CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 125 In 1892 the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon Dr. Sanders by the Illinois College at Jacksonville. Though the Doctor has nearly reached the three-score years and ten, which are pronounced as man's allotment, he is enjoying excellent health, is robust and vigorous and seems yet in the prime of manhood. He has been a close student during his entire...mature life, and has never flagged mentally or physi cally under the severe test of continuous application and labor. He has ever maintained a progressive attitude in his professional work, and has kept thoroughly in touch with all advances in the medical science, and familiar with the most modern and approved methods. By virtue of his ability and high pOsition as an obstetrician, his services and presence have been in great demand in cases of consultation, far and near. In the treatment of the diseases of children especially, has he gained an enviable reputation, and an extensive and representative practice. As a citizen, the Doctor follows out the same rule as that which he has retained in the line of his profession: he has kept pace with the latter-day progress, and has maintained a lively and active interest in all that tends to conserve the public welfare. He has a passionate fondness for poetic literature. October 25, 1854, Dr. Sanders was united in marriage to Miss Albina G. Smith, daughter of Ezra and Amy G. Smith, well known residents of northern Ohio, both now deceased. Our subject and his wife became the parents of six children, three of whom are living, namely: Dr. J. Kent Sanders, A. M., who is a graduate of Illinois College, and of the Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, at which latter he graduated in 1881, and in which he now holds preferment as professor of the principles and practice of surgery and of surgical pathology. He has been a practitioner in the city for several years, and is one of the most thoroughly informed and most capable of the younger surgeons of the State, having studied abroad, in the hospitals of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and other cities. In 1886 he was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Louise, daughter of Hon. Charles A. Otis, of the Otis Steel Works, and formerly Mayor of Cleveland. Albina G., daughter of our subject, is a graduate of Miss Middle-burger's school in Cleveland; and Franklin B., a graduate of Adelbert College, class of 1892, is now in the employ of the Western Reserve Bank of Cleveland. F. W. DAVIS, a physician and surgeon at No. 387 Pearl street, Cleveland, was born in Merrimac county, New Hampshire, July 14, 1853, a son of William S. and Maria E. (Widmer) Davis. The father was born in Boston, September 25, 1825, moved with his parents to New Jersey when young, and followed the sea for thirteen years. During the late war he enlisted in Company C, Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and after three years of service was prostrated by a sunstroke, from which he never fully recovered. ,After returning to his command, he was transferred to the navy, where he served until the expiration of his term of enlistment. Dr. Davis was at first a carriage manufacturer by occupation, and was senior member of the firm of Davis & Son, He was one of the founders of the Brothers Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a member of the 1. 0. 0. F. and of the E. E. Sturtevant Post, G. A. R. His death occurred in February, 1890. Mrs. Davis, a native of Switzerland, resides in Concord, New Hampshire, aged sixty-six years. They were the parents of six children, all still living. F. W. Davis, the only one of the above family in the West, came to this city in 1872. He secured the position of clerk in the office of Superintendent of the Lake Shore Railroad, and while there also read medicine, with Dr. G. 0. Spence and W. H. Kitchen. In 1882 he graduated in the medical department of the Western Reserve University, and immediately began the practice of his profession, on Pearl 126 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY street, Cleveland, and is well and favorably known as one of the prominent young physicians of the city. He is genial, pleasant and courteous, and in every way worthy and esteemed citizen, as well as a practitioner of skill and ability. In 1876 the Doctor was united in marriage with Miss Hannah M. Hubble, a daughter of Oliver C. and Harriet Hubble, both now deceased. The father was born in Newburg, Ohio, in 1818, was a farmer in early life, and afterward became a teacher of penmanship and art. After residing in Chagrin Falls and Strongsville, he came to Cleveland in 1862, locating on the West Side, where he died May 2, 1890. Mrs. Hubble was born in England, came with her parents in a wagon from Philadelphia to Ohio at the age of sixteen years, was married in Chagrin Falls, and her death occurred in 1888, when she was aged sixty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Hubble were the oldest members of the Franklin Avenue Christian Church. Our subject and wife have one child, Howard H. Mrs. Davis is now a member of the Disciple Church. E. A. HANDY, chief engineer of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, April 4, 1855, educated in the public schools of his native village, and completed a course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1875. For two years thereafter he was engaged in important work in South Boston Flats, in the improvement of Boston harbor, as assistant engineer and inspector of masonry. The next year his alma mater numbered him among her faculty as instructor in civil engineering. Next for two years he was engineer in southern Colorado for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, on construction work; then was locating engineer for the Mexican National Railway, then in process of construction, and in a year was made chief engineer of the northern division of that line. In 1888 he accepted a position as engineer for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, on the Lake Shore division; and in June, 1891, was made chief engineer of the road. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. His efficiency as an engineer is best evidenced by a reference to the important trusts he has filled since his graduation. His father, Job W. Handy, was born in Massachusetts, became a sea captain, and died in 1873, at the age of fifty years. He married Miss Rebecca, a daughter of John Otis, a descendant of a brother of the famous James Otis of the days of 1776. John Otis married a Miss Hinkley, a descendant of Governor Hinkley, of Massachusetts. Captain Handy's children are seven in number, and all living, namely: John O., a ranchman in Texas; James O., a chemist in charge of the Pittsburg testing laboratory; E. A., our subject; Leon S.; Ella, wife of E. B. Rogers, of Boston; and Annie and May. Mr. E. A. Handy was married in Milton, Massachusetts, March 26, 1890, to Amy, a daught; of John Littlefield, of an old New Englan family, descended on her mother's side from the Kings and Gannetts. Mr. and Mrs. Handy have two children, named John Littlefield and Edward Otis. W. D. BUSS, city passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines, was born in Oneida, Carroll county, Ohio, March 16, 1847, grew to maturity there, receiving a liberal English education, and when eighteen years of age received the appointment as agent for the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company at Oneida. He remained there till March, 1874, when he was transferred to Canal Dover, Ohio, in the same capacity, serving till October, 1879, when he was moved to Cleveland and given charge of the Newburg station. In 1884 he was appointed chief clerk to assistant general passenger agent C. L. Kimball, and in 1888 succeeded C. B. Squire as city passenger agent. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 127 His father, A. E. Buss, born in New Hampshire in 1814, came to Ohio in 1839, locating in Oneida, and formed a partnership with George Hull, and ,they established a merchandising business and remained together till 1872, when the death of the former separated them. A. E. Buss was a leader in thought and action in Carroll county, and although in no sense a politician he was put forward twice by the Republican party as a candidate for the Lower House of the State Legislature and was as often elected. He married in New Hampshire, Harriet Adams, and reared seven children, namely: Frank, who died during the Civil war, in which he, served as a Union soldier; Mary, wife of Rev. J. S. Ross of Sharon, Pennsylvania; and W. D.,--the others being deceased. In 1871 Mr. W. D. Buss was married, in Oneida, to Fanny S. Gardner, whose parents were from Utica, New York. The children of this union are: Charles M., Deputy Clerk of the United States District Court, aged twenty; Harriet M.; Charlotte A.; Mark A.; William G., Robert A. and Dorothy H. Three little ones were taken away in one day by diphtheria, in 1891,—Laura M., Catherine and Walter. Fraternally Mr. Buss is a Freemason, a Past Master of Newburg Lodge, and a member of Baker Chapter. He is now serving on the School Board of this city, being elected to that body in the spring of 1892. W1LLIAM HORN, Bishop of the Evangelical Association, resides at No. 1225 Slater avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Of his life we make record as follows: Bishop William Horn was born in Siegen, Westphalia, Prussia, May 7, 1839, son of Jacob and Margaretha (Giebeler) Horn, both natives of Prussia, and members of the State Church of Prussia. His father was a miner by occupation, passed his life in Germany, and died in that country at the age of fifty years. His mother subsequently became the wife of Her man Schneider, and in 1855 came to. America with her two sons, our subject and his half brother, Jacob Schneider, the latter being now a resident of Omaha, Nebraska. She died in 1890, at the age of seventy-four years. Upon their arrival in this country, Mrs. Schneider and her family located in the woods of Wisconsin, and in one of the frontier schools of that State William bent all his energies toward mastering the English language. He had received a fair education in Germany. One of his first occupations here was that of teaching country school. The county superintendent visited his school, and as a result of that visit, and without further examination, gave him a certificate of qualification of the highest terms as a teacher. At the age of twenty-two he became a missionary of his church in Wisconsin, and served as such for a period of ten years, at the end of which time he was elected editor of the Evangelical Magazine, and in 1871 moved to Cleveland, Ohio. This position he filled for eight years, rendering most efficient and acceptable service. In 1879 he was made editor of the Christliche Botschafter, the official organ of the Evangelical Association, and continued at its head until 1891, when lie was elected Bishop of the Church by the General Conference held at Indianapolis. Since the death of Rev. Mar: tin Lauer in January, 1893, he has, in addition to his official duties, taken the responsibility of the German Sunday-school literature of the church. Bishop Horn was married May 24, 1864, to Miss Mary Fishback, daughter of Anthony Fishback, of Hartford, Wisconsin. Following is a record of their family of seven children: Edward, bookkeeper in the Evangelical Publishing House, Cleveland; Ella, a teacher in the Ebenezer Orphans' Home, at Flat Rock, Ohio; Delia, a teacher in the public schools of Cleveland; Frank, a machinist; Oscar, a student in Adelbert College; and Linda and Clara, pupils in the Cleveland public schools. Bishop Horn is a living illustration of German genius. He has a genial disposition, is a 128 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. natural humorist, is endowed with a great measure of originality, has a retentive memory, and all this, together with his eloquence, renders him an intellectual and efficient worker in the church. He is perfectly familiar with German literature and keeps fully abreast with the onward march of literary science, both in the German and English languages. He has not only acquired a great store of useful information concerning the greatest achievements of the land, but he also has the happy faculty of making use of his possessions, being able to apply his resources to the best advantage. His literary productions are many. He has written a number of books, among which are the " Life of Garfield " and the " Life of Bishop John Seybert;" also translated a number of books, all of which are well received by the public. lie is also a natural poet. The extensive hymnology of his church, comprising not only the regular. Church Hymnal, but also a number of Sunday-school song books and singing books of devotional order, contains a number of his poetical productions, some of which are perfect jewels and have become treasures of song in the church, and will be sung by the Evangelical people long after the days of Bishop Horn. One of his latest productions is the translation of the " Curfew Bells." It was published and by request re-published in the Evangelical Magazine, and read with deepest interest and great pleasure by the many thousands of readers of the magazine. As an editor he wielded a fluent pen and great influence throughout the church. His editorials were always well received outside the church, as well as in the church, and his judgment upon the foremost questions of the day was appreciated. His political views are those advocated by the Republican party. As a preacher he has been warmly received in the church wherever it was his lot to serve. His fine physique,, his heavy, bushy hair, his small, dark piercing eye, all combine to render him a commanding figure. He is a fluent speaker, his natural gift of poetry frequently asserting itself when he becomes warmed up with his subject. Indeed, he is one of the most eloquent orators in the German language in this country. As bishop, he has shown fine executive abilities in the administration of the episcopal work in his church, and is well received. LUCIUS F. MELLEN, was born July 16, 1831, in Hampshire county, Massachu setts, educated in Northampton, that State, and came to Cleveland in 1852. For several years be was engaged in mercantile business, and during that time was elected a member of the Board of Education. During the period of the late Civil war, he was secretary of the Northern Ohio Soldiers' Aid Society and also of the Christian Commission. For several years he has been a Deacon of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Superintendent of Sunday-schools and an officer of the Young Men's Christian Association, etc., being efficient in all the religious work he undertakes. He was one of the American Commissioners to the Paris Exposition of 1867, and secretary of the commission, being abroad nearly a year in this capacity. He was appointed United States Commissioner to the World's Fair at Vienna in 1873, but on account of ill health declined. In 1876, while living in West Springfield, Massachusetts, where he purchased a small farm, he was appointed a State Commissioner to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. Although not a politician, Mr. Mellen has always been an ardent Republican and a strong believer in a protective tariff. In 1881 he returned to Cleveland and thereafter for twelve years he was Superintendent of the City Infirmary Department, having charge of all the out-door relief, and was also Superintendent of the City Hospital and City Infirmary, and is also connected with other charitable organizations for the relief of the poor. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 129 In 1854 he married Caroline S. Simmons, of Northampton, Massachusetts, who died suddenly in January, 1892, at Cleveland. She was a devoted, useful, Christian woman. By this marriage there were two children: Lewis Arthur, married and living in Kansas City, Missouri, who has two children, a son and a daughter; and Carrie Agnes, who married Warren K. Palmer, of the Cleveland Window Glass Company, who has two daughters. WALTER R. WOODFORD, general manager of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway Company, Cleveland, Ohio, is a native of the State of New York, born in, Chautauqua county, in 1857. His parents, M. S. and Caroline (Reed) Woodford, were natives of the State of Connecticut and England respectively; they resided many years in New York. Young Woodford received a thorough education in the Fredonia (New York) Normal School, and when he had finished the course took a position with the Great Western Railway Company of Canada as stenographer; at the end of one year he secured the same position with the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company at an increased salary. When another twelve months had gone by he went to Chicago to enter the freight department of the Michigan Central, where he remained a year and a half. During the next three years he was chief clerk in the telegraphic department of the same road, and then was made chief clerk and purchasing agent of the Ft. Wayne & Jackson Railroad. His next position was with the Wheeling & Lake Erie as chief clerk, from which he was promoted to the office of assistant general manager and purchasing agent for the same road; he was afterward in the course of time made general superintendent of the same road; after two and a half years he resigned the place to accept the position of general manager of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling road, which duties he assumed in March, 1893. He is interested in other commercial enterprises in the city, and is the efficient manager of the Pittsburg & Wheeling Coal Company. He is a man of unusual executive ability, and has steadily advanced in the estimation of his associates since his entry into commercial circles. He is genial of disposition and strong in his friendships; in business he is prompt and painstaking, and as a loyal citizen he has no superiors. In politics he is independent, voting for men rather than for declarations of principles. Mr. Woodford was united in marriage, in 1891, to Miss Isabella Wheeler, a daughter of Maro and Susan A. Wheeler, of Toledo, Ohio. EDWIN L. THURSTON, a leading patent lawyer of Cleveland, was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, October 3, 1837, a son of Thomas E. and Annie W. (Falconer) Thurston, natives of Rhode Island. The paternal grandfather was Thomas Thurston, a native of Newport, Rhode Island, the old home of the Thurston family, which settled here at an early date. The paternal great-grandfather of our subject was also named Thomas Thurston, and he was a son of William Thurston, whose father's name was also William Thurston, a son of Jonathan, a son of Edward, whose father was Edward Thurston, whose marriage with Elizabeth Mott in Rhode Island occurred in June, 1647, being the third marriage recorded in the society of Friends in that State. He was a "freeman" in 1655, and was a prominent citizen in his community. He was of English origin. Maternally the subject of this sketch is of Scottish origin. His mother, Annie W. Falconer, was a daughter of John and Margaret Falconer, natives of Scotland. Edwin L. Thurston is the only child brought up by his parents. His childhood and youth were spent at Pawtucket and Providence, at which places he attended school. In 1881 Mr. 130 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Thurston graduated at Brown University, and immediately went to Chicago, where he studied law under private preceptors. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar, and at Chicago took up the practice of his profession. October 3, 1887, Mr. Thurston located in Cleveland, and, becoming a law partner with Mr. Leonard Watson, practiced with that gentleman for two years, and thereafter alone till September, 1892, when Mr. Francis J. Wing, his present partner, became associated with him. Mr. Thurston's practice has been mainly that of patent lawyer, and his success has placed him among the foremost of this class of attorneys. He is a prominent Master Mason, and member of the Civil Engineers' and other clubs. CYRUS POWERS LELAND, Auditor of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, is a descendant both paternally and maternally from one of the Puritan fathers, ,Henry Leland, whose birth occurred in England in 1625, and who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1652 and died at Sherburne in 680. His son, d Hopestill Leland, born 1655, ed at Holliston, Massachusetts, in 1739. Samuel Leland, the next in line, born in 1711, died at Holliston, in 1783. His son, Asa Leland, born in 1738, moved to Chester, Vermont, and died in 1822. The next in line was also Asa Leland, born in 1770, emigrated to New York, and died at Otto, in 1832. His son, Cephas R. Leland (father of C. P.), was born in 1807. His home was Irving, New York, and by occupation he was a lawyer. In 1850 he emigrated to Milwaukee and died a month later, leaving a widow and two children almost destitute. Cephas R. Leland married Orpha Powers, who descended directly from Henry Leland before named, as follows: Ebenezer Leland, born in 1657 and died in 1742; James Leland, born in 1687 and died in 1768; Thankful Leland, born in 1724, married Lemuel Powers and died in 1769. Their daughter Abigail was President Millard Fillmore's first wife. Lemuel Powers was born in 1756 and died in 1800, a Baptist minister. The next in line, Judge Cyrus Powers, born in 1779, died at Kelloggsville, New York, in 1841. His daughter, Orpha, born in 1810, died in 1870, is the mother of the subject of this sketch. Her children were: Cyrus P., born July 31, 1836; and Amy Jane, born in 1838, deceased wife of George W. Perry, an attorney of Superior, Wisconsin. She left one child, Louise W. Perry, who married C. F. Chapman, a civil engineer of Minneapolis, Minnesota.. At fourteen years of age Cyrus P. Leland secured a position in a drugstore at $1 a week, which went to the support of the family. In 1854 he became an employee of the Milwaukee Sentinel office, severing his connection there in 1855. May 21st of the above year he began his railroad career in the office of the Milwaukee & Chicago Railroad, as a bookkeeper, and general utility man in the general office of this railroad. From June 11, 1860, to January, 1869, he was general accountant of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railway Company, now a part of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. From July 1, 1861, to Janhary, 1869, he was also general ticket agent of of the same road, and January 1, 1869, he was appointed auditor of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. He is president of the Association of American Railway Accounting Officers, a national organization. Mr. Leland has been a factor in the development of one of the greatest railroad systems in the country. He has compiled a history of the road from the official records, in itself a monument to the memory of the worthy auditor. Among his literary productions is a paper read before the Statistical Association at Chicago at the World's Fair on the subject, Value of Freight Statistics. During his long service Mr. Leland has compiled and issued thirty-three consecutive annual reports of, the Michigan Southern, Northern Indiana and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railways, a record unsurpassed in this country and probably in the world. These re- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 131 ports are models in all financial centers of this country and Europe, for cleverness, conciseness and absolute truthfulness. The files and records of the auditor's office are full of valuable and interesting data compiled by Mr. Leland, which in reality are no less than a cyclopedia of information relating to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. In April, 1859, Mr. Leland married, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Helen Louise Hatch. Their children are: William, born in 1864, who is in his father's office; and Stella, born in 1868. R. SCHUYLER HUBBARD, M. D.—Prominent among Cuyahoga county's representative citizens is Dr. R. S. Hubbard, who is the leading physician of Bedford and is the Treasurer elect of the county. Dr. Hubbard was born at Guy's Mills, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1853, and is the son of the Honorable George A. Hubbard, of Berea, Ohio. At the age of thirteen years Dr. Hubbard entered Baldwin University at Berea and continued there three or four years. At the age of eighteen he began studying medicine, and in 1876 graduated in the medical department of Wooster University. The following year he commenced practicing at Northfield, Summit county, Ohio, and remained there until the autumn of 1887, when he removed to Bedford. The Doctor has always been a close student in his profession, taking an active interest in the progress and advancement of all that pertains to it. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, of the Northeastern Ohio Medical Society and is one of the Censors of the medical department of Wooster University. He is ranked among the successful and progressive members of the medical fraternity in Cuyahoga county. For years he has also taken an active part in politics. While a citizen of Summit county he 9 served as chairman of the Republican county committee, and since his residence in Cuyahoga county he has been prominent in the affairs of his party. But not until 1893 did he ever aspire to office. In the summer of that year he became a candidate for the nomination, at the hands of the Republican party, for County Treasurer, and after a vigorous canvass was successful. His election by over 8,000 majority at the ensuing election demonstrated the wisdom of his party in choosing him as a candidate. The Doctor will take his office in September, 1894. Dr. Hubbard is a member of the Masonic, Royal Arcanum, K. of P., Foresters and Elks fraternities. On November 15, 1881, he married Miss Helen Palmer, who was born at Northfield, Ohio, the daughter of William L. and Amelia Whitney Palmer. Her father was,born at old Windsor, Hartford county, Connecticut, and came to Ohio in 1832, settling in Summit county, where he followed farming until 1892, when, upon the death of his wife, he came to Bedford, and now resides with his daughter. Dr. Hubbard and wife have three children, namely; Attrissa, born October 31, 1882; Helen, born November 7, 1888; and Hilda, May 7, 1891. Dr. Hubbard's family have their church " home " in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Bedford. REV. HENRY CHRISTIAN SCHWAN, President of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of. Missouri, Ohio and other States, was born in Horneburg, Hanover, Germany, April 5, 1819. His parents were Rev. George Henry Christian and Charlotte Friederike (Wyneken) Schwan, natives also of Germany, who passed their entire lives in their fatherland. Rev. G. H. C. Schwan was a well known, minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in which he labored for many 132 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY years. For fifty years he was a conspicuous figure among the ministers of his church, and died after a long and useful life. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is the eldest of his parents' nine children, of whom only four are now living, namely: Edwin, who participated in the civil war as a private in the Confederate army. At the time of the outbreak of the war he was in New Orleans, and like many others was pressed into the army service of the Confederate States, was taken prisoner in the Peninsula campaign, and was there seen by his 'brother, Theodore, who was then a Union soldier. He came to Cleveland, where he died, Theodore enlisted as a private, and was promoted for bravery several times, being at the close of the war Brevet Major, and he is now an Assistant Adjutant General. In this capacity he was attached to the United States legation and sent to Berlin under President Cleveland's first administration. He now resides in Omaha,, Nebraska. Upon his return from Berlin he was given the opportunity of becoming the military attache of the legation in either London or Vienna, both of which honors he declined because of failing health occasioned by army service. Matilda and Henrietta are married, and are still residents of Germany: they are the only ones of the daughters living. Wilhelm was a brave soldier in the Franco-Prussian war, and was killed upon the battlefield of Spichern . when about twenty-two years of age. The subject of this sketch received his early education in Stade, Hanover, Germany, and afterward attended the Universities of Gottingen and Jena, in both which institutions he pursued a theological course, completing the same in 184.2. He was then ordained minister, and in 1843 went to Broil; South America, with the Krull family. In that country he took charge of a small church on a large coffee' plantation, the members being principally German, Swiss and American coffee planters. He remained in that country until 1850, when he came to the United States and spent one year at New Biclefeld now Black-jack), near St. Louis, and since then has been a resident of Cleveland. His first charge here was the Zion Church. In 1876 he was successful in building for this congregation a large and excellent church edifice, the building previously used- as a church being abandoned. He was the first Lutheran minister in :Cleveland to remain a considerable time, Rev. Schmidt preceding him but a short time. When Mr. Schwan came here there was but a very small congregation of Lutherans in Cleveland, and the first church has become the mother of ten others, which have been established in different parts of the city. He was the first pastor in this city to put up a Christmas tree in his church,—a practice then condemned, but since generally followed by all churches. His pastorate was interrupted for a' time in 1860, upon his election to the presidency of the Middle District of the Synod, and since 1878 he has had no regular appointment, his work being as President of the Synod to visit thirteen districts in the Synod, in the United States and Canada; but to the work devolved upon him in this position he did not give his exclusive time and attention till 1881, at which time his labors as president of the Synod had so increased that he was compelled to abandon his pastorate. As general President of this Synod many I duties devolve upon him, as visiting all the districts, churches, orphan asylums, hospitals, institutions of learning, etc. In Ohio, as well as in Cleveland, he is one of the pioneer ministers in his church. He lived to see the fiftieth year of his pastorate in October, 1893, when, in the Music Hall in Cleveland, honors were showered upon him before an audience of 5,000. Shortly after that celebration he was made Doctor of Divinity by the faculty of the Theological Seminary of the Norwegian Synod. Although he passed through many trials, he has been a connecting link binding the past to the present. His career has been a useful one, and therefore a successful one. His hardships, both early and later; have served only to broaden his CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 133 mind and enlarge his views, and better equip him for the very responsible and important work in which he has been engaged. Ripe in scholarship, genial in spirit, liberal in his views, he is held in deep affection and great deference. While in Brazil he met a native of the country who became his wife. Her name is Emma, and she was the daughter of Dr. Blum, a physician there. Mr. Schwan has had twelve children, four of whom are deceased. The living children are: Rev. Paul Schwan, for the past seventeen years pastor of St. Paul's Church, Evangelical Lutheran, of Cleveland, establishing for himself a high character and reputation as a minister; L. M., for many years past the vice-president of the Lake Erie & Western Railway and located in New York, an attorney by profession; Ernst Christian, also an attorney, residing in Cleveland; Rev. Charles Schwan, a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wisconsin; George H., another Cleveland attorney, a partner of his brother E. C.; Frederick H., a notary public in this city; Joanna, the wife of Rev. J. A. Schmidt, of Elyria, Ohio; and Emma, the wife of George Gustav Kuechle, a prominent jeweler of Milwaukee. COLONEL ROYAL TAYLOR.—To have attained to the extreme fullness of years, represented by four-score and twelve, and to have had one's ken broadened to a comprehension of all that has been accomplished within . the flight of so many days, is of itself sufficient to render consonant a detailed consideration of such a life in a work of this order, but in the case at hand, there are more pertinent, more distinguishing elements,—those of usefulness, of high honor, of marked intellectuality, of broad charity,--which lift high in reverence the subjective personality of one who stood as one of nature's nobleman, " four square to every wind that blows." It must ever be held as a matter of regret when an aged historical veteran is gathered to his fathers, that to later generations had not been given a more intimate knowledge of his personality, a more lively comprehension of the events and circumstances which formed a component part of his life, that the lips should be silenced whose power it was to have told of incidents that had marked bearing on the thought and action of these days long passed, that there be denied a familiarity with the ambitions and struggles of his youth and.with the subsequent trials of the more crucial days,—those of his maturer years. While no shadows darken any period of the long, honorable and eventful life of the subject of this memoir, the incidents of general public interest, which he was wont to relate in social intercourse are mainly cherished in the memory of his family and later associates, his early contemporaries having long since departed, his modest reserve having disinclined him to commit to writing matter relevant to his personal history, though he was often importuned for such contributions. For more than half a cen:., fury Royal Taylor was one of the most enterprising and best known business men of Ohio, but to the younger men of the present generation, his early history and experiences were but dimly known, while his personality was recognized as that of a venerable gentleman of -genial spirit, and one of the last of the famous pioneers of the Western Reserve, with whose development he had been most intimately and conspicuously identified. The family name of Taylor has long been familiar in English history, but from which branch or locality sprang the first American ancestor, there is no definite means of ascertainment at the present time. It is sufficient hi this connection to state that it is known with absolute certainty, from historical data, that the great-grandfather of our subject, Samuel Taylor, in the reign of Charles II., and the year of the burning of London, 1666, came to America and settled in Hadley, Massachusetts. There is, however, fair presumptive evidence that this branch of the family is in direct line of descent from the martyr, Rowland Taylor, an English 134 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. clergy man who was chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer, and who was burned at the stake in Hadleigh, county Suffolk, England, in 1555. Samuel Taylor, son of the above named Samuel Taylor, was born at Hadley, in 1713, and there lived until 1752, when he removed into the mountain forest of Pontoosuck, now the beautiful city of Pittsfield. That this person, the grandfather of our subject, was a man of prominence and an eminent factor in the pioneer enterprises of that day is evident from a reference to the records of the Great and General Court of 1753, which shows that he was at the head of a syndicate of seven citizens, who, by a special act, secured an incorporation under the title of the " Proprietors of the Settling Lots in the Township of Pontoosuck." This was the Indian name of the place, and the same was retained until 1761, when the town Was incorporated by the name of Pittsfield, in honor of the celebrated statesman, William Pitt. Samuel Taylor, the third of the name, and father of our subject, was born in Pittsfield in 1764, and with his father's family removed to Middlefield in 1770, and there Royal Taylor was born, September 1, 1800. Here also, in 1804, his venerable grandfather, the pioneer of Pontoosuck, died at the age of ninety-one years. Three years later the father, Samuel Taylor (third), departed from Middlefield, of which he had been an early pioneer, and came with his family, including his little six-year-old son, Royal, and set up a new pioneer altar in the maple forests of Aurora, Portage county, Ohio, where he lived six years, and where he died in March, 1813. Ohio at that time was a vast wilderness, and the Western Reserve had more Indians than white men. Thus bereft of his father at the early age of twelve years, Royal Taylor, rightly named as the inheritor ofthe pioneer spirit and enterprise of a truly royal line of ancestors,—the American royalty of manhood and citizenship, the fourth of his line, takes up his axe, the emblem and insignia of the pioneer, and valiantly carries on the struggle of life in the forests of the Reserve, bearing without protest the heavy burden imposed upon his youthful shoulders, and looking fate manfully in the face. Under such circumstances and necessities began the pioneer life of the boy, Royal Taylor, whose first labor was in the sugar camp of a friendly neighbor, and whose sweet reward was his weight (seventy pounds) of the palatable maple sugar. He worked in the first brick-yard of the town, the brick of which were used in the construction of the old Presbyterian church of Aurora. For his services in this connection, he received $15 a month, which money he invested in the purchase of sixty acres of land in Solon, in 1816, for $300. Lands having depreciated in the market during the ensuing three years, he sold his place in 1820 for $200. He chopped wood and cleared land, and for several years, in many like ways, earned money for the support of his mother and her family.. Yet all this hardy, out-door life not only evidenced a placid and cheerful mind, but was a healthful, physical discipline, for he grew up a tall and handsome young man, with great powers of endurance,— a splendid specimen of pioneer manhood,— equal to anig–einergency, and fit for any place in civic or public life.' Fortunately for him, as for many other pioneer youth, good schoolteachers followed the emigrating families to the Western Reserve, graduates of the colleges and academies of New England. Thus he secured a good common-school education by attendance during winters; and as he never undertook anything in a half-hearted or careless manner, he ultimately qualified himself for a teacher, and pursued that calling for a number of years with eminent popularity and success. In the meantime he learned the printer's trade, and was engaged in type-setting for a time, at New LisbOn, Ohio. He continued his studies as opportunity afforded, under the direction of private tutors, and finally determined to adopt the legal profession. With this end in view he devoted two years to technical study, first in the office of Jonathan Sloane, and later in that of Van CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 135 R. Humphrey. Subsequent business enterprises, however, dissuaded him from completing his course of legal studies and corning to the bar. In 1822 he went to Kentucky as a school teacher, and while there pursued the study of the higher branches of mathematics and the Latin language, likewise finding time to meet the advances of the wee elf who is supposed to regulate affairs of the heart, he became engaged to a young lady, Miss Rebecca Saunders, to whom he was married in 1824. The following year they came to Ohio and lived at different intervals in Aurora, Russell and Twinsburg. At this last place, in 1836, his wife died, leaving him with five young children. In 1837 he married, at Twinsburg, Miss Sarah A. Richardson, daughter of Captain Daniel Richardson, of Connecticut, her birthplace having been the romantic and historical town of Barkhamstead, as it was also that of her cousin, John Brown; of Ossawotamie fame. She bore to him four sons and three daughters, was a devoted wife and mother, and his true companion during nearly thirty years of the most eventful period of his life. Her death occurred in 1865. The following year he married Mrs. Annetta Hatch, of Ravenna, formerly of Vermont, who has but recently passed away. The decade subsequent to 1825 was a period of great commercial enterprise, in the early prime of the life and spirit of Mr. Taylor, being no less than, in connection with his brother Samuel, and with Harvey Baldwin, of Aurora, that of opening up the export trade in the extensive cheese product of Northern Ohio with the Southern States, through the medium of boats and barges on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. This enterprise, while successful by reason of their intelligent and discriminating management, he resigned after the financial disturbances of 1837, and assumed charge of several bankrupt mercantile establishments. His legal training here stood him in good stead, and so marked was his success in settling and adjusting such matters that his services were in constant demand, and eventually carried him to Chagrin Falls, at the instance of his life-long friend, Albon C. Gardner, one of the best known and most successful of the early merchants of northern Ohio. He became engaged as factor for the sale of lands held by the heirs of General Henry Champion, one of the original purchasers of the 3,000,000 acres of land in Ohio known as the Connecticut Western Reserve. In 1858 he acted as agent for Yale College in adjusting an important litigation with the heirs of Henry L. Ellsworth, in which capacity he secured to the college land of great value, which he subsequently sold for the institution. These agencies, together with others for private capitalists in the East, placed in his care upward of half a million acres of the best land in Ohio and other States, and necessitated much travel; in the prosecution of the business he visited every western State east of the Rocky mountains.' In fact, it was the principal business, aside from public duties, of his long, active and honorable career, he having but a short time before his death, in 1892, sent his last letter concerning the business, in reply to which he received a kindly note of commendation for his faithful work. Among the numerous civil duties from time to time exacted of Mr. Taylor by his townsmen, he served as commissioner for Portage county, and also as State Commissioner of the Blind Asylum. From 1842 to 1868 he resided in Cuyahoga county, the better to accommodate his Business as land agent, and also to act as agent for the Cleveland & Mahoning Railway, of which he had been an early and efficient promoter. In the early divisions of political parties, he was a Whig. In 1848 he aided in the organization of the Free Soil party, attending, as a delegate, the first county convention in Cleveland, and being also a delegate to the first State convention of the party in Ohio (the first held in any State) at Columbus, in June, 1848. This earnest and sturdy organization being, in 1856, merged into the Republican party, he was arrayed in support of the latter through peace and war to the end of his days. 136 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. In 1861, over the disintegrated Union was spread the pall of a fratricidal war, and this ever memorable conflict Was to our subject a strongly marked dividing line between his active business life and his patriotic devotion and military services rendered his State and country during, and long subsequent to, that period of ordeal and gloom. During the autumn of 1862 large numbers of sick and wounded Ohio soldiers were discharged from the army, then in Kentucky. In their helpless condition they proved easy prey to the hordes of self-styled claim agents of Louisville, who bought their pay vouchers for a mere pittance. These facts becoming known to Governor David Tod, he deputized Mr. Taylor to go to the scene and investigate the matter. His subsequent report gave unmistakable evidence that great injustice was being done, and the Governor then appointed Mr. Taylor military agent, with rank of Colonel, on his staff, and instructed him to take such vigorous action as he deemed best calculated to remedy the evil. Colonel Taylor went immediately to Louisville, and with the aid of officers of the department secured such order as to render the efforts of the nefarious gang abortional. Thereafter the interests of Ohio soldiers were carefully guarded by Colonel Taylor, who had opened an office in Louisville, and who effectually warded off all unjust and careless treatment. The next year he was ordered to Nashville, Tennessee, where performed a like service until the spring of 1864, when, on orders from Governor Brough, he removed his headquarters to Chattanooga, where he remained rendering noble service during the eventful Atlanta campaign, culminating in Sherman's triumphant march to the sea. Early in 1865 he was appointed Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Claims in Ohio, and went to Columbus, where he remained in the discharge of the incidental duties for two years and ten months, after which, at his suggestion, the office was discontinued by an act of the Legislature, the unsettled business being given into the hands of the Adjutant-General of the State. At the close of this last public service incident to the war, he made Cleveland his res deuce. During the time he held this office I: collected and distributed to the widows an orphans of soldiers over $2,000,000, and ho well and nobly he performed this service, attested by the records of the department, the books showing his accounts to have been kept t the accuracy of a cent, thus ever to stand as memorial and witness, not only of his person integrity, but also of his marked business an executive ability. In 1868 Colonel Taylor removed to Ravenn in which familiar place the remainder of h days was passed. Here for twenty-four year and until his last illness, he was devoted to h books and business. In 1875, being then in h: seventy-fifth year, he traveled through upper and lower Canada, and subsequently went o a business trip to England, making a tour of that country and Ireland. He was a thoroug temperance man, and a regular attendant of th Presbyterian Church, though not maintaining a membership in the same. The personal a( complishments of Colonel Taylor were fa superior to those of the average business man of his day. He was a constant and careful reader, and that intellectual resource and consolation abided with him even unto extreme age his mental faculties remaining practically nn impaired until the last. He had traveled ex tensively, and his faculty of observation was phenomenal and never-failing; he never lost hi; lively interest in the affairs of the world, and a true patriarch, his mind held a vast fund of knowledge, derived from the study and varied experiences of a long and eventful career. Attractive in person, courteous and gentle in his bearing, he stood as one of the most noble specimens of the true gentleman of the old regime, honored and beloved by all who came within the sphere of his individuality. His manuscript, even down to the end of his life, was as plain, free and legible as that of the most expert accountant, and his style of correspondence evinces literary taste and a most retentive memory. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 137 To this honored pioneer, whose name must ever be held in veneration, death came after an illness which had confined him to his bed for seven months. During that time he suffered much physical pain, but his mind did riot release its grasp upon time and place until was drawn the last fleeting breath, bringing rest to the tired spirit which had calmly waited for the hour of dissolution. He died November 20, 1892, having then but recently completed his ninety-second year. The beauty and grandeur, the lesson and incentive of such a life can never fade, and the page which does no more than bear the impress of his name should be touched with reverent hand, and with a feeling of gratitude that such a life has been lived. The children of Colonel Taylor by his first wife were: Squire and Annetta, who died in infancy; Samuel S., who died in Illinois; Worthy S., a member of an Illinois regiment in the late war, was killed in the service; Mary M., a resident of Cleveland. The children by his second wife were: James Royal, Sarah E. (Riniff), Charles Arthur, all deceaSed; Daniel R. and William G., of Cleveland; Annetta S. (Harrington) of Chicago; and Ellen E., of Ravenna. DANIEL R. TAYLOR, son of that honored pioneer, Colonel Royal Taylor, concerning whose life a slight memorial is offered in the paragraphs immediately preceding, occupies a position of no little prominence in the business circles of Cleveland, conducting an extensive and representative real-estate agency, with headquarters at No. 9, Public Square. For many years he assisted his father, whose conspicuous connection with the realty interests of the State has been noted, and this association enabled our subject to gain a most discriminating knowledge in regard to valuations and all other features of the business in which be is now actively engaged. Mr. Taylor is a native of the Buckeye State, having been born in Summit county. During the late civil war he served for two years as military agent for the State of Ohio, at Louisville and Nashville, holding such preferment as an aid to his father. He secured an excellent education, and was afforded those exceptional advantages granted by a home in which culture and refinement found abiding place. For the past quarter of a century our subject has been actively engaged as a real-estate broker and dealer, and has retained a clientage of most representative order, faithful and conscientious in serving the interests of his principals, and recognized as being reliable and honorable in all of his business operations. Upon his books are represented at all times the most desirable investments for those wishing to buy or exchange, while into no more trustworthy keeping can any principal place his interests in this line. W. C. SCOFIELD, the well-known iron and oil man of Cleveland, was born in Horbury, near Wakefield, England, October 25, 1821. He spent the earlier years of his life in Leeds, being employed there on machine work until his twenty-first year, when he was seized with a determination to emigrate to the United States, where opportunities and advantages were far superior to those offered in-Great Britain. On reaching American soil, he came West to Ohio and secured employment on the Chagrin river in this county, working for a Mr. Waite for one year and receiving $8 per month. His next employer was A. W. Duty, a brick manufacturer, in whose yard he worked two years. Following this he was for two years turnkey at time county jail for Sheriff Beebe, and on resuming other work established himself in the brick business on the West Side. One season's work in this gave him an experience of value and furnished the foundation for his future prosperity. He next undertook the charge of the lard, oil and saleratus works of C. A. Dean. After three years Messrs. Stanley, Camp and 138 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Wick bought the establishment, but Mr. Wick soon sold his interest to Mr. Scofield, and another change was almost immediately made by the purchase of Mr. Camp's interest by the remaining partners, who conducted the business until 1857. Mr. Scofield then became sole owner by purchase, and operated the plant another five years. In 1861 he added to his business that of refining oil, associating with him Messrs. Halle and Fawcett. Their refinery was built on the site of the City Forge Works, and its capacity was limited to two eight-barrel stills. Subsequently this site was sold for other purposes and the refinery closed after a successful career. This firm built and operated a refinery on Oil Creek in Pennsylvania, but disposed of it in 1875. In 1865 Mr. Scofield became interested in the oil refinery of Critchey, Fawcett (Sr, Co., and about the same time he became a partner in an oil commission business in New York city, the style of the firm being Hewitt & Scofield. The former was sold out to the Standard Oil Company in 1872, and the commission house ceased to exist upon the appearance of the South Improvement Corn pany. Mr. Scofield was interested in the manufacture of chemicals as vice president of the Cleveland Chemical Co., which concern sold it to Mash & Harwood. In 1863 the firm of Alexander, Scofield & Co., was formed and erected an oil refinery at the junction of the N. Y. P. & 0. R. R. with Liberty street, with a daily capacity of fifty barrels, which was increased to 1,000 barrels daily before it was sold to the South Improvement Co. Soon after this the present oil firm of Scofield, Shumer & Teagle was organized and began refining with a capacity of 100 barrels daily. It now produces 20,000 barrels of refined oil per month. In 1872 Mr. Scofield purchased an interest in the Otis Iron Co., the property of which consisted of a small rolling mill and a forge. The output in tonnage of these two concerns has quadrupled and an immense nut and bolt works has been added with a consuming capacity of 2,000 tons a month. Besides these, Mr. Scofield is a large stockholder in the Union National, Commercial National and Western Reserve National Banks of Cleveland. In business he is not given to jumping at conclusions nor to embarking in business schemes without carefully studying the nature and effect of the proposed steps. When convinced of the feasibleness of a business plan he prosecutes it with tireless energy. The course of events within the past few years presented unusual opportunities for a clear-headed business man to advance himself, and Mr. Scofield possessed the necessary foresight to take advantage of them. He had to rely on his own judgment and furnish his own capital from the beginning, having been left an orphan at fifteen years of age. The growth of Cleveland and its importance as a commercial center is due to such men as William C. Scofield. December 1, 1846, Mr. Scofield married Miss Ann Barker, a daughter of Robert Barker, who came to Cuyahoga county sixty years ago from England and was a pioneer farmer of Warrensville. Mr. Barker died about 1854, aged eighty-four years. Mrs. Scofield died August 13, 1893, leaving the following children: Helen E., now Mrs. Frank Rockefeller; Charles W., secretary and treasurer of the Lake Erie Iron Co., his wife nee Helen Tracy; E. B., who married Adelaide Gray; F. R, who married Minnie Malton; George B., who married Nettie Short; Effie M., wife of Edward E. Dangler; and Miss Lizzie E. Scofield. DR. W. E. WELLS, physician and surgeon, 451 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Medina county, this State, June 15, 1861, son of Elizur D. and Mary (Chidsey) Wells, both also natives of Ohio. Jared Wells, the Doctor's grandfather, emigrated from Connecticut to Ohio at an early CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 139 day, making the journey hither by teams and being forty-one days en route. He passed through Cleveland when land on the lake front could be purchased for $3 per acre. He first located in Bath, Summit county, Ohio, where he purchased a farm, and lived twenty years, after which he sold his farm and selected a location between Brunswick and Medina, where he bought a farm and lived for many years. Finally he sold his land and removed to Brunswick, where he subsequently died at the home of his son, Elizur 1). His wife, Louisa Wells, also died in Brunswick. They had eleven children, of whom six are now living. Elizur D. was born in 1839, was reared to farm life, and has been engaged in agricultural pursuits the most of his life. Recently he has rented his farm, and is now living at Medina. His wife died at the age of forty-four years. She was a member of the Congregational Church, to which he also belongs. Dr. Wells is the oldest of their family of three, the other two being Carl and Alberta. Carl married Miss May Holden, and is engaged in farming in Medina county, and Alberta lives with her father. Dr. Wells received his early education in the district schools. Later he attended a select school at Hinckley and Medina, and afterwards was a student five years at Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio. Then he entered the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, formerly the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, where he graduated March 25, 1885, after three years of study in that institution. Upon completing his medical course, he entered upon the practice of his profession in Cleveland, where he has since remained. He has made a specialty of surgery, and for the past four years has occupied one of the chairs of surgery in the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery. He is also lecturer in the Training School for Nurses at the Huron Street Hospital, and is a member of. the Hahnemann Society, State Society, and Round Table Club. Dr. Wells was married June 18, 1884, to Miss Ella Van Norman, adopted daughter of Dr. H. B. Van Norman, of Cleveland. They have an only child, Mae. Mrs. Wells is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her own father, Rev. J. K. Mendenhall, is a member of the Erie Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and her mother, whose maiden name was Pollie Ferris, died when Mrs. Wells was a babe. In the home of her adopted parents she had every comfort and advantage, and she continued to reside with the Doctor and Mrs. Van Norman until the time of her marriage to Dr. Wells. While Dr. Wells gi ves little attention to political affairs, his views are in harmony with the principles advocated by the Republican party. He is in the prime of a vigorous young manhood, is thoroughly posted in everything that pertains to his profession, and is as popular as he is well known. LEONARD HERSHEY, attorney at law, and one of the most favorably known citizens of Cuyahoga county, was born at Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, June 3, 1853. When he was but two weeks of age his mother died and he was taken into the home of his grandmother, Eliza Leonard, who resided on a farm near Bedford, and by her brought up, and remained on the farm until he was thirty years of age. He gained a fair common-school education, attending the Bedford high school, and later the schools at Mount Union and Richfield. He then taught school for ten winters, and in 1885 entered the law office of Everett, Dellenbaugh & Weed, where he continued study of law till 1888, and in June of that year he was admitted to the bar. Associating himself with the above law firm, Mr. Hershey took up the practice of his profession. He has risen very rapidly in his vocation and has gained a large and remunerative clientage. While he has always had a law office in the city of Cleveland, he has resided at Bedford, to which village he removed in 1885, prior to which date he resided upon the farm on which he was brought up. 140 - CUYA1TOGA COUNTY. In 1880 Mr. Hershey married Miss Martha J. Orchard, daughter of Samuel Orchard, a prominent farmer and citizen of Bedford township, where Mrs. Hershey was born and reared. Mr. and Mrs. Hershey have one child, Floyd W. Hershey, born February 17, 1881. They have a beautiful and attractive home at Bedford, where they enjoy high social relations. Bedford is a beautiful suburban town, and Mr. Hershey has always taken great pride and interest in the growth and development of this village, as well as being alive to the interests of Cleveland and Cuyahoga county. For years he has been a zealous member of the Bedford Board of Education. He served for a time as Clerk of the town of Bedford, and two terms as Mayor, in which capacity he executed the laws well and creditably and inaugurated many commendable measures conducive to the interests and growth of the town. He is largely interested in Bedford real estate, and in company with James A. Anderson and others he has contributed much to the advancement of the value and consequence of Bedford property, and has been instrumental in inducing parties to purchase the same and to establish for themselves homes in this beautiful and healthful suburban town. Too much praise cannot be said of. Mr. Hershey's spirit of enterprise and the interest he hal taken in Bedford. He has always been a stanch friend of church and education. In fact, Mr. Hershey is a useful and progressive citizen, is honored, respected and esteemed. DR. QUINCY J. WINSOR, physician, 89 , Euclid avenue,, was born in Cortland county, New York, in 1863, the only child of Ebenezer and Charlotte (Salisbury) Winsor, natives of New York State. He was educated in the State Normal School, came to Cleveland in 1882, read medicine under Dr. J. H. Salisbury, the originator of the medical system called the " Salisbury treatment," and now residing in New. York, city. Dr. Winsor attended the medical department of the Western Reserve University, and graduated in the class of 1884. He at once opened an office for the practice of his chosen profession. While under his preceptor he was his assistant. He makes a specialty of the " Salisbury treatment," in which he has an extensive reputation for skill, having performed many wonderful cures. He is publishing a series of pamphlets which contain an extraordinary condensation of the most important health principles, which every one should observe for his own good. He justly enjoys a high place in the regard of all-who know him. August 21, 1893, he was married to Miss Martha Olmsted, an artist of distinction in this city, where they have made their home. MRS. HELEN OLMSTED, one of the leading artists of Cleveland, is a native of the same city, born February 1, 1848. Her father, Jonathan Bishop; was a native of Connecticut, and her mother, whose name before marriage was Martha E. Smith, was born in Gardiner, Maine. ' They were early settlers of, the Forest City, coming here in 1846, the year after their marriage. Mr. Bishop's patriotism led him to enlist in the last war, under the first call of the president, and 'served faithfully and enthusiastically for three months, when he was discharged on account of disability; but he continued to fill a position in the commissary, department, as assistant to Dr. Newberry, until near the close of the war. His health was so greatly impaired by military life that after his return from the army he was never engaged in active business. His death, hastened by exposures in army life, occurred in January, 1872, at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife is still living, an honored resident of Cleveland, residing with her daughter and only child, the subject of this sketch. She is now sixty-three years of, age, and has long been a member of the Episcopalian Church. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 141 Mrs. Olmsted was educated in the Cleveland high school, but began the study of art in her youth, as a pupil, for a number of years, of Miss Catherine C. Hopley, now widely known in England as an artist and scientist. Her works are considered standard authority both in England and in this country. At the early age of eight years the subject of this sketch took a first premium for pencil drawing at the State fair at Cleveland. At the New Orleans Exposition of 1885, she was given a large department for the display of her decorative work and painting, received , several premiums, and was urgently requested to open a studio there. She was actively engaged at the Ohio Centennial, which was held at Columbus in 1888, where she was superintendent of the Woman's Building, and had entire charge of the art department, which was very extensive. The building was under the supervision of the commissioner, Mrs. Delia Lathrop Williams, who had the responsibility of all collections. In her absence Mrs. Olmsted filled her place, performing the duties of office with fidelity.. Mrs. Olmsted received many premiums from the Woman's Art Department, and was also well represented in the General Art Gallery. Immediately after the Centennial exhibition Mrs. Olmsted went abroad, in order to continue the study of her favorite vocation. She spent a year across the sea, mostly in Paris and London; but since her return, impaired health has seriously interfered with her calling, and for the same reason she prepared no specimens for exhibition at the World's Fair at Chicago. For several years she had a studio in the Nottingham building on Euclid avenue, which was finely furnished with decorative draperies, which had been on exhibition at New Orleans, and with other household decorations in addition to her own paintings, A number of her crayon portraits are owned and highly esteemed by prominent citizens of this city. She also possesses a very valuable collection of copies of both old and modern masters made during her European trip. Her art work hereafter will be confined to her studio, at her own residence. Her daughter Martha, now Mrs. Dr. Q. J. Winsor, was before her marriage studio associate with her mother. She was assistant at the Ohio Centennial at Columbus, where she received several premiums. They were, first premium for still-life in water-color; first premium for finest collection of water-colors; first premium for charcoal work from life, and others. She then continued her art studies in the winter of 1888—'89, in Paris, under the direction of M. Edouard Krug and the famous M. Albert Maignan. At the Columbian exposition she was represented by three water colors, two of which were life-size head studies; these were in the Cleveland room of the Ohio State building. She has devoted herself exclusively to portrait work in water color, making a specialty of portraits of young people. Her work includes also that charming branch of the portrait-painters' art, miniature painting. Mrs. Olnasted's other daughter, Miss Millicent, is pursuing a different line of art work, . namely, that of writing. She has been engaged in literary work ever since she graduated at Miss Mittelberger's school in 1890. The subject of this sketch was married January 8, 1865, to Henry S. Olmsted, of Albany, New York. WILLIAM W. ANDREWS, son of the late Judge Sherlock J. Andrews, is a native of Cleveland. In 1859 he graduated at Western Reserve College, and in 1861, at the Cleveland Law School, having been guided in his legal studies by his distinguished father: For four years next after his admission to the bar, Mr. Andrews was associated with Lewis W. Ford, and afterward with Judge G. M. Barber, and still later he was senior member of the firm of Andrews & Kaiser. All of these firms were successful and took high rank in the profession. Mr. 142 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Andrews is now practicing alone, acting especially as legal adviser of corporations and estates, and also as trustee for the latter, owing to his reputation for integrity and ability. Soon after leaving college he was selected by both the Republican and Democratic parties for the Board of Education, and was finally elected by the former. He has, however, never been an office-seeker or active in public affairs, and is known to have declined flattering opportunities for political advancement. Quiet but thorough in business, and domestic in his tastes, he has avoided the strife of politics, content, apparently, with his honorable position as a lawyer and citizen. O P. DEMUTH, Assistant Postmaster of Cleveland and a veteran of the mail service, was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, September 9, 1843, completed a brief career as a pupil of the primary schools at twelve years of age, and began the realities of life when he entered on his apprenticeship with a jeweler in New Philadelphia, this State. He became an efficient workman in due time and was still engaged in the business when the war came on. The first year of enlistment of troops found young Demuth ready to do duty in defense of 44 Old Glory." He enlisted in Company I, of the Thirtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a private soldier. The first order to this command took them into West Virginia, where they first met the enemy at Sutton's Heights. Passing on through the State they were made a part of the Eastern army near Fayetteville. With second Bull Run another series of engagements began, including South Mountain, Frederick City, and concluding at Antietam in September, 1862. After this last engagement Mr. Detnuth's command returned to West Virginia with the intention of going into winter quarters. When a part of the huts were ready for occupancy orders were received to join General Sherman in his reduction of Vicksburg. The army reached the scene of operations by water and was landed at Milliken's Bend near the city, and were engaged daily in mortal combat till the final capitulation of the Confederate stronghold. Jackson, Mississippi, was the next to feel the force of Federal argument, and was easily captured. After this engagement Mr. Demuth was promoted to be Commissary Sergeant. The army then took boats at Vicksburg for Memphis and made forced marches across the country to Chattanooga, crossed the river at night and made an assault on Missionary Ridge, followed the enemy to Knoxville and aided in the relief of Burnside's army. Mr. Demuth belonged to the Fifteenth Corps while on the Atlanta campaign, which was a flanking corps all the way to Atlanta. He remained with the army on its march to the sea and his division (the second), Fifteenth Corps, assaulted and captured Ford McAllister and secured Savannah to the Federal forces. Mr. Demuth was given a Lieutenant's commission on the close of this campaign. He remained with his command, attending the review at Washington, and was then ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, and finally mustered out in August, 1865. Returning to New Philadelphia, he engaged in the jewelry business till 1868, when his eyes failed and he sought other employment. The same year he entered the railway service between his home town and Bayard, remaining on this run three years, and was then given the run between Lorain and Uhrichsville. One month later he was again transferred to the Lake Shore, running between Buffalo and Chicago. In 1874 he was made chief clerk of the division of railway mail service and retained it till 1883, when he was appointed superintendent of mails for the Cleveland postoffice, serving as such until May 1, 1891, when he was appointed assistant Postmaster. Referring to the genealogy of the Demuths, we find that Daniel Demuth, our subject's grandfather, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Tuscarawas county, being among her first set- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 143 tlers and becoming the founder of the family in the Buckeye State. He Was the father of four sons, and died about 1848, above eighty years of age. One of those four sons was Joseph, our Subject's father, who was nine years old when his father came to Ohio. He became a cabinet worker and was a good, holiest tradesman during the greater part of his life. He was an earnest advocate of the policies of the Whig party and later of the Republican. He served his county four terms as its Treasurer, and died about 1867. He was twice married, the second time to Charlotte Simmers, whose ancestors were originally Moravians. Seven children were born by this union, four sons and three daughters. There were two children by his first marriage. In 1872 Mr. Demuth married Melissa Kelly, and they have two children: Fritz E., in the post office; and Ola G. In December, 1888, Mrs. Demuth died, and three years later, Mr. Demuth married Mrs. M. H. Rickey, a daughter of Judge R. F. Payne. Mr. Demuth is a member of the G. A. R. and of the Royal and Loyal Arcanums. DR. J. T. CARTER, a physician and surgeon of Cleveland, having an office — in the Kendall building, was born in Bureau county, Illinois, June 24, 1862, a son of Samuel and Anna (Park) Carter, natives respectively of Twinsburg, Ohio, and Illinois. His grandfather, Thaddeus A. Carter, came with a colony from Bristol, Connecticut, in 1818, locating at Twinsburg, Summit county, where he accumulated large tracts of land. He had five sons and two daughters, of whom three sons and two daughters.are living, and Samuel, the father of our subject, was the third son in order of birth. He has two brothers, H. W. and R. B. Carter, who are eminent physicians of the Western Reserve. Another uncle of our subject is also a physician,—Dr. Upson, of Topeka, Kansas. The Carter family are of English extraction. Samuel Carter learned the blacksmith and wagonmaker's trade in his youth, but afterward became a contractor and builder. He met his death in this city, having been caught in a shaft and belt, and died after a few hours of intense suffering, in November, 1872, at the age of forty years. He was an officer in the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years. At his death he left three children: J. T., our subject; Mary, wife of Leslie Rich, of Tempe, Arizona; and Lillie, at home. The mother afterward married M. T. McDonald, and now resides in Kansas, aged sixty years. J. T. Carter, the subject of this sketch, attended the public schools of Cleveland until fourteen years of age. He next entered the Western Reserve Academy, a part of the Adel-bed College, and also attended the latter institution. By doing double work he prepared himself for college in two years instead of four. After graduating at the Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, in the class of 1889, Dr. Carter began the practice of his profession in this city, and has ever since met with flattering success. He served one year in the Huron Street Hospital as resident surgeon, but resigned his position there to accept a chair in the faculty of the Cleveland Medical College. He is still a member of the faculty of that institution. Dr. Carter writes for medical journals, is a member of the County, City and State Medical Societies, also a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and is Lecturer to the Training School for NurseS of Cleveland. He was married in December, 1891, to Miss Alice Hanchette, a daughter of Erastus Hanchette and a member of an old family of the Western Reserve and New England stock. She was a successful teacher of Cleveland for eight years before her marriage. Her great-grandfather served in the Revolutionary war. Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Hanchette still reside in this city. They are the parents of four children: Lewis, who resides in Chicago; Edward, of this city; Alice, wife of our subject; and Jessie, who has been a successful teacher in the public 144 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. school for the past five years. Mr. and Mrs. Carter are members of the Calvary Presbyterian Church. In political matters the Doctor affiliates with the Republican party. He is an apt student, keenly alive to the latest and most improved methods, and believes in keeping pace, professionally and otherwise, with latter-day progress. G. A. INGERSOLL, secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company for more than a quarter of a century, was born in Lorain county, Ohio, March 30, 1827. His birth occurred on a farm, his father, Marshall Ingersoll, being a tiller of the soil, and his youthful education was of the pioneer country-school variety. At seventeen he began the battle of life independently, serving a clerkship with a merchant in Elyria, Ohio. In 1853 he engaged in a -ercantile venture at Grafton, Ohio, which he eon-ducted till his decision was made to become a resident of Cleveland. October 1, 1856, Mr. Ingersoll embarked on his long and uninterrupted career of railroad work, becoming at that time way-bill registrar, and succeeding in a few years to the auditor-ship of freight accounts. This work he performed so satisfactorily that he was made general bookkeeper of the company, filling that position with the same standard of excellence which marked his service in all prior capacities and retiring only to accept a higher position with the company, that of secretary and treasurer, entering on his new duties January 1, 1866. Marshall Ingersoll was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, January 29, 1802. His father, Major William Ingersoll, emigrated to Ohio in 1816, settled in Lorain county and there died, in 1836, at seventy-five years of age. His wife was Mercy Crocker, who bore him eleven children, Marshall being the ninth. The latter spent his active life in Lorain county, but died in Cleveland, September, 5, 1874. His children by marriage to Sarah Ann Taylor, a daughter of Jesse Taylor of Lorain county, formerly from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, were: G. A.; Lucy M., widow of W. F. Hurlbut, of Elyria, Ohio; and Frank A.,' a commercial traveler of New York city. November 1, 1853, the subject of this sketch married, in Lorain county, Lois Y., a daughter of William Race, a farmer. Mr. Race was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and came to Ohio in 1830. He married Vienna Joiner, and became the father of eight children. Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll are the parents of Seymour R., a taxidermist and fruit-farmer of Ballston Spa, New York; Winifred, wife of Ralph L. Fuller, of Cleveland; and Ina I., now Mrs. Wallace B. Goodwin, of the machinery supply house of Jones & Company of Cleveland. Mrs. Ingersoll's death, July 29, 1881, resulted from an injury received by the running away of a team. Mr. Ingersoll's second marriage occurred August 2, 1883, the lady being Joanna M. Minor, daughter of Edwin Fuller of Cleveland, a canal man and a real estate dealer. Mr. Ingersoll is ' financially interested in several enterprises of this city, among them being the Union Steel Screw Works and the Walker Manufacturing Company, both well known and strong institutions. He has de• voted almost an average lifetime to the service of one corporation, and has merited the long lease on the office of secretary and treasurer which he is now enjoying. WILLIAM A. BABCOCK, president of the Bishop and Babcock Company, manufacturers of air pumps, brass goods, tacks and nails, with office and shops at the corner of Kirtland and Hamilton streets, Cleveland, and vice-president of the Standard Tool Company, manufacturers of twist drills, with shops located on Central avenue and Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, was born in South CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 145 Coventry, Tolland county, Connecticut, March 18, 1843, was reared on the farm at South Coventry, receiving the usual schooling, and at the age of eighteen years was apprenticed to William Mason, in. Taunton, Massachusetts, to learn the machinists' trade; and while thus engaged the great war came on and the shops were closed; and he went to Springfield, that State, and was employed in the armory shops. In 1862 he enlisted in a company made up of toolmakers for the war, but within three days' time and before the company was detailed it was decided by the Government authorities that the men would be of more value to the progress Of the war if they should remain at home engaged in the manufacture of firearms,etce.; accordingly they were set to work at their old trade again. About the middle of the year 1863 Mr. Babcock went to Norwich, Connecticut, and entered the employ of the Norwich Arms Company, remaining there till the close of the war, in June, 1865. Next he was jointly employed by the Morse Twist-Drill Company, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, A. G-. Coes & Company, Worcester, Massachusetts, and H. A. Rogers & Company, ofNewW York, as traveling salesman, in which position lie spent the following fourteen years, selling machinery railway supplies and machinists' tools. In 1879 he came to Cleveland and engaged in his present business where he is now of the head of the concern and of a large business. His gentlemanly manner and honest dealing gives public satisfaction and insures success to his company. His residence is 2010 (old number 1715) Euclid avenue. He is a member of Holy Rood Commandery, K. T. In his political principles he is a Democrat. His father, William Babcock, was also born, reared, livedand diedd in South Coventry, his death occurring in 1870, when he was aged sixty-five years. He was a farmer and hatter, having a hat factory on his farm, in which he made hats exclusively for the Southern planters' trade. His wife, Esther E., was a daughter of Timothy and Tirzah (Badger) Loomis, and she survived him many years, dying in December, 1891, on the old homestead, which now is the property of our subject, Mr. William A. Babcock, and his sister, Mrs. Prince. They reared three children, namely: Ellen, wife of J. V. B. Prince, of Brooklyn, New York; Mary E., wife of William H. Yeomans, of Columbia, Connecticut; and William A., whose nameintroducesS this sketch. The nephew of the latter, Howard W. Yeomans is now employed in The Bishop & Babcock Company's office. According to Hinman's historical record, and Weavers' history of Ancient Windham, Connecticut, our subject is a descendant of James Babcock, born in Essex, England, in 1580. James was a Puritan minister in Wivanhoe, England, and was of Saxon origin. He was the brother of Richard Babcock, who occupied the family mansion. His coat-of-arms was a shield with several cock's-heads upon it with the motto, Deus spes mea (God is my hope). The early family were seated in Essex county, England, at the time of the Norman conquest. Sir William Seager, in his visit to the county of Essex in 1612, states that " Sir Richard Badcock was the nineteenth in descent from the first holder of the family mansion there,"—which is said by relatives to have been standing in 1850. Ephraim, the grandfather of William A., although but fifteen years of age, wasin thee Revolutionary army from March 5 until _December 31, 1778, and from January 10 to February 16, 1778. He was made a pensioner in , 1818. His mother, Esther Elizabeth Loomis, descended from John Loomis, who was born about 1570 and died between April 14 and May 29, 1619. His .original will, still on file in the court for the counties of Essex and Hertford, England, was formally proven by the executor, his sonJosephh, the 21st of June, 1619. His five children emigrated toNewW England before the year 1640. Joseph Loomis sailed from London, April 11, 1638, on the ship Susan and Ellen, as appears by the customhouse books and by other documentary proofs, and arrived in Boston, July 17, 1638. Mr. Babcock has three 'volumes 146 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. of the genealogy of the Loomis family, containing over 28,000 names of the descendants, published by Elias Loomis, LL. D., a professor at Yale College and the popular author of college text-books. It is an exhaustive and detailed proof of his being a descendant of John Loomis, whose first son, Joseph, was born in 1590. The town records of Windsor, Connecticut (volume 1, February 2, 1640) show that Joseph acquired several large tracts of land both on the Farmington and the Connecticut rivers, partly from the town and partly by purchase. His mother Esther also descended from Giles Badger, who came from England and settled in Newbury, now Newburyport, Massachusetts, about 1635, as appears by Weaver's history of Windham and by a book in the Case Library (B 57, 300) entitled " Memoirs of the Rev. James Badger." The latter was the nephew of Mr. Babcock's great grandfather. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, then studied to become a minister, was appointed as a missionary, by the Connecticut Home Missionary Society, to preach to the settlers and Indians on the Western Reserve. In August, 1801, he preached in Cleveland, when there were only two families in the place. In Newburg, now a part of Cleveland, there were five families. The ancestry of the subject of this sketch, as systematically as we can give it without dia- gram, is, so far as known, as follows: William Babcock, the father of W. A. Babcock (our subject) was born in South Coventry, Connecticut, July 12, 1801, and died March 16, 1870. June 19, 1839, he married Esther Elizabeth Loomis, who was born in Andover, Connecticut, February 1, 1818, and died in South Coventry, December 12, 1890. William Babcock's father, Ephraim Babcock, was born September 3, 1763, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died February 26, 1828. His wife Thirza was born in February, 1766, and died October 13, 1827. Elisha Babcock of Coventry, born July 19, 1746, married Elizabeth Preston, and was the father of Ephraim. Simeon Babcock, of Coventry, father of Elisha, married Abigail Hudson, October 5, 1736. He died November 30, 1751. Simeons' father, Jonathan Babcock, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1651, and died January 5, 1731. His wife Mary died January 28, 1719. Jonathan's father, James Babcock, Jr., died in 1690; his father, James Babcock, was born in Essex, England, in 1580. The mother of the subject of this sketch, already mentioned, was the daughter of Timothy Loomis, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, May 14, 1786, and died in Andover, that State, May 17 1860. October 2, 1808, he married Tirzah Badger, who died in South Coventry, same State, May 14, 1863. Timothy's father, Dan Loomis, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, January 22, 1758, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died in Coventry August 22, 1841. He married Sarah Field. Tirzah Badger Loomis' father was Enoch Badger, Jr., who married Mary Lamphear, February 11, 1773. Enoch Badger, Jr.'s father was Enoch Badger, who settled in Coventry before 1748. He died September 4, 1793, aged seventy-nine. His father, Nathaniel Badger, settled in Norwich, Connecticut; he married Mary Hunt, March 27, 1693. He died at Coventry, February 7, 17-52; and his father, John Badger, was born June 30, 1643, and married Rebecca Brown, October 5, 1691. He was the son of Giles Badger, who came from England and settled in Newbury, now Newburyport, Massachusetts, about 1635, as already mentioned. He married Elizabeth Greenleaf, daughter of Edmond. He died July 10, 1647. Dan Loomis' father, Timothy Loomis, was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, August 24, 1718, and died June 20, 1785. He married Anna Taylor, who died March 7, 1799. Timothy Loomis' father, John Loomis, an ensign, was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, January 1, 1681, and died in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1755. October 30, 1706, he married Martha Osborn, who was born April 10, 1687. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 147 Thomas Loomis, the father of the last mentioned, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, December 3, 1653, and died August 12, 1688. March 31, 1680, he married Sarah White (a daughter of Daniel White), who was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, October 15, 1662. Thomas Loomis' father, John Loomis, was a deacon who came from England in 1622, and died September 1, 1688. February 3, 1648, he married Elizabeth Scott, a daughter of Thomas' Scott, of Hartford, Connecticut. Joseph Loomis, father of John, was born in Braintree, Essex county, England, in 1590, and died November 25, 1658: his wife died August 23, 1652. John Loomis, father of Joseph, was born probably about 1570, and died between April 14 and May 29, 1619. September 21,1876; the subject of this sketch married Miss Gertrude A. Bunker, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, November 13, 1842, a daughter of Thomas Gorham Bunker, who was born in Nantucket,Massachusetts, January 8, 1793, and died in Brooklyn, October 9, 1852. May 24, 1819, the latter married Sally Amelia Raymond, who was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Jan nary 4, 1801, and died in Brooklyn, November 26, 1883. Richard Bunker, Jr., father of T. G., was a native of Nantucket, and married Lois Cartwright, a native of the same place. Richard Bunker, father of last, was a native of that place, and married Eunice Mitchell, also a native of the same place. Richard's parents, Thomas and Anna (Swain) Bunker, were also natives of Nantucket, as were also Thomas' parents, Benjamin and Deborah (Haddock) Bunker. Benjamin's parents were William and Mary (Macy) Bunker; and William's father, George Bunker, married Jane Godfrey, who after his death married for her second husband Richard Swain, who moved to Nantucket prior to 1660. George's father, William, was a Huguenot from England. The maternal grandmother of the present Mrs. Babcock was Sukey (Brown) Raymond, who was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, July 4, 1769, and died in Brooklyn, New York, in April, 1865. Her father, Jedediah Brown, was born September 10, 1743, in Norwalk, and November 13, 1768, in that city, married Mary Lockwood, a native of the same place. GEORGE ARMSTRONG GARRETSON. -Among the representative citizens of Cleveland is Mr. George A. Garretson, who, as president of the National Bank of Commerce, occupies a prominent place among the leading bankers and financiers of the city. He is a native of Columbiana county, Ohio, was born on the 30th day of January, 1844. His ancestors on the paternal side came to America from Holland about the year 1700. They became Quakers and for many years were prominent members of that society. His maternal ancestors came to this country from Scotland during the seventeenth century and settled in Pennsylvania. Seven of them served with credit through the Revolutionary war, and several participated in the wars with England in 1812 and Mexico in 1846. Hiram Garretson, father of our subject, was born in 1817 in York county, Pennsylvania, and was the son of George and Anne (Griffith) Garretson, who in 1820 left Pennsylvania and came to Ohio, settling at New Lisbon, Columbiana county. He was given a good common-school education, after which he entered his father's store as a clerk. When about nineteen years of age he took charge of a trading boat on the Ohio river and made several trips between Pittsburg and New Orleans, following which he returned to New Lisbon and engaged in business, continuing until the winter of 1851. The next spring he removed to Cleveland and associated himself with Leonard and Robert Hanna in the wholesale grocery business, under the firm name of Hanna, Garretson & Company. After a successful career the firm was dissolved, in 1862, and Mr. Garretson immediately established the firm of H. Garretson & Comany,"for 10 148 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. the transaction, mainly, of Lake Superior commission and forwarding business, the firm building a fine line of steamers for the trade. At the same time Mr. Garretson secured the agency for all the Boston and New England mining companies located on Lake Superior, purchasing their supplies and having charge of all transportation between Boston and the mines. In 1866 ill health compelled him to relinquish this large and important business, and he turned his attention to banking. In company with J. H. Wade, Amasa Stone, George B. Ely, Stillman Witt and others, he projected and organized the Cleveland Banking Company, which went into business under his presidency and management on February 1, 1868. Two years later this institution was merged into the Second National Bank of Cleveland, of which Mr. Garretson was prevailed upon to become cashier. In the spring of 1873 his health again failed him, compelling his temporary retirement from active business, and he went to Europe under appointment by President Grant as United States Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition. The American department of this exposition was in a bad condition and was reflecting discredit upon the Government, and the then commissioner was removed and Mr. Garretson appointed to fill the vacancy. He brought order out of confusion, and so highly esteemed were his services that the emperor of Austria decorated him with the imperial order of Francis Joseph. Upon his return from Europe he was elected president of the Second National Bank. He was a director in the Citizens' Savings c Loan Association, and held large interests in several other important enterprises of the city. For his first wife Mr. Garretson married Margaret King Armstrong, the daughter of General John and Isabella (McKaig) Armstrong, who removed from Pennsylvania to Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1804. She had three children, and died May 16, 1852. The subject of this sketch is the' only one of the children living. September 8, 1856, Mr. Hiram Garretson, for his second wife married Mrs. Ellen M. Abbott, nee Howe, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and by this marriage there were three children, the only one now living being Mrs. Ellen G. Wade, wife of J. H. Wade. Mr. Garretson's death occurred in Cleveland on May 7, 1876. The subject of this sketch was reared in Cleveland, and was given the benefit of exceptional educational advantages. After attending the public schools of the city for two years he entered a first-class private boarding school at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, New York, where he pursued his studies until the breaking out of the late Civil war. Returning to Cleveland, he answered his country's call for volunteers. On the 26th day of May, 1862, when but eighteen years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company E, Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was mustered in at Camp Chase at Columbus, was soon sent to the field, served in Maryland and West Virginia, and on the 20th day of September of the same year was mustered out. A number of Ohio regiments were then being organized for three years' service and the young soldier was promised, and made arrangements to accept, a commission as Second Lieutenant in one of them, but as about that time a vacancy occurred in the United States Military Academy at West Point, and he was tendered a cadetship by the Honorable A. G. Riddle, M. C., which he accepted. He entered West Point on the 20th day of June, 1863, and graduated on the 17th day of June, 1867, and upon the same day of his graduation was appointed Second Lieutenant of the FoUrth United States Artillery. He served with that regiment at different posts during the years 1867—'68, and in 1869 was appointed Signal Officer on the staff of Major General John Pope, commanding the department of the Lakes at Detroit, Michigan. In 1869, the Government began preparations for reducing the army to a peace basis, and inactivity and slow promotion being the result Mr. Garretson resigned from the service on the 1st day of January, 1870, with the permission of General W. T. Sherman, Commander-in- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 149 Chief, and with the full understanding that in case of need at any time his services would be tendered to the Government. After resigning from the regular army Mr. Garretson engaged in mercantile business in Cleveland and continued in that line until May, 1875, when he entered the Second National Bank of Cleveland, of which his father was then president. In February, 1879, he was appointed assistant cashier of the bank, and a year from that date was made cashier. In 1888 the charter of the Second National Bank expired by limitation, and the National Bank of Commerce was organized, with practically the same stockholders as its predecessor, and Mr. Garretson was appointed cashier of the new bank. Upon the death of Mr. Joseph Perkins, president of said bank, in 1885, Mr. J. H. Wade was chosen president and Mr. Garretson vice president, and following Mr. Wade's death Mr. Garretson was elected president, which position he holds the present time, being one of the youngest bank presidents in Cleveland, and that too, of one of the city's leading banks. Having received a military education Mr. Garretson naturally felt an interest in the State militia, but owing to business reasons was compelled to decline any appointment until 1877, when at the time of threatened riots in the city, he assisted Colonel W. H. Harris, late of the United States Army and a graduate of West Point, in organizing the First Cleveland Troop of Cavalry, of which Colonel Harris was captain and Mr. Garretson First Lieutenant. He retained his commission in the above organization until 1884, when, upon the resignation of Colonel Harris, he was elected to succeed him in command of the company. In 1887 the troop joined the Ohio National Guard, Mr. Garretson remaining in command until 1892, when business interests compelled him to resign and give up military matters, notwithstanding teinpting offers of high rank in the State service had been repeatedly made to him. On January 12, 1880, Mr. Garretson was appointed Colonel and Aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor Charles Foster, and upon the re-election of the Governor in 1882 was recommissioned for two years, and served until the expiration of his term on January 14, 1884. Mr. Garretson is a member of the order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He is a trustee of the Lakeside Hospital, and takes a strong interest in other charitable and benevolent institutions of the city. He has always been a Republican in politics, but has never had political aspirations. He has traveled extensively in the United States, and has made two extended tours in Europe and the East, visiting all the important points of interest in those countries. Mr. Garretson was married on the 21st day of September, 1870, to Miss Anna Scowden, daughter of the late Theodore R. Scowden. Her death occurred in August, 1886, and on the 5th day of December, 1888, he was married to Miss Emma Ripka Ely, daughter of the late Honorable George H. Ely, one of Cleveland's prominent and deservedly honored citizens. Two children have been born by this marriage, Margaret Ely and George Ely. J. V. DAWES, secretary and treasurer of the Garfield Savings Bank Company, has been a citizen and business man of Cleveland since September, 1887. He began business with the Cozad, Belz & Bates Abstract Company, and continued in its service until his election as secretary and treasurer of the Garfield Savings Bank Company, July 1, 1892. This bank was at that time a new institution, it having been established with a capital stock of $50,000, all paid in. It now has deposits aggregating $100,000 and a surplus of $2,000. Mr. Dawes was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, May 30, 1870, and his boyhood and youth were spent on his father's farm. His primary education was received in the district schools, and his final school work was done in the Cummington High School, where he grad-