800 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY born in Ireland and came to America in 1839. He removed to Toronto, Canada, after a brief residence in Buffalo, where he resided till his return to Buffalo in 1864. His wife was Mary J. Crisp, daughter of an Englishman and an inn keeper. Four children resulted from this union: J. R., chief clerk of master mechanic, of Toledo division, at Norwalk; Martha and Cora E., unmarried, and residing in Buffalo. November 24, 1887, our subject married, in Buffalo, Miss Munhall. They are the parents of three children: 011ie M., Clarence W. and Clyde J. Fraternally Mr. Diamond is a member of Washington Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Buffalo, No. 240, and will participate in the benefits of the A. 0. U. W., Harmony Lodge; No. 13, of 13 n ffalo. J. T. MCKEE, general baggage agent of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, is a native of the Keystone State, being born in Beaver county, that State, August 4, 1860. He attended the village schools till eighteen years of age, when he embarked on his railroad career, the exact date being December 27, 1880. His first position was baggage-master's clerk in the Union depot at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. From this position he went to the general baggage office in a similar capacity, and in 1882 came to the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company as a clerk. In October of the same year ho was made chief clerk of the general passenger agent, in which capacity he served until April, 1893, when he was made general baggage agent. Mr. McKee's father, H. P. McKee, was a Pennsylvania merchant, born in that State in 1833. He died in 1892. The family is ante-Revolutionary with respect to settlement or founding in America, and was from the Scotch Highlands. Our subject's mother was Martha Tate. Two children were born to her; a daughter, who now lives in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and J. T., our subject. May 6, 1885, Mr. McKee was married, in Cleveland, to Miss May Quigley, whose father was one of the pioneer men of Summit county, Ohio. He is now largely engaged in milling silica sand in Millington, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. McKee have no children. R. R. VAN TINE, one of the proprietors, secretary and treasurer of the Maxwell Blue Stone Company, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Cleveland, January 29, 1861. His parents were William H. and Julia M.. (Herrick) Van Tine, of whom specific mention is made elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Van Tine was educated in the public schools of Cleveland. On leaving school he came into his father's insurance office, and there remained until 1881. In this year he went in as book-keeper for the Maxwell & McFarland Company and retained that position six years, when in 1887, he and his brother-in-law, E. H. Purdue, purchased a half interest in the Maxwell and McFarland quarry of Euclid, and formed a stock company with R. H. Maxwell as president and manager, and R. R. Van Tine as secretary and treasurer. In 1888 Messrs. Purdue and Van Tine bought the interest of R. H. Maxwell, and thereupon Mr. E. H. Purdue was elected president, and R. R. Van Tine secretary and treasurer, the latter having sole management of the business. This company, still known as the Maxwell Blue Stone Company, employ from fifty to seventy-five men throughout the year and do a business spreading well throughout the United States. They make a pecialty of sawed flagging and building trimmings. Mr. Van Tine has become one of the foremost young business men of the city, and his business is conducted in as systematic and concise a manner as any railway system in the State. His system of keeping accounts of the different departments of his work is the most CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 801 perfect in detail, having a place for everything and everything in its place. He is a member of the Case Avenue Presbyterian Church. His residence is 250 Franklin avenue. In April, 1882, he married Miss Louisa Clinton, daughter of E. T. and Kate Clinton, of Philadelphia. Mr. Clinton's father established and built up the renowned Brush manufacturing concern, which is now carried on by his two sons, E. T. Clinton, and brother. The home of Mr. Van Tine and wife has been blessed in the birth of one child, Russell H. ASAHEL W. STRONG, a popular broker of Cleveland, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, May 23, 1856. He secured a liberal education from the public schools of this city, but at the age of fourteen engaged in business, becoming an employee of Raymond, Lowe & Company, wholesale dry-goods dealers, concluding a seven years' service with them in 1877, at which time he took a position with that most worthy and esteemed citizen, J. M. Hoyt, having charge of the real-estate department. In this service Mr. Strong became familiar with every feature of the loan and brokerage business, and in March, 1893, opened an office in the Cuyahoga building and is building up a gilt-edged profitable business. He deals in select securities exclusively, making a specialty of municipal, county and State bonds. He makes investments of Eastern capital, and is agent for and carries on business with foreign capitalists. Mr. Strong is •a son of Asahel Strong, born in Homer county, New York, in the year 1800, and seven years later brought into Erie county, Ohio, by his father, Amos Strong, a farmer. Settlement was made in Huron county, where he died. The Strongs were originally from Massachusetts. The family was led into "York" State by the great-grandfather of our subject. Asahel Strong married Polly Ann Poole. Mrs. Strong was born in Massachusetts, 1832; and died in 1874, two years later than her husband. Mr. Strong was twice married before this, his first wife being a Miss Bellnis, and his second wife -a sister of his first. His first child, Mary Selina, wife of Charles E. Cole, was by his second wife. The children by the last marriage are: F. A., at Duluth, Minnesota, married Clara. Parker, and they have three children; A. W., married May 28, 1879, in Cleveland, Minnie A., a daughter of Marvin T. Andrus (see sketch of George W. Andrus herein); A. C., of Duluth, Minnesota, married Carrie Ellen Bassett, of Cleveland. The children of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Strong are: Helen Mabel, born May 22, 1880; Ethel M inne, born November 10, 1883; Arthur Poole, burn October 29, 1886, and Paul Asahel, born January 1, 1890. Mr. Strong and family are members of the Plymouth Congregational Church, of which Sabbath-school he is Superintendent. W. D. BARHYDT was born in Schenectady, New York, March 31, 1849. He grew up in that beautiful city on the Hudson and spent some little time in school, but only just about enough to aggravate teacher, parents and pupil. He did not like a six-hour daily confinement, and rather than submit to it he decided to look out for his own welfare. Accordingly he ran away from home at the age of fifteen and hired out to a farmer to care for his garden and horse. Still not contented, he sought employment of the New York Central Railroad and received the position of breakman, running between Albany and Syracuse. He remained with the Central until coming to Cleveland in 1875. He was assigned to duty as brakeman on the Toledo division, being made yard-conductor, and filling that place until promoted to be yardmaster in 1886, where he has since served. Mr. Barhydt is a son of John S. M. Barhydt, born in New York State, in 1800, and dying in. 802 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 1864. He was a prominent contractor- of that state, being one of the builders of the Erie Canal. The family is of German origin, the first representative of it in this country being probably Abraham Barhydt, our subject's paternal grandfather. John S. M. Barhydt married Catherin Light-hall, and their children were: Harriet, wife of John C. Underhill, of Schenectaday; Nancy, deceased, of Albany; W. D. and Henrietta. In September, 1884, Mr. Barhydt married, in this city, Minnie Harris. Their children are three: Ada, Grace and Willie. JAMES P. MoKINSTRY, general manager of the Cleveland Telephone Company, was born, reared and educated in Cleveland. His birth occurred January 15, 1842, and his education was obtained from the public schools. At sixteen years of age he became a messenger boy in the office of the superintendent of the Lake Shore Railroad and performed other work about the building for the company for a period of six months, and during this time learned operating. He was stationed at Geneva, Ohio, and from there worked up by degrees to the position of chief operator of the line, and was stationed in this city. In 1861 Mr. McKinstry became an employee of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and four years later was made manager of the same company, with headquarters at Erie, Pennsylvania. This relationship existed till his transition from telegraph to telephone. service, in 1877, when, at the instance of the Western Union Telegraph Company, he put in the first exchange at Erie. Cleveland put in an exchange in 1879, and this Mr. McKinstry practically planned and controlled, although he did 'not return to the city till the following year. In 1884 Mr. McKinstry was made general manager of the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company, operating exchanges in Minnesota and the Dakotas. He was next made general manager of the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company, operating exchanges in Arkansas and Texas. Mr. McKinstry has been a member of the Society of Electrical Engineers of the State of New York since its organization. He is an active member of the Cleveland Electric Club, preparing treatises on branches of this interesting subject and engaging in their discussion, thereby giving the association the benefit of his lon experience in electricity and electrical appliances. Mr. McKinstry is a son of Thomas McKinstry, once chief of police of Cleveland. He was born near Belfast, Ireland, and in 1837 came to the United States and settled in Cleveland. He was once special agent of the post-office department here. He married Eraxena Dodge, born at Plattsburg, New York, a daughter of Simon Newcomb, and our subject is their second and only surviving child. Mr. McKinstry married in this city, September 18, 1862, Emma, a daughter of A. K. Miller,' of Erie, Pennsylvania. Their children are: Harry M., with the Cleveland Milling Company; Charles T., manager of the Cleveland Telephone Company; Nellie W., wife of Robert G. Pate, with the same company; Edward, Laura and Scott. As to fraternities Mr. McKinstry is a Royal Arch and Chapter Mason, Webb Chapter. He is a Knight of Honor and a member of. the Episcopal Church. CAPTAIN W. A. COLLIER, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Vessel Owners' Towing Company, was born in Summit county, Ohio, December 21, 1855. He accepted employment in his father's store at eighteen years of age, as salesman, and upon retiring was placed in' charge of one of his father's canal boats on the Ohio Canal. Three years later he took up the tug business in Cleveland, having come here in 1866. He first CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 803 managed individual tins, next one of his own, and finally, in 1892, a consolidation of the business brought into existence the Vessel Owners' Towing Company, of which he was made general manager. Captain Collier is a son of M. J. Collier, deceased, who for many years owned and operated a line of boats on the Ohio Canal. He was commissioned a Lieutenant at the outbreak of the Civil war, and assigned to the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Later on he was instrumental in organizing the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, was made its Major, and was so mustered out. He died in Cleveland in 1888. He married in Summit county, Ohio, Miss Bell. The children of this union are: Captain Collier; Hattie L., wife of L. W. Weber; and Emma E., wife of W. C. Lawrence. December 12, 1878, Captain Collier married, in Cleveland, Lillie G., daughter of George W. Beers, a farmer of Summit county. Their children are: Jessie, Fred, Louis, Lloyd and an infant son. Captain Collier is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Royal Arcanum and of the Mystic Circle K. O. T. M., of which order he is trustee local tent. He is also grand financial secretary of the Shipmasters' Association, and a member of Cleveland Lodge. MYRA KING MERRICK, the pioneer woman physician of Ohio, was born in 1825, in Leicestershire, England, in the vicinity of Warwick Castle, a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth King. Her parents emigrated to America, in 1826, locating near Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1840 settling in Lorain county, Ohio. About 1841 Myra went to Elyria, Ohio, and remained for several years, attending school, and assisting in the support of the family by needle work. In 1848, Myra King was married. to Charles H. Merrick, and went to New Haven, where for a year she had a hard struggle consequent upon her husband's illness, and she determined to qualify herself for fighting the battle of life alone. She consequently took a course of lectures at Hyatt's Academy rooms in New York, there being no medical colleges at the time open to women. She then took a course of study at Nicholas Hydropathic Institute, New York, subsequently returning to New Haven, and pursuing a course of study under the well known Professor Levi Ives, of Yale. The Central Medical College of Rochester, New York, having opened its doors to women, she, in 1851, matriculated at that institution, graduated the following year, incidentally receiving the medal offered by the State Eclectic Medical Society to the student making the most progress during the course. In August, 1852, Dr. Merrick came to Cleveland, Ohio, locating on Miami street, near the market, and commencing the practice of medicine, which gradually and steadily increased until it became necessary, on account of her husband's absence in the army, for her to go to Lorain county, to save her husband's lumber from the sheriff's hands. For two years a hard struggle followed and with the assistance only of her 8-year-old son, Dr. Merrick sawed, counted and sold a quantity of lumber, also selling the sawmill. In the intervals of this work she collected supplies for the soldiers and rode miles on professional duty, there being no other physician in that vicinity. She then returned to Cleveland, Ohio, and resumed her practice, which continued to increase until it reached large and lucrative proportions, and until she received recognition on every side, and entirely silenced the prejudices and opposition which women physicians encountered. In 1876, she became president of the Women's Medical College, holding that office until it was merged into the Cleveland Homeopathic College. She was also for a number of years a member of the medical staff of Huron Street Hospital; but what she considered her chief work, and that which will be her enduring mon- 51 804 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY ument, was the establishment in 1879 of the Women's and Children's Free Dispensary, of which she has since been president. To the institution of thi valuable charity tlagler Mrs. Henry M. FFlagler was one of the largest and most interested contributors, and Doctors Kate Parsons and Martha M. Stone have been most untiring and efficient aids to her in the work there successfully prosecuted. Dr Richardck has one son, RiChard L. Merrick, of this city. Dr. Merrick enjoys vigorous health, and the years of untiring energy and al most ceaseless duty she has endured has left but little trace on features, and her successful career may be worthily cited as and notable example of the fitness of women for profession life. REV. HARRY P. ECKHARDT is pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, known as "Christus Kirche," of Cleveland. He was born in Maryland, December 31, 1866, as a son of John and Margaret (Kilian) Eckhardt, both parents being natives of Germany. The father with his family came to America in 1840 and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. In Germany he had learned the trade of a tanner, which trade he followed in Baltimore. He died in 1893, at the age of seventy-two years. He died at Baltimore, where his widow still lives, with an unmarried daughter. The subject of this sketch is the youngest of four children, namely: Louis C., successor to his father's business at Baltimore; Caroline, wife of Frank Siegel, Esq., of Baltimore; Lena, the unmarried daughter with whom the mother now resides; and the subject of this sketch, who was educated at Reisterstown, Maryland. Later he attended Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he completed a classical course in 1886. He then attended Concordia Seminary, at St. Louis, Missouri, and there-took a theological course of three years, completing the same in 1889. His first ministerial work was in his present position. When he became pastor of this church ninety families constituted his congregation and fifty pupils attended the parochial school. Now his congregation consists of 190 families, and 225 pupils attend the school and are taught by one female and two male teachers. Rev. Eckhardt is a member of the Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States. He was married in 1891 to Miss Martha Hauser, daughter of Rev. Hugo Hauser, a prominent clergyman of Baltimore, Maryland, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. For forty years Rev. Hugo Hauser was a member of the Missouri Synod. He died in 1886, aged about eighty years. In his synod he was a noted clergyman. He was the father of seven children, namely: Lena, who is a lecturer on art and is an accomplished and scholarly lady; Rev. Otto Hauser, the second child, is a clergyman in Connecticut; Hugo Hauser is a bookkeeper in New York city; Rev. Oscar Hauser resides in Wisconsin; the fifth child is the wife of the subject of this sketch; Syna A. Hauser is the female teacher in the parochial schools in the church of which our subject is pastor; the last child of Rev. Hugo Hauser is Freda, who is still of the home circle in Baltimore. Rev. Eckhardt is a careful and thorough man in all his multifarious relations. He is thoroughly devoted to his work and has ever proved himself worthy of the confidence and responsibility reposed in him by a large, influential and growing church, of which he is the esteemed pastor. FRED BEILSTEIN an undertaker at 369 and 371 Central avenue, Cleveland, was born in this city, June 23, 1862, a son of Henry and Eliza Beilstein, natives of Germany. Fred received his education and learned the undertaking business in this city. The business was first established by his father in 1844, .and in the pioneer undertaking establishment in this city. In his social relations, Mr. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 805 Beilstein is Warden of the I. 0. 0. F., President of the Cleveland Council, and is a member of Woolington Lodge, K. of P., of the I. 0. F., the Royal Foresters and the German Order of Harugari. Politically, he affiliates with the Republican party. Mr. Beilstein was married in 1888 to Miss Lydia Louisa Ingraham, a native of New York; her father died when she was quite young. Our subject- and wife are members' of the Third Presbyterian Church of Cleveland. He is a genial, pleasant and enterprising citizen, and is deserving of the large patronage he now enjoys. DR. SIGMUND DRECHSLER. Rabbi of the Hungarian Congregation, Bene-Jeshurun, was born in Brezowa, Hungary, March 15, 1845, a son of Isaac and Helen Drechsler, natives also of that country. The father was engaged as a woolen merchant in Hungary during his entire life. His death occurred from an accident, in 1858, at the age of forty-seven years. His wife died in 1873, aged fifty-six years. Both were members of the Hebrew Congregation, of which the father was an officer for many years. They had three sons, our subject having been the only one to come to America. One brother, Colman, resides in Hungary, and another, William, died in that country. The father was well and favorably known, and was highly respected as a good citizen. He tried to give his children the best possible advantages of the day in education and otherwise. Sigmund Drechsler, our subject, received instructions under the best scholars of his day until his thirteenth year. Only the Talmud and Hebrew branches were taught in the city of his birth. He then spent three years under the great Rabbi, H. Hanheimer, and was afterward with the rabbi in Ungwar, where the latter died a few years since. While there he studied only the Hebrew branches and the Talmud. His father died when he was fifteen years of age, and his first effort in oratory was in giving the funeral oration, which was greatly admired by the large concourse of people present. All felt his oratorical future would be very great. Dr. Drechsler then went to Eisenstadt, Hungary, and studied under the great rabbi, Dr. Hilderheimer, who conducted the only rabbi seminary at that time. He taught Hebrew, German, Latin, Greek and mathematics. Among his assistants were Dr. Wolf and Dr. Coher. Dr. Drechsler remained there seven years, or until he graduated in all the studies, receiving his diploma as an efficient rabbi. Dr. Hilderheimer is now president of a rabbi seminary in Berlin. After receiving his diploma, in 1866, Dr. Drechsler married Julia Zollshein, a native of Hungary, and a daughter of Leopold and Fannie Zollshein. She is descended from a family who were finished scholars for many generations, and her father was also a great scholar. He died in 1846, at the age of twenty-three years. Mrs. Zollshein is still living in Hungary, aged seventy years. Our subject and wife have six children, viz.: Josephine, wife of David Sandrowitz, a merchant of Cleveland; Isaac, engaged in clerking for his brother-in-law; Jennie, who will soon become the wife of Phillip, a brother of David Sandrowitz, and a partner in the business; William and Helen, attending the high school; and Julius, a pupil of the public school. At the age of twenty-four years Dr. Drechsler took charge of the congregation at Kovagoears, three years later went to Nagy Vazsony, and four years afterward was called to the congregation at Peezel, as district rabbi, remaining there fourteen years. The Minister of the Hungarian Cabinet on Education, Mr. Trefort, had charge of the congregation as well as of educational affairs. He reorganized the entire state in into new districts, which lessened the district filled by our subject. He at once resolved to come to America, and accordingly arrived in New York in 1887, where he remained six weeks, during which time he preached every Saturday in the First Hungarian Congregation, 806 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Oheb. Zebeck. He then took charge of his present work in Cleveland. At that time the chnrch consisted of only fifty members, but under Dr. Drechsler's able management has increased to a membership of over 200. He is an able expounder of the Bible, and his efforts in work and organization have been eminently successful. Under his charge, the congregation purchased the synagogue on Eagle street, which contains a seating capacity of 1,500. The Sunday-school is held in the basement, and has a membership of 250: also the same number of day pupils. Religious intructions are given ever day by three efficient teachers. The church has a large burying ground in Glenville, Ohio. Dr. Drechsler is still in the prime of life, and carries the respect of all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. In his line of literature he is one of the most scholarly men in this great city. REV. WILLIAM SAMPSON, Superintendent of the Children's Aid Society, Cleveland, Ohio (Detroit street, No. 1745), was born in Summerford, Wiltshire, England, February 20, 1814. His parents were Jacob and Ann (Wicks) Sampson. These parents came to Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1833, settling on a farm where they remained a few years, when they returned to England, where they passed the remaining years of their life. The father died in the same room in which he was born, his age being 81 years. He was a Church Warden all his life. He was a very forward man in church work, and all moral reforms. His wife was his equal—perhaps his superior--in all acts of love, and in exercise of the Christian graces. She was .a woman most highly esteemed, and a valued citizen, doing much for the children, bringing them to her own home and caring for the needy and comforting the distressed. This was a very unpopular move in her day, and in her social circle, but it satisfied her conscience, was well pleasing to her, and later made her very popular. She too was a member of the established Church. Two histories in England bring out these points in full, and speak of her in unmistakable terms of praise. No tongue can speak her praise too warmly. The lives, influence and example of these good people are an endearing heritage to their family and the church of their choice. The mother died four years later than her husband, her age having been about the same. She was deeply interested in the matter of reform, and this engrossed her attention, not, however, to the neglect of her family. Our subject was one of four brothers and two sisters. The brothers are all living, viz.: Sohn resides in North Carolina; Thomas re, sides in Birmingham, England; our subject; James resides in California, doing a large business; Ann, the oldest sister, died in Gloucestershire, England; she was the wife of James Bryant, and died at the age of forty years;, Bessie, the youngest sister, died at the age of thirty-five years. Our subject at the age of eleven years, owing to reverses in his father's business, was apprenticed in a flouring mill as a miller.. This apprenticing had to be paid for, and cost 200 pounds , which sum was paid by the minister and his daughter. Our subject came to America with his parents in 1833. His early education was gotten chiefly in attending Sunday-school. He learned to write on the flouring boards in the mill. Later he graduated in "brush college," riding on horseback from one appointment to another as a Methodist itinerant minister. He was in the mill until he came to America. At fifteen years of age he took the $1 prize for dressing a mill-stone. He took charge of the mill when seventeen years of age, and a very proud moment of his life was this. By this time he had learned to read well and was teaching a class in Sunday-school. On coming to America they made the voyage on a sailing vessel, "Earl Gray," and were nine CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 807 long weary weeks on the ocean. After the fourth week they had to- strain the drinking water they used, in order to remove the little polliwigs, which had grown to some considerable size by this time. Arriving in New York they remained there for a few days and then proceeded up the Hudson river to Albany, and thence by canal to Buffalo. The canal trip was made in a little less than five days, and as this was the quickest trip ever made between the two cities up to that time, the arrival of the boat was an event of considerable interest and importance, bands of music, meeting the same at Buffalo, where there was much celebrating in honor of the occasion. From Buffalo they came to Erie, Pennsylvania, stopped at the tavern and our subject started out to find something to do. He soon found employment with a contractor—John Justice—who was building a pier, the first ever built in that city. John gave him a two-inch auger and the first day's work in America was a good and faithful one. The facts were, he had done no work for many, many weeks, had never handled an auger for an entire hour before: such work was not in his line. He turned the auger faithfully all day, and the next morning on awaking he found it difficult to turn himself in bed, after many efforts he succeeded in getting on his feet. The board bill was acc umulating at the hotel, matters began to look serious, and something must be done. He met Seth Read, to whom he told his condition and the situation, and that gentleman with other influential persons secured him a position in a mill, where he felt much at home, although milling in America was very different from what it was in England. He ever remembered Mr. Read with much pleasure and thankfulness for the service rendered a helpless boy in a strange land. He was in the- mill nearly two years, when, by the help of friends, he secured a position in the mercantile business. During all these years he was an active church worker, and was superintendent of the Sunday-school. At the age of twenty-two years he married a Yankee schoolteacher—Miss Lois C. Sullivan — with whom he studied for fifty-five years. He was ever a student, and has been all his life. The date of his marriage was in 1837. They celebrated their golden wedding in 1887, at which time every adult that was at the marriage, except the bride and groom, had passed to the world beyond. Our subject entered the Erie Conference in 1848; when the Conference was divided, he fell on the Ohio side, and has been a member of the East Ohio Conference since its organization. He travelled on circuit for sixteen years; for ten on stations at Meadville, Pennsylvania, Hartford, Ridgeway, Windsor and Kingsville, each two years, as long as the church would allow. Bishops Simpson, Ames and Janes all recommended his coming to the Children's Aid Society. This appointment came after he had served one year in Waring Street Church in Cleveland, Ohio. The society was in debt when he came; now it is worth $200,000 and is entirely free from indebtedness. Our subject and wife have had nine children: J. P., who served through the entire war, was with Sherman on his noted march from Atlanta to the sea; he enlisted as private in the Ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and came home as Major in the Signal Service. After passing through all these services, he came home, and was injured in a runaway with a span of favorite horses, and died soon after, leaving a wife (nee Sarah Davis), and three children: Nellie, William and Agnes. He was in twenty-three real battles, besides many hazardous skimishes. He had the honor of seuding the first signal into Savannah, Georgia, after its capture. Mary, Mary Jane and Mary Elizabeth, all died young, at the ages respectively of one, three, and five years; Thomas Bond, died at the age of eleven years. One child, who was unnamed, died in early life; Lois was the wife of Mr. Jones, and died at the age of nineteen years; George died in infancy, and Edwin James, the youngest, is still living,— one of the principal salesmen of 808 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. the Estey & Camp piano house in .Chicago. He married Anna Alden: they have one child, Walter Alden Sampson. The wife of our subject died March 28, 1890, aged seventy-two years. She was a fine scholar and began teaching at the early age of fourteen years, and was a true woman, deeply pious and most earnestly devoted to the interests and best welfare of the Home. In June, 1891, Mr. Sampson married for his second wife Mrs. Kate Bishop, who was for four years Assistant Matron of the Home. During these years her ability in her position was well tested and never found wanting. Since the date of her last marriage she has been the efficient Matron of the Home, and the selection has ever proved a good one. She has shown herself the right person in the right place. Mrs. (Bishop) Sampson's children by a former marriage are Gertrude, Dom, Pedro and Eva. The children are youthful, lively and doing well. The officers of the Children's Aid Society are: T. P. Handy, president; G. H. Ely, vice-president; Samuel Mather, secretary and treasurer; S. A. Raymond, recording secretary and auditor; Rev. William Sampson, superintendent and chaplain; Miss Nellie L. Johnston, assistant superintendent; Mrs. William 'Sampson, matron. Teachers: Miss Helen M. Hulburt and Miss Minnie M. Terry: For five years Mrs. Sarah Gault, formerly Mrs. Major J. P. Sampson, was assistant matron in the Home, and was a most efficient official,—one who will ever be remembered in the work. Edwin's wife (Anna Sampson) served faithfully in the Home three years, teaching and rendering other valuable services. She is a native of Coldwater, Michigan, where she now resides. She is, a fine scholar and writer, and a leader in church work.. Rev. William Sampson has been superintendent and chaplain of the Home for nineteen years, and by his present wife, as by the former Mrs. Sampson, deceased, as matrons and helpers has been greatly aided in the work̊ Peculiar talents are required, and they have shown great aptness in the work. In this brief notice we can give only a few points in regard to the noble work now being done in the Home. It would take much space to do it justice. The Children's Aid Society is the outgrowth of benevolent effort made at an early day in Cleveland, to rescue its poverty-stricken and neglected children from a life of moral degradation. The first school was located in the front room of an old unoccupied building near the western termination on Canal street, and had about a dozen pupils gathered in from the city. In 1854, the school was merged into its present form. The enterprise was purely benevolent in its aim, and depended then, as now, on charitable donations for its support. It was located on Champlain street, and Robert Waterson was its superintendent. The management became a corporate body in 1865. On the 7th of July 1876, Mr. Waterson resigned the superintendency. At this crisis the Children's Aid Society re-organized the Farm School upon a new basis, under the name of the Children's Industrial School and Home, with Rev. William Sampson as superintendent, and his wife, now deceased, as matron. The Children's Aid Society has been truly fortunate in its selection of Mr. and Mrs. Sampson- as superintendent and matron. They seem to have all the qualities of head and heart that are necessary to a proper discharge of the duties. During their connection with the school they have achieved a great and good work. From July 7, 1876, to December 31, 1893, they have received into the institution and have cared for 2,109 destitute and neglected children, and of this number, have placed 1,181 in good homes, mostly in the country: the remainder were returned for various reasons to their parents, or friends, except a few who were re-admitted and the sixty-two now on 'hand. In doing this they have travelled thousands of CUYAGOHA COUNTY - 809 miles, not only in placing of children, but in visiting' them to see if they were properly cared for. They have the respect and confidence of the public, and will ever be 'remembered with heartfelt gratitude by the hundreds of waifs whom they have reclaimed from degradation, and elevated to the dignity of a true Christian manhood. It is hoped that the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Sampson may long be spared to continue their service in this most important field of labor. The above facts are gleaned from reports of the Home, as given by President T. P. Handy, Hon. Harvey Rice and others. Of the Home it may safely be said that it has received its prestige from the high character of its benefactors and officials. It has been managed by those of progressive, Christian spirit and noble impulses, and the great good it has accomplished, and will yet accomplish, will never be fully known until the day of final reckoning, May we not hope that each coming year shall add a brighter luster to its efficiency? A. L. ROTNER, proprietor of the livery, feed and sale stable, 553 and 555, Woodland avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, opened this establishment in April, 1893, having erected a large frame structure especially adapted to this purpose. He keeps a full line of carriages and buggies, good horses, and a complete equipment throughout. Mr. Rotner is a native of Russia, born October 22, 1848, at Keyve, a son of Isadore and Ida Rotner. The father, who is now deceased, was a miller and farmer, and also owned large lumber interests in the empire; the mother still survives. Our subject was reared in his native land and remained a member of his father's household until twenty-five years of age; he assisted in the various lines of business of which his father was proprietor until he came to America. Upon reaching this country he went to Rochester, and near that city secured employment with a farmer with whom he remained three years, receiving wages during the summer' and devoting the winter months to study. During this time he mastered the English language and familiarized himself with the customs of this country. Entering the employ of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Rochester, New York, he was soon promoted to the position of assistant superintendent of the Western Division, and was sent to Chicago. He continued with this corporation three years, and then embarked in the livery business in Chicago. In 1886 he came to Cleveland in the interests of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, but after six or seven months he engaged in business for himself. He first carried a line of groceries, and was afterward in the dairy business, which he operated three years; at the end of this time he again opened a grocery store, closing out the business at the end of twelve months in order to enter his present enterprise. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Sons of Benjamin. A man of the most generous impulses, the needy never pass him unassisted. He was united in marriage in Cleveland, Ohio, October 16, 1886, to Rosa Ettinger, a native of Russia. They are the parents of two children, Isadore and Belle. They are members of the Hebrew congregation of this city. WILLIAM S. PINCOMBE was born in Cleveland, Ohio, May 6, 1855. His parents were William and Sarah (Wooldridge) Pincombe, and were both natives of Devonshire, England, where, they were married. In the spring of 1853 they emigrated to the United States, settling in Cleveland, where the father was engaged in brick-making. In 1861 he purchased a farm in Middleburg township, where he has since resided. Mrs. Sarah Pincombe is a sister of Thomas Wooldridge, of 810 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. whom personal mention is made elsewhere in this volume. She was born April 5, 1817. William Pincombe was born February 26,1830. William S. Pincombe is the only child of his parents. He was reared in Cuyahoga county, where he has always resided. He was married in Berea, Ohio, January 31, 1876, to Miss Mary Ann Gordon, a daughter of the late John Gordon, who died in Berea, Ohio, March 27, 1880. Her mother was Elizabeth (Bailey) Gordon, who survives her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Pincombe are the parents of four children: William J., Silas H., Arthur H. and Ella May. Mr. Pincombe has been engaged chiefly in farming. He cultivates his father's farm of over 100 acres. He has held some of the offices of the township and for many years has been one of the school directors. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. CHARLES P. WEST was born in Rockport township, November 29, 1854. His father was the late John M. West, who was born in county Leitrim, Ireland, in May, 1811. In May, 1826, he came to America with his father, John West, and settled in Euclid township, where the son lived until about 1842, dealing in stock and farming. At this time he removed to Rockport township, settling in that part of it which is now known as Rockport Hamlet, where he continued to live till his death, which occurred February 15, 1890. He was married in Buffalo, New York, early in the '40s, to Frances N. O'Brien, who was born in Roscommon county, .Ireland; about 1821. She survives and resides in Rockport Hamlet. They had eight children, two of whom died in youth, Nicholson, who died when fifteen years old, and Arthur, who died at two. The names of the six who grew up are as follows: Alice Ii., deceased wife of J. W. Kinney, who died in the late '80s; John W.; William L.; Fannie C., who is the wife of C. C. Southern ; George W. and Charles P. Charles P. West was reared in Rockport township, where he received a good common-school education, afterward attending the Humiston Cleveland Institute for three years and Oberlin College one year. Farming was his chief business until June, 1893, when he formed a partnership with H. G. Dryer, with whom he is now associated. John M. West was a public-spirited man and was instrumental in having the Ohio City and Olmsted plank road built. HENRY L. PHILLIPS, dealer in real estate, corner of Doan and Superior streets, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the well-known, responsible and worthy citizens of' his locality. Mr, Phillips was born on the premises on which he now resides, December 13, 1844, son of James and Almira (Crawford) Phillips, natives of Connecticut. His parents came from the East to Ohio about 1838 and settled on a farm at Warrensville, from whence, about 1840, they,, removed to the vicinity of Cleveland. Here the father purchased 125 acres of land, half of which is now within the corporate limits of the city, the rest being still in the possession of the fain ily. On this farm the senior Mr. Phillips spent the the residue of his life and died. He was a man of more than ordinary business qualifications, was well known, and filled several local offices, such as Township Trustee and School Director. His life was a life of noble impulse and progressive spirit, and well did he do his part toward opening up the frontier and preparing the way for a higher civilization which the present generation enjoys. He and his worthy companion left to their descendants what is far better than riches--the heritage of a good name. Henry L. is the youngest of their family, the others being Mrs. Hosley, William, Mrs. Jordan and Sarah. The boyhood days of Henry L. Phillips were spent on his father's farm and in attendance at CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 811 the public schools of Cleveland. He continued farming until 1891, when he engaged in the real-estate business, which he has since successfully conducted. Mr. Phillips was married December 25,1873, to Miss Frances Morgan, daughter of Calvin Morgan of New York. When the. Civil war came on, our subject was in his 'teens. February 25, 1864, he enlisted in Battery D, First Ohio Light Artillery, and was in the Army of the Ohio, which was consolidated with the Army of the Tennessee. He participated in the Atlantic campaign, and remained with his command until the close of the war, being then in North Carolina. He returned to Cleveland and was mustered out July 15, 1865. He stood the service well. Although he was under fire much of the time during the Atlanta campaign, he never received a wound. He is a member of Forest City Post, G. A. R., in which he has served in official capacities. HENRY C. RANNEY.—One of the most prominent, members of the Cleveland bar is Mr. Henry C. Ranney, who is a member of a family which for many years has held merited distinction in legal circles of Ohio. Mr. Ranney was born on June 1, 1829, in Freedom, Portage county, Ohio. His father, Elijah W. Ranney, was the eldest brother of Judge R. P. Ranney, the recognized Nestor of the Cleveland bar, and of the late John L. Ranney, a distinguished lawyer of Ravenna, Ohio. The father of Mr. Ranney dying when our subject was but six years of age, he was adopted into the family of the Hon. R. P. Ranney, then at rising young lawyer of Jefferson, Ohio. He was at once placed in school and given a good education, and then entered the office of his uncle, Rufus P. Ranney, where he began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1852, and immediately entered into practice at Warren, Ohio, in the office with Judge Birchard. He was afterward associated with his uncle, John L. Ranney, at Ravenna, with whom he remained until the death of the latter. In :1874 he came to Cleveland and entered into partnership with his uncles, Rufus P. and John R. Ranney. Afterward a partnership was formed by these three gentlemen with Hon. Henry McKinney, who retired from the bench for that purpose, under the firm name of Ranney & McKinney. This partnership was dissolved in 1890, since which time Mr. Henry C. Ranney has been engaged in practice alone. In 1862 Mr. Ranney was appointed by the Secretary of War, Assistant Adjutant-General of Volunteers, and assigned to, duty on the staff of General E. B. Taylor, commanding the first brigade, third division, fifth army corps of the Potomac. This position he held about a year, during which time he participated in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He then resigned and returning to Cleveland, resumed his practice, devoting himself assiduously thereto ever since. Mr. Ranney has never sought or held a public salaried office of any kind, though: he has on frequent occasions been solicited to stand for election to the bench and to Congress. No lawyer in northern Ohio has a wider cir cle of close and lasting ;friendship among his legal brethren on the bench and at the bar than has Mr. Ranney, and no lawyer in the State has a higher standing at the bar than he. Mr. Ranney has for many years been closely identified with the leading movements for the advancement of culture in literature and art, in his home city. His known "sympathy with such movements, and his unquestioned probity, together with his reputation for safe and conservative business methods, have made him the natural choice as trustee for the many donations of many generous-minded persons who have devoted large sums of money to such purposes. And his own wide culture derived from study and extensive travel in. his own country and abroad, render his services quite invaluable as custodian of these important interests. Mr. Ramsey is one of those men whose lives are full 812 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. of unsought honors of the truest sort, and the solid, substantial and permanent reward of unselfish lives. The love and confidence of all who know him are the crown of a long, useful and successful career. Mr. Ranney was married September 19, 1853, to Miss Helen A. Burgess, of Ravenna, Ohio, an orphan grand-daughter of the late Hon. William Coolman of that place. Six daughters and a son were born to this union, three daughters only surviving. WILLIAM PHILLIPS, retired, was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1837, a son of James and Almira (Crawford) Phillips, natives of Connecticut. James Phillips was born in 1804, and in 1838 removed to Ohio to make his home with his wife's parents, Luther and Elizabeth Crawford. He bought a tract of 125 acres, on which his son William now resides; thirty-eight acres are within the city limits of Cleveland. Here Mr. Phillips lived until his death, which occurred April 10, 1891. He became a conspicuous figure in the history of this locality, and was an important factor in the development of Cuyahoga county's resources. He was bound out as a child of four years, and had few advantages in his youth. As a pioneer of Ohio h3 is deserving of the honor and reverence due those men and women who bravely cleared the path for the oncoming generations. His wife died February 17, 1889, at the venerable age of eighty-seven years. For many years he was trustee of the township, but was not a politician. There were four children in the family: William, the subject of this sketch; Mary, the wife of O. D. Jordan; Sarah and Henry L. The mother was twice married, and had one daughter by her first union, Almira, widow of Adolphus J. Hosley. Mr. Phillips was educated in the district school, and was reared to the occupation of. farmer. He enlisted September 10, 1862, in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his regiment .did guard duty on Johnston's Island the greater part of the time, and he was honorably discharged June 8, 1865. When the war had closed he returned to his farm and resumed the pursuits he has since followed. He has been very successful, and for many years was regarded as one of the leading market-gardeners in the county. He was married October 20, 1859, to Miss Lydia A. Barber, a daughter of Abner and Lydia Barber, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Phillips is one of a family of five children: Elizabeth, wife of Wright Bramley, deceased; Minerva, wife of Carlton Fuller, is not living; Asa and Martin V., who was killed in a railway accident at the age of twenty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips are the parents of a family of nine children: Ella, now Mrs. Carlisle, whose history is given elsewhere in this volume; James W.; Emma; Charles R., who married Alice Middleton; Gertrude; Bert, who died at the age of two and a half years; Minerva; Frank, who died at the age of twelve months; and Ralph. Mr. Phillips is an honored member of the G. A. R., is a man of most excellent traits, and his long and useful career in this community entitle him to the confidence reposed in him by all classes of citizens. FRANK A. BROBST, manager of the Hollander Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, has been connected with this establishment since 1890, and has more than proven his fitness for the position. The hotel accommodates 1,000 guests, and is conducted upon both the European and American plans. The service throughout is excellent. Mr. Brobst was born in Norwalk, Ohio, where he was reared and educated. When a young man he went to Fremont, Ohio, taking a position in the Ball House, which he filled satisfac- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 813 torily for a year. At the end of twelve months he went to Chicago, and during the ten years following was connected with the management of the Palmer House of that city. His ability was speedily recognized, and he was promoted to positions of responsibility in rapid succession. During the last three years of his residence in Chicago he was a member of the company managing the Palmer House. Although a young man, thirty-five years of age, he has developed superior business qualifications, and is considered one of the most successful hotel managers in the State. His experience as assistant manager of the Palmer House Ls been invaluable him, and has doubtless been of material aid to him in bringing the Hollander to the front. Our worthy manager is one of the stockholders of the Arcade Savings Bank, and of the C. & B. Transit Company; he also owns a considerable amount of realty in Chicago. He is a lover of fine horses, and the sporting world presents many attractions to him; his chief gratification in this line is found in a good trotter. Mr. Brobst has attained his successes through his own efforts, and is justly entitled to the confidence and esteem which he commands in business circles. He was married in Chicago in 1886, to Miss Dizatell. FRIEDRICH AUL, florist at Glenville, was born February 20, 1857, in Waitzenbach, Bavaria, took an academic course of education at Schweinfurt, in his native country, learned the trade of florist, served two years in the regular army, and October 23, 1881, arrived in Cleveland. During his first two years here he was employed by Mrs. Eadie, a florist: next, in company with his brother, Casper, in 1883, he opened business in his line on St. Clair street, on a rented place, and in September, 1892, be started out for himself, on St. Clair street and Gordon Park. He purchased his present property, two acres, on Doan street, Glenville, where he now has a fine establishment. He erected a good frame house, costing $12,00). The eminent success which he has attaine I is attributable to his diligent and close attention to the business he has so thoroughly learned for he started without means. In his political sympathies he is a Republican, ar d in religion a Presbyterian Lutheran. September 17, 1883, is the date of his marriage to Miss Hermine Burck, who had just arrived from the old country, according to her marriage engagement. Their children are Rudolph, Henry and Otto, aged respectively eight, four acid two years. His father, a farmer of the old country, died in April, 1883, and his mother in December following. They have seven children, three of whom are in this country. The names of all are Johannes, Casper, Anne, Frederick, Henry, Katherine and John. The last mentioned lives in Cleveland. FRANKLIN M. ROOT, a representative farmer of Middleburg township, was born March 4, 1839, in Brunswick, Medina county, Ohio. His father was the late Charles Root, a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Root family were among the early settlers of Brunswick, Medina county. Charles Root removed to Cleveland, where he kept the Pearl Street House for seven years in what was formerly known as Ohio City, and is now the West Side of Cleveland. He died in 1850. He was formerly employed in the mercantile business in Brunswick. The maiden name of his wife was Ruth A. Martin, and she survives her husband at an advanced age. They had eight sons, of whom Franklin M. was the third. When he was about two years old his parents removed to Parma, Cuyahoga county, remained one year and then removed to Ohio City (or West Cleveland). In 1850 he returned with his widowed mother and brothers to Brunswick, and remained for several years, when he came to Middleburg 814 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. township, where he has since been a resident. Agriculture has been his chief business, his present farm, a fine one, comprising nearly sixty acres. Mr. Root married, in Middleburg township, June 22, 1865, Miss Joanna Fowles, daughter of Lewis A. and Hannah (Fish) Fowles. He was born in Middleburg township, and she in Connecticut. They are old and respected residents of this county. They had two sons and three daughters, of whom Mrs. Root was the eldest. She was born in Middleburg township, March 23, 1847, where she was reared. Mr. and Mrs. Root have four sons: Charles L., who married Miss Ida Gray; Samuel L.; Rolland F., who married Ella M. Brainard; and Alden F., who married Miss Belle C. Goss. Mr. Root was Township Trustee for six years. He is now Postmaster at Berea, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, under the administration of President Cleveland. CHRISTOPHER R. MAILE, proprietor of the Lakewood Brick and Tile Works, at Lakewood hamlet, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, January 27, 1862. His parents were William R. and Alice (Rose) Mailed, natives of St. Ives, England. They had five children, namely: Christopher R.; Nellie, the wife of Sidney Goss; Hattie, wife of Urban Bard; Lillie, wife of J. C. Cannon; and Warren, who was accidentally drowned by falling into a pond when four years and five months old. When our subject was but a year old his parents removed to Rockport township, making their home in what is now known as Lakewood hamlet, and here young Christopher grew to manhood. He received a common-school education and remained with his father at home until his marriage. He was married in Cleveland, Ohio, March 1, 1884, to Miss Mary A: Kidd, a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio: They settled in Lakewood hamlet, where they have since resided. They have had three children: Willie, who died when about seven years of age; Alice and Lulu. In the spring of 1885, Mr. Maile, in company with his father, purchased the Tile and Brick Works, which they operated together for two years. The son then purchased his father's interest, and has since conducted the business alone. He carries on quite an extensive business. Mr. Maile has served as Trustee for several years. He is the member of the Central Republican Committee for Rockport township, and has taken an active part in political matters as well as local affairs. JOHN W. WISE was born near Louisville, Stark county, Ohio, September 14, 1859. His boyhood days were spent on the farm, and his education obtained from the village schools and at Mount Union College. Constant confinement in a schoolroom jeopardizing his health, he was forced to give up his studies and seek more active employment. He decided that railroading should be his business. He secured a place with the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad Company in 1882 as workman on a gravel train, expecting that he would be promoted to fireman on first vacancy, and the change was made in just four days. In 1883 he came to the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Company as yard brakeman at Newburg. In three years he was made yard conductor, serving as such till August, 1873, when he was promoted to night yardmaster. Mr. Wise is a son of Henry C. Wise, likewise a native of Stark county, Ohio, born in 1828 and died in 1875. He devoted his active business life to the farm and the building of mills, and officially was for many years a Justice of the Peace. Our subject's mother was Elizabeth Snyder, now living in Louisville, at seventy-six years of age. Her father was Michael Snyder, a farmer CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 815 and one of the first settlers in Stark county. He came to Ohio from Alexandria, Maryland, in 1832, and was an Ohio soldier in the Mexican war. His death occurred in 1872. The Wise family came originally from Massachusetts, and were led into Ohio by Charles Wise, who married Margaret Charles, who bore him five children, one of whom was Henry C. Wise. The latter's children were: Samuel, deceased; Amanda, deceased; Matilda, married David Harner, of Canton, Ohio; Elizabeth, wife of L. Bauman; John W., and Elvira, unmarried. John W. Wise married, June 7, 1893, in Cleveland, Nellie Lalley, a daughter of Thomas Lalley. Mr. Wise is indebted for his success to a good stock of energy and perseverance and an evident interest in the business of his employers. PATRICK FITZPATRICK, of Linsdale, Ohio, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, December 24, 1848. His father, Charles Fitzpatrick, was then a resident of the Forest City only temporarily, while engaged in constructing a portion of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad under contract. He was not without a contract for a portion of some one of our eastern trunk lines from the time he became a fixture as an American business man until his death near Toledo, Ohio, of cholera, in 1803. He came from Ireland to Ohio about 1847, bringing a wife—Rosa, nee Morgan. Five children were born to the parents, but Patrick is the only surviving son. After the death of his parents, so suddenly, and at almost the same time, our subject was taken charge of by a farmer named Doty and kept until an uncle came on and took possession of the young orphan. He was brought to Cleveland and secured a scant parochial school training; alternating the duties of student with some kind of manual labor necessary to secure subsistence. At sixteen Mr. Fitzpatrick went to New York city and enlisted in the Sixth New York Cavalry, going to Staten Island and thence to Harper's Ferry, where the regiment was assigned to the First Division of the Second Brigade under General Deven, and saw service in the second Shenandoah valley campaign; was in the battle of Five Forks and many other less noted engagements, and after Lee's surrender came back to Roanoke river, North Carolina, to cut off Johnston. Their mission completed, the regiment returned to Alexandria, Virginia, and participated in the grand review at Washington, District of Columbia. The Sixth was consolidated with the Fifteenth New York and sent to Louisville, Kentucky, to do provost duty; remained during the summer and in November turned over all government property and were sent back to Elmira, New York, to be mustered out. After an unsuccessful attempt to get congenial employment in New York city, our subject secured a job at getting out timber near Randolph,, New York, and was so engaged one year, going then in October, 1866, to Boston, where he gratified a desire to renew military service by enlisting in the Seventh United States Infantry. Ultimately he was sent to St. Augustine. Florida, where he was assigned to Company B, Seventh United States Infantry. He was stationed at Fernandina until the spring of 1867, when, the Indians becoming hostile in the Rocky mountain country, an order took the regiment to Fort Steele, Wyoming, and some time later it was transferred to Fort Shaw, Montana, where in 1869 'Mr. Fitzpatrick was discharged by expiration of term of service. He returned to Cleveland in 1870, and the next year went to the Toledo division of the Lake Shore Railroad Company as yard brakeman. After six months' service he came to the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company in the same capacity, and in fourteen months was given a pony. In due season he was made night yard-master, serving in the Cleveland yards until 1889, when he was promoted to the position of day man at Lindale. Only one in the twenty- two years of his service 816 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY has Mr. Fitzpatrick been absent from duty at any length, and that timofor a period ofi six months, when temporarily engaged in a merchandising venture. Mr. Fitzpatrick married in Cleveland, Maria Campbell, of Canadian birth. Their children are: Rosa, Priscilla, Mary, Effie and Nettie. COLONEL A. T. VAN TASSEL is one of the leading business men of the city of Cleveland. He was born at Mayville, Chautauqua county, New York, March 11, .1833. When he was six years old his parents removed to Erie, Pennsylvania. He is a son of Abram and Zenitia (Truckum) VanTassel, both being natives of New York State. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was a stonemason by trade and in Erie followed the business of a contractor, and as a contractor operated upon the Erie & Pittsburg canal. The subject of this personal sketch served an apprenticeship of four years at the tin and coppersmith's trade and when he had reached his majority he left Pennsylvania and cane to Cleveland, in which city he landed in 1852, where he worked for seven years at his trade. He then embarked in business for himself. When he began work in the city of Cleveland his assets were $5, but from his earnings he saved his money and accumulated $125, which became his invested capital. When he embarked in business for himself he opened the shop on Detroit street, just opposite his present location, and since that day he has been one of the most active business men of the city. In 1865 he purchased a stock of hardware, at the same time purchasing the lot on which stands his present place of business. In 1867 he erected his business house and here he does a general tin and copper business. His work consists in marine work, plumbing, etc. Having fitted up a number of vessels for lake service: he has made marine work a specialty; however, he carries a full line of shelf and heavy hardware. His place of business is 250 Detroit street. He employs a number of workmen and his business is of no little consequence. Aside from business lie has been actively engaged in public affairs. In politics he has always been Democratic. In 1862 he was elected a member of the City Council from the old Ninth ward and since that time he has served six terms, or twelve years, in that capacity. He has been a member of the city board of improvements and he is author of the law that created the board of fire commissioners, and he became a member of the first board of these commissioners. He was appointed by Mayor Babcock to the board of workhouse directors. To the several conventions of his party he has been a delegate for some years past. He is a very enthusiastic and influential worker in the ranks of his party. He was married at the age of twenty years, marrying, in this city, Miss Mary Rudge, a native  of Hartford, Connecticut. He is prominently connected with several fraternal societies, among which are the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and other orders. CHARLES W. FOOTE, a man of marked attainments and one occupying a position of no little prominence in the business circles of the city of Cleveland, and the subject of this sketch, may consistently be accorded attention in connection with a work which has to do with the representative citizens of. Cuyahoga county. He was born in Tripoli, Syria, in 1853, the only child of Rev. Horace Foote, who was then a Christian missionary in that far distant land, having been an honored member of the clerical ,profession for nearly half a century. The maiden name of our subject's mother was Rosanna Whittlesey. She was a native of Connecticut, and, her husband of New York. The former died in 1851, at the age of thirty-three years, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 817 and the latter, who was born in 1816, died August 12, 1887. Colonel Charles Whittlesey, a brother of Mrs. Foote, was a notable man and one who attained to honorable distinction in many ways. Our subject, who is a namesake of his uncle, is a graduate of the Western Reserve College at Hudson, having been a member of the class of 1874. He supplemented his literary education by taking a post-graduate scientific course at Cornell University, receiving from that institution the degree of Master of Arts, as well as that of Doctor of Philosophy. Mr. Foote was admitted to practice at the bar in 1878, and devoted himself to the work of this profession at Akron, Ohio, until 1881, when he accepted a position as Professor of Science at Buchtel College, Akron. Subsequently he became interested in electrical work, and invented and perfected a long-distance telephone, upon which, however, he was not able to secure a patent. At that time he was residing in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1887 he came to. Cleveland as an agent representing the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company, whose system is now in use on the East Cleveland and Broadway & Newburg lines. He remained connected with the corporation noted until the time when its business was purchased by the Edison Company. He then became agent for the Thomson-Houston Company, with which he remained until 1892, when he resigned to accept the preferment as general manager of the Nicholson Electric Hoist Company, a concern whose interests have been advanced to a marked degree as a result of his able efforts and capable direction. Since 1889 he has also been identified with the Cleveland Construction Company, whose province of operations is in the construction and equipment of electric street railways, and who have built roads under about forty separate contracts. He is vice-president of the Electric Club, of Cleveland, and a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, of New York city. He is also a member of the Civil Engineers' Cub, of Cleveland. A man of marked intellectuality and thorough discipline, he has put his comprehensive knowledge into practical use and has early gained for himself recognition in the path along which moves the hurrying column of utilitarian advancement. Mr. Foote was united in marriage July 30, 1879, to Miss Harriet, a daughter of Professor H. B. Hosford, of the Western Reserve College, and to them have been born three children: Fannie R., who was born in 1880; Charles R., in 1883; and Ruth H., in 1889.W WALTER JACOBI is the Cleveland general agent for the Home Life Insurance Company of New York, and in this position he has charge of northern Ohio. He has had charge of this field for a little over two years. He has been with this company since May of 1891, and through his judicious management he has worked up a good business in this; field. Before becoming identified with this company he was in the employ of the Germania Life, of New York, with which company he was associated for seven years. He was born in Berlin, Germany, June 13, 1852. He was given a classical education in his native land and served one year in the regular army. In 1875 he came to America and spent a short time in New York city, and then, coming west, located in Cleveland, in 1876. Upon coming to Cleveland he first accepted a position as book-keeper, and later he secured a position in the city schools, in which he taught until January, 1884, at which time he became engaged in the insurance business, to which he has since given his entire time and attention. He has been one of the most active and success. ful men in his line. Notwithstanding that he has given a very great deal of his time, thought and study to his business he has never lost interest in the cause of education, having served a period of five or more years on the board of examiners for the city schools. 818 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Fraternally Mr. Jacobi is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Concordia Lodge, No. 345, and Webb Chapter, No. 14. He is connected with several of the German societies of the city, and in politics he is a stanch Republican. Mr. Jacobi was married in this city in :1878. WILLIAM H. VAN TINE, Jr., one of the most active of the real-estate men in Cleveland, was born in this city in 1856, a son of William H. Van Tine, concerning whom specific subject-matter appears elsewhere in this volume. He received his education in the public schools and at the early age of ten years began to realize somewhat the more serious demands of life. He thereupon began carrying papers, morning and evening, devoting the middle of each day to study. When a youth of sixteen years he engaged in the real-estate and insurance business, soon dropping the latter to devote all of his attention to realty transactions. In 1880 he commenced giving most of his time to the allotment of lands in the city and has up to date completed and improved thirty-three streets in the best locations in the residence portions of Cleveland, and covering many millions in value. During the past five years he has added to his enterprises the building and completion of modern homes, conducting to-day the largest enterprise of its kind in Cleveland if not in the State of Ohio and being acknowledged by all competitors to be the most active and successful operation in the market. He has his architectural department, where all plans and details are made for houses of every description built to suit the purchaser and sold on easy payments, and comprising the choicest lines of work built and offered for sale. From the drawing room his work goes to his mills and shops, where every detail of the house is constructed excepting only the plumbing and furnace work. All the different details of the work are completed in his own shops, where the different departments are found under the charge of the most skilful mechanics, including decorators of every kind in wall papers, fresco and water-color effects, etc., electrical work, mantel work, etc. Mr. Van Tine employs the year round about 100 mechanics in all branches, and completes ready for occupancy on an average of fifty houses per year. His work is purchased most of the time ahead of the completion of the houses and during the dull times has evidently made no difference in his push and energy in building where others have dared not attempt the venture. Every detail of the workfrom the start to completion is under his personal supervision, and his abilities for fine work and effective interiors, as well as architectural designing has deservingly given him the title of “Designer and Builder of Modern Homes." He is also at the head of one of the most active brokerage offices in the city as well as one of the executive committee of the Cleveland Real Estate Board. He is the acknowledged hustler in his line of work in Cleveland and is found at his work from early morn until late at night. His business abilities and operations have led him into the confidence of all who know him. Mr. Van Tine was married in 1878, to Katie Strong, and they have three daughters: Ray, Katie and Nellie. The family residence is at 1549 Euclid avenue. ALFRED SMITH, general foreman of the Globe Iron Works ship yard, was born at Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales, April 15, 1853. He is a son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Williams) Smith, who were the parents of ten children, Alfred being the seventh son. Thomas Smith was a ship carpenter and died in Wales. At sixteen years of age Alfred Smith, accompanied by his brother, John H., now super- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 819 intendent for the Globe Company, came to the United States and stopped first at Buffalo, where he learned his trade of fine shipbuilding, With the Anchor Line people. On leaving Buffalo Mr. Smith went to Pittsburg, and a few months later on to Crown Point, New York, and was there employed in a blast furnace two years. He then returned to Buffalo, and after a stay of about a year went to Point Edward, Canada, where he was engaged in the building of the steamer Huron for the Grand Trunk Railroad Company. His next employment with this company was in the building and repairing of iron bridges, and he covered. in his travels most of the territory of western Canada. In 1880 Mr. Smith came to Cleveland and secured employment with the Globe Iron Works as foreman and filled that position till he was promoted as general foreman. Mr. Smith married, April 1711875, at Sarnia, Canada, Ester, a daughter of Henry Nash, a ship carpenter. Of this union have been born, Henry (deceased), Charles G., William, Albert, and Irene, besides one other deceased. C. A. ENNIS, Mayor of Bedford, Ohio, was born on the site where he now lives, December 13, 1840. His father, Solomon Ennis, was left an orphan at a very early age, married Miss Jemima Turner, had but one child, and died in 1846. Mrs. Jemima Ennis was born at Newburg, Ohio, in 1818, and died in 1878. Her father, Abraham Turner, was born in Hebron, New York, in 1783, was one of the first settlers of Newburg and a Sergeant in one of the early Indian wars. He married Susanna Gibbs, December 29, 1808, a daughter of Hiram Gibbs, who was one of six brothers that emigrated from England to America in 1760. The Gibbs family are known to be the legatees of a very large estate held in trust by the Bank of England; and but for the absence of a link or two in the genealogical chain it could undoubtedly be recovered. Hiram and 52 all of his brothers enlisted in the Continental army, and were engaged in many of the principal battles of the war of the Revolution, and were present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. C. A. Ennis was reared and educated in his native town, engaged in teaching for a time, and married, December 7,1865, at Solon, Ohio, Miss Isabella Cuthberson, a lady of education and previously a successful and popular teacher. She was born October 29, 1839, in Auburn, New York, a daughter of James and Margaret (Billsland) Cuthberson, natives of Scotland, who came to New York in 1838 and to Cuyahoga county in 1848; the father now lives in Kansas, and the mother is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Ennis have one daughter, Margaret, a successful and popular teacher, who graduated at the Bedford high school in 1886, and has been teaching in the grammar school of the torn for some time. Mr. Ennis is a strong and radical Republican. Has been Justice of the Peace for twenty-four years. and Mayor of Bedford for fourteen years. Is a member of the Masonic order, Bedford 820 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Lodge, No. 375, and of Summit Chapter, No. 74, and he is a member of the Disciple Church, in which he serves as Trustee, and has been an Elder, and is an active worker in the Sunday-school. Mr. Ennis is frank and cordial in his manner and address, and firm in his convictions of right and wrong. JOHN E. DARBY, a physician and surgeon of Cleveland, was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, August 20, 1835, a son of William and Electa (Edwards) Darby, both of English descent, and the latter a native of Rhode Island. The father was a blacksmith and farmer by occupation. Both he and his wife were regular attendants of the Baptist Church. They were the parents of seven children, three now living: Alma, wife of E. Blakeslee, of Cleveland; W. Frank, who was an officer in the late war, is now Postmaster at North Adams; and John E., our subject. The latter, after graduating at the Williams College, in the class of 1858, came t,) Cleveland, Ohio, where he read medicine with Dr. Procter Thayer. He also attended the old Cleveland Medical College, now the Medical Department of the Western Reserve University, graduating at that institution in February, 1861, and immediately beginning the practice of his profession in this city. During the late war Dr. Darby served as Assistant Surgeon of the Eighty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, afterward of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; in 1864 was promoted to the position of Surgeon, and served in that capacity in the Army of the Cumberland until the close of the struggle. He then returned to this city and resumed the practice of medicine. Before going to the war, the Doctor had served as demonstrator of anatomy in the university two years, and after his retnrn was elected to the chair of materia medica and therapeutics, which position he still holds. Dr. Darby has written for medical journals; has been connected with the Lakeside Hospital for many years, and for the past five years has been a member of its consulting board, and has served as railroad surgeon for the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad for over twenty years. That long-continued service speaks well for the high esteem in which he is held by those who know the value of efficient service. He is fond of the study of natural history, to which he has devoted much stndy, and makes it a recreation from professional toil. Dr. Darby was married in April, 1862, to Miss Frances, a daughter of Thomas Wright, of Summit county, Ohio. The wife died in 1867, having been a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. She was a graduate of the Cleveland Institute, and was a teacher before her marriage. In 1872 the Doctor was united in marriage with Miss Emma M. Cox, a daughter of Charles L. Cox, of this city. They had two children,—John Charles, a student in Adelbert College; and Maybell Claire, attending the city schools. Mrs. Darby departed this life June 2, 1888. Dr. Darby votes with the Republican party, and in professional relations is a member of the State and County Medical Societies. He carries the respect and confidence of the profession, has led a busy and useful life, and his extensive knowledge in all the affairs of life makes his friends as numerous as his acquaintances. A. D. WALWORTH, vineyardist at Nottingham, Cuyahoga county, was born in Jefferson county, New York. His father, a farmer, during the last war with Great Britain, literally left his plow in the furrow and hastened to Sackett's Harbor, then besieged by the British, and manfully defended the place for two weeks, when the conflict there was over and he returned to his plow. Mr. A. D. Walworth, whose name introduces this sketch, moved from New York to Ohio, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 821 settling in Euclid township, this county, where he now owns a flourishing vineyard. In his political views he is a Jacksonian Democrat. He has been Justice of the Peace for nearly twenty years, and, though in advanced life, he is hale and hearty. By his temperate habits he has well preserved his inherited constitutional vigor. TRUMAN P. HANDY was born in Paris, Oneida county, New York, January 17, 1807. After gaining a liberal English education lie accepted a clerkship in the Bank of Geneva, at Geneva, New York. Subsequently he removed to Buffalo, where he assisted in organizing the Bank of Buffalo, in which he held the position of teller for one year. In 1832 he came to Cleveland, Ohio, to accept the position of cashier in the re-organized Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, which had lately been pnrchased by George Bancroft, the eminent historian. The batik was prosperous under the excellent management of young Handy until 1842, when the State Legislature refused to renew the expired charter. In 1843, Mr. Handy organized a private banking house under the firm name of T. P. Handy & Company, whose bnsiness was a prudent and successful one. In 1845 the State Bank of Ohio was established and thereupon Mr. Handy organized the Commercial Branch Bank. He was greatly the largest stockholder, and was its chief executive during the entire period of his connection with it. Its charter extended through a period of twenty years, during which it prospered, paying on an average more than twenty per cent. upon the capital stock. The Commercial National Bank succeeded to its business in 1865. In January, 1862, Mr. Handy accepted the presidency of the hitherto unprosperous Merchants' Branch Bank. Soon after he assumed control of the bank it began to gain a new and better business, and old losses were soon made good; aid in a little more than one year it was upon a slid, dividend-paying basis, and in 1865, at the expiration of its charter, it was one of the most prosperous banks in the State. From the organization of the Merchants' National Bank, in February, 1865, to this date, Mr. Handy has been its president. Its management has been characterized by the exercise of prudence and wisdom, and it has from the first continued one of the foremost national banks of the country. It has been a United States depository from its organization, and to the government it has rendered much aid in negotiating all its loans. This bank has paid regular dividends, averaging nearly ten per cent. per annum, and at he same time it has accumulated a surplus of more than thirty per cent. of its capital. His careful management, his sapient business qualities, his success as a banker, have placed him among the most eminent of bankers and financiers. He will always be best known as a banker, but he has also been largely identified with railroads, mining, and manufacturing enterprises. He was an influential friend of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad. He was its treasurer from its organization till 1860, when he resigned, and since that time he has been a director and member of its executive committee. For many years he has been a stockholder and director in the Cleveland Iron Mining Company, also a large stockholder in the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, and other industrial concerns. Mr. Handy has always been a Republican in politics, but has uniformly declined to accept any political preferment. He has always advocated the system of protecting our domestic industries against foreign competition, and of establishing just relations between labor and capital. During the progress of the Civil war he was a steadfast supporter of the policy of President Lincoln, and rendered much aid to the sick aid disabled soldiers then and since. From the organization of the Cleveland branch of the Sanitary Commission he served as treasurer. 822 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. He has always been a warm friend of the church, education and charity. For ten or more years he was a member of the Board of Education, and with others rendered much aid in organizing the present system of graded schools in Cleveland, and establishing the Central High School. He has been for many years a trustee of the Western Reserve College. He is also a trustee and liberal benefactor of Lane Theological Seminary. Very largely through his efforts was built the present elegant and commodious building of the Homeopathic Hospital, of which he is president. Since boyhood he has been a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church, of which he has been an Elder for nearly fifty years. For many years he was a corporate member of the American Board, which position he resigned at the reunion of the old and new branches of the Presbyterian Church. He was a very earnest advocate of that re-union, and was a member of the joint committee which framed the articles of union. Mr. Handy married, in March, 1832, Miss Harriet N. Hall, of Geneva, New York. There were born to them two children: a son who died in infancy, and a daughter, who married Hon. John S. Newberry, of Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Handy died July 5, 1880. JAMES HOSSACK, Secretary of the Board 1 of Control and Mayor's Secretary, was born in Cobourg, Canada, March 5, 1841. He secured a collegiate education, graduating from Victoria University in 1860. Upon leaving college Mr. Hossack set about preparing himself for the law, and in November, 1864, was called to the bar, and engaged actively in practice there until his removing to Cleveland, when he opened an office here. Mr. Hossack identified himself at once with the Democratic party and became a strong advocate of Democratic principles and a leader and moulder of public sentiment. Upon the accession of Democracy to power in Cleveland in 1883, Mayor Farley appointed Mr. Hossack his private secretary, and on the expiration of his term of office was appointed private secretary to Senator H. B. Payne, serving till 1891, when he again entered law practice. In 1893 Mayor Blee invited Mr. Hossack to become his private secretary, and he accepted, assuming his duties in April. In 1879 Mr. Hossack was a candidate for City Attorney, but the Republican strength was too invincible and he met defeat. Mr. Hossack is a son of James Hossack, born in Scotland. He came to Canada when a yonng man and engaged in farming. He married Miss Bethune, born in Edinburg, and became the father of eleven children, five of whom are now living. Our subject became attorney for the Cleveland Mutual Investment Company, in February, 1893. He is a Knight Templar. FRANK HESOUN, JR., city salesman for A. J. Wenham & Sons and a member of the City Council, was born in Bohemia, June 29, 1862. His father was a baker in the old country. He came to the United States in 1865, making Milwaukee his home till 1869, when he brought his family to Cleveland. He married Rosa Schacha, who bore him four children, Frank, Jr., being the oldest. Frank Hesoun, Jr., attended the city schools of Cleveland till thirteen years of age, when it became necessary for him to lend a helping hand in the maintenance of the family. He secured employment in the cooper shops of the Standard Oil Company and remained there for four years. At this time he entered the employ of A. J. Wenham & Sons as packing clerk, and later on as city salesman, which position he has now filled most acceptably thirteen years. Mr. Hesoun has had a fancy for politics since his youth, and on becoming of age cast his fortunes and his first ballot for Democracy. He was elected to the Council in 1888, served CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 823 through that year, 1889—'90 and a part of '91, when a change to the Federal plan created a vacancy in all the offices. April 4, 1893, he was again elected to represent the district, receiving a majority of 850 votes and succeeding a Republican in office. Mr. Hesoun is chairman of the committee on lighting, and is serving on the committee on public works. Mr. Hesoun married, in 1885, Elizabeth, a daughter of Peter Malley. Their children are: Frank, Jr., Gracie and Lilly. Mr. Hesoun is P. C. of K. of P., is a member of the Bohemian Turning Society and of the Drummers' Association. W. H. WEBBER, superintendent and treasurer of the Huron Street Hospital, 66 Huron street, Cleveland, Ohio, was born on the island of Malta, October 7, 1866, a son of John H. and Ann (Lecudi) Webber; his mother was the daughter of a Greek sea captain. His father was a pay-sergeant in the English army. There are four children living: W. H.; Joseph W., an actor; Susanah, wife of F. Lopez; and James. Mr. Webber came to Cleveland in 1880 and entered the Rockwell school, where he was a pupil until twelve years of age. He then began to take care of himself, and for some years worked for $3.50 a week, attending sessions of the night schools whenever practicable. He was employed as clerk for R. Arnold five years, and filled the same position with P. O'Brien during a like period. In 1891 he assumed the duties of the position he has since so ably filled. The Huron Street Hospital was founded in 1867, and was supported mainly by subscription for many years. A vast amount of charity work is done, almost one-half the accommodations being devoted to the poor. Since the office of superintendent has been created the usefulness of the hospital has been widely extended, and the services of Mr. Webber are highly appreciated by the Board of Managers. He is a man of excellent judgment and generous impulses, is a careful financier, and under his management the establishment has been placed upon a most satisfactory basis. The staff of physicians and surgeons is without a superior in the State, and patients are treated according to any desired school of medicine. The training-school for nurses is recognized as one of the most thorough, the attend-a Ice at present numbering twenty-five. Mr. Webber was married in 1889 to Miss Ida E. Hutchins, and of this union three children have been born: Philip H., who died at the age of three and one-half years; the second child, Edna G., lived only one year; Dorothea M. is the youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Webber are members of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. Mr. Webber is active in the work of the Y. M. C. A., to which he has belonged since he was a lad of twelve years. He is a Mason, being now Junior Deacon of Cleveland City Lodge; belongs to Cleveland Council, No. 36, R. & S.M., and to the commandry; he also belongs to the [ndependent Order of Foresters. JOHN MURPHY, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern yard-master at the Union Depot, has given twenty-one years of continuous service in the yards of this company. He entered the service as yard brakeman in 1872, and was promoted to conductor three years later, serving until his elevation to yard-master in 1880. His faithfulness and devotedness to duty is testified to by the fact of his having been absent from his post only five weeks during that long period, and that, to take much needed and deserved vacations. Mr. Murphy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 31, 1853. His father was a lake captain, who was lost in 1860 by the boiler explosion on The Lady of the Lake. He was of Canadian birth and of Irish parentage, his father locating in Toronto, on leaving the Emerald Isle. 824 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. In 1840 his father came to the United States --then sixteen years of age—and located in Cincinnati, becoming a steamboat captain on the Ohio river. In 1857 he removed his family to Buffalo, New York, where they remained till 1859. He married Miss Gleason, a daughter of Thomas Gleason, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and of the children born to them, John, our subject, is the only one living. John Murphy left the graded schools at the age of fifteen and became an employee of Taft's shingle mill on Center street; leaving this service he entered the Novelty Iron Works, where he commenced his trade. He joined McNarry & Clafflin's Works; eighteen months later completed his trade and then came to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. Mr. Murphy married in 1881, in Cleveland, Miss A. O'Connor, a daughter of James O'Connor, a mechanic, an old resident of Irish birth. Four children resulted from this union: Charles, Raymond, Richard and Sarah. Mr. Murphy is a careful, industrious and ambitious man, popular with his men and favored by his company, and will receive his share of the good things as they are passed around. THEODORE A. CLOSSE, an importing merchant tailor, with his business place at 138 the Arcade Building, Cleveland, Ohio, has been engaged actively in this business since 1868, becoming successor to his father's business in the year 1883. Before passing to a review of his career it will be appropriate to make mention of his father, Andrew Closse, who was born in Lothringen, Germany, July 26, 1822, a son of P. and Elizabeth (Reim) Closse. He was sent to school until he was fourteen years of age and at this age he began his career at the tailor's trade. He worked three years in his native town and then went to Mitz, Nasse and Paris. In the city of Paris he spent four years. He was then called to the German army, in which lie served three years, in the Ninth Hussars regiment, known as the Light Cavalry. Upon the close of his army service he came to America, landing in New York city, where he spent a few days, and then visited several of the principal cities of the East, finally deciding to come westward. He landed in Cleveland in the winter of 1845 and since that date has been a resident of the city. For the first twenty-two years of his life here he was engaged as a cutter for various tailoring establishments in the place, but in 1867 he opened up a business of his own, at the corner of Superior and Union streets. Later he opened an establishment just opposite the Weddell Hotel; there he was burned out in 1886 and since that time he has assisted his son as a cutter. He has been an active business man of the city of Cleveland for forty-eight years. He married in this city in 1850, wedding Miss Hannah Eckerman, who is still living. Unto this marriage eleven children have been born, of whom six survive, and the following are their names: Eugene, Theodore A., Lydia E., Emma, Willie F. and Hannah G. At first Mr. Closse affiliated with the Democratie party, but later became convinced that the principles of the Republican party were safer and went over to it. He and his good wife are consistent members of the German Reformed Church. Theodore A. Closse, the immediate subject of this personal sketch, was born in Cleveland, March 20, 1855, and in this city and in its schools he was brought up and educated. Early in life he learned the business of his father, that of a merchant tailor, and while rather young became associated with him in the same business, in which he has been engaged ever since. For a number of years he and his father were located opposite the Weddell House, where they operated a large tailoring and clothing establishment, their business taking rank as one of the leading concerns in the city. In 1886 the same was destroyed by fire, and thereafter the father decided not to resume business again. However, in 1886 the son