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Biographies
Source:
A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio
by
Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren - Vol. II - Illustrated
Published by The Lewis
Publishing Company - Chicago
1909
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WHITTLESEY
ADAMS, a public and unusually brilliant and successful
business man of Warren, Ohio, was born at Warren November 26, 1829,
a son of Asael Adams, Jr., and Lucy Mygatt Adams.
The father was a prosperous merchant in Warren from 1813 until his
death in 1852. He was a director of the Western Reserve Bank
and a mamber of the first town council in 1834. While young,
during the war of 1812, for three years he carried the weekly United
States mail on horseback from Pittsburg to Cleveland. He
taught the first school of a public character in Cleveland in
1804-05. The grandfather, Asael Adams, Sr., was born in
Canterbury, Connecticut, September 13, 1754, and was a gallant
soldier in the Revolutionary struggle. He emigrated from
Connecticut to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1800, and was a member of
the Connecticut Land Company, which owned the whole of the Western
Reserve in 1796. He was a charter member of Old Erie Lodge No.
3 (Masonic) of Warren in 1803 and was an original stockholder of the
Western Reserve Bank in 1812.
Whittlesey Adams was born in a dwelling house
that stood where the Franklin block now stands. His father
erected the building for a store and dwelling about 1814 and
occupied it as a general store for a period of about forty years,
and for seventy-five years it stood as a landmark in Warren, until
replaced by the present Franklin block. Mr. Adams
received his education in the schools of Warren, Western Reserve
College and Yale College, from which latter institution he graduated
in the month of June, 1857. He was admitted to the practice of
law, but devoted his entire business career to his chosen field in
the fire insurance business, his efforts in this line building up a
business which is the most prodigious of any in Ohio. When
Whittlesey Adams was born Warren had but four hundred
inhabitants, no railroads, and only the daily stage coach and slowly
moving canal boat as a means of public travel. Homespun
clothing was the garb of all. Today the city has a population
of more than fourteen thousand and all the wonderful modern
improvements.
To give a concise conception of the various changes of
Mr. Adams' busy life, some of the many positions which he has
so ably filled are enumerated: From 1849 to October, 1852, he was
clerk in the Warren postoffice; entered Western Reserve College in
1853; was president of the Philozetian Society of that college from
1853 to 1855; graduated from Yale College (University), New Haven,
Connecticut, in 1857; was admitted to the bar in Springfield, Ohio,
1860; clerk of the probate court at Warren from October, 1858, until
April, 1860; was appointed additional paymaster with rank of major,
U. S. V., in July, 1864, by President Lincoln; from 1859 to
1868 was Trumbull county school examiner; one of the three examiners
for the Western Reserve College in 1867; from 1878 to 1882 was
largely interested in the American Cattle Company and Western Cattle
Company of Wyoming; was vice-president of the Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Toledo, Ohio. He has been a director in the Miller
Table Company, the Warren Paint Company, the Warren Opera House
Company, and as a stockholder is interested in the Ohio German Fire
Insurance Company of Toledo, the National Union Fire Insurance
Company of Pittsburg, the Cleveland-Akron Bag Company of Cleveland,
the First National Bank and Dollar Savings Bank of Youngstown, Ohio;
also the Union National Bank, Second National Bank, Western Reserve
National Bank of Warren, and the Youngstown Foundry & Machine
Company of Youngstown, as well as the Bostwick Steel Lath Company of
Niles, Ohio, the Peerless Electric Company and the Iddings Company
of Warren.
Mr. Adams was a member of the firm
of McCombs, Smith & Adams, the largest dry goods store in
Warren, from March, 1865, to 1869. He has been the executor,
administrator and trustee of several estates. In 1857 he
established the Adams Fire Insurance Agency in Warren, which now
represents twenty-three leading fire insurance companies. He
served from 1858 to 1863 as an active member of Neptune Fire Engine
Company, also of the Volunteer Fire Department of Warren; was a
trustee and treasurer of the Warren Presbyterian Church in 1858-59
and the secretary and treasurer of the Warren and Lake Erie Plank
Road Company in 1859-60. In the early sixties he was the
regular paid correspondent of the Cleveland Daily Herald, and
later found pleasure in furnishing historical sketches for the two
leading newspapers of Warren.
In his society affiliations Mr.
Adams is a member of the Western Reserve Historical Society of
Cleveland, and of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution and of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Ohio.
He was a trustee of Independence Lodge No. 90, Knights of Pythias,
was a charter member of the Knights Templar (Masonic) Lodge of
Warren; was also an officer in Old Erie Lodge No. 3 F. & A. M. and
Mahoning Chapter, at Warren; charter member of El Zaribah Temple of
the Mystic Shrine in 1896, of Phoenix, Arizona. He spent most
of the years of 1896, 1898 and 1904 in Arizona and Southern
California.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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CHARLES L.
ADGATE, well known in Trumbull
county as a florist and market gardener, represents a family which
has long resided within the borders of this county, and from the
early days to the present the name has been associated with its
business interests. John H. Adgate, his paternal
grandfather, came to the United States from Germany and, drifting
westward, he with other men of his time purchased the land upon
which a portion of the present city of Warren now stands. His
name is also recorded among those who fought against the Indians at
Salt Springs.
Hover Adgate, a son of this Trumbull county
pioneer, was born in its township of Howland and there received his
educational training. During the active years of his business
life he was both a market gardener and a brick maker, and to him
belongs the credit of manufacturing the brick from which many of the
buildings of Warren and vicinity were made, prominent among
which was the Austin house. He was a life-long supporter of
Republican principles, although never an active party worker, and
his death occurred in the year of 1896. He married on the 28th
of October, 1838, Matilda Baldwin, also born, reared and
educated in the vicinity of Warren, a daughter of Jacob H.
Baldwin, another of the honored early pioneers of Trumbull
county. They became the parents of the following children:
Harry, deceased; Carrie, the widow of Elisha
Robbins; John H., residing in Warren; Flora, who became
the wife of George Van Wye, and is living in Florence,
Colorado; Charles L., mentioned below, one who died in
infancy.
Charles L. Adgate was born in Howland township,
Trumbull county, January 13, 1858, the youngest son of Hover and
Matilda Adgate, and he obtained his educational training in the
district schools of Warren township and in the city schools of
Warren. From his school days until the age of twenty-five he
worked with his father at market gardening, beginning life on his
own responsibilities at that age, and he is now a successful florist
and market gardener. At his large and well stocked greenhouse
he makes a specialty of the raising of carnations and lilies, also
supplying all kinds of budded stock, and at his flower store,
located at No. 26 Park avenue, Niles, Ohio, he supplies all
varieties of flowers and sells florists' supplies, but makes a
specialty of cut flowers for use at weddings, funerals and other
occasions. In his truck garden he produces all kinds of
vegetables in their season, and sells his commodities to the
wholesale trade.
In politics Mr. Adgate upholds the
principles of the Republican party, and he has membership relations
with the Masonic order, belonging to Mahoning Lodge No. 394, F. & A.
M., and with Falcon Lodge No. 436, I. O. O. F., both of Niles.
His church connection is with the Baptist denomination, where for
eight years he has served as a church clerk. He married,
September 28, 1883, Mary Miller, a daughter of Jonathan
and Fianna (Heinzelman) Miller, both of German descent.
Mrs. Adgate was educated in the schools of Warren. Three
children have blessed their marriage union: Ross E.,
Mabel l., and Mary C., all of whom reside with their
parents.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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JOHN H.
ADGATE, florist, with office at No. 34 Main street,
Warren, Ohio, with residence and greenhouse on South Pine street, is
a native of Trumbull county, born in what is now the Detention
Hospital on the old Adgate homestead, October 12, 1851, a son of
Hoover M. Adgate a native of Howland township, Trumbull county,
who was reared, educated and married in this county and lived there
all of his life, being engaged extensively in the manufacture of
brick and tile. Among other buildings which he furnished the
brick for was the old Austin House and Detention Hospital, at one
time the old Gaskill Hotel. In his political views he was
always a loyal Republican. He died at the age of seventy
years. He was the son of John Adgate, a native of
Connecticut, who went to Trumbull county, Ohio, at an early day,
when so many went west from New England and planted a colony there.
The mother of John H. Adgate, of this notice,
was Matilda Baldwin, daughter of Jacob Baldwin, a
prominent politician and office holder in the early days in Trumbull
county's history, serving as judge of probate at one time.
Mrs. Adgate was born in Trumbull county, and reached the age of
seventy-two years. She was the mother of six children, of whom
three still survive: Flora, wife of George Vanwye,
of Denver, Colorado; Charles L., residing in Niles, Ohio, and
John H., who is the second son and second child in the
family. He was reared in sight of Warren, and saw the town
grow from a village to its present goodly proportions. He
received his education at the grammar school of Warren, remaining at
home until he reached his majority, when he went forth into the
world to do battle and win success, if possible, for himself.
After his marriage in 1874 to Ella F. Mann, he engaged in the
trucking business and cultivated about fifteen acres of land, doing
a good market gardening business. He built a house in Warren,
on the old Samuel Freeman estate, locating on the same in
1888, at which time he engaged in the business of a florist,
continuing alone until about 1901, when his son became a partner,
and the business was then known as Adgate & Son.
The family of John H. Adgate consists of
three children: Frank, Cora and Ida. With
the exception of a year spent in Texas, Mr. Adgate has
resided in Trumbull county all his life, living ten years at Niles.
He is widely known and esteemed throughout the communities wherein
he has resided.
The son and partner in the business, Frank Adgate,
was born in the city of Warren, July 21, 1875, and obtained his
education in the most excellent public schools of that city, after
which he became head clerk in the grocery store of John A. Fuller,
with whom he remained seven years. He continued to manage the
affairs of this business until he formed the partnership which now
exists between his father and himself. He is active in public
affairs, and, at present, is the committeeman from the Fourth ward
in the city. Politically, he is an avowed Republican, in which
party he sees the greatest good for the greatest number. He
belongs to the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the U. C. T. of Warren, being quite active
in each of these fraternities. He married Maggie Johnson,
daughter of Samuel Johnson and wife, of Ashtabula county,
Ohio, where she was born.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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ARTHUR B.
ALLEN, of Kinsman township, Trumbull county, still resides on
the old family homestead on which he was born, although, for
purposes of cultivation, the farm is rented to outsiders. His
fine property consists of one hundred and seventy acres and
descended to him from his father and through his paternal
grandfather, Benjamin Allen, a native of Connecticut, who was
a soldier in the war of 1812. By trade Benjamin Allen
was a carder and upon establishing his family on the farm in Kinsman
township erected a carding mill upon his property. Between the
mill and the farm he earned a good living for his household.
His son, Benjamin, also learned the trade, and for years was
the father's stanch assistant. He was a member of the
legislature from Trumbull county in the early thirties, and made an
enviable record as an able, patriotic and honorable citizen in the
early historic days of the Western Reserve. Benjamin Allen,
the father of Arthur B., married Miss Charlotte Galpin,
a native of Connecticut and daughter of Elnathan and Abigail
(Baldwin) Galpin, who came to Trumbull county from Connecticut
in 1832. In that year they located on the land in Kinsman
township, now known as the Joseph Reed farm, their daughter
Charlotte then being twelve years of age.
Arthur B. was the only child born to Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin Allen, and he was reared on the old homestead and
educated in the neighborhood schools. After his marriage in
1880 he located permanently on the Allen homestead, and
devoted himself to farming and to the discharge of the public duties
with which he has been honored. He has served as justice of
the peace for two terms, and for several years both as a member of
the school board and as township clerk, in that capacity taking the
last census of Kinsman township. Sine leasing his farm six
years ago he has also been employed as a rural mail carrier.
He is a leading member of the Presbyterian church, in which he has
been an elder for some time.
On November 10, 1880, Mr. Allen was married to
Miss Abbie H. Morehead, and two sons have been born to them,
as follows: Benjamin G., a graduate of Oberlin College,
now in the employ of the Pittsburg & Ohio Coal Company at Cleveland,
and Dudley P. Allen, a student living at home.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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JOHN A
ANDERSON, a well-known undertaker and funeral director of
Hubbard, Trumbull county, is a native of Mahoning county, Ohio, and
was born February 25, 1853. His father, David C. Anderson,
is a native of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, where he passed his
earlier years, but is now a resident of Mercer county, Pennsylvania.
The elder Anderson married Rebecca Robinson, a
daughter of John and Rebecca Robinson, both of whom were also
Pennsylvanians. His wife died in 1874, but he still lives as a
substantial farmer of Mercer county.
John A. Anderson is a second child in a family
of six children and passed the years of his youth and early manhood
in various farming occupations in Mercer county, Pennsylvania.
In 1890 he came to Trumbull county and settled on a farm east of the
town of Hubbard, where he not only conducted his farm but became
interested in the saw mill business. In 1905 he engaged
actively in this field, although he retained a fine and productive
farm of one hundred acres near Hubbard. In 1900 Mr.
Anderson took a course in embalming in the well-known Myers
school, Youngstown, Ohio, and established an undertaking business at
that point. In 1901 he enlarged the scope of his enterprise by
becoming a funeral director, conducting this business at first from
his farm, but in 1905 his enterprise had so prospered that he
located in the town of Hubbard. He is now thoroughly equipped
to conduct this line of work according to the most modern plan, and
as noted as thoroughly educated as to scientific embalming.
Mr. Anderson was married, October 14, 1874, to
Miss Sadie Bently, a daughter of Hudson and Miranda Bently,
of Mercer county, Pennsylvania. His wife spent her girlhood
days in this locality, where she was also educated. Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Anderson have four children: Orville
L., who is married and lives in Hubbard; Mary Grace, now
Mrs. Raymond Mathews, also a resident of that place; and
Charles H. and Dale L., who live at home. The
family are active and influential members of the Presbyterian church
of Hubbard, Mr. Anderson having been one of the elders
of the local organization for the past six years.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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CHARLES A.
ARCHER, M. D., one of the prominent practicing physicians and
surgeons of Warren, is a native of Canada, born September 18, 1857.
He is a son of William Archer, a native of England, by
occupation a blacksmith, and who came to America when he was but a
small boy. Dr. Archer's mother, Clarisa Foster,
was a native of Canada, born at Thorn Hill. The father died in
Canada and the mother in Warren, Ohio. They were the parents
of seven children, four of whom are living now, the doctor and three
sisters: Martha, married and resides in Cleveland; Clara,
wife of A. D. Coe, of Cleveland; Emma, widow of the
late Col. Eben Coe, of New York.
Dr. Archer is the sixth of the seven children in
his parents' family, and he was nine years pf age when he went to
Cleveland, where he was educated in the public schools. After
graduating from the same, he attended the Western Reserve Medical
College and graduated at St. Louis American Medical College.
From 1890 to 1897 he practiced in Cleveland, then came to Warren and
has been in medical practice here ever since. He is a member
of the Trumbull County Medical Society; the State Medical Society;
also the American Medical Association. He is identified with
the Masonic order, being a member of the chapter and commandery;
also belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, lodge No. 66; the
Foresters, Odd Fellows and Eagles.
The doctor was married in 1881 to Agnes E. Maple,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Maple, of Elyria, Ohio.
One daughter has blessed this union: Frances E., a
graduate of the high school in 1908 and now at Oberlin. The
family are members of the Christian church.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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