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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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GEORGE H. TAYLER. - An influential
citizen actively participating in the general development of the
substantial little city of Warren, George H. Tayler has spent
the bulk of his useful life within its limits, faithful in his
allegiance to its interests, as was his father before him. He
was born in Warren on the 5th of May, 1847, a son of Matthew B.
and Adaline(Hapgood) Tayler, his father being a
native of Pennsylvania and his mother, of this city. The
paternal grandfather was born in Ireland, came to America when a
young man and was married in the Keystone state. Thence
Matthew B., one of his sons, migrated to Youngstown (now
Mahoning county) at such an early day as to make him one of the
pioneers of that locality. Upon his removal to Warren he
became well known for his activity in business and his high and
substantial character. He operated a warehouse for some time,
was identified with the early growth of the First National Bank, and
was especially prominent in connection with the good work of the
First Methodist church, being identified with it both officially and
as an active worker in the ranks. He was also an Odd Fellow in
high standing. Both he and his wife died at about the same
age, sixty-five years. The maternal family of Hapgoods
is of old New England stock and was also ranked in the pioneer class
of Trumbull county. The nine daughters and the two sons of
this Tayler family all reached maturity, and nine of the
family are still living, six in Warren.
George H. Tayler is the oldest son of this
family, being the fourth child. He completed the common-school
and high school curriculums at Warren and then pursued a course at
the Alleghany College, from which he graduated in 1869. Soon
afterward he went west and for about four years was employed as a
civil engineer by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad in various
localities of Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas.
Returning to Warren he spent several years in various occupations at
his home town, and in 1879 removed to Wisconsin, where he was again
engaged as a civil engineer with the Chicago & North-Western
Railroad. He was then called to Warren by the death of his
father, and he was at that time placed in charge of the gas works,
and, as secretary and treasurer, is still their active manager.
He was a director in the First National Bank before it was merged
into the Union National, and is still a member of the Directorate.
He is also secretary and treasurer of the Warren Opera House Company
since organization, president of the Oakwood Cemetery Association,
and holds other influential relations with leading city interests
and institutions. Mr. Tayler is a thirty-third degree
Mason. His wife, to whom he was married in 1888, was formerly
Miss Roxie Wilcox. In politics he is a Republican.
He is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 - Page
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BENJAMIN J. TAYLOR.
- Identified with the Western Reserve Chronicle for a period
of forty-two years as a printer, editor and publisher, Benjamin
J. Taylor is one of the widely known successful newspaper men in
this section of Ohio, having made journalism his life work. He
has otherwise been prominently identified with the civic progress of
Warren, where he has resided since 1863. In late years he has
been zealously devoted to the expansion of the educational
facilities of the city, among the foremost of which is placed the
Public Library. Mr. Taylor was one of the founders of
that institution, and has served on its Board of Trustees from its
organization, twenty years ago. He was elected to the
presidency of the board in 1895, and has been honored with a
re-election to this office annually for the past thirteen years.
It was through his personal solicitation that the generous gift from
Mr. Carnegie was secured for the erection of the present
elegant library building. During the construction of the
edifice, to which he gave careful supervision, in conversation with
a friend, he made the significant observation: "An enduring monument
in the busy industrial mart is more to be desired than a marble
shaft in the cemetery."
From his youth a zealous member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, for more than thirty years Mr. Taylor ahs
been a member of the official board of the local organization, and
has long been a trustee and steward. In 1907 he was elected a
delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
of America, a body composed of delegates from world-wide Methodism,
and which held its twenty-fourth quadrennial session in Baltimore,
Maryland, in May, 1908. This is the supreme and only
law-making body of this denomination, and the "Court of Last Resort"
in the administration of church law. At this session of the
General Conference Mr. Taylor was elected a member of the
Board of Publication of the Pittsburg Christian Advocate.
Mr. Taylor is also an honored member of the Masonic
fraternity, having filled, by election, the presiding officer's
station in all the local Masonic bodies. He is Past Eminent
Commander of Warren Commandery No. 39, Knights Templar.
Politically he is a life-long Republican, having cast his first
presidential vote for Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Mr. Taylor was born in Smith's
Falls, an inland town on the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence
river, Apr. 27, 1848, a son of Thomas and Margaret Foster Taylor,
his ancestors being of Irish-English nationality. His parents
commenced their long and happy married life in Canada, but in 1852
migrated to the United States, and settled at North Bloomfield,
Trumbull County, where Benjamin J. of this sketch passed his
boyhood days. Mr. Taylor is a fine type of the
"self-made man," his principal educational advantages being such as
the earlier day village school afforded. At the age of fifteen
he went to Warren, the county seat, to learn the printer's trade in
the office of the Western Reserve Chronicle, and served an
apprenticeship of three years. In this connection it is of
interest to note, by way of comparison between the times then
(forty-five years ago) and now, that Mr. Taylor, as
apprentice boy, received for his first full year's services the sum
of $30 "and board." Such were the conditions prevailing in
those days in the employment of apprentices, and was the sum total
of Mr. Taylor's financial start in the struggle for
ascendency in public life. He relates, with a feeling of
pardonable pride, that, as a Chronicle carrier boy, in his
weekly rounds, he delivered the paper to the hands of its first
editor. Hon. Thos. D. Webb, who founded the paper in
1812.
In 1868, when Hon. William Ritezel, the then
sole editor and proprietor, was elected to the State Legislature,
Mr. Taylor, who was then employed on a Cleveland paper, was
called to assume the general management of the Chronicle
during Mr. Ritezel's attendance upon the session of the
Legislature. He continued his connection with the paper, and
in 1877 bought an interest in the business, and thus became one of
its editors and proprietors. At the time of the death of
Mr. Ritezel, in 1900, he formed an equal partnership with Mr.
Frank M. Ritezel, a former business partner with his father, and
who is now the controlling editor of the paper. In 1905 Mr.
Taylor sold his interest in the business to Mr. F. S. Van
Gorder, and thus severed his long and successful career with the
Chronicle twenty-eight years of which he had well served its
interests as associate editor and proprietor.
In 1877 Mr. Taylor
was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude Tayler daughter of
the late Matthew B. Tayler, one of the earlier day leading
bankers of Warren. Mrs. Taylor is a native of the city
where she has always resided. They have two sons, Dean
and Alfred Wheeler Taylor, who are now the editors and
publishers of the Fairfield, Iowa, Daily Journal.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 - Page
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CLYDE
TAYLOR, of Liberty township, Trumbull county, farmer and
dairyman, living on the R. F. D. Route No. 3, out from Youngstown,
was born on the same farm on which he now resides, Dec. 28, 1874.
His father was William Allen Taylor, born in 1835 on the same
farm. The great-grandfather settled on this tract of land more
than one hundred years ago. John Taylor purchased the
same from the Connecticut Land Company, or from members of that
company. He was a school teacher and came from Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania. Clyde Taylor now possesses a
letter of recommendation from the board of education of Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, written in 1798. The Taylors are
of Irish descent. John Taylor and wife had six
children: Robert, who is now in his eighty-third year,
lives at Greenfield, Pennsylvania; John, Eliza and George,
all deceased; Sarah, who married John Moore, resides
in Vienna township, Trumbull county, Ohio; William Allen, who
commenced life on his father's farm.
William Allen Taylor married, Nov. 20, 1866,
Harriet Shannon, who was born July 30, 1837, the daughter of
John and Jane (Wilson) Shannon. Her father was a major in
the War of 1812. She was reared by her sister at Boardman, her
mother dying when she was a small girl. Her brother, Thomas
J., was Major Shannon surgeon of the United States army,
who was killed after a battle near Martinsburg, Virginia, by
sharp-shooters. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had two children:
William A., who now lives in Bergholz, Ohio, is married and
has two children - Grace and Dorothy; and Clyde,
of this memoir. The father was politically a Democrat leaning
toward Prohibition. He was a devout member of the Methodist
Episcopal church for fifty-one years, during which long period he
served as steward, trustee and other officer of the church, almost
continuously. He was a liberal contributor to the support of
the church. For forty-one years he took charge of the
communion service of the church at Church Hill. In his
vocation he was a farmer and stock raiser, doing an extensive
shipping business to Pittsburg and eastern markets. In 1883 he
engaged in the coal mining business and had mines at Church Hill,
Trumbull county; Paris, Stark county, and Bergholz, Jefferson
county. He died Mar. 10, 1908, honored and respected and known
as an enterprising citizen.
Clyde Taylor owns a well-improved farm of eighty
acres, on which he carries on general agriculture, making a
specialty, however, of dairying. He operates a milk wagon
route in Youngstown, where he has a paying line of customers.
Mr. Taylor has never married. His mother, who is now
seventy-one years of age, resides with him.
Politically, he is a supporter of the Republican party
and takes an active part in all that tends to elevate his party's
interests. He has been on the board of education, being its
president one year and serving as clerk one year. He was
appointed as township clerk of Liberty township to fill the
unexpired term of Mr. Guy. In his religious faith he
adheres to that of his fathers, and is a member of the Church Hill
Methodist Episcopal church, where he takes active part in all church
work. He is Sunday school superintendent and one of the
trustees of the church.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 - Page
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JOHN
W. TAYLOR, an attorney and real estate dealer, of Cleveland,
is a native of Mecca, Trumbull county, Ohio, born Nov. 10, 1851, a
son of William D., a native of Ireland, who came to America
in 1848, locating at Mecca, Trumbull county. He farmed
in that county until 1880, then moved to Cortland, retired and died
in 1906, aged eighty-seven years. Politically, he was well
known as a Democrat in early life, but in 1880 voted for General
Garfield for President, and ever afterward supported the
Republican ticket. His wife was Mary A. Moran, a native
of Ireland, in which country she was reared and where she was
married. She died in 1854 and for his second wife
William D. Taylor married Roxy Rhoades, who was born in
New York state. By the first marriage there were born three
sons, the youngest of whom was John W., who is the only one
now living.
John W. Taylor was reared on the old homestead
and there remained, teaching school winters until nineteen years of
age. He was educated in the district schools and at the
academy and later attended Western Reserve College. In 1871 he
began clerking in C. S. Field's clothing store at Warren,
Ohio, where he was employed for six years, reading law in the
meantime. In 1875 he was admitted to the bar. He went to
the University of Michigan, and graduated from the law department in
1878. He then set up practice in Warren and continued there
until 1884, when he went to Cleveland, in which city he has resided
ever since, following both law practice and real estate business.
He has made additions to the city, including Ingelside, Douglas
Park, South Bell Avenue and others; he also has made additions in
Newark, Ohio, one in Mansfield, one in Massilon, two in
Toledo, two in Elyria, one in Warren (Park Avenue), one in
Painesville and one in Adrian, Michigan, and other lesser two
additions.
Mr. Taylor is identified with the Masonic
fraternity, belonging to the Royal Arch degree; also belongs to the
Ohio Society of New York and the Buckeye Club of New York; the
Colonial Club of Cleveland and the Chember of Commerce.
He is a director and honorary president of the Cleveland Real Estate
Board, in which organization he is prominent. He is the
president and treasurer of the Taylor Land and Improvement
Company; also director and vice-president of the Land Title Abstract
Company of Cleveland, and president and treasurer of the Euclid
Avenue Investment Company. Mr. Taylor has been very
successful in his realty operations and has accumulated a handsome
competency through the law and real estate business combined.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 -
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JOHN
THOMPSON, deceased, who in his lifetime was a large
landholder in Trumbull County, Ohio, was a native of Ireland, born
April 19, 1840, a son of John and Ellen (Dobson) Thompson,
also natives of Ireland. They came to the United States
bringing with them and three eldest children and leaving the three
youngest in Ireland. Among the number of John of this memoir,
he being the eldest of the three left across the sea.
In 1856, when John Thompson was sixteen years of
age, he being the last one of the family left, worked and secured
funds with which to pay his transportation to this country. He
came to Bristol township, Trumbull county, Ohio, where his parents
then lived, and where he worked on a farm by the month until
his marriage to MARIETTA HYDE, Aug. 27, 1868. She was
born in Bristol township, November 10, 1841, a daughter or Nelson
and Adelia Ann (Green) Hyde. The father was born
in Farmington township and the mother in New York state. The
grandparents, Eli and Hannah (Porter) Hyde, were natives of
Connecticut and of English descent; and Waite P. and Dolly (Peck)
Green were natives of New York. In 1818 the
grandparents Hyde went to Farmington township, settled on
timber land, which they purchased, clearing up and finely improving
it. They remained there until the death of grandfather Hyde.
Mrs. Thompson's parents were married in Farmington township
and moved to Bristol township, bought a timber farm, cleared the
same up, and sold out, after which they bought another place within
the same township. The father died there in May, 1904, aged
eighty-six years. His faithful wife died in 1875.
After John Thompson had married he purchased one
hundred and seven acres of land in the eastern part of Bristol
township. He made further improvements on this farm, in 1880
erecting a frame house, having lived in the old frame house up to
that date. He made many valuable farm improvements and as he
could afford it kept adding to his landed estate, until he owned,
free of incumbrance, three hundred and fifty acres of choice
farming land, all within Bristol township. He carried on
general farming and raised much stock. He was killed by
accident - a tree falling upon his body - January 29, 1902. He
was an excellent man and one who believed in good citizenship and
who never failed to provide for his family. Politically he
voted the Republican ticket. The children born to Mr. and
Mrs. Thompson were: Frank N. of Bristol township;
Robert Clinton, of the same township; and Elmer M., of
Warren, Ohio.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 -
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JOHN C. THOMPSON, a highly respected citizen of Trumbull
countyresiding in Bazetta township, was born on the 14th of April,
1840, in Howland township of this county, a son of Jonathan and
Jane (Mitchell) Thompson. Jonathan Thompson, a
native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, born in 1798, came to Howland
township in 1820 and put in a '"'still"' at Howland
Corners, while later he rented a farm and died there in 1852, an
old time Jacksonian Democrat. He and his estimable wife were
the parents of ten children, born in the following order: Henry,
deceased; Rachael, deceased; Jane, the wife of
William Craig, of Topeka, Indiana: Daniel,
Celia and Jonathan, all deceased; John C.,
who is mentioned below; Mary, residing in Warren, Ohio, the
wife of Jerry Green; and James and Abbie, also
deceased. Jonathan Thompson, the father, was a
son of Henry Thompson, also from Pennsylvania.
John C. Thompson received a common school
education, and as his father died when he was but fourteen years of
age, he thereafter lived with neighbors for five years, and he was
just then at the age when a boy most needs the watchful care of a
kind father to start him aright in life. After this he worked
by the month on a farm, and as he advanced in age he engaged in
buying and selling farms. He now has a fine twenty-acre tract of
land situated on the Cortland road, and in addition has a good
residence in Warren.
He married in 1864 Emily Wilson, who was
born in Howland township in 1842, and died in 1888, leaving no
issue. In 1893 Mr. Thompson married Ettie
Simpson, born in 1852 in Mahoning county, and she died on the
8th of May, 1907, without issue. In his religious faith he is
a Free Will Methodist, and politically he is a Republican.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 -
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MARRIETTA H. THOMPSON
- See JOHN THOMPSON
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 -
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W.
S. THOMPSON, a good representative of the medical profession
practicing at Girard, was born in Carroll county, Ohio, Sept. 19,
1870, a son of James M. and Mary (Tinlin) Thompson. The
father was a native of Carroll county, Ohio, and the mother of
Scotland. The father is a retired farmer at Carrolton, Carroll
county. They were the parents of four children, all of whom
are still living, the doctor being the eldest in the family.
He was reared to farm labor on the old homestead farm and had the
advantages of the most excellent public schools of his native county
and attended Harlem Springs College.v He then taught school for a
time, after which he was graduated from Starling Medical College, at
Columbus, Ohio, in 1896. He located in the practice of
medicine at Harlem Springs, where he remained six and a half years,
coming to Girard in 1902, and has since been busily engaged in
attending to an extensive and rapidly increasing practice.
The doctor is connected with the Trumbull County
Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In
fraternal relations he is a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of
Pythias, Eagles, Royal Arcanum and Protected Home Circle societies.
In politics, he was active in the Republican party in Carroll
county, Ohio, and was a member of the central committee. He
held such position at the time President McKinley was
elected.
Dr. Thompson was married to Miss Emma
L. Moore, of Carrollton, Ohio, on Dec. 24, 1896. They were
the parents of one son, Raymond, who resides with the doctor
at Girard, Ohio. His wife died on Dec. 1, 1901, at the home at
Harlem Springs, Ohio, and after the doctor came to Girard he was
married in the month of June, 1903, to Miss Minnie L. Fisher,
of Columbus, Ohio, a daughter of Siron Fisher."
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 -
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ELMER E.
TRAVIS, one of the substantial farmers of Bristol township,
Trumbull county, was born Oct. 22, 1869, in Bristol, Ohio. He
is a son of Chauncey E. and Elizabeth (Barb) Travis, both
natives of Trumbull county. Chauncey E. Travis was born
on the 6th of April, 1839, and died on the 7th of July, 1898, and
his wife, Elizabeth, born Feb. 14, 1839, died Oct. 22, 1900.
She was a daughter of Solomon and Susan (Spitler) Barb, both
from Trumbull county. Solomon Barb died on the 30th of
Jan., 1848, and his wife Susan, born July 10, 1817, died Nov.
1, 1840. On the paternal side the grandparents of Elmer E.
Travis were Samuel and Elizabeth (Orr) Travis. Samuel
Travis was born Feb. 13, 1801, in Saratoga county, New York, and
died Dec. 8, 1894, and Elizabeth (Orr) Travis, his wife, was
born Sept. 10, 1800 and died Sept. 17, 1885.
Sylvanus Travis, father of Samuel, was
born Oct. 6, 1752, in England, but came to America before the
Revolutionary war and was a captain in the army under George
Washington. He married Mrs. Sarah (Baker) Smith,
born in Holland Nov. 3, 1753. They settled in the state of New
York, on the Hudson river, and of their eight children Samuel
was the youngest. On the 17th of Nov., 1821, he married
Elizabeth Orr, from Rensselaer county, New York, but her father
was born in Ireland and her mother in England.
Samuel and Elizabeth (Orr) Travis emigrated to
Farmington, Ohio, in 1835, and thence to Bristol about 1844, where
they purchased a small farm and lived until the spring of 1885.
They then went to the home of their son, Chauncey, and spent
the remainder of their lives there. Samuel Travis was
by trade a shoemaker, and teh family suffered many hardships during
the pioneer days. He was one of the best shots on the Western
Reserve and killed many a wild deer, wolf and wild turkey.
Samuel and Elizabeth Travis had ten children, as follows:
Sarah, Nicholas, Fanny, Seth, Isaiah, Smith, Sylvanus, Charles,
Chauncey and Mary, all of whom are deceased with the
exception of Nicholas, who lives in Minnesota, and Smith
and Mary, both of Bristol, Trumbull county.
Chauncey E. Travis and Elizabeth Barb were
married in Bloomfield township, Sept. 29, 1858. After their
marriage they located in a log house in Bristol, and later on
purchased a farm in Bristol township, where they spent the remainder
of their lives. He was a prominent farmer and stock raiser.
He gave his political support to the Republican party, and while
serving as a soldier in the Civil war he was wounded in the hand.
There were four children in their family: Rosie, who married
Emmet Kincaid and has one child, Blanch E.; Charles M.,
who married Martha Kniffin, and their only child
died in infancy; Sarah J., whose husband, Fred Abrams,
died Aug. 1, 1895, leaving a child, Lana E., born Dec. 17,
1894; and Elmer E.
Elmer E. Travis, the youngest of the children,
attended the public schools of Bristol and he remained at home until
the death of his parents. He then purchased the interest of
the other heirs, and has since carried on the work of the old
homestead, his sister, Mrs. Abrams, and her daughter residing
with him, as he never married. In politics he is a firm
supporter of the principles of the Republican party, and fraternally
he is a member of the Knights of Maccabees, Lodge No. 181, of
Bristol.
The Travis family have been residents of Bristol
township during three generations, and some of them have war
records. Sylvanus was a captain in the Revolutionary
War, Samuel served as a drummer boy in the war of 1812, and
Chauncey was a soldier in the Civil War.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County,
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