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JOHN
WILLIAM SIRRINE, who is farming in Greene township, is a
native son of Trumbull county, born August 21, 1858, and he is a
member of one of the township's earliest pioneer families. His
maternal grand-parents, John and Polly (Higgans) Evans, were
among the first to settle in the north corner of Green township,
locating there when the place was densely covered with timber.
They were originally from Massachusetts. The paternal
grandfather, William Sirrine, was a native of Lima, New York.
Thomas Sirrine, his son and the father of
John W., was also born in Lima, and he was sixteen years of age
when he came in 1831 to Greene township, Trumbull county, Ohio.
A number of years afterward, about 1848, he was married to Submit
Evans, a native daughter of this township, born in 1830, and
they purchased and located on a farm of eighty acres here in Greene
township. The wife died there in 1886, and in 1898 he sold the
farm and went to Homer county, Michigan, to live with his son
James, his death occurring in February, 1904. In their
family were two sons and three daughters, but two of the daughters
died many years ago.
John W. Sirrine, the third born, made his home
with his parents until his marriage, Dec. 19, 1882, to Anna
Johnson, born in Orwell, Ashtabula county, Ohio, a daughter of
John and Charlotte (Parks) Johnson, born respectively in
Canada and Ireland. During the five years following his
marriage Mr. Sirrine resided on his father's farm, and he
then rented the Difford farm in Greene township for two
years, spent a similar period in Vienna township, and in the
meantime, in 1892, he had purchased one hundred acres in Greene
township, densely covered with timber, and moving there he cleared
and improved thirty acres of the tract. A few years afterward,
in 1898, he erected his present residence, which was built from
timber township. In addition to his general farming he
conducts quite a large dairy. |
GEORGE M.
SMITH, the leading real estate dealer of Warren,
Trumbull county, is still of early middle life, as he was born in
Geauga county, Ohio, as late as 1862. He attended school at
the Western Reserve Seminary in West Farmington, and became
interested in landed property many years ago. But to say that
Mr. Smith is the leading dealer in real estate by no means
defines the scope of his business; for, although his annual sales of
farm property in Trumbull county reach many thousand acres and his
transactions in city real estate amount to several hundred thousand
dollars every year, he is an extensive dealer in bonds and local
securities. There are always several conclusive reasons to
account for pronounced success in any chosen field, and those which
apply to Mr. Smith's case are as follows: Generous and
discriminating advertising, in both the daily press and in farm
journals; a complete equipment, both of trained assistants and
modern office furnishings, and business dealings which are
universally accepted as "square and above board."
Mr. Smith's domestic and social relations are
the American type of harmony and breadth. His wife, to whom he
was married in 1885, was Miss Grace L. Wolcott, and his is
the father of two children, a son, Howard Wolcott, who is a
reporter on the Youngstown Telegram, and a daughter,
Martha Kibbee, now in school. Mr. Smith is an
active member and an officer of the Presbyterian church. |
JOHN
M. SMITH, postmaster at Tyrrell, Vienna township, Trumbull
county, Ohio, was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 29,
1844, a son of William and Sarah (Logue) Smith.
The father was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, and the mother
in Clarion county, that state. The father went to Ohio about
1888, resided there five years, then retraced his steps to
Pennsylvania and was a farmer by occupation as well as the owner of
much real estate in Clarion county. He also had a valuable
property in Trumbull county, Ohio. He started life as a wood
chopper and served as a constable several years. His death
occurred about 1891. The mother died about 1870. The
maternal grandfather, John Logue, served eight
years in the United States army, all through the Revolutionary
struggle, and also fought in the Indian wars.
John M. Smith attended school at the district
school at the district school at Prospect and other districts in
Clarion county, Pennsylvania. He remained at home with his
parents until 1861, and when his mother sent him to Sunday school he
ran away to enlist in the army of the Union forces. He was not
allowed to enlist, but remained with the One Hundred and Third
Pennsylvania Regiment, under Captain Laughlin,
returning under Captain Alvin H. Alexander.
He continued with the regiment until it was reorganized in Feb.,
1864, when he enlisted, on Feb. 23, at Plymouth, North Carolina, and
served until June 19, when he was mustered out of service being
discharged at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was in twenty-eight
engagements and saw much real warfare. After his return from
the war, he purchased a small farm, which was in Clarion county,
Pennsylvania, and continued on the same until 1878, when he removed
to Ohio, settling in Trumbull county. After two years he
bought a farm in the same township and continued to reside on rented
land another year, then purchased another farm adjoining the first
mentioned; also still another farm in Johnson township. He was
a resident of Gustavus township from 1878 to 1895, then sold all of
his land and moved to Warren, Ohio, where he engaged in the dairy
business and shipped milk to Pittsburg for about four years.
He left his business in Warren in the hands of his sons and went to
Pittsburg, in which place he lived for a time, looking after the
sale of his product of the dairy. He sold his interests in
1898, then engaged in the real estate business in Pittsburg,
remaining there until 1903, when he went to Tyrrell and engaged in
farming, following this until his appointment as postmaster at
Tyrrell, which office he took possession of Dec. 11, 1907.
He is a member of the Odd Fellows order, Mahoning Lodge NO. 29,
belonging to the Encampment degree also. Politically, he is a
supporter of the Republican party.
Mr. Smith was united in marriage, the first time
June 12, 1867, to Elizabeth L. Graham, who was born
in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, in 1842 and died Feb. 22, 1899.
She was the daughter of James and Elizabeth (Miller) Graham,
both natives of Clarion county, and farmers by occupation. The
father died about 1866 and the mother in 1894. The children
born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Smith were as
follows: The first child died in infancy; Ala,
born June 6, 1869, died June, 1895; Sarah, June 9,
1870, died at the age of eleven months; William E.,
June 16, 1872, residing at Gary, Indiana, foreman and electrician in
the steel mills; Charles S., Nov. 20, 1875,
residing also at Gary, a machinist and electrician; twins,
born in January, 1877, named Harry and Ada; Ada
died in 1895 and Harry resides in Warren, Ohio, and
is a foreman in a machine shop for an electric plant.
For his second wife Mr. Smith married, Oct. 11,
1904, Mrs. Alice L. Greenwood, the widow of
Corydon Greenwood. Her maiden name was
Vaughn. (See sketch of Carlos Greenwood.)
By her first marriage Mrs. Smith had three
children: Lillie, born Oct. 16, 1872,
deceased; Clayton B., born May 13, 1875, residing
at Youngstown, an engineer in a steel plant; and Grace,
now Mrs. J. A. Tully, of Youngstown, Ohio, her
husband being a machinist in the steel mills.
(Source: 20th Century History of Youngstown and Mahoning Co., Ohio and
Representative Citizens, Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. -
Chicago, Illinois - 1907 ~ Page 235) |
 CYRUS
B. SNYDER was one of the most extensive land owners and
stock-raisers within Trumbull county, and had possessions in Ohio
and far away Texas, where his interests were large. He was a
native of Brookfield township, this county, born June 1, 1830, the
son of David and Mary A. (Combs) Snyder, the former born in
Perry county, Pennsylvania, in 1804 and the latter in Brookfield
township, Dec. 3, 1807. The paternal grandparents were
Thomas and Mary Snyder, of Pennsylvania, who were of German
parentage. On the mother's side the grandfather was
Ebenezer M. Combs, of Connecticut. The father came with
his mother to Hartford, Ohio, in 808, cutting a wagon road through
the dense forests. The mother of Cyrus B. Snyder came
to Vienna with her parents when a small girl.
David and Mary A. (Combs) Snyder were were
united in marriage November 27, 1827, in Trumbull county, Ohio, and
settled in the northern part of Brookfield township. David,
a blacksmith by trade, conducted a shop there until 1848, when
he sold his shop and moved to a farm in Bloomfield township, where
he resided several years, then came to the village of North
Bloomfield, and there ran a shop for ten years, after which he
retired, about the spring of 1875. His faithful wife died in
1890. They had nine children, three of whom still survive:
Cyrus B., of this narrative, the eldest; Mary, Mrs.
Harrison Lee, of Enid, Oklahoma; David T., of North
Bloomfield.
Cyrus B. Snyder had the advantages
of the common schools and the Vienna Academy. He resided with
his parents until eighteen years of age, when he entered the employ
of Charles Brown, who was in the live stock business, raising cattle
and horses. Mr. Snyder was in the employ of this
stockman three years and caught a full glimpse of what a great
business was being carried on in such an industry and at once
purchased land and began the role of a stockman himself. He
steadily forged his way to the front rank, and was the owner of
twelve hundred acres of land in Mesopotamia and Bloomfield townships
at the time of his death. He cultivated a portion of this land and
pastured the remainder. He also owned forty-six hundred acres
in Shackelford county, Texas, which land is chiefly devoted to
grazing purposes. In all of his business transactions he
proved himself a competent factor in the great live stock business
of this country. Politically, he had ever voted the Democratic
ticket. He was justice of the peace, township trustee and
school director, besides holding other local positions. He was
a member of the Masonic order when this fraternity had a lodge at
North Bloomfield.
He was happily married Sept. 22, 1852, to Mary Clark,
a native of Bloomfield, and the daughter of Isaac G. and Polly
(Bundy) Clark, of Connecticut. Mrs. Snyder died
Apr. 19, 1859, leaving one child, Mary Lovira, born Apr. 2,
1853, now Mrs. Herbert F. Griffith, of West Farmington, Ohio.
For his second wife, Mr. Snyder married Sept. 19, 1860,
Mary J. Bugby, born Oct. 23, 1839, at Orwell, Ashtabula Co.,
Ohio, a daughter of Henry and Paulina (Cook) Bugby. The
father was born in Oct., 1816, in Chautauqua county, New York; his
wife was born Nov. 25, 1818, in Windsor, Ohio. The grandfather
Bugby was named Wymand; he was also of New York.
Mrs. Snyder's father and mother were Zera and Chloe
(Loomis) Cook, natives of Windsor, Connecticut. All of
these families were early pioneers in the famous Western Reserve of
Ohio. Mrs. Snyder's parents lived on a farm in
Ashtabula county, Ohio, where the father died in 1883 and the mother
in the spring of 1889.
The children born to Mr. Snyder, by his second
marriage, are: Elva, Mrs. Elsworth Yoder, of Wymore,
Nebraska; Clara V., Mrs. Charles Hollister, of Warren, Ohio,
who died February, 1892; Gertrude L., Mrs. Samuel S.
Marquis, of Detroit, Michigan, and Cyrus Byron, of
Baird, Texas. After a short illness, Mr. Snyder passed
away Oct. 7, 1908, honored and respected by all who knew him, and
Trumbull county, citizens will long mourn him as one of their most
valuable citizens.
Mr. Snyder has a horse twenty-eight years old
which was a great favorite of his and known all over the country.
Being crippled, Mr. Snyder had to use a crutch, but the horse
would assist him to mount by sidling up to a stump or rise of
ground. She would wait for him on the roadside or field
without being hitched all day and night if necessary. Mr.
Snyder had become very much attached to her and on his deathbed
requested his wife to be good to Dora, which is the horse's
name.
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CHARLES
E. STOCKWELL, for many years one of the prominent and leading
agriculturists of Greene township, Trumbull county, was born in
Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1838, a son of William and
Clarissa (Whitimore) Stockwell, natives of Massachusetts, and a
grandson of Louis Whitimore. William and Clarissa
Stockwell were married in their native state of Massachusetts,
and from there moved to Portage county, Ohio, where they spent the
remainder of their lives.
Charles E. Stockwell, the eighth born of their
six sons and five daughters, remained at home with his parents until
his marriage, but in the meantime, in September of 1861, he enlisted
for service in the Civil war in the First Ohio Light Artillery,
Company I, and was assigned to the fields of Virginia and North
Carolina with the Army of the Potomac. He was honorably
discharged in the fall of 1862, but later, in 1853, re-enlisted in
service until the close of the conflict. Returning from the
war he came to Greene township in Trumbull county and bought a farm
of seventy-eight acres covered with timber and brush, and has since
placed his land under cultivation and at the same time has added to
its boundaries until he now has one hundred and sixty-one acres in
the home place and fifty-five acres two miles south. He is
engaged in general farming, and since 1880 acres two miles south.
He is engaged in general farming, and since 1880 has also operated a
saw mill. He has a large dairy, and in former years
manufactured cheese quite extensively and conducted a large sugar
bush. His home is a pleasant and commodious two-story
residence of ten rooms, surrounded by shade and ornamental trees,
and the homestead is further enhanced by a fine old orchard of apple
and pear trees and grapes.
Mr. Stockwell was married in June, 1866, to
Sarah J. Liddle, from Trumbull county, and their two children
are Ellis E. and Elsie J. The son is now
operating his father's mill. The daughter is the widow
of Thomas Bingham, by whom she has tow children, John and
Carlton, and she resides with her father. Mr. Stockwell
is a Republican politically, and is a member of the Grange in
Greene and of the Grand Army post in Mecca. He is a member and
since 1904 has served as a steward of the Methodist Episcopal
church. |
| JOSEPH
STROCK was born September 25, 1831, in Austintown township,
Trumbull county. His father, Samuel Strock, was a
native of Pennsylvania, Cumberland county, and came to Ohio in 1814
with his father, Joseph, who first settled in Tuscarawas
county for one season, then came to Trumbull county and settled in
Austintown, where he lived till his death, which occurred in 1832,
leaving a family of twelve children. Mrs. Strock died
in a few weeks after the death of her husband. Mr. Samuel
Strock came to Newton in 1840 and lived upon the farm where his
son Joseph now resides, till 1878, and died in this this
year. Mrs. Strock died in 1868. Mr. Strock,
the subject of this sketch, has always lived in what was old
Trumbull. He has an excellent farm of two hundred and one
acres. He was married in 1853, to Miss Susan Kistler,
daughter of Michael Kistler, of Newton township. There
were nine children by this marriage. Mrs. Strock died
in 1868. His second marriage was in the fall of 1868 to
Miss Almira Powers, daughter of Williams Powers, of
Ohltown, Ohio. There were five children by this marriage.
Mrs. Strock died in 1876. Mr. Strock
is an enterprising man. |
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