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Mr. Tayler is probably the best-informed insurance and real estate man in Mahoning County, his close attention having been given to this branch of business for many years. He has the handling of a large amount of valuable property, both in city and country, and makes investments for ontside parties. A large amount of capital has been placed in this city through his representations. His commod- ios offices are located at No. 30 West Fed- eral street, Youngstown.
June 14. 1900, Mr. Tayler was married to Anna C. Canfield. who is a daughter of James Canfield, and they have one child. Elizabeth Rachel. Mr. and Mrs. Tayler enjoy a beautiful home at No. 1356 Emma street, Youngstown. They are members of the P'res- byteriam Clmurch.
Politically Mr. Tayler has been a lifelong Republican and takes a very active part in politics. He has been very active in military affairs, having belonged to the National Rifles of Washington, D. C.
Mr. Tayler is the author of the ballot vot- ing machine law, which he introduced in the Ohio house of representatives in 1898.
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ILLIAM TOD. Among the promi- nent citizens of Youngstown, Ohio, none stoud higher in public esteem than did the late William Tod, who not only reflected the virtues of an eminent parentage, but in his own per- sonality displayed the noble qualities which Americans reverence in their public men. Wil- liam Tod was born at Warren, Ohio, July 30, 1843, and was the youngest son of David and Maria (Smith) Tod and a grandson of George and Sally ( Isaacs) Tod.
The Tod family was already one of prom- inence in Connecticut as early as 1773, the date of the birth of Judge George Tod, the grandfather of the late William Tod. Judge Tod became an eminent jurist in the Western Reserve, and the father of Governor David Todl, one of the most notable in a long line of distinguished chief executives of Ohio.
David Tod, father of the late William Tod, was born at Youngstown, Ohio, Feb- ruary 21, 1805. In 1827 he was admitted to the bar at Warren, Olio, and there engaged in the practice of his profession until 1848, when he was appointed by President Polk. United States minister to Brazil, He remained in South America for five years, returning to his native land covered with diplomatic hon- ors, and in 1861 was elected governor of Ohio. The larger part of his life was given to emin- ent services to his state and country at large. and when he passed away in 1868, at his qniet home, Brier Hill farm, he was a man of na- tional fame.
On July 24, 1832, David Tod was united in marriage with Maria Smith, and the chil- dren born to them were: Charlotte, who died in Mississippi, in 1868, and who was the wife of General Kautz, of the United States army ; Jolin, formerly a prominent resident of Cleve- land, but now deceased: Heury, who died February 20, 1905, and a sketch of whom will be found in this volume, who was promi- nent in the manufacturing world and was vice- president of the Brier Ilill Iron & Coal Com- pany ; George, a sketch of whom will be found in this work, who is president of the Brier Hill Iron & Coal Company; William, who is
the subject of the present sketch; Grace, who is the wife of Hon. George F. Arrel, of the well-known law firm of Arrel, Wilson, Roland & Harrington, a sketch of whom will be found in this work ; and Sallie, a resident of Youngs- town.
William Tod was mainly educated at Co- lumbus, and after completing a collegiate course, entered the foundry business. This I was the opening of an opportunity for the ac- cumulation of a large fortune, and led to his becoming so closely identified later with the iron and steel industries of the Mahoning Val- ley. He was one of the original partners of the company which organized and built the foun- dry which stood on the present site of the Youngstown Steel Casting Works, and later he became a partner, with John Stamhangh, in the Hamilton foundry. In 1900, when that business was incorporated, he withdrew from partnreship. but continued to be interested in the building of engines and in related in- dustries, was a director in the Brier Hill Iron & Coal Company and was president of the William Tod Company. His death occurred April 27. 1905.
In 1869 Mr. Tod was married to Frances Barnhisel. Mrs. Tod has two sons, David and Frederick. Mrs. Tod and son Frdler- ick reside at the spacions old family nrinsion at No. 238 Lincoln avemie, Youngstown. David married Anna Stambangh and they re- side at their country home in Trumbull county.
Although William Tod was first and fore- most a business man, he found other avenues of enjoyment and usefulness, for he was a lover of books, fond of congenial social com- panionship and found pleasure in occasional travel. He was a valned member of the order of Elks and was in hearty accord with the ob- jects of the Young Men's Club, with which he was long identified. To public affairs he gave the attention which an intelligent, public- spirited citizen deems his duty, and was a staunch Republican. His friends were legion and they knew him as a loyal, generous and considerate companion. A portrait of Mr. Til may be found on a neighboring page of this volume.
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C HE KIRTLAND FAMILY, From that authentic source, Savage's Gen- ealogy of New England. it is found that Philip Kirtland was first a shoe- maker at lynn, where, in 1638, he had ten acres of land allotted him by the town. Ihis name was derived from the German Cort- landt or Lackland. He was born in Sherring- ton, itt Buckinghamshire, England. His two sous were Philip, born in 1614 and Nathaniel born in 1616, the latter of whom at the age of 19 years embarked on board the Hopewell of London, Captain Burdock, master, April 1. 1635. It appears that he went to Long Island, but later returned to Lynn, where evidently he had first landed. He died in 1686. At Lym, by his wife Parnell, he had children : Ama, Martha, John, Hannah, Mary and Eliz- abeth.
John Kirtland, or Kertland, commonly called Kirkland, John of Saybrook, Connecti- cut, was married in 1679 at Saybrook to Lydia Pratt, daughter of Lieutenant William Pratt, born in 1659. and they had the following chil- dren : John, born January 11, 1681 ; Priscilla, born February 1, 1682, married Jones ; Lydia, born October 11, 1685, married Guffin ; Eliza- beth, born in 1685, married Conklin; Nathan- iel, born in 1600, married Shipman; Philip, born in 1693: Martha, born in 1695, married Wills: Samuel. born in 1701 ; Parnell, born in 1704. married Tully. John Kirtland died January 20, 1716, heir to Wethall, except £500. The ninth of these children, Daniel, was the first minister to the Third Church at Norwich and had ten children. Samuel, the eighth child, was the celebrated missionary to the Six Nations. He was father of the still more distinguished John Thornton Kirtland, who became president of Harvard College.
"Appointed John Kirtland to be Captain of Troop of Horse in Seventh Regiment of this Colony. May. 1749."
On page 274 of Colonial Records is found the statement that Philip Kirtland was ap- pointed captain of the Eighth regiment of this colony, and on page 552, that Constant Kirt- land, of Wallingford, was made conservator of the person and establishment of L. Brock. ett, this member of the family evidently be- ing a man of prominence in the colony.
John Kirtland, eldest son of John and Lydia (Pratt) Kirtland, married ( first ) Tem- perance Buckingham. Hle had twelve chil- dren as follows: Hester, born March 10, 1704. married Chapman; John, born July 5, 1708, died in March, 1787; Temperance, born March 10. 1710, married Southwarts. By his second wife, I.ydia Belden or Bekling (mar- ried March 29. 1716; died 1749), he had: Elias, born July 2, 1718; Elisha, born August 17. 1719, was killed at Fort Edward in March, 1756; Lydia, born October 28, 1721, died in Nova Scotia, June 30, 1770; Parnell, born January 28, 1724; Constant (1), born Janu- ary 24. 1726, died young: Constant (2), bom December 24. 1729: Ezra, born October it, 1730; Elizabeth, born October 13, 1732, and Dorothy, born September 21, 1735.
Constant Kirtland, ninth son of John Kirt- land, married Rachel Brockett. of Northford or Northfield, Connecticut, May 23. 1732- Constant Kirtland died February 3. 1792, and his wife died February 17, 1812. They had len children : Isaac, born March 9. 1754- married Sarah Ives; Turhand, born 1755. married (first) Mary Beech, ( second) Polly Poster: Mary, born December 23. 1757. mar- ried Sammel Cook: John, born December 20, 1759, married ( first) April 10. 1788, Lucy A. That the early members of this family were prominent in the military affairs of their communities may be proved by consulting the Colonial Records, where is found in 1736 the following Statement : Burbank, and ( second) June 7, 1829. Mary Tyler Beecham: Billius, born June 29, 1762. married Sarah Potter: Rachel, born July 9. 1764. married Colonel Edward Barker; Jared, born August 8, 1766, married Lois Yale; "This assembly do establish and confirm Philip Kirtland Lieutenant of North Company George, born July 2, 1769. died at Walling- ford, Connecticut. April 20. 1793: Lydia. of Saybrook." In the same vohme, on page | born February 27. 1772, married Jonathan 426. he found the following.
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land, Ohio, August 16, 1850; and Sarah, born March 19, 1775, died at Northfieldl, Connecti- cut. September 28, 1842, married Captain William Douglass.
Turhand Kirtland, second son of Constant Kirtland, was married (first) January 2, 1780, to Mary Beech, daughter of Moses Beech, and she died at Wallingford, Connecticut. No- vember 24, 1792, Turhand Kirtland was mar- ried (second) January 19, 1793, to Polly Pot- ter, born at New Haven, Connecticut, Febru- ary 10, 1772, and died at Poland, Ohio, March 21, 1850. She was a daughter of Dr. Jared and Sarah Potter. The children born to this marriage were the following: Jared Potter, born at Wallingford, Connecticut, November 16, 1793, died at Cleveland, Ohio, December 10, 1877; Henry Turhaud, born November 16, 1795, at Wallingford, Connecticut, died February 29, 1874, at Polaud, Ohio; Mary Beech, born September 12, 1798, married Richard Hall of Poland, died at Poland, No- vember 11, 1825; Nancy, born January 1, 1801, married Elkanah Morse; Billius, born August 29, 1807, married Ruthanna Frame, died August 21, 1891; George, boru November 5, 1809, married Helen Cook, of Wallingford, Connecticut; and Charles died in infancy.
In the Potter genealogy mainly may be found the following facts in regard to Jared Potter Kirtland: Jared Potter Kirtland, M. D., LL. D., was born at Wallingford, Con- necticut, November 10, 1793, and died at East Rockport, Ohio, December 19, 1877. His literary education was acquired in Chesh- ire and Wallingford Academies. He studied medicine with Dr. Eli Ives and others of New Haven, and in 1812 entered the medical col- lege at Yale, being the first student to matric- ulate at that institution. In 1814 he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. Until 1817 he practiced medi- cine in Wallingford, Connecticut. In the lat- ter part of that year he removed to the town of Durham, Connecticut, where he practiced medicine until 1823. He then removed to Poland. In 1837 he removed to a farin five miles west of the city of Cleveland, on the lake
shore. Here he made extensive studies in natural history, examining and describing all the fishes of the Ohio lakes and rivers, and collecting varieties of fresh water shells. He examined and classified the native wild plants, and also examined and studied the geological formation of the state. He also gathered specimens of birds, and investigated the habits of the honey bee, during all of which time he superintended liis large farm. His discoveries in conchology and ichtology attracted unusual attention. In 1848 he was given charge of the natural history department of the survey of the state of Ohio, and his works ou the subject were published in Boston and else- where. In 1827 he was elected to the Ohio legislature and was subsequently re-elected for several terms. He was elected professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Medical College of Ohio; was offered and accepted the same position in Willoughby Medical School and afterward held the same position in the Western Reserve College at Cleveland, which he resigned in 1864. He was at one time president of the Ohio State Medical Society.
Of a generous, unselfish nature, he freely distributed his new varieties of fruits and flowers among his friends. His fund of anec- dote and information made him a most charm- ing conversationalist, and so interesting were his remarks that even the children eagerly listened to him. He took great pleasure in extensive correspondence with people of cul- ture and kindred tastes.
Dr. Kirtland was first married, May 22, 1815, to Caroline Atwater, who died at Dur- ham, Connecticut, September 18, 1823. He married (second) in 1824, Hannah Toucy, who died December 24, 1857. Of the first marriage there were three children, as fol- lows: Mary Elizabeth, born August 4. 1816, died in Washington, D. C.,; Jared Potter, born in September, 1818, died August 15, 1829: Caroline, born in 1821, died September 22, 1822.
Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Jared P. and Caroline Kirtland, married, July 24. 1832, Charles Pease, son of Judge Calvin and Laura
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(Grant) Pease of Warren, Ohio. They had (1) Jared P. Kirtland, born July 18, 1833, died December 17, 1836; (2) Charles, born August 17, 1835; married Hester Hotchkiss, September -, 1859; died January 9, 1875; had two sons. (3) Caroline Atwater, born at Poland, Ohio. September 23, 1838; married October 5, 1859, William L. Cutler, son of Orlando and Sarah H. Cutler. (4) Fred- erick K., born at Warren, Ohio, March 17, 1843; died in infancy.
Caroline Atwater Pease, daughter of Charles and Mary (Kirtland) Pease, was born at Poland, September 23, 1838; married William L. Cutler. They had (1) Kirtland Kelsey Cutler, now a prominent architect at Spokane Falls and Seattle, who married, first, Miss Corbin (one son by this marriage), late Mrs. Phillips. (2) Caddie, who is deceased. (3) Lulu, who married a Mr. Hoyt, of Cleve- land. They have one son now in Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut.
Mary Beech Kirtland, the third child of Turhand and Polly Kirtland, was born Sep- tember 12, 1798, married Richard Hall, and died November 11, 1825. They had children: Mary Potter, Turhand and Lucy. Mary Pot- ter, born May 2, 1816, married Hon. Edward Wade and still survives at the time of writ- ing, 1907.
Turhand Kirtland Hall, born January 25. 1818, married Elizabeth Stewart, at Poland, Ohio. He was a merchant at that place for many years, when he removed to Warren and engaged in banking. They had the following children: Fannie Corinna, born December 22, 1856; Richard Turhand, born September 2, 1858, deceased ; Mary Kirt- land, born March 5, 1860; Charles Stewart, born November 26, 1861; Lucy Boardman. born January 18, 1864, deceased; Elizabeth Matilda, born February 22, 1866, deceased; and Nellie, or Cornelia Wade, born in Febru- ary, 1869.
Lucy Hall, daughter of Richard and Mary (Beech) Hall, was born November 19. 1819. and died in 1906. She married Judge William Boardman, son of Elijah Boardman, of New Haven, Connecticut. Ile died, leaving a large property in her care, which she used for the
good of many and with such wisdom and judgment as to meet with the commendations of those ably prepared to judge of such mat- ters. Among her many objects of public benevolence was the building of the Boardman Memorial School at New Haven, a manual training school, and also a scientific building for Yale College as a memorial to her uncle, Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland.
Nancy Kirtland, fourth child of Turhand and Polly (Potter) Kirtland, was born Jan- uary 1, 1801, and married Elkanah Morse, and they had three children: Lois, Henry and Edwin. Lois Morse was born August 6, 1819, and was married to Isaac K. Mansfield, February 1, 1835, and they had two children : Ira Franklin, born June 27, 1842, at Poland, Ohio, and Mary Kirtland Mansfield, born November 18, 1845, also at Poland. Ira F. Mansfield married Lucy E. Mygatt, Decem- ber 11, 1872, and they had : Kirtland M., born January 29, 1874: Mary L., born January 28, 1877; Henry B., born April 3. 1886, married in Beaver, about 1905. Mary Kirtland Mans- field became the wife of Col. Samuel Moody, and they have had children : Lucy Boardman, born June 16, 1877, and Olive Blakelee, born in October, 1881. Colonel Samuel Moody is general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad system west of Pittsburg.
Hon. I. Franklin Mansfield, for many years has represented Beaver County at Har- risburg, Pennsylvania. He is president of the board of trustees of Beaver College, is promi- nent in the Beaver Presbyterian Church and is largely interested in agriculture and fruit growing. His love of nature and its buried treasures has made him known among col- lectors of fossils which abound in various parts of his large possessions. , He is also connected officially with business firms and financial in- stitutions of Beaver County.
Henry Kirtland Morse, ellest son of El- kanah and Nancy ( Kirtland) Morse, was born May 4. 1822, and married (first) Mary L. Wick, widow of Heury Kirtland Wick, and (second) Eliza Blakelee. November 2. 1881. who for many years was a teacher in Poland U'nion Seminary.
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Nancy ( Kirtland) Morse, was born May 18, 1824, and died in June, 1853. He married Eliza Cook, who still survives him. She sub- sequently married Judge Charles E. Glidden, and since his death has resided in New Hamp- shire, with her son, Charles Erastus Glidden.
Billius Kirtland, fifth child of Turhand and Polly ( Potter)' Kirtland, was born Au- gust 29, 1807, at Poland, Ohio, and died Au- gust 21, 1901. On April 16, 1829, he married Ruthanna Lindley Frame, born at New Gar- den, Chester County, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1809, a daughter of William and Rebecca (Marsh) Frame. They had the following children : Caroline, born February 22, 1831, died June 27, 1836; Rebecca, born January 4, 1835, died June 15, 1842; Mary Potter, born February 5, 1837, died June 17, 1842; Turhand Kirtland, born March 9, 1839, died July 8, 1849; Emma Caroline, born August 16, 1841; Alfred Potter, born May 24, 1844; Edgar, born January 15, 1847, died May 30. 1849; Lucy Hall, born April 22, 1849; and Kate Frame, born November 10, 1851, died November 20, 1851.
Emma Caroline Kirtland, the fifth member of the above family, married Samuel Hine, who was a son of Homer and Mary S. Hinc.
Alfred Potter Kirtland married Lucy Shields, daughter of Alexander and Caroline (Graff ) Shields, October 12, 1876. She was born August 7, 1852, and died Easter day, April 13, 1887, while en route to her home in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, from Winter Park, Florida. They had two children : Ruth Caroline, born January 20, 1880, who attend- ed Miss Baldwin's school at Bryn Mawr, and later graduated at the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics: and John Shields, born Jan- uary 3, 1886.
Alfred Potter Kirtland, after preparing at Poland Union Seminary. entered Troy Poly- technic Institute and graduated in June, 1871. After some experience in surveying, he be- came resident engineer at Blairsville. Penn- sylvania, on the West Pennsylvania Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. later became superintendent, and after seventeen years of railroad life, became interested in stone quar-
ries and coal lands, residing at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Lucy Hall Kirtland, daughter of Billius and Ruthanna F. Kirtland, married Dallas V. Mays, October 4, 1871. At that time he was a clergyman stationed at Paola, Kansas, and later filled pastorates at Fairview, North Ben- ton, Ohio; Corry, North Sewickly, Springdale and Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, and during his last pastorate at Dell Rapids, South Dakota, his health failed. He died October 11, 1903. His children were: Ruth Emma, born April 15, 1873; Kate Frame, born October 2, 1875, married October 19, 1891, James Harsch; Lucy Eloise, born January 25, 1880, died May 4. 1800; Charles Frederick Riggs, born Sep- tember 15, 1882, died October 19, 1891, and Paul Kirtland, born October 4, 1887.
Ruth Emma Mays was married June 10, 1896, to Dr. J. Hartley Anderson, a son of Edwin S. and (Hartley) Ander- son, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, born April 15, 1868. Dr. Anderson confines himself en- tirely to surgery, and is a member of the staff of the West Pennsylvania Hospital at l'itts- burg, and is also a lecturer in the Carnegie Institute.
Billius Kirtland, son of Turhand and Polly Potter Kirtland, was sent by his father to Warren, Ohio, to a private tutor, later to Canonsburgh, and subsequently to Yale Col- lege. He was a close student and had such a retentive memory that later he was able to assist his children greatly in mathematics, Latin and Greek. His cheerful, happy Chris- tian life was a constant benediction to all with whom he associated. Chemistry was his fav- orite study, and in order to pursue it he built a laboratory on his grounds, in which he spent much time; he also carried on experiments in horticulture. The study of astronomy was to him of lifelong interest. He accumulated great knowledge, but cared little for money and cheerfully responded to calls for contribu- tions to philanthropic enterprises.
William Frame, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. E. K. Hine, was born June 29, 1776. and died February 11, 1842. He married Rebecca Marsh, February 20, 1802, born Oc-
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tober 22, 1775. died July 20, 1842. William Frame came to Struthers, Ohio, early in 1800, where he erected a mill for Mr. Clendennin, which he first operated; later he operated a mill near Bloomfield. Before coming to Ohio he had resided in both Pennsylvania and Maryland, and was conducting a hotel in Baltimore, where he entertained General La- fayette when the latter revisited America.
George Marsh, a brother-in-law, was a man who had great skill in machinery. and built a spinning jenny at Poland, where he lived at the time of his death.
Thomas Frame, son of William and Re- becca (Marsh) Frame, was born at Poland, Ohio, January 5, 18t1. and married Mary Brackin, of Kinsman, Ohio, They had three children : James B., Rebecca and Clara. Rebecca Frame married Fred Swisher, and they have three children : Clyde, who has one child and resides in Chicago, and Walter .\ .. and Mary, both of whom live at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Thomas Frame was a justice of the peace in Poland township, and from his books it would appear that his time was much broken in upon by the duties of this office. In asso- ciation with Billius Kirtland he put fine in- provements on the farm, including the plant- ing of the best variety of fruit trees and vines. They established a nursery which contained almost all the varieties of fruit and ornamental trees to be found in this section. Thomas Frame was active in all public matters, no one doing more than he to aronse proper interest in the Civil War. His only son was wounded in the service, this wound still almost dis- abling one arm. Through his influence the first fine brick public school house was erected in this district.
RANK BARBER, president of the board of trustees of Goshen town- L ship. is proprietor of Fruit Hill Farm, which is situated in section 22. and is one of the representative farmers, stock raisers and fruit growers of this part of Mahoning County. He was born
on the farm where he now lives in Goshen township, Mahoning County, Ohio, September 26, 1854, and is a son of John and Nancy (Venable ) Barber.
The parents of Mr. Barber were natives of Goshen township, but the paternal grand- father, Jacob Barber, was born in New Jersey and accompanied his parents at a very early day, to Salem, Ohio, settling in that vicinity about 1810. Later, Jacob Barber came to Ma- honing County and secured 160 acres of Con- ernment land, on which he erected a log cabin in the forest, where he engaged in clearing and developing his property until within a few years of his death, when he moved to near Salem. His son, John Barber, spent the greater part of his life on this same farm, but he also moved to near Salem, in his later years, where he died in 1802.
Frank Barber was reared on the farm in Goshen township and attended the district schools, after which he learned the carpenter trade and worked at the same for a number of years. For eight years he was a member of the Youngstown Paving Brick Company, an incorporated organization, and during this time he was local manager of the plant, at Beloit, Ohio, residing at that point for that length of time. Mr. Barber owns a good farm of eighty-two acres and devotes twenty-five of these to apple orchards, giving special at- tention to growing the Baldwin variety, and since 1893 he has been engaged in storing and shipping apples, at Salem. His land seems particularly well adapted to the growing of fruit and his apple crop is abmidant, close study and care having made Mr. Barber well acquainted with the treatment necessary to ensure success in this industry. Blossoming time on Fruit Hill Farm is only equalled in beauty by fruitage time in the autumn. He owns also a farm of seventy acres situated in Berlin township, and is justly considered one of the substantial men of this section.
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