History of Columbiana County, Ohio and representative citizens, Part 97

Author: McCord, William B., b. 1844
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 912

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William Hannay, who was born in Scot- land, came to America when 21 years of age. He settled in Pennsylvania and married there, but died in Ohio, July 8, 1864, aged 62 years. He was a contractor and learned the trade of stone-mason in his native land. He became a large railroad contractor and did the bridging and laid the track for the Fort Wayne Rail- road and was in the employ of that system at the time of his death. In addition to a great deal of important construction work at Pitts- burg, he built the locks on various canals, in-

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cluding the Sandy and Beaver Canal here and a canal at Bowling Green, Kentucky. He built the first asylum at Newburg. He owned a farm of 162 acres in Perry township but never farmed, giving his attention to contracting en- tirely. . In politics he was a Republican. In religious belief he was a Methodist. He was a man who was trusted implicitly, a capable machinist, a reliable contractor, a good father and a most worthy citizen. He married Eliza- beth Watson, of Allegheny County, Pennsyl- vania, who was born in England and came to America with her parents, Mark and Ellen Watson, when 16 years of age. Her death oc- curred on the old farm in Perry township in- 1891, at the age of 78 years. There were nine children born to this union, four of whom died young, the survivors being : William, of Salem; James E., of Perry township; John F., of this sketch ; Robert, of Butler township; and David, who lives on the old home in Perry township.

Our subject was II years old when his pa- rents came to Columbiana County, Ohio, and he has lived in the vicinity of Salem ever since. He assisted on the home farm until he enlisted for service in the Civil War, on August 31, 1864, in Company I, 178th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., under Capt. William A. Miller and Col. Jacob Stafford. He participated in the battles of Stone River, Cedar Creek, Shel- byville and Kinston, and continued in the service until the close of the war, being mus- tered out in July, 1865. Since his return from the army, Mr. Hannay has been settled on his present farm. There are two good resi- dences here, one occupied by his son and the large brick one, which he himself occupies. Mr. Hannay has a fine orchard of 10 acres. He is one of the stockholders of the Winona Cream- ery and is counted one of the substantial men of his section.

Mr. Hannay was married to Mary E. Pat- terson, who was born on this farm and has al- ways resided here. She is a daughter of Robert and Lydia Ann Patterson. They have three children : Emma L., who married Oliver N. Tomlinson, resides at Denver, Colorado, and has three children,-Edith, Ruth and Walter; Robert P., residing on his father's farm, who

has two sons,-Frank and Walter ; and Myrtle, who lives with her parents.

Mr. Hannay is a Republican. He is one of the active members of Trescott Post, No. 10, G. A. R., of Salem.

HE CARTWRIGHT BROTHERS COMPANY, one of the important manufacturing concerns of East Liverpool, has a reputation extending throughout the country, its products going to all sections. The company employs about 200 men in the manufacture of toilet and table wares, and make specialties in decorative ware. The company was established as a co- partnership in 1864, and in 1897 was incor- porated with a capital stock of $100,000, and the following officers: William Cartwright, president and treasurer ; Samuel R. Cartwright, vice-president and general manager ; and John T. Cartwright, secretary. William H., Fred- erick H. and Ambrose J. Cartwright are also interested in and actively identified with this company. All these gentlemen have gained prominence as business men and stand among the foremost citizens of this section of Ohio. The plant which they control has seven ware kilns and four decorating kilns, and the ex- cellence of the product is attested by the size of the business done.

The Cartwright family comes of an old English family long resident in Shropshire, where it has representatives in agricultural pur- suits and in the mechanical arts. Thomas Cartwright. who was born in the latter half of the 18th century, spent his life as a farmer and ended his days not far from his birthplace. His son, William Cartwright, who was born in Shropshire, England, in 1801, also became a tiller of the soil. He continued at that occu- pation until' 1845, when he moved with his family to America, arriving in Pittsburg after the great fire there in that year. He then lo- cated at East Liverpool, Ohio, where he re- mained but one year, when he returned to Eng- land, taking all his family with him but one son, Thomas. He again came to East Liver- pool, however, in 1853, and here worked in the

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potteries for many vears, dying in this city in 1876, aged 75 years. He was married in Eng- land in 1824 to Elizabeth Brett, and they had the extreme satisfaction of seeing all but one of their children grow to maturity and become thoroughly identified with American institu- tions and make good, loyal citizens of their adopted country. Of the five sons born to them, four fought for the Union during the Civil War, one losing his life in that struggle. Thomas, the eldest son, served in the 76th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf., and died after the war; Anna, the eldest daughter, became the wife of Thomas Thackery and is now numbered among the dead; John, the second son, rose to the rank of captain, commanding Company A, 27th Regiment U. S. (Colored) Inf., and was killed while leading his troops at the battle of Petersburg ; Máry, the second daughter, is the wife of Holland Manley; William, whose biog- raphy appears below, was next in order of birth; Joseph died at the age of 18 years ; and Samuel R., whose life record appears below. Mrs. Cartwright died in 1880.

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT, president and treasurer of the company above named, was reared in England, where he was born on De- ·cember 29, 1834, in Staffordshire. He accom- panied his parents to this country in 1845, then returned with them to England. When the family moved to East Liverpool, Ohio, the second time, in 1853, William obtained employ- ment in the potteries, having been connected with that business before coming to this coun- try. In 1862 he enlisted in the Ohio National Guard for a term of five years. In 1864 he was transferred to the government service and served with gallantry. In February, 1864, un- der the firm name of Manley & Cartwright, he and Holland Manley established a pottery at East Liverpool. In 1872 Samuel R. Cart- wright secured an interest in the business and the firm thereafter continued unchanged until 1880, when Mr. Manley. withdrew. The title of the firm then became Cartwright Brothers, and so it continued until it was incorporated as a company in 1897. In politics, Mr. Cartwright is a Republican, and has frequently been called into official position in the municipality. He

was a member of the Board of Equalization and the Board of Sewer Commissioners from the incorporation of the city until the recent change in the State code, and has been a member of the City Council. Fraternally, he is a member of General Lyon Post, No. 44, G. A. R., and for more than 40 years has been an Odd Fellow.

William Cartwright was married to Harriet S. Talbot, a native of Staffordshire, England, who was nine years of age when she accom- panied her parents to this country. Her father, William Talbot, located at East Liverpool and was foreman for Knowles, Taylor & Knowles. He died in 1861, but little past the age of 40 years. This union was prolific of the following offspring : Eliza Anne, who is living at home; William H., born October 18, 1860; Ambrose J., born September 30, 1862: John T., born January 29, 1865; and Florence N., the young- est of the family, who is the wife of Simon R. Huss, an attorney of Pittsburg. William H. Cartwright is foreman of the decorating depart- ment of The Cartwright Brothers Company. He married a daughter of William Brunt and has two children,-Alma B. and Myrtle B. He is a member of the Mystic Circle and of the Phoenix Club. Ambrose J. Cartwright was for two years manager of the Barberton Pot- tery Company, of Barberton, Ohio, acted as receiver for the Union Co-Operative Pottery Company, which was latter reorganized as the Union Potteries Company and is now in the office of The Cartwright Brothers Company. East Liverpool. He married Carrie Forbes, of Steubenville, and has two children, Louis and Homer K. He was one of the original eight members of the Phoenix Club, of which he has served as secretary, treasurer and president. and is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Mystic Circle. John T. Cartwright has been secretary of The Cartwright Brothers Company since its incorporation in 1897. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic order, the Royal Arcanum and the Phoenix Club. of which he has served as president. The family are Presbyterians.

SAMUEL R. CARTWRIGHT, vice-president and general manager of The Cartwright Broth- ers Company, was the seventh and youngest

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child of his parents. He was born at Burslem, Staffordshire, England, in 1840, and was five years of age when the voyage of his family to America was undertaken. When 12 years old he bade farewell to his studies and entered into the serious work of life as a helper in one of the local potteries of East Liverpool. Dur- ing the following 12 years he kept industriously at work, learning the various details of the business and got his first change of occupation by enlisting in May, 1864, as a member of Company I, 143rd Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., serving until the following September. After leaving the army, he engaged in business for him- self, and in 1872 became associated with the firm of Manley & Cartwright in the pottery business. As vice-president and general man- ager of The Cartwright Brothers Company, he has displayed great executive ability and a thorough knowledge of the details of the busi- ness.

In 1861 Samuel R. Cartwright was mar- ried at Smith's Ferry, Pennsylvania, to Eliza- beth Talbot, a daughter of William Talbot, and they became parents of two children: Frank E., who died in infancy; and Frederick H., who married Caroline Metsch, a daughter of Christian Metsch, and has two children, -- Robert M. and Ruth E. Occasionally Mr. Cartwright has been called from too close con- finement to his work to render public service. He served in the City Council from the Third Ward for six years, the last two years of which period he was president. For six years he was trustee of Liverpool township. He is a Republican in politics. Religiously, he is a Methodist.

B ENJAMIN FOSTER, M. D. For a great many years the late Dr. Foster was one of the well-known medical men of Columbiana County, one of the early, faithful physicians whose lives were full of hardship in curing the ills of their fellow-men. Dr. Foster was born in what is now West Virginia, October 7, 1809, and was a son of Benjamin Foster and wife, who were members of old Virginia families.

Benjamin Foster was born in 1752 and died in 1827 and his wife was born in 1763 and. died in 1834, in her 71st year.

The subject of this article was reared in Virginia (now West Virginia) and began the study of medicine in young manhood, which he continued under Dr. Wilson, a well-known . practitioner of the early days, who lived near Steubenville, Ohio, on the Virginia side of the Ohio River. Dr. Foster made a specialty of cancerous diseases and in their treatment was very successful, although his period of prac- tice was long before the days of modern in- vestigation on the subject. He was never con- nected with great hospitals founded by mil- lionaires, but his cures were wrought by the homely medicaments of his time, which were administered according to his judgment.

In 1845 Dr. Foster came to Columbiana County and located at the little settlement of Cannon's Mills. Subsequently he bought the mills and operated them for some years. He sold them to James McCoy and soon afterward a terrible accident occurred there, the wife of the owner losing her life by being caught in the belting of the mill, while showing the ma- chinery to friends. After selling the mills, Dr. Foster purchased a farm of 80 acres, one mile. from Wellsville, in section II, Yellow Creek township, of his wife's father, Samuel Swear- engen. On this farm Dr. Foster died March 8. 1888, in his 82nd year. He was survived by his widow and two daughters,-Sarah and Eliza. The former married John Hoey, a na- tive of Salineville. They now reside at Al- toona, Kansas, and have reared II children, those living being Frank, Mattie M., Jane. Edith, Andrew, Harry, Benjamin and Bertha.

The second daughter, Eliza, married Will- iam Groner, and they lived on the above men- tioned farm for 42 years. They had five. (laughters, of whom the youngest, Sadie Pearl. died in infancy. The others are: Ella . Adelia. who married David Quayle, a foreman carpen- ter on the railroad, and has these children,- Myrtle, Zana, Earl, Mary, Margaret, Anna, Gladys and Helen; Barbara E., who married Frank Smith, a carpenter and contractor ; Anna Mary, who married James Buchanan, an en-

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gineer in the railroad shops, and has one son, -Walter; and Alice La Rue, who married Clark Haynes and has two children,-Goldie and Verna.

Politically Dr. Foster was always affiliated with the Democratic party. He and his wife were attendants of the Christian Church for 54 years, of which church his wife was a mem- ber. while the Doctor was a member of the Society of Friends.

J OHN AIKIN, who for the past 18 years has successfully conducted a blacksmith shop at Leetonia, Ohio, was born in Middleton township, Columbiana County, Ohio, April 27, 1845, and bears the name that was borne by his father and grandfather before him-a name that long years of honorable and upright liv- ing have made a respected and honored one. The business has also been handed down from father to. son for three generations and it would be impossible to find a smith more conversant with his trade or more thorough in his work than the gentleman whose name heads this article.

John Aiken, the first, was born in the North of Ireland and became one of the pioneers of Columbiana County. Here he engaged in blacksmithing and carpenter work. He was very skilled at his trades and could build a wagon entire from the raw materials. He served in the War of 1812, and proved stanch and loyal to hiis adopted home. His wife was a Witherspoon, niece of John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

John Aiken, the second, was born in 1814 in Middleton township, this county. He was also a skilled mechanic and died a great part of the blacksmithing of the country for miles around. He was an earnest, whole-souled Methodist and for six years was director of the County Infirmary. He married Elizabeth Ran- dels' a Quaker lady of English descent who re- sided near Philadelphia and lived to a good old age, passing away in his orst year.

Mr. Aiken, the subject of this sketch, was

reared and educated in Salem township after his fifth year. He learned the trade with his father and later learned also that of a carpen- ter. In 1870 he came to Leetonia and worked at the carpenter's trade for a few months and then entered the employ of the Leetonia Iron and Coal Company. He was with this con- cern and the Cherry Valley Iron Company for a period of 17 years, running the blacksmith shops at the mines. In 1887 he opened his present shop where he does general black- smithing and wooden repair work and has a large patronage.

He was married in 1869 to Susan Keller, daughter of Christian Keller. They have a family of six children, viz: Harry O., a trav- eling salesman, of New Brighton, Pennsyl- vania ; Clyde V., a painter and paper hanger, of Leetonia; Alice, wife of John Morgan; Edith. a popular and successful teacher in the schools of Leetonia; Arthur, employed in the office of the Salem Iron Company; and Frank, a student. Mr. Aiken is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is one of the trustees.

ROLD E. BLAZER, M. D., a repre- sentative member of the medical pro- fession at Salineville, and one of the leading citizens of the place, was born November 23. 1864, at Carrollton, Ohio, and is a son of William and Mary A. (McCausland) Blazer.

The parents of Dr. Blazer still survive. blessed with vigor of mind and body. The father was born in Carroll County, Ohio, where he married, and where he has continued to carry on farming. Of the seven children com- prising their family. six still survive. The record is as follows : Laura, who is the widow of HI. H. Hoobler, of Salineville, and has two children, Jessie and IIelen ; Harold E .; Alice E., of Jefferson County; Homer P. of Mag- nolia, Ohio, who married Laura Stoody ; Thomas P., who died in 1884. aged 15 years ; William V., stationary engineer ; and May E., who is the wife of John McClainn, of Saline- ville, assistant cashier of the People's Bank.

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Harold E. Blazer enjoyed academic ad- vantages at Harlem Springs and at Canfield, Ohio, for several years prior to entering upon the reading of medicine with Dr. J. A. Linsey, of Salineville. He then attended Wooster Medical College at Cleveland for two years, after one year spent at the Western Reserve College, completing his medical education. Hẹ was graduated at Cleveland in July, 1890, and entered into practice at Dillonvale, Jefferson County. Six months later, in 1891, he located in Salineville and has here been established in a lucrative practice ever since.

Dr. Blazer was married August 7, 1888, to Ida L. Potts, who is a daughter of John and Rebecca (McMillan) Potts, the former of whom died September 4, 1880, and the latter in July, 1899. During the early years of his business life, the father of Mrs. Blazer kept a book store at Columbus, but later he moved to Carroll County, Ohio, and there engaged in farming until his death. The mother of Mrs. Blazer was a native of Carroll County, Ohio. Dr. and Mrs. Blazer have two daughters: Hazel I., aged 14 years and Frances E. W., aged 10 years. The family belong to the Pres- byterian Church.

Politically Dr. Blazer is in sympathy with the Republican party. . For the past two years he has been a very useful member of the School Board. His fraternal association is with Crockery Tent, No. 131, K. O. T. M., of East Liverpool. He is one of the town's public- spirited men, active in all measures looking to civic improvement and a very strong and able advocate of temperance.

HARLES BRAWDY OGDEN, M. D., who has been a life-long resi- dent of East Liverpool, where he has attained a high degree of prominence in the practice of medicine, comes of one of the pioneer families of America. He traces his ancestry in this country back to David Ogden, who was a member of the company that sailed with William Penn, in the good

ship "Welcome," to America in the year 1682. David Ogden was born in England, February I, 1655, and was married prior to coming to this country to Martha Houlston, a daughter of John and Ann Houlston. He settled on a part of the tract granted to William Penn and died at Middleton, Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, August 22, 1705. The next in line of descent to our subject was Stephen Ogden, who was born September 16, 1705, and died in 1760. His wife, Hannah Surman, died in 1783. Their son, Aaron Ogden, was born at Darby, Pennsylvania, and married Esther Preston.

Stephen Ogden, the grandfather of our subject, was a son of Aaron and Esther (Pres- ton) Ogden. He was born at Darby, Penn- sylvanìa, April 18, 1777, and died in Colum- biana County, Ohio, in 1846 He married Han- nah Bartram, a granddaughter of America's first botanist, John Bartram, who was born in 1699 at Darby, Pennsylvania, and died in 1777. Stephen Ogden and his wife came to this county about the year 1800 and settled in Fair- field township. Two years later they located at Lisbon, and late in life at East Liverpool. where Mr. Ogden died.

Dr. Benjamin B. Ogden, son of Stephen and Hannah (Bartram) Ogden, was born at Lisbon, Ohio, March 13, 1806. He studied medicine under Doctor. Potter in his native town and practiced there and at Wellsville for some years. He moved to East Liverpool in 1830. being the first of his profession to lo- cate in the then small town, and practiced until his death, which took place April 27, 1878. He was first married, in 1825, to Mary Ann Mahlin, a daughter of Joshua and Catherine Mahlin. She died in 1845, leaving these six children : Benjamin, who died aged nine years ; Mary Ann, who died in infancy; Pauline O., who married Samuel Gedder ; Joshua ; Stephen ; and Caroline. In 1850, Dr. Benjamin B. Ogden married Catherine Brawdy, who was born in Pittsburg and died in East Liverpool about 1868, leaving the following children : Charles Brawdy, subject of this biography; Hannah M., born in 1853, who was married in 1881 to George A. Slentz, of Beaver County, Pennsylvania ; Benjamin A., born in 1856, de-

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ceased in 1861 ; Aaron B., born in 1859, a phy- sician by profession, who married Alice Stan- dish ; John Elmer, born in 1863, a merchant at Mount Ayr, Iowa, who married Florence Wood; George E., born in 1866, a resident of Mount Ayr, Iowa, who married Etta M. Williams.

Charles B. Ogden was born in East Liver- pool, Ohio, July 19, 1851. He completed the common school course, then attended Mount Union College, after which he spent one year at the University of Michigan. He graduated from the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati in 1878, although practicing some years before, and has since that year practiced in East Liver- pool. He commands a very large general prac- tice, and has the esteem of his fellow-citizens to a marked degree.

Dr. Ogden was united in marriage in 1878 with Mary E. Talbot, by whom he has four children : May E., born March 27, 1884, who married George C. Simmons, of East Liver- pool, and has two children,-Deborah C. and May; Charles B., born April 2, 1887; Cath- erine Ethel, born May 27, 1884. the wife of Frank .S. McKenna, who is identified with a brass foundry in Pittsburg; and John Talbot, born October 11, 1889. Politically, our sub- ject is a Republican. He served as health of- ficer several years. He belongs to the County. State and American medical associations, and is a member of the Masons and the Elks. He is a member of Pilgrim Commandery, No. 55, K. T. His parents were strict Quakers, but he is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of East Liverpool.

EORGE F. BRUNT, one of the prom- inent business citizens of East Liver- pool, whose portrait is shown on the opposite page, is sole owner of the G. F. Brunt Porcelain Works, a branch of the business established by his grand- father as early as 1848. The other branch devoted to the manufacture of knobs is con- ducted by his brother, William H. Brunt, both plants being operated by the same power.

George F. Brunt, our subject. was born in

East Liverpool, Ohio, and is a son of Henry and Annie (Holzmann) Brunt, and grandson of William and Elizabeth ( Boone) Brunt. His grandparents, natives of Staffordshire, Eng- land, came to America in 1842, landing at New Orleans. Thence they made their way by river boat to "Egypt" (Southern Illinois), where they were located about five years. In 1847 William Brunt moved with his family to East Liverpool, Ohio, which locality was still in rather a primitive state, and the fol- lowing year in partnership with William Bloor, embarked in the pottery business. They built a small plant on the site of the west end of the present knob works, and engaged in the manufacture of knobs for the hardware trade. This partnership continued until the removal of William Bloor to California; then William Brunt continued in the business alone for some years, finally taking in his son, Henry, as a partner. He died in July, 1882, after a very useful life of 76 years, and his wife died in 1880, at the age of 76. They were parents of five children : Mrs. William Bloor, deceased ; Mrs. Thompson, deceased; . William, of East Liverpool; Henry, father of George F .; and Mrs. Mary Ann Jenkins, deceased.

Henry Brunt was born in Staffordshire, England, January 1I, 1834, and in his boy- hood accompanied his parents to this country. After reaching maturity. he was for six or eight months associated in business with his brother, William Brunt, and then returned to the knob manufacturing business, with which he was identified during nearly all of his active career. He was taken into partnership with his father and they continued together until about 1880, when William Brunt retired from the business. Henry Brunt continued alone for a few years, and then his eldest son. William H. Brunt, became associated with him; they operated then as the Riverside Knob Manufac- turing Company. In 1884 they added the elec- trical works to the plant, and in 1891 began the manufacture of porcelain. In 1894 George F. Brunt and his brother-in-law, Charles F. Thompson. took over the electrical and porce- lain department, and Henry and William H. Brunt continued the other department, Henry

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History of Columbiana County, Ohio and representative citizens, Part 97

Author: McCord, William B., b. 1844 Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 912

Author: McCord, William B., b. 1844
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 912