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Charles S. Haynes, merchant, Poland, Ma-
honing county, was born June 9, 1830, in Vernon township, Trumbull county. David Haynes, his father, was a native of Connecticut, whence he came to Ohio with his parents about 1810. He died in 1870. His wife is still living with a daughter at Rock Island, Ill. Charles S. Haynes has always lived in the section where he now resides. He was engaged in farming until 1872, when he engaged in the mercantile busi- ness at Poland. He was married in 1858 to Miss Lucy M. Meeker, daughter of William Meeker, of Boardman township, and has two children- Calvin T. and Lillie Belle, twins, born Decem- ber 10, 1863. In politics Mr. Haynes is a sound Republican.
J. N. Cowden, M. D., physician, Poland township, Mahoning county, was born in Beaver county, now called Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1840, but was raised in Portage county, Ohio. His father, James S. Cowden, came from Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and located in Poland township, and was one of the pioneers of that section. He was a blacksmith by trade, though he was engaged in milling chiefly. Dr. Cowden studied medicine with E. A. Wilcox at Mt. Jackson, Pennsylvania, and attended lec- tures at the Ohio Medical college in 1862. He now has an extensive practice. He was married December 31, 1863, to Miss Julia M., daughter of Lyman B. and Eliza D. Dickerson, of Yates coun- ty, New York. They have had two children -- James L. and Charles C. Dr. Cowden is a Free Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Sons of Temperance. Mrs. Cowden is a mem- of the Disciple church.
J. D. Bard, M. D., physician, Lowellville, Ma- honing county, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1814. William Bard, his father, was a native of the same county, and was engaged in the law and in mercantile busi- ness for a number of years. He came to Ohio in 1819, and settled in Liberty township, Trum- bull county, and followed farming as long as he was able. He died in 1875. Dr. Bard, the sub- ject of this sketch, studied medicine with Dr. John Loy three years, and attended lectures at the Cleveland Medical college. He began prac- tice in 1838 at Middletown, Ohio, but two years subsequently went to Winchester, Indiana, where he remained one year and then removed to Pu-
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laski, Indiana. There he resided between ten and eleven years. He then came back to Trum- bull county, Ohio, and continued in practice in Liberty township for twenty-three years. He then removed to Poland, where he still lives. He has been eminently successful in his prac- tice. November 2, 1841, he married Elizabeth, daughter of James and Elizabeth Miller, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bard was born February 4, 1816, in Washington city. They have had eight children, five of whom are living. Dr. and Mrs. Bard are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
A. G. Botsford, deceased, was born in New- town, Connecticut, in 1805. He came to Ohio about the year 1825, and located in Poland township. He was married September 16, 1828, to Miss Eliza Lynn, daughter of James Lynn, of Wheeling, West Virginia, and had a family of five children-J. E., of Louisville, Kentucky ; J. S., of Youngstown, Ohio; T. G. of Poland; Mary, wife of H. O. Bonnell, of Youngstown; J. K., deceased. The father died in 1870, and the mother May 25, 1881. They were both members of the Presbyterian church. T. G. Botsford lives on the old homestead at Poland, but is engaged in business in Louisville, Ken- tucky.
Henry Hubbard, manufacturer of tinware, Po- land township, Mahoning county, was born in Hartford county, Connecticut, May 26, 1805. His father, John Hubbard, was a native of the same State, and lived and died there. Henry Hub- bard came to Ohio in 1826, and located in the township where he has since lived. He has been for many years in the manufacture of tinware. He was married February 10, 1828, to Miss Eliza Ann Robinson, daughter of David Robin- son, of Glastonberry, Connecticut. They have had eight children, four of whom are still living. Mrs. Hubbard died several years ago. Mr. Hubbard is a Congregationalist in belief and a Republican in politics.
James Smith, farmer, Poland township, Ma- honing county, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1810. His father, Joseph, was a native of the same State, and in 1827 moved to Ohio, and settled in Poland township, where he resided until his death. He died in January, 1841, leaving a family consist- ing of a wife and four children, to mourn his loss.
James Smith has been engaged in various occu- pations, but is now living upon the old home place, and is evidently enjoying the evening of his days. In politics he is a Republican, and was formerly an anti-slavery man. He has al- ways been what might be termed a reformer. He has never married.
Henry Heasley, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, November 1, 1845. His father was Henry Heasley, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio about 1828, locating at Youngstown. He was a cabinet- maker by trade and resided at Youngstown twenty or twenty-five years, then moved upon the farm where his son now lives in Poland. He died in 1868, his widow and eight children sur- viving him. Henry Heasley, our subject, was married in 1874 to Miss Mary Clark, daughter of John Clark, of Poland. They have two chil- dren, Henry and Susan. Mr. and Mrs. Heasley are members of the Presbyterian church.
William Cole, farmer, Poland township, Ma- honing county, was born in Morristown, Lamoille county, Vermont, February 11, 1826. His father, Ebenezer Cole, was also a native of Ver- mont, and came to Ohio in 1832. He settled in Poland township, upon the farm where Wil- liam Cole, his son, now lives. He followed farming for about forty years, then went to Salem, where he died February 22, 1876, in his eighty-fifth year. He left a family of six children, three children having died previously. His wife died in 1847. Mr. Cole was in former years a Free-will Baptist preacher, though he followed farming chiefly in Ohio. William Cole has re- sided in Poland, upon the old homestead, since his boyhood. He has a farm of two hundred and thirty-two acres and is engaged in general farming and in the nursery business. He mar- ried, February 25, 1846, Miss Elma, daughter of Mahlon Parritt, of Hillsville, Pennsylvania, and has had three children, viz: Olive, born December 10, 1846; Alice, June 22, 1848; Em- ma, March 17, 1850. Mrs. Cole died October 9, 1853.
John W. Van Auker, farmer, l'oland town- ship, Mahoning county, was born in Youngs- town, Ohio, August 10, 1834. Absalom Van Auker, his father, was a native of Delaware, and came to Ohio about 1829. He located at
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Wooster, where he resided but a short time, then moved to Youngstown. He was a farmer, and died in 1836. John W. Van Auker, our subject, has always resided in the county, with the excep- tion of two years, during which he lived in Wis- consin. His principal occupation through life has been that of farming. and mercantile busi- ness. He was married August 16, 1854, to Miss Silvia A. Jackson, of Mahoning county, daughter of Joseph Jackson. They have had seven chil- dren, six of whom are living. Mr. Van Auker was in the Nineteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, and saw nearly four years of service. He is a Republican, and is an active, enterprising man. Mrs. Van Auker is a member of the Presby- terian church.
Samuel H. McBride, deceased, was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1809. His father, John, was a native of Washington county, and followed farming. He died about the year 1853. Samuel McBride came to Ohio in the spring of 1836, and located at Lowellville, Poland township. He was married in the fall of the same year-October 3, 1836-to Miss Phebe Harris, daughter of Barnabas Harris, of Coitsville township. Mr. McBride engaged in the mercantile business at Lowellville, and con- tinued in it until 1875, when his health failed him, and, in consequence, retired from business. He died March 5, 1881, highly esteemed by all who enjoyed his acquaintance. He was a mem- ber of the United Presbyterian church. Mrs. McBride still resides in Lowellville, where she lived so many years with her late husband. She is the mother of three children-Leander, John, and Rose.
John B. Nessle, merchant and postmaster, Lowellville, Mahoning county, was born in 1818, in Montgomery county, New York. He learned the shoemakers trade when about sixteen years of age, and in 1837 found his way to Lowell- ville, Mahoning county, (then Trumbull) Ohio. He followed his trade upwards of twenty years, subsequently went into merchandizing in which he still continues, and was appointed postmaster of Lowellville in 1861, which position he still holds. He was married in 1839 to Miss Jane, daughter of John Pettigrew, of Lowellville, the fruit of which union was eight children. His first wife dying in 1870, Mr. Nessle was again married, in 1873, to Mrs. Stevens, a daughter of
Levi Beardsley, of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Nessle is a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Nessle is a Free Mason and a sound Republican. His father was Isaiah Nessle, a native of New York, who died in 1868 or 1869.
James B. Brown, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, was born in Ireland, February 20, 1820, and came to America with his parents in 1835 or 1836, landing at New York after a pleasant voyage of four weeks. The family went to Philadelphia, where they stopped about six weeks, and then went to Pittsburg where his father was engaged in merchandizing for four years. The family then removed to Ohio and settled in Poland township where the subject of this sketch still lives. His father died in 1849. Mr. Brown was married in 1855, to Miss Mary, daughter of James Buck, of Poland township, and has four children: Eliza, Jennie, Willie, and Emma.
Simon D. Brown, miller, was born in Trum- bull county, Ohio, March 9, 1842, though he has always lived in Mahoning county, with the ex- ception of two years. In his boyhood he was quite delicate, but as he grew older he gained in physical strength and is now a healthy man. He is now engaged in milling at Lowellville, Mahoning county, and does an ex- tensive business. He married a daughter (Clara) of John Reed, of Poland township, October 2, 1879, and has one child, Ralph, born October 22, 1880. Mr. Brown's politics are Republican.
Robert B. Martin, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1835. His father, H. R. Martin, came from Pennsylvania in 1841 and settled in Springfield township, where he lived until his death, September 8, 1879. He was a tailor by trade in Pennsylvania, but after his removal to Ohio he followed farming. R. B. Martin was married, in 1862, to Miss Rachel, daughter of James McCord, of Lawrence coun- ty, Pennsylvania. They had three children, viz: Mary D., Alice J., and James C. Mr. Martin is a Democrat in politics.
H. R. Moore, M. D., physician, of Poland, Mahoning county, was born in said township January 24, 1842. His father, James Moore, is still living in the township, and is among its oldest residents. Dr. Moore studied medicine with Dr. Truesdale in Poland, and graduated at
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the Ohio Medical college, Cincinnati, after two years' study, in 1866. He has succeeded in building up a good practice in the Mahoning val- ley and is well liked. He was married in 1866, to Miss Maggie Woodruff, daughter of George Woodruff, of Poland. They have had three children-Lizzie, Kittie, and George C. Kittie is deceased. Dr. Moore and wife are Presbyte- rians in their religious faith. He is a Greenback- er in politics.
James G. Cavett, farmer, Poland township, Mahoning county, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1804. He came to Ohio in 1854, and located in Poland upon the farm where he still lives. He was engaged in the tanning business in Pennsylvania, but since coming to Ohio has followed farming. He was married in 1830, to Miss Amanda Smith, of Franklin county, Pennsylvania. They have had three children-Jane M., John H., and Elizabeth, the last named being deceased. Mrs. Cavett died in 1867. She was a member of the Presbyterian church, as is also her husband.
John H. Cavett was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1835, and came to Ohio in 1854, with his parents. He married April 7, 1857, Miss Elizabeth Rigler, of Pennsylvania. They have two children, Lizzie E. and James B. Mr. and Mrs. Cavett are members of the Presbyterian church. He is a firm Republican in politics, has been township clerk five terms, and is held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens.
J. H. Davidson, merchant, Poland, Mahon- ing county, was born at Shippensburg, Pennsyl- vania, June 22, 1826. Samuel Davidson, his father, came from Pennsylvania in 1831, and located in Coitsville township, where he engaged at farming. He died November 21, 1871, at the age of seventy-nine years, six months and fif- teen days. His wife died June 5, 1871, aged seventy years, eight months and twenty-eight days. They were both members of the Presby- terian church, and he was one of the first to move in the organization of the Free Presby- terian church at New Bedford, Pennsylvania. J. H. Davidson has been engaged in various occu- pations; worked at blacksmithing several years, and was engaged in prospecting for oil and coal from 1859 to 1874. He went to Poland in 1866 and started in merchandizing in 1875. He
was married in 1853 to Miss Emily Clark, daughter of Henry Clark, of Hubbard, and has two children, Mary E. and Charles H. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson are members of the Methodist church. Mr. Davidson enlisted, April 27, 1864, in the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio National guard, serving one hundred days, when he was mustered out.
Dr. Alexander C. Elliott, dentist, Poland, Ma- honing county, was born in Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, December 20, 1831, and came to Ohio in 1865 and located in Poland township. He studied dentistry at Rochester, Pennsylvania. Dr. Elliott was in the war of the Rebellion four years-three years in the First Pennsylvania cavalry, and one year in the First Pennsylvania veteran cavalry, and was wounded in the right leg at St. Mary's church, near Malvern Hill, Vir- ginia. He was married in 1866 to Miss Isabella, daughter of John Young, of Columbiana county, and has one child, Clarence, born August 3, 1868. Dr. Elliott and his wife are members of the First Baptist church of Youngstown.
Leander D. Robinson, fariner, Poland town- ship, Mahoning county, was born in Lawrence county, Pennsylvama, in 1843. His father, Samuel, was a Pennsylvanian, a farmer by occu- pation, and died in 1858. L. D. Robinson came to Ohio in 1874, and is engaged in general farming. He married, in 1866, Miss Annie, daughter of Robert Graham, of Poland town- ship, and has one child-Lillie May. He was in the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth regiment, Ohio infantry, in the rebellion, and also in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania. He and his wife are both members of the Pres- byterian church.
R. W. Weller, M. D., physician, Lowellville, Mahoning county, was born in Beaver, now Law- rence, county, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1838. His father, John Weller, is a native of New Jersey, and is still living at the advanced age of eighty- one years. Dr. Weller studied medicine at the University of Wooster, graduated in 1876, and has since been in practice at Lowellville. He built up a good practice, and is well liked. He was first heutenant in the Pennsylvania "round head " regiment (One Hundredth); enlisted Au- gust 27, 1861, and was mustered out October 15, 1864. He is now a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is also a Free Ma-
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son. He married, in 1865, Miss Lavenia Mon- roe, daughter of Joel Monroe, of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, and has two children- John and James. Dr. and Mrs. Weller are members of the Presbyterian church.
CHAPTER III. BOARDMAN.
PHYSICAL FEATURES.
The surface of this township is gently undu- lating, and in many portions nearly level. There are some hills, but none that are very steep. The soil is mostly fertile, and well adapted to a variety of crops. The western and north- western part of the township is watered by Mill creek and its tributaries. Yellow creek flows for over two miles through the southeast of Boardman, thence entering Poland township near the village. Altogether, the natural aspect of this township is one of beauty, with just enough of hills and valleys, fields and wood- lands, to please the eye by presenting to its gaze a varied and lovely landscape. A ride from Boardman center in either direction, north, south, east, or west, takes the traveler through as pleasant a farming region as can be found in this part of the State. Although a considerable portion of the land still remains uncleared, there are several large productive farms, with neat and pretty houses, large and convenient barns, show- ing that the owners are men of activity and thrift. The southwestern quarter of the town- ship is the least improved, and contains but few inhabitants. Here stands the Big Oak, on a path believed by the old settlers to have been made by deer. This oak is a stern monarch of the forest, five and a half feet in diameter, and seventeen feet in circumference three feet from the ground, as has been ascertained by actual measurement. It has fifty feet of trunk and does not rise above the neighboring trees, or it might have been prostrated by the wind years ago. Probably this venerable tree was a sturdy youth at the time America was discovered! It is still at some distance from any improved land.
In the northern part of the township, on the farm of J. B. Kistler, and in that vicinity, there are extensive coal deposits, which it is believed may become a source of profit to their owners ere many years have elapsed.
VILLAGES.
Properly speaking Boardman has no village. Boardman center, the only point which bears any resemblance to one, contains about a dozen houses, a carriage shop, and a post-office. It is in a delightful situation, and if it should grow in future years, no pleasanter location for a town could be found. A small portion of Poland vil- lage on the eastern border is included within this township.
INDUSTRIES, ETC.
Boardman is essentially a farming community. In former years there have been a few stores, some tanneries, several saw-mills, but never any manufacturing enterprises of much importance; and to-day farming is the principal business, and almost the only business carried on in the town- ship. The only store in the township is that kept by Uriah Stafford on the south line of the township at Steamtown, which village, however, is all included in Beaver township except the store and post-office.
Stewart Snyder has a carriage and blacksmith shop at the center.
Elias Eyster, wagon-maker, has a shop one and a half miles north of the center, and near him is the blacksmith shop of Cyrus Simon.
Joseph Miller is also a blacksmith at Zedaker's corners, in the shop formerly occupied by John Westbecker.
William J. Hitchcock and W. Moherman each have steam saw-mills in the Boardman woods.
George Simon has a steam saw-mill near his residence. In former years he manufactured shingles and barrel staves in quite large quanti- ties. Now he saws lumber only.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
Elijah Boardman, accompanied by six able men, among whom were Nathaniel and Eben- ezer Blakely, and a man named Summers, came to this township in 1798. Mr. Boardman was a resident of New Milford, Connecticut, and was a member of the Connecticut Land company. He spent the entire summer here, making sur- veys and establishing land-marks, while the men
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whom he had brought with him were making clearings and preparing for other comers. These pioneers brought two yoke of oxen, which they left at Youngstown to be wintered. Five of the number returned to Connecticut on foot; the other, one of the Blakelys, remained and be- came a permanent settler.
The township was named for Elijah Board- man. A stone set by him to mark the center of the township was unearthed a few years ago, and his initials, E. B., discovered upon it.
From 1800 to 1811 settlers came in rapidly, the majority coming from Connecticut. A few natives of Pennsylvania also found their way hither.
In 1810 the population of the township was about 850, nearly as large as it is at the present writing.
Upon the township records, containing a list and description of ear marks in the year 1806, there appear the following names, showing that these men were property holders here at that date: Abner Webb, Linus Brainard, William Drake, Haynes Fitch, Eli Baldwin, George Stilson, John Davidson, Joseph Merchant, Oswald Detchon, Eleazer Fairchild and his sons-John, Amos, and Daniel-Elijah Boardman, Francis Dowler, Richard J. Elliot, Peter Stilson, Samuel Swan, David Noble, Warren Bissel.
The same book also shows the following names at the dates given :
1807-Isaac Blackman, James Moody.
1808-Beach Summers, David Fitch, Ethel Starr.
1809-Andrew Hull, Herman Stilson, Jacob Frank, Elijah Deane.
1813-Simeon Mitchell, Eliakim Stoddard, John Northrop.
Francis Dowler, and his son John, the former a native of Ireland, settled in this township in 1801.
John and Charlotte Davidson settled near the center in 1805. They were forty days on their way hither from Connecticut.
Haynes Fitch and his sons Jedediah and Da- vid came in 1804, and settled on the farm where Alexander Gault now lives.
Ethel Starr settled on the west of Indian creck about 1807. He lived to be quite aged.
Isaac Blackman was an early comer, who set- tled on the Poland road one-half mile from the
village. In 1808 he built a good frame house, which is still standing, being now used as a sta- ble. Afterwards he sold out and moved to Po- land.
Eliakim Stoddard came about the year 1804, and settled on the south road, one and a half miles from Boardman center.
Major Samuel Clark came in 1810, and settled where his son William L. Clark now resides. He was one of the first postmasters, and used to bring the mail from Poland once a week in his pocket. He served as justice of the peace in 1828 or 1829, and was a worthy man and a prom- inent citizen. He was commissioned lieuten- ant, captain, and afterwards major of militia. His wife was Anna Northrup. She, like the major, was a native of Connecticut. Major Clark died in 1847 in his sixty-first year. Mrs. Clark died in 1860, aged sixty-seven years.
Richard J. Elliot came in 1804 or 1805. He was a member of the Legislature in 1808 and 1809. At his last election he received every vote in his district, an honor probably never accorded to any other candidate either before or since. He resided on the farm cleared by Wil- liam Drake.
Oswald Detchon, a native of England, was among the very first settlers. He located three- fourths of a mile east of the center.
The Stilson brothers, Peter and George, came in 1800. Peter Stilson settled on the south side of the road leading to Canfield, near the pres- ent residence of Eli Reed. He had four sons, Herman, Anson, Luther, and Philip, all of whom lived here several years.
David Noble came in the year 1804 or 1805. He settled on the south road about a mile from the center.
David Woodruff, a very early settler, located on what is now the J. B. Kistler farm in the northern part of the township. After his death his sons sold out and went West.
Captain Warren Bissel previous to 1806 settled one-half mile west of Poland, on the road lead- ing to Canfield.
Henry Brainard came in 1800 and settled about one mile from the center on the road run- ning west. He had several sons, one of whom, Dr. Ira Brainard, was probably the first and only settled physician in this township. Dr. Brainard practiced here a few years, then moved to Can-
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Mors. B. Kirtland.
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field. The children of Henry Brainard were Solomon, George, Linus, Ira, and Henry, and three daughters who became Mrs. Dowd, Mrs. Nathaniel Blakely, and Mrs. Hermon Stilson.
William Drake made a clearing in the south- western quarter of the township in 1800. In a small log hut on that farm occurred the first wedding in Boardman. A man named Cum- mings married Drake's sister. There also was born the second female child born in the town- ship, that child being the widow Allhands, of Youngstown township, now deceased.
James Stall settled quite early in the northeast- ern part of Boardman, on the eastern line of the township.
Eleazer Fairchild was an early settler. He located on what is now Eli Reed's farm. He had several sons, Eleazer, Amos, Daniel, and per- haps others.
Among those who came to Boardman as early as 1801, and from that time until 1810, were several families by the name of Simon, from Washington county, Pennsylvania. Of these, probably Adam Simon came first. He settled on the farm now owned by Michael Simon. Soon afterward came Jacob Simon. Michael Simon came a few years later with several sons and daughters, all of whom settled in the north- ern part of the township. Among his children were Adam, Peter, Jacob, Abraham, and Henry.
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