CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 275 to Solon in 1882, and buying his present home. He has 102 acres, well improved, and furnished with all that is needful for thrifty, successful farming. He is also largely interested in dairying. Mr. Thompson was married in 1871 to Clarissa Hall, and they had one daughter, Artie, now the wife of George Pike, of Newburg. Mrs. Thompson died April 11, 1882, and Mr. Thompson married for his present wife, in 1884, Miss Ida Britton, of Solon, daughter of William Britton. There are two daughters by the second marriage, Eda and Helen. One son, Forest, died at the age of twenty months. Mr. Thompson is a Democrat, a home worker in the party. He has served as Township Trustee for five or six years. He is an intelligent, public-spirited citizen, taking an interest in education and the public welfare. D. GRIESE, of the firm of D. & G. Griese, general contractors of Cleveland, has been identified with the building interests of this city as an independent builder since 1884. In preparation for his work Mr. Griese made himself thoroughly acquainted with the details of mason and carpenter work, learning both trades, and also informing himself in the principles of architecture to the extent of being able to supervise the construction of work on any plans. C. H. Griese, his father, was one of Cleveland's early builders, locating here in 1851 and erecting many good buildings still 'standing in the city. He was well equipped for his responsible work, having studied and mastered his trade in Germany. Among the first work done by the Griese Brothers was the erection of two school buildings in Cleveland. Since then their work has extended to all classes of buildings, in and out of Cleveland, their reputation extending as far west as Junction City, Kansas, where they con- structed Fort Riley, a piece of Government work. In an easterly direction Mr. Griese's work has reached New York city and points west to Cleveland. The firm has a reputation for promptness and fairness in all their work, and receive a fair share of the work of their home city. Mr. Griese is a member of the Masons' Association and Builders' Exchange. JAMES POTTER, a well-known citizen of Solon township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was a son of one of the pioneers of the township, Thomas Potter, who was a native of Ireland, and married in Ireland. In 1836 he settled in Solon township on a farm. His log house stood in a little clearing of two or three acres, and all about him was a dense wilderness. Game was plenty and wild animals numerous and often met with, but Thomas Potter and his brave and faithful wife were not to be easily discouraged by hardships and trials. They came from that brave, hardy race, the Scotch-Irish, noted for their intelligence, bravery and honesty. They had nine children, viz.: Eliza, Robert, Jane, Thomas, W. J., Andrew, James henry, and Angeline G., an adopted child. Thomas served in the Civil war, and was Quartermaster in the army of General Sherman in the " March to the Sea." His wife died at the age of sixty-seven, and he at eighty-one years of age. He was a stone mason and farmer, an expert mechanic, and helped in the erection of some of the best buildings in the city of Cleveland, among which was the Weddell House. For years he worked for William Hutchins, doing his stone work in the county. Voting for Fremont in 1856, he joined the Republican party. James was reared in his native place, educated in the district schools, and received a certificate for teaching at eighteen years of age. he settled on his present homestead in 1866, 276 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. where he has 100 acres, with a good house and spacious barn, and keeps a good dairy, which he can do to advantage, the farm being exceptionally well watered. Mr. Potter was married at the age of twenty-three to Lydia E. Russell, daughter of Ellsworth Russell, one of the first settlers of Solon township. Mr. and Mrs. Potter are the parents of two children,—Nealie E. and Leon E. In politics he is a Republican, and a member of the I. 0. 0. F. Lodge, No. 290, and of Encampment No. 113, of Chagrin Falls; has been an Odd Fellow for twenty-two years, and is one of the good, substantial citizens of Solon. Mrs. Potter is a member of the Disciple Church. G. M. REID, superintendent of bridge construction for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, has been in the employ of this corporation since May, 1872. A young man of twenty years he began the study of bridge construction with J. Park Paul, at Elk Creek, Pa., and worked under his direction from June, 1852, until April, 1855, when he secured a position with Thatcher, Burt & Company, contractors and bridge builders at Cleveland; he was made superintendent of construction for this firm, and the first work he did was putting in a bridge for the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad Company. The superior excellence of his work,.did not go unobserved, and in May, 1872, the Lake Shore Company offered him the position of superintendent of bridge construction; he accepted the offer which is one of no little responsibility, the entire system comprising fifteen hundred miles of track. His relationship with the rail. road company has been a most harmonius one, his ability and integrity being duly recognized and appreciated. Mr. Reid is a native of the Empire State, born in Ontario county, at Canandaigua, March 9, 1832. His father, Robert Reid, was born January 25, 1794, and died August 3, 1833, He married Sarah C. Culbertson, who was born in Paterson, New Jersey, November 22, 1799; she died in Cleveland, Ohio, August 19, 1878. John Reid, the paternal grandfather of G. M. Reid, was born near Edinburgh, Scotland, January 29, 1755. In 1778, accompanied by his brother Alexander, he crossed the sea to America, and soon after landing in this country he settled at Canandaigua, New York; his brother went to the South where he continued to reside. He was a cooper by trade, but devoted much of his time to agriculture. He was united in marriage May 22, 1780 to Irene Parish, a native of Scotland, born October 27, 1761. His death occurred January 18, 1833; the wife died May 7, 1824. They were the parents of a family of eleven children. The maternal attestors of our subject were of Irish and Scotch descent, the maternal grandfather, John Culbertson, being a native of the North of Ireland. Mr. Reid is an only child; he attended the district school in Monroe township, but upon the removal of the family to Conneaut in 1841, he entered the academy there, completing the course of study in 1852. His first experience with the commercial world was as mate of the schooner Sacramento, but at the end of three and a half years he decided to quit the water. It was then that his career as a bridge-builder began with J. Park Paul, as previously mentioned in this biography. Mr. Reid removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1860, and three years later, December 30, he was married to Sarah E. Corey, the Rev. Dr. Goodrich officiating. Mrs. Reid is the daughter of Charles S. and Aldura (Webster) Corey; the father was born in the Province of New Brunswick, March 31, 1815; the mother was born at Ballston Spa, New York, in 1808, and died in Cleveland, Ohio, April 17, 1881. They reared a family of four children, all of whom are living: Charles, of Cleveland; William, of Toledo; Ursula, wife of Ezekial Keep, of the State of Washington; and Mrs. Reid. Mr. and Mrs. Reid are the parents of four children: Robert is an engineer in charge of the bridge CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 277 work in one division of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad; Charles C., an electrical engineer of Cleveland; Della A., wife of George A. Richmond, of Pittsburgh; and Jessie B. The sons are both graduates of the Case School. Mr. Reid is a member of Iris Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of the Knights of Honor, and is also a Forester. He belongs to the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland, and is treasurer of the International Association of Railway Superintendents of Bridges and Building. He is a worthy member of the Scovil Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, and is chairman of the finance committee. EDWARD LEWIS.--Fifty-two years ago, in 1841, a rosy-cheeked young man of sturdy frame and self reliant and ambitious spirit set out from historic Malmsbury, in Wiltshire, England, to seek his fortune in America. His name was Edward Lewis, son of a worthy market gardener whose family of eleven children typified in a small way the condition of the United Kingdom —too many people to the square acre! Young Lewis felt within himself aspirations and powers that needed room for development. So, alone but confident, he left the classic precincts of the little English town whose pavements had more than once been vocal with the tread of royalty, and whose abbey walls to this day bear the marks of Cromwell's cannon balls, and sought the greater freedom and opportunities afforded in the United States. After a six weeks' stormy pas- sage he landed in New York, but tarried not in the metropolis, having determined to seek a location in some younger town inland. By chance rather than design he stopped in Cleveland, for it was the dead of winter when he arrived, the stage lines went no farther and navigation was at an end for the season. Having made up his mind to remain here, he sought employment, and soon found it in the iron and hardware store of W. A. Otis, on .Merwin street; where the establishment of R. T. Lyon now stands. Being a sturdy lad he was paid the munificent salary of one dollar a day and "found" himself. To-day he is the owner of a large amount of manufacturing property and real estate, a substantial proof of what a young man with no capital but with industrious hands, an honest heart and a clear head can accomplish in this country. When Mr. Lewis came to Cleveland, this city was a town of about 4,000 inhabitants. The estimated population in 1838 was 7,000, but the depression following the panic of 1837 reduced it nearly one-half. The shipping business had suffered a great set-back, the silk-growing industry, which was domiciled on the Lake Shore, and in the neighborhood of the site now occupied by the Outhwaite school, had collapsed, and various other interests were in a very debilitated condition for the time being. In 1842, as Mr. Lewis remembers, there was a cornfield where he now worships in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and political meetings were held in a grove where the public library building now stands. The territory east of Erie street was generally described as " Perry's pastures"; Euclid avenue was an abominably bad country road, not nearly as desirable as Woodland avenue, which was improved from convenient gravel beds. In that year or thereabouts, T. P. Handy, the late M. C. Younglove, and one or two other citizens were suspected of lunacy for buying homestead lots of five acres, each at $300 an acre, just above Huntington street on Euclid avenue, now worth that much per foot front. Even the down-town site of the Euclid avenue opera house was enclosed with a rail fence when Mr. Lewis came to town. He has seen the town of 4,000 grow to a mighty city of over 300,000 inhabitants. The sterling qualities of the young man were quickly recognized by Dr. Otis, and he was advanced to positions of trust. Dr. Otis furnished capital for a small rolling mill at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, to make the iron and nails sold in this market, and in these enterprises Mr. Lewis 278 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. acquired valuable knowledge of the iron-making business. When the firm of Ford & Otis (Charles Otis), afterward the Otis Iron Company, was formed, Mr. Lewis took a one-third interest in it. Though a great undertaking for those days, the mills and furnaces of the company were small affairs compared with the iron plants of later times. They started with two furnaces and two hammers, employing about fifteen men. A year later two more hammers were put in; and in 1859 an 18-inch and an 8-inch mill were added to the plant. Eight or nine tons a day were considered a big product. But the iron business was uncertain and discouraging at that time. The mills were entirely idle during twenty-one of the forty-eight months that Buchanan occupied the President's chair. The war and the Morrill tariff put life into it. In 1872 Mr. Otis retired from the firm and the Lake Erie Iron Company succeeded to the business, Mr. W. .C. Scofield and Mr. Lewis purchasing the interest of Mr. Otis and E. B. Thomas. In this great establishment, which includes mills, furnaces, forges and one of the most extensive bolt and nut works in the country, Mr. Lewis is the largest individual stockholder. When in full operation it gives employment to nearly 1,000 men. From 1861 to 1893 it never stopped work except for necessary repairs. It is not turning a wheel now, owing to the triumph of "tariff reform " at the elections last fall. Before the war, Mr. Lewis was one of the most active conductors of the "underground railway" in this city. The fugitive slaves were usually shipped across the lake on Canadian lumber vessels, and he relates many stirring incidents of those troublous times in which he played a leading part. The slavery question entered prominently into church discussions until after emancipation, and Mr. Lewis affiliated with the Wesleyan Methodists on that account, the Methodist Episcopal Church being divided on the issue. In 1872, however, he joined the First Methodist Episcopal Church and has been one of its,main pillars over since. Mr. Lewis was born in 1819, seventy-four years ago, but years seem to have little effect upon his vigorous frame and none whatever upon his capacity for business. Few of the young men of this city perform the amount of work that he does regularly, or devote as many hours daily to business duties. In 1845 he was married to Mrs. Harriet Lowrie, who died two years ago. Of the five children born to them only one survives, Mrs. C. H. Weed. Mr. Lewis lives at 615 Euclid avenue, in a home suited to his means but as unostentatiously as when he worked on Merwin street for a dollar a day. Such is the plain but instructive story of the life of one of Cleveland's captains of industry, who for more than half a century has been an active figure in the development of her growth and power. Of all the men in business on Superior street when he made his first business venture only four remain—T. P. Handy, William Bingham, C. C. Carleton and John Corlett; while R. T. Lyon alone remains of those who were in business below Superior Street Hill. During these fifty-two years Mr. Lewis has acquired a reputation for business foresight and ability, for progressive energy and sterling integrity, which crown his whitening locks with wreaths of honor more enduring and more to be desired than the fleeting fame which rewards the achievements of public life. And the beauty of it all is that he hardly suspects the value and example of his life to the community. S. GOULD, a veteran engineer of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, has unquestionably covered more miles of different territory than any other one man in this country. He entered the railroad service in February, 1866, as fireman on the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad. In a short time he was running an engine, and in 1868 he went into the Northwest and ran an engine on the Chicago & North- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 279 western, running out of Winona, Minnesota. He helped lay the rails on the River Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad from LaCrosse to Red Wing. He ran three months on the Union Pacific Railroad between Sidney and Cheyenne, Wyoming. He put in four months on the Northern Pacific Railroad, hauling iron for its construction from Suke Center to Brainard, and while engaged on the Sault Ste. Marie Railroad five years ago he made a record of 594 miles in sixty-eight hours, without being off duty, a record unheard of before. He also ran on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie, Minnesota Southern, Michigan Central and Minneapolis & Pacific. He has been in all the States and Territories. Mr. Gould was born in Ashland county, Ohio, January 27, 1850. His father, M. E. Gould, yet living, was a farmer all his active life. He came into Ohio in 1823, at the age of eleven years, and located in Sullivan, Ashland county. About 1845 he made a tour of inspection of several of our Western States,—Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri and Indiana,—but found no place so promising as Ohio, and returned and improved a home in Ashland county. This family of Goulds was originally from Vermont, our subject's grandfather, who was a Revolutionary soldier, being born there. He came West, as before stated, and is buried in Sullivan. M. E. Gould married Miss Charlotte Williams, a pioneer of Ohio. There were six children born of this union: S. Gould, M. E. Gould, Mrs. M. Durham, of Ashland county; Mrs. H. A. Parks, of Oberlin, Ohio, and two others. Mr. S. Gould received a limited education from the district schools of Ashland county and in 1863 enlisted in the Second Ohio Cavalry, being mustered in at Wooster, this State. His command was ordered into the Southwest, to Newtonia, Missouri, and during the campaign that followed he participated in twenty-six different battles, some of them the noted ones. A battery called the Twenty-fifth Ohio was made up from the Second Ohio at Fort Scott, Kansas, and Mr. Gould was attached to that for the remainder of his service. He was mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas, December 10, 1865, and arrived at home January 1, 1866, this being his first visit home since his clandestine departure for enlistment. By request of his mother, and on account of his extreme youth, President Lincoln sent Mr. Gould his discharge, but he refused to accept it or go home till all went. May 25, 1875, Mr. Gould married, in Ashtabula, Ohio, Elizabeth, a daughter of John Cox, of that county, and they had one child, Gaylord Gould, now aged thirteen years. Mr. Gould is a Master Mason, an Odd Fellow and a member of the Engineers' Brotherhood. WILLIAM ARTHUR BRAUND, builder and maker of Carriages, wagons I and vehicles of all kinds at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was born in Devonshire, England, April 3, 1830. His father was William Braund, a native of Devonshire, and the son of William Braund, Sr. (a native of Scotland) and Elizabeth (Ayers) Braund, born in England. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a carpenter by trade, and taught this trade to his son, William, who married Elizabeth Southcomb, a native of Devonshire. William Braund, Jr., lived to be eighty-nine years of age and died in the field at work, in Devonshire, England. His wife died at sixty years of age.. They reared four children: William Arthur, Theresa, Samuel and Anne, deceased. The parents were members of the Church of England. In his fourteenth year William Arthur was apprenticed to learn the trade of blacksmith, and served seven years, and all he received the first five years was his board, and the last two, eighteen pence per week. He became an expert mechanic and worked as a journeyman for two years. He then sailed for America. He came to Chagrin Falls in 1852 and found work with Charles Chase, for one month, then rented a forge in the shop and went to work shoeing 280 - GUYAHOGA COUNTY. horses. He was an expert shoer, and succeeded so well that in a short time he bought the shop of Mr. Chase. After continuing in this business two years, he sold out and worked in an ax factory for some time, again buying the shop, after a time, which he finally sold and went into the hardware business. This was sold out in about fifteen months, and the shop was bought where he is now doing business, with his sons. It is one of the pioneer shops of the town. The sons, like their father, are expert mechanics, and they have a large trade, and do a good business. Mr. Braund was married in Chagrin Falls, in 1852, to Fanny Whitlock, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Stoneman) Whitlock. both of whom are deceased. By this marriage he had seven children, three of whom are living, viz.: Arthur, born February 18, 1859, married Alice Willson, February 28, 1886: she was a daughter of Charles Willson: they have three children—Linda, Viola and Lyle; Rhoda, wife of ()ash Barber of Chester, Ohio; they had one son, Arthur; Charley, of the firm, single. The mother died April 14, 1885. Mr. Braund was again married, in 1886, to .Mrs. May Willson, nee Hurn, widow of Charles Willson, and a native of England; and they have one child, Frank. Mr. Braund is a Democrat in politics, and a Baptist in religious belief. He is a member of the I. 0. 0. F., Lodge No. 290. He is a good business man, and a good citizen, honored and respected by all. WILLIAM HUTCHINGS is one of the prominent citizens of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Like many others of the successful citizens of Cuyahoga county, he is a native of England, born in Devonshire in November, 1816, a son of John and Elizabeth (Stoneman) Hutchings, both natives of Devonshire, where they spent their lives. In England Mr. Hutchings learned the trade of stone mason, He was married at the age of twenty-two to Mary Down, born in Devonshire, where she was reared. In 1845 Mr. Hutchings sailed from Plymouth, England, for Quebec. He was six weeks on the sea and two weeks more on the river and ship canal. From Quebec he went to Buffalo, and thence to Cleveland, and from Cleveland to Orange township, where he had an uncle, of the name of John Stoneman. In a few days he came to Chagrin Falls and obtained work of Dr. J. A. Vincent, at $10 per month. The next season he dug wells and cellars, and the next worked on bridges. His work was done in so substantial a manner and gave such good satisfaction that it increased upon his hands. He took large contracts from the county commissioners for many years and built hundreds of bridges for the county. He also built many schoolhouses, churches and business blocks in Chagrin Falls, Newburg and other places. Most of the brick houses in Chagrin Falls were built by him, and he conducted a large brick-yard and carried on an extensive business in brick. He helped many of his countrymen to emigrate to America, found work for them here, and for years he employed a large force of men. He was one of the most active in bringing the railroad to Chagrin Falls, and to him is due much credit for his zealous work and pecuniary aid in this enterprise. He has been in the hardware business for years, and the firm of Stoneman & Hutchings is one of the most solid in the town. They have a brick store 30 x 100 feet. Mr. Hutchings is largely interested in real estate both in his own town and other townships. Besides the building in which is carried on the business of his firm, he owns three other valuable business houses in the town, two of which are owned by Stoneman & Hutchings, and four good dwellings. The Dr. Vincent Homestead, a fine house with grounds of fifty acres, where he first obtained work forty-eight years ago, has come into his possession. He owns 250 acres in Bainbridge and smaller tracts in towns in the vicinity of Chagrin Falls. Mrs. Hutchings died January 4, 1893, aged fifty-four years. She was an active and consist- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 281 ent Christian, a worker in the Congregational Church, of which she was a member. Mr. Hutchings was again married January 4, 1894, to Mrs. Mary Hardwell, a native of Devolishire, England, but who was a resident of Toronto for about 40 years; her maiden name was Unkin. She is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Hutchings is a member of the Congregational church, and contributes liberally to its support. He was most liberal in the erection of the church building. He serves as a Trustee of the church and is most liberal in the cause of education, of religion and. of charity. Mr. Hutchings is well preserved for a man of seventy-seven, strong in physique, intelligent, frank and cordial with all. He is honored and respected by all who know him. GEORGE F. MILLER is general agent for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of San Francisco, California, with an office at Cleveland. In this position he has charge of the States of Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia, and has held the same charge since 1891, succeeding in that year John R. Calvey, who opened this field in the interest of said insurance company, which is comparatively in the beginning of the introduction of its business in this field. In fact, the company has been in operation only since 1884. In 1885 Mr. Miller became a solicitor under Mr. Calvey, and for meritorious services Mr. Miller was placed in his present position as general agent. When he took the management the total collections of this company in this field amounted to about $23,000, which sum he bas raised to upward of $75,000, with his business increasing each year. The company which he represents is a solid and safe institution, and its management is equally good, the directors being liable for the debts of the corporation. Mr. Miller is a native of Canton, Ohio, born July 20,1857, a son of Joseph H. and Catharine E. (Eckert) Miller. His father died in 1870, while the mother is still living. Mr. Miller was reared in Canton, where he made his home until he was twelve years of age, at which age he became self-supporting and was on his own resources. He accepted employment with the C. Aultman Company, of Canton, in whose shops he learned the trade of machinist, and after learning his trade he worked at the same until he engaged in the insurance business. Mr. Miller is a self-made man in respect both to mental discipline and financial success. From an early age he has improved every opportunity for doing well, and his success in life has been due to energy, pluck and determination, is well as to close application of his time and attention to whatsoever business engages him. By wide business experience, together with the aid of books, newspapers and social relations, he has become a well-informed man upon subjects of general interest. Fraternally he is a member of the order of the Knights of Pythias, of American Mechanics, the Maccabees, and other Masonic beneficiary orders. He was married in 1880, in the city of Canton, to Miss Saidie E. Baldwin, daughter of Judge Baldwin, of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have one child, a son, Faber Baldwin Miller, aged eleven years. They are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Canton. Politically, Mr. Miller is an adherent of the Republican party. GEORGE SCOTT, manager of the retail store of William Taylor, Son & Co., for the past five years, first came to Cleveland in 1882, entering the employ of Taylor & Kilpatrick, in the dress-goods department of their store, and has continued at that place, with all the changes of management, etc., till the present time. Being a thorough business man, he has well earned the position which he occupies, and doubtless more responsible places await him. He is a native of Cupar, Fifeshire, Scotland, born in April, 1863, a son of Alexander and 282 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Jessie (Harley) Scott, and was reared and educated in his native country. Just before he was thirteen years of age he entered a mercantile establishment in Markinch, Fifeshire, where he served an apprenticeship of five years. At the age of eighteen he emigrated to America, and for the first year was employed in the store of Adam Meldrum & Anderson at Buffalo, and then came to Cleveland. • He has greatly distinguished himself in business for a man so young as he. He now has charge of 150 clerks and four floors of the building. As to religion, he is a member of the Presbyterian Church and of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was married April 30, 1889, to Miss Margaret E. Gillies, of New York, and they have one child, Alexander G. JOSEPH STONEMAN, of the firm of Stoneman & Hutchings, hardware dealers of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was born at Devonshire, England, December 11, 1825, a son of John and Anne (Newcomb) Stoneman, both natives of Devonshire. The family came to Cuyahoga county and settled in Orange township, when our subject was a boy of eleven years. They were among the early settlers of the township. Here the father lived, engaged in farming, until his death, July 21, 1868, at seventy-eight years of age. The mother lived to be eighty-nine years of age, dying April 2, 1885. They reared a family of nine children, seven sons and two daughters, viz.: Mary, Anne, and Philip, all deceased; William, of Orange township; Joseph, subject of this notice; Thomas, of Orange township; John, who died on the old farm; J. S., of Cleveland; and Jacob, of James River, Virginia. The father cultivated a good farm of 125 acres. He was an industrious, honest citizen, and both he and his wife were respected and honored by all who knew them. Their children grew up to he successful men and good women, for they were reared to follow in the footsteps of the parents. The father was a believer in religion, having been brought up as a Methodist. In politics he was an old-tine Whig and later a Republican. Joseph Stoneman grew up on the old farm and was early taught the rudiments of industry and honesty, a sure foundation of future success. His education was received in the early public schools of the township. He was married at twenty-eight, at Russell, Geauga county, Ohio, to grace Whitlock, of Russell, daughter of English parents. For some twelve years after his marriage Mr. Stoneman was engaged in farming. He then sold his farming interest and engaged in business in Chagrin Falls in 1865, becoming a dealer in shelf and heavy hardware, carriage trimmings, paints, oils, etc. By his industry, honesty and good business ability, he has achieved success in his business and has accumulated a good property. Mr. and Mrs. Stonemen have a family of nine children, viz.: Huldah J.; Sophia, wife of A. H. Williams, of Chagrin Falls; Olive A.; Josie, wife of G. A. McAlpine, of Richmond, Virginia; John W.; Richard W.; Irvin, G.; Sada, at home; and Grace, also at home. Mr. Stoneman is an attendant of the Congregational Church, and is one of the solid men of the town, honored and respected by all who know him. JAMES H. SHUTE, one of the substantial men of Chagrin Falls, was born at Buck-land Brewer, near Bideford, in Devonshire, England, in 1817, a son of Richard and Grace (Dunn) Shute, also natives of Buckland Brewer. The father died at sea, on the way to this country. The mother came to her son Williams in Orange, and here resided till her heath. There were in the family eight children, four sons and four daughters. James was reared and educated in England, at fourteen was apprenticed to learn the trade of shoemaking, and in a short time became a CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 283 good workman, and engaged in business for himself. Later he had three apprentices at work for him and two journeymen. He did a good, profitable business for several years, but on account of poor health he sold out his business and emigrated to this country, settling in Cleveland for a time, and then went to work for a Mr. Wall, then engaged in business at Orange and Warrensville, and finally came to Chagrin Falls, and purchased a farm of about 130 acres. He bought some lots here, many years ago, and improved them. He has a large interest in the real estate of his town, brick blocks for business and residence purposes, and other property, besides his own fine residence. Mr. Shute was married, in England, to Mary Honeywell, also a native of that country. Eight children have been born in this family, four of whom are now living, viz.: Lucy, wife of Milo Hathaway; Fanny, the wife of Mr. Ellsworthy; Clara, wife of Thomas R083, of Cleveland; and Albert, a successful stock and business man of Topeka, Kansas: the last mentioned has six children. Mrs. Shute died about 1877. She was a good Christian wife and mother, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Shute was again married, in 1879, to Elizabeth Henderson, and by this union there is one child, Arthur, a boy of fourteen years. Mr. Shute was for years a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a believer in the teachings of the Bible. In politics he is a Republican: is a self-made man, successful in his business and a good citizen. M. A. LANDER is a representative of a family which came to Cuyahoga county at a very early period in its settlement. His parents were William and Eliza Ann (Litch) Lander. His father was born in Onondaga county, New York, at the town of Marcellus, and to commemorate the place of his birth he gave to his son and subject of this sketch the same euphonious name, Marcellus. William Lander was born in the year 1815 and died in Cuyahoga county in 1891. He was a son of William Lander, a native of Salem, Massachusetts, whence he emigrated to New York and thence to Ohio. In 1832 he settled in Orange township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, becoming one of the very first to settle in that township, where he afterward lived and died. He was of German extraction. The mother of M. A. Lander was born in Orange township and there spent her whole life, dying in 1887, at the age of sixty-nine years. She was a daughter of Caleb and Mercy Ann (Dean) Litch, who were natives of Connecticut, whence they came to Ohio in 1816, settling in Orange township, being, perhaps, among the first half-dozen families to settle there. They lived there many years, and many happy and useful years were allotted to them, being called away in death after reaching respected old age. They had twelve children,—eleven daughters and one son, of whom Eliza Ann was the youngest. She bore her husband five children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the oldest, and to whose own career we offer no apology for turning, for of M. A. Lander it may justly be said that he is a representative and esteemed citizen. He was brought up on a farm and given only a common-school education. He was born on the old homestead of his father in Orange township, on the 27th of December, 1842, and he was therefore in his nineteenth year when the Civil war came on. October 11, 1861, Mr. Lander enlisted for the war as a private in the Ninth Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery. He remained in the army service until the close of the war; rose to the rank of Quartermaster Sergeant, and as such was mustered out of the service July 25, 1865, at Camp Cleveland. Mr. M. A. Lander is a member of Forest City Post, G. A. R., and the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Union ; also of the Masonic Order, being a Knight Templar and Scottish rite Mason. He is Past Master of Golden Gate 284 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Lodge at Chagrin Falls, Ohio; belongs to Cleveland Council, No. 20, National Union, and to the Tippecanoe Republican Club. Upon the close of the war, Mr. Lander, his father and uncle associated themselves together and built what was then the largest cheese and butter factory of the county. Later Mr. Lander became sole proprietor of the factory, which he operated for about fourteen years, when, selling the factory, he removed to Cleveland, in the fall of 1882, and since that time has served as a deputy in the County Treasurer's office. In politics he has always been a stanch Republican. In 1875 Mr. Lander and Miss Eva V. Abell were united in marriage, and they have three children, namely: George W., Mary Edith and Alice Manilla. D. M. ALVORD, the Collinwood yard-master of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, is an Ohioan by birth, being born in Lake county, April 15, 1844. He left the farm at nineteen to begin work for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, then the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad Company. It was September 15th that he was made watchman, and in addition did duty as number taker till. May, 1864, when he quit the road to go into the army. He enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, Captain Lew De Forest, Colonel Hayward, and was stationed at Washington, District of Columbia, in Fort Bunker Hill, until . discharged in September, 1864, being a three-months man. He decided to go West and secure for himself a home where land was cheap, and accordingly went to Hardin county, Iowa, where he purchased a farm, and returning to Ohio took the family out to the new home. The new country was sickly, malaria prevailing, and Mr. Alvord was one of its victims for several months; so he returned East and renewed his relations with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company in his old position, October 1, 1866. He was promoted in line, reaching the position of yard master in November, 1875, where he has since been a faithful and industrious servant. D. J. Alvord, his father, was brought to Lake county, Ohio, from Seneca county, New York, by Obadiah Alvord, his father, who died in Lake county. For his wife he married Mary Ann Turner, who was born,in New York, and is now living, at the age of seventy-two. Their children are: Jane S., wife of C. J. Kanner; D. M., whose name heads this sketch; Wealthy, who married A. Gray; and Hattie, wife of George Fritz. D. J. Alvord was for many years a traveling salesman for Myers & Uhl, of Cleveland, but is now a resident of Hardin county, Iowa, aged seventy-six years. D. M. Alvord married in Cleveland, November 16, 1873, Sarah M., daughter of Donvin Wilcox, of Geneva, Ashtabula county, Ohio. Their children are: Georgie, David and Florence. Mr. Alvord is a member of Thatcher Lodge, No. 439, A. F. & A. M., of Nottingham; also of Division 20, of O. R. C., and was its first Secretary and Treasurer. He is also a member of the order of Tontin. S. L. McCUTCHIN, an efficient conductor for the Valley Railroad Company, was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1860, educated in the common branches in ungraded schools, and in choosing a business for life took up photography. When able to do efficient work he established himself at Scottdale, Pennsylvania. An affection of the lungs, however, at length compelled him to abandon this art, and he engaged in railroading, first for the Baltimore & Ohio Company, as brakeman on the Connellsville division. In less than a year he was promoted to the position of conductor. In 1885 he went to the Pittsburg CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 285 & Western Railroad Company and ran out of. Allegheny City for five years,—two years as a passenger conductor. In January, 1890, another change in business was made: this time he entered the grocery trade in Pittsburg. Soon, however, seeing that his experience had definitely taught him that a position on a railroad line was better for him, he returned to that, in 'May, 1890. The next year he returned to farming, a business he had learned in his youth from his father; but in March, 1892, he returned again to the railroad, taking the position named at the head of this sketch, and which he still holds, giving entire satisfaction. He is a member of the Order of Railway Conductors. Of his paternal ancestors the most remote who is known was his grandfather, William McCutchin, who was born in the Keystone State in 1802, and died in 1891. By occupation he was a surveyor, and it is presumed that he did much work in establishing pioneer corners in his vicinity, in Westmoreland and neighboring counties, in that State. He married a Miss Irwin, and they had one daughter and two sons, namely: Margaret, who married Samuel Boll-man, and had three children: Samuel, the father of S. L. (subject of this sketch); and Wesley. Samuel was taught surveying by his father, and was engaged in that business and in general civil engineering for many years. He was born March 26, 1828, and died April 29, 1892. During the last war he was a member of Company B of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Army of the Potomac, enlisting June 1, 1861. He had many rough experiences and in many campaigns, and was mustered out of service in October, 1863. For his wife he married Lovina J. McConnell, who was born in Westmoreland county, and is still living, at the age of seventy-one years. She was a daughter of Daniel McConnell, of Scotch ancestry, who married Hannah McBride: their children were ten in number, of whom six are living. Samuel McCutchin's children are: Margaret, the wife of Harrison Mansfield, of Latrobe, Pennsylvania; Lizzie, who married Daniel Thompson, of Gentryville, Indiana; Mattie, now Mrs. Thomas R. McKee, of Indiana county, Pennsylvania; William I., of Burlingame, Kansas; S. L., whose name introduces this sketch; Letitia, deceased; and Cordelia J. Ernest is deceased. Mr. McCutchin, of this sketch, was married in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, to Martha A. Duer, a daughter of David Duer, of Westmoreland county, same State, and of an ancient family of Pennsylvania. By occupation he was a sawyer. He married Rachel McMinn, and had seven children, namely: Anna M., wife of James Hamilton; Margaret, now Mrs. William Green ; Mrs. McCutchin was the next in order of birth; Lizzie, who became the wife of Joseph Trout; Melton A.; Zora; and William A., deceased. All of these excepting Mrs. McCutchin are residents of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. McCutchin have only one child, Zora, an adopted daughter, now aged eight years. H. A. SHEFFIELD, proprietor of marble and granite works, at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, established himself here in the trade in 1876. The best of granite and marble is carried in stock and the best-of work is turned out of the shop. The proprietor is a practical workman and has had a business experience of twenty-five years in the marble business. H. A. Sheffield was born in Winnebago county, Wisconsin, May 2, 1850. His parents were Linus and Polly (Manuel) Sheffield. Linos Sheffield was born in Chester, Geauga county, Ohio. His father settled in Chester in 1815. Linus and Polly Sheffield had two children,—A. A., of Cleveland, and H. A., subject of this notice. The latter was reared and educated in Chester, Ohio, and first engaged in his trade at Chicago, Illinois, where he remained for some time. In 1876 he located at Chagrin Falls, where he has since done a good business. 286 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY Mr. Sheffield was married in 1873, at. Barrington, Cook county, Illinois, near Chicago, to Miss Florence Blair, daughter of C. T. Blair, who is at present residing in Chagrin Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield have two children,—Guy L. and Maud V. Our subject is a Prohibitionist. He has been a strong temperance man for years, and is a member of the I. 0. G. T., serving as an officer in his lodge. He is a member of the Grand Lodge, in which he has held the office of Grand Councilor. He has been chosen to represent the lodge of this town, the Cascade Lodge, at State conventions. he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the I. 0. O. F., Golden Gate Lodge, No. 252, and of Chagrin Falls Chapter, No. 113. Mr. Sheffield is much interested in music, having spent considerable time as an instructor in vocal music, and a leader of choirs, in which work he has been successful. He has also been active as a member of the band of Chagrin Falls. He is one of the well known and popular men of the town. JOHN G. POOLE, local freight agent of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad Company, reported for his first railroad service in October, 1871, only a few weeks after his arrival from England, the place of his birth. He entered the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company as warehouse-man at Cleveland, was promoted after a brief service to the position of caller and later to that of city collector, being the first to occupy that position with the Lake Shore Company. He next became a clerk in the oil shed, succeeding next to a clerkship in the freight office, tracing up lost freight, was promoted then to be freight adjuster for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and finally to the cashier's office as prepaid cashier assistant to A. G. Krabill, concluding in this capacity eighteen years of service with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Company, and coming to the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad as local freight agent in August, 1889. Mr. Poole was born in Somersetshire, England, August 22, 1849. He is a son of Joseph Poole, a well-to-do farmer, who married Sarah Nicholas and reared seven children, viz.: Eliza, in Australia; Joel and Charles, in England; John G., in America; Fannie, in England; Edward, in South America; and Margaret, in England. John G. Poole received a liberal education from village and private schools and remained on the farm with his father till he was eighteen years old, when he spent two years with Hewitt & Company in London. He left there expecting to go to Australia, but on spending a few months at home before starting a friend induced him to come to America. He landed in Cleveland in September and began work for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Company the next month. Mr. Poole was married in Cleveland, by Rev. Brown, rector of the Trinity Church, to Elizabeth G., a daughter of John Aplin, of the old firm of Gorham & Aplin. Their only child is Gertrude Irene. Mr. Poole was Secretary of Riverside Lodge, Royal Arcanum, two years, and First Guard of Cleveland Tent, K. 0. T. M., of which he was Record Keeper four years; a member of Ellsworth Lodge, No. 505, F. & A. M., and of the Cleveland Athletic Club. GUSTAVUS A. HYDE, the veteran civil engineer of the Cleveland Gaslight & Coke Company, was born at Framingham, Massachusetts, January 15, 1826, and after obtaining a moderate education, secured a position with the Boston Water Works in the engineering department, and remained there from 1845 to 1849, while constructing the acqueduct from Cochituate to Boston, thereby CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 287 obtaining much knowledge of the great industrial art, civil engineering; and this caused him to decide to continue in that art as a calling for life. On leaving the Boston Water Works he engaged in land surveying and made a survey and map of his native town. Next he came West, to "grow up with the country," arriving at Cleveland in April, 1850. He first was connected with the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, having charge of the pile-driving along the lake front. In November of the same year he entered the civil engineer department of the Toledo, Norwalk. Cleveland Railroad Company, acting as transit man, and during the construction of that portion of the road was made resident engineer, stationed at Fremont and Norwalk, Ohio. He remained in this capacity and in charge of the bridge construction at Toledo until January 1, 1855. At this time he returned to Cleveland for the purpose of obtaining the position of City Civil Engineer. At the spring election of that year Mr. Hyde's name was before the voters for that position. The ticket was of the new political faith, Republican, and was successful, and Mr. Hyde became City Civil Engineer. He was in charge of the department for two years, and the only public improvements worthy of mention that were made during this term were the paving of East River street, the building of the Main street bridge, and the improvement of the public square by fencing and the building of the fountain structure. He concluded his term of service for the city in 1857, and was employed thereafter on special work, making plans and estimates for a proposed sewer from Brownell and Garden streets to the lake, and also made plans for and laid out the Fremont (Ohio) cemetery. February 1, 1859, he entered the employ of the Cleveland Gaslight & Coke Company as engineer and superintendent of manufacture and distribution of gas. The position of superintendent he held for the first ten years, but the position of engineer he has held to the present time. He planned and supervised the rebuilding of Works No. 1 on Front street, and planned and supervised the building of Works No. 2 near the foot of Wilson avenue. Besides his work on the Cleveland plants he has designed and made plans for improvements on the gasworks at Sandusky, Fremont, Akron, Warren, Oberlin, State Asylum for the Insane at Cleveland, and the Columbus Asylum,—all in Ohio,— and at Pontiac, Michigan, and Titusville, Pennsylvania. His record as a volunteer observer of the weather is an important and extraordinary one. In 1842 Professor J. P. Espy, of Washington, District of Columbia, entered upon an investigation of storms, partially supported by the United States Government, and called for volunteer observers. Mr. Hyde responded, and February 1, 1843, began -taking observations on the weather at Framingham, Massachusetts, and continued the record until he moved to Ohio. On establishing himself permanently in Cleveland in 1855, he again began taking observations and has continued them to the present, having the oldest record in northern Ohio. Mr. Hyde is a son of Henry H. Hyde, who was born in Newton; Massachusetts, and spent his life in Framingham, that State. He was a tanner and currier by trade, and died in 1878, aged eighty-two years. He married Keziah Rice and had six children, the three daughters being still residents of the Bay State. The tradition as to the origin of the family in this country is that Jonathan Hyde emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1640. In Fremont, Ohio, November 6, 1852, the subject of this sketch married Mrs. E. R. Williams, daughter of Peter Fusselman, a Fremont merchant. Of the five children by this union three are living. The names of all are: Edward Allison, who died in 1855, at the age of one year and five months; Gustavus A., Jr., who died in 1891, at the age of thirty-four years; he was engineer and superintendent of the East Saginaw (Michigan) Gas-works; Henry H., at present the engineer and superintendent of the same; Florence A., now the wife of Dr. M. Levkowicz, of San Francisco, California; and 288 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Eugene A., secretary and superintendent of the gas and electric light works of Ravenna, Ohio. Each of the last three sons had two years' experience with the Cleveland Gaslight & Coke Company. Mr. Hyde, whose name heads this sketch, is a member of the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland, of the American Gaslight Association, the Western Gaslight Association and the Ohio Gaslight Association. He has prepared papers and read them before each of these bodies. He is an active member of the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, of which he has for years been Treasurer and Deacon. SAMUEL H. MATHER, LL. .D., whose name introduces this biographical sketch, resided in Cleveland from 18:35n to the time of his death, January 13, 1894, always recognized as one of the most public-spirited citizens of the city. Mr. Mather came to Ohio from New England. He was born in Washington, New Hampshire, on the 20th day of March, 1813, as the younger of two sons (the only children) of Ozias and Harriet (Brainard) Mather. The older brother, the late Henry B. Mather, was for many years associated with the Hon. Amos A. Lawrence in business at Boston, Massachusetts, where he died a few years ago. The father, Ozias Mather, was a physician by profession, and was educated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the city of New York. He was born and brought up at East Haddam, Connecticut, where his father, Dr. Augustus Mather, lived and practiced medicine many years. He was a direct descendant of Rev. Richard Mather, an Englishman, who came to this country as early as 1635, settling as a pastor of the church at Dorchester, now a part of Boston, Massachusetts. The celebrated Increase Mather and Cotton Mather were descendants of Richard Mather. In the year 1810, Dr. Was Mather removed to Lemp ster, New Hampshire, where he married Harriet Brainard, a daughter of Jabez Brainard. Subsequently he removed to Washington, New Hampshire, where the subject of this personal sketch was born. Samuel H. Mather was given good educational advantages, graduating in 1834 at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; and soon thereafter he took 'up the study of law at Geneva, New York, where he remained for a period of about fifteen months. In December, 1835, Mr. Mather became a citizen of Cleveland. The following December he was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, and in 1843 he was admitted to the United States District Court. Mr. Mather opened a law office in Cleveland in 1837, and for a period of fifteen years thereafter he was actively engaged in the practice of law. He gave up his profession in 1852, to devote his entire time to the business interests of the Society for Savings in Cleveland, in the founding of which he was a prime mover. As a lawyer he was successful, but to a different life. work he was called rather early in life, and his career must be reviewed as a banker rather than as a lawyer. The first suggestion of a society for savings in Cleveland came from Charles J. Woolson, in a private conversation with Mr. Mather, in the office of the latter, in the summer of 1848. These gentlemen were from New Hampshire, and when they met, New England, its people and institutions were frequent topics of conversation. On this occasion Mr. Woolson, speaking of the success and the benefits of the New England savings banks, said: " Why not have a savings bank in Cleveland? I believe one could be established here that would be a success and a great benefit to the community. Now, you think of this, and see some of your business men. I believe they will take interest in it, and be ready to aid in the organization." Following this suggestion, Mr. Mather consulted a number of prominent business men. It met with their approval, and they at once offered their services in forwarding the enter, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 289 prise. At their request, Mr. Mather, by the aid of Hon. F. T. Backus, Senator, and Hon. Leverett Johnson, Representative from Cuyahoga county, procured, without opposition, the passage of an act of the Legislature of Ohio, March 22, 1849, incorporating " The Society for Savings in the City of Cleveland." The name was suggested by the one in the city of Hartford, Connecticut. It is strictly a society for savings, being "a benevolent institution, without capital, managed by trustees without salary, in the interest of depositors only, to whom profits are paid, or for whose benefit they are accumulated and reserved." The society is co-operative, in the broadest sense. The names of most of the early promoters of the enterprise appear in the act of incorporation, which was passed March 22, 1849, the day upon which the society began its legal existence, and in the following August entered upon the career of usefulness and prosperity it has since maintained. The society was organized June 18, 1849, by the election of new corporate members and its . _ first board of officers. From the day of its or ganization Mr. Mather was officially connected with the institution. He was elected its first secretary; but from the fact that his law office was in the same room as was the bank, and because of his peculiar interest in its welfare, he had the work of the treasurer also to look after, and in 1852 he was elected treasurer, combining the two offices in one, and from that time onward Mr. Mather gave his entire time and energy to the interest of the society. In January, 1884, Samuel Williamson, president of the society, died, and Mr. Mather was then elected president to succeed Mr. Williamson, and this position he held until January 13, 1894, when death snatched him away. The Society for Savings has had a remarkably successful career, and much of its- success has been due to the business ability of Mr. Mather, and the work he did in the upbuilding of this, one of the greatest institutions of its kind in the United States, placed him among eminent bankers and financiers, Outside of the arena of business and banking, Mr. Mather was a useful citizen. He was always a stanch friend of education and the church. In the years 1840, '41, '54, '55 and '56 he was a member of the Board of Education and the. County Board of School Examiners. He was one of the original members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, organized in 1844, and from that day to his death he was an Elder in that church. "The death of Mr. Mather," says the Cleveland Leader, " removes a man than whom there was riot one more prominent in business in Ohio. His name was the synonym for businesS integrity and absolute, unquestioned trustworthiness. His ability as the manager of the great savings institution of which he was the head was known throughout the country in business circles, and the thousands who have deposited their earnings there felt that in him their interests had a guardian that warranted implicit confidence. His death leaves a gap that will never be `filled, though partly for the reason that the time will probably never come when exertions such as he put forth in the past for the Society for savings will ever be required for a similar institution in this city." May 9, 1842, he was married, at Albany, New York, to Miss Emily W. Gregory, daughter of Dr. U. M. Gregory of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Mather had two children, namely: Frederick G., journalist of Albany, New York; and Mrs. Ellen A. Mather, widow of the late Prof. R. H. Mather, of Amherst College, Massachusetts. JOHN WALKER, who for more than a quarter y narter of a century has conducted so successfully the inner workings of the Cleveland Rolling Mills as superintendent, was born near Denney, Sterlingshire, Scotland, November 15, 1828. At the age of sixteen years he engaged with the Messrs. Beard, of Gartsherrie, Lanarkshire, as an apprentice in iron-working and machinery, and remained with ehOm six 290 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. years. Next he was employed by the Caledonian Railroad Company, at Greenock, Scotland, as a blacksmith and forger; next in the locomotive works at Berkinhead, England, remaining four years. In 1856 he left his native Scotland and became a citizen of Canada West, where he was in the employ of the Great Western Railroad Company as a forger of wheels, etc., and he continued his business there and at Montreal until his removal to Buffalo, New York, in 18132, for the purpose of forging the iron for the United States gunboats then being built there; but within a year he returned to Canada and plied his favorite vocation at Montreal until 1868i when he was invited to assume charge of the Cleveland Rolling Mills as superintendent. The promotions referred to sufficiently indicate the competency of Mr. Walker in his line of work. He is now completing a long and eventful life; he has witnessed the greatest improvement in the manufacture of iron and in the machinery used that will probably ever be made in future, and has been an active participant in the achievement of these results. Born full of energy, during all these years of continuous and unceasing application he has endured with that energy undiminished. Fraternally, he hai been a Freemason for forty-four years, now affiliating with the members of Fidelity Council, Royal Arcanum, and will participate in the benefits of Vulcan Council of the National Union. He is a son of Matthew Walker, a mill man who was engaged in the iron-smelting and blast furnace business during his entire active life. He died in Scotland, in 1867, aged sixty-three years. He married Margret Henderson and they had eight sons and one daughter. Four of these are yet living, namely: John and Robert, with the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company; William, engaged in glass-works in Scotland; and Ellen, wife of Neal Garshore, a mechanic at the Etna Rolling Mill, at Cleveland. Mr. Walker, our subject, at the age of twenty-one years, in Scotland, married Miss Mary Robertson Rankin, and they have now four children living: Elizabeth, the wife of James Marshall, who is a mechanic in the Cleveland Rolling Mills; Mary, wife of John St. Clair, a resident of Alpena, Michigan; Helen Young, unmarried; and John, a mechanic in the above mentioned roller mills. WILLIAM. LARKWORTHY, a well-known citizen of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was born in Devonshire, England, January 6, 1853, a son of John and Elizabeth (Fowler) Larkworthy, both natives of England. The family came to Chagrin Falls in 1856. There were six children, viz.: Susanna, wife of J. J. Davis, a well-known business man of Chagrin Falls; William, subject Of this notice; John, and Isaac; Mary Norah is deceased. William was reared and educated in Chagrin Falls, and at fourteen found employment with E. Wheelock & Company for one year. He was in the paper mills here for five or six years. In 1876 he bought a grocery stock and carried on this business for five years. He then enlarged his stock so as to include provisions, crockery, gents' furnishing goods, etc. He was engaged in this trade until 1893, when he disposed of his entire stock of goods, and is now a dealer in gents' furnishing goods, boots and shoes, hardware, etc. Mr. Larkworthy was married October 31, 1872, to Miss Martha Phinney, a lady of intelligence and good family, a daughter of H. and Sophia (Phinney) Phinney, both natives of New England. Mr. and Mrs. Larkworthy have three children, viz.: Gertrude, a graduate of Chagrin Falls high school; Walter, also a graduate of the high school, now attending college at Peoria, Illinois, and is now seventeen years of age; and Vilas, at home. Their third child, Virgil, died when two years old. Mrs. Larkworthy is a member of the Disciple Church, as are also the two elder children. Mr. Larkworthy is a Democrat in politics, and served as Trustee of the township. He was CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 291 member of the I. 0. 0. F., Lodge No. 290, and a charter member of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 487. Mr. Larkworthy is in the prime of life, intelligent, frank and cordial, a popular citizen of Chagrin Falls. WILLIAM D. DRIPPS, deceased, once the Mayor of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and for a number of years prominently identified with this city, was born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1852, and was a graduate of North Hampton College, Massachusetts. From 1873 until 1875 he was connected with the Gilmore & Hewes Lumber Company, and for six years afterward was the expert accountant of the American Sewing Machine Company, during these years traveling over various portions of the United States. In 1884 he removed to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and formed a copartnership with Mr. Charles Baker, in the hardware business, under the firm name of Baker & Dripps; but at the expiration of thirteen months Mr. Dripps assumed full control of the establishment, and conducted the business in his own name up to the time of his death, which event occurred May 12, 1893. He established a large and increasing business, making hosts of friends by his gentlemanly manner, straightforward business principles, and fair and upright dealings. He was always foremost, though modest and unassuming, in any move toward the improvement of the town. He served one term as its Mayor. With the Masonic fraternity he was prominently identified, being a member of the Golden Gate Lodge, F. &A. M. Mr. Dripps was married February 27, 1877, to Emma Walter, in Elmira, New York. She was born in Watkins, that State. September 1, 1853. Her father, Richard E. Walter, a native of New York, was for many years auditor of the N. C. & Valley Railroad. He was a prominent Mason, had a wide acquaintance, and was honored by all who knew him. Her mother, nee Martha E. Coe, was also a native of New York. Mrs. Dripps was the eighth born in their family of nine children, and she and one sister are the only ones of that large family who are now living. She is a graduate of Elmira College, is a lady of much culture and refinement, and since her husband's death has developed a wonderful business ability. She has full charge of the hardware store, is also doing a large coal business, and has recently completed the erection of a fine residence on Washington street in Chagrin Falls. She has three children, Belle R., and Howard and Hellen, twins. ASAHEL BRAINARD, now retired, is one of the prominent farmers and early settlers of Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county. Seth Brainard, his father, a native of Connecticut, came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, as early as 1814, and located in Brooklyn township. He had traded a small tract of land in Connecticut for a large tract in this township, and came out here to take possession of the same, his whole capital being invested in this land. He at once set about the work of building a log cabin, cut down the trees himself, and ere long had a comfortable little home in the clearing. From time to time he kept adding to his original tract until he became the owner of about 200 acres. On this farm he remained the rest of his life. His death occurred at the age of eighty-five years. His life was one of great activity and usefulness. He served as a private in the war of 1812. His experience in the war and his natural characteristics well fitted him for the life of a hardy pioneer, and in the little frontier settlement he was regarded as one of its most influential men, taking the lead in all movements that tended to advance its interests. He was one of the first members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in this community, and for a number of years served as Stew- 292 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. ard and Class Leader. His father, Joel Brainard, was of Irish descent, was born, it is supposed, in Connecticut, and lived and died there. The mother of Asahel Brainard was Delilah Brainard, and she, too, was a native of Connecticut. She died in her eighty-fourth year. Her father, Ozias Brainard, a native of Connecticut and a descendant of Irish ancestry, served during the latter part of the Revolutionary war. Seth and Delilah Brainard were the parents of nine children, seven of whom reached adult years, and six of this number are now living. Asahel Brainard, the third born in the above named family, dates his birth in Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, January 7, 1815. Born on the frontier, his educational advantages were, of course, limited. A portion of his early youth was spent in the little log schoolhouse near his home; but these log schoolhouses, with their puncheon floors, slab seats, open fireplaces and stick chimneys, have been so often described that it is unnecessary to speak further of them here. The most of young Brainard's time, however, was spent in assisting his father on the farm, and he remained at the home place until he was twenty-five years of age. Be was then married to Matilda Foster, a native of Connecticut, whose happy married life was terminated five years later by her death. For his second wife Mr. Brainard married Electa Avery, a native of Massachusetts. She had two children: A rysta, who died at the age of three years; and Electa M., the wife of E. H. Foster. Mrs. Brainard died May 1, 1850, and Mr. Brainard was married, in 1851, to Naomi Ring, who was born in Massachusetts, April 13, 1825. Their only child, Nora, died at the age of two years. After their first marriage Mr. Brainard located on a farm in Brooklyn township, and in this township he has since lived, with the exception of a year and a half spent in Parma township, this county. Be has witnessed all the development of this part of the country, has seen the pioneers' cabins give place to more pretentious homes, has seen the forests swept away, and has noted the growth of the various towns and cities that have sprung up here and there. At one time he owned 150 acres of land here. Some time ago, however, he disposed of his farm for a handsome sum, and is now living off the interest of his money. He has been a Republican since this party was organized. When he was nineteen years old he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he has since remained in loving fellowship. For a number of years he has served as Steward of the Church, and has all his life contributed liberally to its support. ARTHUR H. WILLIAMS.—The establishment of A. H. Williams, dealer in staple and fancy groceries, queensware, and flour and feed, is one of the leading and popular business houses of Chagrin Falls. It occupies the old stand of the father of the present proprietor, Alford Williams, who did business here for thirty-seven years, first in a frame building and afterward in the present brick building, which was built in 1870. In 1888 the son bought the stock of his father, and has since done a large and profitable business. The father, Alford Williams, was a native of New York State, a son of John Williams, who lived to be about eighty-four years of age. Alford learned the trade of a cooper, which he followed for some years. He was engaged for some time in making flour barrels at Chagrin Falls before going into trade. He was married in February, 1844, to Louisa Green, daughter of Lovell Green. They had three children: Arris H., a soldier of the late war, a member of the Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who was killed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but a boy of eighteen; Arthur H., our subject; and Clara A., wife of H. M. Gates, of Bedford, Ohio. Alford Williams is a Republican in political faith. He has served in the Town Council and as Town Treasurer. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 293 Arthur H. Williams was born July 31, 1853, at Chagrin Falls, reared and educated in his native place, and also attended school at Hillsdale, Michigan, and was engaged for some time as a conductor on the Chagrin Falls & Solon Railroad. Mr. Williams was married January 17, 1879, to Sophie S. Stoneman, a woman of intelligence and good family, born, reared and educated in Chagrin Falls. Her father is Joseph Stoneman of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have two sons: Forest A., born August 6,1886; and Clarence A., born December 15, 1893. Mr. Williams is a Republican and is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 487; of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 290; of Chagrin Falls Encampment, No. 113; of the I. 0. G. T. Lodge No. 72; and of the Home Guards, No. 36. He is a young man of intelligence, strong physique, and frank, jovial manner. CAPTAIN H. B. YORK, builder and contractor of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was born at Burlington, Vermont, December 5, 1833, a son of D. H. York and a native of Connecticut, and son of Amos York, born of Scottish ancestry. Our subject's mother was Laura Barnes York, born near St. Albans, Vermont, daughter of Stephen Barnes, a soldier in the war of 1812. The subject of this sketch was a babe when the family came to Bedford, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Ten years later the family removed to Geauga county, to the township of Munson, where they remained till 1866, the father then moved to Tuscola county, Michigan, where he died at the age of seventy-two. The mother lived to be seventy-five years of age. They reared five children, four of whom are now living, viz.: H. B., N. E., M. D., Mrs. S. M. Spencer, of Ionia, Michigan. N. E. and M. D. reside in Tuscola county, Michigan. The father was a mechanic, a bricklayer by trade. Politically he was a Republican, and in religion a member of the Disciple Church. H. B. York spent his early boyhood in Bedf'rd, Ohio, and after the family removed to Munson attendedthe schools of that place, and also Chester Seminary. He taught three or four terms and then returned to Bedford. Mr. York enlisted for service as a private in the Civil war, in the Ninth Battery, Light Artillery, and served three years and ten months. He was promoted first to be Second Lieutenant, later to the rank of Captain of the Battery, December 12, 1862. The battery took an active part in the battle of Cumberland Gap, and later was under General Schofield's command, Twentieth Army Corps, First Division. Later, under General H. W. Slocum, Captain York was promoted to the rank of Chief of Artillery. He passed a thorough examination before a military officer and passed rank as Major of Heavy Ar• tillery. At Triune, Tennessee, June 11, 1863, -Major York was severely injured. On account of this injury he receives a pension. After the war he located in Tuscola county, Michigan, where he remained for four years. He then returned to Ohio, and after spending one year in Munson, came to Chagrin Falls, where he has since made his home, except some time spent in Cleveland at his business. He is a man of intelligence and good principles. Mr. York has been married three times,—first in Chardon, Ohio, July 1, 1853, to Ann E. Sherman, a daughter of Jacob and Mary Sherman. By that marriage there were three sons, two of whom are living: R. E., of East Saginaw, Michigan, who has one son, Noble E.; and Clarence H., of Chicago, Illinois. Ed. E., the first born, died at Willoughby, Ohio, at the age of twenty-three. Mrs. York died in 1862, and for his second wife Mr. York married Huldah Sherman, sister of his first. Mrs. Huldah York had two children: P. H., of Chicago, who has a son, William; and Mary E., wife of M. J. Hubbell, of Chagrin Falls; they have one daughter, Mildred E. Mrs. Huldah York died August 1, 1884. Mr. York's present wife was Mrs. Jane B. Holcomb, nee Snedeker, widow of Thomas J. Holcomb, a soldier of the late warm a member 294 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. of Company B, Light Artillery, serving three years. She was a daughter of C. M. and Amelia (Leach) Snedeker, both of whom are deceased. Mr. York is identified with the Republican party. He is a member of the N. L. Norris Post, G. A. R., and has been Commander and Adjutant of the post. He is also a member of the I. 0. 0. F. Lodge, No. 290, and of Encampment No. 113. In his religious relations he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he serves as an officer. JOHN ROWE, proprietor of the Rowe Wagon and Carriage shops, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, the pioneer establishment of its kind in the place, was a son of Richard Rowe, who started the business in Chagrin Falls in the year 1847, and was thereafter connected with it till his death in 1891, at seventy-two years of age. He was born in Lansing, England, where he was reared and educated and learned the trade of a carriage maker. He came with his father to Orange township, four miles north of Chagrin Falls. He married a Miss Banford, a native of Ireland. She died when her son, our subject, was a boy of five years. She left three children,—two daughters besides the son,—namely: Mary Sprinkle, of Owosso, Michigan; and Rachel Rowe, of Cleveland. The father married the second time and had four children, as follows: Henry and Charles, both of Detroit, Michigan; Eva Pelton, of Conneaut, Ohio, and Amy Collar, of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. The father was a respected member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. John Rowe, born August 12, 1l43, was reared and educated in Chagrin Falls. At ten years of age he was found in his father's shop making for himself a hand-sleigh and boy's cart. During the war he enlisted, June 16, 1861, in the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company D. He was first under fire at Cross Lanes, Virginia; afterward at Winchester, Virginia, Chickamauga, Harper's Ferry, and in the Peninsula campaign, under General McClellan. He was honorably discharged after nineteen months' hard service. Later he returned to the front and held a Government position in wagon works at Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Rowe does a fine business, manufacturing all kinds of fine carriages, wagons and other vehicles, of the best workmanship. He employs from six to twelve men during the busy season. He has a good frontage on the street of ninety-eight feet. He has had an experience of twenty years as auctioneer, and cries sales for many miles around the town. Mr. Rowe was married in 1866, to Laura Hodges, a native of Troy, Ohio. They have one child, Willie, twenty-five years of age, traveling salesman for the National Lead Works of New York city. He is a member of the G. A. R., Norris Post, No. 40, and is one of the well and favorably known men of Chagrin Falls. JOHN S. BULLARD, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is one of the well-known, honored and respected citizens of the town. He is one of its early settlers and a pioneer business man of the place. He was born at Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, April 11, 1823, a son of Curtiss Bullard, who was one of the first settlers of Hinckley township, of which he was a prominent citizen, serving as Postmaster of the township as early as 1832 or '33. He was a native of New York State, born in Litchfield, September 15, 1797, is a son of Seth Bullard, who was born in Massachusetts of an old Puritan family of that State. Asa Bullard, editor and proprietor of the Well Spring, Boston, and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, were cousins of Curtiss Bullard. The father of the subject of this sketch was married in New York State to Sarah Easton, born at Lee, Massachusetts, as the daughter of an old Massachusetts family. Curtiss Bullard and his family came to Chagrin Falls in 1842. The father was an expert mechanic and engaged CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 295 in the manufacture-of wheel heads for some time. Later he enlarged the plant and manufactured butter molds, rolling-pins, potato-mashers and other wooden ware. He died at the age of seventy-six. He was a general business man. Politically he was first a Jackson man and later a Republican. Mr. Curtiss Bullard was an intelligent, well-informed man, served as the first Mayor of Chagrin Falls, and also as County Commissioner of Medina county. He was an active working member of the Congregational Church, which he liberally supported. His wife died at seventy-four, a worthy, consistent Christian woman, loved by all. They reared seven children, viz.: James P., who died in Chagrin Falls in 1843; John S., our subject; Susan, deceased; Newton, deceased; Orson, deceased; Adell, deceased in Kansas; and Sarah, wife of A. H. Rogers, of Chagrin Falls. John S. was reared and educated in Medina county, Ohio. He was nineteen years of age when he came to Chagrin Falls and went to work in the shop with his father, with whom he went into partnership in the business at twenty-four. He obtained a valuable patent on a butter mold, which brought them in a good profit for some years. George March is an active partner of the firm. They do an extensive business and employ from eight to fifteen men. Mr. Bullard is one of the stockholders and directors of the Chagrin Falls Banking Company, and also a stockholder of the Chagrin Falls Manufacturing Company. When the railroad to Chagrin Falls was projected, Mr. Bullard took an active interest in its construction: was one of seven who chartered and owned the road; was director from its organization, and served as vice-president for a time prior to its being sold. He was married, in 1853, at Troy, Geauga county, Ohio, to Lucy Chapman, a lady of intelligence and good family. She was born in Troy, a daughter of Luther and Anna (Sawyer) Chapman, the father of Massachusetts and the mother of Rushville, New York. Both parents died in Geauga county. Mr. and Mrs. Bullard have, had three children, all of whom are deceased, namely: Nelly, who died at fifteen months; Fred, at eight years; and Curtiss, at eight years. Mr. Bullard owns a fine house, built in 1877, at a cost of $5,000. He and his wife are members of the Congregational Church. Politically Mr. Bullard is a Republican. In 1856 he voted for S. C. Fremont. He has served in the City. Council and also on the School Board. He is one of the most public-spirited citizens of the town and has been active in all its educational, religious and other good enterprises. JOHN C. WEIDEMAN, one of Cleveland's most prominent business men and citizens, is president of the Weideman Company, one of the largest commercial houses of the city, president of the Forest City Savings Bank, president of the Ohio Abstract Company, and is connected as a director or stockholder .with numerous other prominent enterprises of the city. Mr. Weideman was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1829, and came with his parents to the United States in 1833. The family located first in Philadelphia, but in 1836 removed to Medina county, Ohio, where the boyhood days of our subject were passed. When but fourteen years of age he left home and came to Cleveland, where for some time he found employment at divers things in different places. From 1848 to 1850 he was in New York State, but in the latter year returned to Cleveland, and in 1861 made his first business beginning as a member of the liquor firm of Weideman Company. In the fall of 1863 he disposed of his interest in this company, but the following year re-entered the same business with Mr. H. Tiedemann, the style of the firm being Weideman & Tiedemann. About 1868 Mr. 0. G. Kent became a member of this firm, which became Weideman, Tiedemann & Kent. 296 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. In 1871 Mr. Tiedemann retired from the firm and the same was reorganized with Mr. C. T. Hasbrouck as a member, the firm now becoming Weideman, Kent & Company. In 1885 a stock company was formed under the name of the Weideman Company, with Mr. Weideman as president; Mr. Christian Narten, vice-president; Mr. E. J. Siller, treasurer; Mr. Henry W. Weidman (son of John C., our subject), secretary, and all of the above named gentlemen, with Mr. George W. Barnes, as directors. The company was capitalized at half a million dollars, and is one of the most extensive wholesale liquor and grocery houses in the State of Ohio. When the Forest City Savings Bank was organized in the fall of 1890, Mr. Weideman was chosen president of the same, and he has been a director in both the Union National Bank and Savings & Trust Company since the organization of these institutions. He also became president of the Ohio Abstract Company upon its organization. He is also identified with other enterprises of the city. Mr. Weideman has been twice married. His first marriage occurred in 1853, when he was united in marriage with Laura Muntz, of Liverpool, Ohio, who bore him three children and died in 1877, at the age of forty-two years. Only one of these children, his son Henry W. Weideman, is living. The second marriage was consummated in 1879, his wife being Louisa Dieboldt, of Cleveland. One daughter, now fourteen years of age, has been born by this second marriage. Mr. Wiedeman is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and is a Thirty-second-degree Mason. While the boyhood days of Mr. Weideman were passed amid surroundings and under circumstances which narrowly limited his opportunities for securing a good education, he has not neglected the cultivation of his mind, but on the contrary has improved it by reading and travel, and being possessed of more than ordinary faculties he has acquired a fund of information on general subjects far in advance of many men who had the advantage of good schools and colleges. He is genial and affable, easy of approach, and kind and courteous to all who have occasion to seek him, either in the counting-room or in a social way. For several years he has not given his time entirely to business, but has spent a considerable portion of it in travel, having visited Europe four different times and traveled over a great part of our own country. Mr. Wiedeman is a self-made man, if there is one in Cleveland. He began at the bottom, and year by year has mounted the ladder of success until he now stands about on the topmost rung; and this success has been brought about only through his business ability, industry and integrity. To-day he is regarded as one of Cleveland's most prominent and successful business men, and as one of the leading citizens; and by all is he respected and admired for his sterling worth as a factor in the commercial and financial affairs of the city, and as a citizen. M. W. KINGSLEY, Superintendent of the Cleveland Water Works, was born in Chautauqua county, New York, May 18, 1846. His father, Albert Kingsley, was born in the same State, but in Washington county, in 1804. He became a millwright and lumber manufacturer in New York and in later life in Pennsylvania, to which State he emigrated in 1853 and located in Warren county. He married, in the Keystone State, Miss Anna Mead, by whom four children were born, three of whom are now living,—Louisa E., Emmett T. and M. W. His mother, Anna Mead, was born in 1813, in Warren county, Pennsylvania, and was the youngest of a family of eight, all of whom lived to a good age. Albert Kingsley's father was James Kingsley, who married Phebe Lenkins and reared a family of thirteen children. The grandmother of these children on the mother's side was one CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 297 Mrs. Luther, who it is believed is a lineal descendant of the great religious enthusiast and father of the Reformation. M. W. Kingsley was given the advantage of a high-school and academic training,—the latter at Kingsville, Ohio, and the former in Ripley, New York. He became interested in civil engineering and prepared himself for that business in surveying under John Spencer, of Westfield, New York. His first practical work was at Erie, Pennsylvania, under G. W.F. Sherwin, City Engineer, where he was rodman of the city corps of engineers, and later on chief of a party. Mr. Kingsley's next position was with the Canada Southern Railroad Company, in charge of a construction party. On completing a two-years' service with this company he came to Cleveland (1873) and took the position of assistant engineer in the construction of the first water-works lake tunnel. Since then he has been in the constant employ of the Water Department, in the construction of tunnels, reservoirs, and pipe extension. In the spring of 1892 he was made Superintendent of the Water Works Department of the city, succeeding Superintendent Whitelaw. Fraternally Mr. Kingsley is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland, and of the American Society of Engineers. In 1879 Mr. Kingsley married, in Cleveland, Cornelia, a daughter of George F. French, and they have one child, Albert F. Kingsley. PETER THOMAS LYNCH, Harbor Master of Cleveland, was born in Ireland, 1844. When a lad nine years old be set out in company with some relatives for the United States, but on reaching Liverpool became separated from his friends and was lost, and was picked up by Captain Lowry of the ship Julia G. Tyler of Baltimore, who took him on board and used him as well as his own boy, who also was on the same vessel. On leaving Captain Lowry some time after this in the port of New Orleans, he went on the ship Wm. M. Rogers, of Bath, Captain Thompson, on which he stayed one year. He was going then under the name of Thomas Flynn, using his middle name with that of his stepfather. By this name he was generally known till after the war of the Rebellion. For more than a dozen years Mr. Lynch sailed almost every sea and visited all the principal harbors, both in European and American waters, meeting with experiences thrilling in the extreme. He has sailed in all the different lines running to Europe from Boston, New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans, and served in the Navy the last of the war in the West Gulf Squadron, from the fall of 1864 till the latter part of July, 1865. One cruise is of special interest and is recalled by Mr. Lynch as vividly and with as much interest as if it occurred only last year. It was while aboard the famous slaver the Wanderer, fitted out in the port of Savannah. The mission of this yacht was to engage in the unlawful business of trading in slaves. But this fact was kept from the crew until well out at sea. The captain, who planned the expedition and expected to direct the craft and furnish the means, was defeated in his purpose by a faithless friend, a captain who had been taken into the scheme. Just prior to the time set for starting this officious captain came to the boat, assumed its command, set sail and left the originator of the scheme on shore. The yacht sailed aimlessly about for some days, while it was being decided where a supply of provisions was to be procured. Suddenly a boat hove in sight and was hailed and forage enough obtained to carry the crew over for some days. The Wanderer then directed her course toward the African coast, keeping on the sharp lookout both for men-of war patroling the waters and for cargoes of negroes, which the captain intended to appropriate by theft. After touching at a few points, concealing their identity everywhere, they were suspected of being on a questionable errand and were chased out of port and escaped capture. 298 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Still after more provisions another ship was stopped by firing a shot across her bow, but on account of the wind and sea the two vessels could not come nearer than hailing distance of one another. A small boat was lowered from the Wanderer and manned by the captain and three men, including young Lynch. Making its . way to the visitor it secured the supplies and was endeavoring to put back again to the Wanderer when she repeatedly shifted her position, keeping just out of reach of the life-boat. Suddenly the yacht spread sail and away she went, leaving the captain to his peril and the mercy of the ocean. The mate had mutinied and took advantage of the captain's sitution to assume command. The deserted men were picked up and taken to an African port and from there to Liverpool, where the captain was arrested for firing across the bow of a ship and stopping her on the high seas in friendly waters. Mr. Lynch left salt water and came to the lakes in 1865, and sailed them before the mast as mate and captain, with one or two interruptions, continuously till 1884. He made Cleveland his home in 1868. He was five years president of the Seamen's Union of this city, and two years Harbor Master prior to 1879. In 1893 he was appointed by Director Farley to his present position. Mr. Lynch was twice married. His first wife bore him .three children: Frank J., Mary E. and Catherine A. Mrs. Lynch died in 1882, and Mr. Lynch was married again in 1885. His second wife has borne him one child, T. V. Powderly. RICHARD WORTS, a small-fruit fanner Cand a retired carriage and wagon maker; Mayfield, Cuyahoga county, Ohio., is a native of Yarmouth, England, born January 23, 1826. Before giving a sketch of his life we will refer briefly to his parentage. Richard Worts, Sr., his father, was also a native of England, and was a miller by trade. He came to America in 1836, first located in Lake county, Ohio, and a short time afterward removed to Mayfield township, this county. He followed the milling business some after coming to this township, but during the latter years of his life was engaged in farming, and passed away at the age of eighty-one years. His father, Austin Worts, was a farmer in the old country, and lived and died there. The mother of our subject was before her marriage Miss Louisa A. Plumer, and she, too, was a native of England. She, with her four children, carne to America a short time after her husband, and on their farm in this township she passed the residue of her life. Her death occurred when she was seventy-eight years of age. In their family were seven children, two daughters and five sons, six of whom reached adult age. Richard, their first born, was ten years old when he came with his father to Ohio, and until he reached his majority he assisted his father on the farm. Then he engaged in agriculture on his own account. In 1848 he began work at the wagon and carriage trade in Kirtland, Lake county, Ohio, and continued there two years. Then he came to Mayfield and opened a shop, which he ran from 1850 until 1888, when he retired. Mr. Worts was married March 13, 1847, to Polly Bennett, a native of Fishkill, New York, born March 27, 1824. In her infancy she was brought by her parents to Ohio, who first settled in Lake county, and when she was about five years old they removed to Cuyahoga county. Her parents, Abram and Rebecca (Presley) Bennett, were of Scotch descent and were natives of New York. They had a family of fourteen children, six daughters and eight sons, all of whom, except three, reached adult years, Polly being the fourth born. Mr. and Mrs. Worts have three daughters and two sons, —Byron, Jefferson, Amelia F., Mariah A. and Mary Ann. Mr. Worts has a comfortable home, and about three acres of land devoted to the pro- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 299 duction of small fruits. For a number of years he has been identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for thirty years has been sexton for the church. His political affiliations are with the Republican party. During the Civil war he served one year as a private in Company A, Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, having enlisted in August, 1861, and was discharged on account of disability. PERRY MORRISON, one of the substantial and well-known men of Solon township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a representative of one of the pioneer families of the county. A brief sketch of him and his forefathers is as follows: Perry Morrison was born on the farm on which he now lives, August 5, 1847, son of John Morrison, Jr., and grandson of John Morrison, Sr., both natives of New York. Both grandfathers were in the war of 1812. The elder John Morrison and his family were among the first settlers of Solon township, and here in the midst of the forest he and his son cleared and developed a fine farm, the one on which Perry Morrison now lives. The mother of our subject was before her marriage Miss Lucy Perry, and she, too, was .a native of New York. She died in September, 1892, at the age of seventy years. The father had passed away in 1853. They had a family of seven children, namely: Adelbert, a member of Company C, Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died in Libby Prison; Charlotte, deceased; Sherman, deceased; Perry, whose name heads this article; Lewis, deceased; Lucyette, deceased; and Alice. Perry Morrison was reared at the old homestead and was educated in the district schools. When he was sixteen he began working out as a farm hand, and continued thus occupied in this and adjoining townships for several years. Since 1872 he has been at his present location. Here he is engaged in farming and dairying, keeping a dairy of about twenty-five cows. This farm comprises 140 acres and has been still further developed by hitn since he came into possession of it, he having erected a commodious two-story residence and a good barn and otherwise made valuable improvements. Mr. Morrison was married at Bedford, Ohio, January 11, 1871, to Mary Culham, a native of Albany, New York, and a daughter of John and Ann (Quinn) Culham, highly respected residents of Twinsburg, Ohio, aged eighty-one and seventy years respectively. Mr. Culham was born in Ireland. He and his wife have had a family of seven children, four of whom are living—John, Mary, Lizzy and James. Two died when young and Thomas died in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Morrison was eleven years old at the time her parents came to Ohio. She and Mr. Morrison have five children: Albert A., Stella, Earl, Nelly and John, their ages ranging from twenty-two to ten years. Like his father, Mr. Morrison affiliates with the Democratic party. He and his family are members of the Disciple Church. SAMUEL BRITTON is one of the successful men of Solon township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and like many of the citizens of this place hails from the Emerald Isle. Mr. Britton was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in August, 1847, son of James Britton, Jr., and grandson of James Britton, Sr., the latter being a Scotchman who located in county Tyrone, where he purchased 450 acres of land. The mother of Samuel Britton was before her marriage Miss Catharine Johnson, and she, too, was a native of county Tyrone. James Britton, J r., and his wife passed their lives and died in Ireland. They were the parents of seven children, three sons and four daughters. When he was eighteen years of age, Samuel Britton emigrated to the United States. He worked for one William Hutchings for three months, then was employed in a cheese factory for some time, and afterward worked on a farm