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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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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 |
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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 |
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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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