CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 325 mitted to the bar in 1852. Some time afterward he bought out the business of the law firm of Cowles & Mastick and began the practice of law alone. Mr. Herrick was so successful during the first eight months of his law practice as to be enabled to pay the entire purchase price. His practice kept increasing in a general way and so continued for ten years. In the meantime he admitted to a partnership Merrill Barlow, and the firm name became Herrick & Barlow. This partnership lasted until Mr. Barlow was appointed by Governor Brough Quartermaster General of Ohio. He then practiced alone until the year 1873, when he admitted his brother J. F. Herrick as partner, which partnership lasted about fifteen years. Mr. Herrick has for the greater part of his law practice had the care and management of large estates, and large properties belonging to others. He has handled the property of several large estates for a term of over twenty years, to the entire satisfaction of his clients. Besides being president of the Cleveland Linseed Oil Company, Mr. Herrick is a director in the East Cleveland Railway Company, and is engaged in many other large business enterprises. He has been Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church for fifteen or twenty years, and for the past ten years President of the Board of Trustees of that church. He is also a Trustee of the Cleveland School of Art, Cleveland Bethel Union, and the Humane Society. He has not only given freely of his time to these societies and organizations, but has always responded promptly and generously with financial aid when solicited or occasion required. He has been very successful in his undertakings, and has amassed a large amount of property from which he derives a good revenue. He has always been an energetic factor in any movement, private and public, which had for its object the benefit of the business interests of the city, and is highly regarded both personally and professionally. Mr. Herrick was married to Ursula Andrews, daughter of Sherlock J. Andrews, of Cleveland, Ohio, in January, 1860, and they have had five children, of whom two daughters and one son are now living. His son, Frank R. Herrick, graduated at Yale in the class of 1888, and took a post-graduate course at Harvard, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession as a member of the firm of Herrick & Hopkins, at Cleveland. The daughters are Ella H. and Ursula A., one of whom has. just finished her education, and the other is still pursuing her studies. CHARLES W. CHASE, a representative business man of the city of Cleveland, was born in Portage county, in this State, in the year 1846, of New England ancestry. His father, Captain Charles W. Chase, was born and brought up on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and, in common with a large majority of the inhabitants of that island, he adopted a seafaring life. At the age of fourteen years he shipped on a whaling vessel as a 'boy before the mast," the duties of which situation he performed faithfully, and continued in the service for over twenty years, rising through the various positions incident to the business until he became master of a vessel. His mother also was of the good old New England stock, being a great-grandchild of Captain Hezekiah Coffin, who commanded the ship Beaver, of Boston Harbor " tea party " fame. Mr. Chase, whose name introduces this brief biographical sketch, was educated in the common schools of his native county, and completed bis school days in the higher grades at the academy at Newton Falls, Ohio. In the spring of 1864 he came to Cleveland and engaged in the clothing business, becoming a clerk in the store of C. H. Robison, on Superior street, who was then known as the " Yankee clothier." He remained there about two years, and then entered the employ of J. H. DeWttt & Company, and then continued with James W. Carson, the succsssor of DeWitt & Company. In 1872 Mr. Chase became a member of the firm, which was 326 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. changed to James W. Carson & Company, and remained in that relation until January, 1882, when, the business becoming unprofitable, the firm was obliged to make an assignment. Soon after this Mr. Chase became identified with the successful merchant-tailoring business of James H. Cogswell & Company, who succeeded to that branch of the business after the Carson failure; he remained there for eight years. In 1872 Mr. Chase was married to Miss Almira F. Cowles, a daughter of the late Edwin Cowles, and they have had three children, only one of whom is now living, namely, Helen E. Upon the death of Mr. Cowles in 1890, Mr. Chase became a trustee and secretary and treasurer of his estate, to the interests of which he has mainly confined himself up to the present time. He is also prominently identified with other business interests, being a director and secretary of the Cleveland Leader Company, and also holding the same positions in the Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company, the W. B. Davis Company, men's furnishers, and the Maple Grove Dairy Company, large dealers in dairy products, and pioneers of the practice of delivering milk and cream in glass bottles. In addition to his numerous business duties. Mr.. Chase has found time to attend to church and benevolent work, and in these relations is connected with the Young Men's Christian Association as director and vice president, and with the Second Presbyterian Church in several official relations. For many years Mr. Chase has been an active and consistent member of that influential denomination of working Christians. JOHN I. NUNN, an embalmer and funeral director, at 559 Woodland avenue, has been identified as a business man with the city of Cleveland since 1881, when he opened up his present business on the East Side. He is a son of Isidor Nunn, one of the old settlers of this city. His father was born in Germany, September 12, 1832. His parents died. in their native land, where he was reared and educated. At the age of eighteen years Mr. Isidor Nunn came to America, and coming to Cleveland located in this city about 1850, and for nearly a half century he has resided here. In early life he had learned the cabinet-maker's trade, and at this he was employed until 1866, when he opened up an establishment of his own in the furniture and undertaking business. About the year 1870 he disposed of the furniture feature of his business and thereafter turned his whole attention to undertaking. He is one of the active and progressive men of this city to-day; is an active director in the Lorain Street Bank, and sustains other important business relations. He married in this city, Carolina Muller, who has borne him a family of nine children, as follows: John I.; Charles F., deceased, dying after reaching a very promising and enviable position and reputation in the undertaking business; Lizzie; Caroline; George, deceased; Frank G.; Lena; Adolph and Willie. The father of these children belongs to that sturdy, honest Teutonic class of people, more often referred to as " our good German citizens." In politics he has always been a stanch Democrat. He has a good and faithful wife, who was a devoted mother and loved friend. heath claimed her in 1875. Their son, John I., whose name introduces this personal sketch, was born in Cleveland, August 23, 1860. He attended the city schools and then gained a practical education in a local business college. He adopted the vocation of his father, that of an undertaker, and spent much time in preparation for the business. One year was spent in the West at Kansas City, Missouri. He then returned to Cleveland and began a business for himself. He has enjoyed a wide and extended 'patronage and has made a close study of embalming, in which he is one of the most successful and best informed undertakers in the city of Cleveland. He is one of the most successful young business men of the city, and socially and politically he is of influence. In CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 327 1890 he was brought before the people as a Democratic candidate for the office of City Councilman for the Fifth ward, an overwhelmingly Republican ward. Notwithstanding, Mr. Nunn was elected, as the first Democrat ever elected in the district. He was re-elected in 1891, and to-day he stands as a popular and influential man in the ranks of his party, and is esteemed as a wise and safe public officer. He is a member of the Funeral Directors' Association of the State of Ohio, of which he was secretary for a number of years. He has also been president of the same association, and to its interests he has devoted time and attention, striving to dispel the prevailing idea that the association is one formed for pecuniary purposes rather than for the purpose of educating its members to a higher standard in their profession. Mr. Nunn was married June 2,1885, to Miss Mary F. Lenze, a native of Pittsburg, and they now have three children, viz.: Isidore, Alardees and Olga. ALVA BRADLEY, who died November 28, 1885, was for many years a leading character and citizen of the city of Cleveland, to which place he came in the year 1859. He was born in Ellington, Connecticut, November 27, 1814, a son of Leonard Bradley, and when a small child his parents removed to Ohio. When a lad of fifteen years Mr. Bradley began the life of a sailor on the Lower Lakes, and followed that life for twenty-five years. He then settled in Cleveland, and became manager of a fleet of vessels of which he was the principal owner, and from that day to his death he was one of the most active vessel men and heaviest vessel owners whose craft plied upon the Great Lakes. The first vessel of his ownership was known as South America, which was lost after a few years of service. Among the several vessels which he had constructed were the South America, Dayton, Birmingham (schooner), propeller Indiana, Ellington and Oregon,--all of which he sailed. Other vessels built by him were the Charles Griswold, Bay City, Wyllington, Queen City, Kimball, Wagstaff, J. F. Card, Escanaba, Newgana, Maria Cobb,—all of which were built at Vermillion. The first vessel built by him in Cleveland was the Fayette Brown; then followed the S. J. Tilden, Bradley, Thomas Quayle, Cobb, Rhodes, steamer Fay, steamer Chamberlain, schooner John Martin, steamer E. B. Hale, steamer Henry Chisholm; steamer R. P. Rainey, and steamer City of Cleveland. Mr. Bradley also owned the steamer Fred Kelley, the Warner, steamer Superior, the Sandusky, the steamer Sheldon and the Ely. He remained actively engaged in the marine business until the date of his death, devoting fifty years to the business either as a sailor or vessel owner. He was also largely interested in real estate in the city of Cleveland, and at the time of his death he had accumulated a very large fortune. He began in life with no other capital than willing hands and an ambition to succeed. Perseverance, tact and enterprise enabled him to amass a fortune of over $2,000,000. He was married, in Milan, Ohio, to Helen Burgess, who is still living, and they have the following children: Elizabeth, the wife of N. S. Keller; Eleanor, wife of C. E. Grover; Marietta, wife of C. F. Morehouse; and Morris A. Morris A. Bradley was reared in the city of Cleveland, received his first schooling in the public schools of the city and then attended Hiram College. In the year 1881 he became associated with his father in business, as clerk. Upon the death of his father he was made one of the executors of the large estate, and since that time his time and attention have been given to the management of the same, as well as to his own private business interests. He is interested in the vessel business as a member of the Bradley Transportation Company, and the Ohio Transportation Company, of which companies he is president and manager. He succeeded his father as president and manager of the Bradley Transportation Company, his father having 328 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY been its president from its organization in 1882. Mr. Bradley is also president of the Stat% National Bank, and also of the Cleveland and Buffalo line of steamers. Since the death of his father he has built the steamer M. B. Grover, the steamer Pasadena, the steamer Hesper, the steamer Gladstone, the steamer George Stone, and the steamer Alva, and has purchased the barge Adriatic and the steamer Southwest. He is largely interested in real estate in the city of Cleveland, and he and other members of his family have been instrumental in the building of several important business and other blocks in the city. J. T. HAYDEN, traveling auditor for the I Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, first engaged in railroad business in September, 1860, as a ticket agent at Adrian, Michigan. A few months later he was transferred to Hillsdale, that State, as station agent, where he remained eleven years; the next succeeding two years he performed the same same duties at Kalamazoo, and when he made a fourth change it was to enter on his duties as traveling auditor for the company, this appointment being made May 1, 1873. Mr. Hayden was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, November 4, 1825. His primary and grammar-school training was all received in the same village and most of it in the same building. At thirteen he was left an orphan by, the death of his mother, and two years later he set out alone for Syracuse, New York, and joined his brother, who was a carpenter and joiner, and at this business he engaged as an apprentice to his brother, serving six years, as was the ancient custom. Instead of following his trade, however, he turned his attention to merchandising; but in this his reward was not satisfactory, and he sold out his business therein and went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he became secretary of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and in this capacity he was engaged until .he decided to enter railroad business. His only brother, E. T. Hayden, still lives in Syracuse. In that city, November 12,1846, Mr. Hayden married Miss Caroline Noltot, a daughter of Lyman and Sarah Nolton, and a sister of Mrs. C. P. Leland. Mr. Hayden's children are three in number, namely: Charles J. and Frank N., of the Fidelity & Casualty Company, of Chicagti; and Gertrude, wife of S. M. Bond of Cleveland. Mrs. Hayden died February 28, 1890, aged sixty-five years. Mr. Hayden joined the Masonic order at Milwaukee in 1854, taking the three first degrees there; he received the council, chapter and commandery degrees in Hillsdale, Michigan, and the ineffable degrees in Detroit, when he was initiated into the Scottish rite, August 15, 1865. He has passed all the chairs in the council, clipter and commandery, being five years Master, and one year presiding officer of the Grand Council of Michigan. Since 1886 he has been secretary and treasurer of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Mutual Life Insurance Association. W. S. SNYDER, chief deputy Sheriff of Cuyahoga county, was born in Brimfield, Portage county, Ohio, August 9, 1865, and was educated liberally in the public schools of Brimfield and Ravenna. At fifteen years of age he entered the shoe house of E. D. Sawyer, of Cleveland, as a clerk and remained five years, or until Mr. Sawyer's election to the sheriff's office, when he was made a deputy, and on Sheriff Ryan's accession to office Mr. Snyder was appointed chief deputy. T. E. Snyder, our subject's father,:was born at Rootstown, in 1842, and engaged in the shoe business in Cleveland for a number of years, but is now a merchant of.Brim- field. Peter Snyder, grandfather of W. S., was born in Snyder county, Pennsylvania, the'oOginal home of this German family. He emigrated to Portage CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 329 county, this State, in 1836. He married Henrietta Wagner, and they had eight children, six of whom are still living. The ancestor to whom credit is due for the settlement and naming of Snyder county, Pennsylvania, was Peter Snyder, a German subject, who emigrated to this country in old colonial days. T. E. Snyder married Miss Alice, a daughter of William Kelso, one of the first settlers of Portage county and proprietor of the old Union Hotel. The children of this union are: Carrie, wife of V. E. Underwood; W. S.; Howard and Clarence. W. S. Snyder married June 6, 1889, in St. Louis, Missouri, Miss Annette, a daughter of F. W. Rosenthal, a wholesale carpet dealer of St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have one child, William Robert. H. C. STUDLEY, of Cleveland, was born in South Byron, Genesee county, New York, August 2, 1844, and lived on a farm until the age of six years, when his parents removed to Rochester. He attended the public schools, and at sixteen left the high school to aecept the position of cashier in a dry goods house. After serving in this capacity and that of assistant bookkeeper in two other and larger stores, he was tendered and accepted a position in Jay Cooke & Company's First National Bank in Washington, in September, 1864, filling the position of individual and general bookkeeper and receiving teller. At this time the famous firm was acting as general agent for the United States Government in the sale of the various issues of bonds authorized by Congress to supply the needs of our great army, to sustain our country's credit and to perpetuate our national unity. The subscriptions for these bonds came from all parts of the country and passed through the hands of the First National Bank. In July, 1870, Mr. Studley resigned his position there to accept that of teller and assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Cleveland, Ohio. In February, 1873, the Society for Savings—now the largest banking institution in Ohio and one of the largest savings banks in this country—tendered him the position of mortgage and interest clerk, which he accepted and which he now holds. Mr. Studley has been actively identified with benevolent institutions of the city,—prominently with the Lakeside Hospital. In 1871 he was elected its treasurer, holding the office till 1883, when he resigned to enter the Board of Trustees. He served in the latter capacity until 1892, when he was chosen secretary of the hospital, which office he now holds. Mr. Studley is a son of Luther Studley, who was born in Byron, Genesee county, New York, October 21, 1805. His forefather was from Wales, coming to America many generations ago and settling in Massachusetts, whence the family afterward drifted into western -New. York. Luther Studley was a land dealer in the later years of his life, and was engaged in business in Rochester. At Batavia, that State, he married Miss Lucy A., a daughter of Thomas Main, who was a farmer. February 28, 1882. Mr. Studley died, leaving the following children: Seymour L., now a resident of Omaha, Nebraska; H. C., the subject of this sketch; and Francis L., wife of William Davis, of Rochester, New York. Mr. H. C. Studley was married in Cleveland, October 1, 1874, to Ella M.: a daughter of Dr. Philo Tilden, who was a prominent pioneer and business man of the Western Reserve, settling at Unionville in 1826. For four years he was a practicing physician over a scope of country many miles in extent. He became interested in the iron-ore business, and saw an opportunity to build up an industry in the manufacture of cast and pig iron. He built the first blast furnace on the lake, at Black River, and subsequently built three other furnaces, and conducted the business until 1868. He supplied the Federal Government with much of his manufactured product during the Civil war, for ordnance and vessel armor. 330 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY He was from Pawlet, Vermont, his birthplace, graduated at the Burlington, Vermont, Medical College, and died in 1884, at the age of eighty-two years, leaving five children. His wife, who was a Mrs. Bradley, of LeRoy, New York, died in 1873. Mr. H. C. Studley's children are: Henry T., drowned June 24, 1890, at the age of fourteen years; Rachel M , now aged fifteen; and 'Edna F., fourteen. The family are all members of the Second Presbyterian Church. GEORGE L. CASE, attorney and real-estate dealer, Cleveland, was born October 5, 1842, at Sharon, Medina county, Ohio. His father, Seth A. Case, was born January 10, 1814, in New York State, and when ten years of age came to Ohio, with his father, who settled in Medina county, where he lived the remainder of his days. He was an esteemed pioneer of that county, a man of sterling character, who commanded the respect of his neighbors and acquaintances, and a pioneer and leader in all temperance, church and educational work. He was a mechanical genius, and operated a wagon and 'carriage factory for a number of years at Sharon, where he died in 1885, having retired from active business ten years previously. The Case family is of English origin, the early representatives of the family in this country settling in Connecticut. The subject of this sketch, after attending the common schools, entered the academy of his native town and completed the course there. In 1862 be entered the quartermaster's department in the United States Army service at Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained till 1863, when on account of ill health returned to Sharon, where for two years he was engaged in farming. He then came to Cleveland and engaged in the real-estate business, to which he confined himself till 1876. He subsequently located in New York city, where he studied law in Columbia College, and graduated in the spring of 1880, at which time he was admitted to the bar of that State. He practiced his profession in that State for about two years and then returned to Cleveland, being admitted to practice in the State of Ohio in June, 1883, since which time he has been an active and successful member of the Cleveland bar. Meanwhile he has been largely interested in the real-estate business, building in the city on an average of about twenty houses per year for the last five years. Mr. Case is one of the leading Prohibitionists of the State, and has been actively engaged in the interests of his party since 1871. He has been for the last several years chairman of the county executive committee, as well as a member of the Ohio State executive committee, and was for two years treasurer of the latter. In 1892 he was a Prohibition candidate for Secretary of State, and made a very creditable race, running ahead of his party ticket, though he was defeated because of the weakness of his party, which has steadily gained in its strength from the time of its organization in the State. In 1887 Mr. Case was married to Miss Ella Zerbe, daughter of the late Jonathan Zerbe, of Massillon. Mr. Case has always been a man of temperate habits, hence his enthusiasm as a Prohibitionist. His moral character is above reproach, and as a citizen he is of progressive spirit. He has been a stanch friend of education, and has for the last several years been a trustee of Buchtel College, of Akron, Ohio. JOHN C. HARDENBERGH, Councilman from the Tenth District of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, August 28, 1848, and was liberally educated in the schools of that historic city, and at the proper age became an employee of the Franklin Machine Company, conducting an establishment for the manufacture of cotton machinery, for the purpose of learning the machinists' trade. In 1876 he was seized with a CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 331 desire to come West, and in response to it located in the metropolis of Lake Erie the same year. He was with the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company as a machinist one year; the next year he decided to pursue a different line of work, and accordingly became a locomotive fireman, October 18, 1881. He received his promotion as locomotive engineer, and continued on the railroad in this capacity until July, 1891, when he retired to engage in a less hazardous employment. For a period he was in the tea and coffee business, but is now connected with the Allied Publishing Company. Mr. Hardenbergh became interested in politics some years ago as a local worker and organizer of the Single Tax forces, but not until 1893, when a new Councilman from the Tenth District was to be named, did he bloom out as a candidate with his consent. He went through a heated campaign and was elected by 133 majority, succeeding Councilman Ptak. In the organization of the Council into committees Mr. Hardenbergh was placed on the committees on Claims and Accounts, Wharves and Harbors, and Labor,—being chairman of the latter. One of his favorite measures before the Council has been a bill to abolish the contract system and allow the city to do its own work without the intervention of contractors. He introduced a bill providing for the construction and operation of all street railroads in the city, believing that the municipality ought to reap the profits incident to the operation of railroad lines over its thoroughfares. He is now a member of the Legislative Committee of the Council, to which these bills were referred. The bills are now before the Legislature of Ohio for passage. Mr. Hardenbergh is a son of Fayette Hardenbergh, of Providence, Rhode Island, who was a machinist and was for years foreman of the Franklin Machine Company, of that city. He died in September, 1893, sixty-nine years of age. His ancestors were Holland Dutch, some one of whom founded the family in New England during Colonial times. Our subject's mother, Anna J., was a daughter of Stephen Clark, of an old Rhode Island family and a car-. penter by trade. The children of Fayette Hardenbergh and wife are: Anna C., wife of Israel Arnold, of Lonsdale, Rhode Island; John C.; Amy, now Mrs William Trafford, of Fall River, Massachusetts; and Carlton, of Providence, Rhode Island. John C. Hardenbergh was married in Boston, Massachusetts, September 26, 1870, to Anna E. Wood, whose father, William Wood, was a machinist there. By this marriage there is one child, Alice, now Mrs. John Mehringer, of Brooklyn village, Ohio. Mr. Hardenbergh was for a year Chief of Division No. 318, B. of L. E., and is still a most active promoter of the interests of the order, being a member of the General Board of Adjustment, and a member of the Legislative Committee, composed of twenty-eight persons. He is also identified with the Orangemen, Odd Fellows and with the Protestant Association of Apprentice Boys. He is most heartily in favor of fraternities organized for legitimate mutual good, and is frequently found in the field of such organizations. CHARLES J. ESTEP, attorney and counselor at law, Cleveland, was born July 23, 1858, at Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio. After graduating at the high school of Cadiz, he was sent to Wooster University, where he spent three years in study. Very early in life he manifested a taste and disposition for the legal profession, and left college at the end of his third year to begin his study of law in the office of his father, J. M., a leading lawyer of that section. He advanced very rapidly in his studies, and within two years was enabled to pass an examination successfully before the Supreme Court at Columbus, to be admitted to the bar in October, 1881. For a time there-after he remained in the office of his father, 332 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. with whom he began the practice as his partner. William G. Estep, his brother, was admitted to . the bar May 1, 1884, and taking his place with his father brought about the occasion of Charles J. coming to Cleveland, where he opened an office and began what has proven a successful career as a lawyer. In the spring of 1887 he was nominated on the Democratic city ticket for Police Prosecutor, and as such was elected. His ability in that position was so marked during his first term that he received a renomination (by acclamation) by his party, which was really in the minority in the city, but by the aid of Republican votes Mr. Estep was re-elected, in the spring of 1889, being one of the only two Democrats elected on the ticket. During Judge Hutchins' occupancy of the police bench, Mr. Estep was called to take his place for a few weeks, which place he filled with considerable credit. In April, 1893, he was appointed first assistant in the department of law in the municipal government of Cleveland. Mr. C. J. Estep married, in 1889, Miss Edith G. Arthur, by whom he has a son, Arthur. SEYMOUR F. ADAMS, attorney at law, Cleveland, was born July 3, 1837, at Vernon, Oneida county, New York, a son of Silas and Alvira Adams, of Oneida Castle, New York. His father was born also at Vernon, July 4, 1809, and he has been a horticulturist and farmer of some note. In 1858 he located at Oneida, New York, where he still resides, at the age of eighty-four years. Mr. Adams was educated at Hamilton College, Clinton county, New York, where he graduated in 1858, with the degrees of A. B. and A. M. He then as an instructor took charge of the classical department of the Oneida Seminary, where he remained one year, and was then elected by the trustees of the Vernon Academy as its principal, in which capacity lie served one year. The profession of law appeared early to invite Mr. Adams into its realm, and in 1860 he began its study at the University of Albany, New York, and graduated there with the degree of LL. B., in May, 1861, was admitted to the bar in the same year, and. commenced practice in Lewis county, that State. The breaking out of the war changed the operations of Mr. Adams. In July, 1862, he enlisted in the Fifth New York Heavy Artillery as Second Lieutenant: February 11, 1863, he was promoted First Lieutenant, and early in 1865 as Captain. Having been a law graduate and a lawyer by profession, he was called upon to perform the duties of Judge Advocate in the division of which his regiment was a part, being detailed by the commanding officer of his di- duty vision, and upon this detailed duty he served nearly half of the first year of his army life. In 1863 with this regiment he went to Harper's Ferry, where he was detailed as Ordnance Officer, in which cacity he served several months. Later he was detailed as Aid-de-camp on the staff of General Max Weber, commanding officer of the division, who afterward was relieved by General John D. Stevenson, and he appointed Captain Adams his Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, and as such he served until mustered out. of the service in July of 1865. He was a participant in many important battles and campaigns, as the battles of the Shenandoah Valley, under General Sigel and Sheridan, etc. At the close of the war Mr. Adams returned to New York and there resumed the practice of his profession. In 1865 he was elected the District Attorney of Lewis county, but before the expiration of his term of office he resigned, having received a letter from Judge Bishop of this city, inviting him to come to Cleveland and become his partner in the practice of law. The invitation was accepted and at once Mr. Adams came to Cleveland. He and Judge Bishop were associated together in the profession from 1867 till 1881, in which latter year the death of Judge Bishop occurred. In 1877 Judge Bishop's son became associated with this firm, and after the death of his father, young Bishop remaining in the firm, the style of the same was changed to CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 333 Adams & Bishop, rather than Bishop & Adams, and at present the law firm of Adams & Bishop has an extensive general practice. In 1871 Mr. Adams married Miss Eliza, the daughter of Sylvester Spooner, of Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have two children. The older is a daughter, Sarah, who is now in Smith College as a student. The younger, Walter S., is attending the Cleveland high school. FRANK NELSON WILCOX, attorney and counselor at law, was born in Brecksville, this county, June 17, 1855, a son of the late Stephen Miller and Margaret (Coates) Wilcox. He received his early education in the district schools, which he left in 1871 to enter Oberlin College, and the following five years were spent in attending the higher schools and teaching country schools. At Oberlin College he took a special course in Greek, Latin and mathematics, and finished his course there in 1875, at which date he came to Cleveland and worked in an abstract office until 1876, when he began the study of law in the office of Prentiss, Baldwin & Ford, later in that of S. M. Eddy, with whom he remained until 1878, at which time he was admitted to the bar, having studied law after coming to Cleveland. Upon being admitted to the bar Mr. Wilcox opened an office with S. S. Wheeler, with whom he remained about one year. About this time Mr. Wilcox entered the Sheriff's office as a secretary, and remained there for two years, after which he resumed the practice of law alone, and so continued until the summer of 1883. At this date he and F. M. Chandler became partners in the practice of law, and remained as such until 1885, when Mr. Chandler accepted the position of deputy county recorder. Thereafter until 1887 Mr. Wilcox practiced law without a partner, at this date entering into partnership with Mr. T. L. Stromple. This partnership lasted about three years. Thereafter the law firm of Wilcox & Collister was formed, and this firm still exists, and has a remunerative and successful general practice. For the last two years Mr. Wilcox has been largely absorbed in that practice and that business relating to street railways, in Cleveland and other cities. He is interested as attorney and stockholder in several companies of industrial importance. He was married December 25; 1878, to Miss Jessie F., daughter of H. H. Snow, of Brecksville, Ohio, and they have three children, Owen N., Frank N. and Ruth. Mr. Wilcox's father, Stephen Miller Wilcox, was born in 1817, at Brecksville, Ohio, while his mother, Margaret Coates, was born in 1813, near the present site of Rochester, New York. Her ancestors were of English origin, coming from England about the year 1800 and settling first in New York, but removing to Royalton, Ohio, about 1816. The paternal great-grandfather of Mr. Wilcox was a graduate of Oxford University, and brought with him to America a library of many hundred volumes of standard works. From the Connecticut Land Company he purchased 3,000 acres of land at Royalton, where he lived many years and reared a large family, and his descendants are living yet in that locality. In the year 1842 our subject's parents were married at Brecksville, where the parents of both had settled about 1816. It is said that the Wilcox family is also of English origin and came to New York about 1700, and Josiah Wilcox, the great-grandfather of our subject, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. WILL G. GUENTHER, lawyer, is a son of Philip and Frederika Guenther, born August 2, 1868, in Cleveland, and while an infant his parents removed to Indianapolis, where he was educated in the public schools and under private tutors, receiving private instruction in German, French and Latin. 334 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. He then came to Cleveland and became cashier in a mercantile establishment of his maternal grandfather, J. C. Weber, one of the oldest shoe dealers in the city. In the year 1886 he entered the office of Henderson, Kline & Tolles, where be studied law until 1889, when be was admitted to the bar, at the age of twenty-one years. With this law firm he remained until 1891, when he opened an office and entered upon the practice of his profession alone. He has been successful in his practice and has rapidly gained a remunerative clientage. He has a general practice, and is largely interested in matter.; relating to insurance. He is connected with several Cleveland banks, for some of which he acts as attorney, and is also connected with mercantile and manufacturing interests in this city. He was married June 30, 1891, to Miss Alice V. Morgan, daughter of Herman L. and Sarah Morgan, of Cleveland. Their only child is a son, Philip Morgan, born October 23, 1893. Mr. Guenther is a member of the Disciple Church. JAMES THOMPSON is one of the early settlers of Solon township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and is one of its most respected citizens. Mr. Thompson has been a resident of this place since November,. 1848. Of his life we make record as follows: James Thompson was born in county Derry, Ireland, March 22, 1822, son of John and M argaret (Gray) Thompson, both natives of that county. His mother died when James was eighteen months old, leaving him and one other child, William, who became a prominent and successful physician of Solon, Ohio, and who is now deceased. For his second wife John Thompson married Catharine Linton, also a native of county Derry, and by her he had four children, namely: Thomas, of Madison, Ohio; John, of Solon, Ohio; Eliza Cray, of Tuscola, Michigan; and May, who died in Michigan. Mr. Thompson was a soldier in the British army for three years, and for twenty-one years he was employed as a linen bleacher in his native isle. It was in 1831 that he came with his family to America. He spent two years in Clinton county, New York, three months in Buffalo, that State, one year in Portage county, Ohio, a number of years in Bainbridge, Ohio, and finally came from there to Solon. Here he died at the age of eighty-six years. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church,. and his life was an exemplary one. The subject of our sketch was about eleven years old when his father settled in Bainbridge. He attended the district school for some time, but the Chief portion of his education was that received in the fractical school of experience. On the ninth of November, 1848, he settled on the land on which he now lives. At that time two acres of the hind near the road had been cleared and a little log house, 18 x 26 feet, had been built. Here Mr. Thompson made his start. As a result of his earnest and persistent efforts, his farm, 130 acres, is now ranked with the best and most desirable in the neighborhood. The primitive log house was long ago replaced by a modern commodious two-story residence, located on a natural building site, and a large barn, 36 x 50 feet, was built. Summit Avenue Station is within thirty rods of his home. In connection with his farming, Mr. Thompson has also given considerable attention to the stock business. He now keeps a dairy of twenty-five cows. Mr. Thompson was married, October 4, 1848, at Bainbridge, Ohio, to Arvilla M. Kingsley, daughter of Enos D. and Mary (Mann) Kingsley, natives of Becket, Massachusetts. Her father was the fifth settler of Bainbridge, and her parents had a family of five children: Faber E., Sally, Arvilla, Jane and Nathan. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson became the parents of two children, one of whom, Katie M., is the wife of William Arthur, and has three children: Jesse, Gracie and Harlan. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur reside at the home place with her father. Mrs. Thompson departed this life June 29, 1888, after CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 335 forty years of happy married lite. She was a devoted Christian woman, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and her life was such that it won many friends. Mr. Thompson's carper has been characterized by industry, honesty and sobriety, and all who know him esteem him for his many estimable traits of character. DAVID G. NESBIT, Deputy Collector and Inspector of Customs of Cleveland, was born in Summit county, Ohio, December 28, 1846. He is a son of William .Nesbit, an early settler of Summit county and a farmer, born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1794. He was a private soldier in the war of 1812. In 1832 he settled in Summit county and passed the remaining years of his life on the old homestead, dying in 1873. He married Lucinda Hungerford, born in Herkimer county, New York, in 1806, who died in 1891. Their children are as follows: Alexander, a farmer of Northfield, Summit county; David G.; Emily, who married Samuel Gallie; and Caroline, wife of William H. Deisman,— all of same county: two others are deceased. David G. Nesbit's life until the age of fifteen was spent on the farm and was uneventful. On August 4, 1862, he enlisted in the One Hundred .and Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company G, Captain D. N. Lowry, Colonel J. A. Lucy, and later Colonel T. C. Boone. The regiment was stationed at Camp Dennison, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. A part of it, stationed at Maysville; Kentucky, then at Murfreesborough and Chattanooga, Tennessee, participated in the engagements at Chattanooga and Murfreesborough. Mr. Nesbit was later put on detached duty in a blockhouse, and later on, December 4, 1864, was captured and taken first to Meridian, Mississippi, thence to Selma, Alabama, and finally to Andersonville, Georgia. Upon entering this rebel hales Mr. Nesbit weighed 165 pounds. After five months' confinement and dieting by Mr. Wirz, weighed on his release, he tipped the beam at eighty-nine pounds! Mr. Nesbit reached the Union lines at Jacksonville, Florida. Ile went by boat to Annapolis, Maryland, and by rail to Columbus, Ohio, where he was discharged as a paroled prisoner June 10, 1865, having served two years and ten months. On taking up civil affairs Mr. Nesbit was engaged in putting down oil wells and at carpenter work for a few years. He then became a student at the Spencerian Business College in Cleveland, studying the subject of penmanship, which he taught for three successive winters. In 1871 he came to reside permanently in Cleveland and worked as a carpenter, and later entered the employ of I. J. Lewis, a large contractor of Cleveland, and afterward for Mr. Richardson, a cabinet worker. In 1881 he engaged for himself in contracting and building, and followed it up until his appointment to his present office, March 19, 1890. Mr. Nesbit is a Republican, of course, and for eight years was a member of the county central committee, representing the Eighteenth ward. He is an active member of the G. A. R.; served two years each as Junior and Senior Vice Commander, and three years as Commander of Memorial Post, No. 141, of Cleveland. He was married March 17, 1871, to Mrs. Harriet Gardner, a daughter of Lyman Humphrey, a lawyer of Portage county, Ohio, and a sister of Lyman U. Humphrey, ex-Governor of Kansas. WILLIAM F. CARR, a Cleveland attorney, was born at Canal Fulton, Ohio, March 13, 1848. His parents, Jacob and Jane M. Carr, removed to Illinois when their son was a small child, and thereafter until the fall of 1872 their home was in that State, where young Carr was brought up on a farm and given a liberal education in the public school. Leaving Illinois he returned to Ohio, 336 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. and at Bucyrus began the reading of law under the guidance of General E. B. Finley, his uncle. He was admitted to the bar in 1875, and shortly afterward removed to Cleveland and entered upon what has been a successful career in his profession. In 1876 he formed a partnership with Thomas Emery, which continued till 1879, when his partner left Cleveland and located in Bryan, Ohio. Thereafter Mr. Carr remained alone in practice until the fall of 1883, when he associated himself with F. H. Goff. January 1, 1890, Mr. Carr and his partner, Mr. Goff, and E. J. Estep and Judge M. R. Dickey, associated themselves together in the practice of their profession, under the firm name of Estep, Dickey, Carr & Goff, which is now one of the strongest law firms of Cleveland. Mr. Carr's father was born in Stark county, Ohio, and his mother was born in Holmes county, this State. The father is a farmer and lives a retired life at Wadsworth, Ohio. Mr. Carr's paternal grandfather was a native of New Jersey and at a very early date migrated to Stark county. On the maternal side Mr. Carr traces his ancestral history back to England, the early ancestors in this country coming before the Revolutionary war, and among them his great-grandfather; who was a participant in the Revolutionary war. November 8, 1883, Mr. Carr married Alice T. Codding, of Bucyrus, Ohio, and their children are Marion Codding and Marjoria Leigh. GEORGE A. McKAY, Deputy Collector and Marine Clerk, Customhouse, Cleveland, was born in Oswego, New York, June 16, 1841. His father, Alexander McKay, was born at Strathuavar, Scotland, in 1805, and his mother, Rozetta Louisa McKay, at Little York, Canada, in 1819. His paternal grandfather was forester for the Duke of Sutherland in Scotland; and his mother's father was Colonel Hamilton of the British army. The life of Mr. George A. McKay as a youth was similar to that of the average boy of the United States, receiving the usual common-school education through all the grades, and completing' a collegiate course at Columbus, this State. He was brought by his parents to Cleveland in 1847. In early life he entered the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway Companies. In the old depot he was employed as clerk in the office of Addison Hills, agent and general freight agent of both roads. his business embraced shipments by both rail and lake, and he settled both classes of accounts for the railroad company. At the breaking out of the war, in 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three months, and went into camp at Camp Taylor on Woodland avenue April 17, that year. He had been connected with the Cleveland Zonaves, an independent company, previous to his enlistment, and on account of his knowledge of military tactics was promoted to the highly honorable position of Second Sergeant in the company. The regiment was ordered to Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati, in May' after they had been thoroughly drilled in tactics at the previous camp; and on arrival here they had to build barracks, etc., and had the pleasure of experiencing what they might expect in the dim and misty future in what would constitute a soldier's life. The experience proved to be rough, to say the least; but as his father had been a soldier before him, and had inculcated in his mind in the days of his youth what he might expect, providing he ever was made to undergo a soldier's life, he tried to take things as easily as he possibly could, knowing that there was no use in crying over spilt milk. June 19, 1861, he re-enlisted for three years or during the war. In the latter part of that month the regiment was ordered to West Virginia, then under command of Major-General George B. McClellan. It was transported by rail from their camp to Clarksburg, that State, and was reviewed there previous to a forced CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 337 march over the mountains to Weston, where it captured $45,000 in gold, which was in the way of taking flight for Richmond, Virginia, then the capital, so called, of the Confederate States. During the war our subject was severely wounded several times; and the records in Washington show that he participated in every battle in which his regiment was engaged, as the first battle of Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, storming of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, etc. He was promoted through the various grades in his regiment to the position of Captain, and was selected as Assistant Inspector General on the staff of the brigade, division and corps in which he served. On the expiration of his second enlistment he was mustered out, and he resumed civil life. This he did by becoming road and lake receiver for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway Companies,—the position being one of the most important in the gift of the companies. Thence he was promoted chief of the Merwin street depot and flats, serving there till promoted chief clerk for the Erie Transportation Company fast-freight line; from that to chief voucher and tariff clerk of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway on the consolidation of the various roads in that system. Several years afterward be accepted a position on the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway as bookkeeper and voucher clerk in their general office, being afterward made ticket and freight agent for the same road at Logansport, Indiana. Subsequently he was again transferred, this time to the Ohio Central Railway system as ticket, freight and express agent at Corning, this State, where he had some twenty-three stations in his charge. Afterward, when his old schoolmate and comrade, William Brew, was elected auditor for the county of Cuyahoga, be was selected by him for his general knowledge to serve in his office as one of his deputies and clerks, doing duty also in the office of the county treasurer as one of the deputies under D. A. Kimberly, at that time county treasurer. Mr. McKay was elected Inspector of Weights and Measures for the city of Cleveland, and served as such for more than four years, when he declined to serve longer on account of too great exposure to inclement weather. After the appointment of Captain M. B. Gary as collector of customs for the district of Cuyahoga he was elected by the Captain, on account of his knowledge of records and marine law and business, as one of his deputies and marine clerk. He has a thorough knowledge of that branch of business, and is considered an expert therein. He is still employed at the customhouse. In social relations Mr. McKay was the National Adjutant General for the Union Veterans' Union for two consecutive terms; has been a Commander in the Grand Army of the Republic; has been a Worthy Patriarch in the Encampment of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Knights of Honor, Royal Adelphia, National Union, Chosen Friends and several other secret societies. DR. J. B. FOX, a successful physician with an office at 1226 Euclid avenue in the city of Cleveland; is a man of rare ability and talent. He is the owner and also financier of Dr. J. B. Fox's Sanitarium, at 979 Willson avenue, which was established in 1888, and here Dr. Fox treats all forms of ulcerated diseases, including bone ulcers, fever sores, cancers, milk leg, etc. He is a successful treater of diseases of the skin, of which he makes a specialty. He has devoted years to the study of his specialty, and for the past thirty-two years has studiously and constantly applied himself, having thus full well mastered those subjects in which he makes any pretension. He is not a medical college 338 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. graduate, but is a man who has devoted his time and attention to certain lines of diseases, and in the treatment of those certain lines he has met with phenomenal success, and has gained considerable reputation as a surgeon. He located in the city of Cleveland in 1880. He was born in Maine, in 1837, a son of William A. and Zilla (Hilton) Fox, both of which parents descended from Scotch and English ancestry. Dr. Fox was reared in his native State, where he also received a liberal English education. He was reared on a farm, attending the country schools. He was brought up, mainly, in the home of his paternal grandfather, who was an able and prominent physician, and under the guidance and influence of this grandfather Dr. Fox took up the study of medicine, and when he was twenty-one years of age he began the practice of his profession. He located in Boston, Massachusetts, and there remained, for eighteen years, excepting four years and five months, which lie spent in the civil war. He enlisted and served in the construction company of the army, and was placed in charge of the transportation of certain divisions, being placed in responsible positions, requiring tact, energy and pluck. At the battle of Bull Run he was wounded in the thigh and upper arm, also in the left side, and in fact was rather seriously injured, but by virtue of taking excellent care of himself, as best he could under the circumstances, he recovered, and was soon ready for duty. After the close of the war he traveled over the country a very great deal. He owned and operated a sanitarium in Boston before the war, and since coming to Cleveland he has pushed forward in the prosecution of his work and his practice, and it is worthy of note to mention that he has succeeded quite well, even in the face of the strongest opposition; being a man of merit, respectability and intelligence, he has judiciously conducted himself, and has not only achieved success in his profession, but gained for himself an estimable character and reputation. His sanitarium is well equipped and the patients are well provided for. He bears many testimonials from people who have been successfully treated by him, and he has been successful in relieving some of the most distressed by reason of such diseases as he has made a specialty. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M. and is otherwise prominently connected among citizens of Cleveland. JEREMIAH W. FAY, a native and a well known pioneer of Parma township, was the son of the late Benajah and Ruth (Wilcox) Fay. his father was born in Massachusetts, 1777, and his mother. was a native of Lewis county, New York, where she was born 1781. In 1816 they came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and settled in Parma township, where they lived till their death, lie dying in March, 1862, and she September 16, 1831. Benajah Fay and his wife were the parents of throe children, viz: Mabel, the first white child born in Parma township, and is the widow of Dudley Humphrey; Jeremiah W.; and Ruth, who became the wife of Edward Baldwick. Jeremiah W. Fay was born March 8,1822, in Parma township, where he was reared to manhood and where he has always resided. Farming has been his principal occupation in life, and he owns a farm of seventy-eight acres, which is well improved. He was married in Cleveland, Ohio, September 5, 1854, to Miss Mary A. Bradley, a daughter of Alfred and Clarissa (Briscoe) Bradley. They were natives of Connecticut and came to Cuyahoga county in an early day, settling in Rockport township, where he died in 1850. She died in Wisconsin in October, 1884. They had ten children, five sons and five daughters. Mrs. Fay was the fourth child. She was born in Rockport township, July 5, 1836. Mr. and Mrs. Fay are the parents of five children,. four of whom are living, viz.: William N.; Edgar B., who married Dora Hoffman; Alfred W., who married Jennie E: Peck; and Clarence E. The deceased child, Albert W., died in infancy. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 339 Mr. Fay has held the office of Township Treasurer six years, and that of township Trustee for one term, and has served as Justice of the Peace for three terms. He has taken a very active part in all local affairs. In politics he is a Republican, taking a good degree of interest in these matters. Mr. Fay has been a member of the I. O. O. F. since 1855. G. D. KNIGHT, an employe of the Valley Railroad, was born at Port Jervis, Orange county, New York, February 11, 1863, a son of James R. Knight, who was born in that county in 1838, was engaged as engineer for the City Water Works many years, and for seven years served as chief engineer of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company. His brother, Samuel Knight, was an extensive farmer and lumber dealer in the Delaware valley. The tracing of the genealogy of the Knight family by Hon. Charles H. Winfield, a prominent Jersey City attorney and a relative of the family, and by ex-Governor Bross, of Illinois, reveals the fact that they are of Scotch, Welsh and Holland Dutch descent. The date of arrival of the founder of the family in America was during the Colonial period. James R. Knight married Jennie, a daughter of Phillip Decker, a native of Orange county, New York, and of Welsh extraction. They had the following children: G. D., our subject; Julia, wife of. W. A. Gordon; James T.; W. B., bookkeeper for the Standard Oil Company; Jennie; and Jessie. G. D. Knight spent the first eight years of his life on a farm, and the next half decade was passed in the village of Port Jervis, where he received a liberal education. In 1880 the family located in Cleveland, Ohio, where young Knight obtained employment as fireman for the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, remained there three years, then became a brakeman on the Eastern Division of the Erie Railroad, during the following year secured the position of fireman on the West Shore Road, a few months later returned to Cleveland, and soon afterward went to Jacksonville, Florida, for the purpose of working on the Florida and Key West Railroad. After arriving there, Mr. Knight became dissatisfied with the outlook, and returned to Atlanta, Georgia. He found employment with the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad, running between Atlanta, Chattanooga and Macon, but six months afterward was forced from the South by the prevailing malarial diseases. Soon after his return to Cleveland, Mr. Knight began work on the Valley road. He was married in Port Jervis, New York, February 4, 1887, to Minnie, a daughter of J. W. Roloson, formerly a conductor on the Eastern Division of the Erie Railroad, but now retired from active labor. Mr. and Mrs. Knight have one child, May R., born December 30, 1887. Mr. Knight is a member of the P. H. C., of the Grievance Committee of the B. of L. and for three years was Councillor of the O. U. A. M. DR. ELROY M. AVERY, State Senator for the Twenty-fifth Ohio District, an able educator, a popular author, and an ideal American citizen, is a descendant of that old Norman family of Averys who found their way into England with William the Conqueror in the year 1066. Christopher Avery, born in England about 1590, came to Massachusetts in the transport Arbella, with Governor Winthrop, and landed at Salem in June, 1630. He was a selectman of Gloucester, Massachusetts, for eight years. Later, lie lived in Boston, and in New London, Connecticut, and was made a freeman of that colony in 1669, dying ten years later. His descendants are found in every State of the Union. Contemporary with Christopher Avery were John Avery, who died in Boston in 1654; Thomas Avery of Salem, a blacksmith, who 22 340 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. came over in the vessel John and Mary in 1633; and Dr. William Avery, of Dedham, who came to America in 1654 and died in Boston in 1687 (the houses of Dr. William Avery and of Christopher Avery were united, probably for the first time in America, by the marriage of Catherine Hitchcock Tilden and Dr. Elroy M. Avery, the subject of this memoir); Dr. William Avery, Dr. Jonathan Avery, Dorothy (Avery) Angier, Dorothy (Angier) Hitchcock, Gad Hitchcock, M. D., Catherine (Hitchcock) Tilden, Junius Tilden, Catherine H. Tilden, Elroy M. Avery, Caspar H. Avery, Amos W. Avery, Abraham Avery, William Avery, John Avery, James Avery and Christopher Avery. Christopher's only child was James, founder of the Groton Averys. When ten years old, he came with his father to Massachusetts. Joanna Greenslade of Boston became his wife. He moved to Gloucester, and six years later. 1650, moved to New London, where his friend, the younger Winthrop, had made a settlement five years before. James Avery was a largc landowner in and near New London, and it 1656 built the "Hive of the Averys" at Poquonnock Plain, and lived there till his death. The building is still in good repair and owned acid occupied, as it always has been, by an Avery. James Avery became a famous Indian fighter, a very active business man, and an influential citizen. He seems to have been invariably designated to treat with the neighboring Indians, and to settle the controversies between them and the whites. He was townsman twenty years, was twelve times elected to the Connecticut General Court, was a Peace Commissioner, Assistant Judge of the County Court, and a prominent member of the church. After the death of his first wife he married Mrs. A bigail Holmes, in 1698. He died April 18, 1700. John Avery, James's third son, married Abigail, daughter of Samuel Cheesbrough, in 1675. The records show him to have had strong military inclinations. In 1700 he became one of the original proprietors of New Lebanon, Connecticut. William Avery, John's third son, married Anna Richardson in 1715. His second wife was Sarah Walker. Lieutenant Abraham Avery, the ninth son of William Avery, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Later, he became a privateer and was captured by the enemy. After suffering on a prison ship, he was landed at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and begged his way back to Connecticut. He married Mercy Packer of Groton, six children being born of the union. He moved to New York about 1794, and about 1800 settled at Preston, Chenango county. He died at Earlville, Madison county, New York, in 1843. Amos Walker Avery, Abraham's third son, was born at Colerain, Massachusetts, in 1789. In 1808 he married Nancy McCutcheon, settled in Monroe county, New York, and later moved to La Salle, Michigan, where he died in 1863. Casper Hugh Avery, the oldest child of Amos W., was born at Preston, New York, July 25, 1809. He settled at Erie, Monroe county, Michigan, in 1833 and married Dorothy Putnam, September 26, 1843. She died March 17, 1868, and he. followed March 5, 1873. Elroy McKendree Avery, the oldest child of Caspar H., was born at Erie, Monroe county, Michigan, July 14, 1844, soon after which his father moved from his farm to the county seat. Dr. Avery's business education began when he became carrier for the two newspapers published in Monroe, at a weekly compensation of thirty cents from each. To this pittance he soon added small sums earned as bill-poster and distributor. He was by nature a student, and soon became able to teach, his first school being in French-town township, Monroe county, when he was only sixteen years of age. He " boarded around" and enjoyed all the luxuries and comforts implied by that term. The " Smith Guards" was the first company raised in. Monroe county for service in the Civil war, and one of the teachers and many of the larger boys of the union school joined it, young Avery among the number. This company be- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 341 came Company A, Fourth Michigan Infantry. On account of his youth he was denied muster-in, and the regiment went to Washington without him. But he could not content himself at home; accompanying a later regiment to Washington, he joined his classmates, July 14, 1861, just as they were preparing to advance toward Bull Run. Taking the gun and uniform of a sick comrade he crept in under the canvas, so to speak, and became a Federal soldier. The first week of his seventeenth year closed with the battle of Bull Run. This experience brushed away some of the novelty of soldiering, and when the First Michigan returned to their State after a three months' service the schoolboy soldier accompanied them, at the earnest solicitation of his mother. He subsequently enlisted in the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Michigan Regiments, but each time his loving mother prevented his being mustered in. In 1863 the young military enthusiast was mustered in as a private in Company E, Eleventh Michigan Cavalry. He remained with his regiment through all its campaigning under Burbridge, Stoneman and other leaders, and was promoted from the ranks to Sergeant-Major on the field of the hand-to-hand contest at Saltville, Virginia. He was a war correspondent for the Detroit Daily Tribune, the beginning of a journalistic career which was continued for many years after the war with both pleasure and profit. At the end of the war (August, 1865), he was mustered out of service at Pulaski, Tennessee. Promptly turning his attention again to the attainment of a better education, he attended the Monroe (Michigan) high school in order to prepare for the University of Michigan, where he matriculated in September, 1867. His sophomore and junior years found him with scant means for finishing his studies, and to replenish his depleted purse he accepted the principalship of the Battle Creek (Michigan) high school, at an annual salary of $1,000. After a satisfactory service of four months he resigned this position, accepted another on the editorial staff of the Detroit Tribune, caught up with his class at Ann Arbor, carried his college and journalistic work, and was graduated in June, 1871. Before graduation Mr. Avery was offered and accepted the superintendency of the Charlotte (Michigan) public schools, but at his own request he was released from his engagement to accept a like position in the East Cleveland (Ohio) schools, offered him in July, 1871. In August, 1871, he resigned his editorial work and began anew his pedagogical career. In the following year the village of East Cleveland was annexed to the city of Cleveland, but for a time the school supervision was not much affected thereby. When the growth of the East high school demanded all of his time as principal he was released from his responsibility as supervisor. In 1878 the East high school and the Central high school were consolidated, and Mr. Avery was transferred to the principalship of the Cleveland Normal School, then the apex of the public-school system of the city. The next year he retired from pedagogical duties and assumed a work more lucrative but not more congenial. As an educator Dr. Avery has no superior in this or any other State. His knowledge is broad and general; his mind and habits are disciplined; systematic method is visible in everything he does. He has the rare and happy faculty of being able to impart instruction in a &ear and pleasing manner, creating among his pupils much enthusiasm and a desire for original investigation. In consequence he was popular and successful in the schoolroom. If he has anything to say through the press or from the platform the public is at once impressed with the fact that he has mastered both his subject and its proper presentation. For two seasons after leaving the schoolroom Dr. Avery was in the lecture field with an illustrated experimental lecture for non-scientific people on electric light. He carried nearly two tons of apparatus with him and succeeded in making a scientific lecture nay. In May. 342 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 1881, he began the organization of Brush electric-light and power companies in the larger cities of the country. While he was a teacher some of his spare hours had been employed in text-book authorship. His Elementary Physics was published in 1876, and was immediately adopted for use in the Cleveland high schools. In 1878 his Elements of Natural Philosophy appeared, and met with a success so marked that its publishers called for "more copy:" they have since published his Elements of Chemistry, Complete Chemistry, First Principles of Natural Philosophy, Modern Electricity and Magnetism, Teachers' Handbook and Physical Technics: His text-books are largely used by the hater class of high schools in the United States and in Canada. Other books written by him, and issued by other publishers, have also had 'vide circulation. His published addresses have been much commended for their force and finish. For the last eight or nine years he has lit d in hand an extensive historical work which he hopes to finish by the end of the century. In politics Dr. Avery has made himself felt as a representative of the people. In the spring of 1891, without his consent and even against his will, he was made a candidate for Councilman from the Sixth District, comprising the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third wards. At the election (April 7, 1891), his majority was 1,027, larger than that given in any other district in the city. This council had to deal with the organization of the new city government under the " Federal plan," and the ordinances for the creation of the departments of Public Works, Law, Accounts, Fire, Police and Charities and Correction, bear his name. He took the leading part in the investigation, and the passage of the ordinance which reduced the price of gas from a dollar to eighty eighty cents per thousand cubic feet, and secured the payment into the city treasury of five per cent. of the gross receipts of the gas companies. He was chairman of committees for the investigation of the street railroads of the city, and of the city infirmary. His anti-smoke ordinance, declaring the emission of dense smoke to be a nuisance and affixing a penalty therefor, is another evidence of his wisdom and public spirit. his pet project was the founding of a city farm school for evil disposed, incorrigible or vicious youth, abandoned children, or those ill treated by intemperate or brutal parents. This measure stirred a responsive chord in the hearts of a vast majority of the thinking and reputable men and women of the city, and was passed by the Council by a vote of sixteen to two, but was killed by the mayor's veto. Had this bill become a law many youthful offenders would have been saved from contact with hardened criminals; they would have been taught trades and given the fundamentals of a common education, and finally returned for good citizenship, and wholly free from any criminal record. But the end is not yet. At the end of the year Dr. Avery felt that he could not afford to give the time necessary for the proper performance of the duties attached to public service, and positively declined a re-election. In the summer of 1893 he was forced by leading citizens into a contest for the Republican nomination for a State Senatorship, and under the popular vote plan won a magnificent victory. He spoke every night during the ensuing campaign and helped materially to win the magnificent victory for the Republican ticket in November, his plurality being only fifteen short of nine thousand. He led led the entire legislative ticket. Dr. Avery was the founder of the Logan Club, the oldest permanent Republican club in the city, and still serves as its president. He is general secretary and treasurer of the Ohio Protective Tariff League, and has been for many years a member of. the Republican county central committee. He was the second president of the Ohio Conference of Charities and Correction. He is a member of the American Historical Society; a life member of the Ohio CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 343 Archaeological and Historical Society; of the Western Reserve Historical Society and of the American Economic Association; a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a charter member of the Forest City Post, G. A. R.; and president of the Western Reserve Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a Knight Templar, and received the thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite Masonry, in February, 1878. July 2, 1870, Mr. Avery married Catherine Hitchcock Tilden, who had succeeded him in the principalship of the Battle Creek high school. She was his most able assistant during his pedagogical career in Cleveland. Generous in sympathy, capable of advising with wisdom, she has been in every way an ideal companion. Thus Dr. Avery's life has been and is full of activity, abounding in practical application, always progressive and unusually successful. ANDREW A. BUTLER, a farmer of Brecksville township, Was born September 27, 1831, at Hillsdale, Columbia county, New York, of which county his father, Peter Butler, was also a native. Andrew's grandparents are from Scotland. Peter Butler was but three years old when his father died, and was brought up by his uncle, Andrew Adams, to whom the Adams homestead fell by descent of property. On this farm Mr. Butler located. He married Charlotte Hinman, who was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, who became a sergeant and participated in the battle of Danbury, Connecticut, so near home that his wife could hear the noise of the fire-arms. Peter Butler's children were: Jane, who married William Shepherd and died aged forty years, in Van Buren county, Michigan; Andrew A. .was the next in order of birth; Mary S., who married Colonel Frank Sutton, of Clinton, Iowa; and Ann E., the widow of Henry Bruner, of Cuyahoga Falls. Their father left his home in New York in 1837 for Tallmadge, Ohio, and came through with a team of two horses, having a very tedious journey, of four weeks. Previously lie had visited this region and purchased and on which were a few rude improvements; out he had the misfortune of losing his wife there in 1846. He afterward married again, in Tallmadge, went to Goodhue county, Minnesota, and was located fifty miles from any market; but Canon Falls near him soon became a market. He married again, in that State, and lived there till 1886, when he returned to Ohio, then aged eighty-six years. He had been badly dealt with and deprived of a very comfortable farm. Andrew A. paid his way back to Ohio and gave him a home for the remainder of his life. lie died in 1887, and is buried in Tallmadge beside his first wife. In his political views he was a Democrat, and in religion a Methodist. Was six feet tall and weighed 200 pounds. He had a powerful frame and in his life-time did an immense amount of work. Mr. Andrew A. Butler, our subject, was reared to farm life, not having more than six weeks' schooling after he was fourteen years of age. While yet a boy he assumed the responsibilities of caring for three sisters besides himself, until they became self-supporting, by teaching school. In the spring of 1851, with his savings, he went to Dubuqua, Iowa, to look up a location there, and pre-empted a tract of land in Clinton county, but afterward surrendered it, and the next spring started for California, during the gold-mining excitement. With a company of eight he started from Sabula, Iowa, and in four months and twenty-one days arrived at Downieville, Sierra county, California, where they commenced work. Tie was in that State four years, and was successful. May 3, 1856, he left San Francisco on the Golden Gate for Aspinwall, and sailed on the Vanderbilt to New York, whence he came to Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, where he purchased 106 acres of land. He has always been a farmer, making his start from almost nothing. The success which he has attained proves him to be a man of good judgment. He 344 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. was a Democrat up to the fire on Fort Sumter, since which time he has been a Republican. For eight years be has been township Trustee; in the fall of 1892 he was elected Justice of the Peace. December 3, 1857, he married Miss Esther H. Ingham, who was born in Manchester, England, July 5, 1837, a daughter of William Ingham, who came to America in 1845, settling in Sharon, Medina county. He resided upon his farm until 1867, and then came to Brecksville township, locating upon 264 acres in the northwestern part of the township. In 1887 he removed to Brecksville Center, where he has since resided. His children are: Lottie, now Mrs. George McCreery, of Brecksville township; and Frank A., a farmer of the same township. A foster child, Nellie (1, has been given a good education and regarded as one of the family. Mr. Butler's elegant farm of 264 acres is fully in the hands of his children. While not a church member he contributes to the support cf the churches whenever asked. There is probably no more systematic farmer in the township than he, and he is a thorough business man and a representative citizen. JOHN WARREN TAYLOR, manager of real-estate investments and estate counselor, 5 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, is a native of Mecca, Trumbull county, Ohio, a son of William D. and Mary (Moran) Taylor. His uncle, Rev. Dr. Moran, was one of the most prominent and able men in the Methodist Church South during the war. Mr. Taylor's parents were natives of the north of Ireland, but of English and Scotch descent. Shortly after their marriage in 1849 they came to America, settling in Mecca, Ohio. Mrs. Taylor died in 1853, and Mr. Taylor, now seventy-four years of age, is living at Cortland, Ohio. Of the three sons our subject is The only survivor, his brothers; Edward and Robert, having died some years since. Mr. Taylor was raised on a farm in Trumbull county, Ohio, received his literary education in Western Reserve University, taught school for three winters, was salesman in the furnishing store of C. S. Fields in Warren, Ohio, four years; at the age of nineteen he commenced the study of law with Taylor & Jones at Warren, and was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1876; afterward, taking the law course in Ann Arbor University of Michigan, he graduated there in 1878, at which time he was admitted to the Michigan bar. Returning to his native county in 1878, he opened a law office at Warren, where he enjoyed a good practice till 1884, in the meantime serving a term of three years as Justice of the Peace. While never seeking an office Mr. Taylor has always taken a lively interest in politics; was one of the managing Republican Central Committee men at Warren during the memorable Garfield campaign when the mammoth Grant and Conkling meeting was held there. In July, 1884, Mr. Taylor moved to Cleveland, since which time he has been engaged in the handling of estates and real estate investments of his own, in 1893 purchasing, improving and platting Douglas Park, consisting of thirty acres of choice territory in the East End, upon which he has erected a large number of houses. While largely engaged in real-estate matters, his legal talents are constantly employed in the care and management of numerous estates entrusted to his care as well as in real-estate matters and the law of real estate and titles generally, in which he is especially proficient. While busily engaged in other affairs he still clings to his first occupation, that of farmer, as a recreation. - He owns and manages a farm of 128 acres a few miles out of Cleveland, where he is engaged in rearing some fine horses. He also has seventy six acres of garden land in the city of Toledo and interests in timber lands in Michigan. He is a self-made man in every sense of the word, having started at the bottom of the ladder. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 345 Intolerant of trickery and duplicity, he has achieved his success in life by upright, straightforward methods, a keen business judgment and diligent application to the affairs in his charge. He is a member of Holyrood Commandery and resides at 1253 Euclid avenue. DAVID HENRY KIMBERLEY, who for years has been a well known and esteemed citizen of Cleveland, is a native of England, being born at Great Borton, a suburb of Birmingham, on September 22, 1842. His father, George Kimberley, was of English nativity, and a manufacturer of nails in Great Horton, but subsequent to the birth of the son above mentioned he removed to the city of Birmingham, where he was engaged in the grocery business until 1862, in which year he died; at the age of sixty-seven yearn. He married Maria Ashwell, who was born at Brownsgrove, England, in 1800. Her father was the Rev. James Ashwell, a Baptist minister, who emigrated with his family to the United States in the year 1831, landing at New York and coming direct to Cleveland; but owing to the fact that at that date Newburg was larger than Cleveland, he soon afterward removed to Newburg. Not long thereafter he returned to Cleveland, where for many years he preached and resided. In his ministerial work his labors were not confined solely to Cleveland, but extended over the surrounding country. In those early days in the history of this section the minister's compensation was very small, and his was inadequate for the support of himself and family, and this made it necessary that he should engage in some industrial enterprise. In his boyhood fie learned the nail-making trade, to which he resorted, and for quite a period, six days in the week he spent in his shop, and on Sundays occupied the pulpit. Rev. Ashwell was not only a pioneer settler of Cuyahoga county but a pioneer minister, and upon the communities in which he labored he left his impress. He was a man of sterling qualities, resolute and firm, devotedly religious and universally esteemed. He was twice married. By his first marriage he had two children,—Mrs. Maria Kimberley and her brother James. In the history of this family is noted an unusual feature, namely, that the mother of our subject at the time of her brother's birth, was twenty-one years of age, and the mother of a child whose birth preceded that of her own brother. The second marriage of Rev. Ashwell was consummated in his seventy-sixth year, his wife being in her seventy-fifth year. When Mr. Kimberley of this sketch was five years of age his mother formed ,a desire to join her parents in the United States, and her husband declining to leave his business in Birmingham,—at least at that time,—and being willing that his wife and children should come to this country, she and six children sailed for America in the Henry Clay, in 1846, leaving the father and the eldest son in Birmingham. The family set sail from Liverpool and after a voyage of six weeks anded in New York, on Christmas eve of 1846. On the voyage the Henry Clay caught fire while at sea, but before much damage was done the flames were extinguished. That same ship on the next voyage was burned in mid ocean :old all on board perished. Leaving New York city Mrs. Kimberley came direct to Cleveland, making the journey up to Albany by way of the Hudson river, thence by rail to Buffalo and thence from Buffalo to Cleveland by way of the stage, the lakes at that, time being frozen over. The trip from Buffalo to Cleveland required seven days. For a short time Mrs. Kimberley made her home with her father, but soon afterward went to herself. The following were her children that came with her : Alexander, Sophia, Frederck, Edward, Sarah and David H. As observed, the eldest of her children, whose name was James, remained in England with his father. Five -of these children are now living. 346 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Mrs. Kimberley was a woman of strong intellectuality and will power, and of strict moral and religious views. She was a Christian woman in the strictest sense, and her life was filled with acts characteristic of a woman of strong faith and convictions. She was of a determined 'character, independent and self-reliant, and though she was never joined in this country by her husband, she never lost courage or faltered. She assumed the responsibility and task of rearing her children, all of whom she lived to see reach maturity. She died in a ripe old age, in :1876, and was laid to rest in Riverside cemetery. David H. Kimberley was but a child of five years when brought to Cleveland by his mother, and here, save four years spent in the army, he has spent the whole of his life. He attended the public schools until ten years of age, at which age he accepted work in a mercantile establishment, where he remained until he was fifteen years of age, when he went on to a farm; but not being satisfied with farm work he soon left it. A portion of one year was spent on the schooner John F. Warner and on the propeller Galena. At the age of sixteen years he opened a meat-market on the corner of Detroit and Kentucky streets. This was in the fall of 1860. He operated the meat-market until the spring of 1.861, when with the breaking out of the Civil war he sold out and enlisted in the army. He enlisted in April, 1861, in James P. McIllrath's Light. Guard Zonaves, which war one of the first to answer the first call of President Lincoln for 75,000 troops for a three months' service. The pay for this first call was only $11 per month and no bounty. Before the three months had expired the second call for volunteers for three years was made by the President, and Captain Mclllrath, forming his company in line, asked those who were willing to re-enlist to take one pace to the front. The entire company, without a single exception, stepped forward and re-enlisted. The company was assigned as Company A of the Twenty-third Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which General W. S. Rosecrans, Registrar of the United States Treasury, was Colonel; the Honorable Stanley Matthews, afterward member of the United States Supreme Bench, was Lieutenant Colonel; Rutherford B. Hayes, afterward President, was Major; General Hastings, afterward United States Marshal of the Ohio District, was Lieutenant; Robert Kennedy, later Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, was also a lieutenant; William T. Lyon, afterward Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, was also a lieutenant; General James M. Comley, a noted newspaper man, and ex-United States Minister to the Sandwich Islands, was a Major of this regiment, while Governor William McKinley, Jr., of Ohio, was then a private. Probably no other regiment of the Union army furnished as many distinguished men as this. The regiment was in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of West Virginia, and Mr. Kimberley, along with it, served through the entire time of his enlistment, participating in all the campaigns and engagements of the regiment without being wounded or captured, though he had several narrow escapes from both experiences. There were other members of the old Twenty-third who were honored in after years by the public. Among them were Asa Van Sickle, who was twice Recorder of Cuyahoga county; Wilbur Bently, who was County Commissioner of this county; Alfred Jerome, who was County Commissioner of this county; and the subject of this personal sketch, who was twice Treasurer of this county; and a number of other members of the regiment, who in different parts of the State were elected to positions of honor and trust. In 1864, after having served several months over his three-years' enlistment, Mr. Kimberley was discharged, at Columbus, Ohio, being then only in his twenty-second year. Returning to Cleveland Mr. Kimberley engaged in the flour and feed business on Detroit street, at which business he continued for twenty-two years. Immediately after coming out of the army Mr. Kimberley took an active part in politics, and for about twenty years he was an active member of the Republican county central com- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 347 mittee, also serving on the city central committee. In 1885 Mr. Kimberley was nominated by the Republicans for the office of County Treasurer, and after a heated campaign he was elected by a majority of over 4,000 votes. His administration of the affairs of that office was so successful and satisfactory to the people that in 1887 he was re-nominated and re-elected, again running ahead of his party ticket. In 1890 Mr. Kimberley retired from the office of County Treasurer and soon afterward he was, —at the death of William H. Doan, the philanthropist,—elected to succeed Mr. Doan in the presidency of the Cleveland Permanent Building & Loan Association, the second largest building and loan association in the United States. He has since been three times elected to this position, which lie now holds. In May, of 1891, at the organization of the Lorain Street Savings Bank Company, Mr. Kimberley was elected its president, in which position he has since continued. In 1891 he was elected president of the Northern Ohio Paving & Construction Company, which company he still serves in this same position. Since 1891 he has been vice president of the Produce Exchange Banking Company. He is president of the East Harbor Boating and Fishing Club, having been elected to this position in 1888. He is a Director in the Ohio Abstract Company, trustee of the Riverside Cemetery Association, and vice president of the Permanent Block Company, and is interested in other business enterprises. These various and important business relations are evidence within themselves that Mr. Kimberley has been an active business man, and also marks that respect and esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens. The life of Mr. Kimberley has been an active one. Very early in life—at the age of sixteen —he began his business career. Four years was spent in the active defense of the Union, and returning from the war he embarked upon what has been a remarkably successful business career. Beginning in business with limited capital, and unaided, he fought the battle of life alone, gaining the esteem and friendship of his fellow citizens. By an honest, industrious and frugal course in life, he soon became a popular citizen and a successful business man, and then followed honors as a public officer. Retiring from public office, he again assumed the role of a business man, and since then many business relations has he filled with gratifying success; and now, at the age of fifty-one years, Mr. Kimberley appears not only as a prominent and esteemed citizen but as one whose life has been filled with honors and whose success in the financial world has been equally marked. Fraternally he is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias. In Grand Army circles he has been quite active, being a member of the Army and Navy Post, and he also belongs to the Chosen Friends. In 1864 Mr. Kimberley married Elsie A., daughter of Archibald Cunningham, of Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Kimberley was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Kimberley has been blessed by the birth of five children, four of whom are living, as follows: David Henry, Gladus (deceased), May Verrilla, George Garfield and Rhea Nell. CHARLES BLANCK, a respected citizen of Brecksville, was born January 1, 1848, in Berlin, Germany, a son of Charles Blanck. He attended an advanced school and then learned the trade of brass finisher. In January, 1869, he emigrated to America, on the Cymbria, being three weeks on the sea. Landing February 16, 1869, at New York city, he remained there six weeks: next he worked on a railroad at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for six months, then at his trade in Philadelphia for more than a year; next he went to New York to find work again, but failed, and then he came to Youngstown, Ohio, and found work in a coal mine at Hubbard, in the vicinity; but in a short time rheumatism began to trouble him, and he came to Cleveland, where he worked at his trade. 348 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. In the autumn of 1875 he went to Brecksville, where he was employed in a sawmill, on a farm and at other miscellaneous jobs in the vicinity. After his marriage in 1890 he located upon rented land, where he followed farming, but in the following March bought a home in the village where he now resides. In July, 1890, he visited his native country, sailing from New York on the Columbia, bound for Hamburg. After making his parents and other friends a visit there he returned to the United States, sailing from Hamburg on the Augusta Victoria, and landing in New York. On public questions he is a Republican, and both himself and wife are members of the Congregational Church. January 21, 1890, he married Viola Sherwood, who was born in Waterford, Erie county, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1854, a daughter of Stephen L. Sherwood. At the time of her marriage she was visiting her brother, S. D. Sherwood, in Brecksville township. The marriage was celebrated in Cleveland, by the Rev. Dr. Pomeroy. J. J. BARNES, a prominent citizen of Brecksville township, was born July 7, 1829, in this township, a son of Aaron Barnes, who was a native of Hartford county, Connecticut, and was married in that State to Roxey Fenn, who was born in Plymouth, Connecticut, a daughter of Jesse Fenn. After his marriage Mr. Aaron Barnes lived a few years in Litchfield county, Connecticut, and in .L816 moved to the town of Sharon in the same county, where he lived until May 1, 1826, when he started for Ohio. He had made a trip to this State the preceding fall, and looked over the land in Cuyahoga and Trumbull counties, but made no selection. His journey hither, when moving with his family, was by team to Albany, Erie canal to Buffalo, by the schogner Minerva to Cleveland, and thence by team again to the western part of Brecksville township, near a brother-in-law, Asa Fenn. The last night (Sunday) on the lake was an exceedingly rough one. Mr. Barnes located on fifty acres of land, upon which was an old log house. Wild animals were plentiful. On the home farm, which he purchased later, he lived until his death, April 1, 1836. His wife survived many years afterward, and they are now buried near each other in Rice cemetery. Politically Mr. Barnes was a Jackson Democrat. His children, born in Connecticut, were: a daughter who died young, in infancy; Giles C., a farmer of this township; Martha, who married Calvin Jenkins and died in Trumbull county; Hannah, deceased at the age of about twenty-five years; and Amanda, who became the wife of Oliver Bartlett and died in Brecksville. Those born in Ohio were: Caroline, who married Charles Gordon and died in Michigan; and Jesse J., the subject of this sketch. Mr. J. J. Barnes, whose name heads this sketch, received a common-school education in district No. 1, in Brecksville, and, being an apt pupil, he made good use of his opportunity. At the age of sixteen he was called upon to teach school, and he proved to be a successful teacher. To pass his examination and obtain a teacher's certificate he walked to Cleveland, fourteen miles, and back in one day, when the board of examiners comprised Professor Freese, J. W. Gray and J. D. Cleveland. He taught his old district school for two terms. He remained at home, however, continuing in agricultural pursuits. After his marriage he located upon a farm of twenty acres, in the western part of Brecksville township, where he was engaged in agriculture until 1873, at which time the farm had grown to 300 acres. He then moved to the center of the township, and with his sons bought out the mercantile business of C. L. Young, where he remained fifteen years, being very successful in the business. He bought the most substantial business house in Brecksville, which he still owns, with his son William. After his retirement from business, his sons continued in the mercantile trade for some years. Mr. Barnes, our subject, erected a very commodious CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 349 residence, where he now resides. In life he has been successful and in domestic habits exemplary. For many years he was a Republican, but always a prohibitionist in principle, and was one of fifteen to organize this party at Crestline, Ohio, and ever since then he has been an ardent worker for the party,—indeed a leader. Previously he had taken little or no interest in politics. He is a member of the Congregational Church, in which body he has served as Trustee. He is one of the leading men in his community, always taking an active interest in whatever is designed for the benefit of the people. November 1, 1848, he married Miss Cebrina L. Jacox, who was born July 31, 1828, in Bath township, Summit county, this State, a daughter of Elijah Jacox; she was an estimable woman, a member of the Congregational Church, and is now deceased. Their children are: Herschel E., living with his family, nearest neighbor; James F., of Richfield, Summit county; Homer W., who died November 16, 1882, aged twenty-seven years; William H., at home with his father and a business partner; Jesse Jerome, in Brooklyn Village with his family, engaged in dry-goods business in Cleveland; Albert D., a successful merchant all his business life, died at Bedford, September 1, 1891, aged twenty-eight years. ORANGE V. SMITH, a farmer of Orange township, Cuyahoga county, was born in this township, January 27, 1844, a son of Captain Almon Smith, a native of Connecticut. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Orange township, and was an officer in the late war. His father, Captain Smith, Sr., was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and was a member of an old and prominent family. The mother of our subject, nee Susan Henrietta Squires, was a native of Connecticut and a daughter of Morris Squires. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were married in Connecticut, but soon afterward located in a log cabin in the woods of Orange township, where they immediately began clearing a farm. The father died of cholera in 18 I9, in middle life, leaving a widow and six chldren, viz.: Sidney, who was killed by lightning at the age of nineteen years; Sarah Bennett, a resident of Twinsburg, Ohio; Susan Whitham, of Cleveland; Orville W. and Orange V., twins; and Lyman, deceased when young. Orville W. was a soldier in the Ninth Ohio Battalion during the late war, was a gallant officer of his company, and served through the entire struggle. He died at the old home farm in 1872, leaving a widow and two children,—Cora and Florence. After the father's death, Mrs. Smith married James Henry, and they resided at Solon. She died at Twinsburg, Ohio, at the age of seventy-six years. Captain Smith was a Whig in his political views, was elected the first Assessor of Orange township, was a member of the Masonic order, and both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Church. Orange V. Smith, the subject of this sketch, w Is reared to manhood on the old home farm. After reaching a suitable age he was employed in a cooper shop four years. In 1873 he came to his present farm of 122 acres in Orange township, where he has a good, new residence, 16 x 27 feet, with an L 16 x 22 feet, another addition, 16 x 16, and the structure cost $1,650. Mr. Smith is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, and also conducts a large dairy. In March, 1867, he was united in marriage with Sophia G. Myers, who was born and reared at Streetsborough, Ohio, a daughter of John Myers, a native of Virginia. He was first married to Permelia Hazen, and they had two children. Mr. Meyers was afterward united in marriage with Nancy Tucker, a native of Mahoning county, Ohio, and a daughter of John Tucker, one of the first settlers of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Myers had seven children, viz.: George Wallis, who served in the Ninth Ohio Battalion during the late war; Amelia; John; Sophia, wife of our subject; Mary Esther and Rebecca, twins; John Myers died at Streets-borough, at the age of seventy-one years, and