Biographies
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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DANIEL CAMPBELL, M. D.
For nearly forty years the talents of Dr. D. Campbell have
covered a wide field of professional service in and around Canfield,
and at the same time he has expressed his energy and public spirit
in behalf of many causes connected with the general welfare and the
commercial life of his town. Doctor Campbell is
president of the Farmers National Bank of Canfield and is a
recognized leader in community affairs.
The Campbell family has been identified with the
Mahoning Valley for over half a century. Doctor Campbell
was born near West Point, Ohio, Apr. 1, 1851. His parents were
Peter and Mary (Rennie) Campbell, natives of Scotland, his
father being a highlander and his mother a lowlander. Peter
Campbell was a tailor by trade. In 1837 he and his wife
came to America by sailing vessel, traveled westward by canal and
lake to Cleveland and thence by wagon to Columbiana County. He
went to Columbiana County influenced by the presence of a brother
who had already become identified with a Scotch settlement in
Madison Township. In 1864 Peter Campbell came to
Youngstown and bought a farm near the city, now known as the
Campbell Allotment, opposite Haselton. The farm at that
time was two miles east of Youngstown, but is now in the city
limits. The old homestead is now occupied by Peter Campbell's
grandson, Bruce Campbell, a nephew of Doctor Campbell.
Peter Campbell died at the age of eighty-one and his wife at
seventy-six. He was a faithful adherent of the Presbyterian
Church but never took any interest in politics. Of his twelve
children eleven reached mature years. The three sons were
William, father of P. S. and Bruce Campbell;
Daniel; and James, whose death at the age age
of twenty-eight cut short a promising career as a scholar and
lawyer. He was a graduate of the Rayen High School, attended
Western Reserve University and Williams College, and was studying
law under Col. Thomas Sanderson when he died unmarried.
Four of the daughters are still living: Mary, widow of
Robert McLauchlan, a former coal operator at Cleveland;
Sarah, who lived at Cleveland, widow of William Poultney
a former furnace manager at Haselton; Louise, now living
retired at Cleveland, where for a number of years she was a teacher
in the public schools; and Martha, wife of M. W. Zedeker,
a well known resident of Poland. The other daughters were:
Janet, who married David Elton and both died at
Cleveland; Margaret, who married Ed Finley, and both
died in Florida, their son William Finley being a resident of
Poland; Elizabeth, who died when past fifty, the wife of
Hamilton Harris, a resident of Youngstown; Helen
(deceased), who was the wife of T. H. Shingledecker, who
lives at Struthers.
Dr. Daniel Campbell was thirteen years of age
when his parents located on the old farm near Youngstown. He
grew up there, graduated from the Rayen High School, and received
his degree in medicine from the Western Reserve Medical College at
Cleveland in 1881. He immediately began practice, and for
nearly thirty-nine years has had his home in Canfield. Only
two other physicians in Mahoning County when he began practice still
remain, Doctor Peck and Doctor Schiller, both of
Youngstown. Doctor Campbell has given his time and
talents to a general practice, and especially in the earlier years
performed his full share of the arduous labors of a country doctor,
riding and driving over all sorts of roads and in all kinds of
weather. He has been active in the medical societies, served
four years on the pension board during Cleveland's second
administration, and has filled a similiar place under President
Wilson.
Doctor Campbell is the only survivor of the
original board of the Farmers National Bank of Canfield, and has
been a director continuously ever since. He has filled the
office of president for the past three or four years and has always
been a member of its financial committee. He has held all the
local offices in the village, including that of mayor, has been
president of the school board and was secretary and president of the
board of the old Northeastern Normal School at Canfield.
Politically his affiliation have always been with the democratic
party. Doctor Campbell is also a prominent layman of
the Presbyterian Church, has been an elder at Canfield for thirty
years, and has served as a delegate to the General Assemblies at
Minneapolis and Buffalo. He was instrumental in the
establishment of the local lodge of Masons at Canfield, in which he
has held all the chairs, and is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter
and Knights Templar Commandary at Youngstown. For twenty-four
years Doctor Campbell was superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday
School.
In March, 1882, he married Lucy Edwards, whose
father, Pierpont Edwards, was for many years a merchant and
tanner at Canfield, where she was reared. Her death
occurred in June, 1886. She was survived by two children:
Carl H., a practicing physician at Canfield; and Winnifred C.,
a graduate of the Woman's College of the Western Reserve University
with the degree A. B. She was a nurse who served as night
superintendent of Base Hospital No. 31, spending one year in France,
and until April, 1919, was in the Welfare Department of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. At that time she went into
Red Cross work, remaining until August, 1920. May 6, 1890,
Doctor Campbell married Martha Patch, a Presbyterian
minister who came west from Groton, Massachusetts. Her mother,
Jane Bush, was a native of Hanover, New Hampshire. Her
father died at the age of ninety-five and her mother at ninety-four.
Mrs. Campbell is a graduate of the Western Female Seminary at
Oxford, Ohio, also attended college at Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts,
and for some time before her marriage was a teacher in the Poynette
Academy in Wisconsin. Doctor and Mrs. Campbell reared
in their home Alice Haswell from the age of six years, and
she still regards this as her own home.
Dr. Carl H. Campbell was born, Apr. 20, 1883, at
Canfield. He is a graduate of the Northeastern Normal College
of Canfield. He is also a graduate of Wooster University, of
Wooster, Ohio, where he received the degree A. B. His medical
education was obtained in the Western Reserve Medical College at
Cleveland, Ohio, where he received the degree M. D. in 1909, since
which time he has been practicing in Canfield. On Aug. 29,
1917, he married Isabel Armstrong, of Cleveland, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Armstrong, of Cleveland. They
have two sons, Donald A. and James E.
Source:
History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York -
1921 - Page 201 |
Geo. L. Campbell |
GEORGE L. CAMPBELL
is probably the dean of the fire insurance business
in the Mahoning Valley. For over forty-five years he has been
steadily in that line of work at Niles. In the literal sense
Mr. Campbell could not be called an insurance solicitor, many
years having passed since he could make any claim to that title.
He has built up a clientele which has been loyal to him by reason of
his upright dealings and thorough knowledge, and various important
business interests have sought out his services. His work is
now largely of an advisory nature, a confidential relationship
between him and his clients.
Several generations of the Campbell family have
been identified with Trumbull County. His father, George
Campbell, was born near Church Hill, a son of Irish parents.
The father of George on coming from Ireland located in what
is now Liberty Township of Trumbull County, though at the time most
of this district was a trackless wilderness. George
Campbell grew up among pioneer surroundings, and had little
opportunity to gain an education. The intelligent exercise of
strength was a more important asset at that time than formal book
learning. As he grew up he helped clear the 140 acre tract
owned by his father, and the rich forest growth was converted into
charcoal. The Campbell family operated a number of
charcoal kilns, and much of the product was sold to the old Heaton
Furnace. On the old farm George Campbell discovered
coal, probably one of the first discoveries of that mineral on the
Ridge. George Campbell was n exceptionally able
business man, accumulated other tracts of land, also operated a
small store, and was active in his locality until carried off by an
epidemic of typhoid fever in 1852. Of Irish parentage but of
Protestant stock, he became active in the Presbyterian faith and
rigidly adhered to the old tenets.
George Campbell married Mary McConnell,
daughter of John McConnell, who was one of the contemporary
pioneers of the locality with the father of George Campbell.
To their marriage were born nine children: John,
Calvin, Allen, William, Eliza, Alexander, Nancy Jane, George L.
and Luther. Only the last three are now living,
Nancy Jane being Mrs. John Leavitt. Eliza,
William and Alexander never scattered over the country.
George L. Campbell was born at the old home farm
on Mineral Ridge, Nov. 9, 1844, and as he grew up was thoroughly
trained in the routine of farm work. He had a public school
education and after the death of his father, which occurred when he
was only eight years old, he did what he could to help his mother.
Later for several years he lived in different sections and worked at
different occupations. For three months he was in the Union
Army as a member of the 171st Ohio National Guard, and helped repel
the Morgan raid through Southern Ohio. He was in the
battle at Kelly's Bridge in Kentucky against Morgan's men, a
battle in which the Federals lost eighteen and eighty-four of the
enemy were killed.
Mr. Campbell founded his general fire insurance
business at Niles in 1874. Aside from the demands made upon
him by business he has taken a public spirited interest in other
local affairs, and is a stockholder in several business enterprises.
For eight years he was superintendent of the City Waterworks, is a
member of the Niles Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the
Niles Chamber of Commerce, and is a Master Mason. Politically
he is a republican, and is a Presbyterian.
In 1864 he married Miss Mary Garside, and their
companionship continued for half a century, until he death on Feb.
16, 1914. Five children were born to their marriage:
James B., in the insurance business at Niles; Charles L.,
a resident of Sharon, Pennsylvania; George E., credit manager
of the McKelvey Company of Youngstown; Nellie; and
Cordelia, wife of Col. L. J. Campbell,
of Youngstown
Source:
History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York -
1921 - Page 110 |
J. A. Campbell |
J. A. CAMPBELL was born at Ohltown, Trumbull County, Sept. 11, 1854. His father was a
native of the United States and a farmer by occupation. The
son attended the public schools, later entering Hiram College.
While a student at that institution he received the appointment and
passed the examination for entrance to West Point Military Academy.
Circumstances prevented his adoption of a military career, however,
and he soon afterward became a clerk in a coal office at Youngstown.
With a brief experience in that line he engaged in the hardware
business with a local concern and followed this occupation for five
years. He then organized the Youngstown Ice Company and
conducted it until 1890, when he entered the iron and steel business
as general superintendent of the Trumbull Iron Company at Warren.
Some time later this company was consolidated with the Union Iron &
Steel Company, and that company placed Mr. Campbell in charge
of its plant at Pomeroy, Ohio. This position he resigned in
1897 to become general superintendent of the Mahoning Valley Iron
Company at Youngstown, and when the latter was purchased by the
Republic Iron & Steel Company, became district manager for the
Youngstown district.
In 1901 Mr. Campbell resigned his position with
the Republic Iron & Steel Company to organize a corporation for the
manufacture of sheets and pipe under the name of the Youngstown
Iron, Sheet & Tube Company. He held the position of vice
president and general manager in this corporation until July 26,
1904, at which time it had become an important concern, the capital
having been increased from $600,000 to $4,000,000. He was then
elected president of the company, a position he has since held and
in which he has seen the company become one of the great industrial
concerns of the world and one of the most important manufacturing
corporations in Ohio.
While discharging his duties as head of this
corporation Mr. Campbell has always found time to take an
active and helpful interest in the affairs of his community.
He is always found at the head of movements intended to benefit the
city in which he lives, and during the period of the World war gave
unsparingly of his time and ability on behalf of every activity
calculated to strengthen the hands of the government or contribute
to the success of the American arms, whether it was by increasing
the amount of war material providing funds for the prosecution of
the war, or stimulating the generosity of the public on behalf of
war work. He was chairman of the committee on tubular products
during the war, and had charge of the allocation of all material in
that line made in the United States. For his conspicuous
services in this capacity he was knighted by the French Government
after the close of hostilities.
Mr. Campbell has been president of the Mahoning
County War Chest council, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and
has led almost every public movement of important character in the
City of Youngstown for years, in spite of the fact that his home, a
beautiful country place recently erected, is located in Trumbull
County.
Mr. Campbell is a director of the American Iron
& Steel Institute, the Mahoning Ore & Steel Company, the Crete
Mining Company, the Balkan Mining Company, the Carbon Limestone
Company, the First National Bank of Youngstown, the Dollar Savings &
Trust Company of Youngstown, the Electric Alloy Steel Company, the
Youngstown Steel Car Company and other enterprises. He is
president of the Crete Mining Company, the Youngstown Ice Company,
the Buckeye Coal Company, the Central Store Company, the Crystal Ice
& Storage Company, the Buckeye Land Company, and chairman of the
board of directors of the Continental Supply Company.
He is a member of the Youngstown Club, the Youngstown
Country Club, the Duquesne Club, Pittsburg; the Kitchi Gammi Club,
Duluth, and the Indian House, New York City, in politics he is a
republican. He plays golf occasionally, but finds his chief
pleasure in business and his recreation principally in reading.
Mr. Campbell was married Jan. 15, 1880, his wife
being Uretta, a daughter of Mr. Place, a resident of
Corry, Pennsylvania. They have three children: Louis
J., who enlisted at the beginning of the European war and
attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the artillery service in
France, and who is now president of the Electric Alloy Steel
Company; Helen Marie; and Rebecca Walton, who married
Captain John Stambaugh, II.
Source: History
of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. American
Historical Society - Chicago & New York - 1921 - Page 4 |
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J. CLYDE CAMPBELL.
While not a veteran in years, it is doubtful if any man inYoungstown
has had a more varied and active connection with the steel interests
of the Mahoning Valley than J. Clyde Campbell. For a
number of years Mr. Campbell has been employment manager of
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company.
He was born at Hubbard, Ohio, Apr. 16, 1877, and thus
grew up in a district of steel mills and industrial life. He
is one of the surviving children in a family of six born to
Alexander Campbell and Caroline Veach. His mother
is now deceased. His grandfather, Hugh Campbell, was an
early settler in this section of Ohio. Alexander Campbell
was for many years a useful and honored citizen of Trumbull County.
He was a school master affectionately remembered by many in that
county, and for a number of years was principal of the Hubbard
schools. He also served as mayor of Hubbard and for four years
was a county commissioner of Trumbull County. His present home
is over the state line at Sharon, Pennsylvania, where he lives
retired.
J. Clyde Campbell grew up in Hubbard and is a
graduate of the high school of that town. At the age of twenty
years he went to work for the Mahoning Valley Iron Company at
Youngstown as weighmaster and shipping clerk in the blast
furnace. Two years later he was made storekeeper, and
subsequently assistant paymaster. Upon the organization of the
steel trust he was transferred to the district office at Youngstown
of the Republic Iron and Steel Company. He was in the freight
and purchasing departments, and subsequently was sent to Alexandria,
Indiana, and to Springfield, Illinois, to remove Bessemer mills
which were part of the interests of the great merger. Later he
was employed in the order department of the Republic Iron and Steel
Company at Youngstown. a year later he resigned and went to
Girard, Ohio, in the mill order department of the Carnegie Steel
Company. Since February, 1902, his home has been at Youngstown
and his connection with the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
continuous. For ten years he was assistant paymaster, for two
years was in the cost department and since 1914 has been employment
manager, a post of great responsibility and calling for all the tact
and experience of Mr. Campbell.
He is a republican in politics and is a Royal Arch
Mason. July 19, 1902, he married Miss Gertrude Paisley,
of Youngstown, daughter of Robert A. and Mary (Porter) Paisley
They have one son, Robert A., always known in the family as
Bob. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are members of the
First Presbyterian Church.
Source:
History of Youngstown & The Mahoning
Valley, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago
& New York - 1921 - Page 237 |
L. J. Campbell |
L. J. CAMPBELL,
president of the Electric Alloy Steel Company, is among the most
prominent and active of the younger executives in various
enterprises in Youngstown. He was born in Youngstown on May
24, 1885, his parents being James A. and Uretta (Place) Campbell.
He attended Rayen High School, the Lawrenceville (N. J.) Preparatory
School and Wooster University, matriculating at Yale University in
1906, and graduating from that institution in 1910. Prior to
his entrance at Yale he spent about four years in the mills of the
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, acquiring a practical knowledge of
the manufacture of steel. After his college course was
completed he entered the general offices of the corporation named
and filled various positions, including assistant to the president,
and later vice president, and also that of president of Western
Conduit Company, a subsidiary corporation, acquiring a wide
knowledge of the problems of management.
In 1916, when it appeared that this country might
become involved in a war with Germany, Mr. Campbell
volunteered for service in the military arm. He had attended
the officers' training camp at Plattsburg and was commissioned as a
second lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps. May 1, 1917,
he was ordered to active duty at Fort Benjamin Harrison as an
instructor at the first officers' training camp established after
the opening of the war. June 5th of that year he was promoted
to the rank of major of infantry. Oct. 1, 1917, he was ordered
to Camp Sherman and given command of a battalion of light field
artillery, and a month later detailed to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for
special instruction as an artillery officer. After completing
this course with credit Mr. Campbell was placed in command of
a battalion of field artillery, in which capacity he served until
Feb. 22, 1918. On that date he received orders to go to
France, being at the same time appointed adjutant of the One Hundred
and sixty-sixth Infantry Brigade, going abroad with this brigade a
few days later.
Arriving in France with the brigade mentioned he was
almost immediately transferred to the artillery service, in which he
had been specially trained at the same time going from staff service
to active service in the field with the 309th Field Artillery, of
which he was made lieutenant colonel on Oct. 7, 1918, after this
regiment had made a gallant record in the Argonne. On Jan. 8,
1919, at his urgent request, Lieutenant Colonel Campbell was
relieved from duty and ordered home; but before embarking was
recalled and placed in command of the Fifty-third Coast Artillery
Corps Regiment. He remained in France about two months in this
capacity and was finally discharged from the service at Camp Mead,
Maryland, Mar. 13, 1919, after having served almost two years, and
attained promotions which place him in the position of ranking
officer in the military records of the Mahoning Valley during the
great war.
During his service in France Lieutenant Colonel
Campbell participated in all of the operations of the First
American Army, being in the first and second battles in which the
St. Mihiel salient was cleared, and participating actively in the
Argonne drive and the subsequent operations on the Meuse. He
was on the firing line with his regiment when the armistice was
declared.
Mr. Campbell resigned his position as vice
president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company early in 1920 to
organize the Electric Alloy Steel Company. In addition to
being head of this enterprise, he is also widely interested in
industry and business, being vice president of the Youngstown Ice
Company, and a director of the Commercial National Bank, the Crystal
Ice & Storage Company, the Youngstown Steel Car Company and the
Continental Supply Company. He is a member of the Youngstown
Club, the Youngstown Country Club, a number of the college
fraternities and other similar organizations.
On Sept. 15, 1914, Mr. Campbell was married to
Cordelia Campbell, and they have two children, Uretta
Place and Louise.
Source:
History of Youngstown & The Mahoning
Valley, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago
& New York - 1921 - Page 338 |
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LEROY D. CAMPBELL.
One of the best improved and attractive homestead farms in Mahoning
County is the old Campbell place in Coitsville Township.
It has been the home for three generations of the Campbell
family. The original farm contains fifty-nine acres and
was acquired in 1836 by Daniel Campbell, who came to Ohio in
the spring of that year. He cleared away the woods and made
the land productive, taking from it many successive crops. He
died in 1871, at advanced age. Daniel Campbell was of
Scotch ancestry. His wife was a Miss Ripple, of German
stock. Daniel Campbell erected a home on the farm,
which later his son Alvi remodeled, making of it a two-story
house, with comforts and conveniences still enjoyed by the family.
Daniel Campbell and wife had a large family, including
Alvi; James, who was for many years a hotel proprietor at
Girard, Ohio, and died there; Daniel, who went to Kansas;
Alexander, who died in young manhood; Joseph, who lived
at Girard; Margaret, who married William Stewart and
went to Kansas; Maria, who became the wife of John Rutter
and lived in Trumbull County; amanda, who married Charles
Longstreet and lived near the old homestead; and Melissa,
who never married and who died at the old home.
Alvi L. Campbell was born Oct. 21, 1834, and
died while spending the winter at Pine Bluff, North Carolina, Mar.
22, 1915. All his active years were spent on the old homestead
in Mahoning County. Besides farming he operated a sawmill for
a number of years and sold much of the lumber required by the local
furnaces. He extended the original acreage until the farm
comprised 105 acres. This farm he made widely known as the
home of pure bred livestock. He kept a fine herd of Chester
White hogs and also kept high grade Jersey cattle. Much of his
stock was exhibited in county fairs. He was a director of the
Mahoning County Fair, was superintendent of its cattle department,
and had much to do with the successful fairs year after year.
He was also a stockholder in the creamery at New Bedford and at one
time was a township trustee. He was a democrat and a member of
the Methodist Church at Hubbard, and later at New Bedford. He
married Margaret E. Allen, who is still living on the old
home farm.
They had four children. Olive M., who is a
dressmaker and music teacher by profession, is the wife of John
W. Baird, living near West Middlesex in Mercer County,
Pennsylvania. The second of the family, Myron J. Campbell,
is a practical farmer now managing the old homestead place.
Myrtle E. has a long and honorable record as a teacher, having
taught for ten years in Coitsville Township, and since her marriage
has taught in the Adams School of Youngstown, having spent seventeen
years in school work. She is the wife of Clarence H.
Campbell, a Pennsylvania railway conductor.
Leroy D. Campbell was born Aug. 3, 1884,and was
educated in the Ohio State University, graduating in the
agricultural course in 1914. He was a teacher, teaching his
first term in the Cooper district, where his mother had also taught
her first school. In 1918 he became principal of the
Scienceville High School and has ten assistant teachers under him.
Nov. 28, 1917, he married Miss Edna Cooper, daughter of
John A. Cooper. She was also a teacher before her
marriage. They have one daughter, Jane Elizabeth.
Source:
History of Youngstown & The Mahoning
Valley, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago
& New York - 1921 - Page 388 |
C. C. Chryst |
CHARLES
C. CHRYST. If Charles C. Chryst had never
accomplished anything more than the carrying out of his successful
campaign in favor of good roads in Trumbull County his name would be
enshrined among the worth-while citizens of Mahoning Valley.
He has always been an enthusiast on this subject, to which he has
given thorough and practical attention, and has managed to
communicate some of this enthusiasm to his fellow citizens with very
gratifying results, as those passing over the fine roads constructed
under his administration as road commissioner testify upon all
occasions.
Charles C. Chryst was born on the old Chryst
homestead in Weathersfield Township, Trumbull County, On Sept.
12, 1856, and is descended from one of the old and prominent
families of the Mahoning Valley. Solomon R. Chryst, his
father, was born at Lordstown, Trumbull County, in 1833, a son of
Jacob Chryst. Jacob Chryst was born in the original
American ancestor who came here from Germany at the close of the
eighteenth century and settled in Pennsylvania. Leaving the
Keystone State, Jacob Chryst came to the Mahoning Valley
sometime between 1817 and 1820, settling in Lordstown Township when
that section was a forest. He bought considerable land, became
a successful farmer, and lived to reach his eighty-eighth year.
Solomon Chryst moved into Weathersfield
Township, where he was engaged in farming and the buying and selling
of stock for many years, becoming known all over Trumbull County as
a man of irreproachable character and as a worthy citizen.
Later on in life he moved to Warren and lived there in retirement
until his death in 1909. He married Elizabeth Johnson
who was born on the Johnson farm in Duck Creek neighborhood,
and died at Warren in 1880. Her parents came to Trumbull
County from Connecticut.
Charles C. Chryst was reared on the old
homestead and was educated at the public schools, Hiram College
and Allegheny College at Meadsville, Pennsylvania, leaving the
latter institution, however, before he was graduated so as to take
advantage of a good business opening. In 1874 he engaged in a
grocery and provision business at Warren, and continued it until
1879, when he returned to the farm and was associated with his
father in the stock business until he was thirty-five years of age.
In 1888 he re-entered the grocery and provision business at Warren,
expanding it into a public market, which he sold at a good figure in
September, 1918. In 1893 Mr. Chryst became interested
in the hotel business at Warren as senior member of the firm of
Chryst & Roach they taking over the Park Hotel at that time.
In 1910 they became the owners of the Colonial Hotel and have since
then operated both properties, which are the two leading hostelries
of Warren. In the same year that they secured their second
hotel, these partners organized the Warren Provision Company which
was incorporated with Mr. Chryst as president, but this
company went out of business in 1918.
Mr. Chryst is regarded, and justly so, as the
"father of the good roads" in Northeastern Ohio, as it is due to his
efficient efforts that the present system of macadam roads was
inaugurated in Trumbull County, where the first roads of that kind
in this part of Ohio were built. The beginning of this era had
its inception in the plan of Mr. Chryst to provide some kind
of a path along the public highways for the use of the bicyclists.
In 1903 he was appointed by the board of county commissioners a
member of the first board of highway commissioners under the new
highway laws which went into effect that year. Entering
enthusiastically into the project Mr. Chryst gave generously
of his time, money and influence and accomplished great things, so
that at the expiration of his four years the county commissioners
declined to let him withdraw as highway commissioner, and he served
an additional two years, or until he positively refused further
appointment. During his administration there were built in
Trumbull County 250 miles of bicycle path and fifty-eight miles of
macadam roads, a record not easily forgotten.
Mr. Chryst is a man of large and varied affairs,
and among other things is a member of the board of directors of the
Western Reserve National Bank of Warren, and was one of the original
members and first directors of the Warren Board of Trade.
Mr. Chryst was married to Elizabeth Qualey, who was born
at Elmira, New York, a daughter of Simon and Mary Qualey both
of whom died at Warren, where they had lived for many years.
Aside from what he has done in the matter of good road
building, and in providing Warren with up-to-date hotel
accommodations, Mr. Chryst has accomplished much for the
community. He has upheld the Board of Trade in all of its
plans for the development of the city, freely giving of his time and
means to consummate all movements for the general welfare.
Broad-minded and progressive, genial and warm-hearted
Mr. Chryst holds the friendship of his business and social
acquaintances, while his many traits of character make of him an
ideal friend and citizen. He is of a rugged nature, firm in
his opinions, which, though sometimes may be wrong, he always
frankly states when occasion requires, and his viewpoint is always
received with respect, for the very reason that all who know him
realize that he is conscientious in his views and beliefs. He
has the courage of his convictions, but is not an opinionated or
obstinate man, and is always ready to concede sincerity to the
opinions of others.
Source: History
of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ.
American Historical Society - Chicago & New York - 1921 - Page 242 |
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