CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 725 Dr. Dowd lived in Kansas from 1879 to 1886. He was engaged in contracting and building in that State, and while there was burned out, losing all. His location was Atchison. He was a member of the Atchison Flambeau Club that took part in the parade at St. Louis at the time of the " Unveiling of the Prophets." He carries a scar resulting from injuries received at that time, and the report came home that he was killed. The injury was caused by the accidental explosion of a bomb, by which five others also were injured. Dr. Dowd was carried to the hospital, as it was thought, in a dying condition. DR H. H. LITTLE, real estate dealer, re- siding at 1492 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, was born in Lamoille county, Vermont, in 1816. His parents, David and Lucy Little, were both natives of Litchfield, Connecticut. His father, a farmer by occupation, took part in the war of 1812, and died in Vermont, at the age of sixty-two years. He was a member of the Universalist Church, a body of people as noted for their strict morality and high sense of the golden rule as the Quakers. After his death the Doctor's mother came to Cleveland, where she spent the remainder of her days, dying at the age of eighty-eight years, in 1875, a sincere and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Little, the subject of this sketch, is the sixth of the eleven -children in their family, and is the only one now living. An older brother, Dr. Lyman Little, was a physician practicing in Zanesville, Ohio, for many years, and later came to Cleveland, where he passed the remainder of his life. Dr. Little, whose name introduces this sketch, was educated at Johnson (Vermont) Academy, graduated in medicine at the Ohio Medical College in 1844, and began practice at McConnells vine, this State. After following his profession there for twelve years, with marked success, he came, in 1856, to Cleveland; but here he engaged in real estate, finding that the city was bound to prosper for many years to come, and that dealing in realty was an easier method of earning a fortune than medical, practice; and this business he has followed to the present time. Dr. Little was first married at Sheldon, Vermont, to Miss H. M. Keyes, a daughter of Judge Ell N. Keyes, of that State. She died in 1875, aged sixty years, a member of the Episcopalian Church. Harriet L., the only daughter by this marriage, died at the age of ten years. The Doctor's second marriage took place in 1876; when he wedded Miss Laura Bascoin, a native 'of Columbus, Ohio, and a daughter of W. T. Bascom, also of Columbus, and by this marriage there were two children: Hiram M. and T. Bascom, aged (1894) respectively sixteen and fourteen years. Dr. and Mrs. Little are membrs of the Unitarian Church, of which body he is a Trustee. It is well known to the public that there are no more intelligent and refined -people in the world than the members of this church, and in this body the subjects of this sketch are exemplary workers. Dr. Little is a Republican in his political principles, but takes but little interest in " polities," as this term is generally understood. During the days of African slavery in the United States he was a conductor and station agent on the "Underground Railway." The Doctor is a pleasant-mannered, refined and popular gentleman, enjoying a home that any one might envy on account of its pleasant surroundings. GEORGE FEUCHTER, of Feuchter Broth, ers, millers, Rockport Hamlet, is a son of the late Michel Feuchter. The parents were born in Germany, where they were married and at once emigrated to America, settling in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, Rockport township, where he died, November 17, 1886. The wife and mother still lives. They had 726 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. twelve children, seven of whom lived to grow up: George; Rosa (deceased); Gustoph, who was lost at sea while on a whale-fishing expedition; William; Anna; Frederick and Sarah. George Feuchter was born in Rockport township, Cuyahoga county, March 21, 1849, where he was reared to manhood. He learned the carpenter's trade in Cleveland. For some fifteen years he followed his trade, also operating a threshing machine, and a portion of the time was engaged in farming. In April, 1887, in company with his brother, Frederick Feuchter, he bought the Rockport roller mills, and since then they have operated the mills under the firm name of Feuchter Brothers. George Feuchter was married in Brooklyn, this county, December 21, 1875, to Miss Caroline Baumgartner, daughter of John and Caroline Baumgartner, and born in Cleveland, February 21, 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Feuchter are the parents of six children, five of whom are living,—Cora, William E., Nettie E., Nellie M. and Addison B. George died in infancy. Mr. Feuchter has held the office of township Trustee for several years, and has also served for a number of years as School Director and as Constable; has taken quite an active part in local affairs, and is a Republican in politics. JAY ODELL, senior member of the firm of Jay Odell & Sons, abstracters of land titles, conveyancing, etc., was born in Otsego county, New York, March 23, 1819. His parents, Eli and Amelia (Betts) Odell, were natives of Connecticut, and came with their family to Geauga county, Ohio, in 1828. The father was one of the prominent farmers of his community, was extensively known in his county, and carried the confidence of a large circle of acquaintances. He filled many positions of trust and confidence with great satisfaction to all concerned. He died after reaching the advanced age of eighty-one years. His wife departed this life several years later, at the age of eighty years. They were the parents of eight children, three of whom are still living: George, a resident of Minneapolis; Jay, the subject of this sketch; and LeGrand, of Chicago. Jay Odell received but limited educational advantages. He assisted his father on the farm until 1852, and for the following six years was employed as clerk in the Auditor and Recorder's office of Cuyahoga county. Since that time lie has been engaged in his present business. Mr. Odell made his own start in life, and is now recognized as one of the most reli- able men in the county. He is genial, courteous, well informed, and a good and competent judge of business ventures. For many years he has held firmly to the principles as set forth in the Prohibition party. In April, 1869, Mr. Odell assisted in the organization of the party in this State, and in the fall of that year the National party was formed at Chicago, since which time he has been one of its stanch and influential supporters. Our subject was past the age to take part in the late civil war, but gave his best influence for a rigorous and successful prosecution of the same. He was one of the first to enroll in the company which was afterward called the Squirrel Hunters, who went to Cincinnati when that city was threatened by the Confederate forces in 1862. He was absent but one week, a time sufficiently long, however, to convince him he was past the age to take an active part or share his best efforts to save the nation on the tented field. Mr. Odell was united in marriage with Miss Mary, a daughter of John and Mollie (Allen) Packard, all natives of Massachusetts. They located on a farm in Geauga county, Ohio; in 1830. Mr. Packard died from apoplexy at the age of fifty-nine years, and his wife-lived to the advanced age of ninety-five years. They were the parents of nine children, three now living: Cordelia, wife of Austin Bisbee, of Greenwich, Connecticut; Lucien, a resident of Elyria, Ohio ; and Mary, wife of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Packard were devout and worthy members of CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 727 the Congregational Church in Massachusetts, but after coming to Ohio they united with the Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Odell had had four children, namely: Howard, deceased at the age of six years; Arthur, a meinber of the firm of Jay Odell & Sons, married Jennie Bailey, and Howard is their only living child; Allen A., also a member of the above firm, married Miss Minnie Kreger, and their three children are: Arthur R., Margaret and Ina; Mary Ida, wife of James. Robinson: they have two children,—Allen Jay and Clare W. Mr. and Mrs. Odell are members of the Congregational Church of Collinwood, in which the former has held the position of Deacon. H. W. S. WOOD, a well-known businessman of Cleveland, now retired, was born in England, August 4, 1845. He is a son of Stephen Wood, a native of London, England. He came to Hudson, New York, in 1848, and to Cleveland in 1849. Being by trade a mason, Mr. Wood at once identified himself with the city's growth and improvement as a -contractor. He formed a partnership with one Davy, which was of brief duration. He became manager for W. P. South-worth, a sewer and paving contractor. Mr. Wood succeeded to the business of Mr. South-worth by purchase in 1865, at which time he launched out as a sewer contractor and paver. The next year the firm of S. Wood & Sons came into existence, his two older sons assuming a financial interest with him. This firm existed during the life-time of Mr. Wood and at his death in 1888 became Wood Bros. An enormous sewer mileage was built by this firm during its years of operation. For one decade five miles was the annual average besides the pieces of paved streets completed under their contracts. Mr. Wood married Amelia Conil and became the father of four children: H. W. S., James, Charles and Walter. H. W. S. Wood received a liberal school training and on beginning business for himself entered the employment of Wood, Perry & Company, lumber dealers, remaining two years. His next engagement was to enter into a partnership with his father, as, previously mentioned, remaining actively in business until 1886, when he retired. Mr. Wood was once elected a member of the Board of Education, and while serving in his official capacity was instrumental in securing the abolishment of corporal punishment' from the schools by a resolution of the board. He was chairman of the building committee of the board, and, the city not feeling able to employ an architect, Mr. Wood drew plans and executed them as superintendent, in the construction of a number of buildings, saving the city a considerable item of expense thereby. Mr. Wood was twice elected to a membership on the Public Library Board, serving twice as its President. During his incumbency of the office he was influential in the adoption of the alcove system which has proven so beneficial to the institution. He also advocated establishing a branch library on the West Side. It was finally decided to try, and despite the petty drawbacks first encountered, this new branch is in a flourishing condition, exceeding even the expectations of the most sanguine members of the board. Mr. Wood was first married in 186–, to Hattie Smith, of Livingston county, New York. Nine children were born of this union: Eleanor, May, Hattie, Maud, Libbie, Irene, Pearl, Harry and Charles. In 18— Mrs. Wood died. In 1889, February 26, Mr. Wood took in marriage Miss Clark, of Oberlin, Ohio, Principal of the Waverly Avenue School of Cleveland. Mrs. Wood graduated from Oberlin College and is a teacher of long experience. Mr. Wood is a Director of the Arcade Savings Bank, of the West Side Savings Bank, of the Western Reserve Building and Loan Association, and of the Riverside Cemetery Association. 728 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Although long retired from business Mr. Wood manifests a deep interest in the welfare of Cleveland and her institutions, and is found in the front rank of her progressive and prosperous men. JAMES M. COGSWELL is one of the li venerable citizens of Parma township, , Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Indeed, he is probably one of the oldest settlers in the county. A record of his life is herewith presented. James M. Cogswell was born in New London county, Connecticut, September 1, 1800, and in that county spent thirty years of his life. His father, William Cogswell, was the owner of a large farm and was engaged in agricultural pursuits up to the time of his death. James M. was reared to farm work, and remained at home and assisted his father until the latters death, after which he went to Norwich and engaged in the mercantile business for some three years. Like many other ambitious and enterprising young men, he had a desirous to "go west," and the summer of 1834 found him on a prospecting tour through Ohio and Michigan. Pleased with the former State, he selected Cuyahoga county as a desirable location, and in Parma township purchased a tract of land, between ninety and a hundred acres. He then returned to Connecticut for his family and in the fall of that year came with them to their new home. His land was at that time nearly all covered with a dense forest, and the work of developing a farm and establishing a home here was no little undertaking. But these brave pioneers knew . no obstacle which they could not overcome, and as the years rolled by ,Mr. Cogswell's place, under his well directed efforts, assumed a different appearance. To-day he has a comfortable home and can view with pardonable pride his well cultivated fields. Of his private life, we record that he has been twice married. His first marriage was in Gris wold, Connecticut, to Charlotte Coit, a native of that State. They had three children, only one of whom reached adult years—Jane, wife of Rev. C. B. Stevens, who died in Brecksville, Ohio, leaving one son. This son, William C. Stevens, is in the ministry, and is now a resident of Los Angeles, California. Mr. Cogswell married his present wife, whose maiden name was Mary H. DeWitt, in Norwich, Connecticut, October 8, 1833. She was born at that place, January 14, 1815. They have had seven children, two of whom died in infancy. The others are as follows: Charlotte C., who is the widow of Thomas Whittlesey; H. DeWitt, who married Miss Martha A. Bartlett, lives in Parma township; Anna E., wife of Frank W. Brown, died in Wood county, Ohio, in Noveinber, 1878; James H., a business man of Cleveland, Ohio; and Alfred W., engaged in business in Akron, Ohio. Mr. Cogswell took a prominent part in local affairs here some years ago and held several important township offices. He and his wife have been In embers of the Presbyterian Church at Parma ever since its formation. Such is a brief sketch of the life of a worthy pioneer. P. A. PATTERSON, chief engineer of the motive power of the Cleveland Electric Railway Company and a master at his trade, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 11, 1850, and from the age of thirteen years was a student, apt and intelligent, laying the foundation for a liberal education. His father, who died in 1858, was a merchant, but only in moderate financial circumstances; and had his wife not been of force more than ordinary his two orphan children might have been thrown upon the world ignorant and penniless. At the age of thirteen years Mr. Patterson went as a sailor before the mast in the Danish and English merchant trade, and after a time CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 729 he went aboard a fruiter plying between Italian ports and St. Petersburg; next he shipped on a bark from Nova Scotia to Archangel, and then reshipped to Buenos Ayres, South America, where he happened to be present during the war between Buenos Ayres and Uruguay. On his return voyage he stopped at the port of Bahia, Brazil. While homeward bound he encountered a severe storm in which fore, mizzen and top masts were lost, the supply of provisions was exhausted and the crew were compelled to subsist on raw sugar for seven days, with which the vessel was loaded; but the gale was finally weathered, and the trip to Falmouth, England, completed in seventy-two days. Next Mr. Patterson shipped from Liverpool to Alexandria, Egypt, stopping at Gibraltar, Malta, and other important ports. His first trip to the United States occurred in 1872, when he went ashore at New York and joined the marching procession of Grant's supporters when the general was a candidate for his second term That fall he boarded a coffee clipper for Rio Janeiro and returned to New Orleans with a cargo of coffee. Then for four years and seven months he was in the employ of the Cunard line, making eleven voyages annually between America and Europe,—a total of 100 trips across the Atlantic. Next he was Captain of a gravel schooner in Boston harbor, and then he left salt water and was engaged in the lake trade, on many vessels and in various capacities from cook to mate. Then he left navigation altogether, in 1875, and entered the employ of Rhoades & Company, of Ashtabula, as stationary engineer, when only six trains were running out of those docks daily, with ore. Eight years afterward he removed to Cleveland and was engineer for Hitchcock & Company at their ore docks and remained five years. Next he was temporarily with G. Q. Julier, the leading baker, before joining the Cleveland Electric Company in 1888. Here he has charge of a number of men, and is responsible for the care of much valuable property. He is very efficient and reliable. His father, Paul Patterson, left only two children, the other than our subject being Caroline, the wife of Jans Jansen of Copenhagen. In March, 1889, Mr. Patterson married, in Cleveland, Mina Collins, an American lady born in New Jersey. He is a director of a benefit association, for employees, and was made a Mason in England twenty years ago. In 1882, after an absence of sixteen years, lie visited his old home, and his mother again in 1887, thus renewing his acquaintance with old ocean as well as the scenes of his childhood. ALBERT. W. DE FOREST, son of Tracy R. de Forest, deceased, was born in Cleveland, August 3, 1849, attended the Rockwell street school and graduated there when about fifteen years of age; but, instead of entering the high-school and completing the full public-school course, he launched out on his business career. For about a year he was a boy of all work for E. Decker, a photographer; next he was collector for the Merchants' National Bank under President T. P. Handy, and rose through various positions to that of paying teller in the six years of his service there. For several months succeeding his departure for the West, he traveled about on a tour of inspection and pleasure combined, visiting Omaha, Nebraska; St. Joseph, Missouri; Council Bluffs, Iowa, etc., finally alighting at Hannibal, Missouri, where he entered into an engagement with the C. 0. Godfrey Association, coal dealers and miners through the States of Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Kansas. In a short time Mr. de Forest was made the company's traveling auditor, and of the nine years he was so engaged he spent two years at Fort Scott, Kansas, and two and a half in Des Moines, Iowa. He returned to Cleveland in 1880, remaining a year and a half, and then again went West, locating this time in Quincy, Illinois, engaging again in the coal business. In September; 730 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 1883, he again returned to Cleveland, and on the 11th of that month married Miss Delinda J. Stacey, and they resided at Quincy until 1888, and since that year they have been permanent residents of this city. Mr. De Forest engaged as an accountant and bookkeeper until April 27, 1891, when he was employed by Sterling, Welch & Company. Mrs. De Forest was a daughter of Leroy Stacey, who died many years ago, leaving three children: Mrs. De Forest, Miss Louise and George A., accountant for the Brown Lumber Company. The mother of these children is now the wife of William Norsworthy of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. De. Forest's children ire Tracy Leroy and Lee Hewitt. Mr. De Forest is a Knight Templar, being a member of Des Moines Chapter and Cornmandery. HENRY KRATHER, 0ne of the trustees of Parma township, was born in Ger- 1 many, October 20, 1845, as a son of Ludwig and Magdalena (Rielballer) Krather. They emigrated to America early in the '50s and settled in Brooklyn township, afterward removing to Parma township, where the father died May 31, 1891. The mother still survives. They had two children: Henry, and Sophia, the wife of Philip Kuntz. Henry Krather was quite young, being about five years old, when his parents brought him to America, and was reared to manhood in Brooklyn and Parma townships, chiefly in Parma. Ile received a common-school education, and at fourteen years of age left home to learn the butchering business in Cleveland, and this business he has since followed, in connection with farming. Mr. Krather was married in what is new South Brooklyn, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, December 7, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth G. Pfeiffer, who was born in Parma township, May 9, 1851. She is a daughter of Philip and Susan (Reehl) Pfeiffer, both natives of Germany, where the father was born December 6, 1825, and the mother February 19, 1826. They were married August 8, 1850, in Cuyahoga county, and settled in Parma township, where they have since been residents. They had eight children, two sons and six daughters. Mrs. Krather was the eldest of the family. Mr. and Mrs. Krather since their marriage have resided on the farm where they now make their home. This consists of seventy-five acres, furnished with a nice set of buildings. Our subject and his wife are the parents of four children, three of whom are living: Katie A., Susie M. and Permelia E. The name of the deceased child is Ella M., who was the wife of Matt. Koblentzer. She died in Cleveland, Ohio, February 25, 1892. Mr. Krather has had the office of Trustee for several years. He has also held the office of Township Treasurer for two years, and has served as School Director. He takes quite an active part in all local affairs, and is connected wit the Democratic party. Mr. and Mrs. Krather are members of the Presbyterian Church. OLNEY P. LATIMER, a prominent citizen of Brecksville township, was born October 2, 1836, in Rock Creek, Ashtabula county, Ohio. His father, Austin Latimer,'was born July 4, 1807, in New York; and the father of the latter, William Latimer, came to Ashtabula county when that section was an unbroken wilderness. Austin was fourteen years of age when his father came to Ohio, and became a great hunter. At the early age of fifteen years he killed nineteen deer in three days, three of which he killed from the cabin door of his home. Amid such wild pleasures, alternating with many privations and monotonous periods of pioneer life, was he reared to manhood. Purchasing fifty acres of his father's place, ho made it his home for a time. On this farm CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 731 a portion of the village of Rock Creek now stands. In 1838 he moved to the vicinity of Rome, same county. He died in 1848, as the result of over-exertion in expelling an idiot from the church, whose interrogation of the minister rendered such action necessary. He was buried in the cemetery at Rock Creek, Ashtabula county. In his political principles he was a zealous Whig and anti-slavery man. In Lenox township, Ashtabula county, he married Evaline Church, who was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, October 11, 1814, a daughter of Elijah and Jemima Church, who came to Lenox township, Ashtabula county, in 1830. After Mr. Latimer's death she married W. P. Holt, and by that marriage there was one child, William, now of Pekin, Illinois. Mr. Holt died, and his widow now lives with her daughter Adelaide at Rock Creek. She has been a member of the Methodist Church ever since its organization there. Mr. Austin Latimer's children are: Adelaide C., born August 11, 1824, in Rock Creek, is now Mrs. David Baldwin; and Olney P., our subject,. also born in that place. In Rome, same county, the following were born: Eleanor, December 2, 1841, who is now the wife of John Webb of Rock Creek; Neima, born August 22, 1846, yet unmarried. The gentleman whose name heads this memoir was thrown upon his own resources at the early age of fourteen years, when he began to contribute to the support of his mother and sisters. At eighteen he hired out as a tender for a mason, John Foot, and gradually picked up the mason's trade. Later he followed the trade on his own account. After his marriage in 1836 he rented a home in the village of Rock Creek, and followed his trade in summer. and worked in a tannery in winter. Afterward he moved to Geneva, that county, next to Austinburg, same county, and then, in 1860, rented the home farm and moved upon it. He had a desire to own the home place, bnt the intervention of the war changed his plans. He enlisted for the Union, with the three-months men, in Company A, Twenty-eighth Regiment; but as there were too many volunteers the married men were dismissed. August 22, 1862, in Chardon, Ohio, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Byron Canfield. This regiment left Cleveland on the 21st of that month for Covington, Kentucky, to cover the retreat of Nelson after his defeat at Richmond by Joseph E. Johnston. Then the regiment moved south and skirmished at Hoover's Gap and Perryville, at which latter place the engagement was disastrous, and Mr. Latimer received three wounds, but went forward and assisted a surgeon in the work of amputation, etc. Next he was detailed to Antioch hospital for five weeks, and then rejoined his regiment at Greenville, Kentucky. He therefore, with his regiment, participated in the engagements at Stone river, Murfreesborough, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta campaign, Peach Tree creek, the siege of Atlanta, etc. On the night of 'August 31, 1864, his coif pang marched around to the right and struck Atlanta and Montgomery, whence the destruction of the railroad to Jonesboro was effected. At the latter place, on the next night, a shell struck his left leg midway between knee and ankle, and at the same time struck a log a foot distant, and a comrade named Williams was torn all to pieces! Also the explosion of the same shell fatally wounded two others. Mr. Latimer had to have his limb amputated, and two days later he rode twenty-one miles in an ambulance in order to reach the general field hospital at Atlanta! From September 1 to November 8 he lay there, and was then moved to Chattanooga, where he remained until the 14th. Next he was taken to Nashville and remained there from November 16 to 18, when he was furloughed home. January 18, 1865, he went to Cleveland, where he was discharged March 7, 1865. Going to Geauga county, where his wife was living with her parents, he remained there till 732 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. August, when he moved to Brecksville village, where he conducted the hotel until 1871, and then he moved to his present location, w here he has a pleasant home, on ten acres of .and, which he takes a pleasure in cultivating. He also does some small jobs of miscellar eons work. In politics he is a zealous Republican. He is a successful manager of business aVairs, progressive, public-spirited, well known and highly respected. In May, 1856, be married Lemira Mowry, who was born in March, 1834, in 1VIont,rille, Geauga county, a daughter of George A. and Mary (Spencer) Mowry, of old New England families, who settled in Ohio in 1832. Mr and Mrs. Latimer have two children, besides the care of Myra E. R'nz ever since she was Three years old. This girl is an interesting child, and her foster parents supply her with every necessity and luxury their own children e ljoy. JONAS COONRAD, a representative citizen of Brecksville township, was born March 11, 1837, in Rensselaer county, New York. His father, Jacob Coonrad, was a farmer and carpenter by trade, married .`Lary Wager, and they spent their lives in New York. At the age of eighteen years he began to learn the trade of molder in the Wager stove foundry at Troy, New York. After three years' work there, about 1857, he came to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was employed as clerk by an older brother, Jeremiah, in mercantile business. At the end of two years he went to Quincy, Illinois, which was at that time a thriving city, and followed his trade there seven years in a stove foundry. In the fall of 1865 he married and located. At the end of a year he returned to Cleveland and entered the grocery business in company with his brother, and so continued for a year and a half. Next he settled is the southeast corner of Brecksville township, purchasing a farm of 300 acres, one of the best farms in the township. Although he had had but a limited experience in farming he soon adapted himself to his new vocation and proved a success. He has improved the place in many ways, having erected in 1875 an elegant brick residence, which from its superb natural elevation commands a grand view of the beautiful Cuyahoga coursing within a short distance, and some years ago starting a cheese factory and conducting it until the completion of the Valley Railroad to Cleveland made that market more accessible to the community in which he resides than before. Originally, Mr. Coonrad was a Democrat in his views of general politics, but slavery scenes on the eastern border of Missouri where he lived for a short time so disgusted him that he turned Republican, and for the principles of this party he has ever since been an ardent advocate. However, he takes no active part in the office-seeking efforts of others. He is an attendant at the Methodist Episcopal church, to which he liberally contributes. In the autumn of 1865, as before stated, in Quincy, Illinois, he was united in marriage with Miss Catharine Morten, a daughter of David and Susannah (McKay) Morten. She was born in Brecksville township, on the same farm where she and her husband now lives and which they own. Their children are: Jessie, now the widow of Fred. Knapp; Kitty, at home; and an infant who died in Quincy. WILLIAM BROWNELL SANDERS was born in Cleveland, September 21, 1854. His parents removed from Cleveland to Jacksonville, Illinois, when he was quite poling, and his early life was passed there. When prepared for college, he entered Illinois College, at Jacksonville, Illinois, and graduated from that institution in 1873. Subsequently he entered Albany Law School, from which institution he graduated in 1875, and was shortly thereafter admitted to the bar of the State of New York. In August, 1875, he carne to CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 733 Cleveland, Ohio, and within a short time thereafter became associated in the practice of the law with the Hon. Stevenson Burke. This association continued for some years, when the firm of Burke, Ingersoll & Sanders was formed. In February, 1888, Mr. Sanders was appointed by Governor Foraker Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga county, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge McKinney. At the next annual election, he was nominated without opposition as the Republican candidate for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and elected, serving as Judge until January, 1890, at which time he resigned and resumed the practice of the law as a member of the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, of which firm he is still a member. ROBERT W. HENRY, of Parma township, was born in Naples, Ontario county, New York, July 24, 1811, a son of John and Emma (Kinney) Henry. The father was a native of New York and the mother of Pennsylvania. They emigrated to Cleveland from Canada, opposite Buffalo, in the spring of 1818. They settled in Cleveland, where the father was engaged as a carpenter and pillwright. He died about 1823 and his widow afterward married a Mr. Stone. She died in Kenosha, Wisconsin. John Henry was the father of three sons and four daughters. Robert W. was the third of the family. He was about seven years of age when the family removed to Cleveland, and about twelve when his father died. His mother returned to Ontario county, New York, with the younger members of the family, and Robert was bound out to Henry L. Nobles till he was twenty-one years old, to learn the carpenter's trade. He continued with Mr. Nobles as foreman for some time after he had reached his majority, and then carried on his trade on his own account in Cleveland for some twelve years, when he traded property in the city for the farm which is now his home, and where he has resided since the spring of 1843. Until about 1885 he followed his trade in connection with farming. He owns 125 acres of land and has made upon it valuable improvements. Mr. Henry was married in Ohio City (now West Side, Cleveland), January 24, 1835, to Frances P. Castle, who was born in York, Upper Canada, January 25, 1816. They had twelve children, namely: William M.; Jefferson T., deceased; Harrison F., who was killed at the battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863; he was a member of Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Robert M., deceased; Mary D., wife of Dr. Martin Clark, of Nebraska; a daughter who died in infancy; Henry C.; Frances E., deceased, wife of Rev. Parker Pope; John C.; Julia F., wife of Eugene Wray; Sadie E., wife of Jacob Schaffer; Susie L., deceased, and Nellie L., the wife of Henry Kuntz. Mrs. Robert W. Henry died the last of November, 1881. Mr. Henry has held some of the minor offices in the township, and has taken a good degree of interest in all local affairs. JACOB PFEIFFER, who owns and occupies a nice little farm in Parma township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was reared to farm life, has always followed this occupation, has been fairly successful and is now the owner of thirty-three acres of good land, upon which he has erected nice buildings and where he is comfortably situated. Mr. Pfeiffer was born in the township in which he now lives, November 21, 1853, third in the family of eight children,—two sons and six daughters,—of Philip and Susan (Reehl) Pfeiffer, the former born in Germany, December 6, 1825, the latter, also a native of Germany, born February 19, 1826. They were married in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, August 8, 1850, and after their marriage settled in Parma township, where they still reside. 734 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. The subject of sketch remained with his parents until his marriage, which event occurred in Brooklyn township, this county, October 16, 1884, to Miss Lizzie HOehn. She was born in Parma township, September 21, 1862, daughter of Jacob and Lizzie (Usinger) Hoehn, residents of Brooklyn township. Her father was born in Germany, August 15, 1842, and her mother in this township, August 4, 1844. Mrs. Pfeiffer is the oldest of their five children, and their only daughter. HON. MILO S. HAYNES, well known throughout northeastern Ohio, is a resident of Strongsville township, Cuyahoga county. He was born and reared in the township in which he has ever since resided and in which he is now an honored resident, his birth having occurred July 14, 1830. His ancestry is traceable back to Walter Haynes, who came to this country from Wales, settling in Boston in 1639. Mr. Haynes' father, the late Abijah. Haynes,, was born in Vermont, March 12, 1806, and his mother, nee Roxanna Stevens, a native of Mass: achusetts, was born March 18, 1806., They came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, with their parents when children, in the neighborhood of 1816, and here they grew up. They were married in Brunswick, Medina county, Ohio, in 1829, and soon after their marriage settled in Strongsville, township on the farm now owned and occupied by the subject of this sketch. Here they spent the residue of their lives, honored and respected by all who knew them. Mrs. Haynes died September 14, 1856, and Mr. Haynes, after surviving her a number of years passed away on the 14th of September, 1887. They lad four children, of whom Milo S. is the oldest. Milo S. Haynes improved the opportunities afforded him for an education, and at the early age of seventeen taught school one term. After that he turned his attention to work at the blacksmith trade, at which he was engaged for three years. Since then he has devoted his energies to farming and has also dealt in stock to some extent. His farm comprises a,hundred acres of fine land. Mr. Haynes was married in Parma township, this county, April 9, 1862, to Miss Elizabeth Hobbs, who was born in England, February 17, 1833. They are the parents of three children: Florence R., wife of Ellsworth Sanderson, of Cleveland; and Tamzen E. and. Josephine, both popular and successful teachers. Politically, Mr. Haynes has been identified with the Republican party ever since it was organized, and has rendered it much efficient service. He has filled various local offices, and in the fall of 1891 was elected on the Republican ticket to a seat in the Seventieth Ohio General Assembly. CLARENCE C. HODGMAN, one of the respected farmers of Parma township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is the youngest in the family of Robert and Julia A. Hodgman. He was born in this township July 31, 1855, was reared here on his father's farm, and in this township he has spent the whole of his life, with the exception, however, of one year, when he was a resident of Brooklyn township, also in this county. All his 'life he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He-owns seventy-five acres of well-improved land, upon which he has erected a nice set of farm buildings. Mr. Hodgman was married in Parrna township, December 6, 1877, to Miss Eminet Humphries. She was born in this same township, August 30, 1855. Her father, the late Henry Humphries, was' a native of England. Her mother, nee Caroline Day, also a native of England, was born in Gloucestershire, November 14, 1823. They were married in England and came to America in 1849, their first settlement here being in Cleveland. A year later they, came to Parma township, where her father CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 735 spent the residue of his life and passed away, and where her mother still resides. They had four children, of whom Mrs. Hodgman was the third born. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgman are the parents of three children: Alice M., Harvey H. and Elsie E. Mrs. Hodgman has been a member of the Presbyterian Church from her girlhood. JOHN. T. WATTERSON.—One of the oldest and best-known builders of Cleveland is John T. Watterson, whose history as such begins away back in the '40s, when there was only one steam engine in the city, and when the city limits bounded a village of a few hundred people. Mr. Watterson was born in Cuyahoga county, February 12,1828. His father, Wm. Watterson, settled on a farm there the year before. His birthplace was on the Isle of Man. He was a prominent representative . citizen, active in everything conducive to the best interests of the county. He neither sought nor held public office, nor had he any history as a military man. He belonged to a training company in those good old days, and supported Henry Clay for President. He married Ann Sayde, by whom eleven children were born, and all lived to maturity. They were John T., William, Mrs. Sarah Payne, Moses G. (President of the Dime Savings Bank of Cleveland), Harrison, Joshua, Henry, Cesar, Edward, Robert and Charles. Caesar was killed in the engagement at Good Hope Church during the civil war. John T. Watterson secured only a very meager education. His opportunities were not good, being confined to an attendance at school during the winter season only. He was apprenticed early in life to J. J. Lewis, of Newburg, to learn the carpenter's trade. On completing this and not finding an over-abundance of work, he decided to try his hand at contracting, taking for his first contract, in 1857, the building of the National Oil Mills. It is interesting to note the number of the structures, and also the character of many of them, erected by his hand (so to speak) since then,—the buildings of the Rolling Mills, Otis Steel Company, Cleveland Iron Company, Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, Plate Mill, the wire, flour, and the Union Mills, at Newburg, the Emma Blast Furnace, Larripson & Sessions Nut and Bolt Works, Upson Nut Company's Works, Collins Nut and Bolt Works, Riverside Foundry, Maher &' Brayton's Wheel Works, Lake Shore Foundry, the Powell Tool Company, Cleveland Spring Company, American Wire Company, Warner Swasey's Telescope Works, Standard Sewing Machine Company's Works, and Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company's Works. He built the Valley Furnace at Sharon, Pennsylvania, the Alliance Steel Works, and many others. Important industries at Cleveland are sheltered by structures of Mr. Watterson's building. It will be noticed that his work has been confined chiefly to heavy building, yet some quite expensive residences might be mentioned as a credit to his workmanship. Mr. Watterson is a member of the Builders' Exchange and Employing Carpenters' Association. In 1879 he was a member of the City Council of Cleveland, and did good service and made a useful and conscientious public servant. In 1853 Mr. Watterson married, in this county, Margaret, a daughter of Robert Crennell, a Manxman, who settled in Cuyahoga county in 1827. Eight children are born of this union. E. E. MORSE, general manager of the Morse Detective Agency of North America, with the main office in the Society for Savings building, Cleveland, was born at Virgil, Cortland county, New York May, 31, 1850, a son of Joseph C. Morse, who was a farmer in New York State during his early life. In 1852 the father brought his little family to Michigan, where he soon afterward entered the employ of, the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 736 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Railroad, which was just being completed, being located at Three Rivers, Michigan, as their agent for eleven or twelve years, and opening and closing that branch of the road while there. He was next associated with William Griffiths in private banking and in milling. In the bank was a large safe, which seemed to be burglarproof, but one morning they found it blown open and the contents gone! This event financially crippled Mr. Morse, although the business of the bank was continued until the " flour panic " of 1869. Soon after the robbery Mr. Morse was called to Toledo, where he was employed as trainmaster, then to Detroit, as agent of the company, which position he left on account of being compelled to work on Sundays. He then took charge of a train from Chicago to Toledo as conductor, on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, and was subsequently requested to return to Three Rivers, where he had formerly been agent. His family were located there, and the mill was still in progress, under the management of William Griffiths, and this they conducted together until the "flour panic" of 1869, spoken of, when the business went down, and Mr. Morse was again left a "financial wreck." He next accepted a position as traveling agent for the South Shore Fast Freight Line, and shortly afterward he was appointed general agent at Toledo, and soon after that again his son, our subject,—who had some experience in detective work,—was placed on the line ostensibly as traveling agent, but in reality to look after claims, etc. As traveling agent the father is still in the service of the same line, which is now known as the Erie & Pacific Despatch, the South Shore Division, and the Great Western Despatch Division,—all of which have been consolidated. He travels an average of 60,000 miles annually. Although seventy years of age he is a man well preserved and as able to fulfill his station as ever. Mr. E. E. Morse, whose name introduces this sketch, was a lad about twelve years of age when the bank robbery noted took place, and he took great interest in looking up the mystery, in order to obtain clues to the criminals, which he at length was successful in discovering, and which led to their capture and conviction. Thus encouraged, he thereafter made detective work a systematic study. lie traveled with his father a great deal, rapidly learning the ways of the world. At the age of sixteen years he entered the Highland Military Academy at Worcester, Massachusetts, where lie spent two years, when he came to Cleveland, accepted a position on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Fast Freight Line, and still continued to develop his talent for detective service. ' In 1871, after the great Chicago fire, he was temporarily thrown our of his position on the railroad, and, taking a sleeper on his way to Cleveland, he happened to occupy a,berth with the mayor of this city, Mr. Felton, who at once offered him a place on the police force, which he accepted. Being a man of fine physique, weighing some 275 pounds and being six feet tall, dressing well, etc., he was immediately placed in a responsible position. Six days after he commenced his duties he was made drillmaster of the police force, and continued in that department of the city government for ten years, although at first he intended to remain only through the first winter! After a few months he became so proficient in his work that he gave a drill in the rink for the entertainment of the public. The following spring, when the police commission was formed, he was placed on patrolman's duty for. a few weeks only, and then lie rapidly rose, overstepping others and being appointed lieutoant of the force; which he held until he resigned his position on the police force altogether. His strict discipline while drillmaster, his rapid rise to the head of the department, etc., naturally caused dissension among the envious, but he proved himself to be one of the most popular men ever on the Cleveland force. Mr. Morse is a sure " shot" with the reviver, being able with it to cut a telegraph wire from the top of the highest building. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 737 After his resignation in Cleveland he went to Buffalo, New York, and accepted a position ostensibly as an employee in ordinary work for a company. After accomplishing his work for them, and finding things becoming "warm," he accepted the position as chief of police of Toledo, Ohio, where he found all the opposition imaginable, occasioned of course by his being "imported." However, he satisfactorily completed his task there, being "chief" in every respect. He reorganized the force, and after getting matters in good shape he resigned and "jumped" to San Francisco, California, where he accepted a position under Detective Lees, the oldest detective on the coast, for outside work. Mr. Morse was placed on work for all transcontinental and steamship lines terminating at San Francisco. Next he went to New Mexico and later to old Mexico, where he did much in his line. During the three years 1882 to 1885 lie covered a vast amount of territory. In the latter year he located in Chicago, where he was engaged by the Pinkerton Detective Company for a short time, acting as drill-master for about 800 men during the great Stock Yarks strike; and next for a year he was with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, where he started in again on his own account,--first in Kansas City, then in Denver, etc. During this period he married a Cleveland lady, for whose health the altitude of Denver proved too great, and they returned East, stopping in Detroit, Michigan, in April, 1889. Purchasing the store of George L'Homedeau, he engaged temporarily in mercantile business, but in the fall he opened a detective agency in the old Walker block and did a successful business. On the 1st of April, 1891, he moved to Cleveland, changing his headquarters to this city, meanwhile retaining the office in Detroit, where he has a suite of several rooms on the second floor of the Walker block, with four entrances and all conveniences for a first class office. He is therefore well prepared to transact all kinds of detective work. On coming here he brought with him two men, a woman and a boy, to aid in the work, and he has since increased his force of talent, and can supply all demands in his line. He runs the business systematically and thoroughly. Having read law two years, in the offke of Brinsmade & Stone, he finds that the knowledge thus gained is of great aid. In 1893 he organized the Morse Detective Agency of North America, with a capital of $50,000: E. E. Morse, president. In social matters Mr. Morse is a member of the Sons of the Veterans of the Revolution, and in politics is a Republican. HON. JOSEPH C. BLOCH.--Precedence in any of the several professional lines, to whose following both pre-eminent as well as mediocre ability has been given, can be attained by no side path, but must be gained by, must be the result of, subjective and native talent, supplemented by the closest application and a breadth of intellectuality that will render possible the ready and practical use of mere theoretical knowledge. Among the large number who essay the achievement of honor and preferment in technical professions the percentage of failures is far in excess of that of successes,—a fact that but lends succinct proof of the statements just made. An attorney of high reputation and one successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Cleveland, is he whose name initiates this biographical sketch. He was born in Hungary, October 24, 1856, the son of Edward and Lena Bloch. Though the dawn of his life was ushered in far from the scene of his present field of labor, yet so soon did he leave the land of his nativity that in sympathy, loyalty and close identification he could scarcely be more clearly a "child of the republic" than he is of the land where he has pursed the major portion of his life. He came to the United States when a lad of nine years, and in his boyhood was accorded the privileges 738 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. of the common schools in the vicinity of his home. Just at that time when his character was in a formative state, and when such a test would prove the mettle of his composition, the youth was thrown upon his own resources. Undismayed by the unpropitious front presented by fortune, he went bravely forth "with a heart for any fate," accepting whatever work he could find to do, in the meanwhile struggling to improve every opportunity which could aid him to attain one great desideratum, a good education. He was ambitious and determined to fit himself for a professional career. He was not even a casuist in his youth, and soon decided upon the exact course to which he should bend his energies. He determined to prepare himself for the practice of law, and in due time was enabled, by frugality and self-denial, to matriculate at the law school of Cleveland, completing his technical studies in the University of Iowa in 1879. He had educated himself both in a literary and professional way by defrayiag his incidental expenses by his own earnings. The secret of his success lies principally in the fact that he has always improved his time. He has always been an ardent and close student; he has been successful. Is this not in natural sequence? He has gained an enviable reputation not only in his profession, but has established for himself a position of honor and esteem as a good, progressive and worthy citizen. It is the record of such lives as this that should prove both lesson and incentive to rising generations, and how readily contemporary biography thus offers its own justification. Mr. Bloch has always taken an active interest in politics, and has been an able and zealous worker in the ranks of the Republican party. In 1891 he was elected to the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, receiving a representative support and a flattering majority at the polls. He secured a larger number of votes than any other man on the ticket,—an evidence of his popularity and of the confidence in which he is held by the people of the district in which his nomination and candidacy were made. While he was in the Legislature he served on the important municipal committee of corporations and public lands and buildings. In his official capacity he gave unmistakable evidence of his ability and rendered such service as marked him as a capable legislator. Fraternally our subject is identified with the Knights of Pythias, having passed all the chairs of that order. He is also prominent in his association with other fraternal and beneficial organizations. The marriage of Mr. Bloch to Miss Mollie Fedder was celebrated in the city of Cleveland in 1884. They are the parents of two children, Julia and Edward. CHARLES H. ROCKWELL.--Continued success is the ultimate criterion of merit and reliability in the world of commerce, and this fact is exemplified in the case of the enterprises with which the subject of this review is so intimately identified. Mr. Rockwell is the vice-president and manager of the Western Mineral Wool Company, and is secretary and treasurer of the Buckeye Electric Company, which corporations conduct flourishing and important enterprises in the Forest City. Mr. Rockwell has been a resident of Cleveland since 1885, in which year he came here from New York and effected the organization of the Mineral Wool Company, of which he has been vice-president and manager ever since, The inception of this industry was one of modest order, but with a keen discernment and prescience of what might be developed Mr. Rockwell succeeded in organizing a stock company and in commencing operations in an unpretentious style. The sales of the product the first year reached an aggregate of only about 300,000 pounds. At the present time the company have factories in operation in Chicago and St. Louis, in addition to the original plant in Cleveland, and the annual output has brought about the average sale of 12,000,000 pounds of the wool CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 739 each year. The success which has attended the industry bears honor to the projector, who has practically retained the entire management of operations from the start. When he came to Cleveland Mr. Rockwell was an entire stranger to the business men of the city, but with confidence in the outcome of the enterprise which he purposed to establish, he at once began the erection of a plant, utilizing his personal funds for this purpose. He thus made ready for the business before he approached the citizens of Cleveland with a request for assistance in carrying forward the undertaking. He had made sufficient progress along the line of inaugurating the business to. convince those importuned of the legitimacy of the same and of the good faith of the projector. Consequently he had little difficulty in enlisting the necessary capitalistic co-operation. The organization of the Buckeye Electric Company was mainly brought about by Mr. Rockwell, the enterprise dating its inception back to 1890. The organization was completed for the purpose of providing a suitable plant and engaging in the manufacture of incandescent electric lamps. The company's factory is located at 1927 Broadway, in this city, and the business represents an invested capital of $100,000. The undertaking has proved successful and has already yielded good returns. In the historic old city of Tarrytown, New York, and within a stone's throw of the exact spot where the celebrated Major Andre was captured, our subject first saw the light of day, the date of his nativity being December 11, 1845. His parents were George and Sarah (Tunis) Rockwell, both of whom were descended from old Revolutionary stock, the father of the former having been an active participant in that memorable struggle when the vigorous young nation threw aside forever the heavy yoke imposed by the mother country. The patriotic ardor of the ancestor just noted must have been transmitted to our subject, for at the age of seventeen years he was moved to take part in the nation's second great struggle for freedom, enlisting, in September, 1862, as a private in the One Hundred and Second New York Volunteer Infantry, and serving valiantly until the close of the war. He was mustered out as First Lieutenant in November, 1865. He was an active participant in many important battles, among which we name the following: the battles of the Potomac, from Chancellorsville, including that of Gettysburg and Lookout Mountain, the campaign of Sherman to Atlanta, and many other minor conflicts. July 23, 1866, in the city of New York, Mr. Rockwell took unto himself a life companion in the person of Miss Letitia Dawnes, a daughter of George and L. Harriet Dawnes, honored residents of the Empire State. Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell have one daughter, Hattie D. In his political adherency our subject is an ardent Republican; in his fraternal associations ha is prominently identified with the A. F. & A. M. As a business man and a citizen he is held in that high esteem which comes as the reward of honorable dealing and progressive spi rit. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, formerly one of the most prominent lake men of the city of Cleveland, was born at " Hardscrabble Hill," Union, New York, December 13, 1818. Being very young whdn his father died, he came West at the age of fourteen, settling at Cleveland. A year later he pushed further West, to Black River, Ohio, where he started ak, an apprentice in shipbuilding for William and Buel Jones, his first work being on the schooners Florida and Juniet. Subsequently he had much to do with the building of the Steamer Bunker Hill, and after its completion lie made a few trips with the vessel. He then turned his attention to sailing, and in 1840, at the age of twenty-one, he was made master of the schooner Maria; and he sailed continually for several years, commanding the Chief Justice Marshall, Herald, Meriden and 47 740 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. many others. Next he took charge of the vessel department 'for Crawford & Price, sailing during the summer seasons and during the intervening winters superintending the construction of vessels. In the meantime he had managed to save considerable of his income, which he gradually invested in vessels, his first venture being the purchase of the Chief J ustice Marshall. Afterward he had interests in the Grace Murray, Midnight, David Morris, Crawford, C. J. Magill, General Scott and many other well-known vessels. In 1868 he leased a large tract of land at the head of the old river bed and constructed a dry dock, embarking at the same time in shipbuilding. He built and had full charge of some of the stanchest crafts on the lakes, some of which are still in service. He also owned the wrecking steamer Magnet, which at that time was the largest and most completely equipped wrecker afloat on fresh water. A few years later he retired, and has since lived a quiet life. In 1844 he married Maria Antoinette Jones, daughter Of Augustus Jones of Lorain (then Black River), Ohio, one of the first shipbuilders on these lakes. He has four children, namely: Nettie, wife of Gilbert H. Frederick, pastor of the Covenant Baptist Church of Chicago, Illinois; Ruth, who married R. G. Adams, of the firm of Koplin & Adadls, of Akron, this State: she has two children,—May and Francis; Carrie, wife of M. S. Coggshall, of the firm of Hiles & Coggshall, of this city, and has one child, Saba; and Frank J., who resides in this city and is interested in several successful enterprises. He has been a member a! the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade for several years, and is also high in the f,ecret work of several of the fraternal orders. He married Miss Nellie M. Truscott, daughter of Samuel Truscott, Esq., of Cleveland. In politics he is a most ardent Republican, as wai also his father. He and his wife are members of the First Baptist Church. His father is now aged seventy-five years, and his mother died at the age sixty-six, while attending the World's Fair at Chicago. From an accidental fall down stairs she received a wound (concussion of the brain) from which she died after two hours of unconsciousness. His father is, and his mother was, an ardent member of the First Baptist Church. W. K. MAHER, Superintendent of the Cleveland Special Police, was born in the "metropolis of the lakes," November 27, 1857. He finished his school days at the Spencerian Business College, thus giving him such educational equipments as ought to be required of the " youth universal " before his entrance into competition with the business world. On leaving his school-books he assisted his father for about three years, engaged in teaming and contracting. He was next connected with the work-house as a guard under Superintendent Patterson until 1878, when it occurred to him that a special police and detective agency could be operated to advantage and with profit in Cleveland, and he made the venture. Service was extended to protection of manufacturing, marine, merchants' and residence districts; and ere many months all these clistrietS were under protection of patrolmen from Superintendent Maher's office. His detective agency soon found public favor, and it extended its workings to points anywhere in the United States. Both detective and patrol departments are in " touch" with the local police, and always work in harmony with them. The old Merchants' Police Company was succeeded by the Cleveland Special Police, with James T. Daugherty as president; J. C. McMillan, secretary and treasurer, and William K. Maher as superintendent and general manager. Mr. Maher is by nature adapted to the business in which he engaged. In the first place, it is agreeable to him, and be takes a special pride in guiding and directing the movements of his men for the detection of a wrong and CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 741 the capture of the offender, although he is never known by the public to be engaged in any given piece of work. In order to equip himself perfectly Mr. Maher has spent much time in the larger cities of the United States, studying the advanced methods of patrol and detective work as practied by the police depaitments of those cities, and has made the subject one of general study in order that his patrons may have the best service known to the detective world. Our subject is a son of John Maher, a native of Ireland, who came to Cleveland and was somewhat prominent as a teamster, contractor and grader. He was married in Ireland, to Julia Kelly, who died leaving two children,—William K. and Nellie. For his second wife Mr. Maher married Miss. Ryan, and they have had one son, James. Superintendent Maher was married September 21, 1881, in Cleveland, to Miss Annie Higgins, of St. Louis, Missouri, whose parents were of Irish birth. By this marriage there are the following children: John F., Julia E., Josephine M., William and Catherine. ALVA J. SMITH, general passenger and ticket agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, is a worthy representative of that familiar and most numerous family, ever foremost in the history of our country, beginning with Captain John Smith at the settlement of Virginia and founding of Jamestown, just a quarter of a century before the appearance of Lieutenant Samuel Smith, eight generations in advance of our subject, and reinforced by countless numbers from all Europe during the two and a half centuries or more of our existence as a nation. A record in possession of the family records the lineal heads of families from Lieutenant Samuel Smith, who emigrated from England in the ship Elizabeth of Ipswich, April 30, 1634. He is supposed to have died in 1680. His son Philip became one of the leading men of his community, was a lieutenant (probably from serving in the Indian wars of New England), represented his townspeople in some of their deliberative bodies and held the office of deacon in his favorite church society. He was murdered in accordance with a decree of Cotton Mather about 1685, on account of the troubles with witchcraft. His wife was Rebecca, a daughter of Nathaniel Foote. Jonathan Smith, son of Philip, married Abigail, a daughter of Joseph Kellogg. He died in Whately, in 1734. His son Elisha married Sarah Field. The wife of Benjamin was Mehitable. Benjamin's children were: Philip, who married Eliza Graves; Rev. Paul, who married a lady of his own name, Elizabeth Smith; Silas took for his Lavina Houghton; Elisha, who married and left New England for the West; Jonathan married Elizabeth Chaultce :; and Gad's wife was Irene Wait. Roswell Smith, son of Benjamin Smith, married Mary Craft, and his following six brothers married,--Elijah to Miriam Morton, Isaac to Roxa Morton, Bezaleel to Lavina'Munson, Asa to Judith Graves, Adna to Keziah Humes, Eland Rufus, our subject's grandfather, married Anna Munson. His son, Ashley Smith, father of Alva J. was born in Massachusetts in 1796, and November 25, 1819, married Miriam Russell, whose father, Elihu Russell, married Miriam, a daughter of Thomas Sanderson. Joseph Sanderson, an ancestor of the latter, came from Norfolk county, England, in 1637, was Master of the Mint at Boston in 1652, and made the celebrated and now very rare 46 pine-tree " shillings. His descendants were William Sanderson, leaving Joseph Sanderson, leaving Joseph Sanderson, born August 30, 1714, and died March 20, 1772, who left Thomas Sanderson, born in 1746, who was the father of Miriam Sanderson, who married Elihu Russell. Elihn Russell's children were Polixeria, Lucy, Betsy, Delia, Miriam, Levi, Elihu, William S., Austin, Wellington, Emery, Esteven, Sumner, Ashley and Mary. 742 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Ashley Smith became a millwright and during our second war with England was a Federal soldier from Massachusetts. He emigrated to New York in 1822 and settled at Churchville, Monroe County, where he died in 1854, at fifty-eight years of age. His wife preceded him three years, aged fifty-one. Besides Major Smith, Ashley Smith was the father of Francis, who died in 1887, at sixty-eight years of age; Charles Augustus, a farmer, who died in 1894; at Merrill, Wisconsin, aged seventy-two; Levi L., at Maple Rapids, Michigan; Fidelia M., now Mrs. Benjamin T. Richmond, of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Austin R., who died in Cleveland in 1881, at forty-seven, and was ticket agent at the union depot; George W., E farmer near Grand Rapids, Michigan, and two others who died very young. Alva J. Smith was born at Churchville, September 30, 1840, and was a pupil of the Church. ville village schools until thirteen years old when by the death of his father he was made an orphan and went to Wisconsin, where he resided for a time on a farm with his brother. He re• turned to his native town the next year and clerked in his brother's store until the spring of 1858, when he went to Albion, New York, and secured a clerkship, which he held till the breaking out of the Civil war. On the 13th of April, 1861, the day follow ing the firing on Fort Sumter, Mr. Smith ix company with a number of young men orgy nized a company for service in the Union army but disbanded after a short period of drill. The following spring Mr. Smith enlisted at Roch ester, New York, in the Fourth New Yorl Artillery, being ordered to report at Washing ton, where the regiment was stationed during that summer. A complete review of his mill tart' service given without comment is as fol lows: Enlisted as private in Company C,- July 29, 1862; promoted Corporal September 1 1862; in service in the defense of Washington to June 1863, Abercrombie's division', Twenty second Corps; commissioned Second Lieutenan in the Eleventh New York Volunteer Artillery June 21, 1863; engaged in the organization of a regiment at Rochester till October, same year, where, on 16th of the same month he was transferred to Fourth New York Volunteer Artillery; and was in defenses of the capital till April, 1864, in DeRussy's division of the Twenty-second Corps. His engagements were: Wilderness, May 5 to 7; Corbin's Bridge, May 6; Spottsylvania, May 8; Ny river, May 9 and 10; Po river, May 11; North Anna, May 23 to 27; Tolopotomy, May 28 to 31; Cold Harbor, June 1 to 12, 1864; before Petersburg, June 16 to 19; Weldon Railroad, June 22 to 23; Deep Bottoms, June 27 and 28 (was promoted First Lieutenant July 27, 1864); Mine Explosion, July- 30; Strawberry Plains, August 14 to 18; White Oak Swamp, August 25; Poplar Spring's Church, September 30 and October 2; Boydton Road, October 27 and 28 (was promoted Captain November 5, 1864); reconnoitre to Hatcher's Run, December 8 and 9; assigned to duty as Aide on the staff of Fourth Brigade, First Division of Second Corps, December 25, 1864; relieved in February, 1865; Dabney's Mills, February 5 to 7, same year; acting ,Brigade Inspector, Fourth Brigade, First Division, Second Corps, February to April, 1865; Peeble's farm, March 25; Hatcher's Run, March 29; Boydton Road, March 30 and 31; White Oak Road, March 31; Southerland Station, April 2; fall of Petersburg, April 3; siege of the same during the year, April 16, 1864, to April 3, '65; Amelia Springs, April 5, 1865; Deatonville, April 6; Sailor's Creek, April 6; High Ridge, the 7th; and Appomattox Court House, the 9th of the same month; grand review at Washington, May 23; acting Ordinance Officer of First Division of Second Corps, June. 23 to 26; mustered out of service September 26, 1865; and Brevetted Major of United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious conduct during the war. Colonel Smith came to Ohio in 1866, and on August 4, 1877, was appointed Aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Thomas L. Young with the rank of Colonel. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 743 In the summer of 1866 Mr. Smith began his successful railroad career in the general ticket office of the Bee Line at Cleveland; was made chief clerk of the office the next year, and performed those duties till August of 1874, when the office of assistant general ticket agent was created for him in recognition of his faithful and efficient service; and in the same month, five years later, the office of general passenger agent was tendered to him and accepted. Upon the consolidation of the passenger departments of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad and the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad in January, 1881, his jurisdiction was extended over that line. He was appointed general passenger agent of the Dayton & Union Railroad January 2, 1882. When the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton was made a part of the Bee Line, Colonel Smith was made general passenger agent of that line also, and held the office from December 31, 1881, till May, 1882, when the departments were again made separate. March 1, 1887, Colonel Smith severed his long connection with the Bee Line and became chief of the passenger and ticket department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. Colonel Smith is a prominent member of the Association 'of General Passenger and Ticket Agents, was elected its secretary in . 1879, and has served continuously for fifteen years, being annually re-elected. Colonel Smith is progressive and remarkably industrious. He understands the needs of the traveling public and has so equipped and fitted up the passenger service of his line as to make it equal to any and superior to many metropolitan lines. September 7, 1865, Colonel Smith married, at Warsaw, New York, Miss Harriet L., a daughter of Zelotes Cornwell, whose wife was Polixena Russell. An ancestor, Susanna Robinson, who came 'over in the Mayflower, had a grandchild named Chapman, who married Cornwell, the father of Zelotes. Mr. Cornwell was born in Massachhsetts and was a farmer. He died in 1866, at the age of sixty-eight, and his wife in 1857, being fifty-two years old. Mr. Cornwell's children were: Darius; William; Anna Elizabeth, now Mrs. John W. Richmond; George, who died in 1888, at the age of fifty-two; Zelotes; Charles, who died in 1891, at the age of fifty; Hiram, and Harriet Louisa. Colonel and Mrs. Smith's family consists of three children, viz.: Amy E. Smith, an art teacher in Oberlin College; Miriam C.; and Alva C. Colonel Smith is a member of the Loya Legion and of the Grand Army of the Republic; also of Woodward Lodge, A. F. &. A. M of Cleveland. CHARLES F. SCHWEINFURTH, a prominent architect, came to Cleveland in 1883, in which year he submitted plans for the Everett residence on Euclid avenue, which plans were accepted, and with which began his architectural work in Cleveland. Deciding to remain in Cleveland, he made a permanent location in the city, and since that date he has submitted plans for many of the most handsome and important buildings' erected in the city, among these structures being the residences of William Chisohn, Samuel Mather, J. E. French and others. The excellent building of the Young Men's Christian Association in the city of Cleveland, the Lennox apartment house, the People's Savings and Loan six-story brick and stone bank building, and many other important buildings have been built according to plans submitted by Mr. Schweinfurth. He has also submitted plans upon which were built certain grand and important buildings erected in Toledo, New York, Brooklyn and other cities. Mr. Schweinfurth was born in New York city. His father was of German birth, and was a government architect at the time of the German insurrection of 1848—'49. He came to America in 1849, and located in New York city, where he followed his profession, gaining 744 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. considerable notoriety. He is a relative of Dr. George Schweinfurth, the celebrated African explorer. Under the instruction of his father the subject of this sketch mainly gained his knowledge of architecture. Under his father he was compelled to learn also carpentering, stone-cutting and brick-laying, and thus he was made an efficient and practical architect. When entering the profession upon his own responsibility he occupied an office in New York city. His.first important piece of work was the remodeling of an apartment house of thirteen stories, which he finished in 1882. Mr. Schweinfurth is an architect of marked ability and competency. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, and was President 'of the Ohio Association of Architects for three successive terms. LEVI WHERRY, a well-known contractor, has been identified with the growth of Cleveland as a builder for sixteen years. His first contract was for the construction of a residence for John Huntington. The residences of Captains Scofield and Taylor, General Leggett, George Collins, W. S. Tyler, Bishop Leonard, and many others of importance, besides numerous business blocks, have risen by the hand of Mr. Wherry. Mr. Wherry was born in West Middletown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, forty-eight years ago. His father was Noah Wherry, a man of much mechanical genius, but a farmer. In 1832 he left Pennsylvania and by covered wagon went to Iowa, becoming a well-to-do stockman and farmer. When the Civil war came on he enlisted with the "Gray Beard" Company, and served nearly two years guarding prisoners atAlton, Illinois. The plan of forming regiments of the old men was suggested to the War Goverdor of Iowa by Daniel Tarr, father of our subject's mother. On the adoption of the plan, Mr. Tarr was made a regimental officer, as was also Noah Wherry, and did valuable service as a soldier. He lived many years after the close of the war, dying in Iowa at the age of ninety-six years. In 1865 Noah Wherry removed to Dakota, where lie now resides, and where he represented his district in the State Legislature two or three terms. Levi Wherry enlisted in the Seventh Iowa Infantry, Colonel (afterward General) Lawmay, being succeeded in the Colonelcy by Price and Parrott. The regiment served in the campaign from Belmont, Missouri, to Fort Donelson, and was engaged at Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Tupelo, Jackson and Holly Springs, and was then transferred to Chattanooga, participating in the Atlanta campaign. He marched with Sherman to the sea, back through the Carolinas, and closed this long tramp with the grand review at Washington. Mr. Wherry enlisted as a private, but by promotion was carrying a Lieutenant's commission when mustered out, being then only twenty years old. Mr. Wherry married, in 1868, Martha, a daughter of Daniel Ewing. Four sons are the result of this union: William H.; H. M., a plumber; George, an architect; and Warren. Mr. Wherry is a worthy member of Army and Navy Post, G. A. R. CHRISTIAN KASPER, a general contractor of Cleveland, located on Swiss street, has been identified with the building interests of Cleveland since 1878, his first contract being for the building of a residence on Lorain street, and thereafter he constructed many residences and store houses, and has been a most active man in his calling, achieving more than ordinary success. -In 1886 he invented the Kasper Self-acting -Vat Cleaner, which he manufactured up to 1892, when he disposed of this cleaner and invented the Magic Vat Cleaner, which he manufactured till November, 1892, when he sold the same. In March, 1893, he invented the Kasper Spring Halter-Hitcher, Which he is now manufacturing, and which promises to be a well-demanded commodity. This last invention he is now putting CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 745 on the market, and it has received a favorable introduction, and will probably prove a source of large revenue to its inventor. Mr. Kasper came to Cleveland in 1870, coming from Pomeroy, Ohio, to where he migrated when a youth with his father, John Kasper, a carpenter and cabinetmaker. Mr. Kasper was born in Prussia, December 23, 1846. After going to Pomeroy he learned the carpenter's trade and also the mechanic's trade. He was unmarried when he came to Cleveland, and in 1872 he married Minnie Voss, of this city, and by her has four children. His business career in the city of Cleveland has been characterized by honesty, activity and success. He has not only gained the reputation of a successful contractor, but has distinguished himself as a mechanical genius and as an inventor. He has in his employ quite a number of men, and the liberal compensation and other liberalities given them. mark him as a generous and fair-minded man. He has always been identified with the Republican party in politics, though he has never sought political preferment. JULIUS RENKER, a carpenter and cooper, South Brooklyn, Ohio, is a representative of one of the pioneer families of Cuyahoga county. Mr. Renker was born in Brooklyn township, this county, September 2, 1848. His father, Henry Renker, a native of Germany, was born September 19, 1808, and by trade was a cooper. He owned a coffee plantation in Mexico, where he spent some years and where he was married, April 4, 1837, to Bertha A. Schlechterway, also a native of Germany, her birth having occurred in Nordhausen, January 21, 1811. From Mexico they. came to Ohio, first settling in Lorain county and some time later removing to Cuyahoga county and taking up their abode in the village of Brighton. Here he started a cooper shop, which he conducted up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1879. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and in politics was a Democrat. His whole life was characterized by honest industry, and by his many excellent traits of character he won the confidence and respect of all who knew him. His good wife passed away October 3, 1869. They were the parents of nine children, six daughters and three sons, all of whom, with one exception, reached adult years, and these eight are still living, namely: Mrs. Herinina Penning, Mrs. Amelia Lind, Herman, Mrs. Matilda Brandwiller, Julius, Mrs. Bertha Love, Mrs. Emma Livingston and Mrs. Louisa Stafford. When Julius Renker was twenty years old he began to learn the trade of cooper in his father's shop, and after his father's death succeeded him in business, continuing the same until 1886. Since then he has been engaged in contracting and building. Mr. Renker was married May 28, 1873, to Eva C. Kline, who was born and reared in Parma township, this county. She was the sixth born in a family of thirteen children of Philip and Mary (Messersmith) Kline, both natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Reuker have had four children, Lula, Julia, Henry G. and Franklin A. Lula, the oldest, died at the age of three years and three months. In political affiliations, Mr. Renker is a Republican. He served for six successive years as Assessor of Brooklyn township, and ever since the village of South Brooklyn was organized he has been a member of its Board of Health. He is one of the charter members of Riverside Lodge, K. of P., and is also identified with the I. 0. 0. F., having been a member of the latter organization for twenty-four years. GEORGE GUSCOTT, Mayor of South Brooklyn, Ohio, is a native of England, but has been a resident of this country since his early boyhood and has become thoroughly Americanized. A sketch of his life will be found of interest and is as follows: 746 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. George Guscott was born in Devonshire, England, January 23, 1844, and attended a private school there until he was eight years of age, being then obliged to quit on account of ill health. In 1857 he accompanied his parents to America. Both his parents, Jason and Harriet (Glandville) Guscott, were natives of England. Upon their arrival in this country they settled in East Cleveland, where the 'ather opened a carriage and wagon shop and conducted the same one year. Then he removed to Brooklyn village and started a blacksmith and carriage shop where S. R. Brainard's grocery store now is, next to what was then Storer's tannery. Four years later he located on a farm in Parma township, this county, where he passed the rest of his life, and died at the age of sixty-five years. He and his wife had a family of eight children, five daughters and three sons, the subject of our sketch being the oldst child. George Guscott had begun to learn the trade of blacksmith with his father before they left England, and after they located in Brooklyn village he took up the wagon-making trade under Crawford Brainard, with whom he continued four years. At the end of this time he turned his attention to farming. After his marriage, which event occurred in 1867, he moved to Brecksville, Ohio, where he bought a farm of ninety acres and set up a blacksmith and carriage shop. The first payment he made on this property was with money which he borrowed at 10 per cent. interest. For twelve years he followed his business and farming, and then went West on a prospecting tour. While on this tour he made some valuable investments in Kansas. Upon his return to Ohio, he removed with his family to Parma, where he entered largely into farming. Subsequently he tuned his attention more especially to the milk business, in which he has continued ever since. In 1887 he moved to South Brooklyn and in company with his three sons enlarged the business, making it both wholesale and retail, and running as high as five wagons. Mr. Guscott's marriage has already been referred to. In March, 1867, he wedded Miss Mary Ann Guscott, a native of England and a daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Sims) Guscott, both born in that country. She was sixteen years old at the time they emigrated to this country, her sixteenth birthday being spent on the Atlantic, and at the time of her marriage they were residents of Alliance, Ohio. She is the only daughter in their famiy of four children. Mr. arid Mrs. Guscott have five children: James H., Charles E., William George, Pearl M. and Daisy M., and they also reared a nephew of Mrs. Guscott—David J. Guscott. Politically, Mr. Guscott is a Republican. In 1890, when South Brooklyn was incorporated as a village, he was elected its first Mayor, and so faithfully and efficiently did he perform his duty that in 1892 lie was elected for a second term. He has also served as President of the Board of Health here. His beautiful home is one of the attractive places of South Brooklyn. To him much is due for the efforts he has put forth in various ways in advancing the interests of the town, and none are more anxious to see South Brooklyn take high rank as a Cleveland suburb than is lie. Mr. Guscott is prominent in numerous secret organizations. He is a member of Empire Lodge, No. 346, I. 0. 0. F., of Royalton; Excelsior Lodge, No. 5555, Foresters, of Newburg; Grangers, at Brecksville; Sons of St. George, of Newburg; Riverside Lodge and later a charter member of South Brooklyn Lodge, K. of P., and the American Protective Association. DR. T. C. MARTIN, surgeon, of Cleveland, was born in Maysville, Mason county, Kentucky, January 5, 1864, a son of Dr. G. W. and Frances (Wilson) Martin, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Kentucky. His father was widely patronized as a consulting physician and known as such even throughout the State. He died in 1889, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 747 at the age of sixty years, and his wife is still living, now residing on the old homestead, the Valmont farm. Her grandfather, John Wilson, was an early settler in the Blue-grass State, taking up the land that now constitutes a third of Mason and Lewis counties, having patents for it. A great-grandfather of Dr. Martin, Abram Clark, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and on his mother's side his grandmother, Mrs. Baker, was a daughter of Matthias Brandenburg, who had the good fortune to he exiled from Germany as a political exile from Prussia. He came to America, first settling in Maryland and afterward in Kentucky. A son of his founded the town of Brandenburg, Kentucky. Dr. G. W. Martin had six children, namely: Ella, who is now the wife of Dr. R. H. Pepper and resides at Huntington, West Virginia; T. C., the subject of this sketch; James Wilson, at present in charge of the old homestead farm at Valmont, Kentucky, where his mother lives: he married Miss Mary Charles; Mary Chamberlain; Lacon Jolly and Jennette Brandenburg. Our subject, Dr. T. C. Martin, was educated at Center College, Kentucky, and in medicine graduated at the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College in 1886. Immediately upon graduation he was appointed resident surgeon of the Huron Street Hospital College, for one year; next he attended for a year a post-graduate course at the " Post-Graduate Medical Hospital and School" in New York city; the ensuing two years he was, by appointment from Governor Foraker, surgeon for the Ohio Penitentiary; then attended Guy's Hospital, London, England, one of the most noted in the world, and also attended hospitals at Paris; in the years 1889-'90 he was assistant physician at the Woman's Hospital, on Toho Square, in London; and during the following winter returned to Cleveland. Here he was then appointed a lecturer on surgery in the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. Since his last location here he has been the inventor of several surgical instruments, and has given his attention almost exclusively to surgery. Occasionally be contributes an article to the medical press. He is secretary of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, and is a member of several other medical associations, as well as of other scientific societies. Dr. Martin has availed himself of the advantages of many of the most noted medical and hospital institutions of the world, and has had a large and varied experience in surgery. He therefore has a bright future before him. GOTTLIEB MERKLE, an old settler and ( prominent farmer of Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, resides at Lin-dale. It is appropriate that some personal mention be made of him in this work, which is descriptive of the representative men of the county. Mr. Merkle was born in Woodenburg, Germany, November 17, 1836, son of George and Katharine (Maier) Merkle, both natives of Germany. George Merkle emigrated to America in 1858, first locating at Cleveland and afterward in Independence township in the same county. He was a farmer by occupation. He died May 3, 1862, and his wife survived him until 1881. They were the parents of thirteen children, eight of whom reached maturity, the subject of our sketch being the tenth born and the only one of the family now living. When Mr. Merkle came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, he was sixteen years old. He attended school some in the old country, and after coming here went to school two years in Cleveland. Then he clerked in a general merchandise store in Cleveland for six years. After his marriage he settled on the farm on which he now resides and where he has since carried on general farming. This place comprises eighty-nine and a half acres. Mr. Merkle was married in 1859 to Susan Stehling, who was born on the farm on which they now live, her people being among the early 748 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Merkle have had eleven children, all of whom are living except one, namely: Fred C., George (deceased), Lewis, Mary, William, Sophia, Louisa, Gustaph, Edward, Jacob and Frankie. Politically, Mr. Merkle is a Republican, and has held various local offices. He has been a member of the School Board for about twenty-four years, served as Township Trustee one term, and for six years was Assessor. He is a member of the Evangelical Church, in which he has served as Trustee and in which he is now Treasurer. S. A. HART, Superintendent of Delivery of Cleveland Mails, was born in Newton Falls, Ohio, January 5, 1851. I. A. Hart, the father of Superintendent Hart, was born in Connecticut in 1826, and came to Ohio with the family in 1837, settling near Warren. He became a tailor, and in 1854 came to Cleveland and established himself in business, dying here in 1883. He married a daughter of Win. Roberts, a pioneer of Trumbull county, a farmer and an extensive owner of canal stock. Eleven children resulted from this marriage, viz : Elizabeth, wife of Dr. J. A. Syrnes, of Cleveland; S. A.; Rev. G. L., of same city; Edward, assistant foreman of the Savage Printing Company; Nellie, wife of A. Wannamaker; Grace , wife of John Rawson; and Cora, wife of Eugene Cook, all of this city. Four others are deceased. The subject of this notice secured only a scant education from the city schools, all his practicat training coming from the printing office with which he became connected soon after the war. January 4, 1863, Mr. Hart enlisted in the army and was mustered in as musician in the Second Brigade, Second Division of the Fourth Army Corps, his father being a member of the same band. This command was under General Hogan. Mr. Hart reached the scene of action just after the Stone River light, and participated at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and the release of Burnside at Knoxville. Four months after his enlistment Mr. Hart was made Chief Orderly on General Hogan's staff, and so served till discharged just before the capture of Atlanta. On his return to Cleveland Mr. Hart was apprenticed to learn the printing business under Ed. Cowles, of the Leader, and remained three years. He located then with Mr. Fairbanks, of the Herald, and concluded his services with this paper fourteen years later as foreman of the office. He next associated himself with R. H. Salter and formed the Legal and Commercial Publishing Company (1885). This business relation existed until 1891, when he assumed the duties of his office in the Government service. In 1871 Mr. Hart married, in Cleveland, Ester, a daughter of Theophilus Jones. Mr. Jones was born in Wales, came to Cleveland in 1854, and was a rolling-mill man. His children were: Ester, William S., James W. and Theophilus. Mr. and Mrs. Hart are the parents of Salen A., Elsie May, Mildred and George. The first named married in June, 1893, Mary Gray, and is a clerk in the gas office. M. A. MADISON, director of accounts of the city of Cleveland, and the veteran official of the City Hall, was born in Cleveland, February 5, 1845. His natural father was Mr. Turner, born in Windsor county, Vermont, who emigrated to Cuyahoga county, and followed mercantile pursuits for many years, dying here at eighty years of age. Wm. A. Madison's mother died at his birth. Their family physician was waiting on another patient at the same time, who lost her infant and was anxious to adopt without formality another child to assuage the family grief and fill the empty cradle. At a conference between the two officiating families, Mr. Turner not being able to care for his infant and motherless child as lie would desire, decided to allow Mrs. Mad- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 749 ison to take him with the understanding that she should raise him to maturity as her own son. He fell heir to the new family name because lie heard no other and knew no other. Mr. Madison received a liberal English education from the public schools of Cleveland. In 1864 he offered his services to his country, joining Company B, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio National Guards. Prior to this date he had been attached to a regiment of Ohio troops, but was ordered discharged because of his tender years. In the fall of 1864 Mr. Madison went south for the purpose of joining the Union army. He found it in Tennessee and met General Hazen at Murfreesborough and was made chief clerk in the department of subsistence. He was so connected with the army till January, 1866, when he was relieved at, Nashville and returned again to Cleveland. On entering civil life again, Mr. Madison became an employee of the Lake Shore Railroad Company, and remained in the freight department seven years, retiring to accept a clerkship in the water-works. In this capacity he was found at his post Through succeeding administrations to 1890, when he was requested to accept the position of Secretary of the department of Public Works, which he did, and there remained till April, 1893. On the succession of Mr. Blee to the mayoralty, he offered Mr. Madison the directorship of accounts, not out of a political necessity but for the single reason that he knew the duties of the department and was amply equipped for their performance. Mr. Madison is not identified with any political party, and because lie served so long with the Republicans and has now been honored with a position in the mayor's cabinet, he is good-naturedly referred to as 4, The Gresham of the cabinet." September 27, 1867, Mr. Madison married in Cleveland one of his schoolmates, Miss Marian Augusta Brewster, a direct descendant of Elder Brewster. Some of them settled in New. York, in which State Mrs. Madison was born. Mr. and Mrs. Madison have the following children: Fannie Laura, the wife of E. L. Fisher, Vice President of the Fisher Lumber Coinpauy, of Cleveland; Charles Brewster, who died July 18, 1893, and was buried on his twenty-third birthday; Eva Marian, who died in 1883, aged seven years; and Wm. A. Madison, Jr., now aged sixteen years. Mr. Madison is a 32d-degree Mason, and is Treasurer of the Holyrood Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 32. FRED M. GIESSEN, soliciting agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was born in Atwater, Ohio, November 17, 1858. His father, Fred Giessen, born in Bavaria, Germany, left his European home and came to Cleveland in 1854. He was an employee of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad for about three years, when work became scarce and he drifted out to Portage county, and spent two or three years on a farm. On his return to Cleveland, soon after our subject's birth, he was employed by Win. Taylor & Sons as a teamster and remained with them till his death, June 30, 1893, being then sixty-two years old. Our subject's mother was.Appolonia Hoffman, born in Bavaria and yet living. Her children are: Fred M.; Kate; F. A., salesman; Charles H., civil engineer; Daniel E., salesman, with W. H. Luetkemeyer & Sons; Wm. G., chief of the chemical laboratory of the West Minnesota Blast Furnace Company of West Duluth, Minnesota; and Emma M. Fred M. Geissen was educated according to the custom of German parents, first in German schools and afterward a brief period in English public schools. At thirteen years of age he began work for Lampson, Sessions & Co., in their nut and bolt works. He remained with this company about two years when he made a change in location, going with H. A. Stephens & Sons, proprietors of the Forest City Spice Mills. Three years later his career as a railroad man began as a laborer. He soon demonstrated to his company that he was worth more