History of Trumbull and Mahoning counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Vol. II, Part 13

Author: Williams (H.Z.) & Bro., Cleveland, Ohio, pub
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland : H. S. Williams
Number of Pages: 726

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,

THE KIRTLAND FAMILY.

Turhand Kirtland, the first representative of the family who came to the Western Reserve, was a native of Wallingford, Connecticut, born November 16, 1755. He was a carriage manu- facturer by trade, which he followed in Walling- ford until his removal to Ohio. In 1798, having gathered together a few thousand dollars, he came to Ohio and purchased considerable land in different portions of the Reserve, and also acted as agent for the Connecticut Land company for the sale of their land. He located at first at Burton (now Geauga county), but spent much of his time in Poland and Youngstown, engaged in examining, surveying, and selling land. He

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kept a diary during the early years of his resi- dence in Ohio, in which he gives a minute ac- count of his proceedings and observations. The writing of a letter in those days was an event of sufficient importance to make a record of it. In a few years he removed from Burton to Poland and settled on a farm, his brother, Jared Kirt- land, having started a tavern at what is now Poland village. He died August 16, 1844.

Mr. Kirtland was a man of more than ordinary energy of character, and ability, and served his county in many positions of trust and honor. He was elected to the State Senate from Trum- bull county in 1814, was associate judge of the court of common pleas for a long time, and was justice of the peace in Poland for some twenty years. He left at his death a large prop- erty. He was twice married. His second wife was Mary Potter, of New Haven, Connecticut, born February 10, 1772, died March 21, 1850. They reared a family of children, as follows: Jared P. Henry T., Billius, George, Mary P., and Nancy, of whom only Billius and George are now living.

Dr. Jared P. Kirtland was a noted physician and an able man. He practiced medicine for many years in Poland, and represented the coun- ty, then Trumbull, in the Ohio Legislature in 1829, 1831, and 1834. He was a professor in the Cleveland Medical college, of Clevleand, Ohio, during the latter part of his life, and had previously held a similar position in the Ohio Medical college, Cincinnati. He has a daugh- ter living in Rockport, Cuyahoga county.

Henry T. Kirtland was a prominent business man of Poland for a great many years, being engaged in merchandising. He was born in Con- necticut November 16, 1795; married in 1825 Thalia Rebecca Fitch, who died October 1, 1826. In April, 1828, he married Mary Fitch, a sister of his first wife. He died February 27, 1874, in Poland, and his wife, Mary, December 24, 1877. By his first marriage he had one child, Hon. C. F. Kirtland, of Poland, a Representative in the Legislature from Mahoning county, session of 1872 and 1873, and by his second marriage three children, of whom the only survivor is Mr. C. N. Kirtland, of Poland.

Billius Kirtland was born in Poland, Ohio, August 29, 1807. In 1830 he married Ruthan- na Frame, who was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1809. They have had nine

children, only three of whom survive. Alfred resides in Blairsville, Indiana county, Pennsyl- vania, and is superintendent of the West Pennsyl- vania railroad. He graduated at the Van Rensse- laer Polytechnic institute, of Troy, New York, taking a course in surveying, and for some time was assistant civil engineer of the road of which he is now superintendent. Emma married Sam- uel Hines and lives in Poland, and Lucy married Rev. Dallas B. Mays and resides at North Benton.

Mr. and Mrs. Kirtland belong to the Method- ist Episcopal church and are among the most prominent and highly respected citizens of the county. Mr. Kirtland is an enthusiastic student of chemistry, and has spent about fifteen years of his life in investigating that science. George Kirtland is living in Poland, engaged in farming and in the manufacture of ink. Mary was the wife of Richard Hall, for many years a merchant in Poland, and Nancy was the wife of Elkanah Morse, a manufacturer and miller of Poland.

WALTER S. ARREL.

One of the earliest settlers in what is now Ma- honing county was John A. Arrel, the father of the subject of this biographical sketch. He was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, Novem- ber 6, 1773. He married Margaret Stewart, who was a native of the same county, born in the same year, June 25th. He moved to Po- land township in 1800, and settled on the farm where Walter S. Arrel now lives, which he pur- chased in 1799. Mr. Arrel began his settlement in the woods, there being at that time only here and there a cabin with a small clearing, and he cleared up and improved a farm of two hundred acres, which, when he moved onto it, was covered by the original forest. Mr. Arrel was well and favorably known throughout the region, and was identified with many interests designed for the public good. He was the father of eight chil- dren-Martha, born May 6, 1798, died Novem- ber 29, 1860; Margaret, November 10, 1800. David, May 6, 1803; James, November 19, 1805, died August 16, 1857; John, January 1, 1808; George, January 4, 1811, died March 14, 1877; William, January 27, 1814, died Novem- her 14, 1878; Walter S., June 10, 1816. Mar-

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garet, David, John, and Walter are still liv- ing. John A. Arrel died August 10, 1848, and his wife February 10, 1833.

Walter S. Arrel is the youngest child, and was born on the old farm where he still lives. He has always resided in the county, attending strictly to his business, and has accumulated a fine property, being the owner of six hundred acres of excellent land in one tract, besides other lands. He is also engaged to some extent in milling. In addition to extensive farming, which has been his chief occupation, Mr. Arrel has at different times dealt largely in stock and wool. His business capacity and enterprise are well known and need no comment. He is now erecting a fine brick residence in Poland village, to which he has removed, and where he will spend the remainder of his days in the enjoy- ment of his industry.

In politics Mr. Arrel is a strong Republican. He was formerly a Whig, and when the Abolition- ists formed a party, and chose J. G. Birney as their candidate, he was one of seventeen citi- zens of Poland township who cast their votes for him.

Mr. Arrel was married March 16, 1871, to Miss Martha Duff, daughter of Oliver and Jane (Tait) Duff. Her parents were married Novem- ber 16, 1826, and reared their family in Penn- sylvania. Oliver Duff was born in Pennsylvania, July 10, 1799, and died August 7, 1857. Mrs. Duft was born in Ireland, July 4, 1805, and came to this country when two years old. Their chil- dren were William and Martha (twins), born February 11, 1828; Samuel, February 10, 1830; Robert, January 16, 1836; Alexander, Septem- ber 11, 1840. William married Maria Henly, and resides in Hillsdale, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania; Samuel is unmarried; Robert married Maria J. White, and resides at Mount Jackson, Pennsylvania ; Alexander married Lizzie Poole, and lives in Cass county, Michigan.

ELIAS KING.

Elias King, son of John and Margaret (David- son) King, was born near New Lisbon, Colum- biana county, Ohio, April 15, 1811. John King, the father, was a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and died in Allegheny county at

the age of eighty-four. His children were Hugh D., William, John, and Robert (deceased), Elias, Thomas (deceased), Mary Ann (deceased), Mar- garet, and Annabella C., living in East Liberty, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth (de- ceased), and O. J., a resident of Kansas.

The boyhood of Elias King was spent in Alle- gheny county, residing there until he was twenty- two or twenty-three years of age, when he went to Lawrence county, in the same State. Al- though he only became a resident of Mahoning county in 1870, yet he has resided the most of his life in the Mahoning valley, his home previous to his removal to Ohio being only about a mile from the Ohio State line. He was brought up on a farm but received a good common school education, and was engaged in teaching school a short time. He was engaged in mercantile pur- suits for a couple of years in Edenburg, and was also engaged for some time in the manufacture of brooms. He operated a grist-mill near Eden- burg some two years. Finally purchasing a farm in Mahoning township, Lawrence county, Penn- sylvania, he moved and lived upon it for twenty years, whence he removed to Lowellville, Ohio, where he has since resided. After coming to Lowellville he was engaged in the drug business for five or six years, since which time he has been living a practically retired life.

Mr. King's mercantile ventures were pecuniar- ily unfortunate, having passed through the panics of 1837 and 1873, yet he still possesses enough of this world's goods to allow him and his family to live in comfort and plenty the balance of their days. January 2, 1838, he married Eleanor Cavett, daughter of John Cavett, of Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania. She was born July 27, 1820. The fruit of this union was two sons and two daughters, as follows: Margaret, John, Mary Jane, and Hugh Davidson. Mary Jane, now Mrs. Cowden, is the only survivor, and re- sides with her parents. Margaret died at the age of sixteen months, John when two years old, and Hugh Davidson at the age of fourteen years and nine months. Mrs. Cowden was born in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1846. January 3, 1867, she became the wife of Dr. Isaac P. Cowden, a physician of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, who died February 3, 1877, in the thirty-fourth year of his age. Mr. King is a Republican in politics, and was former-

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ly a Whig. During the early anti-slavery agita- tion he was an active Abolitionist. Mrs. King is an active and valued member of the Presbyterian church, and both are worthy members of the community, and esteemed by all who know them.

NOTES OF SETTLEMENT.

William Frame, a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, was born June 29, 1776. He moved from Baltimore, Maryland, to Poland, Ohio, in 1827, and settled where Struthers sta- tion now stands. In early life he was a miller, and followed that vocation to some extent in Ohio, though his chief occupation was farming. He was for some time a justice of the peace in Poland. He died in 1842, aged sixty-six years. His wife, whose maiden name was Rebecca Marsh, a native of New Jersey, survived him about six months. They were the parents of three sons and six daughters: Eliza Allen, resid- ing in Kansas City, Missouri; George (de- ceased) Ruthanna, wife of Billius Kirtland, of Poland; Thomas (deceased) ; Janet M. Allen (de- ceased); William S. M. (deceased); Mary M. Meacham, residing in Iowa; Rebecca Meacham (deceased), and Catherine Allen, of Oberlin, Ohio.

James Dickson, farmer, Poland township, Ma- honing county. The subject of this sketch is one of the oldest residents of Mahoning county, being now eighty-three years of age. He was born near Chambersburg, Franklin county, Penn- sylvania, October 28, 1798. His father, John Dickson, was a native of Ireland; came to Amer- ica when thirteen years of age, and settled in Pennsylvania with his parents. He came to Ohio in 1801, and settled in Poland township on the farm where his sons, James and George, now live. He was emphatically one of the pioneers of the Western Reserve, and did much toward the improvement of that part of the country in which he lived. He followed farming until his death, which occurred in 1826, his wife and eleven children surviving him." Mrs. Dickson died in 1841. James Dickson was married in 1831 to Miss Martha Gilbraith, daughter of Sam- uel Gilbraith, of Poland township. They have had six children-John A., Sarah, Ann M.,

Martha H., Samuel E., and James M. John and Martha are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Dick- son are the oldest couple in Poland township. They are both members of the United Presby- terian church.

George Dickson, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, was born in Poland April 20, 1808. He has always lived upon the home farm with the exception of two years, which he spent in Pennsylvania. Farming has been his chief occupation, though in connection with this he has been engaged in the manufacture of grain cradles quite extensively. He was married, in 1833, to Miss Isabel McBride, daughter of John McBride, of Pennsylvania. They had nine chil- dren, six of whom are living. Mrs. Dickson dicd July 14, 1861, and he married, March 24, 1864, for his second wife, Mrs. Esther G. Walker, daughter of John Gibson, of Youngstown, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Dickson are members of the United Presbyterian church.

Samuel Smith, farmer, Poland township, Ma- honing county, was born in that township September 17, 1820. His father, Robert, was a native of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1802. He settled in Poland township, the country then being but little better than a vast wilderness. Mr. Smith, by dint of industry and economy succeeded in making a fine farm, and after a life of labor and usefulness, during which he saw much of the hard conditions of pioneer life, died in 1835, in his seventieth year. He left a family of six sons and four daughters, besides his widow, who died in 1846. Samuel Smith has always resided upon the old home place, and in 1847, the next year after his mother's death, he married Miss Margaret Black- burn, daughter of Robert Blackburn, of Poland township. This union was blessed with two children, J. S. and Robert F. Robert is dead. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Pres- byterian church. Mr. Smith is a stanch Dem- ocrat and one of the substantial men of the township.

J. A. Smith, farmer, Poland township, Ma- honing county, was born in said township Septent- ber 23, 1838. Robert Smith, his father, was a native of Pennsylvania and came to Ohio in 1802 with his parents and settled where his son, the subject of this sketch, now lives. He dicd in 1860, his wife and one child surviving him.

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Mrs. Smith is still living with her son. Mr. Smith, our subject, was married, in 1862, to Miss Mary Ann Gault, daughter of Robert Gault, of North Jackson.

David Arrel, farmer, Poland township, Ma- honing county, eldest son of John and Margaret (Stewart) Arrel, was born in said township, May 6, 1803. He has always lived in the township and has witnessed many changes. He was mar- ried, in 1830, to Miss Martha Moore, daughter of William Moore, of Poland township. They have had four children, viz: William M., Mar- garet, John, and George F. Mrs. Arrel died in 1872. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Arrel is also a member of the same church. He has always been an active, indus- trious man and is now spending the evening of his days with his son.

John Stewart, Poland township, Mahoning county, was born in Coitsville township that county, May 28, 1807. His father, John Stewart, was a native of Adams county, Pennsyl- vania, and came to Ohio the year it was admitted as a State, in 1802. He settled in Coitsville township and was engaged in farming until his death in 1833. John Stewart, his son, has resided in Mahoning county the most of his life, and has been engaged in business in various places. He was at Lowellville five years and at New Castle, Pennsylvania, one and a half years. At the latter place he was interested in milling. He was united in marriage to Miss M. G. Walker, daughter of Captain Walker, of Poland township, on the 5th of January, 1836, and has had seven children, six of whom are still living. Mr. Stewart has filled many places of public trust within the gift of his county and township. He has been justice of the peace many years, and has also been a county commissioner. He was a colonel of militia in the old militia days. Mr. Stewart and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.

James Davidson, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, was born in Beaver (now Law- rence) county, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1820. James Davidson, Sr., his father, was a native of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and followed farming as an occupation. Mr. Davidson, our subject, came to Lowellville, Mahoning county, in Sep- tember, 1851, and was for a long time engaged in the shoe business, though he is now engaged

in farming. July 3, 1859, he married Miss Ro- vinah Nessle, daughter of Isaiah Nessle, and has four children -- Maggie, Mary, Thomas, and Daniel A. Mr. Davidson's political affiliations are with the Republican party. He and his wife are both members of the Presbyterian church.

Dr. Eli Mygatt, physician, Poland, Mahoning county, was born in Canfield, Mahoning county, Ohio, July 16, 1807. His father was Comtort S. Mygatt, an early and prominent resident of Canfield, who is spoken of elsewhere. Dr. My- gatt, the subject of this brief sketch, has resided all his life in what is now Mahoning county. He studied medicine at Canfield with Dr. Fowler, who is still living, and attended the Western Medical college at New York, and has a diploma from the Cleveland Medical school. He has had an extensive practice over the county in which he has resided for many years, beginning with Dr. Kirtland, at Poland. Dr. Mygatt was married in 1831 to Miss Lois Y. Kirtland, daughter of Jared Kirtland, of Poland, brother of Judge Kirtland, one of the earliest and most prominent of the pioneers of the Reserve. To Dr. Mygatt and wife were born six children --- Jared P., Mary S., Sarah M., William L., Han- nah O., and Lucy E. Lucy and Mary only are living. Mrs. Mygatt died February, 1881. She was a member of the Presbyterian church, and a devoted Christian. In politics Dr. Mygatt is a Republican.

Samuel Mccullough, Jr., was born in Poland township in 1844. His father, Samuel McCul- lough, Sr., was born in the same township, where the family were early settlers, and has always re- sided on the old homestead. Sammuel McCul- lough, Jr., is a farmer by occupation. He was united in marriage in 1874 to Miss Mary J. Stewart, daughter of Samuel Stewart, of Knox- ville, Iowa. They have three children, John E., George S., and Arthur R. Mrs. McCullough is a member of the Presbyterian church. In poli- tics Mr. Mccullough is a conservative.

William R. Cowden, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, a representative of one of the oldest families in the township, was born in Po- land township April 5, 1841. His father, Isaac P., was also a native of the same township, hav- ing been born and raised on the place where his son now lives. The grandfather, William Cow- den, was among the pioneers of that section,

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coming at a very early day from Pennsylvania. . Isaac P. was a farmer, and died in 1869. Wil- liam R. Cowden has always lived on the old homestead, and has about one hundred acres of excellent land. He was married in 1867 to Miss Almira J. Glenn, daughter of. William Glenn, of Beaver county, Pennsylvania. They have one child, Martha E., born May 1, 1868. They are both members of the Presbyterian church.

John G. Cowden, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, an older brother of the sub- ject of the preceding sketch, was born in Poland township, August 4, 1838, and still resides within a short distance of his old home. Mention has been made of his immediate ancestors in the former sketch, and it will not be necessary to re- peat it here. He was married October 10, 1861, to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of John Smith, of Springfield township. They have two children, Nannie E., and Joseph. Mr. and Mrs. Cowden are members of the Presbyterian church.

John L. Dobbins, insurance, etc., Poland town- ship, Mahoning county, was born in said town- ship July 15, 1831. His father, Hugh Dobbins, was a native of Washington county, Pennsyl- vania, and came to Ohio in 1804 with his par- ents and located upon the farm where the sub- ject of this sketch now resides. The Dobbins family were among the early pioneers of the county, and have taken a prominent part in the development and improvement of that part of the county. Hugh Dobbins died in 1866, leav- ing a family of five children surviving him. J. L. Dobbins is one of the active business men of Poland, being engaged in insurance, in farming, and is also a dealer in agricultural implements. He is unmarried.

James S. Guthrie, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, one of the oldest citizens of the county, was born in Pennsylvania February 28, 1800. His father, William Guthrie, was a native of Ireland, and emigrated with his parents to America in an early day. They settled in Pennsylvania, where they lived until 1804 when they moved to Ohio and located in Poland town- ship. They were indeed pioneers in the wilder- ness, there being when they arrived but two or three cabins within a circuit of several miles. William Guthrie was a weaver by trade, though he taught school considerably. He died in 1849. Farming has been the chief occupation of James

S. Guthrie, though he has also been engaged a good deal in the wool business. He was mar- ried to Miss Elizabeth Pauley in 1825. She is a daughter of John Pauley, of Coitsville town- ship. They have had seven children, three of whom are living. Mrs. Guthrie died nearly forty years ago. Mr. Guthrie, for one of his years, retains his vigor remarkably well.

James S. Moore, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, one of the oldest residents of the township, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1804. His father, William Moore, was a native of Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Ohio in 1805 and located in Poland township on the farm where his son, the subject of this sketch, now resides. The coun- try was then, of course, very new and all kinds of game plenty. William Moore died December 13, 1854. James Moore has always followed farming with the exception of a few years during . which he was engaged in the mercantile business. In 1838 he was married to Miss Hannah R. Truesdale, daughter of Hugh Truesdale, of Poland, and has had seven children, viz: Rachel A., William B., Hugh R., F. M., Mary E., Rebecca J., and Julia A. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are both members of the Presbyterian church, he having been an elder for many years. His sister, Rebecca Moore, still resides on the old home place, and has assisted in taking care of her parents and her brother's children.

George Liddle, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, was born in Poland, March 5, 1812, on the farm where he now lives. His father, George, was a native of England and emigrated to this country in September, 1806. He landed at Baltimore after a tedious passage, and at once came to Ohio and settled in Poland while his brothers settled in Boardman. He died in 1852. George Liddle, the subject of this notice, married in 1841 Miss Mary E., daughter of James Kennedy, of Coitsville town- ship. They have had twelve children seven of whom are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Liddle are members of the United Presbyterian church.

A. D. McClurg, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, was born in Boardman town- ship, said county, in 1834. His father, Samuel McClurg, was a native of Pennsylvania, but came to Ohio when he was nine years old with his father, James, who came originally from Ireland,

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The family settled in Poland township, then Trumbull county. Samuel McClurg followed farming all his life and died on the 4th of July 1877, leaving two children, A. D., and Richard J. Mrs. McClurg died in 1834. Mr. A. D. McClurg has always been a resident of the county, engaged in farming. He was married, in 1860, to Miss Maggie A. Kerr, daughter of Matthew Kerr, of Boardman. They have had three children, viz: Ella J., Lella J., and Minnie B. Ella is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. McClurg are members of the Presbyterian church. Po- litically he is a Republican, and at present is county commissioner.

B. F. Lee, farmer, Poland township, Mahon- ing county, was born in Poland township May 7, 1815. His father, Christopher Lee, was one of the earliest settlers in Poland township, com- ing there from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, as early as 1805. He resided there until his death in 1835. He was a farmer by occupation and had a family of thirteen children. Mr. B. F. Lee was educated at Meadville, Pennsylvania. After being there three years he returned to Po- land and started the institution of learning known as the Poland institute. He was married September 17, 1845, to Miss Pauline King, daughter of Amos King, of Erie county, Penn- sylvania. They have had nine children, seven of whom are living. Mr. Lee has been engaged in various occupations; has been a merchant, also a wool buyer, and is now interested in rail- roads: He is an active, enterprising man, and is always ready to help along a good work. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.

Carson R. Justice, M. D., druggist, Poland, Mahoning county, was born in Springfield town- ship, December 15, 1851. His father, James Justice, came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1801, and settled in what was then Columbiana county, now Mahoning. He was thus one of the earliest of the pioneers. Dr. Justice studied his profession at Poland, and graduated at the Cleveland Medical college in 1878. Since then he has practiced at Poland in connection with his drug business. Dr. Justice is a member of the Presbyterian church, and politically is a stanch Republican. He is an active and enter- prising business man.

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History of Trumbull and Mahoning counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Vol. II, Part 13

Author: Williams (H.Z.) & Bro., Cleveland, Ohio, pub Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Cleveland : H. S. Williams Number of Pages: 726

Author: Williams (H.Z.) & Bro., Cleveland, Ohio, pub
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland : H. S. Williams
Number of Pages: 726