450 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. whose history is given on another page of this volume. The mother died June 14, 1886. The paternal grandfather of our subject was John Dunham, one of the first settlers of this township. Young Dunham received his earliest instruction in the primary schools of Bedford. In his youth he was a pupil at Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, and Hiram College. His schooldays ended he chose the occupation to which he had been reared, and has since devoted his best energies to husbandry. He has 120 acres under cultivation; the improvements are all first-class. Mr. Dunham was married March 3, 1880, to Miss Myrtie Young, of Hiram, Portage county, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas and Loretta (Lampson) Young. Mrs. Dunham received her education at Hiram College, and is a woman of superior attainment. Our subject and wife are the parents of two children. Jessie B. and Nellie R. Mr. Dunham has a ways taken a deep interest in public affairs, and fourteen years has been a most efficient member of the Board of Education. He is an active• member of the Farmers' Alliance, serving as secretary and then president of his society and representing this body in convention. He is a man of good address, is well informed upon the topics of the day, and has a host of friends, of whom he is in every way worthy. AUGUSTUS F. HARTZ, lessee and man- ager of the Euclid Avenue Opera House, and one of Cleveland's well known and and popular citizens, was born in Liverpool, England, in 1845. He is one of eight children, six of whom are living. His father was Nathan Hartz, a jeweler by trade, who died in 1880, at the advanced age of seventy-si Y years. He was for many years a very successful and large manufacturer of jewelry, watches, chronometers, etc. In 1868 the subject of this sketch came to America, locating in New York city as a ma gician. Before coming to the United States he had traveled in continental Europe and other countries a great deal. In New York city he made his home for about twelve months. He then began traveling in the United States, and in 1871 permanently located in New York city, again taking up to the profession of magician. Five years later he began traveling again and for ten years was on the road. About 1880 he became interested in the real-estate business with an office in Cleveland. He continued in the real-estate business about one year. Becoming lessee and manager of the Park Theatre building, he operated the same for about eleven weeks, and the building being burned again his employment was changed. It was about this time that he first leased the Euclid opera house and in a permanent way began his career with the theatrical profession. Contracting with Richard Mansfield, he was for one year manager of that distinguished actor; he also managed several other attractions and theaters, all of which made money for him. With success he has continued to be the lessee a-nd manager of the Euclid Avenue opera house, which was destroyed by fire, in October, 1892. The edifice was rebuilt in the summer of 1893, and refitted and made one of the handsomest, most commodious and most excellent opera house of the country. It is the pride of the city, and its management under Mr. Hartz has made it a popular place of amusement. Here the best of opera companies and dramatic attractions of the United States appears, and the theater-loving people of Cleveland find occasion to feel grateful to Mr. M. A. Hanna for building the theater, and to Mr. Hartz for his success in not only elevating the stage but amusing and instructing his patrons by securing the best actors and actressess of the country. Mr. Hartz is a genial, pleasant gentleman of refinement and education. He was educated in a private school in Liverpool, a school known as Mechanics' Institute. He graduated in 1863. As a magician Mr. Hartz was one of marvelous skill. He mastered many of the principles of CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 451 the art, and his genius has originated many excellent tricks now operated by magicians. He has been successful in his business undertakings and is regarded as a man of business foresight and as one who understands how to please his fellow man, and he is recognized as a man of excellent principles and as one who characterizes all his business dealings with integrity and fidelity. He is of a charitable nature, liberal in his views, and is happy when it is his privilege to make others happy. Mr. Hartz is a prominent Freemason, being of the Chapter degree. He is also a member of the following orders: Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, Royal Arcanum, National Union and others. He also belongs to the athletic club of Cleveland and Excelsior club. In politics he is a stanch Republican. In 1878 Mr. Hartz wedded Miss Carrie S. Hill, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Hartz have three children, namely, Clover, Fannie and Frank Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Hartz had four children but were bereaved of their first, whose name was Augustus, when the beloved child was thirteen months old. Mrs. Hartz died March 3, 1891, and February 24, 1894, Mr. Hartz married Miss Rosetta A. Hart, of New Orleans, Louisana. JOHN NOBLE, a prominent farmer of 1 Brecksville township, was born June 7, 1830, at the the village of Arkendale, in Yorkshire, England, the son of John Noble and Mary (Scott) Noble, who had five children, namely: Thomas and William, residing in England; John, the subject of this sketch; Mark, who came to the United States in 1859, enlisted in Company F, Second Ohio Cavalry, and was killed at the battle of Stony creek; and Henry, who died in England. In early life the father followed the trade of shoemaker, and later the grocery trade. Both he and his wife died in their native native country. Mr. John Noble, our subject, is the only one of the family now living in the United States, He was reared a farmer in his native country, as his father's business was such that he could be of no assistance to him. As early as the age of nine years he began herding sheep, receiving tie meager wages of $10 for six months' service. Later he found work as a farm hand, and had no difficulty in finding enough work to keep hi in employed, as he belonged to that class of young men who can be depended upon faithfully to look after their employers' interests. Being economical, he had saved up nearly $100 by the time he was twenty years of age, with which he paid his fare to this the land of golden opportunity. April 28, 1850, he sailed from Liverpool on the vessel Riverdale, and in twenty-eight days landed in America, a stranger in a strange land, excepting that a brother of his mother was living on Long Island, with whom he found employment, on a farm, as overseer. In the spring of 1852 be came to Ohio,—by rail to Erie, on foot thirty-two miles to Conneaut,—ice closing navigation,—and from Conneaut by water to Cleveland. He arrived here a total stranger. Proceeding on to Richfield, Summit county, he found employment in the service of Uriah Oviatt, a fanner with whom he remained three years, which is evidence that his work was satisfactory. From Stephen Welton he purchased a small piece of land at the west center of Richfield township. Atter this he purchased ninety acres of Thomas Stephenson, where he lived until 1863, when he moved to the place where he now lives. At that time there was no dwellbig-house upon this land, and scarcely any improvements of any kind. All the present improvements on the place, excepting an old blacksmith shop and a barn, have been made by Mr. Noble. His land now comprises 187 acres. His occupation has been general farming and stock-raising, and his signal success has been brought about by his own efforts, his start in life having been very meager. In politics he has never voted any but the Republican ticket; and although no politician he takes an active interest in the success of his party, being a 452 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. regular attendant at the elections. He and his amiable wife are members of the Congregational Church, in which body he is a Deacon and Clerk. June 14, 1855, is the date of his marriage to Miss Mary Stephenson, a daughter of Thomas Stephenson, who was an early settler in that township, locating there in 1817. He died there, at the age of seventy-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Noble's children are: Charlotte E., at home; Cornelius M., a schoolteacher of Brecksville township; Julia A., deceased at the age of nine months, and was buried in Richfield. east of Center, with her mother, who died June 19, 1861. For his second wife Mr. Noble married Phebe Adams, who was born May 6, 1827, a native of Richfield township and a daughter of Augustus and Polly (Farnham) Adams. By the latter marriage there have been three children, namely : John A., of Cleveland; Alice P., now Mrs. Harry Snow of Brecksville township; and William U., living with his parents. JOHN KOCH, an old street-railroad man I of Cleveland and adjuster of claims of the Cleveland City Railway Company, was born in Hessen Darmstadt on the Rhine, Germany, December 11, 1836. Twenty years later he came to the United States and located in New York city, where he was variously employed for six years, concluding his work there as a bookkeeper. He came to Cleveland in 1862 and soon thereafter became interested in the wholesale cloth and trimming business, and was a partner with Adams, Goodwillie & Company till 1876, since which time Mr. Koch has given most of his .time to street railroad enterprises. He subscribed the first dollar's worth of stock to the Superior street road, was its originator and carried out the building of the road. He is vice president and director of the Cleveland Investment Company and a stock owner in other paying concerns, besides having quite extensive investments in city real estate Mr. Koch is a son of a farmer, who died in 1880, at eighty-four years of age. Two of his seven children are in Cleveland, John and George. The former was a poor boy on reaching Cleveland. He came into possession of means only as he earned it by labor and investment. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and is quite active politically and is a Democrat in national matters. He was one of the presidential Electors in the campaign of 1892, on the Democratic ticket for the State of Ohio. Mr. Koch married, in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1861, Miss Maria Kramer, born in the same German State as himself. Their children are: Maria, deceased, at eleven; Ida, deceased, at twelve; Martha M., wife of Frank S. Bauder of Darien, Georgia; John H., graduated at the high school this year; and Laura G. GEORGE W. JOHNSON, railroad conductor, entered the employ of the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad Company in 1856, in the capacity of freight brakeman, at which post he remained four years, guarding the property of the company entrusted to his care and safe carriage. Then, after two years' experience as fireman he became freight conductor, in which capacity he acted for eight years; but for the past twenty-three years he has been identified with the passenger service exclusively, and is one of the four oldest passenger men on the Cleveland run. Mr. Johnson, a New Englander and a son of a mechanic, was a youth of only nineteen summers when he carne West, at which time, however, he had no definite point in view; but, having relatives or friends in Cleveland, he drifted by an unknown, unconscious force to this city, then of about 25,000 people. As railroading then was the only desirable employment obtainable, he entered that. He is a son of George S. Johnson, who was born in Windham county, Vermont, in the town of Putney and resided there till his death, in CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 453 1890, at the age of sixty-nine years. Our subject's grandfather, Samuel Johnson, was the founder of this Vermont family. George S. Johnson married Miss Eliza Hodgkins of Windham county, Vermont, who died in 1846. George W., her only child, was born October 9, 1839. He was married in New York, March 16, 1863, to Mary A. Hopper, and their children are: Jessie E., and Teresa Belle, who died in 1873, aged three years and nine months. Mr. Johnson is one of the few genial, good-natured men who take pleasure in looking after the comforts of passengers in his charge; and during all his long service no passenger or employee has received an injury resulting from his neglect. GEORGE SITHELM, a prosperous farmer of Brecksville township, was born De/ cember 18, 1845, in Wittenberg, Germany. His parents, Peter (a farmer) and Hannah (Shephard) Sithelm, had six children, as follows: Peter, George, Barbara and Gottlieb, besides a son and daughter who died young. In the spring of 1856 they emigrated to the United States, sailing from Havre, France, on a vessel named Isabella, and arriving at New York after a voyage of forty-six days. By a sail vessel also they came on to Dunkirk, New York, where the father made effort to find work, which was then a difficult task. Being assisted by authorities they came on to Cleveland, where they were at first unable to pay for their board and lodging. At length Mr. Sithelm found employment with a farmer named Gleason, on Tinker's creek, at Independence. His wife died in that township, and is buried there. Mr. Sithelm lived to be about seventy years of age, dying in Brecksville township, and was buried near Tinker's creek. Mr. George Sithelm, the subject of our sketch, was ten years of age when brought to this country, and in this pioneer forest, his parents being poor, he was kept at hard labor instead of being allowed much schooling. When he arrived at the age of twenty-one years he began to work as a farm hand for a man named Bell. Having no means, his fortune was to be made by the health he had and his industrious nature. He and his brothers bought two farms, and they worked together. After his marriage he lived one year on his share of the land. In 1873 he settled upon his present farm, which then comprised seventy-eight acres, a small portion of which was rudely improved, and all was in poor shape every way; and here Mr. Sithelm has lived ever since, making of the place the beautiful home that it is,—one of the best in the township. It now comprises 126 acres. From a poor boy at twenty-one he has made his way up to his present comfortable situation all by his own determination and good judgment,—a splendid success; and his honesty and straightforward character has elicited the esteem of the community. He has been greatly aided of course by his economical wife. In his political sympathies he was once a Democrat, but became a Republican, and is now one of the stanch members of that party, but no politician. In 1879 he married Miss Lena Diefenbach, a native of Cleveland and a daughter of Peter Diefenbach, and they have one son, George L. CAPTAIN MICHAEL DRISCOLL, one of the old captains of the lakes, was born at Franklin, Howard county, Missouri, August 5, 1822, a son of Jeremiah and Rose Driscoll. His parents were natives of Dublin, Ireland, and soon after their marriage crossed the seas to America. The father was in the employ of the Hudson Bay Fur Company as trader among the Indians. He was a mason by trade and followed this calling for a number of years. His death occurred in Cleveland. Captain Driscoll was a lad of ten years when the family came to Cleveland to reside. At the age of eleven or twelve years he took "French leave " of the household and went as cabin boy, 454 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY the beginning of his career as a sailor. For years he was afloat as cook; at the age of sixteen he sailed before the mast, later as second mate, then Mate, and at the age of twenty-five was made master of the Henry Ainsworth. From 1848 he sailed the schooner Trenton, of which he was part owner, until 1851; next in order the propeller Cleveland, propeller Dunkirk; steamer Robert Hollister, steamer Minnesota, steamer Ohio and propellers Olean, Ogdensburgh and Michigan, quitting in 1872, since which time he has been marine collector. For a time he was associated with John W. Warner in the management of tug lines, and also acted as agent for the large river tugs. He has been one of the most active members of marine circles in Cleveland and has made a most enviable record. In 1858 he was in the Government employ, carrying supplies and 'oil to the lighthouses on lakes. The Captain was married in this city November 18, 1849, to Mary A. Dickey, a daughter of Reuben and Martha (Hancock) Dickey, natives of the State of New York. They have one son, Charles Henry, born November 11, 1853. He is married and resides In this city. Captain Driscoll is a stanch Republican in politics. JOHN KIRKLAND, of Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, is a son of Alexander Kirkland, who was born in the lowlands of Scotland in 1805. He was first engaged in agricultural pursuits, but afterward worked as a spinner few sixteen years. He was married in his native country, December 9, 1836, to Margaret Langlands, who also was born in Scotland, in February, 1808. They had the following children: Ann, ,who died in Royalton township, this county, at the age of twenty-four years; John, whose name heads this sketch; James of this county; and Euphemia, wife of Henry Tompkins, of Brooklyn village. In 1852 Mr. Kirkland sailed from Liverpool, England, to New Orleans, and gradually pushed northward to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was first employed in a copper shop or the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad. In 1857 he purchased a farm in Royalton township. In 1854 he was joined by the remainder of his family from the old country, who sailed from Glasgow on the vessel City of Glasgow, landing in New York after a voy age of fourteen days, and coining by way of Buffalo arrived in Cleveland by water. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkland died in this township,—the former in October, 1888, and the latter August 25, 1885, and were buried in Royalton cemetery. Mr. Kirkland came to this country a poor man, but by unrelenting toil succeeded in securing a competency. John Kirkland, the subject of this sketch, was horn in Scotland, May 28, 1843, and was but a lad when he was brought to the United States. Here he was first employed by J. B. Cobb & Company, in the bookbinding department of their establishment; next, by Lemuel Crawford, coal dealer; then was a soldier (teamster) for the Union during the last war for six Months; and then was employed in the boiler shops of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad at Cleveland, and was afterward employed by Lemuel Crawford, of that city. Since 1857 Mr. Kirkland has resided in Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, and since 1884 has been engaged in the mercantile business in Royalton Center. June 3, 1877 he suffered the loss of his right arm at the Wrist by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting. June 16, 1871, he was united in marriage with Mary E. Coon, who was born in Toronto; Canada, November 3, 1841, a daughter of Will jam and Ann (McMullen) Coon, the former native of Canada, and the latter of the North of Ireland. The mother located in Canada when ten years of age. Mrs. Kirkland made her home for a number of years with her brother Thomas, in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkland have two children, Ann AL fold CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 455 William A.,—both at home. Airs. Kirkland is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In political matters, Mr. Kirkland votes with the Republican party, and since October 0, 1890, has held the position of Postmaster. He is the oldest living male representative of this family. CHARLES CORLETT, deceased, was one of the prominent business men at 'Warrensville, Ohio. Of his life we make record as follows: Charles Corlett was born on the Isle of Man, February 27, 1820, son of William and Eleanor (Cain) Corlett, both natives of that place. In July, 1827, the family emigrated to America, and upon their arrival here settled at Newburg, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where the mother died at the age of sixty-seven years. The father reached the advanced age of ninety-two, dying in Cleveland. He was an Episcopalian and took great interest in religions matters. In their family were eight children, four sons and four daughters, namely: William; May Gill, deceased; John, deceased; Thomas, a prominent Episcopal minister of Cleveland, Ohio; Jane Clark; Charles, whose name heads this article; Eliza, deceased; and Eleanor. In Newburg Charles Corlett was reared, his education being received here and in Cleveland. Early in life he learned the trade of bricklayer, and this trade lie has followed for half a- century, working in many of the Western States. For fifteen years he was employed by William Hutchings, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. In 1851 he made the trip from New York to California. It was in 1858 that he settled on the place where he recently died, which was then known as the Bowell farm. This farm comprises ninety-four acres, and is situated two miles and a quarter from the city limits. Mr. Corlett was married in 1857 to Princilla Bowell, who was born near Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, daughter of Zadick and Anna (Hill) Bowell, the former a native of. Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Virginia. Mr. Bowell moved to Ohio at an early day, and here he and his wife spent the residue of their lives, she being seventy-eight at the time of her death and he ninety-three. They had twelve children, some of whom died in infancy, a record of the others being as followsi Angelina, deceased; Thomas, deceased; Margaret, deceased; Nancy, wife of William Stillman, also of Orange township; Rachel, deceased; Princilla Corlett; Eliza Pierson, deceased; and Reese, deceased. Mr. Corlett had four children: Walter H., now engaged in railroading; Arthur R., Assessor for Warrensville township; and Anna Mary and C. Bert, at home. Mr. Corlett died March 4, 1894, a highly honored citizen. The Corlett family are ranked with the leading people of the community in which they live. Mrs. Corlett is a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, Mr. Corlett voted with the Democratic party, and for half a century was a member of the I. Q.O. F. GEORGE W. VAUGHAN, .engineer of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, became connected with railroad service in 1881, when he engaged to run the rod for the Pan-Handle Company, on maintenance of way on the .Pittsburg Division. Mr: Vaughan was on this work in various capacities for two years, when he became assistant engineer. In 1884 he was appointed supervisor of the third subdivision of the Pan-Handle, performing those duties until February, 1887, when he returned to the position of assistant engineer, filling it about one month, when he joined the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Company as assistant engineer; in February, two years later, was made division engineer, and in February, five years later, was made engineer for the Whole line. Mr. Vaughan was born at Paucatuck Bridge, Connecticut, November 11, 1859'. His com- 456 - CUYAHOGA mon-school training was reinforced by a systematic course of theory and practice in two New England colleges to prepare him for his professional career,—Warner's Polytechnic College at Providence, Rhode Island, and the Rhode Island Institute of Technology. He was not a boy of unlimited means, or even in easy circumstances, and whatever he accomplished while a student was done, we infer, under some difficulties. During the summer season he was employed on field work, both surface and sower, putting to practical test his previous winter's term of theory. Prior to taking up his professional studies Mr. Vaughan learned carriage-making, but never followed it. On completing his engineering course he secured a fireman's berth on a passenger steamer on Barnegat bay and Torres river, demonstrating his ability as a first-class fireman. He was secured next by the Potter Printing Press Company, of Plainfield, New Jersey, as draftsman, and the February following went to the Pan-Handle Railroad Company as rodman. Mr. Vaughan is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is thoroughly equipped for the profession he has chosen. Mr. Vaughan is the son of John G. Vaughan, a carriage-maker and iron-molder, who was born in Rhode Island, in 1826, and died in 1887. He was employed for thirty years with Cottrell & Babcock, printing-press manufacturers of Pawtucket. He married Susanna S. Barber, who bore twelve children, eight of whom are living. In February, 1891, Mr. Vaughan married, in Westfield, New York, Fannie S. Ain-ton, a daughter of John H. Minton, an uncle of George M. Pullman. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan have one child, Dorothy, aged fourteen mouths. JOHN W. WARDWELL, receiver of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad, and for more than thirty-five years identified with railroad service, was born in Salisbury, Merrimac county, New Hampshire, June 1, 1832. His father was a carriage builder and of moderate means, and was able to provide his children with only such school advantages as were offered in the village school, supplemented by a brief period in Salisbury Academy. At sixteen years of age young John cast off the student's routine and took up life's sterner duties by entering a dry-goods store in Concord, New Hampshire, as a clerk, and remained there till March, 1851, when the United States & Canadian Express Company offered him a place in their employ as driver and later as messenger, serving till May, 1858, when he went to railroading with the Boston & Montreal Railroad as passenger conductor, and remained with the company until March, 1865, serving in the meantime by promotion as paymaster and cashier, concluding his service in the latter position, His next position was with the Rutland & Burlington Railroad as general agent stationed at Burlington, Vermont. In January, 1870, he retired from this road and became, on August 1st following, general passenger agent of the Concord Railroad, and gave eleven years of his best service in this capacity, retiring in 1881. and accepting the position of freight agent of the Boston & Lowell Railroad, with headquarters in Boston. In January, 1886, he was invited to become general superintendent of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern .Railroad, accepting and assuming his duties the same month. This official relation existed until September 15, 1893, when Judge Ricks appointed him one of the receivers of the road. Mr. Wardwell's father was Reuben Wardwell, born in Pembroke, Merrimac county, New Hampshire, in 1802. He bore the title of Captain because of his service as commanding officer of a company of light infantry, New. Hampshire militia. He married Mary Webster, daughter of Israel Webster, a Revolutionary patriot and a tiller of the soil, and died at thirty-six years of age. Jeremiah Wardwell, our subject's grandfather, was likewise born in New Hampshire. Reuben Wardwell's children were: Jeanette, deceased; Harriet, deceased; George; Charlotte; CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 451 Abial, deceased; Mary and John W. The last named was married in October, 185% in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, to Mary J. Fifield, a daughter of Benjamin Fifield, a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Wardwell are the parents of Charles W., in Cleveland, and Mary F. Politically Mr. Wardwell was reared and educated a Whig, and cast his first vote for John C. Fremont. ROLLIN CHASE SMITH, youngest son of Hiram and Anna Smith, was born at the foot of the western slope of the Green mountains, in Monkton, Addison county, Vermont, March 12, 1827. On his mother's side he is the seventh indescent from Aquila Chase, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630. The stock from which he descended was prolific in eminent men, the greatest of whom perhaps was Salmon Portland Chase, who was twice elected Governor of Ohio, twice United States Senator, was Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln, and subsequently Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The subject of this sketch has been both fortunate and unfortunate,—fortunate in being both able and willing to absorb some of the honor necessarily derived from so noble an ancestry, and unfortunate in not being able, though willing, to contribute anything, as he says, to the common fund; but he has contributed considerable, as we shall see. His paternal grandparents had twelve children, —eleven sons and one daughter. In his father's family were two sons and one daughter, namely: Phebe, born in 1819 and died in childhood; Philemon Brown, born in 1821, and died in Missouri in 1887; and Rollin C., who alone survives. In the spring of 1835 his father determined to anticipate Horace Greeley's advice and " go West." Accordingly he with his family and household effects embarked on a canal-boat at Vergennes, Vermont, which was towed by the steamboat Corn. McDonough down Otter creek six miles, to Lake Champlain, and then across that lake to Whitehall, New York, where they exchanged the Commodore for mules, which drew them by way of the Champlain canal to Troy, New York, thence by the Erie canal to Buffalo, and thence they came by the steamer Pennsylvania to the then village of Cleveland, Ohio, where they arrived in June, 1835, weary but undismayed, and all, save the youngest boy, fierce for the corning conflict with the almost unbroken forest. The family first settled in the township of Mayfield, Cuyahoga county, where they remained three years, and then removed to Bedford in the same county. Here Mr. Smith divided his time between hard work—" when he could not evade it," he says—on his father's farm, and hard study, which he seemed torelish more, in the district school, and in a select school at Bedford village, taught, at different periods, by Professors Whipple, Adams and Hawley. Subsequently he continued his efforts to obtain the necessary qualifications for teaching by attending the Twinsburg Institute, a somewhat noted school at Twinsburg, Ohio, managed by Rev. Samuel Bissell, and later at Alleghany College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania. He read law two years under the direction of Samuel Adams, Esq., of Cleveland, and medicine one and a half years under Dr. S. U. Tar-bell, of Bedford, this State, but abandoned the visions both of the woolsack and of a life as " aid to the undertaker," and returned to his " first love," the school-room. He began his long career as a schoolmaster in the autumn of 1845, in the township of Orange, Cuyahoga county, and ended it in the high school in the township of Warrensville, same county, forty-three years later, having spent his entire life as a pedagogue in the two counties of Cuyahoga and Summit. He has the satisfaction of knowing, that he was almost al- ways called, and generally chosen, never having applied for more than three schools in his life. In the meantime he served two terms of three 458 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY years each on the Board of County School Examiners in Summit county, and four terms in the same office in Cuyahoga county, also several terms as president of the County Teachers' Institute. On November 10, 1853, lie made the happiest hit of his life by leading, "of her own free will," to the matrimonial altar Miss Isabelle R. Deis-man, second daughter of H. L. and Letitia Deis-man, and for which stroke of good policy he has been "proud of himself" ever since. He has had seven children, namely: Ida Bell, born in 1856; Charles P., 1858; George S., 1865; Henry L., 1868; Lettie M., 1871; James W., 1875; and Rollin C., Jr., 1879,---all of whom are living except the youngest, who died of scarlet fever at the age of three years and seven months. Ida B. is married to James S. VIers, Esq.; Charles P. is editor and proprietor of a newspaper, "The Bedford News-Register;" George S. is an upholsterer in the chair factory of Hon. V. A. Taylor; Henry L. is a civil engineer; Lettie M. is a compositor and the forewoman in the office of the News-Register; and James W. is a student in the Bedford high school. About the year 1864 Mr. Smith was again fortunate, in joining Summit Lodge, No. 213, F. & A. M., and soon thereafter became a member of Summit Chapter, No. 74, R. A. M. He had the honor to preside as M. E. H. P. over his chapter for three consecutive terms. Subsequently he dimitted from Summit Lodge and became a charter member of Bedford Lodge, No. 375, F. & A. M., and is now serving his third term as Worshipful Master of the seine. He is also P. W. P. in Bedford Division, No. 81, S. of T., and is also " high private " in the " rear rank," as he terms it, in Goldenrod Lodge, No. 467, Knights of Pythias. In 1882 he was elected Justice of the Peace, served a term of three years and retired, but crowned with all the honors that he craved in that direction. He is now approaching the evening of life, and is endeavoring so to live that when the summons comes to join the innumerable cara van, he may, sustained and soothed by the belief that his life has not been all in vain, put his hand in that of the grim messenger, and in friendly companionship, without a murmur and without regret, pass on to the great majority, " where the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary are forever at rest," JAMES LAING has been for many years one of the most extensive dealers in live stock in Bedford township and has become thoroughly identified with the agricultural interests of this locality. He was born in Roxburg, Scotland, September 2, 1840, a son of James and Betty (White) Laing, also natives of Scotland. The father emigrated with his family to the. United States in 1850, and settled in Ohio, locating 100 acres of land in Cuyahoga county. Here he died in 1859, his wife having passed away in 1850. Both were worthy members of the Presbyterian Church, and politically Mr. Laing voted with the Republican party. They had thirteen children, eleven of whom still survive: Annie, relict of John Dawson; Elizabeth, relict of Horace E. Harriman; and Euphemia, relict of George Thomas,---reside in Bedford township; George and Robert are prosperous farmers in the same locality, the former residing on his fine farm of 240 acres; Margeret is the wife of Robert Forbes, the well-known Bedford merchant; Jessie, wife of John Waller, of Solon; Jane resides in Kansas, wife of Eugene Wilcox; and Mary is the wife of William Walton, of Twinsburg, in Summit county. George White and Andrew died in infancy. James was a lad of ten years when the family came to Bedford. He was reared on the home farm, and as he grew to manhood developed unusual ability in the management of the various departments of agriculture, but gave his attention more particularly to the purchase of live-stock for the numerous dairies in the CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 459 neighborhood, embarking in the business at the age of eighteen, and visiting at stated periods southerly and westerly portions of the State and sections of Michigan and Indiana. The sturdy young Scotchman soon won for himself a reputation for honesty in business, and with a full share of native tact, coupled with temperate habits and business zeal and integrity, has amassed a fair competence, and gained the confidence and respect of the community. He now owns a valuable tract of 200 acres, chiefly devoted to the grazing of live-stock. The buildings are large and conveniently arranged for the various purposes to which they are devoted. During the late Civil war Mr. Laing served with honor as a member of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Politically, he supports the principles of the Republican party, but in his close application to personal business has not aspired to public office. He belongs to Royal Dunham Post, No. 177, G. A. R. Mr. Laing was married in 1880, to Miss Mary, the daughter of James and Eliza Titterington, of Orange township. Our subject and wife are the parents of five children,---Annie D., Mattie -P., George Alexander, John W. and J. Leonard. R. N. BENNET, a well-known and respected citizen of Warrensville township, Cuyahoga county, was born in a log house on the farm which he still owns, June 10, 1831, a son of Robert P. and Olive (Casey) Bennet, natives of Bennington, Vermont., the former born in 1796 and the latter in 1799. The father was a soldier in the war of 1812. In 1818 he came to Warrensville township, where he was among the first settlers, and the country was then inhabited by wild beasts. Mr. Bennet died at the age of eighty-one years, his wife having departed this life when seventy-three years old. The former was a farmer by occupation, was first a Whig and liter a Republican in his political views, and was a member and zealous worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had two children. The daughter Orilla Viana, was born January 28, 1817, was married to Francis Pike, and her death occurred in Ladora, Iowa county, Iowa. R. N. Bennet, our subject, received his education in the old log schoolhouse of his locality, and was early inured to farm labor. He now owns a fine farm of ninety-eight acres in Warrensville township, where he has a comfortable residence, good barns, and other improvements. January 1, 1855, by Rev. Thomas Smith, he was united in marriage with Anna Cooper, a native of England and a daughter of Thomas and Ann (Wesbel) Cooper, also born in -that country. They came to America in 1836, locating in Orange township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. The father died at Warrensville, at the age of eighty-eight years, and the mother died at the home of Mrs. Bennet, in her ninety-fourth year They had nine children, viz.: William, Mary, Thomas, Eliza, James, Homer (deceased), John, Eunice, Homer and Anna. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have seven children: Charles M., a resident of Warrensville, is married, and has three children—Lilly, Pearl and George; Hiram., of Chagrin Falls, has one daughter, Nettie; Robert P., a -resident, of Cleveland, Ohio; Eliza A., wife of Charles Sayle, of Warrensville, and they have two children, Eunice and Harry; Cora B., wife of William Moore, of Cleveland, and they have one child, Olive Pearl; Olive A., wife of F. Nelson, a resident of this township; and Dolly May, at home. One child, George, died September 1, 1875, at the age of two years. A. W. PADDOCK, a farmer of Olmstead township, settled there in 1861. He was born in Rockport township, in 1839, a son of Elias Denton and Delia (Nicholson) Paddock. His father, a native of Essex county, New York, came to Cuyahoga county 460 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY when a young man, with his father, Anthony Paddock, who came to this county in 1827, settling in Rockport township, where he died. In the same township Mr. Elias Denton Paddock 'grew up and married, and in 1860 came to Olmstead township, locating on Butternut Ridge, which he ever afterward made his home. He died in 1877. His wife still resides in this township. Of their eleven children five grew up, namely: A. W., who is the subject of this brief sketch; I., who resides in this township: he enlisted in 1862, in the Fifteenth Ohio Independent Battery, and served through the war; Mortimer F., who was a member of the same battery, and died here, in 1866; and Herbert L., also a member of the same regi- ment. He was married in 1868, and went to California in the spring of 1871, and his whereabouts. is now unknown. Mr. Paddock, our subject, was reared in Rockport township, and has been engaged in farming. In 1861 he enlisted in the Eighth Ohio Infantry, Company H, for three months, at the expiration of which time he re-enlisted in the same company and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, wherein he participated in the battles of Winchester, Antietain, Fred-. ericksburg, Wilderness and Gettysburg, and was honorably discharged in 1864, at Columbus, Ohio. During the service he received a gun--shot wound. He now owns a good farm of thirty acres. In his political views he is a Republican, and in his social relations he has been a member, ever since its organization, of Olmstead Post, No. 634, G. A. R., of which he is the present Commander. Of this body he has been Senior Vicar, Chaplain and Adjutant. He and his wife are members of the Second Congregational Church. In 1865 in Cleveland, Mr. Paddock married Elmina Stearns, a daughter of Sidney and Martha Stearns, natives of Eastern States and now residing in Michigan. Mrs. Paddock's grandfather, Alvah Stearns, a native of one of the ,Eastern States, was one of the first settlers in Olmstead township, and resided there dur ing his life. Mr, and Mrs. Paddock have had three children, viz.: Gertie; wife of Henry Daily and residing in Rockport: Mr. Daily is in the railroad service; the other two children are Ruby and Roy. HENRY A. GRIFFIN, editor of the Sun and Voice, and president of the Voice Publishing Company, was born in the village of Waterdown, near the city of Hamilton, Ontario, of Welsh and English ancestry. Both of his parents died while he was an infant, and at a very early age he was thrown upon his own resources. The village school and a term or two in the Hamilton grammar school, -supplemented by independent studies and reading, while earning a living as clerk and bookkeeper, supplied Mr. Griffin with the rudiments of an education. In 1865, at the age of twenty years, he removed to Wyandotte, Michigan, and engaged in mercantile business on his own account. A taste for literary work induced him to undertake the publication of a newspaper in that town, the Wyandotte Enterprise, in connection with his other business, in 1872. The venture was successful, and four years later the paper was removed to Detroit and thereafter issued under the name of the Wayne County Courier. In 1880 Mr. Griffin sold the Courier and became a member of the staff of the Detroit Evening News, having previously attracted notice by some good special work for that and other Detroit dailies. In 1882 he was assigned to the managing editorship of the Buffalo Telegraph, then- owned by the Evening News Company; and a year later moved to Cleveland to accept a position as editorial writer on the Press, which he filled for three years. In 1886 the late Edward Cowles offered Mr. Griffin a responsible position, with larger opportunities, on the staff of the Leader, which Was accepted and filled, until April, 1891, when CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 461 he became secretary of the Board of Control and private secretary to Mayor Rose, under the then new Federal plan of municipal government. In February, 1892, he was appointed Director of Police, to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Colonel J. W. Gibbons. At the close of Mayor Rose's official term Mr. Griffin purchased a controlling interest in the stock of the Voice Publishing Company. Mr. Griffin was married in 1867, to Miss Mary Imogene DeKalb, of An Sable Forks, New York, and they have one daughter living. JOHN COLAHAN, a representative citizen of Cleveland, has been a resident of this city all his life, having been born here, in September, 1840, a son of Samuel and Harriet (Hedges) Colahan, both deceased. His father, a native of Quebec, was a printer by occupation in earlier life, and later was in mercantile business and finally in real estate. He was but five years of age, in 1813, when he was brought to Cleveland, by his parents, who were of Irish and French nativity. Samuel Colahan resided in Cleveland all his life from the age of five years, excepting the two years he spent in Massillon and Circleville. He followed mercantile business until 1838, from which time he was engaged in real estate until his death, in 1886. His wife, a native of Virginia, died in 1887. They had five children. Early in life Mr. John Colahan engaged in mercantile business, then was a dealer in fire brick, sewer pipe, etc., representing one firm for thirteen years; but since 1874 he has been a dealer in real estate, giving this business his entire attention, and making a specialty of central manufacturing property. He has erected several residences, and is in charge of several large estate. In 1891 he effected one of the largest real-estate deals ever made in this city, the consideration being $244,000 cash, and within the next twelve months he sold upward of $400,000 worth of property. He thoroughly understands his business, as he has from the start evinced a disposition and ability to be thorough, reliable and efficient in the making of sales. The same qualities keep him aloof from "politics," by which term is generally meant political trickery to some extent. Ile has been active in the business world and one of the most progressive men of the city. He is laboring diligently for the centralization of business at Cleveland, and has already accomplished much in this direction. Is sincere in his efforts, frank and honest, and proposes nothing but what is honorable. He has great hopes for the future greatness of the already great city of Cleveland, believing that in time it will become one of the few first cities in size and business character in the United States. He handles probably as much property as any other man in the city. His office is in the Beckman Block. In 1867 he married Celia De Long, a native of Summit county, Ohio. H. M. DOTY, M. D., who has been for many years identified with the interests of Chagrin Falls, is a native of the State of Ohio, born at Bainbridge, Geauga county, September 21, 1848. His parents, Frederick and Harriet Ann (St. John) Doty, were natives of Connecticut and New York respectively; they emigrated to Ohio in 1835, and there passed the remainder of their lives. They reared a family of seven children, three of whom are deceased. When there was a call from the Nation in her hour of need, two of the sons took up arms in her defence, and went bravely to the front; A. M. was a member of the Ninety-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and E. F. served in the navy; the former resides in Portage county, Ohio, but the latter deceased. The paternal grandfather of our subject was David Doty, a native of Connecticut, and a member of an old family of New England. 462 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY Dr. Doty received his literary education in the common schools of Chagrin Falls and at Oberlin, Ohio, and when he had finished his course engaged in teaching. While this profession offered a wide field of usefulness he preferred the more serious calling of medicine. He began the study of the science under Drs. Curtis and Walters, was successively under the tuition of Drs. J. M. Lewis and B. F. Holliday; Prof. John Bennett was also one of his instructors. Entering Western Reserve Medical College, he was graduated with the class of 1873, and immediately thereafter located at Chagrin Falls. Here he has established a large practice and has taken his place among the leading practitioners of the county. In politics he supports the issues of the Republican party, and has twice been the choice of that body for the office of Mayor of the town. His career in this capacity has been characterized by the faithful and able discharge of his duty. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Golden Gate Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M., Chagrin Falls Chapter, No. 152, R. A. M., and Oriental Commander No. 12, K. T., of Cleveland. As a member of the School Board Dr. Doty was untiring in his efforts to raise the standard of education, and has labored zealously to increase the facilities for securing to every youth that training that will make him a safeguard to the Republic which has fostered him. Dr. Doty was united in marriage in 1874, at Chagrin Falls, to Arvilla P. Goodell. Mrs. Doty was born, reared and educated in this county, and was previous to her marriage prominently identified with the work of the- leading educators of the State. WILLIAM GIFFIN, one of the old retired citizens of Cleveland, was born in Tompkins county, New York, February 13, 1815, a son of John and Lois (Thorp) Giffin, both of whom are now deceased. They reared a family of three children: Louisa J. and Hannah are both deceased, William being the only surviving one. He first emigrated to Ohio in 1835, and after spending two years upon the frontier, returned to New York State. In 1871 he came back to Ohio, and settled in Cleveland where he has since resided. He is a mason and builder by trade, and devoted the best years of life to this work. As his declining years approached he gave up more active pursuits, and is now living in quiet retirement. He was married in Huron county, Ohio, April 2, 1837, to Miss Jane K. Warner, a daughter of Justice and Mary (Sperry) Warner, and to them were born four children: Louisa J., wife of Charles M. Lusk, is the mother of two sons, Rollin W. and Milton W.; Rollin S. married Elizabeth Pinkney, and they have one daughter, Jessie W.; E. Adaline is the widow of A. K. Hobart, who died in 1882 at the age of thirty-eight years; John W. married Carrie M. Gascoigne, and to them was born one child, Herbert E.; the mother died in 1888, at the age of twenty-eight years. Mr. Giffin's second marriage was to Annis Kidder-Coleman, and thay have one child, Adaline. The mother 'of this family died April 15, 1893, at the age of seventy-seven years. She had been a member of church over fifty years. From Our Church Greeting, published for the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, April 23, 1893, the following is quoted: "Our sister, Mrs. Jane K. (Warner) Giffin, wife of William Giffin, was born in Burlington, Vermont, and came to Cleveland when seventeen years of age. She was married to William Giffin in 1837, and in 1887 they celebrated their golden wedding. They removed to Auburn New York, but returned to Cleveland in 1871, and have ever since made their home on Genesee avenue. On returning to this city she united with the Congregational Church by letter from the Baptist Church of Auburn, New York. "Mrs. Giffin was a woman of deep spiritual nature and profound religious experience. She was never weary in well-doing, and found her CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 468 daily joy in unselfish ministries of counsel and help. The word of God was her constant companion and the songs of Zion were often on her lips. The poor and needy always found her a wise adviser and a generous helper, and all whose lives in any way touched hers took knowledge of her, that she lived in daily fellowship with Christ." Mr. Giffin and the children are Church members. In politics he adheres to the Republican party. STRATON S. OGILVY, a well known and much respected citizen of Strongsville township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born in Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland, June 29, 1820. In his native land he spent the first fourteen years of his life. Then he entered upon a seafaring life, and for eighteen years ran on the Baltic sea, stopping at the various ports of Russia, Sweden and Denmark. After that he spent- twelve months in Scotland, studying navigation, and at the end of that time again launched out on the deep. He sailed all over the world, visiting all the different countries on the globe, and crossing the Equator twenty-one different times. For five years be was an apprentice in the employ of W. S. Gladstone. Then he served in the capacity of second mate, later as first mate, and finally as captain. While on a voyage to New York, in 1842; he met with an accident in which both his legs were broken, the result being that he abandoned the sea. Upon his arrival in America in 1842, Mr. Ogilvy came to Cuyahoga co- unty, Ohio, to visit his brother John, and while here be purchased 152 acres of land in Strongsville township, the farm upon which he now lives. Soon after this he retired to Scotland and married Miss Eliza Lou*, and brought his bride with him to Ohio. They made their home on the farm he had purchased for about a year and a half, and then, on account of his wire's declining health, they returned to Scotland, She never fully recovered her health, although she lived for a number of years, and finally died in her native land. They bad six children, five of whom reached adult years, namely: David J.; Weller E., who died of lockjaw; Harry; William; and Charles S., who died from the effects of a wound received from an engine while he was working in the machine shops at Cleveland. Mr. Ogilvy continued to reside in Scotland for twenty years, and in the meantime was married there again, the maiden name of his second wife being Mary King. She bore him two children, only one of whom, Charles S., lived. She accompanied him on his return to America, and her death occurred in Strongsville township. His third wife, use Sarah Morris, also died in this township. March 10, 1886, he was married in Cleveland, Ohio, to Mrs. Eliza H. Ody, nee Harry, a native of Wiltshire, England, born October 19, 1835. Her first husband, Thomas Ody, died March 9, 1883, leaving her with five children, besides whom four bad died, as follows: Thomas, George, Antoinette, John, Adeline, Sarah, Theresa, Francis J. and Amelia. Two of these had married before Mrs. Ody's union with Mr. Ogilvy. Mr. Ogilvy has resided in Strongsville township since 1863 and farming has been his sole business since that time. He owns 132 acres of fine land, well improved and under a high state of cultivation. Mrs. Ogilvy has been a member of the Methodist (lurch since 1866, and for over five years has been Superintendent of the Sunday school. ANDREW J. AIKEN, chief engineer of the Fairmount water-works, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Brooklyn, Cuyahoga county, this State, January 29, 1834, son of William and Betsey (Clark) Aiken, both natives of Connecticut. Mr. Aiken was educated in his native town, and early in life chose for his occupation the business of engineer, he ran. the engines in 461 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. the gristmills of Poe, Kelley and Selden Sargeant previous to 1862, and that year went on the steam tug, S. C. Ives. He was employed on the lakes from 1862 until 1872. In 1872 he resigned his position on the Magnet and located in Cleveland. For ten years he was first assistant at division pumping station, and for eight years he has occupied his present position. During all this time he has never had a serious accident. On one occasion he risked his own life to save that of another man, and from the effects of injury received thereby was laid up for sixteen days. From the time he started out to make his own way in the world he has never been out of employment, and during his life in Cleveland and elsewhere he has ingratiated himself with his co-workers, his employers, and, indeed, all with whom he has come in contact. Mr. Aiken was married September 25, 1864, to Miss Catharine Welsh, adopted daughter of Benjamin S. Welsh, of Cleveland. They have a family of seven children, namely: William was engineer on the John Harper, a lake steamer; Louis, machinist; Bettie Louisa, wife of a Mr. Small, has one child, Catherine; Ruth; Harry Lorenzo; Andrew J., Jr.; and Esther. Of the adopted parents of Mrs. Aiken we make record as follows: Benjamin S. Welsh was one of the early pioneers of northern Ohio. He served in the war of 1812, and afterward for some time in the regular army, being stationed at Mackinaw Island, then a trading post. After his discharge, 1817, he settled in Cleveland, where he was well known as a pioneer tavern keeper for many years. lie remained in this city up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1876, at the age of eighty-seven years. His wife, Sophronia Welsh, died in 1872, at the age of seventy-six. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and were people of sterling qualities. Mrs. Welsh was noted far and near as an excellent nurse and good cook. Indeed, few of the pioneers of this city bad a warmer place in the hearts of the people here than did this worthy couple. They had a family of four children besides the adopted daughter alluded to, namely: Oscar, who died in 1892, aged seventy years; James, who, died in 1883; Lorelle, widow of James B. Wilber, is a resident of Chicago; and Roselia, wife of Henry Hows, of Indianapolis, Indiana. Politically, Mr. Aiken is a Republican, as are his sons and as also was his father. He is a member of the Marine Engineers. Mrs. Aiken is a member of Beckwith Church. JOHN BIRD, foreman of the "Big Four" I round-house at Cleveland, was born in Toronto, Canada, May 13, 1850. Joseph Bird, his father, was a painter. He married Mary Turreff, a sister of ex-Superintendent Turreff, of the "Big Four," now deceased. Their children are: William, a locomotive engineer on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad; John and Elizabeth, unmarried. John Bird learned blacksmithing near Toronto, Canada, but when he came to Cleveland in 1872 he went at once to railroading, becoming a fireman for the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company, running between Wellsville and Cleveland. In 1875 he left the Cleveland & Pittsburg and assumed charge of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling round-house at Lorain, Ohio. He was made an engineer in eighteen months and remained so five years, when he took charge of the Mattoon round-house in Illinois, and a year later returned to Cleveland and went into the Nickel Plate service as an engineer, running over the first three divisions of the road and remaining till July 8, 1890, when he quit to accept his present position. June 12, 1881, Mr. Bird married, in Cleveland, Miss Hannah J., a daughter of Jesse Enoo. Mr. Enoo is one of the oldest residents of Cleveland, and a gentleman who has cast fifty-four annual ballots in this city. He is now eighty- CUYAGOGA COUNTY - 465 four years of age and in full possession of all his mental and physical powers. He came to Cleveland from New York, married here Mary Stanfield and reared four children,—G. W. H., Hannah J., Mary and Sarah, the two latter being unmarried. Hattie Elizabeth is the only child of our subject, a girl of twelve years. Mr. Bird is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of the A. 0. U. W. and of the " Big Four " insurance association. He holds the office of Chaplain in the S. F. I. MARTIN BOWEN SCOTT was born March 8, 1801, at Deerfield, Oneida county, New York. His birthplace was upon a farm owned by his father, Nathaniel Scott, whose farm lay about one-half mile west of the line between Herkimer and Oneida counties: He was a descendant of Richard Scott, who landed in Boston in 1633, off the ship Griffin and becatne the parent tree of the family in America. He moved to Rhode Island, where he was a contemporary of Roger Williams. He embarked in business very early in life, first in connection with navigation upon the Mohawk river and the Erie canal, from 1822 to 1827, during a part of which period his home was at Utica, New York, and at Little Falls. He was for a time in the employ of Degroff, Watson & Company, which was in that day a leading forwarding house of Schenectady. In 1828 he resided at Whitehall, situated at the head of Lake Champlain, upon which lake he was interested in navigation, as well as upon the Champlain canal. In 1829 he removed to the city of Albany, New York, where he became the manager for Derevaugh, Butler & Company, and later the Thorn & Curtis Company, of Utica, which was of the Utica line of canal boats, the first line of canal boats that ever navigated the Erie Canal and Hudson river. in 1834 he and others formed a stock company called the Albany Canal Tow Boat Company, a steam transportation company between the cities of New York and Albany, and of this he became manager at Albany. In 1835 he removed to the city- of New York, a place affording better opportunity for the successful management of the business of this transportation company. A year later he found his health failing, by reason of his close application to business during a period of fourteen active years, and seeking medical aid it became his plan under the advice of his physician to retire, at least for a time, from a business career. He did so, and then traveled on horseback through the then new States of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. It was simply a tour that he made for the benefit of his health, but during his visit to this Western country he not only regained his health but formed a liking for the climate and local advantages afforded by this region, and, especially liking Cleveland, he decided upon coming to this city and making his future home here. His business in Cleveland consisted largely in storing and forwarding grain, and to a considerable extent (for those dais) he also became interested in lake shipping, being the owner of several vessels which he operated in connection with his grain business. He built a steam elevator, which was the first brick building erected on the river front, He retired from active business in 1865, but was interested in Cleveland enterprises up to the time of his death, being president of the Mercantile Insurance Company, a director in the old Merchants' Bank, and a trustee of the Society for Savings. He died in 1872. In 1838 he came to Cleveland, and on the 25th day of March of the following year he married Mary, the daughter of Samuel Williamson, a distinguished and well known citizen of this city, now deceased. Mrs. Scott was born in Cleveland February 11, 1813, and died October 1, 1859. At the time of her death she was the oldest native of Cleveland that had constantly resided in the place from the time of birth. Mr. and Mill. Scott had seven children, 466 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. all of whom save Charles 0. are deceased: two grew to maturity. Martin B. died in 1870, from fever contracted in the army service. He was a soldier in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer infantry, while John W. died in 1873. Charles O. Scott, one of the leading citizens of Cleveland, was born in this city and educated in the public 'schools here. After preparing for college in New Hampshire ho entered Harvard College, but was not permitted to complete his course at college by reason of failing health. He visited Europe, returned to Cleveland and afterward became interested in the A. S. Herenden Furniture Company as a shareholder. In the interest of this business he was active until 1887, when the business was closed. Mr. Scott has been a stockholder in a number of manufacturing enterprises, and has been very largely interested in Cleveland real estate, to the development of which he has materially contributed. He has been interested in some two or three allotments, and for the past seven years he has given his tune and attention to his own private interests. He is a young, active and successful business man. Socially, he sustains enviable relations. He is a patron of the Historical Society, being a life member, and is also a member of the Country Club and of the Chamber of Commerce, while politically he is a Republican. S. W. MATHER, an undertaker and manufacturer of caskets at 1330 Pearl street and 909 Woodland avenue, Cleveland, was born in Herkimer county, New York, July 27, 1849, a son of Asaph and Betsey (Davis) Mather, natives also of that State. The father was born on the same farm, July 14, 1821, and his death occurred in December, 1892, The mother, born in 1822, departed this life in 1875. They were the parents of eleven children, six now living, namely: ti, W., our subject; Emour, a farmer by occupation, married Miss Mary Ann Sawyer; Asaph T., a railroad conductor, married Miss Katie Reynolds; Hattie Jane, wife of Eugene H. Edick, of Cleveland; Mary, now Mrs. Cooley; and William, a farmer by occupation, married a Miss Nottingham. All the children reside in Cattaraugus county, New York, excepting the subject of this sketch. The deceased children are: Huldah, who died at the age of twenty years, was the wife of Benjamin Thomas; Jeremiah, deceased at the age of two years; George, at the age of seventeen years; Henry married Alphreda Potter, and died when twenty-five years of age; and John, deceased in 1873, at the age of twenty-six years. S. W. Mather, the subject of this sketch, worked at farm labor until twenty-two years of age, was then engaged in the grocery business at Cleveland one and a half years, next worked at the carpenter's trade, and hie next venture was to invent a patent fire-lighter. In 1887 he went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where for a year and a half he engaged in the manufacture of patent fire-lighters. Selling out, he went to Boston? Massachusetts, where he continued in the same *business nearly a year. Selling out his interest in the fire-lighter business again, he returned to Cleveland in 1879 and put up an establishment for the manufacture of the step-ladder, and while there he invented a step-ladder and patented it. Here he engaged in making all kinds of ladders, under the name of the Union Ladder Works, which was afterward known as the Union Ladder & Washboard Works. In 1885 he embarked in his present occupation, in the manufacture of caskets. In 1887 the Funeral Reform Association of the United States was formed by Mr. Mather, Dr. Gallentine and Dr. C. B. Humiston. The association now has the following officers: Dr. C. B. Humiston, president; E. J. Holmden, vice-president; E. H. Edick, secretary; John Meyer, treasurer; and S. W. Mather, general manager. The terms of membership are $3 for a family, or $1 for a single person, with no further dues or assessments. The asso- CUYAGOGA COUNTY - 467 ciation is not a monopoly. It claims no special right, or does it seek to dominate prices or compel patronage. It sells to any person without regard to locality, and it has among its members many of the public-spirited and well known citizens of Cleveland and other cities, leading ministers and other professional men. Mr. Mather was married September 6, 1887, to Miss Addie Cooley, a daughter of Henry and Candace (McClure) Cooley. Her father is still living in New York, aged sixty-six years, and her mother died in 1885, at the age of fifty-seven years. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church, in which the former has served as Deacon for many years. They had three children: Julia, wife of Walter Semi, of Franklinville, New York ; William H., who married Mary Mather; and Addie, wife of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Mather have had three children, only one of whom is now living, Addie Mae. Our subject and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In political matters Mr. Mather affiliates with the Republican party. Through his varied and eventful life he has maintained his honor and integrity, and is eminently deserving of the respect and patronage of the community, of which he is an honorable and useful member. CYRUS MILLARD, proprietor of machine shops at Chagrin Falls, was born in the Kirtland Flats, near where the Mormon temple still stands, in Geanga county, Ohio, February 15, 1816. His Father, Brazilla Millard, a native of New York, was reared in that State and married there, and emigrated to Geauga county in 1811, settling upon a farm. In 1832 he moved to Fullertown, in the same county, and in 1836 to Indiana, and finally to Oakland county, Michigan, where he died, in his seventy-sixth year. He was supposed to be of Scotch descent. For his wife he married, in New York State, Miss Nancy Moore, a native of that State and reared there, and she died in Oakland county Michigan, in her fiftieth year. Her father, John Moore, also a native of New York, was a Revolutionary soldier and received a pension of $96 per annum. She was a sister of Isaac Moore, who was a prominent citizen of Mentor, this State, being a member of the Ohio House of Representatives one term. His son, C. H., is a prominent citizen of DeWitt county, Illinois. Mr. Cyrus Millard, the fourth in a family of fourteen children,—nine sons and five daughters,-- attended school in the log schoolhouses of the day, in his native place, and at the early age of ten years began to take care of himself, first working upon a farm or at anything else he could find to do, for his clothes and board; for a time he was employed by Elijah Smith, who had aided him In his younger days. He also lived with his uncle, Isaac Moore, who was a good man. In 1832 he began work in a mill and learned the milling business. Being naturally a mechanic, he could make. anything that any other man could. At the age of nineteen years he located in the northern part of Russell township, where he married Miss Sallie Surdam, a native of New York and the second child of Peter Surdam. He Again commenced working in a mill, a sawmill And box factory, which he soon purchased, and he owned and ran it for twenty years. Before this however, he had bought forty acres of land, to which he added by latter purchases until he lad 210 acres. In 1866 he sold the farm and mill, and moved to Chester Cross Roads, where he remained twenty years and where his wife died, to whom he had been married just thirty-eight years to a day. March 7, 1843, while Mr. Millard was living at North Russell, his house burned down, and in the disaster also all of his four children and a brother fourteen years old were burned to death,—an event too sad and painful to dwell upon. All truly sympathetic people will feel as deeply upon this subject without words as with them. March 11, 1886, Mr. Millard moved to Chagrin Falls, where he now lives. By his first mar- 30 468 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. riage there were five children, namely: W. Wellington, Mary, Maria and Martha, who were all burned to death in the fire just mentioned; and Martha (second), born June 7, 1844, is the only one now living, and she is the wife of T. W. Scott, of Chagrin Falls, whose sketch is given elsewhere in this volume. For his second wife Mr. Millard married, April 6, 1873, Miss Rosa Robinson, a native of Orange township, Cuyahoga county, and a daughter of Samuel Robinson, deceased. She was born near where President Garfield was born. By the last marriage one son has been born, by name Creighton, who is living at home with his parents. As to politics, Mr. Millard was at first a Whig, then a Republican and finally a Prohibitionist, —a very natural succession,—and in religion he is a member of the Disciples' Church, to which he has belonged ever since 1855. He has never used tobacco or drank liquors. He is a self-made man, accumulating what he has by his own industrious habits and honest dealing. He one of only three or four from his native place who has been successful in life. CALEB OAKES, the oldest living descendant of one of the oldest families of Brecksville township, was born December 8, 1822. His father, Carey Oakes, was born in Hawley, Massachusetts, and married Miss Tamar Easton. Mr. Carey Oakes' father, Calvin Oakes, exchanged land in his native State in 1815 for land in Brecksville township, and early the next year his two sons, Carey and William, left New England for the then far distant West, an ox team their means of transportation, and were forty days on their journey. With $11 in money and in a perfect wilderness, Mr. Carey Oakes, with his family, then consisting of wife and two children (Mary and Francis), began to prepare a home. In company with his brother, he began to clear up 200 acres of the tangled forest, on lot 41, which was covered with beech, maple, black walnut, etc. With health and perseverance they succeeded, and finally sowed fields of grain throughout the tract once so densely covered with forest trees. Of the two children born in the East, Mary married Doras Lyman and died at Oberlin, Ohio; Francis, a farmer and a life-long resident of Brecksville township, who died in 1884, aged seventy years. Those born here in Ohio were: Isaac, who lived until December, 1893, a life-long farmer; the next two in order of birth died in infancy; Caleb, our subject, is the next; Henry, now a farmer of Brecksville; Tamar, who married Townsend Horton and died in Brecksville; Martha, now Mrs. Alfred Green, of Iowa; and Carey, Jr., of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The first habitation of Carey Oakes consisted of poles and bark, which was shortly afterward supplanted by a more substantial one, being a frame house. On this farm Mr. Oakes lived for a number of years, being a diligent worker. He was a man of powerful frame, six feet two inches high when standing in undressed feet, and weighed 240 pounds. During his life here he never changed his residence. He died June 2, 1871, and his wife January 1; 1881, and they now lie side by side in Center cemetery. As to his political views he had been a Whig. He was one of the first three voters in the township that voted the Abolition ticket. He served as Justice of the Peace two terms. Both himself and wife were members of the Congregational Church. Mr. Caleb Oakes, whose name heads this memoir, was educated partly at Twinsburg, Ohio, when Professor Bissell was president of the school. On starting from home for this institution of learning Mr. Oakes carried all his clothes (excepting what he was wearing) in a red bandana handkerchief, going on foot and crossing the Ohio canal on a log, no bridge being erected at that time. May 6, 1850, he married Hannah Horton, who was born August 19, 1829, in Bellvale township, Orange county, New York, a daughter of Milton Horton, who came to Milan, CUYAHOGA COUNTY- 469 Huron county, Ohio, in 1834. It was at this place that our subject was married, by Rev. Newton Barrett, a Congregational clergyman. Shortly after his marriage Mr. Oakes exchanged a portion of his place for his present farm, with his brother Isaac, and he has lived here ever since. He has over 200 acres of excellent farm land, which is more than four times the amount he had at first. He is a tho rough and systematic farmer, with good business ideas and general good common sense. He is a Republican, but no politician. His wife, who was a member of the Methodist Church, died July 29, 1892, and is buried in Center cemetery. The children are: Lydia, now Mrs. Frank Finch, of Summertown, Tennessee; Emma, at home; Milton, who died at the age of six years; Herbert, who died aged twenty-two years; and Benjamin F., also at home. GEORGE H. WORTHINGTON is secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland Stone Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, with which important enterprise he has long been associated. The study of the development of a great industry, with due attention to the personal energy and ability that have conserved such progress, must ever be interesting and profitable to those who make note of the commercial and economic problems of the day. The subject of this sketch, who has gained distinctive prestige as one of the successful and capable business men of the Forest City, was born in Toronto, Canada, February 13, 1850, the son of John and Mary (Wellborn) Worthington. John Worthington was born in Staffordshire, England, September 9, 1818, and his death occurred December 25, 1873. His widow still survives him and is a resident of Toronto. He was reared and educated in his native place, and on attaining to years of maturity he betook himself to Canada, where he was married and where he reared his family. He was a contractor and builder, which occupation he followed for many years, operating in both the United States and Canada. He erected the Union Depot at Cleveland and was the contractor for the construction of the Ashtabula & Jamestown Railroad, now a portion of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, and for the Southern & Central Railroad, now a part of the Lehigh Valley system, in the State of New York. He was among the first to import building-stone into Canada: About the year 1850 he came to the United States for the purpose of securing stone for shipment to the province, and it was at this time that he arranged with the Brownhelm stone quarry for its entire output, which of itself was not sufficient to supply his needs. This fact led him to purchase, the quarry, and from it he at once commenced to quarry and 'ship stone to Canada. He operated the quarry very successfully for several years, the entire output being consigned to Canada. Finally he began to place the product upon the market in the States, in the meantime having associated his son, James M., with him in the business. Later on George H , the subject of this sketch, became a member of the firm, whose title was thereupon changed to Worthington & Sons. No other contractor of the Dominion of Canada was perhaps more prominent than John Worthington, for there he erected many important public edifices and other fine architectural structures, achieving success and renown in his various undertakings. He was a man of sterling qualities, strictly honorable, thoroughly persevering, his success in life being well merited. He had a family of four sons and three daughters, namely: James M., the president of the Cleveland Stone Company; Minnie, the widow of E. Bendelari; George H., our subject; Fanny, wife of W. W. Keighley, of Toronto; Jane, widow of T. C. Elwood; John H. and Edward E., twins, the former of whom died in Calcutta, India, December 7, 1873. The immediate subject of this review, George IL -Worthington, was reared and educated in Toronto, finishing his school work at the age of 470 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. sixteen years, when he entered a wholesale establishment in that city, remaining thus employed for a period of two years. He then entered the employ of his father, who was at the time engaged in carrying out contracts for railway construction in the State of New I ork. In this field of labor our subject remained for six months, having charge of the entire work under the contracts of his father, who was then taking a trip abroad by reason of impaired health. After the completion- of the contracts noted, Mr. Worthington went to Brownhelm, Ohio, and there entered the employ of Worthington & Son, which firm consisted of his father And an older brother. One year later he became a member of the firm of Worthington & Sons. After the death of the father, in 1873, the sons succeeded to the business, but retained the old firm name until the organization of the Cleveland Stone Company was effected. Besides holding a half interest in the business of Worthington & Sons, George H.Worthington was president of the Berea & Huron Stone Company. Upon the organization of the Beeman Chemical Company Mr. Worthington became interested and is now secretary and treasurer of the same. He is also vice-president of the Cleveland Washboard Company and of the Pike Manufacturing Company, of New Hampshire. He has a financial interest in several other important enterprises in the city of Cleveland, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Masonic Temple Association, a director of the West Cleveland Banking Company, and of the Chamberlain Cartridge & Target Company. It may thus be readily understood that Mr. Worthington is an active and representative business man, one whose ability and honor have been thoroughly tried and proved. In fraternal affiliations he is prominently connected with the Masonic order, being a member of Tyrian Lodge, No. 370; of Cleveland Chapter, No. 148, and of Oriental Commandery, No. 12, K. T., having been made a member of the commandery in 1874. He has been a thirty-second-degree Mason since 1876, being a charter member of Lake Erie Consistory, and of Al Koran Temple, of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Worthington was married at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in February, 1878, to Mrs. Hannah L. Weaver. They make their home at the Stillman, the beautiful Euclid avenue hotel. LORINDA E. (DEMING) SQUIRE, widow of Charles R. Squire, was born in Brunson, Huron county, Ohio, July 31, 1822, a daughter of Amos Deming, who was born in Saundersfield, Massachusetts, March 12, 1800. When Mr. Deming was yet very young the family moved to Avon, Livingston county, New York; and when eighteen years of age he bought the remainder of his time from his father and walked thence to Brunson, Ohio, where he worked for Major Underhill, on a farm and in his sawmill, at $10 a month, until he paid for fifty acres of land near that place. Two years later he returned to New York and was married to Miss Fannie Witherell, and with her came back to Ohio, settling on his new farm. He died there, in 1885: his wife had died many years previously, namely, in 1850. For forty years he was a member of the Congregational Church, and was beloved by all who knew him, as he was so kindly in his nature and conduct. Politically he was a Republican. He had eleven children, three of whom died in infancy. The living are: Lorinda E., our subject; Perry B.; of Chicago; Lucy, widow of S. B: Fuller, of Norwalk, Ohio; Mary, wife of Warren Buel, of Albert Lea, Minnesota; Amos, of Saugatuck, Michigan; Marana, now Mrs. I. T. Ray, of Norwalk, Ohio; Matilda It., now Mrs. E. C. Johnson, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Harriet E., who married John Lamkey, of Rock Falls, Illinois. Mrs. Squire, whose name heads this sketch, was married December 17, 1843, to C. R. Squire, of Brunson, Huron county, Ohio, set- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 471 tied in Wakeman, this State, and a year aftersard moved to St. Charles, Illinois, where for two years Mr. Squire was employed in various occupations. Then they came to Cleveland, where Mr. Squire embarked in the wholesale and retail grocery business. First he was clerk for Lemuel 'Wick, then started out for himself. After a few years he failed, owing to the perfidy of his bookkeeper and clerk, and then he turned his inventive mind to the invention of ore separators (retorts) and crushing machines. Going to New York he interested capital in his enterprise, and spent several years there. Finally he was taken sick and died, October 19, 1891. Mrs. Squire still resides at 37 Church street, where she and her husband settled in 1864. They had three sons: Charles A., Frank E. and Willie A. Charles married Miss Mattie Bell Cameron in 1877, and has four children,—Charles R., Fred Eugene, LeGrand E. and Katie; Frank married Miss Martha D. Lewis in 1874, and they also have four children,—Leora A., Edith M., Luella M. and Leroy Frank; Willie married, in 1884, Miss Mary Virginia Frazier, of North Carolina, and has two children, —Lorinda E. and Clara A. The three sons are all engaged in railroad work, and in politics Republicans. Mrs. Squire's mother, nee Fannie Witherell, was a native of Vermont, and was taken by her parents to New York in their removal to that State; and Mrs. Squire's father was on the first steamer that ever plied the waters of Lake Erie, when it was beached at Erie during a storm, about 1819 or 1820, and Mr. Squire's father was a Methodist Episcopal minister, and died at the advanced age of eighty-four years. JOHN G. JAMES, , assistant freight agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, is a gentleman who has come into prominence rapidly as a railroad man, rising from a minor clerkship in the freight office of this road to the position he now occupies in less than one decade from the date of his entering the service of the company, and his being an official of the great Lake Shore system in his present capacity speaks more for the character of his service than any article written for the express purpose of describing that service in detail. It was in 1876 that Mr. James' name was entered on the pay roll as an employe of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. Two years' service as a freight clerk sufficed to warrant his promotion to the position of chief clerk in the general freight office, and in this capacity he exhibited those characteristics which prompted the management of the road to make him assistant general freight agent seven years later, Mr. James is an active and influential member of the following committees of the Central Traffic Association, viz.: Rules and Regulations, Iron and Iron manufactures, Oil Traffic, Uniform Bill of Lading, Relation with Western Roads, Relation with Trunk Lines, Eastbound Percentage Basis and Official Classification. This will indicate his standing in the railroad world more fully than we could do in general description and statements. Mr. James was born in Belmont county, Ohio, December 24, 1846. His father, William James, was a farmer, born in the same State, but removed to Bureau county, Illinois, in 1852. There he spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1884, at seventy-six years of age. Maryland was the original American home of the Jameses. A remote ancestor of our subject emigrated to Pennsylvania and settled at Uniontown, and from that point Charles James, the paternal grandfather of our subject, emigrated to Ohio, settling in Tuscarawas county, where he died. William James married, in 1833, Miss Eliza A. Maginnis, a daughter of Daniel Maginnis, formerly of Loudoun county, Virginia. Seven of the eleven children born of this union are yet living, namely: Jacob, at Wyanet; Charles, at Princeton; Albert, at Ohio; Hiram, at Malden, and Mrs. Samuel Conner, of Ohio,—all in the State of Illinois; and Mrs. Orrin W. 472 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY Zibble, of Olathe, Kansas, and the of subject, this sketch. Two of the deceased are: Harrison W., who died at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in 1890; and Wesley W., who died at Mendota, Illinois, from injuries received while an employe of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. The two others died in infancy. John C. James grew up in the country, employed on his father's farm, until the age of seventeen. The breaking out of the war offered a novel experience, and at the same time an opportunity of going beyond the confines of home, and he took advantage of the opportunity. He enlisted in the Fifty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Company B, commanded by Captain Van Steenberg, and was attached for service to the Army of the Tennessee, participating in the battles of the campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta. After the fall of Atlanta he was engaged at the battle of Allatoona, Georgia, where he received three wounds, one of which caused the amputation of his right foot and ended his military service. His position was on the right flank of the skirmish line, which was driven by a charge of French's Confederate division, the flower of Johnston's army, and fell wounded among the tents of the camp of the Ninety-third Illinois infantry, where he lay for three hours between two lines of battle, receiving three wounds and four additional balls through his clothes, and 231 bullet holes were found in the officers' tent into which he had crawled! He was confined in hospitals in Rome, Georgia, Chattanooga, and Nashville, Tennessee, and Chicago, Illinois, being discharged from service at the last named place in July, 1865. Mr. James next turned his attention to getting an education. He passed through the junior year in Western Union College at Fulton, Illinois, teaching in the meantime to secure funds to defray his necessary expenses. He gave up pedagogical work in a short time and turned his attention to abstract work and the examination of land titles, assisting in writing up a set of abstracts for Cuyahoga county, Ohio, having returned to this State in 1670. He was interested also in the preparation of an abstract of titles for Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and conducted the business about. five years when he took up railroad work, as before stated. Mr. James married, in May, 1874, Annie E: Black, a daughter of John C. Black, an early settler in Cleveland, and by occupation a builder and contractor. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. James are: Lawrence W., in the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company at Kansas City, Missouri; Frank T.; Walter M.; and William C. WILLIAM J. AKERS, one of the proprietors of the Forest City Hotel, Cleveland, was born in Lancashire, England, August 2, 1845, and was an infant when his parents emigrated to America, settling in Cleveland, November 1, same year. His father, John Akers, was a civil engineer by profession, which he followed for years. After arriving in this city he turned his attention to building, and left many monuments of his labors throughout Ohio, in the form of the best buildings of the time, the old jail in Cleveland being one. As he was a man of independent means, he was prepared to take and fulfill large contracts. In 1857, however, he suffered financial ruin, consequent upon the general panic of that year, and soon afterward, in the same year, he died, leaving a wife (nee Catherine O'Learie) and four children, the latter being: William J., whose name introduces this sketch; John M., proprietor of the Russell House at Alliance and also of the dining hall at the Cleveland depot; Martha A.;' and Mrs. H. A. Bushea. Their mother died in Cleveland, in 1893. Mr. William J. Akers was a lad of twelve years when his father died, and, being compelled to be industrious at some employment for the support of his mother and the rest of the family, he had little time for schooling or recreation. However, lie received considerable aid in his studies at intervals from his mother, a CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 473 lady of education and general culture. Among his early cares was the building of the fires at the school building he attended, for which he received $8 a month. He also secured an old horse and wagon and hauled chips to town for sale, thus earning a little sum worth mentioning. Later he obtained a place behind the lunch counter at the depot restaurant, where he was soon promoted clerk, and ere long possessed an interest in the business, and continued to prosper until he became sole proprietor. From the very beginning he was determined to build a fortune, and therefore bent all his energies in that direction. As hotel work seemed best adapted to his tastes, he applied himself to that, and he has owned and managed various hotels and eating houses, as the Cleveland Depot eating house, Russell House at Alliance, the Continental and Gibson Hotels at Crestline, Ohio, and the dining cars over the Bee Line system. In some of the above he was associated with his brother. In 1889 he formed a partnership with S. T. Paine, formerly for years clerk of the Forest City Hotel. They leased this house, which they have ever since conducted; remodeled it, and are now running the institution according to all the demands of the times, which they know well how to do. It will be interesting to notice in brief review the past history of this site. First, as early as 1817 the ground was sold for fifty cents; in 1893 an offer of $750,000 was refused for it! The first hotel on this site was the Cleveland Hotel, built in 1825; in 1849 the name was changed to Dunham House, and in 1858 to Russell's Forest City House; in 1868 the name Russell was dropped, and ever since then no change has been made. During the summer of 1893 Messrs. Akers and Paine conducted the Eureka Springs Hotel, one of the favorite resorts of the Keystone State. In benevolent work Mr. Akers has been one of the most enthusiastic and conspicuous in Cleveland. When the Chicago fire sufferers were in their greatest need of help, he was secretary of the relief committee and a member of the executive committee for the Michigan fire sufferers the same season; was chairman of the Ohio river flood relief committee; member of the relief committee for the sufferers of the Johnstown flood; chairman of the relief committee for the sufferers from the Oil City flood and fire. This list is a record of labor, and many sleepless nights has Mr. Akers had during the past ten years in connection with the Bethel Associated Charities, being a member of the executive committee and of the Board of Managers of Bethel Union. Two of the most satisfactory undertakings with which Mr. Akers has been connected were the erection of the Masonic Temple at Cleveland and the Masonic Home in Springfield, this State, of both of which he is a trustee. He is a thirty-third-degree Mason: has been Comm under-in-Chief of Scottish Masonry for northern Ohio. He has served in all the offices of the Grand Lodge of Masons excepting that of Master of the Grand Lodge,—which, indeed, by the way, was tendered him. Initiated into Masonry in 1868, he received the thirty-third degree in 1886, in which year he was also appointed representative to the Grand Lodge of Kentucky. More locally, he has for three years been president of the Cleveland Masonic Club; is an honorary life member of the Cleveland Grays, and he has been president of the Cleve. land Hotel-Keepers' Association ever since its organization. In 1891 he was elected vice-president of the National Hotel Keepers' Associatlon. Politically he is a prominent Republican. For four years he was a member of the Board of Education, for six years a member of the Library Board, and two years a member of the Board of Control of the House of Correction; and he is stockholder in a number of business concerns in this city. In 1893 he was unanimously nominated (by acclamation) at the Republican Convention as their candidate for Mayor of Cleveland, but was defeated in the election by a small number of votes. 474 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. January 2, 1883, is the date of Mr. Akers' marriage to Miss Maud Miller of New York city, who is a member of the Dorcas Society and a member of the Board of Managers of the Old People's Home of Cleveland, and is active in all benevolent movements. Their residence is at 384 Lake street. WILLIAM HOYT, one of the familiar figures connected with the operating department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, first began in the service of this line when it was operated west of Cleveland as the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad. His first day's work was completed on the evening of November 5, 1855, as a brakeman under Conductor Simon Woodbury, the first on the division. About fifteen months afterward Mr. Hoyt was capable of running the train, awl he was given charge of a freight crew over the Same division. In 1868 he received his final promotion, and twenty-five years have now passed since he entered the passenger service. The miles he has passed over in these thirty-eight years would run up into the millions, and the number of passengers he has carried IN ould almost equal the population of the whole United States. Mr. Hoyt was born in Addison, New York, June 8, 1834, and soon afterward his parents moved to Onondaga county, same State, where he grew up. His father, Nathan G. Hoyt. was a native of Connecticut, born near Ridgefield, that State, and moved to New York State at the age of nineteen years. He learned the trade of cabinet-making at Auburn, that State, and followed it as a means of livelihood in subsequent years. He came to Ohio in 1852, and died in Elyria, this State, in 1882, aged seventy years. For his wife he married Miss Harriet Hoyt,—no relation traceable, but remotely of the same stock probably, as her ancestors were also Connecticut people. She died in 1893, at the age of eighty four years. Their children were: William; Nathan G., Jr., of Wellington, Ohio; Hannah J., who married James Penfield, of Elyria; Mary E., wife of T. B. Prentiss, a Boston printer; and Henry, a conductor on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas. William Hoyt worked with his father four years before coining west, but did not turn his attention in the direction of his trade on reaching the new Western country. January 3, 1858, he married, in Cleveland, Miss Harriet, a daughter of Sheridan Roberts, of Warren, Ohio, who has two living children, the other being Mary A., the wife of T. M. Knight, of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt's children are: William, Jr., a baggageman on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, who married Mary White; Lillian and Ida,—both unmarried. Mr. Hoyt is a Master Mason of Cleveland City Lodge. DR. FRANK W. SOMERS, a young and promising physician, with an office at 1545 Lorain street, West Cleveland, was born January 25, 1863, at Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio. His father, Lyman Somers, was born in New York State and removed to Ohio about 1840, and is now a resident of Chardon. Dr. Somers obtained a preliminary education in the public schools of his native town and engaged in school-teaching for four years, and then began the study of medicine in the Cleveland Medical College, from which institution he holds a diploma, and after receiving a diploma from the Huron Street Hospital (Institute), he entered upon the practice of his profession. While in college he was on the dispensary staff and also took charge of the clinique. In one month he treated 161 cases. In his individual practice he is fast gaining prominence. He is a member of the Canal Dunham Medical Association, and is otherwise prominently associated in his profession. In March of 1886, Dr. Somers wedded Josie Bartell, of Chardon. He is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics