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Biographies
Source:
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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FRANCIS T. ADAMS. - The first of the Adams family
to locate in Trumbull county, Ohio, was Asel Adams the
grandfather of our subject. His eldest son, David, the
father of our subject, was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, Feb. 10,
1784, and came with his parents when a mere lad to Trumbull county,
Ohio. For a number of years he was engaged in carrying the
mail from Cleveland to Pittsburg on horseback. After his
marriage he located on a farm of 370 acres in Weathersfield and
Liberty townships, where he was engaged in general farming until his
death, Oct. 3, 1855. In political matters, Mr. Adams
was first a Whig, later a Republican, served as Postmaster for over
thirty years, and was Justice of the Peace a number of years.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He married Miss
Annie Tylee, who was reared in Hubbard, this county. Of
their children we make record as follows: Sybil, born
Nov. 17, 1819, died Aug. 8, 1823; Laura A., born Apr. 26,
1821, married Charles S. Quimby, and died at Sharon,
Pennsylvania, Apr. 29, 1872; Eliza Ann, born Sept. 17, 1823,
married Jabez Nelson and died in Girard, this county;
Augustus A., born July 31, 1826, resides in Trumbull county; the
next child died in infancy; Homer S., born Dec. 10, 1829,
resides at Youngstown; Harriet S., born Jul. 24, 1832, died
Apr. 9, 1836; and William F., born Jan. 26, 1836, is a
carpenter at 759 Clark avenue, Cleveland.
Francis T. Adams, the subject of this sketch,
was born and raised on the old home farm, and received his education
in the subscription schools. He remained with his parents
until thirty-one years of age. Mr. Adams now owns 154
acres of well improved land, where he has one of the finest orchards
in this part of Ohio, and is engaged in general farming. He is
a stanch Prohibitionist, as are also his sons, was reared in the
Presbyterian faith, and is a man of sterling worth.
Feb. 8, 1848, Mr. Adams was united in
marriage with Elizabeth Nelson, who was born Sept. 3, 1815,
and died June 16, 1891. They had six children: Charles
F., was born Nov. 20, 1848, and a resident of the old home farm,
was married Dec. 26, 1890, to Mrs. Flora Ferguson, widow of
C. W. Ferguson, and a daughter of Almon and Ursula
A. (Coutney) William, of Vienna, this county; John, who
died Feb. 12, 1866, at the age of fourteen years; Harriet
Adella, deceased Feb. 15, 1866, at the age of nine years;
Calvin A., at home; and twins, deceased in infancy.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the
Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 551 |
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JAMES
AGUE, of Mineral Ridge, was born in Hubbard township,
Trumbull county, Mar. 26, 1826, a son of Anthony Ague, a
native of Pennsylvania, but who came to Youngstown, Ohio, in 1806.
Two of his brothers, John and George, were soldier in the war
of 1812. The mother of our subject, nee Leticia
Kayse, was a native of New Jersey of Holland Dutch
ancestry. She died Weathersfield township in 1832, leaving six
children: Mary Ann deceased; James, our subject;
William, who served in the Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Battery
during the late war, and now resides at Mineral Ridge; Martha
Jane, Lorinda, deceased, and Leticia The father
afterward married Catherine Boyd, and they had ten children.
James Ague, the subject of this sketch, removed
to Henry county, Illinois, in 1854, which was then wild and
unsettled, and engaged in farming and coal mining. In August,
1862, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois Infantry,
for the late war, under Colonel T. J. Henderson, and the
regiment made a gallant record. Mr. Ague was wounded at
the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, July 25, 1863, and still carries
the rebel lead in his body. After the battle of Knoxville his
regiment was in the Third Brigade, Third Division, and Twenty-third
Army Corps. After the Atlanta campaign he with his regiment
followed Hood into Tennessee; in the spring rejoined
Sherman and marched through the Carolinas, then through Virginia
to Washington, District of Columbia. He served with honor and
credit two and a half years, and after the close of the struggle
resided in Henry county, Illinois, until 1888. In that year he
sold his possessions there and came to Trumbull county, Ohio.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the
Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 400 |
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AUSTIN ANDREWS, was born in Trumbull
county, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1823, a son of Daniel and Polly
(Hotchkiss) Andrews, natives of the State of Connecticut; the
parents grew to maturity in their New England home, and were married
there; they reared a family of eight children: Lucy Ann,
born Feb. 12, 1801, was married Oct. 19, 1820 to Julius Baldwin;
she died at the age of seventy-five years; Upson, born July
11, 1803, was married, Oct. 10, 1832, to Alvira Spencer; he
died Oct. 15, 1854; Sabra, born Feb. 15, 1806, was married
Sept. 2, 1835, to Alfred Wheeler, she died in 1893;
Miranda, born Oct. 4, 1808, was married, in 1825, to Allen
Humason; she died Jan. 29, 1848; Samuel, born Aug. 15,
1812, to Lorena Hutchins; he resides in Warren, Ohio;
Rachel born Jan. 20, 1814, was married, in November, 1837, to
E. N. Brown now dead; they lived in Trumbull county, Ohio;
Francis N., born June 28, 1818, was married, Oct. 22, 1840, to
Ann King; she died at the age of thirty-three years, and he
married a second time, May 18, 1854, this union being with Esther
Kennedy; Austin, the subject of this sketch, is the
eighth born. The father and mother both died at the age of
seventy-five years; they emigrated to Ohio in 1815, and were among
the most worthy pioneers of Trumbull county. Mr. Andrews
traded his property in Connecticut for ninety acres of wild land
that he had not seen until he came to make a settlement. He
was a blacksmith by trade, and followed this most useful vocation in
connection with agricultural pursuits.
Austin Andrews received his education in
the old log schoolhouse at Payne’s corners, and assisted in
the cultivation of the home farm until 1840. He then went to
Mississippi and was engaged in cutting cord-wool for six months,
going at the end of that time to New Orleans; he then returned to
his home, and for a year attended to the farm. His next
objective point was the lead mines of Wisconsin, and arriving there
he remained three years; he again returned to his home and settled
into the quiet of agricultural life. In October, 1846, he was
united in marriage to Miss Eliza Waters, a daughter of
John Waters, of Trumbull county, Ohio; the two years following
this were spent on the farm, and then he operated a cheese factory a
Windsor about two years.
Joining the vast throng bound for the gold mines of the
Pacific coast, he sailed from New York in 1852, went to Aspinwall,
crossed the isthmus on foot, and thence by water to California.
While at Panama he witnessed a bullfight, the first entertainment of
this barbaric character he had ever attended. He spent four
years in digging the yellow dust in the Golden State, and war:
quite successful, but concluded to come back to Ohio. He
rented a farm, which he cultivated two years, and then bought the
old John Kinsman dairy farm at Kinsman. It was
while residing here that his wife died, Apr. 4, 1860, the first and
only death in the family to 1893. In 1861 Mr.
Andrews sold this farm, and went to the Perkins place,
a tract of 600 acres east of Warren. In 1875 he removed to
Youngstown and bought the hotel and a feed and coal business which
he still owns; the firm controlling this establishment is Andrews,
Hill & Company. He also has an interest in the Wampum
Run Coal Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews had three children born to
them: Frank, born May 19, 1849, married Florence
Ryan, and they have two children, Daisy and Rachel;
Upson A., born May 30, 1851, married Hattie
Warrington; they have three children, Austin W.,
William M. and Alice; Daniel, the third child,
married Sarah A. Packard, who died in 1882, leaving one son,
Peter A.
Mr. Andrews is justly regarded as one of
the pioneers of Mahoning county.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern
Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning -
Publ. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 458 |
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LUCIUS ANDREWS,
one of the representative citizens of Vienna, was born in
Brookfield, Trumbull county, Ohio, June 28, 1841, a son of Andrew
and Mary (Barnhisel) Andrews, both of whom died in Vienna, the
father May 2, 1873, and the mother Sept. 5, 1886. The father
was born in Burlington, Connecticut, July 14, 1815, and the mother
Aug. 23, 1818. He was a son of Whiteley H. and Phoebe (Woolford)
Andrews. The former was of English ancestry, and they
removed to Brookfield, Ohio, where they settled. Whiteley
H. was a man of considerable wealth, and was a farmer by
occupation. Andrew J. Andrews, father of our subject,
came to Ohio with his parents when a small boy, was reared to
farm life in Brookfield, Trumbull county, and at the age of twenty
years, in connection with farming, began dealing in cattle. In
1868 he became interested with is son, our subject, and Chauncey
Andrews, of Youngstown, in searching for coal in Vienna and
adjoining townships. They located a number of the best mines
in this part of Ohio, and also developed and operated a number of
them. Later, in company with General Curtis, of Sharon,
Pennsylvania, and Jacob Messersmith, of Vienna, Mr.
Andrews developed the Mecca oil fields. He was a public
spirited man, a Democrat in an early day and later a Republican.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews had two children. The daughter,
Lucy E., is the widow of Robert H. Jewell, formerly a
banker of Hubbard, and still resides in that village.
Lucius Andrews, the subject of this sketch, was
reared on a farm in Vienna township, and received his education in
the public schools and at the Farmington and Hiram Colleges.
After completing his education he was engaged with his father in the
stock business a few years, next followed coal mining in company
with his father and Chauncey Andrews. In 1874 he
embarked in the mercantile business in Vienna, with M. A. Quilty
two years later sold his store, and in 1878 moved to Meadville,
Pennsylvania, to educate his children, and engaged while there in
business. Six months hater Mr. Andrews returned to
Ohio, where he was associated with the malleable iron works for two
years, and then returned to his old home in Vienna. He still
resides at that place, living a retired life. In political
matters he is a stanch Democrat; has held the office of Township
Trustee, and has been a member of the School Board. Socially
he is a member of the F. & A. M., Mahoning Lodge, No. 394.
Mr. Andrews was married, May 8, 1862, to Miss
Cornelia Woodford, a native of Vienna and a daughter of Henry
and Rachel (Bradley) Woodford. To this union have been
born two children: Alfred L., traveling with a Chicago
mercantile agency; and Mary R., wife of Edward L. Hauser,
a member of the firm of Hauser & Son, of Girard, Ohio.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the
Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 406 |
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WILLARD C. ANDREWS, a well
known business man of Cortland, Ohio, has been identified with the
intersts of this place since 1880.
He was born at Fowler, Trumbull county, Ohio, July 26,
1854, son of A. E. Andrews, now a prominent citizen of
Warren. A. E. Andrews' father, Solomon Andrews,
was a native of Connecticut. The mother of our subject was
before her marriage Miss Mary Galpin. She died in 1888.
A. E. Andrews and his wife had seven children, two of whom
are deceased.
W. C. Andrews was a small boy when his father
moved to Warren, and there he grew up and received his education.
In 1869, he went to Shamburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in
the drug business for two years, then to Parker's City, then Grace
City, then St. Petersburg, Indiana, Edenburg, and from there to
Courtland. Since 1880 as above stated, he has been doing
business in Cortland. His store here is 19 x 50 feet, is well
stocked and conveniently arranged. In addition to drugs, he
also handles patent medicines, books, stationery and notions.
Dec. 24, 1877, Mr. Andrews was married at Church
Hill, Ohio, to Lucy Woodridge Tayler, daughter of George
and Elizabeth Tayler, both deceased. Her father was
cashier of the First National Bank of Warren for some time, and was
one of the most prominent and highly esteemed citizens of the town.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have three children, Willard C.,
Louise Tayler and George Tayler. They lost one
child, Frank H.
Mr. Andrews has served as Town Treasurer and takes
a commendable interest in all the public affairs of his vicinity.
He is a prominent Mason, being a member of Cortland Lodge, No. 529,
and Mahoning Chapter, No. 66; he and his wife are active members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, being Secretary, Treasurer and a
Trustee of the same. Mrs. Andrews is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, the Equality Club, and the
Woman's Relief Corps, being an active and zealous worker in all
these organizations.
In politics Mr. Andrews is a Republican.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the
Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 444 |
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