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History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties
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Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro.
1882

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  WILLIAM LAIRD, son of James Laird, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Nov. 20, 1809.  He came to Mesopotamia in 1811.  His father moving there at that time, and bringing his wife and eight children, was the eleventh settler in the township.  His father and mother both died in 1826, and William, who was the youngest son, lived with an older brother until he arrived at the age of eighteen, when he commenced life for himself.  He resided in Mesopotamia until 1874, at which time he went to Dakota Territory, where he pre-empted a claim in the Vermillion valley and became a citizen of that Territory.  In 1832 he was married to Hannah Chambers, of Champion, Trumbull county, a daughter of John Chambers, with whom he lived forty-two years, and buried in Dakota, Oct. 9, 1874. In 1877 he came to Cleveland, Ohio.  In 1880 he was married a second time, to Mrs. Eliza Sartin, of Cleveland, and now resides at No. 34 Herman street, in that city.  Of his children, five in number, Matthew A., the oldest son, married Rachel McDonald, of Toledo, Ohio, and is now a manufacturer and dealer in Kansas City, Missouri; John Chambers, his second son, died in 1855 at the age of eighteen and lies in Mesopotamia; Elizabeth M., his only daughter, married William B. Fauss, of Mesopotamia, and now resides with her husband and three children at Elk Point, Dakota, in the town where her mother is buried; Edwards W. married Ada E. Williams, daughter of Justin Williams—he is a member of the law firm of Marvin, Laird & Cadwell, of Cleveland, and resides at No. 266 Franklin avenue, in that city; Marcellus G., his youngest son, died in Dakota, Aug. 20, 1874.  Maggie Pierce, his wife, and daughter of Deacon Joseph Pierce, of Champion, Ohio, died Sept. 21, 1874, in the same Territory, and son and daughter lie by the side of the mother in Elk Point.  William Pierce, their son, and the name sake and only grandson, died in May, 1875, at the house of his grandfather, in Champion.  Mr. Laird is of Scotch descent, being of the third generation born in this country.  He has been a member of the Presbyterian church for more than fifty years, and was for many years one of its ruling officers.  His early life as well as a part of his later years, has been spent on the frontier and his whole life has been an active one, yet at the age of seventy-three he is hale and hearty, retaining all his faculties.  Though residing in Cleveland, he retains his old home in Mesopotamia, and says he will as long as he lives, and when he says home it means either Cleveland or Mesopotamia, the meaning of the word depending upon which place is spoken of.
Source: History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties - Vol. II - Trumbull Co., Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. 1882
- Page 500
  JOHN H. LEWIS was born at Gwynnedd, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1814.  His parents were Jesse and Susannah Lewis, natives of that place.  He graduated at Gwynnedd high school in 1835, removed to Greenford, then in Columbiana county, Ohio, Sept. 18, 1841; read law with Umbstaetter & Stanton in New Lisbon, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at New Lisbon in the spring of 1843.  He practiced at Greenford until the spring of 1846, when he removed to Canfield on the organization of Mahoning county.  He practiced there about eight years and then removed to Cincinnati, and remained about eight years engaged in practice.  He then returned to Greenford, where he has since resided, engaged in other business, and also practicing law to some extent.
Source: History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties - Vol. I - Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. 1882
- Page 237

 

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