OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 680 Today's Topics: #1 WILLIAM O. BROWN - MAHONING COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 LESTER F. DONNELL -MAHONING COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 MAHONING COUNTY PART 5 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 GEORGE TAYLOR EVANS - MAHONING COU [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 HAROLD D. GREEN - MAHONING COUNTY [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, 19 Sep 1999 20:42:51, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909200042.UAA07290@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: WILLIAM O. BROWN - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 188 WILLIAM O. BROWN. Business manager of the Youngstown Vindicator, William O. Brown is the grandson of one of the pioneers in the iron and steel industry of the Youngstown district, and the early years of his own career were identified with that business. His grandfather was Nathaniel E. Brown, and his parents were James A. and Martha J. (Martin) Brown. James A. Brown was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1852, and for some years lived at Portsmouth, Ohio, where he was a bank cashier. On returning to Youngstown in 1878 he occupied the old home of Nathaniel E. Brown, who had been one of the founders of the famous Brown-Bonnell mills. With this well known institution of the iron and steel industry James Brown was himself identified for about twenty years. He died at Youngstown in 1905, survived by his widow and two sons, William O. and Frank L. William O. Brown has lived in Youngstown since infancy. Graduating from the Rayen High School in 1897, he spent several years in the iron and steel mills, but in 1902 joined the business department of that old and influential newspaper of the Mahoning Valley, the Youngstown Vindicator. He was assistant business manager for several years and since then business manager. Mr. Brown is a republican, and has membership in the Youngstown Club, Youngstown Country club, Chamber of Commerce, Young Men's Christian Association and he is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He married, September 9, 1903, Miss Alma M. Maag. They have two children, Elizabeth Martha and James William. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:42:56, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909200042.UAA11914@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: LESTER F. DONNELL -MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 190 LESTER F. DONNELL, treasurer and assistant manager of the B.P. Higby Company, which has in the City of Youngstown the authorized agency for the sale of the Ford automobiles, was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, on the 28th of May, 1892, and is a son of Edgar and Rose (Dickhover) Donnell, the father having died in the following year, 1893. The mother still resides in Omaha, Nebraska. In the public schools of Omaha Lester Fred Donnell continued his studies until he had profited measurably by the advantages of the high school, which he left before graduation. At the age of fifteen years he took the position of office boy with the Nebraska Telephone Company, and later he became bookkeeper and billing clerk for the Paxton & Gallagher Company, one of the leading business concerns of Omaha. After remaining with this company nearly five years he took the position of bookkeeper in the offices of the Ford Motor Company branch agency at Omaha and his services were in time simplified to include his interposition as cashier, road representative and auditor of this branch agency. He finally was called to the home office of the Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, and after one year of effective service as traveling auditor he became assistant manager of the Gordon Square Automobile Company, Ford dealers at Cleveland, Ohio. Seven months later he became supervising traveling auditor for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, and after retaining this position two years, he finally formed his present important alliance, which has involved his specialty constructive administration as treasurer and assistant manger of B.P. Higby company. Mr. Donnell is known as a wide-awake and progressive young business man, and is an active member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and the Exchange Club and also of the Mahoning Valley Country Club. In politics he classifies himself an independent republican, and he is a member of the Christian Science Church. In Detroit, Michigan, he retains his affiliation with the Blue Lodge and Chapter of York Rite Masonry, and at Youngstown he is a member of the Council of Royal and Select Masters and the Commandery of Knights Templars. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:42:44, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909200042.UAA14178@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: MAHONING COUNTY PART 5 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Historical Collection of Ohio By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 MAHONING COUNTY PART 5 JOHN M. EDWARDS was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1805. He was great-grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the great theologian, and son of Henry W. Edwards, a Governor of Connecticut and United States Senator. He was a graduate of Yale, practiced law for a number of years in New Haven and made extensive visits through the South in the interest of the estate of his uncle, Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin. Later, together with a number of young men from Connecticut, he visited the Connecticut Western Reserve in Ohio, in which his father Governor Edwards, had considerable possessions through Pierpont Edwards, who was one of the original proprietors. Most of these young men remained in the Western Reserve and helped form that highly intellectual community of which Garfield, Giddings, Wade, Tod and Whittlesey were representatives. Mr. Edwards had many important positions and was connected with various newspaper enterprises during his life and was one of the founders of the first newspaper published in the Mahoning Valley. He wrote frequently for publication, principally on historical subjects. He was the leading spirit of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society and collected a large amount of valuable information concerning the early history of Ohio and its people. He was a deeply studious man and a learned and able lawyer. He died suddenly at his residence in Youngstown, December 8, 1886, aged 81 years. KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD, the poetess of patriotism, is the daughter of Judge James Brownlee, of Poland, where she was born. While yet in her "teens," in 1859, she was married with Gen. Isaac R. Sherwood and early became associated with him in journalistic work, writing items, reading proofs, and then sometimes With dainty fingers deftly picked, Their clean-cut faces ranged in telling lines, The magic type that talks to all the world. As a school-girl in Poland she had shown fine literary capacity, and if there is anything that could have given added brightness and breadth to her intellect it was just this employment of journalistic work, coming, too, just at the opening of the stupendous events of the great civil war. Her youthful husband enlisted and the old Covenanters' blood in her veins became heated by the spirit of intense patriotism, which soon found expression in patriotic verse, which has thrilled multitudes and started many a glistening tear. Her soldier lyrics have been printed in different languages, found a prized place in varied volumes: one, solely her own, "Camp Fire and Memorial Poems." These have been recited on every platform in the Union where the veterans of 1861-65 have had a part, particularly "Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge," "Forever and Forever," "The Old Flag," etc. "Forever and Forever" recalls with lifelike vividness the opening scenes of the war. It thus begins: When men forsook their shops and homes, and stood with troubled faces, From morn till night, from night till morn in dusky market spaces; When women watched beside their babes in anguish half resisted Until the husky message came, "God keep you, I've enlisted!" When all day long the drums were rolled in hateful exultation, And fife and bugle stung with pain the pulses of the Nation; When woman's hand formed every star that flashed on field of glory, When woman's tears were stitched along each stripe in jeweled story- What said we then? "Go forth, brave hearts! Go where the bullets rattle For us to plan, for us to pray, for you to toil and battle! Ours to uphold, yours to defend, the compact none can sever, And sacred be your name and fame forever and forever." "The Old Flag" no true American can hear without a thrill. Its closing verse is especially fine, and in the coming higher and still higher glory of the nation, multitudes yet unborn in their love for it will regret that their fathers who fought were not with those who fought to save it. We give its closing verse: O flag of our fathers! O flag of our sons! O flag of a world's desire! Through the night and the light, through the fright and the fight, through the smoke and the cloud and the fire. There are arms to defend, there are hearts to befriend, there are souls to bear up from the pall. While thy cluster of stars broodeth over the wars that justice and mercy befall! There are breasts that will clasp it, when tattered and torn, there are prayers to brood like a dove. There are fingers to fashion it fold unto fold, and hands that will wave it above, While the rub-a-dub, dub, dub, rub-a-dub, is beating the marches of Love! Mrs. Sherwood has ennobled her life by constant active public duties in behalf of those who suffered from the war; as chairman National Pension and Relief Committee, Woman's Relief Corps (auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic); chairman Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Committee Department of Ohio; editor woman's department National Tribune, Washington, etc. Perhaps her proudest moment was when she was invited by the ex-Confederate Committee to write that poetical bond of Union for North and South, to be read at the ceremony of the unveiling of the Albert Sydney Johnston equestrian statue in New Orleans. This event took place April 6, 1887, and her poem delighted alike the Blue and the Gray; and well it might, breathing, as it did, the spirit of unity and fraternity, as these two verses alone evince: Now five and twenty years are gone, and lo! to-day they come The Blue and Gray in proud array, with throbbing fife and drum; But not as rivals, not as foes, as brothers reconciled To twine love's fragrant roses where the thorns of hate grew wild. O, veterans of the Blue and Gray who fought on Shiloh field, The purpose of God are true, his judgements stand revealed; The pangs of war have rent the veil and lo his high decree: One heart, one hope, one destiny, one flag from sea to sea! The object of this monument was not as an insignia of regret that the cause was lost, but as a memorial of the splendid heroism of its soldiers: and all honor that sentiment. In the case of Albert Sidney Johnston, he, although born in the South, was the son of a Litchfield County, Conn., country physician, and his heart was not in the Lost Cause. He loved the Union, and witnessed "with unalloyed grief the culmination of the irresistible conflict. "Could his spirit have been present, it would doubtless have responded, "Yes, 'The Union forever and forever; one heart, one hope, one destiny, one flag from sea to sea.'" Among Mrs. Sherwood's varied poems is one historical, "The Pioneers of the Mahoning Valley, read at the meeting of the Pioneers at Youngstown, September 10, 1877. It begins at the beginning, when the "sturdy Yankee came," and marks the changes in the valley to our day and in thirty-three verses. Among them are these three, which certainly, to use an expression General Grant once used to compliment Grace Greenwood upon her "California Letters," as Grace herself told us, are "pretty reading:" The axes ring, the clearings spread, The cornfields wimple in the sun, The cabin walls are overspread With trophies of the trap and gun. And from the hearths of glowing logs The children's shouts begin to ring; Or in the lanes and through the fogs They carry water from the spring. Stout rosy boys and girls are they Whose heads scarce touch the dripping boughs; Who learned their first philosophy While driving home the lagging cows. After listening to her poem, and especially these closing verses, we do not doubt that the old folk from their heir hearts exclaimed, "Yea, verily, have we not a goodly heritage? and see, our cows have come home!" O sweet Mahoning, like a queen Set crowned and dowered in the West, The wealth of kingdoms gleams between The jeweled brow and jeweled breast. O valley rich in fertile plain, In mighty forest proud and tall, In waving fields of corn and grain, In ferny glen and waterfall! O valley where the panting forge Has stirred the bosom of the world, Till lo! on every hillside gorge The flags of labor are unfurled. O valley rich in sturdy toil. In all that makes a people great, We hail thee Queen of Buckeye soil, And fling our challenge to the State. We hail thee queer, whose beauty won Our fathers sin their golden years; A shout for greater days begun, A sigh for sleeping pioneers. -continued in part 6 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:42:48, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909200042.UAA12394@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: GEORGE TAYLOR EVANS - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 188 GEORGE TAYLOR EVANS, the efficient and popular superintendent of the Mahoning Valley Water Company, which provides the industrial water supply to his native city of Youngstown, was one of the gallant young men who represented Mahoning County in the nations service in the World war, he having been a member of the United States Navy and having had broad and varied experience in connection with the hazardous operations of the navy's submarine chasers. Mr. Evans was born at Youngstown, on the 9th of February, 1897, and is a son of Frederick G. and Clara (Taylor) Evans, the former of whom likewise was born at Youngstown, where he has been for many years successfully engaged in the insurance business. Frederick G. Evans is a son of Mason and Lucy G. (Gering) Evans, the former of whom was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the latter at Youngstown, Ohio. Mason Evans became one of the prominent and influential citizens and business men of Youngstown, where he was president of the Commercial Bank and also of the Mahoning Valley Water Company at the time of his death, in December, 1921, his widow being still a resident of this city. Edward and Louisa (Holly) Taylor, maternal grandparents of the subject of this review, now maintain their home at LaPorte, Indiana, where Mr. Taylor is the owner of the business conducted under the title of the Niles & Scott Manufacturing Company. In the public schools of Youngstown George Taylor Evans continued his studies until his graduation from the Rayen High School, as a member of the class of 1915. He then took a position in the office of the Mahoning Valley Water Company, but soon subordinated interests to the call of patriotism. In April, 1917, the month that marked America's entrance into the World war, Mr. Evans enlisted for service in the United States Navy, in which, five months later, he was advanced to the rank of ensign and assigned command of the submarine chaser. With this vessel he worked out of the port of Queenstown, Ireland, until December, 1918, when his vessel became part of the mine-sweeping detachment operating in the North Sea. A few months later he accompanied his command to Plymouth, England, and thence went to France and Portugal. He made the return voyage to the United States by the way of the Azores and the Island of Bermuda, and he arrived at his home in Youngstown on the 19th of June, 1919. He still continued membership in the Naval Reserve until May, 1921, when he was honorably discharged, with the rank of ensign. He has since continued his effective administration as superintendent of the Mahoning Valley Water Company, and is a popular figure in both business and social circles in his native city. Mr. Evans is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, is an active member of the Youngstown, Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary club, and besides being affiliated with the American Legion he has membership in the Submarine Chaser Club of New York City. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown. In February, 1920, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Evans and Miss Mary Louise Snyder, daughter of George B. and Nettie W. (Walters) Snyder, of Youngstown, and the one child of this union is a fine little son, George T., Jr. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:42:59, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909200042.UAA14236@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HAROLD D. GREEN - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 190 HAROLD D. GREEN, who is prominently identified with the automobile business in the City of Youngstown, where he is secretary of the B.P. Higby Company, authorized dealers in the all-popular Ford automobiles in the territory tributary to Mahoning county's vital metropolis and judicial center, can claim ancestral affiliation with Ohio, though he was born in Illinois and was reared in Nebraska. Mr. Green was born at Crystal Lake, McHenry County, Illinois, on the 8th of July, 1879, and in the following year his parents moved to Nebraska and established their residence at Lincoln, the capital city of that commonwealth. He is a son of DeForrest and Sophia (Munshaw) Green, the former of whom was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and the latter in the vicinity of the City of Toronto, Canada. The parents still maintain their home at Lincoln, Nebraska, where the father holds the position of cashier for the Searle & Chapin Lumber Company. In the high school of the capital city of Nebraska Harold D. Green was graduated as a member of the class of 1900, and thereafter he was there associated four years with the lumber business of which his father was an official. He next became a traveling salesman for the Carpenter Paper Company of Omaha, Nebraska, with whom he remained for fourteen years. It was in 1919 that he came to Youngstown, Ohio, and formed an alliance with the B.P. Higby Company, of which he is the secretary, he having contributed much to the development of the substantial business of this company. Mr. Green is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and is a popular and active member of the Commercial Club of Youngstown. In Masonry he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge Chapter and Knights Templar commandery in Lincoln, Nebraska, where also he has membership in Sesostris Temple of the Mystic Shrine. At Youngstown his Masonic affiliations are with the Grotto of Veiled Prophets and with the Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. September 14, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr. Green and Miss Leona Stambaugh, who was born at Trenton, Missouri, a daughter of Charles and Mae (Wallingford) Stambaugh, the latter of whom is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Green have no children. Mrs. Green is a popular factor in the social activities of Youngstown, and is here an active member of the Christian Science Church. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #680 *******************************************