BENJAMIN
F. BUDD, contractor and builder, of Sharon, Mercer county, of a well
known family of this part of the state, is a native of Trumbull county,
Ohio, horn September 25, 1856. a son of Edward Scofield and Mary
(Wilson) Budd. The father was born in Sharon, 1809, and died aged
seventy-eight years. The mother was born in Brookfield township,
Trumbull county, Ohio. December 3, 1813. and died at the extreme age of
ninety-three years, in November, 1906, being the oldest person in
Sharon at the date of her decease. In every sense of the word she was a
true Christian-a loving mother, a kind and helpful neighbor and a
spiritual-minded woman. The deceased was the daughter of James
Wilson, long since gone to his reward. Mrs. Budd was married in
Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1829, and when a very small girl, became a
member of the Baptist church, in which she ever took much
interest. Edward S. Budd and wife were the parents of twelve
children, including James D.; Edward W.; Nettie E. (wife of
John Seny), and Benjamin F., of this memoir, who was the twelfth
in order of birth.
William Budd, the grandfather, was a farmer
and cultivated the land where now stands the borough of Sharon. His
son, father of Benjamin F., was also a farmer of Mercer county, who
resided in Hickory Creek township. but later moved to Trumbull county.
Ohio. After engaging mans' years at agricultural pursuits in the
localities already named, he moved to Missouri, where he farmed seven
years longer. While in Missouri, and while Benjamin B. was a small boy,
the father was compelled to fight the "bushwhackers" of Civil war
times. Mr. Budd finally returned to Mercer county, locating at Sharon,
where he was a justice of the peace for many years and did some
farming, but during the last few years of his life he was retired. He
was a member of the Baptist church and one of its local organizers.
Originally voting the Whig ticket, when the Republican party was formed
he identified himself with that organization.
Benjamin F. Budd
was educated in the public schools and learned the carpenter's trade,
after which he took contracts for buildings and now enjoys a large
business in this line. Mr. Budd is a member of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 103, Sharon; the Protected Home
Circle, Lodge No. 1; and Knights of Pythias No. 294. He has served in
the borough council, having been first elected to membership in 1907,
and has been president of the borough fire department for twenty-five
years. In church relations he is connected with the Methodist Episcopal
denomination.
Mr. Budd was united in marriage, January 31, 1894.
to Jennie Rapp, born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1874,
daughter of Charles and Hannah (Foster) Rapp. Her father was born east
of the mountains, in Pennsylvania, October 8, 1823, while his wife was
born in Mercer county, September 11, 1836, and married in her native
county in 1852. They became the parents of twelve children, six of whom
survive: Frank; Ida, wife of William Cray; Tina, Mrs. Walter Sandy;
Kate, widow of Alton Cone; Jennie (Mrs. Budd), the eleventh child, and
Ernest L., who married Kate Moore. The father of Mrs. Budd was by trade
a blacksmith, having learned that trade at Sharpsville and followed it
for thirty-five years. He was one of the oldest members of the Odd
Fellows lodge, at Sharpsville. Politically, he was a Republican. Mr.
and Mrs. Budd are the parents of one son - George Winfred.
Source: (Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, 1909, pages 589-590)
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