CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 875 Public, and for many years he has been Postmaster of Chagrin Falls. He was a member of the Town Council for ten years, and it was during this time that the cemetery grounds were laid out. He belongs to Golden Gate Lodge, No. 245, A. F. & A. M., and of Chagrin Falls Chapter, R. A. M.; he is Secretary of both the lodge and chapter. At the age of twenty-eight years our worthy subject was united in marriage with Miss N. P. Earl, who is now deceased. His second marriage was to Mrs. Laura Lander Bullock.D DR. CORWIN G. WARDEN, a prominent physician of Berea, Ohio, dates his birth in Columbia, Lorain county, Ohio, October 24, 1857. He is a son of S. T. and Amanda M. (Wood) Warden. His father was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, removed from there to Palmyra, New York, and in 1826, when only six years old, came with his parents to Ohio, their settlement being made in Liverpool, Medina county. That section of country was then all a wilderness, and the Wardens settled down to the work of clearing and developing a farm. They endured all the hardships and privations of pioneer life, and were ranked with the prominent and well-to-do families of their vicinity. The Doctor's father took' an active part in church work and also in political affairs. He was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. Dr. Warden was reared to farm life, was educated in the district schools and at Oberlin College, and for several terms was engaged in teaching. His medical education was secured in the Wooster Medical University, where he graduated with the class of 1878. Immediately after his graduation he went west and began his professional career at Leadville, Colorado, where he remained until 1880. That year he returned to Ohio, and has since been engaged in the practice of medicine at 411 erea. Here he has met with eminent success, to-day holding rank with the leading physicians of the county. Like his falter, the Doctor's political views are in harmony with the principles of the Republican party. He received the appointment of Postmaster of Berea under the Harrison administration, and in that capacity rendered efficient service. Mr. Warden was married, September 4, 1879, to Elizabeth B. McClure, daughter of H. A. and Martha (Williams) McClure, natives of Pennsylvania, whose ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Cleveland. The Doctor's maternal ancestors were represented in the ranks during the Revolutionary war, and his mother's father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Such is a brief sketch of one of the well-known physicians of Cuyahoga county. GROVE G. CANNON, the subject of this sketch, was the only child of Alonzo S. and Delia Rebecca (Hawkins) Cannon. He was born May 8, 1855, in Warrensville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Mr. Alonzo .S. Cannon, the father of Grovel G., was born in Aurora, Portage connty, Ohio, June 19, 1829. His father, Victor M. Cannon, was born in Massachusetts in 1784, and died in 11357. Victor M. Cannon was married to Miss Caroline Baldwin in 1828. Mrs. Victor M. Cannon was a daughter of Samuel S. Baldwin, and was born in Newburg, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1808. Sho is living with her son, Artemas, in Streetsboro, Portage county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Victor M. Cannon had a family of seven childreu: Alonzo S., Hannah, Austin V., Willson B., Artemas M., Cornelia and Allen P,—five of whom are living, Austin and Allen being dead. Mrs. Alonzo S. Cannon is a daughter of Jesse G. and Sally C. (Hubbell) Hawkins, and was born in Otsego county, New York, December 6, 1827. They had a family of eight children, throe sons and five daughters: Mary, Lucy R., Delia R., Lewis R., Sarah L., Crayton L., and Lillie and Lynn (twins); six are living. 876 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Jesse Hawkins and family came to Ohio in 1834, making the journey in little less than two weeks' time, and they settled in Streetsboro, on a farm on which Lynn now resides. Mr. Alonzo S. Cannon bought the farm on which he now lives, located at the center of Warrensville, opposite the high-school building, in 1853. He married in 1854, and immediately moved to the farm. Mr. Cannon has been largely engaged in buying and selling stock, as well as managing the fam on which he lives, and another in Orange, which he subsequently purchased. He has always been an upright, honorable dealer, an active, industrious, energetic man, and commands the respect of the entire community in which he lives. The best evidence of this is the fact that, although a Democrat, living in a township with a large Republican majority, he has been repeatedly elected to offices of both honor and profit. Grove G. Cannon spent the first fifteen or sixteen years of his life in attending school, in assisting his father in his business of buying and selling stock and in labor upon the fam. As a boy he was quick. to discern the right thing to do, prompt and energetic in doing it, and happy if it had his own approbation when done. In the autumn of 1871 he went before the Board of County School Examiners, obtained a certificate authorizing him to teach, then engaged the school in the Murfett district in Orange, and bravely entered upon his winter's work of managing and teaching young men and women, many of whom were older, and, as they thought, wiser than the boy teacher. After a few days of experience they comprehended that they had both a teacher and a master. Although highly successful as a schoolmaster, he did not like the business, and his first tem ended his career as a schoolteacher During the summer of 1872 he worked on his father's fam, and in the fall of that year went to Cleveland and entered the service of Babcock, Hurd & Company, wholesale grocers on Water street. The first year of his connection with the firm was spent mainly in the warehouse as porter and general utility man. About this time the fim thought they had discovered signs of superior business ability in young Cannon, and accordingly promoted him to the position of traveling salesman. It is said of him, by one who knew him well, that by his tireless energy and industry he made a reputation as a salesman, of which any man, young or old, might well be prowl. Thus he went on in the even tenor of his way until 1879, when, on the 30th day of September, he was married to Miss May Tarbell, daughter of Leverett and Mary H. Tarbell, of Bedford, by the Rev. A. T. Copeland, then pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Bedford. Mrs. May T. Cannon was born in Bedford, October 15, 1858. At the age of eight years she began attending school in Bedford, and continued her education in the public schools until 1875, when she began teaching. In 1876 she attended school in Willoughby. In 1877 she taught in Bedford. In the fall of 1878 she entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, took two years' work in one, and graduated at that institution in June, 1879. She is an active and exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is deeply interested in the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and other kindred organizations. Mr. Cannon continued his business for the fim as traveling salesman' until the end of 1886, when he was given the control of his fim's local business in the city of Cleveland, which he retained until his death, January 5,. 1888, which was caused by inflammation of the middle ear, produced by a severe cold previously contracted, together with violent exertion three days previous to his death,—a case almost exactly parallel to that which caused the death of Roscoe Conkling. Immediately after their marriage they went to Wellington, Lorain county, where they boarded until the fall of 1880, when they returned to Bedford, where they remained with her parents until April, 1881. They then re- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 877 moved to Marion, Ohio, where they commenced housekeeping. Here were born to them Tom T., August 8, 1881, and Herbert Grove, April 10, 1883. In the fall of 1883 they removed to Bedford, where he had a house nearly completed, adjoining her parents' residence, and into it they moved in December. The youngest son, Dana Alonzo, was born here, May 26, 1885. Grove G. Cannon was initiated in Bedford Lodge, No. 375, F. & A. M., February 21, 1881; passed to the degree of F. C. March 7, 1881, and raised to the sublime degree of M. M. March 21, the same year. He became a member of Summit Chapter, No. 74, on dimit from Marion Chapter, No. 62, R. A. M. He subsequently became a member of Holyrood Commandery, No. 32, K. T. Mr. Cannon was a member of the village council during the excitement consequent upon the attempt to pass an ordinance to prohibit the sale of intoxicants in the village of Bed ford. He was first and foremost in the fight for the passage of the ordinance, and he won, as he usually did. He was prominently identified with all those who sought to advance the best interests of all the people. In politics he remembered the teachings of his father, and from principle rather than policy he adhered to the Democratic faith. Grove G. Cannon was a forceful, self-reliant, honorable and industrious man, a kind husband and father, a patriotic, law-abiding citizen, and his death at the early age of thirty-three years was an almost irreparable loss to his employers and to the community in which lie lived. C. E. TILLINGHAST, of Cleveland, Ohio, has during his more than twenty years of connection with the insurance business met with eminent success, has had marked distinctions shown him by his co-workers, and is to-day one of the most prominent managers in the ranks of life insurance. Mr. Tillinghast is a native of Windham county, Connecticut, born November 24, 1840. In 1871 lie engaged in life insurance as general agent of the Phoenix Mutual at Providence, Rhode Island, and in 1876 he was appointed manager of the New York Life for Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and Colorado, and removed to Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1881 the Equitable Life secured him as manager for the southern portion of Ohio and he then located in Columbus, where he remained until the spring of 1886. At that time he was promoted to the position of manager for the whole State, with the exception of Hamilton county. During the following six years his unerring judgment as a manager, together with his untiring energy and strict fidelity to the best interests of the company, met with unparalleled success in the territory named. At this writing C. E. Tillinghast & Son are managers of the Central Department of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, this department embracing Ohio (except Cincinnati district), western Pennsylvania and the whole of Indiana, having been actively opened in October, 1892. To give an idea of the volume of business now being produced, it is only necessary to say that a single month's record now amounts to more than the former annual collections from the Cleveland office. Mr. Tillinghast's executive ability has been fitly recognized by the National Association annually since its organization. At the first convention, in Boston, he was elected a member of its executive committee. At the second, in Detroit, he was made chairman of this committee, and at the last annual convention, in New York, he was elected to the presidency, and his administration has been a highly satisfactory one, as will, we believe, be demonstrated at the forthcoming annual convention, in Cleveland. At home he has been equally honored, for he has filled every office within the gift of the Cleveland Association, and was unanimously endorsed by that body for the presidency of the National Association. 878 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. As a producer of business, the facts given above show Mr. Tillinghast to be no less successful and prominent, and the Manhattan Life is certainly to be congratulated upon enlisting his services. Associated with him are his sons, Elbert R. and Edward M. Tillinghast. They give promise of becoming as shining lights in life insurance later on as is their father to-day. They are both graduates of Yale College and amply endowed with the qualifications necessary to become successful in the. business which they have elected to make a life profession. While no figures of accurate nature can be given at this time, it is safe to announce already that the business of the Manhattan Life in its Central Department in 1893 will be several times as much as has ever been received from the same district in a single year. It may not be superfluous to add that C. E. Tillinghast & Son are offering such contracts and territory to first-class reliable men as cannot fail to win them, and it will pay such to investigate for themsel yes. REV. ROBERT MOFFETT, a minister of the Disciple Church, and a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, dates his birth in Rolling Prairie, La Porte county, Indiana, November 9, 1835. His parents, Garner and Mary J. B. (Davis) Moffett, were natives of Washington county, Virginia. His father was born in 1807, was a farmer and preacher, and while a resident of Illinois served as a member of the Constitutional Convention of that State. His mother was born September 14, 1814, and is still living, her home being in Illinois near the Mississippi river. Her family of five children are all residents of Illinois, except the subject of this sketch. He received his education at Bethany College, Brooke county, West Virginia, where he graduated in 1859. Previous' to his graduation he had taught school for several years, having begun teaching in Illi nois when he was sixteen and continued that occupation at intervals until he completed his education. After his graduation he entered the ministry. Previous to this time he had been ordained and had been preaching for two years. His first work was as an evangelist in Carroll, Whiteside and Ogle counties, in the State of Illinois. From 1860 until 186.5 he filled a pulpit in Wooster, Ohio, and from there he moved to Mount Vernon, where he served as pastor until 1870. From January, 1870, until May of the same year he was at Bedford, Ohio. Then receiving the appointment of corresponding secretary of the Ohio Christian Missionary Society lie served in this capacity until June 1, 1884, traveling all over the State and at the same time looking after the interests of the Sunday schools. From 1882 to 1884 he acted in the double capacity of corresponding secretary of the General Christian Missionary Convention and corresponding secretary of the Ohio Christian Missionary Society. Dropping the latter in 1884, he continued the former until November 1, 1893, its work taking him from Boston to the Pacific and over much of Canada. This position, although one of great responsibility, was filled most efficiently by him and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Mr. Moffett was married September 13, 1859, to Miss Lacy A. Green, of Norton, Summit county, Ohio. Their nine children are as follows: Wilbur Garner, born November, 1860, died October, 1888; Mary Adel, wife of Duane H. Tilden, an attorney of /Cleveland, the date of her birth being October, 1862; Almon Green, M. D., D. D. S., was born in 1864 and was drowned while bathing at Chautauqua, August, 1891; Dr. Charles Campbell, born in March, 1867, is practicing medicine at Avon, Ohio; Robert Stover, born in April, 1869, and died in April, 1875; Lucy Pearl, born in June, 1871, and died in April, 1875, she and Robert S. dying of scarlet fever and being buried in the same grave; Burnett E., born in August, 1873, died in infancy; Nellie C., born in September, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 879 1876, died in March, 1894; and Roy Ryburn, born in April, 1879. The family are all members of the Christian Church. Mrs. Moffett's parents, Rev. A. B. Green and wife, nee Mary Burnett, came to Ohio from New England and were among the early settlers of Summit county. Her father was born in 1808 and died in 1886. Her mother, born in 1811, died in 1869. Politically, Mr. Moffett is a Republican. LEONARD HOHLFELDER, a boot and shoe merchant of South Brooklyn, Ohio, is one of the enterprising business men of the place. Mr. Hohlfelder was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 17, 1836; son of Frederick and Dora (Wells) Hohlfelder, both natives of Germany. The family emigrated to America in 1847 and located near Cleveland, Ohio. There the father purchased a tract of land, and on it was engaged in gardening the rest of his life. He died in 1891, aged eighty-four years. The mother passed away when in her seventy-seventh year. They were the parents of seven children, of whom Leonard is the oldest. Leonard Hohlfelder was in his twelfth year when he came with his pareuts to Cleveland, and at that early age he started out to do for himself. He was employed to work on a farm in Parma township, this county, and the first year earned only his clothes and board. After this he worked in Brooklyn township and received some wages. When he was sixteen he began to learn the shoemaker's trade in Brooklyn, getting $50 for the first two and a half years' work. Having completed his apprenticeship, he worked a year longer for the same man, Mr. John Laux. Next Ile spent six months working as a journeyman in New York, but at the end of that time came came back to Brooklyn and again entt tered the employ of Mr. Laux. Finally he bought out the business of this man, and has conducted it successfully ever since. Mr. Hohlfelder was married in 1858 to Miss Lizzie Riese, a native of Germany. They have Lour children, namely: Anna, wife of Jacob Ewing; Fred and Lettie, twins, the latter being the wife of Charles Johnson; and Lizzie, at home. Mr. Hohlfelder built his present residence in Brooklyn in 1879, it being erected at a cost of $3,000. His political views are in harmony with the principles advocated by the Democratic party. For five years he served as Township Treasurer and was a member of the Council of Brooklyn four years. He is a member of the Evangelical Church, and also of Glenn Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. Mr. Hohlfelder is a man of excellent business qualifications, and his business career has been one of marked success. His many estimable traits of character have won for him hosts of friends. CAPTAIN MARCO B. GARY, one of Cleveland's best known citizens and attorneys, and Collector of Customs under General Harrison's administration, was born in Genesee, New York. His father was Aaron Gary, who was a soldier in the war with Great Britain in 1812—'14, and his grandfather was Oliver Gary, who served in the Continental army from the beginning to the close of the Revolutionary war. Captain Gary was educated at the common and academic schools at Albion, Pennsylvania, and in the year 1856 he entered the law office of Judge L. S. Sherman, at Ashtabula, Ohio, as a law student. He was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1859, and immediately thereafter opened a law office at Geneva, Ohio. Geneva being an active 'and growing town, situated near the line between the counties of Lake and Ashtabula, the young lawyer fouud himself in the enjoyment of a growing and profitable practice from these two contiguous counties, at the time of the breaking out of hostilities between the Government and rebel States in the spring 880 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY of 1861. For a number of years prior to that event there existed at Geneva a one-gun artillery company, and' in the State there were five other similar organizations, mostly located in Cleveland. Our subject was not a member of this organization, but when upon the first call of President Lincoln for troops, in April, 1361, these several companies tendered their services for immediate action; he took the place of a member of the Geneva company, and, closing down his law office, went with the company to Western Virginia, where it had the honor of firing the first artillery shot at the enemy after the fall of Fort Sumter. Returning to Ge neva with the company after the close of the first three months' service, our subject united with the Captain of the above company in the organization and enlistment of a full six-gun battery for a term of three years, and in the month of October, 1861, he returned to the field at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, as senior First Lieutenant of the battery, and was soon afterward promoted to the Captaincy of the battery, and being engrafted into the grand old Army if the Cumberland, went with it, participating in all its campaigns and battles from the Ohio river to the Potomac, including the famous march to the sea, and up the coast to Richmond and Washington, re-enlisting his men "for the war" on the way, at the expiration of their three years' term of service. After participating in the grand review at Washington city lie returned with his company and disbanded at Cleveland. He then returned to his law office at Geneva, for the first time after closing it in the month of April, 1861. In the year 1873 Captain Gary removed to Cleveland, forming a law partnership with George S. Kain, and was afterward associated with Charles D. Everett in the law firm of Gary & Everett, and later with N. A. Gilbert and A. T. Hills, under the firm name of Gary, Gilbert & Hills. In February, 1889, Captain Gary was appointed by President Harrison Collector of Customs for the District of Cuyahoga, embracing the important lake ports of Cleveland, Ashta bula, Fairport, Lorain and Conneaut. At the present time (November, 1893) he is still holding this office, after having served over his regular term of four years, with entire satisfaction to the Government and the people. But anticipating the termination of his official duties, he has formed a law partnership with 0. C. Pinney, and under the firm name of Gary & Pinney has located in the Perry-Payne block and re-entered the general law practice. Up to the time of his appointment as Collector of Customs, Captain Gary had been actively engaged in the practice of his profession, and as counsel had participated in some of the most closely contested cases ever tried at the Cleveland bar, among which was the well remembered, famed case of J. R. Timms vs. Morehouse and others, which was three times tried, the last time occupying the jury for a period of forty-two days. In this case he contended successfully against the famous Irish lawyer, John McSweany, and Loren Prentiss, in the lower courts, and Judge Raney in the Supreme Court, resulting it full vindication of his client, Timms, as well as heavy damages against defendant and liberal fees for himself. He was also the leading counsel for defendants in the quite famous "Breck will case." That he was a hard-working and uncompromising fighter in the interest of his clients every member of the Cleveland bar will readily admit. JOHN J. STANLEY, superintendent of the Cleveland Electric Railway Company, has grown up with the railroad service of the city of Cleveland. He became connected with it in 1881 on the Broadway & Newburg line as conductor and was promoted not long afterward to the assistant superintendency of that line, and succeeding to the superintendency in 1887; in 1890 was made vice president of the same. Upon the consolidation of the lines forming the Cleveland Electric System, in 1893, Mr. Stanley was elected to the office of general CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 881 superintendent, an honor most worthily bestowed. He is a large holder of Cleveland Electric stock and a member of the board of directors. Mr. Stanley was born in Cleveland, March 5, 1863. He received a liberal education from the public schools of Cleveland, leaving them at seventeen years of age to engage in street railroad work. Mr. Stanley is a son of Joseph L. Stanley, deceased, who came from Chester, England, to Cleveland in 1853. He engaged in the brick and tile business and afterward was interested in an oil refinery in this city for some years, and disposing of his oil interests he became connected with street railroads. He was elected president of the Broadway & Newburg line and served until his accidental death in 1890 at the age of sixty. He married in England Miss ____ Bragg, who bore him six children. Those living are,—John J.; Charles H.; Mrs. John Sweeney, of Detroit; Mrs. Charles J. Seabrook of Cleveland; and Lilly V., single. Superintendent Stanley married in Cleveland Miss Rose, a daughter of Philetus Francis, an early settler and a transfer man. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley's children are,—Francis, Eliza and Rhoda L. Mr. Stanley is a thirty-second-degree Mason, and was first made a Mason in Cleveland. L. E. BEILSTEIN, assistant secretary of the Cleveland Electric Railway Company, and for seven years connected with railroad business in Cleveland, is a native son of the Forest City, being born here in August, 1867. At fourteen years of age he left school, and his first efforts in a business way were exerted in behalf of the East Cleveland Railway, a few years later in the capacity of clerk, but he soon became secretary and treasurer of the road and remained so until the formation of the Cleveland Electric Company, in February, 1893, when he was made assistant secretary. Mr. Beilstein is a son of a well-known citizen of Cleveland, Adam Beilstein, born in Hessen Darmstadt, Germany. He came to Cleveland in 1849 and established a tailoring business here, conducting it until his retirement from bliness, and being succeeded by his son, John W. Beilstein. Adam Beilstein married, in Cleveland, Julia, a daughter of Mr. Rauch, a German farmer and an early settler of this county. L. E. Beilstein is the youngest of six children, four now living, viz.: Mrs. Eliza ____ , Julius, John W. and L. E. February 4, 1893, Mr. L. E. Beilstein married Emily R., a daughter of Charles Reeder, a large stone dealer and proprietor of Reeder's stone quarry, who operates the East End Ice Company. Mr. Beilstein is a gentleman of great energy, and though young in years his experience in railroad matters is extended and renders him a most capable and valuable man. REV. JOHN C. WEIDMANN, Superintendent of the German Methodist Orphan Asylum at Berea, Ohio, was born in Seussen, kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, March 1, 1834, where the early years of his life were spent. He attended the common schools in his native country. At the age of eighteen he emigrated to America and for nearly one year was employed as a carriage trimmer at South Bend, Indiana, afterward following the same occupation at La Porte, same State, for some three years, and at Greencastle, also in that State, for some time. During this period he took up the study of theology, and while residing in Greencastle was made a local preacher in the Methodist Church, in 1858. In 1860 he entered the Southeastern Indiana Conference, where he remained till :1864, at which time the German Conference of he Methodist Church was organized. His lot fell to the Central German Conference. In 882 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 1860 he was assigned to the charge at Goshen, Indiana, where he labored for two years. From 1862 to 1864 ho filled the pulpit of the Methodist Church at Kendallville, then that of Madison, both in that State, next at Portsmouth, Ohio, three years, and two years at Newport, Kentucky. In 1871 he was chosen Presiding Elder over the North Ohio District, where he served two years. He was then stationed at Toledo, Ohio, for three years, then at Evansville, Indiana, for three years, then at New Albany, same State, for one year, and at Wheeling, West Virginia, for three years. He had charge of the Everett Street Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1883 to 1886, and for the two following years of the Race Street Church in the same city, which is the mother church of German Methodism in this country. In 1888 he was appointed superintendent of the German Methodist Orphan Asylum at Berea, Ohio, which position he has since filled accept.. ably to all. The asylum was founded in 1864. At the present time there are nearly 100 children receiving the benefits of the institution. The asylum, which is a commodious and handsome structure, built of sandstone, at a cost of nearly $50,000, is beautifully located in a lot of about twenty acres, almost surrounded by fine trees and truly a fit place for such a noble institution. The management may congratulate themselves on having secured an able man to superintend its interests. The institution is supported entirely by the German Methodist Church at large, and children are received from the remote East to the Mississippi river. The donations received for the maintenance of the asylum are all liberal gifts. There is not a dollar of indebtedness on the institution, although there is but a small endowment fund. Up to the present time. 354 children have been received and cared for. Mr. Weidmann was first married in La Porte, Indiana, to Miss Kate Ribbe, who died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1886. Five children came to bless this union, of whom William H., the eldest, is a business man of San Francisco, California; the second, Carl, is employed in the Methodist Book Concern at St. Louis; Otillia is a teacher in the German Orphan Asylum at Berea; Rose is a student at Baldwin University, and is also a teacher in the kindergarten at the asylum; while Anna, the youngest child, is a student in the Berea high school. Mr. Weidmann was married to his present wife, Mrs. Julia Blymeier Weber, in 1888. Mrs. Weber was the widow of the late Rev. Philip Weber, the former superintendent of the German Methodist Asylum. After the death of her husband she assumed the duties of superintendent until her present marriage. Mr. Weidmann is a man well adapted to the position which he so ably fills. He takes a keen interest in educational matters, and is a member of the Board of Education of Berea, of which body he has been chosen clerk. CHARLES H. HALL, of Dover township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born on the farm on which he now lives, November 4, 1817, and is ranked with the venerable citizens of the township. His father, Barnabas Hall, who was born in Lee, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in 1791, came with his father, Moses Hall, to Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1811, and shortly afterward settled in Dover township, Cuyahoga county. That same year, 1811, he was married in Lee, Massachusetts, to Hannah Phelps, who was born near Hartford, Connecticut, about 1792. They continued to reside in Dover township the rest of their lives. He died May 29, 1863; she, September 19, 1873. They had two children: Harriet E. and Charles H. The former, wife of Hiram Burrell, died in Sheffield, Lorain county, Ohio. As above stated; Mr. Hall was born on the farm on which he now lives, and here his whole life has been spent, his career an active and useful one. He was first married, November 30, 1836. in East Cleveland, Ohio, to Miss CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 883 Samantha Ingersoll, who was born there January 2, 1815. They had three children who grew up, namely: Chauncey D.; Harriet, wife of George Miner, died in Olmsted township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, June 17, 1879; and Hannah, wife of Jesse Burrell. Mrs. Samantha Hall departed this life in Sheffield, Ohio, and some time afterward Mr. Hall married Mrs. Adelia Stone Bradley, widow of Dr. Jason Bradley and daughter of Jonas and Elizabeth (Hatslat) Stone, her birth having occurred in Petersham, Massachusetts, September 29, 1826. Mr. Hall has filled the offices of Justice of the Peace, Assessor and Township Trustee. WILLIAM R. HUNTINGTON, of the Huntington Coal Company of Cleveland, was born in 1857. He is the son of John and Jane (Beck) Huntington, and is one of seven children. The parents were married in 1852, and the father died in 1893, at the age of sixty years; the mother in 1882, at the age of fifty. They were born in Princeton, England, and came to America in 1853. They were of the Episcopal Church persuasion. The father was for a time in the business of slate and gravel roofing in Cleveland. In the year 1868 he became interested in the oil business as one of the firm of Clark, Payne & Company, now the Standard Oil Company. John Huntington was a man well known in Cleveland. In his early life he had learned navigation, and to this field of business his attention was largely turned. He was a large vessel owner and was the originator of what is now the Cleveland Stone Company, a company in which the subject of this sketch is a shareholder. He was a remarkably successful business man. He was prominent in political circles and was for fourteen years a member of the City Council. He was a prominent thirty-two-degree Mason and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Our subject formerly dealt in oil, and in various other business he has from time to time beeu interested. After 1878 he was for a time Deputy County Treasurer, and in 1882 he became one of the hardware firm of McIntosh, Huntington & Company, but five years later he gave up active business life on account of failing health. In 1890 he became engaged in the wholesale coal business, and to-day the Huntington Coal Company is one of the largest dealers of Cleveland. Mr. Huntington is also interested in manufacturing, being identified with the Ludlow Manufacturing Company of this city, and with an incandescent light manufacturing company of Newark, Ohio. In politics Mr. Huntington is an active Republican. By Governor McKinley he was appointed Fish and Game Commissioner for Ohio. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason, and in the order of Masonry he has filled all of the chairs. He belongs to the ancient order of the Mystic Shrine and to other fraternal and benevolent orders. In 1854 Mr. Huntington married Miss Morice, a daughter of J. C. Baldwin, of Houston, Texas, and a granddaughter of the late Judge Horace Foote, of Cleveland. In a social way Mr. Huntington is prominent. Ile is' a member of the Ottawa Shooting Club and of the West Huron Sporting Club. He is a genial and popular man. WASHINGTON H. LAWRENCE; as president of the National Carbon Company, the Sperry Electric Railway Company, the Brush Electric Company, and its subordinate branches, occupies a prominent position among Cleveland manufacturers. He was born in Olmsted, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, January 17, 1840, and enjoys the advantages of a descent from that New England blood which has carried the fame of American manufacturers and inventions around the world. Hu s father was Joel B. Lawrence, of Pepperell, Massachusetts, who, with his cousins, Amos and Abbott Lawrence, were descendants of John 56 884 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Lawrence, one of the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay colony, having landed in 1635 and settling in Wolverton, Massachusetts. All these Lawrences are descendants of Robert Lawrence, of Lancashire, England, who was knighted by Richard 1st for bravery displayed at the siege of Acre. Mr. Lawrence's mot her was Catherine Harris, whose parents lived at Little Rest, Dutchess county, New York. Joel B. Lawrence moved to Olmsted, Cuyahoga county, in 1833, and endured all the privations iucident to life in the Western Reserve in the first half of the present century. He owned a large tract of land and a flouring mill in Olmsted at the time of his death, which occurred in 1851, his wife dying two years later. Left an orphan at thirteen years of age, Mr. Lawrence began life as a clerk at Berea, where he continued his studies, which had been begun in the common schools of Olmsted. He at the same time pursued a course of study at Baldwin University, and gained both a college as well as a business educatiou by reserving a portion of his time to himself. When nineteen years of age, the Hon. John Baldwin associated his son Milton with Mr. Lawrence in the management of large milling and real-estate properties in Kansas. Milton Baldwin's death, before the enterprise was fully iuaugurated, left the entire burden of the care of the properties upon Mr. Lawrence's shoulders. In the latter part of 1859, Mr. Lawrence concluded his connections with Mr. Baldwin, and desiring to be his own master, engaged in business with his brother at Hannibal, Missouri. While so engaged, he was compelled to travel through much of western Missouri and eastern Kansas, and saw much of the border warfare that followed the struggle for Kansas, as well as the early days of the Rebellion, having many narrow escapes himself from the assaults of the guerrilla. He returned to Olmsted late in 1861 to manage the family property there, and in 1864 removed to Cleveland, where he became associated with Messrs. N. S. C. Perkins and W. A. Mackin the manufacture of the Domestic Sewing Machine. This business proved very successful, as Mr. Lawrence succeeded in triumphing over the sewing machine combination in all their patent litigations, and ultimately sold his interest to his associates. He had charge of the sales of the Howe Sewing Machine Company, his territory including five States, and was at the same time engaged in manufacturing bolts at Elyria, Ohio, in what is now known as the Cleveland Screw & Tap Company. He disposed of all these interests in 1874, and, noticing the great importance of electricity in commercial pursuits, he in 1874 became a large stockholder in the Telegraph Supply Company, and retained his interests through its various changes until it was finally merged into what is now the Brush Electric Company. It is difficult for people to realize the enormous steps that have been taken since the first introduction of electricity in a commercial sense in 1878. Mr. Lawrence was associated with Mr. Charles F. Brush at the inception of the Brush Electric Company, furnishing a large portion of the original investment, and even in the darkest hours remained firm in his conviction of the ultimate success of their undertaking. The same pluck and energy that had characterized his early connection during the dark days of the company was continued until the Brush Electric Company had a capital of $3,000,000, and as its general manager Mr. Lawrence had charge of the largest electrical manufacturing establishment in the world. After twenty years of most exacting business life, Mr. Lawrence in 1882 resolved to take a much needed rest. Severing his connection with the company, and, selling or exchanging the greater part of his interest, he invested largely in real-estate properties in Cleveland and elsewhere, and for several years 'devoted his leisure to its management. Although possessed of real-estate interests large enough to require all the time of most men, he was still unable to resist the charms of CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 883 active manufacturing management, and in 1886, after carefully looking the field over, decided to turn his attention to the manufacture of electric-light carbons, as this product was now used in every part of the globe in connection with arc lighting. Early in the history of the Brush Electric Company, he spent much time in their carbon department, and now returned to it with renewed zest, and became associated with W. W. Masters in the manufacture of carbons at what is now the Willson Avenue factory of the National Carbon Company. Mr. Masters, through failing health, was anxious to retire, and Mr. Lawrence with his associates, Messrs. Myron T. Herrick, James Parmlee and Webb C. Hayes, became the owners of the entire business, under the name of the National Carbon Company. After four years of very successful business, it was found necessary to largely increase the capacity, and in 1891 the company purchased 115 acres adjoining the Lake Shore Railroad Company's right of way in the hamlet of Lakewood, just west of what is now the city limits of Cleveland. On this tract of land has since been erected the largest carbon factory in the world, with an estimated capacity of 20,000,000 carbons per month. Mr. Lawrence has not only been a manufacturer in the sense of an organizer and manager, but he has also shown great inventive capacity and a genius for constructing machinery adapted to factory use. The present factory just completed displays in a marked degree the improvements and inventions that have been made by him in this industry in the past few years. The processes of manufacture have been radically changed, and the improvement very marked when the factories of five years ago are taken into consideration. Mr. Lawrence is still the embodiment of indomitable energy, perseverance and ability, and, in addition to the task of constructing the present large factory, as well as supplying carbons from the old factories, he has within the last year taken upon himself the presidency and management of his old company, the Brush Electric Company, of this city, as well as that of the Sperry Electric Railway Company, which in a marked degree shows the latest improvements in electrical equipment for street-car purposes. Mr. Lawrence was married in 1863 to Harriet E. Collister, of Cleveland, daughter of William Collister, and has seven daughters. He spends much of his time at his summer home at Dover Bay Park, where several of his associates in business have erected cottages. DR. C. A. ARCHER, physician and surgeon, No. 261 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, dates his birth in Carlisle, Canada, September 18, 1857. He is a son of William and Clara (Foster) Archer, both natives of Canada. When the Doctor was a child his father died, aged thirty-five years. His venerable mother is still living, having passed her threescore years and ten, and for one of that age being well preserved, both mentally and physically. They had a family of seven children, C. A. being the sixth born and one of the five who are still living. Three of his sisters reside in Cleveland, viz.: Martha; Clara, wife of A. D. Coe; Emma, wife of Attorney O. L. Osborn. The mother lives in Cleveland. The subject of our sketch received his early education in the public schools of Cleveland. For two years he was a student in the Western Reserve Medical College of this city, and afterward he spent one year at St. Louis, Missouri, in the American Medical College. He graduated at the latter place in 1890. Upon completing his medical course, Dr. Archer entered upon the practice of his profession in Cleveland, making a specialty of the diseases peculiar to women and children, and up to the present time he has met with marked success. He is a frequent contributor to the American Medical Journal of St. Louis. Dr. Archer was married in 1879 to Miss Sarah Ward, a native of Geauga county, Ohio, 886 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. and a daughter of Marcus L. Ward. They have no children of their own, but have one adopted daughter, Lillie Nina. Mrs. Archer is a member of the Disciple Church. The Doctor is prominently identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is Past Grand. He was the first one who ever gave the unwritten work in Chagrin Falls, Lodge, No. 290. Republican in politics, he takes an active interest in the same and is identified with the best elements of his party. On several occasions he has served as a member of the Republican Central Com mittee. M. B. STURTEVANT, one of the most efficient and capable engineers in the State, is a native of Ohio, born in Erie county, June 17, 1853. His parents, S. C. and Louisa (Humphrey) Sturtevant, were natives of Maine and Ohio respectively: the father was chief engineer for the Northern Transportation Company for nineteen years, and later brought out the Winstow, a passenger steamer which he ran on the lakes one year. After that ho owned a small interest in the H. B. Tuttle, on which young Sturtevant had his first experience as an engineer. This was his last work; his health was impaired, and two years after leaving the water, in August, 1848, he passed from this life to the unsounded ocean. of futurity. He was a man of admirable traits, and was one of the most popular engineers that ever traveled the lakes. There were two children in the family, the subject of this biographical sketch, and a brother two years younger, who died at the age of thirteen years. Mr. Sturtevant acquired a practical education in the common schools of Cleveland, and was also a student of Oberlin College, Ohio. His taste and inclinations were for mechanics and not literature, so he went to Chicago and there served an apprenticeship in a machine-shop. This ended he returned home, and for four years sailed on the H. B. Tuttle, having entire charge of the vessel the last year. This was the beginning of a career upon the lakes which extended over a period of fifteen years. He was second engineer on the steamer Peerless for two years; this was one of the finest vessels on the lakes in those days, and there were many other elegantly equipped boats with which he was connected. He was employed as a locomotive engineer on the Lake Shore road four years, and for nine years was one of Bradley's engineers, serving as chief six years of that time. During the construction of the Society for Savings building he came to Cleveland to represent the owners with no expectation of remaining after the completion of the building. However, sufficient inducement was offered, and for the last eight years he has filled the position of chief engineer; he has most comfortable quarters, the room being above ground and fitted up with all modern conveniences. The building is one of the finest in the State, ten stories high, and contains three hundred and sixty-six rooms. Mr. Sturtevant was married in 1877, on Thanksgiving day, to Miss Russella Hubble, a daughter of O. C. Hubble, of Cleveland: three children were born of this union, Chandler, deceased, Fred and Bessie. Mrs. Sturtevant is a member of the Disciples' Church. Our worthy subject is a very popular ,member of the M. E. B. A., No. 2 (Marine Engineers' Benefit Association), and has filled all the offices of the organization ; for three years he has been Treasurer, to which office he was elected without opposition. Politically he is an ardent adherent of the Republican party. He is enterprising and progressive, and like his honored father commands the respect of all with whom he mingles. JAMES H. MELCHER, of Cleveland, was born in Hanover, Germany, September 27, 1827, a son of Harmon Melcher. James H. attended the village school of Rabbler, his native town, eight years, was confirmed there, and in 1845 came with his father's family to America. They located on the farm purchased CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 887 from a Mr. Stafford, in what is now South Euclid, Ohio. The father had sold his farm in Germany to a neighbor, Holtzgrave, for $3,300. In 1868 our subject returned on a visit to his native country, and at that time another neighbor wanted the farm, for which he was willing to pay $9,000. By the laws of that country at that time, Mr. Melcher could have redeemed the farm by returning Mr.Holtzgrave the $3,300, and was importuned by others to do so, but his reply was: " Mr. Holtzgrave paid a little more for the farm at that time than others were willing to give, and he shall never be disturbed in his right of possession by any unforeseen technicality by myself or any of my father's family." Thus the matter was forever dropped. After coming to America, Mr. Melcher remained at home during the winter, and then secured work from Dr. Everett, of Cleveland, for four dollars a month. After remaining with that gentleman two years, he was employed by Edwin Clark two and a half years, having been engaged as a hostler in both positions. During that time Mr. Melcher also learned the cabinet-maker's trade, and for the following ten years worked in the carpenter shop of Seburn Hempy. He next embarked in the grocery business on Prospect street opposite where he now lives, and continued in that occupation until 1888. In that year he was elected a member of the Erie Street Cemetery, the duties of which required his entire attention, and he sold his interest in the grocery business to his partner, E. H. Klaustermeyer, but still holds one-half interest in the building. In 1851, Mr. Melcher was united in marriage with Miss Mary Hempy, a daughter of John F. Hempy, who came from Hanover, Germany, to this city at the same time as our subject's family, when Mrs. Melcher was thirteen years of age. To this union have been born six children, viz.: Harmon, deceased at the age of two and a half years; J. G. Henry, who studied law, was admitted to the bar, and is now bookkeeper for J. W. Rainey, engaged in the coke business in Pennsylvania; Mary Elizabeth at home; Joseph A., who spent twelve years in the Bank of Commerce, of Cleveland, is now cashier of the Lorain Street Savings Bank; Charles A., a graduate of the Cleveland high school, is employed in the Union National Bank, on Superior street. Mr. and Mrs. Melcher are members of the Lutheran Church, in which the fomer has served as Trustee for thirty-four years. In political matters, he is a staunch Republican. His character has ever been above reproach in all qualities of honorable manhood, has ever been a man of the strictest integrity, a neighbor of the kindest impulses, and a friend of humanity. J. M. HENDERSON, a member of the law firm of Henderson, Kline & Tolles, No. 520 Cuyahoga Building, Cleveland, Ohio, has been identified with the legal practice in this city for thirty years. As a prominent and influential lawyer and as one of the leading citizens of Cleveland, it is eminently fitting that some personal mention be made of him in this work, the aim of which is to portray the representative men and women of the county. J. M. Henderson was born in Richland county, Ohio, April 14, 1840, son of Dr. J. P. and Anna (Moreland) Henderson, natives of western Pennsylvania and descendents of Scotch-Irish ancestors. For nearly sixty years Dr. Henderson practiced his profession in Newville, Richland county, Ohio. He was a man of many sterling traits of character and was honored and respected by all who knew him. Not only as a physician and surgeon did he gain pre-eminence: he served in the Ohio Legislature several terms and was a member of the Constitutional Convention which framed the present constitution of the State. He was enterprising and public-spirited and gave his influence unreservedly in educational and religious matters and whatever was in his opinion intended for the best interests of the commu- 888 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. nity. He died July 1, 1890, after an active and useful life, aged eighty-seven years. His wife died some years before, at the age of fifty-three years. Both were members of the United Presbyterian Church. The subject of our sketch is the only survivor of the family, the other children born- his parents having died in early life. He spent three years in Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, and subsequently, in 1862, graduated at Miami University, Oxford, this State. He began the study of law at Mansfield, Ohio, under the instructions of Judge Dirlam, afterward- attended a law school in Cleveland, where he graduated, and in 1864 began the practice of his profession here. And, as above stated, he has spent thirty years in the practice of law in this city. His scholarly attainments and his special fitness for his chosen profession soon brought him into prominence and secured for him a standing among the leading members of the bar. This high position he has ever since maintained. Mr. Henderson was married June 20, 1872, to Miss Anna R. Cary, daughter of Freeman Cary,of College Hill, Ohio. They have a family of seven children, viz.: William C., Grace M., Anna, Rebecca, Jannet, Florence and Ruth. Their son is a member of the Freshman class at Gambier. Mrs. Henderson is a lady of rare culture and refinement. She is a graduate of College Hill Female Seminary, and for several years previous to her marriage was a popular and successful teacher. Politically, Mr. Henderson is a Republican. FREDERICK BULLINGER was born March 16, 1836, in the kingdom of Wurtemburg, Germany, where he was reared and lived until 1863, when he emigrated to America. He lived in New York about three months and then enlisted in Company K, Twenty-fourth New York Cavalry, serving one year. After leaving the United States Army he went to Mexico and enlisted in the Mexican Army, where he served about six months. He then went to Idaho and engaged in buffalo hunting for several months, after which he came to Rock Island, Illinois, remained there six months, and then came to Cleveland, Ohio, and was employed in a meat market for a short time. He then moved to Berea, about 1875, since which time he has been engaged in contracting and building. Mr. Bullinger was married in Cleveland, Ohio, to Rosanna Stiger, a native of Germany. He is the owner of much property in the city of Berea and stands well in his chosen occupation. H. C. APPLEGARTH, D. D., pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the most prominent ministers in the city. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1853, and was educated in the Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and Crozer Theological Seminary, completing a course of study in all these institutions. He received the degree of D. D. from Denison University. Dr. Applegarth's first ministerial work was at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He came to his present charge early in 1893, coming here from the Fourth Avenue Church of Pittsburg, where he had served three years. Previous to that he was for nearly eight years located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Euclid Avenue Baptist Church is one of the oldest churches in the city as well as one of the strongest. The number of its members is about 800, with a constituency of nearly 2,000, while in its two Sunday-schools are about 900. Both the church .and Sabbath-school are enjoying an era of great prosperity. Dr. Applegarth was married in 1878 to Miss Mary P. Tyson, daughter of Hon. Edward Tyson, of Chester, Pennsylvania, and an ex-Senator of that State. They have one child, Margaret Tyson Applegarth. CUYAGOGA COUNTY - 889 Aside from his regular church work, the Doctor devotes considerable time to other religious and educational interests, being prominently connected with various institutions. He is a trustee of the Crozer Theological Seminary and of the Denison University; a life director of the Baptist National Missionary Society of Home and Foreign Missions; president of the Ministers' (Baptist) Conferenee of Cleveland; and trustee of the State Society for Missions. R. F. SMITH, President of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Company, was born in Windhatn, Connecticut, June 20, 1830. His father, Edwin Smith, a merchant, brought his family to Cleveland in 1840. Here he resided until 1870, when he returned to Connecticut. He died in July, 1873, aged seventy-three years. Pursuing his genealogy still further, we find that Nathaniel Smith, grandfather of our subject, was a soldier in the Colonial army, and among the battles participated in by him was the one at White Plains, New York. He was born in Windham, Connecticut, and died there in 1823, aged sixty-three years. His wife was Submit Huntington, who bore him eleven children. Edwin Smith married Amanda Frink. Five children resulted from the union, one of whom besides our subject was a railroad man. It was Edwin Smith, Jr., who was for some years with the Cleveland & Pittsburg Company, but lastly with the Southern Pacific Company, and died in East Oakland, California, in 1892. R. F. Smith is the sole living member of his father's family. He was educated liberally in public and private institutions and at fifteen years of age began life as a clerk in a hardware store conducted by George W. Penny & Company, at Newark, Ohio. He assisted his father for two years after this, and in 1851 engaged with Raymond North & Company as bookkeeper and cashier, and continued with this firm in this city four years. Then his railroad career began: it was in 1855, and his first position was in the capacity of paymaster for the company. He filled this until 1865, when he was promoted to be auditor for the company. Four years from that date he was elected vice-president of the company, continuing to act as auditor until 1871. That year he assumed the duties of vice-president to the exclusion of any other work, and when upon the leasing of the road to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company the office of vice-president was abolished Mr. Smith became assistant general manager under the new company. He was previous to this a director of the company for a period of one year, and again became a director in 1886, continuing until the present time. In 1887 he was made general agent of the lessee company. In 1889 he was made superintendent of the relief department of the lessee company, which position he still holds. In February, 1891, President McCullough died, and Mr. Smith was elected as his successor in that office in May of the same year. On September 30, 1856, Mr. Smith was married, in Colchester, Connecticut, to Rebecca W., a daughter of General John T. Peters. Four children were born by this union, viz.: Clifford C., a mechanical engineer; Augustus F., chief clerk of the Pennsylvania relief department; Carrie Belle, student in Painesville (Ohio) Seminary; and the other, the first born, died in infancy. Mr. Smith has been a member of the First Presbyterian Church of this city since 1851, and was for six years superintendent of the Sabbath-school, and has been an Elder in the same since. DERMOTT O. SWEET, a worthy citizen of Rocky River Hamlet, is a son of John and Catharine (Parks) Sweet, and was born in Rockport township, near Rocky River Hamlet, May 23, 1840. Mr. Sweet has always resided in that township. April 2, 1862, in Dover township, Cuyahoga county, he married 890 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Miss Gertrude Coe, a daughter of the late Edwin W. and Harriet (Peck) Coe,—her father a native of Connecticut and her mother of Cuyahoga county. They died in Dover township, where they settled after marriage. Mrs. Sweet was born December 31, 1842. Mr. and Mrs. Sweet are the parents of four children: George R., Hattie B., John and Frank D. Mr. Sweet has held the offrce of Township Assessor, and also other local offices. A. R. RUMSEY, general shipping master of the Lake Carriers' Association, is a most familiar figure in Cleveland, where he has resided nearly twenty years. From his boyhood he was strong and active and possessed a liking and adaptation for athletics, a subject in which he is still greatly interested. He believes as much in man's physical as in his mental culture and spent many years in that branch of instruction, his first school, twenty years ago being at the corner of Seneca and Superior streets. His tutors in this art were Professor Bigelow of Boston and Professor Gainsley of Buffalo. Boxing and wrestling were his favorite sports and these he taught all over the United States and Canada. He is the oldest boxer now in commission. Mr. Rumsey was once a great dumb-bell lifter, his heaviest bell 175 pounds, and in a contest with Pennell in 1883 was beaten, Pennell's bell weighing 201 1/4 pounds. Mr. Ramsey was born on a farm in this State in 1847, and is a son of R. T. Rumsey, night inspector of customs in Cleveland. He sailed the lakes many years and retired from the water at an advanced age. A. R. Rumsey left home at fourteen and became a sailor. He rose by merited promotion, being mate of nearly all prominent crafts leaving this port and finally bore a captain's com-mission. Upon deserting the lakes Mr. Rumsey served five years in the police department of his city rendering that efficient service which prompted the vessel owners to present to him a handsome gold watch and chain; and Miles & Company presented him with a fine solid gold badge, inscribed " Special Police," all in recognition of faithful official service. Mr. Rumsey's mother was Rebecca Phelps, who bore six children, as follows: A. R.; Lawson, at Lawrence, Kansas; Alice, wife of Lewis Todd; Carleton; Ida, who married Ralph Wilcox; and Ella, wife of Rev. Hamilton, a Presbyterian minister of this State. A. R. Ramsey was married in Sharon, Pennsylvania, to Miss Mollie Messersmith, a daughter of Jacob Messersmith, a hotel man. They have no children. JOHN E. DE OTT, a popular conductor on the Erie railway, was born in Prescott, Ontario, September 4, 1859, a son of Captain C. N. De Ott, now engaged in trimming ore vessels at Ashland, Wisconsin. The latter was for many years a lake captain, one of the oldest yet living. He was born in Ontario, Canada, a son of Francis F. De Ott, who is still living, now aged eighty-three years. His occupation was that of carriage-maker. He is of French descent, his ancestors coming to the New World several generations ago. Captain C. N. De Ott was born in 1828, and his children were: C. N., Jr.; John E. and Mrs. Albert Raymond. John E. De Ott, our subject, secured his education at the Kentucky Street school in Cleveland, and it was limited to that. When very young he went aboard his father's craft and for six years sailed on the lakes, the last year of which time he was mate of the vessel named William Grimsby: he was then the youngest mate on the lakes. On leaving the water in 1878 he began as a brakeman on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, then on the Atlantic & Great Western road with Conductor J. H. Archer; and after four years' ser- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 891 vice he was promoted conductor, in which capacity he has proved himself most capable and efficient, and is indeed a favorite of his employers and co-employees. He was married, in Cleveland, September 28, 1887, to Miss Mamie, a daughter of Gerhard Smith, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. De Ott have one child, Norma Marie, born April 24, 1893. Mr. De Ott is a member of the 0. R. C., a Master Mason, being a member of Biglow Lodge, and also of the ladies' auxiliary branch termed the Order of the Eastern Star. P. J. COONEY, the efficient secretary of the Director of Public Works, was born in Cleveland in 1855. The days of his youth were spent within the walls of public and private schools. When he had attained a certain advancement his brother, John Cooney, placed him in an educational institution of Dayton, Ohio, where he spent two years. On leaving this school he entered Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana, and pursued his studies until it was decided that a more suitable place for a year's study just at this stage of his preparations, would be in a European institution. In accordance with these plans he sailed for Ireland and entered St. Patrick's College in county Cavan. He returned to the United States in 1877 and re-entered Notre Dame University, graduating there in 1878 from a classical course. For many years Mr. Cooney filled responsible positions with leading firms in this city. He was bookkeeper for the McGillin Dry Goods Company for three years; served in the same capacity for the Excelsior Clothing Company for three years; served in the same capacity for the Excelsior Clothing Company an equal period, and flattering offers have been tendered him from leading business houses to accept responsible places, but it was not convenient for him to do so. In politics Mr. Cooney is very strongly Democratic. From his first ballot the cause of I is party has been one of much moment to him. He has been twice a candidate for Justice of the Peace and twice a candidate for Representative to the Legislature, but was unsuccessful because the Republican strength could not be overcome. He made a successful race for alderman and served one term, under the old regime. In 1893 Mr. Cooney was appointed by Director Farley to his present office. John Cooney was born in Ireland in county Cavan. He left there about fifty years ago, coming to Cleveland, and for the greater part has been a retail liquor dealer here. He married in Cleveland Jane Clark, born also in Ire-and. Their children are: P. J.; Rosa; Jennie; J. E., in railway mail service; Bessie and Kittie, One other is deceased. Mrs. Cooney died January 11, 1886. The family all make their home under the paternal roof, all being in Cleveland and all unmarried. KILIAN EGERT, a leading barrel manufacturer of Cleveland, and a well known German citizen, was born in what is now Nassau, Prussia, September 9, 1834, and at eighteen years of age joined the army for three years, according to the custom of the country. He then came to the United States, stopping in Canton, Ohio, where he learned the cooper's trade; and in 1861 he came to Cleveland, where in 1864 he established a small factory on Longwood avenue, employing a few men. His business grew with the development of the country, and in 1877 he began manufacturing staves at Ridgeway, this State, turning out 50,000 a year, the most of which he consumes in his own factory, to meet the increasing demand in his trade. In 1878 he erected a large factory on Wilson avenue, near the New York, Pennsylvania & OW Railway depot, with a capacity for 500 barrels per day, and employ- 892 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. ing, when there is a full force, fifty men. The Scoville, Sherman & Company's oil works consume the product of Mr. Egert's factory. Mr. Egert has been prominent and active iu connection with the Saengerfast, being seven years its vice-president and four years its treasurer. He is a thoroughgoing American. giving a conspicuous stimulus to an important industry. His father, a farmer, died in 1848, at the age of thirty-four years. Three of his five children are living, namely: Kilian (our subject); Conrad ; and Lizzie, married. In September, 18.33, Mr. Egert married Frederica Bauer, of Cleveland, but born in Wurtemburg, Germany. The children by this marriage are: Lizzie, now Mrs. Fred Dietz; Minnie, who married 1.0111E, Scher-del, of this city; Flora; Herman, deceased; William, Henry and Edith. HOWARD H. BURGESS, City Clerk of Cleveland, is one of the prominent young men of the city and one of the leading Republicans of Cuyahoga county. He was born in Huron county, Ohio, on September 10, 1859, and is the son of Rev. Oliver Burgess, a retired Methodist minister of Cleveland. Rev. Burgess was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1817, and is the son of William Pitt Burgess, who removed to Mount Vernon, Ohio, when his son was a boy, and there engaged in merchandising. Rev. Burgess began his ministerial labors at a very early age, delivering his first sermon on April 15, 1835, near Norwalk, Ohio, while a student at Norwalk Seminary. During his long career in the pulpit he was stationed at many places throughout northern Ohio, and going West continued his ministry for a few years in Michigan and Iowa. In the history of his first work he appears as an itinerant minister, and is pointed to as one of the early ministers of the Methodist Church in Ohio. He has been and is a frequent contributor to religious journals, and his articles have always been well received and highly prized. He was married near Norwalk, Ohio, to Caroline M. Cogswell, who was at the time a student of Norwalk Seminary. Five sons and six daughters have been born to this union, all of whom, with one exception, are still living. Rev. Burgess removed with his family to Cleveland in 1870, where he has since resided and is one of the honored citizens of the Forest City. Mr. Howard H. Burgess came with his parents to Cleveland in 1870. He was educated in the Cleveland public schools, in Brooks' Military Academy, and at Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio. In 1880 he began his newspaper career in the office of the Cleveland Herald. Beginning as " copy holder," he was soon occupying a position on the local staff, and eventually was promoted to a position as political writer. He was detailed to represent his paper on a portion of Blaine's tour in 1884, and is credited with some fine newspaper work on this occasion, as well as during his newspaper career. Upon the consolidation of the Herald and Plain Dealer in 1885, Mr. Burgess took charge of the Sunday Voice. The same year he was appointed Assistant City Clerk of Cleveland, in which capacity he served until 1887. In 1889 he was elected by the City Council to the position of Clerk of the city, and an endorsement of his administration has come at the end of each term by a re-election, in 1891 and 1893. He is the only Republican at the head of a department in the city government of Cleveland at the present time, which fact speaks volumes for his ability and popularity. Mr. Burgess is a stalwart Republican, and although young in years he has been very active in his party's service, and is one of the leaders in the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga county, and is well and favorably known among the leaders of the party throughout the Buckeye State. In 1888 he was closely identified with the Hon. T. E. Burton in the management of that gentleman's successful Congressional can vacs: He was secretary and treasurer of the committee in the campaign which resulted in CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 893 the election of the Hon. William G. Rose as Mayor of Cleveland in 1891; was Secretary of the Union League and was Secretary of the Garfield Club, at that time one of the strongest Republican organizations in the city. He is at the present time Treasurer of the Tippecanoe Club, one of the largest and strongest Republican organizations in the State of Ohio. He was for several years Treasurer of the Press Club of Cleveland and Secretary of the Edgewood Park Association of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence river. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and is one of that body's committees on Ways and Means and Entertainment. He is also a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities. Is a director in the Cleveland Tanning Company, is president of the Cleveland Desk Company, and is in other ways identified with the industries of Cleveland. Mr. Burgess was married, in 1885, to Miss Alice Hill, daughter of Colonel H. E. Hill, of the well-known firm of H. E. Hill & Company, of Cleveland. One child, a daughter—Helenhas been born to Mr. and Mrs. Burgess. JAMES B. MCCONNELL, M.D., Strongsville, was born July 27, 1838 in Ottawa, Canada, where he passed his boyhood days up to the age of twelve years. He then made his home in New York State for four years, where he attended the Oneida Institute, at Cazenovia, a portion of two years; and he also attended the Port Edward (New York) Institute about a year and a half. Entering the office of Dr. Hiram Hoyt, he read medicine about a year, and finally graduated at the National Medical College at Washington, District of Columbia, in 1860. He opened practice in Cleveland, where he practiced until December, 1876, when he removed to a point about a mile south of Strongsville, and here has a good patronage. In Waverly, Massachusetts, in 1869, he married Miss Mary F. Turner, who died iu Cleve land in 1872; and lie was again married, in Waverly, to Miss Harriet Turner, and by this marriage there were five children: James T., Ruth H., Agnes, Edith and Leila, which last mentioned died when three years old. The mother of these children died in Strongsville, August 10, 1891, and the Doctor, in February, 1893, married for his present wife Mrs. Clara M. Sanderson, the widow of Burton Sanderson, who died in Strongsville. H. C. LORD, the young and popular yard master of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, began railroading in Cleveland with the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Company. Four years of faithful service concluded his career with the Erie, and he was placed on the pay-roll of the Nickel Plate and given the position of weigh-master. One year later he was given the position of yard clerk, next _____ clerk, and some months later was given a clerkship in Superintendent Kimball's office, remaining until 1890, when he was promoted to be chief clerk for Division Engineer Vaughn, which position he filled most acceptably, and was promoted to be general yard master October 9, 1893. Mr. Lord was born in New Jersey, November 1, 1864. Four years later the family came West and located in Cleveland, the father, L. D. Lord, securing a clerkship in the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio yard office, where he may still be found, having completed an uninterrupted service of twenty-five years. He married Miss Esther H. Clark, born in Northampton, Massachusetts. Their children are: Minnie, wife of E. E. Styles, of Cleveland, and Harry C. H. C. Lord left the grammar school of this city at fifteen years of age, and began his railroad work at once. August 18, 1886, Mr. Lord married, in Clevelaud,. Anna J., a daughter of Jacob Decker, deceased. One child resulted from this union, Howard Morgan, born April 1, 1890. 894 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Reward is sure to come to him who strives to excel and conducts the business of his employers with the same interest that he would manifest in his own private affairs. CHARLES HAROLD HUBBELL was born October. 16, 1836, in Warrensville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, the son of Jedidiah Hubbell and Sally (Parshall) Hubbell, the oldest of five children, two sons and three daughters, his grandparents being the early pioneers of this then new country, "The Western Reserve." At the age of five years his parents moved to Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga county, where the most of the time he has since lived; received his education at Chagrin Falls and Hiram Eclectic Institute; was married to Miss Mariam E. Russell, August 24, 1862. When Abraham Lincoln made his call for "300,000 more" he was one of the first to respond, leaving his young wife, and enlisting in Company D, One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Captain J. T. Philpot's company and Colonel Jack Casement's regiment. He was in several engagments and with his company until after the siege of Knoxville, Tennessee, when by an order issued February 3, 1864, by Major General Foster, commanding the Department of the Ohio, he was ordered to report to Captain John A. Dixon, Assistant Quartermaster of the department, as clerk, in which capacity he remained until November, when by a special order from the department he took the quartermaster's records to Louisville, Kentucky, and reported to Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Ransom, Adjutant-General, and assigned to duty as chief clerk in the quartermaster's department at General John M. Palmer's headquarters, where -he remained until April, 1866. The business of that department being completed and returning to his home, Mr. Hubbell-remained until March, 1873, when he joined a colony from Geneva, Ohio, and with his family went to Pawnee county, Kansas, then the extreme out-post of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and helped construct the first buildings of the new town, called Garfield, in honor of our loved and lamented President and teacher. Here his third son was born, the first white male child of the new town. After one year's stay, on account of the grasshopper scourge, he returned to his old home in Ohio, where he has since lived and has filled several positions of trust: was Secretary of the County Fair for several years, City Clerk, etc. Mr. Hubbell is a member of N. L. Norris Post, No. 40, Grand Army of the Republic, and is a member of the official board of the Christian Church. In, February, 1891, he received a commission as Postmaster at Chagrin Falls, in which capacity he served his term with credit to himself. In politics he is a Republican. Five sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hubbell, viz.: Charles J., of Ravenna, Ohio, married and has one daughter Susie, and one son, Harold; Melvin J., married and has a daughter, Mildred; Walter H., attending college at Hiram; and Leon S. and Frank N., at home attending school. Mr. Hubbell's brother and sisters and marriage connections are: Alice L., married George M. King; James E., married, and died March 7, 1876, leaving a widow and two sons, Herman and Willie; Julia R., married Samuel A. Worley; Frankie E., who married William E. Rogers and has a daughter, Gracie by name. JOHN HURST, an old resident of Middleburg township, but now of Cleveland, was born in Leicestershire, England, July 28, 1822, and was five years of age when his father, William Hurst, and family emigrated to America. After a short residence in New York city they settled in Royalton. township, Cuyahoga county, where they, the parents, spent the remainder of their days. Mr. John Hurst, our subject, grew to manhood in Royalton, and there married Miss CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 895 Paulina Avery, a native of Utica, New York. After they lived in Royalton a year Mr. Hurst came, in 1846, to Middleburg, where he has since resided, until the spring of 1893, when he moved to Cleveland, and he is now enjoying a retired life. He cleared the farm upon which he spent the most of his life and made upon it many valuable improvements. His children are Ransome D., Ada E. and Eliza A. ANDREW M. WHITAKER, the subject of this sketch, was born in the same house in which his father was born, in Mifflin township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1823. James Whitaker, the paternal grandfather of Andrew M. Whitaker, was born in the Colony of Maryland in the year 1723, and died in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1788. The Colony of Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore in 1634. James Whitaker married Catherine Par Tee, who was born in the Colony of Maryland in 1729. She descended from the French Huguenots, and died in Pennsylvania in 1813. Near 1767 they emigrated from Maryland to Washington county, now Allegheny county, in western Pennsylvania, and settled in what is now Mifflin township on the Monongahela river, eight miles above Fort Pitt, then called Fort Duquesne, and almost exactly across the Monongahela river from what is historically known as "Braddock's Field." They took possession of their plantation, about 800 acres, just twelve years after Braddock's defeat, and were the first white settlers in Mifflin township.' On the farm on which they first located, they reared a family of five children: Aaron, Isaac, Charlotte, Elizabeth and. Abraham. Abraham Whitaker, the father of Andrew M. Whitaker, was born in 1780, and in 1809 married Mary McClure, who was born in 1786. Mary McClure Whitaker, the mother of Andrew M. Whitaker, was a woman of more than ordinary ability. She was a devout Christian woman, and in many ways patterned after Susanna Wesley in the care of her household and in her .relations to the church. Abraham Whitaker was a man of sterling qualities and much above the average man of his day in both education and general intelligence. He was appointed Justice of the Peace by Governor Snyder of Pennsylvania, and afterward elected and re-elected by the people for a period of twenty-five years; and judging from the large number of marriages solemnized by him, a list of which the writer has seen, his house must have been a veritable Gretna Green. Abraham and Mary Whitaker had seven children who lived to maturity, viz.: Margarett, James, Charles, Alfred, Catharine, Andrew and Lewis, only two of whom, Andrew and Lewis, are living. Abraham Whitaker answered the last summons April 6, 1832, in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, and the mother, Mary Whitaker, August 8, 1862, in Bedford, Ohio. Andrew McClure, the maternal grandfather of Andrew M. Whitaker, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1756, married Margaret Barnett and removed to western Pennsylvania in the spring of 1785. They had a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters. Andrew McClure died in 1799. Andrew M. Whitaker spent the earlier years of his- life on his father's farm, in attending school, in teaching in the public schools and as a clerk in the village store. He moved to Ohio with his mother and her family in the spring of 1847, remained about one year and then went to his old home in Pennsylvania and entered a store in his old capacity as clerk. Here in 1849 he met and married Mary Jane Smith, daughter of Joseph and Phoebe Smith, of West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. West Brownsville on the Monongahela river is noted as being the birthplace of James G. Blaine. The Blaine and Smith families were neighbors for many years. Mary Jane attended school with the Blaine children. The Smith family consisted of nine children, four sons and five 896 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. daughters. Mary Jane Whitaker was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1831. She is noted as a woman of remarkable energy and is a prodigious worker. Andrew M. Whitaker and his wife soon after their marriage, or in 1850, moved to Ohio and located in Bedford, which has always been their home. They were the parents of six children, two of whom died in infancy. Mary Emma, the eldest, was born in May, 1850. She is married to H. O. Courtney, a contractor and builder. They have one child, Allen, and live in Bedford. Alfred Whitaker, the second child, was born near Hillsboro, in Highland county, Ohio, August 3, 1851, where his mother's parents resided, they having moved from West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, to Ohio. The Smith family came to their new home with their household goods and cattle by the way of the Monongahela and Ohio rivers in what was known in those days as a flat-boat. Alfred received his education in the Bedford village school with the exception of a short period spent at Mt. Union College. Early in life he formed habits of industry, which with energy and push have been his best capital. During the war he was the village r ewsboy of Bedford, at the same time, while attending school, being janitor of the school building. He worked at different times for farmers in Bedford township. Afterward he worked in the Bedford rolling mill and later entered the village store and postoffice kept by Lillie & Marble, as clerk, receiving $250 for the year's work and paying $100 to his parents for the year's board. In the spring of 1871 he went to Cleveland and was employed by Smith, Dodd & Company, shoe dealers, for two years. He then accepted a position for one year as traveling salesman for the American Lubricating Oil Company, at that time managed by Judge E. J. Blandin. In the autumn of 1875, Mr. Whitaker went to Philadelphia and remained a little over one year. During the six months of the Centennial Exposition of 1876, held in that city, he was connected with this great national celebration and was present every day, Sundays excepted, during the six months the exposition was held. In January, 1877, he returned to Cleveland, and the following fall organized the Brooks Oil Company, of which he is the proprietor ; and it may be said of him, in this connection, that he is one of the very few men who have built up and successfully carried on an oil business outside of and in competition with that commercial monstrosity, the Standard Oil Company. He has traveled in the interest of his company over nearly every State in the Union, having visited the Pacific coast twice and Europe once. Mr. Whitaker is an uncompromising Democrat, and has been one of the conservative and safe leaders of his party, in both local and State politics, for several years. He has declined a nomination, by his party, for.Congress on two occasions, and accepted a nomination for County Treasurer in 1885, and in the same year declined, on account of his business demanding his attention, to accept the appointment of Collector of Internal Revenue under President Cleveland. Mr. Whitaker has never married, and when free from business lives quietly on his fam, "Pine Hill," near Bedford. He is an active member of the Methodist Church at Bedford, is Trustee, a member of the board of Stewards and Sunday-school superintendent. Charles Bennett Whitaker, second son of Andrew M. Whitaker, was born in Bedford, Ohio, July 6, 1855. He married Alice Parke. They have three children, Charlotte Hazel, Florence Nightingale and Helen Parke. Charles Bennett's occupation is that of foreman in one of Bedford's largest chair factories. He is an active and prominent Knight of Pythias. Margaret Maud was born January 8, 1864, educated in the Bedford high school, and for a time worked in the office of the Brooks Oil Company, of Cleveland. She is unmarried and cares for the home of her father and mother. Andrew M. Whitaker has been engaged for about fifteen years in assisting his son Alfred in the conduct of his extensive oil business. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 897 He was originally a Democrat, but being an ardent temperance man has embraced Prohibition principles. He is a lover of good books and is a great reader. He keeps himself well informed on all the leading questions of the times. He is a member of the Methodist Church and is a constant attendant on the services of the sanctuary. During his long residence in Bedford he has been elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, member of the Board of Education and Corporation Clerk. He is an honorable man, a good citizen and is highly respected by the community in which he has lived forty-two years. WILLIAM SHURMER, a prominent farmer of Strongsville township, was born in Wiltshire, England, December 15, 1825, and emigrated to America in the spring of 1855, landing at New York. He lived in Cleveland and vicinity until 1873, being employed a large portion of the time by J. H. Hussey in the copperas smelting works, and afterward engaged in farming in Newburg township. In 1873 he settled upon a farm near Strongsville, where he now lives, prospering in his occupation of farming, and also in the added occupation of cheese-making, which he has followed for the last fifteen years. His farm buildings and improvements are plentiful in number and models in arrangement. His farm comprises 167 acres. He was married in Wiltshire, England, January 20, 1847, to Miss Ann Townsend, who was born in that shire February 12, 1827. By this marriage there have been seven children, namely: Richard C., who married Ella Cab]. and is now a farmer in Warrensville township; Charles H., who married Belle Ridelsperger and is engaged in the oil business in Pennsylvania; John H., who resides in Strongsville township; Jane, who died in infancy; Mary Elizabeth; Susan; and William C., who is also employed in the oil business in Pennsylvania. John H. has held the office of Township Treasurer for four years, and has been a member of the Republican central committee for three terms—six years. He is a leading and representative citizen, active and public-spirited in public and benevolent movements. F. E. DELLENBAUGH, one of Cleveland's well-known attorneys, was born in North Georgetown, Columbiana county, Ohio, October 2, 1855, but since infancy has been a resident of Cleveland, his parents removing to this city when he was one year of age. He was educated in the district schools of East Cleveland, in the Cleveland Academy, the East High School and the Western Reserve College. He read law in the office of his uncle; Charles D. Everett, and subsequently in the office of E. Coppe Mitchell, dean of the law faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, in which institution he was also a student in the law department. In 1878 he had the honorary degree of Bachelor of Laws conferred upon him by the Union Law College of Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1878. The Centennial Commission appointed him inspector of the finance department of the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, which position he filled from May 1st to September 29th. For two years after Mr. Dellenbaugh's admission to the bar he practiced alone, and then formed a partnership with Albert H. Weed, which was dissolved two and a half years later. He then became associated with Capt. M. B. Gary and Charles D. Everett, under the firm name of Gary, Everett & Dellenbaugh, which was in existence about two years, and was then changed to Everett & Dellenbaugh. Two years afterward, Mr. Albert H. Weed, his original partner, entered the firm, forming the present one of Everett, Dellenbaugh & Weed. Mr. Dellenbaugh is a lawyer of indefatigable energy, and his ability is of an order which places him conspicuously in the front among 898 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. the legal lights of the Cleveland bar. He has devoted himself faithfully, conscientiously and zealously to his profession, and has never sought political honors. Though his practice is general, he makes a specialty of commercial and corporation law. HON. ROBERT BLEE, Mayor of the city of Cleveland, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, January 31, 1839. His father, Hugh Blee, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, came to New York city when a boy, and when a young man he came to Cuyahoga county, settling on a farm. In this county he married Mary B. Porter, who, though American born, was of Irish origin also. She .bore her husband eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch is one. To farming Hugh Blee devoted the greater portion of his life, but during his later years he resided in Cleveland, where he died in 1886, aged seventy-six years. His country home was near the village of Glenville, and here young Robert was brought up and educated. He gained a fair academical education, leaving school at the age of seventeen years to accept employment with the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad as a brakeman. He was soon promoted as conductor of freight trains, and later as passenger conductor. In 1863 he became assistant superintendent of the above named road, and in 1867 he became superintendent of the " Bee Line," succeeding Superintendent E. S. Flint. In 1890 he became general superintendent of the "Big Four" lines, and one year later he resigned this position and thus ended a brilliant, successful railroad career of thirty-five years. After quitting the railroad business, Mr. Blee was engaged in looking after personal business affairs till the spring of 18i!3, when he was called into the political arena by being nominated for Mayor of Cleveland by the Democratic party, of which he has always been an active member. By reason of his fitness for this high office, together with his personal popularity, he was elected to the office by a majority of 1,800, notwithstanding the fact that the city had nearly always in past years gone Republican. As Mayor, Mr. Blee is regarded as a man of unusual executive ability and competency. This position is the only public office he has held save one, that of Police Commissioner, which position he held one term in 1875. In several ways has Mr. Blee won prominence and high station. One of many very meritorious deeds he has done was that of his organization of the Bee Line Insurance Company, of which he was president for twenty-two years. During his incumbency of this office his disbursements of charities to dependent ones footed up hundreds of thousands of dollars. His private funds are most frequently appealed to, and of it he gives unstintedly and without ostentation, never losing an opportunity to lighten the load of needy and deserving persons by a cheering word or a substantial donation. At present he is the president of the Ohio Building & Loan Company, and in other important business concerns he has large interests. Thus as a business man Mr. Blee has always been active, and as a citizen the high position which he now holds is pointed out as evidence of that esteem and confidence on the part of his fellow citizens he enjoys. THOMAS C. GOSS, a member of the popular insurance firm of O. M. Stafford, Goss & Company, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the rising young business men of the city, who is becoming widely and favorably known. He was born at Edinburg, Portage county, Ohio, April 22, 1862. His early education was received in the village school, and his business training in the Spencerian Business College of Cleveland, which he entered after a two years' course at Union College, Alliance, Ohio. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 899 In May, 1881, he began his career in the commercial world as assistant bookkeeper for the Hull Vapor Stove Company, with which he remained until August of the same year, he then accepted a proposition from Thomas H. Greer, one of the leading insurance men of the city, and entered his employ. In June, 1885, he became connected with the Mercantile Insurance Company as bookkeeper and cashier, filling the position most efficiently until March 15, 1887. At that time he resigned and went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he engaged in the real-estate business with his brother, Hon. Charles A. Goss, under the firm name of Goss Brothers. This vocation did not prove congenial to him, and, receiving a proposition from Mr. Stafford to return to Cleveland and become associated with him in the insurance business, he accepted the offer and July 27th of the same year entered upon his duties as manager of the insurance department of the Broadway Savings & Loan Company. January 1, 1891, the banking business and insurance business were separated. Mr. Goss entered into partnership with 0. M. Stafford, and the firm of 0. M. Stafford, Goss & Company came into existence. Under the excellent management of Mr. Goss- the interests of the firm have been widely extended, and he has aided materially in bringing the company forward from a position of comparative obscurity to one of prominence in local insurance circles. The ancestors of Thomas C. Goss emigrated to Massachusetts about 1820. Daniel Goss, the paternal grandfather, was born in London, England, while his wife was a native of Edinburg, Scotland. Upon their arrival in Massachusetts they settled at Fall River. There they had a son, Alfred R. Goss, father of Thomas C. In 1838 Daniel Goss, who was a typical freedom-loving Englishman, came farther West, and stopped for a time in Cincinnati, Ohio. After casting about for a place of permanent location, he settled in Portage county, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. 57 Alfred R. Goss married Martha Carr, a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Carr, a Scotch-man by descent and a circuit preacher of the Methodist Church. There were four children born of this union: Thomas C.; Charles A., a prominent attorney of Omaha, who has served as a member of the Nebraska Legislature, and who married Miss Carrie Shimp, a daughter of Samuel Shimp, of Alliance, Ohio; Margaret F., who is the wife of H. L. Day, of Omaha, Nebraska; and Hattie, a student in Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville, Ohio. Thomas C. Goss was united in marriage, in Cleveland, Ohio, October 8, 1889, to Anna M., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin, of this city. Their only child is Leonard K., aged three years. Mr. Goss is a member of Forest City Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Webb Chapter, R. A. M., and of Oriental Commandry, K. T. ALEXANDER PATTON, deceased, was a self-made man and was for many years connected with the interests of Cleveland, Ohio. He was an uncle of James A. Patton, of this city. Mr. Patton was born and reared in Alloa, Scotland, and was a fisherman in his native land. In the early forties he came to America and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. When he landed here lie had only two pennies in his pocket. He put up at the hotel located on the site now occupied by George Worthington's building, and as he had no money he left his trunk for security while he went out to secure employment. On starting out he met George Whitelaw, who, learning his 'condition, gave him a dollar. A day's work brought in another dollar, and from another Scotchman he received a " needy dollar," which dollar was to be given to any needy Scotchman he might meet after lme could spare the same. Thus did he come into the possession of $3 on his first day in America. Soon he secured permanent employment, collecting soap-grease and ashes for a