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On October 12. 1899, Mr. Blair was married at Girard to Miss Ada Pearl Pratt, who was born in that borough August 5, 1873, and is a daughter of Norman L. and Laura A. (Bromley) Pratt. The father was born June 13, 1851, and the mother on December 14, 1849. The paternal grandparents were Jolin P. and Emma J. (Ranney) Pratt, the latter coming from New York state at an early day, the former's father being the first settler to commence clearing the old Denman Thompson homestead. Mrs. Norman L. Pratt is the daugh- ter of R. C. and Lucinda A. (Cross) Bromley, born respectively in 1817 and 1819 and married in 1843. The grandparents were Smith and Phoebe (Wescott) Bromley. The grandfather was born in Vermont in 1791 and his wife in 1790, the year of their coming to Springfield being 1840. Mrs. Robert W. Blair was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Pratt and received a very thorough education, being a student at the Girard high school and a graduate of the Grand River
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Institute of Austinburg, Ohio. For two years before her marriage she had charge of the Girard Library. She is an active member of the Lake Shore Grange, an active worker in the Presbyterian church and one of the most cultured and respected women of the community. She is also the mother of two sons-David Wallace Blair, born No- vember 29, 1900, and Robert Bromley Blair, born March 19, 1904.
LAURIN D. BORT. In the annals of Erie county the name of Bort occupies a prominent position, Barnard H. Bort, father of Laurin D., having been among the earlier pioneers of this part of the state, and an active assistant in developing its varied resources. Laurin D. Bort was born July 22, 1826, at Gospel Hill, Harbor Creek, Erie county, and has spent a large part of his life in this vicinity, during his active career having been engaged in agricultural pursuits, al- though he is now practically retired from business of all kinds.
Barnard Bort, who spent his last years in Erie county, was born in Mohawk. Herkimer county, New York. About 1815 he came to Erie county in search of a favorable location, the country round about being then in its primitive wildness, giving but scant promise of its present flourishing condition. Buying land at Harbor Creek, then called Gospel Hill, he cleared and improved a homestead, on which he was engaged in tilling the soil for many years. He subsequently removed to Wesleyville, where he spent the closing years of his long and useful life, passing away in 1890. His first wife, whose maiden name was Polly Dewey, died at the comparatively early age of forty years. He was an active member of the Methodist church, and for many years served as local preacher, and she belonged to the same re- ligious denomination, and was equally as zealous in forwarding its good works. After the death of his first wife he married Ann Rhodes, a most estimable woman. Of the children born of his first union, Laurin D. is the only survivor. By his second marriage he had one child, namely: George, deceased.
Between the ages of ten and sixteen years, Laurin D. Bort at- tended school and worked, being partially self-supporting. He sub- sequently followed boating on the lakes for sixteen years, sailing from Erie. Thrifty and economical, he saved considerable money, and this he then invested in land, buying his present farm in Conneaut town- ship, near Cherry Hill, which has since been his home. On August 22, 1862. Mr. Bort enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Forty- fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Lynch. His regiment being assigned to the division commanded by General Meade, he participated in the battle of Chancellorsville, where he was taken prisoner and conveyed to Andersonville prison, where he was confined for nine months. He was then paroled, and after a furlough of ninety days rejoined his regiment just before the sur- render of Lee, and with his comrades took part in the Grand Review at Washington, D. C. During the war Mr. Bort had many thrill- ing experiences, at one time, when away from his regiment with a single companion, being for two days with nothing to eat. Finally coming to a large plantation, he bought eggs, paying twelve dollars a dozen for them. Returning home Mr. Bort resumed farming, and until his retirement from active pursuits was one of the leading agri- culturists of Cherry Hill, by means of persevering industry and good
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management acquiring a fair share of this world's goods. He was a valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a member of State Police, No. 66.
Mr. Bort married, March 5, 1855, Eliza Jane Doty, who was born in 1837, a daughter of Louis and Jane Doty, early pioneer set- tlers of Erie county. Nine children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Bort, namely: George, engaged in farming in New Hamp- shire, is married, and has six children; Ida, deceased; Nettie, wife of George Huff, of Buffalo, New York, has three children; Corda, wife of J. De Wolf, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has four children ; Luther, of Conneaut, Ohio, is married, and has two children; Pearl, of Con- neaut, Ohio, a railway employe, is married, and has six children ; Frank, living in Erie, married L. Sweet, and they have three children ; William, a resident of Canada, and Arthur, residing in Conneaut, Ohio.
ROBERT S. RANDALL. For years one of the most popular and effi- cient railroad men of northwestern Pennsylvania, a Republican leader and, all in all, one of the best known men in his section of the state, Robert S. Randall, of Conneaut township, has served his constituents and the public in the responsible office of justice of the peace for the past decade. Far more than in metropolitan communities is that position one of responsibility in rural sections, the title of the office carrying with it special significance ; far more than any other member of the community is the justice looked upon as a conservator of the peace and, if he is able and conscientious (like Mr. Randall), to no other personality is attached more honor, not unmixed with a warm personal feeling.
Justice Randall was born on the old homestead in Conneaut township.January 1, 1855, and is a son of J. Smith and Susan (Moore) Randall. His father was always engaged in farming and came of yeoman stock. The family originated (as to its American ancestry) in New York state, Sheffield Randall, grandfather of Robert S., being born in that state in 1795. The great-grandparents were Stephen and Cynthia Randall. An additional item bearing upon the maternal genealogy is that Squire Randall's mother was the daughter of Rev. John L. Moore, who migrated from Guys Mills, Crawford county, and became one of the early local preachers in Conneaut township. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith Randall, besides Robert S., were as follows: John S., James and Mark, all residents of Spring- field, Pennsylvania.
After leaving school at the age of twenty, Robert S. Randall, of this review, engaged in farming on the home place for two years, and then spent five years on a California ranch. Returning to Albion, he obtained a clerical position in a Keepville store and after satisfac- torily filling it for two years secured the appointment of freight and passenger agent and operator for the Pennsylvania Railway at the former place. This useful and progressive period of his life covered fifteen years, after which Mr. Randall retired to his farm and to the performance of various public duties which were thrown upon him. Long an active Republican, he has served as township auditor for ten years and been an honored incumbent of the justiceship for the past decade. He was also secretary of the Order of State Police No. 23
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for a like period and has steadily risen in Odd Fellowship (Lodge No. 376, at Albion), having passed all the chairs of the fraternity.
In 1882 Mr. Randall married Miss Malinda A. Forbes, who was born in 1862 and is a daughter of Merritt and Mary J. (Cornell) Forbes. The first child born of this union, Mark, died in infancy. Thomas M., who was born in 1886, July 22nd, purchased his present place after having been engaged in farming for others some three years. He married Miss Pearl Patterson, who was born August 22, 1884, and is a daughter of W. W. and Abby (Johnson) Patterson. The father, formerly of Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania, is deceased, while his widow is living at Albion. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Randall have one child, Alta, born in 1907. Rita M., the second living child and the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Randall, was born July ^, 1887, and is now the wife of Walter Youngs, with the Bes- semer Company, and the mother of one child, Kenneth. Lytle and King, born respectively in 1893 and 1903, are both living at home, and Lena died in her infancy.
Mr. Randall when but a boy drove canal boats on the old Erie and Pittsburg canal, right in front of his present home, for three years, and many a time he has fallen into the old canal. He was a member of the Albion Silver Orchestra and Band, and he has val- uable musical instruments in his home.
JOHN J. BANCROFT is a general merchant, coal dealer and farmer residing at Wanneta station (West Albion), this county, and is one of the leading citizens of the locality. He is a native of Conneaut township, Erie county, born in 1866, and is a son of Thomas P. and Mary Jane (Fogg) Bancroft. The father was born at Hartford, Con- necticut, July 23, 1832, and at the age of eleven accompanied his parents to Erie county, where he learned the carpenter's trade and at the same time became proficient in everything relating to agriculture. He was a soldier in the Civil war. He died March 10, 1872, his widow living with her son, John J. Mrs. Mary J. Bancroft was born in Springfield township, this county, on the 15th of October, 1831. and is a daughter of Joseph and Sally (DeWolf) Fogg, her father dying in 1881, at eighty-two years of age, and her mother in 1848, only thirty-seven. The paternal grandparents were Thomas L. and The- resa (Lovering) Bancroft, the former, who was born in Windsor, Connecticut, and died in 1866, being a carpenter by trade. The chil- dren born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Bancroft, besides John J., were as follows: Frank, a resident of Ashtabula, Ohio: Fred, a farmer living at Sheffield, Ohio: Louise, who married Dr. Griggs of Ashta- bula : Clarissa J., Mrs. S. Porter, and Alona, Mrs. B. Hawkins, who married a farmer of that place; Edith, who is the wife of A. E. Din- gee, an agriculturist of Conneaut township. Erie county ; Thomas L. Bancroft, born April 16, 1867, died April 11, 1901, leaving two children, Saddie, aged twelve, and Harold, aged nine years.
John J. Bancroft engaged in farming from the time he left school until his marriage in 1884. He then followed railroading for five years and for six years following was in the telephone service in Erie county. These connections and experiences gave him a wide acquaintance which he was able to use to advantage when he located at the station of Wanneta, Pennsylvania, and opened a general store
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and coal yard. He continues profitably in these lines and also carries on a farm. On August 23, 1884, Mr. Bancroft wedded Miss Louie L. Thompson, a daughter of Frank and Angelina S. (Dingee) Thomp- son. Mrs. Bancroft was born April 20, 1867, and both her parents resided in Conneaut township. Her father (a Civil war veteran), died August 13, 1909, at seventy-five years of age ; her mother is Iiv- ing, at sixty-nine. Her maternal grandparents were James and Lu- cetta (LeSuer) Dingee. Mrs. Bancroft has a brother, Lee C. Thomp- son, who is in the laundry business at Albion. She is the mother of one child-Pearl C. Bancroft, born September 14, 1885, who is now the wife of M. M. De Wolf, agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Rosemond, Ohio.
REV. THOMAS A. CANTLIN, pastor of St. Theresa's Roman Catholic church, of Union City, is a universal favorite with his parishioners, and well liked by all who know him. Father Cantlin was born in New York City, September 23, 1873, and reared and educated in his native city. After taking a six years' course at Seton College, South Orange, New Jersey, from which he was graduated in 1893, he entered St. Bon- aventure's Seminary, of Allegany, New York, from which institution he graduated in 1899, and was there ordained. His first pastorate was as assistant at St. Peter's cathedral, of Erie, and from there Father Cantlin came to Union City, which has since been his residence. His parents are William and Mary (Finley) Cantlin.
St. Theresa's parish was established in 1854, and until 1863 was under the supervision of missionaries ; the first pastor, Father Thomas Londgregan, found forty-five families in the parish, and at the time he left, in 1866, there were one hundred and fifty. The next pastor, Rev. T. F. Maloney, served until 1868, and was succeeded by Rev. Philip Maurell, who served about a year. Rev. J. L. Madigan was the next pastor, and served until 1871, being succeeded by Rev. J. M. Dunn, who served until 1892. During Father Dunn's pastorate the parish grew to the size of two hundred families, the large increase being due to the large number of coopers employed to make barrels, at the time of the excitement over the oil wells in the region. The next pastor was Rev. Bernard Lynch, who served until 1894, and was succeeded by Rev. D. A. Hanley, who served until 1897, being succeeded by Rev. J. F. Fielding. Father Fielding was succeeded by the present pastor, Father Cantlin. During the time of the pastorates above enumerated, the church edifice was twice enlarged, making three buildings in one, which was done to accommodate the growing congregation. In 1906 Father Cantlin advocated the building of a new church, which should do credit to the parishioners and to the town at large, and by the united efforts of those interested, and the untiring perseverance of the pastor, the building was dedicated in May, 1907, one year from the time the need was realized and the idea conceived. The new building itself is valued at twenty thousand dollars and the whole property, in- cluding buildings, at twenty-seven thousand dollars.
Father Cantlin is a clergyman of unusual promise, and takes an interest in the welfare of the community. His parish now consists of some seventy families, who appreciate the untiring zeal of their pastor, in looking after their interests and enhancing the value of their prop- erty. as well as caring for their spiritual needs. Father Cantlin en- Vol. II-44
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joys the respect and esteem of all who know him, regardless of their religious beliefs.
HARVEY CLIFFORD DUFF, a young man of thorough education and business ability of Girard, is a native of Brookfield, Ohio, born in 1886. He is a son of Dr. Richard H. Duff, a widely known physician of that place.
Mr. Duff finished his common school course with credit; then completed the high school course at Girard; spent one year at the University of Pennsylvania and also attended the Case School of Ap- plied Sciences at Cleveland, Ohio. Several years following he spent as a carpenter and builder, and in September, 1908, purchased the livery business which he conducts. Mr. Duff is a member of the Zeta Psi college fraternity of Cleveland, and is closely identified with the work of the Presbyterian church. Gail and Ralph, younger brothers, are attending school in Girard.
FRANK ROWLEY, who for many years was engaged in the manu- facture of oars in association with his father and brother, has been re- tired from active business since 1900, and is now enjoying life as a comfortable and useful citizen of Platea. He is an old-time Republi- can, is at present serving on the city school board, and is devoting him- self to his public duties and the care of his private interests.
Mr. Rowley is a native of Wayne, Ohio, where he was born June 10, 1855, and is a son of William and Theresa (Putnam) Rowley. His father was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, and when a young man located at Lockport, now Platea, where he secured employment in the Page Oar Manufacturing Company. When that corporation failed he assumed the crippled business, re-established it and pros- pered in it for twenty-five years, or until his death in 1871, at the age of sixty-two. His wife was a native of North East, Pennsylvania, daughter of a farmer of that place, and died in 1901, aged seventy-six years. Both were members of the Disciples' church. Besides Frank Rowley, their son, Mary, their daughter, is living : she is the wife of Dr. Millard, formerly of Conneaut, Ohio, and now of Topeka, Kansas.
After leaving school, Mr. Rowley gave his entire time for ten years to the assistance of his father in the oar business, his chief labors being connected with the machinery department. After the death of his father he operated the plant in partnership with his brother, but sold his interest in 1900 and retired from the business. His wife, for- merly Miss Elizabeth Jewell, was born in February, 1850, and is a daughter of the late Elias Jewell, a pioneer blacksmith of Erie county, and his wife, Margaret (Reinhart) Jewell, the mother being a native of Germany. The living offspring of Mr. and Mrs. Rowley are Milton, bookkeeper at the Erie City Iron Works, who married Miss Margaret Harper and has two children; and Jennie, who lives at home.
EUREKA TEMPERED COPPER WORKS. The principal industrial plant in North East, Erie county, Pennsylvania, was incorporated December 28, 1896, with Charles Schimmelfeng and O. C. Hirtzel, both of Warren. as president and treasurer, respectively, purchasing the property of the Eureka Tempered Copper Company which was chartered in 1888. Sub- sequently H. E. Norris, also of Warren, became affiliated with the con- cern as vice-president.
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The present plant consists of substantially constructed brick build- ings, with full equipment of modern machinery for the manufacture of copper and composition castings, copper and steel drop forgings, and other electric traction supplies.
The industry is in capable hands, and operated under conservative management. It employs one hundred or more workmen at good wages, and consumes upwards of one million pounds of copper per annum.
The plant has excellent shipping facilities, being located on two trunk lines midway between New York and Chicago. This central lo- cation between the east and west, the large iron and steel industries to the south, and Canadian ports to the north, gives it command over a large territory, in which great quantities of its product is used, making it easily one of the most prominent manufacturing concerns in North- western Pennsylvania.
CHARLES SCHIMMELFENG stands at the head of one of the largest industrial institutions of northern Pennsylvania, the Eureka Tempered Copper Works, located in the town of North East. A corporation known as the Eureka Tempered Copper Company was formed in 1888, and on the 13th of November, 1896, their property was purchased by Mr. Schimmelfeng and the Eureka Tempered Copper Works, a corporation was formed. Their charter was granted on the 28th of December, 1896, and the stock company was organized with the following officers: Charles Schimmelfeng, the president; H. E. Norris, the vice-president and sec- retary ; and O. C. Hirtzel, the treasurer. Mr. Norris and Mr. Hirtzel are the local managers. The plant covers one and three-fourths acres of ground, and its different departments are its machine shop, controlling department, drop forge department, foundry, shipping room and offices. This large plant furnishes employment to about one hundred workmen, and they manufacture electrical supplies and do repair work principally for electric railroads. Their principal products are electric commutators and segments, trolley wheels, controllers parts, journal bearings, rolled goods, brushes, copper and brass castings of all kinds, copper and steel forgings and wire stretchers. This large manufactory has gained a pre- eminent position in the industrial circles of Pennsylvania.
Its president, Charles Schimmelfeng, was born in Hamden, Delaware county, New York, April 2, 1849, a son of Joseph and Jane A. (Slack) Schimmelfeng, natives respectively of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, and of Middletown, New York. Coming to the United States and to New York in about the year of 1830, Joseph Schimmelfeng, the father, was a tanner in that state and in Pennsylvania until his death in 1877. His wife survived him until 1882. Their children are: Henry, of Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, Charles, of Warren, and Edward L., whose home is in Clarendon, this state.
The second son Charles, remained with his parents and worked in his father's tannery until thirty-two years of age, and from that time until abandoning the business in 1896 he was the superintendent and owner of a tannery at Stoneham, Pennsylvania. He had, however, practically disposed of that business in 1894, and on the 13th of Novem- ber, 1896, bought the property of the Eureka Tempered Copper Company. His home is in Warren. He married, on June 29, 1881, Louisa M. Hirt- zel, also from Warren, a daughter of Phillip and Barbara (Eichler) Hirtzel, from Alsace, France. The children of this union are: Ed- ward H., who died in 1890, at the age of eight years; Jennie L., a
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graduate of the University of Chicago; Marian F., a graduate of Vassar College; and Charles P., who died at the age of three years, in 1894.
HARRY E. NORRIS, the vice-president and secretary of the Eureka Tempered Copper Works, was born at Glens Falls, New York, April 3. 1857, a son of Josiah H. and Harriet L. (Buswell) Norris, born respec- tively in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Vermont. They were married in New York, where Josiah H. Norris was a manufacturer of wagons, but moving to Tiona, Pennsylvania, he began the manufacture of oil well supplies, and he died on the 28th of November, 1907. Harry E. Norris, the son, married on November 26, 1879, Belle Barker, born in Nunda, New York, and after his marriage he continued in the oil well supply business with his father for a few years. From the close of his connection with that industry until 1900 lie was engaged in the tanning business, and in that year became the vice-president of the Eureka Tempered Copper Works. During three years he served as the post- master of North Clarendon, Pennsylvania. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Norris are: Edwin R., of St. Louis, Missouri; Earl B., professor of mechanical engineering in the University of Wisconsin at Madison; Harry B., a student in the Pennsylvania State College; and Donald G. and Walter L., at home with their parents.
ORRIS C. HIRTZEL, one of the best known business men of North East, Pennsylvania, was born in Warren, May 29, 1869, a son of Philip and Barbara (Eichler) Hirtzel of Alsace, France, and a grandson of Christian Hirtzel, a cabinet maker who came to Pennsylvania about the year 1830 and settled at Warren. Christian Hirtzel was born in Alsace, France, in 1778, and died in Warren, Pennsylvania in 1841. He served in Napoleon Bonaparte's army from which he was discharged in 1807. Philip Hirtzel and Barbara Eichler were married in Warren. He was a farmer and lumberman there for many years, dying in that city in 1902. He was born in 1820. His wife was born in 1829 and died in 1905.
Orris C. Hirtzel attended the public and high school of Warren, and a business college in Pittsburg. When a lad of sixteen he became a clerk in a hardware store in Warren and was thus engaged for five years. Later he was in the employ of other concerns there until coming to North East in 1896 to accept the position of treasurer of the Eureka Tempered Copper Works. He has continued in that office to the present time. He was one of the originators in founding The National Bank of North East, in June, 1908, and was elected its first vice-president.
Mr. Hirtzel was married in September, 1902, to Miss Bess H. Dewey, who was born in North East, a daughter of Deniston D. and Sarah (Coon) Dewey. The one son of this union is Philip Deniston, born September 18, 1904. Mr. Hirtzel is a Democrat, a Mason, and a member of the English Lutheran church.
WILLIAM M. WALDO, one of the best known painters in Conneaut township, is the representative of a family (both on his father's and his mother's side) which embraced some of the first and most promi- nent settlers at Albion and in the vicinity. His paternal grandfather, Ransom Waldo, was a native of New York state, and married Eliza- beth Van Reiper. In 1838 they loaded two other members of the fam- ily, with all their worldly goods, into a buggy and started for Erie county from Auburn, New York. Ransom Waldo was a cabinet
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maker, followed his trade with pride and profit for many years at the town called Jasonville (now Albion), and died October 26, 1889, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife had already left all worldly duties, burdens and pleasures behind, passing to the unknown future in 1870, at the age of sixty-three. Eugene Waldo, the father of Wil- liam M., was born in Albion, October 1, 1841, and after he had com- pleted his education devoted himself to his father's trade, cabinet mak- ing, the scene of his labors of forty years being mainly Albion and Wellsburg. Later, he removed to Erie, this county, and still later re- turned to Albion, following his old lines in which his reputation is un- excelled. In 1900 the elder Mr. Waldo purchased the farm which he now occupies, two miles east of Cranesville, having added dairying to the general operations of his place. In 1862 Eugene Waldo married Miss Lucy Aldermon, born in Girard, this county, on the 7th of Jan- uary, 1838, daughter of Michael and Lavinia (Lewis) Aldermon. The former was a farmer and a carpenter, who died January 26, 1895, at the age of eighty-six, and his wife passed away December 11, 1893, at the same age. The grandparents were William and Polly Aldermon, who came from New York at a very early day and settled at Keepville, where their son Michael (father of Mrs. Eugene Waldo) kept the pioneer store of the place, besides farming and plying his trade of carpentry. Grandfather Elijah Lewis was also one of the oldest set- tlers of Conneaut township, his land possessions of four hundred acres lying between Keepville and Albion. He was a captain in the war of 1812, and died in 1852 at the age of eighty-eight, while his wife Lucy passed away in 1850, aged eighty-one. Besides the father of William M., there is one son of their family still alive, La Gee Waldo, a painter of Mantua.
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