. A twentieth century history of Trumbull County, Ohio; a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests . resided con-tinuously. He has come to be an extensive stock raiser. His farm consistsof one hundred and fifty acres—the home place—and forty acres morebetween Vienna and Vienna Center. Mr. Pierson is now in possession ofa deed of the land where he now lives, which instrument was made toMrs. Piersons grandfather in 1803. April 11, 1878, Mr. Pierson was married to Mary Strain, born inVienna township, November 6, 1857, a daughter of Samuel and Mary W.(W
. A twentieth century history of Trumbull County, Ohio; a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests . resided con-tinuously. He has come to be an extensive stock raiser. His farm consistsof one hundred and fifty acres—the home place—and forty acres morebetween Vienna and Vienna Center. Mr. Pierson is now in possession ofa deed of the land where he now lives, which instrument was made toMrs. Piersons grandfather in 1803. April 11, 1878, Mr. Pierson was married to Mary Strain, born inVienna township, November 6, 1857, a daughter of Samuel and Mary W.(Woodford) Strain. The mother was born on the farm where Mr. Piersonnow lives. The father was born in Pennsylvania. The Woodfords werenatives of Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Pierson are the parents of twochildren: W. W. Pierson, an attorney-at-law residing and practicing atYoungstown, born February 2, 1880, married Mina Josephine Clawson,born in Fowler township, and by this union one child was born, Vir-ginius W.; Olive B., born May 28, 1882, wife of T. C. Cochran, residingin Mercer, Pennsylvania; they are the parents of one son, Wilson HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY 255 C. A. Pierson is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to theIs nights Templar degree, being connected with Warren Commandery,No. 39, at Warren. Johx Gillis, an old settler of Kinsman township and a retiredfarmer in comfortable circumstances, now largely interested in bankingand mercantile enterprises, is a native of that township, born on a farmtwo miles north of Kinsman, July 30, 183S. The paternal grandfather,Robert (Jillis. came to Kinsman township with his family, among whichwas Francis Gillis. then quite a young boy, and who later became thefather of John Gillis. Among the other early settlers of Ohio in thesepioneer times were representatives of the Lawyer family, and in earlymanhood Francis Gillis wedded Mary A. Lawyer, a native of Pennsylvania,who came with her parents to this locality when she was a
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