150 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. uated at the age of seventeen. He then, in 1887, came to Cleveland and, as above stated, has been a resident here ever since. The Dawes family were among the earliest settlers of New England. Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, belongs to one branch of the family. Charles W. Dawes, our subject's father, was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life with the exception of the time he spent in the service of his country during the Civil war, his service being chiefly in the South. He married a daughter of P. Bates, who was also a descendant of New England pioneers, and they became the parents of three children, J. V. being their second born and the only one of the family now living outside the borders of the old Bay State. J. V. Dawes was married in Cleveland, June 3, 1891, to Nellie H., daughter of Byron Fay, of the firm of Wood & Company, merchants of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Dawes have one child, Byron F., aged two years. T. S. LINDSEY, paymaster of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, and for forty years a faithful servant of the company, was born in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, July 9, 1822. He secured a liberal education at the village schools and became quite apt at business, having an opportunity to gain experience from his father's vocations, he being a country .merchant, Postmaster and Magistrate. He also attended Wilbraham Academy and a similar institution at , Amherst, Massachusetts. When twenty years old he left the paternal roof and began railroad work on the Boston & Albany as clerk for the agent at West Brookfield, Massachusetts, displaying rare talent for one of limited experience, in making out reports, etc., without assistance, much to the surprise and pleasure of his superiors. The California gold excitement took possession of him and in 1849 he sailed around Cape Horn to the El Dorado of the West, and was absent between two and three years prospecting and mining the yellow metal. In 1851 he returned East and again sought railroad work, engaging with the Boston & Albany and the Worcester & Nashua at Worcester, and leaving their road to enter the service of the Lake Shore, which he did October 20, 1853, being stationed in Cleveland as ticket agent of the Sandusky division. His first change of position placed him in the treasurer's office, where he remained one year. He was then made paymaster of the Toledo division, and three years later was requested to assume charge of the freight office of the road at Cleveland, remaining five years. He was appointed assistant superintendent of the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad in 1863, and filled the position till 1867, when he succeeded to the superintendency, serving until January 1, 1870, when he was appointed paymaster of the consolidated lines,—the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. In the twenty-three years and a half which Mr. Lindsey has served as paymaster he has paid out of his car to employees more than $80,000,000, and has covered a distance of 225,000 miles, an unparalleled record in this or any other country. Mr. Lindsey has been honored by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern by the change in the name of a town on its line from Washington to Lindsey. This branch of the Lindseys is early Colonial with reference to its time of founding in America. The history of its establishment is quite unusual and romantic, and is as follows: A Scotchman named Lindsey and his sons in command of an English war ship put into a New England harbor at Salem, Massachusetts, for repairs, and while so lying in wait one of the sons made the acquaintance of and married the daughter of the captain of the port. When the repairs were made and the vessel ready for sea, the young husband sailed with his crew expecting to reach England and make proper arrangements for taking up his residence in CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 151 Massachusetts. But while sailing in the Bay of Biscay they were attacked by a French fleet and all were reported lost by the blowing up of the vessel. A son was born to the widow in America and from this son springs the Lindsey family. One of his descendants, Habakkuk Lindsey, our subject's great-grandfather, lived and died in Salem, near North Danvers, Massachusetts. He married Mary Green, October 6, 1741, and reared three children, one of whom was Habakkuk, our subject's grandfather. He was a minute man during the war of the Revolution and participated in the battles of Lexington and Stillwater. He married Joanna, a (laughter of Gideon Gowings, at Linfield, and was a farmer. He moved to New Salem in 1790, where lie died January 12, 1835. His son, Stacy Lindsey, was our subject's father. lle was born in North Danvers in 1786, May 12, and married, in Sterling, Mascachusetts, in 1816, Haley Wilder. Their children are: Augusta H., married Josiah Miller; Catherine J., wife of L. G. Mason; Theodore S., married first Rebecca Dane at West Brookfield; she died in Cleveland in 1879. They had the following children: Theodore D., born March, 1857, now a dentist; Nellie F., born December 12, 1860, married first C. W. Johnson, deceased, her second marriage occurring in 1893 to E. S. Teichman. Mr. Lindsey's second marriage occurred February 22, 1888, to Mrs. Ida Rigg, a daughter of James Stoddard of Norwich, Connecticut. The other members of Stacy Lindsey's family were: F. W., assistant paymaster; Harriet F., married Rev. G. H. Newhall; George W.; and Mary E., wife of 0. G. Holt, at Willington, Connecticut. JOHN M. FRASER, M. D., a leading physician of Cleveland, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, January 15, 1852. His parents were John and Margaret Fraser. The father was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, coming with his parents to Ohio shortly after his birth. John Fraser was a thrifty farmer and a public-spirited citizen, and was for many years associated with those who were active in the best interests of the county. He (lid his full share to promote the welfare of his community, to which he came as a pioneer. He (lied in 1873, aged sixty-seven. He and his wife were members of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. Mrs. John Fraser was born in 1816 and died in 1890. She was a devout Christian of sweet and noble character, and a most exemplary wife and mother. Our subject is the seventh son and ninth child in a family of fourteen children, of whom only ten are now living. William C., an elder brother, enlisted in 1862, in Company C, Seventy-eighth Regiment, and marched with General Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, was a builder of the pontoon bridges, and served three years, his service terminating at about the time the war closed. He never was wounded or taken prisoner and stood the service well. Ile is now a contractor and builder at Wellsville, Ohio. William Fraser has an enviable reputation as a brave, earnest and patriotic soldier as well as a good citizen, such as gives character to a community. Dr. Fraser was educated in Washington, Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of A. M. He read medicine under Dr. Norman P. Sackrider, of Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the Western :Reserve Medical College, where he graduated in March, 1881. He began his practice on Woodland avenue in Cleveland, remaining there until August, 1893, when he removed to his present location on Erie street. He was demonstrator of anatomy in Wooster Medical College for four years, and has been physician in charge of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum on Harmon street for the past three years. He had three years of experience in teaching in Columbiana county. He is a member of the Cuyahoga County and State Medical Associations. He is a Republican in politics. He is well-read in his profession and stands well as a progressive physician and surgeon, as well as enterprising citizen. 152 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. He was married December 27, 1882, to Miss Mary G. Hardie, daughter of George and Isabell Hardie. The Hardies were of Scotch descent, but the father of Mrs. Fraser descended from the French Huguenots. Dr. and Mrs. Fraser have two children: Fanny Edith and Ruth Hun tly. Both parents are members of the United Presbyterian Church. GRACE B. CORNER, secretary and treasurer of the Citizens' Savings & Loan Association of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in McConnellsville, Ohio, June 26, 1846. Since 1857 he has lived in Cleveland. His education was received in public, private, and commercial schools. At the age of fifteen he began his business career, his first occupation being that of newsboy. At different times later on, he visited his uncle in Massachusetts, where he learned something of farming. when he returned to Cleveland after his first absence he engaged in gardening, and made money enough in one season to carry him through Eastman Commercial College. Then he went to Colum. bus, Ohio, where for two years he was employed in a dry-goods establishment, following which he was in the employ of the Buckeye Insurance Company, of Cleveland, two years. In 1870 he became connected with the Citizens' Savings & Loan Association. From time to time he has been promoted, and has filled every position from the lowest up to the one he now occupies, the duties of which he assumed January 1, 1894. He has been a director of the association since January, 1889. Mr. Corner's other official positions are as follows: He is treasurer of the Cleveland Bethel. Union; treasurer of the Bethel Associated Charities; treasurer of the Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Rapids Railroad Company; registrar of the Cleveland Rolling-mill Company; and trustee for numerous funds. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of St. Paul's Church. Mr. Corner is a son of William M. Corner and Mary Trow Bassett. The latter was born in Massachusetts, December 18, 1818. She was educated at Mount Holyoke Seminary under the noted Mary Lyon, and for many years taught a private school in this city, before which she was principal of Worthington (Ohio) Seminary and Howard University at Washington, District of Columbia. She was the mother of two children, the other being Charles Corner of New York city. The last years of her life were spent in the South, and her death occurred at Savannah, Georgia, December 10, 1893. November 24, 1884, Mr. Corner married Amelia C. Ranney, eldest daughter of Henry C. Ranney, of this city. They have two sons. JOHN A. ZANGERLE, one of the many members of the Cleveland bar, and a member of the law firm of Thieme & Zangenie, of Nos. 618, 619 and 620 Society for Savings Building, was born at Hancock, Michigan, April 12, 1865. His parents were Adam and Marie (Ritter) Zangerle, both natives of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. Adam Zangerle was a mason and contractor at Hancock, Michigan, and in 1866 removed to Cleveland and engaged in the wholesale liquor business on Ontario street, in which he is at present engaged. The gentleman whose name heads 'this brief outline was reared in Cleveland and was educated in the public schools. In passing through the course of the high school he stood fair in rank and graduated president of his class. After leaving school he engaged in mercantile life in the wholesale drug house of Benton, Myers & Company, where he spent two years. He next engaged in the music-printing business and continued in it about two years. While engaged in that line he desired to prepare himself for the legal pro,fession, and in order to secure necessary money he taught night school for four years, during which period he was studying law with Judges Burke and Ingersoll. In January, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 153 1891, he was admitted to the bar and immediately went into the office of Mr. Thieme, and a year later formed a partnership with him. He early conceived the idea that politics would be a fruitful mode of advertising and bringing himself before the people, and in April, 1891, he was elected as a Democrat from a heavy Republican district, as a member of the Board of Education, entering as the youngest member of the board. Since that time he has been quite active and has been engaged more or less in politics; is at present Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of the county, having been chosen to that place in 1893. He has been chairman of various political organizations and committees. He is also a member of numerous social and athletic organizations,—Cleveland Grays, Cleveland Gesangverein, Socialer Turn Verein, Lakeside Cycling Club, and other social and athletic organizations. L. M. SOUTHERN, a representative citizen of Cleveland and one of the most eminent builders, first became a resident here as early as 1839, brought here by his parents when a young child. He was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1837, a son of William and Anna (Pixley) Southern, natives respectively of Maryland and Connecticut. His father was of German ancestry, and his mother of New England. On their first arrival in Ohio they located in Rockport for a short time, and then came to Cleveland. The father was a farmer, and also a dealer in staves, shipping to England. He followed this business extensively for many years and died in 1871, at Rockport, Ohio, at the age of seventy-one years. His wife survived until 1876, when she died at the age of sixty-nine years. Of their nine children who grew to maturity, six are living. A record of all is as follows: Julia, widow of Peter Bowers, a resident of Rockport; William, who died of injuries received in the war, in which he had served throughout its entire period, in light artillery; Lemuel M., whose name heads this sketch; Christopher, a fruit-grower of Rockport; Mary, who married a man named Anderson and is now deceased; Joseph, a gardener and orchardist of Rockport; Elvira, now Mrs. John Ingram, of Cleveland; Julius, a merchant and fruit-raiser of Cleveland; and Susie, now the wife of Peter Clarnpitt, of East Cleveland. Mr. L. M. Southern, our subject, was reared and educated in Cleveland. A part of his education he received in a log school-house on the West Side. While his schooling was limited, he has always had the talent of close observation, which has enabled him to obtain in the school of practical life the most important elements of a useful education, having been one of the best and most active business men of the city. When but eight years of age he began to provide for himself, and up to the present time he has never received a dollar excepting what he has earned. Indeed, he really earned his first money when but five years of age, a six-pence. His employment, especially in earlier life, has been various,—making hay, peddling fruit, cutting wood, etc., and he has passed through all the hardships generally indent to pioneer life, and experiencing also many of its pleasures, as, for food he often had venison, wild turkey, wild honey, etc., and for freedom all that the unorganized West afforded at that day. He has visited the red man in his tent, has limited deer and turkey in what is now the very center of this great city, and his home was, of course, the familiar old-fashioned log cabin. When but thirteen years of age he exhibited the .spirit of trade and business. Having saved up $12.50 by working for only ten and twelve and a half cents a day, he invested it in a ten days' option on four acres of land, and within four days afterward he sold three and a half acres of it for what the entire lot cost him. On the remaining half acre he built a house and cleared $275 on the whole deal. Between fourteen and fifteen years of age he began to learn 154 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. the builders' trade, working at first for two years for two shillings per day and board. After completing his apprenticeship he followed his trade some twenty years longer, erecting many buildings in Cleveland,—"from the bottom of the cellar to the top of the chimney." And he was a fine mechanic. During the above period he also dealt in real estate. He was the first to " allot " land in Cleveland, the first to make improvements on allotments, the first to conceive the idea of grading the streets and curbing and paving them, of laying sidewalks, putting in a water and sewer system, etc. He was the first man north of the Ohio river to introduce the practice of paving streets with brick; was the first to pave a residence street in this city outside of Case avenue. He also opened and led in the real-estate business here, reviving it on three distinct occasions from a stagnant condition. He was the first to inaugurate a heavy real-estate business in Cleveland: He bought the largest allotment ever purchased in this city or county, paying for it $335,000, which plat he soon disposed of for over $500,000. He gave a check for $10,000 down, and in five months paid the,balance out of the sale of the property. This was in the fall of 1879. Between 1867 and 1873 Mr. Southern accumulated $175,000, but the financial stress setting in during the latter year finding him loaded with real estate, resulted in his loss of every dollar of the accumulation. During that painful period of monetary stringency he lay quiet, awaiting opportunity, excepting that he improved his time somewhat in another direction, by prospecting for minerals in Colorado, in which he located several valuable . mines,, some of the best in the State, but, being unable for want of funds to develop them, his bonds finally ran out. Since that time the mines have increased in value,—away up into the millions,—and he has never realized a dollar from them. For two of the poorest of those mines Senator Jones paid $200,000. The result shows the superior judgment of Mr. Southern in locating mines. One of his heaviest real-estate deals was his purchase of a lot on Euclid avenue, for $100,000, and in just three days he sold the same for $107,500! He has drawn a single personal check for $156,000. During the year 1880 he did a business of over a million dollars. He has handled more property than any other man in the county, and his name appears upon more deeds than that of any other man in this county. He has made upward of fifty allotments,—over 3,000 acres altogether,—in this city. He platted the Wade Park allotment of fifty acres, Where he spent upward of $150,000 in improvements. In order to consummate one transaction he promised his New York customer immediate transportation as soon as the business was settled, if he missed the train,—which proved to be the case, when Mr. Southern hired a special train and sent his client on his way rejoicing. He has been a close attendant to his business, only occasionally making trips from the city, and they were short. Being a fine mechanic, he has originated and executed many improvements in building. He originated the double-cased pipe and double wrapping with asbestos paper. Of the thousands of houses he has built in Cleveland he has taken a personal interest in each one to make them as convenient and comfortable as possible. In his political views Mr. Southern is a Republican, with a high sense of the " moral" in government. He is kind, considerate and patient; has never foreclosed a mortgage, although he has taken thousands. He is liberal to a fault. He has donated liberally to the building of every church in the city. Practically he emphasizes the maxim that what one does he should do well. Being pleasantly disposed, he enjoys life and the friendship of thousands of fellow-citizens, and is an affable gentleman. December 20, 1861, is the date of his marriage to Miss Libbie Gale, who was born in East Cleveland, a daughter of Martin Gale, who came from Plattsburg, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Southern have two children: William M., CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 155 engaged in real estate and married to Miss Stanley; and Kittie M•, now the wife of Walter King, an optician. The family are Methodists in their religions connections, and they reside in an elegant mansion on Lamont street, at the east end of the city, which location has been their home for thirty-five years. THOMAS JOPLING.—The late Thomas Jopling was one of Cleveland's successful and deservedly honored citizens: by his death the city lost one of the ablest financiers, a leading manufacturer, and a man who in addition to splendid business talent, was distinguished for his unswerving integrity and genial kindliness. He was closely identified with several important industrial and financial. institutions, being at the time of his death one of the managing directors and financial manager of the Otis Steel Company, which is one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country and of which he had been the leading spirit for many years. Mr. Jopling was born in Northumberland county, England, on the 10th of January, 1841, of poor but well connected parentage. Upon the untimely death of his father through an accident, seven young children were left without provision for their rearing and education, but were adopted by relatives. Fortunately for Mr. Jopling, he was taken in charge by his mother's brother, Mr. Thomas Halliday., a man of unusually fine character, without children of his own, and successfully engaged in the management of extensive coal and iron concerns. He gave the fatherless lad a good, plain English education and then took him into his own office to commence his business training. After a couple of years, Mr. Halliday obtained for his young nephew another position, where he would have opportunities of acquiring more varied experience; it was in the office of the Sheephridge Iron Works, then managed by the late William Fowler, M. P., a brother of Sir John Fowler, the eminent English civil engineer who built the London underground railway. The young man remained in the office of the Sheepbridge Iron Works upward of four years, and in that time laid the foundation for the splendid business career which followed. In 1864 he was married to Miss Mary Clayton, a daughter of John Clayton, a well known colliery proprietor and a highly respected citizen of the ancient town of Chesterfield. In the same year Mr. Jopling gave up his position under Mr. Fowler and came to the United States as a country of larger opportunities than his native land. He had a fancy for farming, and purchased a small farm near Enon Valley, in Pennsylvania. However, as he was without. practical knowledge of agriculture it required but a brief experience to demonstrate to his satisfaction that farming was not his vocation, and he determined to return to his old employment at the first suitable opportunity. It was fortunate for himself, family and the city of Cleveland that he so determined, as otherwise the talents of a brilliant financier and a man of extraordinary business capacity must have been lost to the world. He obtained a position in the office of the late Freeman Butts, a coal operator in Pennsylvania, once a resident of this city. Later on Mr. Jopling formed a partnership with William A. Robinson, also of Cleveland, and opened a coal mine near Palestine, Ohio. While thus engaged he met and became acquainted with C. A. Otis, founder and proprietor of the Otis Iron Works of Cleveland. Mr. Otis is above all things a judge of men, and, quickly noticing Mr. Jopling's fine business capacity, he made him a proposition to come to Cleveland and take charge of his office. Mr. Otis's offer was accepted and Mr. Jopling came to the city,—a step that was never regretted by either gentleman. Mr. Jopling had charge of the office of the Iron Works until they were sold, and then became a partner with Mr. Otis in the erection of the new Otis Steel and Iron (Company's) Works, which went into operation 156 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. about 1874, with Mr. Jopling as financial manager. Later he was instrumental in successfully negotiating and completing the sale of this large concern to an English syndicate. He retained an interest in the works, and was made one of the managing directors of the new company,--a position he held at the time of his death. Mr. Jopling was one of the founders, and president, of the American Wire Works, another of Cleveland's large and important manufactories. He was vice president of the East End Savings Bank, and a director of the Citizens' Savings and Loan Association. He was largely interested in the Mutual and Orient lines of lake boats, also in the Cleveland street railways and various other enterprises in this and other cities. His wonderfully clear and direct business insight, his sound and experienced judgment, as well as his well known disposition to render aid and lend his influence to all worthy purposes, caused him to be freely called upon for advice and assistance, and also became the means by which he acquired various interests in many corporations and companies. At all times he was prompt in aiding and abetting all movements looking toward the building up of his adopted city, and increasing her industrial and commercial importance. Mr. Jopling possessed an eminently sympathetic and charitable nature. Never was appeal made in vain to him by the poor and needy, or the discouraged and distressed. He gave liberally to charitable and benevolent institutions of all denominations, making no distinction in creeds; yet so unostentatious was his charity that many of his donations were unknown even to his family until after his death! He was brought up in the church, but after leaving England did not formally belong to any congregation. He followed the teachings of his youth, and his life was that of a Christian, though not a church member. He was interested in public affairs to the extent of being a good citizen, but took no active part in politics. He was one of the most genial of men, with a happy disposition, full of life and capacity for enjoyment. He liked ,good company, and was fond of entertaining his friends. He was a member of the Union, Roadside and Country Clubs; but it was in his own home and surrounded by his family that he found his greatest pleasure. He was a devoted husband and a loving and indulgent father, joining his children when young in their childish games with all the zest of a boy, and finding his best recreation with them when grown up. He was one of those men who possess the power in a singular degree of endearing themselves to their associates, old or young. It may be truly said of him that " whatsoever he did was done with his whole heart," were it playing a game with a child, spending a sociable evening with friends, entertaining strangers, performing business engagements and work of all degrees of importance, giving timely advice and help. -No matter what he did, it was done with a free heart, a clear head and a strong hand. His vacations he usually spent in travelling with his family in Europe, not following the beaten tracks but journeying leisurely from place to place, and resting in chosen spots as fancy or inclination prompted. Mr. Jopling's three children are: two sons, namely, Reginald F. Jopling and Thomas Halliday Jopling; and a daughter, Florence M., married to Mr. Francisco Escobar, a Spanish South American. Mr. Jopling died at his residence on Willson avenue, on the 18th day of February, 1894, of heart failure, at the comparatively early age of fifty-three, and is buried in Lake View cemetery. REV. J. C. HORNBERGER, editor of the Living Epistle and of the English Sunday-school literature of the Evangelical Association, No. 265 Woodland avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1845. His parents were John and Sarah (Killian) Hornberger, natives of Pennsylvania; and his CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 157 grandfather was Jacob Hornberger, who served as a teamster in the war of the Revolution. John Hornberger and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church, and were people whose honorable and upright lives won for them the respect and esteem of all. Both have long since passed away, he in 1863, at the age of fifty-five years, and she in 1862, also at the age of fifty-five. They were the parents of ten children, five of whom are still living. J. C. was the eighth born. The oldest son, Zacharia, was a minister in the Evangelical Association, and died in 1893, at the age of sixty years. The third son, Sebastian, a veteran of the Civil war, died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in July, 1893, at the age of fifty-eight years. All of the family now living, with the exception of our subject, are residents of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. J. C. Hornberger was educated in the public schools and in the seminary of a neighboring town. After teaching four terms in the public schools, he began preaching. That was in 1865. For two years he was on a circuit, after which he was a stationed preacher for thirteen years, filling successively the following appointments: Mahanoy City, Pine Grove, Berrysburg, Harrisburg and Lebanon. Then he was elected Presiding Elder and served nearly eight years, until he was elected to his present position by the General Conference of the Evangelical Association, held at Buffalo in 1887. He was re-elected in 1891, his term to expire in 1895. Mr. Horn berger was a member of the General Conferences of 1875, 1879, 1883, 1887, and 1891, being the youngest member of that body in 1875. He served as English secretary of the General Conference of 1875 and 1879, and the last named year was elected Fraternal Delegate to the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Mr. Hornberger was married, September 17, 1867, to Miss Christie Etzweiler, daughter of George and Mary Etzweiler, of Millersburg, Pennsylvania. He and his wife have four children living, viz.: Mary Mabel, an accomplished young lady, who occupies the position of stenographer in the publishing house with which her father is connected; Edith Rebecca, a medical student in the Homeopathic Hospital College, Cleveland; Sarah Killian, in the Cleveland high school; and Robert Zacharias, employed as book-binder in the publishing house. All the family are members of the same church. The personal appearance of Mr. Hornberger is that of a gentleman of fine physique, medium size, and somewhat inclined to corpulency. He is one of those men whose outside appearances indicate a genial mind and kindly disposition. The dark eyes, shining forth under heavy eyebrows, the well-formed and massive head, and broad chin, indicate the firmness of his character. This has been a characteristic in his ministerial life, as a pastor of large congregations as well as Presiding Elder of districts, and other official capacities in which he has served the church. In all these different positions he administered the duties of his office to the satisfaction of both his superiors in the church and those who were under his supervision. He is a close observer, and his keen eye soon detected any irregularity that may have existed on his district. While yet serving as Presiding Elder he was the editor of a Homiletic Monthly, which was received by the ministers of his church, as well as by the ministers of other denominations, with much appreciation, and was regarded as a work of high. order. This fact evidently was a recommendation to the General Conference of his church, which in 1887 elected him editor of the Living Epistle and English Sunday-school literature of the Evangelical Association. As an editor he has shown his ability by the able productions of his pen and careful selection from his exchanges, and thus he uses his pen and shears with equal success. Possibly one reason wily his labors are so acceptable, is because he has kept himself in close touch with the wants and needs of his readers, not as a caterer who simply desires to gratify, but as a spiritual adviser who knows the needs of his people and cultivates in them a desire for still better things. Another reason which may be assigned is the 158 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. fact that the productions of his fluent pen are his convictions and therefore carry with them moral and spiritual force that leave their imprints wherever they are read. The church made a wise selection when it intrusted to him the general management of the Living Epistle and Sunday-school literature, which has shown a marked improvement in every respect during the period of his editorship. As a speaker, Mr. Hornberger is eloquent, and has the happy faculty of never tiring a congregation. ANDREW FREESE, formerly a teacher and later the Superintendent of the Cleveland public schools, and residing at 241 Sawtell avenue, was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1816. His parents, Gordon and Hannah (Allen) Freese, were married in Deerfield, New Hampshire, their native State. The father was an excellent farmer, and his farm was admitted to be the best one in the township. He was a very energetic and industrious man, teaching by his example that it was a sin to be idle. Politically he was an ardent admirer of Andrew Jackson and his principles. He died in 1862, at the age of eighty-two years. His wife died as early as 1826, at the age of forty-years. She was a lady of ardent temperament, most gener ous impulses and a very pious member or the Free-will Baptist Church. Of their eleven children, ten grew to maturity, four sons and six daughters, and our subject is the only of the family now living, but he has a half sister, Mrs. Mary Ham, a widow living in Bangor. Gordon Freese, Jr., brother of the Superintendent, was a schoolteacher in Brooksville, Kentucky, for nearly twenty years, where he died in 1872. Mr. Freese, the subject of this sketch, was educated in Maine, attending college about three years altogether, but irregularly. He came to Cleveland in 1840, engaging at once in teaching, at •the Prospect Street School. The first settlers of this place were from Connecticut, and, according to tradition, as soon as three familes had established themselves here, which was about the beginning of this century, they started a school for their five children. The earliest school mentioned in any record was kept by a Mr. Chapman in 1814; but it was not until 1836—the year of the organization under the city charter—that any system of public instruction was adopted. In the Prospect Street School, in the latter part of the year 1840, the number of pupils was 275; teachers—in Senior department, boys, Andrew Freese: girls, Sophia Converse; in the Primary, boys, Emma Whitney; girls, Sarah M. Thayer. In the spring of 1846 the mayor of the city, George Hoadley, in his inaugural address recommended that a high school for boys be established, and that the committee on schools be authorized to hire suitable rooms and fit them up for the temporary accommodation of such a school. Rooms were accordingly procured in the basement of a church located on Prospect Street where the Homoeopathic Medical College now stands, and Mr. Freese was elected as principal. The school was commenced July 13, 1846, with thirty-four pupils. The best service Mr. Freese ever rendered the city was his labors in organizing and setting in operation this high school. To prepare for this new work, he was allowed time to visit Boston, where his cousin, Prof. Philbrick, was an eminent teacher, and other New England cities, in order to ascertain the latest and best methods of teaching, and profit by the advice of the most advanced educators. Conversing with the eminent Horace Mann, the latter exhorted him in this laconic manner: " Orient yourself, young man; Orient yourself; then, to quote David Crockett, go ahead." In 1854 the office of Superintendent of Instruction was created, and to it Mr. Freese was at once elected; and he brought to that position all the wealth of observation garnered thus far in a laborious life, and in due time be had evolved beauty from chaos. Utility was the CUYAGOHA COUNTY - 159 ground-work of his successful career as manager of public schools. As he was strong in developing the intellectual faculties of his pupils, so he was apt and swift in educating the teachers under him in their work of teaching. He had the superintendency of the city schools for ten years, was also County School Examiner for nineteen years; and altogether he was engaged in school work in Cleveland twenty-four years. His whole life has been devoted to school work. He has visited all the principal schools from Bangor, Maine, to San Francisco, California. He has visited more schools in this country, probably, than any other man living. In speaking of Mr. Freese, one of the editors of the Cleveland Herald says: " His scholars may now be found in almost every State in the Union, eminent in all departments. They are met with as governors, jurists, mechanicians and artists." Indeed, it has been remarked that were Professor Freese to start for a tour of the globe he could be handed around the world by his old pupils, scattered everywhere from Cleveland to Hong Kong! When principal of the high school he received as compensation $500 for forty-four weeks' service, and as Superintendent $1,300 a year; but a few years ago his salary as teacher was $2,500 a year. In 1847 the Western Reserve University conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He has written considerably upon educational topics. In politics he is a Republican. He was married June 17, 1847, to Miss Eliz.abeth Merrill, a teacher in Cleveland, one of his assistants in the high school. She was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, in 1825, graduated at the Brooklyn Academy, an institution near Cleveland. She had a fine literary culture, excelled in mathematics, was a proficient in rhetoric, and prominent in Chautauqua circles. Her " talks" were always interesting, and she was much beloved for her amiable and Christian character. She died December 3, 1893, leaving but one child, Elmina, now .the wife of James G. Hobbie, an attorney-at-law. The only child in the latter family is Andrew Freese Hobbie a promising son. Mrs. Robbie is a good worker in school and church affairs. Her husband, though educated at Amherst College, cannot beat her in reading Greek, having read it with her grandfather, Rev. Moses Merrill, famous in his day as a Greek scholar and an eloquent Methodist preacher. DR. A. F. BALDINGER was born in Ravenna, Ohio,in 1865. His father was born in Switzerland. Coming to this country when a small boy, he was soon thrown upon his own resources by the death of both of his parents. He, like most self-made men, developed into a strong, upright man. The ion has inherited mental and moral strength. The father was too honest to make money, therefore the son had the making of his own way in life. He was ambitious to be educated. His father could not pay school bills for him, so he worked and studied until he had saved enough to go to Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, and later the Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, where he also commenced to read medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. A. M. Erwin. Dr. Baldinger came to Cleveland in 1886, was a student under Dr. G. J. Jones two years, and in the spring of 1889 graduated at the Homoeopathic Hospital College. At that time he passed a competitive examination and received the appointment to the Good Samaritan Dispensary for one year. He then opened an office in the Scofield Block, where he. remained three years. In 1891 lie moved to 86 Huron street, his present address. During these years of general practice Dr. Baldinger was a close student, developing into a specialist and doing much independent thinking, so that when called to lecture before the students of the Homoeopathic Hospital College he gave some very interesting illustrated lectures on histology, pathology and bacteriology. During the present year he has been promoted to a professorship. 160 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. He is indefatigable in making research, keeping abreast of the times, and convincing those who listen to him that the successful physician must always be a student. He has the happy faculty of winning the confidence of both old and young, thus making him one of the leading practitioners of the city. His pleasing address, courteous manners and scholarly tastes must place him in the first rank. Dr. Baldinger was married to Miss Carrie Haber, of Cleveland, in 1892. REV. ROBERT MOTT, pastor of the First German United Evangelical Church, corner of Erie street and Central avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Baden, Germany, April 13, 1841. He is a son of Jacob and Catherine (Muenzer) Mott, natives of Germany. Jacob Mott served as quartermaster in the Revolution in Baden in 1848. He was one of the Revolutionists, and when the country was subdued he fled to Switzerland, and later on to America, landing here in 1852. He settled on a farm in Erie county, Pennsylvania, where he met with prosperity and where he still resides. He and his wife were members of the Catholic Church before they came to America, but after coming here united with the Evangelical Association. Mrs. Mott was born in 1815 and died in 1883. Mr. Mott is now in his eighty-fourth year. Their family of four children are as follows: Daniel, a blacksmith, who resides near his father; Robert, the subject of this sketch; Josephine, wife of Allen Sturgeon, a farmer of Erie county, Pennsylvania; and Emma, wife of Albert F. Dobler, owner of the famous " Dobler Farm" in Erie county. This farm is second to none in western Pennsylvania. Robert Mott was educated in Germany, a Catholic, and had the advantages accorded to those destined for the priesthood. He completed his studies in Germany and came to America in 1859, settling in Erie county, Pennsylvania. Subsequently he studied the English language in an academical School there. He was received into the Pittsburg Conference of the Evangelical Association in 1861, and began his ministry in Cleveland, Ohio, remaining here one year. Then he preached in Pittsburg and Allegheny nine years; in Warren, Pennsylvania, four years. Returning to Cleveland, he became assistant editor of The Christliche Botschafter, which position he filled four years; and for the past ten years he has been assistant editor of the German Sunday-school literature of the Evangelical Association. He has had charge of an independent Evangelical Church fo'r over five years. Some years ago one of his charges was in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, and while there he received a notice to leave town within twenty-four hours, the notice containing a skull and crossbones. This was in the Molly-McGuire times of that locality. Be it said he did not leave. The papers, the mayor of the city and the best element of the locality were on his side; yet those were days that tried men's souls. In 1882 Mr. Mott returned to Europe and spent three months' vacation there. While on his way back, August 8, 1882, the vessel in which he sailed—the Moselle—was shipwrecked off Lizard Point, at Land's End, and went to the bottom. The passengers and crew were all saved by the efficient service of the life-saving station. The vessel struck a rock in the fog at 8 o'clock in the morning, they were taken back to Falmouth by a coast vessel at 5 o'clock in the evening, and from there were sent back to Southampton, where two weeks later they sailed again for America. Mr. Mott was married in October, 1864, to Miss E. E. Gensheimer, daughter of Joseph and Mollie Gensheimer, of Erie county, Pennsylvania. They have two daughters, Josephine and Lottie. Miss Josephine is a popular and successful teacher in Cleveland, and is a writer of some note. During her recent absence in Europe she frequently wrote for the papers published by the Evangelical Church at Cleve- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 161 land. Miss Lottie is attending the Cleveland high school. The family are all members of Evangelical Church. Although the silver threads are lining his shocky hair, and he has passed his fiftieth milestone, Mr. Mott still enjoys the strength and vigor of youth. He is of imposing physique and possesses a great amount of natural magnetism. He has the faculty of always seeing the bright side of things and enjoying the happy side of life. As a writer he wields a fluent pen, and has made a success of his editorial work. He is a close observer, and his editorials on the questions of the day are keen and sharp, interspersed with commendation or sarcasm, either of which he applies in such a graceful manner that even those who are hit recognize it as a genial tap of friendship. As a preacher he has been successful in building up congregations, building churches and paying for them as he built them, which reflects great credit on him as a financial manager. H. D. CHAMPLIN, A. B., M. D., physician and specialist, located at No. 455 Clark avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, holds rank with the leading members of his profession in this city. Dr. Champlin was born at Grand Gulf, Mississippi, November 19, 1853, seventh in a family of ten children, of whom he and his sister Grace are the only ones now living. His parents, Joseph W. and Harriet M. Champlin, natives of New York State, removed from there to Mississippi in 1838, and for many years his father was engaged in the mercantile business in Grand Gulf, Mississippi, having the largest store in the country and doing an annual business of $500,000, up to the time of the war, 1861. They came to Cleveland in 1889, and have since made their home in this city. The subject of our sketch received a high-school education at New Orleans, taking the degree of A. B., and his medical education in Cleveland. He graduated in the old Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital in the class of 1882. Previous to his graduation he practiced in Columbus, Ohio. Afterward he located in Cleveland, and here his professional efforts have been attended with success, his specialty being nervous diseases. He was lecturer on hygiene in the Cleveland Medical College for one year, one year on microscopy, and one year on nervous diseases. Having resigned the chair of Nervous Diseases in the Cleveland Medical College, he was tendered the same chair in the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery and made professor of Nervous Diseases, which chair he now fills. Dr. Champlin was married in 1881, to Miss Helen L. Kent, M. D., daughter of Arad Kent, of Akron, Ohio, one of its most prominent citizens, who was Sheriff two terms and Mayor two terms. They have an adopted daughter, Jessie by name. The Doctor's parents belong to the Episcopal Church in the South, while he and his wife are members of the Pilgrim Congregational Church of Cleveland. He is independent in his political views, and, indeed, gives little attention to political issues, his whole time and attention being absorbed in his profession. That his abilities have been recognized and appreciated is demonstrated by his long connection with the college of which he is a graduate. He and his estimable wife hold a high place in the esteem of their many friends in this city, they being alike popular in church and social circles. G. B. SPRIGGS, the general freight agent of the New York; Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, was born in Rockingham, England, in November, 1834. His parents were Avery Burdett and Dinah Spriggs, who had two children, both being sons. The subject of this sketch, after receiving a liberal education, was early in life called into 162 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. railroad service. The outline of his career is an interesting one, showing a steady rise from the lowest to the highest position in the freight department. At the age of eighteen he entered the service of the London & Northwestern Railway as junior clerk in the freight department in Rockingham. After a year's service in that position he was made corresponding clerk at Stafford Station. Two years of this work was sufficient to show his employers that he had the right stuff in him, and he was made corresponding clerk and chief accountant at Wolverhampton. In 1858 he was further promoted to the chief clerkship of the district goods manager's office, remaining in that position until 1862, when he accepted, by direct invitation from the management in Canada, the position of freight agent at Hamilton, Ontario, on the Great Western Railway of Canada. From 1862 until 1870 his career was a series of steadily ascending steps, being promoted from the position of freight agent at Hamilton to that of through freight agent, and finally general freight agent, leaving the service on a change of management. From 1871 to 1877 he was assistant- general freight agent of the Baltimore & Ohio system, and developed the business of the Chicago division of that road from its opening in 1874. But in 1877, on the retiring of the management whose regime he had left in 1870, Mr. Spriggs returned to the Great Western Railway as general traffic manager, with headquarters at Hamilton, Ontario. In the summer of 1882, the Great Western and Grand Trunk being then about to amalgamate, the executive officers of the Nickel Plate began casting about for a man who could develop and successfully manage the freight department of the new road so that the rival Vanderbilt lines might be fully cognizant of the Nickel, Plate's existence, Mr. Spriggs was the man chosen for this great work. and in August, 1882, he accepted the position, which he has satisfactorily held, up to date. Quiet, genial, good-humored, never in a hurry or flustered, he nevertheless manages to capture a full share of business, despite the heavy handicap placed upon the Nickel Plate by the older lines. In the Central Traffic Association, Mr. Spriggs is a leading spirit, being on the following standing committees of the freight committee: Rules and regulations; live stock; packing-house products; grain and grain products; oil; paving brick; fire-brick clay and moulding sand; lime; relations with western roads; relations with trunk lines; East-bound percentage basis; and lake and rail differentials, being chairman of the last named committee. At the last meeting of the executive board of the Lackawanna fast freight line Mr. Spriggs was elected its chairman for the tenth consecutive year. In his official capacity he travels a great deal, averaging about 25,000 miles a year, and in a recent year traveled as much as 32,000 miles. Mr. Spriggs is not only one of the most thoroughly informed men in the country on railway matters, but also possesses literary ability of a high order. He is a delightful entertainer, both with material hospitality and a never failing supply of ready wit and humor, and has an accumulated fund of information, gained by years of extensive travel, varied reading and keen observation. He is a firm believer in and advocate of civil service in railway administration, and many men holding advanced positions to-day thank Mr. Spriggs for a friendly lift on the road to success. R. E. SKEEL, M. D., a practicing physician with an office on Pearl, street, this city, was born February 9, 1869, in the city of New York. His father, F. A. Skeel, of this city, is a builder by trade. When Dr. Skeel was in his youth his parents removed to the city of Cleveland, and in the schools of this city Dr. Skeel received his literary education, and he completed his scholastic training here in 1885. He immediately took up the study of medicine, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated in 1890. At college, he gave special attention to obstetrics, and in CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 163 his practice he has been deservingly successful as an obstetrician, and as a general practitioner he holds a very appropriate rank in his profession. He was married July 12,1893, to Alva Boepple, of this city. He is a member of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio State, and Cleveland Medical Societies, and has contributed articles to medical journals. HON. AMOS TOWNSEND.—The Honorable Amos Townsend, ex-Member of Congress from the Cleveland District, occupies a prominent place among that city's representative business men and citizens. He was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1831. His ancestors were in the main farmers by vocation, and those on his mother's side were distinguished in the American Revolution. Aaron Townsend, his father, was born in Pennsylvania, and his ancestors were Quakers who settled at Germantown, Pennsylvania, when they first came to America, during the time of William Penn. Mr. Amos Townsend was given a liberal education, and at the age of fifteen years, after leaving school, began life for himself by taking a position as clerk in a store at Brownsville, in his native State. Here he remained during four years, and then came to Mansfield, Ohio, where he formed a partnership with N. B. Hogg, and under the firm name of A. Townsend & Company engaged in general merchandising. During the trouble in Kansas, Congress appointed a committee to investigate and make report on the condition of affairs in that Territory, and the Hon. John Sherman secured the appointment of Mr. Townsend as Marshal of the Committee, and with the same he visited Kansas. The position was fraught with delicate duties and responsibilities, but he performed them in such a manner as to merit the approval of the contending factions. In 1858 Mr. Townsend removed to Cleveland and took a position as salesman in the wholesale grocery house of Gordon, McMillan & Company, where he remained until 1862, when he became a member of the firm of Edward, Iddings & Company, which was engaged in the same business. The following year the death of Mr. Iddings occurred, and the firm became that of Edwards, Townsend & Company. This firm underwent changes in its personnel a few years later, and in 1887 the name of it became that of William Edwards & Company, Mr. Townsend retaining his interest in it, and is at present one of the senior members. The firm of William Edwards & Company is one of the largest wholesale grocery houses in the West, its history having been one of uniform progress and success. Mr. Townsend's other business interests are varied and important. He is a member of the board of directors of the Mercantile Bank and the Citizens' Savings and Loan Association, two of Cleveland's well known financial institutions. Mr. Townsend's political career began in the spring of 1865, when he was elected on the Republican ticket to a seat in the City Council of Cleveland, a position to which he was re elected five consecutive terms, making a service of ten years continuously, seven of which he was President of that body. He was a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1873, where he served with credit, and in October, 1876, he was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress from the Cleveland District, which at that time included all of Cuyahoga county, giving him a constituency of a quarter of a million of people. During that session of Congress he was a member of several important committees, and introduced a number of bills which became laws largely. through his efforts. His services as a member of Congress were indorsed in 1878 and 1880 by re-election by largely increased majorities. In the Forty-fifth Congress, as a member of the committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, he introduced a bill regulating the postal railway mail service, fixing the salaries and defining the duties of clerks, and also introduced another and similar bill in relation to the letter carriers, both of which became laws, and 164 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. their provisions are substantially the law on those subjects at the present time. During his terms he served as a member of the committee on Commerce, and also as chairman of the committee on Railroads and Canals. In behalf of appropriations for his district he was most tireless and uniformly successful. He secured continuous liberal appropriations for the Cleveland breakwater and harbor, and for the enlargement and improvement of the Government buildings at Cleveland, and for the improvement of the public service of this district. In the Forty-sixth Congress a very able report adverse to the bridging of the Detroit river was made by Mr. Townsend, which was a most important document, and which defeated the measure, and to him is navigation greatly indebted for the present freedom of that great water highway from obstruction. He presented a bill from the committee on Commerce on the Life-Saving Service, which was passed, and also introduced two bills on Inter-State Commerce, and one on Merchant Marine.. He introduced and secured the passage of the "Steamboat Bill," a measure modifying the general law governing the bridging of the Ohio river, and presented an adverse report on the building of the Hennepin canal, also contributing largely to the defeat of that proposed measure. He was a warm friend of the Union Veterans, and many of them are now enjoying pensions which he labored zealously to secure, many of which were special acts of Congress. Mr. Townsend was known in Congress as a "working member." Early and late he was to be found at his desk on the floor or in the committee room, and his capacity for work was frequently a subject of remark among the members. His reports and speeches were prepared with much care and labor, and were always intelligent and to the point, exhibiting a thorough knowledge of the subject in hand. They were uniformly received with high favor by the ablest members, and were given wide circulation. In the fall of 1882 Mr. Townsend was urgently solicited to stand for re-nomination and re-election, and although success was almost if not quite a foregone conclusion, he declined, setting forth his reasons for so doing in an able public letter. Mr. Townsend is a polished, scholarly gentleman, of good personal appearance, and easy of approach. He is possessed of strong convictions, clear foresight and keen and unerring judgment, and is a thorough business man. He is warmhearted and generous, a fine conversationalist, and a most pleasant and agreeable companion. He has a wide circle of friends and business acquaintances, and is highly esteemed both as a man and citizen. As a member of Cleveland's Park Commission, a position he holds at the present time, be has given ample evidence of his progressiveness in the matter of improving and beautifying the Forest City and perpetuat-I, ing her claim to being one of the most beautiful cities in the Union. He is a member of the Union Club, and of Webb Chapter and Oriental Commandery of the Masonic order. DR. GEORGE F. LEICK, the jovial Health Officer of the City of Cleveland, he was born in this city, March 9, 1856. His primary and preparatory education was obtained in the grammar and high schools. At sixteen years of age he went abroad to Switzerland and entered the Polytechnic School at Zurich, and when properly prepared entered the University of Zurich, completing his four-years course and graduating in 1877. Upon return to Cleveland the Doctor engaged in business with the American Wood Preserving Company, being superintendent and treasurer of the company. After two years he severed his cometion with this concern and executed a pre-arranged plan by entering the Western Reserve Medical College, where he graduated in 1885, and he afterward took a post-graduate course in New York city, being connected with the hospital service of the surgical department of the German Dispensary, and attending lectures at dif- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 165 ferent colleges. His first experience as a practicing physician was in New York city, where he opened an office and remained a year and a half. Upon his return to Cleveland he opened an office in this city, and has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a member of the County, Cleveland and Ohio State Medical Societies. For three years Dr. Leick was demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer on chemistry in the Western Reserve Medical College. For seven years he was visiting surgeon for St. Alexis' Hospital, and the past year he has been a member of the staff as consulting surgeon. Dr. Leick has for many years been an active worker in behalf of the Democracy in Cuyahoga county, serving on the city and county executive committees. He was appointed to his present office by Director of Police Pollner in the spring of 1893, entering upon the duties of his office in May. He was one of the incorporators of the German American Bank and was a director, is president of the Cremation Society of Cleveland, president of the United German Societies, and is a life member of Corps Tigurinia, of Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Leick is a son of George and Christine (liege) Leick, born in the Palatinate, Germany, in 1827 and 1833, respectively. The father came to Cleveland in 1849, being a political refugee, and died December 21, 1884. He had two sons,—Dr. Leick (still unmarried) and William S. ARCHIBALD McLAREN, who is at this date Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, and who is president of the Standard Wire & Iron Company, has been a resident of the city of Cleveland since 1880. Scotland is his native land. He was born there in 1845, s son of James and Janet McLaren. He lived in Scotland until thirteen years of age, and was educated at Oxford University, England. At the age of twenty years he came to this country and soon thereafter became an employe of the Atlantic & Great Western and later of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, with which latter company he remained as an employe for a period of twenty-three years. He was then appointed to the position of Deputy Internal Revenue Collector. He has always been an active member of the Republican party and for ten years he was treasurer of the county central committee. He was married in Pennsylvania to Miss Jennie E. Sergeant, by whom he has a family of four children living, viz.: Wallace, Guy, Archie and Charles. Mr. McLaren is a member of the. Masonic fraternity, and is Past Grand Regent of the Royal Arcanum, of Ohio. He was Supreme Representative of the order of Knights of Honor, and for nine years he served as Royal Treasurer of the order of Scottish Clans of America and Canada, and is still Treasurer. He is very prominently identified with all the Scottish societies. AUGUST BECKER, manager of the German Publishing House of the Reformed Church of the United States, was born in Germany, February 13, 1841, a son of A. and Amelia Becker. The father dying in Germany, the mother came to this country with her only son, Mr. Becker of this sketch. Of his two sisters one remains in Germany, and the other, Amelia, was the wife of Rev. Kluge, who was sent as a missionary to Wisconsin in 1856, and at that time they and Mr. Becker, our subject, came to America, settling at Newton, Wisconsin. Mrs. Becker died in 1861, aged fifty-six years. Mr. August Becker, whose name introduces this brief memoir, completed his school life in a seminary of the Reformed Church near Franklin, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, taught school three or four years, and in 1871, in 166 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Milwaukee, he was ordained a minister. His first charge was at Waukegan, Illinois, eight years; next, at New Berlin, Waukesha county, Wisconsin, two years; Waukegan, Illinois, again for two years; and then, in 1882, he came to Cleveland and took his present position. The office in 1882 was at 991 Scranton avenue, and in 1890 it was removed to its present locality, 1134-1138 Pearl street; but the publishing concern is of long standing. The publishing house has thirty-two persons on its pay-roll, and publishes several papers, besides doing all classes of job work. Mr. Becker's life has been a busy and eventful one. He has done great good in the church of his choice, in the various positions he has been called to fill. For many years he has been able to give the establishment of which he is manager his personal attention, and he has ever proved himself to be the right man in the right place, in every way a worthy citizen,—such as gives character to any business in which he might engage. Mr. Becker was married in 1866, to Miss Augusta Ballhorn, a daughter of John Ball-horn, of Wisconsin, and they have one child, Henry, who is at present a physician of Charity Hospital, Cleveland. He graduated in the medical department of the Western Reserve University. Mrs. Becker and her son Henry also are members of the Reformed Church of the United States. HON. DAVID A. DANGLER.— A man who, most conspicuously identified with the industrial life of the Forest City, enjoying a marked esteem and popularity, has been honored with such high preferments as stand in evidence of his ability and unblemished character, must certainly be designated as a representative citizen of Cleveland, and as such be accorded due attention in a comparative way in a volume whose province is defined as touching the biographical history of Cuyahoga county. David A. Dangler, president of the Dangler Stove & Manufacturing Company, is a native of the old Keystone State, having been born in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, December, 1826, the son and one of the seven children of Samuel and Sarah Dangler, honored and esteemed residents of their community, where they passed long and useful lives. The former was of German, the latter of Welsh, extraction. The father participated actively in the war of 1812. When quite young our subject came with his parents to Stark county, Ohio, and upon the parental farmstead he passed his boyhood days, learning those lessons of sturdy integrity and self-reliance which have been such significant factors in insuring his success in life. He received a good common-school education, and at the age of fifteen years, entered the general country store of Isaac Harter, at Canton, Ohio, where he served as a clerk for some time. In 1842, he located at Massillon, Ohio, and in 1853 came to Cleveland, where he entered into partnership with John Tennis, in the hardware business. At the outbreak of the late war of the Rebellion he became identified with the Quartermaster's Department, in which he served until the end of that memorable struggle. In 1864 he was elected to the Cleveland City Council by the Republicans of the Fourth Ward, and in 1865 he was elected as a representative in the lower house of the State Legislature. This position he filled with much ability and to the satisfaction of his constituents, as is manifest from the fact that upon the expiration of his term in the house he was elected to the State Senate, becoming one of the leaders and most prominent members of that body and accomplishing much for the good of the people of the State. Since leaving the Senate Mr. Dangler has ever maintained a lively interest in political issues, and has contributed much aid to his party, lending his influence to the advancement of public measures and improvements. As a business man he occupies a distinguished position among the many able men identified with the city's growth and stable prosperity CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 167 along commercial and industrial lines. He has been connected with several very important local enterprises whose field of operations has far transcended the local limitations. Among these may be mentioned the Dangler Vapor Stove & Manufacturing Company, of which he is president; the Standard Carbon Company and the Domestic Manufacturing Company, of both of which latter concerns he was chosen president. He held for the past seven years the presidency of the Vapor Stove Association, and at the present time is president of the Elwood Steel Company and of the First National Bank of Elwood. That these important associations have placed heavy responsibilities upon the hands of our subject is prima facie, but such is the breadth of his intellectuality, his executive ability and his comprehensive grasp upon multitudinous details that he has been enabled to avert the flagging of any enterprise which has been conducted under his direction or with which he has been concerned. Among the manifold industries of the Forest City there is perhaps not one that has had more pertinent bearing as contributing to the comfort and convenience of the public at large, and not one that has been more ably and successfully conducted than that of the Dangler Stove & Manufacturing Company, whose famous Dangler vapor and gas stoves and ranges have practically superseded all other designs in public favor and utilization, as combining in a maximum degree the elements of safety, economy, cleanliness, efficiency and incidental comfort to the busy housewife. The enormous development of the business of the company stands as the most effective voucher for the superiority of the products of its factories. The enterprise was established in 1880, by the Dangler Vapor Stove & Refining Company, and in 1886 the important interests involved were brought under the most effective control and direction by the organization and incorporation of the present company, with a paid up capital stock of $100,000. Subsequently, in order to keep pace with the constantly increasing demands placed upon them by the rapid extension of the business, the company increased their manufacturing facilities and erected, in 1890, a plant which is one of, the largest and most thoroughly equipped of the sort in the world. The exigencies of the business necessitate the constant retaining of a corps of 300 skilled operatives. The executive direction of the magnificent enterprise is in the hands of our subject and his two sons, as associated in a corporation, with the first named as president. Hon. David A. Dangler enjoys a distinctive popularity in the social circles of the city with whose interests he has so long been identified. In his fraternal relations we note that he is a member of the Masonic order and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Dangler was married in 1847 to Miss Judith Clark, daughter of James H. Clark, a prominent resident of Massillon. They have two sons and one daughter. Charles J. is vice-president of the Dangler Stove & Manufacturing Company; and the second son, D. Edward, is secretary and treasurer of the same corporation. REV. HENRY MATTILL, junior agent of the Publishing House of the Evangelical Association, Nos. 265 to 275 Woodland avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Ripley county, Indiana, March 2, 1849. His parents are Andrew and Barbara (Planalp) Mattill, natives respectively of Palatine on the Rhino and of Switzerland, the father born in 1818, and the mother in 1825. They were married in Indiana in 1846. Andrew Mattill came to this country in 1829, with his parents, their first location being in New York city. Subsequently they removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where for several years he worked at the trade of cooper. Their next move was to Ripley county, Indiana, and their settlement was on a pioneer farm, their nearest post office being Cincinnati. That was in 1838. He had the first 168 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. contract for bridge timber awarded to him by the railroad company which built the railroad from Cincinnati to Indianapolis—now a part of the Big Four system. He also sold cord wood, at seventy-five cents per cord, to the same company. From Ripley county, Indiana, Mr. Mattill and his family removed, in 1858, to Iowa, and from there in 1866 to Denver, Missouri, where he and his wife are still living. He has been engaged in farming all this time, with the exception of four years spent in the milling business. That was immediately after his removal to Missouri. They have had seven children, only two of whom are now living. The others, excepting Peter, the youngest, who died at the age of twenty years, all passed away in early life. Those living are our subject and Andrew, the latter being a resident of Falls City, Nebraska, and married to Lizzie Hess, of Denver, Missouri. Henry Mattill received his early education in the public schools and has all his life been an earnest student. When a young man he taught school in Kansas, and later was professor of German literature in Lewis College, Glasgow, Missouri, three years, during which time he brought the department up to a place where it more than paid expenses. Prof. H. C. Pritchett, of St. Louis, Missouri and H. Tillman, Chief Engineer of the Great Northern Railroad, were among his pupils. Mr. Mattill was in the ministry at the time, and was elected Presiding Elder in his Conference,—Kansas Conference of the Evangelical Association,—which necessitated his resignation in the college. He was Presiding Elder from 1875 to 1887, when he was elected by the General Conference of the Evangelical Association to his present position, which he has filled with great acceptability ever since, he having been re-elected in 1891. He did pioneer work for four years on the frontier settlements in Kansas, and is familiar with every phase of border life, his work frequently taking him among Indian camps and where cowboys were the chief inhabitants. For four years, he was a trustee of the Northwestern College and Biblical Institute at Naperville, Illinois. During this time, the school passed through a severe crisis, in which its existence was actually in danger. By an amendment to the incorporated laws of the State of Illinois for educational institutions, the school was not only passed on a safe basis but in excellent condition. This legislation proved as beneficial to other educational institutes of the State which were supported by a large constituency and depending on the State of Illinois. In these matters, Mr. Mattill was not only deeply interested, but took an active part, and by his positive and decided position and influence added much in bringing about happy results. Mr. Mattill was married, June 18, 1874, to Miss' Emma Fryhofer, daughter of Jacob and Susannah Fryhofer, of Randolph, Kansas. Her parents were among the original twelve German Methodists of Indiana, and her father is still living at Randolph, having attained his eighty-eighth year. Her mother long since passed away. They had eight children, namely: Jacob, deceased; John; Susan, wife of Theodore Hanning; Mary, wife of Elrich Schoeder; Rev. Wesley, a minister of the Central German Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Henry, who died of typhoid fever while in the Union army; William, an ex-member of the Kansas Legislature; and Mrs. Mattill. Mr. and Mrs. Mattill have an only child, Henry A., a pupil in the Cleveland Public Schools. Mrs. Mattill is a graduate of the Agricultural College at Manhattan, Kansas, and has been a teacher in the public schools for several years. Of Mr. Mattill, we further state that he is one of the self-made men. He is a little above medium height, with broad shoulders and full chest showing unusual vitality and powers of endurance. • He has a large and finely shaped head, indicating an endowment of mental power and energy above that which falls to the common lot of mortals. His face bears the impress of a wide-awake mind and of a firm resolution in the carrying out of a purpose, mixed with a disposition of kindness and benevolence. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 169 Mr. Mattill is an able preacher. His sermons show careful preparation, and are delivered with a great deal of feeling, energy and purpose. He has the faculty of securing the attention and sympathy of a congregation in the beginning of a discourse, and of holding it to the end. Whenever the people hear him preach they are anxious to hear him again. His administrative abilities are of a high order. This he has shown in his work in the positions of pastor and Presiding Elder, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Northwestern College during the trying times of the history of that institution, as a member of important committees of General Conference, and as one of the agents of the Publishing House with which he has been connected since 1887. The last few years of the life of Rev. Martin Lauer, senior publisher, the greater part of the work of overseeing and managing the affairs of the Publishing House devolved upon. Mr. Mat-till, on account of the frequent illness of his colleague. He showed himself equal to the occasion, managing affairs with tact and energy. One of the results of the connection of Mr. Mattill with the Evangelical Publishing House is the introduction of new and improved machinery, enabling the house to do better work as well as to secure enlarged profits upon the work done. His knowledge of machinery and his skill at invention are especially seen in the very practical and highly satisfactory gathering machine now in use in the book bindery, of which he is the inventor. P. M. SPENCER, vice president of the Cleveland National Bank, and one of the best known financiers of the Forest City, is a worthy representative of that celebrated Spencer family numbered among the Pilgrim Fathers aboard the Mayflower, and whose landing at Plymouth Rock was the initial stroke in the establishment of American settlements and civilization. A history of the offspring of this family would present an array of progressive business men representing various callings and challenging all America to produce its superior. The genealogy of this family will begin with Phineas Spencer, a son of the “Empire State," born near Albany in 1773. His civil life was spent in agricultural pursuits. He emigrated to Washington county, New York, about the year 1800, and when England made war on us for the second time he was commissioned a Captain in the army and served through the struggle. Phineas Spencer married Elsie Farnsworth, a descendant of the Holland Dutch, and they had four sons and eight daughters. Lyman M. Spencer, the oldest son, and father of P. M., was born in Washington county, in 1805, was commissioned a Captain of volunteers for service rendered in the Mexican war, emigrated to Ohio in 1868, locating in Portage county, and died at Ravenna, in March, 1873. He married Phebe, a daughter of James and Phebe (Jenkins) Kingsley. Her grandmother was a Luther, a direct descendant of the great religious reformer, Martin Luther. Mrs. Spencer's death occurred at Ravenna on August 12, 1886. Lyman M. Spencer and wife had the following children: The late A. K. Spencer, Mrs. J. C. Prentice of Ravenna, C. F. Spencer and Mrs. C. E. Poe of this city. P. M. Spencer was born on a farm in Fort Ann, Washington county, New York, March 1, 1844. He secured a fair intellectual training from the district schools, and from an \academy, excelling as a student. The breaking out of the Civil war gave him an opportunity to become not only a student of events, but also an actual participant in them. August 11, 1862, he enlisted, at Fort Ann, in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-third New York Infantry, as a private. He was sworn in on September 4th, and was ordered to Washington, District of Columbia, where another order soon placed him with his regiment in front of the Confederates at South Mountain and Antietam, which was followed by the bloody battles of 170 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Mr. Spencer contracted a fever while in the service and after a long siege in the hospital was taken home on leave of absence. Not becoming able to rejoin his regiment and endure the hardships incident to heavy campaigning, he was mustered out of service in November, 1863, by a special order of E. M. Stanton, then Secretary of War. Mr. Spencer came to Cleveland as soon as his health was restored and entered the First National Bank as office boy. He rose rapidly by promotion through the various minor positions, becoming assistant cashier of the institution, which position he filled most acceptably for ten years. At this time Mr. Spencer conceived the idea of organizing a new bank, and he was instrumental in bringing into existence the Cleveland National Bank, which was chartered on May 20, 1883, and opened its doors for business on the 28th of that month. He was made a member of the board of directors of the new institution, and was by the board appointed to the responsible position of cashier and active manager, resigning his position with the First National to accept the same. In May, 1892, he resigned the position as cashier and was elected vice president of the bank; and the success of this bank is due in a large measure to his marked financial ability, keen foresight and unerring judgment. His dealings with the bank's customers have always been unchallenged for fairness and squareness, and have created for the institution an enviable reputation as a solid and safe banking house. His rapid advancement from the position of cashier to that of vice president was a just recognition by the directory of his superior fitness for the guidance of this progressive and popular concern. Among the financiers of Cleveland he long ago secured recognition as a man of fine ability, possessing those progressive, ideas and that enterprising spirit that were doing much for the banking interests of Cleveland. For five terms Mr. Spencer was a member of the City Council of Cleveland, having been elected in 1877 and again in 1882, serving on most important committees and rendering valuable service to the city. In politics he is a Republican, and was Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee and also of the City Central Committee, for a number of years. January 30, 1873, he married Harriet E., a daughter of James Pannell, who came to Cleveland from Herkimer county, New York, in 1831. In early life Mr. Pannell was a contractor and builder, but in later life a banker, and at his death vice president of the Cleveland National Bank of Cleveland. His wife was Miss Amelia Newell of Pittsfield, Massachu setts. Mr. Pannell died in December, 1888, and his wife in August, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer are the parents of one child, Clara Louis, aged seventeen. Mr. Spencer is an affable, agreeable gentleman, contributing to all worthy objects and enterprises, true to his friends, and a pillar of strength in sustaining the credit and reputation of his city. Fraternally, Mr. Spencer is a thirty-second-degree Mason, and a member of the Army and Navy Post, G. A. R. He is also a trustee of the Homeopathic Medical College. JOSEPH F. HOBSON, M. D., who occupies a position of unmistakable prominence among the disciples of Esculapius in the city of Cleveland, has his headquarters at No. 429 Prospect street. He was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 30, 1861, a son of Stephen and Margaret (Bailey) Hobson, both of whom were natives of the Buckeye State. The father was a well known merchant in Flushing, Belmont county, for more than three decades, and was honored and esteemed by all as a most able business man and excellent citizen. He was favorably known throughout Belmont and contiguous counties and was prominently concerned in all measures that looked to the conservation of the best interests of the community CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 171 and the furtherance of its legitimate progress. His life was one of activity and usefulness, while his nature was one swayed by noble impulses. He was a member of the Society of Friends, a man of quick sympathies, broad intelligence and notable intellectuality. He completed his education at Mount Pleasant Academy, in Jefferson county, Ohio. He died in 1887, at the age of fifty-seven years; his wife, who survives him, is also a zealous and devoted member of the Society of Friends. The subject of this review is the third in a family of six children, of whom four are living, all residing in their native town save him to whom attention is here directed. Dr. Hobson received his literary training at the Friends' school, at Barnesville, Ohio, and then, having determined to make the practice of medicine his life work, lie commenced a course of reading under the preceptorship of Dr. J. Hobson, a talented practitioner at Flushing. He finished his medical studies in the medical department of the Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, graduating in 1886. He served for a term and a half as house physician in Lakeside Hospital, proving a very efficient officer and incidentally gaining most valuable experience. He then opened an office on Erie street, in Cleveland, and there remained from 1887 until 1891, when he removed to his present and more convenient quarters. He carries on a general practice of medicine and surgery and has a representative patronage. He is Professor of Casualty and Minor Surgery in the medical department of the Wooster University, Cleveland, Ohio, is surgeon to the outdoor department of the same institution, is surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and chief surgeon of the Valley Division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. In addition to these honorable preferments, all of which stand in evidence of his professional ability, the Doctor is also visiting physician arid surgeon of the Cleveland City Hospital. He is medical examiner for those well known insurance companies, the National Union of Ohio and the State Mutual of Massachusetts. He is a member of the city, county and State medical societies, of the American Medical Association and of the National Association of Railroad Surgeons. November 9, 1892, Dr. Hobson was united in marriage to Miss Ann Schlather, daughter of Leonard Schlather, one of the old and honored citizens of Cleveland. In his political proclivities the Doctor strongly advocates the principles advanced by the Republican party, and he has maintained an active interest in the cause. He is a man of comprehensive general information, a close student in the line of his profession and has won an enviable reputation as a careful, conscientious and painstaking physician. He is ever in pace with the advances made in the science of medicine and may congruously be designated as a fin-du-sieele type in the line of his profession, one in whom confidence may implicitly be reposed. EDWIN B. HALE.—The late Edwin B. Hale, who for nearly forty years was —J closely identified with the banking interests of Cleveland, was one of the city's ablest financiers and most prominent and deservedly honored citizens. Mr. Hale sprang from an old and honored English family, his ancestors having held numerous positions of trust and responsibilty in England as far back as the thirteenth century. One of the best known members of the family was Sir Matthew Hale, who was known in history as the 4‘ just and upright judge," and the official records of Great Britain show that the Hales came in for a large share of both military and civic honors. Members of the family were among the early settlers of New England, Samuel Hale (Hales) settling in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1635; and they there displayed the same energy that distinguished the family in the mother country. They were prominent in the skirmishes with the savages in the French 172 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. and Indian wars, and especially so in the war of the Revolution, Connecticut furnishing to the American army no less than sixteen brave soldiers by the name of Hale, all heads of families and all from the same section. The father of Mr. Hale was Philo Hale, who was a man of remarkable energy and enterprise, and was the first to engage in and establish the business of ship-building on the Connecticut river, which he carried on successfully until the outbreak of the war with England in 1812. This war ruined his business and involved him in serious loss. He afterward traveled extensively abroad, but later returned to his native country and became a prominent pioneer citizen of central Illinois, where he repaired his broken fortunes, and where he died in 1848. Edwin B. Hale was born on the 8th day of February, 1819, in the city of Brooklyn, New York, but his parents, during his infancy, removed to Glastonbury, Connecticut, where he was reared and given the advantage of the best schools. He had a leaning toward classical studies, and it was intended that he should enter Yale College. The death of his mother, two brothers and a sister, however, broke up the home and prevented the carrying out of this plan. He came to Ohio,' and in 1837 entered Kenyon College, at Gambier, where he gave his entire attention to his studies and graduated with the honors of his class in 1841, having won the personal friendship of every member of the faculty and the kind regard of his fellow students. He then determined to follow the life of a scholar, to which his literary tastes strongly inclined him; and there can be no doubt but that in that field honor awaited him had he entered it. But at the request of his father he entered the legal profession, associating himself with the firm of Goddard & Converse, of Zanesville, and in 1843 was admitted to the bar. Several years following his admisSion to the bar he resided in Illinois, where his business required his presence, and up to the time of his death his landed interests in that State demanded a share of his attention. In 1852 Mr. Hale became a citizen of Cleveland, and began his career by engaging in the private banking business, associating with himself Stephen Sturges, and doing business under the firm name of Sturges & Hale. Shortly afterward he bought out the interests of Mr. Sturges, and for a time continued the business alone. A few years later Mr. W. H. Barriss, who had entered the office in 1859, was taken in as a partner, and the firm name was changed to that of E. B. Hale & Company, Mess-rs. Hale and Barriss constituting the same until 1879, when Mr. Hale's eldest son, Willis B., after having been with the firm nine years, was admitted as an equal partner, the firm name remaining unchanged. This partnership remained unchanged until the successor of E. B. Hale & Company—the Marine Bank Company--was organized, in the spring of 1891, Mr. E. B. Hale becoming president, Mr. Barriss cashier, and Mr. W. B. Hale assistant cashier of the new company. The banking house of E. B. Hale & Company had the reputation, and justly so, of doing the largest business of all private banking concerns in the State, keeping their own accounts in London, Paris and Dublin, and drawing drafts on all points in the world, as well as issuing letters of credit payable at any point of the globe. The institution has successfully passed through every panic since its establishment, never refusing to pay certificates of deposit or demand checks on sight. Very shortly after the reorganization of the bank Mr. Hale died, suddenly, at his desk, on the 9th day of July, 1891, without warning and with no member of his family present except his son Willis B. Mr. Barriss succeeded to the presidency of the bank after Mr. Hale's death, and Willis B. Hale became cashier,—positions they hold at the present time. Mr. Barriss, as has been stated, entered the office of Mr. Hale in March, 1859, and has been intimately connected with the business \continuously from that time to this. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 173 Mr. Barriss is also interested in the large concern of The Martin Barriss Company, of Cleveland, which is a corporation dealing in hard and foreign woods. He is also a director and treasurer of the Cuyahoga Building and Loan Association, and has charge of various trust funds of large estates. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and is recognized as one of the city's leading representative men. He is a man of fine literary taste, and owns one of the few choice libraries and collections of valuable manuscripts in the city. Mr. Willis B. Hale was born in Decatur, Illinois, on the 17th of June, 1847. He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and entered Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1866, graduating in the class of 1870, and delivering the valedictory address of the Philomathian Society of that institution. He at once entered the house of E. B. Hale & Company, where he has remained to the present, giving most of his time and attention to the interest of the business. He is also interested in other important enterprises, and is a director in some of them. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. In 1846 Mr. E. B. Hale was married to the daughter of S. N. Hoyt, Esq., of Chardon, Ohio, and to this union three sons and five daughters were born, all of whom, with the exception of the youngest daughter, with their mother, survive. The children are Willis B., Edwin, Cleveland C., Mrs. Ellen Bolton, Mrs. Florence Russell, Mrs. Alice M. Cowles, Edith and Caroline, the last mentioned deceased. In 1879, in company with Judge Stephenson Burke, Mr. Hale made an extended trip abroad, forming personal acquaintance with the heads of various banking institutions with which his house held business relations. Mr. Hale was a man of strong character and marked ability. He was quiet and unassuming by nature, yet was firm in his convictions and of strong and decided tastes. In his business habits lie was shrewd, cautious and conservative and always conscientious. He was never exacting or oppressive in his demands, and never willing to take advantage or profit by the misfortunes of another. He was quick to appreciate the legitimate, financial necessities of his surroundings and prompt to act. For nearly forty years he was a leading and prominent member of Cleveland's banking fraternity, and during all that time was an important factor in financial circles. The banking house of which lie was for so many years the head always enjoyed the highest credit and commanded the entire confidence of other financial institutions, both at home and abroad. He was always ready to aid in every proper way to the extent of his ability the development of the commercial and industrial interests of Cleveland, and did a great deal in his way toward making the city what she is to-day. As a citizen he was progressive, and broad and liberal in his views, and was to be found on the right side of all movements having for their object the building up of his adopted city and her institutions. While his charity was unostentatious it was generous, and he ever had a warm heart and helping hand for the poor and needy, and a kind and encouraging word for the despondent and unfortunate. He was a liberal contributor to the charitable and benevolent institutions, and was a liberal supporter of the church, although not a member of any congregation. He had in his character many elements of strength, and one could not associate with him without recognizing the sagacious intelligence, kindly charity and the ninny evidences of human sympathy which marked his life among men. His deep domestic devotion was one of his strongest characteristics. He was devotedly attached to his wife and children, and it was in the home circle where he found his greatest pleasures. He delighted to be surrounded by congenial friends, and derived great pleasure in dispensing hospitality and discharging the duties of host. Every banker and business man who knew Mr. Hale bears willing testimony to his sterling integrity of character, his eminent ability as a financier, and to the uniform courtesy and kind- 174 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. ness which marked his relation to his business associates and was so conspicuous in his social and domestic life, and all of his acquaintances stand ready to testify to his worth as a man, a citizen and a friend. HENRY CLARK BRAINARD, M. S., M. D., was born in Randolph, Portage —1 county, Ohio, June 28, 1845, the only son of Joseph C. and Elizabeth (Clark) Brainard, and graduated at Mount Union College, Ohio, in 1867, with the honors of his class. - During the war of the rebellion he was a member of the National Guards, with the rank of Lieutenant, being the youngest commissioned officer in his regiment. In 1869 he graduated in the medical department of the University of Michigan, and in the same year was married to Emma G. Coe, only daughter of Deacon James P. Coe, of Randolph, Ohio. He immediately settled in Cleveland, where he has been continuously in the practice of medicine to this time, and has acquired a very large practice. In 1881 he was appointed physician to the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, one of the largest and finest asylums in the country, which position he still retains. In politics he has been more attached to principles than party, and has never been a " party politician," but always a pronounced temperance advocate and generally a Republican. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Cleveland Public Library Board and took an active interest in the development of the library. He was re-elected for eight consecutive terms, and was honored with the presidency of the board for five continuous years. He was one of the organizers of The Arcade Savings Bank Company in 1890, and has been president of that bank since its organization. Religiously, he is a member of. the. Methodist Episcopal Church: has been a trustee for twenty-five years and a Sunday-school superintendent for ten years. One son, Frank C., and two daughters, Edith and Edna, complete the family circle. Dr. Brainard all his life has been a close student and a hard worker, possessing a splendid physical constitution and indomitable energy, has been prominent in many progressive movements, and in all his relations has displayed that integrity of character which wins and holds the confidence of all who know him. SAMUEL FRIEDMAN, Superintendent of the Sir Moses Montefiore Kosher Home for the Aged and Infirm Israelites, located on the corner of Woodland and Wilson avenues, was born in Hungary, October 18, 1845. His father, B. Friedman, resides in the city of New York. Samuel received his commercial education in Buda Pesth, Hungary, and was afterward engaged in the lumber business and other occupations in his native place. He came to America in 1872, and for the following seventeen years was engaged in business in New York. Then, in 1889, he secured his present position in this city, as successor to his brother, Dr. Adolph Friedman. The latter became superintendent of the institution in 1885, remaining there until his death four years later, the age of thirty-eight years. He received his literary education in Europe and graduated as physician and surgeon in the medical department of the Western Reserve University of Cleveland, in the class of 1888. Dr. Friedman was a man of good promise; was never troubled with sickness until his last, which continued from Sunday until Thursday. His widow, nee Fannie Webber, resides in Cleveland. They. had four children: Helen, Isadore, Walter and Oscar. The Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites contains thirty-four sleeping rooms, one sick ward, one reading and smoking room, one reception room, a chapel, kitchen, dining room, all the necessary store houses, etc. It is built of brick, fire-proof, heated by steam, and con-