200 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. and of fine appearance, a credit to the town. The firm deal in staple and fancy groceries, queensware and flour and provisions. Mr. Bradley was married in 1880, to Cora Isaac, a daughter of James Isaac, and a native of Chagrin Falls, where she was reared and educated. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley have three children—Maud, Bertha and Grace. Mr. Bradley serves as Township Treasurer. In political faith he is a Republican. he is a member of the I. 0. 0. F., Lodge No. 290, and of Encampment No. 113. He is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Thomas Bradley, Jr., junior member of the firm, was born in Chagrin Falls, October 26, 1870, and was reared and educated here. Like his brother, he went into the store when a boy and grew up in the trade. He is a well informed business man, pleasant and affable to all. O. F. FRAZER, proprietor of the pioneer drug store of Chagrin Falls, has been in the drug trade here for thirty years. He was born at Russell, Geauga county, Ohio, March 23, 1846, is a son of Alexander Frazer, now of Chagrin Falls, who is a native of Scotland, where he was reared and educated. At the age of twenty-one he came to the United States and was in New York city at the time of the cholera epidemic in 1832. Later he went to Oneida county, New York, where he was married to Susan Gates, a native of the county. She died in 1882, leaving six children, viz.: Jane M. Merrill, of Painesville, Ohio; Charlotte L. Ellis, of Montour, Iowa; 011ie A. Burgess, of Tipton, Iowa; Calvin G., of Chagrin Falls; John W., of Bradford, Pennsylvania; and 0. F. The father is still living, at eighty-two years of age. O. F. Frazer was reared and educated at Chagrin Falls. All his life he has been a student, and he graduated in 1883, on the completion of a five years' Chautauqua course. He has been very active and successful in business, and besides his fine residence he owns valuable business property in the town. He was one of the most active in bringing the first railroad to Chagrin Falls, and in insuring its success. He has served on the School Board and in the town Council. He was married in 1869, in Genesee county, Michigan, to Mary J. Burton, a lady of intelligence and good family, who was born in Orleans county, New York, a daughter of R. N. Burton. Her mother's maiden name was Olive Foot. Both parents were natives of New York. They had ten children, six sons and four daughters. Three of the sons were soldiers in the late war —Eugene, Frank and Lester. Mr. and Mrs. Frazer have three children—Lilian E., Donna Clara and Harley A. They are all well educated. Three children are deceased: Eva H. C., aged fourteen years; Wade M., aged three years; and Ora Evadne, a babe. Mr. Frazer is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is Trustee, has been active in the Sabbath-school work and is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. He is a well informed man, and is public-spirited, taking an interest in all enterprises that have to do with the building up of education and religion in the town. B. R. LEROY, M. D., physician and surgeon of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, located here in 1885, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He was born at Sugar Grove, Fairfield county, Ohio, in October, 1859. His father was C. A. LeRoy, born near Paris, France, of an old French family who traced their ancestry back to one of noble lineage, who had been prominent in the political affairs and wars. of France. Our subject's father was reared and educated in France, and emigrated at the age of twenty-two to America. He married, in New York city, Miss Ellen Reynolds, a native of Ireland, and came to Ohio early in the '30s. They had twelve children, of whom Dr. LeRoy was the CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 201 sixth. he received his primary education at the public schools of Zanesville, Ohio. From the age of eleven years he earned his own living, at various kinds of work. Inheriting from his parents a love of art, for some time he was engaged in art work. Doctor LeRoy was in his 'teens when he commenced to study medicine in Rushville, Illinois. When at Cortland, Ohio, he began to read medicine under Doctors Atchin son, Mayhew & Thomson, prominent and successful physicians of that place, and finally graduated at the Western Reserve Medical College, in the class of 1885, with credit and honor, and located in Chagrin Falls, where he has since resided, one of the progressive and public-spirited men of the town. The Doctor was married in December, 1883, at Cortland, Ohio, to Miss Myra Coats, of Cortland, daughter of Gilbert and Sarah (Lake) Coats. Both parents are now deceased. Dr. and Mrs. LeRoy have had three children: Verne, B. R., Jr., and Frank C. Doctor LeRoy is a member of Golden Gate Lodge, No. 245, Chagrin Falls, and of Chapter No. 152, is also a member of the I. 0. O. F. and of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 146. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. CHARLES JACKSON, one of the leading citizens of Cuyahoga county. forms the subject of this biography. he is a man of natural ability and sterling integrity, and belongs to one of the pioneer families of the county. Mr. Jackson dates his birth in Murrick, Yorkshire, England, March 5, 1829, and is a son of Row and Jane (Lonsdale) Jackson. They came to this country in 1835, and settled in Orange township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, with which place the family has ever since been identified, although the parents have long since passed away. Further mention of the family will be found in the sketch of C. L. Jackson, in this volume. Charles was six years old at the time he came with his parents to Ohio, and here on his father's frontier farm he was reared and educated, his education, however, being somewhat limited, as school facilities were not of the best in this vicinity then. Early in life he was taught that honesty and industry are the chief characteristics of a successful career, and to his early training he attributes much of the success he has attained. Mr. Jackson has resided on his present farm since 1856, which comprises 171 acres, and the whole premises, from the buildings, the well-cultivated fields and the fine stock, to the smallest detail of his farming operations, indicate thrift and prosperity. His, indeed, is a model farm. Of his private life be it recorded that Mr. Jackson was married at Medina, Ohio, December 15, 1855, to Ann Calvert, a native of Medina county, Ohio. Her mother was twice married,—first to a Mr. Cotingham, by whom she had three children,—Margaret, Christopher and Elizabeth. By her marriage to Thomas Calvert she had four children,—Ann, Jane, Mary and Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Calvert came with their family to America in 1830. He died at the age of forty-eight and she lived to be sixty. Mr. Calvert was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have four children: Frank D., Alice, Walter C. and Nelly A. Alice is the wife of Elias Stoneman, of Chagrin Falls township, this county. Mr. Jackson has long been an active worker in the ranks of the Republican party. He has filled various positions of prominence and trust, the duties of every one of which he has performed with the strictest fidelity. He served as Constable one year, seven years as Assessor, eighteen years as Justice of the Peace, three terms as County Commissioner, and eight years Township Clerk; was administrator for many estates, and is now member of the Board of Education, and has been identified with the same more or less for many years. For twenty-five years he has been a member of the Masonic 202 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. fraternity, having his membership in Golden Gate Lodge, No 245, at Chagrin Falls. Personally he is a man of fine physique, is frank and jovial with his fellow-men, and is as popular as he is well known. E. DECKER, a leading photographer of the city of Cleveland, with his gallery at No. 143 Euclid avenue, has resided in this city since 1857. He engaged almost immediately in this calling upon coming here, and from that day to this his time and energy have been given to this line of business. He is throughout a proficient in his business, and confines his work to photographic and portraiture productions. He was born in the State of New York descending from worthy parentage. Upon investigation of his ancestral history we are enabled to go back as far as the year 1669, to the birth of one Jacob Decker, of Holland. The subject of this sketch is a representative of the eighth generation descending from this progenitor. At a very early day those who first represented the family in the United States came to this coun try, and lived in New York and New Jersey, where they have figured conspicuously in the various vocations of, life, and their descendants have been many, and have scattered to many portions of the country. The paternal great-grandfather of Mr. E. Decker was Reuben Decker, who served as- a soldier in the Revolution. He had a son, the grandfather of our subject, who was a captain of militia, and enlisted, and is known to have started to the seat of war in 1812, but for some cause unknown to the writer he was detained and we have no knowledge of his service in that war. The subject of this sketch is a son of David S. and Hannah (Van Aken) Decker, both of whom are deceased, having died in New York, where they lived many years. .His youth was spent upon a farm, attending the district schools and gaining a fair common-school education. He was a close student at school and early developed a fondness for books; and being of exceptional native ability he was, by means of close application to his studies, enabled to grasp a comprehensive knowledge of the subjects studied, and in subsequent life he gained, through the avenues of books, papers and business experience, a wide and extended knowledge of subjects of general interest. At the age of thirteen years he accepted a position as clerk in a mercantile establishmcnt: Seven years was spent as a clerk, then he embarked in business for himself. Four years was spent in merchandising. Very early he developed artistic talent, and becoming interested in photography took up the art upon the close of his four years' experience as a merchant. Until 1859' he remained in the employ of others, when becoming proficient in photography he embarked in the business for himself. From the above named year he has continuously remained in this business. He is one of the oldest in the profession in the city of Cleveland, and no other photographer, perhaps, has done a greater volume of business and executed better work. He is a prominent member of the A. F. & A. M. He was made a Mason in his native State on Christmas eve, 1854, the Rondout Lodge conferring upon him the degree. Subsequently to his coming to Cleveland he demitted to Iris Lodge of this city, No. 229, and also became a member of Webb Chapter, No. 14, and of Cleveland Council, No. 36. He was an organizer of the Masonic Club of this city. He is a member of the National Photographic Association, of which he is a director, and he was its president in 1887. Politically, Mr. Decker has always been a stanch Republican. From the old Fourth ward he served as a member of the City Council from the year 1878 to 1882. Thus we see that in more than one way Mr. Decker sustains prominent relations. In his profession as a photographer he has been conspicuous and also in a fraternal way, and besides he has served his people in important positions of trust. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 203 In February of 1857 Mr. Decker married Miss Julia English. Her father was Alexander English, a Scotchman of attainment. Mr. and Mrs. Decker have one surviving child, whose name is Grace E. The family worship at the Second Presbyterian Church of this city. JOHN L. JOHNSON, a retired merchant of South Brooklyn, Ohio, is a man who by dint of his own energy and good management rose to a position of wealth and influence, and is to-day ranked with the prominent men of the town. A brief sketch of his life is follows: John L. Johnson was born in Dutchess county, New York, February 20, 1825. His father, John Johnson, a native of Germany, came to America when he was about thirteen years old and settled in New York State, from whence in 1836 he came to Ohio and took up his abode on a farm in Parma township, Cuyahoga county. Ile cleared and improved 100 acres of land there, and on that farm spent the rest of his life. At the time of his death he was ninety years of age. He was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church, and his political views were those of the Democratic party. Previous to his coming to Ohio he had married Margaret Lewis, a native of North Wales, but who was reared in Dutchess county, New York. She passed away some years ago. They were the parents of nine children, three daughters and six sons, all of whom grew up and married and reared families. The subject of our sketch was the third born in this family, and was eleven years old when he came to Cuyahoga county. Being reared on the frontier, his educational advantages were, of course, limited; but his log-schoolhouse education has been supplemented by a useful store of valuable information gained in the practical school of experience. When he was only fourteen years old he started out in life on his own account, his only capital being his willing hands and his determination to succeed. At first he worked by the month on farms, receiving $7 per month. Then he went to Cinch, nati and ran a huckster wagon, and later a canal boat. Finally, coming back to Parma township, he turned his attention to work at the cooper's trade. April 13, 1847, he married Angenette Acker, a sister of Mrs. Charles Gates and daughter of Nathan and Sarah (Kyser) Acker, who were of German descent and early settlers of Parma township. Mrs. Johnson was born in Livingston, New York, May 13, 1829, and was quite small when they moved here. In 1850 Mr. Johnson was one of the gold-seekers who crossed the plains to California, making the trip with pack-horses and walking 1,200 miles of the distance. For two years he was engaged in mining in the various camps of the Golden State, and in 1852 returned East by way of Panama, landing at New York city and going from there to Philadelphia, where he had his gold dust converted into currency. He then joked his wife in South Brooklyn. In the meantime she had supported herself by her needle, working at the tailor's trade, and thus proved herself equal to the emergency, as did many other brave women during those days. In 1859 he went to Pike's Peak, and spent the summer there. In 1861 Mr. Johnson was engaged in farming. That year he turned his attention to the mercantile business in South Brooklyn, and for a period of twenty-four years Successfully conducted a general merchandise store. Prosperity attended his efforts in almost everything he took hold of. To him much is due for the part he has taken in improving South Brooklyn. He owns in Cuyahoga county 215 acres, in four farms. He built and owns the Johnson House, a credit both to him and to the town. He also built his own elegant residence, and the one adjoining it for his son. This son, David M., is his only child. Politically, Mr. Johnson is a Democrat. He has served as Township Trustee, and has also filled other local offices. Fraternally, he is a member of Glenn Lodge, No. 263, I. 0. 0. F. 204 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. In speaking of his California experience, Mr. Johnson remarks that in 1875 he made a second trip to the Pacific coast, 'this time behind the iron horse, the journey being accomplished in six days, while he was months in crossing the plains and mountains the first time. F. E. NOW, superintendent of telegraph and purchasing agent for the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway Company, is one of those men whose genius and energy in various departments of railroad work have won them a place in the councils of the officials of the road. He was left an orphan in infancy, and while living with an uncle near Whipple, Ohio, he was in the habit of visiting the little station house of the Cleveland & Marietta Railway at Whipple, and of picking up waste paper and carrying it home to use in his practice of penmanship. On one occasion a piece of this paper contained the Morse telegraphic alphabet complete, and he set about whittling out a wooden key with which to practice his self-imposed lessons of learning that alphabet. He mastered the system without an instructor and at length surprised the agent of the station by calling him with the company key one day in a mysterious manner. He was then invited by the agent, M. L. Palmer, to remain about the station and attend the instrument, which he did, with greater proficiency than did Mr. Palmer himself. In the course of time Mr. Now succeeded Mr. Palmer as agent at Whipple, and on leaving that point was transferred to Canal. Dover as operator and agent's clerk. A later transfer took him to Massillon, in the same capacity, and still later, in 1880, he came to Cleveland, as operator and private secretary to General Manager Oscar Townsend. He remained in that service till 1882, when he joined the Western Union Telegraph Company. J n the office of his old employer matters were not in a satis factory condition, and after one year's absence he Was invited to resume his former duties, which invitation he accepted. January 1, 1886, a special notice was issued from the office of the general manager naming Mr. Now as superintendent of telegraph. This placed him in charge of all agents and telegraph operators. June 1, 1893, he received a new honor and greater responsibility by being appointed purchasing agent for the company, the appointment authorizing him to contract for all supplies excepting stationery; the authority to purchase that was also given in a later notice. In reference to this matter the Cleveland Leader said: " In addition to Mr. Now's duties as superintendent of telegraph of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway, he has been appointed purchasing agent, a well merited promotion; and while he is yet a young man he is almost a veteran in service, having been continuously in the harness for twenty years, the last twelve of which have been spent in the office of the general manager. Under the former management Mr. Now had charge of responsible work unusual to superintendents of telegraph, and he held the higher position in the operation of the road than his title would lead one to expect. His good qualities are evidently appreciated by his company." The Massillon American said: "Official notice has been issued, from the office of the general manager of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway Company, of the appointment of Mr. F. E. Now to the position of superintendent of telegraph, with headquarters at Cleveland. He will, under the direction of the proper officers of the Western Union Telegraph Company, have charge of all business of that company over his lines, and of all the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling telegraph offices, operators, supplies and repairs. It is only a few years since Fred handled the key at the company's office in this city and assisted the agent with his graceful pen and executive ability in conducting the passenger and freight business. His proficiency CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 205 and manly qualities were noticed and appreciated, and this last is only another step on the ladder of assured future prominence in his chosen sphere." Mr. Now was born in Marietta, Ohio, July 4, 1859, received a meager school training, and was only thirteen years old when he began his railroad career. His ancestors were German. Mr. Now is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Iris Lodge, Webb Chapter and Holy Rood Commandery, and also to Al-Koran Temple. He is unmarried. EDWARD D. HAYES, Secretary of the Department of Charities and Correction ---I of the city of Cleveland, was born in this city, October 11, 1854. His father, Timothy Hayes, was born in county Limerick, Ireland, in 1831, came to America and established himself at Troy, New York, where he was employed for a time in the Troy arsenal. In 1849 a notion to move West took possession of him and he came to Cleveland and was engaged in the grocery business for a time, and following this he was in the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company until the outbreak of the war, when he responded for service and was assigned to duty in the repair and construction line in the telegraph department. He was Captain of a company of men for this service and remained in it till the close of hostilities. His was a most dangerous work, having to invade the enemy's country as a Federal soldier without protection, frequently, from the Federal army. He was twice captured, once by General Morgan. For many years since the war Mr. Hayes has been an officer of some Cuyahoga County Court as a Deputy, and was Superintendent of Construction for the Western Union Telegraph Company, building lines between Cleveland and Toledo. He married, in this city, Mary Ann O'Neil, who was born in Herkimer county, New York, and now living at fifty-nine years, being four years her husband's junior. Their children are fourteen in number, Edward D. being the second, and nine are living. Edward D. Hayes secured a grammar-grade education at the city schools, and at seventeen became an employe of Talbot Winslow & Company. On leaving this company he began learning graining and hardwood finishing, completing the trade and following it ten years. E. M. McGillin & Company sought his services next, with whom he remained ten years as shipping clerk and salesman. He accepted a position with Gallagher, Kennedy & Company in 1891, and remained till his acceptance of the secretaryship above mentioned. Mr. Hayes is a member of Washington Commandery of the Knights of St. John, and for the past eleven years its Secretary; he is also Secretary of the Cathedral Branch of the C. M. B. A.; and is president of the Knights of St. John Life Insurance Association. He has frequently represented his lodge at national and other conventions of the order. Mr. Hayes was married, November 22, 1882, in Cleveland, to Miss Anna, a daughter of William Gorman, of Hudson, Ohio. The result of this union is William, an only child. R. A. BUTLER, Superintendent of the Cleveland Work-house and House of Refuge and Correction, was born in Lansingburg, New York, January 21, 1855. After attending public school there, at the age of fifteen years he moved with his parents to Columbus, Ohio, where he learned the trade of his father and grandfather, making brushes, and also took charge of brush contract at the Ohio penitentiary. Subsequently he connected himself with the Cincinnati House of Refuge, where he introduced to the prisoners the art of brush making; and in 1877 he came to Cleveland as foreman of the Work-house brush factory until 1891. In May, that year, 206 - CUYAHOGA. COUNTY. he went to Jeffersonville, Indiana, where he was Superintendent of the State prison; and in the summer of 1893 he returned to Cleveland, where he now holds the position named at the beginning of this sketch. WAREHAM J. WARNER, deceased, a gentleman who was for many years most prominently identified with Cleveland's growth and development, and who was widely known and universally respected, was born in Burlington, Vermont, January 25, 1808. He was a son of Justus Warner, born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, in 1774, who was a cabinet-maker by trade, emigrated to Burlington, Vermont, but died in his native place, in 1866. Justus Warner was a son of Wareham Warner, of Hardwick, Massachusetts, after whom our honored subject was named. Justus Warner was twice married, for his first wife wedding Lovey Lane, and they had two children: Franklin, deceased; and Emily, now Mrs. Curtiss, of Hazelgreen, Wisconsin, the only surviving child. For his second wife he married Polly Sperry, and they have had four children, viz.: the late Mrs. Jane Giffin, of this city; the late Mary A. Warner, of Painesville, who left a donation of $5,000 toward a fine-art gallery in Cleveland; the late John F. Warner, of the old firm of Warner & Handy, one of the first commission houses in the city and the man who sent the first vessel, the John F. Warner, from Cleveland to England, and the man who brought the first canal-boat load of coal into the city, on which occasion it is stated he wheeled a barrow load up Superior street in celebration of the event; and the fourth and last child was Wareham J. Warner, our worthy subject. The last named obtained sufficient knowledge of books to enable him to engage in the business of teaching, which he did on one or two occasions as a livelihood during the long New England winter months. He was apprenticed to learn the mason's trade and served his three years; becoming an efficient and reliable workman. Becoming possessed of a desire to see the West, he started hither and in 1830 got as far as Black Rock near Buffalo, New York, where he was appointed superintendent of a glass works; and while there he met Elisha Sterling, who prevailed on him to come to Cleveland and erect a building for him. He consented, and in 1831 came hither, and as a result the Cleveland and Sterling Block, where the National Bank Building now stands, came into existence. In 1832 he married Miss Jane A. Morse, born January 18, 1812, a daughter of Benoni Morse, of Burlington. They returned to Cleveland, Mr. Warner became a permanent resident here, and his career as a builder began in earnest. From then until 1866, when he retired, Mr. Warner pursued his vocation uninterruptedly and with marked success. Much of his work still stands, and at this late date many of his buildings are among the important ones of the city. The custom house, erected in 1856; the First Presbyterian Church, in 1853-; the Case Block, in 1866; the Payne Block, in 1854; the Oviatt Block, in 1835; the American House, in 1836; the Kennard House, the Old Stone Church, the Lyman and Perkins Block, and the residences of Younglove, Shelly, Hickox, Perkins and Payne, on Euclid avenue, all attest to his skill as a mechanic and a master builder. He could submit estimates with accuracy on excavations, woodwork, finishing, painting, glazing, etc., as well as on mason work, and could execute the plans for all these departments without the assistance of a boss workman, if necessary. During the twenty-five years of his operations he was a member of the firm of Warner & Eldridge, Warner & Witheral and Warner & Hurd, the last firm being the most prominent, and will be the best remembered of them all. Mr. Warner came to Cleveland with very little means. His contracts yielded him good profits and his capital grew into large figures rapidly, so that at his death his estate was esti- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 207 mated at $150,000. He found time to devote to matters not connected with his private interests. He was for many years a member of the Discount Board for the Society for Savings. He was an officer in the volunteer fire department of Cleveland when water in buckets was passed down a line of men to the burning building and empty buckets came back by the same means. He was one of the first members of the Cleveland Grays, now a prominent military organization. Politically he was an ardent Whig and later a radical Republican. He was elected once Street Commissioner of the city, was two terms Infirmary Director, by popular vote, and in 1841 was elected to the Common Council from the Second ward, when Thomas Bolton was president of the council. By nature Mr. Warner was a sympathetic and and charitable man. He was generous with his means toward all worthy objects. During the severe winter of 1858, when the financial condition of the country forced the laboring man tc apply for public aid, he was active in organizing a relief society and in establishing a " Poor Store," where supplies were dealt out after the manner of 1893—'94. He was one of the founders of St. Paul's Episcopal church, erected in 1845 at the corner of Seneca and St. Clair streets, one was for many years a church Warden. It was Mr. Warner's good fortune during his eventful life to meet and shake hands with many prominent men, among whom was General Lafayette, whom he assisted in laying the corner atom of the Vermont University at Burlington, during his visit to this country in 1824—'25, which ceremony Mr. Warner again participated it nearly fifty years afterward; and he was also personally acquainted with Daniel Webster Henry Clay, Charles Sumner, Abraham Lin coin, General Grant and especially his own fel low townsman, the lamented President Garfield Mr. Warner was a powerful, robust, blunt outspoken man. He had opinions on matter of public moment and expressed them without fear or favor when occasion demanded. Hi integrity was of such undoubted character as to justify financiers in advancing him large sums with which to complete contracts without the formality of security or personal indorsement. His nature was exceedingly domestic. His greatest personal loss was occasioned by the death of his wife, August 6, 1882, who had been an invalid for seven years. She was a devout Christian, and had been an active church worker; was the mother of ten children, only three of whom survive, namely: Mrs. Lydia Elvira Rees, who was born in 1834, and February 7, 1855, married J. H. Rees, and became the mother of three children; Ella, the wife of Charles P. Scoville, son of Oliver and Adaline (Clark) Scoville: their two children are Olive and Kate; William F. Rees, born March 22, 1858, was educated in Cleveland's public schools and in Brooks' military, and afterward read law with M. B. Keith, but never applied for admission. In 1880 he went West to Colorado, and was engaged in the cattle business at River Bend, being associated with Captain J. E. Wetzel, secretary of the Colorado Cattle Grower's Association. He returned to Cleveland in July, 1881, and entered the Society for Savings as a book-keeper, and is now a teller of the institution. Be married, in 1883, in this city, Miss Abbie Champney, a daughter of Mrs. Julia Champney. His two children are Julia E. and Mildred D. Mr. Rees has been for a number of years actively and prominently identified with the Cleveland Grays, and has served in every official capacity except as Captain. He was one of the 'organizers of the Philharmonic Orchestra arid of the Cleveland Mandolin Club. Fraternally he affiliates with the Royal Arcanum. Mrs. Rees' third child was James W., who died February 15, 1890, aged twenty-four years. Others sons of Mr. Warner are Theodore M. and Fred S., whose sketches are given elsewhere; and Dr. E. S. and Charles H., both deceased. Wareham J. Warner married for his second wife, December 20, 1882, Mrs. L. Mott,' who still survives. He spent most of the following year traveling in the East, visiting his old home and other interesting points, and on his return 208 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. home was called on to be present and act as pall-bearer at the obsequies of an old friend and pioneer banker, Mr. Hartness. He did so and contracted a cold, from the effects of which he died, December 1,1883, after a brief illness. He was laid to rest in Lake View cemetery. CHARLES GATES, a retired miller of Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a son of one of the early pioneers of the Western Reserve, and is probably as well posted on the history of this township as any other man now living. A few years ago, in a series of articles written for The Cuyahogan, he pictured most vividly the life of the brave pioneers of this vicinity, drawing from his own rich fund of reminiscences and from tradition, showing the various phases of frontier life, the whole series being threaded with a vein of humor and being most interesting throughout. Mr. Gates' long residence in this township and the prominent part he has taken in bringing about its present development entitle him to prominent mention among its leading citizens. A brief sketch of his life is as follows: Charles Gates was born in Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, February 23, 1825, son of Jeremiah and Phebe (Deming) Gates, the former a native of Connecticut, and the latter of Delhi, New York, of Holland descent. Jeremiah Gates moved to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, as early as 1816. Here he spent the rest of his life, and died in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His good wife lived to be eighty-six. By trade he was a millwright. He built many of the sawmills in the county, and for more than thirty years was engaged in the milling business. In his articles in The Cuyahogan, above referred to, Charles Gates makes reference to his father's mills as follows: "The sixth mill was built by father, Simeon Wallace and company on the Wallace farm, and was known as 'Mud Mill.' What gave it its name, has gone from me, but there is one little incident I shall never forget. It was my duty to carry father's dinner each day while working in the mill; but one day I played truant by suffering myself to be coaxed away by an older boy, going to the Cuyahoga river hunting wild ducks and not returning till about 2 P. M. My pants were thoroughly dusted by mother. I thought then, and still am of the same opinion, that I made the quickest time on record to the old Mud Mill." "Father erected a saw and grist mill on the farm I now occupy in the year 1836 or 1837, on a small brook entering 'Big Creek,' and known as a Thunder Shower Mill,' running when it rained and resting in fair weather, doing its share of sawing and grinding, as many old settlers can testify to." Jeremiah Gates was a man of sterling qualities. Indeed, few men in Brooklyn township were held in higher esteem than he. For more than forty years he was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he held various official positions. Politically, he was first a Whig, and was afterward identified with the Republican party. For a number of years he filled the office of Justice of the Peace. He and his wife were the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter: John, who died at the age of seven years; Matilda, wife of the Rev. I. W. Fish (who was the first white child born in this township), died in 1849; Reuben, of Parma township, this county; and Charles, whose name heads this article. Charles Gates was reared at his native place and remained under the parental roof until he reached his majority, his education being obtained in one of the typical log schoolhouses of the period. In June, 1847, he married Miss Mary A. Acker, a native of Livingston county, New York, who came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, when she was two years old. Her parents, Nathan and Sarah (Kyser) Acker, were both natives of New York and were of German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Gates have three children, two sons and one daughter, namely: Lafayette, Howard C. and Mary I., wife of H. H. Bratton. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 209 Brought up in his father's mill, our subject's first business, when he launched out in life for himself, was to build a steam sawmill in Brooklyn township. This mill he ran for over twenty years. During that period he shipped large quantities of lumber to various points and did a successful business. For several years he carried on farming, owning and operating a hundred acres of land. Disposing of that tract, he purchased the Brainard farm, a portion of which he has since, sold. Mr. Gates and his brother Rubin, in 1876 or '77 built the Star Elevator in Cleveland, at the cost of $29,000, and operated it for sixteen months. It had a capacity of 100,000 bushels. His son H. C. built a fine elevator in Brooklyn, at a cost of $9,000. He also erected his commodious and elegant residence, which is supplied with gas and water and all modern comforts and conveniences. Like his worthy father, Mr. Gates has long been connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, having united with it when he was sixteen years of age and having since remained a consistent Christian, filling various Church offices and also serving as Sunday-school superintendent. When he became a voter he first identified himself with the Free-soil party. Afterward he joined the Republican ranks, and with the best elements of that organization he has since affiliated. Of the temperance cause he is a stanch friend. Indeed, all measures and movements which have for their object the advancement of the best interests of the community are sure to find in him an ardent sympathizer and supporter. Such is an epitome of the life of one of Cuyahoga county's venerable citizens. EDWARD C. PARMELEE.—One of the most familiar figures on the streets of Cleveland is Edward C. Parmelee, general agent of the Humane Society. He was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, September 28, 1826. Claremont was also the native home of his mother, whose father,—Rice, being a farmer and an emigrant from Connecticut, in search of more advantageous location wandered into the vicinity of this little New Hampshire hamlet and met and married his wife. After the birth of their daughter and only child, Mr. Rice, while rolling and burning log heaps as they did in those pioneer days, by accident fell into one and was burned to death in the presence of his wife! The young widow married some time afterward a Mr. Atkins, bearing him eight children. Seven of these were sons, each of whom was remarkable for his size, being more than six feet tall, and muscular accordingly. One of the daughters married Ware Tappan, whose son, Mason W. Tappan, was New Hampshire's Attorney General, and was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for several years. Recurring to the Parmelees, in tracing up their lineage we discover them to have been once and originally an order of the German nobility. As early as about the middle of the fifteenth century a German baron was attacked with a religious fervor which drove him to such enthusiastic demonstrations as to make it imperative that he take up his residence in England. He spent the remainder of his life there, in the town of Guilford, and was the first Parmelee in England. It is certain that a descendant of this Parmeleee emigrated to America during Colonial days and settled in Connecticut, naming the town New Guilford. Here our subject's grandfather, Dan Parmelee, was born, from here he entered the Colonial army and fought her battles till independence was established, and here he died. His son William is the character mentioned herein as having left Connecticut and married the Claremont maiden. In 1828 William Parmelee was induced to come West with his family, locating for a brief period in Cleveland, going later to Summit county, and resided in Twinsburg till his death, which occurred in 1833. In this village the subject of this notice was educated under Rev. Samuel Bissell, a Yalc 210 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. graduate, yet living, in charge of the Twinsburg Institute. At eighteen years of Age Mr. Parmelee returned to his native State, learned carriage trimming, and was employed at it till his return to Summit county in 1850. He soon embarked in merchandising at Solon, and was for many years one of the foremost merchants of the village. In 1879 Mr. Parmelee disposed of his mercantile business at Solon, came to Cleveland and engaged in the real-estate business. In 1881, upon the resignation of Samuel Job, Superintendent of the Bethel Associated Charities, Mr. Parmelee was found to be the most suitable man for the place, and was accordingly appointed. He proved a most efficient and popular official and for six years controlled the distinies of the institution. On the death of D. L. Wightman, agent of the Humane Society, Mr. Parmelee was at once made his successor, as the only available man amply qualified for such peculiar and important work. He has instituted some needed reforms as to the conduct and keeping of the records of the institution under his charge,—the identity and history of every charge until its final disposition by the institution. While a citizen of Summit county Mr. Parmelee served the public as their magistrate for a time, and while at Solon was its Postmaster during the war. He was appointed by the court a member of the relief commission of Cuyahoga county, resigning August 1, 1892. The other children of William Parmelee are: Lucia, Mary, Fannie, Joel, Samuel, Sarah, Daniel, Harriet and Emily, a twin of our subject. Emily married Judge Belding of Denver, Colorado, in whose name the town site of Omaha, Nebraska, was purchased, and who was subsequently Mayor of the city. He went to Denver early and was Mayor of that city, a member of the Legislature of the State and introduced and had adopted the Ohio code. In 1854 Mr. Parmelee married, in Cuyahoga county, Mary, a daughter of Squire Hathaway, a prominent farmer who settled here in 1816. The children of this union are: Emily C., Assistant Superintendent of the Cleveland Associated Charities; and Carroll Hathaway, now a prominent attorney and citizen of Buffalo, Wyoming. He graduated at Grand River Institute, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, at Hiram College with the degree of A. B., took a B. L. course at Ann Arbor, and received the honorary degree of M. A. from Hiram College in recognition of his superior attainments. He is now Register of the United States Land Office at Buffalo, Wyoming, and was the candidate of the Republican party for Supreme Judge of his State in 1892. He ranks high as an attorney and a scholar, and is one of the rising stars of the new country. O. F. McCLENTIC, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, has been in trade here for twenty-eight years, and is the proprietor of the largest and most extensive dry-goods house of the place; it is the pioneer store of the town. The McClentic Block, of which he is the owner, is one of the best business blocks in the town, built in 1882. The ground floor is divided into two general apartments, one for dry goods and fancy goods and the other for boots and shoes. The large upper story is used for clothing, carpets and clocks. He carries a stock of $25,000 worth of goods, of the best grades. Mr. McClentic came to Chagrin Falls when a young man, started in trade and did a good business for three years, when he lost everything by fire. He started again, from the foundation, but by perseverance, good business ability and fair and honorable dealings he secured the confidence of the people, and has built up a large trade. A number of his patrons have done business with him for twenty-eight years. Mr. McClentic was born in Portage county, Ohio, May 14, 1835, a son of William and Huldah (Case) McClentic. His father was a native of Massachusetts, one of the early settlers of Portage county, and died at the age of eighty-two years. His mother died in 1855, at the age of fifty-five years. They had nine children: CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 211 Lucius, deceased; Martin; Abigail, deceased; William, John, 0. F., Albert L., Franklin and Charles. Franklin was a soldier in the late war. O. F. was reared on a farm and received his education in the common schools. He was married in 1883, at Chagrin Falls, to Miss Jane Bellows, daughter of William Bellows, of that place. Mr. McClentic is a stockholder in the Chagrin Falls Banking Company, and vice president of the Chagrin Falls Manufacturing Company. He is one of the public-spirited men of the town, and a man of pleasing address, frank and cordial with all. W. J. McKINNIE, Director of Charities and Correction for the city of Cleveland, was born in Austintown, Mahoning county, Ohio, July 8, 1831. It is believed that the original home of this family was Ireland, that they afterward became citizens of Scotland, and during the period of colonization and settlement of America a branch of the family found its way to this country and settled at the forks of the Youghiogheny river above Pittsburg. It was from this point that one of them, our subject's grandfather, John McKinnie, was commissioned Captain in the Colonial army and fought the battles of the Revolution, returning only after the surrender of Cornwallis' army at Yorktown. This Revolutionary patriot died about 1807. He left Pennsylvania in 1804, and moved to Youngstown, Ohio, where his son, Alexander, then about five years old, grew to manhood, and resided for fifty years. During the administrations of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan, Alexander McKinnie was Youngstown's Postmaster, but when not officially engaged he followed the business of hotel-keeping. He married Nancy Dickinson, whose father was a native of New Jersey. Just prior to and for a brief period succeeding, the birth of Mr. McKinnie, his father kept a hotel at Austintown; the last years of his life were spent in retirement. He died in Pittsburg, at the age of eighty-nine years. His children now living are three sons: Henry and J. T. McKinnie, proprietors of the Hotel Anderson at Pittsburg; and the subject of this sketch. W. J. McKinnie's school days were very brief. He left home at the age of twelve years, and was never again known as a student. It was in December, 1843, that he went to Kinsman, Trumbull county, and began an apprenticeship at the tinners' trade. At fifteen years of age he had completed his term as an apprentice and was ready to do efficient work. He secured employment in Warren, and later in Youngstown, where at the age of sixteen he struck against a reduction in wages, and deserted his trade. In casting about for a location he secured employment in a country dry-goods store, and was so employed for a year. He next accepted a position in a warehouse at Beaver, Pennsylvania; subsequently he was employed as a steamboat clerk on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers till the spring of 1854, when he became a clerk and bookkeeper in the office of the Phoenix Furnace at Youngstown, Ohio, owned by Lemuel Crawford. One year later he came to Cleveland in the employ of Crawford & Price, coal dealers. He remained with them and with Lemuel Crawford till 1865, when his connection was severed for the purpose of forming a partnership with C. H. & W. C. Andrews and W. J. Hitchcock, to engage in the coal business, the firm being known as Andrews, Hitchcock & Company. This firm is still in existence. Politically Mr. McKinnie is a Democrat, and his service to his party has been loyal and active, in recognition of which service President Cleveland appointed him in September, 1885, Collector of Customs for the district of Cuyahoga, and in this capacity he served most efficiently until relieved in 1889 by the Republican administration. In making up his cabinet Mayor Blee selected Mr. McKinnie as his Director of Charities and Correction, and he entered on his duties April 17, 1893. 14 212 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. June 7, 1854, Mr. McKinnie married, in Youngstown, Elizabeth G. Haney, a daughter of Joseph G. Haney, a manufacturer and shoe dealer. The children of this union are: Harry J., with Andrews, Hitchcock & Company; Sarah A., wife of William H. VanAntwerp, of Albany, New York; Nancy A., wife of H. E. Green, of Cleveland; Alexander, in the Public Works Department of this city; and Miss Mary H. Mr. McKinnie is one of the directors of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, president of the Montour Railroad Company, and a director of the Imperial Coal Company. Fraternally he is a Royal Arch Mason. ALFRED TRAVERS ANDERSON, Postmaster for Cleveland, is a native of Iowa county, Wisconsin, being born at East Arena, on April 18, 1851. Mr. Anderson's parents were George and Emma (Rendeell) Anderson, the father born in Ayres, Fifeshire, Scotland, February 20, 1819, and the mother born in Bridgeport, England, George Anderson was the son of a linen manufacturer and was taught the trade. When yet a young man he accepted employment with a prominent firm at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, who were linen manufacturers, and with this concern he remained several years, and in 1847 returned to England, and one year later came to the United States. His first employment in this country was in a thread factory at Lansingburg, New York, but ere long he went to Wisconsin, to which State his father-in-law had preceded him and engaged in farming. His stay in this State was short, for he was soon induced to become manager of the thread factory at Lansingburg, in which he had been employed before going to Wisconsin. This position he held till 1865, in which year he became superintendent of a flax and linseed oil mill at Preston, near Gault, Canada. Three years later he accepted the position of overseer of a shoe factory, at Valley Falls, New York. Mansfield, Ohio, became his residence in 1870, and in 1873 he removed to Cleveland. Along with him his son, the subject of this sketch, came to Ohio. The son was given the advantages of a fair English education in the village of Lansingburg and an academy it Rockwood, Canada. At Lansingburg he learned the tinner's trade, which he followed when the family resided at Mansfield. For a time he had charge of a tin-shop at Oberlin, Ohio, but in 1876 he came to Cleveland, which city has since continued his home. Upon coming to Cleveland, Mr. Anderson accepted employment with Mr. H. B. Hunt, a manufacturer of tin and japanned ware. He proved a very valuable employee of Mr. Hunt, whose trade and business so increased as to place him among the leading and wealthier manufacturers in his line. Mr. Anderson was soon placed in charge of the ornamental department, where he continued up to 1882, when he embarked in a similar business for himself. His business enterprise was conducted with success, being discontinued at the time Mr. Anderson became Recorder for Cuyahoga county. In 1884 the citizens of his ward elected him to the Board of Education, on which board he rendered valuable service up to 1886. In 1885 the citizens of Cuyahoga county laid claim upon his services by electing him Recorder of the county, his term of office beginning in 1886. He was re-elected in the fall of 1888 by a large plurality. Thus again was given evidence that in his ability to fill a position of high trust and responsibility the people reposed' much confidence. He made an efficient Recorder and served in this office five years and three months, and when he still had nine months more of his second term to serve President Harrison commissioned him Postmaster of Cleveland, in March, 1891. Entering upon his duties as Postmaster, Mr. Anderson again gave evidence of judgment and executive ability in the administration of this large office. Many measures of reform in the local mail service were inaugu- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 213 rated and proved of happy results. In 1889 Mr. Anderson was re-elected as an exponent of the tin manufacturers to represent them at the Paris exposition, and in this capacity he rendered such services as distinguished him not only as a representative of the tin industry but also as a representative of the best and most valuable type of the American citizen. Mr. Anderson is a prominent Mason, and also a member of the Western Reserve Historical Society. He is a broad-minded, progressive gentleman, and is warm and generous hearted. He has been a man of great usefulness and credit to Cleveland. In 1874 Mr. Anderson married Miss Hattie E. McGibeny, daughter of John McGibeny, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, and they have had four children, of whom three are living. DR. S. WOLFENSTEIN, Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum at Cleveland, was born in Moravia, Austria, in 1841. He attended the public schools of his native town, also the gymnasium or high school at Bruenn, and afterward studied law and philology at the University of Vienna. Mr. Wolfenstein was ordained a minister, and in 1864 began preaching in Insterburg, East Prussia. In 1870 he came to the United States; for the following eight years was pastor of a church in St. Louis, and since 1878 has served as superintendent of the Jewish Orphan Asylum of Cleveland. His selection for the superintendency has proved a wise one, and his relation through all these years speaks well for the confidence reposed in him by the authorities of that noble institution. The asylum is located on Woodland avenue, and is, perhaps, one of the best institutions of the kind in the United States. The building is of brick and stone, fire-proof, three stories high besides the basement, contains over 100 rooms, and was erected at a cost of over $200,000. Ten teachers are employed, and at present the attendance consists of 470 pupils, their ages varying from five to fifteen years. Their course embraces the higher studies, and their training is both practical and theoretical. A kindergarten is also connected with the school. The pupils are taught trades or occupations for which they seem best fitted. The grounds, consisting of ten acres, are beautiful and well kept, and are the pride of the city. Samuel Wolfenstein was married June 20, 1865, in Breslau, Prussia, to Miss Bertha, a daughter of I. Brieger, also a native of that country. She died July 23, 1885, at the age of forty-one years. They had six children: Julius, a physician; Martha, at home; Leo, attending the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, preparing himself for a teacher in ancient classical languages; Laura, a graduate of the Cleveland high school; Joseph, who died during the present year, at the age of seventeen years, was preparing himself for the profession of civil engineer: and Minnie, attending school. Dr. Wolfenstein is a genial, courteous and scholarly gentleman, and has great aptness for the work in which he is now engaged. J. WOLFENSTEIN, a physician and surgeon of Cleveland, giving special attention to the diseases of the ear, nose and throat, was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1866, a son son of Samuel and Bertha Wolfenstein. His mother died in 1885, at the age of forty-one years, and his father is now superintendent of the Jewish Orphan Asylum of Cleveland, and is fifty-two years of age. (A sketch of him is given elsewhere.) J. Wolfenstein, the first-born in the above family, and the subject of this sketch, received his education in the public schools of St. Louis and Cleveland, and in 1886 graduated in the medical department of the Western Reserve University; he then served as an assistant in the Charity Hospital, of this city, nine months; and spent the following two years in Vienna, Austria, where he studied the diseases of the ear, nose and throat under the leading physicians. 214 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Returning to Cleveland in 1888, hc has since followed the practice of his profession. He is secretary of the Cuyahoga Medical Society, also a member of the Cleveland Society of the Medical Sciences, and of the Ohio State Medical Society. Dr. Wolfenstein is well read and thoroughly posted in his profession, and has received the best advantages to be gained under the best instructors of the old country. He is in every way a worthy and respected citizen, carrying the confidence of those who know him as a citizen and in his profession. LEVI F. BAUDER, an attorney of Cleve( land, is a son of Levi and Eliza (Phillips) Bauder. The father came to Cleveland in 1835, coming from St. Johnsonsville, Mohawk valley, New York. He descended from among the first German emigrants of Queen Anne's reign. His early ancestors in this country, it is believed, settled in New York in the year 1714. Later their descendants participated in the Revolutionary war, under General Herkimer, and the paternal grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the war of 1812. Levi F. Bauder was born in the city of Cleveland, January 28, 1840, educated in the public schools of Cleveland, graduating at the Central high school in 1858, attended a military school at Port Royal, Virginia, and subsequently attended Oberlin College, after which he taught school for one year. Upon the breaking out of the Civil war, Mr. Bauder enlisted, in April, 1861, in the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served for three years and four months, making a. war record as an excellent soldier. He was first a private Corporal, then duty Sergeant, First Sergeant and division Ordnance Sergeant, having been present at the engagements at Cross Lanes, Blue's Gap, Winchester, Strasburg, Cedar Mountain, Pope's Retreat, Manassas, Chantilly, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain and Resaca. At the battle of Chancellorsville Mr. Bauder rendered valuable services by promptly furnishing ammunition to forces engaged in that position of the field, and thus enabling them to repulse the enemy, virtually saving the day. At Cedar Mountain Mr. Bauder did a brave and brilliant act in rescuing the colors of a Connecticut regiment, which, however, were stolen from him, and at the battle of Manassas he accomplished one of the most daring and yet innocent feats of the war. At this battle, in a moment of confusion, his division was separated from its command and lost. Sergeant Bander in an effort to join his command took a certain course, but where it should lead him he hardly knew. He and his fellow soldiers, with their blue coats covered with dust, somewhat resembled in appearance the enemy with their coats of gray. This enabled them to pass through Longstreet's command with eighteen wagons and forty soldiers without being observed until they had almost reached their own command, when their identity was discovered by the enemy, who fired upon them, without effect, for their own command sent out a detachment which made safe their escape. This passing through the, lines of the enemy was not intended, for they bad fallen in among the enemy not knowing really whither they were going. However, the feat was an unprecedented one and nothing like it afterward occurred. Mr. Bauder is a charter member of Memorial Post, G. A. R.; is Past Colonel of Merwin Clark command, U. V. U.; Colonel on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of Union Veterans' Union; Secretary of Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association; member of the Masonic and other orders; ex-President of the Seventh Regiment Association; ex-President of the County Auditors' Association, and was President of the Day on decoration exercises in 1889. For five years he was member of the Public Library Board. Upon his return from war he was united in marriage, September 14, 1864, with Miss Elizabeth Page, daughter of the late General C. W. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 215 Page, ex-Mayor of Norwalk. Upon the consummation of his marriage he settled down in Cleveland, and became chief clerk in the forwarding department of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, in which capacity he served seven years. He was then bookkeeper for the Jackson Iron Company for five years. In 1879 he was elected County Auditor, in which office ho served two terms, being re-elected in 1880. He was then associated for several years with E. Day & Company in the iron-storage business. In 1886 he was elected Justice of the Peace, to which office he was re-elected in 1889. Meanwhile he studied law and passed a successful examination at Columbus in 1890, carrying the honors of a class of sixty-three. Now being admitted to the bar, he located in Cleveland, and has since been actively engaged in a general practice of the law. Mr. Bauder is a friend of education, is especially fond of literature and history, now being a trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society. He has contributed to literature several well-received articles. CHARLES F. LEACH, Secretary of the Board of Education of the City of Cleveland, is a native of the Empire State, being born in Utica, June 19, 1862. He was educated at the Westfield (New York) Academy, and in February, 1880, came to Cleveland. Here he read law in the office of Neff & Neff; and in 1884 was admitted to the bar. Mr. Leach opened an office in this city at once and remained in practice until April, 1889, when he accepted the appointment of First Assistant City Clerk. In the spring of 1892 he was tendered and accepted his present responsible position. He originated a plan for a sinking fund to pay the large indebtedness of the Board of Education, and succeeded in having a bill passed creating a sinking fund commission, and he is now Secretary of that commission. His services in formulating a new and comprehensive system for the management of the business of the schools have received the public acknowledgment of the school director and have added much to his reputation. Mr. Leach is a representative Republican, and he has attained some distinction as an organizer; and he is known throughout the State as an eloquent political speaker. He is a son of William C. Leach, a manufacturer of Pennsylvania, but now retired. Charles F. Leach married, in Cleveland, Lelia L., a daughter of T. C. Burton, of South Haven, Michigan. Their children are: William F., Roscoe C., and Amaryllis L. THEODORE M. BATES, son of the late Isaac Bates, of Cummington, Massachusetts, was born in that town, March 19, 1858. When only four years of age his father died, and with his widowed mother he lived in his native town, where he attended the common schools till he was thirteen years of age. In 1871 his mother became the wife of Mr. Lewis Ford, of Cleveland, to which city he at that time came. He resided with his stepfather in what was then East Cleveland, where he attended the high school. He spent one year surveying with Mr. J. L. Cozad, and the next two years were spent in the office of the city civil engineer of Cleveland, who at that time was C. H. Strong. After 1875 he attended college at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, completing his literary education. During his vacations he read law under the instruction of Judges Pennewell and Lamson. He entered the law department of the University of Michigan, and graduated in 1879, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Subsequently he was admitted to the Michigan bar, and also the Ohio bar, and located in Cleveland, where he was employed with the firm of Odell & Cozad, abstracters of titles, with whom he remained till 1888, when the firm was dissolved. He became at that time a partner in the new firm of Millard, Belz and Company which was then formed 216 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. and later became Cozad, Belz, Bates & Company; this was incorporated in 1891, with a capital stock of $100,000, under the name of The Cozad, Belz & Bates Abstract Company, for which company Mr. Bates became manager and attorney. The firm is now of considerable importance and does a large and lucrative business. Mr. Bates was elected to the City Council in 1890, re-elected in 1891, and was for one year Vice President of the council. In 1890 Mr. Bates received an unsolicited appointment through Hon. T. E. Burton, member of Congress, as superintendent of Ohio for statistics of division of farms, homes, and mortgages, for the eleventh census, in which position he was employed six months, having under his direction over forty men engaged in taking the above statistics in the different counties of the State. In April, 1892, he was appointed member of the Board of Equalization and Assessment of Cleveland, of which board he was president for the ensuing year, and he was re-appointed to the same office in April, 1893, for a term of three years, and is acting in said capacity at the present date, giving his entire time and attention to the duties of said office. In 1882 Mr. Bates married Miss Olive Cozad, daughter of his partner, Mr. J. L. Cozad, and they have had five children, of whom three boys and one girl survive. These children are Clifford, Stanlee, Russet). and Rosamond. W. S. KERRUISH, an active and successful member of the Cleveland bar, was born in Warrensville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, October 30, 1831. Mr. Kerruish was educated at the Twinsburgh Institute, Western Reserve College and Yale College, at which latter institution he graduated in 1855. Predilection led him to the study of law, which he pursued in the office of Ranney, Backus & Noble at Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar in 1859, since which date he has practiced law in this city with abundant success and a constantly growing reputation. In the practice of law he has been associated in partnership with same of the ablest members of the Cleveland bar. He has been identified with various Cleveland public and benevolent organizations, and indeed he is not only a representative lawyer of merit and respectability but is also esteemed and respected as a citizen. He is a ripe scholar, being a constant student, and as a speaker he is of force and eloquence, and hence is a strong advocate at the bar. HARVEY D. GOULDER —Among the prominent attorneys, not only of the city of Cleveland, but of the United States, Harvey D. Goulder sustains high rank. He was born in Cleveland, March 1, 1853, as a son of Christopher B. and Barbara (Freeland) Goulder. Mr. Goulder's early education was obtained in the public schools of this city. In 1869, when only sixteen years of age, he graduated at the Central High School of the city. His father was a lake captain and young Goulder even before completing his education became a lake sailor. Summer seasons were spent in sailing, and during the winter seasons he applied himself to study. He entered the law office of Tyler & Dennis and took up the study of law. Later he served for two years as entry clerk for Alcott, Horton & Company, dry-goods dealers, then, after sailing for a short time on the lakes as mate of a vessel, he entered the law office of the late John E. Cary, a leading administrator lawyer, who was for a number of years a member of the well-known firm of Willey & Cary. In May of 1875 Mr. Goulder was admitted to the bar and at once entered upon his professional career, in which he has been deservedly successful. For a time he and Alexander Had-den were associated together, but for many years was alone. In the spring of 1893, however, he admitted Samuel H. Hadding as partner, formerly of the law department of the "Big Four " Railroad. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 217 Mr. Goulder has gained considerable prominence in his profession, and is esteemed as 'a lawyer of learning and an advocate of power and eloquence. In the practice of his profession Mr. Goulder has made a specialty of maritime and insurance law, and in these branches he has long since been acknowledged as a leader of the Cleveland bar, and the peer of any other in the United States. In nearly all the most important maritime cases arising upon the lakes his services are sought by litigants. It must be understood, however, that his marl time practice is in the main confined to cases arising out of questions concerning lake navigation. At present Mr. Goulder is general counselor for the Great Lake Carriers, and in this position he has considerable and important practice for the Association of Cleveland Vessel Owners. Not only is he prominent in his profession but also has he taken conspicuous part in public affairs. He is a member of the Cleveland Board of Counsel, and for the last several years has been one of the vice presidents of the Cleveland Board of Trade. Not only is he a man of great intellectual power, but of excellent physical development. He is a fine specimen of manhood, and has borne in mind the principle that to have a sound mind one must have a well developed physique. November 11, 1878, Mr. Goulder married Miss Mary F. Rankin, daughter of J. E. Rankin, D. D., who was then pastor of the First Congregational Church, of Washington, District of Columbia. ARTHUR A. STEARNS, attorney at law though one of the younger members of the Cleveland bar, sustains a good reputation as a lawyer. He was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, July 18, 1858, received his early schooling in the public schools and attended Buchtel College at Akron, Ohio, at which institution he graduated in 1879. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1881, receiving the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 at Cleveland, Ohio, where he has continued ever since in a remunerative practice. Mr. Stearns has been a trustee of the Buchtel College for a period of over ten years; was financial agent for this institution during the years 1887 and 1888, has always manifested great interest in and rendered much assistance to his alma mater. Mr. Stearns was married, in 1888, to Miss Lilian G. Platt, of Glendale, Ohio. HON. SAMUEL ELADSIT WILLIAMSON, attorney at law, Was born in. Cleveland, Ohio, April 19, 1844, received his early education in the public schools of Cleveland and afterward attended the Western Reserve College, at which institution he was graduated in 1864. He then attended the Harvard Law School for one year and was then admitted to the bar, in September, 1866. He began the study of law in the office of his father, with whom he commenced- the practice of his profession in February, 1867. In the practice of law, Mr. Williamson was associated with his father for about two years. After 1869 he was associated with T. K. Bolton, the law firm being Williamson & Bolton, and was discontinued in 1874, after which date Mr. Williamson was associated with Judge J. E. Ingersoll, which association ended in 1880. In November of this year Mr. Williamson was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; and served two years, resigning in September; 1882, to accept a position with the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, as its attorney. In this capacity he has continued to serve this company, and in addition to his practice of law in the interests of this corporation he has done important corporation practice for other companies. As a lawyer, Judge Williamson sustains an appropriate rank in his profession. 218 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. In 1878 Judge Williamson was united in marriage with Miss Mary P. Marsh, of New Haven, Connecticut, a sister of Professor Marsh, of Yale College. Judge Williamson has two daughters by this marriage. In 1881 Mrs. Williamson died, and in 1884 Judge Williamson married, for a second wife, Miss Harriet W. Brown, daughter of Rev. S. R Brown, D. D., of East Windsor, Connecticut, and by this marriage there is a son. C. F. WHEAL, assistant superintendent of the Cleveland City Railway Company, and a gentleman, perhaps, without a rival as a builder of street railways, was by nativity a subject of the English crown, being born in Gloucestershire, old England, September 16, 1843. He was a farmer's son and was equipped with a liberal education and a business experience sufficient to enable him to compete successfully with his American cousin in the struggle for physical existence. In 1867 he left England and came direct to Cleveland. He became interested in the construction of street railways almost immediately as foreman for Hathaway & Robinson, a prominent contracting firm of this city, who put in lines of railway in Toronto, St. Catherine's, Belleville, Kingston, London and St. Thomas, in Canada, Fargo, North Dakota, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, in the South, in New Orleans, Louisi ana, in the West, at St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, and Topeka, Kansas, and probably 'a dozen towns over Ohio, not including Cleveland. In this city they built the. Payne avenue and Superior street lines, the St. Clair street and the Broadway and Newburg lines. Upon his locating permanently in Cleveland, Mr. Wheal was made assistant superintendent of the Payne avenue and Superior street lines, at first and for many years propelled by horse power, when it required 300 head of horses to operate them successfully. Mr. Wheal is a plain " business " man,—keeps business and pleasure apart from each other and enjoys both equally well. Mr. Wheal is a son of Charles Wheal, who has one other son, now a farmer in England. The subject of this sketch married, in Racine, Wisconsin, Mrs. Mary Owen, and has three daughters,—Helen, Fannie and Frederica. Mr. Wheal is a member of the Red Cross Society and a leading and valuable member of the Cleveland Gun Club. He was for seven years the champion of Ohio with the shotgun and won three prizes in succession in shots at Niagara Falls, Cleveland and Chicago, beating 149 men in one day in Cleveland. During their last shot Mr. Wheal won the first prize of the Cleveland Gun Club. Quail and pigeon shooting is Mr. Wheal's favorite sport. He has a record of having killed 1,123 quail in less than twenty-six days' actual work. In trap shooting his record is sixty-nine pigeons without a miss,-- 96 out of a possible 100. JOEL WALTER TYLER, general attorney for the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Company, was born in Portage county, Ohio, and he has ever since resided in this State. In his early boyhood days he evinced a decided love for study and general reading, this characteristic being stimulated by his coming under the influence and tuition of a gentleman who was a good scholar, thoroughly versed in literature, and had a charming faculty of imparting his knowledge to others. He took a very kindly interest in the young student, and embraced every opportunity to instruct him while in attendance at the school he then taught, and while attending an academy which opened in the neighborhood. Through these special advantages, and by untiring application, this boy, at the age of ten years, became greatly advanced in elementary education. He could work out the problems in the arithmetics then CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 219 in common use, viz.: Daboll, Adams' new edition; and then there was Pike's arithmetic, a little antiquated, but full of intricate questions, which were handed this boy by his instructor to test his capacity for working out puzzles in arithmetic. Young Tyler was well versed in English grammar and geography. His friend above mentioned was a physician, and at about the age of ten kept him in his office and taught) him physics, anatomy, physiology and chemistry. It was the wish of the boy's mother that he should fit himself for the medical profession. This he declined to do, although very fond of the study, but disliked the doctor's professional practice. In the meantime he commenced the study of Latin with a clergyman. He had thus been under private tuition and academical instruction until about the age of fourteen. At about this time he attracted the attention of a gentleman who resided near him, a surveyor, who had a great love for science, but at that time was termed a "free-thinker." He took the Boston Investigator, and had many infidel works, such as Tom Paine's Age of Reason, Volney's Ruins and other like works. This scientist engaged young Tyler, then in his fifteenth year, to take the district school where he (the scientist) resided. The home of the boy while teaching was at the house of this gentleman, who put into his hands many scientific as well as skeptical works. He especially instructed him in the geography of the heavens. He could go out any clear evening and point out many constellations. Through these object lessons the boy received valuable instruction. Notwithstanding young Tyler was, so being surcharged with skeptical lore, he became convinced that the teachings of Christ should be followed, and claims to be a Christian to this day, although not in accord with denominational creeds. After completing the term of school for which he had been engaged, he immediately went to Hudson, then the home of the Western Reserve College, and entered a preparatory school for college,--first intending to take the whole classical course; but from studying nights his eyes failed him for a time. After recovering his sight he commenced studying in the scientific department of the Western Reserve College, and attended the scientific lectures of Professors Loomis and St. John delivered to the senior class of the college. He was confined in a dark room for about six months, but by the aid of an aperture in the darkened window a, person whom he engaged for the purpose was enabled to read his lessons to him, and in this way he committed rules and definitions in the Latin grammar and in mathematics. Geometry was his favorite branch of mathematics, and even after opening an office for the practice of law he kept geometrical diagrams hanging in his office, and often of a morning would go through the demonstration of some theorem therewith connected, and continued to give private instructions in mathematics. About this time, not being driven by clients, in connection with one of his pupils, he employed a native Frenchman to instruct them in the French language. Through this one, and some other instructors, he acquired some knowledge of this language. One of his pupils was Charles Wilber, afterward State Geologist of Illinois. While Professor Wilber was delivering a course of lectures in Cleveland, Ohio, several winters ago, he got up a surprise party to Mr. Tyler, several of his old students coming to his house unexpectedly to him, but known to his wife, who served refreshments, and a very enjoyable time was the result. When about eighteen Tyler commenced the study of law in Hudson with Esquire Wheadon, and continued studying with him over two years. Part of the time he was obliged to pursue his studies at night, while teaching days in the same place. Having so studied the rcquisite time required by law in Ohio for admission to examination, Mr. Wheadon handed him a certificate entitling him to examination for practice, but at the same time advising him 220 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. to enter an office where there was more general practice than he had, Wheadon's specialty being equity and chancery practice, in which he was very proficient. Following this advice Mr. Tyler obtained admission into the office of Tilden & Ranney, then in active practice in Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, and studied with them one year and a half, making his whole term of law study three years and one-half, and then he was admitted by the Supreme Court of Ohio to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law, and solicitor in chancery, in all courts of record of the State of Ohio. It may be here premised that he has since been admitted to practice in all the Federal Courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. After visiting the " west," as it was then called, that is, traveling over Illinois and Wisconsin, and looking around Ohio, Mr. Tyler finally concluded to locate in Garrettsville, Ohio; several lawyers who had started there had made a success, and this encouraged him to make a trial at Garrettsville. He practiced law in Trumbull, Portage and Summit counties, while having his office in Garrettsville; that is to say, he had a few cases in each of these counties. In the year 1851 Mr. Tyler removed to Kent, Ohio, then named Franklin Mills. Having taken considerable interest in politics, a convention for the nomination of State Senator, while being held at that place, through a committee, offered him the nomination for the position of State Senator, Portage and Summit being the two counties to be represented; it was allotted to Portage as being entitled to the candidate. At first Mr. Tyler thought he would accept the offer, being flattered by what he then considered a high compliment. He was then making by economy a comfortable living by his profession, and taking this matter for a few hours in consideration as to accepting this offer of candidacy, an anecdote -came. into his mind that he had recently heard, of the man who had been very poor, but finally started peddling, whereupon he improved his raiment and " fleshed up; " but, on being complimented for his improved appearance by an intimate friend, the peddler begged this friend to forbear such compliments, for while he admitted he was living so well, it was h-1 on his family! so Mr. Tyler declined going to Columbus on borrowed capital, to get good clothes, and feeding on luxuries while his wife and boys were poorly provided for. About the time he removed to Kent considerable interest in banking, manufacturing, railroading and other corporations was manifested. Mr. Tyler took a deep interest in several of these, and made corporation law a special study, drawing up articles of organization for independent banks, etc. About 1853 came an era in the history of this country for the projecting and building of railroads. A certain company was organized, named The Franklin & Warren Railroad Company. All railroad company charters were by special enactment subject to the general law of 1848, and this special charter was passed March 10, 1851: it gave very extensive privileges. A company under it was authorized to construct a railroad to the east line of the State of Ohio, and extending in a westerly direction and southwesterly direction to connect with any other railroad within this State which the directors of the company might deem advisable, and also authorized to connect with any other railroad company, or consolidate its capital stock with such company, upon such terms as might be agreed upon with such company, authorizing the company thus chartered to connect with any railroad either within or without the State. The company having been organized and surveys made, by order of the court, its name was changed to the Atlantic & Great Western Railway Company. This was the Ohio portion, and afterward two other companies were organized, one in Pennsylvania and one in New York, extending the line to connect with the Erie Railway at Salamanca, New York. What we wish, however, particularly to call attention to, is the fact that the subject of this sketch CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 221 drew a mortgage deed or deed of trust of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway Company tc trustees, Azariah C. Flagg, of New York, being the principal trustee. This mortgage was given to secure the payment of $4,000,000 in bonds of different denominations; and while there had been other mortgages of railroads in Ohio, some of them very elaborate and lengthy, this mortgage, which was drawn by the subject of this sketch, is said to be mainly adopted as the late form by most other companies,--of course with changes in conformity to the laws of the State of Ohio; and he has drawn several mortgages or trust deeds containing clauses of most de. cided importance applicable to This State, one of which protects the mortgaged property from being levied upon and sold for the payment of debts before the mortgage is due or any of its interest coupons. In 1853 Mr. Tyler commenced to act as the accountant, solicitor and attorney for this railroad company. Finally the offices were removed to Mansfield, Ohio, and then he removed there, still in charge of the business of the company. There he remained until 1858, when work was suspended upon the road, and the organization was not fully kept up. He then removed to Warren, Ohio. Having been formerly intimately acquainted with Judge Mathew Birchard, late one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio, he entered into partnership with him; but, political excitement at that time running high, he soon got into politics, and being a Republican was called upon tc deliver public addresses, and did make many speeches in favor of the Republican party. Ur to and during the canvass and election of Lincoln he spoke almost continually at some place in this State, in different counties; and in 1860 he was nominated for Probate Judge of Trumbull county,—an office that then paid better than any other in the county, and it was designed to confer upon him a compliment for his efforts for the Republican party. He was elected that fall, the Republican party being in every way successful. In the spring of that year he entered upon the duties of his office, but at this time the war broke out. Sumter was taken. The country was in great excitement and many of the lawyers of Trumbull county enlisted, but, having been elected to his office, although he was offered a Captaincy of a company in Trumbull county, he thought it his duty to continue in his office, inasmuch as some one must fill it, and the people of Trumbull county had selected him, and the office being a good paying office he thought best to continue in it. In his speeches which he made for the enlisting of soldiers he said that " the office which he held was subject to be turned over to any wounded soldier and lawyer who was competent to fill it;" and to show his wish to be true to his promise he faithfully carried it out, for notwithstanding he was nominated unanimously, and elected by an increased majority over all other candidates the second term, after he had held the office about one year only, a soldier and a lawyer, and supposed to be a good man, came home severely wounded. Brough was then Governor. Mr. Tyler immediately went to Columbus with his resignation, and a recommendation of the appointment of Mr. Yeomans, who was the wounded soldier. Meeting Brough at the Neil House he offered him these papers for examination. It might be said here that Mr. Tyler had had considerable acquaintance with Governor Brough while he was connected with the Bellefontaine & Indiana Railroad, having met him at arious points where the two roads, i. e., the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad and the Bellefontaine & Indiana Railroad, were nearly competitors. Now Brough showed his 4 6 broughness," for, on presenting this resignation and this recommendation, he exclaimed that a resignation was in one hand and an appointment in the other,—the force of which the subject of this sketch appreciated better afterward than at the time. Being anxious to carry out his pledge to the people of Trumbull county, he did not appreciate the situation, and thereupon perhaps got a little offensive himself, in telling the 222 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Governor that he (the Governor) would not only accept the resignation but would make the appointment; thereupon the Governor smiled and passed out of sight. The next day Mr. Tyler called upon the Auditor of the State, with whom he was well acquainted, and told him what a mistake he had made, and how sorry he was for it ; thereupon the Auditor said to him, "You hand in your resignation and also the recommendation of the appointment of your successor, and I will guarantee you that the resignation will be accepted, and the appointment made as you recommend; you no doubt pleased Governor Brough," and this prediction was fulfilled: Yeomans was appointed and installed in the office. Soon after this the construction of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway started up again, and Mr. Tyler was called upon to act as its general attorney. He then came to Cleveland, in 1865, and was appointed the general attorney of the entire lines from Salamanca through Ohio to Dayton. Feeling as though it was rather too heavy a load for him to carry alone, although very ambitious, he thought of Judge R P. Ranney as assistant. During the tine that he was student in the office of John Ranney at Ravenna, Ohio, he frequently met Honorable Rufus P. Ranney at the office of his brother there, and had frequently met him while he was acting as one of the judges of the Supreme Court at Columbus; and he knew, as many knew, that Judge Ranney was unexpectedly to himself elected judge, having run for the office contrary to his own wishes. Mr. Tyler sought an interview with Judge Ranney, and told him of his appointment as general attorney on the lines of road extending from Salamanca to Dayton, and solicited the judge to go in with him and act as counsel for the road, with the understanding that he was not to try cases in the Common Pleas Courts, nor otherwise unless of decided importance. Judge Ranney's reply was that he " would consider the Matter, and that the Supreme Court was going to take a recess at a certain time,"— which was along in February, 1865. However that may be, Judge Ranney came home in February or March, 1865, and immediately sent in his resignation as one of the judges of the Supreme Court, entered into a partnership, or associated himself with Mr. Tyler, and they remained in connection with the business of that company until the final hearing on sale was had, somewhere in 1869, when Judge Ranney took the side with the bondholders of the first-mortgage bonds, and the subject of this sketch was the attorney of the stockholders, and also of the subsequent mortgagees. After the road was sold he was also the attorney of the receiver that was appointed. Various matters connected with this receivership, although extremely interesting perhaps to the country, and might be in this case, could be related here; yet, not to prolong the sketch, it may be stated that Mr. Tyler was the attorney of Robert B. Potter, of New York, who was appointed receiver, afterward the attorney of Gould & ()'Dougherty, receivers, until there was a disagreement between McHenry & Gould; and then Mr. Tyler thought that he was in duty bound to act for Mr. McHenry, which he did. Several very interesting passages might be related with regard to that matter, which would be interesting more particularly to the special friends of the subject of this sketch. At a meeting of a very large number of the stockholders of the company at Kent, Ohio, July 12, 1864, the following statement was made and adopted by them, which we quote here: " From the organization of the company, in 1851, until 1858, Mr. Tyler acted in the official capacity of secretary and legal adviser, and during that whole period no steps were taken, involving an important legal question, without his counsel and approval; and, notwithstanding the severe ordeal through which the cotnpany was compelled to pass, involving a thorough legal investigation into its organization and all its acts, it has ever been able to vindicate itself, and has not lost a dollar by reason of thus following the legal opinions of Mr. Tyler." CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 223 About the time the Atlantic & Great Western Railway was sold and the new organization took place, the railroad company for which Mr. Tyler is at present the general counsel was organized. Several of the persons formerly interested in the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, having taken an interest in this new company, requested Mr. Tyler to act as its general counsel and attorney, which he concluded to do, and has been the general counsel and attorney of the company ever since. The subject of this sketch has been a stanch Republican all his life, and has been a friend of several of the most distinguished persons of that party,—among them Senator John Sherman and James A. Garfield. He was an Elector during the campaign of 1880, and as such he of course voted for James A. Garfield for President of the United States. Mr. Tyler's love of literature caused him to seek through Horace Greeley, with whom he was well acquainted, an interview with Washington Irving. The works of Washington Irving had become extremely familiar to him, —so much so that he could repeat verbatim long passages taken from some of his books, Salamagundi and Knickerbocker and othe This love of Irving's and other literary wor was stimulated by his boyhood instructor, whom reference has been heretofore made. Taking Mr. Greeley's letter to Mr. Irvin he found him in a rather melancholy condition he had not been writing for several weeks, th work he had in hand then being the last volume of the Life of George Washington. This letter being handed to Mr. Irving, he kindly received its bearer and conversation commenced. The introductory letter assuring him that its bearer was familiar with his writings made Mr. Tyler feel ambitious to verify that fact, and he commenced repeating from the early works of Irving certain full passages; thereupon Mr. Irving became very merry, and said, " Your instructor must have stimulated you into a great love of history,"—and went on to talk freely. One remark is particularly worthy of mention: Mr. Irving said that, "having been abroad for several years in different countries of Europe, when I walk along Broadway it reminds me of a boiling cauldron, in which the nationalities of the earth are being boiled together in one mass, and a new people, a new class of humanity is the result,—the Great American People,'—which in my judgment will ultimately excel all other peoples upon the earth." It seems that Irving made minutes of certain things that occurred (which he did in this case), and portions of this conversation have been published in his life and letters. This interview is one of the events of which the subject of this sketch is decidedly proud. Pierre Irving, a nephew of Washington Irving, rode from Irvington to New York with Mr. Tyler, and he said on the way that " the interview was very opportune, for his uncle's spirits had been in that way revived, and he seemed to feel better than he had for several weeks; and he said, I am going to work." Mr. Pierre Irving further said, " You came there as a private citizen, as an admirer of Mr. Irving's works, and showed him most decidedly that you were acquainted with them, and loved Irving for his works; and it seemed to do him good. Many had come to him with their books to have them dedicated to him, or have him write his name in them, and he became disgusted with that class of visitors." Mr. Tyler is still actively engaged in attending to the business of his profession. His duties as general counsel of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Company demand his special attention, but in connection with his son, William B. Tyler, he is engaged in general practice of the law. The subject of this sketch was first married to Miss Nancy V. Horr, who died within a few years after their marriage. By her he had one son, since deceased. His second marriage was to Miss Sarah A. McKinney, with whom he lived many years. By her he had two sons: Charles W. Tyler, now residing in New York city, by profession a journalist; and William 224 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. B. Tyler, now practicing law with hirr in Cleveland, Ohio. He has again married, this time the widow of Mr. James B. Parish, deceased, she having been a scholar of his when a young girl, and her name Miss Emer I. W and for whom he had entertained kindly regards, especially as she and his former wife were intimate friends. JOSHUA B. GLENN, a prominent real-state dealer of Cleveland, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, February 16, 1833, a son of Joshua Glenn. The latter was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, in 1794. His grandfather, Norman Glenn, was a native of the north of Ireland, but of Scotch descent. He braved the trials and dangers of a life in Colonial America to enjoy religious and other liberties. He was probably an officer in the Colonial army during the Revolutionary war, and afterward an officer in a civil capacity. His ion, John Glenn, married a Miss Streater, and they had five children. The family subsequently located in Wooster and Jeromesville, Ohio, where they were engaged in agricultural pursuits. John Glenn died in Ashland county, this State, in 1852, at the age of eighty-four years. His son, Joshua Glenn, the father of Joshua B., was a soldier in the war of 1812, with England, under General Winfield Scott, and was stationed principally at Baltimore. After his discharge he came to Ohio in search of a western home, pitching his tent in Ashland county in 1814. He settled in the dense forest, out of which he grubbed a farm, and his nearest neighbor was then two miles distant. Mr. Glenn married Sarah Beatty, a native of Maryland, and tl.ey had the following children: Robert, deceased; John, who died from a disease contracted in the army; William, in Ashland county; James, who also died from the effects of army service; Elizabeth J., wife of Dr. Cowen, of Ashland county; Mary, deceased at the age of twenty years; Joshua B., whose name introduces this notice; and Nicholas, a farmer of Jeromesville, Ohio. J. B. Glenn, the subject of this sketch, remained on the home farm until twenty-one years of age. He was then employed as clerk by Robert McMahon, of Jeromesville, one year, and during the following year was engaged in the same occupation for the dry-goods firm of D. H. King & Company, of Wooster, Ohio. September 2, 1858, he came to Cleveland, where he was engaged in the commission business for a time, afterward conducted a retail establishment on Ontario street, and next entered the jobbing foreign and domestic fruit trade. Mr. Glenn left that business in charge of a competent person and enlisted for service in the late war, in 1863. He became a member of Company F, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served on picket duty at Washington, District of Columbia, until the expiration of his term of enlistment. Mr. Glenn then resumed his business. In 1870 he took his family to New York city, for the purpose of giving his afflicted wife the advantage of the best medical skill, and remained there three years. After returning to this city he engaged in the real-estate business, during which time he represented the old Sixth ward, from 1881 to 1883, in the City Council. In 1884 he entered a real-estate business in company with Colonel Wilcox, continuing with that gentleman two years. In 1886, having conceived a plan to settle Northern immigrants on Southern soil, Mr. Glenn located at West Point, Mississippi, where he established a large colony, and conducted a profitable business until the Presidential election in the fall of 1888. The old rebel spirit and Southern animosities toward Northern men became so aroused as to seriously interfere with the progress of the colony. In 1891 Mr. Glenn and many others left that country for their Northern homes. In July, 1891, he was appointed Steward for the Cleveland Infirmary, and served in that position until May 1, 1893.