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��Battery, in which he remained and took part in all the engagements in which that battery was engaged while able to do duty, a great part of the time being unable on account of sickness ; he remained in the army and was honorably discharged after about twenty months' service. Mr. Charles D. Herring is now engaged in business in Mansfield.

HERRING, ANDREW JACKSON, blacksmith. He is the son of Michael and Mary Messersmith Herring ; Michael was a son of old Christian Herring, who set- tled in Berks Co., Penn.; A. J. Herring was born Jan. 30, 1825 ; a twin brother, Charles C, resides in Mans- field ; they were born in Bedford, Co., Penn.; A. J. Herring came to Ohio, and settled first in Fairfield Co., and to Richland in April, 1863. Mr. Herring was married, Jan. 5, 1854, in Rushville, Fairfield Co., Ohio, to Matilda Dick ; to them have been born three chil- dren — Mary E., Joseph C. and John WilJard, all living in Mansfield. Mr. Herring and wife are members of the Methodist Church in this city.

HERRING, JOSEPH F., blacksmith, and inventor of

steel plowshares. Was born

in Bedford, Bedford Co , Penn., Feb. 16, 1825; he came to Ohio in 1855, and to Mansfield in 1856 ; Mr. Herring learned the trade of blacksmithing in his native town with his father, and continued the same after his removal to Mans- field until Aug. 18, 1874, when he received letters patent on his invention of the steel plowshare, the manufacture of which occu- pied his time, and since then has been wholly en- gaged in manufacturing that justly celebrated in- vention, which has been in- troduced into almost every State in the Union and con- ceded to be as near perfection as any now in use. He was married in Hollidaysburg, Penn., to Miss Nancy Herbert, to whom have been born four children, two of whom are living — Emma, the first, and Eugenia. Nancy Herbert Herring died in Mansfield in 1857. Mr. Herring was married in Mansfield to Mary Zerby ; they have a family of interesting children.

HERSHISER, CYRUS, builder and contractor. His father, Samuel, was one of the old residents of Bedford Co., Penn., where Cyrus was born Nov. 8, 1824; became to Mansfield in 1844, where he commenced the carpenter trade in the spring of 1845, since which time many of the largest buildings and residences in Mansfield have been erected by him. In the year 1847, he was mar- ried to Miss Rebecca F. Hagar, who died in Mansfield in 1849 ; one child by this marriage, died in infancy. In 1850, Mr. Hershiser was married to Miss Margaret A. McCormick, a daughter of one of the old resi- dents of Mansfield, by whom be had five children, three of whom are living — Alice B., Ella J. and Emma A.; Mrs. Margaret Hershiser died in Mansfield in

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��December, 1871. In February, 1874, he was married to Miss Lena Seger, of Mansfield, with whom he now lives ; one son by this marriage, died in infancy ; Mr. Hershiser has been prominently identified in the enter- prises of Mansfield for a number of years, and is now one of the largest builders and contractors in the city. HICKS BROWN & CO., proprietors flouringmills. In the progress of human events, the very essential article of bread is a matter of daily consideration, and, though human diet is composed of many ingredients, bread from wheat flour takes the first place ; chemistry with the aid of the microscope has demonstrated, that, inside of the thin shell of the wheat grain or kernel, the flour is there closely compressed in small granules, and requires merely to be separated or disintegrated, and not to be crushed or powdered in grinding as has been the custom for ages past. For the purpose of mak- ing this new process of flour, it was proposed some- time during the Centennial year, to erect in Mans- field a flouring-mill, embodying all the features, machinery and processes required, and. as a result,

early in February, 1877,

I the new mill commenced

operations under the joint proprietorship of Messrs. John Staub & Hicks Brown ; in September of the same year, the partnership was dissolved, and the mill passed into possession of the present partners, Messrs. Hicks Brown & M. D. Bar- ter, under the firm name of Hicks Brown & Co., who have in the past two years increased its capacity 50 per cent, and have estab- lished a trade which re- quires the running of the mill to its fullest capacity, day and night, and the em- ployment of about twenty persons ; Mr. Brown gives his undivided attention to the business, and the product is obtained from the skillful operating of the mill under the direction of Mr. William Kreigh- taum, the head miller ; the nationality of the opera- tives is decidedly cosmopolitan ; of the 20 operatives, 1 is a native of Richland Co.; 5 are natives of other counties of this State ; 2 are English ; 4 Germans ; 1 Swede ; 1 Norwegian. The mill is located at the junction of the B. & 0. R. R., with the A. & G. W. giving it advantages to receiving grain, and shipping flour not usually obtained ; some idea of the amount of the business transacted by and through this first-class mill may be inferred from the fact that they are now paying the farmers of Richland Co. and vicinity about .$200,000 a year for wheat, besides a large quantity of flour ex- changed for their " Brown's Best Flour," which is clear evidence that the farmers appreciate their right to enjoy the best that their land produces ; of course, the entire population of Richland Co. could not con- sume the products of this mill ; Messrs. Hicks Brown & Co. find no diflBculty in disposing of their new-process

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