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Source: 
A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio
by Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren - Vol. II - Illustrated
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
1909

  LOUIS ALBERT PATTENGELL, an owner of considerable excellent farming land, both in Trumbull and Ashtabula counties, Ohio, is a native of the place where he now lives, in Bristolville, Bristol township, Trumbull county, Ohio.  He was born Dec. 24, 1851, the son of Jacob and Laura Ann (Case) Pattengell.  The father was born in New York and the mother in Simsbury, Connecticut.  The grandparents were Hiram Pattengell and Nathaniel Case.  Both were natives of Connecticut.
     Jacob Pattengell left home when fourteen years of age and went to Rochester, Pennsylvania.  At the time he was without shoes or money.  He worked at five dollars a month for one year, and saved fifty dollars and went into the fanning mill manufactory, at Rochester.  In 1834 he went to making chain-pumps, which he followed for a few years, after which he went into the mercantile business and later he farmed.  During and a few years after the great Civil war he was internal revenue assessor.  He retired and died March 13, 1883.  His wife died Dec. 5, 1877.  They were the parents of three children: Annie Maria (Mrs. Thomas S. Shephard), now a widow at Wooster, Ohio; Francis N., of Bristolville, and Louis Albert of this notice.
     Louis Albert  was educated at the public schools and at the Western Reserve Seminary, at Farmington, Ohio.  After securing his education he looked after the home farm and bought and sold horses and cattle.  Both he and his brother reside together in town and he owns several farms, including one hundred and fifty-five acres in Trumbull and thirty acres in Ashtabula county.  Politically, he is a supporter of the Republican party and has served his township as constable, treasurer and clerk at different times.  In his fraternal relations he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to West Mecca Lodge No. 707, and has advanced to the Encampment degree.
     Mr. Pattengell is among the honorable citizens of his township and has performed his part in the carrying on of the local government.  He is unmarried.
Source:  A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 - Page 362 ok
  HENRY BISHOP PERKINS - No family in the Western Reserve section of Ohio has ever stood higher or contributed more to the material development and moral worth of the community than the family of General Simon Perkins and his descendants.  Inheriting that sturdy integrity which seemed inherent in the early pioneers of this country, General Perkins transmitted to his children the same strong qualities for which he was noted.
     Henry Bishop Perkins, the youngest son of General Simon Perkins, was born at Warren, Ohio, March 19, 1824.  General Perkins died when Henry Bishop Perkins was but twenty years old, yet, at that early age, he had already manifested those splendid qualities of manhood, justice and unimpeachable integrity, which he carried through his long and useful life.  Possessing a keen sense of responsibility, a fine dignity, and attractive physical presence, he immediately took the position in the community made vacant by the death of his distinguished father.  Remaining at the old homestead in the town of his birth, he devoted his entire life toward higher ideals of good citizenship in the community.  He bestowed generously of his time and money to the encouragement of those less fortunate than he and contributed a very large share toward democracy which had characterized his ancestors and descendants, was a student in the schools of Warren and later entered one of Ohio's first institutions of higher learning.  Marietta College.  After a tour of Europe where he gained valuable experience by travel and broadened his sympathies by contact with people of many lands he entered diligently upon the work of the management of the estate left to his care.
     Notwithstanding the many demands upon his time, in conducting his private business. Mr. Perkins never failed to assume and discharge every duty which falls to a good citizen in a growing community.  He served fifteen years on the Warren Board of Education and to his excellent judgment in a large degree the high standard of Warren schools and her beautiful schoolhouses are attributable.  Nor did he confine his educational interest to his home city, but in connection with his brothers, endowed a professorship in the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio.
     Removed but a generation or two from the pioneers who had blazed the first trails in a new country, Mr. Perkins inherited also that love of nature without which one rarely becomes a sympathetic and well-rounded man.  The grounds surrounding his home on Mahoning Avenue were filled with rare trees, shrubs, plants and flowers, while his fine farms in Trumbull county were examples of the painstaking husbandman who appreciates that Nature is a good accountant and gives in the measure that she receives.  Mr. Perkins realized that agriculture is the true basis of all prosperity and he farmed well, just as he did everything well.  He was twice elected president of the Trumbull County Agricultural Society, was twice appointed a member of the State Board of Agriculture and was for many years a trustee of the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College.  To the duties of each position he gave that same thorough attention which he devoted to his private business.  Always a lover of the beautiful and artistic.  Mr. Perkins laid out, ornamented and maintained Monumental Park, in Warren, which among other things, will always remain to hallow his memory in the city he loved so well.
     With a multiplicity of private and public duties demanding his constant attention, Mr. Perkins was in the most ideal sense a home man, devoting every attention to his family and extending the radius of his sympathy and assistance to his neighbors and friends.  In 1855 Mr. Perkins was married to Miss Eliza G. Baldwin, a daughter of Norman C. Baldwin, a prominent and popular man, who was conspicuous in the early business life of Cleveland.  Mrs. Perkins is a woman of keen intellect, generous impulses, remarkable indignity and has contributed her full share in maintaining the high standards of excellence and worth of the descendants of General Simon Perkins.  Four children were born to them:  Mary B., now Mrs. H. A. Lawton, of Warren; Olive D., now Mrs. Samuel W. Smith, of Cincinnati; Jacob, who died in 1902, and Henry Bishop, Jr., who died in 1900.
     Mr. Perkins believed in teaching people to help themselves, and in a practical way he tided many business men over crises, helped young men through college and without ostentation gave assistance to helpless women and children.  Before the days of bonding companies, men of means were called upon to stand sponsor for men in public office.  Mr. Perkins during his lifetime was probably on the bond of more men in public and private matters than any other man in this community.  when thanked for these favors, he always quietly replied that he could perhaps better afford to take the risk than others, and did not therefore deserve any praise.  He served as president of the Oakwood Cemetery Association, and gave a great deal of time and thought to the beautifying the grounds.
     A generation ago the Warren Library was not the prosperous institution it is today.  It was then without means, and it seemed that unless assistance came to the library must close its doors, but it was enabled to continue its work by generous donations from Mr. Perkins.  His practical experience and sound advice were always in demand, and when Trumbull county's stately new court house was being planned and erected in 1895 Mr. Perkins was appointed to advise with the commissioners in carrying out that important work.  He never at any time sought public office, but accepted it rather as a duty which a good citizen owes to his community when called upon to serve.  Thus in 1879 he was elected to the Ohio Senate, and re-elected in 1881, which position he held four years.  In 1888 he was a Republican elector for Benjamin H. Harrison, then a candidate for president, which honor was particularly gratifying to Mr. Harrison, as Mr. Perkins' father, General Simon Perkins, had been a personal friend to President William Henry Harrison, the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison.
     Mr. Perkins
was one of the commissioners chosen by Governor Bishop to establish the boundary line between Ohio and Pennsylvania in 1879.  Perhaps one of the most notable incidents of Mr. Perkins' public career was in connection with the great Garfield-Grant-Conkling mass meeting, which he was largely instrumental in bringing to Warren in 1880.  It was at this historic gathering that bitter and warring political interests were reconciled, which assured the election of James A. Garfield for president in the November following.  Senator Conkling, Senator Cameron, General Grant and William McKinley were all entertained at the hospitable  home of Mr. Perkins upon that occasion.
     Mr. Perkins early became one of the stockholders and directors of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad, now one of the most important branches of the great Erie System.  In 1852 Mr. Perkins was elected a director of the Western Reserve Bank, which was one of the oldest banking institution in Northern Ohio.  Upon the expiration of its charter in 1863, the First National Bank was organized, and Mr. Perkins was chosen president, which office he held until the time of his death, nearly forty consecutive years.  Mr. Perkins' conservative business judgment, his unquestioned integrity and his general popularity fitted him for this position of trust.  Recognizing his high standing, experience and ability, in 1861 Secretary Chase, of the United States Treasury, selected Mr. Perkins to assist in making the first national loan necessitated by the Civil War.
     Added to his many other public duties, Mr. Perkins served for many years as trustee of the Cleveland Historical Society, and was appointed by Governor McKinley a trustee of the Cleveland State Hospital.  With liberal and unselfish views, he lived his life from day to day, and when he died, March 2, 1902, there was left a vacancy in the community that has never been filled.  Mr. Perkins was a supporter of the Presbyterian church, but in his philanthropy and liberality he did not confine himself to any one church or denomination.
     For more than three score years Hon. Henry Bishop Perkins stood a pillar of strength in the old Western Reserve city of his birth, and his entire life was without stain.  Kind, exemplary to a high degree, thoughtful, industrious, systematic in all he thought and did, generous and dignified, but ever finding time to aid the lowly and encourage the ambitious, his career forms the best possible example for those who have come after him.  His was the old school of citizenship, embodying in his life a certain chivalry, yet with all a becoming simplicity, which formed a connecting link between the old and the new and rendered him one of the most beloved men Trumbull county ever produced.
Source:  A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 - Page 3 ok
  HILLYER D. PERKINS - The old Perkins homestead, which is now in charge of Miss Anna Louise, second child of the late Hillyer D. Perkins, has been in possession of the family since it was purchased by her grandfather in 1818.  It is therefore one of the most interesting historic landmarks of Kinsman township and Trumbull county.  The picturesque and valuable estate consists of two hundred and twenty-nine acres of land, which is now rented to desirable and careful farmers.
     Hillyer D. Perkins was born in Kinsman township, on the homestead mentioned, Sept. 22, 1821, and it was the scene of all the main events of life, including his marriage to Miss Louisa Bennett, of Hartford, Ohio, who died shortly after.  On August 10, 1845, he married Miss Susan S. Lowry, of Talmadge, Ohio, she being then within one day of her twenty-third year.  She died on the old homestead Aug. 12, 1907, the day after she had celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday.  The four children born of this second marriage were as follows:  Henry L., May 25, 1846; Anna Louisa, Oct. 11, 1850; Frederick H., May 19, 1853, who died at Orwell, Ohio, Apr. 22, 1898, having been engaged in that place as a banker for one year, and for many years was associated with the Bank of Kinsman, Ohio; and Jessie, born Oct. 4, 1864, now Mrs. W. L. Chidester, a resident of Chicago.  Mr. Perkins died on Christmas day of the year 1882, having passed his life as a faithful, industrious, unassuming citizen and a Christian.
     Seth Perkins, the grandfather, who founded the family in Ohio, was a native of Hartford county, Connecticut, born Feb. 29, 1780.  At the age of twelve years he moved with other members of the family to Barkhamsted, Litchfield county, that state, and when twenty years old settled at Canandaigua, New York, where he resided until 1804.  He was among the first of the colonists to enter the country northwest of the Ohio river, and came hither with all his earthly possessions in a knapsack.  Nevertheless, the following October he married Miss Lucy Thompson, daughter of Thomas Thompson, who had migrated from his Connecticut home to Hartford, Trumbull county.  He had made a clearing and built a small log cabin near the line between what are now Fowler and Vienna townships, and in the spring of 1805 the young couple commenced housekeeping in this locality.  At this time there were but four families in Fowler township, the nearest being about a mile distant, all around being dense forest, unbroken except by wild beasts and savages.  The succeeding seven years, however, made considerable improvements in the surrounding country, and especially in the Perkins timber farm; but, carried away by the excitement and patriotism caused by the war of 1812, the head of the family joined his neighbors and started for what was then the northwestern border, the two chief objective points of the American forces being Sandusky and Huron.  He returned June 1, 1813, having gained a new experience and restored health.  The homestead of Fowler township remained the home of the Perkins family until the autumn of 1818, much of the land being now cultivated, an orchard having been brought to full bearing, and other improvements being added indicative of the thrifty and thorough farmer.  In April, 1819, having sold his farm in the previous autumn, Mr. Perkins removed with his family to Kinsman township, and there established the estate which with constant changes and improvements, has descended to the present.  While working on the old homestead, which had become familiar and beloved by the associations of twenty-seven years, he met with an accident which caused a serious concussion of the brain, followed by his death in February, 1846.
Source:  A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 - Page 214 ok
  C. A. PIERSON, one of the substantial and extensive agriculturists cultivating the fertile soil of Vienna township, Trumbull county, was born at New Lebanon, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, Aug. 4, 1856, a son of E. A. and Henrietta (Turner) Pierson.  Of his parentage it may be stated that his father was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, while the mother was a native of Mercer county.  The paternal grandfather, Abel S. Pierson, was a native of New York state, of Scotch descent, as are all the Piersons in this country.  Abel S. went to Pennsylvania at a very early time and was a farmer and stock raiser; also speculated in real estate.  He died in Pennsylvania in 1867.  The father resided with his parents until his marriage, then engaged in clerking in a store, continuing until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served his country two and a half years.  After the war closed he embarked in the mercantile business at New Lebanon, where he carried on a successful business several years and was a postmaster at that place, having been appointed under President U. S. Grant.  His wife died about that time, and he then went to Montana and is now engaged in mercantile pursuits in Fromburg, Montana, and is also the postmaster of the town.  In his family there were five children, three of whom died in infancy:  Minnie J., was the wife of Elmer Seafuse, of Lake City, Michigan; she is deceased.  C. A. is the eldest of the two children who survived to maturity.
     C. A. Pierson began for himself in life when aged but thirteen years by working in a store in Vienna, where he remained fourteen years, then removed to the farm on which he now lives and where he has resided continuously.  He has come to be an extensive stock raiser.  His farm consists of one hundred and fifty acres - the home place - and forty acres more between Vienna and Vienna Center.  Mr. Pierson is now in possession of a deed of the land where he now lives, which instrument was made to Mrs. Pierson's grandfather in 1803.
     April 11, 1878, Mr. Pierson was married to Mary Strain, born in Vienna township, Nov. 6, 1857, a daughter of Samuel and Mary W. (Woodford) Strain.  The mother was born on the farm where Mr. Pierson now lives.  The father was born in Pennsylvania.  The Woodfords were natives of Connecticut.  Mr. and Mrs. Pierson are the parents of two children:  W. W> Pierson, an attorney-at-law residing and practicing at Youngstown, born February 2, 1880, married Mina Josephine Clawson, born in Fowler township, and by this union one child was born, Virginia W.; Olive B., born May 28, 1882, wife of T. C. Cochran, residing in Mercer, Pennsylvania; they are the parents of one son, Wilson H.
     C. A. Pierson
is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to the Knights Templar degree, being connected with Warren Commandery, No. 39, at Warren.
Source:  A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 - Page 254  ok
  NORMAN S. PRICE, farmer and dairyman, who excells in both branches of business, resides in Hubbard township, and was born on the farm on which he now lives, Dec. 22, 1868.  His father, John D. A. Price, was born on the same farm April 27, 1826.  The grandfather, James S. Price, was born in New Jersey, Nov. 7, 1783, and was a son of Samuel Price, who came to Trumbull county       with his family, more than a century ago, locating near Coalburg, where he purchased about three hundred acres of land.  James S. Price was a mill wright.  He married Miss Betsy Clark,  a native of Trumbull county, Ohio.  Her people came from Connecticut.  Two children was the result of this union: Polly, who married Stephen Burnett, who is now deceased; Clark Price, now deceased.  Betsy (Clark) Price died and James S. married Sallie Duer, daughter of John and Susan Duer, of Hubbard township.  They came from New Jersey.  The children of James S. and Susan (Duer) Price were Pamelia, who married Aaron Vanness, now deceased; Euphamey, who married Lawrence Hager and is now deceased; Eli, Jonathan, Stinson, and William all deceased; John D. A., father of Norman S., of this sketch; Sally Ann, who married Aaron Vanness and now resides in Hubbard; and three children who died in infancy.
     John D. A. Price, the father, was educated in Hubbard township, where he lived all his life.  He married, Dec. 30, 1865, Nancy Jones, who was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1845, daughter of Andrew and Eliza Jones.  Her parents came from Ireland and were of Irish and Welsh descent.  Mr. and Mrs. Price had one child:  Norman S.   John D. A. Price is a Democrat and was at one time trustee of Hubbard township.  He belongs to the Baptist church at Hubbard.  His occupation has been that of a farmer all of his active life.  His present farm consists of ninety-two acres, but on account of his decline in life, he has retired and his son conducts the place.
     Norman S. Price received his education at the most excellent public schools of Hubbard township and commenced the life of an agriculturist on his father's farm.  He has followed this through the passing years and still works the old homestead, doing general farming and dairying.  He keeps about fifteen cows and disposes of his milk and dairy products at Youngstown, Ohio.
     He was married Aug. 25, 1892 to Jennie M. Paisley, daughter of John W. and Sarah Paisley, natives of Hubbard township, where she was reared and educated.  Mr. and Mrs. Price reside in a modern residence and are surrounded with all the comforts of life.  They have no children.
Source:  A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1909 - Page 215 ok

 

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