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establishment of their wholesale house he be- came a partner in the millinery and notion de- partment, which connection he retained until January, 1881. He then formed a partnership with F. W. Hart and A. Van Tuyl, and pur- chased the millinery branch of the business, erecting the building on Bank street, 48 to 50, where they are now located. This is probably the most extensive house for the sale of millinery, silks, and fancy goods in the State, a business of half a million dollars per annum being trans- acted. Mr. Hart is unmarried.
CHAPTER VIII. HUBBARD.
INTRODUCTORY.
East of the Mahoning in the southern tier of townships of this county the country for several miles presents a broken surface consisting of a succession of low hills, knolls, ridges and valleys. From the tops of the principal elevations the ob- server obtains a fine view of picturesque scenery in which the results of the handiwork of Nature and man's creative industry are harmoniously blended. Fertile fields, green woodlands and sparkling streamlets delight the eye, and the subdued sounds of industrial activity greet the ear. At the foot of the hills are busy towns and hamlets, whence arise such dense clouds of black smoke that one would almost fancy him- self near the workshops of the Titans and Vul- cans of antiquity. Toiling locomotives, dragging heavy loads of coal and ore, wend their way through the valleys, and from numerous hillsides arise the puffs of smoke and steam which attest that the coal-beds beneath the earth are being made to yield up their hidden wealth. Every- where the steam-engine is at work, even
Down in the depths of the fathomless mine Its tireless arm doth play,
Where the rocks never saw the sun's decline Or the dawn of the glorious day.
Hubbard township contains some of the most extensive coal deposits of the Mahoning valley. Two railroads, branches of the New York, Penn- sylvania & Ohio and the Lake Shore & Michi- gan Southern, pass through the township, having
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their termini in Youngstown. Numerous coal roads branch off from these and run to the various banks in Hubbard. The coal and iron interests of this township have contributed largely towards increasing the wealth and pros- perity of the inhabitants.
Hubbard also contains much good farming land. The soil is variable, consisting of clayey, sandy, and gravelly loams. As the most of the surface is high and rolling, the soil is well-drained and arable.
Little Yankee run is the chief stream in the township. Crossing the township line about three-fourths of a mile east of the northwestern corner of Hubbard, it flows southerly and south- easterly, past the village of Coalburg to a point very near the center of the township and just north of Hubbard village, where it makes a U- shaped turn and flows easterly a mile; then bend- ing to the northward passes over into the south- east of Brookfield township, where it enters the Shenango river. The stream in its course through Hubbard township is very crooked; and the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad, which follows up its valley from Hubbard village, crosses the Little Yankee five times in the township.
Hubbard township is the southeastern corner of Trumbull county, and adjoins the Pennsylva- nia line on the east. Brookfield is the next township north of it; Liberty lies on the west, and Coitsville, Mahoning county, on the south. Hubbard is the third township in the first range of New Connecticut.
OWNERSHIP, ETC.
Nehemiah Hubbard, Jr., an original member of the Connecticut Land company, was the owner of the land of township three, range one, and it was sold out to settlers by his agent, Samuel Tylee.
The township was organized into an election district in 1806, and named after its original owner. No records of early elections can be found.
SETTLEMENT.
Hubbard was first settled by people from Con- necticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and other eastern States ; a few Pennsylvanians were also among the pioneers. Very few of the original families are now represented in the township. The growth of population was very slow. In 1834
there were only about one hundred voters in the township.
Samuel Tylee and family were the first settlers. They came from Middletown, Connecticut, and arrived in Hubbard September 1, 1801. Mr. Tylee chose as a site for his cabin a spot north- west of the present corners of the village, and there began the life of a pioneer. He married Anna Sanford, and they had a family of five chil- dren when they came here. Mr. Tylee acted as agent for Nehemiah Hubbard for the sale of the land of the township to settlers, for many years. He was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, in 1766, and died in Hubbard in 1845. His first wife bore ten children, and his second, Eliz- abeth Ayres, one. The names of these children were Anna, Laura, Samuel, Mary, Sanford, Wil- liam, Julia, Hannah, Maria A. and Olivia. Five are still living, viz: William, in Kansas ; Han- nah (Bussey), New Orleans; Maria (Clingen), Hubbard ; Eliza (Hagar), Hubbard ; and Olivia (Barnheisel) San Francisco. Samuel Tylee was the first justice of the peace in the township and also a very prominent business man, whose en- terprise contributed not a little to the prosperity of the settlement.
Sylvester Tylee, brother of Samuel, settled on the northeastern corner lot at the cross-roads in 1802. The village became known as Tylee's corners. His children are all dead. Their names were Clarissa, Samuel, Alfred, Marietta, Rebecca, and Homer.
William Burnett, from Sussex county, New Jersey, settled in this township about the year 18or. He lived to the age of ninety-four. His son Silas, born in December, 1802, was the first white child born in the township. William Bur- nett was twice married, and reared eleven chil- dren to mature years. Those now living are : Silas, Warren; Rachel (Bowen), Iowa; Zilla (Brockway), Iowa; Joseph, Hartford; and by his second wife, William and Peter, in Pennsyl- vania.
Enos Burnett, Silas, Edward, and Stephen were also early settlers and nearly all passed their lives in the township.
As definite dates of the several settlements cannot now be ascertained, we mention below several representatives of the pioneers, most of whom came to the township between 1802 and 1808 :
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Jeremiah Wolf, from New Jersey, settled on lot seventy-two in the southeast of the town- ship, being among the first arrivals. His sons John and Cephas still live in Hubbard. His daughter Elizabeth, now Mrs. McGill, of Poland, is said to have been the first white female child born in Hubbard. He was a nail-maker, and made the nails used by 'Squire Tylee in the first frame house erected in the township.
Jesse Hall, from New Jersey, was an early settler in the northern part of the township. So many New Jersey settlers were located on the road running north from the center that it was long known as "Jersey street." Jesse Hall, Jr., is the only survivor of the original family now in the township.
John Ayres was another of the Jersey settlers. His son John lived and died on the old home- stead. The family name is not represented in the township at present.
Cornelius Dilley, another of the pioneers, had two sons who passed their days in Hubbard- John, on the old homestead, and Thompson in east Hubbard.
Martin Swartzwelter and his father, of New Jersey, settled in the northwest of this town- ship. His son Thomas lives on part of the old farm.
Samuel Leslie, father of James, of Irish de- scent, or of Irish nativity, was also one of the pioneers of the northwest of Hubbard.
Matthew Mitchell, a native of Ireland, set- tled in the west of Hubbard in 1806, coming hither from Pittsburg. His son, Nathaniel Mitchell, Esq., is now the only survivor of the family of two sons and three daughters.
William Porterfield, from Washington county, Pennsylvania, was an early settler in the north- west of the township, on a place which had been somewhat improved by a man named Chamber- lain. Robert, the oldest son of William Porter- field, now lives on the old place.
John Jewell, also from Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, settled in the Porterfield neighbor- hood. His son, Alexander M., now living in Warren, raised his family in Hubbard.
Joel Smith was among the first who located in the southwest of the township. He moved away quite early.
John Gardner, another inhabitant of the southwest of Hubbard, reared a family of four
children, John, James, Andrew, and Elizabeth. All lived and died in this township excepting John, who died in Coitsville.
Amos Smith settled in the southwest of the township. His sons, William, Amos, Nathan, and Joel, lived in this township and reared fam- ities.
George Frazier lived on the farm adjoining that of Amos Smith, Sr. His son George brought up his family here. Hugh died on the old place; John went West.
Stephen Doughton lived on a place adjoining the Porterfield farm. His son David reared a family of four children here, and died on his way to California of cholera, in 1852.
David Bailey, from Connecticut, settled on the south lot of the township, on the road leading to the center. His sons were David, Seth, Tryan, and Ritter, He also had four daughters.
William Parrish was one of the early Maryland settlers. His son John, who is one of the oldest residents of Hubbard, still lives upon the old farm.
The Roberts and Clark families were among the first of the Yankee settlers in the southern part of the township. The names are no longer to be found among the residents of Hubbard. Edward Bussey, about 1803, settled north of the Porterfield farm.
A. K. Cramer, a native of New Jersey, settled in east Hubbard in 1816. His father, Captain Frederick Cramer, was under the immediate command of Washington during six years of the Revolutionary war. Mr. Cramer came here a young man and married Susan Price, by whom he had four children, Elizabeth, Sarah (de- ceased), Naomi, and Susan. By his second wife, Matilda Pierce, seven children were born: J. P., Hannah, S. P., A. K., J. H., Matilda, and A. W. Two of these, S. P. and A. K., reside in Hub- bard and are engaged in the drug business. A. K. Cramer, Sr., was one of the organizers and main supporters of the Baptist church. He was justice of the peace two terms and township clerk thirty consecutive years. In 1865 he moved to Iowa. He died in 1873 aged seventy- seven. Mrs. Cramer died in 1877 aged seventy- three. Of their sons, S. P., was township clerk for years, and justice of the peace one term. A. K., Jr., has been twice elected justice and three times mayor.
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EARLY EVENTS.
The first frame house in Hubbard township was erected in 1808 by Samuel Tylee. It is still standing in Hubbard township.
The first justice of the peace was Samuel Tylee, who also served in later years. George Frazier, Joel Smith, and Thomas Robinson were also among the early justices.
George Frazier built the first brick house in the township.
EARLY SCHOOLS.
Several log school-houses were built in the township previous to 1810. The first was prob- ably that built on the farm of John Gardner in the southwest of the township. Who the first teacher was is not to be ascertained. Joel Smith, a middle-aged man, was a very early teacher in the old school-house just named. Among his pupils were a number of well-grown boys and not too fond of study. The practice of bar- ring out the schoolmaster was then almost uni- versal, and was usually tried the morning follow- ing Christmas. One day Smith came to the school-house in the morning-the preceding day had been Christmas and a holiday-and found that his pupils were inside but every entrance was barred by heavy logs. He demanded ad- mission but this was refused. He then procured a rail and pried out some of the chunks which were fitted in between the logs. Failing to make an entrance sufficiently large to admit him, he went to a neighboring house for advice and aid. The neighbor returned with him, and the two men then climbed upon the roof, made a hole through it and got inside upon the loft, which was laid with loose boards placed across heavy beams. Tearing up this flooring, they were pre- paring to descend when several stout boys seized a heavy wooden table, raised it upon their shoulders and held it firmly against the opening. The teacher jumped upon the table determined to get it out of his way, when at a given signal the boys let go and teacher and table made a rapid descent into the room and sprawled over the floor. Both were somewhat bruised but not seriously injured. The schoolmaster was seized, put out of doors and his castle again barricaded from the interior. There was no school that day.
A. G. Babcock and Timothy Doty were the names of early teachers in a school-house situ- ated on the road west of the village
EARLY INDUSTRIES.
'Squire Tylee erected the first grist-mill about 1809. It was on Yankee run, a mile and a half northeast of the village. It was built of logs and had two runs of stones. He also had a saw-mill near the grist-mill built about the same time. Both were afterwards replaced by frame buildings.
The first distillery in the township was erected on the farm of 'Squire Tylee.
About 1810 a carding-mill, situated near the State line, was run by William Elliott. About 1824 'Squire Tylee erected a carding- and cloth- fulling-mill on the present village lot of 'Squire Mitchell. This mill was run by horse-power.
The first tannery was built by Jehiel Roberts, early in this century, a little south of the center of the village. Jesse Clark, who married the widow Roberts, carried on the business after him.
The first store was opened by Dr. John Mitch- eltree, who came to the township about 1806, and commenced business soon after. This store was in Pennsylvania ; but as the end of the log- cabin in which the merchant lived was in Hub- bard, probably the latter has the best claim to the establishment. His store was in the east end of the cabin, so that while doing business in Penn- sylvania, he was a resident of Ohio.
Dr. Mitcheltree was the first physican. He was born in Ireland, but came to this country young, and here learned the art of medicine. For many years he was the only doctor in the township. From his store and his practice com- bined he accumulated sufficient property so that he was accounted a wealthy man in those days.
Sylvester Tylee was the first postmaster. The office was established previous to 1812. He also kept tavern and a few groceries.
The first store at Tylee's corners was kept in his own house by Samuel Tylee as early as 1818.
HUBBARD VILLAGE.
This enterprising little place is too young to have much history. Up to 1861 it was merely a country cross-roads, with few houses or inhabit- ants. But when the coal-fields began to be largely developed the corners rapidly became a village, and in the course of ten years nearly two thousand inhabitants were comprised within the present limits of the village. The houses were
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nearly all put up in haste, and many of them still stand unimproved in appearance. Main street is long and thickly dotted with houses and stores for nearly a mile and a half.
The largest mercantile establishment in Hub- bard is that of George M. McKelvey & Co., who have been in business in this place since Septem- ber 1, 1877. The furnace and coal companies have an interest in the store, and from it the work- men receive supplies. Mr. G. M. McKelvey, the head of the firm, was born in Indiana coun- ty, Pennsylvania, in 1849. He was a merchant in Youngtown ten years before coming to Hub. bard. In politics he is Republican; in relig- ion, a member of the United Presbyterian church. He is married, and has two children.
D. J. Edwards, at present the clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives, is another of the successful and respected merchants of this place.
A summary of the business of the village shows the following: twelve stores of all kinds, one ho- tel, numerous saloons, seven churches, one Na- tional bank, three physicians, two lawyers, one newspaper, one grist-mill, one rolling-mill, two blast furnaces, etc.
INCORPORATION.
Hubbard village, comprising a tract about one mile square, was incorporated in 1868. It now has an estimated population of about two thou- sand. The mayors, since the incorporation, have been: Nathaniel Mitchell, L. R. Prior, John Cramer, Add. Randall, Alexander Camp- bell, J. D. Cramer, and A. K. Cramer. The lat- ter is now serving his third term. The officers consist of mayor, six councilmen, clerk, treas- urer, marshal, and one street commissioner.
IRON MANUFACTURE.
Next to the coal business the manufacture of iron has contributed most to the prosperity of Hubbard.
Hubbard furnace, number one, was erected in 1868; number two, in 1872. Both are owned by Andrews & Hitchcock. Eighty to ninety men are employed. The daily capacity of both fur- naces in one hundred and ten tons.
Hubbard rolling-mill was built in 1872 by the Hubbard Rolling-mill company. It is now owned by Jesse Hall & Sons, who were partners in the firm from the start. The mill has twelve puddling furnaces, one sixteen-inch muck train
of rolls, one twelve inch bar mill, and one eight- inch guy mill. Product, merchant guide iron. Capacity, one hundred and fifty tons of muck bar per week. Employment is given to about two hundred men.
HUBBARD FLOURING-MILL.
This mill was built by W. A. Loveless and run by him for some time as a planing-mill. Five years ago it was converted into a grist-mill and run by Long Brothers & Co. The proprietors are now Long & Shook. The mill has a capacity of fifty barrels per day.
HUBBARD NATIONAL BANK.
This institution was organized in 1873 as Hub- bard Savings bank, with A. M. Jewell president, and G. M. Dill cashier, and continued as a savings bank until 1878, when it was converted into a National bank with a cash capital of $50,- 000. The present officers are A. M. Jewell, president; R. H. Jewell, cashier ; and the fol- lowing directors: A. M. Jewell, D. J. Dennison, S. L. Kerr, H. H. Long, A. T. Mizner, G. H. Kerr, and S. Q. March.
NEWSPAPERS.
The first newspaper in Hubbard was estab- lished by A. D. Fassett, and run by him trom July, 1868, to November, 1872. For a few months it was called the Standard, and was printed in the Courier office at Youngstown. In the winter of 1868-69 Mr. Fassett bought a press and type and began the Miners' Journal, which was at first a five-column folio with but small circulation. It afterwards attained a circu- lation of two thousand eight hundred, and was the organ of the coal miners of Ohio. In Novem- ber, 1872, Mr Fassett bought the Courier office in Youngstown, moved his paper thither, and continued its publication, changing the name to the Miner and Manufacturer, making it a daily -the first daily published in the Mahoning val- ley. The Hubbard office was sold to W. T. McGaughey, who ran a local newspaper for a time, then sold out. The paper was continued a while, then suspended. Ford Wharton next published the Hubbard Signal for a year or two.
The Hubbard Enterprise was started in the fall of 1877 by F. J. Horton, editor and proprietor. In 1880 W. R. Wadsworth assumed the manage- ment of the paper, provided new type and en- larged the paper. Under his control the circula-
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tion of the Enterprise has trebled. The paper is a four-page seven-column sheet, largely devoted to home affairs, county matters, and manufact- uring notes. It is independent in politics. The enterprise receives a considerable amount of ad- vertising and turns out good job work. The paper is neatly printed and is a very wide-awake local journal.
HUBBARD SCHOOLS.
In 1868 measures were taken to establish a high school in the village which should be free for all the scholars of the township. A school building was built by the township and finished in 1870, since which time the school has been in successful operation. The house and furnishing cost about $ro,000. The superintendents of the high school have been S. Q. March, Alexander Campbell, J. L. Gillmer, D. A. Wilson, and the present teacher, Mr. March, who began his labors in the fall of 1881. The school has been in charge of competent instructors and has ac- complished good work, making it a blessing to the entire community.
By act of the Legislature of 1873 the schools of incorporated villages became union schools. The Hubbard village union schools are in four departments and, apparently, well managed. The free high school building is partially devoted to the use of the village schools.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
In 1803 Rev. Noah Fidler, of the Erie confer- ence, formed a Methodist class in Hubbard, consisting of Revs. Amos Smith and William Veach-both local preachers of excellent repu- tation-and their wives, Mr. Parrish and wife, Mr. Frazee and wife, Amos Snyder, Thomas Snyder, Joshua Snyder, William Burnett, Enos Burnett, and a few others. This class met for a number of years a mile and a half west of the center. Subsequently another class was formed about the same distance east of the center. Both were ultimately merged into the Hubbard village church.
In 1810 Rev. Jacob Gruber held a camp-meet- ing in the eastern part of Hubbard, near what has since been known as the Veach meeting- house, which resulted in adding fifty members to the church.
In 1854 both the east and west churches be- ing nearly or quite abandoned, all the Method-
ists of the township united and built a church at the village at a cost of about $2,200. Rev. S. K. Paden was on the circuit at that time. James A. Johnson and Jacob Marsteller each paid $150 towards building the new church. The west church was sold for a school-house. The Veach church is still standing and occasion- ally nsed.
The church is now in a flourishing condition, with one hundred and fifty members.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
This church was organized about 1804. The exact date is not known, and as the early mem- bers are all dead and the early records all lost little information concerning it is attainable. Rev. James Satterfield was a Presbyterian preacher and devoted fifty years to ministerial labors. During nearly all of this time he was either an occasional or a regular preacher in the church of Hubbard. Other early preachers were: Revs. McDermott, McCready, and Rockwell. Among the early members were: Sylvester Tylee, Samuel Tylee, William Clingham, Thomas McMoran, William Porterfield, John Jewell, Charles Stewart, and Robert Love, with their wives and families. John Jewell, Sylvester Tylee, and William Clingham were the first elders.
The first church edifice in the township-a rude structure of hewn logs-was erected by this denomination. It stood at the south end of the old graveyard north of the village. After several years' use it was replaced by a frame building which was used until the present house in the village was erected in 1857.
The present membership is one hundred. The pastor, Rev. J. H. Wright, was ordained and installed in 1873. Several revivals have oc- curred during his pastorate.
THE BAPTIST CHURCH.
The Baptists had an organization, or at least held meetings very early, and probably were in existence as a church long before the present organization was formed, in 1819. The informa- tion concerning the Baptists is very limited. The names of some of the earlier members will be found in the sketch devoted to the Disciples.
The Baptists were few in numbers at first and for many years struggled against difficulties. But faith and perseverance enabled them to overcome
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all obstacles and to-day they are most prosperous. They have about two hundred and thirty-five members. A fine church edifice was.erected by this denomination in 1870 in the village of Hubbard, at a cost of about $7,000.
This church erected the building which is now the parsonage of the Lutherans and used it as a place for public worship many years.
THE DISCIPLES CHURCH.
In 1819 a Baptist church was organized at the house of Jesse Hall, who for fifteen years had been a member of the Baptist church in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hall, A. K. Cramer, Archi- bald Price. James Price, Walter Clark, and Silas Burnett, with their families, were prominent members. Jesse Hall was an influential man among the Baptists, deacon, counselor, and chief supporter. For some time the church met at his house. When the "Christian Baptists" be- gan their work, and Walter Scott, the evangelist, came most of the members gave him a cordial welcome. His forcible preaching brought all of the Baptist church, eight or ten excepted, into the Disciple fold. The church thus formed had about forty members. Jesse and John Apple- gate were appointed overseers and served with faithfulness for about twenty-five years. Oliver Hart and Warren Burton succeeded them. Orenus Hart and David Waldruff served in the same capacity, followed by James Struble, H. Green, and A. K. Cramer, Jr., acting elders. The church increased in members, strength, and zeal. Applegate soon became a preacher and served in his own church twenty years or more, besides traveling much abroad. Others preachcd here, among then Revs. Scott, Bentley, Hayden, Henry, Hartzell, the two Bosworths, J. T. Smith, Brockett, Perky, and J. W. Lamphear. In later times W. T. Horner, William S. Winfield, Wil- lard Goodrich, Matthias Christy, Harmon Reeves, C. C. Smith, and J. A. Thayer, co-oper- ated in extending the usefulness of this church. In August, 1837, the Trumbull county yearly meeting was held in Hubbard, and was one of the largest assemblies of the kind ever gathered on the Reserve. To this meeting came Camp- bell, Bentley, the Bosworths, Henry, Hartzell, G. W. Lucy, Clapp, Applegate, Rudolph, J. J. Moss, and A. S. Hayden, nearly all of whom preached, exhorted, and held evening meetings.
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