The Long Families of Summit County, Ohio

J. A. LONG, Secretary and Treasurer of Akron Iron Co., Akron; is a son of John and Margaret (Reilley) Long, and was born April 10 1837, at Albany, N. Y., where he lived until 18 years of age, when he left school and took the position of clerk in a lumber yard. In 1855, he came to Akron, Ohio, and became teacher in the public schools of Summit Co. for eleven terms, and working during vacation at various eraplo3'ments. In 1864, he became book-keeper for Aultman, Miller & Co., remaining with them for five years, when he was appointed Secretary and Treasurer of the Akron Iron Co., which position he still holds. Since his connection with the establishment, its business has increased threefold. He was married, Nov. 10, 1859, to Miss Mary A. Falor, daughter of Geo. A. Falor, one of the pioneers of Coventry Township. Twelve children have been born of this marriage, seven of whom are living — Ludie B., Celia R., Bennie A., John H., George A., Mary A. and Lloyd G. Mr. L. is Republican in politics; is a member of the Central Committee. Was first City Clerk, and held the office from 1865 to 1867, and Councilman from 1867 to 1869.

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DENNIS J. LONG, Agent Union Express Company, Akron; was born in Albany, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1844, where he lived until he was 15 years of age, when he came to Akron with his brother, J. A. Long. In 1859, he became an apprentice in the Beacon office, where he served about four years. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, 104th 0. V. I., serving the first two years as private soldier. In February, 1864, he was appointed to a clerkship in the office of Gen. Schofield, where he remained in the Department of Ohio until the close of the war. June 28, 1865, he was mustered out at Greensboro, N. C. On his return, with A. L. Paine, he started a new weekly paper entitled, the Summit County Journal, in 1865, with Judge Carpenter as editor; this they conducted with good success two years, when Mr. Long sold out his interest and bought a one-third interest in the Beacon, being connected with that paper as stockholder and proprietor until 1875, when he became book-keeper in the office of the Akron Iron Company-, continuing for two years. March 1, 1877, he was appointed agent of the Union Express Company; he is now agent of the Union, American and Adams Express Companies. In May, 1870, he was married to Miss Eliza A. Potter, of Akron.

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SATVIUEL B. LONG, farmer; P. O. Uniontown; born Nov. 15, 1830, in Center Co., Penn.; the son of Samuel and Eva (Hersberger) Long. Johannes Hersberger, his grandfather, was born Oct. 3, 1770, and Miss Christina Elizabeth Fehler, daughter of John Jacob Fehler, was born in 1773; they were married in 1795, and became the parents of ten children — George, Eva, Leonard, Susanna, Catharine, Thomas, Johannes, John Henrich, Christina and Maria Hersberger; only two of these are living. Eva, the oldest daughter, was born Dec. 9, 1798, and, on Dec. 17, 1822, married Samuel Long, who was also born in Center Co. Feb. 22, 1792; the result of this union was nine children, viz., Mary, married Michael Laney, and died while a resident of Copley Township; Rachel, now Mrs. Simon McLean, of Grundy Co, Ill.; Leah, now Mrs. Samuel Baum, of Venango Co., Penn.; Rebecca, now Mrs. Joseph Weikeal, of Ashland Co., Ohio; Samuel B., subject of this sketch; Reuben, died aged 3; Johnson, now of Meadville, Penn.; Elias, now of Akron, Ohio; Daniel N., of Copley Township. Samuel B. Long was educated in the schools of Venango Co., Penn., where his parents removed when he was about 6 years of age. After leaving school he worked at painting steadily for about fifteen years, and then at different times for some five years, following this business at Venango, Oil City, Petroleum and other places in Pennsylvania. In 1854, he removed to South Bend, Ind., and remained there about twelve months, then returned to the Keystone State. During the oil excitement, he was engaged for a short time in buying and selling oil lands, and his operations at this were generally successful. He has also worked at cabinet-making for several years; March 28, 1867, he removed to Green Township and settled upon the farm now owned by William Henry, near East Liberty; after eight years he sold this to Henry, and purchased of Andrew Shanafelt the 118 acres upon which he now resides. During the summer of 1880, he erected upon this a very neat dwelling house. Mr. Long was married, Feb. 21, 1854, to Miss Louisa Thomas, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Rhodes) Thomas, who was born July 1, 1839; they are the parents of the following children: Thomas, Newton, Sylveen, Frank M., Etta, Eva, Byr-on S., Ernest, Ervin, Jennie, Addie, Delia and Emma. They are all living; the oldest daughter, Sylveen, was married, Oct. 18, 1878, to Charles Schnee, of Springfield Township, and is the mother of two children — Nellis and Matilda. Mr. and Mrs. Long are members of the Methodist Chiu'ch at Uniontown.

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DAVID C. LONG, a general farmer and dairyman, who resides on his first-class farm of forty-four acres, which is situated near Fairlawn, in Portage Township, came to Summit County in 1867. He was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1849, and is a son of Samuel and Magdalena (Arnold) Long.

David C. Long spent his boyhood in Pennsylvania, where he was partly educated, and he attended a select school in Green Township, after reaching Summit Coimty, his parents living there for one year. His father then purchased the farm on which Mr. Long resides, moving onto it in 1873. The father died on this farm in September, 1892, his wife having passed away in 1874. They had eleven children, of whom David C. was the seventh son.

In 1879 David C. Long was married to Lydia Staver, who is a daughter of Rev. Elias Staver, an Evangelical minister located at Greensburg. Mr. and Mrs. Long have had four children: Ralph, who died at the age of thirteen years; Leo, residing at Akron, who married Clai'a Robinett, and Harry and George, both valuable assistants to their father. Mr. Long and his family belong to the West Side Congregational Church at Akron. He takes an active interest in public matters and leu'ds has aid and influence in promoting the best interests of the township of which he is a representative citizen. In politics a Republican, Mr. Long served as assessor of Portage Township for four years and at present is one of the township trustees.

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MAHLON S. LONG, senior member of the Long & Taylor Company, a leading business house of Akron, was born at Spring Creek, Warren County, Pennsylvania,, in 1867, and is a son of Joshua W. and Matilda H. Long.

The parents of Mr. Long removed from Warren County, Pennsylvania, to Mentor, Ohio, when he was a babe of six months. His father resides at Newton Falls, Ohio, on. a farm in that vicinity, and is now retired from active life. Fonnerly he followed blacksmithing and carriage-making. In 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil AVar, entering Company F, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but one year later was honorably discharged on account of disability.

Mahlon S. Long spent his boyhood and youth at Mentor and Toledo. In 1881 he went to Newton Falls, and was graduated from the Newton Falls High School in 1885. After teaching school for one year at the latter place, he entered Mt. Union College, and after two terms there, he went to work in the basket factory at Newton Falls. Twelve months later he went from that place to Chicago. Mr. Long remained in the metropolis of the middle west for a period of five years, mainly engaged as a salesman with a large cigar firm. In May, 1892, he.came to Akron and engaged m shipping clerk with what is nOiW the Standard Oilcloth Company. He continued with this firm for a year and a half. The panic of 1893 caused many of the employes to be laid off by this house, he among the number, and he fell back on his old work of basket-making. He continued making grape baskets during the following fall, at Kirtland, Ohio, and returned to Akron on the first of the following October, determined to go into business for himself and be independent of the ups and down of more ambitious concerns. He had a little capital and this he invested in a small cigar store, on the site of the present magnificent new modern building.

With small capital, few resources and active competition, Mr. Long found the first three years hard ones to push through, but By working fifteen hours a day, and careful management, with honest and courteous treatment for every one, he built up a constantly increasing trade. He found it necessary, ere long, to increase his space by adding another room. Later, when it proved impossible to still further add to the building he occupied, as his business demanded, he resolved to purchase this piece of property then for sale, at the point of the intersection of Main and Howard Streets, and he acquired it in 1898. Its flatiron shape, 86 feet lying on Main Street and 92 feet on Howard Street, 60 feet wide at one end and 9 feet at the other, determined the name of the magnificent building, the erection of which was commenced in July, 1906.

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In 1891 Mr. Long was married to Marion E. Taylor, and they have two children: Gertrude M. and Robert II. T.

Mr. Long is a 32nd degree Mason and belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandcry at Akron, and to Lake Erie Consistory and Al Koran Temple A. A. 0. N. M. S. at Cleveland. During his residence in Chicago he was very active in the order of the ) Sons of Veterans, and at one time was commanding officer of Camp No, 1. of that city.

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HOMER G. LONG, M. D., the only representative of the medical profession at Copley Center, Copley Township, is one of the leading men of this township, having served as clerk since 1901 and having been prominent in almost all public matters. Dr. Long was born November 29, 1871, in Wayne Township, Noble County, Ohio, and is a son of John T. and Amanda E. (Stoneburner) Long. He grew up on his father's farm in Noble County, where he attended the district schools until sixteen years of age. He then entered the High School at Quaker City, from which he was subsequently graduated.

He afterwards taught school for two years in Noble County, and in 1893 entered the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1897 with the degree of M. D. He immediately settled for practice in Portage County, Ohio, where he remained for one winter. He then came to Copley, remaining here for over a year, and subsequently removing to Piedmont, Harrison County, Ohio. In 1901 he returned to Copley Center, where he has since been located. His present residence was purchased in 1899 from Dr. George Huntly.

On August 31, 1899, Dr. Long was married to Bessie Hammond, w'ho is a daughter of James and Celia (Heustis) Hammond, of Summit County, Ohio. Of this union there have been born two children — Lucille and Stanley. Dr. Long is a member of the National Protective Legion.

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W. H. LONG, superintendent of construction of the Niagara Fire Extinguisher Company, Avas born in Van Wert County, Ohio, November 3, 1861, where he was educated, and where he remained until he was tAventyone years of age. He is a practical plumber and steam-fitter and has had much experience along his present line of work.

Mr. Long served his apprenticeship Avith the Columbus Supply Company, of Columbus, going then to the Providence Steam and Gas Company and engaged in putting up fire extinguishers and gas pipe for the Fall RAer cotton mills, remaining Avith that concern for seven years. ILe resided at St. Louis, Missouri, for four years, and for two years was connected Avith the Chicago department of the Independence Sprinkler Company, later Avith the Mallert, Allen & Fraser Company. Mr. Long then went into business for himself at Evansville, Indiana, where he remained six years and then became associated with his present company. He was located first at Cincinnati and then went out on the road for this company, and in 1907 he accepted the position of superintendent of construction. This office is one of great responsibility and its demands take him all over the country, his inspection covering the territory east of the Mississippi and to the Gulf of Mexico. During his period of residence at Evansville Mr. Long took an active part in politics, but since then he has not concerned himself otherwise than as a citizen who is interested in seeing good government at every point.

On November 6, 1889, Mr. Long was married to Jennie B. Wallace, of Sturgis, Union County, Kentucky, and they have one daughter, Gladys A. Mr. Long has had his home at Akron for the past two years. His offices are in the Hamilton Building.

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