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Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio

embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning
Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with a Biography of
each, together with Portraits and Biographies of Joshua R. Giddings, Benjamin F. Wale,
and a large number of the Early Settlers and Representative
Families of to-day.
Published: Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
1893

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  L. L. CAMPBELL, secretary and treasurer of the Youngstown Ice Company, was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1840, a son of John and Catherine (Fullerton) Campbell, also natives of Ohio, born in Trumbull and Mahoning counties respectively.  John Campbell was a farmer by occupation, and was a conspicuous figure in the early political history of this country  He died in Colorado in 1884, having gone there in hope of regaining his health; his wife died in 1848.  L. L. Campbell is the oldest of the family of children, three of whom are living: James A. is a well-known business man of this county, and Calvin M. resides in Denver, Colorado.  Our subject received his early education in the common schools of Mahoning and Trumbull counties, Ohio, and later was a student of Hiram College, at which time he was a pupil of both General and Mrs. Garfield; he returned to Hiram College as a student in 1886, and received the degree of A. M. from this institution in 1887.  At the age of seventeen years he began teaching in the district schools, and advanced in the profession until he became known throughout the State as one of the most scholarly and thorough educators in the West.  Jan. 1, 1893, he resigned his position at Hubbard to accept the office of secretary and treasurer of the Youngstown Ice Company.
     Mr. Campbell has a military record that is well worthy of mention in this connection:  He enlisted in 1863, in Company A, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of service in February, 1864; the following March he re-enlisted in the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and served until October, 1865, in the Army of the Potomac.  He participated in nearly forty noted engagements, and was in the grand review; he was never wounded nor taken prisoner, though his horse was shot under him in one engagement, and in others his watch, canteen and saddle-bags were badly riddled.  He came home with a First Lieutenant's commission.
     He had been a member of the county Board of School Examiners from 1873 to 1881, and was re-appointed in 1892.  He is a member of the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association, and has belonged to that body for more than twenty years, a portion of the time serving as an officer.
     Mr. Campbell was married in 1868 to Miss Mary J. Pierce, a daughter of J. L. Pierce, of Mineral Ridge, Ohio.  Mrs. Campbell has also attained prominence among the educators of the State, and was, since her marriage, a teacher in, as well as lady principal of, the Northeastern Ohio Normal College at Canfield, Ohio, for three years; for five years she was the assistant of her husband in the high school of Hubbard, Ohio, and won an enviable reputation in the profession.  Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are the parents of two children, Josephine and Clair, the latter still living, the former having died at the age of twelve, in 1881.  They are members of the Disciples' Church.  Mr. Campbell is frequently called upon the fill the pulpit of churches in the neighborhood, a duty he cheerfully performs.  He affiliates with the Republican party, and is often a delegate to the various conventions of that body.  As educator, citizen and friend he is held in the highest esteem.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 615
  SOLOMON R. CHRYST, who has been prominently identified with Trumbull for many years, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, Dec. 26, 1833.  He is eminently a self-made man, and it is appropriate that more than a passing notice be accorded him in this volume.
     Jacob and Lydia (Regal) Chryst, the parents of Solomon R. were born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and when young came to Trumbull county, Ohio, and settled on a tract of wild land, where they built a cabin and where they lived until the subject of our sketch was three years old.  They then moved to the township where Mr. Chryst is now located, bought a partly improved farm and built another log cabin, and here Jacob Chryst lived for twenty-seven years.  Then, with the assistance of his son Solomon, he bought a farm near Lordstown Center, and  on it spent the closing years of his life.  He was eighty years old at the time of his death.  For many years he was an active church worker, and his life was one worthy of emulation.  The mother of our subject died when he was five years old.  He was the fourth-born in her family of five children, and is one of the three who are still living.  Nearly all the Chrysts have been farmers.
     Solomon R. Chryst remained at home until he was sixteen years old, going to school in winter and working on the farm in summer.  When he was sixteen he was examined by Governor Cox and General Leggett and received a first-grade certificate as teacher.  At the age of seventeen he entered Hiram College, where he received instructions under the late lamented Garfield.  He taught school in Mahoning county for three winters.  During this time his summers were spent in driving cattle to Allegheny.
     Mr. Chryst was married May 24, 1855, to Miss Elizabeth Johnson, a native of New York State, who died some years after her marriage, leaving three children: Charles C., Frank S. and Blanche E.  Miss Blanche, an accomplished and amiable young lady, died at the age of nineteen years.  Mr. Chryst’s second marriage occurred in December, 1886, the lady he wedded being Emma J. Gifford, a native of Somersetshire, England.  They have two children: May E. and Solomon R., Jr.
     After his first marriage Mr. Chryst settled in Weathersfield on fifty acres of land, for which he paid $1,100. There he lived until 1857, when he came to Lordstown township and bought a village home.   Following his location here he was for some time engaged in the stock business. Subsequently he sold his first fifty acres and bought two farms in this township, on to one of which he moved.  Not long afterward he purchased another farm, and then traded his village home for fifty acres more, making in all about 300 acres.  The whole of this property he accumulated by his own energy and good management.  Indeed, everything he has since
acquired has also been the result of his own efforts.  In 1868 he went security for a friend, and had to pay a sum of $2,700.  In settling this claim he took a meat market,
which he conducted for some time afterward.  In the meantime, having business at the county seat, he bought fifty acres of land near Warren, to which he moved his family.   He rebuilt the house upon that property, making a fine country seat, and there he resided until 1875, when he sold out.  He then moved into the city of Warren.  During
these years he was engaged in various enterprises.  He continued his meat market and stock and provision business, having interests at various places until 1875, when he
sold out.  He erected a store-room in Warren, and also built a fine business block in Niles, the latter at a cost of $37,000.  From time to time he invested in land until he became the owner of 600 acres, one of the largest and finest farms in the county, and all these years he has been interested in farming and stock-raising.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 503
  JAMES CLARK, another one of the representative citizens of Brookfield townships, Trumbull county, was born at this place, May 5, 1831, son of Samuel and May (Smith) Clark.  He i the oldest of three children, his brothers being John D. and Peter S.  The former died in 1851, at the age of twenty years.  Samuel Clark was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1801.  He was a carpenter by trade, at which occupation he worked in early life, but later settled down to farming and stock-raising and became a prominent and wealthy man.  He and his wife were members of the Disciple Church, and in politics he was a Democrat.  Grandfather Clark was born in Dungannon, Tyrone county, Ireland, and in 1784 came to America and located at Pittsburg.  When a young man he was a brewer, but the later part of his life was devoted to agricultural pursuits.  Grandmother Clark was born in the northern part of Scotland.  They were among the early settlers of Trumbull county.  He died at Warren in 1834, and she passed away at Hubbard.
     James Clark was reared on the farm and at an early age was engaged in driving stock on the road.  He farmed and dealt in stock, and later carried on merchandising in connection with his farming operations.  He now has an undertaking establishment at Brookfield.  At one time he owned 120 acres of valuable farming land, and gave considerable attention to the raising of sheep.
     In June, 1851, Mr. Clark married Elsie Ann Waldorf.  Her mother was born in Ireland, June 10, 1802, and died Feb. 26, 1841, and her father, a native of New Jersey, was born Oct. 25, 1795, and died Oct. 25, 1836.  The latter was by trade a gunsmith and blacksmith.  Mr. and Mrs. Clark have six children, a record of whom is as follows:  Temperance A. was married in December, 1872, to John H. VanSlyke; Florence G. is the wife of Edward H. Fussleman; Samuel W. married Kate McMullen, in March, 1876; John D. married Martha F. Welch, Aug. 26, 1880; Ellen L. married V. J. Groves, June 17, 1879; and James C. married Alice C. Taylor, February 6, 1889.  Samuel W. Clark is extensively engaged in the fruit business on his father's farm, making a specialty of strawberries.  This year, 1893, his strawberry crop amounted to 300 bushels.
     Mr. Clark is an active politician and is identified with the Democratic party.  For twenty-one years he has served as a Justice of the Peace.  He has on different occasions been the choice of his party for Representative and Senator, but each time was defeated by his Republican opponent.

Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 511

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