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Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren - Vol. II - Illustrated
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1909
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N. H. Bailey |
NELSON HOMER BAILEY - Especially deserving of mention in
this biographical record is Nelson Homer Bailey, who served
bravely as a soldier of the Union Army during the Civil war, and is
now carrying on a substantial business as a contractor in stonework,
his home being at No. 521 East Market street, Warren, Trumbull
county, Ohio. A son of Russell Bailey, he was born,
Nov. 5, 1842, in Gustavus, this county, of honored New England
ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Ido Bailey, was
born and reared in Connecticut, and served as a soldier in the War
of 1812. Coming from New England to Ohio in 1802, he took up
land in Gustavus, having previously visited Gustavus in 1797, and
the farm which he improved from its primitive condition is still in
possession of the family.
Born in Connecticut, Russell Bailey was but a
child when he was brought by his parents to Trumbull county.
He was brought up and educated in Gustavus, and was there employed
in agricultural pursuits during his active life. He married
Dorothy B. Hart, who was born in Gustavus township, this county,
a daughter of John H. Hart, who came from Connecticut, his
native state, to Ohio in 1807, becoming a pioneer settler of that
place. Of their union, three daughters and two sons were born,
two of whom are living, namely: Nelson Homer, who was
the fourth child and second son; Huldah A., widow of the late
Charles Herrick. One son, Ambrose J., served as
a soldier in the Civil War, and died while in the army, in 1864,
belonging to Company I, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry; Malinda A., married Albert Farnsworth, of
Mentor, Ohio, and Cornelia E., married Benton Whiston
of Gustavus.
Reared and educated in Gustavus, Nelson H. Bailey
was well drilled in agricultural pursuits while on the home farm,
and until eighteen years of age ably assisted his father in its
care. In August, 1861, responding to his country's call, he
enlisted in Company C, Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a
private, veteranized by enlisting in the same company and same
regiment in 1863, and was discharged, two years later, as orderly
sergeant of his company. With his comrades he endured all the
hardships and privations incidental to life in camp and on the
field, and for twenty days was in the camp hospital at Duval,
Virginia. He was at the very front in many of the more
prominent engagements of the war, in March, 1862, taking part in the
battle of Winchester. On June 9, 1862, he was taken prisoner,
and was held for ninety-one days by the enemy, first at Lynchburg,
and then at Belle Island. Being paroled, he was sent to Fort
Delaware to recruit, and on Feb. 15, 1863, rejoined his regiment.
On May 1, 2 and 3 of that year Mr. Bailey took part in the
battle of Chancellorsville, and just two months later was in the
thickest of the fight at Gettysburg. He was subsequently sent,
with the veterans of the Army of the Potomac, to New York City to
quell the draft riots. In September, 1863, Mr. Bailey's
regiment was transferred to Hooker's command, and was sent south,
where he participated in the battles at Wauhatchie and Lookout
Mountain, and in the various engagements that took place between
Chattanooga and Atlanta, while with Sherman. As a part
of the Twentieth Army Corps, Mr. Bailey, marched with
Sherman to the sea, thence through the Carolinas, Bentonville
and Richmond to Washington, where he took part in the Grand Review.
Receiving his honorable discharge July 22, 1865, he returned to the
parental home, in Gustavus, and for a number of years was a resident
of that place, being employed for seven years in the hotel business,
and afterward as a contractor. In 1891 Mr. Bailey
located in Warren, and as a contractor in stonework has since
carried on a large and lucrative business.
On March 5, 1872, Mr. Bailey married Minnie
M. Roberts, a daughter of William and Electa (Humphrey)
Roberts, natives of Connecticut, and early settlers of this
county. She comes of patriotic stock, her
great-grandfather, William Roberts, having served as a
soldier in the Revolutionary war. Her brother, Frederick
Roberts, had the distinction of being the first man in Gustavus
to offer his service to his country. He enlisted in Company H,
Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the end of two years was
honorably discharged on account of physical disability.
Mr. Bailey's other brother, Lorin Roberts, also served
in the Civil War for more than two years, belonging to Company C,
Second Ohio Cavalry. He was a graduate of Oberlin College,
and for many years was a judge in the court of common pleas, in
Traverse City, Michigan, and of a man of much prominence in that
locality. To Mr. and Mrs. Bailey had two children have
been born, namely: Nelson Burdette, born July 2, 1874,
married Addie Mentzer, and Frances C., born Feb. 21,
1878, wife of David R. Estabrook, of Warren, has one child,
Dorothy Ruth.
Politically Mr. Bailey is a sound
Republican. In 1900, he was elected county commissioner to
fill a vacancy and served for six years, being chairman of the board
one term, and on Nov. 3, 1908, was elected a director of the county
infirmary board. The infirmary was enlarged, improved and
modernized while he served as commissioner. While living in
his native town, he was township trustee for a number of years,
rendering excellent service in that capacity. Fraternally he
is a member of Bell-Harmon Post, No. 36, G. A. R., and of Prisoners
of War Association.
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JOSEPH SYLVANUS BARB, a farmer and bee keeper of
considerable note, and whose pleasant home is situated within the
fertile township of Bristol, along the Spokane rural free delivery
route No. 1, is a native of Bristol township, Trumbull county, Ohio,
born March 5, 1850, a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Norton) Barb.
The father was born on the farm where now resides Joseph Sylvanus,
Dec. 18, 1822, while the mother was born in Bristol twp. Oct. 22,
1825.
The grandparents, Gabriel and Elizabeth (Kagy) Barb,
were natives of Shenandoah county, Virginia, and on the maternal
side the grandparents were Zachariah and Lydia (Hammon) Norton,
of the same county in Virginia. William Barb, the
great-grandfather, was also fo Shenandoah county, Virginia. He
moved with ox teams, following the old Indian trail, through the
dense forests and wilderness to Bristol, Ohio, where in the month of
June, 1805, he settled in the big timber district. He cleared
and handsomely improved his lands, and died after well performing
his labors as a hardy pioneer./
Abraham Kagy, a brother of Elizabeth (Kagy)
Barb, moved from Shenandoah county, Virginia, to Bristol
township in the summer of 1818, locating on the farm where
Michael Kagy now lives, and in the spring of 1819 Elizabeth
Kagy, accompanied by one of her brothers and a cousin, John
Kagy came from Shenandoah county to visit their relatives here.
She had bought a horse for one hundred dollars, and they made the
journey on horseback. She continued her visit until towards
fall, when she returned to her southern home, selling her horse at
the close of her journey for the same amount she had paid for it.
But during her sojourn north she had become acquainted with
Gabriel Barb, their friendship gradually broadening into true
love, and in 1819 he went to Shenandoah county, Virginia, where on
the 5th of September, 1820, he claimed her as his own. But it
was not long until trouble crossed the path of this happy young
couple, for early one morning in the month of Feb., 1821, the
husband Gabriel went from his father's home to the farm he
had bought, about two miles distant, to begin clearing a space for
their log cabin. He cut first a good sized poplar that stood
within a few feet of the site of the present home, intending to fell
the trees toward the east, and as the tree fell he ran back to seek
safety behind a clump of basswoods. However, as the poplar
fell it struck a beech tree, which sprang back and threw a limb from
the poplar against Mr. Barb, putting his hip out of place,
inflicting a wound in his head and breaking one of his arms between
the elbow and shoulder. There he was alone, two miles from
home, the nearest neighbor on the south a mile away and to the
northeast about a mile and a half distant, a dense woods separating
these places. Many and many a time he called for help until
finally an old lady living about a mile and a half to the northeast,
on the farm where Allen Cadwallader now lives, heard his call
and finally succeeded in starting the men from the place to the
rescue. They came to within a short distance of where he lay
and were about to turn back, thinking their search in vain, when
they again heard his call. They found him in this pitiable
condition and after returning to his hoe for help carried him back
over the rough paths of the woods to his home, arriving late in the
afternoon. Although he never fully recovered from these
injuries, he became able to continue his work, and finally, with the
help of his neighbors, erected his little cabin, where he moved with
his young wife in September of 1821, and there he lived until his
life's labors were ended in death on the 11th day of July, 1838, his
widow, Elizabeth, surviving him until the 4th of July, 1881,
and they were laid to rest in the East Bristol cemetery, where on
the stone which marks their last resting place is recorded their
ages as forty-four years and five months and eighty-eight years and
ten months respectively. Such were the privations and
hardships of the early pioneers that their children and
grandchildren might enjoy the fruit of their toil, such the lives of
these hardy settlers who built their rude domiciles, grappled with
the giants of the forest and from the wilds evolved the fertile and
productive fields which have these many years been furrowed by the
plowshare. But the establishment of a home amid such
surroundings, the coping with many privations and hardships, the
inevitable concomitants, were characteristics of these pioneers, and
their names and deeds should be held in perpetual reverence by those
who enjoy the fruits of their labors.
Isaac Barb, the father of Joseph Sylvanus,
married, Nov. 30, 1848, and settled on his parents' farm, the old
Barb homestead, where he built its present farm hose in 1863.
It is an eight-room dwelling, with spacious halls, closets, etc.,
and he set out many ornamental trees and continued to improve and
add to his place until he owned three hundred and fifty-five acres
at the time of his death, Nov. 21, 1886. This land is all
within Bristol twp. The wife and mother died April 20, 1899.
Their issue was two children, Joseph S., of this sketch, and
Mariah, Mrs. Joseph Gale, the wife of a farmer of Bristol
twp.
Joseph S. Barb has always resided upon the old
homestead on which he was born. After the death of his father
he secured two hundred acres of the original place, but has sold
from this until his present holdings are eighty-two acres,
forty-five acres of which are under cultivation. He has
superintended the farming of his land, but not being sufficiently
rugged for the hardest of labor, ahs rented much of his farm, and he
is also quite extensively engaged in raising cattle. As a
keeper of honey bees he has achieved note, having forty stands, from
which he secured over one thousand pounds of surplus honeycomb
during the season of 1908. Bees have been kept on this place
since 1836, seventy-two eyras. The grandfather Barb
bought a bee hive made of hollow log in 1821, and this hive is still
in use. The bees in this hive made two pails of honey, nearly
forty pounds, during the past season. Mr. Barb also has
an apple orchard of five acres, besides plums, cherries and peaches.
On April 12, 1891, he was married to Lydia A.
Coffman, of Smithville, Wayne Co., Ohio, a daughter of David
and ___ (Bott) Coffman, of Juanita Co., Pennsylvania.
Mr. Barb died Sept. 30, 1892, and for his second wife he married
on Oct. 15, 1896, Eliza Clapper, born near Robertsville,
Stark Co., Ohio, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Neidig)
Clapper. The parents of Mr. Barb were of the German
Baptist religious faith.
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EDWARD
A. BIERY - A life-long resident of Trumbull county, and a man
who has ever been interested in the development and advancement of
its resources, Edward A. Biery, residing at
220 Scott street, Warren, is well and
favorably known throughout the county as a former sheriff. In
his official capacity he was wide-awake, keen and alert, doing his
duty promptly and faithfully, and with perfect justness. A son
of Reuben Biery, he was born in Weathersfield township,
Trumbull county, Dec. 28, 1855.
Of German descent, Reuben Biery was born
in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and was there reared and educated.
Coming to Ohio in pioneer days, he settled in Trumbull county,
living first in Howland township, then in Weatherfield, then in
Niles. He was a farmer by occupation, and was engaged in the
prosecution of his independent calling until his death, in the
sixty-seventh year of his age. His wife, whose maiden name was
Mary Hartzell, was born in Lehigh county,
Pennsylvania, and died in Trumbull county, Ohio, aged sixty-one
years. They were the parents of seven children, five of whom are
living, Edward A. being the youngest of the family.
But seven years old when his parents removed to Niles,
Edward A. Biery was there brought up and educated, remaining
at home until the death of his parents. Thrown then in a large
measure upon his own resources, he began his career at the age of
sixteen years, working for a year and a half for the Erie Railroad
Company, first as a brakeman and then as a clerk in the office.
He was afterwards clerk in a store at Niles for six years, and
subsequently served an apprenticeship of eighteen months at the
machinist's trade. Becoming proficient in his trade, Mr.
Biery established himself in the hardware and tinner's
business at Niles. and continued for two years, when he sold out.
Coming in January, 1886, to Warren, he soon became active in
political circles, and was especially influential in Republican
ranks. Subsequently, when Dr. A. P. McKinley was
nominated for sheriff, Mr. Biery was one of the
delegates to the convention, and was appointed one of the tellers.
Mr. McKinley was elected in 1885, and at once made Mr.
Biery deputy sheriff, a position in which he served for eight
years, the last four years being under J. H. Dilley. In
1893 he was elected sheriff, and served with ability and fidelity
for four years.
On Sept. 20, 1893, Mr. Biery married
Alice M. Eatwell, daughter of William and Julia (Smith)
Eatwell, both natives of London, England, while she was born and
bred in Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Biery have three
daughters, namely: Mildred, Mary and Julia.
Fraternally Mr. Biery is a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, belonging to both the lodge and the encampment of the
Knights of Pythias, and of the Royal Arcanum.
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JANE BOYD
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ANNE F. BROWN Source: A
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EPHRAIM
BROWN was one of the real pioneers of Trumbull county and at
one time was the principal owner of the township of Bloomfield.
He was the son of Ephraim and Hannah (Howe) Brown and a
descendant of Thomas Brown and John Howe,
his pioneer ancestors, who coming from England settled at Sudbury,
Massachusetts, about 1637-8. He was born Oct. 27, 1775, at
"Westmoreland, New Hampshire, and received an academic education in
his native state, and his habit through life of reading much from
well chosen books added greatly to the culture which he attained,
and which made him at an early age one whose judgment and advice was
frequently sought, even by his elders. Evidence of this is
found in the many letters addressed to him on various subjects by
men of prominence and ability. He married Nov. 9, 1806,
MARY BUCKINGHAM HUNTINGTON, a native of Windham,
Connecticut. She was a daughter of Gurdon and Temperance
(Williams) Huntington, and was born on the 29th of August, 1787.
In the summer of 1814, Mr. Brown, with
his uncle, Thomas Howe, made a journey in a chaise to
Ohio for the purpose of buying land. After stopping at the
then small village of Cleveland for a few days they decided to look
farther before locating and finally settled upon a township then
known as "No. 7, 4th Range"—afterward called North Bloomfield—then
an unbroken wilderness. On their return to New England they
made the purchase of the township of Peter C. Brooks, of
Boston. In the following summer, 1815, Mr. Brown
moved his family to the new home, the first family to arrive except
one which came a few months earlier. Mr. Howe
himself came in March, 1815, accompanied by several young men, who
cleared a space in the wilderness and erected comfortable cabins for
the reception of Mr. Brown's family in July.
Soon other families followed Mr. Howe's in 1817.
Later Mr. Howe retired from the partnership,
retaining, however, some twelve hundred acres of the purchase and
Mr. Brown assumed the debt, which in a few years he
succeeded in discharging. He sold a large portion of his land
to settlers who came mostly from New England, but retained during
his life two or three thousand acres. His first residence was
of course a log cabin, but within the first year a frame structure
was added and which is still a part of the present dwelling.
More additions have been made from time to time and it is still a
very attractive home.
By Mr. Brown's efforts a postoffice was
early secured, and he was active in the construction of the Trumbull
and Ashtabula turnpike, which for years, or until railroads were
built, was a part of the favorite route, between Lake Erie and the
Ohio river. Fine coaches daily passed to and fro, filled with
passengers. A saw mill was soon built, also a grist mill, and
his small store of goods sufficed for the needs of the people for a
long time. His activities did not end here, for he served
several terms in both houses of the legislature of Ohio, as he had
previously served in his native state. The title of Colonel,
by which he was sometimes addressed, was given him when he was on
the governor's staff in New Hampshire, not on account of any
military service. Originally a Jeffersonian Democrat, he was
always an uncompromising opponent of slavery, and after he came to
Ohio his farm was one of the stations of the Underground Railway to
Canada. He never united with any church, but his moral and
religious principles were very strong. As his rectitude and
ability were unquestioned he retained to the last the confidence and
leadership of his community. His death occurred on Mar. 7,
1845, and his faithful wife passed away Jan. 26, 1862.
Mrs. Brown should be named as one of the
"real pioneers," for she shared with her husband the privations
incident to the life of a pioneer, and these she felt most keenly,
her tastes leading her to enjoy a more developed and refined
civilization. But she found, among other pioneer women, much to
prize in their sisterly and kindly ways and formed some lasting
friendships among them. She suffered much from homesickness
during the first two years, when it was decided that she should go
east for a visit when her husband went for goods for his store.
They accordingly rode to Painesville or Fairport on horseback,
expecting to take a boat (a schooner) there for Buffalo, but on
their arrival they found the boat had passed. Mr. Brown
then gave his wife the choice between returning to her home or going
on to Utica on horseback. She chose the latter alternative and
they proceeded to Utica, whence they went on by stages. The
visit proved very satisfactory and she found on her return to the
hopeful, active life of the pioneer, a pleasant contrast to the
inactive life of the older settlement.
It is due to the memory of such a woman to insert in
this history some appreciative words written at the time of her
death by a friend who knew her well. He said of her: "She was
a woman possessed of the highest and purest qualities of head and
heart, and was beloved and respected during all the years of her
long and well spent life by all who knew her. Possessing a
well balanced and vigorous mind, she united thereto a kindliness of
feeling and comprehensive benevolence, wide as humanity itself; and
never during her life came up to her the cry of the needy and
oppressed unheard or unheeded. To these distinguished natural
gifts she added the charm of a high and refined cultivation, in so
much that few indeed could rival her in the acquirements of
knowledge and taste. The remarkable powers of her mind
continued up to the time of her death unimpaired and never did the
high sentiments of the philanthropist and true patriot cease to
animate her noble heart till its pulses were stilled by the cold
hand of Death." Her husband appreciated and was in sympathy
with all these fine attributes.
Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Brown were the parents of
the following children: Ephraim Alexander, born
Dec. 1, 1807, who died Aug. 10, 1894; George Washington,
born May 24, 1810, died Apr. 12, 1841; Mary, who became
Mrs. Joseph K. Wing, born May 28, 1812, and died Dec. 15, 1887;
Charles, born Aug. 9, 1814, who married Julia Anne,
daughter of Judge Lester King, of Warren, Ohio, and died
October, 1880; Elizabeth Huntington, born Apr. 12, 1816, and
died June 19, 1904; James Munroe, born Apr. 2, 1818,
died in October, 1867; Marvin Huntington, born Aug.
12, 1820, and died in August, 1892; Fayette, born Dec. 17,
1823, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, and president of the Brown
Hoisting Company; and ANNE FRANCES, born on May 30,
1826, and resides at the old homestead. This, the youngest
child, has always resided in the house where she was born, more than
eighty-two years ago, and retains her faculties remarkably.
She owns two hundred and thirty acres of the nine hundred acre farm
on which her father lived at the time of his death in 1845.
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H. SEYMOUR BROWN,
physician and surgeon residing at the city of Niles, was born in
Crawford county, Pennsylvania, Nov. 28, 1866, a son of Joel S.
Brown, of Crawford county, who married Nancy King, a
native of the same county. The father was a farmer by
occupation, and also a stock dealer. He died at the age of
fifty-eight years, and the mother at the age of forty-two years.
These worthy parents had one daughter and seven sons, all of whom
are living at this time. Doctor H. S. Brown being the
sixth son and seventh child in the family. One brother, Dr.
D. S. Brown, resides in Erie, Pennsylvania; another.
Dr. S. A. Brown, of Westfield, New York, is a dental surgeon.
Dr. H. Seymour Brown started out in life for
himself when fourteen years of age, working at whatever he could
find to do, including labor on a farm at eight dollars a month.
When seventeen years of age he taught school at Miller's
Station, Pennsylvania. He attended Cambridge College,
Waterford, Pennsylvania, and the State Normal School at Edinboro,
and took a course at the medical department of the Allegheny College
at Meadville. He also attended the Eclectic Medical College in
Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating in 1889, spending three years in the
last named school. He first located at MeKean, Pennsylvania,
remained until 1891, then went to Conneaut, Ohio, remained there two
years, and then came to Niles, in 1893, and has since that time been
in constant practice here.
The Doctor is a member of the Northeastern Eclectic
Medical and State Medical societies. In his fraternal
affiliations he is numbered among the worthy brothers of the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks at Niles, Lodge No. 352.
In polities he is a stanch Republican, and is active in party
movements, having served on the executive board, and stands high in
the councils of his party. The Doctor was united in marriage
in 1890 to Nellie, daughter of Richard Owen, of
Oil City, Pennsylvania.
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JAMES BROWN,
who is a farmer residing near the city limits of Warren, is a native
of Warren township, born Dec. 12, 1848, a son of James
Brown, a native of County Armagh, Ireland, and whose father was
Samuel Brown, also a native of Ireland, but of Scotch
lineage. He spent most of his active life in his native
country, but came to America and spent his declining years at the
home of his son James. James Brown, the
father, was reared in his native country and there obtained his
early education, coming to America when a young man, making his way
westward to Ohio. At that time Trumbull county was but little
settled and no railroads had entered the domain, now so completely
gridironed by them. When the canal was constructed through to
the lakes he was employed on that, and thus earned sufficient means
with which to purchase some heavily timbered land in Howland
township, on which he built a log house, which cabin was the first
home his family had in Ohio, now the commonwealth so noted for
beautiful residences. Later on Mr. Brown bought
another tract of land which joined, but within Warren township.
On this place stood another cabin, which had near it a small
clearing which constituted all of the improvements. He at once
erected a small frame house close to the one which was built of
logs, and the family occupied that for a time. Mr.
Brown was very industrious and as time went on he prospered,
cleared up all of his land and erected excellent frame buildings,
including house and barns, and also planted out fruit and ornamental
trees. He continued to reside there until his death, in the
month of March, 1881, when he was sixty-four years of age. He
had lived to see what was a wilderness developed into a fruitful
garden spot and populated with a happy and prosperous people.
Mr. Browns wife's maiden name was Anna
Mathews, a native of County Tyrone, Ireland. She came
to America when a young woman in a sailing vessel, which encountered
storms and was ten weeks in making the trip. On the way
provisions and water gave out and much suffering followed.
After arriving, she remained for a time in New York state, but soon
found her way to Ohio. She survived her husband. She
bore Mr. Brown nine children: William M., Samuel,
Mary, John, Anna, James and Olive, and two who died in
infancy. She was reared in the Episcopal faith, while her
husband was a Presbyterian in his religion.
The son, James Brown, attended the
district schools and the high schools of Warren two years, after
which he began school teaching and followed it until after the death
of his father, when he returned to the homestead to take charge of
the place, and later it became his property. This place is
pleasantly situated, less than one mile from the limits of the city
of Warren and will rank with any farm in Trumbull county.
James Brown married in Kansas, in 1898,
Rebecca Martin, by whom was born one child—Mildred.
Mrs. Brown was born in Warren and is a daughter
of Bernard and Margaret Martin. In
politics Mr. Brown is a Republican and holds the
office of member of the school board. He and his wife belong
to the Presbyterian church.
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JOHN
BURWIG, who has been engaged for many years as a general
farmer at Fowler, Trumbull Co., was during the early years of his
life a worker in the mines and rolling mills of this locality.
He is a native of North Germany, born Dec. 12, 1856, son of John
and Mary (Dau) Burwig. Their three children were all born
in Germany, namely: Charles born in 1852, a resident of
Hubbard, married Sophia Lamp and is the father of Mary,
John, William, Herman, Winnie and Elmer; William, born in
1853, is also a resident of Hubbard; and John, of this
sketch. The father came to the United States in 1866 and
located at Hubbard, where he engaged in the coal mining business,
and died in 1893. The mother, who is a native of north
Germany, is a daughter of
Charles Dau, and is still living.
John Berwig, of this review, never enjoyed a
day's schooling in his life, his father putting him to work in the
coal mines when he was only ten years of age. The boy
continued this occupation until he was twenty years of age, when he
became employed in a blast furnace and rolling mill, and for a
period of twenty years followed this arduous and wearing occupation.
He then engaged in farming, and by dint of economy, industry and
wise management has accumulated a fine property, consisting of an
eighty-five-acre farm, thoroughly cultivated and substantially
improved. In Nov., 1878, Mr. Burwig married Miss
Minnie Peters, daughter of Henry and Dotha (Schultz) Peters,
both natives of Germany, who came to Ohio in 1875. Mr.
and Mrs. Burwig have five children: Winnie, who was
born at Hubbard Aug. 17, 1880, and married Charles Ahrens
June 26, 1906, resides at Willoughby, Ohio; William August Henry,
born at Leadville, Ohio, March 15, 1881, now resides at Twin Falls,
Idaho; Henry William Carl, born at Youngstown, Ohio, November
21, 1886, is connected with the naval service, enlisting at the San
Francisco training station on May 3, 1908; Anna Louise, born
at Youngstown, Ohio, May 12, 1883, died in Dec. of that year; and
Alma Amanda Ella, also a native of Youngstown, born Jul. 24,
1891. The father is a Democrat in politics and a faithful
member of the German Lutheran church.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 -
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