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Also See Individual Townships for biographies.
| CHARLES F. HALLOCK, one of the substantial
farmers and public-spirited citizens of Fowler, is also one of the
pioneer Republicans of the county, having cast his first ballot for
Abraham Lincoln and never changed his politics sine. He
was born on the farm upon which he now resides Mar. 19, 1838, the
third child of George W. and Phoebe (Borden) Hallock.
The other members of the family were; Asahel, who was born at
Brookfield, November 7, 1830, and was accidentally killed by a horse
August 1 married Harriet Kellogg of that place; Amelia, born to the
family homestead March 19, 1838, who became the wife of Samuel
Kellogg and new resides with her son at Fowler
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ROBERT
G. HAMILTON, a leading farmer and prosperous dealer in flour,
feed, lime and cement, is located at Farmdale, Kinsman township,
Trumbull county. He is a native of Vernon Township, this
county, born July 31, 1854. Robert Hamilton, his
father, was a native of Scotland, where he reached manhood and
married his first wife. Upon coming to America the family
first located at Clarksville, Pennsylvania, later locating on a farm
in Vernon township, where Robert G. was born. After
living there five years they removed to Kinsman, where they lived
until the death of the father in the eighty-fifth year of his age.
Robert Hamilton's second marriage was to Miss Ellen Currie,
also a native of Scotland, who bore him six children, all of whom
are living.
Robert G. Hamilton is the second child and
second son by this marriage and was about two years old when the
family moved to Kinsman township, where he received his education.
After leaving school he passed about six years at Titusville,
Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in the lumber business, returning
then to Kinsman and establishing himself in his present line of
business, which he has conducted for the past ten years.
Mr. Hamilton has been a leader in the affairs of the Republican
party of his locality and among other local offices has served as
trustee of Kinsman township.
(Source: History of Trumbull County, Ohio by
Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren - Vol. II - Illustrated - The Lewis
Publishing Company - Chicago - 1909) |
PRESTON
ROBERT HARKLERODE, a farmer well known in Champion township,
Trumbull county, has spent his entire life (except a short period)
in that part of the county. He was born July 20, 1848.
His father, Henry Harklerode, was a native of Ellsworth
township, Mahoning county, Ohio, a son of a native of Connecticut
who became a pioneer in Trumbull county, and bought a tract of
timber land, hewing a farm from out the dense forest and spending
the remainder of his days there, reaching an advanced age.
Henry Harklerode, the father, received his
education in Ellsworth, and when a young man, he went to Champion
township and purchased timber land in the northeast part of the
township, which was at that time nothing but a wilderness.
There in the solitude of the Ohio forests, he erected but a
wilderness. There in the solitude of the Ohio forests, he
erected a log cabin in which he and his brother kept bachelor's hall
for a time, and each Saturday walked home to Ellsworth, returning
Mondays. At that date, deer and wild turkeys were very
numerous in that section, and as he was an expert marksman, he
always feasted on plenty of the choicest of wild game. For a
number of years he had no horses and did his work about the farm
with oxen. Upon his marriage, he brought his bride to his log
cabin, and for two years this cabin was their abiding place.
On his clearing, he raised flax and his wife used to card and spin
and weave cloth with which she neatly clothed her children.
This has almost come to be a lost art in these days of fast flying
shuttles and factories with their tens of thousands of rapidly
moving spindles. For years they had no stove, but cooked by
fireplaces, bright and cheerful. No lamps illuminated their
dingy rooms, but in the place of modern lamps and electricity, the
good pioneer was content with some lard within a saucer provided
with a rag, which served as a wick. This, with the flickering
light from the fireplace, lighted up the cabin home of the parents
of Preston R. in that long ago day. Here the hard
working father cleared up a farm from the great forests, and here he
labored, lived and died, age eighty-two years.
His wife was Mary Rose, a native of Milton
township, Mahoning county, Ohio, and she was the mother of six
children: Nancy Ann, Almira, Preston R., Laura, Warren and
Oscar. Mary Rose was the daughter of Robert Rose, a
native of New England, who came a pioneer of pioneers in Wilton
township. He served in the war of 1812. He purchased
lands in Milton township. He had a large family and while
clearing his land up he had to work for others to gain means with
which to support his family. He worked nights many times, in
burning the timber, after having walked four miles from his daily
toil. There he worked and finally conquered his forest tract
and made for himself and family a comfortable home. His last
years were spent with a son in Berlin township. He died at the
remarkable old age of one hundred and two years, his remains being
buried in the Eiches Cemetery, near his old homestead in Milton
township. His life and labors only proves that "more men rust
out than wear out." The maiden name of his wife was
Catherine Shafe. She died aged eighty-one years.
Preston R. Harklerode was reared and educated in
Champion township and, with the exception of two years spent in
Bristol, has spent his entire life in his native township. In
1870 he settled on the farm he now occupies and owns. When he
went there he found about seven acres under cultivation, but he has
brought it all under a high state of cultivation and erected houses
and barns in keeping with the time in which he lives. His farm
now consists of one hundred and twenty-three acres, on which he does
general farming and carries on dairying and raises sheep.
In July, 1868, he married Elizabeth M. Osborn,
born in Farmington, Trumbull county, Ohio, March, 1851, a daughter
of Thomas, married Maude Woodford, and they are the
parents of Merlin and Laurence; Luella, married F. A. Cory
her children are Edna, Walter, Wade and Clarence; Lavern,
married C. C> Chinnock, whose children are Herbert
and Mildred; Maude, married Emerson Cory, and they
have Preston, Eva, Dallas and Arthur; Edwin,
married Nina Weise; Eliza, married David Livingston;
and Myrtle. Mr. Harklerode and wife are members of the
Disciples church, and politically he is a Democrat.
In conclusion it may be of interest to those who read
these historic pages to known that Preston R. Harklerode's
mother, being the eldest in her parents' family, and the care of the
same after the death of her mother, who died when she was but eleven
years of age. In those days people went barefoot a part of the
year, and this girl used to be very careful of her shoes, and when
she attended divine worship she would take her shoes in a rough log
building, and before entering the holy place would stop and put on
her shoes.
(Source: History of Trumbull County, Ohio by
Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren - Vol. II - Illustrated - The Lewis
Publishing Company - Chicago - 1909) |
ALFRED REA
HUGHES - The name of Alfred R. Hughes is well known in
connection with Warren City Tank and Boiler Company, of which he was
the founder and is now the president. He is a native son of
the mother country of England, born at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire
on the 24th day of July, 1862. He married at Niles, Ohio,
September 4, 1888, Miss Jennie Edwards, a daughter of John
Fletcher and Nancy (Martin) Edwards, and their two children are
Master Raymond Edwards Hughes, born at Warren on October 22,
1893, and Miss Margaret Elizabeth Hughes, also born at
Warren, Ohio, September 2, 1906.
Mr. Hughes is a Republican voter, and is
identified with both the fraternal orders of Masons and Elks.
He is a member of the Presbyterian church. |
SAMUEL K.
HINE, manager of the Girard Iron Company, Trumbull county, is
one of the acknowledged experts of the middle west in the scientific
manufacture of iron. He has reached his position both by
virtue of his thorough technical education and his practical
experience of sixteen years in connection with various metal
manufactories of Ohio. Born Aug. 4, 1867, at Poland, Ohio, he
is a son of Samuel and Emma Caroline (Kirtland) Hine.
His father was an active merchant in Hubbard until 1864, when he
retired from business and lived at Poland, Ohio, until his death in
1893.
Samuel K. Hine received his preparatory
education at Poland Union Seminary, after which he pursued a full
course at the famous Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, New
York. While pursuing his studies at this institution he became
a member of the Troy Citizens' Corps and was called upon to do guard
duty at Buffalo during the railroad strike of 1892. He was
graduated from this institution in 1892 and in the September
following he was appointed assistant engineer of the Falcon Tin
Mill, at Niles, Ohio, and after performing the duties of this
position for about two months accepted the more responsible position
of chemist for the Mahoning Valley Iron Company, of Youngstown,
Ohio. In February, 1893, he was appointed chemist of the Salem
Iron Works, of Leetonia, this state, and thus continued until
January, 1895. In the following month he removed to
Youngstown, Ohio, to assume his duties as assistant chemist of the
Ohio Steel Company. In the following month he became connected
with the Girard Iron Company as its expert chemist, and after
remaining identified with this corporation for six years he
established an office at Cleveland, Ohio, and for several months was
engaged in that city as a general consulting chemist. In June,
1903, he was appointed superintendent of the Girard (Ohio) Iron
Company and was promoted to its management in May of the following
year, in which position he has become widely known for his ability
and practical scientific attainments in connection with the
manufacture of iron.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Hine is a
member of the Niles Lodge, B. P. O. E., and the Mahoning Lodge, A.
F. & A. M., at the same place.
(Source: History of Trumbull County, Ohio by
Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren - Vol. II - Illustrated - The Lewis
Publishing Company - Chicago - 1909) |
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MARK NELSON
HYDE, one of the native-born farmers of Trumbull
county, Ohio, was born in Bristol township, November 17, 1877, a son
of John and Elizabeth (Mahan) Hyde. The mother was born
in Guernsey county, Ohio, and the father in West Farmington.
Of the grandparents it may be said that they were Eli and Hannah
Hyde, born in England, and John and Cynthia (Hill) Mahan,
the former born in Ireland, and the latter in Trumbull county.
The grandfather Hyde went to Farmington, Ohio, about 1816,
settling on timber lands, which by much labor he succeeded in
clearing off and made into an excellent farm. The parents of
Mark N. were united in marriage, in Bristol township, and
settled on a farm which the father had owned since 1840. In
all, he owned about four hundred and fifty acres, two hundred and
fifty of which is within Bristol township and the remainder is in
Mesopotamia township. John Hyde died aged sixty-eight
years. John Hyde was married first to Adelia A.
Green, by whom six children were born, three of each sex.
By the last marriage Mark N., of this memoir, was the only
child, and has always resided on the farm where he was born.
He now owns all the land his father possessed and works the home
farm of one hundred and thirty-nine acres, renting out the balance.
This tract of excellent farm land was all entered by the father and
by him improved. He raises cattle, horses and swine.
February 7, 1906, Mr. Hyde was married to
Gladys Prime, born in Clinton county, Ohio, a daughter of
Eugene and Rose (Hodgson) Prime. Her father was born in
West Virginia and the mother in Clinton county, Ohio. The
issue by this union is: Eugene Nelson, born October 1,
1907, and Gladys Thelma, born Nov. 5, 1908. |
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