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MAHONING CO. OH
Formed 1846 from Columbiana, Trumbull
CENSUS RECORDS
1850 Mahoning Co. OH Census
Boardman Twp.
Pg.320, #109-114, Asa C. SMITH 55 MA (Mass) farmer $2000
Mary SMITH 54 PA
John F. 26 OH clerk
Almira 24 OH
Simeon 21 OH laborer
Phidelia (f) 51 MA
Lucy LOGAN 9 OH
Laura DUKIN? 23 NY
Jerusha SMITH (f) 80 MA
David MORE 21 OH student
Poland Twp.
Pg.389, #1106, Hugh DUNCAN 50 PA merchant $2000
Rachel 41 NY
Wm. W. 16, Andrew J. 14 OH
Emma 8 OH
(MAD: 1840 Trumbull Co. OH census)
Pg.394, #1169, James DUNCAN 48 PA farmer $4380
Rebecca 37 OH
James E. 13, Elizabeth 10 OH
William 7, Henry L. 3 OH
Elizabeth SIMPSON 19 OH
(MAD: 1840 Trumbull Co. OH census; see Erie Co. PA "The North East Duncans, Their Kith and Kin, 1769-1932" by Wm. M. Duncan, 1932)
Pg.398, #1227, Robert McGILL 63 PA farmer $3500
Hannah 31, Wm. 30 OH
David 23, Permelia 18 OH
David PARSON 30 PA
Lucy 20 OH
Aronetta DUNCAN (f) 13 OH
Coitsville Twp.
Pg.573, #1774, James DUNCAN 44 PA farmer $1224
Jane 43 PA
Mary A. 16, Hannah L. 14 OH
Rosetta 8, Catharine S. 6 OH
Sarah M. 4, Ervin G. 2 OH
(MAD: 1840 Trumbull Co. OH census)
1860 Mahoning Co. OH Census
Youngstown Burough
Pg.51, #767-743, Samuel DUNCAN 43 OH laborer $0-$0
Isabella 39 PA
William 19 PA brickmaker
Catharine 17, Hugh 14 PA
& other brickmakers & laborers
(MAD: 1850 Mercer Co. PA census; 1870 Lawrence Co. PA census)
Poland Twp.
Pg.138, #2092-2068, Jane DUNCAN 52 PA (blank) $200-$150
Mary 26 OH
Nancy 18, Catharine 16 OH
Sarah 14, Irvin (m) 12 OH
Francis (m) 6 PA
Pg.141, #2147-2123, James DUNCAN 59 PA (no occupation or values this page)
Rebecca 45 OH
James 21, Elizabeth 19 OH
William 16, Henry 13 OH
Mary 9 OH
Pg.141, #2148-2124, Hugh DUNCAN 60 PA
Rachael 50 CT
William 26, Andrew 22 OH
Emma 15 OH
1870 Mahoning Co. OH Census
Berlin Twp.
Pg.51, #16-16, DUNCAN, Joseph 50 PA farmer $13,000-$1,970
Mary 47 OH keeping house
Adaline 17, Harriet 16 PA at home
Joseph 14 PA farm laborer
John 12, Samuel 10 PA attendg. school
Lauraetta (f) 8 PA attendg. school
Nancy A. 6 OH attendg. school
HELSEL, Peter 24 OH farm laborer
(MAD: 1860 Beaver Co. PA census)
Poland Twp.
Pg.187, #10-24, BROWNLEE, James 65 SCT assessor $1800-$400, parents of foreign birth
Rebecca 52 PA keeping house
DUNCAN, Mary 24 OH, father of foreign birth, mar. in April
(MAD: no male Duncan in household)
Pg.191, #90-94, DUNCAN, James 67 PA farmer $8000?-$1400
Rebeca (f) 52 NY keeping hus (sic)
James E. 33 OH farm hand
Elizabeth 29 OH
Nancy 19 OH
Pg.206, #326-333, DUNCAN, James 40 PA carpenter $1800-$300
Rachel 40 PA keeping house
John B. 4, Mary E. 2 OH at home
HISTORIES before 1923
1882 "History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties [OH] : with illustrations and biographical sketches" Vol.1-2, pub. by H.Z. Williams & Bros. (from Charles A. Duncan 10/1987; no Duncan biographical sketch indexed)
Vol.1
Pg.61: Mahoning Co. County Commissioners, 5 elected for 3-year term; "On the first Monday in December, 1861, James Duncan took John Shields place."
Pg.120: 7th OH Regiment Volunteer infantry. Company I, commanded by Capt. Wm. R. Sterling; Private Wm. H. Duncan (mustered out with company 7/11/1864)
Pg.247: City of Warren, Trumbull Co. The 4th of July 1800 parade at Warren - Eli and Elam Blair, twin bros., lead parade playing "Yankee Doodle" on drum and fife they made themselves.
Pg.373: Youngstown, Mahoning Co. 1803 Property tax: Samuel H. Duncan $.40 and John Duncan $.08.
Pg.378: Youngstown. First Presbyterian Church. John Duncan elected elder in 1806 and resigned in 1813. This church was still active in 1882, a part of the Hartford Presby.
Vol.2
Pg.59: Poland, Mahoning Co. Rev. James Duncan was an early settler on the north side of the Mahoning adjoining the state line. He was the first pastor of the Church at the center (Poland?) and preached on McBride Hill in PA.
Pg.73: Poland. Poland Center United Presbyterian Church Society of Seceders was formed in 1804, and approx. 1810 a large meeting-house of hewn logs was erected. The first preacher was Rev. James Duncan from below Lowellville.
Pg.128: Austintown, Mahoning Co. John Duncan was an early settler on the Hammon Farm in the southeastern part of the township. He sold to Gaily.
Pg.130: Austintown. Austintown taxes 1803: John Duncan $.52.
Pg.545: Lordstown, Trumbull Co. Thomas Duncan, an old resident of Trumbull Co., was born in Austintown township, Trumbull Co., now Mahoning, July 5, 1805. His father, John Duncan, was a native of Washington Co. PA. Mr. John Duncan's father, George Duncan, came from Scotland with his brothers William and Alexander, all three of whom were in the War of the Revolution. After the war George settled in Washington Co., William located near Harrisburg [Dauphin Co.], PA, and Alexander in Chester Co.
Mr. John Duncan came to OH in 1799, and settled in Austintown township, being one of the 1st settlers in the township. He passed through all of the trials and hardships incidental to pioneer life, beginning in the wilderness when a dense forest was presented to view in all directions, by untiring industry and perseverance he built up a fine home, living here until 1837, when he moved to Lordstown, locating on a farm north of the center and lived here until his death which occurred April 13, 1855, aged 80 years and 6 months. Mrs. Duncan died March 10, 1857. She was born April 21, 1780. They had 11 children: Rachel, Isabella, Margaret, Thomas, Mary, Robert, Nancy, Martha, Elizabeth, John, Josiah. Rachel, Isabella, Margaret, Mary and Martha are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan were faithful Christians of the Presbyterian church and were highly esteemed by all. (MAD: wife Nancy Ann Moore)
Mr. Thomas Duncan, the subject of this sketch, came to Lordstown in 1832, and located upon the farm where we now find him most pleasantly situated. There were few families in the township at this time. Mr. Duncan learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed till he came to Lordstown; since then he has been engaged in farming. ... He was married January 21, 1830, to Miss Susan Leech, daughter of Benjamin Leech, of Morris Co. NJ. She was born in 1809. Ten children have been born to them, 8 of whom are living. Mr. Duncan has held many of the township offices; has been justice of the peace 9 years, ...
"History of the Western Reserve" by Harriet Taylor Upton; pub. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1910, 2184 pgs. (LH7269, HeritageQuest images 5/2007; FHL book 977.13 H2u v.1-3 and films 934,867 item 2 and 934,868 items 1-2)
Pg.1471-1742: Dr. JOHN DEETRICK, born in Allegheny Co. PA on 7th March 1844, married 8 Nov. 1869 to Elizabeth M. Parks born in Butler Co. PA on 5th April 1848. In 1882 Dr. Deetrick took up his residence in Youngstown, Ohio, ... Became parents of two children, James Wilbert Deetrick born at Middlesex, Butler Co. PA, in November 1870, and Anna Viola who is now the wife of William M. Duncan and resides in Cleveland. Mr. Deetrick, ... passed to his reward on the 12th of June, 1907. (MAD: Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co. OH; Youngstown, Mahoning Co. OH)
"History of Allen County, Ohio"; FHL title: "History of Allen County, Ohio : containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of the Northwest Territory, history of Ohio, statistical and miscellaneous matter, etc., etc"; by M.A. Leeson; pub. Chicago: Wamer i.e. Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, 810 pgs. (LH6218, HeritageQuest images 4/2007; FHL film 934,874 item 1 and 897,459 item 1)
Pg.716: ALBERT OSBORN, merchant, Lima, was born in February, 1836, in Youngstown, Ohio; son of John and Isabel (Duncan) Osborn, natives, the former of Virginia, the later of Washington County, Penn. John Osborn was a miller in his early days, but in later life took up farming. He came to Ohio in his youth, and became an early settler of Mahoning County, where he married and raised a family of fourteen children, nine of whom are now living: Mary, Rachael, Jane, Harriet, Laura, Henrietta, Marcus L., John H. and Albert. Our subject ... in Trumbull Co. OH, ... in the winter of 1856 he married Sarah A., daughter of John and Elizabeth McCorkle ...
1903 "Genealogical and Family History of Eastern Ohio" by Ewing Summers (Los Angeles Public Library book R977.1 S955)
Pg.169-170: JAMES E. DUNCAN. This gentleman is a representative farmer of Poland township, Mahoning Co. OH, and three generations of the Duncans are connected with the life of this part of the state. Grandfather James Duncan was born in Scotland or Ireland, but removed to this country and died at Northeast, Erie Co. PA, when ninety years old. He was a prosperous farmer, and reared all his ten children, six sons and four daughters, all but one marrying and having families. He had a son who was also named James, and who was born in Northeast, PA, in 1801. In the early thirties he made his initial purchase of 65 acres and later bought 75 acres. He and his father entered into a contract to construct a mile of the Pennsylvania and Ohio canal near Lowellville, Mahoning Co., and after they had completed this undertaking he began in a small way as a merchant, the firm being H. and J. Duncan. He married Miss Rebecca Shepherd, who was born in this township and died March 13, 1887. James E. was the oldest of their five children; the second in order of birth was Elizabeth, who was born March 15, 1840, and died October 18, 1875; William died in Poland in October, 1898; Henry S. is in the iron business in Pittsburg as a member of the Canonsburg Iron Company and is unmarried; Nancy M. lives in Pittsburg.
James E. Duncan, the third of the name in three successive generations, was born in Poland township, October 6, 1837, and was reared on the farm which his father had purchased in the early half of the century. He began at the age of nineteen to clerk .... He owns his share of his father's estate, but it has never been divided, and the old frame house on the place was erected before his father came, but the modern two-story dwelling was built by him in 1879.
In April, 1870, Mr. Duncan was married to Mary S. Brownlee, who was born in Struthers, and bore him three children: ....
1881 "History of Summit Co., with an outline sketch of OH" ed. by William Henry Perrin; pub. Baskin & Battey (FHL book 977.136 H2p; from Charles A. Duncan 3/1987)
Pg.899: Boston Twp. James A. McBride, boat builder, Peninsula, born in Youngstown [Mahoning Co.], OH, 1816; son of William and Agnes (Duncan) McBride, early residents of Boston Twp, coming there about 1822. His father was by trade a millwright ... Wm. McBride died in Boston twp. about 1829; his wife lived to be about 65 years of age. "His grandfather, James Duncan, a Presbyterian clergyman, was one of the earliest writers against slavery, and was the author of a book which was published many years before the war, and awakened a great interest for the cause.
1897 "Biographical Review; containing life sketches of leading citizens of Pittsburg [Allegheny Co. PA and the vicinity, Pennsylvania." [Vol.24] pub. Boston : Biographical review publishing co., 1897. (University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library, Historic Pittsburgh Full-Text Collection image 3/2007; FHL film 928,256 item 1)
http://digital.library.pitt.edu:80/p/pitttext/
Pg.69-70: JOHN DUNLAP, born North of Ireland in 1818, he came of Scotch ancestry. In 1826 he was brought by his widowed mother to Paterson, N.J. ... to Pittsburg in 1837 ... On August 15, 1850, Mr. Dunlap was united in marriage with Miss Mary Duncan, daughter of Hugh and Rachel (Glass) Duncan. Mr. Duncan, who was born in this country of Scotch-Irish parentage, died in 1870, aged seventy years. His wife, who still survives, possesses all her mental faculties at the age of almost eighty-nine years. Mrs. Dunlap, who resides in the house built by her husband, was born at Poland [MAD: Mahoning Co. OH], the former home of President McKinley. Her brother married a sister of the President. She has five children living, namely: Emma D., who is now Mrs. N.P. Reed; Ella, who is the wife of James B. Stevenson; William A. and John H., who are continuing the business begun by their father; and Anna, who resides with her mother. Mrs. Dunlap is a devoted member of the Presbyterian church. (MAD: see Erie Co. PA genealogy, "The North East Duncans, Their Kith and Kin, 1769-1932" by Wm. M. Duncan, 1932, FHL book 929.273 D912dw)
OTHER RECORDS
Obituary from the Ashtabula Sentinel, Ashtabula Co. OH, on December 10, 1885 (from Alan Adrianson 8/2003)
RECENT DEATHS - Another Pioneer Gone.
Died in Hartsgrove, on Monday morning about 8 o'clock, Nov. 30th. Hannah wife of Wm. B. Hunt, aged 78 years and 27 days. Her funeral was attended on Wednesday with Rev. A. T. Copeland to perform the religious services. She was born in Youngstown [MAD: then Trumbull Co., now Mahoning Co.], O. Nov. 3, 1807, and with her parents when quite young, moved to Northfield, Summit county, O. and was married to Wm. B. Hunt in Hudson, Portage county, O. April 8, 1833, and resided in Canfield about three years, and then with her husband and two small children came to Hartsgrove when it was a wilderness and when the wolves prowled through the forest and made the nights hideous with their howlings; and shared the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life. About seven years ago she had a shock of paralysis which caused her to become nearly helpless and had to be drawn about in her chair, and on the 16th of Oct. last she had another very hard shock which made her perfectly helpless and remained so while she lived. She was a member of the M. E. Church about 53 years and at the last she said her trust was in her Saviour. She leaves an aged companion and five children to mourn her departure.
"The Daily Northwestern" Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Saturday, April 18, 1891 (transcription by and from Kathy Cawley 1/2004)
FELL AND BROKE HER NECK.
An Ohio Woman Killed and Her Body Mutilated by Hogs.
ALLIANCE [Stark Co.], O., April 18 -- Miss Adele Duncan, of Ellsworth [Mahoning Co.], while climbing a fence yesterday, lost her balance and fell on her head breaking her neck. Her dead body lay in a field all day, and when found in the evening had been horribly mutilated by hogs which had partly eaten her arms, legs and body.
"The Newark Advocate" Newark, Ohio, Thursday Evening, March 23, 1922 (transcription by and from Kathy Cawley 3/2004)
GIRL, 15, SLAYS MAN; SAYS IT WAS ACCIDENT
Youngstown [Mahoning Co.], March 23. -- Iona Linder, aged 15, is being held today for further inquiry into the killing of John A. Duncan, 60, a bachelor, by a rifle in the hands of the girl. Miss Linder declared that the shooting, which occurred in Duncan's rooms, was an accident, but afterward made damaging accusations against Duncan who lived next door to the Linder home. She said she had been on intimate terms with Duncan for several months, reading and singing to him. The rifle was discharged, she said, when Duncan put it into her hands saying that he was going to teach her how to use it.
Some early Duncans in Mahoning Co. OH:
Hannah Duncan, ca 1830, wife of William Bradshaw Hunt who was born 21 March 1804 perhaps Luzerne Co. PA, died 20 Dec. 1890 in Hartsgrove, Ashtabula Co. OH, son of William Hunt who bought land in Canfield, Mahoning Co. OH in 1829, which he sold in June 1830 when he moved to Hartsgrove, Ashtabula Co. OH. (from pg.131, "The Early Hunt Families of Sharon, CT, and Surrounding Areas of Litchfield Co." by Mitchell J. Hunt, in Vol.31#3, Feb. 1989, "Connecticut Ancestry" by Stamford CT Gen. Society (from Dale O. Duncan 9/1989)
Hugh Duncan, 13 July 1867, mentioned in will of Sarah Fitch of Poland Twp., recorded March 31 1868 in Will Book 3, pg.12. (Vol.34-37, pg.33, "Henry R. Baldwin Genealogical Records" Vol.1-34; typed by Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, 1963, FHL book 977.1 D2bh and fiche 6,051,349)
OTHER SOURCES
"American Biography, a New Cyclopedia" (spine title: "Encyclopedia of American Biography") Old Series, pub. by American Historical Society (FHL book 973 D36e)
Vol.19, 1924, pg.366, contains a biographical sketch of Andrew Jackson DUNCAN, born Poland, Mahoning Co. OH, Jan. 25, 1836, mar. Feb. 26, 1867 to Sarah McKinley; he the son of Hugh Duncan b.1800 in northern PA, and wife Rachael Warren, Hugh Duncan connected with the construction of the Erie, the Pennsylvania, and the Ohio canals, to Poland, Mahoning Co. OH in 1825. The sketch gives more on the children of Andrew Jackson Duncan and Sarah McKinley; and states that the family came to Cleveland [Cuyahoga Co.], OH, a number of years before Mr. Duncan's death. MAD: Hugh Duncan died 4/5/1870 age 71y, wife Rachel, from index in "Henry R. Baldwin Genealogical Records" Vol.1-34; typed by Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, 1963 (FHL book 977.1 D2bh and fiche 6,051,349)
"The North East Duncans, Their Kith and Kin, 1769-1932" by Wm. M. Duncan, 1932 (FHL book 929.273 D912dw)
This book includes the Bible Record of Hugh Duncan, and the Duncan family from Erie Co. PA to Mahoning Co. OH, starting with James Duncan, b.1769 IRE, died 1861 at North East, PA; settled first in Berks Co. PA, where he married Nancy Beatty; moved to Canonsburg [Washington Co.], PA, about 1799; resided there until 1802; and finally located at North East, [Erie Co.] PA, where he lived until the time of his death.
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