COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO 
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March 26, 2007
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HISTORY 
OF 
COLUMBIANA COUNTY 
OHIO 
HAROLD B. BARTH 
IN TWO VOLUMIS 
ILLUSTRATED 
VOLUME TWO 
HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 
TOPEKA-INDIANAPOLIS 
1926

 

Harold B. Barth, History of Columbiana County, Ohio in two volumes (Topeka
and Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1926), digital images online,
Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : extracted 26 May 2006) for Joseph
Franklin Sheehan, page 2:703-4; subsequently GJ transcribed.

 

HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY 703 

 

Joseph Franklin Sheehan is among the highly esteemed and widely known
citizens of Salem, where he has been connected with the Deming Manufacturing
Company for 30 years. lie was born in Butler Township, Columbiana County,
May 26, 1874, the son of John H. and Elizabeth (Carle) Sheehan. 

John H. Sheehan was born near Warren, Ohio, in 1843. He was about 12 years
of age when his parents settled in Salem, where he spent the remainder of
his life. He was a stationary engineer. Mr. Sheehan died in 1915 and his
wife, a native of Butler Township, Columbiana County, died Feb. 11, 1903.
She was born Nov. 9, 1845, the daughter of Joseph Franklin Carle, one of the
earliest settlers of Butler Township. To Mr. and Mrs. Sheehan the following
children were born: Marion R., Mary L., Alice, Clyde, Edgar, Laura, and
Ross, all deceased; H. W., lives at Steubenville, Ohio; Elmer, lives at
Toledo, Ohio; Joseph Franklin, the subject of this sketch; Adelbert, lives
at Salem; John Wallace, lives at Salem, and Sarah Elizabeth, married Roy K
Gaskill, lives at Toledo, Ohio. 
Joseph Franklin Sheehan received his education in the public schools of
Willow Vale, District No. 1, and when 16 years of age entered the employ of
the Buckeye Engine Company, With whom he remained for 6 years. He has since
been identified with the. Deming Manufacturing Company and in 1914 was
appointed foreman of the Tri-Plex Pump department. 

On May 22, 1901, Mr. Sheehan was married to Miss Bertha Etzrodt, a native of
Pennsylvania, born April 27, 1877. She died July 2, 1922, and is buried in
Hope Cemetery, Salem. 

Mr. Sheehan is an independent voter.