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BIOGRAPHIES
(Source #1: Mack, Horace - History of Columbiana
County, Ohio : with illustrations and biographical sketches of
some of its prominent men and pioneers.
Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879, 372 pgs. )
(Source #2 - History of Upper
Ohio Valley - Vol. I - Madison, Wis. - Brant & Fuller - 1891)
(Source #3
- History of Columbiana County, Ohio:
Historical Publ. Co. Topeka - Indianapolis - 1926)
NOTE: As Always, Biographies will be transcribed upon
request.
Sharon W.
| B. R.
PARKE, M. D., a popular physician and surgeon, was
born near Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, Sept. 20, 1842, the
son of James and Amanda (McGahan) Parke. He was
reared principally in Allegheny county, Penn., and received
his educational training in Washington and Jefferson
college. After the close of the war, in which he
served three years, as a member of Hampton's battery,
Independent Pennsylvania artillery he began the reading of
medicine, in 1866, with Dr. Robert McCready, of
Sewickley, Penn. He was graduated from the Jefferson
medical college in the spring of 1870, and entered upon the
practice of his profession the same year in Allegheny city,
where he remained until his removal to Jefferson county,
Ohio, in 1872. He practiced in Jefferson county until
March 1880, at which time he became a resident of
Wellsville, and has since enjoyed a lucrative patronage in
this town and adjacent country. He was married in
April, 1870, to Lida C., daughter of John Haldeman,
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JAMES
R. PERCIVAL, the efficient and popular proprietor of
the Valley House, of Leetonia, Ohio, was in Youngstown,
Ohio, in 1838, the son of Ranceford, Ohio, was born in
Youngstown, Ohio, in 1838, the son of Ranceford and Abigail
Percival, natives of Massachusetts and New York,
respectively. The parents were married in North
Norwich, New York, and almost immediately thereafter removed
to Ohio, locating in Youngstown in 1837, where they resided
until 1864, when they removed to New Lisbon. Here the
father died in March, 1890, having lived a life of
usefulness. The mother still lives in New Lisbon.
James received his education in the Youngstown public
schools, and afterwards entered the employ of the Atlantic &
Great Western railway, with whom he remained until the
breaking out of the civil war. In 1861 he enlisted in
Company B, Nineteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, serving the
first three months as corporal, and at the expiration of
that time the regiment, having been re-organized, he was
made first lieutenant, a post he held until 1862, when he
was promoted for bravery to a captaincy by Gen. Tod.
subsequently he was made a brevet major. Mr.
Percival served in all of the battles in which his
regiment was engaged during the war, among them being
Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge,
Perrysville, and many other battles too numerous to mention.
At the battle of Missionary Ridge Maj. Percival,
being in ill-health, sent in his resignation, which was
accepted, but the battle coming on almost immediately
thereafter he remained with his company, and then returned
home, having made a record as a brave and loyal soldier.
After returning to Youngstown Mr. Percival was
engaged as a local editor on several different papers of the
county until his removal to New Castle, where he remained
for a time. Locating in New Lisbon he entered the
mercantile business there, which he continued for several
years, and during this time was appointed oil inspector
under Governor Hoadley. His next move was to
Beaver Falls, where he managed a hotel for one year at this
time he came to Leetonia and took charge of the Valley
House. In 1861 he married Miss Martha E. Murray,
of Meadville, Penn., and they have one daughter, Mary T.
Mr. Percival is a member of the Masonic lodge, No.
65, of New Lisbon. The family are communicants of the
Presbyterian church. Although Mr. Percival
takes little active interest in political affairs, yet he is
an ardent democrat. Since his coming to Leetonia he
has not only made a success of the hotel venture, but has
made many warm personal friends as well as a host of
acquaintances.
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JOHN
C. PIKE, son of Hugh and Mary Ann (Crawford) Pike,
was born April 12, 1810. He was the third in a
family of ten children, - six boys and four girls, - eight
of whom are now living. John C. spent his youth
on his father's farm in Elk Run township. His father
emigrated to this country about 1796, and settled in
Washington Co., Pa., where he was engaged at his trade as
weaver for eight years. In 1804 he removed to
Columbiana County, and settled in Elk Run township on a
section of land which he cleared up and brought under a
state of cultivation. Here he resided till his death,
which occurred May 20, 1835.
On Feb. 13, 1834, John C. was married to Maria,
daughter of John and Sophia C. Frederick, of Centre
township. She was born Nov. 29, 1810. By this
union six children were born to them, namely: De Lorma F.,
born July 17, 1835 (married Cora Arter, of Hanover, -
two children, Georgia and Grant Omer); Mary
Ann, born March 6, 1838 (married Aaron Arter, of
Hanover, have three children - Artemus, John S., and
Olietta); Sophia C., born March 5, 1841
(married Jesse B. Frost, of Centre township have
three children, - Wilbur L., Fanny E., and Frank
O.); Robert T., born March 9, 1843 (married Louisa
Springer, have five children, - Linda M., Jenny R.,
Mary L., John T., and Olive S.); Maria M., born
Jan. 23, 1845; died Dec. 26, 1848; Hannah J., born
Oct. 29, 1847 (married William Rudisill, of
Centre, have two children, - Maria R. and John
C.).
After his marriage John C. purchased a farm
in Elk Run and worked it two years, when he sold out and
moved to Paris, Stark Co., Ohio, where he went into a
mercantile business, which he followed four years, then sold
out and removed to Centre township, and purchased a farm of
two hundred and sixty acres, to which has been added at
different times three hundred and forty, making a farm of
six hundred acres where he has resided since.
Politically, he was originally a Whig, but since the
organization of the Republican party, has been a staunch
Republican. For the past eighteen years both he and
his wife have been members of the Methodist church, he
having been a class-leader in the same for several years.
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A. L.
PUGH, a reliable and successful young business man of
East Liverpool, was born at New Cumberland, Ohio, Nov. 23,
1893, the son of George W. and Mary Belle (Allison) Pugh.
George W. Pugh, deceased, was born at Pughtown, W.
Va., and was a prosperous farmer during his life. He
owned about 500 acres of well improved land and was an
extensive stockman. He died in 1915 and is buried at
Chester, W. Va. His wife resides at Chester.
Mr. Pugh was a Republican, and served as a member of the
council at New Cumberland for two terms. Four children
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pugh: Arthur F.,
a farmer, lives near Chester, W. Va.; A. L., the
subject of this sketch; Clarence lives at Chester;
and Mabel, who lives with her mother.
A. L. Pugh attended the public schools of New
Cumberland and Chester and remained on the home farm with
his father until 1915, at which time he entered the employ
of the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, with whom he
remained until 1921. He spent the following two years
as a thresher and later was connected with the Superior Cord
Tire Company of Chester. In the meantime Mr. Pugh
established a cement block business at Chester and in
January, 1924, removed the business to East Liverpool.
He manufactures Cement blocks, granite faced cast stone
blocks, window sills, panels and copings. The plant is
equipped to turn out 700 blocks daily.
On Nov. 24, 1920, Mr. Pugh was united in
marriage to Miss Gertrude Stevenson, who was born at
Wick, W. Va., the daughter of W. L. and Carrie (Bartley)
Stevenson. They have a daughter, Donna
Margaret, born at Chester, Dec. 24, 1921.
Mr. Pugh is a Republican, a member of the
Methodist Church and a substantial citizen of the community.
(Source #3) |
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