JOHN
D. HADLEY, agent for fire, life and accident insurance, is the second
son of David and Jane (Robinson) Hadley, of Hadley Station. He was born
in Columbiana County, Ohio, May 25, 1832, and came to Mercer County
with his parents in 1843. In 1850 he started in life by learning the
blacksmith’s trade, which occupation he followed for seventeen years,
at Hadley and elsewhere. In 1867 he moved to Hubbard, Ohio, where he
worked at his trade for one year, and then engaged in the drug
business, and afterward in the wholesale and retail feed business. In
1873 he located at Sharpsville, and established a flour and feed store,
which he conducted for three years, and engaged in the grocery
business. His store was burned in June, 1887, and since that time he
has followed his present insurance business. March 3, 1853, he married
Miss Mary, daughter of John and Ruth McClure, of Clarks Mills. She died
April 12, 1865, leaving five children, one of whom married John
McElwain, and died in January, 1874. The living children are Loretta,
wife of William H. Bell, of Youngstown, Ohio; Ruth E., wife of Deloss
Longstreet, of Hadley, and have Hiram, Mary, Bessie, Albert ; David M.
, engaged in the livery business at Sharpsville, married Constance
Holstein, of Sharpsville; John B., of the firm of Hadley & Maxwell,
grocers, etc., Sharpsville, married Alice Ashton, of Sharon. Our
subject was again married in 1866 to Lucy A., daughter of Mrs.
Elizabeth McKey, of Sandy Creek Township. The children of this union
are Jane E., wife of R. G. Maxwell, of Sharpsville, and has one child,
Helen; W. C., station agent at Sharpsville for the Sharpsville Railroad
Company, married Miss Catherine, daughter of Rut Collins, of West
Middlesex; George G., brakesman on the Sharpsville Railroad; Alice S.
and Clara G. Mr. Hadley has held several borough offices, and is now
serving as school director. He is a member of the A. 0. U. W., No. 71,
of Sharpsville, of the E. A. U., No. 359, and of the Protected Home
Circle, No. 3, of Sharpsville. He and family are members of the
Presbyterian Church, of which he is an elder. He is a strong temperance
advocate, and votes the Prohibition ticket.
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 840
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