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SIDNEY DE LAMAR JACKSON
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HON. JOSEPH R. JOHNSTON
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ASAHEL
W. JONES was born at Johnstonville, Trumbull
county, Ohio, Sept. 18, 1838. His paternal grandfather and
great-grandfather were early settlers in Trumbull county, removing
there from Burkhamstead, Connecticut, in 1801, and erecting the
second cabin in the township. William P. Jones, father
of Asahel, was born in Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio, July
11, 1814. He married Mary J. Bond, a native of Avon
Springs, N. Y., who emigrated to Hartford in 1833, at the age of
seventeen years. She died in Youngstown, in March, 1882.
The subject of this sketch, after reading law with Curtis & Smith,
at Warren, Ohio, was there admitted to the bar Sept. 27, 1859.
He practiced there a few years and then, in1864, removed to
Youngstown, where he was in partnership at different times with
H. B. Case, Gen. T. W. Sandreson, R. B. Murray, W. S. Anderson
and W. J. Terrell, for many years while thus connected he did
a large amount of railroad and corporation law business. He
was twice prosecuting attorney, being first appointed, on the death
of Henry G. Leslie, in 1868, as his successor, and the second
time by election. He was also judge advocate general of Ohio
for two terms. In 1874 he was active in the organization of
the Second National Bank of Youngstown, and for many years
subsequently was one of its directors. In 1878 he became a
director in the Brown, Bonnell & Co.'s manufacturing
concern, which is now included in the Republic Iron & Steel
corporation. He was a delegate, with Judge Tripp,
from the Seventeenth Ohio Congressional district, to the Republican
National Convention held in Chicago in 1880. He also served
two terms as lieutenant-governor. About a year ago Mr.
Jones retired from the practice of law and removed to Berg
Hill, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he now resides, engaged in
farming. He was married, Sept. 24, 1861, to Miss Annette J.
Palmer, who was born at Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, June
23, 1840. He afterwards married Miss Louisa
Brice of Oberlin, Ohio.
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PAUL JONES,
a retired manufacturer, of Youngstown, Ohio, who has been identified
with many of the great industries which have made this city an
important business center, was born here in November, 1838, a son of
William and Mary (Clark) Jones.
The paternal forefathers of Mr.
Jones were natives of Ireland. His grandparents were
William and Fanny (Stinson) Jones, both of whom were born in
County Tyrone, Ireland.
William Jones, the father, was born also in
County Tyrone, Ireland, Dec. 10, 1810, and came to America with his
parents when about 20 years of age, landing in Philadelphia, where
his mother had relatives. They shortly after came to Ohio and
settled at Lisbon, Columbiana County, William Jones coming to
Youngstown about 1830. Here he attended school in the academy,
which stood on the site of the present Diamond Block, and
which afterwards became the Disciple Church. He learned the
trade of bricklayer and stone mason and he was one of the builders
whose mortar was good and whose corners always plumb, which
expression might be applied both actually in regard to his
occupation and in a figurative sense as indicative of his character.
On Aug. 9, 1835, William Jones was married to
Mary Clark, who was born June 24, 1818, in Coitsville township,
Mahoning County, Ohio, and was a daughter of Thomas and Jane
(Brownlee) Clark. Thomas Clark was born in Marshall
township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 22, 1782.
His wife, Jane Brownlee Clark, Mrs. Jones's mother, was a
daughter of William and Margaret (Leman) Brownlee and they
settled in Coitsville township, Mahoning County, Ohio.
William Brownlee was born in Scotland and came to America before
the War of the Revolution. His wife was a native of Ireland.
They settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where the maternal
grandmother of our subject was born.
William Jones and wife had two sons,
Nathaniel Mitchell and Paul. The father died at the
home of his eldest son, at Memphis, Tennessee, on Jan. 27, 1867, and
was buried in the family lot at Oak Hill cemetery, Youngstown, by
the side of his wife, who passed away on July 14, 1866.
Paul Jones was reared and educated at
Youngstown, and in 1856 he began his business career as a bookkeeper
for Charles Howard of this city. For ten years Mr.
Jones continued in this position, and then, with C. D. Arms,
C. B. Wick and N. E. Brown, he entered into an iron
business; but as this venture did not prove successful, it was
abandoned and Mr. Jones became manager for William Tod
& Company. when the company was incorporated he became its
secretary and treasurer. In January, 1905, he resigned his
offices with the company and retired from active business life.
He is vice-president of the Youngstown Steel Company, of which he is
a director, and has had other interests.
Feb. 5, 1868, Mr. Jones was married to Minnie
Pollock, who was a daughter of Thomas and Susannah Pollock.
Mrs. Jones died on May 20, 1881, leaving one son,
Frederick Denis. Mr. Jones owns a fine residence on the
corner of Broadway and Millicent avenue.
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PAUL
J. JONES was born in Youngstown, Ohio, Nov. 4,
1880. He studied law at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1904. He
practiced his profession for a year in Cleveland, this state, in
connection with the firm of Jenkins, Russell & Eichelberger.
He is now a member of the law firm of Hahn & Jones, of
Youngstown, with offices at 17 North Phelps street. The firm
is engaged in general practice
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PRIOR
TANNER JONES, formerly infirmary director, now
a retired farmer, residing on a comfortable little place of four
acres at Canfield, owns a valuable farm of 200 acres in Canfield
township, located on the Erie Railroad, one mile west of the
village. Mr. Jones was born in Ellsworth township,
Mahoning County, Ohio, June 11, 1836, and is a son of James and
Huldah (Tanner) Jones.
The paternal grandparents of Mr. Jones were
Thomas and Sarah Jones, who came with two children to Ellsworth
township, Mahoning County, from their home in Maryland, in 1804.
They settled on the line between Ellsworth and Canfield townships,
when but three other families had founded homes in Ellsworth.
Their first log cabin had neither doors nor windows and in their
wide fireplace they burned timbers which now would be worth many
dollars. Although these early settlers bore many hardships,
they reared a family of ten children and both lived to be over 90
years of age. James, the father of Mr. Jones,
was the fourth member of the above family, his older brother,
Thomas, having been the first white child born in Ellsworth
township.
James Jones was born Nov. 14, 1807, in Ellsworth
township, Mahoning County, Ohio, and when he grew old enough
assisted in the clearing of the large body of land his father had
acquired. He married Huldah Tanner, who was born at
Canfield, in 1812, and who was a daughter of Edmund Prior and
Fannie (Chapman) Tanner, who came to Ohio from Connecticut in
1802. James Jones and wife continued to live in
Ellsworth township until 1852, when he sold his farm there and
bought 120 acres in Canfield township, from Myron Sacket, to
which he subsequently added until he owned 200 acres. He died
in Canfield township, in November, 1870, and was survived by his
widow until Dec. 16, 1898. James Jones was one of the
leading men of his day in Canfield township. He was a
pronounced free Soil man and on the formation of the Republican
party became thoroughly identified with it. He was appointed
one of the first three infirmary directors of Mahoning County, and
served on that board from October, 1855, until 1863. There
were four children born to James and Huldah Jones, namely:
William, who died in 1858; Prior T.; Fannie, who
married James Turner and died in 1886; and Laura who
is the widow of Fred Beardsley.
Prior Tanner Jones attended school for a short time
in his boyhood, in Ellsworth township, and then spent a year in an
academy in Connecticut. This was followed by a few terms in
the Canfield Academy. He then taught school for two winters in
Austintown township, one winter in Canfield township and one in
Jackson township, after which he returned to his father's farm in
Canfield township. He remained on the home place engaged in
general farming and dairying, until 1900, when he bought his present
residence on North Broad street, Canfield, a commodious
thirteen-room house, surrounded by four acres of land. It was
formerly the property of Mrs. Hannah Calvin.
On Aug. 22, 1860, Mr. Jones was married to
Ruth Ellen Bond, who was born at Edinburgh, Portage County,
Ohio, Oct. 17, 1838, and is a daughter of Jonas and Eliza (Story)
Bond. Mr. and Mrs. Bond had six children, namely:
Frederick, deceased; Eliza, deceased, who married Dr.
James Carr; Lester L., deceased; Emma, deceased,
who married Homer Norton, also deceased; Mary, the
widow of Eli Ruggles, who married first Ephraim
Norton; and Ruth Ellen. The latter came
to Canfield when 17 years of age, attended the old academy and later
taught school at Canfield and also in Portage County. The
father of Mrs. Jones died in 1878, aged 81 years, and the
mother in 1884, aged 84 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones have had four children,
namely: Lester L., Harry, James and Amy. Lester L.,
residing at Chicago, Illinois, where he occupies the responsible
office of managing editor of the Chicago Journal, married
Evelyn Emory and they have one child, Laura.
Harry Jones who died in Chicago Jan. 15, 1891, at the age of 27
years, had been admitted to the bar in that city and was a young man
of great ability. James Jones, residing at home, is a
teacher of music.
Mr. Jones has always been affiliated with the
Republican party. In 1891 he was elected infirmary director
and served two terms, from 1891 to 1897. He has in his
possession a little old yellow ledger which he inherited from his
father, who had kept the first infirmary records of Mahoning County
in it. Mr. Jones remembers how he, when a young man,
assisted Superintendent James Shields to haul away the logs
and heavy timber that was in front of the institution at that time.
Mr. Jones and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
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THOMAS B. JONES,
formerly county commissioner of Mahoning County, for two terms, was
born in August, 1836, in Wales, but from the age of 20 years until
his death, on Sept. 28, 1906, he had been a resident of America, and
for more than half a century a valued citizen of Youngstown.
Mr. Jones came to the United States in
1856, equipped with a good common school education and skilled in
the trade of shoe maker, having learned the same in his father's
shop, in his native place. He immediately located at
Youngstown, and he prospered with the prosperity and growth of the
city. For some twenty-five years he conducted a large
shoemaking establishment, giving employment to from 12 to 14 hands.
He may be named as one of the pioneer manufacturers, for few of the
great industries which are now the city's glory were projected then
or even thought of. After 35 years in the shoe business, he
retired from that line, taking with him an unblemished reputation as
a business man.
Mr. Jones served on the board of education for
seven years, and served twice as decennial appraiser, being elected
both times without a dissenting vote, the first time on the
Democratic, and the second time on the Republican ticket. He
was subsequently elected and re-elected county commissioner, his
majority at the second election being 5,000 votes, the normal
majority being about 2,000. His public services were always of
such a character as to but add to the confidence and esteem in which
he had previously been held by his fellow citizens.
Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Mary
Ann Davis, of Youngstown, and they had five sons and two
daughters, namely: Thomas B., residing at Cleveland;
Richard M., residing at home; Ellen, who is the wife of
Louis Jones, of Washington, D. C.; Arthur residing at
Washington; James E., residing at Washington, where he is
chief clerk in the bureau of Plant Industry; Anna, who died
aged 15 years; and William, who died aged 37 years.
Mr. Jones was a member of the Congregational Church, and one of
the trustees. A portrait of Mr. Jones accompanies this
sketch.
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VIRGIL
E. JONES, a well-known cement contractor of
Youngstown, was born in 1851 in Austintown, Mahoning County, and is
the son of Seymour A. and Martha (Burnett) Jones, and the
grandson of Edward and Mary (Price) Jones, of Virginia, who
were early settlers of Trumbull County, Ohio, their daughter being
the first white child born in that county.
Seymour A. Jones was born on the same farm in
Austintown on which his son Virgil subsequently first saw the
light, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life.
Virgil E. Jones was reared on his father's farm
near Austintown, and after leaving it was engaged in drilling for
coal until 1884. He then went to LaPlata County, Colorado,
where he located on a cattle ranch and also engaged in contracting
for railroad ties. In 1888 he went to Kansas City, and entered
the employ of the Western Sash and Door Company, learning the
cutter's trade. He after wards went to Denver and worked as
head cutter in a planing mill until 1893, when he returned to
Youngstown and for two winters was coal weigher for the Witchazel
Coal Company. Later he was engaged in the same business in
Columbiana County, Ohio, until 1898, when he returned to Youngstown
and entered into the cement business and for the past seven years
has been successfully engaged in contracting for cement work.
Mr. Jones was married in 1878 to Ida
M. Gilmore, of Geauga County, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas
and Fannie Gilmore. Mr. Jones is a
stanch Republican, but does not care to enter actively into
politics. He belongs to the I. O. O. F. Lodge and is a member
of the Hillman Street Christian Church, having been a member of the
official board of that church for some time. He resides at 44
Ellenwood avenue.
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W. B. JONES,
auditor of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, at Youngstown, was
born at Youngstown, was born at Youngstown, Ohio, in 1854. His
father, Thomas Jones, was a well known builder at Youngstown,
for many years. He came to this city from Lisbon, Columbiana
County, Ohio, in 1832 and was concerned in the construction of the
locks on the canal. He also built a number of the furnaces
used in the large plants here. His death occurred in 1872.
W. B. Jones has spent his life in this city and
has been connected with the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company ever
since it began business here, and for the last year has been auditor
of its affairs. He is also financially interested in the
business as a stockholder. In 1875, Mr. Jones was
married to Mary Harris, of Lisbon, Ohio, and they have four
children, viz: Helen, Paul Jones, George C.
and Robert M. The youngest son is a student at the
Rayen School. George C. is a mechanical engineer in the office
of the Carnegie mills, and is attending the mechanical department at
Princeton College.
Paul J. Jones, the eldest son of W. B. Jones,
was born in 1880, at Youngstown, graduated from the Rayen High
School in 1899, and for about two and a half years was engaged as
civil engineer in the construction of railroads and steel plants,
work be performed during his school vacations. In the fall of
1901, he entered the University of Michigan, and was graduated from
the law department in 1904, and immediately admitted to the bar.
His first field of practice was Cleveland, but in December, 1905, he
formed a partnership with Mr. Hahn, under the firm name of
Hahn & Jones, attorneys. He is a member of the
Mahoning Golf Club and of his college fraternities.
W. B. Jones has always been concerned in the
proper administration of civil affairs, but only as becomes a good
citizen. He is a member of the first Presbyterian Church.
He is a representtive representative man of this
city, capable and successful, upright as to character and genial in
manner.
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W. D. JONES,
president, treasurer and manager of the W. D. Jones Company,
wholesale liquor dealers, at Youngstown, was born in this city, in
1864, and is a son of D. W. Jones. For a number of
years the late D. W. Jones was a prominent business man here.
He was born in Wales and came to Youngstown in 1852, where he
resided until the time of his death in 1890. He was a
substantial citizen and owned a farm within two miles of this place.
W. D. Jones was reared on his father's farm,
through boyhood attended school at Youngstown and then became
connected with the firm of E. O. Jones, wholesale liquor
dealers. After the death of E. O. Jones, the firm of
The W. D. Jones Company was incorporated, with a capital
stock of $40,000. Mr. Jones is the only active
member of the company, which is a reliable and representative one.
Two traveling men are kept continually on the road and the goods of
the firm sell on quality. In January, 1888, Mr.
Jones was married to Mary Parry, of Hubbard,
Ohio, and they have three sons, viz : Fred, Howard and
Edward. Mr. Jones is a valued member of
the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and a potent factor in its most
important deliberations. He belongs also to the Elks, the
Eagles and the Golden Eagles.
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WILLIAM
B. JONES, a prominent resident of Youngstown,
and auditor of Mahoning County, was born in Allegany County,
Maryland, in 1859, and is a type of the successful self-made man.
Mr. Jones enjoyed but common school advantages
in his native place, but after coming to Youngstown, Ohio, in 1880,
he completed his education in the night schools. At first he
secured work as a teamster and while so employed during the day
time, pursued his studies faithfully in the evenings, thus preparing
himself for a business career. Later he secured a position as
a clerk in a mercantile establishment in this city, still later,
entering Wick's bank as bookkeeper and real estate agent,
where he continued for sixteen years. In 1901 Mr. Jones
engaged in the real estate business for himself at Youngstown and
continued in that line of work subsequently until he assumed the
duties of his present office on Oct. 16, 1905, he having been
elected thereto in 1904. Prior to this he had held other
political positions in Mahoning County, having been for years an
active supporter of the Republican party. He is connected also
with various business enterprises and is a citizen who, in every
way, is representative of the city's best interests.
On Feb. 10, 1887, Mr. Jones was married to
Laura W. Thrasher, formerly a teacher in a Maryland High School.
They have two sons, L. Calvin and W. Bruce. Both
are bright boys, and the elder, a lad of 12 years, has shown
remarkable adaptability in a mechanical line and is much interested
in the study of electricity.
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C. R.
JUSTICE, M. D., physician and surgeon,
vice-president of the Farmers' Deposit and Savings Bank of Poland,
Ohio, is one of the leading men of this part of Mahoning County, and
is a representative of one of its old and honorable families.
Dr. Justice was born at New Middlepoint, Springfield
township, Mahoning County, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1857, and is a son of
James and Julia (Kirtland) Justice. The grandfather,
David Justice, came to America from Ireland, and in 1802 crossed
the mountains from Pennsylvania with a four-horse team, settling in
Springfield township, Mahoning County, Ohio, where he bought a half
section of land.
James Justice, the Doctor's father, was born at
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and was young when he accompanied his
parents to what was then Columbiana, but is now Mahoning County.
He was a farmer and a tanner and became a man of large substance and
much importance in his community. For many years he served in
the office of justice of the peace and was a member of the first
board of commissioners of Mahoning County. He supervised, in
person, the building of the old jail, and assisted in the erection
of the first court house, at Canfield. He was married (first)
to Ann Carson, a native of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and
they had eight children, all of wom are deceased. He was
married (second) to Julia Kirtland, who was born in
Middletown, Connecticut, a daughter of Frederick and Martha
Kirtland. Dr. Justice is the only child of the
second marriage. James Justice died Apr. 2, 1865, his
wife passing away a few months later. She had been previously
married to William Fitch, of Boardman township, and had two
children (both deceased), one of whom, Julia Ellen, was the
wife of Charles Kirtland, of Poland.
Dr. Justice was a boy of 13 years when his
parents died. He then came to Poland to make his home with his
half-sister, Mrs. Kirtland. During the summer months he
assisted on the farm, and in the winter time attended the district
schools and the Poland Seminary, up to the age of 17, when he began
to teach, alternating teaching with further attendance at school.
In 1873 he began the study of medicine, entering what was then known
as the Western Reserve College but what is now the medical
department of Adelbert College, at Cleveland, where he was graduated
in 1879, remaining one year longer as an instructor.
When Dr. Justice started in to practice at
Poland, he entered into partnership with an old established
practitioner, of fifty years' experience, Dr. Eli Mygatt, and
he also opened a drug store, which he still carries on in the same
building.
In 1886 Dr. Justice was married to Bertha
Long, who came to Poland from Pittsburg. Dr. and Mrs.
Justice are members of the Presbyterian Church. Upon the
death of Charles Kirtland, in 1901, Dr. Justice was
elected vice-president of the Farmers' Deposit and Savings Bank of
Poland. He is president and superintendent of the Poland
Cemetery Association and is a member of the board of supervisors of
elections of Mahoning County. He is also United States pension
examiner, having been appointed by President Harrison,
through the influence of the Hon. William McKinley, when a
member of congress. Fraternally Dr. Justice is a
Mason.
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DOLPHUS
COLUMBUS JUSTICE, residing on a farm of 93
acres located one mile west of Berlin Center, Berlin township, was
born in Canfield township, Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1848, and is
one of the substantial and enterprising citizens of the township,
and one who has made his own way in the world.
Mr. Justice was reared until his ninth year with
his grandfather, Ross Justice, whose name he was
given, his father having been killed by an accident before his
birth, but after wards he lived with strangers. At the out
break of the Civil War, when only 14 years old, he enlisted in
Company K, 197th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and immediately
went to Camp Chase, at Columbus, where he was mustered in with the
regiment and went to Washington, thence to Alexandria and back again
to Washington, then to Dover, Delaware. From there he went to
Havre-de-Grace, Maryland, thence to Fort Wellington, at Baltimore,
and in all saw about five months' service, and was mustered out at
Tod Barracks, Columbus, Ohio.
Mr. Justice returned to Canfield township, where
he worked in a mill and drove a team on the railroad until 1878,
then worked for William Swanson until the fall, when
he went to Indiana, returning to Ohio in 1879, after which he cut
ties for the New Lisbon Railroad until spring. He continued to
be industrious and worked for John Boland during the
succeeding summer months, and then for William Swanson
for two years, and for Charles Swanson for one year,
then at Boardman for one summer, and spent the following winter with
Charles Swanson. Other farmers for whom he
worked were: Henry Hartzel for one summer, Solomon
Hartzel for one year, Frank Robins for one
year, and Simon Hartzell for eight years. In the
spring of 1888 Mr. Justice bought his present fine
farm of 93 acres, where he has ever since engaged in general
farming.
Mr. Justice was married in 1890 to Sarah
Hartzell, who was born in 1844, in Stark County, Ohio, and is
a daughter of Tobias and Susanna (Dustman) Hartzell.
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ISAAC
A. JUSTICE was born in Austintown, Mahoning
county, Ohio, Mar. 16, 1837. His parents, John and Nancy
(Sexton) Justice, were natives of Washington county,
Pennsylvania, and pioneers of Mahoning county, Ohio, coming here
when quite young. They both died at Austintown in 1881, after
sixty years of happy and prosperous married life.
Their son Isaac was educated at the Mahoning
Academy, in Canfield, his winters from 1856 to 1860 being spent in
teaching school. After reading law with S. W. Gilson, Esq.,
at Canfield, he was admitted to the bar there in the fall of 1867.
Soon after he entered into a partnership with Mr. Gilson,
which was continued for some time. In 1872 he removed to
Youngstown, where he was engaged in the practice of law until his
death, which took place Apr. 15, 1900. "In October, 1873, and
during the contest for the removal of the county seat to Youngstown,
he was elected on what was called the 'removal ticket, prosecuting
attorney and held the office for one term commencing Jan. 7, 1874,
and terminating Jan. 7, 1876." He was subsequently tendered
the office of school examiner of Mahoning county, but declined
because of want of time to perform the duties of the office.
In the late 70's he began to take an earnest interest in the
temperance movement, and devoted considerable time to lecturing and
otherwise advancing the cause. He was for some time president
of the Ohio Christian Temperance Union, and was a prominent member
of several fraternal societies. In 1892-3 he was city
solicitor, being appointed by Mayor E. H. Moore. On the
election of W. T. Gibson as prosecuting attorney in 1899 he
again became city solicitor and served in that office until his
death.
He was married in 1860 to Miss Dorcas Hitchcock,
of Canfield, a class-mate of his at the academy.
She died in December, 1870, leaving two children.
In 1871 he married for his second wife of Miss Helen A. Warner,
of Lorain county, Ohio, another class-mate. She died in 1881,
after having been the mother of four children.
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