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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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LOUIS
ALBERT PATTENGELL, an owner of considerable excellent farming
land, both in Trumbull and Ashtabula counties, Ohio, is a native of
the place where he now lives, in Bristolville, Bristol township,
Trumbull county, Ohio. He was born Dec. 24, 1851, the son of
Jacob and Laura Ann (Case) Pattengell. The father was
born in New York and the mother in Simsbury, Connecticut. The
grandparents were Hiram Pattengell and Nathaniel Case.
Both were natives of Connecticut.
Jacob Pattengell left home when fourteen years
of age and went to Rochester, Pennsylvania. At the time he was
without shoes or money. He worked at five dollars a month for
one year, and saved fifty dollars and went into the fanning mill
manufactory, at Rochester. In 1834 he went to making
chain-pumps, which he followed for a few years, after which he went
into the mercantile business and later he farmed. During and a
few years after the great Civil war he was internal revenue
assessor. He retired and died March 13, 1883. His wife
died Dec. 5, 1877. They were the parents of three children:
Annie Maria (Mrs. Thomas S. Shephard), now a widow at
Wooster, Ohio; Francis N., of Bristolville, and Louis
Albert of this notice.
Louis Albert was educated at the public
schools and at the Western Reserve Seminary, at Farmington, Ohio.
After securing his education he looked after the home farm and
bought and sold horses and cattle. Both he and his brother
reside together in town and he owns several farms, including one
hundred and fifty-five acres in Trumbull and thirty acres in
Ashtabula county. Politically, he is a supporter of the
Republican party and has served his township as constable, treasurer
and clerk at different times. In his fraternal relations he is
identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to
West Mecca Lodge No. 707, and has advanced to the Encampment degree.
Mr. Pattengell is among the honorable citizens
of his township and has performed his part in the carrying on of the
local government. He is unmarried.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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HENRY BISHOP
PERKINS - No family in the Western Reserve section of Ohio
has ever stood higher or contributed more to the material
development and moral worth of the community than the family of
General Simon Perkins and his descendants. Inheriting that
sturdy integrity which seemed inherent in the early pioneers of this
country, General Perkins transmitted to his children the same
strong qualities for which he was noted.
Henry Bishop Perkins, the youngest son of
General Simon Perkins, was born at Warren, Ohio, March 19, 1824.
General Perkins died when Henry Bishop Perkins was but
twenty years old, yet, at that early age, he had already manifested
those splendid qualities of manhood, justice and unimpeachable
integrity, which he carried through his long and useful life.
Possessing a keen sense of responsibility, a fine dignity, and
attractive physical presence, he immediately took the position in
the community made vacant by the death of his distinguished father.
Remaining at the old homestead in the town of his birth, he devoted
his entire life toward higher ideals of good citizenship in the
community. He bestowed generously of his time and money to the
encouragement of those less fortunate than he and contributed a very
large share toward democracy which had characterized his ancestors
and descendants, was a student in the schools of Warren and later
entered one of Ohio's first institutions of higher learning.
Marietta College. After a tour of Europe where he gained
valuable experience by travel and broadened his sympathies by
contact with people of many lands he entered diligently upon the
work of the management of the estate left to his care.
Notwithstanding the many demands upon his time, in
conducting his private business. Mr. Perkins never failed to
assume and discharge every duty which falls to a good citizen in a
growing community. He served fifteen years on the Warren Board
of Education and to his excellent judgment in a large degree the
high standard of Warren schools and her beautiful schoolhouses are
attributable. Nor did he confine his educational interest to
his home city, but in connection with his brothers, endowed a
professorship in the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio.
Removed but a generation or two from the pioneers who
had blazed the first trails in a new country, Mr. Perkins
inherited also that love of nature without which one rarely becomes
a sympathetic and well-rounded man. The grounds surrounding
his home on Mahoning Avenue were filled with rare trees, shrubs,
plants and flowers, while his fine farms in Trumbull county were
examples of the painstaking husbandman who appreciates that Nature
is a good accountant and gives in the measure that she receives.
Mr. Perkins realized that agriculture is the true basis of
all prosperity and he farmed well, just as he did everything well.
He was twice elected president of the Trumbull County Agricultural
Society, was twice appointed a member of the State Board of
Agriculture and was for many years a trustee of the Ohio
Agricultural and Mechanical College. To the duties of each
position he gave that same thorough attention which he devoted to
his private business. Always a lover of the beautiful and
artistic. Mr. Perkins laid out, ornamented and
maintained Monumental Park, in Warren, which among other things,
will always remain to hallow his memory in the city he loved so
well.
With a multiplicity of private and public duties
demanding his constant attention, Mr. Perkins was in the most
ideal sense a home man, devoting every attention to his family and
extending the radius of his sympathy and assistance to his neighbors
and friends. In 1855 Mr. Perkins was married to Miss
Eliza G. Baldwin, a daughter of Norman C. Baldwin, a
prominent and popular man, who was conspicuous in the early business
life of Cleveland. Mrs. Perkins is a woman of keen
intellect, generous impulses, remarkable indignity and has
contributed her full share in maintaining the high standards of
excellence and worth of the descendants of General Simon Perkins.
Four children were born to them: Mary B., now Mrs.
H. A. Lawton, of Warren; Olive D., now Mrs. Samuel W.
Smith, of Cincinnati; Jacob, who died in 1902, and
Henry Bishop, Jr., who died in 1900.
Mr. Perkins believed in teaching people to help
themselves, and in a practical way he tided many business men over
crises, helped young men through college and without ostentation
gave assistance to helpless women and children. Before the
days of bonding companies, men of means were called upon to stand
sponsor for men in public office. Mr. Perkins during
his lifetime was probably on the bond of more men in public and
private matters than any other man in this community. when
thanked for these favors, he always quietly replied that he could
perhaps better afford to take the risk than others, and did not
therefore deserve any praise. He served as president of the
Oakwood Cemetery Association, and gave a great deal of time and
thought to the beautifying the grounds.
A generation ago the Warren Library was not the
prosperous institution it is today. It was then without means,
and it seemed that unless assistance came to the library must close
its doors, but it was enabled to continue its work by generous
donations from Mr. Perkins. His practical experience
and sound advice were always in demand, and when Trumbull county's
stately new court house was being planned and erected in 1895 Mr.
Perkins was appointed to advise with the commissioners in
carrying out that important work. He never at any time sought
public office, but accepted it rather as a duty which a good citizen
owes to his community when called upon to serve. Thus in 1879
he was elected to the Ohio Senate, and re-elected in 1881, which
position he held four years. In 1888 he was a Republican
elector for Benjamin H. Harrison, then a candidate for
president, which honor was particularly gratifying to Mr.
Harrison, as Mr. Perkins' father, General Simon
Perkins, had been a personal friend to President William
Henry Harrison, the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison.
Mr. Perkins was one of the commissioners chosen by
Governor Bishop to establish the boundary line between Ohio
and Pennsylvania in 1879. Perhaps one of the most notable
incidents of Mr. Perkins' public career was in connection
with the great Garfield-Grant-Conkling mass
meeting, which he was largely instrumental in bringing to Warren in
1880. It was at this historic gathering that bitter and
warring political interests were reconciled, which assured the
election of James A. Garfield for president in the November
following. Senator Conkling, Senator Cameron, General Grant
and William McKinley were all entertained at the hospitable
home of Mr. Perkins upon that occasion.
Mr. Perkins early became one of the stockholders
and directors of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad, now one of the
most important branches of the great Erie System. In 1852
Mr. Perkins was elected a director of the Western Reserve Bank,
which was one of the oldest banking institution in Northern Ohio.
Upon the expiration of its charter in 1863, the First National Bank
was organized, and Mr. Perkins was chosen president, which
office he held until the time of his death, nearly forty consecutive
years. Mr. Perkins' conservative business judgment, his
unquestioned integrity and his general popularity fitted him for
this position of trust. Recognizing his high standing,
experience and ability, in 1861 Secretary Chase, of the
United States Treasury, selected Mr. Perkins to assist in
making the first national loan necessitated by the Civil War.
Added to his many other public duties, Mr. Perkins
served for many years as trustee of the Cleveland Historical
Society, and was appointed by Governor McKinley a trustee of
the Cleveland State Hospital. With liberal and unselfish
views, he lived his life from day to day, and when he died, March 2,
1902, there was left a vacancy in the community that has never been
filled. Mr. Perkins was a supporter of the Presbyterian
church, but in his philanthropy and liberality he did not confine
himself to any one church or denomination.
For more than three score years Hon. Henry Bishop
Perkins stood a pillar of strength in the old Western Reserve
city of his birth, and his entire life was without stain.
Kind, exemplary to a high degree, thoughtful, industrious,
systematic in all he thought and did, generous and dignified, but
ever finding time to aid the lowly and encourage the ambitious, his
career forms the best possible example for those who have come after
him. His was the old school of citizenship, embodying in his
life a certain chivalry, yet with all a becoming simplicity, which
formed a connecting link between the old and the new and rendered
him one of the most beloved men Trumbull county ever produced.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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HILLYER
D. PERKINS - The old Perkins homestead, which is now
in charge of Miss Anna Louise, second child of the late
Hillyer D. Perkins, has been in possession of the family since
it was purchased by her grandfather in 1818. It is therefore
one of the most interesting historic landmarks of Kinsman township
and Trumbull county. The picturesque and valuable estate
consists of two hundred and twenty-nine acres of land, which is now
rented to desirable and careful farmers.
Hillyer D. Perkins was born in Kinsman township,
on the homestead mentioned, Sept. 22, 1821, and it was the scene of
all the main events of life, including his marriage to Miss
Louisa Bennett, of Hartford, Ohio, who died shortly after.
On August 10, 1845, he married Miss Susan S. Lowry, of
Talmadge, Ohio, she being then within one day of her twenty-third
year. She died on the old homestead Aug. 12, 1907, the day
after she had celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday. The four
children born of this second marriage were as follows:
Henry L., May 25, 1846; Anna Louisa, Oct. 11, 1850;
Frederick H., May 19, 1853, who died at Orwell, Ohio, Apr. 22,
1898, having been engaged in that place as a banker for one year,
and for many years was associated with the Bank of Kinsman, Ohio;
and Jessie, born Oct. 4, 1864, now Mrs. W. L. Chidester,
a resident of Chicago. Mr. Perkins died on Christmas
day of the year 1882, having passed his life as a faithful,
industrious, unassuming citizen and a Christian.
Seth Perkins, the grandfather, who founded the
family in Ohio, was a native of Hartford county, Connecticut, born
Feb. 29, 1780. At the age of twelve years he moved with other
members of the family to Barkhamsted, Litchfield county, that state,
and when twenty years old settled at Canandaigua, New York, where he
resided until 1804. He was among the first of the colonists to
enter the country northwest of the Ohio river, and came hither with
all his earthly possessions in a knapsack. Nevertheless, the
following October he married Miss Lucy Thompson,
daughter of Thomas Thompson, who had migrated from his
Connecticut home to Hartford, Trumbull county. He had made a
clearing and built a small log cabin near the line between what are
now Fowler and Vienna townships, and in the spring of 1805 the young
couple commenced housekeeping in this locality. At this time
there were but four families in Fowler township, the nearest being
about a mile distant, all around being dense forest, unbroken except
by wild beasts and savages. The succeeding seven years,
however, made considerable improvements in the surrounding country,
and especially in the Perkins timber farm; but, carried away
by the excitement and patriotism caused by the war of 1812, the head
of the family joined his neighbors and started for what was then the
northwestern border, the two chief objective points of the American
forces being Sandusky and Huron. He returned June 1, 1813,
having gained a new experience and restored health. The
homestead of Fowler township remained the home of the Perkins
family until the autumn of 1818, much of the land being now
cultivated, an orchard having been brought to full bearing, and
other improvements being added indicative of the thrifty and
thorough farmer. In April, 1819, having sold his farm in the
previous autumn, Mr. Perkins removed with his family to
Kinsman township, and there established the estate which with
constant changes and improvements, has descended to the present.
While working on the old homestead, which had become familiar and
beloved by the associations of twenty-seven years, he met with an
accident which caused a serious concussion of the brain, followed by
his death in February, 1846.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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C. A.
PIERSON, one of the substantial and extensive
agriculturists cultivating the fertile soil of Vienna township,
Trumbull county, was born at New Lebanon, Mercer county,
Pennsylvania, Aug. 4, 1856, a son of E. A. and Henrietta (Turner)
Pierson. Of his parentage it may be stated that his father
was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, while the mother was a
native of Mercer county. The paternal grandfather, Abel S.
Pierson, was a native of New York state, of Scotch descent, as
are all the Piersons in this country. Abel S. went to
Pennsylvania at a very early time and was a farmer and stock raiser;
also speculated in real estate. He died in Pennsylvania in
1867. The father resided with his parents until his marriage,
then engaged in clerking in a store, continuing until the breaking
out of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-third
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served his country two and a half
years. After the war closed he embarked in the mercantile
business at New Lebanon, where he carried on a successful business
several years and was a postmaster at that place, having been
appointed under President U. S. Grant. His wife died
about that time, and he then went to Montana and is now engaged in
mercantile pursuits in Fromburg, Montana, and is also the postmaster
of the town. In his family there were five children, three of
whom died in infancy: Minnie J., was the wife of
Elmer Seafuse, of Lake City, Michigan; she is deceased.
C. A. is the eldest of the two children who survived to
maturity.
C. A. Pierson began for himself in life when
aged but thirteen years by working in a store in Vienna, where he
remained fourteen years, then removed to the farm on which he now
lives and where he has resided continuously. He has come to be
an extensive stock raiser. His farm consists of one hundred
and fifty acres - the home place - and forty acres more between
Vienna and Vienna Center. Mr. Pierson is now in
possession of a deed of the land where he now lives, which
instrument was made to Mrs. Pierson's grandfather in 1803.
April 11, 1878, Mr. Pierson was married to
Mary Strain, born in Vienna township, Nov. 6, 1857, a daughter
of Samuel and Mary W. (Woodford) Strain. The mother was
born on the farm where Mr. Pierson now lives. The
father was born in Pennsylvania. The Woodfords were natives of
Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Pierson are the parents of
two children: W. W> Pierson, an attorney-at-law
residing and practicing at Youngstown, born February 2, 1880,
married Mina Josephine Clawson, born in Fowler township, and
by this union one child was born, Virginia W.; Olive B., born
May 28, 1882, wife of T. C. Cochran, residing in Mercer,
Pennsylvania; they are the parents of one son, Wilson H.
C. A. Pierson is a member of the Masonic order,
belonging to the Knights Templar degree, being connected with Warren
Commandery, No. 39, at Warren.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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NORMAN
S. PRICE, farmer and dairyman, who excells in both branches
of business, resides in Hubbard township, and was born on the farm
on which he now lives, Dec. 22, 1868. His father, John D.
A. Price, was born on the same farm April 27, 1826. The
grandfather, James S. Price, was born in New Jersey, Nov. 7,
1783, and was a son of Samuel Price, who came to Trumbull
county with his family, more
than a century ago, locating near Coalburg, where he purchased about
three hundred acres of land. James S. Price was a mill
wright. He married Miss Betsy Clark, a native of
Trumbull county, Ohio. Her people came from Connecticut.
Two children was the result of this union: Polly, who married
Stephen Burnett, who is now deceased; Clark Price, now
deceased. Betsy (Clark) Price died and James S.
married Sallie Duer, daughter of John and Susan Duer,
of Hubbard township. They came from New Jersey. The
children of James S. and Susan (Duer) Price were Pamelia,
who married Aaron Vanness, now deceased; Euphamey, who
married Lawrence Hager and is now deceased; Eli, Jonathan,
Stinson, and William all deceased; John D. A.,
father of Norman S., of this sketch; Sally Ann, who
married Aaron Vanness and now resides in Hubbard; and three
children who died in infancy.
John D. A. Price, the father, was educated in
Hubbard township, where he lived all his life. He married,
Dec. 30, 1865, Nancy Jones, who was born in Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1845, daughter of Andrew and Eliza
Jones. Her parents came from Ireland and were of Irish and
Welsh descent. Mr. and Mrs. Price had one child:
Norman S. John D. A. Price is a Democrat and was
at one time trustee of Hubbard township. He belongs to the
Baptist church at Hubbard. His occupation has been that of a
farmer all of his active life. His present farm consists of
ninety-two acres, but on account of his decline in life, he has
retired and his son conducts the place.
Norman S. Price received his education at the
most excellent public schools of Hubbard township and commenced the
life of an agriculturist on his father's farm. He has followed
this through the passing years and still works the old homestead,
doing general farming and dairying. He keeps about fifteen
cows and disposes of his milk and dairy products at Youngstown,
Ohio.
He was married Aug. 25, 1892 to Jennie M. Paisley,
daughter of John W. and Sarah Paisley, natives of Hubbard
township, where she was reared and educated. Mr. and Mrs.
Price reside in a modern residence and are surrounded with all
the comforts of life. They have no children.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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