; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Jesse Simons, of Boardman township, this county ; Isaac, who is a resident of Youngstown; Horace, who resides in Youngstown; Sarah J., who is the wife of Abraham Hubler, of Youngs- town; and Alice, the widow of Alfred Mckinney, of Youngstown. Joseph Williamson, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was born in the state of New Jersey in 1765, being of sturdy Scotch extraction, and in the latter part of the eighteenth century he emigrated to the wilds of Ohio and located a tract of land on which a portion of the city of Youngstown now stands, and here he reclaimed and developed a farm, to whose improvement and cultivation he devoted his attention during the remainder of his life, his death occurring on the homestead in 1827, which year witnessed the birth of his grandson and namesake.
Warren Pyatt Williamson, the only son of Joseph and Belinda A. Williamson, was born on the ancestral homestead in this county, on the 4th of October, 1858, and here he was reared to years of maturity, receiving his early educational training in the schools of Youngstown, while he early be -- came identified with business activities, along which line he has attained a success worthy the name. In the year 1881 the Youngstown Carriage & Wagon Company was organized and incorporated, and he became bookkeeper in the office of the concern, while in 1889 he became secretary and treasurer of the company. The success of the enterprise has been largely due to his wise business policy and discriminating and progressive methods, and in 1901 he was chosen general manager and treasurer of the company, of which dual office he is the present able incumbent. He is known as one of the able and straightforward business men of his native city and as a worthy representative of a family honored in this section of the state from the time when the work of development was inaugurated.
In politics Mr. Williamson is a stalwart Republican, and has been called upon to serve in various official positions of public trust and responsibility. He was a member of the city council for two terms, as a representative of the fourth ward, and is now a member of the board of water works trustees. Fraternally he is an appreciative and popular member of the Masonic order
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and of its social adjunct, the Mystic Shrine, and is also identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On the 3Ist of December, 1890. Warren P. Williamson was united in marriage to Miss May Thompson, a daughter of D. J. Thompson, a well known and honored citizen of Youngs- town, and they are the parents of two children, Joseph D. and Warren P., Jr.
JOHN ROSE.
John Rose, one of the prominent farmers of Mahoning county. now living retired on his farm in Berlin township, near Berlin Center, was born January 7, 1825, in Milton township, Mahoning county, Ohio. Mr. Rose comes of a long-lived family. His grandfather, Jesse Rose, lived to the age of one hundred years; his father lived to more than one hundred and two years.
Grandfather Jesse Rose was of English extraction, and probably took part in the Revolutionary war. He was a great hunter and annually killed thirty-six deer and salted them down. He married a Miss Parshall, and as far as known these were his children: David, Robert, Jesse, Betsy, Mary and James. Of these Robert was probably born April 7, 1784, near Warm Springs, Virginia. When about twelve years old he moved with his parents to Poland, Mahoning county, and they settled on lands that are now occu- pied by a part of that village. Here he married Catherine Shoaf, who was the mother of his eight children, all of whom, with one exception, are alive, and these are: Elizabeth Rose Kirk, born April 7, 181I, of Iowa; David, born in 1815, of Ashtabula; Mary Harkellrode, born in 1818, of Champion, Ohio; Anna Strong, born in 1820, of Kent, Ohio: Robert, born in 1823, of Ashtabula county ; John, of Berlin ; and James, born in 1827, of Smith town- ship. Some years after his marriage Robert Rose moved to what is now known as Rosemont, took possession of an old cabin in the woods, where the family lived until a better home was provided on a farm of one hundred and four acres in Milton township. Here he lived some seventy years and here his second wife died. Since that time until his own death. Mr. Rose lived alternately with his two sons, John and James. Prior to his death, and within a few months of it he was still able to walk with a cane and was bent low with age, but retained his mental faculties, and the day before his death he smoked a pipe. He followed farming, and at the age of ninety-nine years hoed corn and did other farm work. In politics he was a staunch Democrat, and when he cast his last ballot at Berlin, for President Cleveland, he said he only desired to live to help elect another Democratic president. He never held any office. For over fifty years he was a member
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of the Methodist church. His children say that he was never sick, and death was caused by extreme age, his life having covered one hundred and two years, two months and nine days. He left about forty grandchildren and fifty great-grandchildren.
John Rose obtained his education in the old log school-house near his father's farm, attending during the winter sessions, until the age of seven- teen years. On June 20, 1850, he married Sophia Heiser, who was born November 16, 1830, in Mahoning county, and is a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Heiser, the latter of whom is a native of Lancaster, Penn- sylvania. Three sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Rose: Seneca C., a farmer in Milton township; Delorma is unmarried and operates the home farm; and Selby H., a farmer in Berlin township, and has two daughters. In 1868 Mr. Rose sold the old farm, and moved to Berlin, buying one hundred and sixty acres and residing on it until the fall of 1882. In the spring of 1885 he bought the snug little farm of twenty-six and one-half acres where he and wife reside, paying eleven hundred and fifty dollars for it. He has carried on a mixed husbandry and has been a large stock-dealer in his time, buying and feeding mostly sheep. In politics he is a consistent Democrat, and has served as assistant treasurer, both in Milton and Berlin townships. Mrs. Rose was the only child of her parents, her mother dying when she was six months old, and she was reared by her grandparents. She is a woman very much beloved and respected in her neighborhood, and is still active in mind and body and enjoys looking after the duties of her little household. For eighteen years she was the tender nurse of her husband's father. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rose have many friends in Berlin township.
WALLACE K. HUGHES, M. D.
Wallace K. Hughes, M. D., a prominent physician of Mahoning county, resides in Berlin Center, where he was born July 18, 1835. He is a son of Dr. James Williams Hughes and Paulina Snowden (Brooke) Hughes, who were married February 20, 1834, and reared the following children: Dr. Wal- lace K .; Adeline Virginia, born April 2, 1838; Elizabeth Hester, born August 23, 1840; James Brooke, born January 5, 1846, who was a successful mer- chant in Berlin Center.
Dr. James Williams Hughes was born October 1I, 1807, in Rockville. Maryland, and was a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Boone) Hughes, the former of whom was born April 10, 1758, and the latter September 19, 1766. They spent their whole lives in Maryland, and among their children were: Isaiah Boone, who died March 10, 1822; Hannah Northcraft, died aged
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fifty-two years; Edward, died aged fifty-seven years; John, died aged forty- nine years; Elizabeth H. Janney, died aged sixty years ; and Mordacai Boone, died January 26, 1852, aged forty-two years.
In 1832 the father of our subject settled in Berlin Center, and was the first and for a long time the only physician in this locality. He was college bred, graduating at the Washington University, D. C. He was a self-made man, and it is related that he chopped wood in order to pay his expenses through school. Although he was a man of robust constitu- tion and powerful frame, weighing two hundred pounds, he was overworked in his profession and died suddenly of apoplexy in 1869. He daily covered miles of country, and in his earlier days on horseback, following bridle paths and blazed trees to visit his patients. Although too busy to engage in poli- tics, he was a Whig in sentiment, and as one of the most responsible men in his locality was called upon to serve as justice of the peace. His widow survived until June, 1875, almost reaching her seventy-fifth birthday.
Dr. Wallace K. Hughes attended the local school and began reading medicine with his father at the age of eighteen years. In 1856 he entered Cleveland Medical College, where he was graduated in 1859, and immediate- ly began to relieve his father of some of his heavy practice. He spent three years in the Civil war, going out as assistant surgeon in the Thirty-eighth Ohio Infantry, changing to the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, and serving during the last six months as regiment surgeon. His regiment belonged to the Department of Tennessee, and was a part of that detachment which pursued Jefferson Davis, his command being but nine miles behind when the late Confederate president was captured. Dr. Hughes was married while on a furlough, May 23, 1863, to Miss Martha F. Smith, of Berlin Center, who was born in 1834 and died July 31, 1890, without issue. Fraternally he is a Master Mason of twenty- four years' standing ; a Knight of Pythias of Palmyra Lodge; and has served two terms as commander of Kirkbride Post Number 600, G. A. R. In poli- tics he is a Republican, and for ten consecutive years has served as township treasurer.
After his years of faithful and arduous practice, Dr. Hughes deemed it advisable to call in a little assistance, and for short periods took three partners into the business. For thirty years he has been a member of the Methodist church and is one of the trustees. His venerable father was the first class-leader in Berlin Center, and prepared the first temperance lec- ture ever heard here. An urgent call made it necessary for a substitute to read the lecture in his place. Miss Elizabeth Hughes owns the old home, built by her father seventy years ago, which was the third frame house erected
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in Berlin Center. The present Doctor's home and office was built by him thirty years ago and is a pleasant, roomy cottage standing on the east cor- ner of the public square, surrounded by five acres of land.
It would not be suitable to close this record of the Hughes family, which was one of the oldest and most honorable of the town, without mention of the late James B. Hughes, whose death took place July 25, 1881. He was ex-auditor of Mahoning county, and a successful merchant, and a very popu- lar citizen. His election as auditor took place in 1875, and his service cov- ered a period of five years. He proved to be one of the most efficient offi- cials the county had ever had. His death was a shock to many beside his own family, as he was a man of noble character, and of social and genial nature, which had made him many friends. He was buried with Masonic honors.
WILLIAM T. HAWKINS.
William T. Hawkins, now one of the prominent farmers of Berlin township, has been a resident of this part of Mahoning county for more than a half century. He was born September 24, 1844, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Thomas and Mary (Teegarden) Haw- kins. Thomas Hawkins was born in 1809 in Washington county, Pennsyl- vania, and in 1834 married Mary Teegarden, who was born in July, 1812, in Columbiana county. Her father was Rev. William Teegarden, a Bible Christian preacher. Their children were the following: Lavosier E., born in 1836, died on his farm in this township, in his fifty-seventh year, leaving a widow and six children; Ruth E. is the widow Hartzell and has three children; Susannah is the wife of Dr. Tressel, of Alliance, and they have three children; Laura, deceased in 1865, was the wife of J. B. Stanley and left two children; William T. is the subject of this sketch; Mary married Rev. E. G. Tressel of Columbus, Ohio, and they have four children; Eliza- beth was the wife of Albert Shilling and died in 1896, leaving four children ; Emmer died at the age of twenty-two; and Nettie O. died in 1894 at Alli- ance. The father died on Christmas day, 1882. His widow lived with Net- tie in Alliance and died in 1896. They rest in the old cemetery at Berlin Center. Their religious belief was in the Bible Christian church. At one time Thomas Hawkins was a wealthy man, speculating in wool and owning a large farm. A sudden fall in wool wiped his wealth away. By trade he was a shoemaker, and he made shoes for his family after settling on his farm.
William T. Hawkins was brought to this locality by his parents in
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April, 1845, the long journey being made by canal to Youngstown, there being no railroads then in this section of the country; from Youngstown teams were used. This farm of two hundred and forty-four acres was purchased from Joseph Colt, there being a residence, a fair-sized barn on the place, and some thirty acres from which the trees had been cut, although the stumps still remained. On this farm William T. Hawkins grew up, finding plenty of hard work to occupy his time, leaving little for getting an education. However, until he was seventeen years old, he attended the district school in the winter time. In 1864 he answered President Lin- coln's last call for troops, and enlisted in Company G. One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Ohio Volunteers. Contracting malaria, which developed into ty- phoid fever, he was confined in a hospital. The worst battle which he recalls was that at Petersburg, where for two days and two nights he was in the field hospital assisting the surgeon in his amputations. He returned to the farm, which he bid in at the auction in September, 1890, for fifty dollars per acre. He has been engaged here in general farming ever since. Al- though he has made many pleasure trips through other states he has never found any section to suit him so well as his own.
Mr. Hawkins has taken a leading part in county and township affairs. For six years he was township treasurer, for five years township clerk, several times health officer, and is now serving on the school board. His leading enterprise is the raising of fine stock and cattle, and he has had at times as many as forty head of registered cattle, and one hundred head of Merino sheep. These bring what are known as fancy prices on account of their pure breed. In 1901 he erected his famous red barn, which is forty by seven- ty feet, with wing forty by forty-four feet, with a ten-foot basement under the whole, and is fifty feet to the peak. Good heavy timbers and fine work- manship make this a structure to be proud of; the timbers for the frame came from Mr. Hawkins's own timber lot. After selling three thousand dollars' worth of timber in 1902, he still has fifteen acres left. His crops include hay, corn, wheat and oats, and his fertile land produces some of the largest crops in this neighborhood. His orchards of apples and peaches were started by his father, and he adds to them every year. The tall ever- greens which ornament his lawn were also planted by the busy hands of his parents and are constant reminders of their industry and provision for those coming after them.
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