850 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Upon the breaking out of the Civil war Mr. St. John closed out his business and was appointed by, the Governor a member of the County Military Committee, in which capacity he served throughout the war. In 1863, he was appointed Provost Marshal for the Fourth district of Ohio, a position he held until the close of the war. After the war he engaged in the sewing-machine business, and in 1870 patented the St. John Sewing Machine. He organized the St. John Sawing Machine Company, at Springfield, Ohio, and was superintendent of that company's works until 1880, when he sold out his interest in the company and removed to Toledo, Ohio. In the latter city he organized the Union Sewing Machine Company, and had charge of the works of the company for five years, when he sold out and removed to Cleveland, and engaged for several years in the sewing-machine business in this city. Many years ago Mr. St. John's attention was directed to the necessity and advantages of a type-setting machine, and much of his time after coming to Cleveland was devoted to the origination of such a machine. In 1889 he commenced the construction of a machine on an entirely new principle, making a line of type by cold pressure. In 1890 he patented the machine known as the St. John Typobar, and the same year organized the St. John Typobar Company, of which he is the vice president. The machine has been a success in every particular, and will work a revolution in type-setting by machinery. It is operated somewhat upon the principle of the type-writer, by means of which the characters are produced in lines upon cold metal by compression, which may be used repeatedly without waste of material. By the use of this machine, one operator can within eight hours set from 30,000 to 40,000 ems, or about four times the amount a man can set up in the same length of time, and do it as correctly, if not more so than can the man. The plan of the machine is simple, practical and automatic. It is the first of its kind with which the line of type may be made by compression. Mr. St. John is a mechanical engineer and a genius, and has given to the world many useful and practical inventions, those in the sewing-machine line having won him recognition all over the the industrial world. While a citizen of Bellefontaine, Mr. St. John served as Coroner of the county, and was recognized as one of the deservedly honored citizens of the community. He is a prominent member of the Odd Fellows' fraternity, being a member of the Grand Lodge of Ohio. In politics he is a staunch Republican. Mr. St. John was married in 1852, to Miss Rebecca Poland, and to their union four children, have been born, two of whom are living. The children are as follows: Charles P., of Chicago; Ida, the wife of E. A. Shafer, of Cleveland; Sallie S. and Edmund, the two latter deceased. Mr. and Mrs. St. John and family are members of the Presbyterian Church. PETER LIGHTHALL, assistant general yardmaster of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, was born in Eureka, New York, January 1, 1846. His father was Peter Lighthall, born in Schenectady, New York, in 1813. He followed the business of contracting and was for a time a hotel keeper, dying in Utica, New York, in 1861. His wife was Mary. Warren, a daughter of James Warren, o Rochester. She died in 1865, at forty-two years of age. Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lighthall, five of whom are still living: John and William, in Utica and Syracuse respectively; Hattie; Josephine, widow of H. P. Bennett, of Green Isle; and Peter. At eleven years of age our subject left school and began work in a grocery in Utica, remaining till 1861, when he volunteered his services to the United States, enlisting in the Forty third New York Zonaves, and went to Clifton Park, Staten Island, thence to Annapolis, Maryland, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 851 The Zouaves participated in Burnside's expedition to Hatteras inlet; returned to Annapolis by way of Hampton Roads, Virginia, and were in camp but a brief period at the Maryland navy yard, when they were ordered to Washington, District of Columbia; and in three weeks were disbanded because of mutiny among the officers. Mr. Lighthall entered the service again in 1862, enlisting at Utica in the One Hundred and Seventeenth New York Volunteers. Went to Washington, District of Columbia, via Rome, New York; ordered to Tarrytown, where he did picket duty along the Harper's Ferry turnpike, three months; crossed the Potomac river and remained till spring, when ordered to Norfolk, Suffolk and over into the fight at Black river. Returned to Norfolk and took transports for Hilton Head, South Carolina; disembarked and went to Folly island, and remained till the following spring, doing duty in siege of Charleston. Assisted in the capture of Morris, Block Seabrook and Kiowa island and Fort Wagner and John's island, South Carolina, and left for Bermuda Hundred, Virginia. On May 21, at Drury's Bluff, first attack on Petersburg. Went up the Peninsula and North Anna river and back to the engagements at White House Landing, Cold Harbor and back to Petersburg for a three months' siege. Deep Bottom and Chapin's Farm came next, followed by the Darbytown Road fight, October 27, 1864. Went with General Butler to Fort Fisher, but returned in two days to Chapin's Farm, and a week later went back under General Terry, and on January 10 attacked the fortification, and on the 15th captured the fort; marched then to Smithfield, North Carolina, Fort Anderson, Sugar Loaf Mountain works and Wilmington. Two weeks later went to Coxbridge, crossing the Neuse river; met General Sherman's army and engaged Johnston at Bentonville; heard of Lee's surrender there, and followed Johnston to Raleigh, there getting news of the President's assassination. In two weeks was mustered out of service; marched to City Point, Virginia, 84 took boat for Albany, New York, and train home, and was mustered out of service at Syracuse, June 23, 1865. On taking up civil pursuits Mr. Lighthall engaged in the New York Central freight house at Utica, as tallyman, and remained till 1867, when he went on the road as brakeman between Syracuse and Albany, and in time was promoted to conductor. In 1871 he joined the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company as brakeman, but remained only six months, coming then to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, in same capacity, and was given a run on the Toledo division. In eighteen months he came into the Cleveland yard and broke two days, when he was given a pony. In 1880 he was made assistant yardmaster at Collinwood, and two years later was transferred to Cleveland as assistant day man. He was promoted to night yardmaster in 1883, and to day man in 1888, and in 1891 was made assistant general yardmaster. Mr. Lighthall holds a membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. JEROME J. SHEPARD, an extensive manufacturer of and dealer in fire brick, was born in this city near what is now No. 423 Franklin avenue, September 1, 1861. He is an only son and second child of Joseph Shepard, who came to this city in 1826 aboard a French man-of-war. He was then a boy of thirteen before the mast, and had been in the French navy some time. Although Mr. Shepard was born in France, his ancestors were all English. His father moved his family from the British Isles to the land of the Bonapartes a few years prior to the famous battle of Waterloo. On leaving the French man-of-war Joseph Shepard entered the American navy and sailed every sea and visited every prominent port, encircling the entire globe probably three or four times before_ his retirement in 1854. He was present as an officer of the United States during the war with Mexico, being Captain of the brig 852 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Cumberland. Upon his retirement to civil pursuits he engaged in heavy contracting, confining his work to railroad contracts mainly. He was an industrious man and possessed a good capacity for making money, and although his means came easily they went in a similar manner, and his death in 1872 found hint in only good financial circumstances. He married, in 1857, Mariette, a daughter of Captain John De Mars, a noted Cleveland pioneer. Captain De Mars secured the first license given by the city of Cleveland to run a ferry across the Cuyahoga river, became afterward a large boat-owner, and engaged extensively in the lake-carrying trade. From this business and from an investment in real estate at Detroit in its infancy, Captain De Mars amassed a snug fortune, which he left to his heirs. He was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1793, and died in Cleveland in 1879. Jerome Shepard, when only thirteen years of age, engaged to work for William Lacy, of this city, the largest manufacturer and dealer in fire brick. Three years later he changed employers, engaging with G. H. Barstow, a brother of ex-Governor Barstow, of Wisconsin, While serving with these two gentlemen Mr Shepard mastered the most intricate feature; of the business, and on the death of Mr. Barstow be-mme by purchase proprietor of the entire business. In 1889 he bought out the business of John Colahan, and, desiring to further enlarge, he purchased in 1893 the large bush ess of his former employer, Captain William Lacy. Mr. Shepard's trade is most extensive and is distributed throughout the breadth 4x' our continent. To supply the great demand made on him from this broad market, he operates two large warehouses, one in Detroit, and the other in Cleveland. These warehouses are supplied from his factory at Wellsville, Ohio. He has other interests, diversified and extensive. He is a stockholder in the Central Pressed Brick Company, in the Cleveland & Buffalo Steam Navigation Company, and in the Backus Wire-Nail Company, all of Cleveland. He is a director in the Vulcan Clay Company, of Wellsville, Ohio, and a stockholder in the John Parter Company, of New Cumberland, West Virginia (the most extensive paving brick works in the world); also a director of the Argyle Gold-Mining Company, of Central City, Colorado,—one of the few mining companies that pay satisfactory dividends. In October, 1882, Mr. Shepard married, in Cleveland, Trecy, a daughter of James Dempsy, an old railroad man, who has since been general freight master of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad. Of this union there are five children : Mary E., Bertha S., Frank R., Jerome J. and Helen. Mr. Shepard is a thorough business man. His standing in the commercial world is unembarrassed by questionable or unprofitable investments, and those with whom he deals place unbounded confidence in his ability and integrity.   T. E. MILLER, Trustee of Olmsted township, elected in the spring of 1886 and now serving his third ttterm, came to this place in 1872, locating on his present farm, after having resided in Cleveland two years. He was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, June 1, 1850, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Lower) Miller, both also natives of that county. His father, a farmer, lived in Springfield township, that county, but sold his place there and purchased a place in Beaver township, same county, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying June 1, 1887; his wife survives, and still resides there. They brought up six children, namely: Sarah Ann, wife of William Winter, of Indiana; T. E., our subject; Wilson, married and resides on the old farm. in Beaver township; Celeste, now the wife of Isaac Easterly, of Columbiana county, this State; Melissa, now Mrs. Joseph Herrold, of Mahoning county; and Laura, the wife of Isaac Chapple, of Leetonia, Ohio. The grandfather, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 853 Henry Miller, came to Mahoning county when a young man, with his father, and they were the first pioneers of the county, built the first log cabin in that section of the county, and made the first clearing. Mr. Miller, our subject, was reared in Mahoning county to the age of twenty-one years, attending school meanwhile, and then he came to Cleveland and engaged in the dairy business. Afterward he moved, having married, to Olmsted and settled on the old farm, whereon be has erected a fine, large two-story dwelling, and also a large barn, having a capacity of 100 tons of hay. A gas well on the place supplies all the material necessary both for heating and lighting, and also for the school house. The farm comprises eighty acres. Mr. Miller has seen many changes in the improvement of his neighborhood since his settlement there. He takes an active interest in the public welfare and in national politics, as a Republican. He has been a member of the School Board for sixteen years. He was married at the age of twenty-three years in Olmsted township, to Miss Catherine Onocker, a daughter of Rudolph and Mary (Oswalt) Onocker, who in an early day came to Cuyahoga county, locating south of Cleveland, and were burned out there, losing five children in the fire. Mr. Onocker died at the age of ninety-seven years, September 28, 1890; the widow still survives. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have three children,—Mary E., Emma and Emmet. Mrs. Miller is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Olmsted Falls. HON. JOHN M. COOLEY is a gentleman whose honorable and upright life and the prominent part he has taken in public affairs entitles him to biographical mention among the leading men of his section of the country. Mr. Cooley's father, Deacon Asher Cooley, was one of the earliest pioneers of northern Ohio, he having come with his wife and five children to Dover township, Cuyahoga county, prior to the '20s, and located at the place where the subject of this sketch now resides. Asher Cooley was born in Hawley, Massachusetts, January 9, 1787, and was married there, December 1, 1808, to Lydia Smith, a native of Chatham, Connecticut, born October 4, 1789. They came to Ohio from Ashfield, Massachusetts, and upon their arrival here settled on a fain just south of Dover, and on this farm they spent the rest of their lives and died, his death occurring June 2, 1853, and hers Marck 30, 1866. Other children were born to them after they came to this frontier home, their family comprising ten, of whom John M. is the youngest. John M. Cooley was born in Dover township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, November 20, 1830; was reared here, and has been a resident of this place all his life, farming being his occupation. He owns the old Cooley homestead, which comprises over 100 acres of fine land, well improved with good buildings, etc. Mr. Cooley was married in Plymouth, Ashtabula county, Ohio, January 26, 1854, to Miss Lucy Seymour, daughter of Bennett Seymour, who removed from Connecticut to Ashtabula county at an early day. They had a family of three children who grew up to occupy honorable and useful positions in life: Arthur S., George L. and Lucy E. Lucy E. is now the wife of H. Z. Blenkhorn, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Cooley departed this life April 28, 1887. April 6, 1893, Mr. Cooley suffered a stroke of par-al ysis, in consequence of which he is now confined to his room, being unable to walk or con verse. While farming has been his life occupation, Mr. Cooley has all along given considerable attention to public affairs. During the war he was a member of Company I, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio National Guards, and was in the 100-day service, having enlisted in May, 1864. Be has filled various township offices, was Postmaster of Dover for a number of years, and served one term in the Ohio State Legislature, 854 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. having been elected to the last named office in the fall of 1874, on the Republican ticket. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of Olmsted Post, No. 634, G. A. R. For many years he has been a member of the Congregational Church; his wife was a devoted member of the Episcopal Church of Ashtabula. DR. A. S. COOLEY, the eldest son of Hon. John M. Cooley, was born in Dover township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, June 11, 1858. He remained upon the home farm until after his majority, farming summers and teaching school during the winter months. He then took a course in veterinary medicine, graduating from the Chicago College of Veterinary Surgery. He located in Cleveland, and began the practice of veterinary science, and although still a young man his celebrity as a veterinary practitioner is wide-spread and his record as a manipulator of the surgeon's knife and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of domestic animals is unapproached. He has erected a perfectly equipped equine hospital, which is a model of its type. He was marries May 10, 1894, to Miss Flora A. Arnold, and resides at 1,224 Curtis avenue. GEORGE L. COOLEY, son of the Hon. John M. Cooley, was born in Dover township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, January 14, 1861. He was reared and educated here, and here he has resided all his life. Up to the time he reached his majority he remained on the farm with his father. Then he turned his attention to teaching school and to contracting and building, and for eight years he has taught school during the winter and worked at his trade through the summer. Mr. Cooley was married, December 28, 1887, to Miss Clara E. Hall, daughter of Reuben Hall, a prominent and highly respected citizen of Cuyahoga county. She was born in Dover township, this county, December 29, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Cooley are the parents of three children: Paul N., Lucy M. and an infant. Like his father, Mr. Cooley affiliates with the Republican party, and takes an active interest in political affairs. He and his wife are members of the Congregational Church. L. M. JOHNSON, M. D., has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Bedford for thirty-five years. He was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, October 28, 1832, a son of Thomas and Mary (Mullin) Johnson, natives of Ireland. The paternal grandparents lived and died on the "Emerald " Isle, both remarkable for their longevity; the grandfather attained the age of 102 years, and the grandmother 104 years. Thomas Johnson emigrated to the United States after his marriage, his first residence being in New York. Later he removed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and thence to Jefferson county, New York, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives; lre died at the age of ninety years, and she was eighty-seven. Joe Johnston, the famous Rebel general, was a first cousin to. Thomas Johnson. Dr. Johnson is one of a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters. He began the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Ramsay, of Jefferson, Ohio, and received his degree of M. D. in 1864. His first practice was at Bloomington, McLean county, Illinois, but at the end of two years he went to Fort Scott, Kansas; there he had a most successful career as a physician and surgeon, and during the time was connected with the hospital at Kansas City, Missouri. Returning to Jefferson county, Ohio, he resumed professional work, and in 1892 came to Bedford, where his excellent reputation has followed him. He is fully abreast a the times in all discoveries pertain- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 855 ing to the science of medicine, and is regarded as one of the most skillful physicians in the county. The Doctor was united in marriage, atthe age of twenty-two years, to Ann Boyd, at Coshocton, Ohio. Mrs. Johnson is the daughter of John Boyd and is a native of the State of New York. Four children have been born of this union: James L., William B., John and David W. The mother died in 1871. Dr. Johnson was married a second time in 1884, to Eliza J. Porter, a daughter of Joseph Porter. The Doctor's sons are all residents sf Bourbon county, Kansas. SAMUEL M. HAMILL, son and namesake of the late Rev. Samuel M. Hamill, D. D., widely known as the principal of the famous Lawrenceville school, is the secretary and general manager of the Brush Electric Company. The name of Hamill has for many years been identified with our best educational interests, and for several generations it has been connected with the ministry of the church. Through the achievements of the subject of this sketch the name has become distinguished in the electrical world. Rev. Samuel M. Hamill, D. D. was born at Morristown, Pennsylvania, in 1812. He married Matilda Green, born at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 1812. Their marriage was consummated in 1838. They had nine children, three of whom are living. The mother is yet living and resides in Trenton, New Jersey. The father died in 1889. For fifty years he sustained prominent relations as an educator, being connected with several famous institutions of learning. The subject of this sketch was prepared for college at his father's school. He was graduated at Princeton College—an institution founded by Jonathan Dickinson, its first president, Mr. Hamill's ancestor—with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in the class of 1880. Since that time he has received the degree of Master of Arts from the same institution. For more than three years Mr. Hamill was a successful teacher in the Lawrenceville school, and during that period he first gave evidence of his administrative capacity in the practical management of the affairs of that large institution, and in the discipline and control of its students. Subsequently he studied law with the expectation of becoming admitted to the bar in New Jersey, but an attractive future was at this time opened to him in railroad life, through the influence of a relative highly connected with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, and to this field he turned. He entered actively. upon the duties of this new position, and served that company in its freight department, its pay master's department and in the office of the first vice president of the road, at Chicago, and the year 1886 found him in charge of the large grain elevators owned by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company in Peoria, Illinois. Mr. Hamill severed his connection with the railroad company to accept the position of assistant secretary of the Brush Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, where he now resides. Three years later he became secretary of that company with his office in New York city, where he took charge of its business affairs in the East. Later he became director of the company and its secretary and general manager, which position he now holds. He also ells a similar position for the Short Electric Railway Company. He is vice president of the Swan Lamp Manufacturing Company, president of the Geneva Brush Electric Light & Power Company, of the Ellsworth Maine Illuminating Company, of Geneva, of the Waterloo Street Railroad Company, and to the Trenton Electric Light Company of Ontario; he is also secretary of the Brush Electric Power Company, being a director in each of the above named concerns. Mr. Hamill is possessed of decided ability both theoratical and practical, and hence is well fitted for the various positions in the several 856 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. electrical, gas and other companies which he holds in the different parts of the United States. Mr. Hamill is a member of the Electric and University Clubs of New York, and of the Electric, Union and Country Clubs of Cleveland. While at Princeton he was one of the founders of the Ivy Club. MAPES BROTHERS are among the well-known, honorable and respected familes of Orange, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Their grandfather, John D. Mapes, was born in Seneca county, New York, December 20, 1807, a son of Seth and Julia (Smith) Mapes, natives also of that State. Two of their sons, William and Samuel, were soldiers in the war of 1812. John D. Mapes came to Ohio at the age of ten years, and seven years afterward located in Orange township, Cuyahoga county. His death occurred on the farm on which he had located in 1831, in October, 1885, at the age of seventy-eight years. Mr. Mapes was married May 10, 1831, to Henrietta Patchen, a native of New York, and a daughter of Noah and Sarah (Jenne) Patchen, who were born in Vermont, but their deaths occurred in Pennsylvania. They were the parents of nine children. John D. Mapes and wife had eight children: Edwin, Alvin and Alameda, deceased; Alpha, Perry, Rial, Sarah, and Jenny. Six of the children were successful school teachers. Mrs. Mapes still resides on the old homestead in Orange township. Edwin Mapes, father of our subjects, was born on the home farm, November 27, 1838, and received his education at Chagrin Falls. In 1858 he went to Ogle county, Illinois, where he remained three years, and then returned to this place. He was an active worker in the Republican party, and for a number of years held the position of Justice of the Peace. Mr. Mapes was married September 17, 1856, to Mary Thorp, a native of Massachusetts, and a daughter of Ferris and Mary Ann (Bell) Thorp, the form: er born in Massachusetts, and the latter in Russell, Geauga county, Ohio. They had six children: Perry E.; J. P.; Charles A.; Hortense Strait, of Otsego, Michigan; Gertrude Jenks, a resident of Bainbridge, Ohio; and Fred E., at home. One child, Frank, died in infancy. Four of the children were school-teachers. Edwin Mapes died on the old homestead, September 1, 1884. Perry E. Mapes, a son of the above and a. member of the firm of Mapes Brothers, was born August 3, 1857. He received his education at this place and at Austintown, Ohio. He was united in marriage with Dolly Segebeer, a native of Cleveland, and they have two children,--Lucy May and Theodore Perry. John P., of the firm of Mapes Brothers, was born in Ogle county, Illinois, January 15, 1859. He received his education in the district schools of Austintown, and for the following nine years was a successful and popular teacher. He was married August 16, 1885, to Anna J., a daughter of Robert McFarland, of Solon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Mapes have one son, Edwin G. The Mapes farm is one of the most valuable places in Orange Township, contains fine springs of pure cold water, and many valuable improvements. In addition to general farming, the Mapes brothers have been extensively engaged in the dairy business for many years. They conduct a business amounting to $12,000 per annum, in milk, cream and maple syrup. Their beautiful residence was built in 1889, at a cost of $30,000, and contains all the modern improvements. DYER W. NICHOLS, of Rockport, township, is a, soil of Loren D. and Marilla J, (Bassett) Nichols, residents of Rockport Hamlet. The father was born in this township in 1832, the mother in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 1830. They had nine children, of whom our subject is the eldest. He was born in Rockport Hamlet, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 357 Cuyahoga county, Ohio, October 18, 1856, where he was brought up, receiving a common-school education. At fifteen years of age he was employed by the Lake Shore Railroad Company as brakeman, for four years. He then engaged in the milk business for five years, and since that time has followed the occupation of a carpenter. He was married in Cleveland, Ohio, Decem ber 3, 1878, to Miss Minnie F. Schmidt, daughter of Jacob F. Schmidt, who died in Rockport Hamlet in January, 1891. Mrs. Minnie F. Nichols was born in Rockport Hamlet, November 22;1859. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols have had three children: Fred, who died when five years of age; William J. and Hazel H. Mr. Nichols was elected Clerk of Rockport township in the spring of 1892 and Clerk of Rockport Hamlet in the spring of 1893. He has held the office of Township Assessor for some twelve years and is also Clerk of the School Board. He has taken quite an active part in local and political affairs. BENJAMIN F. PHINNEY, of Cleveland, a member of the Board of Equalization and Assignment, was born in Avon, Lorain county, Ohio, August 3, 1845. He is a son of Benjamin Phinney, who devoted his life to mercantile pursuits, beginning in Dover and concluding his career at Rockport in 1865. He was born in the old Bay State in 1805, and nine years later immigrated to this new western country with his father, Sylvanus Phinney, and located in Dover. Sylvanus Phinney was a tanner and carried on that business thirty-nine years in Dover, dying there at seventy years of age. The Phinney family were among Massachusetts' first settlers, and found their way to that new country from the British Isles. Their occupations have not been numerous, as is generally the case where the family have a large connection, but they have confined themselves to merchandising and manufacturing in the main. Sylvanus was twice married, his first wife being the mother of his five children. Benjamin Phinney was a merchant from early manhood, and was a useful and esteemed citizen. In early times he was a member of a militia company, but was never called into active service. For his first wife he took in marriage Miss — Thompson, one child resulting from the union, Elmira, now Mrs. D. L., Oviatt. For his second wife Mr. Phinney married Susan Perry, who bore him three children, as follows: Helen, who died young; Benjamin F. and Theodore, who died at two years. Our subject's youthful days were spent in about the usual way—attending the village school and in addition spending one year in Berea College. Possessing a rather restless, adventurous nature, the breaking out of the Civil war offered just such an opportunity as young Benjamin wanted—to break away for a time from the humdrum of school work and feast on new sights and experiences. Accordingly in August, 1861, when about seventeen, and without the consent of his father, he stole away at night, and, accompanied by a cousin of like age, proceeded to Ridgeville Center, Lorain county, where a company was being raised, enlisted and was sworn in before morning, thus precluding the parental interference. The com-, pany was raised- by Lieutenant (afterward Captain) Benham. Upon order it reported at Camp Chase, and was assigned to the Forty-second Ohio, in command of Colonel James A. Garfield. While the company was being drilled and made ready for active service Mr. Phinney contracted the measles and only became convalescent in time to accompany his regiment in December on its first expedition. They were ordered to Big Sandy valley to drive Humphrey Marshall out of that region. Afterward the Forty-second was ordered to Louisville to join the Army of the Ohio for a movement against the Confederates in southern Kentucky, meet- 858 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. ing them at the historic Mill Springs, where General Zollicoffer, of Confederate honors, was killed. Proceeding thence to Cumberland Gap, the regiment was engaged in fortifying the place during the greater part of 1862. In September of that year the army succeeded in getting in rear of the gap and cut off the garrison's supplies and it became necessary to abandon the place. Tents were burned at night and the garrison proceeded to make its escape toward the Ohio river. For fourteen days while crossing Kentucky not a ration was issued, the boys supplying themselves individually from the corn-fields and grating their corn into coarse meal and cooking it in their tin cups. Had this been their only hardship they would have fared fortunately, but they had no clothes and were ragged and had to walk, making progress necessarily slow. They reached the Union lines at Portsmouth and were warmly received by the populace for miles around bringing food and raiment. When again ready for duty the regiment was ordered up the Kanawha into West Virginia to Charlestown and there received another order, returning then to Cincinnati where they received six months' back pay. A new order placed the regiment in the Department of the Mississippi and they transported it down the Mississippi river to Memphis, and up every night to avoid the possibility of a collision with the Confederates, who were always in close proximity. General Sherman was at Memphis preparing to move onto Vicksburg. The Forty-second Ohio was made a part of his army and the whole was landed at the mouth of the Yazoo river and immediately found an engagement on its hands. In the second day of the light, Mr. Phinney was struck on the head with a piece of a shell and was reported killed in battle. He was placed in the hospital at Memphis and later transported to Benton Barracks, Missouri, being in both from January until April. Before he was pronounced convalescent he was given option of remaining in the hospital, taking a furlough or joining his regi ment. He chose the last and found his company before Vicksburg at Milliken's Bend. From the day after his arrival to the surrender of the city the Forty-second Regiment was under fire daily. On leaving Vicksburg, Mr. Phinney went to Jackson with his regiment, drove off the enemy and tore up the railroad. The regiment was in camp by orders for a number of weeks and while there Mr. Phinney was Deputy Provost Marshal under Marshal Benham. He was next ordered to report to General Lawler's headquarters in Morganza Bend, Louisiana, and was appointed the general's chief clerk. He perfomed his duties creditably and in 1864, not liking such inactivity, made application for his discharge, then three months over-due. He was ordered to Columbus Virginia of Chicago and mustered out and returned home the first time since the night of his sudden departure three years and three months before. On taking up civil affairs again Mr. Phinney entered Berea College and prosecuted his duties two years. On the death of his father he assumed his business and conducted it successfully eighteen years, then retiring. In a public capacity Mr. Phinney has done a fair share of service. In 1875 he was chosen Treasurer of Rockport township, serving six years. Centennial year he was appointed Postmaster of Rockport and perfomed the duties of the office till 1887. In 1881 he was elected a Commissioner of Cuyahoga county and reelected in 1884, serving- as president of the board the last two years, his term expiring in 1887, which year he removed his family to Cleveland. January 1, 1888, Mr. Phinney engaged in building iron bridges, his work extending through the States of Maryland, New York, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. His appointment as a member of the Board of Equalization and Assignment in May, 1892, severed his connection with the bridge industry and made him CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 859 once more a public official. He holds an interest in two corporate companies of Cleveland. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Army and Navy Post, G. A. R., and of the National Union. Mr. Phinney married, in Rockport, Ava A., daughter of John Barnum. Three children blessed the union: Arthur Barnum and Alice May, twins, eighteen years of age, and Belle June, eleven years of age. FRED R. BRIGGS, general passenger agent of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad, is one of the younger railroad men who are coming rapidly to the front as the result of faithful and painstaking service, and a desire to render to his company the full measure of service which his exceptional ability makes possible. He started out in life without extraordinary equipments, except his natural endowments of good sense and a grim determination to succeed. He left the public schools of this city at sixteen and for nearly two years was variously employed; lastly and just before entering railroad work he became an employee of the Cleveland City Forge, rather in response to a desire of his mother that he should learn a trade, since her brothers were all iron men and prosperous. Five weeks sufficed to convince young Fred that handling iron bars was not his forte nor to his liking, and he decided to try railroading, going to the Valley Railroad as a brakeman. His service was so satisfactory that in two years the management placed him in charge of a passenger train, he being then only twenty years of age. In September, 1882, Mr. Briggs left the Valley road and accepted a similar position with the Connotton Valley Railroad, now the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad, duplicating his record with the Valley Railroad as an efficient servant. February 15, 1892, the manage ment rewarded Mr. Briggs with the position of assistant general passenger agent, promoting him to his present office May 12, 1892. The passenger service of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern is in better condition than at any time during its history as a result of Mr. Briggs' thorough, judicious advertising. He is conversant with the needs of his road and meets them at every point. Having been in the ranks in the operating department of the road he sympathizes most heartily with those under him and is an exceedingly popular official. Mr. Briggs was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1862. He is a son of R. D. Briggs, a native of Ohio, born in 1837. When a boy of five years he came to Cleveland with his father, Erastus Briggs, who was for many years proprietor of the Franklyn House on the West Side. He began railroading when a young man, for the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, as a brakeman. He became later a passenger conductor on the Fort Wayne road, and in the spring of 1866 left off railroading entirely and engaged in the livery business in Cleveland. He prospered in this business and in 1873 860 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. erected a new barn to accommodate his growing trade. But at this juncture the panic came on and so did the epizootic, stagnating business and creating havoc among his stock. Being somewhat reduced by these reverses he retired from the business, about 1880, and again gave his attention to railroading. He ran a train for two years for the Valley and was then made train-master and served one year. He (tame to the Cleveland, Canton & Southern in 1883 and served till 1886, retiring as master of transportation. He is now general agent of the Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Company of Cleveland. Erastus Briggs was born in Massachusetts in 1807, and came to Ohio in 1820, and followed occasional farming as well as hotel-keeping. He married Sallie Hunt, and they both died here, the former in 1884, the latter in 1883. Eight children were born to them, five of whom are living. The mother of Fred R. Briggs was Mary E. Kaighen, whose father, William J. Kaighen, came to America from the Isle of Man in 1821. He was a ship carpenter, and died in 1886, at the age of eighty-five years. R. D. Briggs' children are,—Fred R., Kittle F., Bessie C., and Ralph E., Fred R. Briggs married, October 6, 1886, in Cleveland, Carrie A., a daughter of John Lowrie, a West Side baker and a pioneer from England. To Mr. and Mrs. Briggs were born Ruth and Nadine. Mr. Briggs is a member of the General Passenger Agents' Association, but the press of business renders his time too limited to affiliate as yet. FRANCIS JOSEPH WING, attorney at law, was born at Bloomfield, Trumbull county, Ohio, September 14, 1850. Mr. Wing is a son of Joseph Knowles Wing, the youngest child of Bani and Lucy (Clary) Wing, who had nine children. Bani Wing was a son of John Wing, whose father was John Wing, a son of Ananias, the oldest son of John Wing, the second son of John Wing and his wife Deborah Batchelder, who with their four sons, John, David, Daniel, Stephen and Matthew arrived at Boston from England in the ship William Francis, on the 5th day of June, 1632, and first settled in Saugus, New Lynn, Massachusetts, but later emigrated to the region known as the Peninsula of Cape Cod. Bani Wing, the grandfather of our subject, was pensioned as a Revolutionary soldier, and the pension was continued to his widow. The father of our subject was born at Wilmington, Vermont, July 27, 1810. In the spring of 1831 he came to the Western Reserve of Ohio, and located at Bloomfield, where he now resides. In October, 1842, he married Mary, a daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Huntington) Brown. At the outbreak of the Civil war President Lincoln appointed Mr. Wing as assistant quartermaster, with the rank of Captain. Afterwards he was successively commissioned Major and Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet. His wife died at her home, December 15, 1887. She was born at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, May 28, 1812, and at the time her parents removed to Bloomfield, Ohio, she was in her fourteenth year. There were born unto Joseph K. and Mary (Brown) Wing the following children: Mary Huntington, Elizabeth Brown, Pancoast, George Clary, Francis Joseph, Julia King (deceased), and Annie Margaret. Francis J. Wing, the subject of this sketch, first attended the public schools at Bloomfield, and from a private tutor went to Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, and then was under a private tutor at Cambridge, Massachusetts; then entered Harvard College, which he left during his junior year. Next he studied law with Caleb Blodgett for one year at Boston, Massachusetts. Later he studied under Judge Buckingham, of Newark, Ohio, then under Edward 0. Fitch, of Ashtabula, Ohio. Mr. Wing was admitted to the bar in January, 1874, and then came to Cleveland, and for CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 861 the first two years practiced alone. He then became a member of the law firm of Coon & Wing, which continued till 1880. He then served for one year as assistant United States Attorney. Thereafter his brother, George C. Wing and he practiced law together till 1892, when Edwin L. Thurston, his present partner, became his professional associate. September 25, 1878, Mr. Wing married Miss Mary Brackett Remington, a daughter of Stephen G. Remington, Assistant Auditor of the Lake Shore Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Wing have three children, namely: Virginia, Maurice and Stephanie. Mr. Wing has been very successful in the practice of law and has been retained in many important cases of litigation. He has always been prominent as a Republican in politics, and shares the esteem and confidence of the bar and the public. ASA DUNHAM, retired farmer of Bed- ford, Ohio, is one of the best known citizens in that locality, and is a representative of one of the prominent pioneer families of Cuyahoga county. He was born at Independence, near Bedford, Ohio, on July 14, 1819, and was the fifth son and sixth of ten children born to John and Elizabeth (Hunger-ford) Dunham, both of whom were natives of Herkimer county, New York. John Dunham was the son of an early settler of New York. He was reared on the farm, and after his marriage removed to Ohio in 1817, and settled in Independence township, Cuyahoga county. Locating upon an unimproved tract of land near where a brother-in-law named King had previously settled, he cleared up eighty acres northwest from Bedford, and moved his family upon the same, and this farm is now owned by our subject. Dunham street, on which this land is situated, was so named in honor of the old gentleman. He assisted to organize Bedford township, and held various public positions of trust and responsibility. His death occurred in 1847, at the age of sixty-three years. His widow survived him and died in the eighty-third year of her age. She was in early life a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but later was a Disciple. The children of John Dunham were as follows: Ambrose, who died at the age of seventy-three years; Chester, of Steuben county, Indiana, died at the age of eighty years; Alonzo, of Steuben county, Indiana, now in his eightieth year; Laura, the widow of Turner Hubbell, of Bedford, now in her seventy-eighth year; John, of Bedford, now in his seventy-seventh year; Asa, our subject; Phebe, the widow of Mr. Thompson, now in her seventy-second year; Jehiel, of Strongsville, now in his sixty-seventh year; Lorenzo, of Steuben county, Indiana, now in his sixty-fourth year, and Eliza, wife of William Wheeler, now in her sixty-second year. Asa Dunham was reared on the farm, and his education was obtained at a subscription school held in the primitive log schoolhouse of the early days, working on the farm during the summer and attending school during the winter months. He resided with his parents until he reached his majority, and then started out in life without means, but blessed with good health, energy and determination to make his own way through life without calling upon his parents for assistance. When he left home he had but few clothes and his wardrobe did not include necessary covering his feet. Mr. Dunham was married, in 1850, to Miss Lucinda Ransom, who was a native of Warrensville, Ohio, and the daughter of Oliver and Rachel (Hollister) Ransom, both of whom came to Ohio from Connecticut, and were pioneers of Warrensville. Two children were born to Mr. Dunham and his wife: Lud and Lloyd, both of whom are prominent farmers on Dunham street. Mrs. Dunham died June, 1887, at the age of sixty-seven years. Mr. Dunham served for twenty years as trustee of the township, and has held various local offices of trust. He is a member of Bedford Lodge, No. 375, A. F. and A. M. Politic- 862 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. ally he is a Republican, but was originally an old line Whig. Mr. Dunham is one of the most prominent farmers and citizens of his township. His life has been an active and busy one, during which he has accumulated large property. But, best of all, he has built up a reputation for honesty and fair dealing which will outlive money or property, and has so lived that he has always commanded the respect and esteem of his neighbors and all of know him. He is a self-made man in all that term implies. Beginning life with only a limited education and with no means at all, he has succeeded in climbing the ladder rung by rung until now, in his declining days, he is surrounded by friends and relatives, and enjoys the well earned fruits of a long and honorable life. J. E. PENDER, was born in Cleveland. December 27, 1847. His Father, M. Pender, was a mason by trade and become a resident of Cleveland in 1845. He was direct from Ireland, where he was born in 1827. He was a member of the Hibernian Guards of this city, an organization of a semi-military character. His wife was Mary Stines, whom he married in Ireland, and to them were born four children: M., yardmaster for the stock yards at Chicago, Illinois, Jacob E.; William, yard-conductor on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Road; and Elizabeth, wife of George Measer, of Cleveland. J. E. Pender received liberal training from the Brothers' school of this city, cutting short his career as pupil to begin his railroad career. He was given the place of brakeman by the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company, and was the youngest employee on the road in that capacity. In less than four years he was made a yard-conductor and in six years more earned and secured the position of yardmaster, having been in the position now just twenty years. During this whole period he has never met with an accident resulting in the loss of a joint. Mr. Pender married, in Cleveland, Kate E. Clark, a daughter of Barney Clark, of Irish birth. They are the parents of three childern: Mary, wife of James McCarty; J. E. Jr.; and Viola, who died September 25, 1890, at the age of seventeen. Mrs. Pender died August 26, 1893, at forty-eight years of age. Mr. Pender is a member of the Order of Railroad Conductors, Cleveland & Pittsburg Company's Relief, and is I. D. S. of the Order of Railroad Conductors. He is a consistent member of the late Father Sidley's congregation. JAMES KIRKLAND, deceased, was born in Scotland, August 22, 1847, a son of Alexander and Margaret (Laughlands) Kirkland. In 1854 James sailed with his family, the father having previously crossed the ocean on the City of Glasgow to New York, but immediately resumed the journey to Ohio, where he was reared a farmer boy in Royalton township, Cuyahoga county. Being a very energetic and hard-working young man, he began to accumulate property early in life, and at his marriage, in May, 1884, had a comfortable home provided. His wife was Emma Naaf, born in Brooklyn Village, Cuyahoga county, April 18, 1855, a daughter of John W. and Barbara (Bittner) Naaf. After marriage, Mr. Kirkland resided on the old homestead in Royalton township until moving to the farm where he met his tragic death. He had bought an excellent place in the northern part of Royalton township, erected a beautiful residence, fine barns, and moved to that farm in December, 1892. An old brick house which had formerly stood near the new residence had been partially torn away, and, to add to the appearance of his beautiful home, Mr. Kirkland concluded to complete the task of removing the old structure. While thus engaged, July 3, 1893, the shaky old walls fell, he being caught in the crash, and death resulted almost instantly. His only child, Margaret B., who was born October 21, 1880, stood within a few CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 863 feet of where her father met his death. Mr. Kirkland was buried in the Royalton Cemetery. He was a hard-working, industrious farmer, and was a self-made man in every particular. His untimely death cast a gloom over the entire community, and was an abrupt ending of what would have been a successful career. Since his death, his wife has managed the farm in a manner suggestive of much business sagacity. Mr. Kirkland was a Republican in his political views, although not a politician, and was an attendant at the Methodist Church. CALVIN MANNING, one of the highly respected farmers of Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, was born near Portage, Summit county, Ohio, May 14, 1829, a son of John Manning, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania. When a young man he was united in marriage with Sophia Coggswell. In 1809 this young couple crossed the Alleghany mountains for the then far-distant west and after a long and tedious journey in a wagon located in an almost unbroken forest in Summit county, Ohio. Their family then consisted of the following children: Joel, John, William, Gerard, Alfred, Calvin, Erastus, Sally, Lucinda, Lorena and Matilda. Only four of the children are still living: Matilda, Erastus, Calvin and William. Mr. and Mrs. Manning died in Summit county, after sharing the innumerable hardships necessary to pioneer life. Calvin Manning; the subject of this sketch, attended school during only a few 'months in the winter seasons. When a young man he went to Akron, Ohio, to learn the trade of moulder in one of the old shops of that city. He began business for himself at Wadsworth, this State, but soon afterward sickness in the family obliged him to abandon all ideas of working on his own account, and he returned to the employ of others. Mr. Manning then followed his grade in Cleveland for a number of years. In 1881 he came to Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, and purchased a farm near Bennett's Corners. In Summit county, Ohio, when a young man, our subject was united in marriage with Nancy A. DeLong, a native of Copley, that county, and a daughter of P. L. DeLong. To this union has been born one child, Jennie, who is still at home. They have also reared an adopted child, Fred Parker. For many years Mrs. Manning had been a great sufferer, and had been pronounced incurable by prominent medical men. By the influences of a faith cure or Spiritualistic she has entirely recovered, and is now a comparatively robust lady. In political matters, Mr. Manning cast his first presidential vote for a Democratic candidate, but has since joined the Republican ranks, of which he is now a staunch supporter. He has amassed a comfortable competence, and has succeeded in retaining the respect and esteem of the entire neighborhood. W. S. JAMES, M. D., has an office at No. 1519 1/2 Lorain street, Cleveland (West Side). He is one of the young practitioners of the city, being born October 16, 1858, at Warren, Ohio. His parents, Seely and Catharine James, were long time residents of Warren, and the father, who is of Welsh descent, resides there at present; and the mother, who is of German lineage, died in 1885. At Nelson Academy Dr. James acquired a preliminary education, which was supplemented by a course at the Western Reserve Seminary, and he also took a course at Oberlin College; meanwhile he was also engaged in teaching school. He attended the Wooster Medical College, graduated at the Columbus Medical College, and is also an alumnus of the Starling Medical College. He has had considerable hospital practice, and when lie entered upon the practice of his profession in this city he was equipped for his work. He is a member of the 864 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Cuyahoga County, Cleveland and Ohio Medical Societies, and fraternally is a member of the I. 0. F., and of other fraternal and beneficiary associations. Dr. James is a Republican in politics, and he is a religious man, being a member of the Gorgon Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. December 16, 1882, he wedded Miss Sarah Thomson, of Middlefield, Geauga county, Ohio. HIRAM BRADLEY, of Middleburg Township, was born January 11, 1821, in Perry, Lake county, Ohio, where he passed the days of his boyhood until eleven years of age, when his father, Thomas Bradley, removed to Cuyahoga county, settling in Middleburg township; he died in Lenawee county, Michigan. Mr. Hiram Bradley has continued to reside in Middleburg township to the present time. He was married in Olmsted township, this county, December 14, 1842,. to Miss Abigail Gage, who was born in Vermont, March 28, 1825, a daughter of George Gage, who was an old settler of that township, and died in 1867. After his marriage Mr. Bradley settled in Olmsted, where he lived a short time, and then located in Middleburg township. He has had seven children, as follows: Henry G., Wilbur, Alice, Joel (deceased), Amy A., Arthur. (deceased) and Hiram B. JOHN GRAY, of Middleburg township, was born in Euclid, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, April 21, 1822. His father, William Gray, came to this county from Virginia when a young man. He was married in Euclid, to Miss Clarissa Porter, who was born in New Hampshire, and was a young girl when she came with her parents to this locality. Mr. Gray's parents, after their marriage, settled in Euclid and lived there until about 1831, when they removed to Rockport township and resided there several years, and then located in Middleburg township, where Mr. Gray operated a sawmill till the most valuable timber was nearly exhausted. Selling out, he moved to Berea, where he passed the remainder of his days. His wife had died in Rockport township. They had nine children who grew up to. years of maturity: two died when young. Mr. John Gray was nine years old when he came with his father and family to Rockport township, and when thirteen years of age he began work on the Ohio canal, where he continued ten years. He was married in Middleburg township, April 4, 1847, to Sophronia Greenough, who was born in Vermont, November 13, 1827. Her father, Daniel Greenough, was also a native of that State, and her mother, whose name before marriage was Wealthy Kellogg, was born in Vermont, and the parents come to Cleveland in 1831, and lived there two years. Mr. Greenough was a painter by trade, residing at different places, and died in Elyria, Ohio. His wife died in Huntington, this State. Of a family of three children Mrs. Gray was the eldest. After his marriage Mr. Gray settled in Middleburg township, on the farm where he still continues to reside. Of his thirteen children eight grew up, namely: Albert, Helen, Lovina, Mabel, John M., Emma, Merritt and Arthur. REV. HIRAM COLLINS HAYDN, D. D., LL. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, resident minister now filling a pulpit in this city, though but a little past sixty years of age. The first representative of the Haydn family in America was a resident of Windsor, Connecticut. The Doctor's parents, David Ellsworth and Lucinda (Cooley) Haydn, were natives of New York, the father being a farmer and a natural mechanic. He died at the age of CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 865 seventy-five, and his wife some years later, at about the same age. Both were Christian people and by their many sterling qualities endeared themselves to all who knew them. They had six children, two of whom died in early life. Those living are: Caroline, wife of George W. Haskell, Washington city; Hector C., resident of Connecticut; Lucy H., wife of Richard Bishop, of Leslie, Michigan; and the subject of this sketch. The family name was originally spelled Hayden, but for special reasons the " e " was dropped when Hiram C. was a boy. Hiram C. Haydn was educated at Pompey Academy, and at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1856; and also at Union Seminary, New York, where he graduated with the class of 1859. His ministerial work has been at the following places: Montville, Connecticut; Meriden, Connecticut, where he served in the First Congregational Church; Painesville, Ohio, in the Congregational Church; and Cleveland, from 1872 until 1880. In 1880 he was appointed Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions at New York city, and served in that capacity until 1884, when he was recalled to the pulpit he had formerly occupied in Cleveland and which he has since filled most acceptably. During this time he was President of the Western Reserve University three years, and while serving in that capacity he founded the College for Women, which has proved eminently successful. He is still Vice President of the University and a Professor in the College for Women. Dr. Haydn has all his life taken an especial interest in the young people of the Church. In 1893 he published a book entitled " Brightening the World." This volume is dedicated to the Christian Endeavor societies, the Epworth and Westminster Leagues, Student Volunteers, and similar organizations of young people. In the seventies he published " Lay Effort," especially addressed to the young men of the Christian Associations. In 1879 the Fletcher prize essay on Amusements was written and published; later, a booklet—The Blessed Man. He received the title of D. D. from Wooster University; of LL. D. from both Amherst and Marietta Colleges. In May, 1861, Dr. Haydn was married to Miss Elizabeth B. Coit, of Norwich, Connecticut, and a daughter of Daniel and Harriett Coit. She died leaving an only child, Elizabeth, now the wife of E. W. Haines, of Cleveland. His second marriage was to Sarah J. Merriman, of Meriden, Connecticut, a daughter of Howell Merriman, the date of their marriage being January, 1864. They have three children: Charles R., Howell M. and Ruth E. FRED SAAL, County Recorder for Cuyahoga county, was elected to that office as a Republican candidate, in November, 1891, and January 1, 1892, took charge of the office for a term of three years. Mr. Saal is rather a young man, but is, nevertheless, possessed of good business qualities and is well fitted for the public trust he holds. In 1890 he was appointed on the Board of Equalization, and was serving on that board when he was elected County Recorder. Mr. Saal was born in Cleveland, September 10, 1859, son of George and Barbara (Orth) Saul. His parents were born in Langfield, Germany. They were married in Cleveland, he having come to the United States and to Cleveland in 1852, and she in 1853. The father died in 1884, aged fifty-one years. He was one of the first police commissioners elected in Cleveland, and served as such for six years. He was a stanch Republican in politics, and a well-known and respected man. For many years he merchandised in Cleveland, being first a grocer and confectioner, then a hardware dealer. • His son, whose name forms the caption of this article, was given a common-school education and was brought up in the store of his father, thus gaining early in life a business experience. He was associated with his father in the grocery 866 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. and confectionery business up to the year 1875, when they sold their business interest and re' moved on to a farm on the West Side of Cleveland. Subsequently they again embarked in mercantile pursuits, opening a hardware store at 313 to 317 Detroit street, under the firn name of George Saal & Son. Upon the death of the senior Saal in 1884, the son succeeded to the business and continued the same till elected County Recorder in November, 1891, when he sold the business he had so successful), conducted. In December, 1881, Mr. Saal was married to Florence Jackson, of Cleveland. A sou and daughter are the happy issue of the marriage. Mr. Saal is a Knight-Templar Mason, and is one of the most popular young men of the city and county. A. H. SHUNK, Superintendent of the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, of Cleveland, was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, October 24, 1834, a son of John Shunk. The latter was born in Maryland in 1797, came to Ohio in 1833, and his death occurred at Cardington, this state, in in 1862. He married Rebecca Wolf, a native of Union. Bridge, Maryland, and they had the following children: Edwin, a retired farmer of Delaware county, Ohio; Aborilla, widow of Henry Bailey, and a resident of Marysville, Ohio; Mary E., widow of Mr. Badger. resides in this city; Susan E., widow of Mr. Nicholas; Thomas E., served as First Lieutenant of the Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died in Louisiana, during General Banks' Red river campaign; Anna M., of Marysville, Ohio, is widow of Dr. Mills; James G., deceased at Norwalk, this State, in 1892; and A. H., our subject. The Shunk family are of German origin. Three brothers of that name emigrated to America, locating in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Canada, and one of the brothers was the grandfather of our subject. A. H. Shunk was taken by his parents to Cardington, Ohio, in his youth, where he obtained the foundation for a liberal English education. When the Cleveland & Columbus Railroad was built to this city, his father received the position of station agent, and when the latter was elected auditor of the county, our subject was appointed to succeed him as agent. He performed the duties of that office until 1870. Mr. Shunk then started on a western trip, for the benefit of lung trouble, and having friends in Kansas, went to that State. He went from Ottawa, then the terminus of the old L., L. & G. Railroad, to Iola by stage, a distance of fifty miles, and found his friend at a rude western village called Geneva. After visiting there a few days, Mr. Slunk crossed the prairie on horseback to visit another old Ohio neighbor, expecting to return to Ottawa in a few days and continue his journey westward to California. While on his way to his friend he chanced to pass a strikingly beautiful grove of young walnut timber on a small creek. On the following day his friend suggested they look at a claim in the neighborhood, which happened to be the same walnut-grove farm. Mr. Shunk was asked to make a bid on the place, which he did reluctantly, not caring to own real estate there, offering about one-half of the owner's price. The next morning the pioneer settler notified Mr. Slunk that he had bought a farm. He then decided to locate there, returned to Geneva for a yoke of oxen, two pigs and household goods, and on the return trip he was obliged to camp out during the night. He remained in Kansas about three years, and during that time grew decidedly better of his lung trouble. He then returned to Cleveland, Ohio, for medical treatment, and soon afterward received the appointment of superintendent of the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum. In this institution Mr. Shank met a lady who had given three years of her life to the care of the motherless and friendless children. She was a daughter of Judge Warren, of Warrensville. In April, 1873, they were married, and CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 867 their history since that time has been identical with that of the grand institution over which they preside. In her address accepting the new building, the venerable president of the board of managers, Mrs, B. Rouse, said: " It is but justice to our valued superintendent and matron to make mention here of their marked ability and faithfulness. Their love to the children is as near parental as possible. They give them the most tender care, especially in sickness, and as a board we tender them most cheerfully our confidence, regard and sympathy in all their varied and responsible duties. DR. F. H. BARR, physician and surgeon, corner of Wood avenue and Wilson street, Cleveland, Ohio, has been identified with the medical profession of this city for a quarter of a century. As one of Cleveland's eminent physicians, a sketch of his life will be of interest to many, and is herewith presented: Dr. F. H. Barr was born in Tomkins county, New York, January 11, 1849, son of Dr. D. T. and Harriet (Blake) Barr, both natives of the Empire State. For nearly fifty years his father has conducted a successful practice throughout central New York, from Auburn to Ithaca, and is well known and highly respected. Now in his eighty-second year, he is still quite vigorous and is frequently called in consultation. For a number of years he has made his home with his son, Dr. W. H. Barr, who is following in the footsteps of his honored father and who has already gained an enviable reputation throughout his native State, where he has traveled, making surgery a specialty. The mother of our subject died in 1872, aged fifty-two years. She was a woman of many estimable qualities, and the sweetest of Christian graces were hers. Like her husband, she was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was leader of the choir for half a century, and, indeed, he and his wife have been leaders in all that is good and noble. Their family is composed of four sons and one daughter, the subject of our sketch being the second son. David, the oldest, has been in the hardware business the past thirty years, having had as a partner for the last fifteen years his youngest brother, Fred, their business beiug conducted under the firm name of The Barr Bros., Ithaca, New York. Dr. William H. Barr, who has already been alluded to, the owner of Ladoga Park, New York, is in partnership with his father, and has a most extensive practice in his profession. Myra W., the only daughter in this family, is married, and her husband has been connected with the United States Express Company. in an official way for More than thirty years. Dr. F. H. Barr received his education in the the Ithaca Academy, State University of Michigan (medical department) and the Cleveland Medical College, being a graduate at the latter with the class of 1871. He at first read medicine under his father's instructions, and afterward in the office of Drs. Beckwith & Brown, of Cleveland. As above stated, he has been engaged in the practice of his profession here for twenty-five years, and his career has been one of eminent success. He is a frequent contributor to various medical journals; was lecturer on Hygiene and Sanitary Science in the Cleveland Medical College for some time, and is still connected with that institution. He is also physician for the Protestant Orphan Asylum of Cleveland. Politically, the Doctor is a Republican. Four terms he served as a member of the City Council, from the Fourteenth ward, and was a member of the Republican Central Committee for three years. He belonged to the " Centennial City Council," which was composed of thirty-six members, there being eighteen wards in the city at that time. This council agreed to keep up a yearly meeting until the last member should come alone, and those meetings have been held annually ever since 1876. At this writing about half of their number have been celled to the Council on the other shore. The late Judge Sherwood was the youngest of the 55 868 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. thirty-six, and the subject of our sketch conies next. Fraternally, the Doctor is identified with the I. O. O. F. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Barr was married in 1872 to Miss Frances Wooldridge, daughter of Richard Wooldridge, of Cleveland. They have three sons and one daughter,—Frank, Harry, David W. and Marguerite. N. S. AMSTUTZ.—There is probably no field of human achievement in which more rapid and brilliant progress has been made within the past two decades than in the line of art and mechanical depicture. From the crude and ineffective drawings that formerly were utilized in the illustrating of the leading periodicals of the day has sprung forth an art which causes its prototype to pale into almost ludicrous insignificance. The illustrations appearing in our periodicals at the present time are marvels of beauty and perfect fidelity, while from one or two primitive processes have been evolved a full score of methods, each of which may justly claim precedence in certain lines. Of course this improvement has had an equally marked influence outside of the one province to which reference has here been made. The subject of this sketch, who is widely recognized as an artist draftsman of unmistakable talent, is now a resident of Cleveland, the scene of his nativity having been a farmstead in Wayne county, Ohio, where his father, John Amstutz, was a prominent and highly esteemed citizen. The maiden name of our subject's mother was Fannie Steiner. Mr. and Mrs. John Amstutz were the parents of seven children, of whom four are now living. N. S. Amstutz received a fair common-school education and early in life became a mechanical draftsman, which occupation he followed successfully for five years. He then gave his attention to the profession of a patent solicitor, and while thus engaged his interest in electrical work was enlisted. He also gave special attention in an incidental way to telegraphic and telephonic work as well as scientific photography, He made quite a number of experiments in the reproduction of photographs, and the results attained were very gratifying. His method of reproduction was by the use of gelatine, and in this line he discovered an improved process of transmitting a photograph. To make a practical application of the results of his experimentation he gradually became interested in the engraving business, and by his productions in ,this line he has gained considerable distinction. Mr. Amstutz's residence in Cleveland dates back from the year 1883, and among the artist draftsmen of the city there are none more thoroughly qualified for the execution of work in the line of the profession than is he. It is generally conceded that the gentleman well merits the distinguished success that has attended his efforts, for the former is the diametrical result of the latter as applied with careful study and perfect familiarity with all the details of the work. As a draftsman he stands pre-eminent, and as an artist in his particular line he is unexcelled. He was for some time the special artist of that excellent publication, the New York Daily Graphic, whose only fault, resulting in the failure of the venture, was that it was ahead of the times in its methods and aims. Mr. Amstutz's work in the connection elicited much attention and met with the highest endorsement. Maintaining an office at 506 Cuyahoga Building, he makes a specialty of Patent Office drawing for photo and wood engraving, bird's-eye views, mechanical depictures and scenery. His drawings of complicated machinery and his facility of execution in other exacting lines allied to this are so widely recognized that his services are in ready demand,—the most perfect evidence of appreciation. In closing it will be apropos to call attention to certain points by which our subject has gained particular distinction in the several lines of work to which he has devoted himself. In the line of electrical appliances he has brought out an CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 869 original idea in regard to the practical lighting of isolated buildings by the use of individual dynamos; in prosecuting his experiments in photographic reproduction he discovered the method of substituting wax in the place of tinfoil; he has made a number of successful and valuable experiments in composite photography and in gelatine relief printing from photographic plates. Mr. Amstutz is young, ambitious and persevering, taking a keen interest in his work and ever aiming to improve upon results already attained. Thus fortified, his success is but the legitimate outcome of his labors. HON. EDWIN TIMOTHY HAMILTON, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, was born in Newburg (now a part of the city of Cleveland), Ohio, July 13, 1830. His father, Justus Hamilton, was born in Massachusetts, March 17, 1792, and died in Newburg township, Cuyahoga county, April 6, 1864. He was a son of Samuel Hamilton, one of the very first settlers of Cuyahoga county, migrating from Massachusetts, his native State, in 1801, settling at Newburg. He was descended from an old New England family which traced its lineage to a sturdy race from northern Ireland. When his parents came to Ohio, Justus Hamilton was a youth of nine years. Growing to manhood, he married and settled down in life on a farm in Newburg township, where he lived for many years. He was a farmer by occupation, and as such he was very successful. He held several positions of honor and trust, serving for many years as magistrate in Newburg. He was esteemed for his strict character for probity, and bestowed great care upon the training of his family, inculcating their minds with loftiest and strictest ideas of honor and integrity. He had a wife worthy of his good name and character. She was by maiden name Salinda Brainard, whom he married January 29, 1826. She was born in Connecticut, March 16, 1793, and died at Newburg, Ohio, September 8. 1859. She was a daughter of Amos and Rachel Brainard, and they were pioneer settlers of Cuyahoga county and were among that sturdy class of settlers who came from New England. Tile Brainard family is descended from Daniel Brainard, who, when eight years of age, was brought to this country from England, and who became, in 1662, the largest landholder in Haddam, Connecticut. Unto Justus and Salinda Hamilton there were born three sons and one daughter; and of one of these sons, Edwin Timothy Hamilton, this personal mention is made. He was brought up on a farm, receiving his early scholastic training in the public schools of Newburg, and was then sent to Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania. Leaving college in 1851, he took up the study of law under the guidance of Kelly, Bolton & Griswold, then a very strong law firm of Cleveland. In the year 1854 he was admitted to the bar and in the same year went West, being admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Iowa. Locating at Ottumwa, Iowa, he there took up the practice of his profession. Six months later, on account of failing health, he returned to Cleveland, and regaining good health he then resumed thy; practice and won an enviable reputation in a profession peculiarly suited to his tastes and character of mind. In 1862, Mr. Hamilton enlisted in Company D of the Eighty-fourth Ohio Regiment, Volunteer Infantry. Serving four months, he returned home and resumed the practice of law. In 1873, the town of Newburg, then the place of his residence, having been incorporated with the city of Cleveland, as the Eighteenth ward, he was one of two who were elected from that ward as members of the City Council. In 1875 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. His career on the bench gave such universal satisfaction that he was honored with a re-election in 1880, and by two subsequent elections he has been kept on the bench, now serving his fourth term as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. 870 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. In politics, Judge Hamilton is a Republican, having been such from the organization of the party, though the etiquette, dignity and usefulness of his position on the bench forbid him taking active part in politics. Of Judge Hamilton it may be said that he is a man without reproach, in both his private and public career. As a lawyer, he was of force and influence at the bar. As a judge, he is fearless, fair and strictly conscientious. He is of keen perception and insight, and is possessed of a clear and logical mind, thoroughly conversant with the law in all its hearings. He is a ripe scholar, possessed of a quiet dignity and commanding presence. February 10, 1863, Judge Hamilton was united in marriage with Mary E., the daughter of John and Mary Ann (Mason) Jones. In 1865, there was born unto the marriage a son, Walter J., a practicing attorney of Cleveland; and in 1866, a daughter, Florence A., was born. HENRY BORN, manager of the Born Steel Range and Manufacturing Company, and one of the representative business men of Cleveland, was born in Bavaria, Germany, February 25, 1845, a son of Frederick and Johanna Born, natives also of that country,—the father born February 14, 1805, and the mother April 13, 1807. They emigrated to America in 1847, coming direct to Cleveland, where the father embarked in the tin and stove business on Water street. The enter- prise grew in importance, and in 1852 Mr. Born made his son, C. P., his partner, the firm name becoming F. & C. P. Born. In 1859 the senior member of the firm retired from active labor, and removed to Liverpool, Medina county, Ohio. C. P. Born then continued the business alone until 1868, when his brothers, F. & H. Born, became his partners. Five years rater F. & H. Born established a business of their own, with a capital stock of $6,000, which afterward became known as the Born Steel Range and Manufacturing Company. The enterprise was incorporated as a stock company in 1891, and during the same year F. Born died. Henry Born then became manager of the company, with F. C. McMillin, of Cleveland, as president; A. M. Metheney, vice-president; and Charles B. Coon, secretary. The Born Steel Range and Manufacturing Company manufacture excellent ranges and furnaces, employ a large number of mechanics, and their goods are sold in all the principal cities of this country. The city of Galion donated land for their factory, which was erected at cost of $40,000, and they employ 135 laborers. The salesrooms and general office are located in Cleveland. Their ranges and urns were exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, and were given the only medal awarded on the merits of ranges and urns. It is but just to claim that to the genius of Mr. Born is due the excellency of the goods. He is the inventor and patentee of six different inventions on the steel ranges manufactured by the company, and is also patentee of a coffee urn. His patents were sold for $30,000 to the company at the time of its organization. Henry Born is one of ten sons and daughters, two of whom died in infancy. The father departed this life in 1883, and the mother in 1885, aged seventy-eight and seventy-nine years respectively. Their son, C. P. Born, died in 1879. He is still remembered in Cleveland as an active and successful business man and a representative citizen. Frederick Born died in 1891, after having achieved an enviable reputation as a business man. William Born enlisted in the United States army, and while serving in the defense of his country died of yellow fever at Galveston, Texas, in 1865; Mary, a sister, married Henry Schneider, of Glenville, Ohio; Frederica is the wife of William Schweitzer, of Chicago; and Minnie is the wife of William Helbick of Cleveland. Henry Born, our subject, attended the schools of this city until thirteen years of age. He then learned the tinner's trade from his father, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 871 engaged in that occupation eight years, and was then a salesman for his brother until engaging in his present business. October 25, 1879, Mr. Born was united in marriage with Louisa B. Cook, a daughter of George and Louise Cook, of German origin. To this union has been added two children,—Henry, born November 2, 1880; and Louisa, born May 13, 1884. In his social relations, Mr. Born is a Knight Templar, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Politically, he affiliates with the Republican party. F. O. SPENCER.—On the 14th day of May, 1859, in the city of Cleveland, was born the subject of this sketch. Mr. Spencer is a son of Albert K. and Charlotte M. (Polley) Spencer. He attended the public schools of the city and graduated from the Central High School in 1876. He then went to Yale College, from which college he graduated in 1880. During vacations in the meantime he remained in the bank with his father, and after his graduation he entered the First National Bank, where he was engaged for one year, at the close of which he entered the law office of Judge Baldwin, of this city, under whose guidance he took up the study of law, at which he continued for one year. He then became interested as an investor in the Leader Sewing Machine Company, of which he became secretary, remaining as such for two years. Then selling out his interest he engaged in the commission business, dealing in stocks and bonds, with success, covering a period of seven years. In 1887 he was elected to the City Council, as a member of which body he served for four years, being twice elected president of the Council, being the youngest man who had ever shared that honor in the city of Cleveland. His success in private affairs and the popularity of his public services were such as made him a proper candidate for the legislature in 1891, in which year he was elected to the Seventieth General Assembly of the State of Ohio, as a member of the Senate. He at once took an active and prominent part in the deliberations of that body, becoming chairman of the committee on municipal affairs, the committee being designated as No. 1, and its work in the main considered such as concerned the cities of Cincinnati and Cleveland. He was also a member of the committee on federal affairs, and became also chairman of the committee on penitentiary. Mr. Spencer is now a representative of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, in which capacity he has already given evidence of ability and success. Politically he has always been an ardent Republican. Fraternally he is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias, belonging to Pearl Lodge, No. M. JOHN FOOTE was born in the city of Cleveland, in January, 1844. He was left an orphan at a very tender age and at that particular period in life where a youth needs the most aud best of parental care. He obtained a decent education from the primary grades of the public school. He was thrown upon his own resources almost from the age of twelve years and turned his hand to any honest employment that would yield income sufficient to feed and clothe him. When the government at Washington was calling for soldiers to preserve the. Union, Mr. Foote enlisted in Company C, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, three months' men, and saw service in West Virginia at Clarksburg and Parkersburg, doing good duty. On the expiration of his term of enlistment, he returned to Cleveland, and engaged in railroad work, first on the Mahoning Division of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio, and later as fireman on the Cleveland, Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad. In 1864, he came to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company in the same capacity. In three years more he was promoted to be an engineer and since 1873 has been in the passenger service. 872 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. In his whole twenty-nine years of son ice for this company he has not lost a day except when absent on leave to visit the World's Fair. During this present summer it has fallen to his lot to run the fastest train ever put on the Lake Shore Road, namely, the "Exposition Flyer," a mention of which train is sufficient to recall at once its character. Mr. Foote is a son of John Foote, Er., who died in 1854. He married Miss Decker, who bore him only one child and died in 1845. Mr. Foote was married in Cleveland, in 1865, to Anna Orr, a lady of German parentage. Their children are: Charles, chief clerk of Master Mechanic, Lake Shore shops; Anna, now Mrs. Long; Cora, a school teacher, and a graduate of the city high school and the normal; Edward George, in the Lake Shore office; and Raymond and Mabel, twins. FRANK M. COATES, M. D., was born in Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, July 26, 1848. When he was about five years old his parents removed to Brecksville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where he was reared on his father's farm. He attended the common schools and high school at Brecksville and also Oberlin College, afterward becoming principal of the high school at Brecksville for one year. He then took up the study of medicine with Dr. Knowlton, of Brecksville, for one year, then entered the office of Dr. W. J. Scott, of Cleveland, where he studied about two years and attended lectures. He was a charter member of the old Wooster Medical College of Cleveland. He practiced medicine one year at Brecksville and in June, 1872, came to Berea, where he has since been in constant practice. For two years he held the chair in the Department of Pharmacy in Baldwin University. He enjoys a good practice in his profession. Dr. Coates was married at Northfield, Summit county, Ohio, May 28, 1872, to Miss Annie M. E. Chaffee, who was born in Summit coun ty, Ohio, and who was for some time a student in Baldwin University, being well known in society circles. They have one son. Frank M. Dr. Coates has been for many years a member of the Board of Health of Berea. He has taken an active part in local affairs and is a Republican in politics. Her is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. CHARLES FERDINAND STEARNS, Trustee of Olmsted township, elected in the spring of 1893, was born in that township in August, 1846, a son of Elijah and Martha (Usher) Stearns, his father a native of Vermont and his mother of Massachusetts. His father came when a young man to Cuyahoga county, in 1828, settling in Olmsted township, and made it his home until his death, which occurred in June, 1891. Of their eleven children eight are still living, namely: Mary E., who married James Romps and died in 1865; Usher, who died in 1867, in Olmsted township; Asher, married and residing in the same township; Orphelia and Orfila, twins,—the former now the wife of George Stearns in Ashtabula county, and the latter the subject of another sketch in this volume; Elijah, Jr., married and a resident of that township; Cassius, married and also a resident of the same township; Charles F., our subject, is the next in order of birth; William, who died in infancy; Myron, who is married and resides in Ridgeviile township; and Louis, who enlisted in Company I, in an Iowa regiment, in 1861, and was killed at Vicksburg in 1863 and buried on a Southern battle-field. Mr. Stearns, whose name commences this memoir, has been engaged in farming all his life, in Olmsted township. He now owns a fine farm of seventy-five acres, which he bought in 1886 and located upon in 1891. His system of cultivation is scientific and remunerative. As a Republican he takes a zealous interest in the political questions of the day. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 873 March 21, 1879, is the date of his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Bromley, a native of Olmsted township and an adopted daughter of Wright Bromley, who came from England in an early day to this township and died in 1879. Mrs. Stearns died about 1885, leaving one child, Mary by name. SAMUEL J. CLARK, deceased, was one of the highly esteemed citizens of Bedford townshrp, and it is due him and hrs posterity that his name be recorded among the honored pioneers of Cuyahoga county. A native of the Empire State, he was born in St. Lawrence county, September 4, 1823, a son of Linneus and Huldah (Bunnell) Clark, natives of New Hampshire. The family is descended from English ancestry. In 1830 they emigrated to this county, when Samuel J. was a boy of seven years. Here he grew to maturity amid the wild surroundings of a frontier farm, gaining his education in the primitive log schoolhouse where the foundation was laid for many noble careers. He was himself a teacher for many fears, but finally retired to the old homestead where he. devoted his energies to husbandry. He died May 17, 1887, aged sixty-four years. He was married September 17, 1857, at Orange, Ohio, to Harriet A. Boynton, a daughter of Amos and Alpha (Ballou) Boynton, natives of New York and New Hampshire respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Boynton were married at Newburgh, Ohio, and to them were born seven children: Henry B.; Harriet A.; Phoebe M., widow of John H. Clapp, who was a prominent citizen of Warrensville, Ohio; Dr. Silas A., of Cleveland; Cordelia M.; Arnold, deceased, and Bently, who died at the age of fourteen months. These children enjoyed superior educational advantages, being students at Hiram College. Mr. and Mrs. Clark had a family of five children: W. B., born March 29, 1859, was a member of the class of 1884 at Hiram College; he is now the principal of the grammar depart. ment of the Bedford schools; he was married July 14, 1886, at Ravenna, Ohio, to Hattie E. Marryman, daughter of Henry and Eliza (Bruce) Marryman; she was born in Randolph, Ohio; they are the parents of four children: Paul, M. Blanche, Mabel Anna and Logan Ballou; Harriet A. Clark was born January 31, 1863; she is the assistant superintendent of the Bedford High School; Cora M., born November 28, J 865, is a graduate of Hiram College, finishing with the class of 1888; she is now a teacher in her Alma Mater; Linneus B. was born April 23, 1868; Bertha A. was born October 4, 1872; she is now a student at Hiram College, having finished the high-school course at Cleveland. The family occupy a pleasant home on the farm of seventy acres, situated near the village of Bedford. They are all progressive in their ideas, and are laboring earnestly in the cause of education, religion and temperance reform. ADAM FURNISS, a successful farmer of Cuyahoga county, was born in Royalton township, this county, September 17, 1846. His father, William Furniss, was 'born in Manchester, England, July 17, 1800, was employed as a tallow-chandler in his native country, and when a young man came to the United States. December 31, 1829, in Utica, Oneida county, New York, he was united in marriage with Elzina Russell, who was born in Madison county, that State, October 14, 1808, and was then employed in a factory. After locating in the United States, Mr. Furniss began agricultural pursuits. In 1833 he came to Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where he purchased a small farm in the dense woods, and immediately began clearing his place. On account of over-work he lost his eye-sight, and was blind for forty years, but his remarkable conception enabled him to go anywhere in the town, and he could distinguish his children by their walk! On coming to Royalton township the family of Mr. and Mrs. Furniss consisted of two children: Nathaniel, now 874 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. a farmer of this community; and Jane, deceased, was the wife of William Brown. Eight children were horn to them in this county, namely: Martha, the wife of Ezekiel Edgerton, of Brooklyn village; William, a grocer by occupation, died at Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1889; John, a prominent stock-buyer, carpenter and postmaster of Nashville, Michigan; Charles, also a resident of that city; Adam, our subject; Ezra, deceased at the age of twenty-six year,; and Edwin, who died in infancy. Mrs. Furniss died March 11, 1874, and her husband survived until January 27, 1885. Both were members of the Disciple Church. In political matters, Mr. Furniss was a staunch Republican. Adam Furniss, the subject of this sketch, received only limited educational advantages. At the age of fifteen years he was employed as a farm laborer by William Reed, of Hinckley township, Medina county, for which he received small wages. August 21, 1862, he enlisted at Cleveland for services in the late war, entering Company A, One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was immediately sent to Cincinnati to intercept Bragg in his northward march, took part in the engagements at Knoxville, Bull's Gap, Resaca, was with Sherman through the Atlanta campaign, took part in the battle of Spring Hill, sent to North Carolina, was discharged at Raleigh, June 12, 1865, and was present at the Grand Review in Washington, District of Columbia. Mr. Furniss was taken prisoner at Eastport, Georgia, August 23, 1864, while engaged in foraging with a company of seven men. Three of the company were killed, three taken prisoners, and one wounded. Mr. Furniss was confined in Andersonville prison until September 28, 1864. After returning from the army he was employed as a butcher by William Reed, of Hinckley township, Medina county, several years. After his marriage he lived with his father three years, and in 1877 came to his farm of 100 acres in Royalton township, where he is engaged in general farming. He was formerly employed in buying and selling cattle. July 5, 1874, Mr. Furniss was united in marriage with Mary Granger, who was born in Royalton township, December 11, 1846, a daughter of Aaron and Eliza (Darrall) Granger. Our subject and wife have three children: William A., Jessie E. and James B. In political matters, Mr. Furniss has been a life-long Republican, his first presidential vote having been cast for General Grant. He holds the position of Township Trustee. In his social relations, he has been for many years a member of Hampton Post, No. 499, G. A. R.; of Royalton Center. Mrs. Furniss is a member of the Free-will Baptist Church. S. L. WILKINSON, Notary Public, is one of the well-known citizens of Chagrin Falls, having been a resident of the place since 1841. He was born ttin Geauga county, Ohio, November 27, 1631, a son of Lysander and Permelia (Johnson) Wilkinson. Both father and mother are deceased, the former at the age of seventy-eight years, awl. the latter at the age of seventy-two. Young Wilkinson was a mere lad when he came to live at Chagrin Falls; here he received his education, and began his career in the commercial world, his first employment being in the woolen where he remained three years. Later he secured a position as clerk in a dry-goods store, and afterward was traveling salesman for the E. G. Norris Patent Medicine Company; his territory embraced Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, where he succeeded in establishing a large and profitable business. Resigning this position he embarked in the book, stationery and wall-paper trade, but later disposed of his stock. At one time he was engaged in the job-printing business, but sold out to the Exponent office. Mr. Wilkinson is an ardent supporter of Republican principles, and in 1858 was elected by that body as Justice of the Peace; he was re-elected to the office, serving two terms with marked ability. After this he was made Notary