CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 75 tective was to receive $3,000. As the day of execution came nearer, Mr. Brennan became more and more convinced that an innocent man, though a bad citizen, was about to suffer death, and he determined to prevent it by repeating to Governor Foster the conversation with his female companion in the train. He went to Columbus, was introduced to the Governor, told him his secret and Mr. Welch's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Mr. Brennan has visited Ireland twice since he left it in 1849, the last time taking with him his wife and daughter, dining with the Lord Mayor of Dublin, who married a cousin, a Miss Brennan. Mr. Brennan was a son of Ennis Brennan, who came to Cleveland in 1862, and died here in 1872, aged sixty-five. His wife was Ellen Gavican, who died in 1884, aged eighty-four years. They were from county Roscommon, Ireland, where Mr. Brennan, our subject, was born, in October, 1830. In April, 1852, Mr. Brennan married Catherine Barlow, from his own county in Ireland. Their children are: Frank, deceased; Hubert, deceased; Anna, wife of Charles M. Le Blond, of Cleveland; John F., who married Miss Lillian Ohlemacher, of Sandusky, Ohio; Teresa, wife of Charles P. O'Reilly, of Cleveland; and Georgie, Joseph, Mary Ellen and Luke died in infancy. Mr. Brennan is an active member of the Knights of St. John, and was a delegate to the Catholic convention in Baltimore in 1890. DR. DANIEL HEIMLICH, a physician and surgeon of Cleveland, was born in this city, October 4, 1867, a son of Abraham and Clara Heimlich, natives of Austria, but now residents of Cleveland. In 1885 our subject graduated at the West high school, four years afterward completed the course at Adelbert College, and in 1892 graduated in the Medical Department of the Western Reserve University. He then went to Europe, and attended medical lectures in Berlin, Vienna, London and other large cities, also studied under the best instructors of the continent. Dr. Heimlich returned to this city in 1893, and has since been engaged in the active practice of medicine and surgery, having an office at 521 Woodland avenue. His residence is located on the West Side, where he has resided for nineteen years. In 1893 he became the Democratic candidate for Coroner, and was elected by a very large majority, having run much ahead of his ticket. Dr. Heimlich was a student of Dr. Gustav C. E. Weber, of this city. He is a member of the Cleveland (Ohio) Medical Association, and is physician for the H. B. & S. H. Society. He Is well read in his studies, and stands high in his profession. JOSEPH C. SHIELDS, Treasurer of Cuyahoga county, was born in New Alexandria, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1827. His parents were John and Elizabeth (Skiles) Shields, both natives of Pennsylvania, his father being of Irish and his mother of German descent. He served as a private in the war of 1812. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a Colonial soldier of the Revolution. Joseph C. Shields was given a fair common-school education, and served an apprenticeship of five years and eight months at the trade of tanner and currier, which trade he followed for a period of two years after serving an apprenticeship. He then went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1845, and there followed the trade of mechanic till the spring of 1852, when he came to Cleveland to accept a position as hotel clerk, which position he gave up some nine months later in order to accept employment in the service of the Cleveland Transfer Company, with whom he was engaged till September, 1853. Next he was in the employ of the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad Company until the fall 76 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. of 1858, when he went to Central America to superintend a stage line across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. He was engaged there till the winter of 1860, when he accepted employment from the Adams Express Company at New Orleans. In April, 1861, he again entered the service of the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad Company. In the same year Mr. Shields enlisted as a private in the Cleveland Light Artillery, and after an army service of three months he again took up railroading. In July, 1862, he recruited the Nineteenth Ohio Battery, better known as " Shields' Battery," with which he left for the seat of war October 6, 1862. This battery was engaged in upward of fifty fights and skirmishes, some of the most important being Rocky-Face Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Pine mountain, Stone mountain, Kenesaw mountain, Atlanta, Jonesborough, Lovejoy Station, Franklin, Nashville and others. The battery was ordered to North Carolina from Nashville by way of Washington, reaching Washington with the close of the war. The battery returned home to Cleveland, where they were mustered out of the service June 27, 1865, Mr. Shields with rank of Captain. Upon the close of the war he again took up railroading on the same road where he was formerly employed, and for several years was master of transportation, and then for seventeen years he was a passenger conductor, In August, 1886, he entered the County Treasurer's office as a deputy, and as such served until he was elected County Treasurer as the Republican candidate in the fall of 1889; and to this office he was re-elected in the fall of 1891, his second term expiring in September, 1894. Mr. Shields is a member of the Forest City Post; G. A. R., of which he served two years as Commander. He is also a member of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' & Sailors' Union, Loyal Legion, and other societies pertaining to soldiers. In many ways he has been prominently connected with public measures, both social and political. In 1867—'68 he served as a member of the City Council for Cleveland, and he has long since held a very high station in the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens. In 1862 Mr. Shields married Miss Ellen S. Crawford: they have no children. PERRY H. BABCOCK, senior member of the wholesale grocery house of Babcock, Hurd & Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, was born at Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, January 23, 1816, the son of Almon and Mary (Collins) Babcock. His father was born at West Granville, Massachusetts, November 9, 1788, the son of Perry and Cynthia (Hickox) Babcock; and Perry Babcock was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, in 1765, and was the son of Jonathan and Susanna (Perry) Babcock; Jonathan Babcock was born also at Westerly, November 19, 1735, the son of David and Dorcas (Brown) Babcock; David was born at South Kingston, Rhode Island, December 22, 1700, the son of George and Elizabeth (Hall) Babcock; George was a native also of South Kingston, born in 1674, the son of John and Mary (Lawton) Babcock; John Babcock was born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1644. He was a " freeman" in 1669, "conservator of the peace" in 1678, and "deputy" in 1682-'84. He was the son of James Babcock, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, who was born in England in 1612, and landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in July 1621. He was admitted an "inhabitant" in 1642, and a "freeman" in 1655. He was twice married. Almon Babcock left Granville, Massachusetts, in 1810, and came to Charlestown, Portage county, Ohio, as agent for his father, one of the members of the Charlestown Land Company. In 1814 he married Miss Mary, the only daughter of Robert Johnson Collins, of Rootstown, Portage county, Ohio, she being on her mother's side a descendant from the old and well-known family of Wadsworths of Hartford, Connecticut. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 77 He was an active and enterprising man and stirring character in his day, in the new Western Reserve. In the war of 1812 he served under General Wadsworth, and afterward settled in Ravenna, and made that place his home during the remainder of his life. He built the first brick house in Ravenna, and opened a hotel, which soon became a favorite stopping place on the stage route between Cleveland and Pittsburg. lie also ran a blacksmith shop and owned a farm. His death occurred in 1850. Mr. Perry H. Babcock was given a good common-school education, and learned the blacksmith's trade in his father's shop at Ravenna. In 1839, while working at this trade, he met with an accident, and during the enforced idleness which followed he accepted an invitation to make a trip to Cincinnati as the guest of D. D. and D. McDonald, owner of a flat-boat. This trip required thirty days,—quite a contrast between then and now, when the same distance can be made by rail in a few hours' time. During this trip Mr. Babcock was impressed with the possibilities of the profits that might be earned in the forwarding and commission business, and determined at no distant day to put his ideas into practice; and it was probably this trip, intended as one of pleasure, that changed the whole course of his life; and it may be said that the accident, regretted at the time, turned him from the blacksmith-shop to the busy marts of commerce, and made possible the success of after life, making him a successful merchant instead of a skilled mechanic. While in Cincinnati he engaged as a clerk in a wholesale grocery house, and remained in that city until 1841, when he returned to Ravenna. The following year he hired a boat and brought a load of coal from the Briar Hill mines (now Youngstown), owned by Tod & Stambaugh, which was the first load of coal ever brought from those mines to Ravenna. (The senior member of the above firm, David Tod, was afterward Governor of Ohio.) Previous to that time coal from the Tallmadge mines in Summit county bad been used at Ravenna. Mr. Babcock remained at Ravenna until 1845, during the season of which year he was in Pittsburg, forwarding goods through to the lakes in connection with Hubby and Hughes of Cleveland. Then, owing to his recent marriage, he, in the spring of 1846, removed to Aurora, Ohio, where he engaged in business with Hurd & Sons, Mr. Hurd being his father-in-law. The firm was engaged in the general mercantile business peculiar in those days. His work was entirely on the outside, attending to the purchases, while Mr. Hurd attended to the inside business. Mr. Hurd was a splendid business man, a "natural-born" gentleman, and was one of the most popular men of Aurora. The firm continued at Aurora until 1853, and then removed to Cleveland in order to secure a larger field for operations, and formed the partnership of Babcock, Hurd & Company. Altogether this firm has been in existence forty-eight years, and thus Mr. Babcock is a member of one of the oldest houses in northern Ohio. The commission business was finally dropped by this company, and they confined themselves to the wholesale grocery business exclusively. George Babcock, a son of the subject of this sketch, became a member of this firm in 1865, and remained a member until his death in 1883. Hopson Hurd, Jr., died March 31, 1890. At the present time the firm is composed of Perry H. Babcock (whose name heads this sketch), his son Charles, H. A. Bishop, McClellan Hurd, son of Elisha Hurd, and Harry C. Hurd, son of Hopson Hurd, Jr. The place of business is at Nos. 102-4-6, Water street, corner of St. Clair street. In 1852 the firm of H. Hurd & Son, which was in reality the predecessors of the present firm of Babcock, Hurd & Company, made the largest cheese ever made in Ohio, weighing 1,000 pounds. It was made for the State fair held at Cleveland in that year, and there being no competition in the cheese industry at that fair, and as there was some jealousy existing in Cleveland toward outside towns, no premium was awarded for it. It was sold, at 12 cents 78 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. a pound, to Alden Pease, of Portage county, who sent it to St. Louis for the holiday market. In 1843 Mr. Babcock was married to Maria, daughter of Hopson Hurd, Sr., of Aurora. Her death occurred in 1882, and January 30, 1884, Mr. Babcock was married to Miss Caroline Baldwin, a daughter of the late Frederick Baldwin of Hudson, Summit county, Ohio. Few of Cleveland's citizens have met with greater success or attained a more prominent position in mercantile circles than has Mr. Babcock. For nearly half a century he has been closely identified with the business interests of Cleveland and northern Ohio, and his career has been a steady march onward and upward. He is yet in the prime of his mental and physical energy, retains an unabated interest in his business, and is punctual in his office hours. He has been a director of the National City Bank since 1874, and vice president of that institution since 1876. He is a life member of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and takes a deep interest in the work of this organization. In business and private life he commands the friendship and respect of all who know him. He is quiet and modest in bearing, quick in his perceptions and decided in his movements, upwright in his dealings, and a typical businessman, to whom success has come because he has put forth that energy and determination that forced it. ARTHUR B. FOSTER.—We are now permitted to direct attention to one of the distinctively representative business men of Cleveland, one who has been a resident of the city for nearly a quarter of a century, and who is intimately concerned with certain of her most important industrial enterprises. Our subject comes from a line of ancestors who have been identified with the interests of America from the early Colonial period, representatives of the family having been active participants in war of the Revolution. The father of our subject was C. R. Foster, who was for many years engaged in the merchant tailoring business at Garrettsville, Portage county, Ohio. He was born in 1823 and died at the age of sixty-five years; his wife passed away in 1869, at the age of thirty-eight years. Arthur B. Foster was born at Garrettsville, Ohio, December 14, 1844, and was reared' in his native town, completing his education at the Nelson Academy, at which he graduated in 1861. In 1862, a youth of eighteen years, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a musician, and served for three years, receiving his discharge at 'Cleveland, in 1865. He thereupon returned home and engaged in business with his father, and continued this association for a period of five years. He then came to Cleveland and engaged with the Domestic Sewing Machine Company as a traveling agent, remaining thus employed until 1878, when he was advanced to the position in charge of the wholesale office as local manager. From 1882 until 1890 he had charge of the western department of the company's business, as general manager, finally resigning this preferment and identifying himself with the National Screw & Tack Company, of which he became president. In May, 1890, he severed his connection with the enterprise noted and purchased the controlling interest in the stock of the Cleveland Electric Manufacturing Company, of which he is vice-president, treasurer and general manager. He is also president of the Cleveland Trunk Company, and has other business interests of representative order. The Cleveland Electric Manufacturing Company was organized in 1880 and was duly incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000, ex-Mayor W. G. Rose being the first president of the corporation. The company was organized for the purpose of manufacturing and putting on the market the American watchman's time detector, the first device of the kind in which use was made of electricity. The present company CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 79 own and control the patents on this invention, which has met with the most favorable reception, the business of the company ramifying into all sections of the Union and also into foreign countries. There are more of these detectors in use than of all others combined. The company manufacture all their own goods, a corps of seventy-five operatives being retained in the manufacturing department. Mr. Foster is prominently identified with the Masonic order, being Past-Commander of the Knights Templar, and is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce. In his political proclivities he is a Republican, maintaining a consistent interest in the issues of the day. The marriage of our subject occurred in 1865, when he was united to Miss Belle Wright, a daughter of A. J. Wright, a well-known resident of Tolland, Connecticut. FRED C. EMDE, Supervisor of the Division of Cemeteries in the Department of Charities and Correction of the City of Cleveland, was born in this city September 18, 1863. His parents came to this country from Germany early in the '50s, and have ever since been residents of Cleveland. His mother, however, died a few years ago; and his father, who until that time was a merchant, retired from business, in which relation he still continues. Mr. Erode, the subject proper of this sketch, was educated at the German Lutheran schools in this city, and at the age of thirteen was apprenticed to A. T. Townsend, at that time a prominent druggist here, and became a practical pharmacist. Striking out at the age of eighteen, he traveled extensively, employed in his profession in various large cities, notably at New Orleans, Louisiana, where he remained a number of years. Returning to his native city, after an absence of about five years, he was employed by H. G. Biddle for a few years, and then, in 1889, went into business for himself, which he conducted very successfully until appointed to his present position, the duties of which were such that to attend to them he had to retire temporarily from other business. He is now having a block built on East Prospect street, where, when his term as Cemetery Supervisor expires, he intends, to open again a first-class pharmacy. In his political principles Mr. Emde has always been an ardent Democrat, being a regular attendant as delegate to city, county and State conventions, and was appointed to his present position May 1, 1893, by Director W. J. McKinnie, as a reward for competency and party service. In his fraternal relations he is a member of Forest City Lodge and Cleveland Chapter of Masons, and of the Knights of Pythias. August 3, 1887, is the date of his marriage to Miss Jessie N. Williams, daughter of George and Eunice H. Williams, representatives of one of the oldest families of the Western Reserve. Mr. Williams was a member of the famous Seventh Ohio regiment, serving through the entire war, and for a time was a prisoner at Andersonville. He is now living retired at Chardon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Emde are the parents of two children: Eunice S., aged five; and Helen M., aged three years. WALTER A. THIEME, one of the well-known young members of the Cleveland bar, and a member of the law firm of Thieme & Zangerle, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 18, 1866. His parents were August and Pauline (Schmidt) Thieme, both natives of Germany. His father came to the United States in 1850 and located first at Buffalo, New York, but in 1852 he came to Cleveland. He founded the German paper Waechter am Erie, which he continued to own and edit up to his death in 1879. This paper was one of the loading German publications of Ohio and had a great influence in the city and State. Its publication was continued until October, 1893, when 80 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. it was consolidated with the Anzeiger, of this city. The widow of Mr. Thieme is still living, residing in Cleveland. The subject of this sketch was reared in Cleveland and educated in the public schools here. In 1884 he entered Ann Arbor University, took a two years' law course, and graduated with the degree of LL. B. He next read law in the office of Judge George B. Solders, of Cleveland, for two years, and in 1888 was admitted to the bar. For some time following his admission to the bar he was in the office with Judge Solders, and next was with W. I). Pudney. Later he formed a partnership with John A. Zangerle, under the name-of Thieme & Zangerle. Mr. Thieme has taken an active and prominent part in politics. He has served as Chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee and has been a member of the Democratic State Central Committee. In October 1893, he occupied the beach of the West Side Police Court, during the absence of Judge J. T. Logue; and he presided over that court with marked ability and dignity, adding new laurels to his already bright crown. REV. J. P. MOLONY, who is the able and honored priest in charge of the important parish of St. Malachi's Roman Catholic Church, in Cleveland, Ohio, was born in county Tipperary, Ireland, in the year 1829, the son of Daniel and Ann (Dwyer) Molony, both of whom were natives of the Emerald Isle, that land of legend and romance. The father was called to eternal rest many years ago, and the death of the mother occurred when her son, the subject of this review, was a youth of seventeen years. Both died in their native land and both were zealous and devout members of the Catholic Church. Our subject was the fifth in a family of six children, all of whom are living, one being a resident of California, one of Montana, and three of Australia, where they are concerned in farming operations. The family comprised four girls and two boys, the one brother of our subject being at this time a resident of Australia. Father J. P. Molony received his preliminary education in Ireland, coming to the United States soon after attaining his majority. He entered St. Mary's Seminary, on Lake street, Cleveland, and there pursued his theological studies under the direction of Bishop Rappe. He was ordained to the priesthood June 25, 1859, at the same time as were Fathers Scanlon and O'Callaghan, Bishop Rappe, of honored memory, officiating at the ordination. Father Molony's first parochial charge was at Defiance, Ohio, where he remained for two years, going thence to Napoleon, Henry county, assuming charge of the entire missionary field extending from Ft. Wayne, Indiana, to Maumee City. He finally removed to Mansfield, Richland county, and there remained until 1864, when he came to Cleveland, which city has since been the field of his zealous labors. The organization of St. Malachi's Church was perfected in 1865, its membership being drawn principally from St. Patrick's parish. Prior to the erection of the present church edifice the congregation worshipped at St. Mary's, on the Flats. The early part of our subject's present pastorate was served under Bishop Rappe, and he now labors under the direction of Bishop Gilmour. Upon the organization of the church the membership represented about 800 or 900 families, but the parish has now about 600 families of church adherents. The decrease in membership is due to the fact that manufacturing establishments have gradually encroached upon the district, which twenty five years ago was almost entirely a residence portion. The Sunday-school has a membership of about 600 individuals. That Father Molony has carried forward the work in his parish faithfully and vigorously is evident from the permanent improvements that stand exponent for the success of his efforts. The first lot for the church was purchased in 1866 and further acquisitions in this line were made subse- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 81 quently. The church building is a beautiful brick edifice, the corner-stone of which was laid in April, 1867, with imposing ceremonies, the Very Reverend A. Caron, V. G., officiating. The first mass in the new church was said on Christmas day, 1868, on which occasion the offerings borne to the altar aggregated $1,052. The dedicatory services were conducted by Archbishop Purcell, on the 5th of March, 1871. There are maintained in connection with the church two parochial schools,—one on Pearl street for boys, and the other on Washington street, just west of the church, for girls. The parish is entirely free from indebtedness,—a a fact that bespeaks the executive and financial ability of Father Molony, through whose services this abundant prosperity has been brought about. The holdings of the church represent an expenditure of fully $115,000, while the actual valuation of the property will aggregate $126,000. Within the past twenty-five years, as shown by the parish records, there have been 4,752 baptisms; 2,641 confirmations; 627 marriages, and 8,137 deaths. Father Molony was alone in the exercise of his priestly functions and incidental duties for a period of six years, after which time the exigencies of the work and the manifold calls upon his time and attention rendered imperative the securing of an assistant. The first to serve as incumbent in this position was Father T. M. Smyth, who remained for four years. He is now located at East Liverpool, Ohio. Father Kinkead was his successor, and served from October, 1875, until January, 1877. He now has a charge at Defiance, Ohio. Father W. T. Fitzgerald was assistant at St. Malachi's from 1877 to 1880, and died at Columbus, Ohio, soon after resigning the duties of the position noted. Father F. M. Scullin was the incumbent from 1880 to 1882, and is now established at Niles, Ohio. Father John Hannin, who supplied the vacancy in the year last noted, and who remained for seven years, is now laboring in St. Calemas' Church in Cleveland. The present incumbent as assistant rector is Father John McHale, who is an able coadjutor of Father Molony. In connection with the work of the parish eight different societies are maintained, provisions in this line being made for both old, and young. Father Molony is an indefatigable worker, as may be judged from his visible accomplishments. As a financier his ability is unquestioned, while as a man and a priest he is in every way above reproach. HON. AUGUSTUR J. RICKS, LL. D., Ohio to necessitate much of an introduction. He is familiar to most residents and exceedingly popular, not only in Cleveland but also the entire State of Ohio. He is a son of Charles F. and Regina Marguerite (La Pierre) Ricks, the mother being a daughter of a French officer. The father was of a good and esteemed Prussian family. His grandfather was a man of large means and engaged in the forwarding and commission business. He was the owner of a large number of horses and wagons for the transportation of goods from city to city, all of which Napoleon seized for the use of the French army in its German campaign of 1813. This seizure of his property came to him as a sudden and sweeping misfortune, and, depriving him of his business and property, left his sons dependent upon their own exertions for the future. The eldest brother, remaining in Prussia, entered the army, served in the staff corps throughout the brilliant campaign against Austria in 1866, and during the last Franco-Prussian war he was a General of the staff of the late Emperor Frederick. He is now on the retired army list as " Wirklicher Geheimer Kriegs Rath a D," being retired after an active service of over fifty, years. He now resides in Wiesbaden. Charles F. Ricks followed the tide of immigration to America, and coming to Ohio settled 82 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. at Massillon, at that time one of the most important towns in the State. Of this town he became a leading business man and served as its Postmaster two terms. In this town the subject of this sketch was born, February 10, 1843. His early scholastic training was received in the public schools, and after graduating at the Massillon high school he entered, in 1861, Kenyon College, then the foremost college in the West. While an undergraduate he joined the Philoma. thesian Literary Society, a secret organization founded in 1827, and also the Iota Chapter of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, which had but a few years before granted its Iota. Chapter, which was the first chapter granted by it in any other than Eastern States. He did not graduate at Kenyon College, but left the institution to enter the Union army. Recently Kenyon conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. At the outbreaking of the Civil war the halls of old Kenyon were deserted, and in the spring of 1862 Mr. Ricks was found with a commission from Governor Tod for the purpose of recruiting a company in his native city of Massillon for the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was commissioned by Governor Tod as First Lieutenant, and the captaincy of the company recruited was refused by him because of his youth and inexperience. He served throughout the war with honor and credit, being with General Burnside in East Tennessee at the capture of Cumberland Gap, at the siege of Knoxville and the operations of the army during the winter of 1863—'64. He was detailed in January of 1864 as aid-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier-General M. S. Hascall, commanding the Second Division of the Twenty-third Army Corps, and on .this position he served throughout the Atlanta campaign. In June of 1865 he served as aid-de-camp with rank of Captain on the staff of Major General J. D. Cox in North Carolina, and thus at the close of the war we find him serving with the rank of captain. After the close of the war he returned to his home in Massillon and there began reading law. During the war he became acquainted with East Tennessee and was impressed with the city of Knoxville, which invited him thither in September of 1865. There he entered the law office of the late Judge John Baxter, of the United States Circuit Court, and the following year became a member of the firm of Baxter, Champion & Ricks, which for years was one of the leading law firms in the State of Tennessee. In 1870 he was drawn into editorial work, rather against his inclinations, but to meet a supposed temporary emergency, without intending to interrupt his practice as a lawyer. He became the editor and one of the founders of the Knoxville Daily Chronicle, the only Republican daily paper then published in the Southern States outside of the city of Louisville. In 1875 Mr. Ricks disposed of his interest in the Chronicle to the well known "Parson" Brownlow, and then returned to Massillon, Ohio, by reason of family and business considerations. At Massillon he entered into a partnership with Judge Anson Pease in the practice of their profession. In March of 1878 he was made clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio, receiving his appointment from Judge Baxter, his former partner, and in 1886 he was appointed Clerk of the District Court by Judge Martin Welker. From 1878 to 1889 Mr. Ricks acted as Standing Master in Chancery for the Northern District of Ohio, and during that time he decided many important cases arising out of the foreclosure of what was then known as the " Narrow-Gauge System" of railroads, connecting Cincinnati, Toledo and St. Louis, the Wabash and other railroads, involving large interests and new questions in marshaling, mortgage and other liens, and claims against railroads, and relating to the powers and authority of the United States courts in the operation of railroads through receivers. Many of his reports as Master were reviewed. in the' Supreme Court and all were sustained. Upon the retirement of Judge Welker from the United States District Court for the Northern Ohio District, in June of 1889, Capt. Ricks was appointed Judge of this district by President Har- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 83 rison. In this office Judge Ricks has displayed great ability, his decisions being noted for their breadth and accuracy. His decision in March, 1893, in what is commonly known as the 46 Ann Arbor" case, involving the right of employees of railroads to quit the service of their employer without reference to conditions or circumstances under which they attempt to leave such employment, attracted very general attention, and has been followed and approved in several recent and equally important cases. He has long since held a very high rank in his noble profession, and as a jurist and judge he is profound and learned. As a politician Judge Ricks has always been a firm and stanch Republican, but since accepting his present office, the dignity, etiquette and usefulness of the same has not permitted him to take that interest and active part in the interests of the party which lie would be inclined to under other circumstances. He has always taken an enthusiastic interest in Kenyon College, his alma mater, and has delivered lectures on Common Law and Code of Pleading. WILLIAM TAYLOR.--The late William Taylor, who was the head of the large wholesale and retail dry-goods house of William Taylor, Son & Company, was one of Cleveland's most successful merchants and honored citizens. He was a native of Scotland, born at Torphichen, Linlithgowshire, on July 13, 1832, came to America when a young man and took a position in the dry-goods house of Hogg, Brown & Taylor, in Boston, his brother, John Taylor, being the junior member of that firm, which in its time was one of the largest in the country. From Boston Mr. Taylor removed to Nashua, New Hampshire, and engaged in the dry-goods business at that place until 1870, when he came to Cleveland, accompanied by Thomas Kilpatrick, with, whom he established the dry-goods house of. Taylor, Kilpatrick & Company, Opening their store its the Cushing Block on Euclid avenue and the Public Square, the present location of the business. In January, 1885, Mr. J. Livingstone Taylor became a member of the firm, and this partnership was dissolved in 1886, Mr. Kilpatrick retiring. The firm then became William Taylor, Son & Company. During the latter part of the year 1887 Mr. Taylor's health began failing, and his death occurred on the 20th day of December of that year. Mr. Taylor was a man of sterling worth and character. As a business man he was very successful and was widely known in commercial circles, particularly in the East. As a citizen he was all that could be desired, being enterprising, public-spirited and patriotic. He was an active church member and worker, having been an Elder, Trustee and Sabbath-school teacher in the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church. In all the local charities he was most liberal in his contributions, and his direct donations to the deserving poor were large and timely. His desire to assist worthy young men in life resulted in the establishment in business of many who might otherwise have been forced to occupy subordinate positions in life, instead of becoming proprietors of establishments of their own. In all that pertained to Scotland Mr. Taylor was an enthusiast. He was a life member of the Boston Scotts' Charitable Society, and of the Cleveland St. Andrew's Society, taking an active and generous interest in the work of the latter organization. The St. Andrew's Society passed the following resolutions upon his death, which are a just tribute to the man and member: "Resolved, That in the death of Mr. William Taylor, our society and the community has sustained an irreparable less. By the urbanity of his manner, the integrity of his life, the sincerity of his friendship, and the genial, generous sunshine of his noble, manly nature, he endeared himself to all who had the pleasure of making his acquaintance. The death of such a man is a public calamity, and while we bow in tearful sorrow to the inscrutable providence 84 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. that removed him from our midst, we nevertheless are cheered by the recollection that he illustrated in his death, as in his life, the true nobility of a Christian character. "Resolved, That we will sacredly cherish his memory in our hearts because of his many private virtues, his great moral worth and excellent business qualities, his great executive ability and unflagging industry. Generous-hearted and/ sincere, his good right hand was ever ready to aid a friend. He never spoke ill of his fellow men or gave countenance to evil report, but on every occasion stood ready and Willing to become the champion and defender of the oppressed. Many, very many, of his countrymen and other nationalities owe lasting debts of gratitude to him for repeated acts of disinterested kindness and unselfish efforts in their behalf. Resolved, That, as a testimonial of our affectionate memory-of his noble deeds, we attend his funeral, as many as can conveniently, as a further expression of our sadness arid sorrow, and extend to the bereaved family our heartfelt condolence, and that we be reminded in our business that in the midst of life we are in death. "Resolved, That a copy of these minutes be presented to the family of the deceased brother, and that the same be spread on the records of the society." In Boston, in 1870, Mr. Taylor was united in married with Margaret Duncan, Who was born in Ballachulish, Scotland, in 1835, and came to America in 1847. Mrs. Taylor survived her husband about two and a half years, and died on June 18, 1889. Four children were born in their family, one of whom, the late J. Livingstone Taylor, survived childhood. Mrs. Taylor was one of the noble women of Cleveland. She was a devout Christian and church worker. By her good works was she known, by her efforts in behalf of the poor, by her devotion to the cause of charity. Never was an appeal made to her in vain. She sought out the poor in their homes and gave freely of her ample means. Her soul lay in the work, and her many deeds of charity and kindness were performed in secret and an unostentatious manner, by the bedside of the sick and stricken, and among these who had need of her gentle voice and helping hand. Following the death of her husband Mrs. Taylor and son united with the Case Avenue Presbyterian Church, SAMUEL GLUCK, Secretary of the Jewish Hungarian Congregation, also engaged in the insurance business in Cleveland, was born in Hungary, February 28, 1830. His father, Jacob Gluck, died in that country about twenty-five years ago, at the age of sixty-five years. His widow came to the United States in 1880, and since that time has been an honored resident of Cleveland. She is now eighty-nine years of age. Samuel, their only son, received his education in Hungary and Germany, and followed merchandising at his native place until coming to America in 1879. In 1848 he served nineteen months in the war between Austria, Russia and Hungary, having held the position of. First Corporal of his company, and took part in the battles of Kapalna, Buda Pesth, Waitzen and others. He was never wounded or captured during his service. On coming to this country Mr. Gluck was in a terrific storm for six days, and death seemed imminent almost any moment. After arriving, he came direct to Cleveland, where he first sold medicine and later served as bookkeeper in a German passage business, also in the office of the Metropolitan Insurance Company. He is now agent for several insurance companies. Mr. Gluck was married in December, 1856, to Miss Hannah Grossman, a daughter of Moses Grossman, formerly of Germany, but long since deceased. They have had six children, viz.: Fannie, wife of Fritz Kohn, of Hungary, and their children are Hugo and Josephine; Harmine, wife of Ignatz Wies, also of Hungary, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 85 and they have two sons and two daughters; Rigiem, wife of Morris Klein, of New York; Laura, wife of Solomon Ulmer, of New Straitsville, Ohio, and their four children are Willie, Jakie, Frankie and Martha; Pauline, married and living in Omaha; and Linka, wife of D. Saniliner, of Colorado, and they have two children, Gerome and Helen Root. The family are members of the Jewish Congregation. Mr. Gluck is a member of the Sons of Benjamin, Berith Abraham and the Equitable Union. CAPTAIN JOSEPH B. MOLYNEAUX, a member of the Board of Equalization and Assessment, was born near Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 1, 1840. At seven years of age he was thrown upon his own resources. In 1844 his mother died and his father, Thomas Molyneaux, removed with his children to Elmira, New York. Young Joseph attended school very little, being employed providing for that support which ought to be guaranteed to every child of immature years. In 1852 he was dispatch messenger, operating between New York city and Dunkirk. He was next employed as bellboy by Henry Rogers, proprietor of the American House at Binghamton, New York. He spent one year with Professor Lowe, afterward the famous aeronaut, who was giving magical performances about the country. Leaving the professor at Bellville, Ohio, he came to Cleveland, after first studying medicine about one year in the office of Dr. Whitcomb. He set about learning the printer's trade in the office of Wicks & Williston, job printers, and was with them and with the old Herald till the breaking out of the Civil war. Mr. Molyneaux entered the service of the Union early in 1861, enlisting as a private in Company B, Captain DeVilliers, Seventh Ohio Regiment, Colonel E. B. Tyler. This regiment was organized for three months' service, during which period Mr. Molyneaux was made a Ser geant and drill master of his company, and upon reaching Camp Dennison he was made drill master of the non- commissioned officers of the regiment. Upon the reorganization of the regiment in June, 1861, for three years' service, Sergeant Molyneaux was unanimously elected First Lieutenant of his company, James Sterling being chosen Captain. The regiment was ordered into western Virginia and was immediately called into action, the first engagement being at Cross Lanes, August 26, 1861. In quick succession followed the engagements at Fayetteville, Dogwood Gap, McCoy's Mill, Ballou's Gap and Bloomery Furnace, at which last place another battle was fought during a later campaign. In September, 1861, Captain Molyneaux was detailed, immediately after the Cross Lanes engagement, by Colonel Tyler to assume command of Company E of the same regiment. Another detailed order terminated a brief service with this company, placing him in command of a company of the First Kentucky Regiment, and the day following his assuming command he was ordered to proceed from Camp Enyart across the Kanawha river in pursuit of General Imboden's cavalry, who were relieving the country of many of its surplus cattle. This expedition was successful. About December 1, 1861, a detachment of the regiment, with Captain Molyneaux in command of two companies, participated in the pursuit by General Benham, of Generals Floyd and Wise, up Loop creek, over Cotton mountain and through Fayetteville, nearly to Raleigh, Virginia. Upon returning from this brief campaign in January, 1862, Captain Molyneaux was promoted to be Adjutant of the regiment. He accompanied General Lander as a volunteer aide on a raid in which more prisoners were taken than the number of Federal soldiers engaged in the fight. General Lander's death occurred soon afterward, and Captain Molyneaux was given command of the escort consisting of the entire division of the army, to conduct the remains from the general's headquarters to the train. 86 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Captain Molyneaux was with his regiment in the battles of Strasburg, Winchester, Edenburg, Gaines Cross Roads, White Plains; Front Royal, Port Republic, Bristow station and Cedar mountain, in which last engagement he had two horses shot from under him, and received three wounds,—in the head, the right hand and the left leg. His wounds were healed in quarters and he remained on duty most of the time. He was present at the battle of Antietam, Berryville and Dumfries, and just prior to the last named engagement and after three times waiving his rank he was promoted to a captaincy, being assigned to the command of Company A, Seventh Regiment. He accepted the promotion reluctantly, but remained in command of his company till after 1863, when his disability forced him to resign his commission. Soon after his return to Cleveland Captain Molyneaux was prevailed upon to take command of a newly organized company, afterward Company E, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio National Guards, 100 men. This regiment was ordered to Washington, District of Columbia, and Captain Molyneaux was assigned to the command of Fort Thayer, near Bladensburg, and took part in the repulse of General Early's attack on the capital. Upon the expiration of its time of service this company returned to Cleveland and was mustered out in August, 1864. On re-entering civil pursuits Captain Molyneaux arranged a partnership with G. S. Newburg and engaged in the printing and printers' supply business, continuing in the business till January, 1883, when he received the appointment of Deputy County. Recorder. This office he filled until June 1, 1886, when be was appointed Assistant Postmaster, by Postmaster Jones, serving until relieved by the new administration in May, 1891. In May, 1892, Captain Molyneaux was appointed to serve on the Board of Equalization and Assessment for three years. Thomas Molyneaux, the founder of the family in this country, was born in Ireland and emigrated to America in 1832, and in company with two brothers-in-law settled on a farm near Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Molyneaux family were of French origin, the Captain's grandfather being compelled to leave the land of the Bonapartes because he got on the wrong side of the Revolution of 1793. Thomas Molyneaux married Margaret Twambly, whose father, Peter Twambly, was an Irish tobacconist. Four sons were born by this marriage: Robert, now a resident of Elmira, New York; Henry and Thomas, both killed in battle; and Joseph B. Thomas Molyneaux was lost at sea while returning to Ireland to become an inheritor in an estate of the family. May 26, 1863, Captain Molyneaux married, in Cleveland, Nettie, a daughter of William A. Lyon, an engineer and pattern-maker, and later in life an enthusiastic Freemason. The Captain's children are: William V., a clerk in the post office; Robert T. and Ray L. He is a member of Iris Lodge and Webb Chapter ,A. F. & A. M., of the National Union, the Loyal Legion, and of the G. A. R. Ile is a member of the Soldiers and Sailors' Monument Commission. JOHN THOMAS, prominent in life insurance circles, was born at Duanesburg, Schenectady county, New York, in 1838. His father was the Rev. W. B. Thomas, rector of the Episcopal Church at that place, and his paternal grandfather was Dr. John Thomas of Poughkeepsie, New York, who was a surgeon in the Revolutionary war; being a personal friend of General George Washington. Mr. Thomas' mother was a daughter of Henry Livingston, a Colonial officer of the American Revolution. While he was yet a child, Mr. Thomas' parents removed to Poughkeepsie, New York, their birth-place, and here they educated their son at the Dutchess County Academy, and other schools. In his fifteenth year he acquired the art of telegraphy at the regular commercial office of the city. He became an expert opera- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 87 tor, and was appointed to a position on the Western division of the New York & Erie Railroad. After one year's service he was made chief operator of one of the larger offices, and in the course of another year was appointed chief operator of that division of the line, with an office at Jersey City, where he remained about eighteen months, at the close of which he accepted the position of telegraphic train dispatcher on the Michigan Central Railroad with his office at Kalamazoo, Michigan. His age was eighteen at the time of accepting this responsible position, which he held for seven years. In 1863 lie obtained leave of absence for the purpose of offering his services to the Government during the Civil war. For a time he served in the telegraphic corps of the army, and was then appointed train despatcher of the United States military railroads, with the office at Alexandria, Virginia, those roads being under the superintendence of Mr. J. H. Devereux. In the spring of 1864, Mr. Devereux having accepted the appointment of superintendent of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, Mr. Thomas took the position of superintendent of telegraph and train dispatcher on the same road, having previously made formal resignation of his position on the Michigan Central Railroad. In 1868 Mr. Thomas was made assistant superintendent of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad under superintendent William Stewart, who succeeded to Mr. Devereux' vacated post. In 1871, the. Pennsylvania Company, under the general management of Mr. J. N. McCullough, who was also president of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, leased the Cleveland & Pittsburg road for 999 years. Mr. Stewart was made general freight agent for all western lines, and Mr. Thomas superintendent of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Division. This position Mr. Thomas held for more than ten years. On entering the service of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Company, in 1864, his office was in Wellsville, at which point lie resided until 1872, when lie removed to Cleveland, having built a residence on Willson avenue, in that city. In 1866 he suggested the establishment of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Reading Room Association. This association now has a fine library of over 2,000 volumes, located in the station building at Wellsville. In 1869 he took a very active part in the erection of the Episcopal Church in Wellsville, and soon after a rectory also. An excursion by rail to Cleveland, and by steam on Lake Erie) netted a considerable sum to the church building fund. In 1870 Mr. Thomas was largely instrumental in the preparation of a code of rules and regulations for the working of the Cleveland & Pittsburg road, which in actual operation proved very successful. Later, and under the management of Mr. J. D. Layng, then general manager of the Pennsylvania Company, a special committee of superintendents was appointed to prepare a code of rules for the governance of all the western lines of the Pennsylvania Company. Of this committee, Mr. Thomas was made chairman. The work of this committee, when submitted to the general manager and other general officers, was approved, and the code of rules so prepared continued in force for a number of years. In January, 1882, Mr. Thomas was tendered-- and accepted—the position of general superintendent of the Chicago Division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, with headquarters in Chicago. This position he retained for one year and three months, when he resigned and at once returned to the service of the Pennsylvania Company as general superintendent of all northwestern lines, except the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad. This position ho retained about two years and a half, with his residence at Pittsburg. He then returned to the Cleveland & Pittsburg Division of the Pennsylvania lines, and again resided in Cleveland. lie held the position of superintendent and later general agent of the company in Cleveland. In August, 1892, he resigned railroad service. He had entered that service when fourteen years of age, and he resigned at the age of fifty-four,—just forty years of service. His resig- 88 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. nation was tendered in order to accept the general agency for Northern Ohio of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts, in which position he has charge of the Cleveland office. In 1893 Mr. Thomas was elected a member of the executive committee of the Life Underwriters' Association, and a delegate to the National Convention. From youth, Mr. Thomas has been a member of the Episcopal Church. He has for many years been a member of St. Paul's parish in Cleveland, and was for a long time the superintendent of the Sunday-school. He has many times been a delegate to the diocesan convention of the church, and the convention of 1893 elected him treasurer of the diocese of Ohio. October 17, 1866, Mr. Thomas married Miss Elizabeth Bean, of Wellsville, Ohio. She died after a very brief illness, in. May, 1869. Two sons, John and Hugh Livingston, were born in this family, the eldest of whom, John, died in early infancy. February 7, 1877, Mr. Thomas married Miss Margaret H. Bouton of Brooklyn, New York, and the marriage has been blessed by the birth of two daughters, Marguerite Livingston and Helen Electa. DR. F. E. BUNTS, physician and surgeon of Cleveland, was born in Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, June 3, 1861, a son of Captain William C. and Clara (Barnhisel) Bunts, natives also of this State. His father was an attorney, and at the time of his death, January 17, 1874, at the age of forty-one years, was serving his second term as City Solicitor for Cleveland. In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in Company B, as Captain, but, owing to poor health, lie soon resigned his position and served as Judge Advocate, and later as acting Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Major General Rosecrans, at Nashville, and remained in that office until January, 1864. Returning to `Cleveland in 1866, he was United States District Attorney until elected City Solicitor. For a young man he had a very bright legal career before him; was extensively and favorably known throughout the State. He had a peculiar individuality that made his friendships sincere and lasting. He was Department Commander of Ohio in the G. A. R. for two years; was prominent in politics, a Republican and a Freemason. His greatest interest, however, was in the work of the Grand Army post. His wife, born in 1838, is living with Dr. Bunts in Cleveland. The children in the above family were: Henry C., an attorney in Cleveland; F. E., our subject; Cora L., wife of John Stambaugh, Jr., of Youngstown ; Fred W. and Sue A. Dr. Bunts, whose name heads this sketch, was educated in the Cleveland high school and at Girard, where he received from General Garfield the appointment of Cadet Midshipman to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1877. In the competitive examination at Warren he stood No. 1. Graduating in 1881, he made a two years' cruise to the Asiatic Station, visiting the islands of the South Pacific and the principal ports of China and Japan. On this expedition he served as signal officer on the staff of Rear Admiral J. M. B. Glitz. He visited the island of Samoa, later the scene of the disaster in which three United States vessels and several German ships were lost. One classmate, Lieutenant F. E. Sutton, was among the lost. Dr. Bunts was detached from the Asiatic Station in order to come home for promotion, reaching home in June, 1883, after an absence of two years. He passed the examination, then resigned and commenced the study of medicine, in the fall of 1883. His preceptor was Dr. W. J. Scott, of Cleveland, and he graduated in the medical department of the Western Reserve University, in 1886. Then, until October following, he was house physician at Charity Hospital. Next, associating himself with Dr. Frank J. Weed, he opened up in general practice. Dr. Weed died in 1891, and Dr. Bunts is now located at No, 380 Pearl street. He is a mem- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 89 ber of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cuyahoga County Medical Society, the Cleveland Society of Medical Sciences and of the Ohio State Railway Association; he is also a Fellow of the American Electro-therapeutic Association. He is surgeon for the Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company and of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company. He was made lecturer on minor surgery in the medical department of the University of Wooster in 1887, Professor of the same in 1888, Professor of the Principles of Surgery in 1889, and Professor of Principles of Surgery and Clinical Surgery in 1892, which latter position he filled until 1894, when he resigned and accepted the same chair in the Medical College of the Western Reserve University. In the autumn of 1889 and spring of 1890, Dr. Bunts was in Berlin, Paris, Vienna and London, studying surgery in the hospitals of those cities. Dr. Bunts is well read in his profession, in which he takes great pride and exhibits a high degree of skill. In 1889 the Doctor married Miss Harriet E. Taylor, a daughter of V. C. Taylor, of Cleveland, and they have two children. Their names are Clara Louise and Virgil Taylor. The Doctor is a Republican in his political sympathies. J. C. ROLAND, cashier of the Cleveland post office, was born in Ohio county, West .Virginia, November 26, 1846. His grandfather, Abram Roland, emigrated to that county from eastern Pennsylvania, where the family had been settled many years, near Lancaster. Abram Roland first left home at fourteen years of age, but remained in Pennsylvania until his marriage to Miss Cline, after which he settled in what became known as West Liberty, West Virginia, near Wheeling. The valley in which Wheeling is situated was not then even a settlement, the Zane block-house famous in Indian warfare being built about that time. Mr. Roland was a powerfully built and active man, and was identified with many of the stirring events which marked the early history of Ohio county. Being a tanner, he established yards at West Liberty and conducted his trade there for fully fifty years, or until his death, which occurred about 1840. George W. Roland, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born July 24, 1812, being one of the youngest of a large family of children. In early life he was a very active and successful business man: was a contractor and builder in Wheeling, and many of her best buildings bear testimony to his workmanship. Prior to the war he operated a large planing-mill in that city. In 1863 he moved to Belmont county, Ohio, and engaged in farming as well as building. In 1870 he moved to Dallas county, Iowa, and gave his time to agriculture till his death, in March,1892. He married Susan Ann, a daughter of George Brown, who was a farmer of Jefferson county, Ohio, and they had six children, two of whom reached the age of maturity, namely: Mrs. Elizabeth McCoy, of Chillicothe, Missouri; and J. C. Roland. Mrs. Roland died in 1848, and Mr. Roland, in 1850, married Rebecca Anne Moore. The children by that union were: J. M., a jeweler at Greenville, Pennsylvania; and Mrs. Anna Clark, of Dallas county, Iowa. The third marriage of Mr. Roland occurred in 1857, when he wedded Mary Ann Faris, and their children are: George B., William F. and Arthur W., all of whom are located in the far West. Mr. J. C. Roland was educated in the public schools of Wheeling, completing the course at fourteen years of age, and soon afterward engaged in the jewelry business with a brother-in-law at Grafton, same State; but the business was cut short early by young Roland's enlistment for the Union in the great war. August 7, 1862, at Wheeling, he joined Company H, Fifteenth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. His regiment remained in that State until the spring of 1864, when it was transferred to the Kanawha valley and attached to General Crook's 90 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY division of the Army of West Virginia. It participated in the battles. of Cloyd mountain and New river bridge, May 9 and 10, and, joining General Hunter at Staunton, Virginia, participated in the engagement at Lynchburg, Virginia, June 17 and 18. On the failure of the army to reduce the place, it retreated by way of the Kanawha, Charleston and the upper Ohio to Harper's Ferry, which point it reached in time to follow General Early and engage him at Island Ford, Kernstown, Berryville, Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar creek. In December, 1864, Mr. Roland's division of the Army of Western Virginia was transferred and made a part of the Second Division of the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, Army of the James, and thrown in front of Richmond, later to the left and center of Petersburg; taking active part in the operations around that city. After the fall of Petersburg his division followed and supported Sheridan's cavalry to Appomattox Court House, and was in front at the attack on the remnant of Lee's army and the capture of the same, April 9, 1865. Mr. Roland's division took possession of Lynchburg, and soon afterward marched to Richmond, -and was mustered out June 14, 1865. During the latter part of his service Mr. Roland was attached to brigade headquarters as Chief Orderly. On returning to civil pursuits Mr. Roland was engaged for two years in building operations with his father. In December, 1869, he came to Cleveland and connected himself with the Plain-dealer as advertising solicitor. Later he served as secretary and business manager of the concern, and after the paper changed hands was manager of the advertising department. In 1887 he accepted his present position under Postmaster Armstrong. He is an active member of the G. A. R., being a member of the Army and Navy Post. In 1873—'74 he was Assistant Adjutant General of the Department of Ohio. He is frequently a delegate to State and national encampments, and is a Past Commander of his post, and a member of the Department Council of Administration. November 2, 1869, Mr. Roland married Louise, a daughter of Hon. A. C. Ramage, of Belmont county, Ohio. Their children are Mary Louise and John C., Jr. DE FORREST BAKER, one of the leading physicians of Cleveland, located in Building, 106 Euclid avenue, was born in Lorain county, Ohio, September 17, 1851, a son of Benjamin and M. U. Baker. In his early life the father was a merchant in New York city. next engaged in milling at Columbia, Lorain county, Ohio, and afterward traded his mill for a farm in that county, where he still resides, aged eighty-one years. For many years he has been an officer in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Baker departed this life December 22, 1860, having also been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were the parents of three children. The eldest, Bethia W., is still at home. The second child, Merrill E., was formerly engaged in railroading, and is now superintendent of the Cleveland Stone Company at the West View Stone Quarry. For the past thirty-three years he has been Recording Steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has also been Superintendent of the Sunday-school for many years. Mr. Baker married Eugenia M., a daughter of Rev. Disbro, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. To this union has been born one daughter, Edith, wife of Professor Palmer, of Lake Forest University, Illinois. De Forrest Baker, the youngest child in the above family, received his education in the Baldwin University. He studied medicine with Dr. Van Norman, later with Dr. Boynton, and graduated at the Homoeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, in February, 1878. After practicing his profession in Norwalk, Ohio, for a time, Dr. Baker came to Cleveland, and the firm of Van Norman & Baker was established. That partnership existed four years. The Doctor is a member of the Ohio State homoeopathic CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 91 Medical Society, is a charter member of the Round Table Club, is Lecturer to the School of Trained Nurses at the Huron Street Hospital, and professor of pediatrics and diseases of the nervous system in the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Baker was married October 19, 1881, to Miss Carrie Day, a daughter of I. D. and Elizabeth Wagar, of Lakewood, Ohio. Mrs. Baker is an artist in oil painting and music, and a member of the New Jerusalem Church. Our subject and wife have had two children: Hazel Urania, and Elizabeth, who died at the age of four and a half months. In political matters the Doctor affiliates with the Republican party. J. LIVINGSTONE TAYLOR, deceased, son of the late William and Margaret (Duncan) Taylor, was one of Cleveland's most prominent young business men and citizens, having succeeded his father as the head of the large dry-goods house of William Taylor, Son & Company. Mr. Taylor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 12, 1861, and came with his parents to Cleveland when nine years of age. He received his education in the public schools of Cleveland, his earliest education, however, having been received from his mother. He was an ambitious student and graduated at an early age, with honors, from the Cleveland Central High School, being a member of the first graduating class at that institution. Upon leaving school he entered the dry-goods house of Taylor, Kilpatrick & Company, taking a subordinate position as a clerk, it being the desire of both himself and father that he work his way up from the lowest consistent position to a place in the firm, receiving promotion as he earned it, and thus becoming a practical merchant. He was energetic, painstaking and attentive to his duty in all the details, and his advancement was rapid from a place behind the counter to one of responsibil ity in the wholesale department, and thence to a membership in the firm, which became William Taylor, Son & Company, in 1886. Upon the death of his father in 1889 he succeeded him as the head of the firm. He was married on April 30, 1890, to Miss Sophia Strong, daughter of Mr. Charles H. Strong, one of the well known pioneer citizens of Cleveland. Mr. Taylor's death occurred on November 7, 1892. His business interests upon his death were taken up by Mrs. Taylor, There was much in the life of Mr. Taylor worthy of emulation by the rising generation, and it is the object of this brief sketch to preserve for the future the salient points in his character. Though but thirty-one years of age, his success in business was far beyond that of the average man of his years, and his reputation in commercial circles, both at home and abroad, was most enviable. The establishment of which he was the head was one of the largest and most substantial in the State of Ohio, and it was due to a great extent to his efforts and methods that it reached the proud position it then and now occupies. He was a member of the Board of Trade of Cleveland, and was interested in public matters to the extent of lending his aid to all movements having for their aim the building up, beautifying and edifying of the city. But it was aside from the busy marts of commerce and business that the character of Mr. Taylor was most beautiful, his worth as a Christian man and worker overshadowing somewhat the brilliant man of business. He was a member of the Case Avenue Presbyterian Church, and was one of the most active and persistent workers in the church. His pastor paid the following tribute to the life of Mr. Taylor: " His godliness was a particularly prominent trait in his character. There are two conditions in which it is hard to live a truly religious life—in poverty, and in prosperity. I can easily understand how heavy business responsibilities and cares may tend to draw a man's attention away from religious matters, but such was not 92 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. the case with Mr. Taylor. He was present at the regular meetings of his church, the morning preaching, the evening service, the prayer meeting. I ever knew just where to cast my eyes to find him. He was always faithful in attendance so long as his health remained. When, one by one, the activities of his life were given up, I knew that his devotion to God was as great as ever. There were three things that characterized his life and made it round and complete. They were his godliness, his truthfulness and his manner of taking God into his affairs of life." Another minister, and a warm personal friend, compared the life of Mr. Taylor as a whole with that of John the Baptist, whose allotted work was finished before his death, and said: "As one to whom the departed brother was as a son, I feel that I can answer the question, 'Why was his life so brief?' It was because his work was finished, his allotted task ended, his course fulfilled. His life was not a failure, not an uncompleted fragment, but a full, round existence." The following tribute is from a co-laborer in Y. M. C. A. work: " He was first a clerk in his father's store, soon a partner, and a little later on he suddenly had the responsibilities of an enormous wholesale and retail business thrust upon him, at the age of twenty-six, by the death of his father. Then rapidly increasing cares, a steadily enlarging business, trebling in five years, expanding wealth, a widely known business man, the head of one of the largest establishments in Ohio, and all this before he was thirty. This was the world's view of the rising young man. But from the standpoint of personal friendships he was most of all and foremost of all a devoted, humble, earnest Christiana He was a rare and beautiful example of sterling manhood. Following in the footsteps of his remarkable mother, he was a devoted Bible student, of unusual attainments. He was an able personal worker, an earnest, vigorous speaker, in association business affairs one of the wisest and shrewdest counselors, and an untiring officer. He made money rapidly, but ever and only for his Master's glory; the larger the profits, the greater the proportion given back to the Lord. In an absolutely literal sense Jesus of Nazareth was a partner in the business, and Mr. Taylor was always on the lookout for places to wisely invest the proportion of profits belonging to the Lord. He had a right view of the purposes of life, and he had a right idea of the proper relations between employer and employed. The moral responsibility of an employer and the purpose of business in life were both well understood by him. He held a right view of the stewardship of money. I have heard him say that he would never allow himself to become a millionaire, and he gave himself wholly to his convictions. His views upon the subject of the observance of the Sabbath were very strict, and he was most careful in following them. He would allow no work to be done about the store on Sunday under any consideration, and all those connected with him were fully aware of his convictions upon this point." Mr. Taylor was twice president of the Y. M. C. A. of Cleveland, and the following resolutions were adopted by that organization upon his death: " WHEREAS, It has pleased our Divine Master to remove from our association ranks, by death, our beloved brother John Livingstone Taylor, from May 1, 1889, to his death a director, and for two years, ending May 1, 1892, its president; and " WHEREAS, His sudden departure has stricken our hearts with an overwhelming sense of the irreparable loss we have sustained, we, the board of directors of this association, desire to. give expression in some fitting manner to his beloved companion, his business associates, and the community at large, of our appreciation of his warm-hearted loyalty and his wise counsels in aid of the work for young men in this city. Therefore, be it "Resolved, That in the death of John Livingstone Taylor this association has lost a true CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 93 friend, one whose noble example of sterling Christian manhood, business integrity, and true benevolence must leave its impress for good, upon the minds and hearts of all who knew him; one who was a kind and faithful employer, with a deep and earnest responsibility for the highest interests of those whom he employed; and one who was ever ready, by his influence, and his means, as God had prospered him, to push forward the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, and advance the cause of Christ's kingdom in our midst. "Resolved, That we extend our fraternal sympathy to the church in whose communion our brother worshiped; to the several benevolent organizations in this city, who ever found in him a warm, generous, constant friend, and to the missionaries of the cross in remote parts of the world, who have had cause to know, by reason of his unsparing gifts to them, how far his aid has gone in relieving the burdens of the suffering and bringing souls to the foot of the MSS. "Resolved, That we bow in humble submission to the will of him whose ways are past finding out,' and may the God of peace, that peace which passeth all understanding,' bless us and cause his face to shine upon us, that we may be guided in this life to a closer emulation of the example of our departed brother; and may his memory speak to us, though his voice he silent; and may his life be a benediction to us, and at last may we meet and commune with him in the upper and better kingdom. "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to his bereaved companion, and that they be engrossed upon the records of the association." Mr. Taylor was also an active member and official of the " Floating Bethel," which society adopted the following resolution on his death: " WHEREAS, John Livingstone Taylor, one of the board of directors, who, on November 7, 1892, was called to a glorious future by the Savior he so much loved, honored and served, we feel our loss is very great; he was one of our most cheerful counselors and contributors; no worthy missionary cause did he ever pass by; like the disciples of old, who gave the loaves and fishes to the Master to be blessed before they gave to the multitude, so he sought God's blessing upon his gifts; the fragments of his gifts when gathered up will be very great, for he cast his bread upon the wa ter, believing that he should find it after many days; therefore "Resolved, That we extend to his widow our sympathy in her great bereavement. Her loss is felt by all who knew him. May God help her to bear her sorrow!" The charity of Mr. Taylor to all worthy objects was unfailing and formed one of the chief characteristics of his life, yet it was given in a most humble and unostentatious way, and the good he did in this line will serve to long keep green his memory to those who were the recipients of his generosity, both in money and in kind, sympathetic words of cheer and comfort. REV. ALBERT BRONSON PUTNAM, Rector of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church of Cleveland, was born in Knox county, Ohio, March 17, 1848. Norman W. and Maria (Douglass) Putnam were his parents. His father was a native of Vermont and his mother of New York. In early life the father was a teacher of music and letters in New England and Northern New York. He came to Ohio in 1829, driving all the way in a wagon. He was a relative of Bishop Chase, at whose invitation he came to Ohio and settled in Gambier, where he lived until 1892, when he died, at the age of ninety-two years. For many years he was in mercantile business at Gambier, but in his later days purchased a farm and lived near that village. Being a man of a high order of intelligence and considerable literary attainment he furnished many valuable articles to various newspapers; was a thorough musician and a singer of ability, and a man of genial spirit and charitable disposition. In 94 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY many ways he was a remarkable man. For many years he was a Vestryman of Harcourt Parish, Gambier, and at times the leader of its choir as well as its organist. In politics he always took considerable interest, first being a Whig and later a Republican. His wife, of Scotch extraction and an amiable and good woman, died in 1886, at the age of seventy-three years. Through life she was a devout member of the Episcopal Church. Her grandparents, Thomas and Margaret Douglass, were married in 1769, came to America in 1776 and settled in New Jersey. The subject of this sketch is one of ten children, of whom five are living. The names of these children are: Anna E., Douglass, Rufus, Margaret R., John. Henry, Maria Louisa, Albert Bronson, Mary (first) deceased, Mary (second) deceased and Frank. Douglass Putnam was in the Eleventh Regiment of Indiana Volunteers in the war of the Rebellion and for three months served under General Lew Wallace. At the expiration of this term he enlisted in the Forty-third Indiana, in which he served until the close of the war. For several years he was quartermaster, being later promoted to a captaincy. He died in 1879, at the age of forty-three years. John H. Putnam graduated at Kenyon College in 1864, and immediately enlisted i n the Forty-third Indiana Regiment, in which he served till the close of the war. In 1879 he died at Topeka, Kansas, where lie had gained considerable reputation as an attorney at law. Rev. Albert Bronson Putnam attended school in Gambier until in 1869 he was graduated at Kenyon College, at Gambier. He graduated in theology also, and was ordained in Gambier, in 1872. As a minister he began his career at Painesville, Ohio, where he was temporarily located. His first rectorship was at Christ's Church, Hudson, Ohio. Then he spent eight years in the State of Pennsylvania. In 1882 he became rector of Harcourt school for boys at Gambier, of which he had charge for three years, when he became rector of St. Paul's Church, at Mt. Vernon. Upon coming to Cleveland in 1889 he took his present cure, when there were but seventy-two communicants; the number has since increased to 250. In connection with the church is a Sunday-school—which over 150 pupils attend--and other parish organizations. The church of which the Rev. Mr. Putnam is now rector was established in 1876, with Rev. B. T. Noakes as its first rector. He served the parish for thirteen years and was succeeded by Mr. Putnam. Mr. Putnam was President of the Convention of the Diocese of Ohio in 1889, which elected the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bishop, and has twice been sent by the Diocese of Ohio as a Delegate to the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church. January 7, 1875, Mr. Putnam married, at Massillon, Ohio, Miss Cora E. Dunn, a daughter of John and Julia M. (Randall) Dunn. The mother is a sister of Alexander Randall, Governor of Wisconsin, 1857–'60 and afterward Postmaster General of the United States under President Johnson, and United States Minister to Italy. The children of Mr. Putnam and wife were Norman K., Julia D. and Frederick. In 1886 Mrs. Putnam died, at the age of thirty-two years, and in 1889 Mr. Putnam married, for his second wife, Miss Mary A. Dunn, a sister of his first wife. By this marriage one child, Cora, has been born. REV. JOHN H. NIEMANN, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church on Jersey street, Cleveland, was born in Hanover, Germany, April 11, 1848. His parents were H. H. and Mary E. Niemann, both of German birth, who came to the United States in 1852, landing at New York City, whence they repaired to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where for years the father was superintendent of the Lutheran cemetery and where he died in 1874, at the age of sixty-six years. The mother's death occurred in 1859, at Pittsburg, in her thirty-fifth year. They were life-long and faith- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 95 ful members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and esteemed for their piety and industry. They had six children, of whom only three are now (1893) living. Rev. Niemann was a child of four years when his parents came to America. Upon reaching the proper age he was sent to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he entered Concordia College, and between the years 1860 and 1866 completed a course. He then took a theological course at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, completing the curriculum in 1869. His first work as a minister was at Little Rock, Arkansas, where he remained until January, 1876. He was the second pastor of his church in the State of Arkansas, the first being Rev. M. L. Wyneken, whose charge was at Fort Smith. In January, 1876, Rev. Niemann came to the city of Cleveland and became the pastor of Trinity Church, remaining as such until this date, 1893. His work here has been characteristic of ability, and he has succeeded in the material upbuilding of his congregation. lie has established three new churches in the city since coining to Cleveland. When he came to. Cleve-lend there were only two churches of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination in the city; now there are eight, besides two missions. In the congregation of Trinity Church there are about 300 families. In connection with the church is a parochial school, where attend upward of 400 children, instructed by five male teachers. The school is a graded one, and its pupils upon graduation are permitted admission to the Cleveland public high schools. There is one mission under Rev. Niemann's charge. He has for the last thirteen years been President of the Middle District of the Missouri Synod of his church, said synod numbering about 1,400 ministers. This district comprises the States of Ohio and Indiana, having 110 congregations and being one of the largest and most important districts of said Missouri Synod. Rev. Niemann was married October 8, 1872, to Miss Julia E. Walther, a daughter of C. F. W. Walther, D. D., president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Walther is best known as the "Lutheran Theologian " in this country, was the organizer of the Lutheran Church in the United States, and died May 7, 1887, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife, Emily, died in 1875, at the age of seventy-four years. Mrs. Niemann, the youngest of four children, is a lady of culture and refinement. Rev. and Mrs. Niemann have but one child, namely, Ottilie, still of the home circle. Rev. Niemann has been a prominent member and a central figure in one of the large and influential religious bodies of this city for many years. He is yet in the prime of a most vigorous and useful manhood and his influence and best efforts have ever been recorded in the best interest and welfare of the cause of his Master in the church of his choice. He is genial, scholarly and in every way a most pleasant and cultured gentleman. His library is large and of the standard theological and classical works. He has proved the right man in the right place, and the importance and success of his labors can best be told and understood when one observes the many institutions which he has organized, fostered and brought into prosperity, and the fact that no other minister in the Middle District enjoys a more universal esteem and respect. ALONZO E. HYRE, editor and business manager of The Cuyahogan, published at Brooklyn, Ohio, was born January 1, 1860, in Fairfield county, this State. His parents were Dr. H. C. Hyre and Amelia C. (Poff) Hyre. He is the elder of two children, the younger of whom died very early in life. Subsequent to the birth of these children the parents located in Brooklyn. Alonzo E. Hyre received his education in the public schools of Lancaster, Springfield, Columbus and other places, supplementing it by a course at Buchtel College, at Akron, Ohio, where he graduated in 1884 with the degree of B. S. While here at college he organized The Buchtel 96 - COUNT COUNTY. Record, a high-class college monthly, conducting the same two years. After his graduation Mr. Hyre traveled throughout the country in company with George C. Miln, who was noted as a preacher; and who left the pulpit for the stage, gaining considerable notoriety in the Shaksperean plays. Mr. Hyre gained quite a reputation as a comedian, and while in this profession was given the privilege of visiting the leading portions of the country, and gained considerable experience as well as a knowledge of the various important cities, among which Cleveland was most inviting to him. He accepted the position of city editor of the Cleveland Daily Argus, a position which he held for almost two years, and giving up the same he began the publication of a society and dramatic paper known as Vanity -Fair, which he issued for about two years. He then assumed the city editorship of the Sunday World, and in that capacity did much to raise the standard of that journal, with which he was connected for one year. He then became interested, in 1888, in The Cuyahogan, and since that date has been manager and editor of the same. This journal he has made one of the most successful and prosperous of county and suburban papers. It has a wide circulation and is one of the cleanest, most respectable and newsy sheets of its kind. Politically Mr. Hyre is a Republican, and he has figured conspicuously as a worker in the ranks of his party. He was for four years a member of the county committee, and for two years one of the executive committee of his party. Recently he was urged by friends to become a candidate for the legislature, but for this honor he declined to enter the race. As an editor he is both brilliant and successful, and bears a most striking personal resemblance to the celebrated " Bill Nye." Mr. Hyre's friends claim that the resemblance does not stop with the smooth face and pate, but that in wit and genial humor he is not far behind "The Boomerang" editor. Mr. Hyre was married April 15, 1886, to Miss S. Emma Cadwallader, of Akron, Ohio, who was a student of Buchtel College and a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma. Mr. and Mrs. Hyre have two children: Rexford C., born March 11, 1887; and Raymond E., January 29, 1890. Fraternally Mr. Hyre not only belongs to the Knights of Pythias and National Union, but is also a member of the Greek letter college fraternity, Delta Tau Delta. W. E. LINDEN, M. D., Ph. G., a practicing physician of South Brooklyn village, was born in the city of Cleveland on the 6th day of October, 1858. His parents were John and Sibylla (Kueth) Linden. Both parents were born in Germany: hence our subject is of German lineage. His early scholastic training was received in the schools of Cleveland Germany and Switzerland. After graduating at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1881 he entered Western Reserve Medical College where he graduated in 1883. He then went to Berlin, Germany, where at the Royal College of Medicine he received a diploma in 1884. Returning to America he entered upon the practice of his profession in Cleveland, and a few years later located at South Brooklyn, where he has since enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. In 1885 he wedded Nellie E. Ward, daughter of the late Daniel Ward of Cleveland, and they have two children: James Emil, born September 29, 1886; and John Edgar, October 14, 1888. Dr. Linden himself is one of ten children, seven of whom are living. Of these children, John Linden is a prominent merchant of Cleveland; Hugo Linden is a Cleveland druggist; Mrs. Lizzie Albrecht resides in Detroit, Michigan; Mrs. Bertha Mitchell is a resident of Chicago; Mrs. Martha Muehlenbeck, of South Brooklyn; and Clara resides with her parents, whose home is now in Coblenz on the Rhine, Germany. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 97 Fraternally Dr. Linden is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias and is at present M. of E. and D. G. C. of his lodge. He was a charter member of Brooklyn Lodge, No. 426. He is also a member of the Chosen Friends, Cleveland Council, No. 5, and the Equitable Aid Union, of which order he is Grand President of Ohio. He is also a member of the Cleveland Medical Society. The Doctor has collected an excellent library, and is a close and continuous student of his profession, keeping pace with all new investigations and results in the same. He is a member of the local board of health and is very active in securing the development of such measures, and carrying into effect such rules and regulations as are conducive to the health of the public. In fact Dr. Linden is a thorough and successful practitioner and as a citizen he is highly esteemed and honored. REV. REUBEN YEAKEL, Historian, officially appointed by the General Conference and Board of Publication of the Evangelical Association, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, August 3, 1827. His parents were Charles and Susanna (Yeakel) Yeakel, natives also of America. Mr. Yeakel's grandfather, Jacob Yeakel, was also a native of the Keystone State; and his great-grandfather, Christopher Yeakel, came from Germany in 1734, settling in Montgomery county, mentioned. Charles Yeakel was an intelligent and thorough farmer, frank and honest, and deeply religious; and his wife was also a devout woman, a member of the Evangelical Association. Both died at the age of eighty-six years,—he in 1874 and she in 1880. Their children were: Jesse, who entered the gospel ministry in 1852 and now resides in Philadelphia; Reuben, the subject of this sketch; Lydia, wife of Nathan Sterner, a carpenter of Allentown, Pennsylvania; the other three children are deceased. Mr. Yeakel, whose name introduces this sketch, educated himself, mostly, and in 1853 he began his career as a minister of the gospel, in Pennsylvania; in 1859 he was elected by the General Conference Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society of the Evangelical Association, which position he filled for several years; in 1863 the same body elected him editor of the Sunday-school and tract literature of the church, and he was re-elected in 1867, and held the position till 1871. In 1867 he was also appointed biographer of Jacob Albright and his co-laborers, of which Rev. Mr. Dreisbach was one. In 1871 the same conference elected him Bishop, which position he held until 1879, when he declined a re-election and went to Naperville, Illinois, where he was principal of the Biblical Institute in the Northwestern College of the Evangelical Association, teaching systematic theology and other branches until 1883; and while there he established a theological quarterly, in the German language, on his own responsibility, and he still edits and publishes this periodical, which is now bimonthly. It has now reached its fifteenth volume. The title-page translated is, “Bi-monthly Periodical for Theology and Church; founded by R. Yeakel, and conducted with the co-operation of prominent theologians in Amer, ica and Germany; edited and published by Rev. R. Yeakel, Rev. M. J. Cramer, D. D., Prof. F. L. Nagler, D. D., and Rev. C. G. Koch." This periodical is undenominational, is of great service to the church, prized most highly, and is the only periodical of the kind in the German language in America. After his service closed at the college he was called to the Cleveland publishing house as joint editor of the Christliche Botschafter, which place he held four years. In 1887 he was given the duty of writing the general history of the Evangelical Association; and still more recently also the biography of Bishop Joseph Long, Rev. William W. Orwig and Rev. Charles Hammer, the last mentioned of whom was manager of the publishing house for many years. 98 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Mr. Yeakel has attended the General Conference of this church ever since 1855, being a delegate at almost every session. In some respects he has been the pioneer collater of the preliminary history of his church. Rev. W. W. Orwig was appointed by the West Pennsylvania Annual Conference to compile the history of the church from 1800 to 1845, and Mr. Yeakel was appointed jointly by the General Conference and by the Board of Publication to supply the history from 1750, the decennium of the birth of Jacob Albright, and to bring the history down to the present time, and also to revise the history previously made. He is more conversant with early church history and of the fathers of his church than any other man living. Since 1855 he has written a great multitude of articles for the press, both in German and in English. The amount of work he has done is evidence not only that he has been very busy, but has a capacious, well-furnished and ready mind. He came to Cleveland in 1860, as Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary- Society of the Church, and with few interruptions has been a resident here ever since. He was first married in 1855 to Miss Sarah Schubert, daughter of David Schubert of Pennsylvania, and they had two children,—Charles and Rosa; the latter died at the age of four years. The molter of these .children died in 1874, aged forty-seven years-, a devoted member of the, church. For his. second wife Mr. Yeakel married, in 1876, Mrs. Caroline Klein, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, a member of the same church. In his political sympathies Mr. Yeakel is a Republican, voting, however, with some care as to the personnel of the proposed tickets. The following outline of his personal character, istics is furnished by a co-laborer who has long been acquainted with him: In personal appearance Mr. Yeakel inspires confidence and respect, possessing a splendid physique. He is probably more than six feet two inches in - height, his rugged frame and broad shoulders being surmounted by a mas sive head, covered with a heavy stock of hair, worn somewhat long. His form is bent, as if weighed down with care. Beneath his expansive forehead and jutting eyebrows, which frown like buttresses, there gleam a pair of calm, keen eyes from deep, cavernous sockets. His face wears an expression of benignity, thoughtfulness and gravity. Deep convergent lines about the region of the eyes indicate the close thinker and constant reader, while the steady gaze of those eyes give but a hint of the steadier and more penetrating gaze of an intellect of extraordinary power of concentration. He is a profound student who delights to "lose himself in thought." He revels in the mastery of abstruse problems, which practice enables him to gain unusual insight into the inner meaning of the Scriptures. His analytical powers are such that he is acknowledged as one of the most discriminating of exegetes. In recognition of this the degree of Doctor of Divinity was tendered him by a high authority, which however he firmly declined, with characteristic modesty, not to say indifference to such titular distinctions. He is also a historian and biographer of much experience. His habit of investigation, his patient research, his mastery of details, his remarkable ability to apprehend the historical value of apparently trifling minutiae, have made him an authority on the subjects to which he has devoted himself; and his opinion is eagerly sought and readily accepted. He has rendered his church invaluable service by his historical labors. Few men have the unwearying patience, the indomitable perseverance, which he manifests to search through timeworn documents and musty records for obscure, connecting links in a chain of evidence necessary to establish an historical fact. Mr. Yeakel is also an ecclesiastical legislator of recognized ability. For years the Discipline of the Evangelical Association has received marks from his molding hand. It owes much of its symmetry and consistency to his skill. In the important litigations through which the CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 99 church has recently passed he was the chief expert witness for the church, to whose interpretations of the laws of this ecclesiastical body attorneys and courts alike deferred without question of dissent. CHARLES HENRY STRONG.—Among the representative citizens of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is Mr. Charles H. Strong, the well-known contractor and civil engineer of Cleveland. Mr. Strong is a descendant of one of the early New England families, and is the grandson of one of the first settlers of Cuyahoga county. The first of the Strong family to come to America was the Elder John Strong, who was born in 1605, in Taunton, England, the son of Richard Strong, a native of Caernarvon, England. Elder John Strong removed to London, and on March 20, 1630, he sailed in the ship Mary and John for the New World, arriving at Nantasket, Massachusetts, on the 30th of May following. He became the father of eighteen children, two born in England to his first wife, the others born in America to his second wife. His son John, from whom our subject descended, was born in England in 1626, and was but a child of four years when he came to America. He was known as John Strong, Jr. He settled at Windsor, Connecticut, where he married and became the father of seven children. His fifth son was Josiah, who was born at Colchester, Connecticut, on January 11, 1678. His son, Josiah Strong, Jr., was born on September 9, 1709, at Middle Haddam, Connecticut, and his son, Deacon Josiah Strong, was born January 28, 1740, at the same place. Deacon Josiah Strong was the father of Judge John Harris Strong, the grandfather of our subject. Judge Strong was born in Middletown, Connecticut, on January 19, 1792. In August, 1811, he removed to Ohio, and settled in Euclid, Cuyahoga county. He was agent for the sale of lands in and about Cleveland for Lord and 7 Barber, of Connecticut. He served as Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga county from 1817 to 1823, and died in office on April 28 of the latter year. He was the father of ten children, his fourth son, Rodney, being the father of our subject. Rodney Strong was born August 8, 1790, at Chatham, Connecticut, and was twenty-one years of age when he came to Ohio. He returned to Connecticut for his marriage to Mary Taylor, of Middle Haddam. He was the father of seven children, of whom three daughters and two sons are living, our subject being the youngest child. He was a ship-calker by trade, and also followed farming. He was an energetic, pushing man, served as a Justice of the Peace for a time, and was a member of the old original Trinity Church of Cleveland. His death occurred in 1865. Charles Henry Strong was born on March 1, 1831, at Collamer, Cuyahoga county. He was reared on the farm, where he remained until he was twenty years of age. He was educated at the old Shaw Academy at Collamer, securing a good English education. Leaving the farm he engaged in surveying and civil engineering, Tending a year in the office of the city engineer of Cleveland. At twenty-one years of age he engaged at railroad work, in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. In 1861 he was connected with the building of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, having the position of engineer in charge of construction, through Ohio and Pennsylvania. He was also connected with the changing of the gauge on the Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad coming into Cleveland, and had charge of the mason work where that road passes under Detroit street and on the cut through to the old river bed. In 1867 Mr. Strong was appointed City Civil Engineer of Cleveland, which office he held for nine years. He designed and prepared the plans of the Superior street viaduct, and did the first year's work in the construction of the same. In 1877 he took up contracting in connection with civil engineering, in which he has since been engaged. He had the first contract