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 685 Today's Topics: #1 Re: OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 #684 [AnnF104@aol.com] #2 HOMER P. WHITSTONE - MAHONING COUN [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 E.A. GRABLE - HARRISON COUNTY, IND [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 JESSE S. MILLER - MAHONING COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 MARCUS GILBERT MILLER - MAHONING C [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #6 MAHONING COUNTY PART 6 [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: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:58:48 EDT From: AnnF104@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <30b90085.251c0aa8@aol.com> Subject: Re: OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 #684 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi to the List... Is anyone researching in Knox Co... early 1800's ???? Seeking James GLASS and his family. James elected to Harcourt Parish 1828 as vestryman and warden... worked with P. Chase... Where was James from. Who was his wife? Where did he go? Were there other children besides Albert W. and Charlotte amelia? Thanking you in advance... Anne in Arizona ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:55:20, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909240055.UAA06292@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HOMER P. WHITSTONE - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 196 HOMER P. WHITSTONE. That this is an electrical age no sane person can dispute, and the ever growing demand for appliances and supplies for the utilization of this potent force, with their installation, have developed lines of business of great magnitude and opened new fields for the energies of competent men. One of them who is achieving a well-merited success at Youngstown as an electrical contractor and dealer in electrical appliances and supplies is Homer P. Whitstone, of 231 North Phelps Street. Homer P. Whitstone was born at Lowellville, Mahoning County, Ohio, May 8, 1889, a son of Edward E. and Caroline (Wenk) Whitstone, natives of Ohio and Frostburg, Maryland, respectively. She died in 1903, but he still survives and is living at Youngstown. After completing his courses in the grade and high schools, Homer P. Whitstone came to Youngstown in 1895, and began learning the electrical business with the Pennsylvania and Ohio Electric Railroad, and continued with this company for ten years, leaving it to enter the employ of the Electrical Maintenance Company, with which he continued until he entered the army, in April, 1918, as a member of Company A, Fifty-seventh Engineering Corps. Sent to Camp Meade, Maryland, for training, he was subsequently transferred to an engineering camp at Laurel, Maryland, and remained there for four weeks. He was sent overseas to France with the Seventy-ninth Division, and served with the Inland Waterways Transportation Unit, was all over France with the Seventy-ninth Division, and served with the inland Waterways Transportation Unit, was all over France, and participated in all of the important engagements from Brest to the Marne River. Subsequently he was attached to the vicinity of Paris, and following the signing of the armistice, was stationed at Le Havre, where his duties were in connection with loading troop transports for the United States. On July 19, 1919 he left for the United States, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Merritt, August 2, 1919. Returning to Youngstown, he embarked in his present business, and has since developed it into one of the leading ones of its kind in the city. On October 6, 193, Mr. Whitstone was married to Miss Zetta Marshall, of Denver, Colorado. Mr. Whitstone belongs to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Youngstown. He is a republican, although not very active in politics. A Mason, he has been advanced through all of the bodies of his order of both the York and Scottish Rites, and also belongs to the Mystic Shrine. Professionally he maintains membership with the Electrical League. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:55:23, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909240055.UAA06308@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: E.A. GRABLE - HARRISON COUNTY, INDIANA Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. Chicago Printing Co., 1889 Part II, page 154 E.A. GRABLE was born in Harrison county, Ind., July 10, 1834, and is a son of David Grable, who was born in Virginia in 1818, came to this county among the earliest settlers. His mother, Patie French, was also a native of Virginia, and received but limited educational advantages. All the education David Grable received was at a little log school-house close to Corydon. The subject, E.A. Grable, was raised on a farm and has followed it all his life. He pays considerable attention to stock-raising, viz: horses, mules and hogs. He was married March 8, 1861, to Miss L.C. Peters, born and raised in the county, and a daughter of Frederick and Caroline Peters. They have three children living: Benjamin H., Joan H. and Ada L. Mr. Grable owns 170 acres of fine farming land which he has well improved; has a good residence and fine barn. He is an earnest Christian, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church. He is an honest and enterprising citizen. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:55:37, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909240055.UAA06384@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JESSE S. MILLER - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 138 HON. JESSE S. MILLER, one of the prominent members of the Alliance bar for over twenty years, is also known outside that city for his able work as a legislator, having served two terms in the Legislature as a representative of Stark County. Mr. Miller was born at North Benton in Mahoning County, Ohio, January 23, 1865, son of Jacob F. and Isabella T. (Sproat) Miller. He was reared in a country district, acquired his first educational advantages there, and from 1885 to 1890 was a student in Mount Union College at Alliance, and attended Wooster University at Wooster, Ohio, from 1893 to 1895, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees. Mr. Miller was admitted to the Ohio bar March 17, 1899, and to the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio on February 28, 1901. He has been engaged in individual practice as an attorney at Alliance since May 31, 1900. Mr. Miller represented Stark County in the Legislature in the Eighty-second and Eighty-third General Assemblies. He is author of the Miller Utility law passed in 1919, a measure forbidding discontinuance of service by any public utility without the consent and approval of the State Utilities Commission. He is also author of the bill creating municipal courts in Alliance and Massillon. This measure has permitted an important economy of judicial arrangements, since it consolidates all the courts of small cities with the adjoining townships into a single jurisdiction, with extensive powers. The courts established under the act primarily proved so satisfactory that a similar system has been adopted by Akron, Newark, Portsmouth, Zanesville, Canton, Warren and East Liverpool, Ohio. Mr. Miller at one time was a private in Company H, of the Eighth Regiment in the Ohio National Guard, he is a Knight Templar Mason at Alliance, a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and was founder of the Wooster chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He served as city solicitor of Alliance from 1902 to 1906. In politics he is a republican. He belongs to the Alliance, the Stark County, and Ohio State Bar Associations. Mr. Miller married Miss Olive G. Ruff, of Shreve, Ohio, August 8, 1895. Their four children are Jessie M., Harold M., Ruth A., and Eugene C. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:55:34, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909240055.UAA06376@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: MARCUS GILBERT MILLER - MAHONING COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 20 MARCUS GILBERT MILLER. In the ten years he has practiced his profession as architect at Youngstown, Mr. Miller has enjoyed an increasing volume of important business, and has designed and has supervised the construction of a large number of distinctive buildings, both residential and business. Mr. Miller was born in Mahoning County, May 31, 1890, and represents an old and prominent pioneer family in the county. His grandparents, John and Maria (Lanterman) Miller, were both born in the county, the former at Canfield and the latter at Four Mile Run. Mr. Gilbert is a son of John Marcus and Nettie (Bell) Miller, his mother, a native of West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, while his father was born in a log cabin in Mahoning County. Marcus Gilbert Miller was educated in the public schools of Girard, Ohio, in the Rayen High School in Youngstown, and attended Hiram College two years. He studied architecture in the University of Illinois, where he pursued the subject four years, graduating in 1914 with the degree Bachelor of Science in Architecture and subsequently returning and taking the Master of Architecture degree. Mr. Miller since 1915 has been busily engaged in his professional work at Youngstown. He married in August, 1918, Miss Marie Messick, who was born at Bristolville, Ohio, daughter of Dr. Minus and May (Mackey) Messick, of Trumbull County, Ohio. They have one son, McLean, born December 27, 1919. Mr. Miller is a member of the Christian Church, is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge and Grotto, with Lodge No. 55 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, with the Kiwanis Club and with Sigma Phi college fraternity. Mr. Miller's great-uncle, William Shirk, was with Commodore Perry in the battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Mr. Miller is an enthusiastic archaeologist and for over twenty years has been collecting relics of aboriginal and prehistoric races in America. He has a collection of about two thousand pieces. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:55:31, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909240055.UAA14048@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: MAHONING COUNTY PART 6 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, 1889 MAHONING COUNTY - Part 6 JUDGE JAMES BROWNLEE, of Poland was born February, 1901, at the family homestead of Torfoot, near Glasgow, Scotland, where for many generations had resided his ancestors, who on both sides distinguished themselves in the ranks of the White Flag of the Covenant. He inherited from them a vigorous constitution, a clear, strong, well-balanced mind, a buoyant temperament, a kindly, affable manner, an inflexible will, strict integrity, and that rare appreciation of the humorous, with large hope, which ever blunts the stings of adversity. His physical endowments were equally commanding, with fine, clear-cut features, dark expressive eye, so that when he appeared at Youngstown in the fall of 1827, the young Scotchman met with a most cordial welcome from the pioneers of Mahoning. Developing when at school into a youth of unusually ability, his father had designed him for a professional career; but that was not his choice. In 1830 his father and family followed him to America, when his father bought the beautiful tract of land at the junction of Yellow creek and Mahoning, building a handsome homestead thereon, where all the family resided until 1840, when Judge Brownlee was married to Miss Rebecca Mullin, of Bedford Springs,Pa. Shortly after his father died, and the judge built a new residence on the hilltop overlooking the river, where his three children were born, the first now Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood. For the first thirty years in this country Judge Brownlee was engaged chiefly in the buying and selling of cattle, purchasing yearly thousands and thousands of cows and beeves for the great markets of the West and East. He was always active in politics, an enthusiastic and ardent Whig; but while acting with the Whigs, he astonished the Abolitionists by attending an indignation meeting held at Canfield against the passage of the fugitive slave law, when he drew up a resolution so audacious that the others of the committee feared to adopt it, it seeming treasonable. He offered it personally, and it was carried in a whirl of enthusiasm. it was: RESOLVED. That come life, come death, come fine or imprisonment, we will neither aid nor abet the capture of a fugitive slave; but on the contrary will harbor and feed clothe and assist, and give him a practical God-speed toward liberty. In the stirring times of the war he was so active in the forming of companies and recruiting without commission or remuneration, that Governor Tod sent him a "squirrel hunter's" discharge, as an appreciation of hearty services. Judge Brownlee held many positions of public and private trust, among others that of Assessor of Internal Revenue at Youngstown. For years he held his life in jeopardy having repeatedly heard the bullets whistling around his head when obliged to visit certain localities -still remembered for their opposition to the war and the operations of the revenue system. He died January 20, 1879. He was a staunch Presbyterian, and his friends were numbered among the rich and the poor, who found in him that faith and charity which make the whole world kin. CANFIELD IN 1846. - Canfield, the county-seat, is 166 miles northeast of Columbus and sixteen south of Warren. It is on the main stage road from Cleveland to Pittsburg, on a gentle elevation. It is a neat, pleasant village, embowered in trees and shrubbery, among which the Lombardy poplar stands conspicuos. It contained in 1846 three stores, a newspaper printing-office, one Presbyterian, one Episcopal, one Methodist, one Congregational, and one Lutheran church, and about 300 people. Since then the county buildings have been erected, and from being made the county-seat, it will probably, by the time this reaches the eye of the reader, have nearly doubled in population and business importance. -Old Edition. POLAND IN 1846. -Poland is eight miles from Canfield, on Yellow creek a branch of the Mahoning. It is one of the neatest villages in the State. The dwellings are usually painted white, and have an air of comfort. Considerable business centres here from the surrounding country, which is fertile. In the vicinity are coal and iron ore of an excellent quality. Limestone of a very superior kind abounds in the township; it is burned and largely exported for building purposes and manure. Poland contains five stores, one Presbyterian and one Methodist church, an academy, an iron foundry, one grist, one saw, one oil and one clothing mill, and about 100 dwellings. -Old Edition. SNAKES. -In a tamarack and cranberry swamp in this vicinity "are found large numbers of a small black or very dark brown rattlesnake, about twelve or fourteen inches in length, and of a proportionate thickness. They have usually three or four rattles. This species seem to be confined to the tamarack swamps, and are found nowhere else but in their vicinities, wandering in the summer months a short distance only from their borders. When lying basking in the sun, they resemble a short, broken, dirty stick or twig, being generally discolored with mud, over which they are frequently moving. Their bite is not very venomous, yet they are much dreaded by the neighboring people. Their habitations are retired and unfrequented, so that few persons are ever bitten. The Indian name for this snake is Massasauga." -Old Edition. A WEDDING INCIDENT. -Poland township is the southeastern township of the Western Reserve, but not that of the county, the southernmost tier of townships having been taken from Columbiana county. Jonathan Fowler and family came into it May 20, 1799, and were its first white settlers. About the year 1800 occurred the first marriage, between John Blackburn and Nancy Bryan. There being no one legally authorized to marry them, Judge Kirtland agreed to assume the responsibility by using his Episcopal prayer-book. About seventy persons were present. A stool was placed in front of the judge, and upon it a white cover. On this the judge placed his book when some one proposed that they take a drink all around before the ceremony. To this all agreed, it seeming eminently the proper thing to do. How long a time this occupied is not stated, or how many drinks they took. But when the judge had taken his "one or more," as the case might have been, and was ready for tying the know, lo! that Episcopal prayer-book had disappeared -could not be found. In this dilemma the judge said they must get along without it, and asked Nancy if she was willing to take John for a loving husband, and she said "yes;" and-that was about all there was of it. And thus ended what was probably the first wedding on the Western Reserve -with whisky or without whisky. CANFIELD is twenty-two miles by rail, ten miles by road southwest of Youngstown; is on the N.Y.P. & O. Railroad (N. & N.L. Branch). It is the seat of the Northeastern Normal College. City officers, 1888: S.K. Crooks, mayor; S.W. Brainard, Clerk; Hosea Hoover, Treasurer; C.W. Wehr, Street Commissioner; Eli Rhodes, Marshal. Newspaper: Mahoning Dispatch, Independent, Fowler & Son, editors and publisher. Churches: one Presbyterian, one Methodist Episcopal, one Disciples, one German Lutheran and one Congregational. Bank: Van Hyning & Co., Hosea Hoover, president, G.W. Brainerd, cashier. Population, 1880, 650. School census, 1888, 196. POLAND is six miles southeast of Youngstown, on the Beaver river. Bank: Farmers' Deposit and Saving, R.L. Walker, president, Clark Stough, cashier. Population, 1880, 452. School census, 1888, 206. PETERSBURG is fifteen miles southeast of Youngstown. It has one newspaper, the Petersburg Press, E.E. Stone, editor. Churches: one Methodist Episcopal, one Evangelical Lutheran, one Presbyterian. School census, 1888, 162. LOWELLVILLE is eight miles southeast of Youngstown, on the Ohio Canal and A. & P.O. & W., and P. & L.E. Railroads. School census, 1888, 241. WASHINGTONVILLE is sixteen miles southwest from Youngstown, part in Columbiana and part in Mahoning county. It is on the N. & N.L. Branch of the N.Y.P.&O. Railroad. School census, 1888, 122. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #685 *******************************************