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| P. J.
CALLAHAN, M. D.,
eclectic practitioner, Alliance; was born in Mahoning Co.,
Ohio, in October, 1835, the fourth child of a family of nine
children, born to Thomas and Mary Callahan.
His boyhood and early manhood was spent in the multifarious
duties of the farm and attending school. When about 19
years of age he entered the office of Dr. James M. Hole,
of Greenford, as a student of medicine. His preceptor
was of the eclectic school and in the winter of 1857 and
1858 he attended lectures at the Philadelphia Medical
University, after which he entered upon the practice of his
profession in his native county, where, with several changes
of location, he practiced for many years. He attended
a second course of lectures, at the Eclectical Medical
College of Pennsylvania, and graduated from this institution
in 1859. He located at Canfield, where he practiced a
short time; disposing of his interest in the drug business
there to his partner, Dr. Ethan Hole, he removed to
Berlin Center, Mahoning Co., where he practiced his
profession ten years; thence to Alliance, in 1870, where he
has established a good practice. New-year's day, 1862,
he married Ada B. Margerum, who came to Ohio from
Springfield, Mass., but was formerly of Connecticut.
They have two children, viz. - Sarah A., and Ada
M. In the late war, Dr. Callahan went to
the southern hospitals, and remained at his own expense, and
loss of time, assisting as a nurse, without either
appointment or remuneration for his pains, other then
experience which he gained from being brought in contact
with sickness and suffering. |
C.
B. CAMPBELL, carpenter, Canton; Superintendent of the
large manufacturing establishment of John Danner; has
been a resident of Canton for about thirteen years, his
native place being Dane Co., Wis., where he father (see
sketch of James Campbell) resided for some years.
In 1869, he began learning his trade with his father, with
whom he remained until 1874. In 1875, he built the
first case for Mr. Danner. He was married
in1865, to Miss C. L., daughter of Thomas C.
Cuningham. Two children have been born to them.
Mr. Campbell is a member of the I. W. U. W., and is,
though a young man, one who has for a number of years filled
a responsible position.
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| MAJOR WM. W.
CANTINE, hardware
merchant; Alliance; was born in Onondaga Co., N.Y., August
13, 1833, the only son of Henry and Carolina M.
(Titus) Cantine. The family emigrated from New
York to Michigan, and located at Battle Creek, in 1837.
They were farmers, and consequently the boyhood, and early
manhood of our subject was spent in attending school, and
engaged on his father's farm. In 1849 he engaged as
clerk in the general merchandise business in Battle Creek,
and remained there until 1851; thence to Grand Rapids,
Mich., where he remained until the breaking out of the late
civil war, when he was commissioned Quarter-Master of the
third Michigan Cavalry, in August, 1861, and served
until the close of the war. Being stationed in the
meantime at St. Louis, Little Rock, New Orleans and Mobile.
In July, 1862, he was promoted to Chief Commissary of
Subsistence of the 7th Army Corps, and of the Division of
the Mississippi, with the rank of captain, and had charge of
the principal supply depot at Mobile. In October,
1865, he received his discharge with the rank of
Brevet-Major. His war record was highly creditable to
himself, and evidences efficiency in the performance of his
duty. He remained in Alabama six years subsequent to
the close of the war, during which time he turned his
attention to the production of cotton on a plantation of
1100 acres, which he purchased about 150 miles from Mobile,
where he resided about two years, and then removed into
Mobile, where he remained four years. His experience
on the plantation did not result in pecuniary success, in
consequence of the high rates of labor and provisions
followed by a series of unfavorable seasons and poor cotton
crops. Having sustained considerable loss of capital
he removed from the South and came to Alliance in 1871,
where he purchased an interest in the gas works, and
remained in that business until October, 1880, when, in
company with Chas. Y. Kay, and S. M. Highland,
the hardware firm of W. W. Cantine & Co. was
established. May 13, 1858, he married Emily W.
Dickenson, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and to them was born
one child, Gertrude; now Mrs. Charles Y. Kay. |
DR.
M. M. CANTLIN, physician, Canton; is a native of
Herkimer Co., N. Y., and was born Aug. 15, 1846. He
was brought up on his father's farm. Soon after his
father's death, which occurred when he was but 9 years old,
he hired out, for his board and clothes, going to school
during the winter months; and also received a course at the
West Winfield Academy, taking the first prize for
declamation. He continued on the farm until the age of
17, when he enlisted in Co. D, 46th N. Y. V. V. I., and
served two years, participating in all the principal
engagements during his term, among them, the Wilderness,
Cold Harbor, Petersburg, the capture of Richmond, and was at
the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. After his return
from the army, his health not being good, he took up the
study of medicine in the fall of 1865, with Dr. Nathan
Spencer, of East Winfield, N. Y., and in 1868 he
graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College.
A few months later he commenced practice at Brookfield, N.
Y., where he remained about three years, and then moved to
Massillon, Ohio, in 1871; he came on a tour of inspection,
and was so well pleased that he concluded to remain.
He practiced four years at Massillon, and then moved to
Canton, where he has since remained. He is a member of
the American Institute of Homeopathy, and of the Homeopathic
Medical Society of Northeastern Ohio; of the latter he has
been Secretary for two years. He was married Jan. 27,
1869, to Miss Rozella D. Clark, a native of
Brookfield, N. Y.; they have three children, viz.: Grace,
Homer and Mary.
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| STEPHEN
CASE, general manager; Alliance; in the firm
of Case, Shaffer & Ellison, of the Alliance
Bagging Manufactory; was born in Sussex Co., New Jersey,
July 14, 1814, son of Stephen and Sarah (Sausman)
Case who were also born in New Jersey. The
youthful days of Mr. Case were spent on his father's
farm, and in early manhood he learned the carriage making
business. Having finished his trade, he set out for
the West, and proceeded to Michigan in 1838; he
remained there but a short time when he retraced his steps
as far as Newton, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and there began to
work at his trade and continued it about ten years. He
then purchased a farm and turned his attention to
stock-raising, and dealing for many years, in which he was
very successful. For six years of his residence in
Mahoning he was a member of the Board of County
Commissioners. In 1869 he came to Alliance, and in
company with two others organized the bagging works; his
original partners however have withdraw, but Mr. Case and
his interests have remained unchanged. The
establishment has been, and is, well managed by the
enterprising proprietors. They have been heavy losers
by fire, being twice swept out totally, and once sustained
serious damage, but in every case promptly set about
rebuilding and repairing. The annual capacity of their
works is about 400,000 yards of manufactured material.
It is made from flax, and is used exclusively for covering
cotton bales, and put up in rolls of fifty yards each.
Mr. Case married Amelia Durell, Jan. 16, 1840.
The reared six children, viz. - Thorn, his only son,
enlisted in the 21st O. V. I. in 1861, from Mahoning Co.,
and served until May 28, 1864; when at Rasaca he was
mortally wounded, was brought to Chattanooga, where he died
July 23; Anna B., now wife of R. E. Collar;
Charlotte L., deceased, was wife of S. R. Patterson;
Cornelia H., is widow of W. C. Meeker;
Lovina P. and Blanche A. The two last named
and their widowed sister reside with Mr. Case. Mrs.
Case passed away July 4, 1873. |
| GEORGE
CASPER, farmer; P. O. Magnolia; was born in Alsace,
now a German possession, in 1819. His parents,
Jacob and Margaret Casper, emigrated to America about
1832, settling in Sandy Twp., where the remainder of their
days was passed. George has followed the
occupation of farming all of his life, and has been a
resident of the township since the removal of his parents
there. He now owns 240 acres of land, and his homestad
farm is finely improved with buildings, and ornamented by a
new and elegant residence. He was married in 1846 to
Miss Louisa Ullman, of Rose Township, Carroll Co.
They have twelve children, all living - William, a
resident of Pike Twp.; Hannah Tresler, living in
Sandy Twp.; Jacob, in Indiana; Susannah Richards,
in Indiana; Isaac, living in Indiana, teaching
school; Henry, in the harness trade, Waynesburgh;
Annis Newton, Pike Twp.; James, Ida, Edward, Curtis
and Abraham. Mr. Casper is one of the
solid, substantial farmers of the township, and universally
respected. |
ROBERT
A. CASSIDY, editor and proprietor of Canton
Republican; was born at Blairsville, Penn, Dec. 20,
1839. In July, 1856, he entered the office of the
True American to learn the printing trade, in his native
town; in February following he removed to Bellefonte, Penn.,
where he finished his trade in the office of the Center
Democrat, and pursued his calling until August, 1862,
when he enlisted in Co. H, of the 148th Penn. V. I., and at
the organization of the regiment he was appointed Principal
Musician, in which position he served until the close of the
war. In 1860, he was married to Miss Carrie M.
Johnson, of Bellefonte, Penn. They removed from
Pennsylvania to Canton, Ohio, in August, 1865, and for a few
months Mr. Cassidy was employed on the Stark
County Republican. After a brief engagement in
other kinds of business, he entered the employ of E. Ball
& Co., manufacturers of mowers, reapers and threshers, and
in October, 1870, was elected actuary of the concern, and
continued in that position until October, 1880, when he
established the Canton Republican. Mr. and
Mrs. Cassidy have a family of six children. Since
his residence in Canton he has been continuously identified
with the management of municipal affairs, as a member of the
City Council, Boards of Education and Board of Health.
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| AMOS WALLACE
COATES, inventor and
manufacturer; Alliance; whose portrait appears in this
history as one of Stark Co.'s successful manufacturers; was
born near Marlborough in this county, April 24, 1834.
His paternal grandfather was a pioneer to Coatesville,
Chester Co., Pa., and laid out that town. His parents
were Amos and Jane B. (Norris) Coates, both
natives of Pennsylvania. They removed to Ohio in an
old-fashioned moving wagon in 1823, and settled in
Marlborough Tp., Stark Co. His father was a man of
scholarly attainments; had charge of an academy of Chester
Co., Penn., and subsequently a merchant of Philadelphia.
After coming to Ohio he engaged in farming, and part of the
time in teaching. He had a family of twelve children,
of whom our subject is the seventh son. He was
educated in Marlborough Academy, completing his course at
the age of seventeen. He then spent two years learning
stove-plate and machine casting, and subsequently formed a
partnership with his brother-in-law, J. D. Arnold,
under the firm name of Arnold & Coates, and began the
manufacture of plows and castings in Paris, this county.
This enterprise proving a pecuniary success, they added to
their works the manufacture of hay-rakes on the old
"Sander's" patent in 1855, and in the latter part of the
same year introduced what was said to be the first sulky
spring-tooth horse rake ever used in Stark Co. At the
end of the first season they disposed of their interest in
the rake business, and for several years devoted themselves
to the manufacture of plows and other castings. During
this time Mr. Coates occupied the little leisure
afforded him in reading law, under the instruction of
Alexander Bierce, Esq., of Canton. In 1860 he
purchased the factory and foundry, but in the fall of 1861,
sold the same and enlisted in the Fremont Body Guard, going
to St. Louis with part of a company. In consequence of
Gen. Fremont's removal and the disbandment of the
Guard; he was discharged, returned home and resumed his law
studies under his former preceptor, and was admitted to the
bar in the Supreme Court at Columbus, in the session of
December, 1862. He did not enter upon the practice of
law, but early in 1863 he re-purchased the Paris foundry and
plow works, and conducted them about one year. In
September, 1864, he removed to Alliance, and began the
erection of the buildings now occupied by his works, and
continued the manufacture of plows. In the spring of
1865, he abandoned this business and embarked in the
manufacture of what was known as the White Hay Rake.
In the fall of 1865 be invented his Lock Lever Rake, which
was patented in 1867, and has since continued to manufacture
the same, frequently improving it to keep pace with the ever
advancing progress of farm implements. Several
additions have been put to his buildings since he began the
manufacture of rakes, to secure facilities for supplying the
increasing demand. In the fall of 1868 was formed the
partnership known as Coates, Gray & Co., which was
dissolved in 1874, by Mr. Coates purchasing the
entire interests of his partners. He has taken out
eight patents, viz.: three on his lock-lever hay-rake; one
on the spring-seat for the same, two on guarded scissors,
one on a child's pocket-knife, and one on a water-elevator
for wells and cisterns. In the fall of 1875 he was a
candidate on the Republican ticket, for the Ohio Senate for
the 21st Senatorial District, comprising the counties of
Stark and Carroll, and came within forty-eight votes of
carrying his district, the Democracy carrying the district
in the previous and subsequent elections by over a thousand
majority. In 1877 he erected the Coates' Block
at a cost of $20,000. It is one of the finest business
structures in Alliance, the upper story of which is
elegantly fitted up expressly for the meetings of the I. O.
O. F. He was for a time proprietor of the
Independent Age, a journal devoted to literature, news
and religion. He has been a member of the City
Council, and is an active member of the following secret
societies; I. O. O. F., Freemasons, Knights Templar, Knights
of Phythias, Knights of Honor, Royal Arcanum, and American
Legion of Honor. March 22, 1859, he married Ada F.,
daughter of A. B. and Catharine Freer, of
Paris, this county. They have had nine children, six
of whom are living - Hallam F., now attending Mt.
Union College, with promise of fine success, and whom his
father intends aiding in the pursuit of any profession he
may choose; Ida M., Nellie L., Hartwell W., Hayes
K., and Effie F. N.; Horatio H., (next
younger than Hallam) was one of three three youths
who lost their lives by breaking through the ice while
skating on the Alliance Reservoir, on New Year's day, 1880.
Their oldest child, Horace L., died when four years
of age, at Paris, and Harlan since their removal to
Alliance. |
| GEORGE B.
COATES,
general superintendent, Alliance; of the "Coates"
Hay Rake establishment. He is the sixth child and
fifth son born to Amos and Jane B. (Norris)
Coates. His boyhood was spent on his father's
farm, at the same time he obtained a good common school
education. He began to learn the joiner and
carpenter's trade when about 18 years of age, in
Marlborough, serving about three years, and then conducted
the business on his own account, contracting and building
many of the fine farm residences in this county, and also
the Disciples' Church, building at New Baltimore. At
the outbreak of the late war, he enlisted in the 76th O.V.
I., and while the regiment was at Camp Mansfield, Ohio, was
taken sick, and there received his discharge before they had
gone to the front. He engaged in the sash and window
blind establishment of Wilson - subsequently Doyle &
Co., where he remained about four years; and severed his
connection with the last named firm in 1868, to take
position of general manager of the horse hayrake
establishment of his brother (A. W.
Coates), where he has remained ever since. On
New Year's day, 1851, he married Mary Black, daughter
of David Black, of Randolph, Portage Co., Ohio,
formerly of Pennsylvania. Mr. & Mrs. Coates are
parents of four children, viz. - Jane E., deceased;
Harriet M.; Eva M., and Jessie K.
Mr. Coates has been elected and is serving the third
term in the Alliance City Council. He is a member of
the I. O. O. F. He began business in limited financial
circumstances, but by unceasing industry he has accumulated
a nice property in Alliance, owning five good residence
besides his own pleasantly located home. |
| JAMES W.
COULTER, attorney-at-law;
Alliance; was born in Butler Co., Pa., Aug. 27, 1854, the
only son of James W. and Martha A. (Thompson)
Coulter. In early life his father learned and
worked at the blacksmith's trade, but later in life turned
his attention to farming; he died when James W. was
only a few weeks old, leaving a widow and two helpless
children. When our subject was about 10 years old his
mother disposed of their farm, and removed with the two
children to Iowa, and about seven years after their removal
to that state she died. Mr. Coulter was left to
his own resources early in life, and made every possible
effort to obtain a thorough education. After the
district school course, he applied himself to teaching one
term, and afterwards had the advantages of an academic
course in Iowa City, and one year in the preparatory
department Iowa State University. In 1873 he returned
to Ohio and applied himself to teaching school and the study
of law with M. M. King, of Alliance. In 1877 he
was admitted to the bar in the District Court of New
Philadelphia, and in the spring of 1879 he opened an office
in Alliance, and the same year was elected Justice of the
Peace. In July, 1879, he married Phoebe V. Peet;
they have one child. |
| JAMES C.
CRAVEN, contractor and
builder; Alliance; was born in Lawrence Co., Pa., in Dec.,
1840; he was the fourth child of a family of seven children
born to Richard and Hannah (Goff) Craven.
His father was a heavy contractor and builder, which
business our subject also early in life adopted. In
1860 he went from Pennsylvania to Tennessee, and was
contracting and building in Nashville at the outbreak of the
late war. On account of the war and demoralized state
of business in the South, he came to Ohio, and while
stopping at Salem, Columbiana Co., he enlisted in Co. B.
65th O. V. I., in October, 1861. Shortly afterward his
sight became seriously affected, which unfitted him for the
service; he was promptly discharged, but was confined to
hospital in Philadelphia for some time in consequence.
Having recovered his usual health he returned to Ohio, and
assisted his father who had taken the contract for building
the Mt. Union College in 1862. The following year the
subject of these notes took the contract, on his own
account, for building the round house for the P., Ft. W. &
Chicago R. R. Co., at Alliance. July 3, 1863, he
married Emma Werner, daughter of George Werner,
of this county. He has since resided in Alliance,
except one year in Pennsylvania, and has made contracting
and building his life work; some of the best business rooms
of Alliance were erected under his direction. In 1876,
he erected his own handsome two story brick residence on
Linden Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Craven have
four children living, viz. - Nellie M., George R., Minnie
S. and James F. Mr. Craven is an active
member of the I. O. O. F. |
W. A.
CREECH, Treasurer Peerless Reaper Company, Canton.
This gentleman came to Stark Co., Ohio, in 1871, locating at
Alliance, where he became book-keeper for the Alliance
Rolling Company, and in 1875 he came to Canton, and served
as Deputy Auditor, and was appointed Auditor in 1879.
About the same time he was elected Treasurer of the Peerless
Reaper Company, and accepted the latter position, appointing
a deputy to act in his place as Auditor; he has continued
his position as Treasurer since.
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