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History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio
Vols. 1 & 2
By Jos. G. Butler, Jr. -Publ. American Historical Society -
Chicago & New York
1921
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HIRAM
J. BEARDSLEY, who is the owner of one of the largest and best
farms in Canfield Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, and is one of the
respected and capable public workers of that section of the county,
comes of one of the families of early residence in that section.
He is a successful farmer, a public-spirited citizen, and has been
especially prominent in movements that sought to appreciably improve
the roads through the township. He is vice president of the
Farmers National Bank of Canfield, has been township trustee and is
a member of the School Board.
He was born on the Newton farm east of Canfield on Aug.
3, 1878, the son of Almus and Mary P. (Dean) Beardsley.
The Dean and the Beardsley families were from Connecticut,
and of colonial record in that state. Philo and Esther
(Curtis) Beardsley, great-grandparents of Hiram J., lived
in that state. His grandparents were Philo and Lois S.
(Gunn) Beardsley, both born in Connecticut, the former in 1794.
Further details regarding the eight children of Philo and Esther
(Curtis) Beardsley will be found elsewhere in this edition of
Mahoning Valley history. In early manhood Philo (2)
Beardsley came into the Western Reserve of Ohio, and for a short
time was of record in Hubbard. He soon returned to
Connecticut, however, but not long afterward returned with his wife
and settled about half a mile to the northward of the present home
of his grandson, Hiram J. He lived there for the
remainder of his life, which ended when he had passed his seventieth
year. Almus, father of Hiram J., operated the
home farm in the last yeas of his father's life. Philo
was twice married, his first wife dying when Almus was about
nineteen years old. His second wife was a widow of the name of
Smith, but whether that was her marital cognomen, or her
pre-nuptial patronymic does not appear in data at present available.
Almus was one of the twelve children
of Philo, and was born in Canfield Township, Mahoning County,
on Jan. 2, 1829. He grew into sturdy, self-reliant manhood,
and before he had attained majority he used to take stock long
distances. He was twenty years old when he drove sheep over
the mountains to Philadelphia, at the insignificant pay of forty
cents daily. He walked back, accomplishing forty-five miles on
the last day. Soon afterward he went on another long journey
with cattle, driving a herd into Connecticut. In such healthy
activity he passed his early years. For a few years he worked
for Ensign Newton, for whom he would travel through the
neighborhood buying and driving in stock, and eventually taking a
herd to market. Subsequently the farm upon which he was born
passed into his possession, and during his busy farming life he was
quite a successful breeder of Shire horses and Jersey cattle,
gaining some prominence as such at the county fairs, at which for
many years he was an exhibitor. He came to his present farm
about forty years ago, and the cultivation of its 340 acres brought
him ultimately to a position of material independence, and
eventually into a comfortable state in retirement. He and his
brother, Philo A. were Free Soilers, and as a republican
Almus cast his first vote in the presidential election of 1852.
In 1886 he built the fine brick dwelling now on his property,
tearing down at that time a brick residence built many years before
by William Dean, a pioneer settler and grandfather of his
wife. Almus Beardsley did not closely follow political
movements, at least not so closely as to personally take part
prominently in them, but he was a man much respected in the
community, and throughout his life took interest in matters that
pertained directly to the community. He was a lover of horses,
and always kept a good driving horse. He was twenty-five years
old when he married Mary P. Dean, daughter of Hiram Dean,
and granddaughter of William, the pioneer. She was born
on an adjacent farm in Canfield Township, and lived a long life, and
an especially long life in marriage; in fact, she had the
satisfaction of celebrating their golden wedding. They had six
children: Doctor, who died in infancy; Frederick, who
also died in childhood; Ensign Newton, who is now a
successful farmer of Green Township, Mahoning County; Hiram J.,
regarding whose life more follows; Sarah, who married
Willis Wilson, but is now deceased; and Ruby, who married
Ewing Gault, but is now deceased.
Almus Beardsley is a man of strict
religious principle. For very many years he has been a member
of the local church of the Disciples of Christ denomination, and has
been consistent in his general life, with the tenets of that church.
Hiram J., fourth child of Almus and Mary P.
(Dean) Beardsley, has lived practically all his life in close
association with his father. As a boy he attended the local
public school, and further took the course at the Ohio Normal
College at Canfield. For fifteen years he has been in control
of the parental farm of 340 acres, and he has shown that he is a
farmer of enterprising mind and thorough in his operations. He
is one of the large dairy farmers of that section of the county, has
maintained a fine herd of Jersey cattle, and has entered extensively
into the breeding of Berkshire hogs and Percheon horses. Like
his father, he has had good success as an exhibitor at local fairs.
He has taken consequential part in township affairs, has served as
Township Trustee, and was one of the pioneers of the Good Roads
movement. In association with Mark Liddle and others he
was instrumental in bringing about the construction of the first
state macadamized road to Youngstown. The first macadamized
road through Canfield Township was the outcome of strenuous efforts
exerted by Mr. Beardsley and those associated with him, and
the subject is one which calls for persistent efforts still by those
who have the welfare of the township at heart. Mr.
Beardsley continues a keen worker in that phase of township
affairs, and has also entered into other civic work. He is a
member of the school board, and has concerned himself effectively in
increasing the educational efficiency of the local schools.
Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic fraternity.
In June, 1904, he married Ellen Zeiger, daughter
of John Zeiger, of New Middletown, Ohio, where the latter
still lives. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram J. Beardsley have one
child, their son Dean, who is now a high school student.
In 1919 Mr. H. J. Beardsley journeyed to Connecticut so that
he might visit the an-central home of the Beardsley family in
Litchfield County of that state. He has an enviable standing
in Canfield Township, and has for many years been a director of the
Farmers National Bank of Canfield, of which he is also vice
president.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio - Vols. 2
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By Jos. G. Butler, Jr. -Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York
1921 - Page 87 |
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PHILO A.
BEARDSLEY, retired farmer of Canfield Township, Mahoning
County, Ohio, and for thirty-five years a successful farmer in
Andover, Ashtabula County, is a Civil war veteran of honorable
record, and comes of a family long known and of good record in
Mahoning County.
He was born in Canfield Township, Mahoning County, on
May 20, 1841, the son of Philo and Lois S. (Gunn) Beardsley.
The Beardsley family, of colonial residence in Connecticut,
was a pioneer record in the Mahoning Valley of Ohio, his parents
having early settled in Canfield Township. The Connecticut
home of the Beardsley family is in Litchfield County, and
Philo (2), son of Philo (1) and Esther (Curtis)
Beardsley, and father of Philo A., subject of this
sketch, was born there in 1794. Philo (2) Beardsley
came into Ohio in early manhood, and for a short time was a resident
of Canfield. That trip appears to have been a prospecting
journey, for he soon afterward returned to Connecticut, and shortly
afterward came back into Ohio, this time with his wife, and settled
in Canfield Township, where for the remainder of his life he lived
(More regarding the early generations of the Beardsley family
will be found in other references tabulated for inclusion in this
edition). Philo had passed his seventieth year before he
died, and had been twice married, his first wife dying when Philo
A. was only about seven years old.
Philo A., son of Philo (2) and Lois S.
(Gunn) Beardsley, was the youngest of their twelve children.
He attended the local schools in boyhood, and afterward assisted his
father and brothers in the operation of the home farm. He was
not twenty years old when the Civil war began, and was one of the
two to enlist in Company F, Forty-First Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
His fellow-townsman and comrade was Dillow P. Duer, who
eventually was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, dying as the result
thereof. Beardsley and Duer went to Cleveland to
join the regiment, and Beardsley eventually participated in
all the engagements and major battles in which his regiment, a unit
of the Army of the Cumberland, took part with the exception of the
battle of Chickamauga in September, 1863, he having been sent back
to Chattanooga with a detachment of prisoners at that time. So
that he was in some of the severest fighting of the whole war.
In the fighting between November 30 and December 16, 1864, in
Tennessee were lost 141 of 375 engaged in the battle of Franklin and
the resulting battle of Nashville, which resulted in the defeat of
the Confederate forces under General Hood, who sought to
invade Tennessee and thus force General Sherman to turn back
from Georgia. In another battle his reorganized company lost
121 out of 400 engaged. Philo A. Beardsley served a
full enlistment, and, the war not being over, re-enlisted. He
served in Texas for a short time, and was discharged on Nov. 27,
1865. As was to be expected, of course, he had many exciting
adventures. Once, going down the Ohio River from Nashville,
the Federal boat encountered a Confederate monitor, which sank the
boat within fifteen minutes, forcing the troops to jump into the
river. All the horses aboard were lost, as were also all the
service records of the soldiers. He had many narrow escapes
from death. Once, a cannon ball struck him in the shoulder,
knocking him off his feet, but not seriously wounding him. His
complete army record was a meritorious one. He served under
Col. William B. Hazen, and advanced through all the grades from
private to first lieutenant. As a non-commissioned officer he
had charge of the guard at General Hazen's headquarters at
Knoxville, and as a commissioned officer he spent the summer of 1865
in San Antonio Arsenal, Texas. Finally his original company
was under his command, and at that time it contained only nine of
the men who had enlisted in 1861. After being mustered out of
military service he was for about a year in New York state, and
there in 1868 he married Caroline Zeigler, soon after which
he returned to Ohio and took up his residence on a thirty-acre farm
his father had given him. Three years later his father died,
and it was not long after that Philo A. went to Ashtabula
County, Ohio, and at twenty-seven dollars an acre bought a farming
property situated in Andover Township. There he and his family
lived for thirty-five years. He did some clearing of timber,
rebuilt and remodeled the residence, and brought his farm into a
profitable state. His wife died in May, 1901, and in August of
the following year, 1902, he married Mary Hine, of Canfield,
daughter of Chester and Rhoda (Wadsworth) Hine, of Canfield.
Her father was a farmer west of Canfield, where she was born.
He died in 1880, aged sixty-three years. After his death her
mother and her three sisters, Lois, Pamela and Frances,
went into Canfield Village to live, where her mother died in 1883.
Her sister Frances has since died, a spinster, at the age of
sixty years, but her sisters Lois and Pamela still
live in Canfield. Mrs. Beardsley through her mother,
Rhoda (Wadsworth) Hine, comes into the genealogy of the
prominent colonial Connecticut family. Benjamin Wadsworth,
Doctor of Divinity, was president of Harvard University in 1725;
James Wadsworth was a brigadier-general in the Continental Army
in 1776; and many other scions of that family are of prominent
record in legislative, professional or civic New England record of
early centuries. Mrs. Beardsley's mother was a daughter
of Edward Wadsworth and granddaughter of Elijah Wadsworth,
who are of pioneer Ohio record. And prior to her marriage to
Philo A. Beardsley, Mary (Hine) Beardsley was for fifteen
years the widow of his cousin, Henry Curtis Beardsley, who
died in Canfield in 1887. She was very many years his junior
at the time of their marriage, and to him she bore two children,
their daughter Oda, who married George Wolf, but died
at the age of twenty-four years; and their son Edward, who
owns a ranch in Arizona; but there has been no issue to her second
marriage.
The children born to the marriage of Philo A.
Beardsley and Caroline Zeigler were: Addie, who married
Claude Black, a railroad official of Conneaut, Ohio; Kate,
who married Albert Tinker, of Cleveland; Harry, who is
in commercial life, a salesman at Conneaut, Ohio.
First Lieut. Philo A. Beardsley is affiliated
with a post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Andover, Ohio, and
is esteemed among his veteran comrades in that place.
Fraternally he is a Mason and politically he is a republican.
He has lived a consistent Christian life, and since early manhood,
has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Henry C. Beardsley, cousin of Philo A.
Beardsley and former husband of his wife, Mary (Hine)
Beardsley, was the youngest of the eight children of Curtis
and Sophia Beardsley. He had but one brother, William
who lived and died in Geauga County. The only surviving son of
Henry C. is Edward Henry, of Canfield, whose second
son, Jay E. is now a veteran of the World war, having served
in the United States Navy, on the U. S. S. Marblehead, for two
years.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio - Vols. 2
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By Jos. G. Butler, Jr. -Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York
1921 - Page 89 |
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ENSIGN
N. BROWN, president of the Mahoning County Bar Association
and former president of the Ohio State Bar Association, has been a
Youngstown lawyer forty years. While a native of the old town
of Canfield, he spent his early years in the East, and through his
mother's family is related to some of the earliest as well as the
most prominent pioneers of the Mahoning Valley.
Mr. Brown was born at Canfield, Dec. 9, 1854,
son of Richard and Thalia Fitch (Newton) Brown. His
grandfather, Capt. John Brown, was an officer in the British
Army and participated in the Battle of Waterloo. He came to
the United States about 1840 and lived at Canfield, Ohio, until his
death about 1860.
Richard Brown was also a native of
England, where his father for several years was a farmer.
Richard had only a limited education, but gained a great amount
of knowledge during his many years of practical business experience.
At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a draper and dry goods
merchant, spending seven years in learning the business. He
acquired a metropolitan experience in London and later in Paris, and
about 1844 came to the United States. For a time he gave his
services to two of the greatest mercantile houses of New York City,
Lord & Taylor and A. T. Stewart. Subsequently he
engaged independently in merchandising in New York, where he
remained until 1877. His health having become impaired, in
that year he returned to Canfield, Ohio, where he had found his
wife, and he died at Canfield in 1888, at the age of seventy-one.
Comparatively few people known that one of the founders
of the now world-wide institution of the Young Men's Christian
Association at one time lived in Mahoning County. Mr. Brown,
while in London, was associated with George Williams in
organizing the first Young Men's Christian Association in the world
in that city. Later Williams was knighted by Queen
Victoria. After coming to the United States Richard Brown
and others organized in New York City the first Young Men's
Christian Association in this country and served as its first
treasurer.
Thalia Fitch Newton, wife of Richard Brown
and mother of the Youngstown lawyer, was a daughter of Judge
Eben Newton. Judge Eben Newton was one of the really
distinguished lawyers, jurists and public leaders in Ohio during the
first half of the nineteenth century. Born in Connecticut in
1795, he first came to Ohio about 1814, read law at Ravenna, and was
admitted to the bar at Warren in 1823. For twenty years he was
a partner of Elisha Whittlesey, long a member of Congress and
at one time Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States.
For a short time Judge Newton was in practice at Cincinnati,
with Rutherford B. Hayes , afterward president of the United
States, as partner. He was elected to the State Senate in
1840, resigning to the the office of president judge of the Third
Judicial District. While in that office he had the distinction
of holding the first session of the Common Pleas Court in the newly
created Mahoning County in 1846. In 1850 he was elected to
Congress, and during the Civil war was again a member of the State
Senate. He was also president of two railroad lines in
Northeastern Ohio, was prominent in agricultural circles, and helped
train a number of young men for the law, including the great Ohioans
Ben F. Wade, Joshua R. Giddings and others.
Judge Newton married Mary S. Church a daughter of
Ensign Church.
Ensign N. Brown was reared in New York City, where
he was educated in private schools. He had for his teachers
two noted educators, Dr. George P. Quackenbos and Dr.
Henry B. Chapin Under the latter he was prepared for
college, but failing eyesight compelled him to abandon his college
career. For a number of years he was associated with his
father at New York in the business of importing laces and
embroideries.
Mr. Brown returned to Mahoning County in 1878
for the purpose of looking after the property of Judge Newton,
then in advanced years. At the request of Judge Newton
he took up the study of law, finishing his reading with the firm of
Van Hyning & Johnson. He was admitted to
the bar in 1880, and until his mother's death in 1889 lived at
Canfield, though practicing in Youngstown. His home has been
in the latter city since 1889. Of late years Mr. Brown
has specialized somewhat in mechanics' liens and buildings
contracts, though still doing a general practice. He was
elected president of the State Bar Association in 1918, and was
chosen president when the Mahoning County Bar Association was
organized in 1919. Mr. Brown is a Royal Arch Mason and
a republican.
Sept. 220, 1876, he married Miss Jeannette Cooper,
a daughter of John Cooper, a New York City merchant.
They have two children, Genevieve Newton and Bessie Hunt.
The family are members of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Brown has long been prominent not only in
St. John's parish at Youngstown but in the diocese. He is
present junior warden of the parish, and for twenty-five years has
been delegate from the parish to the Ohio diocese. Since 1910
he has represented the diocese in four general convention of the
church. For years he has also been a member of the Committee
of Canons of the diocese and a member of the Committee of Canons of
the General Church, and for ten years has been one of the standing
committee of the diocese. In the spring of 1920, the former
chancellor having died, Mr. Brown was appointed Chancellor of
the Diocese of Ohio and is now acting as such.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio - Vols. 2
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By Jos. G. Butler, Jr. -Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York
1921 - Page 227 |
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FREDERICK C. BROWN, manager of
the East Federal Street Branch of the Dollar Savings & Trust
Company, is one of the sound financiers of Youngstown and a man held
in high esteem by his associates. He was born in New York City
on Feb. 20, 1870, a son of Richard and Thalia (Newton) Brown.
The family came to Canfield, the old county seat of Mahoning County,
in 1877, and here the father died in 1887. He had been engaged
in mercantile pursuits in New York City, and came to Canfield on
account of failing health. His wife was a daughter of Judge
Eben Newton, one of the famous oldtime jurists of Mahoning
County.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio - Vols. 2
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Edmond L. Brown |
JOSEPH HENRY BROWN. In
any technical discussion of the iron and steel industry of the
Mahoning Valley the activities of the late Joseph Henry Brown
would command frequent attention. As a matter of fact he stood
as one of hte great iron masters in America for many years.
While it might be said that he lived from early boyhood in the very
atmosphere of blast furnaces and iron and steel mills, he was also a
broad gauge business man, and as a citizen his strenuous energy and
liberal purposes makes him a figure long to be remembered in
Youngstown.
He was born in Glamorganshire, Wales, July 24, 1810,
but his parents, John and Elizabeth (Swain) Brown, were
natives of England. When he was about four years of age, and
soon after the close of the War of 1812, between Great Britain and
the United States, the Brown family came to America, making
their early home in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Fully a
century ago the Browns were pioneers among the iron
manufacturers of Pennsylvania. As a boy Joseph Henry Brown
had every opportunity to familiarize himself with the then crude
technique of iron making. One of his employers possessed a
splendid library, and the young workman gained much of his education
out of that library. All his life long he read deeply and
thoroughly of the great book of knowledge spread out before every
man of affairs. In early life he held the position of foreman
of an iron plant operated by water power in Franklin County,
Pennsylvania. Later he engaged in the mercantile iron trade at
New Castle, and from there came to Youngstown in 1855.
On coming to Youngstown he was associated with two or
three other practical iron men, one of whom was the late William
Bonnell. Mr. Brown inspected a small iron plant
that had been constructed on the banks of the canal about 1843 and
had been allowed to be dismantled, the building being chiefly used
as a stable. He leased the property with privilege of buying,
and subsequently with his associates organized a company after known
as Brown, Bonnell, Westerman & Company. At first they
started a small guide mill, and soon afterward were added a nail
plate mill and nail factory and a puddling department. Other
ground was bought and on it a blast furnace was built and another
rolling mill. They also bought a blast furnace on adjoining
property. By this time the company were giving employment to
approximately five hundred men. This in brief outline is a
history, familiar to all old iron men, of the noted Brown-Bonnell
plant at Youngstown. The Westerman interests of the
company were bought by Chicago capital, at which time the company
was incorporated as the Brown-Bonnell Iron Company, with
Mr. Brown as president. He continued in this official
capacity until about the time he sold his interests, in 1876, to
Herbert Ayer of Chicago.
Not long afterward Mr. Brown organized the
Joseph H. Brown Iron & Steel Company of Chicago, and moved his
residence to the lake city. This company built a rolling mill
on the Calumet River, in South Chicago. Mr. Brown
personally leased this property and added to it a blast furnace and
a large nail factory. These plants were operated under a
partnership arrangement known as the Joseph H. Brown &
Company. After a few years in Chicago Mr. Brown sold
out his interests there in 1881 and at that time retiring from all
active business pursuits, returned to his former home and congenial
associations at Youngstown.
Under the direction of Brown-Bonnell Company
constructed one of the first two closed-top blast furnaces, an
innovation that revolutionized the blast furnace practice of the
country. That was perhaps the most noteworthy but by no means
all of his improvements contributed to the technical processes of
iron and steel manufacture. He was a master mind in the iron
business in another sense. Until he retired, for a number of
years he was president of the National Tariff League of America.
He frequently was called to the national capital as an expert before
the Ways and Means Committee of Congress to discuss tariff
legislation, and his business integrity, his personality, and the
vigorous and concise appeal he could make undoubtedly had an great
influence over the tariff legislation of that period. He was
never in politics for the sake of public office, though it has been
well said that little of interest ever occurred in the Mahoning
Valley with which he was not in some way connected. He was for
a number of years president of the Mahoning National Bank of
Youngstown. He was actively affiliated with the Methodist
Church.
Joseph Henry Brown, whose death occurred at
Youngstown, Nov. 17, 1886, at the age of seventy-six, married
Miss Susanna Oellig. She was of German parentage. They
were the parents of the following children: Mary Jane
who was married to Edwin J. Warner and is now deceased;
Elizabeth Swain, who married the late William Powers of
Youngstown; Susannah A., widow of Rev. Dr. C. E. Felton,
a prominent character of the Methodist Church; Joseph Henry, Jr.,
who died in early manhood; J. Oellig, who died in 1915;
Edmond L.; and Emily and Ella twins.
EDMOND L. BROWN, only
surviving son of the late Joseph H. Brown, was born at New
Castle, Pennsylvania, Nov. 24, 1861, but has spent the greater part
of this life in Youngstown. To a large degree he has
cultivated the same line of business interests as his father,
manufacturing. He was at one time president of the Ohio Powder
Company of Youngstown, and for two years was president of the
Mahoning National Bank. In 1899 he retired form active
business, though his service as executive of the Mahoning National
Bank was rendered subsequent to that date. He and his wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1878 he married Laura Belle McLain, of
Brookville, Pennsylvania. They have two children: Lyda
McLain, wife of George E. Dudley, of Youngstown;
and Edmond S., who is a member of the Dudley Forcier-Taylor
Company.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio - Vols. 2
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NATHANIEL E. BROWN.
While one of the younger officials of the Republic Rubber
Corporation, Nathaniel E. Brown has some of the most
responsible duties in connection with the technical departments,
being superintendent of the mill division. Mr. Brown
went to work at the age of fourteen, and has earned his promotion
largely through the native force of his character and industrial
ability, though at different times he has also come in contact for
brief intervals with technical schools.
He was born at Youngstown, Nov. 30, 1887, and is a
member of an old and honored family of the Mahoning Valley.
His parents were John W. and Clara (Montgomery) Brown, and
his grandfathers were Nathaniel E. Brown and James
Montgomery. Both his father and grandfather were actively
interested in the iron business of the Mahoning Valley.
John W. Brown who for a time was cashier of the Brown-Bonnell
Iron Plant was also well known in public affairs and was elected and
served as county treasurer. He was holding that office at the
time of his death in 1893. His widow is still living and makes
her home in Youngstown.
Nathaniel E. Brown was only six years of age
when his father died. He acquired a public school education
and at fourteen began work to contribute to the support of the
family. His mother at the same time helped by teaching school.
For a time he was in the electrical department of the Ohio plant of
the Carnegie Steel Company and after two years was employed in
electrical work with the Brier Hill Iron & Coal Company. He
remained with that establishment two years, and for about a year was
employed in similar lines by the William B. Pollack Company,
and for eighteen months was in the meter department of the old
Youngstown Consolidated Company.
In the meantime he had done what he could to better his
education. He spent several months in the Mount Herman
Preparatory school in Massachusetts, and for one brief term also
attended the Carnegie School of Technology at Pittsburg.
Mr. Brown has been continuously associated with
the Republic Rubber Corporation of Youngstown since June, 1909 when
he went into its laboratory. Later he became department
manager of the mill department and since 1917 has been division
superintendent of all preparing departments. He is a member of
the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce.
Sept. 25, 1912, he married Miss Edith Resch.
They have two sons, Nathaniel E., Jr. and Richard
Montgomery.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio - Vols. 2
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W. O. Brown |
WILLIAM O. BROWN.
While the greater part of Mr. Browns active career has been
identified with that old established and substantial institution of
journalism in the Mahoning Valley, the Youngstown Vindicator, he had
some years of experience with the local iron and steel industry, and
is a member of that Brown family which has left an indelible
impress upon the Mahoning Valley largely through its enterprise as
iron and steel masters.
Though a resident of Youngstown most of his life,
William O. Brown was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, Mar. 29, 1876.
He is a grandson of Nathaniel E. Brown, one of the founders
of the Brown-Bonnell Iron Company at Youngstown.
His parents were James A. and Martha J. (Martin) Brown.
His father, who was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1852, spent
a number of years at Portsmouth, where he was a bank ashier and
where he married. IN 1878 he moved to Youngstown, and lived on
the site of the present Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, formerly
the home place of Nathaniel E. Brown. Here he was
connected with the Richard Brown flour mill, and later for
about twenty years with the Brown-Bonnell mills. During
that period he had had his home for about six years at Bass Lake,
but returned to Youngstown and died in that city in 1905. The
widowed mother is still living. Her two sons are William O.
and Frank L., the latter vice president of the Columbia Steel &
Shafting Company of Pittsburg.
William O. Brown graduated from the Rayen High
School in 1897, and spent the following six years in the iron and
steel mills. With the Ohio Steel Company he began as a clerk
and messenger boy, and eventually became chief clerk of the
operating department. His service with the Vindicator has been
continuous since 1902. He was assistant business manager for
several years, and is now business manager of the paper.
During the World war Mr. Brown served as captain
and ordnance officer of the Youngstown National Guard organization.
He is a republican, a member of the Youngstown Club, the Rotary
Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Young Men's Christian
Association, and is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and
member of the Mystic Shrine. Sept. 9, 1903, he married Miss
Alma M. Maag. Their two children are Elizabeth Martha
and James William.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio - Vols. 2
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By Jos. G. Butler, Jr. -Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York
1921 - Page 95 |
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PETER J. BURKE Source: History of
Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. American
Historical Society - Chicago & New York - 1921 - Page 3 |
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