History of Trumbull and Mahoning counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Vol. II, Part 24

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

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Levi Crum, dealer in wool, etc., Austintown township, Mahoning county, was born in Austin- town township February 7, 1832. He is the fourth of nine children of John Crum, born in Pennsylvania, but who came to this county when four years of age. John Crum's father, Henry Crum, Sr., was a native of Pennsylvania, and a farmer by occupation. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was the father of five chil- dren: John, Jonathan, Lydia, Henry, and Sam- uel. Only Jonathan and Henry are now living.

John Crum was a farmer and stock-dealer, a man well and favorably known as a successful business man. His wife was Catharine Fenste- maker, of Bedford county, Pennsylvania. They had nine children, viz : Eli, Gideon, Mary, Levi, Susan, Margaret, Sarah (deceased), Aman- da, and John (deceased). Mr. Crum was a Presbyterian, and in politics a Democrat. He died November 14, 1873, in his seventy-second year. His wife died October 3, 1875, in her seventy-fifth year.

Levi Crum remained at home until of age, then engaged in clerking for four years, after which he bought out Joseph McCaughtery and kept a general merchandise store for eight years. Then he had J. H. Fitch as his partner for eight years, and afterwards A. Forney for three years. About five years ago Mr. Crum sold out to For- ney & Raver and since then he has been in the wool business. On the 7th of February, 1857, he married Meno Winters, who came from Ger- many when ten years of age. This marriage re- sulted in two children, one of whom died in in- fancy. The oldest, Lillie F., was born Septem- ber 6, 1858. She married William S. Fairman, of Youngstown. Mr. Crum's wife died in January, 1864. March 20, 1866, he married Eunice Grove, nee Ousborne. She had two chil- dren by her former marriage, Minnie and Lulu Grove. Mr. Crum is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Democrat. He is a thorough business man, and his integrity and genial disposition have gained him many friends.

Adam Flick, farmer, Austintown township, Mahoning county, son of Frederick and Mary Flick, old time residents of Tuscarora valley, in what is now Juniata county, Pennsylvania, was born in said State, April 6, 1783. September 2, 1806, he married Elizabeth Polm, daughter of John Polm. To them eleven children were born : John, born April 3, 1807 ; Jacob, March 24, 1809 ; Benjamin, January 28, 1811 ; Samuel, February 25, 1813 ; Sarah, January 7, 1815 ; Thomas, March 2, 1817 ; William, December 4, 1818; Margaret, December 8, 1820; Susan, December 28, 1822 ; Nancy, March 12, 1825, and Mary, May 25, 1829. Margaret, Mary, and Susan, died in infancy. Benjamin, Jacob, and Samuel have died within the last six years. Jacob married Henrietta Rumsy, of Austintown, and removed to Mercer county, Pennsylvania ;

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Benjamin married Jane Gibson, daughter of Robert Gibson, of Trumbull county, and lived for a number of years at Farmington ; Samuel married Mary, a sister of Henrietta Rumsy, and afterward moved to Lordstown ; John married Mariah McCoy, and resides in Lordstown ; Sarah, wife of Samuel Cook, lives on the home place ; Nancy, wife of Michael Diehl, lives in Wells county, Indiana. Adam Flick, with his family, came to Austintown township in 1824, and lived for the first four years on the Buck farm. He bought for $3.50 per acre one hun- dred acres of wild land, upon which he built a log house in the fall of 1828, and moved into it in the following spring. At once began the task of clearing away the forest and making fertile fields in the wilderness, and raising therefrom, not only food for the family, but the means with which to pay for the farm. They came with one wagon and three horses, two of which died soon after their arrival. Years of steady toil had its effect upon the stubborn forest, and Adam Flick lived to see the wilderness become almost a gar- den, and the region round about possessing all the advantages of civilized life. His life, which was one of many hardships, closed April 28, 1851. His wife could read English and German with ease, although her attendance at school lasted but about six months. She did her part fully in making a home in the wilderness, and died February 29, 1843.

Thomas Flick, farmer, son of Adam Flick, was born in Pennsylvania, March 2, 1817. He, like his father, received but little schooling, but by observation has succeeded in gaining much valu- able knowledge, which has made him a first class farmer and business man. His brother William had but little better school advantages. To- gether they have added to the old farm, and now have over two hundred acres, which is one of the best managed farms in the county. They deal largely in horses and cattle. Both are Repub- licans, practical farmers, and worthy men. They have lived in the same school district over fifty- seven years.

Frederick Moherman, one of the earliest pio- neers of Austintown township, was a native of Maryland. On account of the destruction of property during the Revolutionary war, he and an uncle moved to Washington county, Pennsyl- vania. He was then about sixteen years of age, 18* ;

and remained in Pennsylvania several years, when he and a family by the name of Park came to Austintown to look at the country. He sub- sequently came out again, and then purchased a hundred and fifty acres in the southeast corner of Austintown township, erected a cabin and made a clearing. He then returned to Washing- ton county, Pennsylvania, and married Mary Horn, and the next spring he moved out and settled in Austintown, where he spent the re- mainder of his life. When he settled there the Indians had not disappeared, and the wild ani- mals were far more plenty than neighbors. There were no roads for miles around, and no mills. With these surroundings he and his young wife began housekeeping. They both lived to witness vast changes wrought, and to see the wilderness become a prosperous region. They had nine children, as follows : John, Abraham, Daniel, Robert, Ann (now Mrs. Woodward, of Lordstown), Betsy, who died when about twenty; Austin, who resides at Ashland, Ohio; Rachel, who married George Lynn, of Canfield, and Winchester, who lives on the old homestead. Daniel lives near him in Austintown, and the three other brothers live in Jackson.

Robert Moherman, the fourth son of Freder- ick Moherman, was born in Austintown town- ship, Mahoning county, February 11, 1809. He received his education in the pioneer subscription schools, but after he got to be of a size to work, he was permitted to attend even those but little. When about twenty-seven he began clearing and improving the farm on which he now lives, board- ing with a family that occupied the place some nine years. In October, 1840, he was married to Catharine, daughter of Robert McCain, of Ellsworth township. This marriage was blessed with four children: Robert, John, Seth, and Mary Ellen, who became the wife of Ogden Rose. Mr. Moherman cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson ; he is now a Republican.

Wendell Grove, deceased, was a native of Nor- thumberland county, Pennsylvania. He was a carpenter by trade, but principally a farmer by occupation. From Northumberland he went to Beaver, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss May, by whom he had five children: Katie, David, Benjamin, Susan, and Elizabeth. This wife dying, he married Jane Coon, of Juniata county, Pennsylvania. They had eight children:

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Jacob, Andrew, Maria, Eve, John, Abraham, Joseph, and Reuben, of whom Jacob and the two daughters are dead. Between the birth of the second and third child, they removed to their new home in the wilderness, settling in Austintown township, where he purchased about two hundred acres of land at $1.25 an acre. This farm is now occupied by his son John. About two years prior to his moving here with his family, he came and cleared a piece of land and made other preparations for his removal. He arrived at his new home on the third day of April, 1800. There were no neighbors nearer than five miles, and wild animals were numerous and often troublesome. He was a great hunter, as well as a hard working farmer. He had been in the war of the Revolution, and lived to the great age of ninety-nine years and six months. He witnessed, during his long life, which closed in Springfield township, December 19, 1849, great and important changes-greater than many are permitted to see. His wife survived him until March 27, 1857. Both were members of the Lutheran church,

John Grove, farmer, Austintown township, was born in Mahoning county January 4, 1813. He is the fifth child of Wendell Grove. He re- mained upon the farm with his father until he reached the age of twenty, when he went to Youngstown and learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for some six years. For sev- eral years he was engaged in various occupations until at length he bought the old homestead, where he now lives. He now has two hundred and thirty-two acres of land under good cultiva- tion. His farm is managed as a stock farm. He married, January 11, 1838, Mary McCullick, a native of Canfield township. They have had five children-Rosina, Orlando R., Melvina, Florence E., and C. G. The third child died when quite small.

Rogers Hill was born in Sussex county, Dela- ware, January 31, 1799. When he was five weeks old his parents removed to Redstone, Pennsylvania, where they remained two years, when they moved to the forks of the Beaver in Columbiana county, where they remained until Rogers was of age. He was the oldest of ten children of Robert and Patience Rogers Hill, both natives of Delaware. Grandfather Rogers was an Englishman and a sea captain. On his

father's side they were from Holland. Rogers Hill took up shoemaking, which he followed for twenty-one years in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Sep- tember 20, 1820, he married Eliza Chambers, a native of Pennsylvania and daughter of W. Chambers, also a native of Pennsylvania. Her ancestors were from Ireland. Their children are John, Robert, William, Eliza, Jane, Joseph, George, Matthew, Patience, Mary, Ann, Alvira, and James. The mother died February 4, 1873. April 9, 1874, he married Phoebe Anderson of Hubbard, Trumbull county. From Little Beaver he removed, in 1833, to Ohltown, where he re- sided several years engaged in farming. He then moved to the mouth of Little Hocking in Washington county, where he remained thirty years, attending a wood yard. September, 1872, he returned to Austintown township.

James P. Hill, hotel-keeper, Austintown, Ma- honing county, youngest child of Rogers Hill, was born in Wood county, now West Virginia, March 4, 1845. He attended the common schools of his native State and for one year the Iron City college of Pittsburg. When nineteen he was apprenticed to a blacksmith and served three years. After working at his trade one year he went upon the Ohio river as cabin watchman on a boat which ran between Cincinnati and Louisville, in which he continued for some time, and then established a wagon shop at Parkers- burg. In this business he continued a year and then came to Austintown, where he carried on his trade for a short time and then commenced the business in which he is now engaged. Some two years since he went to Jackson and kept the Jackson house. In the spring of 1881 he pur- chased the Northwestern house at Austintown, and is still located there, and is now proprietor of the Doncaster house. He was married, October 18, 1870, to Lucy Strock, born October 21, 1846, and daughter of Abraham Strock, of Austintown township. They have four children, viz : Guy, born February 5, 1872; Minnie, August 28, 1874; Edna, December 24, 1876; Earl, November 27, 1879. In politics Mr. Hill is a Democrat.

Lewis Harroff, Jr., farmer, Austintown town- ship, Mahoning county, was born in said town- ship May 13, 1833. He is the third child of Lewis Harroff, Sr., who was a native of Pennsyl- vania and who came to Mahoning county when

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but two years of age, settling first in Boardman township. His father, Jacob Harroff, was a shoemaker by trade, and before his marriage was a soldier in the Revolution. He married Kittie Kline. They had eight children-Polly, Susan, Jacob, Andrew, William, Lewis, Leah, and Rachel. By a former marriage there were two children-John and Betsy. Lewis, Sr., being a son of poor parents was permitted to attend school but little and never learned to read or write. He early began farming, which occupa- tion he has since followed. May 11, 1827, he married Mary Gilbert (who died in October, 1880), daughter of Jacob Gilbert, by whom he had five children-Catharine, Sarah, Mary Ann, Lewis, and William. The two oldest girls died during early childhood. Mary, wife of John Franklin, died a few days before her mother, who died in October, 1880. The sons still reside in the township. Lewis Harroff, Jr., had but limited school advantages. At the age of twenty he apprenticed himself to John Gilbert, a cabinet-maker of Austintown, and served there two years, but never worked at the trade afterward. The next three years he worked in a carriage shop at Taylor's corners, and there began carpentering, at which he has been more or less engaged up to the present time. In 1870 he moved upon the farm where he now lives. November 11, 1859, he married Rebecca Brunstetter, daughter of Henry Brunstetter. She was born May 9, 1836. To them have been born three children, one of whom is dead, viz : Perry, who was born Feb- ruary 4, 1859, and died December 30, 1863; W. Henry, born February 24, 1865; and Minnie Pearl, March 13, 1880. Both Mr. and Mrs. Harroff are members of the Evangelical church. He is a Republican, though never a politician, having never sought or held office. He is a straightforward man, well and favorably known.

Seymour A. Jones, deceased, was born in Aus- tintown township, Mahoning county, October 17, 1821. His wife and children are still living here. He was a farmer by occupation, an ear- nest Republican in politics, and in religion a member of the Disciples' church. His first wife was Martha Burnett, by whom he had four chil- dren, viz : Mary, Virgil, Samantha Jane, and Edson Scott. His second wife, whom he mar- ried December 9, 1856, and who is still living,

was Mary, daughter of William and Susan (Earnest) Powers, of Perry county, Pennsylva- nia. She was born June 20, 1833. Her parents came to Ohio when she was about one year old. Her father was a merchant for several years when a young man, but went to farming later on account of his health. Mrs. Jones is the oldest of six children, the names of whom are as fol- lows : Mary, John, Belle, Almira, William, and Lucius Foster. Mrs. Jones is the mother of ten children,-George, William, Kittie, Birdie E., Lucy E., John, Grant, Minnie A., Thomas, and Etta May. Mr. Jones died July 10, 1878.

T. F. James was born in Somersetshire, England, May 15, 1834. He was educated in the public schools of his native country, attend- ing only until about twelve years old. From that time until he was eighteen he was engaged in mining. In 1852 he came to Austintown township, where his work was the same as in England until fifteen years ago, when he began farming about a mile east of Mineral Ridge, where he is at present engaged in raising fine stock. April 5, 1858, he married Margaret Blunt, daughter of Edward Blunt of Weathers- field township, Trumbull county. She was born May 15, 1838. This marriage was blessed with eight children, Susan, Celia A., Hannah, Maggie, Sadie, Will, Edward, and John. Mrs. James is a member of the Disciples' church. Her father, Rev. Edward Blunt, was born in North Wales in 1805, and lived to the age of sixty-six. For twenty-four years prior to his death he lived and labored at Mineral Ridge. He preached for some years for the Welsh Methodist church in Pennsylvania. After com- ing to Ohio he became a convert to the Disci- ples' faith, and joined the Welsh Baptist church. He was a zealous Christian.

Solomon W. Lynn, farmer, Austintown town- ship, Mahoning county, was born in Canfield township, then Trumbull county, December 29, 1817. His father was John Lynn, a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, a weaver by trade, but during his residence in Ohio followed farm- ing. He came here in the early settlement of the country, and erected a saw-mill upon his farm, known as the 'Squire Lynn farm When Solomon was about six years of age his father returned to his old home in Pennsylvania, where he resided until his death. By his wife, Barbara

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Will, he had seven children, three girls and four boys. The girls all died when they were quite small, and in a few days of each other. Of the boys, all are now deceased except the subject of this sketch. When about thirteen his father died, and he worked upon a farm for some three years, when he was apprenticed to learn the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked for two and a half years. He eventually came to Pick- away county, Ohio, but afterwards moved to Canfield, Mahoning county, where he followed his trade. He carried on his trade for twenty- three consecutive years. In 1844 he moved to Canfield, and in 1849 to the farm where he now lives. August 30, 1849, he married Elizabeth, daughter of George Lynn, a brother of John Lynn's father (our subject's grandfather), Philip Lynn. She was born in Canfield, June 28, 1822. They have two children, George W., born Au- gust 14, 1850; Mary E., September 19, 1856. Mr. Lynn's politics is Democratic.

Benjamin Leach, a native of New Jersey, came to Austintown township, Mahoning county, in the year 1819, and bought the Jacob Park- hurst farm of one hundred acres, which was partially improved and for which he paid $1,800. He was a blacksmith by trade, but after coming to Ohio he engaged principally at farming. Within a year or two after his arrival he erected the house in which his son, J. B. Leach now resides, and which at that early day was consid- ered the best house in the county. July 12, 1802, he married Dinah Brown, by whom he had four children, Harriet, Julia Ann, Susan, and Dinah. The mother of these children died May 27, 1812. Of these children only Julia and Susan are living. February 1, 1814, he married Hannah Raynor, who was born in New Jersey. She became the mother of five children, Try- phena, Mary, Jacob B., Stephen F., Elias D., of whom all are living but the oldest. These parents were members of the Presbyterian church. The father died a few years after com- ing to Ohio.

J. B. Leach was born near Morristown, New Jersey, February 8, 1819. During the first year of his life he came with his parents to Austin- town township, Mahoning county, where he has lived ever since. His education was obtained in the common schools of that early day. Soon after he attained his majority he came into pos-

session of the old homestead and has lived upon it all his life. In 1846 he married Adaline Eck- man, daughter of John Eckman, then a resident of Warren. They had four children, Benjamin, Emory, Jeunie, and Margery, of whom all save Benjamin are living. His wife dying October 16, 1852, he, on January 20, 1859, married Olive Jones, daughter of Asa Jones, a stone-mason by trade, and an old resident of Austintown town- ship. This marriage was blessed with two chil dren, Charles and Anna. Mr. Leach was a Democrat until the breaking out of the war, and since then has been a Republican. He has held various township offices and was three times justice of the peace, and for three years recorder of Mahoning county, being in office twenty-five successive years.

Jacob Maurer, farmer, Austintown township, Mahoning county, was born near Reading, Penn- sylvania, January 19, 1811. He is the oldest of the sons of Peter Maurer, who in his native State of Pennsylvania followed the trades of a weaver and miller, but after coming to Ohio engaged in farming. Jacob Maurer worked at shoemaking until he came to Ohio, and has since been a farmer. He went with his parents about the year 1832 to Pickaway county, where he re- mained some seven years, coming to Austintown township at the end of that period. In 1831 he married Magdalena Sies, a native of Northamp- ton county, Pennsylvania, born February, 1811. They had eight daughters and three sons, who are all living except one son and one daughter: Mary A., Marietta, Alexander, Perry C., Eliza- beth, Louisa, Susan, Adaline, Lucy, and Melissa. Mrs. Maurer died June 7, 1877. Mr. Maurer is a conscientious Christian, a member of the Lutheran church, and a man of worth. He is a Democrat in politics.

John Maurer, deceased, was born near Read- ing, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1813. He was the second son of Peter and Barbara (Weis) Maurer, both natives of Pennsylvania. Their children were Jacob, John, Susan, Elizabeth, George, and Peter, who died young. John Maurer went with his father to Pickaway county, Ohio. When about twenty-four years old he came to Austintown, where he engaged in farm- ing. He was married December 4, 1839, to Lucy A. Buck, daughter of David and Mary Buck, who came to this county from Seneca

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county, New York, in 1839. She was born July 22, 1821. They have two children, Alfred, born November 22, 1840, and Eliza J., born January 27, 1844, now the wife of William Ohl. John Maurer was an earnest Democrat and took a great interest in political matters. He was an industrious man and from nothing made a hand- some property. He was an honored and re- spected citizen. He died February 26, 1873.

Perry C. Maurer, coal operator, Mineral Ridge, Ohio, was born in Austintown township, Decem- ber 3, 1840. He was educated in the common schools and at Canfield academy. During his school days he also taught in the district schools, his first term before he was eighteen. He was engaged for one year as a clerk at East Lewiston. He next went to Idaho, where he spent the sum- mer. He afterwards acted as a clerk for one year for James Crandon & Co., at Niles, then went to Homewood, Pennsylvania, and had charge of a furnace. In 1867 he engaged in the mercantile business with Charles Warner, and later with J. B. Warner. In 1869 he began business as a coal operator in company with Jenkin Harris, James Ward, and others. He has lately opened a mine at New Lisbon, which yields one hundred and twenty-five tons daily. His other mines yield even larger quantities. November 29, 1865, Mr. Maurer married Rachel Anderson, daughter of James Anderson. She was born in this county, May 14, 1847. She died April 30, 1876, leaving three children-Ivan Anderson, Lalla Rookh, and Grace Edna. He was again married June 27, 1877, to Nettie A. Marshall, daughter of Isaac H. Marshall, of Weathersfield, Trumbull county. She was born May 22, 1854. Mr. Maurer is a member of the Presbyterian church. In politics he is a Demo- crat.

James McGrew, deceased, was born in Gettys- burg, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1810. When he was about eight years old his mother, Mrs. Letitia Porter, came to Poland, Mahoning county, thence going to Girard, Trumbull county, and afterwards to Ashtabula county. After com- ing to this State she married James Reed. James McGrew was apprenticed at the age of sixteen to learn the blacksmith's trade. He worked at his trade about twenty-one years at Howland corn- ers, Weathersfield township, Trumbull county. In 1846 he bought the farm on which his son

now lives, and for the rest of his life was en- gaged in farming. December 15, 1831, he mar- ried Margaret Pennell, daughter of Robert Pen- nell. She was born April 1, 1816. She bore him seven children-Letitia, Ann, Rosetta, Robert, Sarah Jane, John, Mary M., and John C. Mrs. McGrew died May 29, 1851. Mr. McGrew was married May 12, 1853, to Margaret S. Dougherty. She was a native of Pennsylvania, and was born August 20, 1822. She died August 19, 1866, leaving five children, the oldest and the youngest of whom are de- ceased-Grover F., Emma R., Alva F., James H., and Eva A. Mr. McGrew was married De- cember 24, 1867, to Katie Spencer, born in Hart- ford, Trumbull county, October 9, 1814. She died November 1, 1872. On September 17, 1874, he married Nancy Faunce, of Cortland, who survives her husband. Mr. McGrew died April 24, 1878.

J. C. McGrew, farmer, Austintown township, Mahoning county, was born in that township, March 19, 1848. He was married June 4, 1872, to Susan Miller, daughter of William Miller, a former resident of Mahoning county. Mrs. Mc- Grew was born October 18, 1851.

John Miller, Sr., immigrated to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1812, and settled in Canfield township. He was educated in the common schools of his native State, and, when a young man, learned the carpenter's trade. He was a first-class workman, but, after coming to Ohio, worked entirely at farming. He remained in Canfield township seven years, and then re- moved to the northeast part of Austintown town- ship, the same county, and settled in the woods near the spot where the residence of Jacob Mil- ler now stands. As a " deadening" had been made, and the land allowed to grow up with trees again, the work of clearing was exceedingly diffi- cult. He married Elizabeth Stittle, by whom he had the following named children : Samuel, Sarah, Jacob, Martha, William, John, Susan, Levi, Lydia. Susan, Sarah, John, Levi, and Jacob are yet living. He was a member of the German Lutheran church. He died in the fall of 1867, having lived to see the wilderness trans- formed into fine, productive farms.

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History of Trumbull and Mahoning counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Vol. II, Part 24

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