History of Stark County, with an outline sketch of Ohio, Part 126

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? ed
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Baskin & Battey
Number of Pages: 1060

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Amerman was attorney for plaintiff: the case was tried in the Common Pleas and District Courts, with verdict for plaintiff in both trials. In these cases were retained Ex-Chief Ius- tices Ranney and Day, Judges Ambler, Un- derhill and Raff. Also the celebrated libel

case of Fowler vs. Hester, in which the dama- ges were laid at $25,000, associated with Judge Ambler. Ile was attorney for defend- ant, against MeSweeny and others for the prosecution, with verdict for defendant. An- other was the case of Ohio rs. Ohr, charged with murder in the first degree; and the case of the State es. Sarnet with a like charge. In both cases he appeared for defendant. He has become distinguished for the zeal and energy with which he pushes his cases, and has met with signal success in his profession. For two years he was attorney for the Lake Erie and Alliance R. R. Co., and has also served as City Solicitor. In his 22d year, he was candidate for Mayor of Alliance but was defeated by 2; votes, the only reason urged against him, being that he was too young. IIis law library is one of the finest in the county. Nov. 2, 1870, he married Rachel. daughter of Elisha Teeters. Three chil- dren have been born to them, two living, viz. -Maud M. and Allen E. On May 2, 1829. they lost by death a daughter, Rosa Vivian, of 23 years of age, and out of compliment to her and her parents, was named the " Vivian Lodge," of the new secret order of Royal Ar- canum, of which some of the leading citizens of Alliance are members. In August, 1874, his father died at Thornville, Mich., aged about 66 vears.

WILLIAM H. ALLERTON, manufac- turer of brick; P. O Alliance; was born in Mahoning Co., O., Feb. 10 1841. He is the son of John and Martha (Hoffman Allerton, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, and engaged in farming in Mahoning Co. When William H., was about 18 years of age, he began to work at brick-making in Mahoning Co. In 1861 he enlisted in the late war, Co. B .. 65th O. V. I and served three years; on Dec. 31, 1862, he was taken prisoner by the rebels, at Murfreesboro, and sent to Libby Prison, where he remained until the 21 of the following February, when he was exchanged and brought to Annapolis, Md. While in prison he was taken very sick, and when first paroled, Jan. 23, he was unable to leave;

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feeling that his life would soon be ended if compelled to remain there much longer, he resolved to leave the first opportunity that offered ; on the 2nd of February, when a few other prisoners were being exchanged, he made every effort and with some assistance reached the wagon in which they were carried to the boat, and thereby got to Annapolis, Md., where he remained in hospital for a short time, and on account of disability was trans- ferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, at Co- Jumbus, O., and thence to Indianapolis, Ind., for there he received his discharge Nov. 2, 1864, and returned home. During his ser- vice he participated in many of the severe battles of the war. He came to Mt. Union in 1867, and engaged in his business there, and has continued to manufacture brick ever since, making about 400,000 brick annually, which are largely used in Alliance, Mt. Union and surrounding country. In October, 1868, he married Amelia Scranton; they have three children, viz .- Nellie O., Laura B. and Louie. In 1873 he built his very commodious two- story brick residence on Mt. Union street near the southern limits of Alliance.

J. K. ALLEN, postmaster; Alliance; was born in St. Clairsville, Belmont Co., Ohio; he came to Alliance in 1861, and has been a resi- dent of this place ever since. Here he got a liberal education in the public schools, and was engaged in the jewelry business about six years. He accepted a position as clerk in the post office under Henry Shreve for four years; and from 1875 he was employed in the train dispatcher's office of the P., Ft. W & C. R. R, at this station, until he received the nomination for Postmaster of Alliance, which was confirmed in January, 1881.

ELIAS BURNETT, passenger conductor on P. Ft. & C. R R .; Alliance; was born in Lancaster, Penn., May 27, 1837, the third of a family of seven children born to Elias and Mary Thomas Burnett, both natives of Pennsylvania. The family removed to the western part of Mahoning Co., Ohio, in 1839, and for several years his father pursued his trade, that of a tailor, when the remorseless hand of death removed the devoted husband and father. The widow and a large family of helpless children were left in poor financial circumstances, consequently each was obliged to do for him or herself early in life. When

about 16 years of age, the subject of these lines began to work at the carpenter's trade, and followed that for several years; During the construction of the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago R. R., he began as a teamster and continued until the road was in running or- der, when he was engaged as brakeman and has steadily grown in favor as his habits of industry well attest. He had charge of a freight train for over ten years, and in 1821 he was appointed to the position of passenger train conductor, where has faithfully performed his duty and occupies that position to this day. For upwards of twenty years of rail- road life his career has been successful and continuous on the same road; he began driv- ing team at its construction, and has been so far free from the many mishaps which are so frequently occurring on railroads. His "run " lies between Crestline, Ohio, and Pittsburg, Penn., although his residence has been at Alliance since 1856. Ile married Clara J., daughter of James A. Penney, of Louisville, Ohio, late of Canton, Dec. 13, 1811. He has now erected a fine two-story brick residence which will be one of the best arrange I homes in the town.

LUTHER W. BALLARD, surgeon-dent- ist, Alliance; was born in Pittsburg, Penn., April 26, 1854; the son of A. W. and Margaret (Irwin) Ballard, his father being a native of New Hampshire, and his mother of Pennsyl- vania, of Scotch parentage. The family re- moved from Pittsburgh to Canton, Ohio, in 1858. When Mr. Ballard had completed an academic course of study he entered the dental office of Dr. Douds, of Canton, and remained under his instruction until 1872, when he began his course in the Philadelphia Dental College, of Philadelphia, Penn., and graduated from that institution in 1823. He returned to Canton, and began the prac- tico of his profession for a short time with his brother. In April 1879, he removed to Alliance, where he opened the finest dental rooms in this place. He married Grace Greenwood, May 30, 1878. She is daughter of G. G. B. Greenwood, of Minerva. They have one child-Whitcomb G. Mr. Ballard is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

SAMUEL BROOKE, civil engineer and deputy revenue collector ; Alliance; was

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born in Brookeville, Montgomery Co., Mal., June 19, 1808. The grandfather of our sub- ject-Rodger Brooke-was an early settler of Brookeville, Md., in honor of whom the place derived its name. Col. Richard Brooke, who was one of Washington's aide-de-camp during the Revolution, was a brother of Mr. Rodger Brooke. Chief Justice Rodger Brooke Taney, who was appointed by Gen. Jackson, was also a relative. Every branch of the family were radically anti-slavery, and emancipated all their slaves when that course was a most unpopular one. And although Chief Justice Taney emancipated his slaves, some of his rulings were scarcely in accord with that principle, which brought on him many ana- themas from his anti-slavery friends. Yet he was acting in accordance with the law and constitution, which he was sworn to adminis- ter and maintain, and could not have done otherwise. Our subject bears his father's name, and was the sixth of nine children born to Samuel and Sarah (Garrigues) Brooke, three of whom are living. His mother was a descendant of the Huguenots. When Mr. Brooke had taken the regular course of study in the common schools he attended the Stras- burg Academy, in Pennsylvania. In 1831 he entered upon the profession of civil engineer, with the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co., and subsequently surveyed and located a portion of the James River and Kanawha Canal, the part which was destroyed by Sheridan during the late war. In 1838 he was employed by the llinois State government to survey the Kaskaskia River, with a view to removing flat- boat obstructions, and also on railroads throughout the State. He was in charge of the levee constructions at Cairo, Ils., and while there studied the character of the Mississippi River, and was the first to suggest the advantage of constructing jetties for the protection of St. Louis, which was finally accomplished by Gen. Prentice. On account of failing health Mr. Brooke came to Ohio, in 1842, and spent about a year in recruiting his health. He then entered into the anti-slavery cause with heart and soul; first, as general agent for the Anti-Slavery Society of Ohio, and subsequently as general agent of the

American Anti-Slavery Society of the West. In this humane cause his labors were unceas- ing, and traveling extensive. Aside from his

philanthropic views, he was also deeply inter- ested in the general development of the re- sources of the country. Through his business acquaintance of the West he was early familiar with the wonderful resources of the prairie beyond, if railroads were only pushed through to intersect the Mississippi, and to that end drafted resolutions, which were presented in Congress, setting forth the necessities and advantages to be derived by the extension of the Pennsylvania R. R. The citizens of Salem, O., at a meeting called by Mr. Brooke in reference to railroad matters, raised funds to pay his way to Pittsburg, l'a., and to there present this scheme to the interested capital- ists and stockholders of the Pennsylvania road. Hle proceeded to Pittsburg on foot and explored the course of the railroad, which he made full report of at the time, which course was finally adopted with one unimportant ex- ception. His thorough knowledge of the country gained for him the reputation of be- ing the best route-explorer of the west at that time. In 1855 he married Hannah N .. daughter of Mahlon Willman, a pioneer of Marlborough Tp. They have two adopted chil- dren. Mr. Brooke was appointed Assistant Assessor by Sahnon P. Chase, in 1862, and also Deputy Revenue Collector of the 18th Dist., in which capacity he has served ever since his appointment. Mrs. Brooke had one sister and a brother, the latter was Dr. A. J. Willman, of Knoxville, Ky., who at the out-break of the late war, enlisted in the Union service, with rank of Major, in the 18th Ky. V. 1. While in command of the regiment at Chickamauga he was wounded, and after recovering sufficiently, he returned to his home in Kentucky to recuperate. While resting there he was dragged from the bosom of his family by a band of armed and disguised guerrillas on the pretext that he was a " prisoner of war ;" they proceeded but a short distance when the Major was shot, denuded of everything of value, and the body concealed in the brush. Mr. Brooke is one who has grown old in the battle for human rights and the cause of liberty, and like his venerable ancestors, accounted but as trifling any sacrifice, however great, that would attain the much to be desired freedom of all mankind. His father, in partnership with Frank Key (the latter's name being

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rendered immortal by the production of the " Star Spangled Banner "), were the proprie- tors of the first nail-mill in the United States, which cut and headed the nail at the same motion.

REV. SAMUEL W. BROWN, minister of the Disciples' Church ; Alliance; was born in Licking Co., O., Ang. 19, 1846 ; he is the son of Russell P. and Clarissa (Emerson) Brown, who were natives of Connecticut, and with their seven oldest children moved to Ohio a short time prior to the date of our sub- ject's birth. They settled on a farm in Lick- ing Co., and when he was about three years old his parents were called away by death. The older ones of the family were then able to do for themselves, but the younger ones were taken and reared by strangers. In his boyhood he had few advantages for procuring an education, and in this direction he felt keenly the want of parental care. When he reached his majority he apprenticed himself to the trade of a blacksmith, and as he be- came more familiar with the outer workl the more he found himself deficient in knowl- edge. The thought of having been deprived of education in youth weighed upon his mind until he resolved to exert himself in every laudable way until the deficiency was fully compensated for. He went to the district school, and was classed with pupils of which he was very much the senior. Eagerly and earnestly his studies were pursued under try- ing circumstances, as he was without means other than that which he could procure by his own labor during vacations. He took a course of study at the Reynoldsburg High School. Having united with the Disciples' Church, June 5, 1867, he chose the ministry as a pro- fession and a duty, and accordingly entered the Bethany College, Bethany, Pa., in the spring of 18;3, where he took a classical and theological course at the same time, and grad- uated from that institution in June, Ist .. During his collegiate course he preached oc- casionally at Fairview and Holiday's Cove, W. Va. In the same month in which he grad- uated he was ordained, and accepted a call to the church at Bedford, O., where he remained about eighteen months, when he accepted a call for a short time to Canton. In May, 1880, he came to the Alliance congregation, which, under his zealous care, is awaking to a reali-

zation of its duty and shaking off its manacles of lethargy. On June 22, 1873, he married Eveline M., daughter of Austin Fuller, of Millfield, Athens Co., O. They have one child-Wiley S. Mr. Brown is one of those who have climbed life's rugged paths un- daunted by the many uninviting conditions with which he was surrounded ; and, for a young man, has already reached an eminence worthy of his determination and zeal ; much cheer and encouragement to persevere in his prescribed course has been afforded him by his ever devoted wife.

AMOS WALLACE COATES, inventor and manufacturer; Alliance; whose portrait appears in this history as one of Stark Co.'s successful manufacturers; was born near Marl- borough in this county, April 24, 1834. His paternal grandfather was a pioneer to Coates- ville, Chester Co., Pa., and laid out that town. His parents were Amos and Jane B. (Norris) Coates, both natives of Pennsylva- nia. They removed to Ohio in an old-fash- ioned moving wagon in 1823, and settled in Marlborough Tp., Stark Co. Ifis father was a man of scholarly attainments; had charge of an academy in Chester Co., Penn., and subse- quently a merchant of Philadelphia. After coming to Ohio he engaged in farming, and part of the time in teaching. He had a fam- ily of twelve children, of whom our subject is the seventh son. He was educated in Marlborough Academy, completing his course at the age of seventeen. He then spent two years learning stove-plate and machine casting, and subsequently formed a partner- ship with his brother-in-law, J. D. Arnold, un- der the firm name of Arnold & Coates, and began the manufacture of plows and castings in Paris, this county. This enterprise proy- ing a pecuniary success, they added to their works the manufacture of hay-rakes on the old " Sander's " patent in 1855, and in the lat- ter part of the same year introduced what was said to be the first sulky spring-tooth horse- rake ever used in Stark Co. At the end of the first season they disposed of their interest in the rake business, and for several years de- voted themselves to the manufacture of plows and other castings. During this time Mr. Coates occupied the little leisure afforded him in reading law, under the instruction of Alex- ander Bierce, Esq., of Canton. In 1860 he

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purchased the factory and foundry, but in the fall of 1861, sold the same and enlisted in the Fremont Body Guard, going to St. Louis with part of a company. In consequence of Gen. Fremont's removal and the disbandment of the Guard; he was discharged, returned home and resumed his law studies under his former preceptor, and was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court at Columbus, in the session of December, 1862. He did not en- ter upon the practice of law, but early in 1863 he ro-purchased the Paris foundry and plow works, and conducted them about one vear. In September, 1864. he removed to Al- liance, and began the erection of the build- ings now occupied by his works, and contin- ued the manufacture of plows. In the spring of 1865, he abandoned this business and em- barked in the manufacture of what was known as the White Hay Rake. In the fall of 1865 he invented his Lock Lever Rake, which was patented in 1861, and has since continued to manufacture the same, frequently improving it to keep pace with the ever advancing prog- ress of farm implements. Several additions have been put to his buildings since he began the manufacture of rakes, to secure facilities for supplying the increasing demand. In the fall of 1868 was formed the partnership known as C'oates. Gray & Co., which was dissolved in 1844. by Mr. Coates purchasing the entire in- terests of his partners. He has taken out eight patents, viz .: three on his lock-lever hay-rake: on . on the spring-seat for the same, two on guarded scissors, one on a child's pocket-knife, and one on a water-elevator for wells and cisterns. In the fall of 1825 he was a candidate on the Republican ticket, for the Ohio Senate for the 21st Senatorial Dis- trict, comprising the counties of Stark and C'arroll, and came within forty-eight votes of carrying his district, the Democracy carrying the district in the previous and subsequent elections by over a thousand majority. In ISit he erected the Coates' Block at a cost of $20,000. It is one of the finest business structures in Alliance, the upper story of which is elegantly fitted up expressly for the meetings of the I. O. O. F. He was for a time proprietor of the Independent Ige. a journal devoted to literature, news and religion. He has been a member of the City Council, and is

ties: f. O. O. F., Freemasons, Knights Tem- plar, Knights of Phythias, Knights of Honor, Roval Arcanum, and American Legion of Hon- or. March 22, 1859, he married Ada F., daugh- ter of A. B. and Catharine Freer, of Paris, this county. They have had nine children, six of whom are living-Hallam F .. now attend- ing Mt. Union College, with promise of fine success, and whom his father intends aiding in the pursuit of any profession he may choose ; Ida M., Nellie L., Hartwell W., llaves K., and Effie F. N .; Horatio II., (next younger than Hallam) was one of the three youthis who lost their lives by breaking through the ice while skating on the Alliance Reser- voir, on New Year's day, ISSO. Their oldest child, Horace L., died when four years of age, at Paris, and Harlan since their removal to Alliance.

MAJOR WM. W. CANTINE, hardware merchant; Alliance; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., August 13, 1833, the only son of Ifenry and Carolina M. (Titus) Cantine. The family emigrated from New York to Michigan, and located at Battle Creek, in 1837. They were farmers, and consequently the boyhood, and early manhood of our subject was spent in attending school, and engaged on his father's farm. In 1849 he engaged as clerk in the gen- erał merchandise business in Battle Creek, and remained there until 1851; thence to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he remained until the breaking out of the late civil war, when he was commissioned Quarter-Master of the third Michigan Cavalry, in August, 1861. and served until the elose of the war. Being stationed in the meantime at St. Louis, Little Rock, New Orleans and Mobile. In July, 1862, he was promoted to Chief Commissary of Subsistence of the 7th Army Corps, and of the Division of the Mississippi, with the rank of captain, and had charge of the principal supply depot at Mobile. In October, 1865, ho received his discharge with th . rank of Brevet- Major. Ilis war record was highly creditable to himself, and evidences efficiency in the performance of his duty. He remained in Alabama six years subsequent to the close of the war, during which time he turned his attention to the production of cotton on a plantation of 1100 acres, which he purchased about 150 miles from Mobile, where he resided an active member of the following speret socie- about two years, and then removed into

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Mobile, where he remained four years. His experience on the plantation did not result in pecuniary success, in consequence of the high rates of labor and provisions followed by a series of unfavorable seasons and poor cotton erops. Having sustained considerable loss of capital he removed from the South and came to Alliance in 1871, where he purchased an interest in the gas works, and remained in that business until October, 1880, when, in company with Chas. Y. Kay, and S. M. High- land, the hardware firm of W. W. Cantine & Co. was established. May 13, 1858, he mar- ried Emily W. Dickenson, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and to them was born one child, Ger- trude; now Mrs. Charles Y. Kay.

P. J. CALLAHAN, M. D., eclectic practi- tioner, Alliance; was born in Mahoning Co., Ohio, in October, 1835, the fourth child of a family of nine children, born to Thomas and Mary Callahan. His boyhood and early man- hood was spent in the multifarious duties of the farm and attending school. When about 19 years of age he entered the office of Dr. James MI. Hole, of Greenford, as a student of medicine. His preceptor was of the eclectic school and in the winter of 1857 and 1858 he attended lectures at the Philadelphia Medi- cal University, after which he entered upon the practice of his profession in his native county, where, with several changes of loca- tion, he practiced for many years. He at- tended a second course of lectures, at the Eclectical Medical College of Pennsylvania, and graduated from this institution in 1869. Ile located at Canfield, where he practiced a short time; disposing of his interest in the drug business there to his partner, Dr. Ethan Ilole, he removed to Berlin Center, Mahoning Co., where he practiced his profession ten years; thence to Alliance, in 18:0, where he has established a good practice. New-year's day, 1862, he married Ada B. Margerum, who came to Ohio from Springfield, Mass., but was formerly of Connecticut. They have two chiklren, viz .- Sarah A., and Ada M. In the late war, Dr. Callahan went to the southern hospitals, and remained at his own expense, and loss of time, assisting as a nurse, without either appointment or remuneration for his pains,other than the experience which he gained from being brought in contact with sickness and suffering.

STEPHEN CASE, general manager; Al- liance; in the firm of Case, Shaffer & Ellison, of the Alliance Bagging Manufactory; was born in Sussex Co., New Jersey, July 14, 1814, son of Stephen and Sarah (Sausman) Case, who were also born in New Jersey. The youthful days of Mr. Case were spent on his father's farm, and in early manhood he learn- ed the carriage making business. Having fin- ished his trade, he set out for the West, and proceeded to Michigan in 1838; he remained there but a short time when he retraced his steps as far as Newton, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and there began to work at his trade and continu- ed it about ten years. He then purchased a farm and turned his attention to stock-rais- ing, and dealing for many years, in which he was very successful. For six years of his residence in Mahoning he was a member of the Board of County Commissioners. In 1869 he came to Alliance, and in company with two others organized the bagging works; his original partners however have withdrawn, but Mr. Case and his interests have remained unchanged. The establishment has been, and is, well managed by the enterprising proprie- tors. They have been heavy losers by fire, being twice swept out totally, and once sus- tained serious damage, but in every case promptly set about rebuilding and repairing. The annual capacity of their works is about 400,000 yards of manufacture l mater al. It is made from flax, and is used exclusively for covering cotton bales, and put up in rolls of fifty yards each. Mr. Case married Amelia Durell, Jan. 16, 1840. They reared six chil- dren, viz .- Thorn, his only son, enlisted in the 21st O. V. 1. in 1861, from Mahoning Co., and served until May 28, 1864; when at Resaca he was mortally wounded, was brought to Chattanooga, where he died July 23; Anna B., now wife of R. E. Collar; Charlotte L., deceased, was wife of S. R. Patterson; Cor- nelia H., is widow of W. C. Meeker; Lovina P. and Blanche A. The two last named and their widowed sister reside with Mr. Case. Mrs. Case passed away July 4, 1873.

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History of Stark County, with an outline sketch of Ohio, Part 126

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? ed Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Chicago, Baskin & Battey Number of Pages: 1060

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? ed
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Baskin & Battey
Number of Pages: 1060