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Biographies
Source:
History of Trumbull
& Mahoning Counties
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
Vols. I & 2 -
Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro.
1882
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KEPNER FAMILY Source: History of
Trumbull & Mahoning Counties with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches Vol. II - Mahoning Co., Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams &
Bro. 1882 - Page 282 |
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ELIAS
KING, son of John and Margaret (Davidson) King, was
born near New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, Apr. 15, 1811.
John King, the father, was a native of Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, and died in Allegheny county at the age of
eighty-four. His children were Hugh D., William,
John, and Robert (deceased), Elias, Thomas
(deceased), Mary Ann (deceased), Margaret, and
Annabella C., living in East Liberty, Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania; Elizabeth (deceased), and O. J., a
resident of Kansas.
The boyhood of Elias King was spent in
Allegheny county, residing there until he was twenty-two or
twenty-three years of age, when he went to Lawrence county, in the
same State. Although he only became a resident of Mahoning
county in 1870, yet he has resided the most of his life in the
Mahoning valley, his home previous to his removal to Ohio being only
about a mile from the Ohio State line. He was brought up on a
farm but received a good common school education, and was engaged in
teaching school a short time. He was engaged in mercantile
pursuits for a couple of years in Edenburg, and was also engaged for
some time in the manufacture of brooms. He operated a
grist-mill near Edenburg some two years. Finally purchasing a
farm in Mahoning township, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, he moved
and lived upon it for twenty years, whence he removed to
Lowellville, Ohio, where he has since resided. After coming to
Lowellville he was engaged in the drug business for five or six
years, since which time he has been living a practically retired
life.
Mr. King's mercantile ventures were
pecuniarily unfortunate, having passed through the panics of 1837
and 1873, yet he still possesses enough of this world's goods to
allow him and his family to live in comfort and plenty the balance
of their days. Jan. 2, 1838, he married Eleanor Cavett,
daughter of John Cavett, of Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania. She was born July 27, 1820. The fruit of
this union was two sons and two daughters, as follows: Margaret,
John, Mary Jane, and Hugh Davidson.
Mary Jane, now Mrs. Cowden, is the
only survivor, and resides with her parents. Margaret
died at the age of sixteen months, John when two years old,
and Hugh Davidson at the age of fourteen years and
nine months. Mrs. Cowden was born in Lawrence
county, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1846. Jan. 3, 1867, she became the
wife of Dr. Isaac P. Cowden, a physician of Lawrence county,
Pennsylvania, who died Feb. 3, 1877, in the thirty-fourth year of
his age. Mr. King is a Republican in politics,
and was formerly a Whig. During the early anti-slavery
agitation he was an active Abolitionist. Mrs. King
is an active and valued member of the Presbyterian church, and both
are worthy members of the community, and esteemed by all who know
them.
Source: History of
Trumbull & Mahoning Counties with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches Vol. II - Mahoning Co., Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams &
Bro. 1882 - Page 75 |
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THE
KIRTLAND FAMILY. Turhand Kirtland, the
first representative of the family who came to the Western Reserve,
was a native of Wallingford, Connecticut, born Nov. 16, 1755.
He was a carriage manufacturer by trade, which he followed in
Wallingford until his removal to Ohio. In 1798, having
gathered together a few thousand dollars, he came to Ohio and
purchased considerable land in different portions of the Reserve,
and also acted as agent for the Connecticut Land company for the
sale of their land. He located at first at Burton (now Geauga
county), but spent much of his time in Poland and Youngstown,
engaged in examining, surveying, and selling land. He kept a
diary during the early years of his residence in Ohio, in which he
gives a minute account of his proceedings and observations. The
writing of a letter in those days was an event of sufficient
importance to make a record of it. In a few years he removed
from Burton to Poland and settled on a farm, his brother, Jared
Kirtland, having started a tavern at what is now Poland
village. He died August 16, 1844.
Mr. Kirtland was a man of more than ordinary
energy of character, and ability, and served his county in many
positions of trust and honor. He was elected to the State
Senate from Trumbull county in 1814, was associate judge of the
court of common pleas for a long time, and was justice of the peace
in Poland for some twenty years. He left at his death a large
property. He was twice married. His second wife was
Mary Potter, of New Haven, Connecticut, born Feb. 10,
1772, died March 21, 1850. They reared a family of children,
as follows: Jared P. Henry T., Billius, George, Mary P., and
Nancy, of whom only Billius and George are now
living.
Dr. Jared P. Kirtland was a noted physician and
an able man. He practiced medicine for many years in Poland,
and represented the county, then Trumbull, in the Ohio Legislature
in 1829, 1831, and 1834. He was a professor in the Cleveland
Medical college, of Clevleand, Ohio, during the latter part of his
life, and had previously held a similar position in the Ohio Medical
college, Cincinnati. He has a daughter living in Rockport,
Cuyahoga county.
Henry T. Kirtland was a prominent business man
of Poland for a great many years, being engaged in merchandising.
He was born in Connecticut Nov. 16, 1795; married in 1825 Thalia
Rebecca Fitch, who died Oct. 1, 1826. In April,
1828, he married Mary Fitch, a sister of his
first wife. He died Feb. 27, 1874, in Poland, and his wife,
Mary, Dec. 24, 1877. By his first marriage he had one
child, Hon. C. F. Kirtland, of Poland, a Representative in
the Legislature from Mahoning county, session of 1872 and 1873, and
by his second marriage three children, of whom the only survivor is
Mr. C. N. Kirtland, of Poland.
Billius Kirtland was born in Poland,
Ohio, Aug. 29, 1807. In 1830 he married Ruthanna Fame,
who was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1809. They have had
nine children, only three of whom survive. Alfred
resides in Blairsville, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, and is
superintendent of the West Pennsylvania railroad. He graduated
at the Van Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, of Troy, New York,
taking a course in surveying, and for some time was assistant civil
engineer of the road of which he is now superintendent.
Emma married Samuel Hines and lives in Poland, and
Lucy married Rev. Dallas B. Mays and resides at North
Benton.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirtland belong to the Methodist
Episcopal church and are among the most prominent and highly
respected citizens of the county. Mr. Kirtland is an
enthusiastic student of chemistry, and has spent about fifteen years
of his life in investigating that science. George Kirtland
is living in Poland, engaged in farming and in the manufacture of
ink. Mary was the wife of Richard Hall,
for many years a merchant in Poland, and Nancy was the wife of
Elkanah Morse, a manufacturer and miller of Poland.
Source: History of
Trumbull & Mahoning Counties with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches Vol. II - Mahoning Co., Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams &
Bro. 1882 - Page 73 |
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WILLIAM
KNIGHT was a citizen and lawyer of Wilbraham, Massachusetts,
and had been a Representative in the Legislature of that State.
About 1840, having a son, the late William L. Knight, settled
at Warren, Ohio, as a lawyer, he removed to Ohio, purchased a
residence in Poland, then in Trumbull county, and commenced
practice, and there resided during his life. He died in Poland
in 1852.
Source:
History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
- Vol. I
- Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. 1882~
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