CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 525 conscientious to take advantage of circumstances that might have led him on to fortune. In his public and private life he was, perhaps, without exception respected and beloved. While in his religious convictions he was sincere and decided, he was without bigotry and far removed from Phariseeism. In politics he was most earnestly patriotic and keenly alive to the best interests of his country. "But it is in that dearest and most sacred of earthly circles, the family home, that he will be most missed. Among his children he was the companion and confidant, always interested in what grieved or gratified them, and with the little ones a child in full and cordial sympathy. His family and friends have the supreme satisfaction of a full assurance that to the very best of his knowledge and ability he did well the work that was given him to do and has thus left an example well worthy of imitation. Like these, may we well exclaim with the poet: `Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither in the north wind's blast, And stars to set; but all, thou bast All seasons for thine own, 0 Death.' " To know John Carlisle was to respect and esteem him. Indeed, few men in the country had more friends than he. Mr. Carlisle's memory will live in the hearts of the people where he was known long after that of less important personages shall have passed away, and his name will be handed down to future generations as a synonym for all that is good, pure and upright. REUBEN HALL, one of the well-to-do farmers and leading citizens of Dover township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a son of Charles Hall, one of the pioneers of the county. Charles Hall was born in Lee, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in 1798. In 1811 he came from Massachusetts to Ashtabula county, Ohio, with his father, Moses Hall, and in that county was reared. He was married there at the age of twenty-two to Lucy Seymour, who was born in Plymouth, Connecticut, in 1800, and who had come to Ohio with her father, Ziba Seymour, and family. Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hall came to Cuyahoga county and settled in Dover township. That was in 1821. Here they continued to reside the rest of their lives. Mrs. Hall died in Connecticut, whither she had gone in quest of health in 1844. Mr. Hall survived her a number of years. He was a farmer by occupation, and was prominently identified with local affairs. He was one of the first members of the Episcopal Church in Dover township. They had a family of five children, viz.: Eliza, who became the wife of George Porter, died in Dover township, December 27, 1841, at about the age of twenty years; Mary Ann, who died December 5, 1841, aged about seventeen; Reuben, Ziba S. and James. Reuben Hall was born in Dover township, on his father's farm, June 18, 1827. Here he was reared, and here he has always resided. His early life was not unlike other farmer boys of that period. He remained a member of the home circle until after his marriage. Then for five years he rented his father's farm. At the end of that time he purchased seventy acres of land from his uncle, Edwin Hall, and upon this place he has since resided. He has been successful in his undertakings. By honest industry and good management he has accumulated considerable property, being now the owner of 174 acres of land, on which he has erected a set of good buildings. Mr. Hall was married March 26, 1850, to Kiss Rebecca Smith, a daughter of the late Hiram Smith, one of the early pioneers of Dover township. Mrs. Hall was born in this township, June 6, 1827, and died here in January,. 1861. In August, 1861, Mr. Hall was again married in this township, this time to Miss Matilda Lilly, who was born here in 1829, daughter of Abinus Lilly, who was drowned while crossing the Rocky river, about 1840. Mr. Hall and his present wife are the parents 526 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY of three children: Clara E., wife of George L. Cooley; Charles E.; and Lucy S., wife of Rev. C. A. Vincent, of Boston, Massachusetts. Enterprising and public-spirited, Mr. Hall has all his life taken a deep interest in local affairs. He has filled various township offices, among which are those of Assessor, Township Trustee, etc. During the war he enlisted, May 2, 1864, in Company I, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio National Guards, and was in the 100-day service. He is a member of the G. A. R., Olmsted Post, No. 634. Both he and his wife are members of and active workers in the Methodist Episcopal Church. REV. THOMAS MISICKI, D. D., pastor of the St. Adalbert parish at Berea, Ohio, was born in Przeworsk, Galicia, Austria, December 31, 1866. His father is Andrew and his mother Veronica (Chmurowicz) Misicki. His father is a contractor and builder in Przeworsk. In 1893 his age is sixty-nine years. The mother died in 1893, at the age of sixty-seven years, a life-long member of the Catholic Church and an excellent woman. There are only two brothers who comprise the Children of these parents, namely: Ignatius, the older, born July 31, 1863; and the subject of this sketch. Ignatius has been professor in a college in the city of Jaroslau for the past four years. The subject of this sketch, Rev. Thomas Misicki, received his primary education .in his native city. Later he attended a high-school in Crakow. He was there eight years, and passed his examinations, giving evidence of excellent scholarship. He then attended the seminary in Crakow, where also at a later date he attended the university, at which he graduated in February of 1889. He was ordained priest May 19, 1889, and then took a special course of two years, at the close of which he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He studied Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic, in which he became accomplished, as he is also an adept in Latin and Greek. By special permission he taught these languages in the seminary, and was teaching the Latin and Greek languages in the Seminary of St. Vincent of Paula, just before he embarked for America, March 1, 1893, having obtained first permission from his superior cardinal, his object being to simply visit America. He was for three months in Winona, Minnesota, as an assistant in St. Stanislaus (Polish) Church. He was received into the diocese of Cleveland by Right Rev. Bishop Horstmann and stationed in Berea as pastor of St. Adalbert's Church, a few months since. Here he has under his charge 350 Polish fami¬lies and thirty German families. He also attends missions at Grafton, at Lorain and at other places. In Berea he has a large school taught by four sisters of St. Felix from Detroit. Here are taught 300 children. Rev. Misicki is an accomplished scholar, able as a speaker and as an organizer is equally skilled. As a singer he is of marked ability, having one of the finest of tenor voices. He speaks Polish, German, French and English, his special studies being oriental languages. He is a writer of note, contributing many valuable articles to the Polish papers in America. SHERBURN HENRY WIGHTMAN, of Cleveland, was born in this city, August 28, 1819, a son of John J. and Deborah (Morgan) Wightman. John Wightman was a descendant of Elder Valentine Wightman, the founder and father of the first society of Baptists in Groton, first exercising his gifts among a few willing hearers, and afterwards gathering a church, of which he was the pastor, from 1710 to his death, June 9, 1747. His son, Rev. Timothy Wightman, occupied the same pulpit and office after him for 49 years, and until his death, Nov. 14, 1796, in his 78th year, and was succeeded by his son, Rev. John Gano Wightman, who filled the same office for nearly forty- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 527 five years, and until his death, July 13, 1841, aged seventy-four. Such a period of ministry over the same church held in succession by father and son and grandson for a period of a hundred and thirty years is believed to be without parallel in the history of American churches. Rev. Palmer G. Wightman, a grandson of Rev. John Gano Wightman, is still pastor of this • same church, but did not immediately -succeed his grandfather, a period of three or four years intervening. Many of the descendants of Elder' Valentine Wightman have filled the pastoral office. John J. Wightman was born and reared in Connecticut, but came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1811, locating on ten acres of land in the Woodland Hills. The county was then a part of Trumbull county, and they were obliged to go to Warren to pay taxes. He took part in the Indian wars, was at the battle of Fort Meigs, and participated in many other engagements. Although reared in the Baptist faith, Mr. Wightman became an active worker in the Disciple Church, and the late Rev. Alexander Campbell was often a guest at his home, as was also Garfield's father and mother. His death occurred in 1837, at the age of forty-nine years. His wife departed this life in September, 1827, at the age, of thirty-two years. She was a member of the Baptist Church. Sherburn H. Wightman, the fifth in a family of eight children, and the only one now living, was seriously injured by falling from a horse when eight years of age, and has only partially recovered from its effects. He is now engaged in the real-estate business. He has also served sixteen years. as Deputy County Tax Collector, having held that office under four different county treasurers. Mr. Wightman has lived where he now resides, No. 169 Union street, since 1875. December 2, 1844, he was united, in marriage with Miss Sarah L. Warner, who was born in Newburg, Ohio, August 16, 1824, a daughter of Darius and Delilah J. Warner, formerly of Cuyahoga Falls, The mother was born in Vir ginia, in 1796, came to. Ohio at the age of five years, and her death occurred August 27, 1863. The father, born in New York, January 20, 1798, came to Ohio in 1809, and died in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Warner had three children. The eldest, Lydia, married James Skinner, and both are now deceased. They had two children: Laura, born in 1840, married William Belden, who died at Atlanta, Georgia, while serving in the late war, at the age of twenty-seven years; and Jared, born in 1860. Their second child, Ezra G., married Rachel Burgess, and resides at Byron' Center, Michigan. They have had four children,—Jefferson (deceased), Charles, William and George. Mr. and Mrs. Wight-man have had five children, namely: Adelaide, deceased October 2, 1891, at the age of forty-six years; Albina D., wife of Michael Williams, of Cleveland, and they have two children,—Sarah, wife. of Hall Benethum; and Sherburn Berman; Avery J., of California, married Elizabeth Ringen, who died January 1'7, 1891, and their four children are: Zetta A., Sherburn Henry, Marion and Agnes M.; Herman, deceased at the age of one year; and Sarah, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Wightman are members of the Christian Church, in which the former has served as Elder for many years. In political matters, he was formerly a Whig, and now affiliates with the Republican party. Wightman street of Cleveland is named in honor of the family which our subject represents, and is said to run through his father's farm. CHARLES A. POST, secretary and treasurer of the East End Savings Bank Company, began in banking business in this city in 1869, with Everett, Weddell & Company, as a bookkeeper, remaining with them until 1883, and retiring as a teller in their concern. His resignation was caused by ill health, and in order to recperate he went to the seaboard at New York city, and engaged in other pursuits until July, 1886, when he retuned to 528 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Cleveland restored to normal health. He assisted in organizing the East End Savings Bank Company, which was chartered in August, 1886, with J. H. McBride as president, V. C. Taylor and Thomas Jopling as vice-presidents, and Charles A. Post as secretary and treasurer. The capital stock at the commencement, December 18, 1886, was placed at $100,000; now it is $200,000, and the deposits amount to P00,000, with a surplus of $60,000. Mr. Post was born in East Cleveland October 28, 1848, educated in the public schools, and was a clerk in a merchandising establishment at different times before going into the Bank of Everett, Weddell & Company. He was elected to the City Council in 1880, and re-elected in 1882, serving until he determined to go to New York in 1883, when he resigned. He is treasurer of a number of corporations besides the East End Bank,—the National Electric Valve Company, of the Maple Grove Dairy Company, and of the Casino Mine Company. As to the fraternal orders, Mr. Charles A. Post is a Master Mason and Knight Templar, and a member of the order of K. of P. He is also a member of the Union Club, treasurer of the Rowfant Club, and president of the Twilight Club. His greatest recreation being tennis: playing, he is president of the East End Tennis Club. In religion he is an active member of the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church. His father, Nathan Post, a native of Burlington, Vermont, came to East Cleveland in 1848, and purchased property on Euclid Avenue, the site of a well-known hotel in early times. He was a harness-maker by trade, and the inventor and patentee of many articles of harness and saddle ware. He was also interested in the first malleable iron foundry established in this city, and induced skilled foreign labor to locate here to aid in operating the plant. For his wife he married Miss Laura J. Lord, of Madrid, New York, whose ancestors were pioneers in New England. Mr. Nathan Post died in 1869, aged sixty-nine years, and his wife died in 1875. Their children were Helen E.; Sarah M., who died in 1875, the wife of L. J. Wadsworth; Nathan L., who died in October, 1893; Mary R.; Laura J., who died in 1885, the wife of Dr. G. C. Ashman; Francis W., Charles A., and James R. The last named was educated in this city, and when he engaged permanently in business he entered the employ of Root & McBride Brothers, where he still remains. January 1, 1879, he married, in Manchester, Iowa, Miss Mary A. Roe, and their only child is Bessie May. He is a prominent member of the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, and is most active in promoting the interests of the Young Men's Christian Association of this city, of which he has been a director for many years, and was especially active in the erection of their new hall. H. T. ANDRUS, freight agent of the Pennsylvania Company in Cleveland and a veteran in railway service, was born in Austinburg, Ohio, December 28, 1839. In 1850 his father, Marvin T. Andrus, moved to Ridgeville from Austinburg, and in 1857 to Cleveland from Ridgeville, and entered into commission business, and later on railroad service, retiring to private life in 1887. Marvin T. Andrus was born in Morean, New York, his ancestors coming from Burlington, Connecticut. He learned blacksmithing and followed it together with farming until his removal from Eagleville in 1850, having resided there twelve years. He died in Cleveland in 1891, at eighty-three years and nine months of age. He married Amanda, a daughter of George Calkins, a farmer. The Calkins family came from Waterburg, Vermont, and, are of Welsh descent. The children of this union are: George W.; Emmet H., deceased; H. T.; Helen, deceased; Emma, deceased; Frank; and Minnie, wife of A. W. Strong, a Cleveland broker. H. T. Andrus was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, and in 1857, on assuming the duties of real life, entered the employ of CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 529 the Pennsylvania Company as errand boy in the freight office, and in 1861 was made cashier, which important position he filled continuously till 1888, when he received his appointment as agent: Politically Mr. Andrus is a Republican, allying himself always on the side of true Americanism. In lodge circles Mr. Andrus is a Royal Arch Mason. Mr. Andrus has been twice married, first in 1863, at Norwalk, Ohio, to Gertrude Adelade, a daughter of Elias Harris, of Seville, Ohio. Mrs. Andrus died without issue in 1869. In 1872 Mr. Andrus married Ellen Melancia, a daughter of Edwin Hill, of Gardner, Massachusetts. Of this union are born Harry L., Clarence M., Alice H., Carl E. and Paul W. W. H. STEWART, the subject of this sketch, was born at Crossreagh, near Coleraine, county Londonderry, Ireland, June 3, 1855. His parents, Samuel and Alice Houston Stewart (the latter of whom still lives in Ireland), were of Scotch Irish ancestry, and Mr. Stewart's life has been characterized by the enterprise of the sturdy race from which he sprung. Mr. Stewart received his early education in his native land. At the age of fifteen he came to the United States, and, finding in the Western Reserve surroundings congenial to his tastes, located in Cuyahoga county. In 1883 he was married to Miss Elma J. Burgess, a lady of intelligence and good family, daughter of J. M. Burgess of Orange township. In politics a staunch Republican. Mr. Stewart filled acceptably for six years the office of township Trustee, and served for two terms as a member of the Board of Education. In 1892 he was appointed by Dr. McNeal as Assistant Dairy and Food Commissioner, which position he still holds. He is a member of Golden Gate Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M., Chagrin Falls Chapter, No. 152, and Oriental Commandery, No. 12, K. T. Mr. Stewart has been a resident of the town of Solon since 1880, and at present owns one of the finest farms in the township. Socially frank and genial, and carrying into his business life, energy and integrity, Mr. Stewart, although comparatively a young man, is recognized as a prominent citizen of the place. E. P. WILMOT, attorney at law, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is a native of this State, born at Mantua, Portage county, March 11, 1851. His father, Amzi Wilmot, was also born at Mantua, in the year 1823; he was a son of Ella and Lucretia (Blair) Wilmot, who emigrated to the western frontier from New England in 1810. The grandfather of our subject bore arms in the war of 1812, serving as captain of a company. Amzi Wilmot married Minerva S. Dudley, a native of New York and a member of one of the oldest families of the Empire State. He died in 1889, while she survived until only 18611 They were the parents of a family of four children: E. P., the subject of this biography; Addie S., one of the most successful teachers in the public schools of Youngstown; Carrie E. Spray, a resident of Mantua, Ohio, and Amelia M., who was for several years prominently known as a teacher of the Lima (Ohio) schools. The father was a farmer by occupation, and through many seasons tilled the soil that has been in the family over eighty years. Politically he gave his allegiance to the Republican party, and was a warm friend of the lamented James A. Garfield. Young Wilmot enjoyed sperior advantages to those which were afforded his father; the common-school system had been established, and he was also a student at Hiram, which had become a center of learning for the Western Reserve. Having determined pon the law as his vocation, he began' to, read in 1874 under the guidance of Judge Henry C. Raney; later he was associated with Judge Luther Day and Judge George F. Robinson. In 1876 he was 530 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY admitted to the bar. Years of experience and uninterrupted devotion to his profession have won a place in the front ranks of Cuyahoga county's leading lawyers. For nine years he served as Justice of the Peace and discharged the duties of that office with unswerving fidelity. Politically he adheres to the principles advocated by the Republican party. He is a member of Golden Gate Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M., and of Chagrin Falls Chapter, No.152, R. A. M. Mr. Wilmot was united in marriage in 1884 at Chagrin Falls to Emma J. Waterman, a native of the State of New York, and a daughter of John Waterman. They have one son, Virgil P. Mrs. Wilmot is an active member of the Methodist church. WILLIAM FREDERICK FIEDLER, Prosecuting Attorney of the City Police Court of Cleveland, Ohio, and one of the best known and most promising young members of the Cleveland bar, is a native of the Forest City, having been born in the old Sixth Ward on October 8, 1862. His father was Conrad F. Fiedler, who was one of the old and well-known citizens of Cleveland, he having during his life been an active man and for a number of years an official. He was a native of Wurtemberg, South Germany, where he was born in 1818. He finished his schooling and learned the trade of mason and was married before leaving the old country. In 1850 he arrived in the United States and came direct to Cleveland, where he continued to reside until his death in September, 1887. He was engaged extensively as a mason contractor for many years, and for a number of years was the city's Inspector of Sewers, Culverts and Pavements. During the cholera epidemic in this country his wife died, leaving two out of three children. The children. are: Mrs. Catherine Becker and Mrs. Annie Renner, both of Cleveland. In 1854 he was married to Mary Agnes Zipperlen, who was horn in Wurtemberg, Germany, and survives her husband. Five children were born by this union, three of whom died in infancy, leaving two sons, our subject and his elder brother, Conrad E., who is a citizen of Cleveland. The immediate subject of this sketch has always resided in Cleveland. He attended first the public schools of the city, passing through them all and graduating at the high school in 1882. He then took a post-graduate course in the Central high school in order to prepare himself for college, and in 1883 entered Adelbert College, and taking a classical course grad. uated with honor in 1887, standing fifth in a class of seventeen. One year was then spent in the office of F. C. Friend, in Cleveland, in preparation for the Cincinnati Law School, and in the fall of 1888 he entered that excellent institution, at which he graduated in 1889 with the degree of LL.B., and in the following June Adelbert College conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He then entered the practice of law in Cleveland. In 1890 Mr. Fiedler was an unsuccessful candidate for Councilman from the Seventeenth Ward of Cleveland on the Republican ticket, and in 1891 was one of the four candidates for the nomination before the Republican Convention for the office of Prosecuting Attorney for the City Police Court, and receiving the nomination was at the coming election chosen to that important position by a majority of over 1,500 votes; and so successfully did he discharge the duties of the office that in 1893 he was nominated without opposition and reelected by a majority of almost 3,000 votes. Mr. Fiedler has fulfilled the duties of his office in an able and conscientious mariner, winning the admiration of the court and bar, and has won lasting laurels as a public officer. As a lawyer he has for some time been recognized as one of the most brilliant and promising of the younger members of the Cleveland bar. In politics Mr. Fiedler is an. uncompromising Republican, yet at the same time is broad and liberal in his views, and his tolerance has CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 531 won him many friends even among the opposition. It is the opinion of his many warm friends that higher and more important official honors await Mr. Fiedler, and they expect to have the pleasure at no distant day of seeing him on the bench. He is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Tippecanoe Club. He was married on August 23, 1893, to Miss Clara K Woldmann, of Cleveland, who at that time was one of the efficient teachers in the Fowler public school, and who is the daughter of Professor Hermann Woldmann, one of the oldest and best known of Cleveland's educators, who is at present a professor at the Central high school. WASHINGTON IRVING POPE (better known as " I. W." Pope), corresponding secretary of the Cleveland Window-Shade Company, was born in Otsego county, New York, near Burlington Flats, September 14, 1834. His father, Lewis S. Pope, was a native of Fairfield county, Connecticut, and was a farmer in early life and later a shoemaker by trade. After his Marriage he located in Monroe township, Fairfield county, and about 1823 moved to Otsego county, New York, locating at Burlington Flats, where he engaged in farming. In 1835 he emigrated to Geauga county, Ohio, settling in Auburn township, on a farm;. in 1839 moved to Troy township, where he lived till 1869, when he changed his residence to Chagrin Falls, where he died, in 1875, a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Spiritualist, although in earlier life he was a " materialist." In politics he was at first a Democrat, then Whig, Free Soil-and Republican. For many years he was Justice of the Peace in the township of Troy, Geauga county. He was well known as a speculator in live stock, and was the first man in his vicinity to agitate the question of not pasturing cattle or other live stock at large in the public highway. While positive in his views and radical for re- forms, he was liberal, as any one is inclined to he who is well posted in the rights of man and in the doctrinal issues of the parties. Lewis Pope, grandfather of I. W. Pope, was also a native of the "Land of Steady Habits." The line comprises descendants of Thomas Pope, who emigrated from England in 1627, binding himself out for seven years' service in order to pay for his passage to America. He first settled in Massachusetts, and afterward in Connecticut, in both of which States he followed the vocation of an agriculturist. At his death he left an estate of £5,000. Lewis S. Pope married Miss Charry Smith, who also was a native of Connecticut, born and reared near Milford, New Haven county, and died in Chagrin Falls, at the age of eighty-eight. Her father, David Smith, a blacksmith by trade and of Scotch and Irish descent, is supposed also to have been a native of Connecticut. He participated in the Revolutionary war, and died in his ninety-third year. He had but one son, David Smith, Jr., who died in Chagrin Falls, in his eighty-seventh year; was an early settler of the Western Reserve and well known. In the family of Lewis S. Pope were four sons and four daughters, namely: Lines S., Lucy A. and Andrew D., all deceased; Cornelia T., widow of Miles Punderson and residing in Hiram, Portage county, this State; David L., a prominent and influential farmer of Troy township, Geauga county; Charry M., wife of H. M. Hervey, of North Madison, Lake county, Ohio; Mary J., widow of Charles Onderdonk, of the same place; and I. W., whose name heads this sketch. The last mentioned was one year old when his parents settled in Geauga county. He completed his school days by attending two terms at the Hiram Institute (since College). At the age of nineteen years he married and commenced housekeeping. A few years afterward he purchased his father's farm in Troy township, and followed agricultural pursuits there until the autumn of 1864, when he moved to Chagrin Falls. The next year he bought the Union Hotel property, and conducted hotel 34 532 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. business there about two years, when he bought the Eggleston House, now the Hotel. Irving, named in his honor, and remodeled and added to it. In 1868, in partnership with Messrs. Parker and Pratt, he bought an interest in the old Lower paper mill, then devoted to the manufacture of straw paper, with a thirty-four-inch machine, became the business manager and rebuilt the structure and added to its capacity, enabling the company also to manufacture manila and flour-sack paper. In 1869 or 1870 Mr. Pratt sold his interest to John .Bleasdale, and the firm name became Parker, Pope & Company; in 1871 Mr. Parker sold his interest, and the company's name became Pope & Bleasdale. This company increased the volume of production from 1,500 pounds a day to 5,000, and made paper bags. In the spring of 1875 Mr. Pope sold out to Mr. Bleasdale, who operated the mill until the following autumn, when he made an assignment to E. W. Force. Mr. Pope, being the principal creditor, organized a joint-stock company known as " The Chagrin Falls Paper Company," and they purchased the property. In the same year Mr. Pope, with partners, erected a large paper-mill at New Castle, Pennsylvania, of a capacity of about 8,000 pounds a day, and he had the superintendency of the mill, meanwhile having also the management of the old Chagrin Falls establishment. In 1879, in company with ten other men, he built the railroad from Chagrin Falls to Solon, he becoming chairman of the construction company. In 1880 the president, Mr. Reid, And General Manager Waddell of the railroad company undertook to take possession of the road without fulfilling their contract, when Mr. Pope discovered the movement an'd " threw himself into the breach," taking possession of the locomotive and control of the engineer and holding the train until his associates and other trustworthy men came to his assistance; and the train was put upon its regular run. President Reid and Manager Waddell were ejected until they should pay their fare; an appeal was taken to the courts by the presi- dent, and after some months Mr. Pope purchased the stock of the original railroad company and its bonds for himself and associates, and was elected president.: He had the property sold at public auction, and in the interest of himself and associates purchased' it, they having organized the Chagrin Falls and Southern Railroad Company. Mr. Pope was president until 1885. His business enterprises were generally successful; but the mill at New Castle was burned. in the fall of 1883 with all its contents, with but little insurance. At the close of the year it was found that the business at Chagrin Falls was unsuccessful, and Mr. Pope placed his entire property in the hands of a committee of three of his creditors for the protection of those who had befriended him and the Chagrin Falls Paper Company. This was done during the first part of January, 1884. After being thrown out of business Mr. Pope started out on the road for the Cleveland Window-Shade Company, well knowing that the lack of employment would injure the usefulness of any man. In July of the same year he met the president of the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad Company, who made him an offer to handle their securities in the markets, which was accepted, and he commenced operations in September. Associating himself with a number of gentlemen, he repaired to New York city to negotiate the securities, and within A year arranged for the sale of the entire railroad property, and it passed into other hands; but during this time he also secured the business of handling the property of two other roads,—one in Ohio and one in Virginia, effecting contracts between the presidents of the two companies and representatives of London capitalists. For that purpose he went to New York city to arrange for the construction of over 500 miles of track, the contracts amounting to about $13,500,000; but the contractors from London failed to carry out their agreements: after about two years' labor they failed for about $250,000. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 533 Although Mr. Pope's labors in this direction were lost, he was not idle, meanwhile finding other channels of work. In company with other gentlemen he purchased some real estate in East New York, platted, graded and sold it, settling up all matters within one year, thus furnishing him enough to support himself and family; but lie concluded that life would be pleasanter to be associated with his family again, and accordingly, in December, 1888, he returned to Cleveland, and has since been associated with his son, Lines Irving, in connection with the window-shade company. He, Lines Irving Pope, is now president and general manager, and also acting treasurer, of the company, and also of the Falls Hotel Company in conducting the Hotel Irving, where the subject of this sketch now makes his home. On one occasion he was employed by a company to go to Arizona and buy the petrified forest there, but, finding the title to the property imperfect, declined to make the purchase. As to his views on national questions Mr. Pope is a Republican. Early in life he was prominent in local politics. In 1860 he was elected Trustee of Troy township, Geauga county; about 1868 he was elected a member of the Council of Chagrin Falls; and in 1874 Mayor of the village of Chagrin Falls, in which office he served for four years. He was initiated into the order of Odd Fellows in 1855, in which he has passed all the chairs, as well as in the Encampment; has been a member of the Masonic order since 1865, in which lodge he has been Secretary; and he was a member of the order of Knights of Pythias for many years. He is a zealous and able advocate of the public-school system and of our form of government. As to the religions he is liberal in the widest sense. In psychological science he is a Spiritualist; is now filling the position of second vice-president and secretary of the Lake Brady Association of Spiritualists. Mr. Pope was married January 15, 1854, in Troy, Geauga county, to Miss Rebecca A. Whitcomb, a native of the same township, born September 9, 1827. Her father, Israel Whitcomb, a native of Massachusetts and of Scotch ancestry, came to Ohio about 1809, and was a blacksmith and farmer. Her mother, whose maiden name was Abigail Holman, was also a native of the Bay State, of English descent. Mrs. Pope is the seventh and youngest child in their family. Mr. and Mrs. Pope have a son and a daughter; Lines Irving, was born in Troy, above mentioned, September 12, 1856, graduated at Chagrin Falls high school, attended Buchtel College at Akron, this State, two and a half years, and has been manager of the Cleveland Window Shade Company from its first establishment, and is now its president and. treasurer. He came to Cleveland in 1880, where he still resides, a successful business man. He married Aurelia Douglass September 25, 1877, and has one daughter, Eleanor, born June 8, 1890. He is a member of the Masonic order, was a Councilman for the Thirty-seventh ward of Cleveland in 1890—'91; is a public-spirited man, and is now vice-chairman of the relief committee of the sixth district of this city. His sister, Gertrude A., was born in Chagrin Falls, April 3, 1870, and is now the wife of Ralph W. Hayes, city editor of the Joliet (Illinois) Republican. She is a graduate of Oberlin (Ohio) College, and was married October 27, 1892, and now has a son, born August 15, 1893, and named Everett Pope Hayes. REV. D. HENRY MULLER, D. D., the Presiding Elder of Cleveland District of the East Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. His ancestors generally have been members of this church. When a young man he left the city of Baltimore, began his ministerial work very early in life, served one year in the Baltimore Conference, and in the Wisconsin Conference for five years, being stationed at Oshkosh and Milwaukee. 534 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. For his ministerial work he was prepared at the theological school at. Evanston, Illinois, having previously graduated at an academy in the city of Baltimore. He came into the ministry with a liberal education and with a mind and character well suited to the calling, and to all this has been added a devout religious nature. In 1866 he was transferred to the Genesee Conference and was in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, for twelve years. From 1875 to 1877 he was pastor of Union Church in Covington, Kentucky. In 1879 he was transferred to the Erie Conference and served the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Erie for three years. In 1882 he was transferred to the East Ohio Conference, in which he preached five years, preaching at the Scovill Avenue and Central Churches in Cleveland. He was also located for four years at Canton, Ohio, where he preached in the First Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1891 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the East Ohio Conference and in this work he is still engaged, residing in Cleveland, Ohio. The Illinois Wesleyan University, in 1875, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 1893 the Mt. Union College conferred pon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. Great success has attended all his labors as a minister. He is a preacher of eloquence and learning, carries conviction and enkindles interest and enthusiasm. WILLIAM W. CALHOUN, whose name is well known in connection with the horticultural interests of Cuyahoga county, was born at Beaver Dam, Erie county, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1838. His parents, John C. and Polly (Conn) Calhoun, were natives of New York and Pennsylvania respectively; the father was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and followed this vocation all his life. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was discharged in Buffalo after that city had been burned. In 1844 he removed to Ohio, and there died at the age of eighty-two years; his wife is also deceased. They reared a family of nine children, seven of whom still survive. Our subject was engaged in gardening and huckstering in this county when there was a call for men to go to the front in defense of the Nation's flag. Responding to that call, he enlisted in Battery I, First Ohio Light Artillery. His first engagement was at Fredericksburg; later he was at the extreme right at Chancellorsville, where he loaded the .first piece fired there. He was transferred to the Twentieth from the Eleventh Army Corps, and was afterward in the siege of Chattanooga and the Atlanta campaign. He left Sherman before the famous march to the sea was begun, as he was in another wing of the army. When hostilities ceased he was at Dalton, Georgia; he was honorably discharged at Chattanooga in June, 1865, and soon afterward arrived home. He was twice wounded with bullets, but received a more serious injury "from a falling cannon. Battery I was said to be the only battery that dismounted their cannon in drill. This greatly pleased General Schurz, and he promised the battery a great honor. This honor later proved to be the privilege of firing the salute to President Lincoln when he viewed the troops of the army of the Potomac. Prior to the campaign of Gettysburg the troops were called out for inspection by General Schurz. No. 1 piece, weighing 1,240 pounds, was attended by W. W. Calhoun and Morris Porter. While holding the piece in a perpendicular position, waiting for the order to dismount, the cannon tipped and doubled Mr. Calhoun to the earth. He was then sent to the hospital at Frederick City, where he remained several days. The injury to his back which he then received is said by doctors to be the cause of locomotor ataxia, from which he now greatly suffers. After his return home he resumed his old occupation of gardening. Mr. Calhoun was married 'in, the autumn of 1866 to Miss Helen Bosley, who died in 1872, the mother of three children: Alice Myrta, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 535 Sterling Wallace and Louis Byron. His second union was to Julia Berghoff, a daughter of Nicholas and Ellen Berghoff: one child has been born of this marriage, Anna Ellen, who is still a student; Sterling W. and Louis B. are engaged as traveling 'salesmen; Alice has won an enviable reputation as a teacher. In politics Mr. Calhoun is an ardent Republican; he has been a member of the G. A. R., and was Colonel of the Ellsworth command; he was also Inspector General of the Union Veterans of Ohio and Indiana. He has an attractive home in East. Cleveland and lives for the comfort and happiness of his family, of whom he is justly proud. Mrs. Calhoun is the third of a family of five children: Anna, wife of John Hess; Josephine, deceased, was the wife of Nicholas Hess; Frances and George. The father is still living, at the age of seventy-six years; the mother died in 1865, aged thirty-three years. REV. ANTHONY HYNEK, pastor of the St. Weneeslas Catholic Church, Bohemian, on Arch street, in the city of Cleveland, was born in Seez, Bohemia, in 1839, the only child of Peter and Catherine Hynek, who died when he was a mere child. He pursued his school studies in the gymnasium at Komotan, Bohemia, for eight years, then at the University of Prague, and next studied theology in the Episcopal Seminary in Leitmertz, where he was ordained priest in 1865. For three years he was then assistant pastor or chaplain in Radonitz, and for an additional period of three years he held a similar position at Gartitz, and in 1871 came to America. For nearly a year after coming to this country he was an assistant priest in Allegheny City, of the Pittsburg diocese; then he came to Cleveland, where he organized and became pastor of the congregation (Bohemian) of St. Prokop (in Latin, Procopins). Purchasing four lots, 140 x 160 feet, he had the plan devised and executed for the church edifice. He prosecuted his work here with success until 1873, when he became pastor of the St. Wenceslas, which position he is now filling with acceptable fidelity. For the first two years in the last relation he remained also the pastor of St. Prokop's Church. For his present charge he has succeeded in building two very nice schoolhouses, with rooms sufficient to accommodate about 400 pupils, and he has also succeeded in building a hall and a parish home (parsonage). Besides, he has inaugurated eight benevolent societies and done much other work too tedious to describe in this connection. His congregation grew so large that in 1882 he had to divide it, organizing the congregation of St. Mary's of Our Lady of Lourdes, Bohemian, on Ham street, for which he bought six lots and erected a temporary church building. Also in 1883 he originated St. Adalbert Church, Bohemian, on Lincoln avenue, buying four lots, 178x 200, building and enlarging a few years later a temporary church edifice, which is also used for a school. Under his charge Mr. Hynek has 400 families. His old church is nicely furnished, having stained-glass Windows and frescoed walls, while outside the best improvements appear; but it was so small and far from the center of the parish that in 1886 he bought from 0. M. Stafford five lots on Broadway, for $10,250, and thereupon has now built a new house of worship, in Gothic style, which when completed will have cost about $80,000, and will be one of the largest and finest churches in the beautiful city of Cleveland; the architect is Mr. Van Deodde. This church has six bells, costing $2,400, the weight of the largest one being 7,000 pounds. The front of the building and the two towers are of stone; the other walls, of brick. The dimensions of the building are 90 x 175 feet; and the height of the principal tower is 228 feet. In 1890 was celebrated Father Hynek's silver jubilee of twenty five years of successful 536 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. priesthood. His congregation and associates made him donations of church ornaments, chalices, pictures, etc., the cost of all which probably reaching $1,500. A review of Father Hynek's work is of interest, and the success that he has achieved in building up the several congregations with which he has been connected as pastor and originator, marks him as one of the strongest organizers and enthusiastic workers as a pastor; and, being a man of a high order of education and a speaker of power and eloquence, his influence is perceptibly felt among his people, who have unlimited confidence in him, and repose in him great deference. DR. JONATHAN MACK VAN NORMAN, 289 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, dates his birth in Canada, September 1, 1823. His parents were Isaac and Catherine Van Norman, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Isaac Van Norman was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was by occupation a farmer and millwright, and was a man of more than ordinary genius. He was in his ninety-third year at the time of his death. His wife lived to be seventy. She was a remarkably sweet singer, and her life, like that of her worthy husband, was adorned with rare Christian graces. They had ten children, Jonathan M. being the ninth born. Out of this family of four sons and six daughters, only the Doctor and three sisters remain. They are as follows: Betsey, wife of Ira. Bullock, Ingersoll, Canada; Sarah Ann, widow of C. M. Luke, Toronto, Canada; and Jar e Mack, widow of A. D. Emory, Burlington, Ontario. Dr. Jonathan M. Van Norman received his classical education in Victoria Colleges at Coburg, but graduated in medicine at McGill University, Montreal in 1850. Immediately after his graduation he began the practice of his profession at Burlington, Ontario. He spent about one year there, then about two years in Hamilton, Ontario, and from there removed to De troit, Michigan, where he remained for twenty-nine years, meeting with eminent success. At the end of this time overwork and ill health compelled him to seek a change of location, and he spent one year among friends in Hamilton, Ontario. October 19, 1889, he took up his abode in Cleveland, with his nephew, Dr. U. B. Van Norman, and here he has since remained, not, however, in active practice. While a resident of Canada, the Doctor was commissioned Coroner of the counties of Wentworth and Halton, in which capacity he served seven years, resigning when he came to the United States. This was a life appointment, was made by the Crown, and was unsought and unexpected by him. Dr. Van Norman was married in the spring of 1850 to Miss Sarah Eliza Emory, daughter of A. D. Emory. She died April 11, 1891, aged sixty-one years, and without issue. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and hers was a beautiful Christian character. The Doctor is also a member of this church, and both he and his nephew are earnest temperance workers. The elder Doctor has since its organization occupied the position of Grand Secretary of the Ohio jurisdiction, Royal Templars of Temperance, and is also Associate Spreme Medical Examiner for the Royal Templars of the United States. While he takes pleasure in administering to the temporal wants of the sick, his greatest delight is in administering to their spiritual wants, and much of his time is spent in talking, singing and praying with the sick and afflicted. OTIS HARRISON GOULD, one of the prominent pioneers of Cuyahoga county, is a native of New England, born in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, November 15, 1815. His father, Daniel Gould, was born in the same place, November 11, 1780; he was a carpenter and tanner by trade. In 1817 he emigrated to Delaware county, Ohio, and two years later removed to Sum- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 537 mit county, Ohio, where he resided three years, working at his trade. In December, 1825, he came to Cuyahoga county and took up his abode in a log house on land in Bedford township. In January, 1826, he brought his family to the present site of the village of Bedford, and there erected the second frame house in the settlement. Here he remained the rest of his life, which ended after eighty-four years. He was a member of the Disciple Church, and was a deacon of that society. He was a member of the Whig, Free Soil and Republican parties successively, and served as township trustee and as school director; he was the first mayor of the village of Bedford. He married Mary Snell, a native of Massachusetts and a daughter of Isaiah. Snell, who was also born in Massachusetts of English lineage. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Daniel Gould, Sr., a native of Massachusetts and a descendant of English ancestors; he lived to the age of eighty-six years. Mary Snell Gould died at the age of seventy-eight years. Otis Harrison Gould is the eldest of a family of five children: Laura S. Remington died November 14, 1893; her husband Stephen G. Remington, was prominently and favorably know as one of the early educators of this county; he died July 2, 1890; Orris P. was born in 1819; Dr. Charles L. was born in 1825 and died in 1861; Ralph E., born in 1828, died in 1835. Otis II. was an infant of two years when his parents came to Ohio. He received his education in the log schoolhouse with its primitive furnishings and yet more primitive instruction. When he had grown to manhood he began to learn the carpenter's trade, and incidentally chopped a good deal of cordwood, and assisted in the erection of sawmills in different localities. In 1842 Mr. Gould went to Steuben county, Indiana, and remained there three years during which time he served as minister in the Disciple Church. Upon his return to Bedford township lie purchased the farm-on which he still lives, having disposed of a tract of 160 acres, which he had previously bought. He was first married at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1867, this union being to Elizabeth Prestage, who bore three children, all of whom died in infancy. The mother is also deceased. Mr Gould was married a second time, July 25, 1871, to Margaret Whiteside, who was born in county Monaghan, Ireland, October 29, 1847. She came to this country with some relatives in 1867. Her parents are Michael and -Nellie Whiteside, natives of Ireland ; they crossed the sea to the United States of America in 1881, and settled on an improved farm; the father died at the age of eighty-four years; the mother survives at the age of seventy-eight. Mr. and Mrs. Gould have a family of six children: Mamie E., born May 26, 1872, is a graduate of Hiram College; Charles J., born October 1, 1873, is a student in the Western Reserve University in Cleveland; Annie L., born May 8, 1875, is a student in Hiram College; D. Lewis was born November 18, 1878; Hattie B. was born January 5, 1881; and O. Edward, born January 6, 1885. Politically Mr. Gould acts with the Republican party, and has represented that body in several local offices, discharging his duties with ability and fidelity. He and his wife belong to the Disciple Church, in which they are untiring workers. CHARLES YARHAM, Middleburg township, was born in Norfolk county, England, November 12, 1820, a son of William and Mary (Williamson) Yarham. When he was thirteen years old he came with his parents to Canada, where they died. In 1843 lie removed to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and settled in Rockport township, where he lived two years, in 1845 removing to the farm in Middleburg township, where he has since lived. This farm comprises fifty-eight acres, and he has added to its value by improvements. He was married in Canada, May 31, 1842, to Miss Jane Tudhope, who was born in Lanark- 588 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. shire, Scotland, June 11, 1820. She came to Canada with her father and the family, the mother having died in Scotland. Her father, William Tudhope, died in Canada; her mother was Agnes Cadso. Mr. and Mrs. Yarham are the parents of two sons: William J., the eldest, was a member of the sixty-fifth Ohio Light Infantry, and was a prisoner of war confined in Libby prison, where he contracted small-pox and was taken to the hospital at Danville, North Carolina, where he died, in January, 1863; Walter, the second son, was a soldier in the army—a sharpshooter—and was shot at the capture of the Weldon Railroad, in Virginia, in August, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Yarham have one adopted daughter, Bessie J. Yarham. Mr. Yarham filled some of the minor offices of the township in an early day, and was School Director for sixteen years. LEVERETT H. JOHNSON, a worthy citizen of Dover township, Cuyahoga county, is the son of Hon. Leverett Johnson, who was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, July 17, 1797; and his wife, nee Abigail Cahoon, was a native of Vergennes, Vermont, born May 6, 1796. They arrived in Cuyahoga county in October, 1810, and were married in Dover township, where they passed the remainder of their lives. They had reared nine children, of whom the subject of this brief sketch was the seventh. He was born September 17, 1827, in Dover township, where he has always resided. November 14, 1852, he married Miss Marietta Reed, who was born in Conneaut, Ashta- bula county, this State, December 15, 1835, a daughter of Benjamin and Maria (Patterson) Reed. They had seven children who grew p, of whom Mrs. Johnson was the eldest. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have had five children, two of whom died in childhood. Mr. Johnson has been a Notary Public since 1872, was Justice of the Peace twelve years, and has held all the township offices with the exception of Treasurer. He has always taken an active part in the public welfare, taking a zealous interest in the cause of the Republican party ever since its organization. He and his wife have taken an active and efficient part in religious work, and for many years, Mr. Johnson has been a Deacon of the church. FRED MORWICK, a passenger conductor on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, and an efficient and faithful employee, began braking for the company in 1869. Within three years he was put pon a stone train as conductor, and in time reached higher grades of service, by degrees, being given, in 1887, a passenger run. Mr. Morwick was born in Cleveland, February 27, 1850, attended public school, St. Mary's Catholic School and the Cleveland Institute, under Professor Humiston. Then he was clerk for R. M. N. Taylor in his grocery house, next was two years with William H. Sholl in the beef and pork packing business, and then commenced railroading as brakeman on the Lake Shore road about two years, starting in 1867. In 1869 he commenced for the Big Four Company as brakeman, and later worked up to be freight conductor, which position he had from 1873 to 1888, since which time he has been passenger conductor for the same company. He is a member, and has been secretary, of the Order of Railway Conductors, Cleveland Division. During the war he was employed by the Government about three months, but not as an enlisted man, in taking care of stock. He was married April 13,. 1874, to Miss Lottie Geiger, daughter of Michael Geiger, of Cleveland, and Mr. and Mrs. Morwick have two children,—Jennie L. and Freddie T. Both the parents are members of the Catholic Church. John Morwick, father of the subject of this sketch, came from Ontario to Cleveland in 1849, and was employed as a laborer in the construc- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 539 tion of the Cleveland, Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad, and died here, February 27, 1888 (subject's birthday), aged sixty-nine years. He was married in Germany, his native land, and had one child, Theodore; and was married a second time, in Austria, by which marriage there were five children: Fred, the subject of this sketch; Mary, who married George Roth; Kate, wife of Matthew Darmstadt; Amelia, now Mrs. Sherer; and Jane, who became Mrs. John Smith, of Detroit. The mother of these children is still living, aged seventy-two, and is an honored resident of Cleveland. GEORGE C. JULIER.---Prominent among the successful and representative business men of Cleveland is Mr. G. C. Julier, proprietor of the Excelsior Bread, Cake and Cracker Works at Nos. 861-869 Wilson avenue. Mr. Julier served an apprenticeship at the baker's trade, and came to Cleveland in 1860 to follow the same. He was a first-class baker and readily found employment at remunerative wages. He worked for different firms until 1879, when, having a limited capital only, but being ambitious, he founded his present business. He first located in a small building on Euclid avenue, near Wilson, and began by doing all his own baking. His goods were his advertisement, and his business improved from the very first, and in a few years had outgrown the accommodations of his small establishment. In 1883 he was able to erect a building of his own, and the present handsome and spacious structure on Wilson avenue was completed. This building is of brick, two stories in height, with a frontage of 120 feet and a depth of 220 feet. The plant is equipped with the latest and most modern 'improved machinery, ovens and appliances, and the establishment is one of the largest in the West and a pride to Cleveland. One hundred and twenty-five car loads of flour .are consumed annually by the works, seventy-five people, of both sexes, are employed, and twenty delivery wagons are required for the city trade. Mr. Julier personally superintends all the operations of his works, and uses only the finest grades of flour and materials, and hence the secret of his remarkable success. The principal products are bread, rolls, Vienna bread, cakes, crackers, biscuits, ginger snaps, etc., and his goods are standard in the market for quality, purity and uniform excellence. Mr. Julier is a live, wide-awake and progressive citizen. He takes an active interest in public affairs, and is an ardent member of the Republican party. He is and has been for some time an active member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is kind and courteous to all alike, and is charitable alike to individuals and institutions. Considering the brief time that has elapsed since Mr. Julier was an employee, his success has been remarkable, and shows that he is possessed of more than average business talents and judgment and executive ability. In 1879 lie began business on a very limited scale with less than $200 capital: to-day he is at the head of the largest establishment of its kind in a city of over 300,000 people, and all this has been accomplished by his own efforts, unaided by outside influences. Truly, he is a self-made man, and his family and friends have just cause to be proud of his career. MRS. CAROLINE BROWN, relict of the late Peter Brown, is a well-known and popular resident of West Cleve- land, where she now holds a conspicuous preferment as matron of that noble institution for the care of the aged infirm, namely, the Altenheim. Mrs. Brown is of German nativity, as was also her husband, and both were descendants of prominent and influential families. The parents of our subject were Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Mayer, and she was one of their six children, 540 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. the date of her birth being January 14, 1835. Daniel Mayer emigrated with his family to America when the subject of this sketch was thirty years of age, and they settled in Cleveland, where the father was actively engaged in the coopering business for a number of years. He died in 1863 and the demise of his widow occurred six years later. The late Peter Brown was born in Germany, November 28, 1829, and came to the United States when he was eighteen years of age. He was a shoemaker by trade and followed that line of business successfully for a number of years in West Cleveland, attaining a marked popularity, in the community and accumulating a very considerable property. He was married to Caroline Mayer in 1852 and they became the parents of: twelve children, only four of whom are living at the present time, namely: Paul, John, Peter and William. Mr. Brown was a Republican and took quite an active interest in the political issues of the day. He was a member and zealous spporter of the First Reformed Church, on Penn street, with which Mrs. Brown is devotedly identified. He died November 28, 1873, deeply regretted by a large circle of ap preciative friends. Mrs. Brown is a woman of education and refinement, having received her educational training in Germany, whose schools are celebrated for their thorough discipline and advanced standards. August 21, 1893, our subject accepted the position as matron of the Altenheim, of West Cleveland, taking the appointment more for the love of being of service to the afflicted and infirm than for the incidental pecuniary returns. She is a most capable nurse, having had a practical experience of nineteen years, and her particular fitness for the position she holds was thoroughly realized by those through whom came the preferment. Her unswerving and kindly devotion to those under her care has gained her the love of all thus ministered to, while the Officials of the institution may well felicitate themselves upon having secured so excellent an incumbent. A woman of wide sympathies and true nobleness of character, Mrs. Brown stands ever ready to extend a helping hand to those in affliction, and her name will ever be held in grateful memory by many who have been the recipients of her unostentatious aid and sympathy. FREDERICK GROBE, one of the leading market gardeners of Cuyahoga county, is a native of Germany, born in 1837. His parents, John and Mary (Smith) Grobe, were also natives of the " Fatherland," but both are now deceased. They reared a family of five children, two of whom survive—Hanna, the wife of Frank Miller, and the subject of this notice. At the age of twenty-four years Mr. Grobe was united in marriage to Miss Henrietta Hartwig, the daughter of Fred Hartwig, deceased; the mother Of Mrs. Grobe lived to the advanced age of eighty years. In the spring of 1861 Mr. Grobe emigrated to the United States, and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. The first two years he was engaged in market gardening, and the next two years he was employed in a brick-yard. By that time he had accumulated sufficient means to start an independent business, and he accordingly rented a piece of land, which he cultivated thirteen years. He then bought a tract of six acres, to which he added five acres, both places being well improved with substantial buildings; the sum of $6,000 was considered an exorbitant price for the first tract, but the results have quite justified the outlay. He makes a specialty of berry culture, producing some of the finest varieties grown in this latitude; he also raises early vegetables, which command a ready sale in Cleveland. His success in life is due solely to his own untiring efforts, his industry and strict integrity. Mr. and Mrs. Grobe are the parents of four children: Minnie, a member of her father's household; Mary,' the wife of James Battles, whose history will be found elsewhere in this CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 541 volume; Charles Christopher, who died April 21, 1889, was a most promising young man, greatly beloved and admired by a wide circle of friends: the date of his birth was February 8, 1865; Katie, born February 22, 1870, died January 8, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Grobe are consistent and zealous members of the Lutheran Church. Although a loyal son of his adopted country, our subject takes little interest in politics, but casts his suffrage with the Republican party. Mrs. Grobe is one of a family of seven children: John Hartwig and Hannah Stratman, the widow of William Stratman, reside in this country; Sophia, Caroline, Dorothea and Wilhelmina are all married, and have remained in their native land. The voyage of our subject and family to America was attended with many privations, and when they arrived their funds were almost exhausted. During two winters Mr. Grobe cut cord-wood at forty cents a cord, and was glad of the opportunity. His years of patient toil have been rewarded, and he is now in the possession of a competence for his declining years. Christopher Grobe, brother of Frederick Grobe, was a soldier in the late civil war, a member of the Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; he served until his death, which occurred at Chattanooga, at the age of eighteen years. F. B. McCONNER, one of the most worthy citizens of Bedford township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born in Goshen, Columbiana county, this State, April 10, 1836, son of Samuel and Clarissa (Wright) McConner, natives of New Jersey and Pennsylvania respectively. The father emigrated to Ohio in 1806 and settled in Salem, Columbiana county, and was one of the sturdy pioneers who paved the way for the onward march of civilization. The paternal grandfather of our subject was John McConner, also a native of New Jersey. It was in 1840 that the family moved to Bedford and settled on a farm, where the father and mother passed the rest of their days. The former survived to the age of eighty-four years, and the latter to the age of seventy-six. There were eleven children in the family, namely: Mareba, Esther, Hannah, Susan, William, Mary, Tarrson, Matilda, Eliza, John and F. B. Mr. McConner affiliated with the Democratic party in his younger days, but during the last twelve years was independent in politics. . His religious convictions were those of the Agnostic, and at the same time he was liberal and tolerant toward all whose views differed from his. F. B. McConner was reared to the life of a farmer and attended the common schools of the neighborhood. Arriving at years of maturity, he continued the occupation to which he was inclined in his youth. He owns an excellent tract of land, three miles from the village of Bedford, where he settled with his parents in 1840, which land is well improved with substantial buildings' and all the necessary machinery for carrying on agriculture by the most approved methods. For seven years Mr. McConner was traveling salesman for an agricultural implement firm, his familiarity with the demands of the trade assuring his success. He is a member of the Farmers' Club and was an active worker in the Grange for ten years. He was Master of the subordinate grange to which he belonged, and also Deputy State Master for Cuyahoga county. He has always been interested in the education of the young: served the greater part of his life as member of the Board of Education, and was several times elected Township Assessor. At the age of twenty-six years our subject married Mary E. Trowbridge, who was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, daughter of S. D. and Mehitable (Garfield) Trowbridge. Mrs. Trowbridge is a sister of the lamented James A. Garfield. Mr. and Mrs. McConner have had a family of five children, viz.: Maude, who died at the age of two years; M. G., who died at the age of twenty-two years; Mary Mehitable; 542 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY Clarissa, who died at the age of eight years; and Harriet Estelle. M. G. was a popular teacher, following that occupation dur ng the winter and in the summer being employed as ticket agent for the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company. Capable and honest, and always rendering satisfaction to is employers, he gave promise of much more Alan an ordinary future. JOSEPH A. DAY, an honored resi lent of Euclid township, was born April 11, 1843, in Collinwood, on the place he now occupies. His grandfather, Benjamin Day, was born in New Jersey, and moved to Van Buren, Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he followed agricultural pursuits and in connection ran a small distillery. In June, 1811, he came to Cuyahoga county, in advance of his family, and took 300 acres of land from the Connecticut Land Company. He also took a lot at the corner of Seneca and Superior streets, in Cleveland, when there were only three houses in the place. The latter he sold, to aid in payment for the 300-acre purchase. He then bad no thought of the great future of Cleveland, as the lake usually kept the sand drifted into the mouth of the river to so great an extent that no harbor facilities could reasonably be hoped for. It is related that he, in company with William Hale and Thomas D. Crosley, hearing on September 10, 1813, a noise as of the firing of heavy guns, went to the lake and heard the roar of the famous battle of Lake Erie, where Perry, with an almost insignificant force, drove the enemy, formidable in numbers and equipment, from the field. Considering the forces brought into action, it seemed beforehand to be a certainty that the British would be victorious, in which case the settlers in Cuyahoga county would leave their new homes. A year later Mr. Benjamin Day brought his family from Pennsylvania. The first year his tax on the 300 acres was $1.20, and he often re- marked in later years that it cost him a greater effort to raise that amount than any tax he ever paid. This he raised by reducing the forest to black salts, this being the only product that would command cash, and he had to market it at Buffalo. At an early day he built a small sawmill on his place, the iron for which he hauled with an ox team from Pittsburg. He walked all the way from Pennsylvania, carrying upon his back the grafts for the first orchard planted in this section. One variety is now known as the " Day Harvest." The fruit from this orchard he used to sell at Cleveland, by the dozen. He married Nancy Andrews, a native of Washington, county, Pennsylvania, and they had three sons and four daughters, namely: Robert, Hiram, Floris, Phoebe, Catherine, Margaret and Delilah. Phoebe married first a Mr. Hanna and-secondly a man named Wier; Margaret died when a young woman; Delilah married first Samuel Cunningham, of Wayne county, and secondly I). C. McFarland, of the same county, and is now a widow living in Cleveland; Catherine married Hiram Mcllrath; Hiram, the father of our subject and the only son of Benjamin Day now living, is now residing on the old homestead. September 5, 1861, Mr. Joseph A. Day, whose .name heads this sketch, enlisted in Battery B, First Ohio Artillery, and served until November 14, 1864. This battery fired the first Union gun in Kentucky, at Wildcat mountain, and then at Mill Springs, where Zollicoffer was killed. It was afterward taken on to Nashville, Stone river, and Cripple creek, where Mr. Day was taken sick, and he returned to Nashville. Subsequently he rejoined his battery at Louisville, and, going out against Bragg, engaged in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, Bridgeport, Alabama, etc. Returning to Nashville he was mustered out of service, after having been three years and two months in the war. He was never wounded. He was discharged November 14, 1864, as above stated, at Nashville, and returned home. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 543 He was married in December, 1866, to Elizabeth Watterman, at Napoleon, Jackson county, Michigan. Their children are Ida, Catherine, Nellie, Hiram, Lizzie and Ethel. Mr. Day was a farmer until about twelve years ago, since which time he has been a postal clerk. He is a Republican, and, with his wife and three eldest daughters, is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He owns thirty-three and one-half acres of the old home- stead, good farm land, besides eight and one-half acres which he has to show for his. war record, as he saved his earnings instead of spending them foolishly. GEORGE WESTON, one of the well-known citizens of Dover township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a man whose honorable and upright life entitles him to biographical mention among the representative men of his community. Mr. Weston's father, Asa Weston, was born in Pittsfield, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, July 27,, 1793, and his mother, nee Thankful Robbins, also a native of that county, was born October 15, 1797; they were married in Massachusetts, January 7, 1817. In February of the same year of their marriage, Asa Weston and his wife started for Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where' they landed after twenty days of travel over bad roads and with horse teams. He purchased a tract of land in Euclid township, pon which he settled and where he resided for a number of years. There his wife died October 21, 1852. 'In 1855 he removed to Dover -township, where he remained for several years. The last year of his life was spent with his daughter in Sheffield, Lorain county, Ohio, where he died in 1878, after he had passed his eighty-fifth milestone. He and his good wife were the parents of seven children, namely: Elvira, George, Mary Ann, Harriet, Celia, Thomas G. and Asa M. George Weston, the oldest son in the above named family, was born in Euclid township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, October 8, 1819, and there he was reared to manhood. He lived on the farm with .his father until he reached his twenty-fourth year. Then he went to Medina county, Ohio, and rented a farm, which he operated for seven years. In the meantime he purchased a tract of wild land in that county, which he subsequently developed into a fine farm. He resided in Medina county until 1855, when lie removed to Dover township, Cuyahoga county, and here he has since made his home, he being the owner of a hundred acres of well improved land in this township, on which his three sons are settled, prospering in the culture of small fruit. While living in Medina county, Mr. Weston was married, January 1, 1846, to Miss Rhoda Allis, of Chatham, that county, who was born in Plainfield, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, September 28, 1822. Her father, Lemuel Allis, was born in Massachusetts, July 9, 1784; and her mother, nee Rhoda Burroughs, in the same State, November 6, 1783. The latter died in Plainfield, Massachusetts. Her father cane to Ohio and settled in Chatham, Medina county, about 1832, where he died October 20, 1855. Mrs. Weston was the third of their four children. Mr. and Mrs. Weston have had five children, viz.: Asa L., who married Almira Need, of Medina county, for his first wife, and after her death wedded Ida Fields; Inizetta, who died at the age of two years; Arthur E., who married Clara Brown; George, who died in infancy; and Frank A., who married Ina Allis. Mr. and Mrs. Weston and family are members of the Congregational Church, and zealous for temperance. HENRY S. FULLER, of Middleburg township, was born in Strongsville, this county, August 28, 1832. His father was the late Samuel Fuller, who came from Vermont in an early day, about 1829. His mother was Lorinda Doty, also of the Green Mountain State. They settled in Strongsville 544 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. township, but afterward removed to Middleburg township, where they died, he in 1S34 and she at the age of fifty-eight years. They had two children, George D. and Henry S. George D. removed to Huron county, Ohio, and engaged in farming, and died there in April, 1893, at the age of sixty-two years, a much respected and prosperous farmer. Henry S. Fuller was reared in Middleburg township, where he has always resided. He was married in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859, to Electa D. Fairbanks, a native of Chautauqua county, New York, who died in Middleburg, April 3, 1881. They had three children: Charlie, who died in April, 1881, when twenty-one years old; Rinda, wife of F. M. Hauserman; and Henry L., who married Gertie Scrivens, daughter of Edwin Scrivens, of Middleburg township. The respect and confidence which Mr. Fuller commands in his community is evinced by his election to the office, which he now holds, of Trustee of the township. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he serves as an Elder. He has always been engaged in farming, thus belonging to a class which in our country is highly honored, and is constantly sending forth throughout the land strong and noble sons to be its preachers, statesmen and leaders in commerce. ALBERT E. AKINS was born in Royal- ton township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, March 1, 1847, one of a family of nine children, seven of whom are living. His parents, Henry and Mercy M. (Wilkinson) Akins, were among the pioneers of Cuyahoga county, and are worthy a place in history as such. Henry Akins was born in Connecticut in 1814, a son of John Akins. When he was a child of six years his father emigrated to the West and settled in Euclid township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio; here he grew to manhood and in his youth learned the trade of a ship-carpenter, which occupation he followed for a number of years. In later life he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits in Royalton township, and became a very successful farmer. He was a man of broad, progressive spirit, and took a deep interest in local politics and all measures pertaining to the public welfare. He was a zealous supporter of the issues of the Abolition party, and when the Republican party was organized gave it his allegiance. He would gladly have gone to the front in battle when the great Civil war broke out, but advancing years forbade. His two older sons were fired with the same patriotism that moulded the sentiments of the father, and enlisted in defence of the Union. Mr. Akins lived to the age of sixty-three years, his death occurring in 1877. His wife survives him, one of the oldest inhabitants of the county. She was born in the State of New York in 1818, and was brought in her childhood to Ohio, her parents settling in Huron, Erie county. Mr. and Mrs. Akins united in early life with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and consistently ordered their ways according to the precepts of that church. Albert E. Akins was reared to the occupation of a farmer. He was a youth of fifteen when his two older brothers forsook husbandry for the battle-field, adding to' the responsibilities which he had already assumed in the management of the farm. These were trying years when warfare absorbed every thought of men, and education became of secondary importance. During this period young Akins had few opportunities of fitting himself for that individual battle which every man must fight with his own weapons, but after peace had been declared he entered Baldwin University at Berea, where he pursued a course that enabled him to engage in teaching. For eighteen years he held a leading place among the successful educators of his county, withdrawing from the profession in the fall of 1880. It was at this time that he accepted a position in the County Treasurer's office as deputy, a position he filled nine years. At the end of this period the Republican party nominated CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 545 him for County Auditor, and September, 1890, saw him in charge of this office. He discharged his duties with marked ability and strict fidelity, assuring his unanimous second. nomination; this was a year of defeat to the Republican party, and Mr. Akins was one of the victims, although he ran ahead of his party 1,000 votes. He is an active Republican and believes that it is the duty of every citizen to take part in political affairs, being the present president of the Tippecanoe Club, one of the most active political organizations in the State. He is a, member of the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias. In 1871 he was united in marriage to Miss Linnie D. Meacham, of Strongsville, Ohio. There have been born to them two children, both of whom are deceased. ORLIN T. BATTLES, a prominent farmer and fruit grower of Euclid township, was born in Mayfield township, this county, February 1, 1848, the eldest child of E. D. and Harriet (Brainerd) Battles. He was brought up in his native township, attended Oberlin College and obtained a good business education. He was first married in East Cleveland town ship, to Fernandes Stone, a native of this county, who died October 17, 1872. For his second wife Mr. Battles married Sabra Covert, in 1875, in Mayfield township. She is a daughter of George and Margaret (McDowell) Covert, her father a 'native of the same township, to which place his father had, come as early as 1806. Mrs. Battles was born in this township, June 17, 1853. The year 1877 Mr. Battles was engaged in the milk business in Cleveland, and the next year located upon the farm where he now resides, comprising 100 acres with good improvements. The present buildings were all erected by him, and here he conducts a good farm with system and industry, and is accordingly prospering. He has six children, viz.: Charles E., who is now preparing for college; Melvin L., also attending school; Luella M., Orlin T., Lottie W. and Francis M. Mr. Battles, a strong Republican, has held several township offices: was president of the School Board in 1888—'89. He is a member of Erie Lodge, No. 124, K. of P., and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. All the foregoing facts, taken together, indicate that Mr. Battles is a prosperous farmer and a good citizen. ERNST J. SILLER, one of the well-known and representative citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, is the treasurer of the Weideman Company, one of the leading wholesale grocery and liquor houses in the State of Ohio. He is a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, born in 1847, and was educated in the Fatherland, attending school until he was fourteen years of age. He then entered a mercantile establishment as clerk, where he remained until 1866, when he emigrated to the United States. Landing in New York city in July, he continued his journey to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where he had relatives. Here he secured a position as clerk in a grocery store in New Philadelphia, where he remained eighteen months. On the first day of the year 1868 he came to Cleveland and took the position of porter with the Weideman Company, which was then known by the firm name of Weideman, Teid man & Kent; within six months' time he had advanced to an office position, and after a few months his ability was acknowledged and his industry rewarded by promotion to the place of bookkeeper and cashier to the firm. He continued with the house under its various names and different managements until January 1, 1874, when he was admitted a member of the firm then known as Weideman, Kent & Company. As the copartnerships were renewed from time to time he increased his interest in the business, and in 546 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 1886, when Messrs. Kent and Hasbrook withdrew, Mr. Weideman, Jr., J. C. Weideman, Christian Narten and Mr. Siller became the sole owners. In 1889 the firm was incorporated as The Weideman Company. In reviewing the life of this adopted son of our Nation, one cannot fail to be impressed with the fact that industry, energy and perseverance claim their reward. Coming to this country without means or friends, he grappled manfully with the obstacles that presented themselves to him, and raised himself to his present enviable position unaided, owing no fealty to any man, a debtor only to his own unflinching courage and steadfastness of purpose. SAMUEL W. BURROWS, a hardware merchant at No. 1222 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, was born in Deposit, Dela Cleveland, was born in Deposit, Delaware county, New York, in 1840. His father, Palmer L. Burrows, was born in that town in 1812, and is still engaged in farming in Delaware county. He was Captain of a militia company in New York, which was called out to quell the disturbance arising from rent collections in that State in the '30s. He was also elected Captain of the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Regiment, of New York Volunteer Infantry during the late war, but after eight months of service was injured by jumping a ditch, and was discharged. Since that time he has been engaged at his farm duties. Mr. Burrows' father, Penis Burrows, was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war, as was also his grandfather. The latter was killed at the battle of Stonington, Connecticut, and his name appears on the monument at that place, which contains the names of the heroes who fell at that battle. Penis Burrows' father was a farmer of Connecticut. The mother of our subject, nee Sophronia Shaw, is a daughter of Ansel Shaw, a native of Bennington, Vermont. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, afterward resided at Deihl, New York, and his death occurred at the age of eighty-six years. Ansel Shaw married Lavina Phillips, a daughter of General Phillips, of Revolutionary fame. He was a descendant of Baron Steuben, after whom Steuben county, New York, is named. Palmer Burrows, father of our subject, was one of ten children, all of whom grew to mature years, and eight lived to raise families. Palmer L. and Sophronia Burrows had six children: Charlotte L., wife of John Sumner, of Arrat, Pennsylvania; Samuel W., our subject; Lymus P.; Oceanna A., wife of Earl Smith, of Deposit, New York; James F., a resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Orin P., of Washington. Mrs. Burrows is still living. Samuel W., the subject of this sketch, attended the public schools of his native place, and afterward entered the Deposit Seminary. While there the Civil war burst upon the country. July 9, 1861, at Elmira, he entered the Twenty-seventh New York Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Slocum. The regiment was immediately sent to Washington, District of Columbia, and on the 21st of the same month took part in the battle of Bull Run. Mr. Burrows' first heroic adventure in that engagement was the saving of the life of Henry 0. Wheeler, a former schoolmate and friend, who enlisted at the same time as our subject. He carried the wounded man some distance, when he discovered an artillery horse tied to a rail. Placing the wounded man on the horse, they embarked for Washington, arriving at that city at seven o'clock on the following morning, and thirty years afterward they held a reunion at the old homestead at Deposit. It is needless to say that Mr. Wheeler has ever kept a warm place in his heart for the memory of his old comrade, who came to his rescue-on that terrible battle-field. The regiment returned to Washington, where they were drilled until the winter of 1862, and the army was then reorganized by General McClellan. February 22, of that year, they moved to Manassas Junction. While in McClellan's army, Mr. Burrows took part in the battles of Yorktown, Gaines' Mills, Charles City Cross CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 547 Roads and Malvern Hill; under General Burnside, was in the battle of Fredericksburg; under General Pope, the second battle of Bull Run; again under McClellan, the battles of Compton Pass and Antietam; under General Hooker, Chancellorsville. Mr. Burrows was honorably discharged in July, 1863. After returning home he assisted in raising a company of cavalry, afterward known as Company H, First Veteran New York Cavalry, under Colonel J. F. Taylor. They were mustered into service in September, 1863, and were stationed in the Shenandoah valley, under Generals Sigel, Hunter and Sheridan. As a cavalryman, Mr. Burrows took part in the batles of New Market, Cedar Creek and Piedmont. He was taken prisoner at the latter place, and during his eight months of confinement was in the following prisons: Danville, Salisbury, Macon, Savannah, Charleston and Columbia. With twenty-one others he made his escape from the latter place, and in twenty-seven days covered a distance of 300 miles. They received provisions from farmers and negroes sufficient to last them over the Smoky mountains. In the attempt to get through the mountains the guide employed lost his trail on account of snow, and they wandered about for three days without provisions. When within one-half day's walk of the Federal lines they came to a pass in the mountains which was guarded by by Southern soldiers. They were easily captured, taken to Danville prison, afterward to Libby prison, and from there, on February 22, they were exchanged. Mr. Burrows returned home on a leave of absence of one month, and in April, 1865, joined his regiment in West Virginia. He was mustered out, of service in June, of the same year. After returning home our subject was engaged in different capacities with the Wheeler Dusenbury Lumber Company, of Pennsylvania, for nine years. In 1874 he came to Cleveland and entered the employ of A. Teachant & Company, for one year; for the following seven years was a member of the hardware firm of Burrows & Moore, after which Mr. Moore sold his interest to Mr. N. C. Bosworth. The company's name then was Burrows & Bosworth. In March, 1889, it was incorporated under the firm name of the Burrows-Bosworth Hardware Company, with our subject as president. The business was first carried on in a small frame building, and they now occpy two floors in a beautiful and commodious block. They carry a general line of hardware, stoves, ranges and furnaces. In May, 1870, Mr. Burrows was united in marriage with Miss Jennie M. Rhodes, a native of Akron, Ohio. She is a daughter of Jacob Rhodes, and a sister of J. IL Rhodes, now deceased, at one time President of Hiram College. Our subject and wife have had five children: Fred R., Louie W., Mary S., Harry G. (deceased), and Carl P. Mr. and Mrs. Burrows are members of the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, in which the former holds the office of Deacon. Socially, he is a member of the G. .4. R., and the Loyal Legion, and politically, is a stanch Republican. NEWTON WILLIAM TAYLOR, a native of Madison county, New York, was born July 12, 1823, the son of George T. and Mary (Hubbard) Taylor, and was the eldest of a family of four children. Of English descent, he traces his paternal_ ancestry back through many generations of sturdy English yeomanry. For more than 300 years successively some of his ancestors have occupied "Little Baddow Hall" in Essex county, England. His paternal grandmother was a direct descendant of the Earl of Mar, a Scotch nobleman. His grandfather, Thomas Taylor, emigrated from England in 1795, landing on the 6th of July at Marblehead, Massachusetts, whence he soon afterward went to Windsor, Connecticut, and in 1812 settled at Madison, New York. Our subject's father, George T. Taylor, was born at Windsor, Connecticut. He was a farmer 35 548 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY in early life, but in after years became a prosperous wool merchant. He was a man of considerable local prominence in his community, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was for several terms a member of the New York General Assembly, and also held the office of Town Spervisor. He was a Pre Presbyterian in his religious faith, and was prominent in religious and benevolent work, and was widely and familiarly known as "Deacon Taylor." He became a resident of Cleveland in 1855, and died there in 1870, at the age of seventy-two years. Our subject's mother was a native of Massachusetts, and died about 1828. Of his brothers, Albert H. Taylor, who went to California during the "gold fever" of 1849, died there, at the age of twenty-seven: Horace Taylor died at Cleveland, aged about thirty years. His only sister is Mrs. Henry W. Whittlesey, of Cleveland. Newton passed his boyhood on the old homestead in Madison county, attending the district school and assisting in the farm work. At the age of fourteen he became a clerk In f to village store, and after five years of service in that capacity he was made a partner in the business. He was a young man of clear foresight in business affairs, of sound judgment and trustworthy, and when but eighteen years old was sent to New York city to purchase goods for the firm. That copartnership continued some three years, and then young Taylor removed to Buffalo and for a short time engaged in the produce business on his own account, after which he was associated with his father a few months in Ohio, in the purchase of wool for eastern manufacturers. During this last employment his business called him to Cleveland. The favorable business outlook there so impressed him that he at once resolved to rnake it his future home. That was in 1849. He first engaged as a dry-goods clerk for A. D. Cutter, and at the expiration of six months became a partner in the business, a relation which he sustained until the decease of Mr. Cutter, in 1851. The business was after ward continued under the name of Taylor, Griswold & Company till 1855, when Mr. Taylor withdrew from the firm as an active partner, though still retaining an interest in its affairs. His careful management had enabled him to amass capital sufficient for larger enterprises, and, in connection with other Eastern capitalists, he purchased a large tract of timber land in Ionia county, Michigan, and there erected sawmills, flouring-mills and other buildings necessary for the conduct of the lumber trade. That was the beginning of the now prosperous town of Hubbardston. With a view to furnishing a market place for the products of these mills, Mr. Taylor, during the same year, opened a lumber yard at Chicago, and remained there in charge of it for one year, until the enterprise was firmly established, and then, retaining his interest in the business, relinquished its active management to his partners. Returning to Cleveland in the fall of 1856, he organized The Lake Erie Paper Company, which built and equipped a large plant at Chagrin Falls, that was successfully operated until it was burned in 1857. The company then transferred its operations to Cleveland, erecting the paper-mill on Forest street, and conducted it until in 1859, when the business of Messrs. Younglove & Hoyt was purchased, and the company reorganized under the name of The Cleveland Paper Company. Four years later, in 1863, the company bought the Monroe Falls Paper-Mill, in Summit county. In all these vast enterprises Mr. Taylor was the guiding spirit, and he at the same time was a stockholder in and president of the Massillon Paper Company, and owned a large interest in the paper-mill at Canton; also, he was the principal stockholder in the New Philadelphia (Ohio) Paper Company. The Cleveland Paper Company have had extensive warehouses in both Cleveland and Chicago since 1866. He was also president of the Forest City Insurance Company from its organization, for fifteen years, when its business was transferred to the CUYAGOHA COUNTY - 549 Factory Mutual of New England. In 1880 Mr. Taylor built the only wood-pulp mill in Ohio, and also erected a third mill for the manufacture of paper. At the present time (1894) he is the principal stockholder in the Eastern Paper-Bag Manufacturing Company of Boston, controlling numerous and valuable patents for making paper bags and flour sacks, and also owns large interests in the Indiana Paper Company of Indianapolis, with mills at South Bend and Mishawaka. He was also a director of the paper mills at New Castle, Pennsylvania, and president of the Cleveland Window-Shade Company. As a business man Mr. Taylor is prompt, farsighted, energetic and reliable. Comprehensive in his plans, he has executive and financial ability of a high order, and seldom, if ever, fails in the realization of the highest and best results. He is public-spirited, decidedly a man of affairs, and from his abundant means liberally supports all worthy enterprises. He has traveled extensively, visiting the principal places of interest in foreign lands, and from his constant reading and study of men and affairs keeps himself in touch with current events. He is a Republican in political sentiment, and during the Civil war made large donations to the spport of the Union cause. Though often solicited to accept public office, he has uniformly declined, owing to the demands of his extensive business affairs. His broad sympathies prompt him to many benefactions and bring him into the most friendly relations with all who come in range of his influence. This is especially true of his numerous employes, for whom he has a deep solicitude and almost paternal care. In December, 1849, Mr. Taylor married Miss Mary Thompson, of New York city, and by her has one son and one daughter. With his family he attends the services of the Episcopal Church. Mrs. Taylor's grandfather, Nehemiah Thompson, was soldier in the Revolutionary war, and had six sons and three daughters. He was one of the first settlers of Madison county, New York, was a pious man and one of the founders of the Congregational Church in Madison. His second son, Charles, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was the father of Mrs. Taylor. He was born in Stratford, Connecticut, emigrated to New York when twenty-one years of age, and died there in 1842. F. J. BARTLETT, proprietor of the Cedar Mills at Cedar Point, North Olmsted, has been engaged in the milling business since 1887. He was an infant when he was brought to Cleveland by his parents in 1836, from New York city, where he had been born in 1832. His father, F. R. Bartlett, was a native of Devonshire, England, and his mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Brown, was a native of London, same country. They were married in 1831, and came direct to New York city, in 1836 to Cleveland, and in 1840 to Liverpool, Medina county,. this State, settling upon a farm. In 1846 they removed to a farm tear Strongsville, where Mr. Bartlett died in 1862, and Mrs. Bartlett in 1882. Of their six children four are yet living, namely: F. J., the subject of this sketch; William, married and residing in Strongsville; Edward, who enlisted in 1862, in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three years, and died at Nashville, Tennessee, of wounds he had received at Chattanooga, in 1864; John enlisted in the same regiment, and died at Franklin, Tennessee, in 1863; Elizabeth, who is -the widow of Simeon Kenniff, and is Postmistress at Strongsville; James, Jr., is married and lives at Strongsville. Mr. Bartlett, whose name introduces this sketch, resided in Liverpool six years, and six years also in Brunswick, Medina county, this State. He completed his school life at Berea College, attending there three terms, next followed teaching for several years, and then enlisted in the army for the Union, in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Strongsville, and was