CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 825 opened up a merchant-tailoring establishment on the Public Square and in 1890 located in the Arcade, in room 138, and here he conducts and enjoys a large remunerative business. lie employs a very great deal of help in the prosecution of his work. Mr. Closse is one of the progressive and active workers in the ranks of the Republican party, and at the recent writing he is a popular candidate for the nomination of his party for the office of County Clerk. Fraternally he is a member of the A. F. Si A. M., belonging also to the Cleveland Chapter, No. 148; Holy Rood Commandery, No. 32. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, Lake Shore Lodge, No. 10; also of the Cleveland Athletic Club, of the Cleveland Wheel Club, and many other social clubs in the city. He was married in 1876 to Miss Nellie Sterling, a native of Troy, New York, and a daughter of George Sterling. Mr. and Mrs. Closse have one daughter, Gertrude by name. They are members of the Disciple Church. WILLIAM WILLIAMS.—The life of the late William Williams, of Cleveland, Ohio, was filled with many incidents that illustrate life in the wilderness at an early day in western New York. He was born on June 2, 1803, in East Windsor, Connecticut, the son of Ebenezer Williams, of a family long and well known in New England. His early days were passed in the sheltering care of a comfortable home until he was eight years of age, when his father decided upon a change of location that had an effect of some consequence upon all the after life of his son. That step and the reasons leading to it are referred to in the following language of Mr. Williams, in a note prepared a few years previous to his death, in obedience to the request of his children: "It was in the fall of the year after my eighth birthday, that my father determined to remove with his numerous and growing family of children to New Connecticut, as it was then called in contradistinction to the term Old Connecticut. That he had in view, mainly, the well-being of his family, in a ventnre so serious at that time, cannot be questioned. The subject of removal must have been pondered by him for some time previous, and all its serious duties well weighed. The well-being and Prosperity of his family was doubtless the mainspring of action. His character was such as to insure his fidelity to his trust, and nothing, I am sure, could induce him to put it in jeopardy for a moment." In accordance with this decision, all his arrangements were made for departure,and with his family and household goods in two large double wagons, he turned his face toward the unknown and trackless west. Albany and intermediate places were at last left behind on the slow and heavy march, and Buffalo,.then on the outer limit of civilization, was safely reached. "It was not far from the first of December of the year 1811," Mr. Williams writes, "and such were the representations made to my father of the utter hopelessness of working an ox or a horse team and wagon successfully through the Cattaraugus woods at that season of the year, that he decided to sell his oxen, horses and wagons, and to ship himself, family and goods aboard the new and staunch schooner Little Belt, then lying at anchor in the Niagara river, waiting a favorable wind to move it up the rapids into the lake for a voyage. After embarking it was nearly three weeks before a favorable wind was secured to move the vessel from its moorings. I remember while lying wind-bound in the Niagara river and near the Canadian shore the long walks taken by my father up and down sail river, and at one time in particular of visiting Fort Erie, which was then fully garrisoned and quite in readiness for action in anticipation of a rupture of the peace at that time prevailing, and was expected at any moment to be succeeded by active war." The long wait at last came to an end, but when finally out on the waters of Erie a season 826 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. of stormy and boisterous weather was encountered. The ship finally came in sight of the shores of their destination, but was t sable to land its passengers because of the roughness of the sea. The storm finally drove them back to Port Presque Isle (Erie), where Mr. Williams and his family disembarked. Means of conveyance were found, and the long journey finally came to an end by their arrival at Painesville, Ohio, where they were most hospitably received by a few people there located. Shelter was found for the winter in a comfortable log dwelling owned by General. Paine, where they remained until the following spring, making pleasant acquaintances among the settlers in the regions about them, and arranging plans for the future. Early in the year following, 1812, the elder Williams purchasing the old courthouse in the village of Painesville, with some twenty or thirty acres surrounding it--the county seat having been removed to Chardon—and moved his family into it; and in that building, remodeled for family use, the father lived for the remainder of his life. The son attended school during this winter in a primitive structure near by; and after a time, when a school was regularly opened in a building erected for that purpose, he was one of the most eager recipients of its benefits whenever he could be spared from labor at home. A natural desire for knowledge, quickened by an industry that was one of the gifts from his New England ancestry, led him to make the lest use of these opportunities. "I was often to be found," he says, "engaged in drawing maps of different countries, or on winter evenings, by the light of the tallow wick, poring over some knotty problem in Pike's or Adams' arithmetics, and thus trying to store up knowledge which might serve me in the near futnre. Neither cold nor heat seemed to abate or diminish my ardor in this pursuit, as I well remember giving whole evenings to study in some dark corner, with very little light and under great disadvantages; and thus passed away, without much change, a large portion of my early boy hood." One recollection of those early days cannot be passed by because of the historic value that attaches thereto. When Hull snrrendered Detroit to the British, it will be remembered, word went all through northern Ohio that the British and Indians were making a descent upon the important frontier to the south of Lake Erie, and that boat-loads of them had been already seen on their way down the lake. When the news reached Painesville, there was a quick gathering of the people to discuss the best course to pursue, which he, boy-like, of course attended. "Although not all agreed as to the best measures to take for the general safety, they all seemed ready to prepare in some way for resisting the foe; and so all, without exception, were busy, some running bullets, some looking up and burnishing every musket and rifle to be found among the villagers, and repairing every old and unused weapon of assault or defense which was known or could be heard of among the inhabitants of the village; while some, moved with fear, were conversing how best they could escape collision with the foe by conveying themselves and families into the interior until the danger had passed. It was confidently expected by all that it could not be more than a day or so before the hooting Indians and British would be upon ns, for it was reported as a fact that immediately after the surrender of Hull they were seen to embark on this adventure in large numbers and in open boats. After a day or so news was sent that what was first supposed to be the embarkment of the enemy, with designs of plunder and tour. der, those open boats, which were making their way as best they could along its shore were loaded with the paroled prisoners of war who had surrendered on the capitulation of Hull." The youth made such progress in his studies and especially with the pen, that an unexpected opening for advancement in life soon presented itself as an outcome of his labors. Elihu Spencer had been sent from Connecticut to Warren, Ohio, where he settled, as an agent for the sale of lands belonging to Eastern parties, the CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 827 payment of these taxes, and a general care and oversight of their interests. He had been for some time looking for a suitable person whom he could safely introduce into his business, and who could, after a time, relieve him of a part of his many labors. On one occasion when Mr. Spencer was stopping at the tavern then kept in Painesville by the elder. Williams, he saw some of the school work prepared by the boy, and was greatly impressed by the quality it possessed and the promise it gave of better work in the future. He finally proposed to take the boy, to fit him for the work required, and in fact to adopt him for his own child, and to leave him such inheritance as a son might justly claim. Mr. Spencer was a member of one of the best families of Connecticut, well educated, a graduate of Yale, whose character was above reproach, and after careful consideration the father consented, led thereto only by his desire for the good of the boy. Accordingly, in June, 1818, a few days after his fifteenth birth day, he was taken to his new home in Warren, then, as now, the seat of Trumbull county, and made a member of Mr. Spencer's family, which consisted. only of his wife and himself. His residence there was a pleasant and happy one, his work in the office being excellently and industriously performed. He was often sent long distances on business suited to his age and abilities, and always with apparent satisfaction to his employer. He also accompanied the surveyors sent to lay off some piece of land which Mr. Spencer had sold, which furnished him many interesting studies in that line. By direction of Mr. Spencer he commenced his studies once more, under competent instructors, and was on the sure road to an exceptional education for those days, when an event occurred that made a sudden change for the present, and had its effect in the future. On July 20, 1819, Mr. Spencer, who was consumptive, was taken with severe hemorrhage of the lungs, and although help was speedily summoned, it was of no avail, and death came almost immediately to his relief. This event so sudden and so sad, changed all of the youth's expectations, and no doubt materially altered the whole tenor of his life. " It so happened," said Mr. Williams, "that Zalmon Fitch, the then cashier of the Western Reserve Bank, was at the suggestion of Mrs. Spencer appointed administrator of Mr. Spencer's estate, and hence into his possession passed all the valuable documents and papers of the deceased. It was not, however, possible by any order or decree of the court, in the matter of administration, to affect my condition for better or for worse. It left me, in fact, quite helpless, exposed to be driven hither and thither by the rough storms of life which blasted my prospects and removed by sudden death my best and only support and helper." But it so happened that Mr. Fitch needed an assistant in the bank and the position was offered the young man and accepted. The chief blessing that came from the change, however, was the fact that he became a member of Mr. Fitch's family, and there found a home and shelter of a kind not often given to a young man after his departure from beneath the parental roof. Here he remained until January, 1825, when he removed to Buffalo, New York, under an expectation of bettering his financial condition, and there took a position in the revived Niagara Bank, an institution that had seen a season of prosperity followed by one of reverses, to be again set going under new auspices. This bank underwent a second collapse during Mr. Williams' connection with it, and its doors were again closed, and following this he and another gentleman were appointed receivers of the same during the winter of 1826—'27, and during his administration as such the bank's business was wound up in a most satisfactory manner. In 1825, during Mr. Williams' early residence in Buffalo, the opening of the Erie canal occurred. During the same year he attended the reception ten lered to LaFayette upon the occasion of that great man's visit to Buffalo. While in Buffalo and busily employed in the affairs of the bank, Mr. Williams' shrewd foresight led him to make certain investments in land, the increased value of which laid securely the foundation of what- 828 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. ever competency he was afterward to accumulate. He became a member of the firm of Bennett & Williams, and for some time devoted himself with great success to the handling of real estate, a business for which the partnership was formed. In May, 1827, Mr. Williams returned to Warren, Ohio, where on the 23d he was joined in marriage to Miss Lucy Fitch, the daughter of his former chief in the Western Reserve Bank, a pleasant home was soon made in Buffalo, and the dream of a long life of happiness with his first love was only entered upon when it was shattered by a sudden blow—death claiming the young wife on August 30, 1829. On May 30, 1832, he was again married, to Miss Laura Fitch, a sister of his first wife whose life ended on September 30, 1852. Mr. Williams remained in Buffalo until reverses, caused by the panic of 1837, led him to remove with his family to Cleveland, where he afterward continuously resided. He mae' e his home in the comfortable frame dwelling that stood on Euclid avenue, where Bond street is now located, and remained there until the street improvement caused the old structure to be torn down some twenty-two or -three years ago, when he removed to his late home on Euclid, between Perry street and Sterling avenue. After coming to Cleveland, Mr. Williams devoted himself to various interests of a mercantile and manufacturing character, and was a useful and busy member of the community in many ways. He also brought into market a large tract of land on Garden street, and Case and Euclid avenues, opening and naming Grant and Williams streets, and doing much to improve that section of the city. During the latter years of his life he lived in quiet ease, giving his mind to occupations and pastimes for which he had little leisure in the early days. He read and studied much, and as a writer showed a vein of philosophy and a power of observation and description that would have made him successful had he chosen the profession of letters as his life work. In politics Mr. Williams was a Democrat of the Jackson school until the aggression of slavery led him to join the Free Soil party upon its creation; and when that party was merged into the Republican party he became and afterward remained an earnest supporter of the principles advocated by the latter organization. He became a member of the Presbyterian Church during his residence in Warren, and was an upright and faithful member of that denomination all through life. Modest and retiring, he declined in both civil and church affairs to allow his name to be used in connection with any office whatever. The unflinching honesty, faithfulness to duty, and industry, that were the leading principles of his life, need no extended discussion, and it may only lie said that he was a true and faithful worker all through a long life, and that in the feebleness of poor health and old age he awaited the summons into that higher life to which so many of his beloved friends had been already called. He died on December 14, 1888. DR. H. K. STONER, a physician and surgeon of Cleveland, was born at Berlin, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, a son of John O. and Lizzie W. (Kimmell) Stoner, natives also of that State. The father owns valuable coal lands, and is engaged in mining and shipping. In political matters, he is an active worker in the Prohibition party, but would never accept public preferment. He has reached the age of fifty-four years, and his wife is one year younger. Both are devout and worthy members of the Methodist Church. H. K. Stoner, their only child, received his education in the common schools, and in an academy at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, under Dr. Shumaker, a noted educator and one of the best instructors of his day in the State. Mr. Stoner also graduated at the Allegheny College of Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1882. After reading medicine for a time he took a course at CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 829 the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, graduating at that institution in 1885. Since that year Dr. Stoner has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Cleveland. He has had excellent hospital experience in the Jefferson Medical Hospital. Success has attended his efforts, and he stands well in the profession. In his social relations, Dr. Stoner is Examining Surgeon of the I. 0. F.; politically, is an active worker in the Prohibition party; and religiously, is a member of the Epworth Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland. The Doctor is one of the promising young physicians of the county. EDWARD M. ANTHONY, deceased, to whom this memoir is dedicated, was for many years one of the prominent and honored residents of Rocky River Hamlet. Being one of the old residents of the township and one who did much to advance its interests and further its development, it is eminently fitting that this tribute be accorded him,—the tribute of representation in a volume devoted to the leading citizens of Cuyahoga county. Edward M. Anthony was born in Brookfield, Madison county, New York, January 18, 1826, passed his boyhood days in Rockport township and here increased in stature and knowledge, greeted the dawn of his young manhood, finally married and saw a family of children grow up about Mtn, continued an active and ambitious worker in his chosen field, found his hair silvered by the flight of years, and then, full of honor and reverend in age, was gathered to his fathers, lamented by all who had known him and appreciated his sterling worth of character. December 13, 1857, in Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio, he was united in marriage to Miss Sophronia L. Tyler, a native of Ridgeville, that county, where she was born April 9, 1834. Her father, David Miles Tyler, familiarly known as Miles Tyler, was a well-known and prominent resident of Lorain county, where he died March 10, 1864. Her mother, whose maiden name was Polly Farrell, died March 10, 1878. After his marriage Edward M. Anthony settled on the old parental homestead, where he continued to live until the hour of his death, which occurred September 12, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony were the parents of eight children, namely: Hubert M., who married Miss Ada M. Bradley; Estella M., who is the wife of Willard Jordan; Charles E.; Carrie A., wife of Ernest Brown; Alice A., Florence B., William G. and Harry M. Mr. Anthony devoted his entire life to farming. He erected good buildings and made substantial improvements upon his place, which comprised at the time of his death eighty acres. He was a man of much intelligence and ability, was held in high esteem in the community and his memory will be retained in lasting honor. Mrs. Anthony still resides upon the old homestead, whose acres are hallowed by the associations of many years. His father, John S. Anthony, emigrated from his Eastern home with his family when Edward M. was but six years of age, coming to Cleveland on the steamboat Daniel Webster and settling on forty acres of land in Rockport township, or at Rocky River Hamlet, as it is now known. He was a stanch close-communion Baptist and had much to do with establishing the Baptist Church in Rockport, remaining a Deacon of it nntil his death. He was a man wed informed and a good writer, being often called upon to write wills and other documents. For his wife he married Miss Lydia Mason. The following lines were written by himself with a request that they be preserved: LAST LINES ON MYSELF. Adieu, dear friends, my glass is run, My work is, like a hireling, done; My bounds were set; I could not pass The last pulse beat; I fell like grass. Death aimed his dart, the fatal deed was done, And I lie sleeping in the silent tomb. I leave a world of strife and sore disease For a more friendly soil of health and peace. Our days fly like the weaver's shuttle—fast; We scarcely glimpse the present: all is past. 830 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Such is poor mortal man in his best state,— Nothing but vanity, and death his fate; Thus our first parents well entailed to all The sad effects experienced by their fall. Reverse the scene, and prospects bright arise: The second Adam points above the skies. A substitute, he suffered in our stead, Then conquered death in rising from the dead. O Death, where is thy sting? Thy reign shall cease; Thy grasp on captive millions quick release; A general jail delivery will take place, Comprising all of Adam's numerous race. Last will and testament confirms each heir By name and title to an ample share. ON J. S. ANTHONY (HIMSELF). Christ is my only hope To raise me from the tomb. Anxious I wait and cry in death, Lord Jesus, quickly come! ON A. M. COE (A UNIVERSALIST NEIGHBOR). All men were born to die: All men will rise again: I died in faith that all mankind Shall with my Savior reign. EPITAPH ON R. MILLARD. When that bright morn shall usher in My sleeping dust shall rise And with transporting joy embrace My Savior in the skies. EPITAPH ON B. STEDSON. This stone a monument shall stand Informing where I lie. Reader, reflect thy fate is sure: All men were born to die! PAUL SCHNEIDER.—One of the important and conspicuous manufacturing enterprises of Cleveland is that conducted by the Schneider & Trenkamp Company, manufacturers of gasoline and gas stoves, and at the head of this concern, which is one of the most extensive of the sort in the Union, stands the subject of this review. He was born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, June 27, 1844, being the son of Henry and Wilhelmina Schneider, the former of whom was a lithographer by trade and occupation and a man of considerable note in his native land. He died in 1859, at the age of sixty-two years. Paul Schneider acquired a good common-school education in Germany, and there learned the trade of machinist, becoming an expert and particularly intelligent workman. When the German government became involved in war with Austria and later with France (1866 and 1870 respectively) Mr. Schneider bore arms in his country's cause, serving faithfully and valiantly on the field of battle. In 1874 he came to the United States and at once located in Cleveland, which city has since continued to be his home and the scene of his successful business operations. After a few years passed in other lines of work, he engaged in the manufacture of stoves, and the enterprise, which was of very circumscribed order at the time of its inception, prospered to a wonderful degree, in fact being the nucleus of the magnificent industry of which he is the prime factor to-day. He brought to bear diligence, earnest application to work and marked business ability, all of which conspired to bring his ventures to a successful issue. A number of inventions, made after careful experiment, were eventually put into practical application and added greatly to the value and superiority of the stoves manufactured, and incidentally to the success of the undertaking. To recapitulate, we may say that for the period of fifteen years Mr. Schneider devoted his attention to the manufacturing of optical and mathematical instruments, and that he then became concerned in practical electrical work with C. F. Brush, with whom he remained four years. It is a noteworthy fact that he personally made the first arc light turned out by the Brush Electric Company. Subsequently he left the employ of the Brush Company and entered into a partnership with Henry Trenkamp, for the purpose of manufacturing vapor stoves, of which products he may practically claim to have been the originator. His wonderful skill as a mechanic and his ready discernment in regard to points Where improvements were demanded and could be CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 831 made, resulted in the placing on the market stoves that were far superior to anything ever before produced in the line, and eventually in developing a bnsiness of magnificent proportions. The business of the Schneider & Trenkamp Company has experienced an almost phenomenal growth, standing to-day as an enterprise of stupendous importance. The buildings of the plant cover nearly two acres of ground, and in the carrying forward of the work of the institution a corps of 400 workmen is employed. Mr. Schneider, who has been president of the company since the time of its organization, has secured a number of patents on original inventions applied to the vapor stoves; and largely to his skill and scientific mechanical knowledge do the products of the factory owe their marked precedence over all others of the sort. Mr. Schneider is identified with several other important organizations and enterprises in Cleveland. He is a director of the Phoenix Paint Company, is president and director of the Germania Hall Company, of which he was one of the organizers, and was formerly president of the North American Saengerbund. He has been a member of the Cleveland Gesangverein since 1878; was elected president of the same in 1887, a position which he resigned after serving for three terms. Starting out in life without any financial resources or support, Mr. Schneider stands as a true type of the self-made man, having attained to honor and success by virtue of his integrity, intelligence, industry and economy,—one whose life is worthy of emulation. The marriage of our subject was solemnized in 1870, when he was united to Miss Anna Dohle. They have five children : Hans, Grethe, Anna, Freida and Freddie. LON ZEAGER, of Rocky River hamlet, was born in Denmark, January 13, 1859, where he passed the early years of his life, coming to America about the year 1873. He made a short stay in Cleveland and then came into Rockport township, where he worked out by the month for several years, and then rented a farm for eight years, carrying on the business of gardening. He finally bonght the farm of forty-four acres where he now lives. It i mostly improved. He was married in Rockport township, January 17, 1884, to Miss Mina Knudson, who was also a native of Denmark. They have five children, namely: Julius, Emma, Lonis, Maria and Loura. Mr. Zeager was elected one of the Trustees of Rocky River hamlet in the spring of 1893, and was chosen President of the board, or Mayor. MICHAEL HOUCK of Rocky River Hamlet was born in what was Ohio City, but is now known as the West Side of Cleveland, June 29, 1839. His father was, the late Andrew Houck, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, and came to America when a young man of about twenty years. He lived in Buffalo, New York, for a few years and then removed to Ohio City, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where he resided till his death, which occurred March 1, 1875. He was a machinist by trade and in the employ of the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company for thirty-five years. The mother of our subject was Catherine Pfaltzgraff who was also a native of Bavaria, Germany. They were married in Cleveland by the Rev. Mr. Allard, who was one of the first German preachers of Cleveland. The mother still survives. They had a family of nine sons of whom Michael was the eldest. He was reared on the West Side in Cleveland. He enlisted in the snmmer of 1862 in the Nineteenth Ohio Light Artillery and served three years, till June, 1865. By being thrown from a horse in Covington, Kentucky, he was seriously injured, losing the sight of his left eye. Mr. Houck was married in Cleveland, Ohio, May 9,1870 to Miss Frederica Gehring, who was born on the East Side in Cleveland, December 14, 1849. Her parents were K. A. and 832 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Wilhelmina (Fetter) Gehring, natives of Wurtemburg, Germany. Of a family of four children Mrs. Houck was the eldest. Mr. and Mrs. Houck are the parents of two children: Louisa, who married Major Patingale, and died in Rocky River Hamlet, May 3, 1889; and Minnie. For many years Mr. Houck, in company with his brother John, operated a spoke and felloe factory on the West Side. The firm was known as Houck Bros. Michael afterward kept a meat-market for five years, until the spring of 1385, in December of which year he removed to the farm where he now makes his home. This comprises eighteen acres of well-cultivated land, with valuable improvements. Mr. Houck is a man who takes a good degree of interest in all local affairs. He is a Republican in politics. MRS. JOHN MARSHALL. The subject of this review, who is the widow of the late John Marshall, a well-known and prominent pioneer of the Forest City, resides in her spacious home at 1047 Detroit street, West Cleveland. John Marshall gained pre-eminence and success in the business of gardening, being a most capable business man and acquiring a competency as the result of his well-directed efforts. Before the time of his death he had become quite an extensive property-owner. He was one of the pioneer settlers in Ohio and among these who first took up a residence in the now populous and powerful city of Cleveland. He located in Cleveland in 1840, having come to America from Cornwall, England, where he was born. His family was one of prominence, and of the sixteen children of his parents he was one of the nine who came to the United States, six boys and three girls having taken up their residence in this country. Mr. Marshall was a Republican in politics, having taken a somewhat active interest in the work of his party. He held for some time the position as member of the City Council. He was a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and devoted in his allegiance to the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he was a most liberal supporter. His death occurred on the 8th of February, 1890, at the old home where he and his wife had lived for nearly half a century. He was sixty-nine years of age at the time of his death, leaving a widow and one child, Eldrid M., who is the wife of A. Andrews, of Cleveland. Mrs. Marshall was born in Lancashire, England, being the daughter of Henry and Eliza Crocker, and the fifth in order of the seven childred born to them. Her parents were people of influence and prominence in their native land. Our subject came to America in 1830, and was united in marriage to Mr. Marshall in 1850. She has long been a devout and zealous adherent of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and she is well known and most highly esteemed in the city, of which she has been so long a resident. C. D. KLOST, superintendent of the parks of Cleveland, dates his service with Cleveland parks at 1883, when he was placed in charge of Wade Park. This beautiful spot is the result of ten and a half years of unremitting care and painstaking arrangement and landscape gardening of Mr. Klost, and his promotion to general superintendent is a merited recognition of his ability to fill a more responsible position. Mr. Klost was born in Chemung county, New York, October 17, 1854. His father, Sanford Klost, a native of Herkimer county, York State, was born near Little Falls in 1809. He became a civil engineer and spent his life in land surveying and construction work, on the Erie Railroad. He died in 1891. His antecedents are believed to have been from Holland. Our subject's mother's maiden name was Millie Petrie. Seven children resulted from this marriage: George, deceased; Monroe, deceased; Peter, at Elmira, New York; Jarvis, at Antigo, Wisconsin; Ester, the wife of William Decker; Fan- CUYAHOGA COUNT - 833 nie, who married Jacob Sheppie, and C. D. At sixteen Mr. Klost left the common schools and took up the burdens of life independently. He came west and made Cuyahoga county his stopping place, working on the farm of L. R. Streeter. From this place he came to Cleveland, as superintendent of Wade Park, as before stated. Mr. Klost was married September 16, 1876, to Aggie Haycox, whose father, John Haycox, reared eight children. They came originally from Husk, England. Mr. Klost's children are: Ebba, sixteen years; Monroe, eleven; and Jarvis, seven. Fraternally Mr. Klost is a member of Holy Rood Commandery, No. 32, Knights Templar. He is also a Knight of Pythias. THEO. ENDEAN, one of the most talented photographers of the State, occupies a studio at 122 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. He was born in Birmingham, England, a son of Theo. and Matilda (Duckett) Endean, natives of France and Scotland respectively. The father, an Episcopalian clergyman, was born in Paris and was the son of a leading journalist of that metropolis; the maternal grandfather was an attorney of Edinburgh, Scotland. The parents of our subject emigrated to the United States and located in Massachusetts: both are now deceased. Young Endean received his education in the East, and at an early age displayed an aptitude and taste for art that brought him an opportunity for cultivating the talent he possessed. He was sent to the Academy of Design in New York city, and also studied photography in that city. Having mastered this branch of art, he left New York and has operated in the principal cities in this country from Boston to Galveston, Texas. His efforts have won some of the highest honors that have been conferred upon the members of his profession, securing the first prize at Brunswick, Germany, where a convention of prize winners in photography was held, and in St. Lonts, Missouri, received a gold medal u for superior excellence in photographic work. In 1886 Mr. Endean came to Cleveland, and the following year designed and fitted up his stud io, said to be the most complete in the Unfired States, employing only the most skilled talent in all branches. He has under his supervision artists who work in pastelle, crayon and water-color. His inventive genius has also found play in his work, and a photographic chair has been the result, a chair which is the most perfect of its kind. An artist by nature, years of study and travel abroad have added culture and refinement and exalted all his conceptions. In Mr. Endean the profession has a mot faithful and conscientious member whose efforts will ever be toward its advancement. Although he does not take an active interest in politics, he casts his suffrage with the Republican party. SYLVESTER BRADLEY, for five years engine dispatcher and foreman of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio roundhouse, was born in Blairsville, Pennsylvania September 29, 1849. He was reared in Brady's Bend and Altoona, Pennsylvania, to which latter point his father, James Bradley, removed in 18t31. He served a machinists' apprenticeship in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's shops at Altoona, beginning in 1867. During the Centennial year he went into the shops at Oil City, remaining only a short time before going to Meadville, and entering the service of Dick & Church, proprietors of the Phenix Iron Works. Two years later he cast his lot with the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad Company, first as machinist, later as gang foreman and finally, in 1888, as engine dispatcher. James Bradley was a locomotive engineer, running be- tween Altoona and Harrisburg for the Pennsylvania Company. He was born at Blairsville in 1819, and died in November, 1887. The family 834 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. name is of Irish origin, our subject's grandfather, Cornelius Bradley, emigrating Erin's Isle to Pennsylvania. Sylvester Bradley's mother was Ann Harkins, a daughter of Hugh Harkins, a canal man. The children born to James and Ann Bradley were: John, in the tobacco business in Altoona, Pennsylvania; William, with the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sylvester; and Albert, a machinist of Altoona. February, 1872, our subject married, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Miss Mary, a daughter of John Haney, of Irish birth, and an old employee of the Pennsylvania Company. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley's children are: Stella, who died in 1879; Catherine, now aged sixteen years; James, aged thirteen; and Frank Sylvester, who died in 1891, aged four years. COLONEL A. C. McILRATH was born at Morristown, New Jersey, September 19, 1811, a son of Alexander and Rhoda Mcllrath. When he was a child of five years his parents emigrated to Ohio and settled on 600 acres of land, portion of the present site of the city of Cleveland. The log cabin which sheltered this sturdy family of pioneers was situated on the south side of Euclid avenue near the present entrance to Lake View cemetery. The only neighbors were the famil ea of Benjamin Jones, Samuel Cozad and Mr. )oan. Mr. Mcllrath became prominently identified with the growth and development of the frontier country, and when the town of Cleveland was founded, laid out Euclid avenue, one of the most famous thoroughfares in this country. He was a Deacon of the Presbyterian Church and established one of the earliest societies in northern Ohio. Politically he was an old-line Whig. He reared a family of five children: Fennetta, born August 24, 1802, became the w: le of Damon O'Conner; she is now deceased; Sarah, born October 4, 1803, married Andrew Stewart, and now resides in Missouri; Michael, born September 20, 1805, died in 1893; Isabella, born January 27, 1808, married Benjamin Sawtelle; she is deceased; Colonel A. C. Mcllrath, the youngest of the family. He grew to manhood amid the wild scenes of the frontier. He received his early instruction from his father, who was a well educated man, and mastered the profession of civil engineering. He was also a cooper by trade and in connection with this business gave some attention to agricultural pursuits. In 1832 he erected the hotel known in pioneer days as the Mcllrath Tavern, and for forty-four years acted as host of this hostelry. For many years he was Justice of the Peace and was filling that position at the time of his death. He was a man of large stature, measuring six feet, seven inches; he bore a character for integrity and rectitude that was also the full measure of a man. He married Eliza Picor, a daughter of Dr. Picor, one of the pioneer physicians of this city. Colonel and Mrs. Mcllrath had born to them a family of thirteen chilren: James, deceased, was a soldier in the late war and for twenty years was in the secret service of the United States; Wealthy is the wife of Judge Price, of Chicago; Fennetta is deceased; Philip resides in McMinnville, Tennessee; Josephine is deceased; Oliver is engaged in business in this city; Adelaide is the wife of Eli S. French, of East Cleveland; Condit is deceased: Ida married Abraham Bigelow of this city; Webster A. is a resident of Cleveland; Horace Ackley is deceased; William B. is a resident of Coitsville, Ohio; Sarah is the wife of William Robinson, of this city. Webster A. Mcllrath was born on the old homestead in 1852, and received his education in the Shaw Academy at Collamer. He continued a member of his father's household until he had passed his majority when he entered the employ of the Cleveland Clothing Company; for some time he was manager and later became partner in the business. At the end of nine years he severed his connection with this establishment and embarked in real-estate business, representing the Shaker Heights Land Com- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 885 pany and the Continental Development Company. Under his direction and management the old Shaker society erected the Lake View flats, of which he is now in charge. He is one of the most active business men of the city and is held in the highest regard in commercial circles. Politically he adheres to the principles of the Republican party. JAMES K. MEAHER is a son of Timothy and Mary Meaher, who went from Lincoln county, Maine, to the Southern States in the early '30s. The father had been a sailor, but on going to New Orleans he engaged in the business of rolling cotton. He was a poor man, and in order to maintain and support his family he relied simply on his daily labor, but through pluck and energy he became so successful in life that on the breaking out of the Civil war in 1861 he was the owner of thirteen steamers on the Alabama river, of two large plantations in Alabama, and 127 negro slaves. 53 He resided at Mobile, Alabama, where the subject of this personal sketch was born, July 15, 1859. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch received an academical education in Mobile, and leaving school at the age of eighteen embarked in the timber business along the gulf of Mexico, being an agent for Epping, Barrs Company, of London, England, in whose employ he remained for five and a half years. He then accepted a position with George McQuestion, an extensive lumber dealer of East Boston, Massachusetts. Subsequently he went to Portland, Maine, where he read law for three years in the office of Hon. John J. Perry. In 1884 he came to Cleveland. He had not been admitted to the bar in Maine, and according to the laws of Ohio he was compelled to read law two years longer, and for one and a half years, therefore, he read law under the instructions of W. W. Andrews, and for six months under Hon. Henry C. White; and while under the preceptorship of the latter he was admitted to the Ohio bar, in May, 1886, at which date he began his successful career as a lawyer. Since January, 1892, he and Joseph E. Farrell have practiced their profession in an association as partners. July 15, 1891, Miss Emily L. Glidden, daughter of Francis H. Glidden, of Cleveland, became his wife. CHARLES E. WARNER, one of the representative liverymen of the city of Cleveland, is the proprietor of the feed and sale stable at 120 Woodland avenue. He was born in Huron county, Ohio, in 1846, and is a son of Lorenzo and Serena (Daily) Warner, natives of the state of New York. They had one other child, a daughter. Charles E. was reared and educated in Lorain county. At the age of sixteen years he had the misfortune to lose his left leg; two years later he engaged in business for himself. He drifted into buying and selling 836 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. horses for the home market, making his home at Elyria until 1890, when he came to Cleveland. During the period from 1883 to 1886 he was interested in the grain business, operating in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, but aside from this has given his entire attention to dealing in horse-flesh. Mr. Warner was married in 1867 to Miss Jennie Koppelberger, who died leaving two children : Edward, bookkeeper in a savings bank in this city, was married December 12, 1889, to Miss Minnie. Stansbury; Ella is the wife of Orin Cook, of Elyria, and is the mother of three children, two sons and a daughter. Mr. Warner was married again, the second union being with Della Gleason; they have one child. Our worthy subject is actively interested in the leading political events of the day and is thoroughly well posted upon current topics. He is a man of excellent business qualifications, employing only the most honorable methods, and commands the respect of all with whom he has dealings. DANIEL DUTY, president of the Forest ,City Ice Company and a member of the firm of Duty & Company, brick manufacturers, is a brother of Edwin Duty, mentioned in this volume, and was born in Oneida county, New York, September 20, 1832. He was educated in this city at Shaw's Academy, and spent some time in Grand River Institute, at Austinburg, Ashtabula county, winding up his career as a student in Ohio University, an institution now defunct, founded by President Mahan, of Oberlin College. Mr. Duty became a brick-maker under his father's tutorage and soon after embarking in business independently this became an important branch of it. In 1876 he became engaged in the ice business, becoming a partner in the Cleveland Ice Company, which changed its name in 1881 to the Forest City Ice Company, and became a stock company with a capital of $150,000. This is one of the leading ice firms of the city, and was originally established in 1852. This product is procured from Put-inBay, Lakes Huron, Congress and Geauga. Its offrcers are: Daniel Duty, president; G. A. Weitz, manager; H. J. Weitz, treasurer; and A. L. Hyde, secretary. During our Civil war Mr. Duty was a member of an independent company of "Squirrel Hunters," enlisting at Wooster, Ohio, for the purpose of defending Cincinnati against rebel attack. May 12, 1875, Mr. Duty married, in Cleve-Land, Sarah L. Cozad, whose father, Andrew Cozad, became a resident of Cleveland as early as 1802, six years after its founding by General Cleaveland. Andrew Cozad was born in New Jersey, March 7, 1801. During his active career he owned and operated a farm of 100 acres in East Cleveland, the whole of which farm is now in the corporate limits of the city. Mr. Cozad was most familiarly known as " Squire Cozad," from his long and efficient service as magistrate of his township. He married Sallie Simmons, May 12, 1825: her father, Justus Simmons, was likewise a pioneer, and came from New York State. Nine children were born of this union, only three of whom are now living: Justus L. and Marcus E ,of this city, and Sarah L. Duty, the last named being born July 22, 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Duty's children are: Horace A., Spencer M. and Alice. Edith, a six-months infant, died February 6, 1883. The family are identified with the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church. W. A. MINER, Mayor of Collinwood, Ohio, was born at Portland, Connecticut, November 24, 1839, the son of Selden H. and Anna (Shepherd) Miner, also natives of Connecticut. The father was a farmer by occupation, and was widely and favorably known in Connecticut. Three of his brothers, Sidney, Culvert and Edward, emigra- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 837 ted to Ohio, but Edward is the only one surviving; he is now a resident of Minnesota. Selden H. Miner died in September, 1883, at the age of sixty-seven years; his wife died in February, 1883, aged seventy-eight years; they had resided in Lake county, Ohio, ten years previous to their death, although they had first settled in Mayfield township, Cuyahoga county. Mrs. Miner made a visit to this State in 1826, returning in the autumn of that year, and it was not until 1840 that she and her husband came here to reside. They reared a family of four children: Belle, the wife of 0. M. Gates, is the mother of two children, Walter and Anna; W. A., the subject of this notice; Maria, the wife .of Lewis Ackley, died in 1893, the mother of one son, Martin; F. L. Miner, of Mayfield, is the father of three children: Sterling, Stanley and Halley. W. A. Miner embarked in the lumber business at Mayfield, where he conducted a successful trade ten years; during his residence there he also served two years as Clerk of the township. In 1879 he removed to Collinwood, where he continued to handle lumber; he also has in operation a planing-mill, which turns out a large product each year. He was elected Trustee of Euclid township and held the office one year. In 1890 he was the choice of the people of Collinwood for Mayor, and was re-elected in 1892. He has discharged his duties with marked efficiency and ability, commending himself to the best classes of citizens. In the spring of 1864, while a student at Oberlin College, Mr. Miner enlisted in the hundred-day service, Colonel Hayward's regiment. He participated in the three days' fight with the Confederate General Early, and at the expiration of his term of enlistment was honorably discharged. After his return from the war he resumed his studies at Oberlin, where he finished his three years' course. Since coming to this county he was engaged in teaching for one year. He was united in marriage October 31, 1883, to Miss Libbie Ormsbey, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Loomis) Ormsbey, natives of New York and Ohio respectively. Mr. Ormsbey died at the age of thirty years, but his widow survives him at the age of sixty.five years, au honored resident of Pike county. Mrs. Miner is the younger of two children; her brother David is a resident of Columbus, Ohio, and has a family of six children: Bertha, Sadie, James, Arthur, Myrna and Edith. Both Mr. Miner and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to Brough Post, No. 359, G. A. R, Collinwood. DR. A. FLETCHER, a veterinary surgeon, with an office at 118 Perry street, Cleveland, Ohio, has been located in this city slice 1889. He is a native of Portage county, Ohio, having been born in the town of Ravenna on May 20, 1853. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Lowrie) Fletcher, both of whom are descendants of Scotch ancestry. In Ravenna Dr. Fletcher was brought up and there he attended school. When a lad of only fifteen years he began life for himself in the railroad business, this being due probably to the fact that his father was a railroad man, having been such all of his life, and naturally the son had a desire to follow the pursuit of his father. He rose rapidly in railroad work, and soon became assistant road master, being assistant of his father, remaining such for twelve years, in the employ of the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad, after which he commenced farming, upon one of his father's places, and for three years he was a farmer. He then decided to prepare himself for the profession of veterinary surgery, a profession to which he inclined from early childhood. He attended the American Veterinary College at New York city and graduated in the spring of 1888, and immediately thereafter he entered upon the practice of his profession at his old home at Ravenna, where he remained one year. In the spring of 1889 he came to Cleveland, and formed a partner, 838 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. ship with Dr. Yonkerman. In October of 1890 he bought out the interest of his partner and since that date has practiced alone. In October of the same year he became interested in stock inspection for the State Board, in the northern portion of Ohio, and in June of 1891 he was appointed State Inspector of Live Stock, which position he still holds. He is thorough and proficient in his profession and has already achieved wonderful success in its practice. He was married at Alliance, Ohio, Judy 10, 1872, to Miss Lessetta L. Lamborn, daughter of Dr. L. Lamborn. They have one child, Jennie L. Dr. Fletcher and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church and are among the respected families of the city. F. W. LANDFEAR, one of the prominent and successful business men of Bedford, is justly entitled to the space that has been accorded him in this history. He is a native of Ohio, born at Freedom in 1852, a son of Charles and Emily (White) Landfear; they reared a family of four children: F. W., Mary E., wife of J. E. Murray, of New London, Wisconsin; Milton E., a citizen of Cleveland, Ohio; and Lizzie L., wife of E. L. Sanderson of Cleveland, Ohio. The maternal grandfather, Willard White, was a native of New England, born in the State of Vermont. Charles Land-fear is now deceased. He was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics gave his allegiance to the Republican party. The boyhood of. F. W. Land-fear was passed in his native town. His first experience in the business world was in the employ of J. B. Harris, who was the proprietor of a hardware store and tinshop at Bedford; there he remained three years, and during this time gained a valuable knowledge Am this particular phase Of commerce. He returned to Summit county in 1875, and three years later went to Canal Fulton, Stark county, where he embarked in the hardware business, which he conducted successfully for a period of seven years. He then went out as traveling salesman for an Akron firm, his territory embracing Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Kentucky. Resigning this position he located permanently in Bedford, where he has established a prosperous business, dealing in lumber, pine and hard wood. He is a man of excellent business qualifications, and is recognized as a man of integrity throughout the commercial world in which he moves. Mr. Landfear was married December 31, 1876, to Maria R. Cook, the ceremony being solemnized at Bedford, Ohio. Mrs. Landfear is a daughter of Daniel Cook, a highly respected citizen of Bedford. Two children have been born of this marriage: Lucius R. and Helen R. Mr. Landfear is a member of Bedford Lodge, No. 374, A. F. & A. M. In his religious faith he adheres to the doctrines of the Baptist Church, and is one of the ardent laborers in the Sunday-school of the denomination. Politically he supports the issues of the Republican party. Deeply interested in• all phases of education, religion and temperance reform, he is faithfully discharging his duty as a citizen of the Republic of the United States. THE SCHMEHL-STEARNS PRINTING COMPANY, with its main place of business at 1661 Pearl street, with a branch office in the thriving town of Berea,— from which place Mr. Stearns hails,—is the most important publishing house on the West Side. W. F. C. Schmehl, the senior member of the firm, located at 1661 Pearl street nearly five years ago, and since that time has built up an excellent printing business. About the same time D. C. Stearns built up a very good business in Berea and published a paper known as the Berea Grit. In the spring of 1893 the two concerns were consolidated and the printing machinery of Berea removed to Pearl street, to the office of the then Mail and News, The two CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 839 newspapers were consolidated and given the name of the County News, with separate full-page headings for Cleveland, Brooklyn and Berea. This was probably due to the fact that the new paper had the largest circulation of any west of the river in these towns, and also in the country adjacent, and was therefore entitled to the name of County News. Within the short space of time that has elapsed since the consolidation the circulation of the News has rapidly grown, and this gives evidence that the people are pleased with the paper. Aside from the publishing of the News and several other periodicals, the News office is equipped for all classes of commercial printing. The company has the advantages of large resources in the line of type, and their machinery is of the latest improved style. The immense circulation of the News should invite advertisers to its columns, for the paper is purely a family one, giving news and not sensations. FRANCIS SOUTHACK HOYT, D. D., a Presiding Elder of the Sandusky (Ohio) District, and formerly Presiding Elder of the Cleveland District, is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church of learning, prominence and marked ability. He was born at Lyndon, Vermont, November 5, 1822. He received his early education in the various towns of Vermont and New Hampshire, in which his father had his home in the capacity of pastor or Presiding Elder; he also attended the seminary at Newbury, Vermont, which was afterward removed to Montpelier. In 1840, at the age of eighteen, he entered the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, from which he was graduated at the age of twenty-two years. After his graduation he was engaged in teaching for six years at different places in the east. In 1850 he was sent to Oregon by the missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to take charge of the Oregon Institute at Salem, which was established by the missionary society with a view of developing it in to a college. Here he remained eleven years, and during his stay the institute was chartered as a college and became one of the foremost educational institutions of the Pacific coast; it is now known as Willamette University. Mr. Hoyt was sent in 1860 by the Oregon Annual Conference as a delegate to the General Conference held at Buffalo, New York; and in the summer of the same. year he was elected professor in the department of Natural Science in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He was transferred to the chair of Biblical Theology at his own request six years later, and held the position until 1872. He then became editor of the Western Christian Advocate at Cincinnati, and was connected with this journal until 1884. Since that year he has been Presiding Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for six years has been located at Cleveland as the Presiding Elder of the Cleveland district, North Ohio Conference. In 1890 he was appointed the Presiding Elder of the Sandusky district, his present position. This district includes twenty-seven charges, each of which he visits every three months, preaching and conducting other services from one to three times at each point. Mr. Hoyt was married December 25, 1848, to Miss Phebe Martha Dyer, of Farmington, Maine. Of this union six children have been born, all of whom are living: Frances, Charles A., Edgar F., William W., Francis C. and George B. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was first conferred upon Mr. Hoyt by the Baldwin University; and two years later, in 1873, by the Ohio Wesleyan University. Since 1885 he has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio. A. J. WEBB, freight, station and express agent for the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad Company at Bedford, has held this responsible position since 1892, giving excellent satisfaction to the officials and 840 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. patrons of the road. He has had an experience of thirteen years in the railroad business, and six years of that time has been in the employ thee. C. & S. Railway Company. He was born at Coshocton, Coshocton county, Ohio, June 20, 1859, a son of Henry D. and Elizabeth (Hinton) Webb; the father was born in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, and the mother was a native of Guernsey county, Ohio. Both are deceased, and our subject was left an orphan at an early age. He received a fair education, and at the age of sixteen years secured a pot ition in the Steel Works at Coshocton. This occupa tion not being entirely to his liking he learned telegraphy, and for eleven years was a successful operator. Mr. Webb was united in marriage June 15, 1882, to Laura E. Shepler at Coshocton, Ohio. Mrs. Webb's parents are A. J. and Nancy (Gray) Shepler, who belong to old families in Coshocton county. The paternal grandfather was one of the earliest settlers in that locality. Mr. and Mrs. Webb have one child, a son named Harry B. In politics Mr. Webb supports the measures of the Democratic party. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Summit Lodge No. 239, A. F. & A. M., and to Summit Chapter No. 74, R. A. M.; he has belonged to the fraternity since 1891. He is a man of strict integrity, capable and prompt in the discharge of his duties, and worthy of the many warm friends he has in this community. NEHEMIAH MARKS, of Warrensville, Ohio, is probably as well known as any man in the township, and few if any are held in higer esteem. Mr. Marks was born in Newburg, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in the year 1833, son of Nehemiah Marks, Sr., and grandson of Abraham Marks, natives of Connecticut and members of a prominent old family of that State. Grandmother Marks was before her marriage Miss Content Mervin. The senior Nehemiah Marks was born in 1798, and was a young man when he came out to the Western Reserve to make a home and grow up with the country. After his arrival here he returned to Connecticut on foot, making the journey, a distance of 600 miles, in thirteen days. On his return with an ox team and a horse it took him thirty-three days to make the journey. Here he bought a hundred acres of land, and devoted his energies to its improvement, and on it he spent the rest of his life. His wife, Clarissa, was a daughter of William Palmiter, a soldier of the Revolutionary war. Grandfather Marks also participated in the struggle for independence. Clarissa Marks was born, reared and educated in Vermont, and was for some time engaged in teaching there. She drove a horse and wagon from the Green Mountain State to Cuyahoga county, to pay her passage hither, and after her arrival here taught school in Newburg. Both she and her husband lived to a ripe old age, he being eighty-two at the time of death and she eighty-three. They had a family of six children, viz.: Louisa, who married Jacob Flick and is deceased; Lafayette, a resident of Newburg; Caroline, who married A. J. Palmer, of Tecumseh, Michigan, and is deceased; Marilla Falk, of Newburg; Rosetta, wife of A. P. Holliday, of Clinton, Michigan; and Nehemiah, Jr. This aged couple was respected and esteemed by all who knew them; their lives were adorned by Christian graces, and they reared their family to occupy honored and useful positions in life. The subject of the sketch was reared on his father's farm, but for the last twenty-five years has lived on Miles avenue, at Sorrento Park, three miles east of Newburg. He was married February 24, 1867, to Miss Maria Wells, a daughter of Curtis and Harriet (Russell) Wells. They have three children, namely: Rosetta, wife of J. S. Wherrit, of Great Falls, Montana; Carlotta was being educated at Berea University, and would have graduated, but studied too hard and died of typhoid fever May 6, 1885, aged 17 years; Hattie Bell, is a music teacher; CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 841 and Vivian is attending college in Cleveland. Most of the family are members of the Disciple Church. Personally, Mr. Marks is a man of fine physique, being six feet and four inches in height. Of genial nature, frank and jovial, he makes friends wherever he goes. A Oman of the strictest integrity, a friend of education and religion, he is one of the leading men of the community, and his influence is always directed for good. Politically, he is a Republican. For five years he has served as a Justice of the Peace, and has served several terms as a member of the Board of Education. Mr. Marks has several ancient relics, but the most conspicuous one is an old French fusee, a relic of the French and Indian war that also did service in the Revolutionary war. The initials of his grandfather, Abraham Marks, are cut in the stock. Many a wild turkey and deer has been killed. by this old flintlock fusee. Mr. Marks has killed seven turkeys at three shots in one week with it. Another relic that Mr. Marks has in his possession is a letter from old John Brown, written to his father in December, 1845. GEORGE W. MARTIN, a veteran employee of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. Railroad Company, and for twenty-seven years a passenger engineer, was torn near Goshen, Orange county, New York, August 31, 1835. He was brought up on a farm and consequently had all the advantages that free, open air exercise gives one's physical and mental make-up. He left the plodding farm life, the scenes of his boyish rambles and the fireside of his parents, at about twenty, and at Buffalo, New York, began his railroad career as a locomotive fireman on the C. B. & C. R. R. He was made an engineer in 1862 and since 1866 has covered the Cleveland and Erie Division as his run. Mr. Martin has witnessed a wonderful development of a mighty railroad system since he first stepped into an engineer's cab. In place of the double track of steel rails, on a magnificent road, superbly equipped with modern rolling stock, capable of spinning of at will a mile a minute, there was, thirty-eight years ago, a single track with strap rails laid upon the timbers on a sand and clay foundation. Toy rolling stock was used to do the business this company and the time was scarcely considered a factor in a long journey. A trip would begun by a passenger, and if it ever ended he considered himself in luck. Of the men who managed the company's affairs when Mr. Martin came to the road not one is now alive. Not even the directors or stockholders are on the stage of action, and very few of the employees are yet on the company's payrolls. Then the Vanderbilts first came into posession of the Lake Shore Road, and Cornelius the first was its president, Mr. Martin used to pull his favorite car over the road on his tours of inspection. He performed like service for William H., his son, and after his demise for his sons, the present owners of the road. President Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas have ridden behind his engine, likewise Presidents Garfield and Cleveland. Mr. Martin's father was J. Martin, born in the same county, of New York. He lived an uneventful farm life and died in 1873, aged sixty. five years. His wife was Martha Crator, of New Jersey birth, who died in 1878, aged sixty-six. Her children were J. R., deceased; G. W.; Mrs. Martha Hitchcock and Julia, deceased. Our subject enlisted in Company E, First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cleveland Grays, in 1861, and went into camp at Wheatland, Pennsylvania, camping there two weeks, and two in Philadelphia, where they were equipped and 'ordered to Washington, D. C. They went into Virginia without much delay and rebuilt the Alexandria & Leesburgh Railroad. On an expedition in the interior the forces met the enemy and were somewhat worsted, withdrawing to Fairfax C. H., and soon after were engaged in the first battle of Bull Run. Mr. 842 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Martin's three months' enlistment having expired he returned to Cleveland and was mustered out of service. In 1863 Mr. Martin married in Erie, Pennsylvania, Matilda Daugherty, who is the mother of two children: Jennie, wife of W. D. Briggs of Erie, Pennsylvania; and Harry, a clerk in the Lake Shore general offices, whose wife was a Miss Clark. FRANK R. CONNELL, passenger conductor on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad and for more than twenty-seven years a faithful employee of the company, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, September 15, 1848. He had not more than reached that age when a boy becomes most interesting as a student when lie left off his boyish frivolities and became a volunteer soldier to defend the Stars and Stripes and preserve the unity of the States. He enlisted at Salineville, Ohio, in September, 1863, in Company B, Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, under Colonel Bentley. They were ordered to Cleveland for camp duty and later to Camp Chase for the purpose of guarding prisoners. Another order took the company to Dennison, Ohio, where arms and horses were furnished and the command then took the field, going into Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, meeting the enemy first at Mount Sterling, Kentucky, and then at a point in Virginia, where Mr. Connell was wounded and taken prisoner, October 2, 1864. He lay in Emory and Henry hospital and in a Richmond hospital by transfer until he was well enough to be initiated into Libby Prison, remaining in that historic Rebel death-trap until March, 1865, when with others he was exchanged at Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. Connell made an effort to find and join his regiment, but was not able to find it until within a few weeks of the close of the war. He was mustered out of service in 1865, at Columbus, Ohio, returned home, and March 7, 1867, entered the employ of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Company as a freight breakman. In September, 1868, he received a promotion to freight conductor, and in 1887 became a passenger conductor. Mr. Connell is a son of Dr. Aaron Connell, born in the State of Maryland. He was educated in Ohio and in his early life was a teacher. He studied medicine, graduating at a university, and practiced in Ashland county and vicinity. During the civil war he was on duty in the hospital at Cairo, Illinois, and in Cleveland. His death occurred in 1877, at the age of seventy-two years. His first wife was Miss Davidson, who bore five children, viz., Clint, James, David, Benjamin and John. His second wife was Sarah A., daughter of Samuel McClelland, a Pennsylvania farmer, who was an early settler in Columbiana County, Ohio. The children of this union were Samuel, killed in a battle in the State of Mississippi; George; Maria, wife of Dr. Lindsay, of Salineville, Ohio; Frank R.; and Annie, who married J. C. McIntosh, of Monroeville, Ohio. Frank R. Connell married, in Bayard, Ohio, October, 1869, Lucinda H. Emmons, 'a native of Virginia. Two children are born to Mr. and Mrs. Connell,—Ada F., born January 23, 1890; and Albert; born August 1, 1892. JOHN F. FRITZ, a most faithful and reliable engineer of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, possesses as such a record unsurpassed or seldom equaled for careful, painstaking service. He began railroading in 1865, and for three years was fireman. Since 1868 he has manipulated the throttle of numerous engines, both freight and passenger, being engaged in the passenger service since 1873. For a few months during 1865 he was in the military service of the Federal Government, being a member of Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered into the army at Cleveland, taken to Camp Chase at Columbus, and thence with his company to the field. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 843 Mr. Fritz was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, in April, 1845. His father, Michael Fritz, left his fatherland in 1854, and sought free and unrestricted liberty in the United States. He located in Cuyahoga county, and gave his exclusive attention to agricultural pursuits. He is now living retired, aged seventy-seven years. His children were: Joseph, an engineer; Lue, a Lake Shore passenger conductor; George, a railroad man; Hermon; Bart, a Lake Shore freight conductor; and the subject of this sketch. Mr. John F. Fritz was married in Norwalk, Ohio, April 6, 1875, to Miss Barbara Measdey, and they have had two daughters,—Bertie May and Edna,— promising young ladies of school age. Mr. Fritz is a member of the B. of L. E. A. J. MICHAEL occupies a prominent position among the well-known lawyers and citizens of Cleveland. He is a native of Ohio, and was born on the 12th day of October, 1849, in Ross county, one 9f the counties forming the " Virginia Military District" of the Buckeye State. His father's family came to this part of the State from Baltimore, Maryland, while his mother's family came from Leesburg, Virginia, in about 1820. Both of his parents were born in this State. On the father's side the family line reaches back to the Jefferson family, the grandmother of our subject being a niece of President Thomas Jefferson; on the mother's side the line runs back to the family of Governor McDowell of Virginia. Mr. Michael was reared on the farm, and secured his early education in the country district schools and in the public schools at' Chillicothe, passing from the latter to the Ohio University. Being ambitious of securing a good education in as short a time and at as small an expense as possible, and being of a studious and energetic nature, he averaged while at the university fifteen and one-half hours of study a day, and, during his entire senior year carried eight regular studies. He maintained, throughout his entire course in the university, a high rank in his classes. This close application to his studies enabled him to finish a six-years course in three years and two terms, and to graduate with honors. While in his Sophomore year his own class in Latin recited to him for nearly an entire term, during the absence of the professor who occupied that chair; and at another time, during his course of study at the university, he had charge of and heard the recitations of the class next below his in solid geometry. Mr. Michael finished his education in Harvard College at Cambridge, Mass. Being compelled to educate himself by his own efforts, he found at the close of his university life an indebtedness of $650 against him, without any means whatever to draw upon save his education. Anxious to liquidate his indebtedness he accepted the position of Superintendent of the Monroeville (Ohio) public schools, and for five years discharged the duties of that position with entire satisfaction, establishing a reputation for himself which extended all over the State. During the above time he was an active member of the Northeastern Teachers' Association of Ohio and one or its executive committeemen. He was also a member of the Ohio State Teachers' Association, of the Department of Superintendents, and of the National Teachers' and National Superintendents' Associations. He studied most thoroughly the public-school systems of this and other States, and received letters from leading public-school superintendents, as well as from college presidents and professors, stating that they were personally acquainted with his work and his fitness for the same, and that they considered him one of the most promising young men in the school work of the State. Having educated himself for the profession of the law Mr. Michael had taken a broad field of reading along the line of subjects kindred to his chosen profession, and when in a position to take up his legal studies found 844 - CUYAGOGA COUNTY. himself well equipped for the same, and his progress was rapid. His preceptor in the study of law was the Hon. C. E. Pennewell, of the Cleveland bar, for whose eminent ability as a lawyer and jurist he has the highest admiration. During Mr. Michael's first year in practice he was able to and did receive foes enough to live upon, but since then his practice has continued to increase from year to year until it is second to that of no young lawyer in the city, and he finds his profession both a lucrative and pleasant one. He is thoroughly in love with the legal profession, to which he is peculiarly fitted, and his progress in it has been all that he and his friends could desire for the time he has been in active practice. He is the the owner of one of the best law libraries in Cleveland, and also owns what is considered one of the best private libraries in the State. His habits of study which were acquired during his student life in the university have been retained, and his work is seldom laid aside until ten p. m., and frequently not until a later hour. For several years Mr. Michael has been quite prominent in municipal affairs, and has filled a number of honorable and important official positions, in which his services have been of great benefit to the city. He has for several years been President of the Board of Examiners of public school teachers of Cleveland. He has served a term of two years in the City Council, one year of which he was President of that body. He served as a member of the City Park and Boulevard Commission during the first year of its organization, and the present members of the commission bear evidence to his valuable service on that important body during the most trying days of its history, when it was beset on all sides by pitfalls and snares of every description, and when its policy was shaped and its present work made possible. He is a prominent and active member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of its Committee on Municipal Matters, and a member of the General Finance Committee having in charge the raising of money and preparing of plans for the new Chamber of Commerce building. Mr. Michael is a member of the Tippecanoe Club, the strongest Republican political club in Ohio. As a lawyer Mr. Michael occupies a prominent place at the Cleveland bar, and is considered one of the city's strongest, and most promising attorneys. He is recognized as one of the foremost citizens of the Forest City, being progressive and at all times ready and willing to lend his influence and assistance to all movements in the interest of good government and to the promotion of the city and her best interests. He is broad-minded, energetic and enterprising in all matters, and is usually to be found upon the right side of all public questions and movements. Socially he is a most agreeable" gentleman. Warm-hearted and sympathetic by nature, kind and affable to all, easy of approach, he is deservedly popular and has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, all of whom esteem him as a man of ability, strength and sterling character. JOHN FREEMAN, secretary of the Taylor Chair Company, of Bedford, Ohio, has been connected with the business for twenty years. He was born at Poughkeepsie, New York, October 31, 1859. His parents were William and May E. (Wheeler) Freeman. The father was a native of England. They are still living. John was a bay of nine years when he came to Bedford. Here he received a limited education, at thirteen beginning to work in the chair factory of the' Taylor Chair Company. His first work was. sand-papering the chairs at 59 cents per day. By doing his work well and faithfully he secured a position as office boy in the establishment and later as shipping clerk. At twenty-one he went on the road as traveling salesman for the firm. His territory extended from the Atlantic, coast southwest to St. Louis, including seventeen States. In the spring of CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 845 1887 he left the road and accepted his present position of secretary of the Taylor Chair Company. As secretary and book-keeper of the company he does his duty in an able manner. Mr. Freeman is a self-made man and to his own exertions is due his present position of trust and honor. He was married in June, 1887, at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, to Flora Stevenson, daughter of J. M. Stevenson. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman have one child, a daughter,—Helen Flora. Mr. Freeman is a Republican, an active and zealous worker in his party. He has served two terms as treasurer of the school board of Bedford. He is a member of the Masonic Order,—Bedford Lodge, No. 370, and Summit Chapter. Mr. Freeman has the frank, genial, jovial ways which are so serviceable in business. FREDERICK A. COLBRUNN, a loyal citizen of the United States, is an adopted son of the nation, his birth-place being Westphalia, Province of Lippe-Detmold, Germany: there he first saw the light of day August 20, 1836, the fifth of a family of seven children of Edward and Augusta Colbrunn. His father was a manufacturer of linen goods, and was also in the employ of the East India trade. On account of the Revolution of 1848 the family decided to emigrate to America, and on the 10th day of October of that year the mother with the children sailed from Bremen, bound for the United States. After a voyage of forty-two days they landed in the port of New York, and thence came directly to Ohio by way of the Hudson river to Albany, thence to Buffalo by rail, and from that city by the lakes to Cleveland, arriving December 25, 1848. After a short stay in Cleveland Mrs. Colbrunn came to Rockport township, where she purchased a tract of 100 acres of good farming land, on which she settled with her family. In 1850 she was joined by her husband, who had been detained in the old country by business affairs. Mr. Colbrunn built a sawmill soon after his arrival but disposed of it in 1861, and in the same year removed to Cleveland, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. He was born March 10, 1799, and died January 10, 1868; Mrs. Colbrunn was born December 13, 1800, and died March 4, 1874. They reared a family of seven children: Leopold F. was born May 3, 1827; Adelaide, born January 7, 1830, is the wife of Frederick Klaue; Theodore was born February 13, 1832; Minnie, born August 9, 1834, is the wife of B. Strong, of Cleveland; Frederick A. is the fifth-born; Emma, born July 2, 1838, is the wife of Nicholas Elmer; John Edward was born March 9, 1841. Frederick A. was a lad of twelve years when NI hen he was brought to this country. His youth was spent in assisting his father in the cultivation of a frontier farm, which was increased to 300 acres, and he also superintended the sawmill until it was sold, in 1861. He then engaged in building plank and rail roads, which he carried on extensively for some years. He assisted in the construction of the Nickel Plate railroad, and secured the contract for the plank road from Ohio City to Olmstead; he rebuilt this road in 1873, and has since been superintendent for the company owning the road. He now resides on a fine farm of seventy-five acres, a portion of his father's purchase after coming to Cuyahoga county. In the spring of 1894 he built a race track one-half mile long on this farm, for the purpose of training blooded horses. By his first marriage Mr. Colbrunn had five children: Emma, the wife of John Elber; Elizabeth, the wife of John Fischer; Jennie, the wife of Winthrop Dunham; Edward, a member of the Cleveland Fire Department; and George E., who died at the age of nineteen years. Mr. Colbrunn was married to his second wife August 11, 1870; her name was Anne Ducker, a daughter of Isaiah and Elizabeth Ducker, natives of Essex, England, who emigrated to the United States early in the present century: Mr. Ducker died in 1866, but his wife survives. There were three children born of this union: 846 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Frederick A., Jr., William W. and Anna M. The mother died July 31, 1882. Mr. Colbrunn was married again July 8, 1885, to Miss Jennette Ducker, and they have had born to them two children: Eva F. and Wilbur G. Mr. Colbrunn has always taken a deep interest in the affairs of State, and has represented his township in many offices of trust and responsibility: he has been President of the School Board twenty-five years, has been township Trustee and Assessor, and in April, 1893, was elected President of the Board of Trustees for Rockport Hamlet. His strict integrity and indefatigable attention to public business have won him the respect of all who know him. Politically he adheres to the principles of the Republican party. Mrs. Colbrunn is a most worthy member of the Congregational Church. O. H. MANN.—Classed among the old and faithful men of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company, is O. H. Mann, who is completing his twenty-fifth year of service since he became a fireman, and his twenty-first year as a " knight of the throttle." Mr. Mann was born in this city, October 31, 1851. He attended school at the corner of St. Clair and Ald streets, and left off his studies to do time as journeyman carpenter. He had almost finished his trade when a notion seized him to engage in railroading, which he did, in 1869, being made a locomotive fireman at once. For the past eighteen years he has been a yardmaster and responds to his duties without loss of time. Mr. Mann's father was Stephen Mann, who emigrated to Cleveland from Vermont, his native State. In his early experience in Cleveland he was engaged in the grocery trade near the foot of Superior street. Bent on retiring from this business he entered the lake trade as steward of a vessel and followed the water twenty-five years. His death occurred in 1874, at the age of seventy-five years. His second wife, the mother of our subject, was Miss Snedaker, of French extraction. By a former marriage, to Miss White, one child was born. Of the second marriage, there were three children, viz.: Anna E., who married John Burgess, a lake captain; Oliver P., an engineer for the Cleveland & Pittsburg Road, at Wellsville, Ohio; and O. H. Mr. O. H. Mann was married in this city in 1874, to Sophia, a sister of Captain Loftus Gray and a daughter of Charles and Sophia Gray, of English birth. Their children are: Bertha R., deceased; Oliver P., deceased, and Edith May. Success has come to Mr. Mann because of his unceasing devotion to business, the key note to success in any calling. HENRY HOFFMAN, an undertaker at 733 Clark street, Cleveland, was born. in this city, February 20, 1860, a son of Henry and Christina (Nuss) Hoffman, natives of Germany. They came to Cleveland in 1843, were married at Independence, this county, in 1847, and in 1849 returned to this city, locating at the corner of Walton and Rhodes streets. The father, born in 1825, died in 1881, and was then serving his third term as Councilman of the old Twelfth ward, now the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth wards. He was also employed as shipping clerk at the depot for many years, and, owing to his fluency in both the English and German languages, rendered a most valuable service. Mrs. Hoffman departed this life in 1863, at the age of forty-one years. She was a member of the Independence Protestant Church. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman had six children, viz.: Mary, wife of H. A. Heimsath, of Cleveland; William, a resident of Michigan, but was married in Cleveland; Helena, wife of Herman Imbery; John, of Cleveland, was united in marriage with Frances Burkhardt; Henry, our subject; and Dora, wife of Herman Herkle. Henry Hoffman began work for himself at the age of twenty-one years, at the undertaking business, and has since followed that occupation. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 847 He is also engaged in real-estate transactions. Mr. Hoffman was married in 1881, to Miss Antoinette, a daughter of John Karda, who has resided in Cleveland for the past fifty-five years. He had three children: Frank, deceased in 1892, at the age of forty-seven years, served as a member of the City Council for two terms, and was Assistant Police Clerk for six years; August G., a resident of Cleveland; and Antoinette, the wife of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman have six children: Antoinette, Henry, Emma, Mamie, Stella and Grover. Our subject is identified with the Democratic party. In his social relations he is a member of the Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias, of the Foresters, and the Willkommen Union. Mr. Hoffman has also served as member of the Board of Education, and was chairman of the repair committee. R. A. BALDWIN, one among the Cleveland coterie of Cleveland & Pittsburgh passenger engineers, is a representative of that famous Baldwin family distributed throughout the East and northern Ohio. The subject of this notice was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, November 28,1843. As this branch of the family was made up of agriculturists, with few exceptions, R. A. was born op a farm. He secured a liberal education from district school and academy, beginning his career as a business man at nineteen. His first duty about this time was to enter the army, enlisting at Conneaut, Ohio, in the Second Ohio Battery, which was assigned to the Army of the Southwest. The command rendezvoused at St. Louis, Springfield and Jefferson City, Missouri, for short periods, on its way into the Confederate country in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. They met the enemy at the battle of Pea Ridge, routed them and proceeded to Helena, on the Mississippi river, where Mr. Baldwin was discharged from service, October 127 1862. In June, 1863, Mr. Baldwin engaged with the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad Company as fireman; in January, 1865, was promoted to the place of engineer. For several years he has been on a passenger run between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. When annual prizes were paid by the company to engineers, Mr. Baldwin received the second one given in 1875, and a good share of the monthly premiums issued thereafter. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Baldwin was Remus A. Baldwin, born in New Milford, Connecticut. He brought his family to Pennsylvania when our subject's father, L. Baldwin, was a small boy. L. Baldwin continued to reside in Erie county, Pennsylvania, until 1873, when he removed to Conneaut, Ohio, where he now lives, aged eighty-four, with his wife, nee Rosina Battles, aged eighty-one. Mr. Baldwin's maternal grandfather, was an early settler near Girard, Pennsylvania, being there when the land where the city now stands was public domain. L. Baldwin was the father of twelve children, eight of whom are still living, namely: R. A.; Byron, of Chicago; the wife of James Moorehead, of Erie county; Georgiana, who married Mr. Gould, of Prescott, Arkansas; Susan, wife of Mr. Goddard, of Conneaut, Ohio; K. K. Baldwin, of Chicago; and Elmer, of Conneaut, Ohio. In 1865 R. A. Baldwin married, in Erie county, Pennsylvania, Adaline, a daughter of William Foote, a farmer. Mr. Baldwin's children are: William I., born in 1867; Brainard, born in 1870, a fireman on the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad; Marion, born in 1873; Charles, born in 1877, a machinist; and Ethel, born in 1880. FRANCIS A. COSGROVE, A. B., Superintendent of the Schools at Brooklyn Village, Ohio, was born August 26, 1856, at Defiance, Ohio. He is a son of Elliott and Emily (Berkshire) Cosgrove. His parents were natives of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. 848 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. The father is a fanner by occupation and is a man of advanced years. He is a pioneer of Defiance county, where, he is esteemed and respected as one of their best citizens. His wife died in April of 1877. She was a beloved woman. Upon the farm Professor Cosgrove Was brought up. He first attended the country school and at the age of sixteen years entered the Wesleyan University at Delaware, and there graduated in 1884 with the degree of A. B. Before his graduation he took up school-teaehing and taught at several places, including South Brooklyn, Farmersville and other places. At Farmersville he spent four years and at South Brooklyn one year. In 1880 he returned to college and there remained until he graduated. He was then elected Superintendent of Schools at Prospect, Ohio, where he remained one year. He was then for a time engaged in the insurance business at Delaware, Ohio. Two years later he was elected Snperintendent of Schools in Brooklyn village and still holds that position. As an educator he has been remarkably successful. He is a student possessed of an analytical and philosophical mind and is well fitted for the training and nurturing of the youthful mind. He is a man of excellent moral habits and thus is a man of influence, not only among his pupils but among his patrons. Since his taking charge of the schools at Brooklyn Village these schools have wonderfully increased in their excellency and importance, an excellent building has been erected, a number of the best teachers are employed, and the number of pupils enrolled is over 1,000. Thus it may be observed that this his work has not been one of little importance, but in the execution of his work he has been remarkably successful. In politics he is not active nor ardent, nor zealous, but casts his vote with the Republican party. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order and of the Knights of Pythias. He was married immediately after his graduation, in 1884, to Miss Belle Waite, of Welling ton, Ohio. She was a student also at Delaware, with himself. Unto the marriage there were born three children, of whom one is deceased. These children are,—I., born in 1885; E., born in 1887; and Belle, who died in 1890, in infancy. March 22, 1890, the mother of these-, children was called away in death. She was a beloved wife, mother and friend, an estimable woman, and an active Church worker. E. E. ARNOLD is the secretary and general manager of the Bedford Chair Company, one of the most prosperous manufacturing concerns in the county. The company was organized in December, 1890, with C. J. Milz as president; G. L. Bartlett, vice-president; W. 0. Gordon, general superintendent, and Mr. Arnold, secretary and general manager. The success of this enterprise has been almost phenomenal from the first, and is due in a large measure to the practical knowledge the officers have of the business and to their wide experience in the commercial world. Mr. Arnold is a native of the State of Michigan, born in Clinton township, Lenawee county, February 23, 1863. His parents were N. C. and Lucy Jane Arnold, the father being a native of New England, and the mother of New York. They reared a family of three children, one of whom is deceased; Fannie is the wife of James Flick, of Bedford, Ohio. E. E. Arnold received his education in the public schools of Tecumseh; Michigan, completing the course in the high school of that place. In March, 1885, he entered the employ of the Taylor Chair Company of Bedford, and the relationship continued more than five years. He then took a position with Burbank & Ryder, wholesale manufacturers, as traveling salesman, his territory including. New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. In 1890 he became a member of the Bedford Chair Company, as stated above. June 14, 1893, Mr. Arnold married Miss Emma Dawson, a daughter of James William Dawson, a CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 849 respected citizen of Bedford. Mrs. Arnold is a consistent member of the Disciple Church, and is a woman of superior intellectual attainments. In politics our subject adheres to the principles of the Republican party. He belongs to Bedford Lodge, No. 375, A. F. & A. M.; to Summit Chapter, No. 74, R. A. M., and to Holyrood Commandry, No. 32, K. T. He is a man of excellent business qualifications, and is worthy of the confidence reposed in him by his associates in commerce. J. P. CURRY, auditor of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, is a gentleman of nearly thirty years' experience in railroad business, beginning with a minor clerkship in the auditor's office of the Pittsburg, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad Company at Steubenville, Ohio, when, in contrast with the present, railroading was practically in its incipiency. At the expiration of his second year in the office, Mr. Curry dropped railroading to engage in the queen's-ware trade and opened out a business in Steubenville. Three years of merchandising sufficed, for the fascinations of the railroad again impelled him to enter its service. He took up the work with his old company under the name of the Pittsburg, Columbus & St. Louis Railroad, resuming his clerkship in the auditor's office, stationed for a time at Columbus, but later on moved to Pittsburg. He remained in this office four years, when he accepted the position of chief clerk in the office of the auditor of the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad. In April, 1877, he retired from this position to accept the position of secretary and auditor of the Scioto Valley Railroad at Columbus, Ohio, continuing in that capacity till September, 1882, when he accepted his present office, being the first auditor of the road. Mr. Curry was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, May 26, 1845. His first and early impressions were received in the country, for his father was a farmer, and he sent his son to the rural school until the age of fourteen, when he placed him n the public schools of Steubenville. At the early age of fifteen Mr. Curry began to contribute to his own support materially by engaging to clerk for a firm of leather dealers at Steubenville, Ohio. Some months later he became book-keeper and traveling salesman for a paper-mill, remaining until he entered the service of the Pittsburg, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad as before stated. James Curry, our subject's father, married Miss Sarah Hartford. Their children were four in number, only two of whom are now alive: J. P. and Mrs. J. W. Renner, of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. February 23, 1880, Mr. Curry married, in Columbus, Ohio, Miss Pugh, a daughter of Judge Pugh, an old and prominent resident of that county. They have two sons only, Renner P. and James P., Jr. R. H. ST. JOHN.— Among the representative citizens of Cleveland is R. H. St. John, the well-known inventor and vice president of the St. John Typobar Company. Mr. St. John is a native of the Buckeye State, having been born in Cincinnati, in 1832. He is of English lineage, his ancestors having come to America from England about 1700. His father was Ebenezer St. John, who was born in 1803 and died in 1859. His wife was born in 1805 and died in 1888. While our subject was a boy his family removed from Cincinnati to Springfield, Ohio, where he received a common-school education and learned the trade of watchmaker and jeweler. He followed watchmaking and the jewelry business in Bellefontaine, Ohio, until 1860, in the meantime having invented and placed on the market, in 1855, the first foot lathe for watchmakers, known as St. John's Universal Chuck Lathe, which had quite a sale.