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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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JOHN
B. LEWIS, a merchant of Mineral Ridge, was born in
Monmouthshire, Wales, June 9, 1837, a son of Rev. Benjamin and
Margaret (Alexander) Lewis. The father was a minister in
the Welsh Congregational Church. In 1851 the family came to
the United States, locating at Tallmage, Summit county, Ohio, where
Mr. Lewis was engaged in the ministry three years. He
then went to Edinburgh, Portage county, this State, and later to
Palmyra, where he met a sudden death in 1855. His wife
departed this life in 1885, at the age of seventy-nine years.
They had six children: Margaret, Winifred, Morgan, John B.,
Benjamin and Janey. Benjamin was a soldier
in the late war, a member of the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio
Infantry, and died at Murfreesborough from disease contracted in the
army. Only two of the children are now living, J. B.
and Winifred.
J. B. Lewis came to Ohio at the age of fourteen
years, where he was employed as a coal miner for a number of years.
In September, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil war,
joining the Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, Company C, and participated in
the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge,
Kenesaw Mountain, siege of Atlanta, and Lovejoy station.
Following Hood in his march on Nashville, he took part in the
battles of Franklin and Nashville. At Lovejoy Station
Colonel C. F. Mandison now of Sumpter, Nebraska, was wounded.
Mr. Lewis was wounded by a minie ball at Stone river,
remained in the hospital at Nashville three months, and on the road
North was severely injured by the train turning over an embankment,
for which he was again confined in the hospital at Nashville.
He wintered at Columbia, Tennessee, then went to New Orleans.
He next went with his regiment to Texas, and was honorably
discharged at San Antonio, in September, 1865, as Sergeant.
Mr. Lewis was married at Warren, Ohio, Feb. 15,
1867, to Anna Evans, a native of Clarksville, Pennsylvania,
and a daughter of Evan and Mary Evans, both now deceased.
They had three children, two now living: William and Mrs. Lewis
Our subject and wife have six children: John, of Niles;
Mary; Ben, who graduated at the high school in the
class of 1894; Edd Morgan; Jessie B. and Harrold R.
Mr. Lewis is one of the leading members of the Republican
party at Mineral Ridge, and has served as a member of the City
Council. He has passed all the chairs in Everleigh Lodge, I.
O. O. F.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the
Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 415 |
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S.
L. LOVE has been identified with the agricultural interests
of Bazetta township, Trumbull county, Ohio, since 1873, and is
ranked with its most intelligent and enterprising citizens.
He was born in Cayuga county, New York, Feb. 15, 1839,
son of Wilkins and Sarah (Clark) Love, the former a native of
Vermont, and the latter of Essex county, New York. Wilkins
Love died in New York State. His wife survived him several
years and her death occurred in Tioga county, Pennsylvania.
The subject of our sketch was reared and educated chiefly at Ithaca,
New York. He secured a fair education, receiving special
instructions in music, for which he displayed a talent at n early
age. He learned the trade of harness-maker, which he followed
for some time, and also taught music, both vocal and instrumental.
He was married Feb. 24, 1873, in Bazetta township,
Trumbull county, to Miss Grace J. Ewalt, a lady of education
and refinement, and a daughter of Jacob Ewalt.
Jacob Ewalt was for many years a prominent
citizen of Trumbull county. He was a son of John Ewalt,
one of the first settlers of the county, and was born on the old
Ewalt homestead in Howland township, this county, Feb. 26, 1810.
Mar. 8, 1837, he married Mrs. Maria Ewalt, widow of Samuel
Ewalt. She had one son by her first husband, Higby
Ewalt, now a resident of Wheatland, Clinton county, Iowa.
Her maiden name was Sefingwell, her parents being Jabez
and Lydia (Rogers) Sefingwell, early settlers of this county and
both now deceased. The day following their marriage, Jacob
Ewalt and his bride came in an ox cart to the farm on which they
spent more than half a century of happy married life, and where a
few years ago they celebrated their golden wedding. They had a
family of six children, only two of whom are now living, Grace J.
Love and Jacob Hyde Ewalt, the latter a resident of Warren,
Ohio. Of the other four, we record that Abigail died at
the age of fourteen years; Lydia passed away at the age of
five; one died in infancy; and John, a practicing physician
of Akron, Ohio, has been deceased some years. Jacob Ewalt
died Aug. 11, 1891, his wife having departed this life Nov. 29,
1890. He was in politics first a Whig and afterward a
Republican, and for some time served as Infirmary Director. He
was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Love have five children: Olive
M., Frederick Rutherford, John Spaulding, Jacob Wainright, and
Charles Ewalt.
During the war Mr. Love was a
soldier in the Union ranks, going out in 1862, as a private in the
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Pennsylvania Regiment. He is now
a member of Bell Harmon Post, No. 36. Politically, he is a
Republican, fraternally a Mason, a member of Erie Lodge, No. 3, and
also of the Royal Arcanum, and religiously a Presbyterian, being a
Deacon in the church.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the
Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 567 |
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