GEORGE P. KRICHBAUM. Possessing undoubted business
and executive ability, George P. Krichbaum, of
Youngstown, making good use of his talents, has steadily climbed the
ladder of success, and is now widely known as manager of the
Youngstown Branch of Armour & Company, with which he has been actively
identified since its establishment in this locality, thirty years ago.
A native born citizen, his birth occurred on Mahoning Avenue, Feb. 15,
1860.
His father, the late George
P. Krichbaum, Sr., was born and reared in Darmstadt, Germany,
where he and his five brothers received excellent educational
advantages, their father, a man of culture, insisting that his sons
should have the best of schooling. After learning the trade of a
pattern maker, he came with the paternal family to America, locating
first in Buffalo, New York. Subsequently taking up his residence
in Youngstown, he was employed as a pattern maker in the
Brown-Bonnell Mill for fifteen years, continuing with that
firm until his death in 1872, at the early age of forty-one years.
George P. Krichbaum, Sr., married Augusta
Ritter, who was of French ancestry, and to them six children
were born, one of whom died in childhood, and another, Lydia,
died at the age of eighteen years, while four are now living, namely:
George P., the special subject of this sketch;
Eugene, a salesman for Armour & Company; Emma,
wife of John Reynolds, of this city; and
Louisa, residing on Lora Avenue. Mrs. Krichbaum,
whose death occurred at her home on Elm Street in 1918, married again
after the death of her first husband, becoming the wife of C.
B. Ramser, who was engaged in the grocery business on Mill
Street. Mr. and Mrs. Ramser became the parents
of four children, as follows: Charles, an
engineer on the Erie Railroad; Augusta, wife of
Alfred Bixler, assistant auditor for Armour &
Company; Fred, a draughtsman for the Republic Iron &
Steel Company; and Mrs. Alice Rummels.
George P. Krichbaum attended school on Wood Street
until twelve years of age, when, on account of the death of his
father, he began work for himself for three and one-half years being
bell boy at the Tod House, at the same time having
charge, for Jim Hammond, of the Cigar stand.
Saving of his money and prudent in his expenditures, he accumulated
while thus employed to pay off a mortgage of $600 on his mother's
house. Coming in contact with men of affairs, in the hotel, the
bright, active lad became ambitious to have a better position, and
with that end in view attended Hall's Commercial College, at the same
time working as a clerk in T. B. Albert's hat store
in the Diamond Block.
Subsequently
Mr. Krichbaum embarked in a mercantile career, working first
as grocer's clerk for his stepfather, later being in a Pittsburgh
grocery two years, and after his marriage being in the employ of
J. C. Ewing, a grocer on Mahoning Avenue. The
following four years he filled a similar position in the crockery
establishment of A. J. Williams. Forming then a
partnership with J. C. Ewing, he was for three years
in the grocery business on Phelps Street, being junior member of the
firm of Ewing & Krichbaum. During the
depression of 1886 the firm met with reverses, and Mr.
Krichbaum sold the stock of goods and partly paid the
creditors, completing the payments later.
While Joseph Hemler was employed as a messenger on
the railroad, he used to buy meat and other provisions in Cleveland
which Mr. Krichbaum marketed, and Krichbaum &
Hemler shipped the first dressed beef into the city. In
1890 the business was taken over by Armuor & Company, and under the
guidance of Mr. Krichbaum, the manager from the
start, has grown rapidly and enormously.
In 1879 Mr. Krichbaum was united in marriage with
Miss Lois Vetter, who was born in Boardman, Ohio, in
1859. Her father, W. H. Vetter, was an
extensive dealer in cattle and sheep, buying livestock in Ohio and
driving into New Jersey, where he received the highest market prices.
Mr. and Mrs. Krichbaum have two children,
Claude, who has been salesman for Armour & Company for
nineteen years, and Hazel, wife of Stewart
Kimmell, who is associated with the Youngstown Security
Realty Company. Fraternally Mr. Krichbaum is a
member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the
Knights of Pythias. Both he and his family belong to the
Christian Church.
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MATTHEW
DILLE SANDERSON was born at Youngstown, Ohio, July 6, 1843.
His parents were Matthew Dille and Mary M. Sanderson.
He began the study of law in 1861, with Sanderson & Moore at
Youngstown. From 1862 to 1865 he was a soldier in the Union
army. He completed his law studies with Hutchins & Glidden, at
Warren. He was admitted to the bar in 1867, and the same year
began the practice of his profession at Niles.
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H.
SAMMARTINO. Noteworthy among the successful merchants of
Youngstown is H. Sammartino, a jeweler, making a
specialty of dealing in diamonds and other precious stones. A
native of Italy, he was born in 1878 in Agnone, Province of Campobasso,
where he spent the earlier years of his life. As a boy and youth
he had the advantages of a technical education, and early learned the
trade of a silversmith and watchmaker.
Immigrating to the United States, Mr. Sammartino
located in Youngstown, and for nine years thereafter carried on
business as a peddler, traveling throughout the Mahoning Valley.
He sold solid gold jewelry, and was so honest and upright in his
dealings with all that the people learned to trust him, placing
perfect confidence in his word. Thus fortified, Mr.
Sammartino opened a jewelry store at 382 East Federal Street,
and in the sale of diamonds, watches and jewelry met with success.
Needing more commodious quarters for his growing trade, he moved to
his present place of business, 365 East Federal Street, where he has
an extensive and lucrative trade, and in addition is interested in
various other financial enterprises.
Mr. Sammartino married after coming to Ohio
Miss Martha Fernando, who belongs to an old and prominent
Italian family, her mother having been a child of six years when
brought by her parents to the United States. Politically
Mr. Sammartino is a republican, and religiously he belongs to
the Mount Carmel Catholic Church. He is likewise a member of
Figh D Italia.
Source #2 - History of
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By Jos. G. Butler, Jr. - Vol. 2 -
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GEORGE W.
SNYDER was born in Hartford township in the year 1839.
His educational advantages were such as the schools of the times
afforded. He read law with Hon. L. C. Jones, at Warren,
and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He located in
Orangeville, in which village he has successfully held the positions
of justice of the peace, mayor, and postmaster.
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JOHN M. STULL
was born in Liberty township, Trumbull county, Ohio, May 16, 1823.
His father, James Stull, was of German descent. His
mother's maiden name was Catharine McIlree, although both in
Scotland, she was of Irish Origin. His parents removed from
Liberty to Farmington when he was six years old. When he was
twelve years old his father died, leaving him to care for and be
cared for by his mother. At the age of nineteen he went to
learn the blacksmith's trade with Abraham Anxer, of Hamden,
Ohio. He worked with Anxer two years ad then returning
to Farmington opened a shop there. About six months after his
return to Farmington, while shoeing horse by lamplight, he received
injuries which disabled him from longer pursuing this occupation.
Young Shull had, up to this time, only a very limited
education; but, his body disabled, his intellect began to prepare to
assert itself. He attended Farmington academy, studying during the
summer, and teaching in the South in the winter. While in the
South he established at Nashville, Tennessee, a business college.
He began his law studies at the age of twenty-seven, with Judge
Barbee, of Campbellsville, Kentucky. His studies were
continued through the various vicissitudes of a southern
schoolmaster's life, until his return to Ohio. He was admitted
to the bar of Warren, in May, 1853. The same month he was
married to Florilla W. Wolcott, daughter of Deacon Lewis
Wolcott, of Farmington. He immediately began the practice
of his profession at Warren. He has been associated in
partnership with Hon. G. M. Tuttle, Hon. M. Sutliff, F. E.
Hutchins, and Hon. C. E. Glidden.
In the fall of 1858 Mr. Stull was elected
prosecuting attorney of Trumbull county. He served in that
office one term at that time, but four years later was re-elected,
holding the office two terms longer. In the spring of 1858 he
was elected mayor of Warren. He has ever been one of the most
active and influential politicians of this section. During
several of the most exciting campaigns in the experience of the
party he was chairman of the Republican central committee of his
county. For the last ten years he has been an active worker in
the Methodist Episcopal church. To him and a few others of
similar liberality and activity this denomination is largely
indebted for the magnificent church edifice, which is the pride of
its congregation in WArren.
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