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Mr. Hawkins was married to Miss Darthella Nettrour, on November 15, 1899, and they have one bright little son, Charles Tressel, who was born September 30, 1902. Mrs. Hawkins is a daughter of John and Anna
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(Wonsettler) Nettrour, of Leetonia, where the father is engaged in the machinery business. Mrs. Hawkins was educated in the graded school, and began teaching at the age of sixteen, continuing for seven years. Mr. Hawkins is one of the best known men of this neighborhood. For a long season he has been a comrade in Kirkbride Post No. 600, G. A. R., and has frequently held official position. He was appointed by Garfield as agent to Alaska in 1881, but on account of his mother's ill health he could not accept the compliment.
JOHN H. STREETER.
The pursuits of life are as varied as are the tastes and capacities of men. and it is an interesting and useful study to observe the degree of their assimilation and to note the degree to which an individual realized his poten- tial and gives evidence in practical results. In connection with the stirring industrial life which gives so marked prestige to the attractive little city of Youngstown, Mahoning county, are naturally to be found arrayed a large number of men of marked capacity and ability in their respective fields of endeavor, and of many of them specific mention is made in this volume, while in the case at hand we find additional consistency in entering a review of personal character, since Mr. Streeter is not only one of the representa- tive citizens, being chief clerk of the Ohio works of the National Steel Com- pany, but has also passed practically his entire life in Youngstown, winning advancement through his own efforts and ability and ever commanding un- qualified respect and esteem in the community.
John H. Streeter was born in Newcastle, Lawrence county, Pennsyl- vania, on the 21st of March, 1858, and when he was still an infant his par- ents removed thence to Youngstown, Ohio, where he was reared to maturity, having secured his educational training in the public schools and having left the high school within two weeks of his graduation, being at the time four- teen years of age. He then took the position of mailing clerk in the Youngs- town postoffice, his father being at the time incumbent of the office of post- master, and he continued as employe in this office about five years, at the expiration of which period he secured a clerkship in a local coal office, where he continued to be employed until 1896. In 1898 Mr. Streeter took a clerical position in the office of the Ohio Steel Company, and in April, 1901, he was made chief clerk, having been practically the incumbent of this position from February, 1899, and being promoted officially soon after the merging of the interests of the company into the National Steel Company. He is a man of fine executive ability, having marked facility in the handling of manifold
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details, and his administration of the duties devolving upon him has been admirable and won him deserved commendation.
In politics Mr. Streeter gives his allegiance to the Republican party, his religious faith is that of the English Lutheran church, and fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, holding membership in Youngstown Lodge No. 55, in his home city. On the 21st of February, 1877, in the city of Youngstown, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Streeter to Miss Samantha J. Baechler, a daughter of Rev. Samuel Baechler, an able member of the clergy of the English Lutheran church, and they are the parents of two children, Matie E. and Mabel.
Corydon B. Streeter, father of our subject was born in Orange county, New York, March 3, 1829, and he now resides in Johnson, Stanton county, Kansas. being one of the successful farmers and stock-growers of that section and being at the present time incumbent of the office of county treasurer, to which he was elected for a second term. In Plain Grove, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1857, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary J. Offutt, daughter of John Offutt, and their five children are as follows: John H. ; James C .; Mary E., wife of Dr. C. L. Floor, deceased January 30, 1903 ; Margaret, wife of E. N. Travis; and Charles Grant. Corydon B. Streeter enlisted as a private in an Ohio regiment in 1864, for a term of one hundred days, and was in active service during the closing portion of the war of the rebellion, while he was a personal friend of General Grant and one of his stanch admirers. He is a son of Horace Streeter, who was born in Massa- chusetts in 1801, and died at Ottumwa, Iowa, in September, 1853. Jacob, the father of Horace, died in Massachusetts in 1853, and Jacob's father was still living in Massachusetts after Corydon B., his great-grandson, became a young man. The maiden name of the grandmother of Corydon B. Streeter was Hannah Earskine, and she was born in Massachusetts, and died at Poplar Grove, Illinois, in 1853. The mother of Corydon was Eliza Avery, who was born in 1810 and died in Illinois in 1890.
JOHN DYER.
The working of metals, from the earliest times of which we have his- toric information, has proved both fascinating and indispensably necessary to mankind. Step by step has nature unfolded its secrets to the tireless and skil- ful experimenter, until now we are surrounded on all sides with the marvels of construction in iron, brass, copper and other metals.
John Dyer early became interested in the transmutation of iron and con- tinued his study and experiments until he became highly proficient in the work.
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His father, William Dyer, was joined in marriage to Elizabeth Thomas, and to them were born a large family, of whom three alone are now living : John, William, and Sarah, wife of Enoch Phillips. His mother died in the year 1866.
It was at Tredgar, South Wales, that John Dyer was born, and there he received his early education, until he became fired with a desire of visiting this country, of which he had long heard so many glowing reports. Accord- ingly, in 1886, he came to Pennsylvania, and after a short stay of about two months continued westward, locating in Youngstown, Ohio. Here he entered the Brown-Bonnell mill as a puddler, which he afterward left to join the Youngstown Sheet Iron and Tube Company, by whom he is now employed.
He was married in Wales, in 1881, to Margaret Edwards, and to them were born four children: Elizabeth, who died at the age of twenty years, in May, 1902; Thomas John, who died in 1887; William and Henry. Mr. Dyer has always been identified with the Republican party, in which he is held in high esteem throughout Mahoning county. In 1901 he was elected to the board of education from the third ward in Youngstown, the term of his office being two years. He is also an honored member of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and with his family attends the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. His selection as a member of the board of edti- cation was certainly recognition of his ability beyond the limits of his life profession, and he has long been highly esteemed for his manly and generous interest in the welfare of all about him.
MRS. MARY E. MOHERMAN.
Mrs. Mary E. Moherman is the owner of an attractive home and fine farm in Jackson township, pleasantly situated about a mile and a half west of the town of Jackson. She is the widow of Solomon R. Moherman, who died here April 26, 1902, at the age of forty-eight years. He was born in the house which is still occupied by his widow, and was a son of Abraham Moherman, also a native of this county, who was born in Austintown town- ship, October 16, 1805, and died here May 28, 1885, when in his eightieth year. The latter's father, Frederick Moherman, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, about 1778, and was a stock farmer. He wedded Mary Horn and they reared a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters, namely : John, who was a successful farmer; Abraham, the father of Solo- mon Moherman ; Daniel; Robert; Austin; Winchester; Mary, who died at the age of nineteen years; Anna Moherman became the wife of Leonard Wood- ward; and Rachel Moherman was the wife of George Lynn. All of this family have now passed away. Frederick Moherman was one of the first set-
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tlers of Jackson township, becoming the possessor of the farm while the white men still had to dispute the title to this fair region with its former pos- sessors, the Indians. He became a successful agriculturist, as did all of his sons.
Mrs. Mary E. Moherman was a daughter of James and Hetty (Ebert) Eckenrode. Her mother was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1830. About 1851 she gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Eckenrode, who was born in the Keystone state in 1829. Their marriage occurred, however, in Mahoning county, Ohio, and they settled upon a farm in Jackson township, near where Mrs. Moherman makes her home. The father became the owner of a rich tract of one hundred acres, upon which he placed good improve- ments. Ten children were born to him and his wife, but five have passed away. Two of the sons died in infancy, and another son, William Henry, died at the age of six and a half years. Maria C. became the wife of Wood- worth Powers, and died at the age of twenty-three years, leaving a little son, Forrest Powers, then but six weeks old. Malcolm Wallace Eckenrode died when about twenty-eight years, leaving a widow and four children, three daughters and a son. The living members of the Eckenrode family are: Mrs. Moherman ; Frear A., who is living on his sister's farm, and has a young wife and one daughter; Adolphus, residing in North Jackson, with his wife and five children; Byron Clyde, who is a carpenter of Youngstown, and is a widower with one son and one daughter; and Forrest Kanard, at Mineral Ridge, who has a wife and two daughters. James Eckenrode, the father, passed away in 1876, at the age of forty-eight years, but the mother is still living, and retains her mental and physical faculties unimpaired.
Mrs. Moherman was educated in the public schools, and on the 27th of July, 1876, was married. She came to her present farm twenty-seven years ago and has lived here continuously since. Mr. Moherman was a man of industry and enterprise and devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits until his life's labors were ended. His death proved a great blow to the widow and also a source of deep regret to his many friends. In his political views he was a Republican, but never sought or desired office. He belonged to the Disci- ples church, of which his widow is also a faithful member, and his life was ever upright and honorable. He left to Mrs. Moherman a fine farm of one hundred and seventy acres, which has been in possession of the family for almost a century. Her home is a most attractive and comfortable one, with pleasing surroundings as well as interior furnishings. Among her treasures Mrs. Moherman has a very large and beautiful century plant which her mother gave her. Mrs. Moherman has a wide acquaintance in this her native county, and her friends are many.
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WARNER P. MOODY.
Mr. Moody has been the principal of the public school of Struthers, Ma- honing county, for nearly fifteen years, so long a time that many of those who were his pupils in the first years are now grown to maturity and have children of their own to be educated. This long term of service has had its rewards in many ways besides the money received, and his extended retention in the position is an honor and evidence of the respect in which he is held by all the inhabitants, old and young. His family has been connected with the history of Mahoning county for over a century. Grandfather James Moody, who was of Irish descent, was born in 1772 in Delaware and came to Ohio in the early years of the last century. He was a tanner by trade and had his tannery on his seventy-acre farm. He married Elizabeth Tinch, of German ancestry, and they reared a large family. They both lived to a good old age and their remains rest in Boardman township.
Jackson B. Moody, one of their children, was born in the fall of 1814. He was a merchant in Poland, and by appointment from the Democratic President Buchanan, became the postmaster. The firm of Lee & Moody did a thriving business in Poland, which was then the principal town on the old stage route between Pittsburg and Cleveland, Youngstown not yet being in existence. But when his parents became old and feeble he returned to the farm to care for them, and at their death he inherited the place, twenty-six acres of which is still in the possession of one of his daughters. He married Sarah Patrick, who was born in this county in 1830, the daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth (Bishop) Patrick, the former a Scotch-Irishman, born in county Antrim, Ireland. Six sons and two daughters were born of this marriage, and all grew up and are now living except one son, James Arthur, who was a merchant in Youngstown, and died at the age of forty-eight, leav- ing three sons. The living children are: Elizabeth, who is the housekeeper on the old place for her brother, Holmes Moody, and her two uncles, Charles and William Patrick; Olive Moody is a high school graduate and a teacher in Poland; Fred R. is successfully carrying on the business in Youngstown of his brother's widow: Thaddeus is storekeeper for the boiler works in Youngstown: Jesse R. is a resident of Youngstown and has a family of five children; and Warner P. The mother of this family died at the age of forty- seven in 1877, and the father died in August, 1896.
Warner P. Moody was born in Boardman, this county, in 1865, was educated in the Poland schools and left the academy at the age of eighteen and at twenty began teaching, which he has followed with so much success for the past seventeen years. He has taught in Struthers for fifteen years, and has
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been principal with the exception of the first year. On December 30, 1890, he was married to Miss Mary E. Kerr, who was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania, and is the daughter of Henry G. and Mary E. (Cozad) Kerr. She was a graduate of the Mercer high school and was for some time before her mar- riage a primary teacher under her future husband, thus being an excellent and sympathetic helper in his life work. Two sons and two daughters were born of their marriage, but all died in infancy with the exception of Miriam, who was born December 24, 1896. Mr. Moody is an independent in politics, his father and grandfather having been Democrats; he is a Knight of Pythias, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church. They are now settled in their pleasant home, which was built on a hillside in the summer of 1902, and they are happily situated and enjoy the esteem of the best people of the town. Two heirlooms which Mr. Moody prizes very highly are a sword and a pistol which his grandfather carried in the war of 1812, and it is very probable that other ancestors were in the Revolution.
SETH HAYES TRUESDALE, M. D.
Dr. Truesdale is prominent in the medical circles of Mahoning county, where he has been engaged in practice for nearly twenty years, in which time he has won many friends, both professionally and socially. He comes of good ancestry, and his grandfather was a Revolutionary war veteran, and four of his father's brothers were in the war of 1812. Grandfather John Truesdale was born in eastern Pennsylvania near Chambersburg in 1743, was a substantial farmer, and came to this county in the early days of Ohio his- tory and died here in 1818. His son Joseph was a physician and surgeon, was very prominent in the public life of Mahoning county, where he located in 1831, served in the legislature, and died in 1871, highly respected by all the citizens of the community. He was married about 1831 to Eliza Hayes, a cousin of President Hayes. She was born in Hartford, Ohio, in 1814, and was the daughter of Colonel Richard Hayes. Sarah M., the first child of this union, is the widow of Dr. Riley, and resides in Youngstown; Mrs. Ella Smith is also a widow and lives in Rochester, New York; Lucy C. Rock- wood is the wife of a prominent north side merchant in Chicago; the fourth child was Seth Hayes; Mrs. Lottie E. King died October 27, 1900, leaving three children; Fred Hayes is a real estate man of Chicago. The mother of these children died on March 29, 1873.
Seth Hayes Truesdale was born in Poland, Mahoning county, June 20, 1843, and was educated in the Poland Union Seminary, a classmate of William McKinley. His education was interrupted in 1862, when he en-
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listed for the Civil war. In June of this year he entered Company B, Eighty- fourth Ohio Infantry, and in May, 1863, was made first lieutenant of Com- pany A, Eighty-sixth Ohio, but in thirty days was promoted and captained the company until March, 1864, when he was mustered out of service. He had the fortune to escape all injuries, and was in a camp hospital for only a short time. In 1865 he began systematic preparation for the profession of medicine by reading in his father's office. But after a year he gave up his medical aspirations for a time and went to Chicago, where he was engaged in business until 1875. He then resumed his studies in the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, where he graduated with his degree of M. D. in February, 1876. He had also taken a course in Rush Medical College in Chicago. Thus prepared, he began practice at Mount Jackson, Pennsylvania, where he remained till November, 1883, when he came to his native place of Poland. Since he came here four of the resident physicians, including his own son, have died, and he is one of the longest established practitioners in the place.
In September, 1865, Dr. Truesdale was married to Miss Amelia Mc- Creary, who was born in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, in 1843, and is the daughter of William and Mary (Miller) McCreary. Harry Truesdale, the first born of this union, died in infancy. William J., who was born October 3, 1870, was graduated in medicine in Cleveland at the age of twenty-four, and was a most promising young man, with a bright career before him, but on May 25, 1895, consumption claimed him for a victim, and thus was lost to Poland one who would have made a great impress for good upon the com- munity. Dr. Truesdale and his wife have been living in their present nice brick residence since 1883, and his house, office and outbuildings occupy about two acres of one of the most attractive corners in the town, a beautiful home, where they enjoy the friendship of the best people of the place. He is a Republican, a Presbyterian, and a past commander of Hawkins Post. No. 416, G. A. R.
JOHN J. HILL.
This gentleman is himself of Scotch birth, and his ancestors were all na- tives of that rugged land. His grandfather, John Hill, was born in Lanark- shire, Scotland, and by his wife, Annie McDonald, had five sons and two daughters : Charlotte, Rosanna, John, Walter, Joseph, James and Arthur. Most of them were miners; one was a solider in the British army and died while in the army of occupation in the late war with China, being buried in that country. Of these sons, James married Annie Watt in 1853, and in
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1864 sailed for America, being twenty-one days on the voyage. He had moderate means, saved from his own earnings as a miner, and he at once se- cured a position as a superintendent in a mine at Haselton and later at Nebo, Ohio. Further facts in regard to this worthy couple are given in the sketch of Margaret ( Hill) Roemer in this volume.
Of the ten children born to the last mentioned parents, John J. is the sixth in order of birth, being born in Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Febru- ary 29, 1864. Three weeks after his birth his parents came to New York, and he was thus an American in everything but birth. His advantages in school were very limited, for he left school at the age of eleven and began work for a railroad company as a water boy and in charge of the tools. He received one dollar a day at first, but in his third year this was reduced to seventy-five cents on account of the panic of 1873. About this time he gave up the work and went out to the farm of Squire Stewart at Nebo, one of the old settlers, and worked during the summers, while in the winter of his six- teenth year he attended school, which was the last schooling that he was privi- leged to obtain. At the age of sixteen he began work in the Powers coal mine at Haselton, where he had worked one winter before with his father. He was in the mine less than two years at the low wage of seventy-five cents a day, and in 1880 he returned to the Stewart farm, where he worked the first year under Mr. Stewart and the next under that gentleman's successor, during the last six months getting twenty-six dollars a month and his board. On Sep- tember 14, 1882, when he was eighteen years old, he entered the employ of the American Sheet Steel Works, formerly the Summers Bros. Company, re- ceiving one dollar and sixty-five cents a day, and he has been engaged in this work ever since as a roller.
On December 3, 1891, Mr. Hill was married to Miss Jennie V. Adams, who was born in Lowellville. November 3, 1869, and is the daughter of John and Jane (Goodhue) Adams. The former was a native of Prussia, born in Geraldstein in 1842, and the latter was born near Rochester, England, and is still living, having lost her husband in 1871. There were two daughters of this couple, and Mary is a seamstress living with her sister, Mrs. Hill. The first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Hill was named Grace Anna, her birth taking place December 24, 1892, and she is now studying music; Margaret Elizabeth was born May 31, 1895: James Arrel Smith Hill was born Octo- ber 14, 1896; George Arthur was born January 23, 1898; and the youngest, Jean Marie, came into the home January 5, 1900.
Before his marriage Mr. Hill had resolved not to be a tenant, and three days before his wedding he went in debt for his home, and he has built a
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large and good residence on the east side of Struthers, having purchased five acres of land on the hillside, a site commanding a view of the entire Mahoning Valley. He has been prudent in his business affairs and is now one of the most substantial citizens of the town. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias, while in politics he is a Prohibitionist and cast his first presidential vote for that party. He is a firm supporter of the principles upheld by this organization and has done much to eradicate the terrible scourge of the liquor traffic. As he says rather facetiously, he now has five more arguments against intemperance than when he was a young man, namely, his five young children. He is also a member of the United Presbyterian Church and is one of its trustees.
JOHN G. ERSKINE.
No citizens of Mahoning county are more respected than those of the name of Erskine, and the family has been long established, going back in the history of Scotland for many generations. Robert Erskine, whose great- grandson is the subject of this biography, was a native of Erskine Parish, Scotland, and by his wife, Helen Allison, had a son Hugh. Hugh was born in the same parish in 1790 and was a weaver of the famous Paisley shawls in the shops at Paisley, in which many of the employes were eligible to Par- liament. He married Elizabeth Craig, a native of Paisley, and the daughter of James and Janet ( Melvin) Craig, and there were seven children born of this union: Robert, deceased; Janet, deceased; Hugh, who lives in this country ; John, deceased; William, deceased; Joseph, who died in this country ; and James. James, who carries the line of descent, was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1825, and like his father, was employed in the shawl factory. The latter died in 1837 in the prime of his life, and James then moved to the Shotts Iron Works and became a competent engineer, which calling he followed for five years, and he still has in his possession the certifi- cate of recommendation from his employers. He had begun his life's labors as a herder on the Scotch hills when he was thirteen years old, and after his career as an engineer he was allured by the opportunities in the new world and landed in New York city on May 28, 1849. He went to Pittsburg, Penn- sylvania, where he secured employment on a farm and then in the brick yards at Bolivar, but as he lost his first five months' wages, he returned to his em- ployer on the farm. He later went back to the brick yard and in 1859, in the absence of the owner, was made general manager. He also had charge of the store there until 1863, when he bought a timber farm near Bolivar and
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