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BROWNLIE - MAHONING COUN [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 EDWARD ALOYSSIUS MAHON - MAHONING [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 JOHN LEE MARSH - MAHONING COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 WILLIAM J. MORGAN - MAHONING COUNT [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:45:08, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909130345.XAA12730@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: SHOWALTER - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 EPHRAIM SHOWALTER, farmer, P.O. Shanesville, was born June 12, 1823, on the farm he now occupies in Sugar Creek Township, and is a son of John and Elizabeth Showalter. His father was born in Bucks County, Penn., and was raised in Westmoreland County. He came here in 1808, and he and Jacob Walter settled here and began clearing up a farm. They did their own cooking, and obtained their bread and other provisions from Mr. Knisely, three miles west of Dover, Ohio. About 1812, he married Elizabeth Thomas, a native of Maryland, but raised partly in this county. They died on the farm they had settled on, leaving a family of nine children, viz., Anna M. (deceased), wife of David Lower; Isaac (deceased), married to Mary Harrington, Ephraim, our subject; John T.; Catherine (deceased), wife of C. Zimmer; Elizabeth (deceased), wife of T. McCurdy; Esther, widow of C. Fretz, of DeKalb County, Ind.; Sarah (deceased), wife of Peter Dull, of the same county; and Susanna, wife of Samuel Dull, of Kansas. The subject of this sketch was united in marriage, October 5, 1848, with Adeline, a daughter of Jonathan Fisher, by whom he had ten children, viz., Esther A., wife of C. Holser, of Michigan; Mary E., wife of Philip Warnes, of Berlin, Ohio; Sarah B.; Eliza J., wife of John Conrad, of Holmes Count, Ohio; Lucinda C.; Henrietta, now wife of Benjamin F. Teaters; William, Isaac, John E. and Emma. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Showalter settled on the old family homestead, which has never been out of the Showalter name, and have since resided here. He was engaged in the profession of teaching when he was about twenty-three years of age, and followed it for six terms; he was a good disciplinarian, and left a record as a successful teacher. Mr. Showalter is a Republican, and has been School Director of his district twenty-one years. He and the family are members of the Lutheran Church, of which he has been Trustee and Deacon, now holding the position of Elder. He is an upright and influential citizen of the township. William Henry is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Showalter, and was born May 9, 1857, and is twin brother of Henrietta. He is living at home, working for his father. He has already done some successful teaching, and is an intelligent young man, of good influence and social position Page 657, Sugar Creek Township. - After the War of 1812 had ceased, a rapid stream of emigration poured many settlers into the township, and in a few years it was thoroughly settled. In 1820, the following land owners resided here, and many of them had emigrated years before: Jacob Showalter, a Mennonite, owned a fraction of the northeast quarter of section 18. His brother Peter, a Dunkard, had thirty acres in the northeast quarter of section 19. John Showalter, who kept bachelor's hall with Jacob Walters until the latter's marriage, owned a farm in Section 18. Page 659, Sugar Creek Township. - The woolen mill is operated by John Showalter. On its site a carding and fulling mill was started, probably as early as 1830, by George Wertz. It was operated a long time by him, then changed hands several times, and finally reached its present management. Page 685, Wayne Township. - In the western part of the township, on School Lot 5, near Walnut Creek, is an old frame church built many years ago by a Winebrenner congregation. Among its early members were Peter Showalter and John Fair. Rev. Metzler is the present minister, and the membership is about seventy-five. CHRISTIAN ZIMMER, farmer and stock-raiser, P.O. Newcomerstown, is a native of Bavaria, Germany, born October 8, 1818. He emigrated to this county with his parents when he was eighteen years old. His parents were Philip and Catherine (Cline) Zimmer. The former was born January 14, 1785, died June 10, 1877, aged ninety-two years seven months and fourteen days. The latter died in 1866, aged seventy-six years. They are buried in Buck Township, this county. Our subject was married, April 17, 1845, to CATHERINE SHOWALTER, deceased, born April 16, 1826, in Sugar Creek Township, this county and State, and a daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH SHOWALTER. She died November 18, 1838. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother of this county. Marrying a second time, in 1840, Mr. Zimmer chose Christina Smelzy, born August 5, 1823, died December 6, 1853. To this union four children were born, viz.: Lucinda, Amelia, Henry and John. The latter died January 19, 1873, aged seventeen years four months and twenty-eight days. Mr. Zimmer was married a third time; on this occasion, April 25, 1860, to Eliza Fisher, born in this county, January 4, 1835, and a daughter of Jonathan and Hester (Levean) Fisher. To this union have been born eight children, seven living, viz.: Susan E., Albert, Clara A., Manetta, Wilmina May, Francis H., Laura and Artha. Two of the children are married -Lucinda, wife of William Regula, they have three children -Fred, Eda and Albert; and Henry, married to Elizabeth Hammond, by whom he has one child, Arthur. Mr. Zimmer owns 100 acres of land in Oxford Township. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:44:51, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909130344.XAA09064@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JOSEPH G. BROWNLIE - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 182 JOSEPH G. BROWNLIE, proprietor and vital and progressive manager of the Ad Letter Shop in the City of Youngstown, the important metropolis and industrial center of Mahoning County, was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1887, and is a son of George and Jane (Gibb) Brownlie, both natives of Scotland and both now deceased, the father having been a mechanical engineer of exceptional skill. The major part of the early education of Joseph G. Brownlie was acquired in the public schools of the city in which he now maintains his home, and at the age of fourteen years he found employment in a local foundry, in which he learned the moulder's trade. After eight years of active alliance with this line of industrial enterprise he was for a few years employed as a mechanic in an automobile factory in Elyria, this state, and it was about the year 1914 that he founded his present direct mail advertising business, which he has since successfully conducted, with his establishment designated as the Ad Letter Shop and with headquarters at 123 South Phelps Street. He is a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club, has served as secretary of the Youngstown Advertising Club, holds membership also in the Exchange Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He is a member also of the Youngstown Automobile Club, and he and his wife hold membership in the Tabernacle United Presbyterian Church in their home city. March 19, 1917, recorded the marriage of Mr. Brownlie and Miss Gladys J. Corlett, who was born and reared at Youngstown, and whose parents, Sanford G. and Bessie (Gleason) Corlett, were born respectively at Cleveland and Canfield, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Brownlie have no children. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:44:59, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909130344.XAA12680@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: EDWARD ALOYSSIUS MAHON - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 184 EDWARD ALOYSSIUS MAHON, who is engaged in business as a mortician and funeral director in his native City of Youngstown, was one of the gallant young sons who represented Mahoning County in the nation's overseas service in the World war. Mr. Mahon was born at Youngstown, on the 4th of June, 1887, and is a son of John and Bridget (Flannagan) Mahon, who were born in Ireland and who were children at the time of the immigration of the respective families to the Untied Stated, both having been reared and educated in Newark, New Jersey, in which city their marriage was solemnized. John Mahon early became a workman in the steel mills at Youngstown,Ohio, he having been a pioneer in the puddling department of old No. 1 Furnace in this city and having here continued his residence, a substantial and respected citizen, until his death, in 1905. His wife survived him and was summoned to eternal rest in the year 1918. Both were zealous and devout communicants of the Catholic Church. After his graduation from the parochial school of Saint Columbus Church in Youngstown, Edward A. Mahon was for three years a student in the Rayen High School, and it was not until after he had participated in the great World conflict and received at the battle front injuries that left their permanent effect that he prepared himself for the profession and business of which he is now a successful representative in his native city. His higher education included one year of study in Cincinnati University, and in 1920 he was graduated from a school of embalming. Thereafter, as a duly licensed embalmer, he was employed in Youngstown undertaking establishments until 1923, when he formed a partnership with Andrew Krinspisky, with whom he has since been associated in the ownership and conducting of a thoroughly modern undertaking establishment at 811 South Avenue, where service and equipment are of the highest standard. Mr. Mahon is found arrayed loyally in the ranks of the republican party, is a communicant of the Catholic Church, in the faith, of which he was carefully reared, and he is an active member of the Morticians Association of Mahoning and Trumbull counties. In May, 1917, the month following that in which the United States became actively involved in the World war, Mr. Mahon volunteered for service in the United States Army. After his enlistment he was sent to Camp Gordon, where he took on membership in the first replacement and where in July, 1917, he was assigned to the Forty-second Division, with which he soon afterward entered active service in France. In the lines at Belleau Wood he received a shell wound that injured his spine and incidentally affected his hearing, with the result that he was incapacitated for further active service and was under treatment in military hospitals until December, 1918, and then received a surgical certified discharge. After his honorable discharge he returned to Youngstown, and in his native city his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:44:54, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909130344.XAA09072@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JOHN LEE MARSH - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 182 JOHN LEE MARSH is one of the prominent figures in industrial circles at Youngstown, Mahoning County, in which city he is vice president and general manager of the Vahey Oil Company, which maintains plants not only in this city but also at Warren, Trumbull County. Mr. Marsh is vice president, also of the Vahey Gasoline Company at Salem, Columbiana County. John L. Marsh claims the historic old Bluegrass State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred at Milford, Kentucky, on the 13th of September, 1887. In Kentucky were likewise born his parents, John Harrison Marsh and Martha (Patten) Marsh, the father having long been a successful exponent of farm industry, and being now retired. In the public schools of his native state the early educational discipline of John L. Marsh included that of the high school, and later he was a student in the University of Kentucky, besides which he completed a course in a leading business college at Cincinnati, and in that city he held for a time a position in the office of the Breese Brothers Roofing Company. After his return to Kentucky he became associated with the Indiana Refining Company at Georgetown, and with this corporation he eventually became secretary to the vice president. After the company moved its headquarters to Cincinnati Mr. Marsh there continued in its service six years, in the order of sales departments, and when the company established its general offices in New York City, he there continued his connection with the concern about one year. He next passed a year as chief clerk in the office of the Texas Oil Company at Youngstown, Ohio, and he was then transferred to the New York office, in the capacity of the company's plant at Brooklyn, New York, and then he was transferred to Youngstown, Ohio, where he retained the management of the local plant of this corporation three years. In August, 1918, he was here made manager of the Vahey Oil Company, and in the following year he was elected its vice president, the office of which he is now the incumbent, besides holding also the position of general manager. Mr. Marsh is aligned loyally in the ranks of the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church at Youngstown, and here he is an active member of the Kiwanis club, of which he was president in 1923, and is a director of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Mahoning Finance Company. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. Marsh has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a noble of the Mystic Shrine. In October, 1915, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Marsh and Miss Grace E. Murray, who was born at Niles, Ohio, a daughter of Jerry C. and Margaret (Paul) Murray, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh have two children: John Harrison and Marilyn, the former having been named in honor of his paternal grandfather. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:44:56, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909130344.XAA12920@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: WILLIAM J. MORGAN - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 182 WILLIAM J. MORGAN. In his native City of Youngstown, Mahoning County, which is one of the specially important industrial centers of Ohio, Mr. Morgan is successfully established in the gasoline and oil business, as pertaining specially to the automobile line, and his well equipped headquarters at 325 West Wood Street are know for efficiency and service. Mr. Morgan was born at Youngstown in the year 1886, and is a son of the late Benjamin G. and Mary Catherine (Morgan) Morgan, the former of whom was born in Wales and the latter in Mahoning County, Ohio, where their marriage was solemnized. Benjamin G. Morgan was a skilled artisan at the carpenter's trade, and became a successful contractor and builder in the City of Youngstown, his death having here occurred in 1906 and his widow having passed away in 1918. In the public schools of Youngstown, William J. Morgan continued his studies until he was sixteen years of age, and thereafter he served a thorough apprenticeship to the trade of machinist, in which he became a skilled workman. After following his trade five years he purchased a local machine shop, and two years later he became associated with H. B. Smith in here conducting a general automobile repair business, this alliance having continued three years, and Mr. Morgan having thereafter developed in an individual way a substantial business not only in this line but also in the handling of automobile tires. His enterprise finally became changed to the handling of gasoline and oil. Mr. Morgan was one of Youngstown's native sons who represented Ohio as a gallant young soldier in overseas service in the World war. He entered service in July, 1918, and was assigned to field artillery. In October of that year he arrived with his command in France, but as the armistice was signed in the following month he had no opportunity for prolonged service on the battle front. He remained abroad until April, 1919, when he returned to his native land and duly received his honorable discharge. Mr. Morgan is independent in politics, is a member of Plymouth Congregational Church in Youngstown, has received the thirty-second degree of the Masonic Scottish Rite, and is a Shriner of Al Koran Temple at Cleveland, Ohio. He is affiliated also with Youngstown Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #669 *******************************************